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Show , Walking Stick. Nowadays thero is hardly any limit to the kinds of material used in walking sticks. Formerly only a few native woods and some foreign species were used. Innovations in tho style of walking walk-ing sticks aud umbrellas have been constantly con-stantly introduced during the last forty years until their manufacture has become be-come quite an art and a business of considerable con-siderable importance. Natural sticks, that is, saplings of trees and climbing plants, whose roots will form handles or knots, are mout used. They are sometimes some-times mounted with precious metals, onyx, jasper, marble, precious stones, ivory and boms of nil kinds. Youth's Compulsion. |