Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-26
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And yet, as though out of respect mature, this really artistic lady permitted quite a number of things to remain in natural sim plicity. One could find watermelon or a pumpkin at times with no landscape upon it,
 but having perhaps only an artificial fly or worm on some corner. One pumpkin was
 indeed to be seen with the word saThanksgiv- ing" neatly placed on that part of the rind which was turned heavenward, while on scroll that flowed down over the side of the fruit were the words ssGod Bless our Home" Time would haue failed the artist, if taste had not, to place under the magic wand of art all the melons and fruits of the fields and gar dens. At one cucumber all persons laugh heartily, for t has oh it the picture of a boy who seems to betray in all the contortions of his body, and in the details of his counte- nance the fact that he had eaten too much of the cold and clammy product under notice.
 The interior of the residence by far sur
 passes in greatness and richness and delicacy and thoughtfulness, and original combination,
 all that has been seen in the world without
 In that little home of single glorious girl
 and we use single not in any hymeneaI sense;
 but in historical and numerical import, the
 glory of all old nations meets Japanese
 banners hang upon Greek swords and Chinese lanterns throw light upon an American gas
 fixture and upon an Athenian lamp of immor-
 tality; while against the bronze statue of So-
 crates is resting 8 fiint-1ock musket found on
 the field of Bunker Hill Locks from old
 monasteries and castles of Europe are on the
 doors and chambers of this model residence, while barn door stolen from the farm of
 Cincinnatus swings between the drawing room and the main ha1l and in this hall, upon long brass pins, is the harness from the horses of Diomede.
 sCan it not be possible, ' a visitor inquired,
 fsthat you, dear Bella Puella, E. M. s. A.,
 have ornamented your house to what may be called an excessive degree am, of course, plain uncultivated mortal and can have no light but that of semi-savage instinct, and with much difidence>suggest that your acts distract me. Honey is good, but only good
 by the teaspoonful, and not by the glass or quart. Am I right wrong in supposing that there is deIicacy about ornamenta- ton, or is it beauty like wisdom and virtue,
 the better the more you possess of it ?" To this question Bella Puella replied that she had sometimes felt that beauty unadorned is oft adorned the most, !" and that in harmony with such suspicion she had left upon her mantels shells which contained no landscapes upon their inner surfaces, but were full of that
 strange coloring and surface which are so in- imitable in such interiors, She and the visi- tor then looked at some of these pink and pris- natic surfaces in the hard products of the ocean, and even B. F., z. M. s. A., admitted that she knew of no human art that had the power of adding anything to their charms. The discussion ended here and the visitor is said to have come away, amazed and quite exhausted by few hours in such temple of all the ancient and modern shapes of the sub- lime and prodigious. It was wonderful It was incredible. It was awful, but it was not
 impossible. Great is nature, but greater by far is man and woman, when their taste can roam without restraint in fields where the
 fences built in narrow times are all down.