Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1891 — Art, Glass, Bric-a-brac and China. [ARTICLE]

Art, Glass, Bric-a-brac and China.

Cut-glass table bells with silver tongues are the correct thing. Dessert plates of white china, with painted portrait centers and perforated borders, represent a popular article. Anglomaniacs delight in porridge sets of Coalport china, this being a Ware which appears on the table of her Majesty of England. • Rockwood pottery is out in grotesque, and Japanese designs. Sevres porcelains are the delight of every woman who knows anything about ceramics, and just now they are im-f mensely popular, being in harmony with] the light furniture so fashionable in] (podern drawing-rooms. Cut glass candelabra afford a pleasingchange from the more massive silver as-i fairs. Crystal lamps with shades simu-i lating an open parasol are attractive: affairs. Numbered with novelties among] cut glass lamps are those supported on al Blender stem, with a silk shade fringed; and otherwise fashioned so as to repre-i sent a chrysanthemum . I I beljeve —I daily find It proved—that we can get nothing in this world worth] keeping, not so much as a principle or a] 'onviction, except out of purifying flame, I mt.. through strengthening peril.—Char-, ottc Ilrunte.