For me, I put away, from time to time, such trifles as commend themselves to my tried instinct. Just now, by way of illustration, I am putting down a complete line of felt pennants such as the travelling public loves to flaunt from burdened Fords—Brick Creek, Iowa—Wappingers’ Falls—Keeseville and Ogunquit. These must, one day, be seen as rare and lovely things; I give the hint for what it may be worth. The pocket-flask, too—the still—the vanity-case—the cigar-lighter—and the flower-holder with which the stately limousine must be equipped—the photographs of screen divinities! It will not be long before I shall unseal my bin of portraits where J. Warren Kerrigan and Francis X. Bushman, autographed, await the questing antiquer’s delighted eye. [Illustration: PLATE III FROM PROFESSOR KILGALLEN’s COLLECTION OF BEAUTIFUL OLD WOOD-CARVINGS Figure of Pocahontas; believed to be the work of John Alden ] Only yesterday, I sold the last of my cigarette pictures. Della Fox! I had a hundred of her, once. It seemed impossible for us Yonkers boys, trading acutely in that fresh, delighted loveliness, that it could ever be antique! I must have felt, intuitively, even then, that it must be. Wanting that intuition, too, I would not have stored away the thumbed installments of my nickel weeklies—those precious specimens that one may view, now, under glass, on free days, at the Metropolitan Museum of Antiques. Time has done it. And time will do it again. Antiquer, antique, but antique ahead! ———— HINTS FOR BUYING FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES By CECILIA LEFINGWELL PRYNNE (MRS. GÜTZ) ———— [Illustration] HINTS FOR BUYING FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES BY CECILIA LEFINGWELL PRYNNE (MRS. GÜTZ)