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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 1 9 13 



shaded by drooping willows 

 and surrounded by weeping 

 women who are doubtless 

 also symbolical since one is 

 obviously Liberty, with her 

 stars and stripes, and 

 another, who seems to be 

 dropping her scales may be 

 identified as Justice. By far 

 the most interesting object 

 commemorating Washing- 

 ton's death, is a handker- 

 chief showing him as the 

 subject of a magnificent 

 apotheosis where he is being 

 welcomed into the glorious 

 company of the Virtues who 

 have here assumed bodily 

 form. The hero appears in 

 the simple attire of early 

 American days, but seems to 

 be somewhat abashed by the 

 classical attire of the assem- 

 bled Virtues who, regardless 

 of sex, wear the Roman toga. 



English printed handkerchief with a pictorial design depicting a scene 

 from the old ballad of "Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor" 



Another printed handker- 

 chief was no doubt designed 

 to appealto an entirely dif- 

 ferent phase of human in- 

 terest, for who could be in- 

 different to the romance of 

 "Lord Thomas and Fair 

 Eleanor," not subtly hinted 

 at or left to the imagination, 

 but boldly described in the 

 four brief but expressive lines 

 below the picture? History 

 fails to record the identity of 

 these young people but one 

 instinctively hopes that their 

 romance prospered and that 

 it resulted in much happiness 

 for them both. The hand- 

 kerchief shown upon page 

 (3) portrays various phases 

 of domestic rural life and 

 that the range may be as 

 broad as possible the maker 

 of the print has wisely uti- 

 lized the four seasons, for 



Handkerchiefs printed at the time of the Centennial in they may always be relied upon to supply a certain variety 



1876 are still often seen in collections, although they very of interest. 



rarely come up for sale. The designs are always appropri- The most interesting handkerchief among the number 



ate to the occasion and generally include a picture of the shows the well-known New York City Hall, which still ful- 



Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, or a group showing the fills the functions for which it was built. The print shows it 



signers of the Declaration of Independence, and one or as surrounded, not by towering skyscrapers, but by little 



more of the sadly inartistic buildings in which the exposition oval pictures showing the ways in which various domestic 



was housed. supplied were offered for sale in early days. The period 



The illustrations show a number of printed handkerchiefs must have been in the far distant past, for surely many years 



which formed part of a recent sale of a vast collection of have elapsed since New York milk dealers served their 



interesting objects, the property of one of the most famous patrons from cans suspended from the ends of a pole carried 



of American collectors. Upon page ( 1 ) is shown an exceed- upon the shoulders of a man or since "hot corn" was sold 



ingly interesting print designed to appeal to the spirit of from what seems to be a hamper basket poised upon a 



military enthusiasm which exists (although often somewhat woman's head. 



dormant) in every human breast. In the center of the One of the fascinations of collecting consists in the "side- 

 print, a general with his staff is reviewing troops, and some lights" thrown upon history by the objects which one gathers 

 ladies who are present seem to be avoiding being trampled into a collection of treasures and surely the acquiring of the 

 under the horses' hoofs. The smaller panels above and small belongings of domestic life is of particular interest, for 

 below the central picture show various phases of camp life they are intimately associated with the customs of earlier 

 and numerous different maneuvres of infantry and cavalry, times and afford us much information which is of interest. 



An early English printed handkerchief design of the seasons 



An early English printed handkerchief design. Military subject 



