uding many well-known Bromidioms now in use BY GELETT BURGESS, S.B. Author of "Goops and How to Be Them," "The Burgess Nonsense Book," "Vivette," &c., &c. WITH DECORATIONS BY THE AUTHOR Note: Decorations replaced with five asterisks * * * * * 1906 NOTE

It was a pretty sight, the house crowded with women beautifully dressed and wearing fine jewels which showed very little, the decoration of the house being very elaborate.

It is for this reason that so few of the great cathedrals were finished, and that in buildings of all kinds we so often find the decoration in patches, sharply marked off from the rest of the structure.

One decoration for the head in particular struck my fancy: it was formed of a silver tissue, containing fireflies, and intended to be worn in the night.

" To Trinity Sunday belong the pansy, or herb-trinity and trefoil, hence the latter has been used for decorations on this anniversary.

No one ever knew what it cost Uncle John for the wonderful decorations at the church and home, for the music, the banquet and all the other details which he himself eagerly arranged on a magnificent scale and claimed was a part of his "wedding present.

" When I had finished quite This dittyramb, and El-Hadj-ben-er-Rebha Became acquainted with it, he began To laugh, telling his beads the while, and then His decoration from his wallet took, Which had been there enclosed.

M. Tranchant de Lunel has pointed out (in "France-Maroc") with what a sure sense of suitability the Merinid architects adapted this decoration to the uses of the buildings.

"The grandeur of their dimensions, the perfection of their workmanship, the richness of their materials, their majesty, beauty, and ideal truth, the splendor of the architecture and pictorial decoration with which they were associated,all conspired to impress the beholder with wonder and awe, and induce a belief of the actual presence of the god.

He was then serving as a centurion; he had fought in one hundred and twenty battles; he had slain eight champions in single combat; had saved the lives of fourteen citizens; had received forty wounds, all in front; had followed in nine triumphal processions, and had won crowns and decorations without number.

I brought my decorations over this morning.

First, in mistaking the proper Objects of her Esteem, and fixing her Affections upon such things as are only the Trappings and Decorations of her Sex.

him a more brilliant decoration than the garter with which he had been honoured by his sovereign.

Who would not rather wear his decorations beneath his uniform than on it?

His son is at present Director of Decorations to Her Majesty at Windsor Castle.

Except for the curious decoration above the seat of honor, and the birthday cake with its pink and white frosting, there was little to distinguish it from an every-day repast.

Home-made ice-cream was passed in little ice cups which had as decorations around the rim a circlet of glittering silvery tinsel.

Of what did this fête consista few hundred lampsa few score of fidlers, and about as much decoration as an English showman would waste on the exterior of his exhibition, or assemble within a few square yards.

Sometimes the cabinet, writing table, or spindle-legged occasional piece, was made entirely of this wood, having no other decoration beyond the beautiful marking of carefully chosen veneers; sometimes it was banded with tulipwood or harewood (a name given to sycamore artificially stained), and at other times painted as just described.

Modern historians, as they happened to have more or less of what we may call artistic feeling, admitted more or less of this decoration into their text, but always with an eye (which Mr. Macaulay never exercises) to the appropriateness and value of the illustration.

I had intended to give a special paragraph to Decorations as Parts of the Language of Signs, but desisted on reflecting that most of the foregoing facts relating to war, mourning, tribal, etc., decorations, really came under that head.

HIS DECORATIONS AT "STRAWBERRY"HIS ESTIMATE OF HIMSELF, AND HIS ADMIRATION OF CONWAY.

* Mural Decorations in Rome.

The light spread, touching the bare walls and tawdry decorations about the shrines.