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122 ILLUSTRATIONS OF EVEEY-DAY LIFE.
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habits in Sacred of Writ the peop or le in who short use , whatever them , their might connexion in any way with make passages the in-;
struction wide field to of be usefulness conveyed , more opened comp for lete talents or more that inviting have hitherto . Here been is a filrarel
content to waste themselves in adorning albums or over ling y but opened even portfolios accurate ; art for reproductions of not the only ori ist ginal in mi the sketches ht equall case from of be those the made more -who available g do ifted not ,
Nor aspire is beyond it painting the alone that copy can render , g aid , for , y as a picture gives a . clearer idea of visible things than any verbal description can do , so vividness far
there is another kind of representation whose surpasses that in wax of , any an p accomp ictorial lishment delineation whose . We app allude lication to modelling has in caused general , especiall it to been be y
so almost singularl classed y and so needlessl mere frivolities y limited . . as Its to app have licability to objects absolute of great usefulness necessity among that is reall because y very Miss exte Evelina nsive ; for Smith there emp can loys be her no
that paint therefore and scissars Miss mere Arabella ly to form Jones cam should ellias , confine and fuchsias herself , and to lilies lilies , , all filledeach
and fuchsiasand camellias , and when the vases are , table has its , centre-piece is , each lied slab shoul its basket d still full tint , another and every Tigridia aunt ,
or and mould cousin , one and more friend Japonica supp . Dare , a new track for once , dear Arabellaand raise a trifling girl ' s _piirsuit to the dignity of earnest
woman ' s , work . Beside those favourite fuchsias in the garden grows dark tall flowerdull of huebut curiously beautiful in form ;
it a will test your modelling , powers , , but a little difficulty will only enhance the leasure of success and when it is complete , with its
p ; g of lossy the deep root cut too leaves to lie around beside it it , if and you , if will possibl , send e , a it representation to the South
Kensington handiwork Museum , , * w and ith hap the ly ominous some boy li Poison who shall " label there it gaze will
bear upon will your have it flash upon his recollection years hence when he its may remembrance , chance upon be spared the plant from in sending some far into off eterni garden ty , all and the by
Or guests out of a and dinner gather -part from y by the mistaking road-side it the for graceful harmless dulcamara horse-radish with . go
its gold and purple flowers and crimson berries , or its less brilliant but yet more dangerous congener , the deadly nightshade ; the mere
handling of them will not harm you , while their beauty cannot but interestand your work may result in saving some poor child
whom the Sunday , School treat takes once a year among the fields and hedfrom being tempted all unconsciously to a fatal feast .
And if ges your , friend Evelina be roused to emulate such useful laboursthere is abundant opportunity for her also to lend welcome
aid . The , children whom we often see carrying through the streets such sheaves of buttercups for bow-pots 9 might take home
Tragopo-* Communications to be addressed to R . A . Thompson , Esq ., South Kensington . Museum , W .
122 Illustrations Of Eveey-Day Life.
122 _ILLUSTRATIONS OF EVEEY-DAY LIFE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/50/
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