Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1913 — Will Be Popular for the Hot Days of Summer BRASS ORNAMENTS THE RAGE [ARTICLE]

Will Be Popular for the Hot Days of Summer

BRASS ORNAMENTS THE RAGE

Seemingly Cannot Be Too Much of Such Ornamentation In the Modern Homes of the Wealthy.

So strong an allure have brasses that it is small wonder that more and more are they to be found in homes of every degree of prosperity. Any woman who can afford to is certain to keep her choicest blankets in a brassbound cedar chest. These boxes are roomy affairs, and the amount of stuff which they hold is amazing. No library'or living room is complete without a four-sectioned, revolving book rack of plain hammered or filigree brass, no entrance hall as it should be without its censer of hand-wrought Damascus brass, and no upper hall properly Equipped lacking an Incense burner of the same metal. For the desk there are tiny clocks having two inch dials, very clearly numbered; calendar frames, round and oblong pin and pen trays, memorandum pads and bottles of liquids of hammered or etched brass, and for the dining room there are sconces, candelabra, candlesticks, coffee services, loving cups and finger bowls of the beaten metal.

Brass and copper combined comes in various useful articles of most attractive appearance. A very handsome type of ferff dish is of brass in basketwoven style, with copper-bound sides, and another is of brass, bound and adorned with copper spikes. Most fascinating are the chafing dishes of copper and with brass handles and standards and the shiny little copper tea kettles surmounting brass lamps for alcohol.