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Show A llerapboak of raihlaa- A bright woman bit been mtklug for aiany yean a collection that It far from completed, that It absolutely unique and that baa great Intrlntlo value, taya the Philadelphia Timet. In the early daya of the late war the began be-gan a tcrapbook of nothing but fttblon plate. Thlt hot been idded to from time to time until tlm one volume baa grown to teveral. It It a wonderfully Interetttng tight, the patting In review of all the absurd fancies that hive flourished In these thirty odd yean. Then tbo Oreclau bend, the chlinon, th waterfall, the pullbtck, the crinoline, crino-line, the tiny bonnets and the poke, the large buttle and the large tlreret Only extreme of ttlo and oddities are uted or the collection would twetl beyond be-yond all proportion, Aa It It, It It the source cf much mirth whenever in brlnga It out at a "company trap." |