Identifier: examplesofhouseh00smit (find matches)
Title: Examples of household taste
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, Walter, 1836-1886 Smith, Walter, 1836-1886. Industrial art of the International Exhibition
Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) Decorative arts
Publisher: New York, R. Worthington
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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these panels is a narrow edging or frame ol small squares ofvitreous paste of different colors; then comes a border ol scroll-work andmedallions within another edging similar to the first. The whole affair is notmore than seven inches long by five inches wide and height, and may be calleda bijou to contain bijoux. England may well be proud of the exhibition made by her colonies atour Centennial Fair. India, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, British Guiana,and the far-away settlements on the Gold Coast, the Bahamas, the Bermudasand Trinidad, Queensland and the Canadas, each and all have come to us,their elder sister, proud to show us and each other the evidence of their young,vigorous life. Yet some of these colonies have already reached a maturitywhen they begin to look forward to being their own masters; and it is likely,before many more years have passed, that the mother-country will assist themto set up governments for themselves. England is now a wiser mother than INDUSTRIAL ART. in
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Wrought Iron Gate: H. R. Ives &> Co., Montreal. when she angered us to break the leading-strings. She realizes that her otherchildren, now growing up around her, will some day want to be powers unto 112 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. 1876. themselves; and instead of discouraging, she encourages them in the idea.Such a policy gives the colonies a healthier, manlier growth. When theyachieve independence they will have nothing but affection for the mother whonurtured them, and they will stand strong and ever ready to resent any insultthat may be offered to her.It is positively amazing

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