The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics . EPOQUE LOUIS XVI. The Ornamental Clocks of France T By Frances Sheafer Waxman HERE was a time, not so pretentions, whatever, possessed anvery long ago, when every onyx or marble French clock. ThisAmerican household of any ornament was proudly ensconced on 432 THE BOSTON COOKING-SCHOOL MAGAZINE. EPOQUE REGENCE the mantle shelf, together with suchbric-a-brac as was deemed worthyto share its conspicuous infrequently, when the clockswere of gilded bronze, they werecovered with the bell glass, once usedto p
The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics . EPOQUE LOUIS XVI. The Ornamental Clocks of France T By Frances Sheafer Waxman HERE was a time, not so pretentions, whatever, possessed anvery long ago, when every onyx or marble French clock. ThisAmerican household of any ornament was proudly ensconced on 432 THE BOSTON COOKING-SCHOOL MAGAZINE. EPOQUE REGENCE the mantle shelf, together with suchbric-a-brac as was deemed worthyto share its conspicuous infrequently, when the clockswere of gilded bronze, they werecovered with the bell glass, once usedto preserve wax flowers from the has become of all thosewax groups of fruit and flowers?Being useless decorations they havedisappeared, probably to the remotest,dustiest corners of the family clocks though, having a genuineraison detre, and being moreoverexcellent time-keepers, remain tomark the passing of a fashion indecoration that sometimes sets uswondering if the Mission style is,after all, an improvement on thosethat have gone before. The French clock, as it has beencopied and distributed throughoutthe world, is certainly out of keywith most of the surroundings inwhich it finds itself, for the clock inFrance was from the first regardedas much as an ornament as a utility,and it was designed to fit the sump-tuous interiors of the days whenFra
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