. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . 1 IM-MIG-RANT WOMSK WOKING POTATOES 302 Country Sights and Sounds. ^m^fHi WAITIN(. ^^lK M I i l\ i our modern dress; it is impos-cible to discover anything sug-gestive or poetic in it, or to-make any thing artistic out ofit. Well-dressed individualmen and women are oftenattractive to the eye; butwhen this is true it is becausethe charm of the person sur-vives the monotonous uniform-ity of good clothes. Nothing,can make the evening dress inwhich man extinguishes hispersonality either significan
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . 1 IM-MIG-RANT WOMSK WOKING POTATOES 302 Country Sights and Sounds. ^m^fHi WAITIN(. ^^lK M I i l\ i our modern dress; it is impos-cible to discover anything sug-gestive or poetic in it, or to-make any thing artistic out ofit. Well-dressed individualmen and women are oftenattractive to the eye; butwhen this is true it is becausethe charm of the person sur-vives the monotonous uniform-ity of good clothes. Nothing,can make the evening dress inwhich man extinguishes hispersonality either significantor artistic; but the man inoveralls and shirt-sleeves isoften a strikingly picturesque figure. Country life as a whole is steeped in the pic-turesque, in spite of the machines which so largely take the place of the old-timehand labor. One must go to the fields to find the poetry of human occupation;the man in the street is often interesting but he rarely stirs the imagination; theman in the fields constantly sets the imagination loose. What elemental strengthand meaning are expressed in those peasant-figures of Millet? They belong tothe world in which
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