He may spent twice as much or even ten or fifty times as much, if he washes to spend his time in a building whose very window sashes and external ornamentations glitter with gold; but such a lavish expenditure of money is not required to be comfortable and happy.

The absence of pinnacles and of superfluous ornamentation lends to it considerable dignity and impressiveness.

The higher the ornamentation ranks, from an artistic point of view, the greater becomes the value of the article to which it is applied.

The bronze vessels, however, which made their appearance about 1450 B.C. are entirely different from anything produced in other parts of Asia; their ornamentation shows, on the one hand, elements of the so-called "animal style" which is typical of the steppe people of the Ordos area and of Central Asia.

If the office is one of the older ones, the room probably contains some good pieces of furniture derived, from a less penurious age than oursa bureau or bookcase of mahogany dark with years, showing in its staid ornamentation traces of Chippendale or Sheraton; a big clock in a handsome case; and an interesting portrait of some historic statesman who presided over the department two centuries ago.