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HE illustrations here pre I 

 to display the manner it 

 to add an interest to th { 

 decoration in modern h i 

 a study well worth while. In an e 

 the subject of collecting, G. M. Vs 

 as follows : "We love our old pos: i 

 improbably) they would fetch larj 

 speak to us of the long distant 

 handled them, of the little children 

 (new then) and gazed with intent 

 women on the oriental porcelain, ai 

 tunes on the fine old glass runne 

 ment, gave out such lovely musical 

 things coul< 

 thralling th \ 

 tell us, an< I 

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