The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-08-11
THE IDEAL AND ARTISTIC IN THE
HOME


(BY MRS. KATE ALMA ORGAIN)
synopsis Of the paper ON "Thc Ideal and
Artistic In the Home" read before the wo.
mans section by Mrs. Kate Alma orgaln
Of Temple is here given
/ suppose a full 1edged bank with large
deposits or dry goods house or wall
street with It's surging tide OF spectators
could have been easily exploited upon the
earth IN the wonderful creative week re-
corded in Genesis, and Adam might have
stepped forth into being fully equipped
business man with town lots to boom, or
2 big steel or oil trust upon which to try
his new born capacities but God In his
wisdom placed the first man In the best OF
al places for any man-in the country.
because Adam aud Eve did not make
success of the plantation of Eden does
MOI prove that il was not a good place.
I have always felt some pity for Eve.
There Is nothing said la Genesis about n
shelter, tout. little cabin, which Eve
could have called home can not cou-
coiye OF even the first WumIu existing with
ont sonlc housekeeping Instincts. Perhaps
NJ Eve mad possessed hit of Oriental car
prttug, picture or two. % harp and house
She would not have wandered 0imessly
around me farm reudy Victim TO tcmptt
ton. The same trouble conirouts the wife
today. Eve has no home, for four bare
walls can not be what that word is in,
tended to express.
II you want woman to eXpend the
wealth OF her wonlaubood upon Your home
at,9, YOU must nuke thai altar ht for She
hleh pricstcsS youplNg over Il. No woman
can be at her best in It hOvel If
you want Your girls to love the old farm
YOU must develop the lines of beauty ma
turc has placed in Your hands. England
long ago learned TO heutty the country
home aud evon the peasant who does not
own the land he ttls loves the soil When
Precill0 tile Puritan maiden, stood sadly
watching the MayduWel sailing for Eug
land, IL was not London with its smoke
stacks, Its towers and buildings, she longed
fUr but tho hedge rows In the country.
If you want Your children to love
cattle, but more OF botany, geology. the
beauty aud pathos OF animal life the chem.
isry OF the soil, the wonders OF reproduce
ton |9y me grass Is lovely and the bah,
your boys thal farming Is fine art and not
u yoke binding them 10 ceuseess toll
Prove TO them that "bruad acres are a pat
ent ia nobility and that farming Is not all
written in duh prose
Impress upOu them the beauty Of ideal
physical form and show them that no city
ever had in It's hot siuuy rooms such a
gymnasium as Dame Nature gives ON the
farm.
DO not doubt that every child has some
Intent love OF the beautiful.
A lady from the country moved into n
little town In Texas 10 place her little girl
at school. Among other studies the child
took lessons In painting. Her tastes In
the direction Of the artistic had never been
cultivated. She had no correct conceptions
or beauty OF color or form, \ straight
line or curve meant nothing 60 hcr, but
as she studied pictures, mixed varied and
beautiful tlutS, was led by her teacher
10 look at the color Of the sky the chang
ing tones In the lcafy woods, tho shadowy
I rlpples or the running stream, the latent
sense for beauty uWoke In her soul and
her happiness Ia this new found treasure
was touching 10 behold. it was the little
girls task at home 10 milk the COW, After
returning 10 the farm one evening the moth
or waited long for the foamiug bucket Of