Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1898 — DECORATE YOUR HOMES. [ARTICLE]

DECORATE YOUR HOMES.

Beautiful Representations of Wild Ducks, Pheasants, Quail and Snipe. Probably at no time in the world’s history has us much attention been paid to the interior decoration of homes as at present. No home, no matter how humble, is without its handiwork that helps to beautify the apartments aud make the surroundings more cheerful. The taste of the American people has kept pace with the age, and almost every day brings forth something new in the way of a picture, a draping, a piece of furniture or other form of mural decoration. One of the latest of these hns been given to the world by the celebrated artist, Muville, in a series of four handsome porcelain game plaques. Not for years has anything as handsome in this line been seen. The subjects represented by these plaques are American wild ducks, American pheasants, American quail uud English snipe. They are handsome paintings and are especially designed for hanging on dining room walls, though their richness and beauty entitles them to a place in the parlor of any home. These originul plaques have been purchased at a cost of $50,000 by J. C. Huhiuger Bros. Co., manufacturers of the celebrated Elustic Starch, and in order to enable their numerous customers to become possessors of these handsome works of art they have had them reproduced by a special process, in all the rich colors and beauty of the original. They are finished on heavy cardboard, pressed aud embossed in the shape of a plaque and trimmed with a heavy band of gold. They measure forty inches iu circumference and contain no reading mutter or advertisement whatever. Until Oct. 1 Messrs. J. C. Huhiuger Bros. Co. propose to distribute these plaques free to their customers. Every purchaser of three ten-cent packages of Elastic Starch, flatiron brand, manufactured by J. C. Huhiuger Bros. Co., is entitled to receive one of these handsome plaques free from their grocer. Old and new customers alike are entitled to the benefits of this offer. These plaques will not he sent through the mail, the only way tc obtain them being from your grocer. Every grocery store iu the country has Elastic Starch for sale. It Is the oldest and best laundry starch on the market and is the most perfect cold process starch ever invented. It is the only starch made by men who thoroughly understand the laundry business, and the only starch that will not injure the finest fabric. It hns been the standard for a quarter of a century and as an evidence of how good it is twenty-two million packages were sold last yenr. Ask your dealer to show you the plaques anil tell you about Elastic Starch. Accept no substitute. Bear in mind that this offer holds good a short time only and should he taken advantage of without delay. The Egyptians practiced the art of hatching chickens by artificial means a century and a half ago, though they knew nothing of tin* modern Incubator.