The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-05-26
Pisturss tor the Home.


hits.-in reply to the question, "What
pictures shall I hang on my walls pa
Once pictures were the pFerogatives
OF the wealthy now there Is no FAM
lily sn poor that it cannot 9fHord to
adorn Its home with them. t"The
Question what TO get,p says the sau.
thoress Of 'tUncle Toms Cahinp
"amid the crowd of applicants and
possible choices, Is often q puzziing
one. A picture that Is to look you in
the face at all hounS of the day or
night is. after ALL somewhat of an
item In your existence. II Is taking
70 Yourself a silent companion and
though there is no speech nor Ian.
guage;T and its voice is not heard, yet
Its lines go out-into your daily life,
and its word te the end of your days.
Pictures" she continues, ''are as diff
erent as people; and to them as to
persons applies the rule, Think before
you choose au intimate friend."
In considering the question of what
pictures one would .buy,, Mrs. Stowe
proceeds TO. puncure those inflated of
all i've balloons, the "hiPh-arto crit
les with q e4iH that fs5aIike adnaira-
bic andram0Eseless.J Read:--' p IL -
= ttWsllsmeaning people who have
money to spare often are troubled
with the question, tcJsdE 10 buy. There
is q crowd OF takers about pictures I;
aud Theory of high aEt,' and q variety
Of other bewildering cries, are flung.
Into ones face ct every turn. Does
the honest ohm Stubbs want to get q
picture because It is q pretty thing,
and pleaSeS him, or comforts his wife
NheR he has the blues? Then he has
awful thoughts about Don Positive,
n
cTttf6ttes for "The Plus Ultra ,'ssahd
solemnly informs him that it Is a du-
~ he 4OWs tOIsociety 70 protest against
everything that Isn't high art, No
body must be left Ia peace to have
anything but the publications of the
AFundeE Society, or artists proofs Of
RsphaePs MadORuAs, or proof casts of
the statues IN the LouvresaoE some-
thing else which has the seal Of ages
q written certificate of good antiq guilty,
giving him leave to admire Poor
Stabb5 doesn't admire the Madonna
San Sista half as much asone of Tait's
pictures OF chicken picking at a worm,
or some hens in baruyard, which
puts him in mind of the pleasant old
days when he was boy, and of the
old farm and meadows, and father
and mother, aud 'our folksliWh are
gone. All this almost fills his eyes
with tears as he looks but Stubs Is
good, fellow and when Don Posi-
two tells him with a I0rdly air that
he can buy such things II he Pleases,
but he feels ft his duty to inform him
how very trashy they are in point OF
arty like q good christian he wipes
his eyes, and goes resignedIy, and
gtFe9a hundred or. two Of dollars for
an otds pEoof engraving OF the San
Sisto. and5 hangs il up where those
dear too ChRPminR hens and chickens
were TO h9Ye been, and feels that he
mas d9ne his duty byA society. To be
sure, he doesn't care q bOdle for the
ytcture, and never will but Don Pos
1.-Two tells him IT'S high art, and he
has saved him from getting poor
thing for hismOney,-and that's com
fort" .lssT 80 sI'5Gl
MIS-. Stowe has evidently read and
enjoyed the egetistieal effusi0R Of the
"art critics" OF "The New York
TribuneY and tSThe New, York Ma.
tion.n Tbs manner IN which they
sometimes pooh-pooh the most beau
tifuI reosnt art publica catiOns,-Prang's
ln1mttable chrOmos, for example,
and always 60 into ecstacy over the
medtaeVai Reproductions Of the Ar
undel Society, which are less appro-
PIRATE fOr q modern American home
than 8 series OF fifteenth century SER
m0ne1WOuld be Suitable for = modern
American Library, is well hit OF In
this aud the succeeding passage,
which, however, we have not space to
She then grappIes at once with the
cardtnal axiom Of the art=creed OF
those critics, and braveiy denies In
words, what the people have always
denied In acts that high art pictures
are suitable for tina adornment Uf q
home. The language will be reckoned
little less THAI blaspheuous by these
pletentious writers but every friend
of living art, and the education OF
the people in art will be glad to see
her asSail the idol which they worship
50 deYontly. She says f. ssEs 81
gt1High aEtImeans, as nearly Rsa ARe
can Make II out, what prOfessed IaF.
thsts and instructed peoPle, who iun-
derstaad the technical properties OF
art and the technical di@ @culties to
BE- Oyercome In 10, consider Is inter
esting and yainables Wit also means
what past ages haVeo liked and en-
t0yea5 Aad things that are historically y
lntereating IS the reeord VI the modes
Of thtHkADgIahd feeling On such zlfb-
jeets In. past ages. Now Of she
best records OF these Incest 3engra.
wings ere not suited to; family life, but
0llght to- be kept In museuaalIg and
PortlollOS The admirable engrRviDg
0f0kd blind BeliSarius Is chef Gl'0ettvT't
ofeaGraBing art q teaching and ltFag-
le ,p1etnre; hut Wh0o wishes at, all
houFo to be- confronted Cby the image
Of q hAad father with q son bitten by
q serPont trzhis arms. however well
repzeasatodor The better Gbe nepreseata.
Cas- afRaks Sts6jecE tie f1Orse St makes
q 65E q jaQRle 19icGstye. r Hung iiala bed.
9oOms 1thla work of bish art might
gta0 Aad dreams and apostolic night
mara sad 9t had ahstt6F be. kept 10 q
POEsfoli0 and admired when the sub
5ect OF pEDot- t-eugrR rRHi1g8 iszup. III q
Regs0h, should begsO5 f0rtnn9te or un.
fortunate IS to get q capital, photo
graph Offhat biOOdyA-b0neS picture,
Michel Angeles Last Judgment )
where the 11dge -loOkss like q prize
dghter IL apaesi0n, king his Est ct
bis mot thar. .-sHeh, g. sketch might
have 9 ceFtafn value IS high art foI
there u attendance of high art in this
very dtsag gfeeabIs picture q but we
ehQuld eafne Fly recommend him not
- frame tt and hang it up for the
teEEor q bis wife and the bad dreams
Of his tnhncent babes. :, -, -. -
4 Ms, Slave then lays down her tirst
Enla fOr. the ealeettou OF. home pic
tasea. Which Is As exeeIlehfa aas 4 is is
"a q gsnsral thing, !, she say SAYS,
ttWhaf ts not high art, but only re-
aDea BE and permissable art Is the
6est company Tor every day family
lrle. As We houId I, not khInk .it
.anusLng 70 have Batan ,s SDeech to the
Silu tecftsa ~ our break fast table 50
neither ShcuId we think 9chsdeR's
nlctiise or Francisca di RIminf 4 prop
eE thing TO be forever talking TO. Us
nom the walls OF our parlors and bed
rooms"
She would not have all pictures
thea pfettlnesses = she! would have
some fepEesen the higher Gid De OF our
nature < but sue h Bolenn and grand
gbiects should not be eonsPicuouly
piacsd "a reception rooms, or parts OF
the house " Rsete the mere saFiaee I'M
teEc00tse of life goes ca She then