[Sentrytools-announce] APTER VII TREATMENT OF PICTURES AND PI

[Albach <blu...@sh...>]

Ad its beginning in the casual purchase of a little old pendant found in
a forgotten corner of Europe. The owner wore it, her friends saw it, and
gradually associated the _panier fleuri_ with her, which resulted in
many beautiful specimens of this design being sought out for her by
wanderers at home and abroad. To-day this collection includes old silks,
laces, jewellery, wax pictures, old prints, some pieces of antique
furniture, snuffboxes and ornaments in glass, china, silver, etc. Every
museum is the result of fads in collecting, and when one considers all
that is meant by this heading, which sounds so trifling and unimportant
to the layman, it will not seem strange that we strongly recommend it as
a dissipation! At first, quite naturally, the collector makes mistakes;
but it is through his mistakes that he learns, and absolutely nothing
gives such a zest to a stroll in the city, a tramp in the country, or an
unexpected delay in an out-of-the-way town, as to have this collecting
bee in your bonnet. How often when travelling we have rejoiced when the
loss of a train or a mistake in time-table, meant an unexpected
opportunity to explore for junk in some old shop, or, perhaps, to
bargain with a pretty peasant girl who hoarded a beloved heirloom, of
entrancing interest to us