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[Stockmaster Malec]

At such people usually get,--medallion-carpets, carved furniture, great
mirrors, bronze mantel-ornaments, and so on." The only impression a
stranger receives, while waiting in the dim twilight of these rooms, is
that their owner is rich, and able to get good, handsome things, such as
all other rich people get. Now our friend John, as often happens in
America, is moving in the same social circle with Philip, visiting the
same people,--his house is the twin of the one Philip has been
furnishing, and how shall he, with a few hundred dollars, make his rooms
even presentable beside those which Philip has fitted up elegantly and
three thousand? Now for the economy of beauty. Our friend must make his
prayer to the Graces,--for, if they cannot save him, nobody can. One
thing John has to begin with, that rare gift to man, a wife with the
magic cestus of Venus,--not around her waist, but, if such a thing could
be, in her finger-ends. All that she touches falls at once into harmony
and proportion. Her eye for color and form is intuitive: let her arrange
a garret, with nothing but boxes, barrels, and cast-off furniture in it,
and ten to one she makes it seem the most attractive place in the house.
It is a veritable "gift of good faerie," this tact of bea