The Washington herald., 1912-09-11
PLAGUE MADE OF
COVER ON HERALD MAGAZINE

Another proof of womans intuitive ap-
probation of beauty and her Ingenious
ness came to the managing editor of
The Washington Herald one morning
this week in the form of a most artistic
placque, fashioned from a bit of plaster.
scrap of bright ribbon and the cover
design of the Readers Magazine OF
September /, a weekly supplement OF
The Herald which has met with wide
spread appreciation.
Thousands of women saw the artistic
cover design OF the golfing girl and read
the Readers Magazine of September !.
but If it occurred to any other than
Miss Dora Souder to turn the design in
to a PLAGUE. which is so cleverly made
that it is difficult to distinguish the ap-
pliqued figure from an original water
color The Herald was not apprised of
the fact.
Graceful Little Note.
Accompanying the artistic bit Of work
was the following graceful little note OF
appreciation:
The Editor of The Washington Her
aid:
Dear Sir-As a great admirer of the
Sunday Herald Magazine I think the pic
ture of Sunday. September l was beauti-
full, and / have made a number of
placques with it for several of my
friends
'I send you herewith one of them.
which I trust you will consider worthy
Of placing with similar collections.
Yours truly,
MISS DORA soUpER.
The managing editor considers it so
well worth while that he loaned II to
me long enough to tell the readers Of
The Herald's Page for Every Woman"
of the ingenuity of one OF our sex
from so simple a means possible.
Have No Ingenuity.
Such an example of the possibilities
that lie within our easy reach on every
side makes it a tremendous temptation
to call attention to the hundreds OF
homes which are innocent of any touch
of artistry, purely because their makers
see none of the chances in the simple
little things which come their way.
How many Of US would have seen in
the picture of the golf girl an opportu-
nifty for artistic decoration? How many
would have considered a magazine cover
worth the time necessary TO fashion al
lovely decoration to brighten some tool
bare room in the house?
I think told you some time ago OF
q lecture nedIu nucu i was q very
little girl about a man who sold his
goods and went to a far country to dig
for diamonds. You may remember that
he dug through lifetime of discourage
ment in the new field, while the man toi
whom he sold his home plot turned thel
sod one day and found that he had pur-l
chased a diamond mine for a song. The
lecture was called "Acres-of Diamonds"
and the thought carried through It wasl
such a helpful one that 1t has fingered
with me through my whole life, and
came back to me forcibly when 1 saw
the placque sent my managing editor by
Miss Souder. |
of Chances in Little Things. |
It doesn't require half the money wei
are prone to suppose to make a home
artistic and bright and beautiful. The
who has an eye for the possibil- |
tiles which lie In the little things can |
achieve it without large financial expen-
ditures.
II we cultivate the habit of turning up
the sod in the home field to look for
bright treasures we will find ourselves /
less and less blinded by the lure Of the
expensive things of the shops.
J. O. MANI