House and Garden 
I'.ngland. I'he weavers are con¬ 
tented with from to ^2 a day 
according to ability. In 1804 
they only got from twenty to 
thirty cents. The painters 
who produce the colored car¬ 
toons, some original and some 
copied or adapted from the 
antique, receive from $80. 
to $120 a month. For training 
school Aubusson has a “Na¬ 
tional School of Decorative 
Art.” Apprentices are re¬ 
ceived in the different ateliers 
at the age of thirteen and by the 
end of the first year are paid 
the sum of two or three cents a 
day. Their assistance in the 
simpler and easier work is im¬ 
portant in keeping the cost of 
production down. 
At the Paris Exposition of 
1900 the exhibits of two Au¬ 
busson manufacturers were of 
such excellence as to be 
awarded grand prizes — 
the same award as to the 
Gobelins, the product of which 
is reserved for the French Gov¬ 
ernment. 
Among the tapestries that 
helped to win these grand 
prizes, were reproductions of 
one of Oudry’s eighteenth cen¬ 
tury “Flunts of Louis XV.;” 
of the panel Venus and the 
panel Jupiter from Audran’s 
eighteenth century series “The 
Great Gods;” in silk and gold 
of the Chateau de Blois and the 
Chateau de St. Germain, from 
Le Brim’s seventeenth century 
series “The Royal Residences.” 
Of these reproductions the jury- 
said: “They are so like the 
originals as to be mistaken for 
them.” Of an Empire set of 
furniture coverings, part antique 
and part Aubusson restoration, 
the jury said: “Only the most 
experienced eye can tell the new 
from the old. ” 
Which perhaps suggests that 
it is just as well for Americans 
to purchase what are avowedly 
reproductions at a fair price, as 
pretended antiques at a fabu¬ 
lous price. 
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