The craftsman . nfluence upon daily experience,it should be fashioned with extreme care by the crafts-man and chosen with equal care by the one who receivesit into his home. Its mechanism should be clothed indistinctive, beautiful form, that it may remain pleasingthroughout the vicissitudes of a long and refined, it should not obtrude upon thesight, but rather like many a household saint, should itperform its useful functions without attracting praise orblame: which is the ideal way of rendering service. Itsvoice should be low and sweet, like that of the idealwoman, an
The craftsman . nfluence upon daily experience,it should be fashioned with extreme care by the crafts-man and chosen with equal care by the one who receivesit into his home. Its mechanism should be clothed indistinctive, beautiful form, that it may remain pleasingthroughout the vicissitudes of a long and refined, it should not obtrude upon thesight, but rather like many a household saint, should itperform its useful functions without attracting praise orblame: which is the ideal way of rendering service. Itsvoice should be low and sweet, like that of the idealwoman, and if its face were marked with the best thoughtof the race, epitomized as in some sentence like the Per-eunt et Imputantur,* it would then indeed attain thehighest requisites of perfect friendly or fraternal fellow-ship. It would lend a new sense to the meaning of thelegend often found in Latin countries on the dials ofmarkers of time, in places of recreation and pleasure: ** Imark no hours save the happy ones,*. Enamel Jar By Louis C. Tiffany
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