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NOTES ON MANY THINGS
A LITTLE TALK ON CLOCKS.
T      I THE selection of proper clocks for one's house
is always long-drawn-out, a pursuit of real
pleasure. Clocks are such necessary things
the thoughtless woman is apt to compromise, when she
does n't find exactly the right one. How much wiser
and happier she would be if she decided to depend
upon an ordinary alarm clock until the proper clock
was discovered! If she made a hobby of her quest
for clocks she would find much amusement, many
other valuable objects by-the-way, and finally exactly
the right clocks for her rooms.
Everyone knows the merits and demerits of the
hundreds of clocks of commerce, And it is n't for me to
go into the subject of grandfather-clocks, bracket
clocks, and banjo clocks, when there are so many ex-
cellent books on the subject. I plead for the graceful
clocks of old France, the objets d'art so lovingly de-
signed by the master sculptors of the Eighteenth Cen-
tury. I plead particularly for the wall clocks that
are so conspicuous in all good French houses, and so
unusual in our own country.
Just as surely as our fine old English and American
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