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the greater will be our delight in living, for 

 true art touches everything in our lives and 

 enhances its beauty and worth. A beautiful 

 picture is a great truth, and thus art is often a 

 divine message. Now while there are many 

 messengers to convey the truth to human minds 

 and hearts, beauty is ever the favored one. 

 Keats wrote deeper than he knew when he said, 



"Beauty is Truth; Truth Beauty; 

 That is all ye know on earth, 

 And all ye need to know." 



It becomes then a question of quite serious 

 nature what shall be the character of the pic- 

 tures hung on our home walls. Not every pic- 

 ture is worthy a place on the home walls, no 

 more than is every person worthy a place in 

 our home circle as an intimate or associate. A 

 picture that is to look you in the face at all 

 hours of day or night, is, after all, somewhat 

 of an item in your existence. It is taking to 

 yourself a silent companion, and though there 

 is no speech, nor language, nor is its voice 

 heard, yet its lines go out into your daily life 

 and its words to the end of your day's. A pic- 

 ture is as a friend; a friend must have character 

 and power. Hence, pictures are an essential 

 accessory to every home that lays claim to be a 



