ABSTRACT
As one ascends the stone steps to the Collins studio, which is on one of the great thoroughfares of this big town, the window, which is a broad one, claims our attention. It is a mass of beautiful articles for house decoration. On the top was a figure in china of Sevres make of Louis the Fourteenth, in a costume of splendid tones most minutely copied in all its historical tints while some three or four inches below was a silken cord with tassels in a delicate light blue. For the queens of the occasion was an elaborate affair in which green satin and an abundance of gold formed the charming plan. Another was a tabard horn with a small banner decorated in a sort of heraldic effect made of Venetian red satin and trimmed with a fringe of gold bullion. The cushions for chart room were in a pattern of pomegranates of very dark reds, blues, and splendid browns.
