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Title: The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, Janet McKenzie, 1852-1933, ed Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Home economics Cooking
Publisher: Boston : Boston Cooking-School Magazine
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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remain tomark the passing of a fashion indecoration that sometimes sets uswondering if the Mission style is,after all, an improvement on thosethat have gone before. The French clock, as it has beencopied and distributed throughoutthe world, is certainly out of keywith most of the surroundings inwhich it finds itself, for the clock inFrance was from the first regardedas much as an ornament as a utility,and it was designed to fit the sump-tuous interiors of the days whenFrance led the world in her luxuriousliving appointments. The marvelousworkmen of the Louis periods didnot neglect the clock, in their selectionof a field for the display of theirtalents. They may have been in-different mechanicians, but they weredesigners without peer, and no doubtmany a reproduction of their workhas found its way to this country,to be relegated, at last, to some totallyunsympathetic environment, very faraway in taste and intention fromthe scenes and the inspiration whichfirst called it into existence.
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EPOQUE LOUIS XV. THE ORNAMENTAL CLOCKS OF FRANCE 433 The earliest French clocks were oftwo quite opposed sizes: the greatcity clocks which told the time fromthe tower of the town hall, and thetiny ornamental bibelots which oc-cupied a place of honor on the tablesof princely apartments. Many ofthe famous town clocks are stilldoing duty in their original settings.The beautiful clock at Bruges hasinspired many a poet to sing of itsmusical chimes, and the historictime-piece has clung to its old-fashioned habits, for it has evento-day to be wound four times everytwenty-four hours. The indoor, port-able clocks were considered an im-portant invention, when they firstappeared, and every one, who couldafford hastened to order one so thathe might know the time whereverhe might be. The)^ were made ofreal precious metals, and embellishedwith much hand-made ornament.Silver and gold inlays were common,as was, later, the beautiful mar-quetry for which the eighteenthcentury wood-workers were renowned

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