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Show Clever Hiding Places for Family Treasures In this day of chei king accounts, safe-deposit vaults, wall safes burglary bur-glary Insurance, of pursers on steamships steam-ships and clerks in hotels who safeguard safe-guard our valuables for us. It is difficult dif-ficult even to Imagine what must have been the anxiety in the days when every woman had to look after her treasures for herself. And yet even our grandmothers can sometimes tell us of the way they hid their Jewelry deep within the feathers of the bed. of hiding their money in chinks of the wall or sewing it in the wide hems of their skirts. And the secret drawers and slides and cubby holes that we find In interesting old pieces of furniture bear witness to tbe fact that women of former generations have had a far less easy time of it to hide their treasures than we. In the bureaus, desks and other pieces of furniture made by the master mas-ter cabinetmakers of the Eighteenth century In France and England much time and skill were used in making these secret hide-away places the location lo-cation of which and method of opening was often kept a deep secret between the maker of the piece and the owner. |