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Show . ears '' Do this .A Dream and Necessity whistling eternally. tn your the' heart, the A Prophecy or starve, " t.s to starve-for tt. sta. rvess of your b et. ng soul-and all the higher asptrauon pine away and die. . tification, a peace Art is beauty, and beauty tsl a graand woman. Beau- 1 norma man · and a so ace to eve:y I b au tiful proportions, tiful sounds, beauuful co ors, el hunger for them I .fi 1 h h how our sou s beaut! u t oug t. sd- . n opaque condition·' and all Matter is only mtn tn a .. . b bol of sptnt. beauty ts ut a sy~ f , J. oy in his work. You · h sston o man s Art Is t e ex· pre from 1.ce e d.t ng things all day in to a cannot get J0Y 1 h man work with hand and h. You must et t e mac tne. f h · f this marriage, beau-b · n d then out o t e Joy 0 · rain, a A d h. beauty mirrors the best In t ill be born. n t ts . . d h thYe w soul o f man-I· t sh ows the spint of Go t at r0u ::et h:ol:~;e;i:~s sent by the Q.u~en of Italy to every ret. gnt· ng queen of Europe, asking ht hat 1th eh .r e- c.t p.t ent rna k e a pro mise to wear upon er dc ot tng no 1a ce exc ept that which was made byd h an . E1v ery person w h o recet·v e d this letter responde ; & a etter from Q.ueen Victoria was one of the first answers to the appeal. h Schools were established where girls were . taug t to ke beautiful things with their hands. When they arncaq uired the necessary deftness o f fi ngers, an d the 14 right taste and judgment, materials were supplied A Dream and them, and a market promised for the product. Then A Prophecy the Q.ueen of Italy herself established an exchange for the sale of the beautiful lace. And we find Mr. Robert Barrett Browning-a man with kingly pedigree, the only child of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett-following the idea of the gracious Q_ueen. Mr. Browning established & endowed a manufactory for the· n1aking of handmade lace, as a loving monument to his father and mother. This institution gives work to five hundred women. I 've called it a manufactory, but it is not just that, for the work is mostly done at the homes of the workers, who live in the villages scattered about Venice. Each worker is paid according to the quality of her work. It is quality, not quantity, that counts-and so the constant incentive is held out for each woman to do her best. To this factory once came an old woman past eighty. Her husband had been drowned at sea; her sons had been killed in the war; and she was alone with two grandchildren to care for. She came with a piece of elaborate lace on which she had worked three months. The work was very uneven, for the woman was old, her fingers stiff, and her eyesight faulty. The su perin ten dent showed the work to Mr. Browning and asked : "What shall we do ? " |