Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-12-08
GOOD PICTURES.
BY Miss Willie Hoke.

extent In the study and appre-
citation of beautiful pictures {?
What needs cultivation more than
the love of the beautiful, and
what better means can be used
for inculcating this love than
good pictures?
When prints of such scenes as,
Corot's Dance of the Nymphs, +"
Ruysdael's 'The Mill" Millet's
"Angelus, and many others can
be bought for even cent, why
is it that so many school rooms,
homes and Sunday school rooms
are bare of any pictures; or, at
best, are decorated with glaring
calendars, gaudy prints and such
hackneyed subjects as Martha
and George Washington sub
jects the ordinary child is
thoroughly familiar with and cor
respondingly tired of.
How much more interested the
average school child would be in
such pictures as THE Sistine
Madonna" (RaphaeD, The AS
sumption of the Virgin" (Titian),
The Anatomy Lesson" (Rem-
brandt), and hosts of others
suited to every grade, if taught
few facts about each one and
given short sketch of each
artist.
Every school teacher, Sunday
school teacher and home should
have catalogue of the Perry
pictures. These pictures can be
obtained in convenient sizes,
from half cent prints to 75-cent
prints; and any teacher, however
limited her purse may be, can
afford the Scent size, of which
ten can be bought for SO cents.
They come in the pretty sepia
tint; and, with a mounting of
sepia molding or passepartout,
make really artistic pictures for
any home or school. A great
many trustees, if awakened to
the need of good pictures in the
schools, will gladly furnish the
amount of money necessary to
provide them.
For the Sunday school teacher
the beautiful Madonnas, Christs,
and the details, or the whole of
Da Vinci's wonderful picture,
The Last Supper" are invalu-
able helps. These are all fur
nished at the prices mentioned
above.
Every good picture put into
educational work is seed sown in
good soil. =" So many subjects
can be made more interesting
and related to the child's previous
knowledge by means of pictures.
Language work can be made
doubly attractive, geography, his
tory and literature can be brought
right home to him by their and.
One picture might convey more
to the child than pages of the
finest descriptive matter.
A teacher, equipped with even
a hundred of the half-cent size of
the Perry pictures, has an almost
ineXhaustible fund for reference.
They represent many famous
men and women and places,
ancient and modern sculpture,
and reproduce a great many Of
the finest pictures. How much
more interesting and vital any
character sketch would be if re-
enforced by a pictured repre-
sentation. Sculpture. which is
an almost unknown term 10 the
child, may be brought to his at
tention by these pictures, and he
may acquire lifelong taste for
this branch of art.
One period a week should be
devoted exclusively to this and
kindred subjects, as musicians
and their productions. The
children will soon hail this period
with delight. In this time they
should at least be given an &C.
quaintance with Raphael, Muril-
10, Rubens, Durer, Titan, Angelo
and such American artists as are
worthy of note Edward w. Red
field, for example. Great Ar
fists" by Jennie Ellis Keysor will
be of great help in this work.
Possibly among the children there
may be an embryo artist or mu-
sician, and the aim of education
is to reveal and develop the
natural bent of each child.
If surrounded by good pictures
in the home, the school, and the
Sunday school, and taught to
love them, the children will ac-
quire knowledge of the beauti-
full which will fortify them for