The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . AS OLD ROMA XV LAMP. or Sheffield plate never attain. Especially isthis so in the fluted patterns, where the charmof light and shade reflected on the surface isvery effective. Silver lustre should stand alone on a shelf orcupboard made of old oak or mahogany, butnowhere better is its presentment than on ahigh mantleshelf oyer an open hearth in someTudor or Jacobean farmhouse or cottage. True,it is hard to find such a home where modernfurniture, tawdry pictures, and hideous orna-ments are not known, vet there are still left in this country some s
The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . AS OLD ROMA XV LAMP. or Sheffield plate never attain. Especially isthis so in the fluted patterns, where the charmof light and shade reflected on the surface isvery effective. Silver lustre should stand alone on a shelf orcupboard made of old oak or mahogany, butnowhere better is its presentment than on ahigh mantleshelf oyer an open hearth in someTudor or Jacobean farmhouse or cottage. True,it is hard to find such a home where modernfurniture, tawdry pictures, and hideous orna-ments are not known, vet there are still left in this country some small dwellings where theinmates look with pride on the handwork oitheir fathers, and love with reverent care thesimple heirlooms that have been bonded downto them. An Old Romany Lamp. The old brass and iron lamp, shown in theillustration, called by some Old RomanyLamp, was picked up in a cottage in ireJano\Going back, as it does, to a period before thedays of the tallow dip, whic h flashed its brightness oa the splendour of the best room, itis
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