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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 171, 10 July 1908, Page 4

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well afford to know the elemental principles of possess some degree of tli.it known as a sense of the things. Tlic presence of sno.i may not lie conspicuous, for K ,HU ftghf tW ngisorten taken as a mat l ■L Anurao, but a lack of such knowKjjSrp -i, Wgfch ig often betrayed in a most con jg|#, % once saw a quantity of beautiful lac« on- show in a general store, lac 's jSfcr, worth several pounds a yard, with an S-' immense circular price-card, about eigh- , ■* teen inches in diameter, bright green in g j colour, with the price in large, black ' figures tix inches high. When I looked g» •' ~ aDoSt and saw that this was the rule {£' and not the exception, I realised how rp-i- - eaaanoD a thing a lack of taste really Sjty ig. Even one.' person in the whole orgssi&atkm who could appreciate how i 1 such a thing looked might luive brought

jfc-s 4 about a change, r * > * Thcie is hardly an occupation, above !,, the crrtdtst forma of work, in which a i f 1 v man ia not at time better off for know*3 frig something of the principles of comi.\ 7; '.ptopent,. contract, and tone, in line, colour, tnd material. And not to have .; . • any standard*, to go by' in such things v k is often to subject oneself to ridicule '%* 1 . \ for doin{;tbingfl which* are out of keeping With' 'accepted standards of ffopriety.