The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-19
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS observation-disclosures

water flowing into the house and
every room lighted as brilliantly and
as cheaply as the home in the city
1t is true, the first cost of installa-
ton may be little more expensive,
but 1t will be as cheap or cheaper
after the initial cost. And ii costs
but little more to finish a house
tastefully inside and to furnish it
tastefully than to furnish it otherwise
Interior decoration is a subject that
should form a part of the regular
course of study in our schools. At
least, every girl ought to study the
art of making her home beautiful.
Many families spend a great deal I'M
necessarily in the purchase of ex-
pensive furniture and pictures, and
still their homes are not tastefully
furnished Other families with less
money to spend but with more artistic
taste furnish their homes much more
beautifully. 1t may be regarded by
some as a matter of little account
how or with what the house is fur
| nished-and to such it is. But with an
ever-increasing number of people it
does matter and will matter more and
more as people want to live better.
/ do not have the space in this ar
ticle to speak of sanitation and the
family budget and many other things
which might we'll be considered in
this part of the paper. But it is i'm
portant that the environment of the
home should, in so far as possible, be
made pleasing to the eye. Well-kept
barns and poultry houses and tool
shops and garages and fences add to
| and rpQictor fhai,~ affanfc
of every member in the household
1t is said of the ancient Greeks that
they were more beautiful and more
perfect than any other peoples of
their day and the reason for this is
not hard to find. They lived in a
beautiful country; they built beauti-
full cities and temples and homes
they created the most beautiful in
sculpture; and theirs was the most
beautiful and most perfect of all the
ancient languages. There is, unques-
tionably, an aesthetic side to our ma
lures, and we do not well to stifle it..
but we do stifle it when we make no
provision to cultivate it and develop
it.
And whatever may be ones own
likes or dislikes for beauty in and
| diOuilh HIS nOiles lutIt 10 duOIHtI
side of the question. If ugliness gives
lain to others then it becomes a
moral question We have heard oil
man who lived on a street in q
great city where there were many
beautiful homes, but he kept his owr
house painted black. The ugly aD.
pearance which his house presented
was an eye-sore to the whole com
munity. Instead of pleasure it gave
pain to every one who beheld it. B,
and by his neighbors protested
against his right to keep his hous'
painted with such an ugly, unartistio
unusual color But the occupant o
the black house claimed the right t
paint his house any color whicl
suited himself But his neighbor'
denied that he had any such right
They said he had the right to pain
the inside of his house any colo
which he desired, since it was only TO
himself to see: but the outside belong
ed to his neighbors as much or NOR
> than to himself, since it was Away
in their view. And they were right
and the man in the black house wa
wrong. We have no moral right t
inflict pain upon our neighbors whel
we might as well bring them pleasure
If all the farms and homes in
community are well kept except one
every farmer in the community !
ashamed of that farm. If every fam
lily in a community is decent an,
respectable and a distinct addition t
the community life except one. al
the others would be glad to be rid o
that one. Every home is intimatel
related to every other home and in
stitution in it's community.