THE CALL OF THE LAND 



boys can make the frames and the girls paint 

 them. In these days when copies of art 

 masterpieces are so inexpensive, no home 

 need go unadorned. 



I wonder if we are aware at how small a 

 price choice reproductions of great art 

 works can be had. One series of the Perry 

 pictures come at a penny apiece. You need 

 only turn your children's attention to these 

 pictures, when they will save their pennies 

 and purchase enough to illustrate the entire 

 history of art. Let the young people make 

 a frieze of such pictures around your best 

 room, placing each picture so it can easily 

 be removed and dusted. You will have in 

 that array of pictures beauty, education, 

 inspiration. A plaster cast, adamantine 

 finished, of a noble statue famous in the his- 

 tory of art, such as Michelangelo's David, 

 can be had at $4 to $6. By many, even of 

 the wealthy, these casts are preferred to 

 marble replicas, being absolutely true to 

 their originals. 



While I am upon this let me suggest that 

 your sons and daughters be given permis- 



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