The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-10-09
HOW PICTURLS HELP.
CAREFULLY SELECTED, THEY GIVE
PLEASURE AND BENEFIT.

Silent Aids and Educntors-Bu There
Must Be Discrimination In Selection.
influence They Exercise over Children.
Evolution In Taste.
Walls hung with pictures Of the right
| sort conducc toward intellectually and
refined taste in the younger members no
! less than the older ones OF the family. Pic
! lures are silent educators, giving glimpses
! of life and nature of the world over, and,
| like an open window make us acquainted
with something beyond our immediate en-
! vironment They broaden the horizon Of
the young and untraveled and bring them
in touch with other lands and scenes
Some sage has stated that to "hll the
nation with music and pictures, you have
a nation of pure women and good men.
Itis quite certain that no part of the house
furnishings is as productive of pleasure as
interesting pictures. They may even be
Inspirations
Charles Sumner used to say he gained
| inspiration for each days work from a
certain picture which he kept in his break.
fast room The morning light fell at a
| certain angle upon it, and to him the
streaming sunlight or gray, shadowy light
| Of a stormy day was like the smiles and
tears of beautiful face To another it
might have been but a filling up Of wall
space. A modest art collector of New
| York keeps cheap print of the beautiful
| hay Of Naples where it is continual re-
minder of engagement days spent upon its
shores. Another man, less wise, hangs
in his library a bronze medallion, which
he points to and says THAT cost me $50,
O0O thus keeping in sight the unpleas
ant reminder of a swindle
The power of pictures for evil is some.
times as well exemplihed. A physician
| whose practice is much among persons
afflicted with cerebral troubles, tells of q
man jumping suddenly into the violent
stage of mania at the sight of a large can.
vas showing in vivid detail a victim of the
inquisition on the rack before his judges.
Up to the moment Of his upsetting nei-
ther his physician nor friends had consid
cred him more than slightly and curably
affected mentally On the other hand, a
keeper of an insane asylum testities to the
soothing power sometimes of a quiet pic
ture over the most violently insane.
There are pictures which are without
this personal relation, which give food for
thought and speculation-as, for in
stance, Boards frolicking bears, j. G.
Browns Disguised (bootblacks) and the
like Then. to studv that greatest pio.
ture by Dore Christ Leaving the Pra.
toriunl. " seems almost to live at that su-
preme moment and to touch the divine
gorment The Measure afforded bv a pood
seascape to one who loves the sea will
bring back the "syish swash" of some
familiar point and make the dash and
splash" almost audible if the picture can
be hing where quiet moments are enioyed.
Young persons can be taught to appreci-
ate these points i'm a picture. and therefore
the aim shoul6 be to select those which
tend to such lessons no less than such as
! lead to sweet. biph thoughts.
A younp lad whose father took great
, pleasure in possessing the conceptions of
artists who portrayed poverty in its vari-
= ous phases became a Young philanthropist
, and alyyavs inserted that he owed it to the
, pictures with which his boyhood was ia.
miliar
The plan of one of our millionaires of
New York is hardly to be commended. HC
commissioned buyer to fiji his gallery
with valuable pictures. The higher the
f price the better. Fabulous prices were
q Maid. and the gallery was filed with curl.
81 osities i'm that line, and the house was dec.
d GRATED with AN sorts of subjects, inappro
g pirate and minus svmpathetic pleasure.
4 Over the crib of the little daughter of q
q certain house hangs 1.-The Death of Riz
@ 2io" In another home where lace ant
n satin hold sway in an exquisite bedroom
# bopgs a niohtnure in hIack and white tr
/. chill the sunnie5t DAYS awakening.
A few wears ago this kind of picture,