Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-07-03


the most beautiful and wonderful ar
ticles that they have been able to pro
duce. We see a large section fillet
with furniture, both wood and met
al, that is exquisitely fine in design
and finish. The most beautiful wood
have been finished, carved ,inlaid will
silver and ivory, and are used for SO
fas, chairs, etc., upholstered with the
NJ ost beautiful silks and other fabrics
Here is an almost endless variety o1
pottery, formed, painted and decorat-
ed by some of the finest artists in this
line in the world. Here are mosaics
in kinds and numbers we will not at
tempt to describe. Close by is large
space devoted to marble statuary.
Italy beats the world in marble and in
sculpture. Here are hundreds of the
finest and most beautiful things in the
art. Everything, from the smallest
bird or fish to the large group or the
classic figure. To the uneducated eye
these marble figures are beautiful be-
yond description. What they are to
the artist we have no idea. Had time
permitted we could have fingered
here for hours. In this place is some
of the beautiful glassware that fills a
prominent part in many sections of
wood carving representing animals
and hundred pretty things that have
taken months or years for completion
and are costly as we'll as beautiful.
Here are great displays of articles in
bronze, representing hundreds of
things, useful and ornamental. There
is much in bronze statuary. But how
can we describe the wonderful things
in gold, silver, she'll, coral, and other
jewelry? Whatever art or ingenuity
can do is done in this line In silver
ware there were kinds and varieties
that can not be mentioned. The Ital-
ian silks and other fabrics are, per-
haps, as fine as are produced any
where, while in tapestries and laces
they do remarkable things. Here
were pretty things in straw and leath-
er work. In lamps and candelabra
there is bewildering quantity. Here
also is great display of articles use
full and ornamental in wrought iron.
The iron is wrought and hammered
into almost every conceivable thing,
from door or fence gate to the figure
of negro's face.
We will take a few steps down Co.
lumbia avenue and turn to the left and
drop in under the shades of the Alps |
in Switzerland. On the sides of the
pavilion we see we'll executed water
colored paintings, representing Alpine |
and Swiss scenery. Here are lofty |
ranges of mountains with snow clad |
peaks, glaciers, ETC., and here are
beautiful lakes with the villages and
cities beside them, and here bits Of
scenery that carry US to the Swiss
home. We feel that we are really in
5he country of the Alps. AS we are
close by the long cases where the
watches are spread out in such guam
titles, we will pass along and see what
;he Swiss watch is. Well, really, it is
in the line of the watch.
The tiny little timer, SO small that the
lverage eye can scarcely read the
lial, the Iady's watch in gold and Jew
is, the strong business watch, the
ailway timekeeper, gold, silver, etc.
1he great variety of forms and kinds
# watches is really as interesting as
heir wonderful mechanism might be
n&al olyn, oTn
he differeht parts of watches display
d by the manufacturers who make {
hem. Another department Of espec- {
IL interest is that of wood carving. S
,verything is cut in wood from toy 7
monkey to a huge bear. We noticed /
she bear standing at the stock of a t
rec with her cub above her on a t
ranch. The carving is so we'll done T
nat it was difficult to believe that the S
ming was not real. We learned that Y
cost SIS to 1925 to purchase one of q
ne bear ornaments to place in the d
ont hall or beside the piazza door o
-ay We admired the carving, but =
Lcked the spare change. Here is n
1own what the Swiss can do in the g
ne of boiling cloths, perhaps the best O
i the world. When you visit the g
air, sit down on the cushioned seats f.
nd enjoy half hour with the Swiss +,
While passing we will step across "
le broad aisle into a part of Liberal O.
rts division devoted to musical in a
ruments. Here is great space ded- Il
ited to almost everything in the 81
ne of musical instruments. The great l.
lurch organ. pianos in vast num- "
ers from all the leading manufactur- g.