House and Garden 
Dutch 
Desij 
ji Suggestion 
Our Specialty is 
Cottage Furniture 
Simple in line 
and well built. 
Can be obtained finished or unfinished to be stained to match 
interiors. 
A request will bring a package containing 200 distinctive patterns. 
Visitors are invited to inspect specimen pieces displayed in our 
warerooms. 
William Leavens 4 Co., Manufacturers, 
32 Canal St. 
Boston, Mass. 
Running 
A Car 
By Ear 
r The trained 
ear of the ex- 
Pfif'^nced automobilist 
instantly detects the su¬ 
periority of MOBILOIL in theeven, contented 
“pur-r” of the engine that tells the story of 
perfect lubrication. No matter what the 
type of gasoline engine or season of the year, 
MOBILOIL invariably gives perfect lubrica¬ 
tion under all conditions. 
VACUUM 
MOBILOIL 
is made in five different grades, each grade meet¬ 
ing the particular requirenrents of certain 
automobiles. 
A valuable booklet on motor lubrication will be 
sent free on application. Lists every automobile 
made,ami shows grade of MOBILOIL necessary 
for its perfect lubrication. Contains track records 
and other useful information. 
MOBILOIL in barrels, and in c.ans with patent pour¬ 
ing' spout, is sold by all dealers, Manufactured by 
VACUUM OIL COMPANY, 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
HOSE 
SUPPORTER 
WORN ALL OVER THE WORLD 
DO NOT BE DECEIVED 
BY BUTTONS MADE OF WOOD 
PAINTED OR COLORED TO 
IMITATE RUBBER 
THIS GUARANTY 
COUPON-IN YELLOW 
IS ATTACHED THIS WAY 
TO EVERY PAIR OF THE 
GENUINE — BE SURE 
IT'S THERE 
Sample Fair, Mercerized 26c., Silk 60c. 
Mailed on receipt of price 
GEORGE FROST COMPANY, Makers 
BOSTON 
HOSE 
SUPPORTER 
iS GUARANTEED TO 
DEALER AND USER 
AGAINST IMPERFECTIONS 
THE BUTTONS AND 
LOOPS ARE LICENSED 
FOR USE ON THIS 
HOSE SUPPORTER 
ONLY. 
A Butler’s Pantry Door 
should swing both ways; should close gently and 
without noise and stop at once at the centre 
without vibrating. The only way to accomplish 
this is to use the "BARDSLEY” CHECKING 
HINGE. It goes in the floor under the door and 
there are no ugly projections on the door. 
JOSEPH BARDSLEY 
147-151 Baxter Street New York City 
on them. Even the copperhead is of no 
little benefit in this respect, making way 
with a great quantity of this kind of food. 
There is no excuse for the slaughter of 
black snakes and other inoffensive 
reptiles, which are of much benefit to the 
agriculturist, but which every one seems 
determined to put an end to on sight.— 
The Country Gentleman. 
TRACING ORIGIN OF RARE TEXTILES 
■r\R. WILLIAM VALENTINER’S 
article on textiles in the Metropol¬ 
itan Museum of Art was in large part 
given in a recent issue of the Herald’s 
art section. The Curator of Decorative 
Arts points out further that among the 
ornamental stuffs of Sassanidian origin 
there is the round medallion with the 
palmetto tree in two sizes, the shoulder 
piece, the red stuff with the yellow 
rhombic pattern, two strips with alter¬ 
nating star and circle pattern and some 
smaller fragments. Six pieces on 
which the story of the birth of Christ 
is told more nearly approach the Coptic 
; tuffs. 
They differ from these in their better 
drawing and a technique related to the 
silks, so that they were probably intro¬ 
duced toward the end of the activity of 
the Copts, at the time when the silk in¬ 
dustry was already known (sixth and 
seventh centuries). The motives are 
Byzantine, but both Egypt and Byzan¬ 
tium may be considered in their execu¬ 
tion. 
Several centuries are passed over in 
the next extremely effective piece, well 
known in literature, which has reversed 
eagles and gazelles. 
The stuff appears in somewhat varied 
form in the Errara collection in Brussels, 
South Kensington Museum, Lyons and 
Venice, and has been judged most di¬ 
versely. It is called Persian by Cole, 
Syrian by Migeon, Italian by Mme. 
Errara, and the date varies from the 
eleventh to the fourteenth century. The 
Oriental origin of the twelfth or thir¬ 
teenth century seems to Dr. Valentiner 
to be beyond doubt and Migeon’s opin¬ 
ion in regard to the locality the most 
probable. 
The same difficulty in determining the 
origin is found also in the newly ac¬ 
quired stuff with reversed griffins and 
lions which is executed with very clever 
and graceful drawing on the finest ma¬ 
terial. Remnants of the same kind are 
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