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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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y are notbeautiful when new, and can never bebeautiful when old, for the beauty of new-ness and the beauty of oldness alike de-pend on beauty of form and color, whichhere is lacking. One longs for the sightof a rural Gothic cottage, which wouldharmonize so well with the order of thescenery, or for a light, elegant villa thatshould overlook these light and elegantundulations of a beautiful and variedlandscape. It must be understood thatthere are notable exceptions to these state-ments even in the outlying districts ofthe blue-grass country, and that they donot at all apply to the environs of thetowns, nor to the towns themselves. THE BLUE-GRASS REGION OF KENTUCKY. 377 Nowhere does one see masses of merely does not seem to have any compelling, beautiful thing-sin the country. Theslum- controlling- sense of the beautiful. She bering art of interior decoration is usually invariably concedes something- to beauty, spent upon the parlor, which constitutes but not enough. You will find a show
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OLD FARM HOUSE, the usual ceremonial dessert of American of flowers at the poorest houses, though entertainment. The grounds around the but geranium slips in miscellaneous tins houses are not kept in the best order, and pottery. But,on the other hand, you The typical rural Kentucky housewife do not generally see around more prosper- 378 HARPERS NEW M( ous homes any such parterres or beds asthere is money enough to spend on, andtime enough to tend, and grounds to jus-tify. A like spirit is showii by the ordinarybhie-grass farmer. His managementstrikes you as not the pink of tidiness,nottlie model of systematic thrift. Excep-tions exist—many exceptions—but theycare for themselves; the rule holds good.One can not travel here in summer orautumn without observing that weedsflourish where they can possibly do no-thing but harm and create ugliness;fences often go long unrepaired; gatesmay be found swinging on one hinge.He misuses his long-cultivated fields; hecuts down his scant, preciou

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