COSTUME 



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COSTUME 



From 1867 to 1907 he represented the county 

 of Victoria, N. B., in the House of Commons; 

 this is a longer continuous term of service than 

 has fallen to any other member. During this 

 period he was Minister of Inland Revenue 

 under Sir John A. Macdonald, Secretary of 

 State in the Thompson administration, and 

 Minister of Marine and Fisheries in the Bowell 

 and Tupper Ministries. In 1896 he left the 

 Conservative party and gave his support to 

 the Ministry formed by Sir Wilfrid Laurier. 

 The tenth anniversary of his service in the 

 Senate was January 15, 1917. 



COS'TUME. With all school lessons, we 

 find that those studies which we can really 

 use are most valuable. Science teaches how to 

 govern our countries, and how to profit by the 

 experience of others. Geography teaches about 

 climate and crops and about the things that 



ing pictures and for carving or modeling statu- 

 ary and for designing wonderful buildings. 

 These few, gifted as they are, will paint our 

 pictures, carve our statues and design our great 

 buildings. We must try to understand their 

 work so that we may appreciate and enjoy the 

 most beautiful things in the world, even though 

 we cannot ourselves produce them. But for the 

 great majority of people art can do more than 

 to try to teach picture-painting. Art can help 

 us to dress better, to furnish our houses in bet- 

 ter style, to lay out our gardens attractively 

 and to understand how color and form and 

 arrangement are necessary in working out prob- 

 lems in housekeeping and in business. 



Every girl, and every boy, too, likes to look 

 well. It is really a pleasure to feel that one 

 is dressed neatly and appropriately. Looking 

 well, in this sense, has Rttle to do with look- 



Fig 1 



Fashion Plate Cut Out 

 and the Shape 1>aced 



different people do for a living, in different 

 parts of the world. Arithmetic teaches about 

 business and money, about weights and meas- 

 ures, and how to keep accounts. All of this 

 knowledge is necessary to boys and girls who 

 expect to succeed in the work they plan to do. 



How to Apply Art Knowledge. We should 

 make our art lessons useful, also. It is a great 

 accomplishment to be able to paint pictures, 

 but that is not the most important thing that 

 we may learn from the study of art. A few 

 people seem to be born with a genius for paint- 

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head, Hands and Feet Cut 

 Out and Pasted in Position 



Fig 4 



Dress Shape Traced on 

 Colored Paper 



ing fashionable or appearing to be expensively 

 dressed. "Costly thy habit as thy purse can 

 buy" is a safe motto; but that "habit" which 

 means dress or costume can be selected with 

 taste and judgment, whether it costs little or 

 much. 



It is therefore a good thing to study ia 

 school and at home that kind of art which 

 concerns dress, or costume. It is true that we 

 cannot always buy the clothes that we would 

 like; but we can learn a great deal about 

 clothes, so that when we do buy, or when we 



