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Show Good Prices for Antique. Some of the Items at a recent sale of decorative furniture at a house In Iowndes square, London, sold as fol-lows: fol-lows: Set ot eight eighteenth century cen-tury mahogany chairs In the Heppla-.Li Heppla-.Li white stylo, with ovnl concave, $1,-153 $1,-153 175; a Chippendale cupboard, with carved moldings and ormolu mounts, $700; a small Chippendale table, $5E0; and AdamB satlnwood secretaire, Inlaid In-laid with various woods, $250; an Adams sideboard, with festooned carving In relief, $210; a mahogany Sheraton cabinet, fitted with book shelves, $276, and a threo-tler mahogany ma-hogany dumb waiter on a curver pillar pil-lar and tripod, $275. Helping the Cook. Bishop David H. Greer of New York recently took the American girl to task for frivolity. A young woman remonstrated: "I, for Instance, am not frivolous," she said. "On tho contrary, con-trary, I am very fond of cooking. I often go Into tho kitchen and holp our cook." "Dut perhaps jour help," said Ulshop Qreer, with a smile, "Is llko that of a young girl I used to know In Wheeling. Sho wont Into her mother's moth-er's kitchen ono day and told tho cook she had como to help her. Dut tho cook frowned. 'No, no,' sho said, 'I liavo too much to do to day.' " Enjoyment for Shakespeare. Herbert Spencer tolls this story of a woman of his acquaintance: "Vain as well ns vulgar-mlndcd, she professed pro-fessed to havo a high admiration of Shakospcaro and was partial to read- lng his plays nloud, and considered tegj that she declaimed tho speeches ox-" ox-" tromely well. On ono occasion, after enlarging upon her reverence for him, sho ended by saying: "Ah, I often wish that ho wero nllvo, and that I had him here. How wo would onjoy one another's company." I Took Both Pictures. It Is told ot the late Clarence King that ho met John Iluskln in a plcturo shop and his comments wero so delightfully de-lightfully phraBed that Ituskln took 1.1m to his heart, inviting him to Con-iston Con-iston and offering him ono of his two greatest water-colors by Turner. "Ono good Turner," said King, "deserves another," and took both. |