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Show Fire Steels of Our Grandfathers. The housewife who presses a button but-ton and lights the houso with electricity elec-tricity or turnlslieH the heat for cooking cook-ing on nn eh ct ilc range will look with Interest upon this picture of flro steels of tin fifteenth century, whero with the folk ft that tlmo secured mmmcjmmmKemmKiamuammaBmiB&i tho necessary heal und light. To tho first crude pieces of motal of years and ycnis before the art of this period was added taste In design and orna mentation. Some of tho steels showed a high degreo of art, and to day aro valued highly by antlqua rlans. The best collection at present is In England, and comprises tho mako of soveral countries. |