A FALSE EFFORT


A FALSE EFFORT TO BE FINE

WO           articles have already  been
        printed in The Craftsman for the
        current year, designed    to  aid
        teachers and students of Manual
Training, as well as those amateur workers
who are anxious to educate their hand and
brain, their sense of proportion and struc-
ture, through the exercise of the lesser build-
ing art.
  These articles, as will be found by refer-
ence to them, are thoroughly illustrated
with perspective and working drawings of
simple pieces of cabinet-making: such as
can be constructed with the simplest of tools
and materials, and, also, such as would add
comfort and beauty to the interior in which
they might be placed.
  The originals of these illustrations were
planned in the hope to effect for the humbler
homes of our country a benefit comparable
in direction, if not in extent, with the good
accomplished by William Morris, when he
delivered England from the pest of the hair-
cloth sofa and the nightmare of the aniline
dyes.
   In the present article, the subject of the


series is regarded from a new point of view:
the question remaining the same and being
one of fit and unfit; but the argument being
made from the negative side. That is, the
student is no longer shown the safe and
direct path of progress; but he is warned
what to avoid as destructive to his taste and
to his critical and constructive powers.


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