Easy Lessons In Art

Next to thumping a piano and lieing alile to speak twent y-one different words in Frenh, every young lady should know how to draw nud paint. Nothing makes a hou look more homelike than 130 elegant oil paintings hung on the wal Is. AVhile the art of paint ing furïiishes more or less amusement, it ean be tunied to a source of proflt at any time. The tea stores will alvrays pay $3 a hundred for works of merit, and leading citizens are ever ready to catch up anything whieh is sold by the yard at a bargain. It is a mistake to suppose that one must be bom an artist. All tbnt is needed to draw a good pioture isa lead ppucfl and room at the kitchen table to work. You don't even havo tp press it nith a hot flatiron when completed. We hereby ap]iend a sample of etcbing produced b y a young lady wbo had taken but forty-eight lessons. ït is entitled "A 8cene iu the Alps," and has received the unstinted praise of jcores oí eritios. The idea of beeoming an etchïst was suggested to the young lady by her mothev, who rualized that she might marry a man earning $8 or $10 a week and would see the need of those tbings. It is just as easy to pailitas todrawor etch. Brasiles can be had for from flve cents up to $1, and rea il y mixed paint is only $2 a gallon. This picture is mtMted, "A storm at Sea," and wasdrawn an! paintPd by a girl' only 2S yearsold. Hor teacher, wliu bas been giving lier Iwom for thelastieratiteen years, says thnt die is a natural artist. The pioture was jiaiiitca m three different colore- green, black an.l carmine- and the effect was grand. Wlit'ii tho lilil of a kerosene lamp is flung upon it at just the right angle it fronld be taken for a Rubens. In paintin;; ;i picture care should be taken not to inscribo the title on the canvas. In case this is done it. wffl have to pan for one thing alone, lf the title is left off it can represent a doten different things. The rage fr plaque and plaU pamling still continúes. Ono can Imy a set of white china dinner plates on Monday and have thcni all ready lor the table by Weclnesday, if (lesiivd. The first thing is to give them a couplo of coate of sky blue or bright red paint f or a ground, nnd then decórate them with game, birds or flsh. This iiicturo of a golden eagle is the work of a young miss of 24sumnuTK. wlio took up painting Minplyto amuse herself, wliilo lier mother was splitting the wood and doing the washing. She was offered $50 each for the plates whe linished, but indignantly spunied tho offer. A rabbit is a favorite picture fordecoratlng dinner sebi, prinoipally because the average faraily has rabbit tor dinner once in about fif teen years. Many amateurs are bothered to flnd a good engravlng of the cunning litthi animal, and u. ' therefore append one. llt is supposed to be bolnig on the green, and in transferring him to a dinner plate great care ghould be taken not to change his position, whicu is everything in a rabhit. The same picture, if one desircs to kil] two birds with one stone, can be tomad upsi.le down and called "The Dring