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SOUTH NORWALK STAMFORD PORT CHESTER 



A Beautiful But Misused Show 

 Window. 



For many years there have Keen no 

 more attractive show windows in 

 Stamford than those of Lyman Hoyt's 

 Sons & Company's furniture store. So 

 generally attractive have they been 

 that they have come to be regarded. 

 from their pleasing arrangement and 

 their artistic contents, as suitable 

 places for the public exhibition of lov- 

 ing cups, prize cups, and other objects 

 i if public interest and of brotherly good 

 feeling. 



One window has usually been de- 

 voted to specimens of the work of 

 skilled artists. As many of these were 

 of nature subjects, the window has 

 been efficient in promoting a love of 

 nature and of outdoor life. During this 

 last month an exceptionally fine collec- 

 tion of paintings has been on exhibi- 

 tion, but all the good that such a dis- 

 play might do has been more than 

 counteracted, because it was chiefly a 

 skilled portrayal of ravages of nature 

 so offensive as to be monstrous. The 

 subjects were white birches, always 

 beautiful in form and outline, graceful 

 trees that usually stand by the side 

 of some entrancing entrance to the 

 woods, or overhang the bank of a 

 pellucid stream. So far as the artist 

 had attempted to portray the delicate 

 beauty of the birches, he had done well. 

 But he and the store made a mistake in 

 offering, as an object to be studied and 

 admired, the devastations of vandals, 

 presumably human beings, that had 

 strioped the bark, apparently in inde- 

 scribable wantonness, and had left the 

 boles as bare as a scalded arm whose 

 naked flesh quivers in the irritating air. 

 One of the beliefs of learned and 

 advanced botanists is that every vege- 

 table has sensory nerves, slightly devel- 

 oped, it is true, but present; low and 

 slow in function, it is true, but still sen- 

 sory. Then why? Does the raw flesh of 

 your parboiled arm add to the mem- 



Where and Why 



Dr. Givens' Sanitarium at Stamford, 

 Conn. (50 minutes from New York City), 

 offers exceptional opportunity for the 

 treatment of NERVOUS and MILD 

 MENTAL Diseases, and has separate 

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 SANITARIUM 



Stamford, Connecticut 



