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that the few objects in the window had been 

 placed with him for sale by some of his 

 neighbors. The one thing really worth hav- 

 ing was an old candlestick unmistakably 

 French and when I found that it had been 

 brought in by a negro woman lately from 

 one of the Louisiana parishes not far from 

 New Orleans it was easy indeed to piece 

 together the obvious history of the candle- 

 stick. It has evidently been discarded from 

 a plantation home, given to a servant and 

 had arrived finally in an obscure shop in a 

 negro quarter of a northern city. 



But a vacation is more apt to lead one 

 into the country and things rural possess at 

 this season of the year a charm which can- 

 not be altogether resisted. The logical 

 thing, therefore, is to place vacation (and 

 incidentally collecting) in some part of the 

 country where the depletion of the purse 

 may contribute to the upbuilding of bodily 

 strength and to the enlarging of the collec- 

 tion of furniture, old brass, samplers or 

 whatever be one's favorite objects. 



In many parts of the older states there 

 are villages as well as country localities 

 which were important and prosperous in 

 their day, but which have fallen upon less 

 fortunate times by reason of their having 

 been ignored by the builders of a railroad 

 or for some other reason. New Hampshire 

 and Vermont are full of these forgotten vil- 

 lages some of which are typical old New 

 England towns full of the seemly simple 

 homes of a century ago and each possessing 

 its old church with its slender white spire. 

 Other old villages equally pleasing and fully 

 as remote abound in Virginia and in that 

 part of Maryland which is still known as 

 the "Eastern Shore" and here are many 

 old homes which played an important part 

 in the social history of the days when Vir- 

 ginia and Maryland were still loyal colonies 

 of the British crown. These quiet old 

 towns are sleepy and moss-grown to-day, 

 but they are full of just the things the col- 

 lector is most anxious to secure, and ob- 

 taining them is work which will test both' 

 his patience and ingenuity. 



It is difficult to write about the pleasures 

 of collecting without describing something 

 of my own experiences in somewhat exten- 

 sive wanderings through Louisiana, Miss- 

 issippi and Georgia. These states, it must 

 be remembered, were wealthy and prosper- 

 ous up to the time of the Civil War and 

 wealth was expended largely upon the home 

 and upon domestic as well as personal 

 adornment. Scores of old villages, once the 

 center of a gay and free-from-care life still 

 exist and their beautiful old homes with pil- 

 lared porticos in various stages of dilapi- 

 dation suggest a mute testimony to the 

 beauty and grandeur of the old South vastly 

 more interesting to me than all the noise 

 and bustle and imitation of northern ways 

 which obtains in what some people like to 

 call the new South. 



It might be supposed that in these days of 

 antique collectings the country districts 

 which I have mentioned would long ago 

 have been canvassed by the enterprising 

 agents of antioue dealers from Boston, 

 Baltimore and New Orleans. So they have 

 been, but there are many beautiful thing's 

 vet to be had just as excellent fish are still 

 being caught in the sea which has been 

 "fished over" since the beginning of time. 

 The dealers who have dispatched their 

 emissaries into every nook and cranny of 

 the older parts of the countrv have perhaps 

 secured almost all of the prizes which are 

 to be easily and readily won. What is more 

 to the point, however, is that they have edu- 

 cated the neonle into a full knowledge of 

 the financial value of what they still possess 

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