BARE WALLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 16, 9 April 1927, Page 24

BARE WALLS

HOUSES WITHOUT PICTURES “Looking round the room In that somewhat aimless way which thought* ful people have a habit of doing engaged in serious meditation, the unpremeditated remark: ‘Youve some interesting pictures.’ The remark called forth a rejoinder O* l gave me one of the shocks of my l«-» writes Christopher Hunt In tne “ United Methodist.” . “ ‘Wouldn’t fetch two pounds tne lot of them,’ said my relative. “ ‘What’s that you say?’ I cnee, aghast. , “ ‘lf 1 put them up in a sale t - morrow, they wouldn’t fetch pounds the lot,’ he said. , , “ ‘Surely you are exaggerating, remonstrated. “ * No, it’s true enough,' he ‘nobody buys pictures in these «« “Certainly my relative should Kn • he being an auction, an estate age jand several things of the same ‘ But, seeing that he is an a y cti °*L,-. and an estate agent, I felt it nec* sary to ask him if he were speaKifj in a professional sense or as man - man. He assured me that w “~Y, rD said was true. ‘Go into any mo .* house,’ he said; ‘would I find any P tures on the walls?’ . “It was then the truth d a wned Pme—the horrible fact that m . a people do not have pictures in . houses. Why, of course, haa j seen it with my own eyes. : t „ not gone only a short while ago* a newly-furnished house ge: young married couple had jus up and had I not noticed th ß } . a j walls were bare of pictures. innocently assumed that j; of people were temporarily snor u id money, and that the pictures , eB soon be in place. But no. a _ hand had laid its withering toucx» these bright young things, ana j voice from the depths had hid to them: ‘No pictures!’ ana tne*