The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-02-03
HOME CRITICS.
Faults of which Many Carefully Reared
IiSthetic Girl IL Guilty.

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Asthetic Girl IL Guilty.
Lilly Martins room Is perfect bower"
n girl friend declares enthusiastically.
1.-THE window shelves are filed with flow
ers In nowcrpots that she has decorated
herself; and there Is an embroidered COW
erlet on her bed and painted Hes in her
fireplace, and she has done q motto from
Shakespeare In Kensington stitch on the
curtain to her bookcase, and another on
her mantel drapcries
'She has the portraits OF all her init
mate friends hung on the walls in painted
frames, and painted text above her bed
and plaques aud pictures and sketches al
most covering the walls
"And there Is a special shelf where she
always keeps candy or vanilla waters or
something Of that sort ready to treat the
girls, set out In such dainty china that it's
as much a delight TO see "a TO taste.
Lily always asks the girls up into her
own room. It's so much cozier and prettier
than the parlor, and the sitting room is
sure TO have half dozen OF the younger
Martins in y playing and chattering, and
generally Mrs. Martin IL mending stock
ings there besides.
LILLY stays up stairs q great deal; she
says she likes to be among her own be-
ARANA 'Fr"f NA'A' tNhAl lhAllk - OIUtIll ana
dainty and just the way she wants
H. I'm sure can't wonder All the rest
Of the house Is entirely commonplace and
inartistic, and Iily's taste * 80 exquisite
and her artistic sensibilities are so acute"
Lily Martin Is one of the many. Il Is
natural for young girl TO wish her own
particular part Of the house TO be as dainty
and pleasing as she can make Il. The
prctticr IL * the better, and the more fully
its little appointments and adornments cx-
press her personality. the more interesting
IL will be. But II the daughter of the
house has taste and skin, surely the whole
house should benefit thereby II her sense
OF artistic harmony is really acute and cor.
rect, She viii perceive this, and will not de
sire to shut herself up ia the single beauti-
ful corner of an unbeautiful home.
Neither Is IL a fair division of labor that
the daughters fingers should be busted
with paint brushes and embroidery silks
alone, while her mothers handle boot
thread, basting spools and darning needles.
She should do her share Of the disagree
able tasks. But often the mother would
honestly prefer TO assume the larger por-
ton If such work, which habit has made
easy TO hor, il the artistic daughter would
but devote her talent TO identifying the
house.
Il can buy my daughters work at
fair said a lady recently, land | often
admire IL in the houses of her friends But
! never own any OF il myself She thinks
she can paint me something when she has
finished Mays engagement cup, or Roses
wedding present, or Amy's fan. But ~
soon as they are done there comes some
other outside work. and have to wait
once more because am her mother and
any time viii do"
1t Is usually mere thoughtlessness or
earelessncss that thus places the claims Of
friends and fancy fairs above those OF
home. Sometimes there is mingled with
this desire FOR the praise Of acquaini-
ances. which seems TO mean more than that
OF the family 10 which the young artist
has become accustomed
But after all TO satisfy ones own family
is more delightful than to please outsiders.
TO help make home lovely TO the eve as
well as the heart OF every inmate is the
sweetest and most honorable task an ar
tistic girl can achieve.
Il thought cared only for the praise OF
competent critics. confessed maiden of
some talent 70 a friend. "but when heard
my little brother Dragging about me TO an
other small boy who knew even less OF art
than he did, 1 found was mistaken. had
thought when | painted Tom cup and
saucer for his birthday that il was proba-
bly, a waste of Time as he would care very
little for Il and IL would soon be broken.
but lac thinks the world OF IL. He shows il
of TO all his new acquaintanccs and warns
them not TO handle IL, and when he has
sufficiently impressed them with awe OF its
preciousness he marches them around the
house and displays the rest OF my handi-
work, aud explains what wonderful sis.
ter he is blessed with It's ridiculous-but
its iovelyr'-Nouth's Companion.