Show Brevities I Making New Antiques The prevailing craze for antique furniture fur-niture old clocks ancient china and such things has emptied nearly all the farmhouse garrets within a radius of fifty miles of Philadelphia The country coun-try people who used to regard their old possessions as truck and trash are fully ful-ly educated up to the market values now said a dealer In antiques yesterday yester-day They have lost their guileless Innocence regarding heirlooms and now have an eye to business Ten years ago I used to travel around the country districts and at auction sales I would often pick up gront old things for al mpst nothing I used to make ridiculously ridicu-lously low offers for old things whenever when-ever T cacao across them at farmhouses farm-houses and my otters wore generally accepted But competition In my line of business has become keen and as a result genuine antiques are now so scarce and cost so much that many dealers have gone Into the manufacturing manufactur-ing business To make a copybook like an original is quite a work of art but It Is i done in such a way aa completely to defy detection Ono of the most common com-mon tricks Is to make worm holes In wood by discharging u gun Into it at close range the gun having been loaded load-ed with bird nhot Philadelphia Bee ord S |