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wings of gray, fluttered in glee and seeming industry over a 

 nest. The frame was as a hedge of golden-rod about the bird- 

 home, and it seemed as if the flowers' anthers had shed their 

 pollen over each swaying songster. Th'e idea was lavish with 

 art. 



Miss Gifford's decorated china showed the delicate tracery of 

 genius' touch. A painted pottery jar was another of hers that 

 belonged to the unique— dim shades for background relieved 

 by a branch of apple blossoms. Her wax-work was also ex- 

 cellent. 



Miss Bessie Smith's work — a piano spread and lambrequin — 

 was of the artistic olive green enlivened by rich colored silk em- 

 broidery. A slipper case, of hers offered a very fine representa- 

 tion of the head of a deer, in Berlin work. The subject might 

 have been taken from an Adirondack thicket, where startled, 

 bucks listen, panting from flight, branched antlers held with 

 haughty toss, and great wondering eyes stirred from their 

 mournful calm to alert expression. 



A portion of the collection of Mrs. xA.bram Freeman, of Dux- | 

 bury, comprised table cover and paintings in oil, of her usual 

 excellent quality. 



Mrs. George S. Adams, of Kingston, displayed an afghan of 

 rich design and remarkable fineness of stitch. There were sev- 

 eral others, all deserving mention, and their brilliancy swaying 

 from lines over the flower table, expressed significantly their 

 close following after Nature's models in the embroidered 

 stretches of the robes. 



A numismatic collection by J. L. Rogers was somewhat exten- 

 sive, showing the changes of styles to which our monies have 

 been subjected. Some appeared antique enough to have 

 helped make the legal tender of Julius Caesar's day. The 

 Colonial scrip was a curiosity of printing, and manifested, by 

 the coarseness of the paper, the distress of the times. The 

 scrip of the date as late 9-s our Civil War, would have repaid a 



