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    HINTS ON TASTE. 113

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    This Own Consciences Is A Utilitarian Ec...

    _essential in an apartment reserved for the elegancies of life . In bothsuch materials are imperative as will furnish soft and flowing

    outlines , which refresh and gratify the eye . I would lace as our second headgracefulness of form . In

    furnishing your p house , always select article , s possessing at least some charm of outline . In bookshelves , why not admit a graceful

    curvature in the wood , a little ornamentation of leaf or twining tendrilwhich would greatly add to their beautywithout materially

    increasing , the price ? And how far more rich , will be the folds of a cloth if the table it covers be roundrather than those square

    or octagon shapes , which admit no picturesque , arrangement either of dishes or drapery . Of course we do not wish that delicacy of

    outline should alone be sought ; first ascertain that the workmanship of all you purchase is faultlessand then allow your good taste

    to guide you into the magic realms o , f decoration and ornamentation . ! Let the legs of your chairs and tables be slightly curved or twisted ,

    your picture frames gracefully moulded , your carafes and tumblers chaste in desiyour cups and jugs delicate and subdued in

    colouring , and your gn , hes and plates attractive to the eye . Study also truthfulness of material . That is to saydo not lavish much money

    upon imitation , loaded with ornament , , when a few more pence would purchase the genuine article . If your purse is too narrow to

    buy the reality , do not accept instead a lavishly adorned sham . Our third head is completeness or perfection of detail . If this

    were more studied , how seldom would our eyes be assailed with chairs of one kind of wood , table of another , and sofa of a third ;

    nor should we be invited to enter a room panelled in antique _^ of Eng the lish nineteenth style , but century containing . An all unp the leasant light decorations effect is produced and furniture by an

    apartment hung with paper of gold and white , and pale-blue furniture , but which is darkened and overshadowed by heavy

    windowcurtains of velvet or moreen ; or by the dress of a lady clad in a gown of a dark wintry tint , with a white lace shawl and bonnet . These remarks bno means ly onlto the houses of the rich ;

    completeness of detail y is desirable app also y as far as possible in the cottages of the labourer and the artisan . The same sum which our

    mothers gave for an ugly misshaped mug , will now purchase g and lass becomin tumblers g a , task light it and is for pretty the in industrious shape . And daug how hter p of leasing such

    a humble family to bestow ten minutes daily upon the polishing trifling of the expenditure glasses , and of the time brig would htening be of well the repaid metal in spoons the improved ; such a

    condition of the dinner-table . In many respects the homes of the Let labouring the wife classes who is mi willing ght be made to profit more by attractive our hints than cover they are her .

    chimney two of those -piece cheap with a and strip pretty of scarlet plaster cloth -casts , and which place upon may it be one pur or

    chased any day in the street . How cheerful and attractive an

    Hints On Taste. 113

    HINTS ON TASTE . 113

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 113, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/41/