Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . - hens, andrat)hits and guinea lowls. and all barnyard creatures thatthe country child ignores and tlu city child loves. Alittle later, when ihc yearly exodus is altout to begin,lilipulian figui-c-. nattily dressed, engage in endlessgames of temii^ or crtxiucl. The windows assume a Ie —tive air which sjieaks of holidays and golden alternoons,but, above all, indicates the emptiness and dullness of. EMBRYO BRIC-A-BRAC SHOP. SHOP ^yIXD0^Y8. 247 the greiie sliawe, unless the idler there be equippedwith bow and arrow,
Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . - hens, andrat)hits and guinea lowls. and all barnyard creatures thatthe country child ignores and tlu city child loves. Alittle later, when ihc yearly exodus is altout to begin,lilipulian figui-c-. nattily dressed, engage in endlessgames of temii^ or crtxiucl. The windows assume a Ie —tive air which sjieaks of holidays and golden alternoons,but, above all, indicates the emptiness and dullness of. EMBRYO BRIC-A-BRAC SHOP. SHOP ^yIXD0^Y8. 247 the greiie sliawe, unless the idler there be equippedwith bow and arrow, as Kobiu Hood was of old, with atennis court, and with that mildest of all mild sports,croquet. In shops in Avhich a professional decorator is not en-gaged the windows are arranged by one of the a large number of employes, there are a fewwho will show a finer sense of color and a more naturalmstinct to good design than the man}-. One difficultyis to discover the right person, whose candle is likelyenough to be hidden under a bushel. In a very well-known bookstore in Philadelphia, one clerk after an-other was intrusted with the charge of the did his best, but his work could not be pronounceda success. Finally there appeared the one who hadlong been \vanted. He stepped into the window andpiled up in tempting rows, as if to the manner born, thenewest and the oldest editions, and he threw carelesslyforward the latest thing in the way of travels an
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