1596 The Cornell Reading-Courses 



No one should count as lost the time that is consumed in a personal 

 cultivation of taste. There is in every human bcinj;, and especially in 

 every woman, an innate yearning to express herself in the things around 

 her. If she can learn to translate human qualities into material ones, 

 that is, if she can learn to see the relation between orderliness of arrange- 

 ment and tranquility of soul, between confusion and nervousness, between 

 harmony of color and harmony of mind, between honesty of form and 

 directness of thought, — then she will have realized the essential meaning 

 of art in daily life and will be able to mold the home surroundings, not 

 according to outward rules and conventions, but according to inward needs. 



