Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . ^. see a castle in Spain. For the most partthe hearth is a place of reveries anddreams. The lover thinks of the trystsof yesterday and the promise of anotherfor to-morrow, the business man dreamsof the past or future success or so we sit and look into the firebeyond the andirons. And this brings up my andirons andcrane. The former are rare— not an-tique, not historical— not for sale onBoylston street or Fourth avenue. Ihave never seen any just like them—andthat is because they were designed byHelayne. But I will not give you ad
Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . ^. see a castle in Spain. For the most partthe hearth is a place of reveries anddreams. The lover thinks of the trystsof yesterday and the promise of anotherfor to-morrow, the business man dreamsof the past or future success or so we sit and look into the firebeyond the andirons. And this brings up my andirons andcrane. The former are rare— not an-tique, not historical— not for sale onBoylston street or Fourth avenue. Ihave never seen any just like them—andthat is because they were designed byHelayne. But I will not give you adescription of them or recommend themby a drawing, if I could draw, as IkMarvel did for country homes and prae-dial homeliness and beauty. You hadbetter get your Helayne to design them-141-
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