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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XXVll 



even then certain kinds should-be avoided. 

 Gardenia. Heliotrope, Lily-of -the- Valley are 

 among those to which many object. 



In using any perfume, keep a sachet 

 among your clothes, rather than use a form 

 that has to be applied. The best kind of 

 sachet powder — one that almost everybody 

 likes — is one of pure violet and orris. This 

 gives a fragrance that is pleasant and yet 

 hardly noticeable. 



Avoid anything containing musk or am- 

 bergris — they are the hall-marks of every- 

 thing which you do not wish to have asso- 

 ciated with you. Remember that if you 

 make yourself conspicuous — as you do if 

 you use strong perfumes — you challenge 

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AN HISTORIC BELL 



THE enthusiasm of the collector, says 

 an exchange, expends itself on objects 

 of many kinds; but few collections are so 

 interesting as that of !Mr. Frank Miller of 

 Riverside. California, who has spent a great 

 many years and a great deal of energy in 

 getting together his remarkable collections oi 

 over three hundred bells. 



Even- quarter of the globe, every oddity 

 of shape and material, almost every his- 

 torical era is represented. There are bells 

 from the United States, Mexico, England, 

 Scotland, France, Spain, Germany, Holland. 

 Belgium. Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, 

 Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, India. 

 Ceylon, Tibet, Borneo, Burma, China, Man- 

 churia, Japan, the Philippines, Alaska and 

 the Hawaiian Islands. There is a cow-bell 

 with the name and family arms of Pope 

 Paul III, who excommunicated Henry VIII. 

 It was used on the bell cow of the Vatican 

 herd of that day. A huge bell from Avig- 

 non was once part of the city clock in the 

 town of the Popes. A ship's bell once 

 tolled the watches on one of the vessels that 

 carried the unhappy Acadians from their 

 homes, as Longfellow's poem of "Evan- 

 geline" tells. There is an iron bell from a 

 temple in Mukden, taken by Japanese sol- 

 diers in the Russian war. The very bell 

 which hung in the chapel of Molokai, where 

 Father Damien ministered to the lepers, is 

 there. One bell comes from a monastery 

 near Lhassa, and another is a Chinese stone 

 bell, probably over two thousand years old. 



Perhaps the most interesting of all is one 

 that was cast for a church in Valencia, 

 Spain, in 1247. At that time King James 

 of Aragon had just added Valencia to his 

 dominions, and was establishing Christian 

 churches all over the province. The in- 

 scription cast on the bell bears the names 

 of the Virgin Mary, to whom the church 

 was dedicated, of Jesus, of the King of 

 Aragon, and of the bell-founders Quintana 

 and Salvator, as well as the year in which 

 the bell was cast. 



The special value of this bell lies in the 

 fact that it is the oldest dated bell in exist- 

 ence. Until Mr. Miller found it in the 

 scrap-heap in a London bell-founder's shop, 

 that distinction was held by a bell in Fri- 

 bourg. Germany, which bears the date 1258 



How this fine old bell got to London can 

 only be conjectured. It may have come as 

 a snip's bell on one of the ill-fated Armada, 

 or as a papal present to an English mon- 

 astery, or as booty from so.ne of the flaring 

 raids of Sir Francis Drake on the coast 

 cities of Spain. However it got there, nc 

 one suspected its value, or indeed its exist- 

 ence, until Mr. Miller unearthed it. Once 

 found, it wag not so easily got out of Eng- 

 land, for the British Museum learned of the 

 discovery. 





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