Show I M M H I M M 44 U I U M M f 4 M M M H M I M I M H I I M I H I M I M I M H I ii I barm of ij Venetian 61 ass I 4 44 4 I M 4 1 M 4 t I M 0 1 M H t t H M H MM u M M M M M M t I After searching high and low for fur odd and beautiful presents one usually c comes omes to the conclusion that nothing is Is more lovely than cut crystal ex exquisitely exquisitely ex- ex q fine engraved Intaglio glass and the beautiful colored Bohemian and V Venetian crystals that look like soap bubbles bubbles so so graceful so luminous and so ao f beautiful are they Silver seems positively IVely gross oss beside these exquisite exquisite ex ex- q wedding presents I Venetian glass Is enjoying a special special boom just now although it has nev never r I c ceased eased to be admired and sought after r by connoisseurs since the fifteenth I c century saw its first fragile specimens When all Italy was in a whirl of tart art artand rt I a and nd beauty owing to the Renaissance this lovely glass was first made Later it its s making became almost a a. lost lost art but owing to the tile efforts of two uvo English a artists it is obtainable again Connoisseurs say the new st specimens compare v very ery favorably with the old Originality is Ia one of ot the charms o of the colorings of this glass As the w wineglass or vase held to the light and turned in th the hand touches of gold n arise as as it asit it s seems gems ems from nowhere flash out into brilliance and then disappear I i Into nto the luminous purple reflections of t the tte e glass only to make room for more I o of f the clouds of tiny golden gold specks which beam out Int Into b brightness as aa as they a approach the light and add then In turn dle away A As table decoration Venetian g glass lass has absolutely no equal the transparency and depth o of Its color and t the he presence of the gold In its Us composition causing It to light up at night In a away away away way no other make can |