One of the prettiest crosses that can possibly be made for the church
is of pampas grass ; the stems are only nailed on the arms, central piece
and at the base. This does not mar their beauty, and they could afterward
be sold at a fair or festival.
The common mosses that grow on trees and old fence rails are very
pretty for crosses, and as they are thin can easily be glued on. Ever-
greens or trailing pine can be wound round and round a cross until it
is a mass of living green ; fir cones, oak-galls, small twigs, cones and
acorns may also be fastened on with fine tacks.
If a cross, harp, anchor or any article you wish crystallized is made of
wood, and taken where they make salt and left for a short time, it will
be covered with a beautiful flaky frosting, made by the salt evaporating,
which covers everything in the room with a beautiful white frost.
Crosses are also made of white, downy batting, and the effect is very
pretty a little way of.
They can be made to look like gray stone by sanding them the same
as fences are sanded to imitate stone. A cross can be made any size
for a chancel and trimmed with vines of evergreens interspersed with
red berries. At the base sprinkle gray mosses and lichens, or green
mosses, but the former is much the prettier with the gray stone. A
vine of autumn leaves is made by means of fine wire, and twined
around the arms of the cross from the base upward. Sprinkled with
marble dust they are so white and Dure they make a beautiful church
decoration for Easter.
140 HO USE F URNISHING.
HOUSE FURNISHING.
THE FOUNDATION OF HOME.
The love of beauty is instinctive in most natures, and in no place can
it be so much exercised by women as in their own homes. Here a
woman may be an artist, and plan and harmonize her colors as perfectly
as the artist who paints the prize picture for an art academy. Woman
should develop her artistic nature, and give herself full scope in home
adornment. Beauty is one of the cheapest things on earth, if people
would only think so. A tastily arranged bouquet of ferns and grasses
is in itself a picture that nature gives to any one who will make the
attempt of gathering them. Many people who live where these can
easily be obtained by a few moments' walk, seldom think of the beau-
ties near at hand, but will spend hours in making an imitation flower of
wax or feathers. Thus, in their attempts to make home beautiful, they
violate the principles of good taste and artistic beauty.
Instead of leaving their windows free to let in the sunlight and pure
air, they fill them so full of plants and worsted " works of art " that
one can hardly get a glimpse of outside surroundings. Instead of
placing a group of statuary back where there is a mellow light, or
where the shadows can play on it, hiding and softening its outlines,
they put it on a stand in front of the window with the figures toward
the street, so that all the passers-by may see that they possess a group
of statuary, and the occupants at home, the ones who should enjoy its
beauty, are at liberty to study posture from a back view, instead of the
front, where can be noted expression of the faces.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
One of the prettiest crosses that can possibly be made for the church is of pampas grass ; the stems are only nailed on the arms, central piece and at the base. This does not mar their beauty, and they could afterward be sold at a fair or festival.
The common mosses that grow on trees and old fence rails are very pretty for crosses, and as they are thin can easily be glued on. Evergreens or trailing pine can be wound round and round a cross until it is a mass of living green ; fir cones, oak-galls, small twigs, cones and acorns may also be fastened on with fine tacks.
If a cross, harp, anchor or any article you wish crystallized is made of wood, and taken where they make salt and left for a short time, it will be covered with a beautiful flaky frosting, made by the salt evaporating, which covers everything in the room with a beautiful white frost. Crosses are also made of white, downy batting, and the effect is very pretty a little way of.
They can be made to look like gray stone by sanding them the same as fences are sanded to imitate stone. A cross can be made any size for a chancel and trimmed with vines of evergreens interspersed with red berries. At the base sprinkle gray mosses and lichens, or green mosses, but the former is much the prettier with the gray stone. A vine of autumn leaves is made by means of fine wire, and twined around the arms of the cross from the base upward. Sprinkled with marble dust they are so white and pure they make a beautiful church decoration for Easter.
THE FOUNDATION OF HOME.
The love of beauty is instinctive in most natures, and in no place can it be so much exercised by women as in their own homes. Here a woman may be an artist, and plan and harmonize her colors as perfectly as the artist who paints the prize picture for an art academy. Woman should develop her artistic nature, and give herself full scope in home adornment. Beauty is one of the cheapest things on earth, if people would only think so. A tastily arranged bouquet of ferns and grasses is in itself a picture that nature gives to any one who will make the attempt of gathering them. Many people who live where these can easily be obtained by a few moments' walk, seldom think of the beauties near at hand, but will spend hours in making an imitation flower of wax or feathers. Thus, in their attempts to make home beautiful, they violate the principles of good taste and artistic beauty.
Instead of leaving their windows free to let in the sunlight and pure air, they fill them so full of plants and worsted " works of art " that one can hardly get a glimpse of outside surroundings. Instead of placing a group of statuary back where there is a mellow light, or where the shadows can play on it, hiding and softening its outlines, they put it on a stand in front of the window with the figures toward the street, so that all the passers-by may see that they possess a group of statuary, and the occupants at home, the ones who should enjoy its beauty, are at liberty to study posture from a back view, instead of the front, where can be noted expression of the faces.