Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1902 — Hurt Trade In Mirrors. [ARTICLE]

Hurt Trade In Mirrors.

“The trade in fine mirrors is no longer what it used to be,” says a dealer. “Twenty-five on thirty years ago every well-to-do family bought, at least, once in its life, a Belgian or a French mantel mirror or pier glass, flamed in gold or ebony, and worth from S2OO to SSOO. But now families ne longer find it necessary to invest their money in that way. Our builders, within the last two or three decades, have taken more and more to building mirrors into the houses, just as they build mantels or doors in them.”