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and hospitality, birth and death, and its characteristics should 

 be suggestive of daily life. 



A man's culture and good-breeding can be better inferred 

 from his l)earing and conversation than from his dress and equi- 

 page ; and likewise his refinement and character should be in- 

 ferred from his home rather than from his position in fashionable 

 society. 



In establishing our homes let us remember that the most 

 beautiful houses are not always the most expensive. It costs 

 no more to put material into artistic and lovely shape than into 

 ugly and inartistic form. In the language of Ruskin, "I 

 would have our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built 

 to be lovely ; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be, within 

 and without." 



