The Penn's Grove record., 1923-12-07

Club Had Pleasing Entertain
ment and Illustrated
Lecture

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Grove Woman's Club was held in the
Baptist Church, Tuesday evening. Miss
Rena b. Leap presided. After the
business session Mrs. Ralph P. Willis.
chairman of Art and Music announced
the program Of music and singing.
Mrs Edward Cheney, Mrs. John
Morgan, Mrs. N. Z. Tice and Mrs. P.
Raymond sang to pleasing selections,
"The Lord is my Shepard" and "Sweet
and Low" Weldon Croft gave a fine
violin solo with Mrs. Harry Foulk at
the piano.
Mr.. A. K. Seton gave a pleasing
piano selection which were encored
The principal feature OF the even
ing was a lecture on artistic Furni-
ture," for the home. It was written
by Mrs. Walter D. Little, Of Bridge
water, Mass chairman of the Division
Of Art in the General Federation and
with its circulation among the clubs
steroptican views are shown.
Rev. William Park read the lecture
while TUllis Gerald moved the slides.
The lecture was in part as follows.
Artistic Furniture
During the lecture read by Rev.
William Park fifty slides were shown
illustrating qualities Of good design,
balanced wall elevations, group furni-
ture; Italian, French and English
Tudor furniture of 100 or more years
ago; Gregorian and old American
chairs, American Empire or Jeffer-
sonian room, modern wicker, rattan
and painted furniture.
The lecture is one prepared for the
General Federation Of Women's Clubs
and loaned for a general use in show
ing the finer arts in making homes ar
tistie and beautiful.
Art plans and builds our homes, if
they are worthy of the names, n
furnishes them with all that is worth
looking at and having about, IN the
way of floor and wall coverings, fur
niture, pottery metalry. It hangs
lovely pictures on our walls and gives
illustrations to books and magazines
Art dresses the family in good taste.
Art sets off the house with attractive
landscape gardening and makes It Z
unit in the city or town beautiful
full.
Common unthinkng people consider
it a non-essestial, a luxury, q concern
of the favored few.
Ours is a new country and develop
ing its great has been the
most thought of. Since the invention
of machinery we have been occupied
by producing qualities rather than
qualities. A change is at hand. Our
raw materials are now being made
into products of greater skill and more
refined taste. A higher valuation OF
beauty is considered. A public opinion
to rate art as a part of a more sue
cessful and happier condition of living
for the individual and nation is now
developing.
Those arts which make useul things
beautiful to behold, therefore, express
sive. spring from the same impulse
which paints a glowing canvas, or
builds a great dome. Painters, sculp--
TORS. builders or craftsmen all deal
with line forms and colors. By selec-
ton and arrangement beautiful results
are produced. You are an artist When
YOU arrange flowers in a vase, furnl-
:. lures in thereon, choose the color and
designs for a gown or paper Tor a
} room.
; Certain conventional lines and de
} signs exist to determine qualities.
Order is heavens first law. There can
= he no art without order. Another art
( quality is rhythm, by which is meant
movement, sequence, variation and
/. balance.
9 Color harmony is more generally
2 thought upon, but harmony OF lines
2 and forms is as important, in interior
3 construction and decorations. A test
2 of individual art in the home Is
l whether the articles is suited for the
= purpose in form and structure. If a
) decoration is the ornament appro-
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most costly, not the newest or Oldest,
! Int the manner in which it is con
: strncted and decorated. There should
s be color combinations of the paint OF
the outside and in, the paper and ar
ranpements of the furniture. Inc
e problem in the home is how to pro
e duce a pleasing and attractive appear
e ance with the materials at hand wh1c
need not be costly.
The great need is to have a bette
understanding of art qualities By
< studying our faults and how to cur
. them. Cultivate a more beautnu
n vision and you are on the way TO
4 more artistic realization.
Pleasing proportions, orderly ar
U rangement anu not oN~etCAo""nhS N
= to be considered in furniture.
1 Architectural proportions in house
both outside and in, gives it dignity
5. and makes it livable with finer tast'
2 and pleasure. Artistic interior con
0 struetion are of more value thai tn
1 furnishings. No amount of superim
2 posed decorations can remedy fault
a of construction. Wall spaces are a
: much value as wall openings. Eacl
8 room needs wall space suited to tn
o necessary large pieces of furniture
We have seen rooms with no suitable
space for a piano or sofa and rooms
with no place for a bed except across
$. a window.
One of the bad tastes of American
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