Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-07

NAL forms from the models of Barge. Even /
to walk among the bronzes rs they stand |
here waiting purchasers is 10 have the mind |
iled with pictures from the desert, the battle |
field the palace court and throne room travel,
history aud fiction. |
is 1t a question OF table appointments, here |
in the front, sterling silver, how wide the
choice between the patterns Of Indian luxury
or the more Chaste ilutings OF the Queen
Anne style, not forgetting the novelty known
as the 4" butler finish lust now in vogue?
You have genuine silver, plain, or open
worked, OF oxydized, or repoussee, or IN
combination. While quite at the other eN-
tremity of the long saloon tall cahlnets shine
with the unrivaled Gorham plate, the near
est approach to sterling silver known To
commerce.
What is the meaning OF these richly.paiut-
ell dinner and tea sets, these graceful hre
screens of crystal framed in brass, these Jew
elled lamps and shades under their over
hanging silken canopies ot these braAen
lamp stands, with their sliding rods, the
sight of which suggests the richly appointed
| dining table, the library bright with color
| and gold, the seaside porch where the quiet
| glow falls over the readers shoulder, or the
\ card room where the tall lamp sheds its light
| upon a merry group what but that beauty
| has already become an essential of the
| American home to an extent that will soon
| leave other nations tar behind?
For aesthetic tritles and dauties look at
these parasols and umbrellas oi richest silk,
| with handles OF precious woods these bridal
prayer books, bound in silver; these mara
bout and ostrich feathers for opera fans or fire
screens, over which birds of velvet plumage
| seem to fly, or to make which single bird
| has been captured, 50 that, with his open beak
| near the amber handle, he seems to swing ii
| to fan YOU with hiS wing. What does this
| mean, but a craving for beautiful objects 10
brighten the home?
| And this is true in whatever relates t.
articles for personal use or adornmenL
Would you supply your toilet' Here, scat
| tered in heaps, lie the manifold articles
| required, combs, brushes glove hooks, shoe
| horns, all the furniture for the dressing case.
These aud hundred other things III pro
| fusion that indicates a large and constant de
| mand.
| Look at these cases of jewels. Measure
| them with the eye and calculate the wealth
they hold. See how the jems, set in the new
cluster style now So popular, flash and gilt
ter with blended or Contrasted Colors how
| those moonstones CLEAN as with lunar lgh
in a circumference thick with brilliants lik
| the telescope view OF Saturn in his ring
| Examine these miniatures of the beauties u
the ancient regime, these rings of twnned o
triple stones, ruby, emerald, diamonds
necklaces of brilliants or great solitaires sid
| by side, as If the artist had caught, Just as tn
: | light struck them, "the FIRST drops of
thunder shower Note the rlpplinl
effects OF these dazIlpg clusters Not
| how all the settings "set oil " tn
gems at their best the tineness G
s | the gold, whether about the Jewels o
# wrought into bracelets, rings, brooches O
: | bangles by itself, the cunning of the work
Z | manship the ever varying Yet al ways beaut
| fuI design. Nor are these all the richie
, | Jewels are held apart as costly secrets; tn
. | great velvety green emeralds, the big canar
| diamonds repose in their snowy flakes of cot
p | ton, as if they were fragments of refraCte
: | rays OF light