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The House in Good Taste
·
Elsie De Wolfe
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NOTES
ON
MANY
THINGS
A
LITTLE
TALK
ON
CLOCKS.
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
doesn'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
isn't
for
me
to
go
into
the
subject
of
grandfather-clocks,
bracket
clocks,
and
banjo
clocks,
when
there
are
so
many
excellent
books
on
the
subject.
I
plead
for
the
graceful
clocks
of
old
France,
the
objets
d'art
so
lovingly
designed
by
the
master
sculptors
of
the
Eighteenth
Century.
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
clocks
have
their
proper
niches,
so
the
French
clocks
belong
inevitably
in
certain
rooms.
You
may
never
find
just
the
proper
clock
for
this
room,
but
that
is
your
fault.
There
are
hundreds
of
lovely
old
models
available.
Why
shouldn't
some
manufacturer
have
them
reproduced?
I
feel
that
if
women
generally
knew
how
very
decorative
and
distinguished
a
good
wall
clock
may
be,
the
demand
would
soon
create
a
supply
of
these
beautiful
objects.
It
would
be
quite
simple
for
the
manufacturers
to
make
them
from
the
old
models.
The
late
Mr.
Pierpont
Morgan
gave
to
the
Metropolitan
Museum
the
magnificent
Hoentschel
collection
of
objets
d'art,
hoping
to
stimulate
the
interest
of
American
designers
and
artisans
in
the
fine
models
of
the
Seventeenth
and
Eighteenth
Centuries.
There
are
some
very
fine
examples
of
wall
clocks
in
this
collection
which
might
be
copied
in
carved
wood
by
the
students
of
manual
training
schools,
if
the
manufacturers
refuse
to
be
interested.
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