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convenience in placing against the wall 
A foot rest designed to fit against the easy chair 
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on beautiful lines, that are 
$12.50 to $15 each. Charming 
little after dinner coffee sets 
are shown for about $20, and 
of course there are the usual 
vegetable dishes and candle¬ 
sticks and trays in any number 
of different styles, while Shef¬ 
field sconces in lovely Colonial 
models may be had for either 
candles or incandescent lamps, 
and ought to prove a joy to any 
householder on one’s Christ¬ 
mas list. 
Pewter, too, has been revived 
until modern pewter is quite as 
available as Sheffield, made in 
designs equally good, and in 
pieces intended not only for 
decorative purposes but for ordi¬ 
nary household use. Copies of the 
curious whale-oil lamps at $2.75, 
quaint candlesticks with wind 
shields, porringers, and tankards 
and mugs from $2.50 up to about 
$15 are reproduced from antique 
pieces for present day decoration, 
and tea sets in a number of good 
patterns, with dishes and plates 
and pitchers, are coming into de¬ 
mand for household and table use. 
(A good design is illustrated at 
the head of this article.) The 
latter make particularly acceptable gifts for people who have 
summer cottages or camps, as they are kept bright and shining 
with little trouble, and will take the place of silver without 
being valuable enough to necessitate any special care in storing 
them from season to season. 
Even though there seems little connection between the 
Christmas spirit and summer cottages, many of the most 
suitable presents that can be given are essentially summer 
time articles, and 
would no doubt 
be gladly re¬ 
ceived. For the 
owners of old- 
fashioned gar¬ 
dens there are 
fascinating sun¬ 
dials in brass or bronze to be 
had at reasonable prices. Pic¬ 
turesque lanterns in quaint de¬ 
signs, with dull brass frames 
and ancient looking yellowed 
glass sides, are among the 
housefurnishing novelties this 
season, and make attractive 
lights for the piazza. The 
combination of willow with 
the gay, crudely colored Hun¬ 
garian china is something 
quite new, and muffin stands, 
fern bowls, flower pots and 
dishes of various shapes and 
sizes of this ware in holders of 
willow seem to suggest sum¬ 
mer time pleasures and ap¬ 
propriate Christmas remem¬ 
brances at the same time. An ad¬ 
dition to the' fittings of the fire¬ 
place in the autumn camp or the 
all-year-round country house is a 
chestnut-roaster made of dull brass, 
a copy of an old model that is suf¬ 
ficiently quaint to be ornamental 
as well as useful. 
Odd and attractive articles whose 
uses are essentially prosaic and 
homely may be made to do duty as 
Christmas gifts if only one takes 
the trouble to look for them. The 
medicine chest, necessary evil that 
it is, is now disguised as a fascinating little Dutch house, the 
contents of which would never by any chance be suspected. 
There are ever so many models in these little chests which are 
fastened on the wall in the usual way, and all have the quaint 
Dutch roofs and dormer windows, with the half-timber deco¬ 
ration, while some are so realistic that they show places where 
the plastering has peeled off and left the bricks bare. The 
umbrella stand, an article of furniture usually despised, is 
now made in the 
effective combi¬ 
nation of En¬ 
glish oak an cl 
cane which would 
prove quite an at¬ 
tractive addition 
( Con’d on />. 404) 
Odd chairs of lacquered work fit in almost anywhere. They are now made 
in excellent copies of old pieces 
Every country home owner has opportunity to use at least one cedar 
chest. They now come in a variety of finishes, handsomely 
bound in brass 
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