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Kelsey    Health    Heated   residence   of   \V.    \V.    Warner 
at    1'elham.    N.    Y. 


W.  H.  Orchard 
Architect 


Put  In  Two,  Uses  Only  One 


An  Interesting  Coal  Saving  Instance 


SIMPLY  because  most  warm 
air  heats  so  seldom  do  what 
they,,  are    claimed    to    do,    the 
architect  for  this  residence  de- 
termined to  he  on  the  safe  side. 

He  specified  two  Kelseys. 

A  small  one.  And  a  large  one. 
Both  arranged  so  either  one  or 
botli  could  he  run. 

The  idea  was — it's  a  most  sensi- 
ble one — that  the  small  Kelsey 
would  take  care  of  the  coolish 
days  of  early  fall  and  late 
spring. 

The  large  one  for  the  colder 
weather,  while  in  severe  condi- 
tions both  would  be  fired. 

As  a  matter  of  fact  it  didn't 
work  out  that  way  at  all.  Have 
just  received  a  letter  from  the 
owner  stating  that  he  never 
runs  both,  and  that  except  in 
the  coldest  of  weather  the  small 
one  does  all  the  heating. 

He  even  goes  so  far  as  to  state 
that  the  small  one  would  do  the 


Supposedly   halls  are  hard   to  heat  with   warm   air, 
which  is  so  in  general  but  not  so  with  the  Kelsey. 


What    a    joy    to    have    heat    comfort    without    the 
obtrusive   evidence   of  the  heat's  origin. 


work  the  entire  season  through 
if  it  had  a  little  more  care  than 
they  find  it  convenient  to  give. 

Consider  the  fact  that  it  is  a  12 
room  house  and,  exclusive  of 
the  billiard  room  and  glassed  in 
porch,  has  62  windows  and  9 
doors. 

Now  further  consider  that  for 
the  entire  year  this  house  re- 
quires only  5  to  7  tons,  to  keep 
it  uniformly  70  both  day  and 
night,  and  you  get  a  definite 
idea  of  the  economy  of  the  Kel- 
sey Health  Heat. 

In  thinking  over  which  facts, 
bear  in  mind  that  it  not  only 
heats,  but  ventilates  and  humid- 
ifies at  the  same  time.  It  heats 
with  freshly  heated  fresh  air. 
automatically  mixed  with  just 
the  right  healthful  amount  of 
moisture. 

Further  facts  and  figures  you 
are  welcome  to. 

Likewise   our  printed   matter. 


New    York    Office 
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House  £f  Garden 


CONDE    NAST,  Publisher 

RICHARDSON    WRIGHT.     Editor 
R.   S.    LEMMON,  Managing  Kditor 


AUGUST  AND   HOUSEHOLD   EQUIPMENT 


NECESSITY  was  never  so  bountiful  a 
mother  of  invention  as  today,  when 
housewives  are  faced  with  a  shortage  of 
servants  and  an  abundance  of  high  prices.  This 
burden  of  household  management  is  being  light- 
ened by  all  manner  of  time  and  labor-saving 
devices  that,  used  intelligently,  make  work  a 
pleasure  and  the  home  as  scientifically  managed 
as  any  modern  business. 

The  Household  Equipment  Number  in  August 
will  attempt  to  present  as  many  of  these  devices 
and  refinements  as  the  pages  will  hold.  Not 
everything  on  the  market  will  be  there,  of  course, 
but  a  vast  and  fascinating  array  of  household 
helps  will  be  shown,  explained  and  demonstrated. 
The  gamut  includes  a  thorough  study  of  elec- 
tricity in  the  kitchen,  of  kitchen  and  laundry 
ventilation,  garbage  incinerators,  plans  for  the 
arrangement  of  the  kitchen,  heating  by  gas  and — 
a  subject  not  hitherto  touched  on,  we  believe — 
the  subject  of  brooms  and  brushes. 

These  strictly  utilitarian  pages  are  lightened  by 
interesting  houses,  interiors,  gardens  and  sugges- 
tions from  the  shops.  There  is  the  home  of  a 
HOUSE  &  GARDEN  reader  who,  some  years  back, 
was  attracted  by  the  photograph  of  a  Cotswold 
cottage  he  saw  in  the  magazine.  He  had  his 


A  page  of  English  doorways  will  be 

found  among   the  fascinating   topics 

in  the  August  number.     This  is  one 

of  many  designs 


American  architect  collaborate  with  the  English 
architect,  and  Easton.  Pa.,  is  richer  by  a  very 
interesting  copy  of  Cotswold.  Then  there  is  the 
little  Colonial  house  set  in  a  hollow— a  little  house 
for  a  little  family.  An  English  design  in  brick 
makes  the  third  house  in  this  issue. 

Of  decorations,  there  is  the  chatty  article  on 
how  to  use  gingham  in  rooms,  the  interior  of  a 
New  England  home,  the  Little  Portfolio  and  some 
unusual  designs  for  pillows.  The  pace  on  em- 
broidering household  linen  will  deliglit  the  eye, 
and  so  will  the  page  on  pillows. 

But  there  are  still  more  pages  in  the  magazine! 
Gardner  Teall,  who  knows  all  about  collecting 
everything  collectable,  writes  on  mediaeval  medals. 
In  the  old  days,  ages  before  photography,  one 
had  his  portrait  struck  on  a  medal.  Collectors 
scour  the  Continent  for  these  today.  The  motor 
vacationist  will  find  some  rare  suggestions  in 
Jack  Rose's  drawings  of  old  inns. 

These  are  some  of  the  allurements  in  this  Au- 
gust issue.  It  is  our  first  number  devoted  to 
Household  Equipment.  There  will  be  a  demand 
on  the  newsstands  for  it.  It  might  be  advisable 
— seeing  that  there  is  a  paper  shortage  and  a 
consequent  shortage  of  magazines — to  order  your 
copy  now. 


Contents  for  July,  1920. 

COVER  DESIGN  BY  W.  GEORGE  BRANDT 

THE  WINDOW  AND  ITS   VIEW 16 

DECORATING  THE  SMALL  HOUSE 17 

Mary  Worthington 

Do  IT  YOURSELF  ! 22 

A  TYPE  OF  AMERICAN  NATIVE  ART 23 

THE   COLLECTOR  SF.EKS  KEYS 24 

Gardner  Teall 

FIVE   GOOD  SMALL   HOUSES 27 

SUGGESTIONS  FOR  DRESSING  ROOMS 32 

COLLECTING   RUSSIAN   CANDLESTICKS 33 

M.  Holden 

WATER  IN  THE  GARDEN  VIEW 36 

Marian  C.  Coffin,  Landscape  Architect 

MIRRORS  AS  DECORATIONS 38 


Volume  XXX  VIII,  No.  One 


A  LITTLE  PORTFOLIO  OF  GOOD  INTERIORS 39 

THAT  DEVASTATED  SUBURBAN  LOT 42 

Marion  Murdoch 

THE  HOME  OF  ANTHONY  HOPE 44 

L.  Stanley  Crosbie,  Architect 

WHERE  TO  USE  YELLOW 46 

Ethel  Davis  Seal 

THE  CHOW-CHOW  FROM   CHINA 48 

Robert  S.  Lemmon 

FLOWER   ARRANGEMENTS    49 

TAKING  THE  KITCHEN  ALONG SO 

Ethel  R.  Peyser 

THE   UNFINISHED   ROOMS 52 

SMART  LUGGAGE  FOR  SUMMER  TRAVEL S3 

THE  GARDENER'S   CALENDAR 54 


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THE    WINDOW    AND     ITS    VIEW 


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There  are  two  elements  in  any  window  view — the  window 
itself  and  that  which  lies  beyond.  We  often  make  the 
mistake  of  swathing  the  window  in  so  many  curtains  that 
much  of  its  interest  and  beauty  is  hidden.  Some  windows 
need  no  curtains  at  all.  Windows  such  as  these  old  leaded 
glass  casements  at  Finchden,  in  England,  are  better  left 
uncovered.  The  lines  of  their  mullions  and  the  irregularities 


of  Ike  glass  are  amply  interesting  in  themselves.  Through 
such  panes  the  view  cannot  help  being  picturesque — even 
these  roof  lines  and  donnered  casements,  the  suggestion  of 
half-timber  below  them,  the  drain  trough  supported  on 
wrought-iron  biackets,  the  weathered  trim  and  sills,  and 
the  old,  lead,  rain-water  head  and  down-pipe  on  the 
opposite  rough  brick  wall.  The.  window  frames  the  view 


July,  1920 


DECORATING    THE 


SMALL 


HOUSE 


The  Proper  Scale  in  Furniture  and  the  Right  Colors  Will  Maintain  the  Semblance  of 
Size  and  Give  the  Small  House  Great  Distinction 

MARY  WORTHIXCriON 


IN  furnishing  a  large,  elaborate  house  there 
may  be  a  few  slip-ups  which  will  pass  un- 
noticed, simply  because  there  is  such  a  largo 
and  varied  assortment  of  furniture  that  a  few 
badly-chosen  pieces  or  an  inadequate  back- 
ground will  not  offend  the  eye.  If  we  are  put- 
ting sixteen  chairs  into  a  room,  two  may  have 
defects  as  to  scale,  design,  covering  or  color, 
and  still  "get  by,"  carried  along  by  an  other- 
wise excellent  selection. 

This  is  not  true  of  the  small  house.  \Ye  can- 
not afford  a  single  mistake  as  to  the  need,  size 
and  excellence  of  design  and  color.  \Ye  cannot 
afford  a  mistake,  not  only  because  mistakes  are 
costly,  but  because  we've  no  room  for  mistakes. 

There  is  a  small  house  I  know  that  has  in 
its  little  living  room  two  very  large,  handsome, 
early  Venetian  chairs  with  high  backs,  done  in 
a  large  pattern  red  brocade.  These  were  a 
matter  of  great  extravagance  to  the  owner  and 
are  the  very  apple  of  her  eye.  The  rest  of  the 
room  is  simply, 
modernly  furnished. 
These  two  chairs  are 
so  out  of  scale,  so 
out  of  feeling,  they 
so  violate  ever)-  rule 
of  good  taste,  that 
they  must  spoil  for 
many  friends,  as  they 
do  for  me,  an  even- 
ing passed  in  that 
room.  If  there  was 
only  one,  like  Satan, 
we  could  put  it  be- 
hind us,  but  there 
are  two — and,  to  add 
to  the  mental  agony, 
the  room  has  many 
mirrors! 

I  believe  this  to  be- 
an exaggerated  ex- 
ample, but  how  many 
small,  delicately  fur- 
nished rooms  boast 
a  Mission  easy  chai  r ! 
How  many  dining- 
rooms  of  moderate 
proportions  show  a 
massive,  elaborately 
carved  sideboard  of 
American  Empire  ef- 
fulgence! These  all 
should  serve  as  a 
cudgel  to  us  when 


we  start  our  own  furnishing, 
rude  and  snobbish  1  would 
first  step  toward  furnishing 
house  or  apartment,  to  make 
friends  and  relatives  and  see 
May  I  add  that  this  should  b 
tiously! 


If  it  wasn't  so 
suggest,  as  the 
our  own  small 
a  round  of  our 
what  not  to  do. 
ne  surrepti- 


The  Color  Range 

Of  course,  it  is  always  sate  to  paint  or  paper 
your  walls  all  the  same  color  and  to  use  the 
same  tone  carpet,  varying  the  quality  upstairs 
from  down.  However,  it  seems  to  me  that  this 
deprives  us  of  a  great  deal  of  pleasure,  particu- 
larly if  we  are  fond  of  color.  I  feel  that  there 
should  be  a  connecting  color  downstairs.  For 
example:  let  your  hall  be  fawn,  introducing  a 
little  green  and  vermillion  in  the  furnishings; 
the  living  room  light  green  with  black  and 
cherry;  your  tiny  library  marron,  a  deeper 
tone  of  fawn,  and  your  dining  room — if  you 


An  excellent  use  is  made  of  the  fireside  bench  in  this  In-ing  room.    It  is  upholstered  in  old  rose. 
The  chair  is  yellow.     Walls  and  curtains  are   green-blue.     Mrs.   Emott   Buel,   decorator 


must  have  one — in  white  plaster  color  with  cur- 
tains, etc.,  in  marron  and  yellow.  You  pick  up 
from  each  succeeding  room  one  color  and  carry 
it  on,  thus  connecting  each  room  by  a  color  note. 
In  a  newly  built  house  or  an  apartment  of 
some  architectural  distinction  a  good  color 
range  is  mauve,  orchid,  green  and  yellow.  This 
being  rather  subtle  and  delicate,  the  details  of 
the  woodwork  and  the  style  of  furnishing  must 
be  of  excellent  quality.  Always  use  rather 
neutral,  blending  colors  in  doing  over  an  old, 
shabby  house  or  a  cheaply  constructed  apart- 
ment, where  woodwork  must  lie  covered  rather 
than  brought  out.  Tans,  neutral  greens,  blue 
greens  and  the  copper  colors  are  kindly  for  re- 
modeling, while  silver  grays,  yellow,  rose  lav- 
enders, blue  lavenders,  lettuce  green  and  the 
varied  rainlxnv  colors  can  Ijest  be  used  where 
the  architectural  details  form  a  flawless  back- 
ground and  all  the  furniture  is  to  lie  new  and 
fresh.  These  are  details,  but  important. 

Furnishing  a  small 
house  is  not  necessa- 
rily furnishing  inex- 
pensively. We  see 
more  and  more  small, 
exquisite,  expensive 
houses  accommodat- 
ing themselves  to  the 
exigencies  of  service 
problems,  building 
problems  and  the  gen- 
eral inflated  cost  of 
maintenance.  The 
rich  man's  house  in 
miniature  has  about 
the  same  problems  to 
meet  as  the  home  of 
the  indigent  broker  or 
the  affluent  artist.  Oil, 
munitions  and  the 
movies  have  produced 
a  throng  of  home- 
seekers,  who  want  the 
best  values  that  the 
market  can  give  and, 
on  account  of  the  de- 
lay in  delivery  and  the 
outlandish  prices,  do 
not  know  just  how  to 
create  the  home  of 
their  desire.  These 
people  should  find  a 
friend  in  the  decora- 
tor whoknows,  through 


Where  architecture  helps,  as  in 
a  third  story  bedroom,  inter- 
esting effects  can  be  gained  by 
a  flower  patterned  paper  and 
old  furniture.  The  fireplace  and 
quarter-circle  windows  hint  a 
Colonial  exterior 


daily  experience,  the  how,  when 
and  where.  The  average  person 
who  contemplates  refurnishing 
should  also  seek  professional  ad- 
vice, but  she  should  know  her 
financial  limitations  and  should 
not  be  drawn  into  extravagance. 
She  knows  much  better  than  the 
decorator  when  to  stop. 

Having  in  mind  that  even1  pur- 
chase is  of  the  utmost  importance, 
and  having  decided  on  the  gen- 
eral color  scheme,  and  knowing 
the  number  and  needs  of  her 
family,  let  us  start  with  the  hull. 

First,  the  Hall 

There  must  be  a  mirror,  a  chair 
or  two  to  hold  overcoats  and   a 
table  for  the  dusty  accumulation 
of  cards,  and  there  always  should . 
l>e  a  place  for  a  flower  vase. 

Stock  mirrors  are  usually  very 
dull — they  are  either  elalwrately 
gilded  or  banal  with  commonplace 
mahogany  frames.  Recall  the 
myriad  Colonial  hall  mirrors 


Even  in  this  simple  hallway 
one  sees  how  color  can  give  life 
to  an  interior — the  tints  of  the 
curtain  fabrics,  the  upholstered 
seat  oj  the  old  bench,  the  rag 
rug  and  painted  treads,  rail  and 
newel  posts 


you've  seen — and  then  avoid  them. 
Why  shouldn't  we  have  something 
rather  smart  and  out  of  the  ordi- 
nary? The  hall  mirror  is  the  one 
thing  that  you  can  be  perfectly 
positive  every  caller  you've  ever 
had  or  hope  to  have,  will  use. 
And  to  take  away  the  curse  of 
their  own  vanity,  why  not  have  a 
really  deserving  mirror  for  them 
to  make  the  usual  remarks  to — 
"What  a  pretty  mirror  you  have!" 
when  you  know  perfectly  well  that 
in  their  minds  they  are  say- 
ing, "What  a  pretty  hat  this  is!" 

Mirror    Styles 

Search  out  or  have  made 
(everyone  should  have  a  cabinet- 
maker on  the  side  or,  if  she  hasn't, 
find  a  decorator  who  has  a  good 
one)  an  interesting  hall  mirror. 
For  example:  an  oblong  mirror 
with  a  semi-circular  top  with  a 
little  decoration  in  the  top;  or  an 
oblong  with  the  corners  cut  off, 
using  a  wide  molding  with  a  dull 


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Against  the  Colonial  background  uj  thh  living  room  Au.v  been  placed 
modern    and   aid   furniture.      Pcabtdy,    Wilson    fr   Brown,   architects 


In  the  Kiieit  mum  below  the  covering  of  the  chaise  longue  and  the 
dreeing   table   harmonize.      Howard   Major,  architect 


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gold  and  black 
tracery  design;  or 
a  round  mirror 
suspended  by  two 
decorative  cords; 
or  a  simple  black 
frame  with  the 
glass  bordered  in 
black  with  a  tiny 
silver  or  gray  line 
to  set  it  off,  like 
an  old-fashioned 
picture. 

In  a  small 
country  house 
where  life  is  in- 
formal the  mirror 
can  have  a  deco- 
rated frame  to 
match  a  long,  nar- 
row box  set  on  a 
little  bracket  at 
the  lower  edge  of 
the  mirror  frame. 
The  box  is  paint- 
ed and  decorated 
to  match  the  frame 
and  contains,  in 
its  compartments, 
powder  and  puffs, 
hair  pins  and  a 
wee  comb.  Onecan 
give  herself  a  fleet- 
ing dab  before  go- 
ing in  to  tea  from 
tennis  —  which 
creates  peace  of 
mind,  you  see. 

As  to  the  chairs, 
the  main  thing  is 
to  have  one  strong 

enough  to  support  a  fat  man  while  put- 
ting on  his  rubbers.  It  needn't  look 
clumsy.  Some  of  those  little  ladder-back 
Colonial  chairs  are  very  staunch.  Paint- 
ed to  match  the  mirror  frame,  they  make 
a  nice  grouping.  Or,  if  walnut  or  ma- 


Painted  furniture, 
a  tile  or  cement 
floor  and  curtains 
of  gauze  or  case- 
ment cloth  make 
the  breakfast 
porch  interesting 


The  boudoir  cor- 
ner should  be  fem- 
inine in  color  and 
furnishings.  The 
chaise  longue  is  a 
requisite.  Mrs. 
E.  Buel,  decorator 


hogany  finish  is 
preferred,  have 
the  seat  embroid- 
ered with  this 
charming  wool, 
machine  embroid- 
ery. 

Consoles  are  al- 
ways advisable  for 
a  small  hall. 
Sometimes  apaint- 
ed  console  fits  in 
well,  one  with  two 
drawers  to  hold  a 
coupleofshawlsor 
sweaters,  the  dog 
leash  and  the  au- 
tomobile bluebook 
— things  that, 
in  a  small  house, 
there  never  seems 
a  place  for. 
Wrought  iron  con- 
soles, if  very  sim- 
ple and  exquisite 
and  with  a  mar- 
bleized  top,  give 
a  lot  of  dignity  to 
a  hall.  If  the 
other  furnishings 
are  appropriately 
elegant,  a  pair  of 
them  gives  bal- 
ance and  provides 
a  fine  place  for  a 
pair  of  Venetian 
glass  flower  vases 
or  a  pair  of  those 
quaint  Tole  urns 
with  tin  flowers. 
The  ordinary  tin 

flowers  are  ordinary  in  every  sense  of  the 
word,  but,  if  one  looks  around,  she  is 
sure  to  run  across  something  formal, 
quaint  and  smart  in  this  line. 

For  a  really  tiny  hall  of  delicate  taste 
( Continued  on  page  66 ) 


//  one  has  a  feeling 
for  line  in  furni- 
ture, many  combi- 
nations can  easily 
be  made.  In  this 
dining  room  the 
corner  cupboard  and 
table  'are  early 
American,  the  side- 
board English  and 
the  chairs  Breton. 
Miss  Gheen,  Inc., 
decorator 


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The  country  house  guest  room  finds  an  excellent  type  in  this  little  chamber  u'/i.-re  painted  walls,  bed  and  door  and 
a  large  patterned,  gay  ch'n'z  have  been  used.    Herier  Loom*,  decorators 


When  a  chintz  or  figured  paper  is  used  it  is  advisable  to  have  plain  hangings,  upholstery,  and,  \j  a  bedroom,  plain 
bed  covers.    This  scheme  has  been  employed  here.    G.  W.    Richardson,  decorator 


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v  man  who  was  walking  along  a  dark  road  late      done  to  keep  expenses  up— the  insatiable  greed  for  higher  salary  and 

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T^HERE  was  once  „,  —  ......  -     - 

L  at  night  The  road  was  unfamiliar  to  him  and  he  was  afraid  lest 
he  lose  the  way.  At  one  particularly  dismal  spot  he  mistook  the  path, 
slipped  and  fell  to  his  knees.  As  he  tried  to  scramble  up,  his  weigh) 


into  space.  Terror  seized  him  as  he  hung  there.  He  felt  himself  face- 
to  face  with  a  sudden  and  terrible  death.  He  saw  his  body  mangled 
on  the  rocks  below.  His  life  flashed  past  him  in  a  vivid  second. 
The  strength  left  his  arms;  his  weight  was  too  much  for  them, 
struggled  to  pull  himself  up  to  safety  again.  He  failed.  The  awfulness 
of  the  death  before  him  paralyzed  his  hands.  They  loosened. 

dropped.  .        ,    , 

When  they  picked  him  up,  dead,  the  next  morning,  they  found  that 
he  had  fallen  just  nine  inches. 

A  GREAT  many  people  in  this  country  are  in  the  position  of  that 
man      They  are  clinging  to  the  edge  of  what  they  are  sure  is  a 
precipice  and  they  can't  see  anything  below  but  destruction,  uncertainty 
and  gloom.     Everything  in  the  country  is  headed   for  the  pit. 

Some  of  these  good  people  are  clinging 
to  the  edge  of  America.  They  have  heard 
so  many  rumors  of  Red  Revolution  and 
have  been  inconvenienced  by  so  many 
strikes  that  they  know  for  a  certainty 
that  the  country  is  going  to  be  dashed  to 
pieces  on  the  rocks  of  misgovernment. 

Others  are  clinging  to  the  edge  of  that 
steep  precipice,  the  high  cost  of  living. 
They  are  clinging  by  main  force  to  the 
edge  between  income  and  expense,  ex- 
pecting to  drop  at  any  moment  into 
starvation  and  bankruptcy,  to  be  lost  for- 
ever in  the  maw  of  merciless  profiteers. 

There  are  still  others  who  look  about 
their  houses  and  their  gardens  wonder- 
ing how  they  are  going  to  live  without 
cooks  to  cook  their  meals,  charwomen  to 
clean  up,  gardeners  to  garden. 

THESE  people,  like  the  man  in  the 
story,  can  hang  on  until  they  drop 
or  else  they  can  deliberately  let  go  and 
take  the  chance. 

This  is  an  era  of  great  changes.  We 
must  take  the  chance.  We  must  not  ex- 
pect to  walk  the  same  highroad  of  safety 
that  we  thought  we  did  before  the  war — 
those  good  old  times  when  prices  were 
low  and  living  easy.  Of  course,  there 
never  were  these  good  old  times.  There 
never  was  an  era  when  men  didn't  have 
to  struggle  for  the  things  worth  while  in 
life.  We  only  play  false  with  ourselves 
when  we  think  that  we  ever  lived  under 
such  a  regime.  Forget  those  silly  illu- 
sions. Hang  on  to  that  precipice  only 
so  long  as  it  is  good  for  us  to  hang  on, 
and  then — drop.  In  most  cases  the  drop 

will  only  be  nine  inches.  It's  the  anticipation  that  hurts  most  of  all. 
But  before  we  drop  it  is  well  to  look  back,  as  the  man  in  the  story 
did,  over  the  past.  All  men  in  peril  of  sudden  death  are  said  to  have 
a  vivid  presentation  of  their  lives.  This  may  be  fable.  At  any  rate, 
follow  the  legendary  custom,  and  look  back. 

WHAT  brought  America  to  the  precipice  ?  Why  all  this  shout  for 
Americanization?  In  the  majority  of  cases  it  is  because  you 
and  I  and  hundreds  of  thousands  of  other  perfectly  respectable  Ameri- 
cans have  failed  to  be  good  Americans.  We  talk  a  lot  today  about 
Americanizing  the  foreigners  who  come  to  our  shores.  It  is  the  Ameri- 
cans who  need  Americanizing — the  John  Joneses  and  Bill  Smiths,  who 
care  so  little  for  good  government  that  they  don't  bother  to  go  to  the 
polls  and  vote  decent,  honest,  forward-looking  men  into  office.  The 
way  to  help  America  be  a  better  country  is  to  be  a  better  American 
yourself. 

Those  who  are  clinging  to  the  narrow  edge  between  income  and 
expense  might  have  a  vivid  presentation  of  all  the  things  they  have 


less  work,  for  more  luxuries  and  less  sanity  in  dress,  amusement  and 
manner  of  living.  The  sooner  Americans  let  go  this  precipice  of  high 
wage  and  high  life,  the  better  it  will  be  for  living  generally. 

And  those  who  wonder  where  the  maids  and  the  gardeners  and  the 
help  are  coming  from  might  do  well  to  look  back  upon  those  days  in 
America — those  really  good  old  times — when  folks  did  their  own  cook- 
ing and  gardening  or,  if  they  didn't  do  it  themselves,  were  perfectly 
capable  of  doing  it. 

Most  of  the  people  who  cling  to  this  servantless  precipice  face  a 
really  serious  situation.  They  aren't  worried  by  the  fact  that  they 
may  have  to  do  the  work  themselves,  but  by  the  terrible  realization 
that  the}-  don't  know  how  to  do  it.  The  most  pathetic  sight  in  life  is 
a  woman  who  has  been  bred  to  bridge  trying  to  get  a  meal  in  a  servant- 
less  kitchen.  And  next  to  it  is  the  man  whose  sole  idea  of  exercise 
has  been  golf  standing  helpless  in  a  garden  ignorant  of  how  to  make 
a  drill. 

IN  times  such  as  this  we  can  never  be  sure  whether  the  drop  is  going 
to  be  nine  inches  or  nine  miles.     Most  times  it  is  only  nine  inches. 

It  isn't  going  to  be  so  bad  after  all.  But, 
however  far  we  drop,  we  will  never  walk 
the  same  path  again.  We  can  be  sure 
of  that.  We'll  have  to  hew  out  a  new 
way.  That  is  precisely  what  people  all 
over  the  world  are  doing  today.  In 
nations  it  is  called  self-determination; 
in  individuals  it  should  be  the  determina- 
tion to  do  it  yourself. 

Corrupt  men  are  in  high  places.  All 
right — go  to  the  polls  and  vote  good 
men  in.  Sugar  costs  thirty  cents  a  pound. 
All  right — do  without  sugar  for  a  time. 
Americans  are  eating  too  much  sugar 
anyhow.  "We're  piling  up  for  ourselves 
and  the  next  generation  a  great  little 
heritage  of  rheumatism.  Gardeners  cost 
$6.50  a  day.  All  right — try  making  and 
cultivating  the  garden  yourself.  Cooks 
demand  $80  a  month  and  upwards.  All 
right — try  your  own  brand  of  cooking. 
The  average  housewife  in  America  cer- 
tainly has  more  intelligence  than  the 
average  Swede  girl  fresh  from  Ellis 
Island;  she  can  take  advantage  of  labor- 
saving  devices  and  can  study  household 
economics.  Her  house  will  be  better 
maintained  and  her  family  better  fed. 

We  can't  cling  to  the  delusion  of  the 
good  old  times  forever.  \Ve  might  as 
well  drop  our  nine  inches.  But  before 
we  drop,  for  Heaven's  sake,  let's  make 
up  our  minds  that,  in  the  place  we  land, 
we'll  do  it  ourselves! 


Good  woodwork  is  often  the  heritage  oj  an  old  house. 
Upon  it  the  designers  oj  early  America  expended  a 
rare  artistry.  In  the  Boston  residence  of  Ronald  T. 
Lyman  are  found  some  beautiful  examples  in  the 
door  and  window  frames.  The  architect  was  Bull- 
finch. Miss  Lee  and  Miss  Gray,  decorators 


"READERS  of  HOUSE  &  GARDEN  will 


probably  recall  the  editorial  in  the 
April  issue,  "A  Little  Place  in  the  Coun- 
try". It  concerned  itself  with  a  reader 

who  wrote  to  our  Information  Service  for  advice.  She  said  she  was 
getting  too  old  to  work,  and  would  like  to  have  a  little  place  in  the 
country  where  she  could  raise  roses  and  white  shepherd  dogs.  She 
had  $3,000  saved  up  for  the  venture. 

I  asked  the  readers  to  write  me  their  own  ideas  of  what  they  would 
do  under  the  circumstances,  promising  to  send  these  letters  on  to  the 
person  who  had  asked  for  advice. 

The  letters  began  pouring  in.  Readers  told  their  own  experiences 
under  similar  circumstances,  they  offered  advice,  they  sent  pictures  of 
their  homes.  Each  of  these  letters  was  relayed  to  the  lady,  who,  by  the 
way,  was  the  librarian  in  a  small  Michigan  town.  We  heard  no  word 
from  her. 

Then,  the  other  day,  a  letter  came  back.  The  local  postmaster  had 
stamped  it  "Unclaimed",  and  beneath  had  written,  "Deceased". 

So  she  never  got  her  little  place  in  the  country  after  all.  She  never 
got  the  chance  to  raise  roses  and  white  shepherd  dogs.  She  has  found, 
instead,  a  lovelier  place  in  a  far  better  country,  where  one  never  grows 
too  old.  RICHARDSON  WRIGHT. 


July,     1920 


23 


A       TYPE       OF       AMERICAN       NATIVE     ART 


The  old  carpenters  of  New  England  seem  to  have 
been  gifted  with  a  native  sense  of  light  and 
shade,  line  and  proportion.  They  handled  the 
straight,  broad  planks  of  a  door  with  honrst 
artistry.  They  indented  their  windows  and  re- 
joiced in  the  fashioning  of  the  trim.  They  shaped 


beams  out  of  rough  timber  and  left  them  to  color 
through  the  years.  The  stark,  quaint,  bold  sim- 
plicity of  these  old  New  England  farmhouses  was 
a  product  of  the  New  England  life.  It  is  typi- 
'olly  A  merican.  For  typically  A  merican  people,  the 
New  England  farmhouse  can  never  lose  it  charm 


24 


House     Gr     Garden 


THE       COLLECTOR       SEEKS       KEYS 

Romance,  History  and  the  Work  of  Master  Artists  Are  To  Be  Found  In 

This  By-way  of  Collecting — Those  Who  Scorn  Not  Little 

Things  Find  Here  a  Delightful  Hobby 


GARDNER  TEALL 


An    Italian    key 

o!  19th  Century 

workmanship 


observed    Dr. 


T: 


VH  E  R  E      is 

nothing  t  o  o 
little  for  so  little 
a  creature  as  man, 
Johnson.  "It  is  by 
studying  little  things  that  we  attain 
i-the  great  art  of  having  as  little  misery 
•and  as  much  happiness  as  possible. 

How  much  misery,  how  much 
happiness  thc^e  little  old-time  keys, 
which  lie  here  before  me  on  my  study 
table,  might  relate! 

What  a  story  could  be  told  by  this 
little  key  which  once  unlocked  a 
jewel-box  in  the  hand  of  Madame  de 
Maintenon !  And  that  one  may  have 
belonged  to  the  goaler  of  Xiort,  with- 
in whose  walls  maclame  was  born. 
With  the  stretch  of  the  imagination 
proper  to  a  real  collector,  may  not  this 
medieval  bronze  affair  have  been 
used  by  Bluebeard  when  hoarding  his 
closet  skeletons,  or  for  the  purpose  of 
inspiring  Fatima  to  keep  up  to  tradi- 
tions? But  perhaps  Perrault,  author 
of  the  tale,  would  have  preferred  this 
stubby  Saracenic  key  as  more  in 
keeping  with  his  villain's  tempera- 
ment, less  likely  to  divulge  the  iden- 
tity of  the  suave  gentleman  who  sug- 
gested this  literary  creation. 

The  Pursuit  of  Little  Things 

There  is  a  fascination  in  collect- 
ing old  keys  that  should 
not  occasion  the  shrug- 
ging of  shoulders  at  its  en- 
thusiasts, at  least  when  the 
pursuit  is  directed  along 
the  lines  of  intelligent  acqui- 
sition. Indeed,  as  Fenelon 
declared,  there  is  no  real  ele- 
vation of  mind  in  a  contempt 
of  little  things;  it  is,  on  the 
contrary,  from  too  narrow 
views  that  we  consider  those 
things  of  little  importance 
which  have,  in  fact,  such 


extensive    c  o  n  s  e- 
quences.      I  think 


An  English  key 
of  19th  Century 
workmanship 


St.  John  and  St. 
Peter,  by  Diirer, 
a  painting  which 
shows  a  key  of 
D  iir  e  r  '  s  time, 
1471-1528 


A  Swiss  wooden 
lock  of  the  me- 
dieval period. 
Courtesy  of  the 
Metropolitan  Mu- 
seum 


that  making  a  col- 
lection of  interest- 
ing old  keys  is  a  very  sensible  hobby 
indeed;  the  point  is  that  the  collector 
should  know  something  about  them, 
since  knowing  something — everything, 
when  possible — about  each  of  the  ob- 
jects one  collects  is  a  prime  requisite 
to  the  justification  of  any  acquisi- 
tional  excursion,  whether  it  be  in  the 
realm  of  keys  or  ceramics,  books  or 
bonds. 

When  Keys  Began 

The  history  of  keys  and  locks,  like 
the  history  of  every  other  useful 
thing,  is  replete  with  interest,  extend- 
ing back  as  it  does  to  very  remote 
times.  Certainly  there  is  scarcely  a 
more  intimate  object  connected  with 
daily  routine.  Someone  has  said  that 
the  key  is  an  acknowledgment  of 
man's  depravity,  that  if  every  man 
respected  his  neighbor's  goods  and 
privacy,  we  should  not  be  burdened 
with  carrying  keys;  but  it  all  began 
a  long  time  ago,  if  Milton  guessed 
aright  in  Paradise  Lost,  when  Satan 
was  let  into  the  world  by  the  Portress 
of  the  Gate — 

"Thus  saying,  from  her  side  the  fatal 
key, 

Sad    instrument    of    all    our 
woe,  she  took 


A    late  Renaissance  or  nth 
Century  Baroque  lock 


whereupon  the  fell  entry  was 
effected. 

Whether  it  be  the  famous 
key  to  the  Bastile,  now  re- 
posing with  the  relics  at  Mt. 
Vernon,  or  the  little  instru- 
ment which  we  are  continu- 
ally putting  in  the  wrong 
pocket  to  keep  the  nerves 
fully  exercised,  the  interest 
of  keys  is  not  lightly  to  be 
dismissed.  In  the  Odyssey 


A  lock  from  the  late  Renais- 
sance or  \lth  Century 


A  painted  iron  Dutch 

chest,     showing     the 

elaborate     key     plate 

and  key 


July,     1920. 


2S 


A  collection  of  Ibth  and  18th  Cen- 
tury   European     keys.      From    the 
Metropolitan  Museum 

Homer  mentions  what  seems  to  have 
been  a  simple  appliance  composed 
of  a  leathern  thong  inserted  through 
a  hole  in  the  door,  an  attached 
ring  or  hook  serving  to  unlock 
an  inner  bolt  when  this  flexible 
"key"  was  so  manipulated.  Some- 
how the  operation  suggests  fishing 
without  bait,  exciting  perhaps  as  a 
pastime,  but  not  very  apt  to  get  one 
anywhere  when  returning  late  from 
the  Trieterica.  I  am  inclined  to 
think  that  Homer's  device  drove  the 
multitude  to  thinking  up  something 
more  certain,  something  more  like 
the  key  -  shaped  bronze  fragment 
which  Dr.  Schliemann,  the  famous 
archaeologist,  discovered  at  the  site 
of  Troy,  and  which  may  have  given 


An  example 
oj  Baroque 
design  in  late 
R  e  n  a  i  s  - 
sance  locks 


Locksmiths  of  the  16/A  and  llth  Century  delighted  not 
alone  in  the  design  of  their  work  but  in  the  intricacy  of  its 
mechanism.  An  example  is  this  iron  German  chest,  the  top 
lid  bearing  a  complicated  system  of  levers  and  springs  to 
operate  the  three  locks 


A    nth  Cen- 
tury lock  and 
key 


The  intricate  workmanship  on  these 
keys  justifies   the   collector's  enthu- 
siasm 

access  to  some  Trojan  treasure-trove 
long  centuries  ago. 

China  seems  to  possess  a  blanket 
priority  on  all  devices,  and  so  it  is 
that  we  must  respect  her  claim  to  the 
invention  of  locks  and  keys,  examples 
of  which  are  still  extant  and  appar- 
ently in  as  good  working  order  as 
they  were  in  the  cradle-days  of  the 
celestial  domain.  Egyptian  locks 
four  thousand  years  old  have  been 
discovered,  locks  having  keys  with 
pins  upon  them  corres|X)nding  to  the 
retaining  ]x-gs  of  the  lock  cavity,  the 
key  l*ing  inserted  into  the  lx>lt  end. 
Such  devices  came  into  use  in  remote 
parts  of  Euro] ic.  at  a  later  pericxl. 
The  Romans  improved  the  Egyptian 
(Continued  on  page  56) 


.•I  lock  of  or- 
nate design  of 
typical  nth 
Century 
workmanship 


^_          '•III" 


. I  lock  and 
key  of  the 
\'th  Century 


*£>*»» 


The  Last 
Judgment  is 
depicted  in 
this  triptych 
iron  lock  of 
the  French 
Gothic  period 


26 


House     &     Garde: 


ences 

etched 

Tiefe  &Tf\er 


Jatf^  Manley  Pose 


•1    V  l!l't"»  c 

-"^  ^i*^        ,,.    ;.Jj^ 


>-kr:".-j  Anccver  Mass.  is  This 
dignified  "cri:  crwsits-jaritei 
rence  wife  ;Lj  civ.r^je  corner^oat 


n  Stinwnit,  N  J.,  fe's  ejc- 
cellently  proportionecl 
trellis  ties  c|amge;'l6<Jgs 
ecasoultry  yard  info  a.  most 


j'ae  dignify  of  an  c3d  doorway  /n, 
Jtcbficld,  Conn.  -:'5  moch.  enfeancsd 


Very  lovely  cum'rjg  .swtrep  o/ 


«J  bit  of  brick,  coping 
^pfodlu^ 

B>,  garden  512. 


an  added  rzcite  o/" 
distt'rjc  tiorz.  g  rVen  -it 

Cpm 


July,     1920 


27 


FIVE         GOOD         SMALL         HOUSES 


I?/'  **,*» 


f 


The  home  of  Frank  Lard  at  Scarsdale,  N. 

Y.  is  a   house  over  a  hundred  years  old, 

remodeled.  A  portico  and  U'ing  were  added. 

J.    H.    Phillips,    architect 


To  heighten  the  eject  of  the  ceiling  in  th« 
dining  room,  the  plaster  was  removed  be- 
tween   th?    beams.     An    old    mantel   was 
added.    The  paper  is  gray 


The  new  Dutch  door  was  especially  designed 
for  the  house.  The  shallow  fan  light  is  in 
Proportion  with  the  low  ceiling  of  the  porch 


28 


House     &     Garden 


The  use  of  English  cottage  de- 
tails gives  a  livable  atmosphere  to 
this  small  house  design.  Stucco 
and  half-timber  have  been  suc- 
cessfully combined.  The  roof 
lines  and  bay  window  commend 
it  to  the  prospective  builder.  A 
garage  is  built  in  the  house 


One  chimney  suffices  for  this 
house.  It  provides  a  fireplace  in 
the  living  room  and  a  flue  for  the 
furnace.  Through  this  rounded 
entrance  door  one  comes  to  a 
vestibule,  with  the  dining  room 
on  one  side  and  a  long  living 
room  on  the  other 


The  rooms  are  placed  with  interesting  economy.  Downstairs 
are  the  long  living  room,  dining  room  and  kitchen,  with  the 
garage  and  furnace  room  on  the  same  level.  Upstairs  are 
two  bedrooms  and  a  bath— enough  for  a  family  of  two 


ENGLISH    COTTAGE    FEELING     IS 

FOUND    IN    THIS    SMALL    HOUSE 

AT  PADUCAH,  KENTUCKY 

W.  K.  CORK,  .-Irchitfct 


July,     1920 


29 


.-!»  adaption  of  an  English 
type  ha!  been  used  /or 
the  home  of  J.  A.  Rock- 
well at  Warren,  Pa.  Walh 
are  soft  cream  stucco  and 
trim  weathered  oak 


STUCCO  AND 

WEATHERED 

OAK 

A.  J.  HODKKR,  Architect 


An  irregular  disposition  of 

the    rooms    gives    interest 

and   a    livable    quality    to 

the  first  floor 


The  narrowness  of  the  lot 

required  a  long  plan.  This 

gives  plenty   of  light   and 

air  to  the  chambers 


30 


H  o  us  f 


Garden 


In  designing  his  home  at  Elmsford,  N.  Y., 

Mr.  Kahn  made  a  delightful  use  of  stone 

as  a  relief  to  the  orange  stucco  and  silver 

grav  exposed  chestnut  beams 


HALF  -  TIMBER 
AND     STUCCO 

K.   I.  KAHN,  .Irchitfct 


The  house  is  quite  small.  It  grows  nat- 
urally out  of  its  hillside  plot,  the  stone, 
stucco  and  half-timber  and  the  shingle 
roof  blending  with  the  trees  and  outcrop- 
ping stone 


One  end  of  the  living  room  is  a  large  fireplace,  18'  long  and  10'  deep, 

with  settles  inside.    Off  the  living  room  is  the  entrance  hall.     There  is 

an  ample  kitchen.     The  dining  room  faces  the  view 


The  house  was  built  for  the  children.    They  have  a  nursery  in  addition 

to   their  bedroom.     This  leaves  space  for  the   master's   chamber  and 

dressing  room,  a  g^^est  room,  closets  and  two  baths 


July,     1920 


31 


This  type  of  moderate-sized  house,  a 
Georgian    design    found    in    Pennsyl- 
vania, is  executed  in  stucco,  with  large 
chimneys  and  porches  at  each  end 


Part  tij  the  farther  porch  is  enclosed 
for  a  breakfast  room,  the  kitchen  be- 
ing behind  it.  .1  house-length  hall 

connects   the   ihumtier*   upstairs 


entrance   is   pronounced  by  a  pediment   and  simple 
pilasters.    A  small  brick  terrace  and  walk  and  the  two  box 
plants  give  a  simple,  pleasant  finish  to  this  detail 


A  FAVORITE  PENNSYLVANIA 
COLONIAL   DESIGN 

H.  RKX  STACKHOl'SE,  .-Irchitect 


House     &     Garden 


32 


Harting 


A  man's  dressing  room,  in  a  New  York  home  of  distinction,  contains  an  old  -Drought-iron  console  with  a  carved  top. 
A  mirror  •with  a  beautifully  carved  frame  surmounts  this.    At  one  side  is  a  curious,  three-legged  chair,  at  the  other  an 

antique  chaise  longue.     Walker  &  Gillette,  architects 

SUGGESTIONS      FOR      DRESSING      ROOMS 


The  Wise  Hostess  Does  Not  Miss  This  Opportunity  for  Thoughtful 
Hospitality  and  Interesting  Decoration 


THE  dressing  room  of  today  Is  lineal  de- 
scendant of  the  powder  room  of  yesterday. 
In  the  Georgian  era,  when  wigs  and  patches 
were   in   vogue,   guests   fetired   to  these   little 
powder  rooms  for  the  occasional  touch  to  com- 
plexion   and    coiffure.      The    coiffures    have 
changed,  but  the  complexions  are  still  with  us. 
And  so  are  the  dressing  rooms.    Oddly  enough, 
the  same  sort  of  furniture  that  was  used  in  the 
old  times  will  suffice  today. 

A  console  or  shelf,  a  generous  mirror,  one 
or  two  chairs,  these  are  enough.  But  the  sort 
of  furniture  and  the  treatment  of  the  walls 
will  decide  the  character  of  the  room.  While 
a  great  deal  of  thought  should  go  into  its  cre- 
ation, the  room  should  look  as  though  it  had 
been  done  with  a  gesture.  It  should  be  light, 
quaint,  unusual. 

One  little  dressing  room  flashes  through  the 
memory.  Its  walls  were  papered  in  a  Chinese 
vermillion  design  with  quaint  yellow  and  green 
Oriental  figures.  The  furniture,  consisting  of 
dressing  table,  stool  and  chair,  was  black 
lacquer.  The  curtains  were  net  dyed  the  green 
of  the  paper  design  and  bound  with  yellow 
and  vermillion.  It  was  a  tiny  room,  and  the 
colors  made  it  all  the  more  intimate. 

Of  quite  different  character  are  the  two 
dressing  rooms  shown  on  this  page.  They  are 
in  a  New  York  residence  of  which  the  general 


The  other  dressing  room  in  the  same  resi- 
dence has  Venetian  painted  consoles  and 
mirrors  and  rush-seated  chairs.  A  small 
painted  table  before  the  boxed-in  radiator 
bears  an  old  lamp 


design  is  Italian.  Consequently  the  dressing 
rooms  have  taken  atmosphere  from  the  rest  of 
the  house. 

At  one  side  of  the  entrance  hallway  is  found 
a  small  dressing  room  appointed  with  painted 
Venetian  consoles  and  mirrors  and  rush-seated 
chairs.  The  plaster  walls  are  tinted  salmon 
pink.  The  radiator  at  one  end  is  boxed  in, 
forming  a  wide  sill.  Before  it  stands  a  little 
painted  table  with  an  old  lamp  of  curious 
design.  The  curtains  are  sheer  silk  finished 
with  a  narrow  fringe. 

The  other  room,  which  is  for  men,  is  fur- 
nished with  a  wrought  iron  console  surmounted 
by  a  carved  mirror.  A  three-legged  chair 
stands  at  one  side  and  an  antique  chaise  longue 
of  diminutive  size  at  the  other. 

The  average  coat  and  wash  room  under  the 
stairs,  which  is  generally  provided  in  modern 
small  houses,  offers  a  chance  for  this  miniature 
decoration.  Finish  the  walls  in  an  interesting 
way — either  rough  tinted  plaster  or  an  old- 
fashioned  paper.  Pick  up  a  console  of  quaint 
design,  an  old  mirror  and  an  unusual  painted 
chair.  Place  the  mirror  in  a  good  light  and 
see  that  the  console  shelf  is  provided  with  the 
necessary  cosmetics  and  brushes.  With  these 
few,  simple  pieces  the  room  will  take  on  char- 
acter and  add  one  more  note  of  distinction  to 
the  house. 


July,     1920 


33 


The  four  symbols  oj  Judaism,  used  as  decorations  on  wall  sconces 

and  Hannukah  lights,  are  the  star  of  David,  the  crown  of  David, 

the  lions  of  Judah  and  the  hind  or  deer  of  .\aphtah 


COLLECTING       RUSSIAN      CANDLESTICKS 

From  Russia,  Austrian  Galicia  and  Roumania  Come  Settlers  Bringing  Household 
Treasures  of  Great  Beautv  and  i'se fit/ ness 


T: 


A    Hannukah   light    with 
double  candle  sockets 


>HERE  is  great 
charm  and  fas- 
cinating historic  in- 
terest associated  with 
the  household  arti- 
cles that  are  brought 
to  America  by  the 
people  of  foreign 
lands,  who  come  as 
settlers  and  home 
I)U  ilders  to  our 
shores. 

It  started  three  hundred  years  ago  when  the 
Mayflower  sailed  into  the  then  unknown,  un- 
charted bay  of  Massachusetts,  bringing  the  Pil- 
grims and  their  household  goods. 

Since  then  a  steady  stream  of  ships  has  fol- 
lowed the  Mayflower,  bringing  millions  of 
the  different  peoples  of  the  earth  to  America. 
During  the  past  thirty 
years  literally  hun- 
dreds of  thousands  of 
Jewish  families  have 
arrived  here  from  Rus- 
sia, Galicia  and  Rou- 
mania. Many  of  them 
were  fleeing  from  per- 
secution for  their 
faith's  sake. 

These  Jewish  fami- 
lies brought  with  them 
bundles  and  bags  of 
household  goods  con- 
taining their  copper 
cooking  pots  and  ket- 
tles, brass  samovars, 
mortars,  trays  and 
pans.  But  the  most 
cherished  of  all  their 
possessions  beside 
their  little  ones  were 
their  brass  candle- 
sticks. The  candle- 
sticks symbolized  to 
them  the  Ark  of  an- 
cient faith,  linking 
their  own  faith 
through  the  ages  with 
Moses  and  God. 

They  had  lighted 
the  candles  in  these 
candlesticks  on  every 
Sabbath  evening,  on 
the  eve  of  every  other 
holy  day,  in  their 
homes  in  far-off  Rus- 


M.  HOLDEN 

sia.  In  their  light  they  had  prayed  to  the 
Living  God  for  guidance,  protection  and  de- 
liverance from  persecution.  Not  only  they, 
but  their  mothers  and  their  mothers'  mothers 
before  them  for  untold  generations  had 
prayed  before  these  very  same  candlesticks,  for 
the  /.ion  that  is  to  come.  How  many  of  them 
thought  they  reached  it  when  they  came  to  our 
shores  ? 

No  one  can  look  at  a  pair  of  old  Russian 
candlesticks  (and  in  "Russian"  is  included  the 
candlesticks  of  Galicia  and  Roumania)  with- 
out thinking  of  the  way  in  which  they  have 
come  to  us,  without  seeing  in  them  more  than 
the  romance  one  attaches  to  an  ordinary  pair 
of  candlesticks.  History,  romance,  religion 
and  craftsmanship  of  a  high  order  are  locked 
up  in  them.  It  needs  but  imagination  and 
memorv  of  the  marvelous  stories  of  the  Old 


The  Hannukah  is  used  dur- 
ing the  Feast  of  Illuminations 


Of  the  many  candlesticks  in  Mr.  Holden's  collection,  one  of  the  finest  private  collections  in 

America,  are  the  excellent  examples  of  Calician  work  in  the  pair  at  the  right.     Those  beside 

the  statue  are  Russian  and  the  pair  at  the  left  are  synagogue  lights 


I  estument  to  un- 
lock thi-  romance 
which  extends 
back  to  the  an- 
c  i  e  n  t  times. 
Truly,  the  col- 
lector can  read  in 
them  the  vast 
stretch  of  the  sub- 
lime history  of 
the  Jews. 

The    earliest 

knowledge  we  have  of  candlesticks  is  recorded 
in  the  Hook  of  Exodus.  When  the  Jews  were 
wandering  in  the  wilderness,  traveling  to  the 
promised  land,  Moses  was  commanded  by  G(xl 
to  build  the  Tabernacle  and  to  place  therein 
a  golden  candlestick  of  six  branches  and 
twenty-two  lights,  to  be  made  of  beaten  gold 
and  designed,  when 
lighted,  to  resemble 
the  api>earanee  of  fire 
in  the  burning  bush 
as  seen  by  him  in  the 
wilderness. 

The  influence  of 
this  design  may  l>e 
seen  today  both  in  the 
magnificent  altar  and 
paschal  candlesticks 
of  the  great  cathedrals 
of  Europe  and  in  the 
synagogues  of  Russia. 
The  Jews  have  been 
artificers  in  gold,  sil- 
ver, copper,  brass  and 
iron  for  many  thou- 
sands of  years,  indeed 
from  the  time  of  Abra- 
ham, whose  messenger 
presented  Rekvca  at 
the  well  with  an  ear- 
ring and  bracelets  of 
gold.  When  the  Jews 
migrated  to  Russia 
they  carried  with  them 
their  art  and  crat't- 
manship,  which  they 
have  maintained  for 
twelve  hundred  years, 
giving  to  Russia  its 
fame  for  marvelous 
works  in  brass,  cop- 
per and  other  metals. 
This  same  art  and 
craftsmanship  will  en- 


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House     &     Garden 


The   Hannukah    light    has    eight 
bowls  for  oil  and  wicks,  one  be- 
ing lighted  each  night  during  the 
feast  until  all  are  burning 


Although  very  beautiful  in 
design  and  elaborately  deco- 
rated, the  two  pairs  o'j  silver- 
plated  candlesticks  above  are 
Warsaw  factory  work 


rich  American  work  as  time  goes  on 
The  antique  Russian  candlesticks 
which  one  is  able  to  collect  in  Amer- 
ica are,  of  course,  those  that  have 
been  brought  by  the  Russian  famil- 
ies. They  are  of  several  types  — 
single  candlesticks,  designed  to  hold 
a  single  candle,  Chanuca  lights  and 
wall  sconces.  Of  the  three,  five,  six 
seven  and  nine  light  branch  candle- 
sticks very  few  are  to  be  found  in 
this  country.  In  ten  years  I  have 
not  seen  over  ten  or  twelve  genuine 
old  branch  candlesticks.  The  most 
that  one  sees  of  this  type  are  repro- 
ductions made  in  this  country. 

Of  the  single  candlesticks  there 
are  many  varieties  of  type  and  an 
infinite  variety  of  designs  of  these 
various  types.  The  reason  for  this 
i  that  in  early  times  in  every  village 
town  and  city  of  Russia,  Galicia 
and  Roumania  which  had  a  Jewish 
population  there  would  be  found  a 
coppersmith  making  copper  cooking 
pots  and  casting  heavy  brass  candle- 
sticks. Judging  by  the  large  num- 


The  two  candle  sockets  in  the 
Hannukah  light — sometimes  there 
is  only  one — are  the  schamus, 
and  are  lighted  during  the  service 


The  tray,  mortar,  pestle  and 
candlesticks  comprise  the  usual 
wedding  gifts  from  the  mother 
to  the  bride  through  many 
generations 


bers  of  designs  of  candlesticks  one 
sees,  each  coppersmith  evidently  had 
a  different  kind  of  mold  for  casting. 
These  candlesticks  were  made  large- 
ly for  wedding  presents,  as  it  is  a 
Jewish  custom  that  when  a  daughter 
of  the  family  marries  and  the  wed- 
ding guests  are  assembled,  the 
mother  places  on  the  table  her  mar- 
riage gifts  to  her  daughter,  consist- 
ing of  a  pair  of  candlesticks,  a  tray 
and  a  mortar  and  pestle.  This  cus- 
tom was  universal  throughout  Rus- 
sia. 

The  single  brass  candlesticks  of 
Russia  are  very  heavy,  much  more 
so  than  the  Galician  ones,  also  less 
ornamented  with  rings,  chasing  and 
engraving.  The  Galician  ones  are, 
in  turn,  heavier  than  the  single  brass 
candlesticks  of  Roumania. 

Occasionally  one  will  see  beauti- 
ful specimens  of  old  Russian  silver 
single  candlesticks  beaten  out  of 
pure  silver.  The  light,  thin  brass 
candlesticks  that  are  electro-plated 
(Continued  on  page  64) 


July,    1920 


35 


In    this    Hannukah    light    candle 

sockets    are    used   instead   of    oil 

wells.      The    back    plate    has    an 

unusual  design 


The   crown   oj   David   and   lions 
supporting  the  seven  branch  can- 
dlestick enrich  the  back  plate  of 
this  light 


from   le/t    to    right,   a    seven 

branch     candelabra,    a     three 

and  a  six.     The  seven  light  is 

called  the  Minor  ah 


In  the  group  above  are  light 

brass,  silver-plated  candlesticks 

of  Viennese  factory  work  and 

modern  design 


The  group  to  the  right  con- 
sists of  various  types  of  Rou- 
manian candlesticks.  The  bases 
are  round  and  without  feet. 
They  also  have  no  ornamental 
rings.  These  are  distinguish- 
ing marks  of  Roumanian  types 


Of  the  two  groups  below,  that 
to  the  left  is  composed  oj 
heavy,  old  Russian  candle- 
sticks, averaging  14"  high  and 
with  feet  and  ornamental 
rings.  The  others  are  ex- 
amples from  Austrian  Galicia 


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House    &    Garden 


In  the  level  stretch  oj  lawn  before 
the  terrace  wall  with  its  succession 
oj  pink  flowers  lies  this  oblong  pool. 
Its  design  and  proportions  make  it  a 
little  jewel  in  a  restrained  setting. 
At  the  corners  stand  box  specimens. 
Grass  creeps  up  to  the  stone  rim. 
Simplicity  oj  design  characterizes  the 
details  and  mass  oj  the  setting. 
It  is  in  the  garden  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Bertram  Borden,  Oceanic,  N.  J . 


P£SSJ         °  paCe  th?  ,poot  s°  thal  one  comes  uP°n  U  unexpectedly—behind  a.  watt, 
w      g,V  a"  out-°f-the-™y  corner  of  the  garden.    For  the  pool  is  the  garden  jewel 
,  T        Z"™  7"**  *"'  """*  ostentation-    II  **»««  not  overshadow  in  importance 
f  f?         T\  h°mVJer  lmt°rtant  a  ia«°'  «•»  that  scheme  it  mav   be.     The  charm 
NP°J    i£l  ^  ^  ^'^  ^  "ar"y  T'  Lindeb^  1°'  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Paul  A.  Moore, 
A'     '      ,  ?,     f  ""Ptetoy  °f  >ts  <*™g»  <^nd  the  unusual  corner  in  which  it  is  placed     The 
delicacy  of  the  locust  trees  is  reflected  in  its  surface.     Lilies  spread  on  the  water      The 
rim  is  brick  laid  down  to  the  level  of  the  grass 


WATER    IN    THE 
GARDEN    VIEW 


MARIAN  C.  COFFIN 

Landscape  Architect 


37 


That  stream  is  the  most  (harming 
along  whose  banks  one  can  wander 
at  will,  and  that  pool  the  most  en- 
ticing which  offers  the  same  oppor- 
tunity for  close  companionship  with 
water.  The  stone  margins  are  allur- 
ing pathways  between  the  iris  rows 
here  in  the  Borden  garden,  where 
because  of  the  flowing  current 
through  the  pool  the  planting  is  of 
flowers  with  sheath-like  foliage 


POOLS    TO     MIR- 
ROR   THE    SKY 


four  Examples  of. 
Their    Placing 


The  courtyard  pool  can  transform  an  uninteresting  flagged  floor  into  a  place  of  beauty  and  unique 
charm.  Simplicity  of  treatment  should  be  maintained  throughout — even  the  rim  of  the  pool  needs 
no  elaboration.  In  the  pool  can  be  planted  water-lilies,  rushes  and  cyperus,  as  here  at  the  home  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cordon  K.  Ball,  Katonah,  ft.  Y.  These  will  lend  variety  of  color,  form  and  site. 
Openings  here  and  there  among  the  flags  can  be  filled  with  hardy  foliage  plants,  or  small  flowering 
ones  such  as  dwarf  phlox.  The  background  as  well  as  the  pool  should  be  carefully  planned.  Heavy 
massing  of  foliage  is  needed  there  to  carry  the  sturdiness  of  the  court  itself.  Flowering  shrubs 
are  used  in  this  case,  with  climbing  vines  behind  them 


38 


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North  end 


Above  a  console  in  the  dining 
room  a  French  paneled  mirror 
reflects  the  silver  and  gives  a  spot 
of  light  to  the  watt.  Lee  Porter, 
decorator 


The  apex  oj  the  furniture  group 
below  is  an  old  gilt  Spanish  mir- 
ror, a  worthy  crown  to  the  cas- 
sone  and  its  interesting  decorative 

accessories 
MattieEdwirds  Hewitt 


Northend 

In  this  grouping 
of  chairs  ,  cup- 
board, old  gilt 
lamp  and  small 
accessories  the 
mirror  is  a  neces- 
sary factor.  Its 
painted  panel  adds 
the  richness  of 
color.  Lee  Porter, 
decorator 


A  painted  con- 
sole with  a 
marbleized  top, 
a  pair  of  paint- 
ed wooden  can- 
dlesticks —  and 
above  it  the 
mirror  with 
painted  frame 
and  panel . 
These  ma.ke 
a  dignified  liv- 
ing room  group 


MIRRORS    AS     DECORATIONS 


They  Increase  the  Apparent  Size  of  the  Room  and 
the  Furniture  Group 


July,     1920 


Maltio  Endards  Hewitt 

An  excellent  example  of  Louis  Seize 
decoration  is  the  salon  in  the  New 
York  apartment  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
I.  I.  Bloomingdale.  Decorations  by 
Alavoine  &  Co. 


A  LITTLE 

PORTFOLIO  of  GOOD 
INTERIORS 


Antique  Louis  Seize  woodwork 
painted  a  delicate  gray  is  the  chief 
charm  of  the  room.  The  chairs  are 
covered  in  petit  point ;  curtains  are 
yellow  striped  silk 


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House     &     Garden 


Pink  and  white  toile 
de  Juoy  edged  with 
narrow  ruffles  has 
been  used  for  the 
curtaining  in  this 
bedroom.  White 
china  doves  are 
perched  on  the  val- 
ance. Above  the 
dressing  table  are 
old  French  fashion 
plates.  Walker  &• 
Gillette,  architects 


Harting 

To  conform  with 
the  Louis  XVI  buffet 
the  dining  table  was 
made  with  old  brass 
ornaments  and  mar- 
bleized  top.  Cherry 
toile  de  Juoy  is  set 
in  the  jade  paneled 
walls.  Curtains  are 
of  cherry  striped 
faille.  Mrs.  A.  Van 
R.  Barnewall,  deco- 
rator 


July,    1920 


41 


A  sense  of  harmony 
is  given  this  bed- 
room by  the  cre- 
tonne used  for  bed 
valance,  cover  and 
chair  seats.  It  en- 
livens the  mahogany 
furniture  and  is 
pleasantly  colorful 
against  the  white 
and  gray  paneled 
walls.  W.  Stanwood 
Phillips,  architect 


Painted  French  fur- 
niture, walls  paneled 
in  excellent  propor- 
tions and  painted  in 
quiet  tones  create 
distinction  in  the 
guest  room  to  the 
right.  Bed  covers 
are  of  filet.  An  old 
French  clock  hangs 
on  the  wall.  Brett, 
Cray  &  Hartwell, 
decorators 


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THAT       DEVASTATED       SUBURBAN       LOT 

Reclaiming  It  Proved  a  Great  Adventure  and  the  Lure  of  It  Made  the 
Adventurers  Adamant  to  Bewildering  Offers 


MARION  MURDOCK 


GIVEN:  a  half- 
acre  of  wood- 
land, dropping  off 
some  two  hundred 
feet  to  a  creek,  down 
which,  were  it  deep 
enough,  one  could 
commute  by  canoe  to 
one's  office. 

With  the  childlike 
innocence  of  the  coun- 
try-bred,   we    built    a 
house    on    it,    and 
though   numerous 
sign-boards  and  little 
toad-stool  land  offices 
would  have  warned 
the  seasoned  and  so- 
phisticated suburban- 
ite,  we   in   our   igno- 
rance only  marvelled 
dreamily    at    the 
philanthropy       that 
prompted    a    real    es- 
tate company  to  pre- 
sent    us     with     such 
essentials     as     light, 
water,  sewers,  gas,   a 
some-time  road. 

Circumstances  up- 
rooted us  and  carried 
us  half  round  the 
globe,  before  the 
house-warming  had 
fairly  cooled  off.  To 
others  we  rented  the 
little  corner  of  the 
wood,  where  aquile- 
gias,  wild  violets,  and 
ferns  were  already  covering  the 
scars  of  blasting  and  building. 

True,  we  had  received  one  jolt. 
Our  flock  of  Rhode  Island  Reds  had 
been  rather  ruthlessly  suppressed. 
But  we  were  wholly  unprepared  for 
the  dismaying  transformation  that 
turned  to  tragedy  our  home-coming 
two  years  later. 

That  Pink  Sidewalk 

A  straight,  broad,  relentless,  gut- 
tered road,  bordered  on  either  side  by 
strips  of  green  grass,  alternating  with 
strips  of  pink  brick  sidewalk,  had 
supplanted  the  meandering  old  wood 
road.  Along  a  dirt  embankment  which 
drained  unpleasantly  into  our  cellar 
it  stalked  past  our  poor  little  cottage' 
now  stripped  of  its  woodland  privacy' 
In  fact,  the  brazen  pink  sidewalk  en- 
croached on  our  land  by  some  ten 
leet.  Imposing  gate-posts  waylaid 
one  at  a  half-dozen  cross-roads,  with 
large  signs  swinging  over  them  or 
[angling  from  rustic  gypsy-kettles 
bearing  the  legend: 

DOGWOOD  PARK 

RESTRICTED  PROPERTY 

DESIRABLE    BUILDING    LOTS 

FOR  SALE.      INQUIRE  OF 


The  babies 
think  the  bird 
Pool  compares 
favorably  with 
the  Lake  of 
The  Swans 


Snowed  in,  but 
secure  behind 
its  wall  stands 
the  result  of 
the  adventure- 
home 


Little  houses  of 
every  known  and  un- 
known and  unguessed 
form  of  architecture 
rubbed  gables  smugly 
with  ours.  Glaring 
electric  street  lamps 
penetrated  the  fur- 
thermost privacy  of 
our  porches  and  bal- 
conies, where  we  had 
been  wont  to  sit  in  the 
moonlight  that  fil- 
tered through  the  pine 
trees. 

We  spent  that  first 
desolate  evening  writ- 
ing "FOR  SALE" 
advertisements. 

Nobody  answered 
them.  The  agents  said 
that  real  estate  values 
had  slumped.  It  was 
the  time  when  every- 
thing was  slumping 
except  those  things 
that  were  vitally 
needed  by  our  armies 
in  the  field.  Those 
were  soaring. 

By  the  next  week 
our  blood  was  up  and 
the  iron  of  the  war 
got  into  our  veins.  We 
sued  the  company, 
and  won  back  not 
only  our  ten  feet  of 
stolen  land  and  an 
additional  strip,  but 
a  not  inconsiderable  check  as  hush- 
money,  for  settling  out  of  court. 

Then  Came  The  Wall 

The  next  week-end  (we  were  real 
commuters!)  we  pulled  down  the 
embankment.  Then  we  went  out  and 
bought  up  a  stone-wall  and  moved  it 
bodily  to  shore  up  the  road  and  form, 
a  high  garden  wall,  to  be  surmounted 
by  a  hedge.  We  confessed  at  this 
juncture,  that  we  had  always  secretly 
wanted  a  high  garden  wall,  but  that 
it  had  not  seemed  appropriate  in  a 
wood.  We  built  a  green  gate  in  it. 
The  following  summer,  we  coaxed 
roses  and  honeysuckle  over  the  gate. 

The  dogwood  and  great  hickory 
trees  were  our  special  pride,  and  still 
screened  us  from  our  neighbors.  That 
winter  a  terrific  storm  stripped  the 
little  place  of  dogwood  trees.  In  the 
morning,  we  went  out  and  salvaged 
what  we  could — shaking  off  the  snow 
and  ice,  bracing  them  with  poles  and 
literally  performed  surgical  operations 
on  them,  filling  their  gaping  wounds 
with  tar  and  cement,  setting  their 
fractures  in  splints  secured  by  adhe- 
sive tape  and  bandages.  We  saved 
several.  But  the  plot  had  lost  its 
woody  character  and  was  destined  to 


July,     1920 


Between  the  roadside  wall  and 

the    grassy    strip    stone    steps 

were  set  in  the  hill,  bordered 

by  iris 

become     a     garden  —  of     sorts ! 

Iris  and  roses  came  first,  with 
a  few  tried-out  old  garden  stead- 
ies and  espalier  peach-trees,  trel- 
lised  around  the  windows  on  the 
south  wall. 

We  were  not  gardeners.  Con- 
sequently, we  shied  at  competing 
with  the  neat  beds  and  borders 
of  more  experienced  friends,  or 
those  able  to  afford  the  luxury  of 
a  gardener.  We  therefore  lim- 
ited our  landscape-architecture  to 
a  broad,  grassy  strip,  iris-bor- 
dered, too  wide  to  be  called  a 
path  and  too  wee  for  a  lawn,  but 
connecting,  harmoniously  enough, 
the  rose-laden  wall  that  protected 
us  from  the  street  and  the  wild 
things  among  the  rocks,  where 
began  the  steep,  unreclaimed 
woods. 

A  bird-bath,  stone  nagging 
around  the  kitchen  door,  and 
some  straggling  stone 
steps,  set  in  the  grass, 
were  the  happy  re- 
sults of  several  Sun- 
day afternoons  mess- 
ing about  in  cement. 
In  the  minds  of  the 
babies,  the  birds' 
pool  compared  fa- 
vorably with  the 
Lake  of  the  Swans 
in  Central  Park. 
Maiden-hair  and 
forget-me-nots  mir- 
rored themselves, 
and  one  day  we 
counted  thirty  blue- 
birds splashing  \n 
it.  Robins,  most 
persistent  of  bathers, 
have  been  known  to 
break  the  ice  in  it  for 
their  daily  plunge! 

One  day  came 
along  a  government 
inspector.  He  con- 
demned all  our  hick- 


ories. They  were  diseased.  We  cut  them 
down — seventeen.  .  .  .  Our  place  looked 
not  unlike  Belleau  Woods  after  the  Amer- 
icans had  driven  Fritzie  out  of  it. 

In  a  moment  of  utter  despair,  again  we 
put  the  little  place,  now  shorn  of  most  of 
its  shade,  on  the  market.  And  then,  one 
hot  night,  we  hastily  withdrew  it,  realizing 
quite  suddenly  that  with  the  thinning  out 
of  the  trees,  we  had  acquired  cooling  breezes, 
straight  and  unobstructed  from  the  unseen 
Sound,  five  miles  'cross  country — and  a  de- 
lightful view,  winter  and  summer,  out  over 
the  valley  below,  and  a  sheltered,  sunny 
slope,  and  firewood  enough  for  two  years ! 

So  we  dug  out  the  seventeen  stumps  and 
continued  the  straggling  stone  steps  to  lead 
down  to  a  little,  lower  garden,  which  liter- 
ally hangs  on  the  side  of  the  hill,  shored 
up  by  three  terraces  and  surrounded  by  a 
hedge  of  blackl>erries  that  yield  fruit  the 
size  of  small  plums. 


The  stone  vail  lias  a  history.    It  was  lifted  bodily  and  put  up  before 

the  house  to  keep  the  stranger  off  and  to  preserve  the  privacy  of  this 

roadside  half -acre.     At  one  end  was  placed  a  green  gate — a  strong, 

sturdy  green  gate  that  half  the  family  can  swing  on 


Winter's     snow     broke     the 

precious  dogwoods  and  robbed 

the    half-acre    of   its    woodsy 

character 


There  is  a  tiny  vineyard  on  the 
first  terrace,  vegetable  garden 
(enough  for  a  small  family)  of 
tomatoes,  bush-beans,  egg-plant, 
peppers,  parsley,  mint,  radishes, 
and  such,  on  the  next — limited,  of 
course,  to  those  things  which  re- 
quire little  space  and  less  care. 
On  the  bottom  and  last  terrace 
are  a  seed-bed  and  rows  of  flowers 
for  picking. 

We  have  had  to  civilize  and 
curtail  and  contrive  and  make- 
over and  readjust  many  times 
both  our  ideas  and  our  half-acre, 
but  in  the  doing  we  have  learned 
not  a  little  gardening- -and  even 
more  philosophy.  And  though 
Nature  and  Man  (if  Real  Estate 
Companies  can  be  classed  as  hu- 
man) have  done  their  worst,  the 
homing  instinct  would  out. 

There's  no  denying  it — the  lure 
of  that  little  half-acre  was  irre- 
sistible. Call  it  pride 
of  ownership,  if  you 
will.  Call  it  the 
compensation  that 
came  for  all  our 
struggles  to  reclaim 
that  devastated  sub- 
urban lot  and  make 
it  a  happy  place  to 
live  in.  The  name 
makes  no  difference. 
We  had  simply  ex- 
perienced one  of  the 
great  romances  of 
life  —  making  a 
home — one  of  the 
great  adventures. 


This  was  the  relentless 
road  and  pink  brick 
sidewalk  that  encroach- 
ed on  the  half-acre. 
The  high  stone  wall, 
however,  saved  the 
place.  Roses  and  honey- 
suckle grow  over  it  now 
und  the  devastation  of 
the  lot  is  no  more 


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A  high  oak  wainscot  finishes  the  walls  in  the 
library,  giving  that  room  a  dignity  befitting 
its  purpose.  Quaint  old  candle  sconces  are  set 
in  the  panels  on  either  side  of  a  carved  mirror 
and  make,  together  with  the  table,  a  pleasing 
and  unified  group 


The  stairs  are  set  partly  in  the  brick  tower. 
Here  the  beams  are  left  open,  giving  a  sense 
of  space  required  by  the  broad  landing  and 
the  large  window.  Turned  balusters  and 
simply  carved  newel  are  in  keeping  with  the 
style  of  the  house 


The  walls  of  the  dining  room  are  rough, 
tinted  plaster,  which  forms  a  sturdy  back- 
ground for  the  antique  sideboard  with  its 
range  of  candlesticks,  the  brass  sconces,  old 
paintings  and  cottage  chairs.  A  beamed  ceil- 
ing helps  maintain  the  cottage  atmosphere 


A  fireplace  of  brick  and  tile  set  in  a  deep 
hearth  is  on  one  side  of  the  library.  The 
paneling  fills  the  chimney  breast.  A  bay  win- 
dow with  leaded  casements  affords  space  for 
a  desk,  a  pleasant  little  corner  for  reading 
and  correspondence 


July,    1920 


4S 


A  view  of  the  rear 
shows  the  library  bay 
window  and  beside  it 
the  chimney  stack  with 
its  alternate  courses  of 
brick  and  tile  and  oc- 
casional shingled  levels 


The  front  door  is 
reached  across  a  bricked 
pavement  and  through 
a  portico  supported  by 
rough  beams.  The  wall, 
carried  on  to  meet  the 
garage,  is  broken  by  a 
service  gate 


The  author  of  "The  Prisoner  of  Zenda"  has  chosen  Surrev,  and  the 
house  that  his  architect  has  designed  for  him  has  characteristics  of  the 
locality,  especially  the  alternating  use  of  brick  and  tile  in  the  stairs 
tower,  the  combination  of  brick,  stucco  and  shingle  walls  and  the 
leaded  s'l"  casements  set  in  weathered  wooden  frames 


The    HOME    of  ANTHONY    HOPE 
NEAR  TADWORTH,  SURREY 

L.  STANLEY  CROSBIE,  Architect 


The  library  bay  window 
looks  out  on  this  little 
pool  and  stretch  of 
lawn.  The  pool's  rim. 
as  are  the  garden  paths. 
is  made  of  flagstones 
laid  in  the  turf 


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House     &     Garden 


m  a  dark    greenxh  stone  blue.     A  mustard-colored  carpet  harmonizes  with 
le  walls.    Lampshades  and  pillows  are  dull  gold 


WHERE          TO          USE          YELLOW 

Between  the  Oranges  and  the  Mustards  Lies  a  Gamut  of  Yellows  That 
Will  Put  Sunlight  in  the  Darkest  Room 


HAVE  you  ever  stood  transfixed  with  de- 
light before  a  gray  bowl  filled  with 
vanegated  marigolds,  ever  suddenly  glimpsed 
the  joyful  gleam  of  a  clump  of  flowering  daffo- 
dils, or  a  mass  of  Golden  Glow  in  a  jar  of 
blue?  If  you  have  never  felt  the  cheery  in- 
fluence of  a  sunny  length  of  yellow  curtain  at 
an  unexpected  window,  of  oranges  in  a  tall 
fruit  dish,  of  yellow  daisies  in  a  deep  brown 
earthen  pot— if  you  haven't  experienced  any 
of  these  happy  incidents,  the  sunny  old  world 
has  much  joy  in  store  for  you. 

For  yellow  is  a  happy  color.     It  gives  light 


ETHEL  DAVIS  SEAL 

in  dark  places,  and  dispels  the  shadow  of 
gloom.  Used  properly,  it  may  make  a  dark 
room  brighter,  a  small  room  larger,  a  drearv 
room  pleasant.  It  may  enhance  a  group  of 
colors  as  gold  does  printing  and  embossing. 
In  a  somber  scheme  it  is  an  accent  and  as  such 
it  might  lie  likened  to  an  imprisoned  sunbeam 
vividly  tamed.  "When  surrounded  by  a  duli 
or  neutral  background,  it  shines  forth  with  a 
seemingly  increased  brilliance. 

In  a  certain  sort  of  Colonial  living  room 
yellow  is  very  much  at  home  as  a  wall  back- 
ground. The  room,  however,  should  be  dark  to 


warrant  it,  and  the  tone  of  yellow  should  be 
pale,  creamy  and  neutral.  When  yellow  is 
used  as  a  wall  background  it  is  never  wise  to 
use  quantities  of  yellow  elsewhere  in  the  room, 
if  you  value  illusion  and  subtlety,  but  there 
are  other  colors  which,  in  combination  with 
it,  create  harmonious  mysteries. 

Too  many  people  feel"  that  only  yellow  goes 
with  yellow,  and  that  its  place  is  strictly  in 
the  bedroom  where  monotonous  yellow  ex- 
panses are  punctuated  by  multitudinous  ob- 
jects and  draperies  as  yellow  as  itself 

Listen,  then,  to  the  tale  of  this  hail    whH. 


July,     1920 

was  dark  and  unattractive  until 
the  decorator  got  through  creat- 
ing sunshine  in  it. 

First  the  walls  and  woodwork 
were  painted  a  bisque  ivory,  al- 
ways a  satisfactory  background, 
and  the  floor  was  done  in  a  fine- 
ly decorative  peacock  blue,  quite 
unnoticeably  dark.  On  this 
there  was  laid  a  rug  in  neutral 
snuff  brown  bordered  with  a 
band  of  deep  green  blue. 

The  lacquered  commode  was 
an  inspiration  for  the  entire 
color  scheme,  for  its  multi-col- 
ored tonings  resolved  themselves 
into  dull  blue  top  and  ends, 
with  soft  green  front  panels 
decorated  effectively  with  Chi- 
nese landscape  motifs  worked 
out  principally  in  gold  and  yel- 
low, and  banded  between  the 
panels  with  black,  picked  out 
with  gold.  The  feet  and  lower 
trimmings  were  of  toned  gold, 
as  were  also  the  frames  of  the 
upholstered  chairs  on  either  side 
of  the  commode.  The  material 
used  to  cover  these  was  of  a 


In  this  hall  the  walls  and 
woodwork  were  lightened  by 
bisque  ivory,  the  floor  a  pea- 
cock blue  with  a  snuff-colored 
rug,  the  lacquer  commode 
blue,  yellow  and  gold,  the 
chair  coverings  gold  and  the 
curtains  old  yellow  damask 


s  47 

deep  golden  mustard,  striped  in 
blue.  At  the  one  rather  inade- 
quate leaded  glass  window,  for 
it  was  dark,  were  placed  in- 
sistent curtains  of  old  yellow 
damask,  arranged  so  that  they 
could  be  pulled  together  under 
their  valance  of  matching  ve- 
lours. They  made  a  sunny  spot. 
From  the  gold  and  black  framed 
mirror  alwve  the  commode  an- 
other sunny  sjx>t  gleamed  out 
from  their  reflection,  almost 
supplying  another  window  in 
the  hull.  By  this  judicious  use 
of  the  various  tones  of  yellow 
against  a  harmonious  back- 
ground the  miracle  of  a  gay  hall 
was  wrought,  where  before  was 
a  mere  well  of  darkness. 

It  almost  goes  without  saying 
that  the  term  "yellow"  covers  ii 
multitude  of  varying  tones. 
Gold  is  one  of  these,  and 
orange;  in  between  lie  the  buffs, 
the  butter  yellows,  the  ochres, 
and  the  mustards,  with  the  many 
tints  and  shades  Itetween.  So. 
(Continued  on  page  56) 


Orange  tassels  gave  the  hint 
for  this  yellow  bedroom.  The 
walls  are  saffron  cream,  the 
over-curtains  soft  yellow 
striped  crepe  with  narrow  lines 
of  orange  and  black,  and  the 
glass  curtains  plain  yellow 
Japanese  crepe 


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House     &     Garden 


All  puppies  are  heart-break- 
ers, but  little  chows  are  in  a 
class   by   themselves  for  in- 
stant appeal 


THE         CHOW-CHOW         FROM         CHINA 

A  Dog  frith  a  Mystery,  a  True  Oriental  That  Came  to  America  and 'H' on 
a  Place  by  Sheer  Weight  of  Worth 

ROBERT  S.  LEMMON 


THROUGH  tradition  and  experience  we 
have  learned  to  endow  man}-  things 
oriental  with  at  least  a  touch  of  mystery. 
The  Celestial  is  non-understandable  to  West- 
ern minds — was  it  not  our  own  Bill  Xye  who 
said  that  ''for  ways  that  are  dark  and  tricks 
that  are  vain,  the  Heathen  Chinee  is  peculiar"? 

That  seems  an  irrelevant  way  to  begin  an 
article  on  dogs,  but  it  really  is  not. 
For  the  chow-chow,  the  maned,  bel- 
ligerent looking  fellow  whose  pic- 
tures are  here  presented,  comes 
from  China  and,  true  Oriental  that 
he  is,  has  his  own  mystery  safely 
tucked  away  within  his  cobby, 
strangely  shaped  body.  In  this 
wise: 

We  know  little  or  nothing  of  the 
chow's  history,  save  that  his  breed 
is  an  old  and  respected  one  among 
the  Chinese.  What  were  his  an- 
cestors of  many  generations  ago? 
Whence  come  that  tail  so  strangely 
curved  and  flattened  over  the  back, 
those  straight  hind  legs,  that 
tongue  of  blue  instead  of  pink  or 
red,  those  black  eyes  seeming  to 
discount  the  theory  of  wolf  blood 
flowing  in  his  veins?  Other  dogs 
do  not  have  them,  nor  is  the  chow's 


coat  of  fur  instead  of  hair  any  help  to  us  in 
clearing  up  the  facts  of  his  origin. 

There  is  no  little  of  the  Oriental  in  his  dis- 
position, too.  Where  another  dog  might  be 
openly  friendly  or  hostile  in  the  presence  of 
strangers,  the  chow  is  prone  to  be  merely  stand- 
offish. He  will  sniff  critically  at  your  ankles, 
examine  YOU  with  an  air  of  silent  analysis, 


and   then   steadfastly    reserve   judgment   until 
you  have  proved  yourself  worthy. 

Such  is  the  chow's  habitual  treatment  of 
strangers,  but  within  his  circle  of  established 
friends  he  is  a  different  sort  of  dog.  His 
aloofness  vanishes,  and  he  becomes  jolly,  even 
rollicking.  He  seems  to  have  an  odd  sense  of 
humor,  and  the  baffling  twist  in  his  disposition 
which  is  so  marked  when  he  is  on 
his  dignity  largely  vanishes.  His 
admirers — and  they  are  many — 
know  him  as  a  dog  of  courage, 
strength  and  intelligence. 

The  chow's  points  and  general 
appearance  are  as  widely  known 
today  as  those  of  any  other  breed, 
but  the  general  dog-interested  pub- 
lic displays  a  certain  amount  of 
ignorance  about  him  in  other  ways. 
Comparatively  few  know  that  a 
chow's  coat  should  be  brushed  but 
never  washed;  or  that,  for  all  his 
robust  Ixxly,  his  digestion  frequent- 
ly is  delicate  and  calls  for  care- 
fullv  selected  food. 


The  famous  chow  "scowl"  is  one 
of    his    outward    characteristics, 
but  he  is  really  not  the  surly  fel- 
low  his  appearance  suggests 

.*&•"- 


A  cobby,  powerful  dog  with  a  curiously  curled  and  flattened  tail,  and 
thick,  furry  coat  of  red,  blue  or  black 


The  straight  hind  legs  of  the  chow,  with  practically  no  bend  at  the 
hock  joint,  are  part  of  his  mystery 


July,     1920 


49 


As  if  growing  from  its 
bowl  of  black  marble, 
treated  to  simulate 
bronze,  is  the  anthuri- 
um,  one  of  the  strange 
and  most  striking  oj 
indoor  plants,  of  a 
wonderful  salmon  pink. 
It  is  grouped  with  two 
Japanese  standing  lan- 
terns, making  a  dero- 
ration  suitable  for  the 
hall  table  or  in  a  living 
room  window 


A  simple  branch  oj  golden  for- 
sythia  in  a  Dragon  Fly  vase  of 
brilliant  lustre  is  another  instance 
of  the  value  of  simplicity  when 
dealing  with  flowers  of  this  type 


FLOWER 
ARRANGEMENTS 

Courtesy  of  the  Cadieux  Company 


The  decorative  value  of 
common  things  is  no- 
where better  shown 
than  in  the  arrange- 
ment of  flowers.  A 
branch  of  dead  pine 
found  in  the  woods  on 
a.  winter  day  inspired 
this  charming  window 
decoration.  An  old 
Japanese  bronze  boat 
with  sprays  of  Cali- 
fornia pepper  completes 
the  picture 


Growing  narcissi  have  for  their 
home  a  Japanese  river  boat  of 
green  and  white  pottery,  complete 
even  to  the  little  rush-covered 
cabin  in  which  the  boatman  sleeps 


There  seems  to  be  a  natural  as- 
sociation between  flowers  and 
books.  Pale  pink  Darwin  tulips 
lure  you  to  this  book  shelf  even 
more  strongly  than  your  favorite 
novel 


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A  Russian  leather  luncheon  set  for  two  has 
a  full  equipment  of  knives,  forks,  spoons, 
plates,  a  quart  and  a  pint  vacuum  bottle,  a 
half-pint  food  jar  and  a  large  food  box. 
Courtesv  Abercromhie  &  Fitch 


Inside  this  dust  and  waterproof  leatherette 
case  are  tea  things  for  four,  including  an 
aluminum  tea  pot  with  a  portion  of  canned 
heat  and  windshield,  three  nickel  boxes  for 
sandwiches,  cake,  etc.  Abercrombie  &  Fitch 


A  leatherette  ice-box  that  fits  on  the  run- 
ning board  has  a  galvanized  lining.     Two 
sizes.     Courtesy  of  Lewis  &  Conger 


The  advantage  of 
this  steel  frying 
pan  is  its  collapsi- 
ble handle,  •which 
makes  it  possible 
to  pack  in  a  small 
space.  Abercrom- 
bie &•  Fitch 


„ 


1  \J ' 


An  Adirondack 
camp  grate  is 
equipped  with  an 
oven  that  fits  sim- 
ply over  the  back. 
Reflecting  oven  at 
right.  Abercrom- 
bie &•  Fitch 


x 


A    combination 

lunch  and  camp- 
ing outfit,  which 
fits  on  the  running 
board,  is  equipped 
for  six.  It  has  two 
large  food  boxes, 
butter  and  jam 
jars,  two  quart 
Stanley  bottles,  a 
gasoline  stove,  fry- 
ing pan  and  alumi- 
num saucepan,  cof- 
fee pot,  cups,  etc. 
Abercrombie  & 
Fitch 


July,    1920 

TAKING       THE       KITCHEN       ALONG 

Suggestions  for  the  Motorist  Who  Likes  a  Well-Cooked 
Meal  by  the  Roadside 

ETHEL  R.  PEYSER 


51 


IP  is  no  longer  necessary  for  motorists  to 
trust  to  luck  and  the  roadhouse  restaurant 
for  lunch.  They  can  take  their  own  kitchen 
along  and  loiter  down  the  highways  and  by- 
ways and  eat  where  and  when  they  will. 
Manufacturers  who  have  studied  the  require- 
ments of  motorists  provide  the  neatest  imagin- 


folded  all  parts  are  enclosed  easily  and  rapidly 
and  the  case  fastens  securely  and  simply.  It 
can  be  bought  separately  or  in  combination 
with  the  above  case.  These  cases  are  built  on 
a  basis  of  bass  or  some  other  strong  wood  and 
are  practically  unbreakable. 

If  one  prefers  a  wood  fire  to  the  gasoline 


able  bits  of  equipment  for  use  on  the  road,      stove,  there  are  small  grates  to  be  had  which 


With  them  one  can  be  as  comfortable  in  the 
Gobi  Desert  as  at  home. 

The  best  known  of  these  pieces  is  what  is 
called  the  "Restaurant", 
a  ship-shape  glazed  duck 
or  sole  leather  case 
equipped  with  knives, 
forks,  spoons,  cups, 
saucers,  butter  jars,  sand- 
wich boxes,  vacuum  bot- 
tles, salt  and  pepper 
shakers  and  napkins,  for 
from  two  to  eight  per- 
sons. They  can  be 
strapped  on  the  running 
board  or  back  rack  of  the 
car  or  slid  unobtrusively 
into  the  tonneau.  They 
are  shaped  usually  like 
suit-cases,  although  one 
firm  makes  them  in  a 
flat,  square  shape  of  sole 
leather,  black  grain 
leather  or  glazed  duck 
(patent  leather). 

There  is  a  case  of  this 
Kin  on  the  market  that 
carries  a  cooking  appa- 
ratus, a  long  fork  and  a 
folding  gasoline  cook 
stove  with  two  burners. 
This  burns  ordinary 
gasoline,  which  the  mo- 
torist always  has  with 
him.  There  are  no  loose 
parts  to  assemble  or  be- 
come lost.  When  it  is 


aid  greatly  in  the  building  of  it.     These  are 
light  in  weight  and  can  be  carried  easily. 
Long  ago  the  vacuum  bottle  solved  the  prob- 


An  oval,  upright 
luncheon  set  for  six 
comes  in  a  compact 
leatherette  case. 
A  bercrombie&  Fitch 


lem  of  carrying  cold  and  hot  food.  It  is  made 
in  many  shapes,  styles  and  forms.  It  insures 
comfort  for  the  long  or  short  tour,  and  if  a 
little  care  is  taken  in  the  handling  there  is  no 
danger  of  breakage. 

The  best  of  these  bottles  are  made  of  glass 
well  annealed,  insuring  elasticity.  The  outer 
walls  are  generally  of  steel  and  relieve  the 
jarring.  The  inner  wall  is  also  of  steel,  and 
between  these  walls  is  the  vacuum,  impene- 
trative  to  heat  and  cold. 

These  jars  and  tattles 
hold  from  one  pint  to 
one  gallon,  so  the  range 
of  choice  is  vast  enough 
for  utility.  The  stop- 
pers are  so  made  and 
fitted,  plus  their  caps,  to 
prevent  leakage  of  wind 
or  advent  of  outside  air, 
that  the  temperature 
probably  never  changes 
more  than  a  few  degrees 
in  twenty-four  hours. 

Cases  for  these  bottles 
in  various  sizes  are  made 
of  leather,  duck  and 
wicker.  They  are  con- 
venient and  alwolutely 
necessary  to  the  longevity 
of  the  bottle  as  it  is  so 
adjusted  in  the  casing 
that  it  rests  and  vibrates 
enough  to  ease  strains 
which  might  overcome 
the  elasticity  of  the  glass 
and  cause  breakage. 

The  tattles  themselves 
are  finished  in  leather 
over  metal  or  in  metal 
containers,  and  some 
come  equipped  with  han- 
dies  and  also  with  con- 
venient  cups. 
(Continued  on  page  62) 


A  two-burner  gaso- 
line  stove,  with  a 
ran*  which  fits 


This  nes,  of  cooking  pots  is  designed  to  supply  the  nted,  of  a  party  of  eight    All  the  articles  fit  Mo  the  big  pot.  The  set  comes  in  either  steel 

or  aluminum.     Courtesy   of  Abercrombie  &   FtUH 


52 


House     &f     Garden 


THE 


UNFINISHED 


ROOMS 


Having  Created  Better  Bathrooms,  Kitchens  and  Laundries,  The  Householder  Can  Now 
Turn  Her  Attention  to  The  Cellar  and  The  Attic 


improvement  of  the  home  during  the 
JL  past  ten  years  has  been  an  amazing  evolu- 
tion. Both  its  beauty  and  its  utility  have  ex- 
perienced a  growth  that  is  a  fine  tribute  to  the 
discernment  of  American  women  and  the 
cleverness  of  American  manufacturers.  Chaos 
has  been  replaced  by  order,  time  and  labor 
saved  by  good  equipment  and  the  general 
scheme  of  furnishing  and  work  reduced  to 
simple  livableness. 

The  first  activity  of  this  crusade  was  directed 
against  the  clutter  and  ugliness  of  rooms  as 
they  existed  fifteen  years  ago.  Too  many 
pieces  of  furniture  were  used,  the  windows  were 
swathed  in  too  many  hangings,  and  the  colors 
were  not  studied  with  a  view  to  pleasing 
harmony. 

A  knowledge  of  furniture  styles  and  interior 
decoration  generally  was  considered  the  talent 
of  the  cultivated  and  rich.  Today  no  woman 
can  claim  to  be  mistress  of  her  house  unless 
she  knows  something  about  these  subjects  and 
can  approach  the  problem  of  decoration  in- 
telligently. 

Taste  in  our  homes  has  steadily  im- 
proved. There  is  still  vast  improve- 
ment to  be  made,  but  the  desire  is 
aroused  and  with  the  desire  has  come  a 
vital  interest  in  what  good  taste  means. 

The  difference  between  good  decora- 
tion and  bad  is  the  difference  between 
essentials  and  non-essentials,  between 
the  things  that  clutter,  offend  the  eye 
and  annoy  the  personality  and  those 
that  make  for  comfort,  that  delight  the 
eye  and  give  the  owner  an  enhancing 
environment. 

IF  the  improvement  had  stopped  short 
at  decoration,  however,  our  homes 
would  still  be  in  a  bad  way.  Even 
today  there  are  unfinished  rooms  to 
which  we  can  turn  our  attention.  To 
make  the  house  complete,  to  make  it 
pay  for  the  investment  in  livable  pos- 
sibilities, we  have  to  tame  these  wilder- 
ness sides  of  the  menage. 

The  first  improvement  began  with  the 
bathroom.  That  was  about  ten  years 
ago.  We  found  that  closed  plumbing 
was  unsanitary,  that  dark  painted  wood 
could  never  be  made  to  look  clean,  and 
that  bathrooms  needed  lots  of  sunlight. 
So  open  plumbing  was  substituted, 
porcelain  fixtures  installed,  the  walls 
tiled  and  the  bathroom  made  to  look 
clean. 

The  second  step  in  this  modern  evo- 
lution of  the  house   was  the  kitchen. 
Here  again  the  movement  was  directed 
against  clutter  and  darkness.     It  was 
first  found  that  our  kitchens  were  much 
too  large  and  that  by  making  them  smaller 
we  saved  steps.    Then  the  shortage  of  servants 
was  the  necessity  that  created  labor-saving  de- 
vices.    We  laid  aside  the  picturesque,  hand- 
work of   a  generation   ago  and   availed   our- 
selves of  the  labor-saving  devices  that  manu- 
facturers created  to  meet  the  situation.     This 
development  of  the  kitchen  is  only  in  its  in- 
fancy.   We  have  still  to  gain  a  genuine  under- 
standing and  appreciation  of  electricity  in  the 
kitchen. 


TODAY  we  are  beginning  to  turn  our  at- 
tention to  a  third  part  of  the  house — the 
cellar. 

Since  Prohibition  came  the  cellar  has  sprung 
into  popularity.  We  ought  to  have  valued  it 
long  before  Prohibition  drove  us  there.  But, 
as  hospitality  now  begins  in  the  cellar,  we 
might  make  it  at  least  a  little  less  unpleasant 
a  place  than  it  is.  The  only  place  for  cobwebs 
in  the  cellar  now  is  on  the  necks  of  Ixsttles. 

Visualize  the  average  cellar.  Off  in  one 
corner  is  the  coal  bin.  The  heater  dominates 
the  place.  Beside  this,  ashes.  Wood  may  be 
stacked  in  another  corner.  In  a  third  is  the 
preserve  room.  Scattered  about  are  the  flot- 
sam and  jetsam  of  the  household.  Putting 
"it"  down  the  cellar  is  the  average  solution  for 
broken  equipment,  boxes  and  what  not. 

Now  it  is  conceivable  that  a  coat  of  white- 
wash, a  monthly  regulating  and  an  occasional 
good  sweeping  will  keep  the  average  cellar  in 
shape,  but  it  will  still  be  an  ugly  place. 

The  first  cause  of  most  cellar  ugliness  and 


Even   busy   professional   women  find   time   to    make   their 

kitchens  pleasant  places.    Here  is  Ruth  Shepley's  kitchen  in 

her  bungalow  on  top  of  a  New  York  skyscraper 

dirt  is  the  heater.  Heretofore  the  manufac- 
turers of  heaters  and  boilers  have  been  satis- 
fied with  producing  a  strict  utility.  Today 
there  is  a  strong  movement  to  give  these  neces- 
sary pieces  of  equipment  good  lines  and  a  dis- 
tinguished air.  Boilers  with  steel  sides  and 
nickel  fittings  may  be  a  little  more  expensive, 
but  they  do  help  the  appearance  of  the  cellar. 
The  problem  of  ashes  can  also  be  solved  by 
modern  equipment.  There  are  patent  revolv- 
ing ash  pits  on  the  market  that  require  only 


occasional  emptying.  If  one  does  not  care  for 
them,  the  handling  of  ash  cans  can  be  made 
easy  by  attaching  a  trolley  along  the  ceiling 
teams  from  the  heater  to  the  door.  Cans 
hooked  on  to  this  will  be  pushed  out  to  the 
open  with  a  minimum  of  effort. 

If  there  is  no  preserve  room  in  the  cellar,  it 
is  advisable  to  make  one.  Select  a  corner  that 
is  not  too  sunny.  Should  the  floor  be  damp, 
give  it  a  boarding.  The  walls  can  be  made  of 
wall  board  or  finished  with  this  new  laminated 
wood  tile  now  on  the  market.  See  that  the 
door  has  a  strong  lock  and  key.  In  such  a 
room  the  preserves  and  extra  supplies  can  be 
kept  without  fear  of  their  contamination  by 
dirt. 

This  tiled  wall  board  can  also  be  used  for 
finishing  the  entire  cellar,  if  one  wants  to  go 
to  that  expense.  However,  in  most  cases,  white- 
wash will  give  a  sufficiently  clean  appearance. 
A  monthly  visit  with  the  vacuum  cleaner  would 
not  be  a  bad  idea.  We  have  improved  the  bath- 
room and  kitchen,  now  it  is  the  cellars  turn. 

AsOTHER  part  of  the  house  that 
lends  itself  to  improvement  is  the 
attic.  Housewives  appreciate  attics  as 
store  rooms,  but  do  they  appreciate 
them  as  available  for  development  into 
other  types  of  chambers? 

In  creating  a  third  story  room  it  is 
often  sufficient  to  make  the  partitions 
of  wall  board.  Nail  it  on  the  studs 
with  plenty  of  nails,  and  cover  the 
cracks  with  narrow  wooden  strips  or 
flat  moldings,  thus  giving  a  paneled 
effect.  Paint  or  paper — and  the  room 
is  ready  for  furniture. 

Not  until  one  has  an  attic  study  or 
l>edroom  can  she  really  appreciate  the 
joy  of  living  at  the  top  of  the  house. 
It  is  so  entirely  different  from  living  on 
any  other  floor.  Here  is  quiet  and 
privacy,  here  is  a  view  across  the  roofs 
and  through  the  trees  to  the  horizon. 

STILL  another  problem  that  con- 
fronts householders  is  the  question 
of  closets.  The  house  with  plenty  of 
closet  room  is  always  held  at  a  premium 
by  discerning  women.  Where  only  a 
few  closets  are  found,  every  available 
corner  and  crannie  is  made  over  into 
cupboards. 

This  may  seem  the  sensible  solution, 
and   yet    it   has   been    found   that   the 
trouble  with  many  closets  is  not  that 
they  are  too  small,  but  that  they  are  too 
large.     They  take  too  much  space  from 
the  room.     This  is  due  to  the  way  the 
clothes  are  hung.    With  the  newest  sys- 
tem of  hanging  the  clothes  on  a  trolley 
attached  to  the  top  of  the  closet — a  trolley  that 
pulls  out — half  the  ordinary  space  is  required. 
A  trolley  for  shoes  is  now  being  manufactured, 
following  the  idea  suggested   in  a   HOUSE  & 
GARDEN  article  called  "Commodious  Closets". 
With  this  it  will  be  a  simple  matter  to  put 
away  or  select  such  boots  and  slippers  as  one 
desires.     Whether  it  is  the  cellar  or  the  attic 
that  is  to  be  developed,   we  can  rely  on  the 
intelligent  work  of  our  manufacturers  to  ac- 
complish it  successfully. 


July,     1920 


S3 


Among  the  attractive  features  of  this 
black  walrus  suit  case  are  the  rounded 
edges  and  the  three  pockets  inside  at 
either  end  and  the  top,  lined  with  a  moire 
silk.  21"  by  13"  by  6"  deep.  865 


SMART  LUGGAGE 

fo  r 
SUMMER  TRAVEL 

Which    tnay    be    purchased   through    the    I  It)  use 
&  Garden   Shopping   Service 


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The  square  Victoria  case  is  of  buffalo 
hide  and  is  lined  with  moire  silk.  It 
measures  8"  by  5"  by  10".  The  hand 
bag  is  also  of  buffalo  hide  and  Aas 
elastic  pockets.  11  by  12".  Each  S60 


A  commodious  hat  box  has  room  for 
six  hats  and  is  equipped  with  a  tray 
for  seven  pairs  of  shoes,  spats,  rub- 
bers, etc.  It  is  covered  with  canvas. 
23"  square,  25"  high.  $105 


The  week-end  trunk,  like  its  sister, 
the  hat  box,  is  covered  with  canvas 
and  has  a  chintz  lining.  Two  remov- 
able trays  have  ample  compart- 
ments. Jl  stands  33"  by  15"  by  18" 
high.  $60.80 


A  serviceable  kit  bag  Jor  a  man  comes  m  pig  skin, 

28"  by  18",  base  13  .    It  has  leather  straps  and 

lined  pockets.    $75 


The  square  kit  bag  comes  in  pigskin  at  $85  and 

cowhide  at  $75.    It  measures  14*  by  18"  by  12" 

and  has  a  heavy  plaid  cotton  lining 


54' 


House     &     Garden 


July 


THE     GARDENER'S     CALENDAR 


Seventh  Month 


A  regular  edging  tool 
is  the  best  for  trim- 
ming   arid   straight- 
ening turf  borders 


When  the  strawberry 
plants  are  in  flower, 
apply  additional  fer- 
tilizer 


Summer  clipping  of 

the  privet   hedge  is 

needed    to    keep    it 

neat 


SUNDAY 

MONDAY 

TUESDAY 

WEDNESDAY 

THURSDAY 

FRIDAY 

SATURDAY 

1.     There  is 
no   cure    for 

2.     Don't 
neglect  to  pro- 

3.   Peach 

curl     develops 

„ 

potato    blight. 
It  can  be  pre- 

tect the  straw- 
berries  from 

about    this 
time     of     the 

reminder    for    undertaking    all    his    tasks    in    season. 
It  is  fitted  to  the  latitude  of  the  Middle  States,  but 
its  service  should  be  available  for  the  whole  country 

vented,      how- 
ever, by  spray- 
ing about  once 
in  three  weeks 

the  birds.    An 
old   tennis  net 
properly 
spread  will  an- 

year.  It  is  well 
to     checkmate 
It  by  spraying 
with  a  combi- 

miles    north   or   south  there  is   a   difference   of   from 

mixture.     It  is 

beds;  special 

deaux  mixture 

five    to    seven    days    later    or    earlier    in    performing 
garden  operations.      The  dates  given  are,  of  course, 

a  good  plan  to 
put  arsenate  of 
lead  in  the  mix- 

nets    can     be 
secured   for 
protecting 

and  arsenate  of 
lead.     Pick  off 
and   burn   1m- 

ture  to  destroy 
the  destructive 

large  plantings. 
Scarce-  rows 

leaves    which 

potato  bug. 

may  be  helpful. 

are  infected. 

4    Select 

5.    To  insure 

6.      A  heavy 

7.      Take 

8.        Late 

9.     Blight  Is 

10.  This  is  a 

three  or  four  of 

plenty  of  fresh 

mulch     should 

some   chry- 

cabbage, cauli- 

a    very    de- 

critical  time  in 

the  best  shoots 

vegetables. 

be   applied    to 

santhemum 

Ilower,    celery. 

structlve     dis- 

the   garden. 

on  the  tomato 

you  should  sow 

the  sweet  peas. 

cuttings    for 

kale  and  Brus- 

ease   to   many 

The    ground 

plants  and  sup- 

now,   lettuce. 

Any  rough  lit- 

flowering   in 

sels   sprouts 

garden     crops. 

bakes,   and 

port   them   by 

beets,    carrots, 

ter    may    be 

small    pots    in 

should  now  be 

C  ucu  mbers  , 

weeds  are  very 

some   means. 

beans,    cucum- 

used   for    this 

the    green- 

planted    out. 

muskmelons. 

persistent  . 

Remove   all 

bers,    kohlrabi. 

purpose. 

house.      Don't 

Use   plenty   of 

celery   and 

The  only  reme- 

other shoots 

corn,    radishes. 

Spray    with    a 

n  egl  ec  t    the 

water    when 

tomatoes   are 

dy  is  frequent 

and    keep    the 

turnips    and 

tobacco     prep- 

carnation 

planting,  and  a 

particularly 

and  deep  culti- 

lateral    shoots 

endive.    Use 

aration  If  aphis 

plants    out    of 

little    fertilizer 

susceptible. 

vation.     Don't 

reduced  by  oc- 
casional pinch- 

early  corn  and 
saturate   the 

appear.  A  little 
shade   at   mid- 

doors.    The 
ground    should 

worked    into 
the   soil    will 

They    should 
be   sprayed 

believe   the 
theory      about 

1  n  g  .     This 

drill    before 

day  will  main- 

be    cultivated 

start  the  plants 

with  Bordeaux 

deep    cultiva- 

makes  larger 

sowing,    if   the 

tain  the  flower 

frequently  and 

growing   vigor- 

mixture   every 

tion  destroying 

fruit. 

soil  is  dry. 

quality. 

regularly. 

ously. 

three  weeks. 

surface  roots. 

11.     Reduce 

12.    Be  very 

13.     This    is 

14.    Soaking 

15.    There  is 

16.     Lettuce 

17.     Hot, 

the    stems    on 

careful     about 

an    excellent 

seed  to  hasten 

still     time     to 

runs    to    seed 

dry    weather 

the   dahlia 

artificial  water- 

time   to    look 

germination    is 

start    a    few 

considerably  at 

encourages  the 

plants  to  three 

ing.      Remem- 

over   all    trees 

wrong  In  prin- 

llowers for  fall. 

this  season.    A 

propagation  of 

or  four.    Keep 

ber     that     the 

for  bark   scars 

ciple.       Before 

Sow  in  a  frame 

board      placed 

all    kinds    of 

the   lateral 

natural    soil 

which     should 

sowing  at   this 

or   sheltered 

over    the   row. 

plant  lice.    All 

shoots  pinched 

moisture    is 

be  cut  back  to 

time      ol      the 

bed    early    as- 

supported so  it 

plants  are  sub- 

out   on    the 

preferred    if 

live    bark    and 

year,  soak  the 

ters,     poppies. 

will    be   a    few 

ject  to  attack. 

flowering 

you    can    save 

thoroughly 

drill  by  letting 

stocks,  caHiop- 

inches    above 

but  more  par- 

stems.      Some 

it.   If  you  must 

painted.    He- 

a hose  run  into 

sis,    larkspur 

the    tops,    will 

ticularly   soft 

sort  of  support 

water,  souk  the 

rn  o  v  e     any 

it.     The  mois- 

and candytuft. 

reduce   the 

foliage     types. 

should    be   ap- 

ground   thor- 

stubs   where 

ture  then  pene- 

Use  water  free- 

losses.   The 

I  nspect    fre- 

plied   now,    to 

oughly    and 

branches    have 

trates    and 

ly  when  setting 

boards    should 

quently,  spray 

prevent  break- 

after   the    sur- 

been improper- 

encou rages 

out,   and   have 

be     taken     off 

with   tobacco 

age   during 

face  has  dried. 

ly  cut.    Watch 

downward  root 

the   ground 

during    rainy 

or    kerosene 

storms. 

cultivate. 

for  fire  blight. 

growth. 

rich. 

weather. 

preparation. 

18.     Most 

19.    Spray 

20.      Onions 

21.      This  is 

22.    After 

23.   The  late 

24.    Beets 

soils    are    par- 

the roses  with 

can    be    1m- 

an    excellent 

they    h  a  v  e 

potatoes 

and  carrots  for 

tially   deficient 

arsenate    of 

C  roved   in  size 

time     to     sow 

finished  flower- 

should be  swell- 

winter use  are 

In    humus. 

lead  if  they  are 

y    partially 

rutabagas     for 

ing,  the  climb- 

ing fast  at  this 

always     desir- 

Cover crops  of 

infested      with 

breaking    the 

next    winter's 

ing  roses  should 

time.      An   ap- 

able.   Sow  sev- 

clover,   vetch 

rose    beetles. 

tops  down  just 

use.      New 

be    thoroughly 

plication    of 

eral     rows     of 

and  rye  are  in- 

These drill 

above    the 

ground   is  pre- 

pruned   by   re- 

I e  r  t  i  1  1  z  e  r 

each,     and     if 

valuable  for  re- 

holes    In     the 

bulb.      This  Is 

ferred   for   this 

moving    a    few 

worked    into 

using      ground 

storing  this  ele- 

leaves  and,   of 

best    done    by 

crop    and    the 

of    the    old 

the  soil  will  in- 

that has  been 

ment     to     the 

course,  weaken 

bending    t  he 

plants    must 

shoots    and 

crease  the  size 

previously 

soil.   Sow  them 
now    in    the 

the  plant.  Top- 
dress   the   bed 

tops  over  with 
the  hand  until 

never     be     al- 
lowed to  suffer 

training    the 
younger    and 

of  the  crop  and 
the   Quality   of 

cropped,  spade 
under    some 

orchard    and 

with  bone  meal 

the     stem 

for      want      of 

more    vigorous 

the    tubers. 

fertilizer.    You 

any    vacant 

if     you     want 

doubles.        Do 

water.   Sow   in 

shoots  in  their 

Potatoes 

can   also   start 

ground    r  e- 
malnlng. 

quality  flowers 
this  autumn. 

not  loosen   the 
roots. 

drills  and  thin 
out  to  about  1'. 

place.    Keep 
theminbounds. 

require    atten- 
tion. 

peas    now    for 
fall  use. 

25.  j  Practice 

2G.       Straw- 

27.      Weeds 

28.    Are  you 

29.     Make 

30.    Don't 

31.  It  Is  now 

summer    prun- 
ing on  the  fruit 

berries  planted 
now   will    fruit 

In  the  lawn  are 
very  conspicu- 

getting   full 
value    from 

preparations 
to  move  ever- 

allow any  new- 
1  y   set    out 

safe    to   sow 
peas     for     fall 

trees.        Pinch 

abundantly 

ous    now    and 

your     garden? 

greens    now. 

plants  to  suffer 

use.    Other 

back  the  most 

next  season. 

can  be  readily 

Do  you  gather 

The      bed 

lor  lack   of 

cool  crops  such 

vigorous  shoots 

Be    sure     you 

removed.     A 

the  crops  dai- 

should   be 

water.  All  new 

as  spinach,  rad- 

and remove  all 
thin,    we  a  k 
interior 
branches.  This 

order    both 
staminate   and 
pistillate    vari- 
eties to  assure 

good  method  is 
to    have    some 
weed   killer   or 
gasoline  in  an 

ly,  using  those 
you    require 
and    putting 
the    balance 

marked    and 
the      plantings 
prepared    be- 
forehand ,    as 

stock  should  be 
saturated  with 
water    when 
dry,    and    a 

ishes   and    the 
large     heading 
types  of  lettuce 
and  endive 

applies  to  trees 

fertilization. 

oil    can,    drop- 

away    in    glass 

the     trees 

mulch  of  rough 

may     now     be 

of  fruiting  age. 
Others        o  f 

Prepare    the 
bed  by  double 

Ing   a   little   in 
the    center    of 

for    next    win- 
ter's   use?      If 

should    never 
be    allowed    to 

litter  will  help 
to    retain    the 

planted.     This 
is  the  last  call 

smaller  size 
need  different 

digging,    using 
well  rotted  ma- 

the weed.  This 
is    easier    than 

not,     there     is 
still  time  to  do 

lie    around    in 
the  hot,  drying 

moisture. 
Artificial 

for  beets,  car- 
rots and  winter 

treatment. 

nure. 

pulling     them. 

much. 

sun. 

shade  helps. 

radishes. 

Here  at  the  fountain's  sliding  foot, 
Or  at  some  fruit-tree's  mossy  root, 
Casting  the  body's  vest  aside. 
My  soul  into  the  bows  does  glide; 
There,    like    a    bird,    it    sits    and 

r  HERE'S   one   thing   I  ain't  never    been   able   to   understand   rightly  in  gardenin', 
an'  that's  u-hy  jus'  as  soon  as  ye  begins  to  make  yer  place  purty  with  flowers  an' 
tii-es   an     things   a   whole  gang  n'   buys   comes   around,   like   they'd    been   watchin' 
an'   laytn'  fer  a  chance   to  git    in   their    dirty   work    an'    spoil    it   all.     It   don't   seem 
right,  when  ye  ain't  never  had  no  trouble  with  'em  afore,  fer  the  rose-bugs  to   show 
up  an'   chuw   the   blossoms  an'  leaves  o'  the  first  rose   bushes   ye   ever  planted.     Aphis 

Then   vhets    and   combs    its   silver 

on   the  sweet  pros,    too  —  dtirn   their   hides,   why  in  thunder  do   they  do   all   they   can 
to  Kill  off   the  vinest    It  can't   be   that   the  Lord   don't   want   us   to  plant  flowers   an' 

And,  till   prepared  for  longer  flight, 
(Tares    in    its   plumes    the    various 

help  'em  grow,  'cause  1  can't  see  no  harm   in  doin'  that.     They  mus'   f»e  some  good 
reason,    though,   fer   Nature  gen'rally  knows  what  she's  about,   an'    if   ye   give   her   a 
fair  chance  she'll   come  out   right    in   the   rnd.     8till-an'-all,   I  got  to    be  shown   'fore 

—  ANDREW  MARVELL 

1  11  belit-re  in  the  pra'tical  usefulness  o'  rose-bugs  an'  sich  varmints. 
—OLD    DOC   LEMMOff 

Cultivate,    cultivate 

— and  then  cultivate 

more  during   hot 

weather 


A  hand  cultivator  or 

"claw"  will  keep  the 

soil   loose    close    to 

plants 


Onion  and  other 

vegetable  rows 

should  be  kept 

thinned 


Climbing  roses  are  coming   to  be   better 
understood   and   appreciated.     They   are 
adapted  to  many  garden  purposes,  espe- 
cially screens  and  hedges 


A  separate  bed  of  fine  soil  is  useful  for 

sowing  perennial  seed.     Here  plants  may 

be  started  for  bloom   next   year  in   the 

garden  borders 


Lacking   an    overhead   irrigation   system, 

you  may  fall  back  on  the  old-fashioned 

hose.    Set  the  nozzle  for  a  fine  spray,  not 

a  pelting  deluge 


July,     1920 


ORIENTAL  RUGS 

A  New  Collection  Just  in  Time  to 
Relieve  the  Scarcity 


OR  reasons  that  are  apparent,  Oriental  Rugs  are  very  scarce 
at  this  time.     Here  and  there  one  may  buy  them,  but  the 
general  limitation  as  to  sizes  and  design  only  confirms  the 
story  of  impoverished  selections. 

Thus,  unusual  importance  attaches  to  this  latest  consignment  of 
Oriental  Rugs,  especially  as  it  is  characterized  by  all  the  attractions 
of  a  representative  collection — beauty  of  coloring,  diversity  of  design, 
and  sizes  varied  to  the  needs  of  those  who  buy  them. 

There  are  heroic  sizes  for  a  wide  sweep  of  room — in-between  sizes 
for  irregular  spaces — mat  sizes  that  go  anywhere — and  "contrary" 
sizes  for  spaces  that  modern  standardized  measurements  cannot  fill. 

And  through  them  all  runs  the  fascinating  mystery  and  symbolism  or 
the  East,  and  a  moral  that  the  West  may  take  to  heart, — the  moral 
of  devotion  to  fine  workmanship,  which  is  "  the  enemy  of  discontent 
and  the  redemption  of  the  unhappy." 


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Do  no/  m/ss  seeing  this  collection,  for  these  rugs  are 
an  inspiration  to  look  at  and  an  investment  to  own 

W.  &  J.  SLOANE 

Floor  Coverings  and  Fabrics  Furniture  Makers 

FIFTH  AVENUE  AND  FORTY-SEVENTH  STREET,  NEW  YORK 
Washington,  D.  C.  San  Francisco,   Cal. 


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House     &     Garden 


The  Modern  Light 
and  Power 


THE  charm  of  your  country  home 
can  be  immeasurably  augmented 
by  the  installation  of  modern  electric 
lights.  €J  The  Fairbanks-Morse  "F" 
plant  gives  an  abundance  of  steady, 
dependable  light  with  minimum  at- 
tention for  care  or  repairs.  <|  The 
plant  is  extremely  simple  to  operate 
— just  touch  a  button  to  start  and 
another  to  stop.  <J  The  famous  "Z" 
engine,  which  is  part  of  the  plant, 
can  also  be  used  independently  of  the 
dynamo  to  pump  water  or  do  other 
work.  p  Your  dealer  will  be  glad 
to  explain  all  the  details  —  which 
includes  exclusive  Fairbanks-Morse 
"F"  plant  features. 


The  "F"  Light  Plant  may  also 
be     obtained     in     larger     sizes. 


Fairbanks,  Morse  fcr  (8 

*      MANUFACTURERS       II  CHICAGO         ^^ 


s40Lioht"F"PlaiU 


Where     To     Use     Yellow 


(Continued  from  page  49) 


in  using  yellow,  you  need  not  feel  that 
you  are  confined  to  one,  or  even  two, 
gradations  of  the  color. 

Orange  is  one  of  the  most  decorative 
hues  we  have,  and  a  bit  here  and  there 
will  often  work  wonders,  besides  creat- 
ing quite  a  conflagration  of  pure  joyous 
color. 

I  shall  never  forget,  in  a  room  of  my 
own,  the  sun  striking  deep  into  a  bowl 
in  which  there  was  an  orange.  Hur- 
riedly I  looked  to  see  what  caused  the 
nimbus  of  brilliant  flame-colored  mist 
above  the  bowl,  for  that  orange  was 
shedding  rays  abroad  like  a  veritable 
tiny  sunburst.  The  whole  room  was 
actually  brightened  by  it. 

Again  I  was  startled  by  the  effect  of 
an  orange  scarf,  but  not  surprised,  re- 
membering the  orange  in  my  sunlit 
bowl;  the  scarf  made  a  happy  trans- 
formation in  a  room  too  drab  and  gray, 
and  became  a  fixture  there. 

Such  may  be  the  far-reaching  effect 
of  a  deftly  placed  bit  of  flame  color  in 
a  living  room,  hall,  or  bedroom. 

The  Yellow  Bedroom 

And  in  a  certain  bedroom  that  made 
history  in  the  neighborhood  by  reason 
of  its  beauty,  the  whole  scheme  was 
worked  out  from  twelve  orange  tassels 
in  the  keeping  of  an  artistic  lady  per- 
turbed by  the  cheerless  one-window 
room  paralyzed  behind  draperies  of  blue. 

The  minute  the  blue  curtains  came 
down  the  north  room  looked  less  cheer- 
less, and  the  orange  tassels  dangling 
vaguely  in  the  coming  new  scheme 
finally  suggested  some  sort  of  pale  yel- 
low for  the  curtains  that  were  to  be. 
For  the  walls  was  chosen  a  saffron  cream 
which  might  best  be  described  as  cream 
color  transfused  by  a  faint  sunrise 
glow;  scarcely  a  color,  you  see.  The 
floor  was  gray-carpeted;  the  four-post 
bed  was  of  brown  mahogany,  matched 
only  by  a  table  and  a  comb-back  Wind- 
sor chair,  not  shown  in  the  illustration; 
there  was  a  small  yellow  chair,  deco- 
rated and  rush-bottomed;  an  arm  chair 
upholstered  in  dull  blue. 

But  the  orange  tassels  still  vaguely 
dangled.  Where  could  they  be  used  in 
such  a  scheme?  And  then  came  the 
curtains,  solving  the  matter.  A  soft 
yellow  Japanese  crepe  was  selected  and, 
to  be  used  with  it,  a  yellow  striped 
crepe  showing  narrow  lines  of  orange 
and  black.  Four  of  the  tassels  were 
sewed  on  the  valance  over  the  window, 
which  was  of  the  striped  crepe,  cut  so 


that  the  stripes  would  run  vertically, 
and  at  the  top  there  was  an  effective 
banding  of  plain  orange  crepe.  An- 
other tassel  was  tied  to  a  yellow  luster 
bowl,  four  more  were  used  up  on  the 
four  corners  of  a  pillow;  and  three  on 
a  tri-cornered  lampshade.  The  dress- 
ing table  was  gaily  puffed  and  flounced 
with  the  plain  and  striped  yellow  com- 
bined. The  bed  showed  a  yellow  coun- 
terpane. Orange  candles,  blue  pictures, 
and  a  gold-framed  mirror  made  an  at- 
tractive combination  over  the  dressing 
table.  There  were  touches  of  these 
colors  in  other  parts  of  this  room  trans- 
formed by  just  enough  yellow  to  make 
it  sunny  and  gay. 

Yellow  in  the  Living  Room 

There  is  nothing  so  delightful  as 
touches  of  yellow  in  the  living  room. 
Can  you  not  see  gray  walls,  and  at  the 
tall  windows  showing  all  out-of-doors 
through  their  small  panes,  printed  linen 
done  in  a  sprawly  design  of  deep  yellow 
on  a  gray  and  cream  background  ac- 
cented in  black  mahogany  furniture, 
with  the  sofa  and  chairs  upholstered 
in  a  dark,  greenish  stone-blue?  The 
carpet  can  be  of  dark  mustard,  or  near- 
ly a  brown,  but  with  just  enough  of 
that  green-yellow  glint  to  make  it  har- 
monize with  the  pale  gray  walls.  And 
dull  gold  in  the  pillows  and  lampshades. 

This  room  would  be  equally  effective 
done  in  black,  brown,  yellow  and  cream. 
Cream  walls  and  ivory  woodwork;  a 
noticeable  black,  bright  yellow  and 
brown  design  on  a  cream-grounded  cre- 
tonne at  the  windows;  dull  yellow  pil- 
lows and  lampshades  moss-edged  in 
black ;  a  flat-toned,  golden  brown  velour 
for  the  upholstery;  a  carpet  or  rug  in 
dark  brown  and  black;  an  occasional 
black  ornament,  such  as  the  basalt  vases 
on  the  mantel. 

In  the  Other  Rooms 

A  dining  room  can  be  transformed  by 
the  use  of  plain  yellow  Japanese  china. 
A  kitchen  that  will  make  working  hours 
more  pleasant  for  mistress  or  maid  may 
be  artistically  evolved  through  the  use 
of  orange  sash  curtains  at  both  upper 
and  lower  window  sashes,  and  wood- 
work of  ivory.  A  playroom  might  have 
yellow  painted  furniture.  A  few  pieces 
of  yellow  wicker  would  make  the  sun 
parlor  sunny  even  on  cloudy  days.  And 
bowls  of  yellow  fruit  and  pots  of  golden 
flowers  are  within  the  reach  of  any  one 
who  has  a  desire  to  catch  the  sunlight. 


The     Collector    Seeks     Keys 

(Continued  from  page  25) 


lock  by  the  introduction  of  springs  for 
pressing  down  the  dropping  pins. 
Roman  bolts  were  also  smaller,  and 
instead  of  being  introduced  into  the 
bolt,  the  Roman  key  was  turned  in  a 
casing,  a  horizontal  extension  in  the 
keyhole  permitting  the  key  to  move 
sideways. 

The  Key  Parts 

The  modern  latchkey  is  directly  des- 
cended from  the  Roman  key  through 
mediaeval  types,  retaining  the  three 
parts  common  to  the  ancient  keys, — 
the  handle,  or  bow,  the  pipe  or  stem, 
and  the  wards.  Roman  keys  usually 
had  ring-shaped  handles,  sometimes 
looped  ones.  They  were  plain  and 
solid,  as  extant  specimens  show.  More 
often  than  not  the  stem  was  so  short 
that  the  key  could  be  worn  on  the  hand 
as  a  finger  ring.  Other  Roman  keys  that 
have  come  down  to  us  show  bows  that 
are  in  the  shape  of  hands.  Occasional- 
ly one  comes  across  an  antique  Roman 
key  having  wards  shaped  like  a  rake, 
or  with  claw-shaped  wards.  These  an- 


cient Roman  keys  were  usually  of 
bronze,  but  often  of  iron.  The  locks 
to  which  they  belonged  have  not  sur- 
vived the  ravages  of  time,  but  the  keys 
lead  us  to  believe  that  the  work  of  the 
Roman  locksmith  was  worthily  carried 
out  in  design  and  craftsmanship.  There 
are  many  of  these  ancient  bronze  keys 
in  the  collections  of  the  museums  of 
Europe  and  America. 

Early  English  Design 

With  the  early  English  and  the  other 
mediaeval  locks  the  dropping  pin  was 
superseded  by  the  pivoted  tumbler.  The 
mediaeval  keys,  such  as  those  shown  in 
the  Salle  du  Moyen  Age  in  the  Palace 
of  the  Trocadero,  Paris,  are  of  bronze, 
as  iron  for  keys  was  not  again  used  till 
about  the  14th  Century.  Some  anti- 
quarian has  remarked  that  the  pagan 
appearance  of  the  Roman  keys  now  gave 
way  to  a  pious,  ecclesiastical,  Christian 
form  of  design,  with  cross,  trefoil  and 
other  religious  symbols  worked  into  the 
bows.  The  architects  of  mediaeval 
(Continued  on  page  58) 


July,     1920 


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Premier  was  the  first  car 
in  existence  to  adopt 
the  Cutler- Hammer 
Magnetic  Gear  Shift  as 
standard  equipment 
(now  in  its  5th  success- 
ful season) — a  feature 
that  appeals  instantly 
to  the  woman  -who 
through  choice  oper- 
ates her  own  car. 


THE  WORLD  POSSESSES  NO  FINER  MOTOR  CAR 

THE  difference  between  absolute  accomplishment,  arid 
accomplishment  that  almost  succeeds  is  so  slight  that  many 
overlook  it.  Not  everyone  can  appreciate  the  full  attainment  ot 
the  Premier  corps  of  engineering  designers,  but  enough  grasp 
it  to  make  the  demand  for  Premier  cars  well-nigh  insatiable. 
Premier  is  without  doubt,  the  most  exquisite  car  of  the  moment — 
it  is  America's  engineering  masterpiece.  And — its  gears  are 
shifted  electrically. 


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The    Collector     Seeks     Keys 

(Continued  from  page  56) 


times  did  not  consider  it  beneath  their 
dignity  to  design  the  keys  that  were  to 
make  secure  the  doors  of  the  edifices 
they  had  constructed.  Throughout  the 
whole  mediaeval  period  keys  were  im- 
portant symbols  in  decoration.  We  find 
them  pictured  in  illuminations,  shown 
in  tapestries,  carved  in  heraldic  orna- 
ment and  chiseled  in  stone.  As  early 
as  the  reign  of  Charles  IX,  key-makers 
were  recognized  as  forming  a  distinct 
trade,  and  by  the  time  we  reach  the 
!6th  Century  we  find  that  France  had 
become  the  world's  greatest  market  for 
the  art  of  the  locksmith  and  key-maker, 
a  century  in  which  culminated  beauty 
of  design,  evolving,  from  Gothic  keys 
of  the  15th  Century,  keys  of  great  beau- 
ty, having  their  ornamental  tracery 
soldered  on.  Sometimes  the  handles  of 
these  old  Gothic  keys  were  like  minia- 
ture reproductions  of  the  frames  of 
cathedral  rose  windows. 

Renaissance  Craftsmanship 

We  can  well  understand  how  the  im- 
petus given  to  the  arts  in  the  Renais- 
sance which  followed  the  Gothic  period 
affected  key  design.  The  Renaissance 
craftsman  considered  nothing  too  trivial 
to  adorn.  Keys  were  needed  more  than 
ever,  for  chest  furniture  and  cabinet 
furniture  increased  enormously  in  pro- 
duction and  locksmith  and  key-maker 
were  kept  busy  with  their  orders.  The 
Renaissance  craftsmen  throughout  Eur- 
ope called  for  keys  of  the  most  beautiful 
type  obtainable  and  even  Benvenuto 
Cellini  designed  a  key  for  the  Strozzi, 
a  key  which  Baron  Adolphe  de  Roths- 
child acquired  some  years  ago  for  35,000 
francs.  On  the  sides  of  the  bow  of  this 
Cellini  key  figures  of  two  goddesses 
bend  outward.  Above  is  a  cupid  with 
uplifted  wings.  A  conventional  Corin- 


thian column  forms  the  stem,  while  the 
wards  resemble  teeth  of  a  fine  comb. 
The  wings  of  the  cupid  show  feathers 
in  sharp  relief. 

The  decline  of  classical  taste  natur- 
ally affected  the  art  of  key  design,  and 
there  was  a  period  in  the  17th  Century 
when  keys  suffered  in  consequence.  The 
English  key-makers  of  Charles  II's  reign 
turned  out  examples  quite  equal  to  the 
best  continental  work.  Later  the  pat- 
terns in  key  designs  became  less  grace- 
ful and  far  more  geometrical,  although 
into  the  18th  century  Chamberlains' 
keys  were  extravagantly  ornamented, 
chased  and  gilt.  The  net-like  bow  pierc- 
ings were  superseded  in  time  by  com- 
mon rings,  following  somewhat  the 
transition  of  the  spoon-handle,  which, 
from  1500  to  1620,  were  finely  con- 
ceived. They  degenerated  after  that 
date. 

Modern  Locks  and  Keys 

Fortunately  modern  lock-makers  have 
raised  the  key  to  something  of  its 
earlier  beauty  in  many  instances,  and 
there  is  every  indication  that  the  trend 
is  to  be  followed.  No  longer,  of  course, 
is  it  practicable  for  one  to  carry  around 
keys  that,  for  all  the  world,  look  like 
sections  of  the  Shrine  of  St.  Sebald,  or 
like  miniatures  of  the  Fountain  of  Nep- 
tune by  Gian  di  Bologna,  or  to  stuff 
out  our  pockets  with  unwieldy  objects 
however  artistic  they  may  be.  But  in 
the  matter  of  keys  intended  for  furn- 
iture, such  as  cabinet  keys,  chest  keys, 
bureau  keys  and  the  like,  we  may  wel- 
come such  design  as  will  make  them 
harmonious  accessories  to  the  pieces 
they  accompany,  and  like  the  old  keys 
that  have  become  a  collector's  hobby, 
the  joys  forever  that  things  of  beauty 
always  are. 


GARDEN       VASES 

MRS.  GEORGE  CRAN,  F.  R.  H.  S. 


VASES  in  a  garden,  like  vases  in  a 
house,  are  meant  to  hold  flowers. 
A  good  housewife  will  place  the 
bowls  of  bloom  about  her  room  with 
the  utmost  care  to  display  them  well, 
and  harmonize  their  color  with  the 
background;  in  the  same  way  a  true 
garden-lover  will  never  be  content  to 
use  his  vases  and  jars  as  empty  ele- 
ments of  ornament  or  design,  but  will 
insure  that  they  serve  the  purpose  for 
which  they  were  created  (so  solving  for 
them  the  problem  which  still  distracts 
the  less  fortunate  human  race!). 

To  sit  in  a  garden  of  empty  vases  is 
like  reviewing  the  library  of  a  man 
who  cannot  read,  or  living  with  an  un- 
loving wife — the  beautiful  body  is  there, 
but  the  soul  is  unpossessed. 

Once  let  a  gardener  get  the  right  idea, 
and  he  will  learn  that  not  only  must 
his  vases  be  placed  with  judgment  and 


taste — in  the  right  place  both  for  artis- 
tic effect  and  for  cultural  amenities — 
but  that  the  planting  of  them  to  secure 
successional  color  is  another  call  on 
careful  thought.  Let  us  take  the  illus- 
trations here  reproduced  as  an  example 
of  what  I  mean. 

This  simple  terra-cotta  AH  Baba  jar 
stands  at  the  entrance  to  a  Surrey  gar- 
den, and  was  chosen  carefully  to  har- 
monize with  the  homely  cottage  door 
and  the  fat  roundness  of  the  old  brass 
knocker ;  anything  of  carved  stone,  any- 
thing ornate  or  pretentious  would  have 
been  in  bad  taste  in  those  surroundings 
of  limpid  simplicity.  It  stands  against 
a  background  of  evergreen  jessamine 
creeper,  well  sheltered  from  the  prevail- 
ing winds,  facing  full  sun;  and  was 
chosen  with  that  generous  bellying 
curve  in  order  to  secure  a  plentiful  sup- 
(Continued  on  page  60) 


July,     1920 


59 


SERIES   2,0   BIG-SIX 


/^\N  the  boulevards,  at  the  country  club,  in  the  mountains,  at  the  shore 
V_x  — everywhere  the  power,  beauty,  comfort  and  smoothness  of  the 
BIG'SIX  appeal  to  those  who  love  fineness  and  quality  in  a  motorcar. 

As\  the  Studebdkfr  Dealer  what  gasoline  and 
tire  mileage  BIG-SIX,  owners  are  getting 

60 -H.  P.  detachable-head  motor;  126- inch  wheclbase,  insuring  ample  room  for  seven 
adults.  All  StudebakerCars  are  equipped  with  Cord  Tires— another  Studcbaktr  precedent. 

"This    is    a   Studeba\er   Tear" 


60 


House     &     Garden 


Furniture 


Make  "out-doors" 
your  living  room. 

SUMMER  warmth  can  best  be  en- 
joyed, summer  heat  best  endured 
out  in  the  open  air.  True  enjoy- 
ment of  open-air  hours  demands 
something  more  than  inside  furni- 
ture, at  best  only  a  make-shift  out 
of  doors,  to  be  carried  inside  nightly 
or  hustled  indoors  at  the  first  sug- 
gestion of  rain. 

Mathews  Garden-Craft  offers  the 
quick  and  permanent  solution  of  the 
problem.  The  weather-proof  swamp- 
cypress  used  in  Garden-Craft  chairs, 
benches,  tables  and  hooded  seats 
lastingly  resists  the  elements.  The 
carefully  selected  designs  harmonize 
with  the  best  in  domestic  archi- 
tecture—  furniture  and  department 
stores  display  Garden-Craft  for  your 
inspection.  Complete  handbook  by 
mail — 50  cents. 

TheMathewsManufacturingCo. 

Lakewood,  Cleveland,  Ohio 


The  terra-cotta  Alt 
Baba  jar  with  its 
musk-scented  ram- 
bler roses  harmon- 
izes with  the  sim- 
plicity of  the  Surrey 
cottage  doorway 


Garden    Vases 

(Continued  from  page  58) 


ply  of  soil  for  the  plants  it  would 
carry. 

Every  time  the  door  is  opened  and  a 
sun-warmed  wind  creeps  through  the 
house  it  passes  by  that  bowl,  coming  in 
laden  with  the  fragrance  of  the  blooms 
it  has  met.  And  so  the  vase  is  planted 
from  early  spring  until  late  in  the  year 
not  only  with  flowers  for  their  color 
but  for  perfume,  too. 

In  the  center  is  a  dwarf  rambler  rose 
of  the  musk  variety,  blooming  first  in 
early  June  and  again  in  August.  The 
illustration  will  serve  to  show  that  the 
vase  in  its  rose-time  is  a  very  lovely 
greeting  to  encounter  at  a  friend's  front 
door,  especially  when  it  distills,  as  this 
does,  the  heady  and  languorous  scent 
of  rose-musk.  In  spring  it  is  filled,  as 
far  as  the  rose  will  permit,  with  hya- 
cinths; and  after  they  have  bloomed 
and  passed,  with  late  sowings  of  night- 
scented  stock  (Matthiola  bicornis),  or 
white  tobacco  plant  (Nicotiana). 

To  anyone  who  prefers  not  to  be  re- 
stricted to  growing  scented  flowers  the 
field  of  choice  stretches  wide  and  fair— 
a  clear  note  may  be  struck  with  myo- 
sotis  or  arabis  and  tulips  in  all  their 
wonderful  range.  There  is  no  limit  to 
the  chords  of  color  that  may  be  sounded 
in  one's  garden  vases  in  springtime  by 
using  bulbs.  They  are  the  ideal  medium, 


in  fact,  for  they  can  be  lifted  and 
planted  away  in  the  garden  for  the 
foliage  to  die  down,  as  soon  as  the 
blossom  has  passed;  and  the  vases  filled 
again  by  summer-blooming  herbaceous 
growths  like  campanula,  hydrangea, 
salvia,  asters  or  geraniums,  and  latest 
of  all  by  phlox.  It  is  always  easy  to 
plunge  pot  plants  into  garden  vases  un- 
disturbed by  removal,  if  considered  ad- 
visable, just  covering  the  rim  of  the  pot 
with  the  soil  in  the  vase  so  as  to  dis- 
guise its  presence;  but  there  is  no  deny- 
ing that  in  most  cases  the  plants  grow 
more  freely  and  gracefully  when  taken 
out  of  their  pots  and  planted  into  the 
greater  liberty  of  the  mould  in  the  vase, 
which  by-the-way  should  have  perfect 
drainage  and  be  made  up  of  a  rich,  light 
compost,  easily  renewable. 

For  those  who  do  not  happen  to 
know  of  it,  if  any  such  there  be  nowa- 
days, the  vigorous  double-flowered  ara- 
bis makes. a  most  reliable  and  joyous 
carpet  through  which  to  grow  the  bulbs 
in  spring,  and  when  planted  in  vases 
has  a  pleasing  habit  of  "boiling  over" 
and  hanging  great  frothy  white  heads 
of  bloom  down  the  sides.  The  pink 
and  white  of  tulip  Cottage  Maid,  or 
the  salmon-gold  of  Clara  Butt  tulips 
peering  through  such  a  carpet  is  in- 
describably refreshing  and  naive. 


After  the  hya- 
cinths have 
passed,  their 
places  in  the 
jar  are  taken 
by  night-scent- 
ed stock.  The 
rambler  rose, 
of  course,  re- 
mains 


July,     1920 


61 


These  are  tome  of  the 
representative  home* 
in  which  Jewett  Re- 
frigerator* are  used. 


W.  R.  Coe, 

Oyster  Bay,  Long  Island. 
E.  J.  Marshall, 

Pasadena.  California. 

Henry  Ford, 

Dearborn,  Michigan. 


unique  standing  of  the  Jewett  Refrigerator  is  best  proved  by 
the  fact  that  this  refrigerator  is  recommended  by  leading  manu- 
facturers of  electrical  refrigerating  machines.     Tests  have  shown 
these  manufacturers  the  special  desirability  of  Jewett  Refrigerators 
for  use  in  connection  with  their  systems  of  iceless  refrigeration. 

Jewett  Refrigerators  are  most  carefully  designed  and  con- 
structed. They  are  so  insulated  as  to  be  kept  cold  at  minimum 
cost  for  current  where  refrigerating  units  are  used,  or  at  simi- 
larly low  cost  when  operated  with  ice.  The  air  circulation  is 
not  only  so  perfect  as  to  be  admirably  sanitary  and  odorless,  but 
it  is  also  very  economical  of  the  cooling  agent. 

Jewett  Refrigerators  are  made  with  the  finest  and  most  expensive 
lining  ever  put  into  a  refrigerator.  They  are  not  lined  with  galvan- 
ized or  porcelain  enameled  sheet  metal.  The  interior  of  every  Jewett 
refrigerator  is  a  solid  porcelain  crock  ij4  inches  thick  made  in  one 
piece  in  our  own  pottery.   Because  of  this  method  of  manufacture  there 
are  no  joints  or  corners  to  collect  dirt  or  bacteria;  the  whole  interior 
of  the  refrigerator  can  be  cleaned  with  ease;  and  it  lasts  practically  forever. 

The  names  at  the  right  are  those  of  only  a  few  of  many  prominent  Americans 
who  have  chosen  the  Jewett  for  their  homes.  Several  hundred  more  names  of 
equal  prominence  might  be  given  as  evidence  of  the  appreciation  shown  the 
Jewett  principle  of  refrigeration  by  the  most  discriminating  buyers. 

To  those  who  desire  additional  information  on  the  part 
.that  proper  refrigeration  plays  in  protecting  health,  we 
will  gladly  send  our  illustrated  catalog,  list  of  users  and 
the  name  of  the  nearest  Jewett  dealer. 

THE  JEWETT  REFRIGERATOR  CO. 

Established   1849 

Buffalo,  New  York 


12543         6          7 
Details  of  Jewatt  Insulation 

I — Exterior  case  of  %"  tongued  and 
grooved  ash. 

2 — Two    courses   waterproof  insulat- 
ing paper. 

3 — ~/V  pure  cork. 

4 — Two  courses  water- 
proofing insulating 
paper. 

5 — W"  tongued  and 
grooved  lumber. 

6 — I'A"  pure  cork. 

7—ltt"  Solid  Porcelain 
Crock. 


Chicago 
38  S.  Dearborn  St. 


Boston 
153  Milk  St. 


New  York 
1135  Broadway 

Associated  with   The  Canadian  Jewett  Refrigerator  Co.,  Ltd. 
Bridgeburg,  Ont. 


Montreal 

10    (  .ill,.  .11  t    St. 


Potteries  at   Lackawanna,   N.  Y. 


Philip  A.  Green, 

Cohasset.  Mass. 

Robert  Racon, 

Wcstbury,  L.  I. 

John  Rorden, 

Lake  Geneva.  Wit. 

H.  P.  Dainson, 
Locust  I'alley,  Long  Island. 

John  D.  Rockefeller, 

Pocantico  Hills,  N.  Y. 

John  D.  Rockefeller,  Jr., 
New  York. 

Henry  C.  Frick, 

New  York. 

Albert  Erskine, 

South  Bend,  Indiana. 

Cyrus  H.  McCormick, 
Lake  Forest,  Illinois. 

J.  Ogdcn  Armour, 

Lake  Forest,  Illinois;. 

Charles  M.  Schwab, 

New  York. 

George  Eastman, 

Rochester,  N.  Y. 

W.  K.  yanderbilt, 

New  York. 
Cornelius  Vanderbilt, 

Neu-  York. 

Sir  Mortimer  Davis, 

Montreal,  Canada. 

John  F.  Dodge, 

Detroit,  Michigan. 

Samuel  Mather, 

Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Payne  IVhitney, 

Manhasset.  Long  Island. 

Arthur  C.  James, 

•  cport.  R.  I. 


\\>»tbury,   L.   I. 


House     &     Garden 


/""\\PT.  X  took  to  France  a 

liberal  supply  of  his 
orite  PALL  MALL  famous 
cigarettes  (plain  ends.)  When 
they  were  gone,  he  was  forced 
to  use  the  "canteen"  cigarettes. 
Their  shape  gave  him  an  idea 
— they  were  round,  and 
smoked  freely! 


Back  in  America  he  gave  us 
his  idea — a  big  idea — 


PALL  MALL 


FAMOUS    CIGARETTES 


A  round  cigarette  (with  a 
free  and  easy  draught)  that 
does  not  have  to  be  tapped, 
squeezed  or  loosened, 
made  from  the  famous 
PALL  MALL  blend  of  five 
seasons'  crops.  Read  the 
story  of  Capt.  X. 


OA  PALL  MALL 
L\J  ROUNDS  (plain 
ends)  in  the  new 
foil  package .... 


"THEY  ARE  GOOD  TASTE" 

PALL  MALL  (regular),  plain  or  cork, 
in   boxes   of   10,  50,   100,   as   usual 


The  vacuum  bottle,  with  its  little  brood  of  cups,  is  an  essential  for 
the  motor  trip.     Courtesy  oj  Stern  Bros. 


Taking   the   Kitchen   Along 

(Continued  from  page  51) 


Another  invaluable  aid  in  an  auto- 
mobile trip  is  the  fireless  cooker,  which 
makes  a  hot  meal  at  any  time  a  reality. 
Start  it  before  the  trip  begins  and  by 
meal  time  you'll  have  a  real  dinner,  not 
a  pseudo  feast.  These  fireless  cookers 
can  be  had,  so  don't  forget  them  in 
planning  a  trans-desert  tour  amid  sands 
i.nd  dry  winds. 

Refrigerators 

There  are  on  the  market  admirable 
ice-boxes  for  the  motorist.  These  come 
with  partitions  for  ice  and  partitions  for 
food.  Some  have  racks  in  which  bot- 
tles and  other  things  are  held  firmly. 
The  wicker  basket  lined  with  metal  is  a 
useful  one  and  has  a  convenient  carrying 
handle.  It  is  of  finest  workmanship  of 
imported  reed,  with  hardwood  bottom 
covered  with  two  coats  of  mineral  paint. 
The  covers  are  of  three-ply  basswood 
finished  in  dark  forest  green.  There  are 
straps  to  fasten  the  cover,  and  the  hinges, 
buckles  and  nickel-plated  fixings  are  of 
perfect  workmanship.  The  lining  is 
nickel-plated  zinc  and  specially  insulated 
against  aggressive,  unwanted,  outside  air. 

The  iceless  refrigerator  is  an  ice  sav- 


Keeping  things 
cold  by  evapora- 
tion is  the  system 
used  in  this  motor 
refrigerator.  It  is 
shown  through  the 
courtesy  of  Jas. 
McCreery  &  Co. 


ing  and  remarkable  device  which  works 
on  the  old  evaporation  cooling  princi- 
ple. The  two  earthenware  crocks, 
which  fasten  together,  are  submerged 
before  filling  in  clear  water.  When  kept 
in  a  draught  or  in  a  moving  vehicle  or 
in  a  window,  the  evaporation  process 
cools  the  food  within.  This  device 
saves  ice,  the  cool  air  doing  the  work. 

The  other  refrigerator  boxes  are  ex- 
cellent, too,  with  their  fine  insulations 
and  vents  for  melted  ice.  These  are 
generally  leather  covered  and  zinc  lined. 

Cooking  Outfits 

Campers  use  cooking  outfits  that  mo- 
torists would  do  well  to  copy.  For  ex- 
ample, the  cooking  outfits  made  of  hard 
seamless  aluminum,  for  from  two  to 
six  persons,  include,  in  the  smallest  set, 
one  frying  pan,  two  cooking  pots,  one 
coffee  pot,  two  plates,  two  cups,  two 
soup  bowls,  two  knives,  two  forks,  two 
dessert  spoons  and  two  teaspoons,  all 
nested  together  in  the  big  cooking  pot, 
and  weighing  six  pounds  six  ounces.  The 
outfit  measures  <)'/>"  x  8->4",  all  wrapped 
in  a  canvas  case. 

(Continued  on  page  64) 


The  solid  alcohol 
stove  is  the  most 
compact  way  of 
carrying  fire  on 
the  road.  Various 
types  of  stoves  are 
on  the  market. 
Stern  Bros. 


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House     &     Garden 


Qhis  uear  ijou  can  give  \\owr  lawn 
better  care  at  less  cost 


A^L  those  who  have  large  lawns 
to  care  for  know  only  too  well 
how  difficult  such  care  has 
been  during  the  past  two  years. 
Many  fine  lawns  have  been  badly 
neglected  because  it  has  been  next  to 
impossible  to  get  the  necessary  help. 
This  year  you  can  give  your  lawn 
the  attention  it  requires  and  have 
the  work  done  better  and  at  less 
cost  than  was  ever  possible  with 
hand  mowers.  The  Ideal  Power 
Lawn  Mower  will  solve  your  grass- 
cutting  problems  just  the  same  as  it 
has  for  hundreds  of  others. 

Advantages  of  the  Ideal 

The  Ideal  is  a  power  mower  and 
roller  in  one  and  the  sod  is  rolled 
every  time  the  grass  is  cut.  This 
keeps  it  smooth,  firm  and  free  from 
bumps.  The  Ideal  is  scientifically 
designed  to  keep  lawns  in  fine  con- 
dition. The  weight  is  just  right  for 
steady  year  around  work. 
The  Mower  has  a  thirty-inch  cut 
and  one  man  can  easily  mow  four 
or  five  acres  of  grass  per  day  at  an 
operating  expense  of  about  fifty 
cents  for  fuel  and  oil. 

Cats    Close    to    Walks,    Trees 
and  Shrubbery 

Machine  turns  easily  and  will  cut 
close  up  to  walks,  trees,  flower  beds, 
and  shrubbery. 

When  running  over  walks,  drive- 
ways, pavements,  etc.,  the  operator 
simply  lifts  the  cutting  mower  from 


the  ground  by  means  of  a  conveni- 
ently placed  lever.  This  feature  is 
also  important  in  the  early  spring 
when  it  is  desired  to  use  the  machine 
for  rolling  only.  Simply  lift  up  the 
cutting  mower,  and  more  weight  if 
required  and  you  have  the  most  con- 
venient power  roller  imaginable. 
The  success  of  the  Ideal  is  due  to 
its  sturdy  and  powerful,  yet  simple 
construction.  No  clutches  or  com- 
plicated parts  to  wear  and  get  out 
of  order.  The  motor  is  built  in  our 
own  shop  and  designed  especially 
for  the  work. 

Owners  of  large  estates,  public 
parks,  golf  clubs,  country  clubs, 
cemeteries,  etc.,  are  all  using  the 
Ideal  Power  Lawn  Mower  with 
great  success. 

Special     Cutting     Mower     for 
Putting  Greens 

For  work  on  golf  courses  we  furn- 
ish, at  slight  additional  cost,  a  special 
set  of  cutting  blades  for  use  on  the 
putting  greens.  In  less  than  five 
minutes  the  regular  30"  blade  can  be 
substituted  for  cutting  the  fairway. 
When  desired,  we  also  furnish,  as 
an  extra,  a  riding  trailer  which 
fastens  to  the  frame  and  permits  the 
operator  to  ride  and  at  the  same 
time  have  the  same  easy  control  as 
when  walking. 

You  can  secure  the  Ideal  through 
your  dealer  direct  or  from  our  fac- 
tory. Write  today  for  catalogue  and 
further  details. 


IDEAL  POWER  LAWN  MOWER  COMPANY 


403  Kalamazoo  Street 


R.  E.  OLDS,  Chairman 


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New  York,  270  West  St. 

Los  Angeles,  222-224  N.  Los  Angeles  St. 

Philadelphia,   709   Arch   St 

Pittsburgh,   108-16  W.  Park  Way,  N    S 

Chicago,  533  S.  Dearborn  St. 


Lansing,  Michigan 


Portland,   55   N.   Front  St. 
Toronto,  17  Temperance  Street 
Cleveland,   1227  W.  9th  St. 
Denver,  Colo,   18th  &  Wazee  Sts. 
New  Orleans.   La.,   130  Comp  St. 
I-ondon,  E.  C.,  63    Farringdon  St. 


IDEAL  POWER  LAWN    MOWER, 


A  complete  compact  stove  fitted  for  solid  alcohol  is  a  boon  for  the 

motorist.    The  equipment  packs  inside.    A  handle  on  the  door  makes 

easy  carrying.     Courtesy  Theroz  Co. 


Taking   the   Kitchen   Along 

(Continued  from  page  62) 


five  hand  mpwprs 


The  nest  for  eight  includes:  three 
cooking  pots,  one  E  cooking  pot,  one 
large  coffee  pot,  two  frying  pans,  eight 
dessert  and  eight  teaspoons.  It  is  only 
11"  x  12?s"  nested,  and  weighs  18^4 
pounds.  It  can  be  attached  in  canvas 
case  to  rear  or  side  of  running  board 
racks,  or  carried  in  the  car. 

If  aluminum  is  too  expensive,  there 
is  always  the  very  same  kit  in  steel, 
heavier,  of  course,  but  just  as  compact 
in  size.  All  are  seamless  and  best  quality. 


There  are  also  pocket  kits  which 
weigh  about  31  ounces  and  measure 
2"  x  3}^"  x  &y2"  and  include  a  folding 
broiler,  racks  which  thrust  into  the 
ground,  two  frying  pans  with  detach- 
able handles  and  which  when  fitted  to- 
gether make  a  perfect  roaster.  All  fold 
neatly  together  and  there  is  room  for 
knives,  forks,  etc. 

If  this  list  of  accessible  accessories 
does  not  fire  your  desire  to  take  to  the 
open  road  this  summer,  nothing  will. 


A   portable  refrigerator  comes  in  this 
basket  design.     Courtesy  of  the  Bur- 
lington Basket  Co. 


Collecting     Russian     Candlesticks 

(Continued  from  page  34) 


in  silver  have  been  made  since  1850 
at  the  large  brass  factories  of  War- 
saw and  Vienna.  In  most  cases  they 
have  followed  the  designs  of  the  old 
silver  types.  These  silver-plated  ex- 
amples come  in  about  a  dozen  designs, 
and  generally  four  sizes  in  height,  from 
10"  to  14",  although  one  or  two  de- 
signs run  as  high  as  16"  or  18".  While 
these  candlesticks  have  also  been  brought 
to  us  by  the  Russian  Jewish  families, 
they  have  not  so  much  the  antiquity  or 
quality  of  the  heavy  brass  ones  that 
recommend  them  to  a  collector.  Still, 
they  do  nicely  for  decorations  and  they 
can  be  easily  found  in  pairs  or  four  of 
the  same  kind.  Four  candlesticks  of 
this  kind  with  a  vase  of  flowers  in  the 
center,  as  shown  in  the  illustration, 


make    a     charming    decoration     for    a 
mantel. 

The  Hannukah  (sometimes  spelled 
Chanuca)  brass  lights,  as  illustrated, 
have  eight  basins  for  oil  or  eight  bowls 
for  candles  and  two  side  lights  for 
service,  except  the  very  ancient  ones, 
which  have  one  light  only  for  service. 
They  are  patterned  somewhat  after  the 
large  Chanuca  light  of  the  synagogue 
which  is  often  4'  to  5'  high  with  eight 
branches  and  one  light  on  the  side  for 
service.  These  small  types  are  used  in 
the  home  for  the  service  of  prayer  dur- 
ing the  Jewish  yearly  movable  Feast  of 
Illuminations,  which  lasts  for  eight  days. 
One  candle,  besides  the  service  candle 
or  "schamus",  is  lighted  on  the  first 
(Continued  on  page  66) 


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the  old  workers  in  brass  and  their  fine  feeling  for  design 


Collecting   Russian    Candlesticks 

(Continued  from  page  64) 


night,  starting  from  the  right,  another 
on  the  second  night  and  one  more  each 
succeeding  night,  until  all  are  lighted  on 
the  eighth  day.  This  feast  commemo- 
rates the  winning  back  of  Jerusalem 
and  the  temple  by  the  Maccabeans  from 
their  Roman  conquerors. 

The  beautiful  wall  sconces  for  hold- 
ing one  to  five  lights  are  also  to  be 
found  in  the  homes  of  Russian  families 
in  America.  In  the  decoration  of  these 
wall  sconces  and  Chanuca  lights  there 
will  be  found  the  four  Jewish  symbols 
of  their  religion  and  race — the  Star  and 
the  Crown  of  David,  the  Lions  of  Judah 
and  the  Hind  or  the  Deer  of  Naphtah. 
These  ancient  symbols  are  taken  from 
the  blessing  that  Jacob  gave  his  sons 
when  dying. 

The  points  to  remember  in  collecting 
Russian  candlesticks  are,  first,  that  they 
are  very  heavy;  second,  never  over  14" 
high.  As  an  example,  the  large  pair 
shown  in  the  mantel  illustration  weighs 
sixteen  pounds.  The  third  point  is  that 
they  are  all  burnished  a  dull  color  with 
steel  tools  by  hand.  This  gives  them 
a  beautiful  gold-like  polish,  unlike  the 
brassy  color  of  the  modem  reproduc- 
tions. Fourth,  they  are,  as  a  rule,  cast 
in  three  parts,  the  base,  the  shaft  and 
a  ring  which  is  welded  on  the  head  of 
the  shaft.  The  shaft  has  a  hand-turned 
screw  which  screws  into  the  base. 

The   Russian   candlestick  usually  has 


four  feet  on  the  base,  but  unusual  types 
are  found  having  five,  six,  seven  or 
eight  feet.  The  rings  that  are  found 
on  the  candlesticks  are  placed  there  for 
ornamentation,  but  are  only  found  on 
the  very  old  types. 

Anyone  may  start  making  a  collec- 
tion of  Russian  candlesticks,  for  wher- 
ever the  families  of  Russian  Jews  have 
located  in  America,  either  town  or 
country,  you  will  find  that  they  have 
them  in  their  possession.  If  not  pos- 
sible to  buy  from  the  Russian  families 
(which  I  never  have)  one  can  always 
find  them  in  the  Russian  brass  and  an- 
tique shops  and  even  in  the  junk  shops. 
When  found  in  the  junk  shops  they  are 
generally  covered  with  dirt,  grime  and 
candle  grease. 

But  take  them  home  rejoicing  on 
your  way.  Polish  them  with  your  own 
hands  (with  the  aid  of  a  little  brass 
polish).  Then  these  old  candlesticks, 
which  have  been  polished  so  many  times 
by  other  human  hands  for  perhaps  hun- 
dreds of  years,  will  glow  like  burnished 
gold  and  repay  you  for  your  labor. 

There  are  candlesticks  of  our  own 
land,  of  course;  there  are  candlesticks 
of  other  lands  and  nationalities  that 
may  be  collected  in  America,  each  one 
telling  its  own  story  in  its  own  way, 
but  none  are  to  me  so  rich  in  imagery 
and  romance  as  are  the  candlesticks  of 
the  Russian  Jews. 


Decorating  the  Small  House 

(Continued  from  page  20) 


a  wall  paper  panel  of  soft  colorings  and 
fragile  design  may  be  applied  to  the 
wall  and  outlined  with  either  a  paper 
or  wood  molding.  At  the  bottom  add 
a  semi-circular  bracket  shelf  painted  the 
most  distinguishing  color  of  the  panel. 
This  forms  a  substitute  for  a  console. 
The  flower  vase  can  rest  here  or,  if 
there  is  a  pair  of  these  panels  on  either 
side  of  the  door,  the  futile  card  tray  can 
go  on  one  and  the  flower  vase  on  the 
other.  The  importance  of  the  flower 


vase  is  that  if  one  is  greeted  by  a  flower, 
one  feels  the  home  is  well  kept  and  the 
owner  must  have  an  appreciation  of  the 
nicer  things  in  life. 

The  living  room  is  easy  to  furnish,  as 
the  problems  are  simpler.  There  is  first 
the  necessity  for  seating  people.  I 
think  that  every  living  room  should 
have  comfortable  seating  capacity  for 
six  persons  besides  two  straight,  "drag- 
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(Continued  on  page  68) 


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House     &     Garden 

Decorating   the   Small   House 

(Continued  from  page  66) 


that  they  must  have  an  enormous  couch 
in  their  living  room.  Notice  how  sel- 
dom more  than  two  people  sit  on  a 
couch !  You  can't  seat  four  grown-up 
people  on  a  couch  for  the  evening.  Be- 
sides, a  cumbersome  couch  so  often 
spoils  a  well-proportioned  room  of  small 
dimensions.  Instead,  select  a  comfort- 
able down  couch — 4'  6"  is  ample  for  two 
people — and  then  one  large  wing  or 
barrel  chair  and  one  low,  semi-uphol- 
stered chair.  The  wing  chair  gives  what 
is  so  often  needed  in  a  room — a  high 
line — and  is  particularly  pleasing  set 
near  a  fireplace.  Chairs,  sofas  and  tables 
all  have  the  same  general  height,  so,  for 
this  reason,  a  break  is  desirable  by  a 
high-back  chair  or,  in  a  more  formal 
room,  a  low  seat.  A  desk  with  a  secre- 
tary top  helps  break  the  wall  line,  as 
well  as  caring  for  some  particularly  well 
bound  books  or  an  interesting  little  col- 
lection of  some  sort.  To  eke  out  the  six 
seats  there  are  always  good  model  chairs 
in  walnut  or  well  woven  wicker  chairs 
upholstered  throughout. 

Where  an  apartment  is  small  a  day 
bed  answers  the  purpose  of  a  couch  and 
a  spare  bed.  They  come  in  such  splen- 
did designs  and,  painted,  decorated  and 
antiqued,  they  are  a  real  addition  in 
every  way.  In  the  country  a  small, 
semi-upholstered  chaise  longue  gives  one 
a  chance  to  rest  and  read  on  hot  after- 
noons. 

Do  your  couch  in  a  rose  and  morn- 
ing glory  blue  chintz,  your  wing  chair 
to  match,  your  smaller  chair  in  plain 
rose,  your  wicker  in  plain  green  linen 
piped  in  rose  and  use  two  blue  porce- 
lain lamps  with  deep  rose  chiffon  shades 
edged  with  blue  and  yellow  taffeta.  Use 
the  same  colors  in  the  taffeta  cushions 
on  the  couch.  Paint  the  desk  a  very 
deep  green,  decorate  it  in  a  design  from 
some  Italian  book  cover  or  fresco,  and 
antique  it  heavily.  Put  two  little  black 
and  crystal  ornaments  at  each  end  of 
the  mantel  and  a  shiny  rose  bowl  in  the 
center.  Keep  the  carpet  taupe  and  the 
walls  a  warm  ivory,  rubbing  yellow 
ochre  into  the  molding.  Save  up  and 
buy  a  fresh,  sparkling  oil  for  the  over- 
mantel, with  plenty  of  sunshine  and 
green  shadows  in  it. 

Why  a  Dining  Room? 

If  possible,  do  without  a  dining  room. 
In  the  country  one  can  always  use  the 
porch  and  in  the  city  use  one  end  of 
the  enlarged  living  room  or,  if  the  apart- 
ment and  landlord  permit,  build  out 
over  the  back  yard  a  dining  porch. 
Apartment  walls  can  be  cut  out,  win- 
dows set  in  and  windows  enlarged.  This 
room  need  not  be  informal.  I  have  seen 
a  beautiful  dining  extension  with  a  white 
marble  floor,  white  paneled  woodwork, 
what  little  there  was  of  it,  a  long,  nar- 
row, beautifully  carved  table  and  high- 
back  chairs.  The  only  note  of  color 
was  found  in  the  crimson  satin  chair 
seats.  This  was  sort  of  an  extension  of 
the  drawing  room,  but  one  did  not  feel 
shut  up  in  a  room  from  which  no  one 
derived  pleasure  except  at  meal  times. 
In  a  less  formal  household  the  extension 
should  serve  as  a  porch  when  not  used 
for  meals.  One  habit  should  be  main- 
tained, however — to  go  back  into  the 
living  room  while  the  table  is  being 
cleared,  as  it  is  unpleasant  to  sit  in  the 
same  place  during  and  after  a  meal  with 
no  break.  Cigars  are  a  good  excuse. 

The  library  should  be  very  carefully 
planned.  A  long  table  desk,  a  wall  of 
book  cases,  the  inevitable  fireplace  and 


two  comfortable  chairs — one  for  the 
reader  and  one  for  the  listener.  The 
size  of  the  room  and  the  number  of  the 
chairs  will  depend  upon  the  size  of  the 
family — we  will  forego  the  pocket-book. 
But  the  library  should  be  the  man's 
refuge.  Children  should  be  persona  non 
grata,  as  well  as  the  family  trials  and 
tribulations. 

The  bedrooms  in  a  small  house  are 
so  easily  furnished.  They  require  only 
a  little  imagination,  a  terribly  strict  hold 
on  one's  purchasing  propensities  and  the 
faculty  for  putting  ourselves  in  the  other 
person's  place.  Your  husband  doesn't 
want  rosebuds  on  his  bed.  Get  a  plain 
pair  of  beds  in  mahogany  or  walnut. 
Give  yourself  the  rosebud  touch  with 
your  taffeta  dressing  table  in  lovely 
translucent  couleur  de  rose,  lined  with 
amber.  Give  him  a  walnut  chifforobe — 
a  boon  to  all  men — and  yourself  a  bu- 
reau painted  amber  with  rose  and  green 
decorations.  Put  amber  curtains  at  the 
window — through  them  comes  such  a 
lovely  light! — and  introduce  the  rose 
into  the  valance  and  the  tie-backs.  Thus 
you  have  respected  the  sex  of  your  hus- 
band and  treated  yourself  equally  well. 

In  the  boys'  room,  give  them  sturdy 
stained  furniture.  Paint  chips  too  easily 
for  them.  Find  a  paper  that  is  long 
enduring  as  to  spots,  and  use  removable 
floor  coverings.  At  the  windows  and  on 
the  occasional  pieces  of  wicker  try  an 
entertaining  cretonne — say,  blue  with 
gay  Chinese  ships,  or  one  of  the  quaint 
little  Persian  designs. 

The  baby's  room  should  have  fresh, 
dotted  muslin  and  bouquet  paper,  yel- 
low painted  furniture  and  no  small  rugs 
to  slip  on.  Paint  the  roller  shades  with 
soft,  clear  colors,  or  use  a  gay  glazed 
chintz. 

For  Guests  and  Maid 

In  the  guest  room  place  a  pair  of 
beds.  Find  some  with  lowish  heads  and 
still  lower  open  footboards.  The  room 
will  be  small,  and  high  closed  foot- 
boards give  a  cramped  feeling.  Between 
the  beds  place  a  night  stand  with  a  shelf 
for  books  just  below  the  top  shelf.  On 
a  low  shelf  near  the  floor  one  can 
neither  reach  them  conveniently  nor 
read  their  titles.  One  dresser,  a  dressing 
table,  a  straight  chair  and  one  comfort- 
able chair  should  complete  the  furnish- 
ings. If  the  walls  are  a  soft,  luminous 
yellow,  paint  the  beds  yellow.  Use  a 
deep  mauve  carpet  and  have  the  taffeta 
spreads  a  lighter  mauve.  Paint  the 
dresser  yellow  and  mauve  and  drape  the 
semi-circular  dressing  table  in  yellow 
glazed  chintz  with  box-plaited  ruching. 
Use  a  semi-circular  mirror  with  a  wider 
box  plaiting.  At  the  windows  hang 
yellow  tarleton  curtains  with  ruffled 
edges  finished  with  mauve  rickrack. 

Pay  a  great  deal  of  attention  to  the 
maid's  room.  Paint  her  iron  bed  some 
gay  color  and  give  her  curtains  and 
bed  spreads  of  apple  blossom  cretonne, 
and  a  pink  rug  and  a  rocking  chair 
painted  to  match.  If  she  doesn't  like  it, 
get  her  something  else  and  use  the  apple 
blossom  for  slip  covers. 

The  small  house  must  be  furnished  a 
dozen  times  in  one's  mind  before  a  cent 
is  spent.  Always  remember  how  little 
that  house  actually  is.  I  find  that 
people  who  own  a  small  house  usually 
carry  the  wrong  scale  in  their  minds. 
It  looks  so  big  to  them!  Yet  this  illu- 
sion of  size  can  be  kept  up,  if  the  scale 
of  furnishing,  the  light  receding  colors 
and  open  spaces  are  all  maintained. 


A  CORRECTION— On  page  29  of  the  June  HOUSE  &  GARDEN,  the  name  of 
Vitale,  Brinkerhoff  &  Geiffert  was  erroneously  used  as  the  landscape  architects 
of  the  Thomas  Hunt  garden.  This  firm  had  no  connection  with  the  work  illus- 
trated. '  Lord  &  Hewlett  were  the  architects. 


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act temperature  of  the  water  for  your  child's  bath. 

Little  bodies  are  tender,  and  their  skin  is  sensitive.  The 
Leonard  Thermostatic  Mixing  Valve,  in  the  Mott  Bath  and 
Shower  Combination,  shown  above,  is  an  absolute  safeguard 
against  chilling  or  scalding. 

Set  it  at  any  temperature  you  wish.  It  mixes  the  water  to 
the  exact  degree  you  require,  and  holds  strictly  to  that  tem- 
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Standing  on   the  hill  above  one  can  see   the   rambling  roof  lines 
and  make  out   the  hollow  square  that  they   enclose 

A  COUNTRY   HOUSE   THAT   RAMBLES 


THE  elevations  of  a  house  are  al- 
ways sketched  out  by  the  archi- 
tect before  building,  so  that  one 
can  see  what  it  is  going  to  look  like. 
But  here,  on  a  plateau  at  Beverly  Farms, 
Mass.,  is  an  odd  combination  of  roofs, 
verandahs  and  windows  that  would 
puzzle  even  a  philosopher  to  unravel. 
It  would  scarcely  seem  that  an  archi- 
tect would  design  it  that  way.  Yet 
looking  down  upon  it  from  the  crest 
of  the  hill  which  rises  just  at  the  back 
of  the  house,  it  makes  a  very  picturesque 
group  nestled  there  below.  For  the 
secret  of  the  house  isn't  the  secret  of 
an  architectural  design.  The  house 
grew  that  way.  The  main  building 
started  in  life  as  simply  an  old  farm- 
house blessed  with  an  ideal  location. 
Its  present  owner,  Mr.  Russell  Burrage, 
has  accomplished  the  additions  success- 
fully. 

At  first  an  ell  was  built  here  and  a 
wing  thrown  out  there,  in  order  to  ac- 
commodate a  growing  family.  Then 
more  and  more  was  added  until  the 
group  now  forms  a  hollow  square, 
nestled  in  under  the  tree  tops,  its  white 
walls  and  green  blinds  making  a  pleas- 
ant break  in  the  landscape. 

There  has  been  no  attempt  to  lay  the 
place  out  into  formal  gardens.  Rather  it 
has  been  kept  as  designed  by  Nature, 
save  for  the  immediate  surroundings  of 


the  house  where  grass  has  been  culti- 
vated and  trees  planted  in  a  naturalistic 
design  to  enrich  the  site. 

Although  not  architectural,  the  de- 
sign is  fascinating.  Chimneys  crop  up 
through  the  roofs  at  unexpected  inter- 
vals, ample  sun  porches  stretch  them- 
selves here  and  there  to  catch  the  light 
and  shield  from  the  heat.  It  is  almost 
impossible  to  describe  the  subtle  artistry 
with  which  this  lot  of  rambling  bits  of 
structure  have  been  brought  together  to 
make  a  consistent  and  charming  house. 

At  first  glance  the  house  does  not 
appear  strikingly  attractive;  it  is  one 
of  those  houses  that  keep  their  charms 
hidden  inside.  At  the  further  end  a 
long,  low  upper  verandah  stretches 
across  the  width  of  the  house — and  with 
an  object  in  view.  Go  there  on  some 
sunny  afternoon  and  a  burst  of  shouts 
greets  your  ears — laughter  and  the  splash 
of  water.  For  the  house  is  built  around 
a  courtyard,  as  we  have  said,  and  the 
center  of  the  courtyard  is  a  big  swim- 
ming pool  with  a  slide  from  the  veran- 
dah. Bathers  plunge  down  this  chute 
into  the  water  and  clamber  up  the  steps 
again  for  a  second  onslaught.  It  seems 
just  a  little  bit  foreign  for  New  England  I 

This  swimming  pool,  hidden  from  the 
outside  world,  is  one  of  the  features  that 
make  the  place  so  attractive.  It  fills 
(Continued  on  page  72) 


The  sun  porch  is  an  all-year  place,  with  a  fieldslone  foundation  and 
sliding  glass  doors  above.     Wicker  has  been  used  and  fibre  mats 


July,    1920 


71 


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INTERIOR 
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LAMPS, 
SHADES 

AND 
MIRRORS 

MANTEL 
ORNAMENTS 


FURNITURE 

AND 
HANGINGS 

WALL  AND 

FLOOR 
COVERINGS 


DECORATIVE 
PAINTINGS 


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A  Record  of  Sixty  Years 

Home-owners  about  to  select  kitchen  necessities  will  do 
well  to  consider  Deane's  French  Range.  This  unusual  kitchen 
appliance  is  the  product  of  a  concern  that,  after  sixty  years 
of  activity,  is  still  the  leading  designer  and  builder  of  better- 
than-usual  kitchen  equipment. 


To  insure  satisfaction  your 
kitchen  and  the  equipment 
placed  in  it,  must  be  as  in- 
dividual as  your  home.  Un- 
usual conditions  must  be 
met  and  the  range,  tables, 
plate  warmers  and  refrigera- 
tors designed  to  take  care 
of  your  particular  require- 
ments. 

In  designing  ranges,  the 
fuels  to  be  used,  the  number 
of  people  to  be  cared  for, 
and  the  space  available  must 
be  carefully  considered. 


When  we  designed  the 
range  for  the  Presidential 
Palace,  we  knew  that  a  large 
amount  of  cooking  and  bak- 
ing would  be  done  in  pre- 
paring for  state  dinners. 

With  this  in  mind,  we 
planned  a  range  having  both 
electric  and  coal  ovens,  and 
separate  broilers  using  both 
electricity  and  charcoal.  To 
carry  off  objectionable  food 
odors  we  added  a  French 
hood  with  side  panels. 


The  Presidential  Palace  range  and  a  number  of  others 
designed  for  well-known  people,  are  shown  in  our  portfolio, 
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House     &     Garden 


Clipped   Yew   Hedges   at    Holme    Lacy,    Herefordshire,    England. 
From  "Garden  Ornament",    Charles   Scribner's   Sons,    New   York. 

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THE  splendid  old  Yew  hedges  at 
Holme  Lacy  are  full  of  delightful 
interest  and  form  the  best  possible  back- 
ground to  borders  of  hardy  flowers.  In 
some  of  the  manor  house  gardens  of 
England  there  stand  rows  of  stately 
Yews,  each  tree  at  a  certain  height, 
stretching  to  right  and  left  to  meet  its 
fellow,  so  forming  a  series  of  great  green 
archways  in  order  that  each  archway 
may  give  a  different  view  of  some  aspect 
of  garden  beauty. 

We  have  many  beautiful  evergreens  suit- 
able for  such  plantings.  Yew  is  the  tree 
most  generally  employed  for  topiary 
work,  but  Box  is  also  excellent — and  for 
walls  and  close  hedges,  Hemlock,  Spruce, 
American  Holly  and  the  favorite  Privet 
are  admirably  suited. 

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The    entrance    is    not    pronounced,    being 
merely  a  latticed  porch 

A    Country    House   That    Rambles 

(Continued  jrom  page  70) 


the  entire  center  of  the  square  save  for 
a  brick  edging  and  pavement  about  4' 
wide.  This,  in  turn,  is  bordered  by 
plants  and  vines  that  climb  up  the 
lattices  along  the  walls  of  the  house.  A 
picturesque  and  romantic  setting! 

The  house  stands  back  on  a  side  road, 
far  from  the  main  arteries  of  country 
traffic.  Entrance  is  gained  through  a 
rough  driveway  that  winds  around  until 
it  comes  up  to  one  side  of  the  house. 
The  house  entrance  is  not  especially 
pronounced — just  a  bay  with  casement 
windows  flung  open  to  catch  the  breeze 
and  a  line  or  two  of  trellis  enclosing  the 
entrance  porch.  One  might  think  it 
was  the  service  part  of  the  house.  And 
yet,  this  unobtrusive  entrance  is  quite 
in  keeping  with  the  general  scheme  of 
the  exterior. 

You    pass    in    through    this    latticed 


porch  and  tread  the  brick  flooring  to 
reach  the  entrance  door.  The  door  is  a 
massive  affair  with  decorative  nail  heads 
and  latch.  It  gives  a  clue  to  the  un- 
usual things  found  beyond.  Once  inside 
this  door,  you  are  in  the  hallway,  with 
its  plaster  walls,  its  wide  fireplace  and 
hospitable  chairs.  Here  the  walls  are 
plastered  a  soft  gray.  Dark  brown 
beams  carry  the  ceiling,  with  white 
plaster  between.  A  group  of  antique 
armor  stands  to  one  side,  a  low  bench 
beneath  it.  A  wrought  iron  brazier 
filled  with  bright  blossoming  plants 
gives  a  touch  of  color.  The  floor  is  of 
white  tiles. 

The   house  winds   around   the  entire 

square  and  is  only  one  room  deep,  so  in 

reaching    the    other    rooms    one    goes 

through  the  whole  circle.     For  instance, 

(Continued  on  page  74) 


In  the  hallway  is  a  hospitable  fireplace 


A  swimming  pool  fills  the  center  of  the  enclosed  square     A  brick 
edging  and  pavement  encircle  it,  and  vines  cover  the  walls 


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73 


LIGHTING 
FIXTURES 


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•*•       home.     And  they  are  becoming  increasingly  popular. 

These  handsome  Miller  Fixtures  are  charming  in  their  graceful  sim- 
plicity and  will  delight  the  most  exacting  student  of  interior  decoration. 

Their  sturdy,  dependable  construction  makes  them  endurin&ly  use- 
ful. Their  low  cost  —  due  to  Miller  facilities  of  production  and 
distribution  —  makes  them  accessible  to  the  modest  income. 

Write  us  and  we  will  gladly  put  you  in 
touch  with  a  Miller  distributor  near  you. 

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74 


House     &     Garden 


The  Barflett 


The  Loss 
of  One  of  Your  Trees 

— Consider 
What  It  Would  Mean 


I 


N  the  first  place,  of  course,  you  could  never  really 
replace  one  of  these  friendly,  stalwart  old  guar- 
dians of  vour  home. 


But  to  put  in  even  a  substitute,  means  the  un- 
sightly digging  up,  and  tearing  up  of  the  place. 
The  tramping  of  teams,  and  the  wheel-ruts  of  a  big 
tree-moving  outfit  over  your  lawns. 

And,  after  it's  all  over,  the  writing  of  a  check.  .  .  . 
A  check  that  will  hurt  not  morel}-  because  of  its 
size,  but  because  you  will  realize  then,  that  it  might 
have  been  saved. 

Been  saved,  by  saving  the  tree,  by  a  little  timely 
and  competent  care. 

At  your  request,  one  of  our  tree  experts  will  gladly 
call  and  look  your  trees  over. 

He  will  talk  with  you  in  general,  about  their  care 
and  fare;  and  in  case  any  need  attention,  suggest 
how  they  may  best  be  tended. 

This  places  you  under  no  obligation,  and  it  mav 
save  you  hundreds  of  dollars. 

Bartlett's  Flexifi.ll  is  a  new  material,  made  for  filling  trees. 
Flexifill  is  flexible;  bends  and  sways  with  the  tree;  never 
cracks.  Flexifill  is  adhesive;  forms  tight  contact  with  in- 
terior of  cavity;  leaves  no  decay-breeding  spaces. 

Moreover,  can  be  put  in  at  much  less  expense  than  cement. 

Let  one  of  our  Tree  Experts  show  you  Flexifill,  and  ex- 
plain to  you  the  new  Flexifill  method  of  tree  repair,  which 
is  a  great  improvement  over  methods  heretofore  used. 

Our  booklet,— "Tree  Surgery",  tells  all  about  it. 


F.  A.  Bartlett  Tree  Expert  Co. 

Stamford,  Ct. 


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Morristown,    N.    J. 


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The  dining  room  floor  is  tiled.     The  walls  are  soft  gray  plaster. 
Low  studs  show  it  to  be  the  original  part  of  the  house 

A    Country    House   That    Rambles 

(Continued  from  page  72) 


on  the  left  of  the  hallway  is  the  living 
room,  a  large  apartment,  low-studded 
and  finished  with  plaster  walls.  Plaster, 
by  the  way,  has  been  used  throughout 
the  house.  Leaded  glass  windows  at 
one  end  and  a  deep  bay  with  casements 
afford  plenty  of  light  here.  Much  of 
the  furniture  is  Jacobean.  Comfortable 
couches  upholstered  in  a  bright  fabric 
stand  at  each  end  of  the  long  Jacobean 
table.  Before  the  end  row  of  casements 
is  another  Jacobean  table  with  its  stool, 
comfortable  reading  chair  and  standing 
lamp.  Against  one  wall  has  been  hung 
a  large  square  of  brocade  that  gives  a 
wealth  of  color  to  the  room.  In  the 
bay  at  the  end  is  a  deep  window  seat. 
The  floor  is  hardwood  covered  with 
bright  colored  rugs. 

At  one  side  of  the  living  room  steps 
lead  into  the  conservatory,  which  in 
turn  opens  into  the  den,  and  beyond 
the  den  you  come  to  the  dining  room. 
Here  is  another  big  apartment,  with 
windows  flung  out  to  catch  the  sun.  It 
too  has  plastered  walls  and  open  beams 
overhead.  The  low  studding  marks  this 
as  part  of  the  original  farmhouse  that 
formed  the  nucleus  of  this  interesting 
group.  The  house  might  be  said  to 
have  grown  from  the  dining  room — 
which  is  a  thought  capable  of  many 
diverting  elaborations,  if  we  only  had 


space  for  them.  Here  the  floor  is  tiled. 
A  rug  of  carpeting  fills  the  middle  space. 
As  in  the  living  room,  a  choice  piece  of 
fabric  has  been  spread  on  the  walls  to 
give  the  room  color  and  form  a  back- 
ground for  the  sideboard.  The  furniture 
is  of  the  old-fashioned  type,  descendant 
of  American  Empire.  In  this  environ- 
ment its  rich,  dark  mahogany  stands 
out  to  advantage  against  the  soft  gray 
of  the  walls. 

Thus  far  we  have  gone  two  sides  of 
the  square.  The  other  parts  are  re- 
served for  service,  ample  kitchens  and 
pantries  each  with  plenty  of  cross  venti- 
lation and  sunlight. 

From  the  conservatory,  which  links  the 
living  room  with  the  den,  long  French 
windows  open  onto  the  swimming  pool ; 
on  the  other  side  a  studded  frame  door 
lets  onto  a  sun  porch.  This  is  simple  and 
attractive,  blending  in  harmoniously  with 
the  rest  of  the  house.  The  lower  part 
is  field-stone,  laid  in  dark  mortar.  Above 
this  are  sliding  windows  that  can  be 
closed  in  winter.  It  is  an  all-year  porch. 
Wicker  has  been  used  to  furnish  it. 

Now  there  is  a  charm  to  this  house 
that  is  lacking  in  many  a  more  elaborate 
design.  It  is  restful,  homelike,  it  fits  its 
setting,  and  it  gives  evidence  of  having 
been  lived  in  and  enjoyed. 

M.  H.  NORTHEND. 


A   large  living   room,  with   leaded   casement    windows,   Jacobean 
furniture  and  beamed  ceiling  occupies  one  corner  of  the  house 


July,    1920 


7S 


Lawns  and  flower  beds  are  safe  from  damage  by  thoughtless  tres- 
passers only  if  protected  by  a  sturdy  fence. 

A  fence,  however,  should  add  to  and  not  detract  from  the  appear- 
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and  so  protected  that  the  destructive  action  of  storms  and  chang- 
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House     &     Garden 


Fiirnihire 

l\\t  Commonplace 


Early  English.  French  and  Italian 
Furniture  and  Decorative  Objects: 
Reproductions  and  Hand-wrought 
Facsimiles  of  Rare  Old  Examples 
Retailed  Exclusively  at  These 
Galleries.well  within  moderate  cost 


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W.  IRVING  LATCH 
NO.  145 


W.  IRl'ING  means  more  than  a  Trade 
Mark — it  is  the  name  of  the  sentimentalist 
whose  long  study  of  Colonial  Art  in 
wrought  iron  has  made  possible  this  busi- 
ness. 

For  years  Mr,  Irving  has  devoted  much 
of  his  time  to  study  and  travel  in  original 
Colonial  Colonies,  collecting  hand  made 
work  from  the  old  forges.  From  every 
corner  of  New  England  and  from  the  Old 
States  of  the  South,  he  has  slowly  accu- 
mulated rare  samples  of  Colonial  Hard- 
ware, until  his  collection,  housed  here, 
comprises  the  largest  and  most  interesting 
assortment  of  Colonial  Hardivare  in  the 
United  States. 

It  is  the  W.  IRVING  collection  which 
is  every  day  the  guide  and  pattern  of  our 
smiths  in  the  faithful  reproduction  of 
these  pieces  which  no  machine  can  ever 
produce,  and  which  are  today  bringing  the 
very  atmosphere  of  the  Old  Days  to 
modern  homes. 


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Gillies 

The  cross-axis  of  the  perennial  garden 

shows   broad  gravel  paths  broken  by 

three  circles,  tht  central  one  enclosing 

a  fountain 


WHERE   ART   and  NATURE    MEET 


ONE  of  the  most  beautiful  estates 
on  the  Connecticut  shore  of  Long 
Island   Sound   is    "Valhalla",   the 
home  of  Mrs.  Jacob  Langeloth  at  Riv- 
erside, Conn.     As  the  name  suggests,  it 
is  indeed  a  spot  beloved  of  the  gods. 

The  coast  line  is  varied  here,  and  the 
view  from  the  front  terrace  of  the 
house  is  restful  and  charming.  The 
lawn  slopes  gradually  down  to  the 
sound,  where  in  the  more  distant  fore- 
ground a  rocky  headland  juts  out  into 
the  water  and  divides  the  shore  into 
two  sheltered  beaches,  invitingly  cool  in 
summer. 

The  house  was  begun  in  1913  and 
finished  in  1915.  It  stands  today  as  one 
of  the  finest  examples  of  pure  Italian 
Renaissance  architecture  in  this  coun- 
try. It  is  built  of  Indiana  limestone  in 
simple,  rectangular  form,  three-storied, 
with  numerous  long  French  windows 
opening  on  a  wide  veranda  with  a  pil- 
lared portico  in  front.  This  in  turn 
leads  directly  to  a  terrace  with  graveled 


paths  and  velvety  greensward.  The 
terrace  is  enclosed  by  a  balustrading, 
broken  at  intervals  by  limestone  vases 
of  exceptional  grace  and  beauty.  The 
balustrading  is  repeated  on  the  top  of 
the  portico  and  again  around  the  roof 
of  the  entire  building,  giving  an  effect 
of  grace  and  lightness. 

Standing  on  the  portico  and  looking 
over  the  road  down  into  the  cool  green 
of  the  tree  tops  below,  there  opens 
out  before  one  a  scene  of  entrancing 
beauty.  A  broad  flight  of  steps  leads 
down  to  a  grassy  terrace  which  ter- 
minates in  a  wide  balustrade  that  over- 
looks a  second  terrace,  and  below  lies 
the  exquisite  flower  garden. 

The  upper  terrace  is  connected  with 
the  lower  one  on  either  side  by  a 
curved  walk  and  the  retaining  wall 
forms  a  wide  basin  filled  with  water  and 
aquatic  plants,  constantly  kept  fresh  by 
water  running  from  a  wall  fountain. 
The  architect  of  the  house,  Mr.  John 
(Continued  on  page  78) 


aim 


The  upper  terrace  is  connected  with  the  lower  by 

curved  walks,  making  easy  the  transition  from  house 

to  garden  proper 


July,    1920 


77 


"And  what  is  so  rare  as  a  day  in  June? 
Then,  if  ever,  come  perfect  days;"- 

And  now,  if  you  have  an  indoor  garden,  you  can  call 
back  and  capture  these  perfect  June  days  and  hold  them 
throughout  the  round  of  the  year. 

And  this  is  really  a  most  opportune  time  to  plan  that 
indoor  garden.  You  will  find  the  AGMCO  conservator)' 
book,  with  its  wealth  of  suggestions,  an  invaluable  help  in 
this  planning. 

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These  three  new  varieties  are 
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Kevitt's  Jubilee  is  called  a 
"black"  strawberry  l>ecause  of 
its  deep  red  color.  Produces  big 
crops  of  big  berries.  Fruits  are 
always  carried  well  above  the 
ground.  $2.50  per  doz.,  $8  per 
50,  $15  per  100  plants. 

Beal  is  noted  for  the  size  of 
both  berries  and  plants.  Many 
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$5.50  per  50,  $10  per  100 
plants. 

Buckbee  is  the  best  possible 
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size  give  it  a  most  appetizing 
appearance.  Flavor  is  delicious. 
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per  50,  $35  per  100  plants. 

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and 

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Tiles  and  pottery  in  a  garden  designed   and   ar- 
ranged by  John  Dee  Wareham.    Write  for  literature. 
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78 


House     &     Garden 


WE    DESIGN    OR    CARRY    OUT    YOUR    SUGGESTIONS 

THIS  MAKES   FOR   INDIVIDUALITY   AND  DISTINCTION. 

REPRODUCTIONS   IN   ALL  PERIODS. 


Reproduction  of  a  Colonial  Candle  Sconce  suitable 
for    living    or    dining    room. 


CASSIDY   COMPANY 

INCORPORATED 

DESIGNERS  AND  MAKERS  OF  LIGHTING  FIXTURES 

1O1  PARK  AVENUE.  AT  FORTIETH  STREET 
NEW  YORK 


ANTIQUES 


Enriched  as  it  has  been  by 
recent  importations,  the  col- 
lection of  antique  furniture 
now  on  view  in  the  Lans 
Galleries  has  no  equal  in 
the  country. 


The  groups  of  oak  and  wal- 
nut tables,  chests,  cupboards, 
and  hutches  from  England, 
express  in  every  simple  dig- 
nified line  the  traditions  of 
old  Britain. 


In  contrast  are  the  magnifi- 
cent Chaises  Longues,  Love 
Seats,  and  Fauteuils,  with 
coverings  of  rare  needlework, 
received  from  France,  which 
embody  all  the  elegance  and 
esprit  of  the  periods  of  Louis 
XV  and  XVI. 


The  illustration  shows  a  rare 
old  Queen  Anne  Walnut  Sec- 
retary with  original  fittings. 


554   Madison   Ave.,  New  York 

CORNER  OF  55th  STREET 

Branch:  406  Madison  Ave.  Bet.  47th  and  48th  Sts. 

PARIS:     32    Faubourg    Poissoniere 


A  formal  pergola 
forms  the  end  of 
the  garden  pic- 
ture as  one  looks 
from  the  direc- 
tion of  the  house. 
John  M.  Dun- 
can, architect 


Where   Art   and   Nature   Meet 


(Continued  from  page  76) 


M.  Duncan,  designed  the  fountain  and 
has  admirably  succeeded  in  making  it . 
a  thing  of  intrinsic  beauty,  which  yet 
serves  as  a  link  between  the  house  and 
the  garden.  In  1918  the  balustrading 
was  continued  around  either  side  of 
the  curved  pathways  and  the  grass 
carpet  of  the  lower  terrace  planted  at 
each  corner  with  standard  catalpas, 
while  two  specimen  retinosporas  mark 
the  entrance  to  the  garden. 

The  garden  proper  is  enclosed  by  a 
dense  barberry  hedge  and  consists  of 
two  distinct  rooms,  and  the  vista  is 
framed  at  the  farther  end  by  a  beautiful 
pergola,  also  designed  by  Mr.  Duncan. 
The  pergola  is  essentially  classic  in  feel- 
ing and  is  composed  of  a  central  cov- 
ered arcade  with  side  wings  of  open 
colonnades  of  six  columns  each.  A  low 
parapet  wall,  with  open  latticework, 
partially  screens  the  wings  at  the  back 
and  imparts  a  feeling  of  privacy  and 
definite  boundary  line  to  the  garden 
picture.  A  broad  gravel  path  broken 
by  three  circles,  the  central  one  en- 
closing a  fountain,  leads  through  the 
perennial  garden  into  the  rose  garden, 
ending  in  the  cool  shadows  of  the  per- 
gola. From  the  latter  one  gets  an  in- 
timate view  of  the  circular  rose  garden 
bordered  by  ribbons  of  mauve  violas. 

The  flower  beds  and  borders  were 
designed  by  Miss  Beatrice  Dell  of 
Greenwich,  Conn.  The  wide  perennial 
borders  follow  the  outline  of  the  rect- 
angular room  and  are  filled  with  masses 
of  hardy  flowers.  In  early  summer 


huge  groupings  of  blue  flowers  pre- 
dominate, such  as  Delphinium  bella- 
donna and  Anchusa  italica,  contrasted 
with  Madonna  lilies,  foxgloves  and 
white  phlox  Miss  Lingard.  Still  later 
the  yellows  and  browns  of  the  heleni- 
ums  and  tiger  lilies  add  a  glow  of 
autumn  warmth  and  splendor.  All 
through  the  season  plants  that  have 
finished  flowering  are  cut  down  and  the 
bare  spaces  rilled  in.  The  blue  flowers 
are  replaced  by  long-blooming  blue  sal- 
vias  and  the  handsome  blue  caryopteris, 
both  treated  as  annuals. 

The  annual  beds  along  the  central 
garden  path  are  the  first  to  bloom  in 
spring  and  are  among  the  last  to  hold 
out  against  Jack  Frost.  They  gladden 
the  heart  in  May  with  their  brave 
showing  of  Darwin  tulips  and  later  are 
formally  bedded  out  in  soft  colors  with 
heliotrope  and  blue  ageratums  con- 
trasted with  pink  snapdragons  and  Rosy 
Morn  petunias. 

In  marked  contrast  to  this  beautiful 
formal  garden  is  the  bit  of  woodland 
and  wild  garden  that  is  connected  with 
it  by  a  winding  path  leading  off  at 
right  angles  from  the  pergola.  Here  a 
natural  rocky  knoll  has  been  trans- 
formed into  a  veritable  rock  garden 
filled  with  all  kinds  of  creeping  plants. 
Behind  this  lie  the  extensive  green- 
houses, and  the  rest  of  the  property  of 
some  fifty  acres  is  run  as  a  farm  to 
supply  the  many  demands  of  a  hos- 
pitable home. 

LILIAN  C.  ALDERSON. 


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q^..- 


The  fountain  and  pool  which  are  below  the  terrace  balustrade  harmonize 
with  the  style  of  the  house.     John  M.  Duncan,  architect 


House  ^Garden 


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Beautiful  Interiors 

"pNAMELED  woodwork  and  furniture  is 
*~-^  the  last  word  for  interior  decoration. 
And  what  a  common-sense  vogue  it  is !  Ena- 
mel makes  bright,  pleasant,  light  rooms — its 
satin  smoothness  sheds  the  dust — and  it  gives 
a  sanitary  and  altogether  charming  finish.- 

But  it  isn't  sufficient  to  simply  specify 
"Enamel".  To  accomplish  your  purpose 
and  secure  a  satisfactory  job — the  brand 
should  be  mentioned.  If  you  specify  JOHN- 
SON '  S  PERFECTONE  UNDERCOAT  and 
ENAMEL  for  all  interior  trim — you  are 
assured  of  a  perfect  finish — and  the  wearing 
quality  and  covering  capacity  are  of  the  highest. 

Even  though  the  original  cost  is  a  trifle  more 
per  gallon — JOHNSON'S  goes  farther  and 
lasts  longer — so  it  proves  more  economical  in  the  end. 

JOHNSON'S 

PERFECTONE 

UNDERCOAT  AND  ENAMEL 

The  stock  shades  are  White — Ivory  and 
French  Gray.  Our  White  is  a  soft,  warm 
white  which  will  blend  perfectly  with  your  deco- 
rations and  hangings.  The  Ivory  and  French  Gray 
arc  the  approved  shades  of  the  most  discriminating 
decorators. 

Johnson's  Perfectone  Enamel  gives  that 
beautiful,  artistic,  satin  effect  without  the  expense 
of  rubbing — it  has  just  gloss  enough.  But  it  may 
be  rubbed  if  desired. 

Johnson's  Perfectone  Undercoat  gives  the 
proper  foundation  for  an  enameled  job.  It  is  elas- 
tic—  durable: — non-porous  —  has  great  covering 
power  —  works  freely  under  the  brush  —  and  dries 
hard  in  from  1 8  to  24  hours. 

We  will  gladly  furnish  literature  and  finished  wood 
panels  on  request. 

S.  C.  JOHNSON  &  SON,  Dept.  HG. 

"The  Wood  Finishing  Authorities'* 
RACINE,  WIS.,  U.S.  A* 


House  &  Garden 


CONDE    NAST,  Publisher 

RICHARDSON    WRIGHT.     Editor 
R.   ».    LEMMON.  Manafinf  Editor 


THE    PAGEANT    OF    AUTUMN    FURNISHING 


IT  is  lucky  that  HOUSE  &  GARDEN  can  follow 
the  pageant  of  the  seasons.  One  month,  in- 
doors, another  month  out  in  the  garden.  The 
drama  is  full  of  change  and  action  and  romance. 
Spring  has  played  her  part  and  Summer  his; 
now  comes  Autumn  in  a  colorful  role.  The  frost 
hint  is  found  in  the  Autumn  Furnishing  Number. 

With  some  people  Autumn  merely  means  taking 
off  the  summer  covers  and  restoring  the  usual 
dignity  of  winter  hangings  and  rugs.  But  to  a 
great  many  people  it  means  much  more  than  that. 
It  means  new  hangings,  new  papers,  new  furni- 
ture. With  something  new  in  a  room  one  starts 
the  season  fresh  and  clean.  That  is  really  the 
purpose  of  fall  furnishing.  And  to  help  this 
scheme  along  with  practical  suggestions  is  the  plan 
of  the  September  issue. 

No  house  should  be  created  all  at  once.  There 
is  more  merit  and  pleasure  in  rooms  that  are  fur- 
nished leisurely.  Also  the  furniture  in  a  house 
should  not  always  remain  in  the  same  place — it 
should  be  re-grouped  so  that  the  room  takes  on 
a  new  aspect.  This  grouping  is  one  of  the  im- 
portant subjects  next  month.  Equally  helpful  are 
the  pages  of  fabrics  for  over-  and  under-curtains. 


A  study  in  the  successful  handling 
of   stone    comprises    one    of    the 
ol  the  September  number 


the  new  wall  papers,  and  the  less  decorative  but 
equally  important  suggestions  for  making  the 
cellar  and  the  bathroom  inviting  and  up-to:date. 

There  will  be  several  houses  in  this  issue — re- 
built city  houses  with  many  suggested  facades  to 
hide  an  old  brownstone  behind;  a  rare  little  gem 
of  California  work  in  the  Mission  style;  a  design  in 
brick  from  Maryland;  and  a  country  house  in  Con- 
necticut that  shows  a  line  regard  for  native  stone. 

Of  the  interiors,  one  page  will  show  the  apart- 
ment of  Miss  Helen  Dryden,  as  prim  as  that 
clever  artist  is  herself;  the  apartment  of  the 
French  Consul  to  New  York,  a  study  in  the  use 
of  Chinese  furnishings;  and  some  boudoir  porches 
by  Agnes  Foster  Wright.  The  kitchen  pages  will 
consider  furniture — the  modern  tables  and  chairs 
to  delight  a  housewife  and  keep  the  cook  happy. 

We  can  merely  mention  the  fact  that  there 
will  also  be  articles  on  the  decorative  value  of 
French  prints,  on  wood  blocks  and  on  collecting 
articles  of  the  Japanese  Tea  Ceremony.  Also  sug- 
gestions for  raising  orchids  as  a  hobby,  and  advice 
on  wintering  over  pansies. 

It  will  be  a  full  and  busy  book,  a  lively  act 
of  the  HOVSE  &  GARDEN  pageant. 


Contents  for  August.  1920.      Volume  XXXV III,  No.  Two 


COVER  DESIGN  BY  ELIZABETH  BETTS  BAINS 

A  TERRACE  GATE  IN  ROME 18 

THE  EIGHT  HOUR  KITCHEN 11 

Mary  Ormsbee  Whitton 

THE  HOME  OF  C.  NORVIN  RINEK,  EASTON,  PA 22 

THE  SMOKE  ON  THE  HORIZON 24 

THE  ITALIAN  GARDEN 24 

George  S.  Chappell 

THE  ANGLE  AND  THE  ARCH 25 

Howard  Major,  Architect 

EARLY  AMERICAN  GLASS ~. 26 

M.  Holden 

THE  INTRICATE  ART  OP  NEEDLEWORK 28 

Six  GOOD  LAMPS 29 

A  COLONIAL  PLAN  IN  WHITE  SHINGLES 30 

Charles  C.  May,  Aichitect 
GINGHAM   GLORIFIED 32 

l-.lh.-l  Davis  Seal 
SHOREDITCH   FURNITURE    34 

H.  D.  Eberlein 
THE  ART  OF  THE  ANCIENT  MEDALISTS." 36 

Gardner  Teall 


UPTON  HOUSE  IN  ESSEX 38 

A.  Winter  Rose,  Architect 

INDIVIDUAL  MARKINGS  FOR  LINEN 40 

A  LITTLE  PORTFOLIO  OF  GOOD  INTERIORS 41 

DIGNIFIED   DOORWAYS    44 

THE  SETTER   45 

Robert  S.  Lemmon 
WHERE  THE  SIGN  STILL  SWINGS 46 

Grace  Norton  Rost 
OUTLINES  OF  FRENCH  PANELING 48 

Randolph  W.  Sexton 

THE  WAY  THEY  Do  IT  Now 49 

HEATING  WITH  ARTIFICIAL  GAS 50 

W.  Lambert 
THE  PERMANENT  KITCHEN 51 

Kate  Hammond 
RESTORING  OLD  FURNITURE 52 

M.  Louise  Arnold 
GOOD  AIR  IN  THE  HOME 53 

E.  V.  Campbell 
A  CITY  GARDEN  IN  CALIFORNIA 54 

itftize/  W.  Waterman,  Landscape  Architect 
THE  GARDENER'S  CALENDAR • 56 


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House     &     Garden 


A 


TERRACE        GATE        IN 


ROME 


The  gate  to  the  garden  of  the  Villa  Aurelia, 
the  home  of  the  American  Academy  in  Rome, 
overlooks  all  the  ancient  glory  of  that  city. 
Here  the  American  Academy  is  celebrating  its 
twenty-fifth  anniversary  by  inaugurating  three 
fellowships  in  landscape  architecture  and  musi- 
cal composition  and  by  opening  its  doors  to 


women.  These  opportunities  for  American 
students  will  bring  their  enrichment  to  our 
arts.  In  order  to  finance  these  innovations 
and  to  meet  the  higher  cost  of  maintaining  the 
established  fellowships  in  architecture,  sculp- 
ture, painting,  literature  and  classic  letters,  a 
campaign  for  a  million  dollars  is  being  launched 


A  ugust ,     1920 


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THE        EIGHT        HOUR        KITCHEN 

The  Same  Principles  of  Equipment  and  .Management  That  Make  a  Factory 
a  Success  Will  Simplify  Domestic  Work 


WHETHER  we  like  it  or  not,  this  is  the 
era  of  the  short  working-day,  in  the 
home  as  well  as  in  the  factory.  Although  com- 
paratively few  households  are  being  operated 
on  a  strictly  eight-hour  basis,  yet  all  are  more 
or  less  affected  by  it.  The  regular  household 
staff  must  be  secured  in  spite  of  the  competi- 
tion of  factories  where  the  eight-hour  day  pre- 
vails. In  houses  where  a  small  permanent 
staff  is  supplemented  by  additional  help  for 
night  or  mornings,  these  workers  come  on  an 


MARY  ORMSBEE  WHITTON 

hourly  basis.  Thus,  directly  or  indirectly,  the 
home-keeper  is  faced  with  a  new  time-standard. 
In  fact,  the  householder  is  in  the  position  of  an 
industrialist  whose  product  requires  continuous 
operation  of  the  plant,  while,  at  the  same  time, 
labor-shortage  makes  extremely  difficult  the 
introduction  of  a  three-shift  system. 

The  only  constructive  recourse  for  the  house- 
manager  is  to  re-organize  the  mechanics  of  her 
shop,  as  it  were,  in  such  a  way  that  the  time- 
element  can  receive  due  attention.  There  are 


two  things  at  present  that  favor  such  a  change 
of  procedure:  first,  the  great  number  of  me- 
chanical assistants,  largely  electrical,  now 
available  in  a  high  state  of  perfection,  and 
secondly,  the  changed  point  of  view  of  the 
present  domestic  employee. 

Recall,  for  a  moment,  the  typical  servant 
of  the  old  school,  slow-moving,  faithful,  indus- 
trious, content  to  jog  along  from  day-break  till 
dark  at  a  steady  figurative  six  knots  per  hour. 
In  contrast  to  her  was  the  woman  who,  of 


The  all-electric  kitchen  offers  the  most  convincing  solution  for  the  problems  of  domestic  management  that  thousands  of  housewives  now  face.  It 
requires  intelligent  handling,  but  less  actual  labor.  Its  cost  of  maintenance  and  its  general  convenience  more  than  compensate  for  the  initial 
cost  of  installation.  In  this  all-electric  kitchen  the  equipment  includes  a  range,  fireless  cooker,  percolator,  grill,  oventtte,  vacuum  cleaner  and 

ironing  machine.    Courtesy  of  the  New  York  Edison  Co. 


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House     &     Garden 


A  general  utility  motor  will  turn  the  buffer, 

the  knife  sharpener,  and,  in  some  cases,  can 

be  used  jor  freezing  ic.e  cream  and  doing 

other  kitchen  odd-jobs 


necessity  or  from  choice,  under- 
took all  the  work  of  her  own 
household,  and  who  "drove"  it 
and  herself,  accomplishing  more 
in  an  hour  than  old  Sarah  would 
in  a  whole  morning.  This  woman 
wanted  to  get  through  her  work 
to  do  something  else. 

That  is  the  point  of  view  of  the 
present-day  domestic  employee. 
She  distinctly  wants  to  get 
through  her  work  and  get  to 
something  else.  Therefore  she  is 
ready  and  willing  to  learn  to 
handle  any  apparatus  that  prom- 
ises the  desired  end. 

Three  Kitchen  Groups 

From  the  standpoint  of  the 
professional  cook,  kitchen  equip- 
ment divides  itself  into  three 
classes:  devices  for  the  prepara- 
tion of  meals ;  apparatus  for  cook- 
ing and  serving,  and  lastly  ap- 
pliances for  clearing-up.  It  is  of 
interest  to  see  how  largely  electri- 
cal devices  have  come  to  be  used 
in  all  of  these  departments. 

Under  the  first  heading,  there 
are  electric  refrigerators,  ice 
cream  freezers,  mixers,  cutters, 
slicers,  grinders,  vegetable  peel- 
ers, and  so  forth.  Whether  these 
processes  are  represented  by  sep- 
arate machinery  or  some  utility 
device  depends  chiefly  on  how 
nearly  the  household  concerned 
approaches  the  mansion  type,  with 
apparatus  designed  on  the  hotel 
scale,  or  whether  the  kitchen  is  to 
be  managed  along  the  lines  of 
best  household  usage. 

Tak^e  the  matter  of  freezing: 
for  a  household  entertaining  on 
an  elaborate  scale,  a  separate 
electric  freezer  would  undoubt- 
edly be  demanded,  while  the 


cook  of  a  less  elaborate  establishment  would 
produce  the  mousses,  sherbets,  and  similai 
frozen  desserts  from  the  ice-making  section  of 
the  electric  refrigerator.  This  double  utiliza- 
tion of  the  refrigerator  both  as  a  conservator 
and  maker  of  foods  is  a  fact  too  frequently 
overlooked  by  the  purchaser  of  kitchen  equip- 
ment. It  is  not  only  the  even  temperature  main- 
tained by  mechanical  cooling  that  explains  its 
presence  in  most  modernly  equipped  homes, 
but  also  the  fact  that  the  same  machine  will 
furnish  ice  for  table  use,  and  almost  elimi- 
nate the  use  of  separate  freezing  apparatus. 

Using  a  Motor 

Similarly,  the  devices  for  slicing,  grinding, 
and  mixing  can  be  had  as  individual  appli- 
ances for  establishments  on  the  largest  scale, 
while  a  less  pretentious  kitchen  is  equally  well 
served  by  one  of  the  motor-driven  units  var- 
iously  known  as  ''kitchen  aids",  "utility  mo- 
tors'' and  other  names.  The  point  of  the  vari- 
ous machines,  however,  is  a  small  motor,  so 
arranged  that  it  can,  by  means  of  belting, 
shaft,  or  special  tools,  be  made  to  rotate  the 
ordinary  household  grinder,  chopper,  mixers, 
Ijeaters,  and  sometimes  also  freezers.  A  sales- 
woman handling  these  devices  recently  told 
the  writer  that  nine  times  out  of  ten,  when  a 
woman  asks  to  see  such  a  machine,  her  first 
question  is  ''will  it  beat  the  white  of  eggs  stiff"  ? 

"Then,"  continued  the  saleswoman,  "I 
know  that  she  is  no  professional  cook,  for 


For  the  average  household  the  ice-making  section  of  an  electric  re- 
frigerator can  produce  mousses,  sherbets  and  similar  frozen  desserts  in 
addition  to  its  ordinary  refrigeration.  Courtesy  of  the  Isko  Company 


Among    the    most    appreciated    pieces    of 
equipment  is  the  plate  warmer.     It   keeps 
both  food  and  plates  at  the  right  tempera- 
ture.  The  price  should  be  about  !f43 


the  professional  cook  wants  to 
know  whether  it  can  be  adjusted 
in  less  time  than  it  would  take  to 
make  a  meringue  with  a  plain 
old-fashioned  egg-beater." 

It  was  also  said  that  while  the 
old-fashioned  cook  tended  to  de- 
spise such  assistance,  and  rather 
prided  herself  on  her  ability  to 
mix  by  arm-power  innumerable 
doughs  and  batters,  present  in- 
cumbents were  coming  to  regard 
these  hand-processes  as  an  un- 
necessary drain  upon  the  strength 
of  the  kitchen  staff  and  were  be- 
ginning to  ask  for  mechanical  as- 
sistance. "As  for  the  ladies  who 
never  cooked  in  their  lives  till  a 
year  or  so  ago,  they  don't  like  to 
mix  up  even  an  omelet  by  hand," 
was  the  concluding  comment. 

The  Electric  Range 

In  the  cooking  and  serving  of 
foods,  the  chief  interest  centers 
around  the  range,  and  here  it  may 
be  stated  unreservedly  that  the 
electric  range  is  the  device,  par  ex- 
cellence, of  the  professional  cook. 
In  a  school  in  New  York  City 
devoted  to  the  training  of  cooks, 
caterers,  and  chefs  the  cooks  are 
taught  on  the  electric  range  ex- 
clusively, first,  it  was  said,  be- 
cause in  the  homes  able  to  com- 
mand the  service  of  these  highly 
trained  personages,  electric  ranges 
were  used,  so  that  the  aspirant  to 
the  most  lucrative  positions  must 
necessarily  be  familiar  with  that 
type  of  apparatus. 

Next,  the  question  was  put  as 
to  why  these  professionals  fa- 
vored the  electric  range.  The  an- 
swer was  that  its  entire  dependa- 
bility gave  it  the  preference  where 
elaborate  course  dinners  had  to 


August,     1920 

be  served,  and  where  the  cook 
must  calculate  to  a  minute  as 
to  when  various  viands  would 
be  finished.  That  is,  the  ex- 
perienced cook  can  know  ex- 
actly the  time-limits  neces- 
sary to  reach  a  certain  tem- 
perature in  an  electric  range, 
and  by  regulation,  can  main- 
tain the  different  cooking 
compartments  at  the  required 
and  various  temperatures. 

Cost  of  Running 

In  establishments  such  as 
these,  the  cost  of  operation  is 
but  a  minor  consideration, 
but  the  matter  of  relative 
expense  is  not  one  that  can 
be  answered  dogmatically, 
since  it  depends  largely  on 
the  price  of  current  in  a  given 
locality,  as  compared  with 
the  cost  of  gas,  oil,  coal  and 
other  fuels  available  at  the 
same  point.  Care  in  usage  also 
is  an  important  item.  Thus 
in  a  series  of  extremely  care- 
ful tests  made  by  arrange- 
ment with  a  group  of  do- 
mestic scientists  and  a  large 
electric  lighting  company,  it 
was  found  that  a  family  of 
three  could  have  three  meals 
per  day  prepared  on  an  elec- 
tric range  at  a  cost  of  2.01 
cents;  for  a  family  of  five, 
the  average  cost  of  current 
per  meal,  per  person,  fell  to 
1.29  cents  and  for  a  family 
of  eight,  the  current  con- 
sumed amounted  to  .957 
cents  per  meal  per  person, 
with  electricity  charged  at 
the  rate  prevailing  in  New 
York  City.  In  common  ex- 
perience, however,  especially 
if  there  were  no  intelligent 
effort  to  prevent  waste  of  cur- 
rent, the  cost  would  probably 
be  in  excess  of  this,  in  pro- 
portion to  the  relative  care- 
lessness of  handling. 

Warming  Devices 

The  cooking  of  a  meal  is 
really  not  complete  until  that 
meal  has  been  placed,  hot,  upon 
the  table.  The  best  device  to 
this  end,  except  the  elaborate 
steam-tables  used  by  hotels,  is 
the  electric  plate-warmer,  in- 
stalled preferably  in  the  butler's 
pantry  or  serving  closet.  One 
advantage  of  this  device  is  that 
it  is  not  hot  enough  to  injure 
either  dishes  or  plate,  so  that 
viands,  thoroughly  hot  when 
placed  in  a  valuable  container, 
may  be  maintained  at  the  cor- 
rect temperature  for  serving, 
without  fear  of  breaking  china 
or  melting  silver.  This  applies, 
of  course,  equally  well  to  the  in- 
dividual dishes  and  plates  from 
which  the  food  is  to  be  eaten. 

Smaller  electrical  appliances 
for  cooking,  of  course,  are  not 
overlooked  by  the  up-to-date 
house-manager,  but  they  are 
more  properly  speaking,  dining 


Kitchen  equipment  is  divided  into  three  classes — devices  for  preparing  meals, 

for  serving  it  and  for  cleaning  up.     The  electric  dish  washer  falls  into  the 

last  group.  A  washer  of  this  type  should  be  priced  at  about  $145 


An  electric   kitchen   motor  aid  of 

this  type  can  serve  a  diversity  of 

domestic  purposes.     The  cost  should 

be  approximately  S130 


Other    attachments,    including    an 

ice  cream  freeter,  vegetable  slicer. 

meat  chopper,  strainer,  etc.,  should 

be  had  complete  for  SI 60 


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or  breakfast  or  even  porch 
furnishing,  rather  than  be- 
longing to  the  kitchen  outfit. 

Cleaning  Up 

Having  provided  the  kitch- 
en   with    electric    equipment 
for  the  preparation,  cooking 
and    serving    of   meals,    the 
last  word  in  household  effi- 
ciency    has     not    yet     been 
spoken    unless    attention    is 
given  to  the  process  of  clear- 
ing-up  afterwards.      It  may 
come  as  a  surprise  to  those 
who  have  not  considered  the 
matter,  but  as  a  time-consum- 
ing element,  hand  clearing-up 
for   a    family   of   four   takes 
more  than  fifteen  hours  per 
week,  as  against  twenty-four 
hours   for  both   the  prepara- 
tion and  cooking  of  meals  for 
the    same    family.      By    in- 
troduction of  suitable  devices 
for  a  household  on  a  mod- 
erate scale,   clearing  up  can 
be  reduced  to  ten  hours,  the 
preparation  and  serving  come 
down    to    eighteen    hours,    a 
clear  saving  of  nineteen  hours 
per  week,  or  nearly  two  and 
a  half  working  days  on   an 
eight-hour  basis.     While  the 
studies  from  which  these  fig- 
ures     were     obtained      were 
made  of  homes   following  a 
-simple      though      intelligent 
regime,    there    is    no    reason 
why  the  proportions  of  time- 
saving  should  not  be  corres- 
pondingly great  in  establish- 
ments of  a  more  pretentious 
order. 

Time-saving    in    clearing 
up    centers    around    a    dish- 
washing machine.     For  years, 
of   course,   hotels   and    large 
mansions  have  been  employ- 
ing  machinery   to  this   end, 
but  it  is  only  comparatively 
recently  that  machines  have 
been  produced  suitable  for  or- 
dinary   family    use.      The   me- 
chanical   principle    involves    a 
mass     of     hot,     soapy     water, 
churned  rapidly  by  an  electri- 
cally driven  paddle  which  sprays 
forcibly  dishes  placed  so  as  to 
receive   the   full    power   of   the 
water.      As   the   dishes   remain 
stationary  in  the  racks,  there  is 
less  danger  of  breaking  than  in 
the  old-fashioned  operation. 

Dishwasher  Capacity 

In  usage,  however,  another 
question  arises  for  the  house- 
manager  to  consider.  Unless 
the  family  is  quite  a  large  one, 
the  capacity  of  the  machine  will 
be  greater  than  the  number  of 
dishes  required  for  one  meal, 
especially  for  breakfast  and  in- 
formal luncheons.  It  is  proba- 
bly then,  tin'  U-st  management 
to  have  the  dishes  washed  only 
once  or  possibly  twice  a /lay,  the 
soiled  utensils  liein^  sr  raped 
and  placed  inside  the  washer  to 
(Continued  on  page  82) 


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House     &     Garden 


The  architectural  scheme  was 
taken  from  HOUSE  &  GARDEN 
several  years  back,  the  English 
design  being  adapted  to  an 
American  setting.  Slate  was  used 
instead  of  thatch  and  the  walls 
are  stucco  over  hollow  tile 


The  hall  is  finished  in  imitation 
caen  stone,  with  a  red,  quarry 
tile  floor.  Pale  sage  green  wood- 
work contrasts  with  it.  The  rail 
is  wrought  iron  with  a  mahogany 
handrail  and  the  risers  are  fin- 
ished in  white  enamel 


Inside,  the  rooms  are  arranged 
on  a  simple  scheme,  the  laundry 
being  the  only  unusual  feature. 
The  drawing  room  runs  the  depth 
of  the  house;  cupboards  and  pan- 
try are  well  placed  and  the 
kitchen  is  light  and  airy 


Throughout  the  house  windows 
are  finished  without  trim  save 
for  a  sill.  In  the  dining  room 
the  leaded  casements  are  cur- 
tained with  casement  cloth.  A 
convenient  bench  extends  below 
the  casements 


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THE     HOME     OF 
C.    NORVIN    RINEK 


One  step  below  the  hall  through 
leaded  glass  doors  is   the   draw- 
ing room 


7«ii  rear  view  shows  the  flare  of 

the    roof    to    cover    the    laundry 

extension 


A  lite  panel  is  above  the  fireplace. 

On  the  table  is  a  ship  model  by 

Henry  B.  Culver 


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House     &     Garden 


THE        SMOKE        ON        THE        HORIZON 


'T'HESE  thoughts  were  aroused  by  the  perfidy  of  a  certain  small  boy. 
JL  He  is  the  son  of  a  neighboring  farmer,  and  he  positively  lusted 
for  the  rural  life.  He  vowed  to  me  that  his  life  ambition  was  to  follow 
in  father's  footsteps.  He  even  asked  if  he  could  borrow  literature  on 
up-to-date  farm  methods,  because  he  was  going  to  study  and  be  a 
progressive  farmer. 

With  the  callow  innocence  of  the  city-born  I  loaned  him  the  books 
and  hired  him  into  bondage  to  cut  the  lawn  during  my  absence.  His 
price,  quite  high,  I  thought,  for  sixteen,  was  thirty-five  cents  an  hour. 
Yet,  as  he  seemed  enthusiastic  for  the  work,  we  didn't  quibble  over  it. 
I  went  away  on  my  business  trip  gaily  confident. 

When  finally  I  reached  that  hilltop  again  and  looked  upon  the  lawn 
that  had  been  left  shaven  and  rolled,  it  seemed  as  though  my  eyes 
were  deceiving  me.  All  through  those  ten  long  days  I  had  dreamed  of 
it  as  a  vast  table  of  green,  cropped  with  meticulous  care,  stretching 
from  the  trim  roadside  to  the  infinity  of 
the  orchard.  Instead,  it  looked  like  a 
meadow  ready  for  haying.  Dandelions  in 
full  bloom  scattered  seeds  on  every  side. 
The  grass  was  long  and  matted.  In  the 
border  the  weeds  were  winning  over  the 
flower  seedlings.  ...  I  assigned  that  lad 
to  ultimate  perdition. 

The  next  afternoon  I  met  him  trudging 
up  the  road.  A  dinner  pail  swung  on  his 
arm.  He  didn't  seem  at  all  embarrassed. 
His  broken  word  troubled  him  not  the 
least.  When  I  demanded  why  the  blan- 
kety-blank  he  hadn't  come  to  work,  he 
blandly  replied  that  he  had  gone  to  work, 
and  he  pointed  over  his  shoulder  toward 
town,  where  a  column  of  smoke  from  a 
factory  chimney  corrupted  the  skyline.  He 
had  given  up  his  ambition  to  be  a  pro- 
gressive farmer  when  he  discovered  that 
hands  were  being  paid  amazing  wages 
down  at  a  nearby  mill. 

Most  of  the  boys  in  that  neighborhood 
have  done  the  same.  Big  pay  and  short 
hours  constitute  the  Lorelei  that  calls  them 
off  the  course  of  their  naturally  ordered 
lives.  The  smoke  on  the  horizon  is  a 
constant  menace  to  all  of  us  in  that  neigh- 
borhood who  need  help  in  our  gardens. 
It  has  become  one  of  the  great  menaces  to 
America's  future. 


THERE  was  a  time  when  the  factor}' 
drew  the  farm  boys  to  the  city.  To- 
day the  factory  is  making  its  attraction 
more  plausible  and  its  temptation  more 
alluring  because  it  has  moved  to  the  coun- 
try. The  boys  can  now  live  on  the  farm, 
having  the  benefits  of  home  life,  and  still 
work  close  at  hand,  drawing  the  city  wage. 
There  is  all  the  material  advantage  of 
working  in  the  city  with  none  of  its  incon- 
veniences. Meantime  the  harrow  rests 
against  the  wall  and  beetles  gnaw  the 
vines. 

Travel  along  any  trunk  line  of  our  rail- 
roads and  notice  what  the  factory  is  doing. 
Where  farms  once  rolled  gently  down  to 
the  trackside  are  now  line  on  line  of  fac- 
tory buildings  —  modern  buildings,  but 
ostensibly  what  they  are. 

The  machine  that  once  created  the  city 
and  cursed  it  as  a  place  to  live  in  has 
turned  about,  and  may  curse  the  country 
town.  Industrialism  is  becoming  ruralized 
and  the  rural  sections,  in  turn,  becoming 
industrialized. 

NO  one  can  quarrel  with  the  desire  of 
the  factory  to  move  to  the  country. 
There  its  workers  can  find  homes  or  have 
homes  built  for  them,  they  can  work  in 


The  Italian  Garden 


Some  years  ago,  ivhen  first  my  hand  unskilled, 

Assisted  by  my  bride's  unerring  taste, 
Sketched  out  the  home  we  hoped  some  day  to  build, 

I  used  to  think  our  mansion  should  be  placed 
Within  a  garden,  Villa  d'Este  style, 

Italian,  formal,  classic  to  the  core, 
With  geometric  planting,  and  an  aisle 

Of  poplars,  for  a  mile  or  maybe  more. 

II. 


pleasant  surroundings  and  breathe  fresh  and  life-giving  air — elements 
that,  theoretically,  make  for  industrial  contentment  and  greater  pro- 
duction. 

It  is  a  fine  thing,  indeed,  for  a  man  at  the  lathe  to  raise  his  eyes  and 
see  a  field  of  daisies  swaying  with  the  winds.  It  is  refreshing  for  him 
to  drink  deep  the  clean  air  as  he  ceases  a  moment  from  work.  It  is  his 
due  to  come  home  to  his  own  house  and  scratch  in  his  garden  patch  after 
supper.  These  conditions  are  veritable  Heaven  compared  with  the  Hell 
of  a  blank  wall  outlook,  fetid  workshop  air  and  a  crowded  tenement. 
Labor  must  have  them. 

On  the  other  hand,  if  the  factory  continues  to  draw  the  young  men 
off  the  farm  and  keep  them  off  it  permanently,  where  is  the  worker  in 
the  mill  going  to  get  his  food?  Where  are  the  rest  of  us  going  to 
get  our  food? 

It  is  all  very  well  for  economists  to  say  that  the  factories  will  eventu- 
ally overproduce  and  then  be  obliged  to 
shut  down,  driving  the  men  back  to  the 
farm.  This  would  only  be  a  temporary 
solution,  however.  In  a  few  years  we 
would  feel  the  pinch  again,  when  the 
present  stores  of  factory  products  have 
run  low  and  the  mills  open  again  to  re- 
plenish them. 

Whether  it  is  labor  or  capital  that  is  to 
blame,  the  solemn  fact  is  that  too  much 
emphasis  has  been  placed  on  the  nobility 
and  rights  of  the  skilled  man  who  works 
with  a  machine,  too  little  on  the  nobility 
and  rights  of  those  skilled  with  the  hands 
in  the  arts  of  husbandry.  The  farm  hand 
is  just  as  deserving  of  high  praise  and 
justice  as  the  factory  hand;  his  demands 
are  as  pressing,  his  labor  often  harder  and 
his  hours  certainly  longer — for  Nature 
punches  no  time  clock.  If  the  mill  hand 
waxes  fat  at  the  price  of  injustice  and 
neglect  to  the  farm  hand,  no  amount  of 
material  prosperity  will  stay  by  him. 


A  column  here,  a  snowy  fountain  there, 

A  seat,  an  urn,  a  curving  balustrade; 
A  satyr  smiling  at  a  wood  nymph  fair, 

A  dial  peeping  coyly  from  the  shade. 
A  pool,  a  grotto,  and  a  little  vale, 

Gouged-out  in  case  the  natural  grades  were  wrong, 
Wherein  at  dusk  a  punctual  nightingale 

Should  serenade  us  with  her  even-song. 

III. 


We  have  our  mansion  now,  though  I  confess, 

It  is  not  quite  the  sort  of  thing  we  planned. 
'Twos  built  in  1890,  at  a  guess, 

When  architects,  with  one  accord,  Queen-Anned. 
A  garden,  likewise,  glads  us  with  its  green, 

Informal  space  which,  though  not  over-large, 
Creates  a  rather  neat  effect  between 

Our  clothes  yard  and  the  portable  garage. 

IV. 

A  barrel  here,  an  old  express  cart  there, 

A   clothes-post  leaning   drunkenly   awry; 
A  sand-box  full  of  dead  leaves,  and  a  pair 

Of  blue  dish-towels  hanging  out  to  dry, 
A  bird-house,  where  the  Sun's  last  arrow  gleams, 

And  Tony,  bless  his  gnarled  and  knotted  face! 
Who  cuts  the  grass  and  resurrects  our  dreams, 

The  only  thing  Italian  on  the  place! 

—George  S.  Chappell 


THE  smoke  on  the  horizon,  we  may 
hope,  is  not  alone  from  a  factory  but 
from  a  gigantic  crucible  in  which  is  being 
fused  some  form  of  justice  to  those  who 
work  on  the  farm.  At  present  it  is  a  men- 
ace; it  may  eventually  prove  a  blessing. 
What  will  come  out  of  it  no  one  can  say 
for  a  certainty.  We  who  have  gardens, 
who  love  the  country  life  and  know  what 
is  at  stake,  must  do  our  share  in  preparing 
the  countryside  to  receive  this  new  justice. 
First,  we  must  stop  associating  the 
farmers  with  all  that  is  dumb  and  slow 
and  mentally  thick.  We  must  not  expect 
low  prices  of  him  when  his  own  costs  are 
high.  We  must  enter  into  his  work  by 
working  ourselves.  We  must  insist  on  bet- 
ter schools  for  his  children,  better  roads 
to  his  markets,  and  above  all  we  must  lend 
a  hand  in  freeing  him  from  the  grip  of 
unprincipled  middlemen  who  snatch  his 
profits. 

THERE  is  no  use  pleading  with  young 
men  to  leave  their  paying  jobs  in  fac- 
tories that  surround  country  towns  when 
we  can  offer  them  nothing  but  sentimental 
phrases  about  the  beauties  of  farm  life. 
Not  until  we  get  a  better  adjustment  be- 
tween farmer  and  consumer  will  we  have 
anything  that  is  worth  listening  to.  Not 
until  Labor — the  big,  thinking  men  in 
Labor  circles — quit  valuing  the  farmers 
of  America  as  a  mere  vote  club  to  swing 
for  their  own  particular  advantage  can 
we  hope  to  have  men  stay  on  the  farm 
contented.  Only  then  will  the  menace  of 
the  smoke  on  the  horizon  be  dispelled. 


August,     1920 


THE     ANGLE     AND     THE     ARCH 


In  any  architectural  composition  line  plays  an 
important  part.  The  way  various  kinds  of 
contours  are  combined  will  decide  the  attrac- 
tiveness and  interest  of  a  detail.  This  doorway 
to  the  home  of  Mr.  Adolph  Augenblick  at 
Newark,  N.  J.,  illustrates  the  point.  There  is 
the  angle  of  the  dormer  window  tops  and  of 
the  eaves;  there  is  the  low  arch  of  the  fan- 


light over  the  door;  there  are  also  the  fiat 
lintels  of  the  other  windows  pronounced  with 
dark  paint.  Light  and  shade  have  also  been 
cleverly  combined  in  this  composition,  but 
even  these,  in  turn,  depend  for  their  value  on 
the  combination  of  contours  as  expressed  in  the 
windows,  the  door  and  the  roof.  Howard 
Major,  architect 


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House     &     Garden 


Early  American  glass  shows  considerable  variety  in  size,  color  and  form.     These  bottles,  pitchers  and  glasses  are  Steigel  pieces  from 
Manheim,  Pa.,  1769-1774.     They  and  the  other  examples  illustrating  this  article  are  from  Mr.  Holden's  collection 

EARLY        AMERICAN        GLASS 

Our  First  Settlers  JJ'roie  History  in  the  Home  Utensils  and  Ornaments 

Made  in  Colonial  Days 


WHEN  we  collect  early 
American  glass,  we  gather 
together  some  of  the  household 
articles  of  American  manufacture 
that  have  in  the  years  of  the  past 
added  beauty  and  utility  to  the 
homes  of  our  forebears,  from 
early  Colonial  times  to  the  days 
of  the  Civil  War. 

In  the  year  1776  in  this  coun- 
try there  were  wealth  and  refine- 
ment in  the  city  homes,  abundance 
and  prosperity,  even  luxury,  in 
the  homes  of  the  towns,  villages 
and  old  settled  farms.  But  in  the 
log  cabin  homes,  in  the  small 
forest  clearing,  beside  the  blazed 
trails  of  the  newly  surveyed  town- 
ships, there  were  toil  and  priva- 
tion until  a  farm  had  been  wrest- 
ed from  out  of  the  timbered  land. 

Whence  It  Came 

During  Colonial  times  all  the 
fine  table  glass  used  by  the  citi- 
zens of  wealth  was  imported  from 
Holland  and  England.  So  we 
find  that  from  the  farm  homes 
alone  have  come  nearly  all  the 
American  glass  which  we  collect 
today.  It  was  purchased  by  years 
of  self  denial  and  the  hoarded 
small  savings  of  the  thrifty  house- 
wives' butter  and  egg  money,  and 
was  treasured  by  them  because  it 
added  beauty  and  adornment  to 
their  homes.  These  American 
mothers  of  olden  days  loved  their 
glass  and  cared  for  it.  With  what 
great  care  must  these  beautiful 
Steigel  and  Wistarberg  pieces, 
that  we  now  gather,  have  been 
handled,  to  have  come  down  to 
us  unbroken  through  many  gen- 
erations. Frail,  breakable  glass, 
preserved  for  a  century  and  a 
half,  heirlooms  of  the  early  days! 

No    sooner    had   the    colonists 
settled  at  Jamestown,  Virginia,  in 
1607  than  they  started  to  make 
glass.      This   first    1608    venture, 
proved   a  failure.     In   1622   an- 


(Upper)   Two  Decalcomania  vases  oj   1850  and  an  early  New  Jersey 

wine  demijohn,  with  white  glass  trading  beads  and  wampum  above. 

(Lower)  Demijohn-shaped  bottles,  the  one  at  the  right  by  Steigel,  the 

other  three  from  Wistarberg 


other  attempt  was  made,  equip- 
ping a  factory  for  making  glass 
beads  for  trading  with  the  In- 
dians. This  factory,  also,  lasted 
only  a  few  years. 

The  magic  words  "trading  with 
the  Indians" — what  mental  mov- 
ing pictures  flash  instantly  across 
the  mind!  Sir  Walter  Raleigh, 
courtier  and  great  adventurer,  ap- 
pears; then  Capt.  John  Smith, 
and  Pocahontas,  beloved  type  of 
all  Indian  maidens;  Peter  Stuyve- 
sant  trading  with  the  Indians  and 
buying  all  Manhattan  Island  for 
a  string  of  wampum  beads;  the 
Pilgrim  Fathers  and  Massasoit; 
William  Penn  trading  with  the 
Indians  under  the  great  elm  tree; 
then  the  great  race  for  trade  and 
empire  by  the  American  colonists 
assisted  by  England  --.-against  the 
French  in  Canada — all  are  sug- 
gested to  us  by  the  words.  A 
string  of  white  trading  beads 
made  of  glass,  and  a  string  of 
wampum  beads  used  for  trading 
with  the  Indians,  are  shown  in 
one  of  the  illustrations. 

Early  Attempts 

The  glass  factories  established 
in  early  Colonial  days  for  mak- 
ing window  glass  and  bottles  were 
all  failures.  None  continued  in 
business  over  ten  years,  except  the 
Wistarberg  glass  factory  in  Salem 
County,  New  Jersey,  whose  chief 
output  was  window  glass  and 
bottles  from  1735  to  1780.  They 
also  made  beautiful  table  glass. 
Baron  Steigel  at  his  glass  works 
at  Manheim,  Pa.,  made  table 
glass  for  five  years,  from  1769  to 
1774.  In  that  short  time  he  pro- 
duced a  large  amount  of  beautiful 
glass  (plain,  engraved  and  enam- 
eled), besides  bottles.  He  made  a 
brave  bid  to  gain  some  of  the 
trade  of  the  wealthy  citizens  of 
Philadelphia,  New  York  and 
Boston  for  his  fine  table  glass, 


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27 


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Wistarberg  glass  of  1735- 
1780.  Lejt  to  right,  deep 
olive  green  flecked  white, 
royal  blue  sugar  bowl 

but  was  unable  to  withstand 
the  foreign  competition  of 
Holland  and  England.  Some 
of  his  glass  is  in  the  homes 
of  these  cities  to  this  day,  but 
the  most  of  it  has  l>een  found 
in  the  farm  homes  around 
Manheim,  Pa. 

The  only  glass  factories 
that  were  established  before 
1800  and  are  still  doing  busi- 
ness are  the  Dyottville  glass 
works,  now  Kensington  glass 
works,  Philadelphia,  estab- 
lished 1771;  the  Whitney 
glass  works,  Glassboro,  New 
Jersey,  established  1775;  and 
the  Baltimore  glass  works, 
Baltimore,  established  1790. 
The  glassware  made  at  these 
three  factories  should  l>e  col- 
lected; also  the  glass  made  in 
the  early  part  of  the  19th 
Century  at  Millville,  N.  J.;  Albany,  N.  Y. ; 
Pittsburg,  Pa.;  Franklin  Furnace,  Ohio,  and 
other  factories  throughout  New  England  and 
other  states.  The  field  for  collecting  glass  is 
large  and  there  is  a  great  amount  of  research 
work  yet  to  be  done  to  classify  our  early  glass 
properly. 

The  A  B  C  of  glass  collecting  in  America 
is  bottles;  all  the  early  glass  factories  made 
them,  and  they  are  easy  to  obtain.  First  came 


The  pitchers 
above  are 
royal  blue 
and  the  bot- 
tle is  of  a 
golden  amber 
color 


wamm 

Right  to  left,  dark  pur- 
ple pitcher,  golden  amber 
pitcher,  and  large  and 
small  sea  green  pitchers 

the  demijohn  sha|)ed  bottles, 
then  the  historical  ones,  then 
later  the  bitters  Ijottles.  From 
t IK-HI  much  may  be  learned  of 
the  early  craftsmanship  of 
making  glass  bottles.  They 
show  the  manner  in  which 
the  lx>ttle  was  blown,  the 
shape  of  the  mold,  the  way 
it  was  finished,  such  as  a 
sheared  off  mouth  or  added 
flange,  and  \\o\v  the  neck  was 
formed.  The  earliest  bottles 
have  the  patched-on  neck. 
Another  important  point  to 
notice  is  the  rough  pontil 
mark  on  the  base,  which  in 
the  early  American  bottles 
was  left  rough,  the  European 
practice  being  to  grind  it  out. 
leaving  a  smooth  hollow  in 
the  base,  after  1800. 

I  like  best  the  early  demi- 
john shaped  bottles  shown  in  the  illustrations 
around  which  the  "dear  imprisoned  spirit  of 
the  impassioned  grape''  still  clings,  for  they 
are  like  Ix-autiful  blown  bubbles  and  make  a 
charming  decoration  when  used  with  bronzes 
and  copper. 

Of  the  historical  bottles  the  one  I  like  l>est  is 
the  General  Taylor  bottle  of   1840,   with   its 
ringing  American  motto  of  "General  Taylor 
(Continued  on  fuge  74) 


(Left)  The 
"  (.!  e  ne  r  a  I 
Ta\lor  \ever 
Surrenders" 
bottlf  is  on 
the  box  in 
the  center 


New  England  candlesticks  made  at  Sandwich,  Mass,    The  dolphin  de- 
signs suggest  the  clippers,  whaling  ships  and  frigates  of  earlier  America 


The  early  whale  oil  and  kerosene  lamps  of  America  would  make  a 
wonderful  collection  of  beauty  and  historic  interest 


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House     &•     Garden 


THE    INTRICATE    ART    OF    NEEDLEWORK 

Which  Is  Enjoying  a  Renewed  Appreciation  by  Its 
Growing   Use  in  Decoration 


THE  art  of  the  needle 
can  never  be  said  to 
have  disappeared  entire- 
ly. It  has  its  waves  of 
fashion  and  favor,  but 
even  at  its  lowest  point 
of  popular  interest  there 
are  always  some  few  wo- 
men to  whom  it  is  a 
means  of  beautiful  crea- 
tion. Modern  decora- 
tion, with  its  easy  way  of 
choosing  the  best  from 
the  past,  has  turned  to 
17th  Century  English 
needlework,  and  under 
its  patronage  this  intri- 
cate art  is  enjoying  a 
revival. 

It  will  be  remembered 
that  tapestry-making  in 
England  flourished  un- 
der James  I  and  Charles 
I,  the  latter  aided  by  the 
cooperation  of  Rubens 
and  Van  Dyck.  After 
the  reign  of  Charles  II, 
tapestries  died  out  of 
favor.  Coinciding  with 
this  period  was  an  effort 
made  by  needlewomen  in 
English  households  to 
simulate  on  a  smaller 
scale  the  products  of  the 
loom.  At  that  time  the  walls  would  In- 
hung  with  tapestries  and  the  cushions,  and 
chair  seats  and  backs  embroidered  in  the 
tapestry  manner. 

Examples  of  this  tapestry  needlework 
are  found  in  the  chairs  and  screens  illus- 
trated here.  The  chairs  are  walnut,  of 
17th  Century  workmanship  and  the  cov- 
ering, which  is  blue,  is  of  fine  needlework 
characteristic  of  the  period.  The  screen 
represents  even  more  ambitious  work. 

Needlework  Characteristics 

The  17th  Century  also  saw  the  begin- 
ning of  a  more  open  embroidery  than  that 
which  was  employed  in  the  tapestry  work. 
These  pieces,  used  for  hangings,  curtains 
and  valances,  are  generally  of  linen 


These  17th 
Century  chairs 
are  covered 
w  i  t  h  fi  n  c 
needlework 


A    remarkable   example   of   a   silk   needlework 
threefold  screen  of  the  \~th  Century  has  jardi- 
niere  colors   on  a    black   ground.    Each   fold 
7'  by  24</>".   Courtesy  of  Stair  &  Andrews 


Yellow  silk  quilted  on  soft  white 
linen  and  embroidery  in  rose, 
green  and  yellow,  are  the  colors 
of  this  William  fr  Mary  coverlet 


Another  William  &•  Mary  cover- 
let has  an  unusual  design  worked 
in     blue    and    yellow    wool.      It 
measures  8'   7"  by  9'. 


and  worked  in  bright 
colored  worsteds.  The 
patterns  are  large.  Iso- 
lated sprays  of  flowers 
began  to  compose  the 
general  design.  Toward 
the  end  of  the  17th  Cen- 
tury the  Chinese  influ- 
ence was  evident  in  these 
embroideries.  There  was 
an  effort  to  simulate  the 
bright  colors  in  Nature. 
This  work  began  to  ap- 
pear on  coverlets  and  it 
is  found  extending  into 
the  early  18th  Century. 
Silk  eventually  replaced 
worsteds,  especially  in 
the  larger  pieces.  Linen 
is  generally  the  ground 
fabric,  although  silk  was 
known  to  have  been  used. 
The  linen  was  often 
quilted  with  white  thread. 

William  and  Mary 
Coverlets 


Two  examples  of  Wil- 
liam and  Mary  coverlets 
are  found  on  this  page. 
In  one  the  linen  is  very 
soft  and  white.  It  is 
finely  quilted  in  yellow 
silk.  An  intricate  design 
of  leaves  and  flowers  in  tones  of  rose, 
green  and  yellow  is  embroidered  on  this. 
The  border  is  formed  of  delicate  leaves  in 
blue.  It  measures  5'  9"  by  4'  8" — an 
ambitious  piece  of  needlework. 

The  other  William  and  Mary  coverlet 
has  an  unusual  design,  worked  in  wool, 
of  rows  of  yellow  flowers  with  blue  leaves 
on  a  white  ground.  A  delicate  tracery  of 
flowers  forms  the  border,  with  a  garniture 
at  each  comer.  It  measures  8'  7"  by  9'. 

While  the  earlier  examples  of  needle- 
work— the  screen  and  the  chairs — would 
require  a  formal  environment,  the  William 
and  Mary  coverlets  can  be  happily  used  in 
Colonial  rooms  or  in  bedrooms  where  Eng- 
lish oak  of  Tudor  design  forms  the  furni- 
ture. They  are  gay  and  light  in  spirit  and 
give  relief  to  the  formality  of  the  wood. 


The  needlework 
measures  48" 
by  22",  and  is 
true  to  the  pe- 
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For  the  dressing  table 
come  these  lamps  of 
painted  flowers  in  deli- 
cate tones  to  suit  the 
color  scheme 


The  lamps,  wired  for 
electricity,  are  $35  each 
and  the  organdie  shades 
in  soft  tones  to  match, 
$11. SO  each 


A  painted  urn  of  classic  lines  re- 
commends itself  for  the  boudoir 
or  living  room.  Chiffon  shade  of 
sand  color  over  orange  taffeta. 
Lamp,  $22.50.  Shade,  $33 


Another  classic  lamp  base  of 
cream  and  blue  painted  metal  has 
a  cream  painted  shade  which  re- 
peats the  blue  of  the  base  in  its 
flower  wreath.  $27.50 


Jjk 


A   painted  reading  lamp  that  com- 
bines a  stand  to  hold  books  or  smok- 
ing accessories  comes  at  $55.     The 
parchment  shade  is  priced  $18 


SIX  GOOD  LAMPS 


Which  may  hr  purchased  through  the 
House   &   Garden    Shopping   Service 


An  adjustable 
wrought  iron 
floor  lamp 
hinged  shade, 
$25.  Shade  extra 


A  high  torchere 
of  wrought 
iron,  for  three 
lights,  and  with 
shade,  S4.i 


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House     &•     Garden 


The  house  is  favored  by  a  charming  location — the  brow  of 

a  hill  commanding  a  view  across  a  wide  valley.     Tall  trees 

shade  the  site.    Heavy,  hand-split  cypress  shingles  painted 

white  cover  the  walls 


A  Colonial  at- 
mo  sphere  is 
maintained  in- 


C  O  L  O  N  I  A  L    '    P  L  A  N 


IN  WHITE  SHINGLES 

usually    a    bleak 

spot  —  are    built- 

in  bookshelves 


The  difference  in  levels  adds  to  the  interest  of  the  house.  At 
one  end  is  a  living  room.  The  porch  has  a  brick  border  with  a 
field  of  random,  broken  tile—the  wastage  from  a  floor  job.  The 
dtnmg  room  is  set  in  the  rear  of  the  house  to  catch  the  view. 
A  small  kitchen  and  its  closets  and  porch  complete  this  floor 


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31 


From  the  rear  is  another  view  of  the  valley.  Here  is  the 
dining  room  and  the  porch,  with  its  lattice  panels.  This  is 
glassed  in  winter.  The  dormers  upstairs  are  joined  together 
by  two  other  windows,  giving  more  space  in  the  chambers 


HOME    OF    CHARLES 
C.   MAY,   ARCHITECT 


The  chimney , 
which  was  given 
one  coat  of  paint, 
has  been  per- 
mitted to  weath- 
er into  a  nice 
gradation  of 
tones 


By  keeping  the  stairs  and  hall  down  to  a  minimum  there  has 
been  found  room  upstairs  for  four  chambers,  a  bath  and  a  work- 
room, and,  in  addition,  closets  tucked  away  under  the  eaves  and 
in  odd  corners.  The  master's  bedroom  is  dignified  by  a  fireplace. 
It  is  a  house  commodious  enough  for  a  small  family 


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House     &     Garden 


Like  a  garden  spot  is  this  gay  little  dining  room  done  in  ginghams.  The  walls  are  creamy  buff  and  the  curtains  and 
chair  pads  gingham  oj  turquoise  and  orchid  lined  with  soft  yellow.  The  cottage  furniture  is  painted  a  putty  color  on 
the  outside  and  a  clear  green  turquoise  on  the  inside  of  the  dresser.  Cushions  of  old  gold,  black,  turquoise,  orchid 

and  the  gingham  of  the  curtains  fill  the  window  seat 


GINGHAM 


GLORIFIED 


From  the  Apron  Role  Gingham  Has  Risen  to  the  Luxury  Class  in  Decoration  Fabrics 
and  Can  Be  Used  Effectively  in  Many  Colors 


TIME  was  when  gingham  contented  itself 
with  a  humble  role.  It  spread  itself 
ingratiatingly  over  the  cook's  calico  skirt, 
it  made  morning  rompers  and  play  frocks  for 
the  children,  it  attended  to  house  dresses  and 
laundry  bags,  but,  like  the  family  skeleton,  it 
was  kept  strictly  out  of  sight.  Still  there  was 
undeniable  charm  about  its  gay  fresh  colors, 
its  plaids  and  stripes  and  checkerboard  effects. 
Moreover,  it  wore  and  laundered  well.  For 
years  it  remained  the  fabric  of  childhood. 
Then  it  crept,  through  sub-deb  circles,  into 
fashion,  and  just  as  it  became  indispensable, 
with  a  bound  it  leaped  into  the  luxury  class! 

At  the  present  writing  we  may  use  gingham 
with  impunity  in  the  living  room,  the  hall, 
the  dining  room  and  the  bedroom,  and  not  to 
garb  ourselves  alone,  but  our  chairs  and  sofas, 
our  windows  and  our  doors  as  well.  We  may 


ETHEL  DAVIS  SEAL 

sit  on  it  by  day  and  sleep  under  it  at  night, 
and  even,  in  this  topsy-turvy  world,  serve  up 
dainty  repasts  upon  it  at  happy  meal  times, 
with  gay  colored  china  to  match. 

Gingham  is  no  longer  a  cheap  fabric.  Since 
it  has  risen  from  the  ranks,  it  should  be  treated 
with  the  respect  it  deserves:  it  should  be  con- 
sidered from  its  new  but  finely  decorative 
standpoint;  it  should  be  used  with  a  nice  sense 
of  discrimination. 

Two  Gingham  Schemes 

You  need  not  l)e  afraid  to  use  cool  green 
striped  gingham  overdrapes  lined  with  pickle 
green  silk  at  the  south  windows  of  your  pleas- 
ant dining  room,  especially  if  your  furniture 
is  painted  a  blending  green,  your  walls  a  misty 
gray,  and  your  floor  carries  an  all-over  oval 
rag  rug  braided  of  green,  gray,  ivory,  yellow 


and  black.  And  with  your  ivory  china  ef- 
fectively in  dull  yellow  and  green  you  will 
find  that  a  soft  green  linen  meal-time  cloth 
embroidered  in  ivory  and  yellow  wool  will  be 
worthy  the  inspiration  that  prompted  it. 

If  your  house  is  in  the  country  try  two 
tones  of  blue  on  a  ground  of  ivory  for  the 
gingham  window  drapes  of  your  living  room, 
and  then  see  what  a  restful  room  you  are  en- 
abled to  evolve  from  this  starting  point.  With 
walls  of  ivory,  have  the  furniture  painted  a 
midnight  blue  and  decorated  with  an  occa- 
sional motif  combining  old  blue,  rose  and 
yellow,  painting  the  insides  of  such  pieces  as 
a  flap-lid  desk,  a  chest  of  drawers,  or  the 
drawers  of  any  other  furniture  a  brilliantly 
contrasting  color  such  as  a  soft  old  yellow  or 
old  rose,  a  buff  or  an  old  blue.  On  the  floor 
should  be  laid  a  dark  rag  rug  combining  all 


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your  colors,  unless  you 
prefer  brightly  toned, 
small  hook  hugs  repos- 
ing on  a  dark  painted 
floor.  You  should  have 
some  brass  and  some 
blue  potter)'  filled  with 
flowers  of  contrasting 
hues.  Your  lampshades 
may  be  of  decorated  vel- 
lum with  black  grounds. 
The  blue  gingham  may 
be  used  in  other  ways 
besides  the  window  cur- 
tains: for  pillows,  por- 
tieres, the  upholstery  of 
a  wicker  chair  or  so,  and 
the  pads  of  some  side 
chairs.  A  narrow  wool 
fringe  in  blue  will  pro- 
vide an  effective  edge  at 
any  point  where  finish  is 
needed,  and  you  "may  line 
your  curtains  with  plain 
blue  if  you  wish. 

Even  in  the  hall  there 
is  a  chance  for  gingham. 
It  need  not  be  a  fluffy 
little  hall  in  a  bungalow. 

Even  in  this  tiled  kali 
ginghams  in  black,  yel- 
low, cream  and  tobacco 
brown  have  been  used  on 
the  chairs  and  for  por- 
tieres. The  furniture  is 
walnut,  the  walls  cream, 
the  floor  black  and  brown 


but  one  as  formal  as  you 
please,  as  witness  this 
tiled  hall  of  the  tall  can- 
dlesticks. Against  walls 
and  woodwork  of  cream 
is  silhouetted  the  walnut 
furniture.  The  backs 
and  edges  of  the  side 
chairs  are  covered  with 
tobacco  brown  panne  vel- 
vet, and  gingham  diag- 
onally plaided  in  brown 
and  black  on  an  ivory 
ground  is  used  for  the 
upholstery  of  the  fronts 
of  the  backs  and  seats. 
Horizontally  striped 
gingham  in  black,  yel- 
low and  cream,  lined 
with  tobacco  brown,  is 
used  for  the  portieres; 
the  floor  is  tiled  in  black 
and  brown,  and  the  oval 
hook  rug  is  in  black, 
brown  and  orange.  The 
tall  candlesticks  are  of 
gilded  wood  with  orange 
candles,  the  mirror 
(Continued  on  page  58) 

Gingham  is  glorified  in 
this  bedroom,  where  a 
white  and  green  design 
has  been  used  with  green 
painted  furniture,  sea 
green  georgette  glass  cur- 
tains and  a  rose  and  gray 
rug 


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House     &     Garden 


In  this  cottage  living  room,  equipped  with  Shoreditch  furniture, 
are  two  types  of  chairs,  a  small  dresser,  a  bookcase  and  cup- 
board combined  and  a>i  oblong  table  with  rounded  ends.  The 
furniture  here  is  stained  and  wax-polished.  When  the  accessories, 
such  as  lamps  and  shades  and  small  bric-a-brac  are  added,  the 
room  takes  on  a  very  livable  aspect 


When  deal  is  used,  the  wood 
is  painted  to  suit  a  color 
scheme  and  then  combed  with 
a  grainer's  comb  into  a  simple 
relief  on  doors  and  s'dcs  of 
the  wardrobe  and  washstand 


The  combined  bookcase  and 
cupboard,  used  in  the  room 
above,  is  of  white-wood  stained 
and  waxed.  Its  lines  are  sim- 
ple and  its  structure  sincere, 
undecorated  and  strong 


Among  the  bed- 
room pieces  in 
the  Shoreditch 
line  are  a  simple 
dressing  table 
and  a  combined 
chiffonier  and 
bookshelf 


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35 


SHOREDITCH        FURNITURE 


An  Attempt  to  Evolve  Machine-Made  Cottage  Types  That  Are  Good 
in  Design  and  Cheap  in  Price 


H.  D.  EBERLEIN 


THE     humblest     house 
( 


can  be  made  pleasant 
at  no  greater  cost  than  is  in- 
curred in  making  it  ugly." 

This  is  an  axiom  that  fur- 
niture designers  the  world 
over  have  been  trying  to  ap- 
ply. Nowhere  is  it  more  suc- 
cessfully shown  than  in 
Shoreditch  furniture,  a  new 
type  created  by  Mr.  Percy  A. 
Wells  of  the  London  City 
Council  Shoreditch  Techni- 
cal Institute. 

It  is  a  type  of  furniture 
that  should  interest  that  vast 
army  of  people  who  are  solv- 
ing the  living  problem  by 
moving  into  or  building 
small  houses  and  who  have  a 
minimum  sum  to  spend  on 
their  furniture.  It  makes  no 
pretense  at  achieving  or 
modifying  period  forms,  but 
represents  a  logical  evolution 
from  the  simplest  cottage  types. 

Best,  perhaps,  of  all  is  the  fact  that  the  de- 
signs for  this  furniture  are  not  subject  to  patent 
or  copyright  restrictions  nor  confined  to  manu- 
facture by  any  one  establishment.  Any  manu- 
facturer may  obtain  scale  drawings  of  the  va- 
rious pieces  by  applying  to  the  proper  quarter. 

Derived  as  these  furniture  forms  are  from 
unpretentious  cottage  types,  their  straightfor- 
ward vigor  carries  a  sense  of  satisfaction  and 
conviction.  They  are  manifestly  fit  for  the 
purpose  for  which 
they  are  intend- 
ed. Actuated  by 
the  firm  belief 
that  a  marked  im- 
provement could 
be  effected  in  the 
design  and  manu- 
facture of  com- 
m  o  n  household 
things,  Mr.  Wells 
based  his  designs 
upon  three  cardi- 
nal principles: — 
Fitness  for  pur- 
pose, sound  con- 
struction and 
pleasant  form 
and  color. 

Materials 

The  materials 
of  which  this  fur- 
niture is  chiefly 
made  are  bass- 
wood,  birch  and 
deal.  Other 
woods,  of  course, 
can  be  used  if  de- 
sired, but  the  cost 
is  thereby  in- 
creased while  no 
advantage  is 
gained. 

The    basswood 


Washstand,  dresser 
and  chair  oj  deal 
painted  and  grained 


A  U'hitewood  side- 
board is  stained 
brown  and  waxed 


and  birch  are  either  stained 
and  wax-polished,  set  with 
shellac,  or  merely  wax-pol- 
ished. The  deal  is  painted, 
which  affords  an  opportunity 
to  add  the  enlivenment  and 
interest  of  color.  In  some 
cases  the  paint,  while  still 
wet,  is  combed  with  a  grain- 
er's  comb,  without  any  at- 
tempt to  simulate  the  grain  of 
a  wood  but  merely  to  impart 
a  varied  texture.  For  in- 
stance, in  finishing  one  bed- 
room set  the  colors  used  were 
blue  on  green,  and  the  ground 
color,  green,  shows  through 
the  blue  combing  with  very 
agreeable  effect. 

In  line,  this  furniture  is 
simplicity  itself  and  the  pro- 
portions are  pleasing  to  the 
eye.  All  unnecessary  mold- 
ings and  other  features  that 
do  not  contribute  to  structural 
soundness  or  subserve  some  specific  purpose 
are  eliminated,  and  yet  there  is  no  monotony. 
In  the  table  with  curved  ends,  a  departure  from 
straight  lines  enhances  the  appearance. 

Labor-Saving  Features 

It  should  be  noted  that  in  addition  to  sound, 
simple  structure  and  direct  lines,  every  possible 
consideration  in  the  designing  of  this  furni- 
ture has  been  given  to  convenience  and  labor- 
saving  features.  It  is  all  planned  with  a  view 

to  ease  in  dusting 
and  cleaning  and 
any  ready  harbor 
for  dust  has  been 
sedulously  avoid- 
ed. The  dresser 
was  designed  to 
combine  a  maxi- 
mum of  storage 
capacity  in  the 
smallest  dimen- 
sions, while  the 
top  above  and  the 
floor  beneath  can 
easily  be  cleaned. 
F  u  rthermore, 
there  are  no 
square  angles  to 
catch  dust.  In 
the  wardrobe  non- 
essential  cornice, 
pediment,  and 
plinth  have  been 
discarded  and  it 
is  raised  enough 
from  the  floor  to 
facilitate  dusting. 


A  simple  bed, 
with  night 
stand,  bureau 
and  chair  suf- 
ficiently furnish 
this  cottage 
bedroom 


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] 


The  obverse  oj  this  medal 
shows  Maddelena  oj  Mantua, 
and  the  reverse  depicts  an 
allegory  of  the  flight  oj  Time 
and  Occasion.  In  the  style  oj 
L'Antico  (c.  1504) 


c>" 

" 


Granfrancesco  Gonzaga  is  on 
the  obverse  above,  with  For- 
tune standing  between  Mars 
and  Minerva  on  the  reverse 
side.  By  Jacopo  Atari  Bona- 
colsi  (1460-1528) 


Upper,  Sigismondo  Pandolfo  Mala- 
testa  and  the  Castle  oj  Rimini; 
center,  Isotla  degli  Atti;  lower, 
Isotta  degli  Alii  and  elephant,  the 
Malatesta  device.  All  by  Malteo 
de  Fasti  oj  Verona 


V. 

'  wz 

4" 

Two  medals  of 
1460-69,    the 
larger  by  Jaco- 
po   Lixiguolo 

C  h  ristojoro 
Moro   oj   Ven- 
ice,   and    Em- 
peror Caracalla 

Three  medals  of  the  Florentine 
school.  Upper,  Maria  Poliziano 
and  Three  Graces;  center,  Giovanni 
Pico  delta  Mirandola;  lower,  Gio- 
vanna  Albizza  and  Three  Graces 
(Chastity,  Beauty  and  Love) 


The  medal  below,  which  de- 
picts Giulia  Astallia  on  the 
obverse  side  and  a  Phoenix  on 
the  reverse,  is  much  in  the 
style  of  L'Antico.  It  was 
made  about  1500 


(Below)  Jacopa  Corregia  and 
the  Captive  Cupid.  The  artist 
who  designed  the  medal  is  un- 
known, but  he  produced  this 
example  of  his  work  probably 
about  the  vear  1500 


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37 


A  medal  by  Pisanello  (c. 
1 44 1 ) .  Obverse,  Niccolo  Picci- 
nino,  condottiere;  reverse,  the 
Perguian  she-griffin  suckling 
two  infants,  Piccinmo  and  his 
master  in  war,  Braccio  da 
Montone  (1470-1S47) 


THE   ART   OF   THE  ANCIENT  MEDALISTS 

Finds  Expression  in  These  Metal  Discs  with  Their  Records  of  Men  and  Women  Whose 
Portraits  Are  Thus  Preserved  for  the  Delight  of  the  Collector 


GARDNER  TEALL 


WHEN  Francesco  Petrarch  was  asked  by 
Emperor  Charles  IV  to  write  a  volume 
of  biographies  of  illustrious  men  of  all  ages, 
and  to  include  the  Emperor's  own  life  in  the 
collection,  he  sent  the  Emperor  a 
number  of  gold  and  silver  coins 
bearing  the  portraits  of  celebrated 
rulers,  accompanied  by  a  letter  in 
which  he  wrote,  "Behold  to  what 
men  you  have  succeeded !  Behold 
whom  you  should  imitate  and  ad- 
mire! To  whose  very  form  and 
image  you  should  compose  your 
talents!" 

I  do  not  know  how  the  Em- 
peror regarded  this  honest  atti- 
tude of  Messer  Francesco.  The 
popular  idea  of  a  14th  Century 
Emperor  of  the  Holy  Roman  Em- 
pire and  King  of  Bohemia  would 
probably  be  that,  like  an  Alice  in 
Wonderland  personage,  the  Em- 
peror would  have  cried,  "Off  with 
his  head!"  But  he  did  nothing 
of  the  sort,  and  Petrarch  con- 
tinued to  exchange  letters  with 
him  the  remaining  years  of  a  life 
of  seventy  that  culminated  in 
1374. 

Perhaps  Alfonso  the  Magnani- 
mous, King  of  Aragon,  of  Sicily 
and  of  Naples,  patron  of  letters 
and  a  conspicuous  figure  of  the 
Renaissance  to  the  time  of  his 
death  in  1458,  had  heard  of  Mes- 
ser Francesco's  epistolary  ad- 
monition. He  undoubtedly  held 
the  memory  of  this  great  human- 
ist high  in  esteem,  and  he  him- 
self exhibited  an  ardent  love  for 
the  classics,  turning  his  court  into 
a  veritable  haven  for  wandering 


scholars.   Alfonso  assiduously  collected  ancient      great  actions  by  the  presence,  as  it  were,  of  so 
coins  and  contemporary  medals,  placed  them      many  illustrious  men  in  their  images." 
in  an  ivory  cabinet  which  was  carried  wherever         Cosimo  di  Medici  formed  a  great  medallic 
he  went,  and  confessed  himself  as  "excited  to      collection  which  Agnolo  Poliziano  described  in 

his  Miscellanea  in  1490,  and  the 
medals  in  the  collection  of  the 
Emperor  Maximilian  I  enabled 
Joannes  Huttichius  to  enrich  his 
Lives  of  the  Emj>erors,  published 
in  1525,  with  a  series  of  likenesses 
engraved  from  the  medallic  por- 
traits he  found  in  Maximilian's 
cabinet.  The  famous  French 
bibliophile,  Jean  Grolier,  who 
died  in  1565,  left  behind  him  a 
famous  collection  of  medals.  The 
letters  of  Erasmus  disclose  the 
fact  that  the  study  of  medals  was 
begun  in  the  Low  Countries  as 
early  as  the  beginning  of  the  16th 
Century.  In  Huljertus  Goltzius' 
prolegomena  to  his  Life  of  Julius 
Caesar  he  gives  us  to  understand 
that  about  the  year  1550  there 
were  some  200  medallic  collec- 
tions in  the  Low  Countries,  some 
1 75  in  Germany,  over  380  in 
Italy  and  at  least  200  in  France 
— nearly  a  thousand  collectors  of 
medals  must  have  been  living  at 
that  time! 

The  list  of  noted  collectors 
from  Renaissance  times  to  our 
own  who  have  given  attention  to 
medals  is  so  long  that  it  would 
outmeasure  Homer's  famous  Cata- 
logue of  Ships.  I  shall  not  at- 
tempt to  begin  it,  nor  shall  I 
frighten  you  away,  dear  reader, 
by  a  disquisition  on  the  history 
of  coinage.  Instead,  I  shall  con- 
(Continued  on  page  66) 


A  Renaissance  portrait 
medal  worn  as  a  pen- 
dant is  shown  in  this 
painting  of  Marie  di 
Medici  which  hangs  in 
the  Uffiti  Collection, 
Florence 


\ 


v 


(Small)  Obverse,  Pietro  Bembo, 
Venetian  humanist  and  cardinal, 
1538.  Reverse,  Pegasus.  The 
medal  was  executed  by  Ben- 
venuto  Cellini 


(Large)  Obverse,  Cosimo  I  di 
Medici  ( 1510  -  1574) ;  reverse, 
Cosimo  crowned  by  Victory,  with 
another  recording  his  military 
triumphs 


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The  west,  or  garden  front  opens  on  to  a  large  lawn 
surrounded  by  tall  planting.  All  the  windows  on  the 
first  floor  extend  to  the  ground.  Their  while  trim  and 
green  shutters  contrast  pleasantly  with  the  tawny,  irregu- 
lar color  of  the  brick 


Opening^  from  the 
drawing  room 
through  a  wide 
door  is  the  library, 
with  its  corner 
fireplace  and  heav- 
ily carved  mantel 


UPTON  HOUSE 


IN      ESSEX 


At  the  south  end 
of  the  house  are  a 
loggia  and  small 
garden,  which  are 
separated  by  plant- 
ing from  the  larger 
garden.  The  door 
leads  into  the  din- 
ing room.  An  oval 
window  above  is 
an  unusual  detail 
which  breaks  the 
wall  mass 


August,     1920 


The  windows  of  Ihe  drawing  room,  as  do  those  of  the 
library,  open  into  the  garden.  Walls  and  woodwork  are 
white.  Although  the  fireplace  is  reminiscent  of  the  early 
l&th  Century  manner,  it  shows  an  independence  »/  design 
which  gives  it  distinction 


A  close  view  of 
the  tower  shows 
the  brick  paved 
terrace,  the  vigor- 
ous use  of  brick, 
the  simple  wrought 
iron  balconv 


A     MODERN 


ENGLISH  DESIGN 


The  house  door  is 
on  the  east  front, 
a  bold  design  of 
richly  carved  de- 
tail flanked  by 
fluted  pilasters 
with  Corinthian 
caps.  The  oval 
windows  light  the 
dining  room.  The 
late  A.  Winter 
Rose  was  the 
architect 


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House    &     Garden 


The  marking  of  the  bedspread  should 
come  in  the  center  of  the  bed.  This 
simple  design  is  solid  embroidery  in 
blue.  Courtesy  of  James  McCutcheon 
&•  Son 


More  elaborate  bedspread  embroid- 
ered initials  in  a  flower  and  leaf  de- 
sign combining  cut,  solid  and  seed- 
work  embroidery.  Courtesy  of 
McCutcheon 


These  three  markings  for  table  napkins  show  an  inter- 
esting combination  of  cut  and  solid  embroidery.     The 
middle  monogram  was  designed  for  the  Danish  embassy 
at  Washington.    Courtesy,  William  Coulson  &  Son 

INDIVIDUAL     MARKINGS 
for    LINEN 


Mr.  Charles 
Searle,  the  artist, 
devises  portrait 
initials  for  coun- 
try house  linen. 
Here  we  have 
Mr.  W.  V.  I.,  a 
crusader 


His  Majesty,  H. 
H.  W.,  a  regal 
gentleman,  em- 
broiders his  linen 
in  a  small  and 
kingly  portrait  of 
himself,  crown 
and  all 


Mr.  H.  M.  V.,  a  man  about 
town,  a  bachelor,  finds  it 
amusing  for  his  guests  to 
discover  this  caricature  of 
himself  on  his  linen 


The  pattern  of  the  damask  guides  the  placing  of 
the  monogram.  The  top  napkin  shows  a  center 
monogram.  The  one  under  it  calls  for  a  corner 
embroidery.  Table  cloths  show  the  same  design  at 
the  two  right-hand  corners.  From  McCutcheon 


The  expressive  Mr.  D.  V. 
R.'s  initials  make  up  into 
a  playful  fancy  for  the 
marking  of  his  occasional 
linen.  In  white  or  colors 


August,     1920 


41 


A  dining  room  should  suggest 
both  comfort  and  dignity,  quali- 
ties happily  observed  in  the  room 
above.  The  walls  are  stone  and 
the  floor  tile  covered  with  a  large 
fibre  rug.  An  old  fireback  com- 
pletes the  equipment  of  the  fire- 
place 


A  LITTLE  PORTFOLIO 
OF  GOOD  INTERIORS 


In  a  large  room  the  furniture 
should  be  arranged  in  natural 
groups.  To  one  side  of  this  room 
is  a  writing  group.  There  is  also 
the  fireplace  group,  and  down 
this  side  along  the  wall  range 
tables,  davenport  and  an  old 
commode 


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This  Jacobean  bedroom  takes  Us  character 
from  the  stately  carved  oak  jour-poster  bed. 
Its  carving  shows  Italian  influence  and  dates 
from  about  James  I.  The  carved  chest  of 
drawers  and  bedside  stand  have  been  carefully 
chosen,  and  are  harmonious  companions  of  the 
bed.  In  the  window  a  Jacobean  table  serves 
for  dressing  table,  with  a  mirror  and  high 
standard  lamps.  A  beamed  ceiling  and  plaster 
walls  create  the  proper  background 


There  is  an  indefinable  charm  about  occasional 
bookshelves  set  in  the  wall.  Corners  can  be 
filled  with  them  or,  as  in  this  Italian  room, 
the  expanse  of  the  wall  may  be  pleasantly 
broken  by  their  interrupting  lines  of  vari-col- 
ored  bindings.  The  simplicity  of  the  finish 
here  gives  prominence  to  the  books.  The  com- 
position is  further  enhanced  by  the  wrought 
iron  Italian  bracket,  and  by  the  chair  covered 
in  rich  brocade.  Josephine  Chapman  was  th? 
architect 


August ,     1920 


43 


Where  the  architecture  permits,  it  is  desirable 
for  the  country  house  hallway  to  have  plenty 
of  light  and  space  and  easily  ascending  stairs. 
In  such  a  hall  one  feels  there  is  no  need  for 
breathless-  hurry.  Here  the  stairs  are  of  oak 
scrubbed  to  show  the  natural  beauty  of  the 
fine  grain  and  color.  The  floor  is  of  flagstone. 
To  one  side  is  an  old  Jacobean  table  with  a 
simple  mirror  above  it  and  interesting  pieces 
of  pottery  on  the  floor 


The  architect  and  decorator  can  never  make  a 
mistake  by  copying  the  details  of  our  Colonial 
architecture.  The  inspiration  for  this  card 
room  was  taken  from  Independence  Hall  in 
Philadelphia.  The  simplicity  of  the  mantel  is 
relieved  by  a  little  carving  on  the  side  brackets 
and  a  carved  festoon  above.  Walls  and  wood- 
work are  painted  a  warm  shade  of  tan,  which 
with  dull  blue,  black  and  some  well  chosen 
chintzes,  completes  the  scheme.  Elsie  de  Wolfe, 
decorator 


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DIGNIFIED 
DOORWAYS 

Seven  Town  House  Examples 

Selected  by  LEWIS  E.  WELSH 

Architect 


A  splendid  use  is  made  of  wood  panels  and  a 

fan  light  to  fill  the  arch  of  this  door.     This 

and  the  other  six  doorways  are  in  England 


The  example  in  the  cen- 
ter above  shows  an  un- 
usual use  of  brackets  to 
support  a  heavy  arched 
hood  over  the  arched 
door 


To  the  Adam  Brothers  is  attributed  the  design- 
ing of  this  door.    The  wood  fan  is  very  flat  in 
relief  and  centers  in  a  carved  rosette 


The  stone  hood,  carved 
brackets  and  door  trim  of  the 
entrance  to  the  right  are  in 
good  scale  with  this  high  door 
and  transom 


Delicacy  of  detail  in  the  head 
and  consoles  makes  this  as 
ornate  an  example  of  a  town 
house  entrance  •  as  one  finds 
in  London 


(Left)  The  arched 
treatment  of  this 
doorway  in  a  very 
thick  wall  might  have 
come  from  some  of 
the  houses  in  the  Back 
Bay  section  of  Bos- 
ton, so  noticeable  is 
the  design 


This  use  of  columns 
to  fla-ik  a  door  is  rn- 
usual  but  well  done, 
because  of  the  dif- 
ference in  scale  be- 
tween the  columns 
and  the  pilasters.  Th~, 
door  paneling  is  espe- 
cially fine 


August,     1920 


45 


THE     SETTER,    AN    ARISTOCRAT    AMONG     DOGS 

While  His  Rightful  Role  Is  in  the  Hunting  Field,  He  Is  Also  Well  Adapted  to  Serve 
as  a  Trusted  and  Loyal  Member  of  the  Household 


ROBERT  S.  LEMMON 


>TpHEY  are  called  set- 
JL  ters  because  they  "set" 
or  "point"  game  birds — a 
curious  impulse  which 
causes  them  to  stand  stock- 
still  in  a  semi-cataleptic 
state  when  their  highly  de- 
veloped sense  of  smell  tells 
them  that  they  are  close  to 
the  quarry  which  both 
they  and  their  masters  are 
seeking.  While  this  ten- 
dency to  point  is  present 
to  some  degree  in  nearly 
every  breed  of  dog,  it 
reaches  such  a  state  of  de- 
velopment in  the  setters 
that  it  can  almost  be  term- 
ed an  instinct.  In  many 
individuals  it  occurs  with- 
out any  training,  although 
a  course  of  lessons  is 
necessary  to  make  the  dogs 
entirely  subservient  and 
useful  to  their  owners  in 
the  finding  and  shooting 
of  game. 

Different  Kinds  of  Setters 

There  are  several  va- 
rieties of  setters,  just  as 
there  are  of  spaniels  or 
terriers.  The  Irish  is  a 
mahogany-red  dog,  the 
Gordon  black  with  tan 
points,  and  the  English 
shows  different  combina- 
tions of  tan,  orange,  lemon 
or  black  on  a  white 
ground.  All  three  have 
the  same  general  size  and 
form,  but  the  differences 
in  their  dispositions  are 
such  as  to  make  the  En- 
glish the  most  worthy  of 
consideration  as  a  dog 
fitted  in  every  way  to  be- 
come a  member  of  the 
household. 

It  would  seem  inevita- 
ble that  a  dog  which  for 
generation  after  genera- 
tion has  been  bred  and 
trained  for  so  highly  spe- 
cialized a  life  work  as 
hunting  would  be  lost 
when  taken  out  of  his  own 
particular  field  of  activity. 
Such  is  not  the  case  with 
the  setter,  however,  proba- 
bly because  his  long  and 
close  companionship  with 
man  has  developed  a  pe- 
culiarly keen  intelligence 
and  sympathy  with  man's 
ways.  It  may  be  too  much 
to  assert  that  a  good  setter 
consciously  and  with  the 
purpose  of  mutual  success 
co-operates  with  his  owner 
in  the  pursuit  of  game,  but 


The  English 
setter  is  a 
handsome  fel- 
low, a  strong, 
hardy  dog 
with  a  wealth 
of  affection 
and  sense 


As  a  puppy 
he  is  jasiinat- 
ing,  a  gentle- 
manly, bright 
small  felloe 
that  anyone 
will  love  at 
first  sight 


The  setter's  head  is  proof  enough  of  his  brain  power.    There  is  a  certain  nobility 
about  it  which  is  lacking  in  some  other  breeds  of  dog.     This  is  a  splendid  speci- 
men, white  "ticked"  with  black 


I    have    often    suspected 
that  such  is  the  case. 

In  the  English  setter, 
then,  we  have  a  dog  which 
fits  admirably  into  the 
family  life  of  the  house- 
hold. He  is  unusually 
affectionate  and  reliable  in 
disposition,  robust  and 
healthy,  courageous  and 
yet  tractable  when  proper- 
ly trained.  His  size  makes 
him  capable  of  adequate 
protection  of  hearth  and 
home,  and  in  the  matter  of 
beauty  he  is  second  to 
none.  There  is  something 
innately  well-bred  about 
the  appearance  and  char- 
acter of  an  English  setter 
which  puts  him  at  once  in 
the  gentleman  class;  and 
it  goes  without  saying  that 
his  intelligence  comes  as 
close  to  being  human  as 
that  of  any  four-footed 
animal  can  come, 

His  Adaptability 

From  a  somewhat  ex- 
tended experience  with 
English  setters  I  can  say 
confidently  that  they  can 
fill  the  double  role  of 
hunting  ally  and  family 
friend.  Many  a  one  is 
"shot  over"  for  days  or 
weeks  every  autumn,  and 
yet  is  a  playmate  for  the 
children  during  the  rest  of 
the  year.  In  the  latter 
part  you  need  not  fear  his 
losing  his  temper  under 
teasing  or  mauling  treat- 
ment, for  he  is  essentially 
good  natured. 

Three  points  only  would 
I  especially  urge  you  to 
bear  in  mind  when  decid- 
ing upon  one  of  these 
dogs.  First,  do  not  get 
one  at  all  unless  you  can 
give  him  plenty  of  exer- 
cise in  the  open  air,  for 
by  birth  and  breeding  he 
needs  this.  Second,  get 
only  a  well-bred  dog  (ad- 
vice, by  the  way,  which  is 
apropos  no  matter  what 
kind  of  canine  you  are 
seeking).  Third,  avoid 
the  extremely  high-strung, 
nervous  "field  trial"  dogs, 
for  they  have  been  so  spe- 
cialized in  blood  and 
training  to  find  birds 
speedily  in  compel  iti  on 
with  other  dogs  that  they 
are  too  much  racing  ma- 
chines to  be  entirely  satis- 
(Continued  on  page  58) 


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On  one  adventure,  following 
the  trail  of  Washington's  army, 
they  found  Phoenix  House,  a 
brick  mansion  enclosed  by 
porches  and  as  alluring  inside 
as  its  shadows  were  without. 
It  adds  to  the  zest  of  any 
motor  trip  to  follow  the  foot- 
steps of  history 


The  1776  House  served  once 
as  prison  for  Major  Andre. 
Then  for  generations  it  dis- 
pensed hospitality  to  man  and 
beast.  Prohibition  has  not 
dealt  kindly  with  these  his- 
toric roadside  retreats  of  the 
thirsty 


For  a  hundred  years  or  more 
successive  generations  of  one 
family  served  as  hosts  at  this 
hotel.  The  great  drought 
makes  it  now  merely  an  in- 
teresting spot  for  those  who 
love  the  antique  and  feel  an 
interest  in  its  history 


ouje  Hotel 
t,  N.J.     ' 

J.M  R.oifc  1910 


Behind  the  double  porches 
of  Chester  House  Hotel 
stands  a  fine  example  of 
Georgian  architecture. 
Masons  were  imported  to 
build  it,  in  1812  or  there- 
abouts. Its  tap-room  door 
casings  are  said  to  be 
quite  remarkable 


August ,     1920 


//  the  end  oj  travel 
is  to  arrive  some- 
where, as  Stevenson 
says,  surely  the  mo- 
tor pilgrim  could 
desire  no  more  pleas- 
ant arrival  than  at 
this  ancient  hostelry 


47 


J.  i  '  <frt  '  r«iTw<-.»«» 

JIMMI1 
jTTTWT»"""TTrr«m«i  t 


WHERE        THE        SIGN        STILL        SWINGS 

In  Many  a  Countryside,  as  These  Motor  Pilgrims  Found,  There  Still  Remain 
Festiges  of  the  Old-Time  Hospitality  of  the  Road 


YOU'LL    find 
nothing   in 


No    rocdslile    hotel    is 

complete     without     its 

swinging  sign 


New  Jersey  and  the 
Post  Road  is  in  a 
fearful  condition," 
seemed  the  consen- 
sus of  opinion  when 
we  sounded  out  our 
motoring  friends  on 
the  "inn"  situation. 
Our  own  motor  ad- 
ventures have  been 
so  scarce  and  so 
feeble  that  we 
sought  advice  eager- 
ly, the  while  poring 
over  road  maps  and 
searching  through 

musty   volumes    for   history   of   the   old   post 

roads      and      turnpikes      across      the      state. 
A     maddening 

hunt     for    a    still 

better   place   for 

a   picnic    one   day 

in    May,    took   us 

miraculously    into 

the   neighborhood 

of    several     back- 
country    taverns, 

with  Dutch  gables 

and  stone  ends  still 

in  evidence  despite 

the  many  attempts 

to  reduce  the  archi- 
tecture    to     cheap 

and    more   modem 

lines. 

It  was  along  the 

route  of  Washing- 
ton's withdrawal  to 

Morristown    that 

our     first     search 

actually     started. 

Armed    with    a 


GRACE  NORTON  ROSE 

Sketches  by  Jack  Manley  Rose 

vague  and  somewhat  jumbled  idea  of  our  fa- 
mous general's  campaigns  but  hot  on  his  trail 
with  maps,  camera,  sketch  pad  and  note  book, 
two  congenial  souls  and  an  adequate  luncheon 
tucked  in  the  tonneau,  we  swung  up  the  Pas- 
saic  Valley  to  pick  up  at  Basking  Ridge  one 
of  the  little  markers  erected  by  the  D.  A.  R. 
to  commemorate  his  passing. 

Not  far  from  the  beautiful  old  church,  there, 
hangs  an  inn  sign,  impartially  placed  between 
two  buildings;  one  a  delightful,  rambling  old 
white  house  of  quite  evident  Revolutionary 
vintage,  and  the  other,  a  creation  of  scarce 
forty  years  ago.  We  learned  upon  inquiry  of 
a  person  evidently  somewhat  suspicious  of  us, 
that  the  modern  edifice  was  now  the  inn.  Its 
charming  old  neighbor  for  a  hundred  years 
or  more  had  had  that  distinction  until  the 
proud  new  hotel  had  been  built,  whereupon  it 
retired  into  private  life. 


We  sketched  the  sign,  as  it  swung  there  over 
the  road,  adored  the  church  and  its  guardian 
oak,  and  pressed  on  searching  for  the  trail. 

We  detoured  up  the  road  and  had  a  look  at 
the  place  where  Lee  was  captured,  now  a  pri- 
vate residence,  then  went  on  to  have  a  look 
at  Liberty  Corner,  a  white  spire  among  the 
hills,  pointing  the  way,  and  being  distant  now 
from  Morristown,  sped  on  to  Far  Hills  and 
Chester,  through  Peapack  and  Gladstone. 

A  search  through  the  empty  halls  and  stiff 
parlors  of  the  Chester  House  Hotel,  towards 
the  swinging  door  of  the  bar-room,  unearthed  a 
discouraged  youth  with  no  information. to  offer, 
except  that  lie  thought  Dr.  Green,  down  the 
street,  would  be  able  to  tell  us  something  of 
the  Tavern's  history. 

A  strange  sign,  reading  "Flagstaff  Inn",  at 
a  cross-roads,  sent  the  brakes  shrieking  again, 
and  the  author,  armed  with  her  note  book, 

hopped  out  to  con- 
tinue investigations 
of  the  township  of 
Chester.  "An  oldest 
inhabitant"  was 
only  too  delighted 
to  chat  awhile.  The 
courteous  raconteur 
led  her  inevitably 
towards  the  tap- 
room, to  show  off 
old  door  casings, 
but  the  startled 
(Cottt.  on  page  68) 


Before  the  motor 
came  Black  Horse 
Inn  was  famous. 
Its  history  goes 
back  to  173S.  The 
house  seems  haunt- 
ed by  ghosts  of 
erstwhile  teamsters 
reveling  in  the 
tap-room 


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OUTLINES  of 
FRENCH 
PANELING 

Sketched  by 
RANDOLPH  W.  SEXTON 


Restraint  and  Classic 
influence  are  found  in 
the  style  of  Louis  XIV. 
The  moldings  of  the 
door  jrames  are  wide 
and  deep,  the  tops  often 
being  rounded.  Above 
important  doors  space 
was  left  for  a  decora- 
tive panel.  Pilasters 
from  dado  to  cornice 
were  often  introduced 


The  style  Louis  XV, 
commonly  known  as 
Rococo,  can  be  an 
abomination,  but  in  the 
restrained  form  its  un- 
dercut moldings  and 
scroll  panels  are  a  gen- 
uine enrichment  to  the 
architectural  back- 
ground of  a  room.  The 
panels  often  take  any 
size  to  fit  the  wall  space 


Revolting  against  the 
excesses  of  the  Rococo, 
the  style  Louis  XVI  is 
marked  by  an  absence 
of  the  scroll.  The  de- 
tails are  refined.  Mold- 
ings of  cornice  and  over- 
door  panels  are  simple. 
Square  re-entering  an- 
gles and  rosettes  were 
used  at  the  corners  of 
the  panels 


The  Empire  style  was 
an  attempt  to  simplify 
the  previous  period  by 
drawing  directly  on 
Classical  designs.  The 
wall  was  broken  by 
a  low  wainscot.  Orna- 
ment was  centered  in 
caps,  pilasters  and 
friezes  of  door  and 
window  openings  and 
cornices 


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49 


THE        WAY        THEY 


D    O 


IT        NOW 


Modern  Garbage  Incineration  Is  Another  Step  in  the  Evolution 
of  the  Almost  Perfect  Household 


The    treadle-corked 

garbage    can    saves 

bending  over 


ONCE  upon  a 
time,  all  the 
water  that  came 
into  the  big  white 
house  on  the  hill 
came  per  Rastus, 
in  two  large  pails 
that  were  filled 
at  the  well. 
There  was  a 
sweep  at  that 
well,  and  three 
or  four  apple 
trees,  and  it  was 
a  cool  and  pic- 
turesque spot  on 
a  hot  summer 
day.  What  if 
Rastus  did  stop 
on  the  way,  to 
see  if  the  robin 
sure  was  going  to 
get  that-thert' 
worm  after  all? 
Nobody  was  in  a 
hurry.  .  .  . 
Later  on  in  the  perfumed  and  somnolent 

afternoon,  it  was  part  of  Rastus'  work  to  carry 

out  everything  the  folks  didn't  eat,  and  feed 

it  to  the  pigs,  reserving  the  bones  for  Lion  and 

Tiger  who  waved  appreciative  collie  tails  be- 
fore going  back  to  sleep  in  the  shade.     Then 

Rastus  went  to  sleep,  too,  and 

even   Miss    Effie   in   the   high 

white   room    with   the   French 

wall    paper,    dozed    over    her 

stately    novel    where    nobody 

spoke   a    sentence   that   didn't 

have  all  the  parts  of  speech  in 

it,  and  nobody  even  dreamed 

there'd  be  a  day  when  water 

would  come  into  the  house  all 

by   its   clever   self   in   a   lead 

pipe — and    a    lucky   thing    it 

would     be,     because     Rastus' 

great-grandson  would  probably 

be  impossibly  independent. 

Three  Generations  Later 

Miss  Effie's  great-grand- 
daughter lives  in  town,  in  an 
apartment — quite  a  modest 
affair — and  in  place  of  the 
straggling  mob  of  retainers 


that  belonged  to  the  white  house  on  the  hill, 
she  has  two  trim  maids  who  have  stayed  with 
her  for  a  remarkably  long  time  in  these  hectic 
and  degenerate  days,  largely  because  she  has 
given  them  every  assistance  that  Mr.  Edison 
and  his  fellow-inventors  have  put  on  the  mar- 
ket— and  she  hasn't  waited  until  competing 
housekeepers  have  installed  them,  either.  In 
addition  to  buying  the  usual  household  genii, 
such  as  vacuum  cleaner,  an  electric  stove, 
and  an  iceless  refrigerator,  their  mistress  has 
moved  into  an  apartment  house  up-to-date 
enough  to  own  an  installed  garbage  incinerator 
which  she  considers  worth  its  weight  in  em- 
ployment agency  fees. 

If  the  ghost  of  Rastus  ever  drifts  shadow- 
wise  into  that  white  and  miraculous  kitchen 
after  luncheon,  he  may  surprise  Sonya  scrap- 
ing the  plates.  Pekey-Pekey  has  his  own  pre- 
digested  pabulum,  and  there  are  no  pigs  within 
twenty-five  roaring  city  miles,  so  Sonya  isn't 
wasting  anything  when  she  whisks  open  a  lit- 
tle hopper  set  in  the  white  wall  and  tilts  all 
the  scraps  into  a  sort  of  mailing  chute  that 
takes  them  out  of  her  brisk  life  forever.  No 
breaking  her  back  scraping  food  into  a  gar- 
bage can,  for  Sonya.  No  cluttering  up  her 
immaculate  dumb-waiter  with  packages  ad- 
dressed to  the  garbage  man.  Nothing  but  this 
one  quick  tilt  into  infinity — bits  of  bread,  and 
scraps  of  salad,  the  bag  the  j)eas  came  in,  the 
box  that  brought  Miss  Genevieve's  new  dress, 


With  a  cellar  incinerator  one  has 

merely  to  pour  the  garbage  down 

the    chute.     Courtesy    of    Kerner 

Incinerator   Co. 


the  dust  from  the  internals  of  the  vacuum 
cleaner,  this  morning's  newspapers,  and  the  egg 
shells  that  were  the  ancestral  halls  of  that  deli- 
cious omelette — all  gone,  Rastus,  just  like  that! 
If  we  undertook  to  follow  his  inquisitive 
black  ghost  and  trace  their  descent  to  the  In- 
ferno, we'd  discover  the  incinerator  itself 
crouched  in  the  cellar,  where  the  architect  in- 
dicated it  should  go  when  he  designed  the 
apartment  house.  Some  landlords  build  first, 
and  think  afterward.  But  a  thought  in  time 
saves  nine  on  one's  building  bills  nowadays. 
And  the  wise  landlord  or  householder  puts  in 
his  incinerator  along  with  his  refrigerating 
system. 

The  Cost  of  Operation 

It  costs  comparatively  little  to  operate  one 
of  these  installed  incinerators  because  once 
the  gas  or  coal  with  which  it  runs  has  started 
the  garbage  burning,  the  waste  material  goes 
ahead  under  its  own  steam,  until  there  is  noth- 
ing left  for  the  janitor  but  fine  white  ash  after 
the  clever  incinerator  has  disposed  of  the  gases 
produced  in  combustion  and  has  sterilized  it- 
self and  its  flues.  Gas,  or  no  fuel  in  some  in- 
cinerators, is  a  favored  starter  in  these  days  of 
strikes,  small  cellar  space,  and  few  furnace- 
men,  and  the  average  incinerator  consumes 
only  from  twenty  to  thirty  feet  per  burning. 

The  heat  generated  in  the  process  is,  to  the 
lay  mind,  inconceivably  great — somewhere  in 
the    neighborhood    of     1600° 
Fahrenheit — and    this    consti- 
tutes  a   real   problem   in  con- 
struction,   not    so    difficult    in 
the     installed     type     of     in- 
^^^  cinerator    as    in    the    portable 

kind   that  Miss  Erne's  great- 
•  L,  •  granddaughter  has  in  her  sum- 

_£jJH  mer    home    on    Long    Island. 

^  This  portable  incinerator  looks 

like  an  oblong  high  stove 
placed  in  a  recess  in  the  wall. 
Just  as  an  ice  box  is  insulated 
to  keep  in  the  cold,  so  this  in- 
(Continued  on  page  76) 


The  chute  to  the  cellar  incinerator 
is   usually    located   in   close   prox- 
imity to  the  sink.    Photograph  by 
courtesy   of   Kerner 


Another  type   of  incinerator,  gas- 
burning,  is  installed  in  the  kitchen 
itself,  close  to  the  range.    Courtesy, 
Borge    Incinerator   Corporation 


50 


House     &     Garden 


HEATING       WITH       ARTIFICIAL       GAS 

Steam,  Hot  Water,  Vapor,  Warm  Air  or  Any  Combination  of  Systems  Can  Be  Used  with 
Gas  to  Generate  the  Heat — Labor  and  Dirt  Will  Be  Eliminated 


W.  LAMBERT 


IF  gas  is  used  for  heating  the  house  the  an- 
noyance of  handling  coal  and  ashes,  the 
uncertainty  of  insufficient  heat  at  any  time 
and  the  problem  of  retaining  domestic  help  to 
care  for  the  furnace  are  eliminated.  Instead, 
early  in  the  fall  the  pilot  of  the  gas  boiler  or 
the  gas  furnace  is  lighted  and  from  then  on, 
all  winter  long,  any  desired  temperature  is 
maintained  automatically  without  any  further 
care  or  attention  other  than  to  turn  out  the 
pilot  late  in  the  spring  when  heating  is  no 
longer  required. 

Thermostat  Control 

The  luxury  of  having  a  dependable  heat 
supply  almost  instantly  available  without  ever 
descending  the  cellar  steps  to  turn  down  the 
gas  burners  is  afforded  by  thermostats  which 
cost  but  a  few  dollars,  and  which  may  be 
placed  wherever  they  are  most  convenient:  in 
the  hall,  in  the  living  room  or  in  bedrooms  if 
desired.  By  means  of  a  clock  attachment  heat 
is  turned  on  or  off  to  any  desired  degree  at 
any  time.  Thus,  if  it  is  desired  to  maintain 
a  temperature  of  70°  during  the  day  from  6 
a.  m.  to  11  p.  m.  and  50°  for  the  remainder 
of  the  time  the  clock-thermostat  is  set  accord- 
ingly. Automatically  at  the  time  set  the  gas 
supply  is  curtailed  or  increased  as  the  case 
may  be  and  the  heat  is  turned  off  or  011  ac- 
cordingly. Thus,  an  added  feature  comes  with 
the  use  of  artificial  gas:  no  more  fuel  need  be 
burned  than  is  absolutely  needed. 

Steam  heating,  hot  water  heating,  vapor 
heating,  vapor  vacuum  heating,  warm  air  heat- 
ing or  any  combination  of  them  may  be  used 
with  gas.  If  any  of  the  foregoing  heating  sys- 
tems is  already  installed,  all  that  is  neces- 
sary is  to  substitute  a  gas 
boiler  or  gas  furnace  for 
the  coal  boiler  or  coal  fur- 
nace. Gas  burners  are 
made  which  can  be  put 
into  coal  boilers  or  fur- 
naces, but  as  they  are  very 
wasteful  of  gas,  it  is  an 
expensive  error  to  install 
them. 

When  the  present  price 
of  coal,  the  cost  of  kin- 
dling wood  and  the  cost  of 
hiring  a  man  to  attend  to 
the  furnace  are  added  to- 
gether, it  will  be  found  as 
a  general  thing  that  the 
cost  of  gas  is  from  five  to 
twenty-five  per  cent  great- 
er. In  some  cases,  as  will 
be  explained  later,  heating 
with  gas  may  cost  the 
same  as  heating  with  coal ; 
and  under  some  circum- 
stances, it  may,  and  often 
does,  cost  less. 

Despite  the  various  rul- 
ings of  the  state  regulatory 
commissions,  on  an  aver- 
age the  most  common  arti- 
ficial gas  supplied  in  the 
United  States  has  a  heat- 
ing value  of  550  or  600 


British  thermal  units.  This  has  an  important 
bearing  on  the  cost  of  gas  for  heating,  because 
the  higher  the  heating  value  of  the  gas  the  less 
will  be  required,  and  vice  versa. 

Taking  the  two  values  given,  from  tests  car- 
ried over  a  term  of  years,  it  has  been  found 
that  with  550  B.  t.  u.  gas,  32,000  cu.  ft.  of  gas 
equals  a  ton  of  ordinary  anthracite  coal;  with 
600  B.  t.  u.  gas,  29,333  cu.  ft.  of  gas  equals 
a  ton  of  anthracite  coal.  These  figures  are 
considered  liberal;  and  under  some  circum- 
stances it  has  been  found  that  20,000  cu.  ft. 
of  gas  will  give  the  same  amount  of  useful 
heat  as  a  ton  of  coal. 

Translating  these  terms  into  dollars  and 
cents,  the  following  comparative  costs  of  coal 
and  gas  are  found: 

If  550  B.  t.  u.  gas  is  supplied  and  gas  is 
sold  for 

50  cents  per  1,000  cu.  ft.  it  will  equal  coal 
at  $11.40  per  ton. 

75  cents  per  1,000  cu.  ft.  it  will  equal  coal 
at  $16.80  per  ton. 

SI. 00  per  1,000  cu.  ft.  it  will  equal  coal  at 
$22.40  per  ton. 

If  600  B.  t.  u.  gas  is  supplied  and  gas  is 
sold  for 

50  cents  per  1,000  cu.  ft.  it  will  equal  coal 
at  $10.28  per  ton. 

75  cents  per  1,000  cu.  ft.  it  will  equal  coal 
at  $15.44  per  ton. 

$1.00  per  1,000  cu.  ft.  it  will  equal  coal  at 
$20.56  per  ton. 

Most  household  consumers  who  use  gas  for 
cooking,  for  water  heating  and  for  other  pur- 
poses probably  do  not  know  that  most  large 
gas  companies,  and  very  often  small  ones,  sell 
gas  at  lower  rates  to  large  consumers.  This  is 


done  to  promote  the  use  of  gas  for  manufactur- 
ing; but  any  one  using  gas  for  house  heating 
would  properly  come  within  the  category  of  a 
large  user  and  should  secure  the  lower  rate. 
Such  a  rate  would  bring  the  cost  of  heating 
the  house  with  gas  almost  on  a  par  with  coal. 
Such  rates  are  known  often  as  sliding  scale 
rates,  secondary  rates,  block  rates  or  Doherty 
three-part  rates  or  special  rates;  and  it  is  well 
to  make  inquiry  at  local  gas  company  offices 
whether  such  rates  are  in  effect  before  install- 
ing gas  for  house  heating. 

The  cost  of  heating  a  four-story  city  residence 
in  Baltimore,  to  quote  one  example,  was  about 
$466  for  the  entire  season.  In  Baltimore  gas 
is  sold  at  reduced  rates  for  house  heating, 
which  are  fast  becoming  popular  elsewhere. 
Another,  a  large  suburban  residence,  was 
heated  with  gas  for  the  entire  season  at  a  cost 
of  about  $305.50.  In  St.  Louis  where  reduced 
rates  are  afforded  through  the  block  system, 
an  elaborate  house  was  heated  at  a  cost  of 
$318.03  for  the  entire  season. 

Gas  and  Coal  Rates 

Often  at  regular  rates  gas  may  be  cheaper 
than  coal.  Thus  in  New  York  City  gas  is  sold 
for  80  cents  per  1,000  cu.  ft.  On  Forty- 
seventh  Street  there  is  a  private  dwelling  of 
seventeen  rooms.  During  1917-1918  it  was 
heated  with  coal;  and  during  1918-1919  it  was 
heated  with  gas.  Cost  figures  were  kept  and 
they  compare  as  follows: 

Coal 

15  tons  coal   (present  price  $12  per 

ton)    $180.00 

Furnace  attendance,  7  months  at  $10 

per  month  .  . .        70.00 
Kindling     wood, 
l/4  cord  at  $22 
per  cord 5.50 


$255.50 
Gas 

299,300  cu.  ft.  of 
gas  were  con- 
sumed during 
the  entire  sea- 
son at  a  cost  of 
80  cents  per 
l,000cu.  ft.  or 
a  total  cost  of..  $239.44 


Any  system  of  heating — steam,  hot  water,  vapor  vacuum  or  warm  air — may  be  used 

with  gas.    In  the  first  three,  a  boiler  is  used.     The  illustration  shows  a  tubular  gas 

boiler  installed  adjacent  to  the  coal  boiler  which  it  displaced 


$239.44 

Gas  of  a  high  heating 
value  is  supplied  in  New 
York  City  and  the  house  is 
well  sheltered  so  that  the 
heat  loss  is  relatively 
small.  For  this  reason  the 
same  results  could  proba- 
bly not  Ije  duplicated  else- 
where. But  even  under 
less  favorable  circum- 
stances the  cost  should 
not  be  more  than  25  per 
cent  greater,  figuring  in 
the  actual  cost  of  furnace 
attendance  and  kindling 
wood. 


August,     1920 


THE         PERMANENT         KITCHEN 

Equipment  in  Kitchens  and  Laundries  Must  Be  Permanently  Installed  If  the 
Householder  Expects  to  Save  the  Maximum  of  Time  and  Labor 


WE  Americans  lose  a  great  deal  in  con- 
tentment and  comfort  because  of  the 
habit  of  considering  our  abiding-place  as  tem- 
porary. Even  our  homes  are  designed  with  a 
canny  eye  to  the  market.  We  anticipate  the 
day  when  we  shall  be  more  prosperous  and 
shall  want  a  larger  home  in  a  more  exclusive 
neighborhood.  And  so,  with  these  thoughts  in 
mind,  we  often  plan  the  new  home,  not  us  we 
would  really  want  it  ourselves,  but  to  con- 
form to  the  imagined  ideas  of  possible  pur- 
chasers. 

Nowhere  in  the  home  is  this  so  true  as  in 
the  workrooms.  Think  of  a  refrigerator  on 
castors! — it  is  almost  as  ridiculous  in  con- 
ception as  a  folding  furnace  or  a  portable 
porch.  Yet  most  refrigerators  actually  are 
built  with  castors  attached — on  the  theory,  ap- 
parently, that  a  rolling  refrigerator  is  more 
convenient  for  the  movers  to  handle  when  the 
anticipated  day  of  migration  arrives! 

So  long  as  we  build  to  sell  and 
design  homes  which  are  more  con- 
venient to  move  from  than  to  live  in, 
we  will  have  these  anachronisms. 

But  when  we  learn  to  look  upon 
our  homes  as  permanent,  then,  and 
only  then,  will  we  have  kitchens  and 
laundries  and  pantries  which  will 
banish  drudgery  and  put  the  busi- 
ness of  home-making  upon  a  reason- 
able and  efficient  basis. 

The  Fixed  Equipment 

Practically  all  the  major  house- 
hold machines  of  the  present  day 
should  be  considered  as  fixtures. 
Washing  machines,  clothes  dryers, 
ironers,  ironing  boards  with  their 
accessory  electric  irons,  dishwashers 
and  refrigerators  all  require  conve- 
nient and  adequate  connections  to 
gas,  electricity,  water  supply  and 
sewer. 

A  very  considerable  amount  of  ac- 
cessory equipment,  such  as  the  mo- 
tor-driven coffee  grinder,  silver  pol- 
ishing wheel,  pantry  plate  warmer, 
toaster  and  percolator  require  spe- 
cially provided  connections  if  they 
are  to  be  utilized  regularly,  conve- 
niently and  economically. 

Yet  how  often  do  we  find  electri- 
cal connections  made  with  annoying 
cords  which  dangle  from  the  light- 
ing fixture,  washing  machines  and 
dishwashers  being  filled  from  kettles 
or  by  means  of  a  length  of  hose,  the 
dirty  water  and  sludge  being  drawn 
off  into  a  pail  and  emptied  by  hand. 
Where  a  number  of  small  electrical 
table  appliances  are  in  service,  mul- 
tiple socket  attachments  not  infre- 
quently are  used  which  overload  the 
electric  circuits.  Gas  connections 
for  ironers  and  for  certain  types  of 
washers  which  require  superheating 
are  provided  through  unreliable  and 
odoriferous  tubes. 

The  time  to  provide  for  an  effi- 
cient kitchen  and  a  labor-saving 


KATE  HAMMOND 

laundry  is  while  the  plans  are  in  the  archi- 
tect's hands.  It  is  a  sound  principle  of  engi- 
neering that  a  dollar  spent  at  the  draughting- 
Ixxird  will  save  from  ten  to  a  hundred  dollars 
on  the  finished  work,  and  this  rule-of-thumb 
applies  quite  as  forcefully  in  the  design  of 
home  work-rooms.  Drudgery,  monotony,  vexa- 
tion and  a  very  considerable  percentage  of 
feminine  ills  can  be  "planned''  out  of  the  new 
home  by  competent  household  engineering,  just 
as  increased  production,  economy  and  relative 
freedom  from  lalx>r  trouble  can  IK-  "planned"' 
into  a  factory  or  office  by  competent  efficiency 
engineering. 

Nor  is  there  anything  mysterious  or  so  very 
difficult  about  it.  We  must  understand  the 
work  to  l»e  done:  we  must  Ijc  familiar  with 
the  machines  and  equipment  available  for  do- 
ing this  work:  then  we  must  arrange  and  in- 
stall these  machines  in  such  |xwitions  and  with 
such  accessory  equipment  (such  as  lighting) 


A  kitchen  for  logical,  labor-saving  work  provides  a  pan- 
try /or   china  and  refrigerator,   a   breakfast   nook   and 
equipment  placed  in  groups  according  to  the  nature  of 
the  work 


Soiled   clothes    reach    the   laundry   sorting    table    via   a 

chute.     The   equipment   is   placed   in   logical   sequence 

around    the    room.     Space    is    also    found   for   an    ice 

machine 


as  to  enable  the  housekeeper  to  do  her  work 
with  the  minimum  of  physical  exertion  and  in 
the  minimum  of  time. 

Kitchen  and  Laundry  Plans 

Efficient  arrangement  is  found  in  the  kitchen 
plan.  The  breakfast  nook  set  by  windows  is 
an  excellent  and  pleasant  scheme  for  a  small 
family  or  a  household  where  no  servants'  din- 
ing room  is  provided.  It  has  two  electricity 
outlets  for  table  equipment.  In  the  pantry  are 
china  cupboards  and  refrigerator,  the  latter 
filled  through  a  door  from  the  outside.  In  the 
kitchen  itself  the  dishwasher,  sink  and  cup- 
Ixjard  are  in  logical  proximity.  The  range  and 
tireless  cooker  are  side  by  side.  There  are 
four  outlets  for  electricity.  A  special  corner 
within  easy  reach  of  the  stove  is  reserved  for 
hanging  up  pots  and  pans. 

Logical  work  is  also  afforded  in  the  laundry, 
of  which  plans  are  here  shown.  The  clothes 
arrive  via  a  chute  in  the  center  of 
the  room,  directly  over  the  sorting 
table.  From  this  point  they  are 
placed  in  the  tubs  for  overnight 
soaking,  and  thence  pass  step  by  step 
to  the  washing  machine,  rinsing 
water,  dryer,  back  to  the  table  for 
sprinkling,  and  then  to  the  ironing 
machine  or  board.  The  hamper  of 
ironed  clothes,  whether  finished  on 
the  machine  or  by  hand,  is  but  a  step 
from  the  doorway  that  leads  upstairs 
from  the  corner  of  the  room. 


Smaller  Conveniences 

The  gas  heater  of  the  dryer,  which 
serves  also  for  boiling  the  clothes 
when  necessary,  is  but  a  step  from 
the  washing  trays  and  machine.  The 
small  ventilating  fan  is  so  located 
as  to  minimize  both  the  steam  of  the 
tubs  and  the  heat  of  the  dryer.  The 
cuplxwrd  in  which  soap,  cleaning 
comjxHinds,  bluing  and  starch  are 
kept,  has  a  glass  door  which  saves, 
according  to  careful  estimate,  not 
less  than  two  hours  every  year  sim- 
ply by  enabling  the  laundress  to 
select  the  right  article  more  prompt- 
ly and  to  return  it  without  hesitation 
to  it  proper  place. 

This  last  detail  may  appear  to 
be  an  exaggeration  of  refinement, 
but  it  is  just  these  details  which, 
taken  together,  make  up  the  differ- 
ence between  everlasting  puttering 
and  efficient  work.  Summed  up,  they 
constitute  an  important  feature. 

Labor  -  saving  machinery  and 
equipment  have  now  reached  such 
a  >tage  of  development  that  there  is 
no  longer  an  excuse  for  drudgery. 
It  only  remains  for  us  to  arrange 
these  machines  logically,  install 
them  permanently  and  utilize  them 
intelligently.  We  thereby  place  our 
housework  on  a  business  basis. 
And  that,  after  all,  is  what  house- 
keeping is — the  greatest  business  in 
the  world. 


32 


House     &     Garden 


RESTORING   OLD   FURNITURE 

The  Method  is  Simple  and  the  Results  More  Than  Compensate 
for  the  Labor  Involved 


THIS  article  has  been  written  for  those  of 
us  who  have,  tucked  away  in  attics,  nice 
old  pieces  of  mahogany,  walnut  or  cherry  and 
fear  they  can  never  look  like  real  furniture 
again.  A  chest  of  drawers  need  not  be  a  Hep- 
pelwhite  if  its  lines  are  good ;  a  chair  need  not 
be  a  Chippendale  to  be  beautiful. 

Perhaps  sadder  than  these  good  old  pieces 
which  languish  in  dusty  attics  and  second-hand 
stores  are  those  which  have  been  dragged  out, 
put  in  the  hands  of  an  alleged  finisher  and, 
filled  with  paste  and  covered  with 
varnish,  resemble  nothing  so  much 
as  Pullman  fittings. 

The  directions  for  restoring  old 
furniture  are  simple  enough. 

"Scrape  off  all  old  varnish,  or 
paint;  get  down  to  the  wood.  Wipe 
off  with  alcohol.  Stain  with  tur- 
pentine and  a  little  asphaltum  var- 
nish. Shellac  it  thinly,  rub  down 
with  steel  wool;  shellac  again,  and 
rub  down  again  and  wax." 

Removing  Old  Finish 

This  rule  we  applied  to  five  old 
chairs  discovered  in  a  barn.  First, 
we  got  down  to  the  wood.  In  places 
where  the  varnish  was  very  dry  and 
brittle  we  scraped  it  off  with  a  dull 
knife.  Where  it  was  in  better  con- 
dition and  clung  to  the  wood,  we 
used  a  varnish  remover.  We  brushed 
this  on  over  a  small  surface,  let  it 
stand  a  few  minutes  and  scraped  off 
the  varnish  which  had  softened. 
Around  such  places  as  chair  rungs 
we  used  a  stiff  brush  and  ammonia. 
This  was  easier  to  use  in  such  places, 
but  ammonia  should  be  washed  off 
quickly  with  warm  water  and  soap 
as  it  stains  the  wood.  Of  course, 
it  is  inadvisable  to  use  ammonia  or 
water  around  a  glued  part.  So  we 
worked  around  the  joinings  with  a 
varnish  remover  and  even  that  we 
scraped  off  as  quickly  as  possible. 

When  the  varnish  was  all  re- 
moved, we  wiped  the  entire  piece 
with  a  soft  cloth  and  wood  alcohol. 
This  removed  any  remaining  par- 
ticles of  varnish  from  the  pores  of 
the  wood.  Then  we  let  it  dry  thor- 
oughly, and  went  over  the  entire 
piece  with  fine  sandpaper. 

Following  the  theory  that  it  is  al- 
ways easier  to  make  a  stain  darker 
than  lighter,  we  used  very  little  of 
the  asphaltum  varnish  in  the  tur- 
pentine— about  a  tablespoonful  to  a  quart  of 
turpentine.  This  will  be  found  to  be  sufficient 
for  furniture  that  has  been  well  preserved, 
but  where  furniture  has  been  allowed  to  stand 
out  in  the  weather  and  has  whitened  and  dried 
it  may  be  necessary  to  add  more  asphaltum 
or  to  brush  over  certain  parts  several  times. 

We  painted  the  chair  with  the  turpentine 
and  asphaltum,  brushing  on  a  little,  then  wip- 
ing it  off.  If  it  is  not  wiped,  it  runs  down 
and  makes  "teary"  places.  In  light  spots  we 
brushed  it  over  several  times.  When  the  wood 


M.  LOUISE  ARNOLD 

had  taken  up  as  much  of  the  color  as  it  would, 
we  set  it  away  to  dry. 

The  Shellac  Coats 

The  next  day  we  thinned  white  shellac  with 
alcohol  and  brushed  over  it  quickly  and  light- 
ly. Shellac,  if  properly  thinned,  will  dry 
quickly,  but  twenty-four  hours  should  be  al- 
lowed before  it  is  touched  again.  Then  with 
fine  steel  wool  we  rubbed  it  down,  taking  care 
to  rub  with  the  grain  and  gently.  When  we 


No  better  example  of  kitchen  progress  could  be  found  than 

by  comparing  these  two — an  old  cottage  kitchen  of  three 

hundred  years  ago   and  an  up-to-date   kitchen  in  a  small 

modern  house 


had  covered  the  piece,  we  wiped  off  the  dust 
with  a  dry  cloth  and  shellacked  it  again. 

Now  all  this  business  of  shellacking  and 
rubbing  off  seems  very  foolish,  but  it  is  the 
only  way  to  fill  the  pores  of  the  wood  properly 
and  at  the  same  time  keep  the  piece  from 
looking  varnishy.  There  are  a  number  of 
wood  fillers  on  the  market,  but  while  they  may 
be  satisfactory  for  new  soft  woods,  they  are 
far  from  desirable  for  old  hard  woods.  I  have 
seen  many  a  lovely  piece  with  a  gritty,  un- 
pleasant surface  caused  by  a  patent  filler. 


We  rubbed  off  the  second  coat  of  shellac 
as  we  had  the  first.  Then  came  the  happiest 
part  of  all — the  waxing. 

After  brushing  off  all  the  dust  from  the 
shellac,  we  applied  the  wax.  We  used  a  pre- 
pared furniture  wax  and  rubbed  it  on  with 
our  hands  much  as  a  bootblack  does,  and, 
with  much  "elbow  grease"  and  a  soft  rag, 
polished ! 

Then  we  stood  back — honesty  compels  us 
to  say  that  we  spent  a  considerable  amount  of 
time  in  admiring  our  results — and  it 
•M^  seemed  to  us   that  the  chair  itself 

seemed    grateful    for    its    restored 
beauty  and  dignity. 

With  the  first  little  chair  a  suc- 
cess, we  now  turned  our  attention  to 
the  other  and  "less  fortunate"  ones. 
The  broken  ones  we  sent  to  a  good 
cabinet-maker.  Such  a  trip  is  a  good 
investment  in  the  case  of  furniture 
needing  repairs,  for  the  cabinet- 
maker has  the  tools  and  materials 
necessary,  also  the  skill. 

Our  cabinet-maker  worked  won- 
ders with  glue.  One  chair  after  an- 
other was  finished.  The  old  seats 
were  recovered  with  a  beautiful 
tapestry  in  rose  and  blue.  But  at 
this  point  we  almost  met  with  mis- 
fortune— we  almost  over-padded  our 
chairs.  Never  allow  an  upholsterer 
to  overpad  cushions.  The  lines  of 
any  piece  of  upholstered  furniture 
will  be  much  better  if  the  padding  is 
only  moderate. 

Further  Work 

Other  pieces  followed :  a  little  old 
bed  with  spindles  at  the  head  and 
foot,  a  desk  picked  up  in  a  little 
second-hand  store,  and  a  table,  oval, 
with  drop  leaves,  was  a  most  in- 
teresting problem.  We  bought  the 
table  for  three  dollars.  The  plan- 
ing mill  man  took  off  the  warped 
top,  reglued  and  planed  it.  The 
legs,  which  were  straight  and  un- 
interesting, were  turned  on  a  lathe 
and  made  to  have  a  beautiful  taper, 
All  this  cost  only  a  few  dollars! 
Before  waxing  we  gave  the  table  a 
coat  of  waterproof  varnish  and  steel 
wooled  it,  just  as  we  did  the  shellac. 
When  put  into  a  lovely  new  little 
house,  all  of  these  things  not  only 
were  pieces  of  furniture,  but  were 
pieces  of  great  charm  and  distinc- 
tion, which  is  more  than  can  be  said 
of  some  of  the  modern  furniture  we  might  have 
lx>ught. 

What  we  did  anyone  can  do — there  is  no 
secret  nor  great  expense  connected  with  it. 
Search  the  attic,  then,  for  pieces  whose  existence 
you  yourself  may  have  forgotten.  Bring  them 
into  the  light,  dust  them  off,  examine  their 
joints  and  general  condition.  If  the  lines  are 
good  and  the  wood  sound,  it  makes  little  differ- 
ence how  dingy  they  are.  Restoring  them  will 
be  chiefly  a  matter  of  a  little  knowledge  and 
much  work,  and  the  reward  will  amply  repay. 


August ,     1920 

GOOD 


53 


A    I    R 


I    N 


THE 


HOME 


Proper  Ventilation  and  Temperature  Combine  to  Make  An  Ideal 
Living  and  Working  Atmosphere 


ALTHOUGH  air  is  to  be  had 
J_\_  for  the  asking,  we  have  to 
woo  it  if  we  want  it.  But  it 
pays.  Keep  the  air  about  you 
in  good  condition  and  you  and 
those  of  your  household  will 
soon  find  yourselves  approach- 
ing the  100%  efficiency  ideal. 

Business  has  found  this  out 
already.  Do  you  know  of  any 
factory,  good  school,  bank,  or 
department  store,  where  there  is 
not  installed  some  sort  of  ven- 
tilation apparatus?  Fresh  air 
keeps  costs  down  and  keeps 
health  up.  On  this  relation  of 
health  and  output,  efficiency 
depends. 

If  housewives  thought  more 
of  home  ventilation  and  espe- 
cially kitchen  ventilation,  we 
might  have  improved  service, 
tetter  tempered  cooks,  and  a 
more  satisfactory  life  in  general. 

We  should  approximate,  in 
our  warm,  comfortable  rooms, 
the  sweet,  clean  purity  of  out- 
of-doors.  And  this  is  easy  to 


E.  V.  CAMPBELL 


In  kitchens  where  the  stove  is  hooded  cooking  odors  can  be  drawn  of 
by  a  blower  run  by  electricity  from  a  lamp  socket.     This  suction  keep* 
the  air  in  motion  throughout  the  room.     Courtesy  of  the  I.  L.  G.  Elec- 
tric Ventilating  Co. 


do — just  by  proper  ventilation. 

Ventilation  can  render  air 
even  better  than  the  outdoor  va- 
riety by  purifying  it  of  dust  and 
by  supplying  it  with  the  right 
amount  of  moisture. 

For  the  ordinary  home  the 
great  air  conditioners  and  ozo- 
nators,  which  are  installed  in 
institutions  and  factories,  are 
unnecessary.  The  best,  simplest 
and  least  expensive  ventilating 
system  for  the  home  is  the  sys- 
tem regulated  by  fans  and  fans 
and  blowers,  and  to  this  method 
we  will  introduce  ourselves. 

It  is  conceded  by  ventilating 
and  heating  engineers  that  the 
air,  to  be  healthful,  must  lie  in 
ceaseless  motion,  and  it  must  be 
renewed  constantly  and  evenly. 
In  other  words,  it  doesn't  make 
so  much  difference  if  the  air  is 
burdened  with  carbon  dioxide 
gas  which  we  exhale  from  our 
lungs,  as  it  does  if  the  air  is 
stationary.  Hence  the  use  of 
(Continued  on  page  64) 


The  simplest  machine  for  kitchen  ventilation  is  a  motor-propelled  fan  .nstalled  ,n  a 
a  window.  Power  is  supplied  from  a  lamp  socket.  The  fan  draws  out  "ok 
keeping  the  air  in  motion,  which  is  the  desirable  factor  m  all  ventdation. 


n  «*'»>£'?«* 
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54 


House     &     Garden 


A   CITY   GARDEN   IN    SOUTHERN    CALIFORNIA 

Possessing  the  Charm  of  Adaptability  to  the  Out-of-Door 
Habits  of  Life 


HAZEL  W.  WATERMAN 


A"sT  example  of  the 
wall  enclosed 
formal  type  of  gar- 
den which  is  both 
beautiful  and  un- 
usual, is  that  of  Mr. 
Julius  Wangenheim 
in  San  Diego,  Cali- 
fornia. In  marked 
contrast  to  the  plot 
of  ground  adjoining 
his  residence,  which 
for  years  lay  barren, 
this  garden  calls 
forth  much  admira- 
tion and  is  so  in 
harmony  with  the 
dwelling  that  it  ap- 
pears always  to  have 
been  its  adjunct. 

The  property  faces 
on  three  streets  with 


A  brick  wall  sepa- 
rates the  garden 
from  the  street,  but 
it  is  not  an  unfriend- 
ly wall.  Through 
the  spindled  panel  of 
the  gale  a  glimpse  of 
the  garden  is  had 


a  difference  in  eleva- 
tion of  17'  between 
its  highest  and  low- 
est points.  On  the 
lower  portion  where 
the  house  is  built 
back  from  the  street 
there  are  sloping 
lawns  and  shrubs, 
an  appropriate  fore- 
ground for  the  archi- 
tecture of  the  dwell- 
ing whose  half-tim- 
bered second  story 
suggests  an  English 
influence.  The  first 
story  with  porches  at 
each  end  of  the  wide, 
uncovered  veranda  is 
of  brick.  The  gar- 
den wall  furnishes 
the  needful  architec- 

The  tea  house  facing 
the  pool  is  especially 
livable  and  intimate. 
Its  floor  is  of  blue 
and  brown  tiles,  ceil- 
ing lilac,  and  there 
are  picture  tile  pan- 
els in  the  brick  wall 


The  walks,  steps  and  pools  are 
on  the  main  axis.  Beyond  is 
the  wall  fountain.  Hazel  W. 
Waterman,  garden  architect; 
planting  by  Kate  O.  Sessions 


tural  adjustment.  It  continues 
the  line  of  the  house  for  a  short 
distance,  then  becomes  irregular 
in  line  and  in  height  to  meet  the 
requirements  of  the  contour  of  the 
land,  embracing  the  garden  pa- 
vilion, and  at  the  farthest  corner 
including  and  subordinating  the 
garage.  Its  solid  base,  buttressed 
at  intervals,  is  lightened  above  by 
panels  of  open  design.  The  whole 
composition  is  merged  into  con- 
tinuity by  exterior  planting,  flow- 
ers, leafage  of  vines  and  shrubs, 
and  branches  of  interior  over- 
hanging evergreens. 

Although  the  garden  belongs  to 
that  class  where  privacy  is  de- 
sired, the  treatment  of  the  wall 
has  an  undeniable  friendliness 
which  disarms  criticism  of  exclu- 
siveness.  Featured  in  an  orna- 
mental setting,  a  cement  seat  is 
placed  convenient  for  the  public. 
The  several  gateways  form  pic- 
turesque breaks  in  its  elevation; 
the  gates,  attractive  in  design,  are 
jade  in  color.  Through  their  spin- 
dled panels  tantalizing  glimpses 
of  the  garden  may  be  obtained  by 
tlu>  pa>serby  to  whom  the  delights 
of  the  interior  are  inaccessible. 

Within  the  walls  the  lot  in- 
clined toward  the  house;  a  deter- 


The  pools  form  the  cenlial  jealui" 
oj  the  main  garden,  the  water 
overflowing  the  low  curved  lip  of 
the  upper  pool  into  the  lower. 
Broad  steps  link  the  two  levels 


mining  factor  which  suggested  the 
formal  treatment  to  the  garden  ar- 
chitect. By  means  of  an  architec- 
tural scheme  enclosing  terraces  and 
central  pools,  impressions  of  dis- 
tance and  breadth  are  obtained 
which  from  the  actual  boundaries 
seemed  inconceivable,  while  the  ef- 
fects produced  by  terraces  rising 
from  the  house  are  unusual  and 
more  varied  than  those  possible  to 
a  level  or  a  descent. 

Planned  and  planted  on  the 
principles  of  garden  craft,  the  spirit 
of  the  Italian  garden  prevail-; 
there  is,  however,  almost  a  medley 
of  details  and  colors.  Strong  in- 
dividuality is  shown  in  the  com- 
bination of  materials — brick,  ce- 
ment, tile,  and  bronze — which,  with 
the  grouping  of  flower-planted 
spaces  and  foliage,  create  a  pleas- 
ing diversity  and  justify  an  arti- 
ficiality  intended  to  astonish  the 
spectator. 

There  are  three  divisions  or  ter- 
races, divided  by  retaining  wall-. 
Nearest  the  house  the  first  division 
lias  a  wide  brick-paved  walk  and 
two  groups  of  step.-  leading  to  tin- 
second  terrace,  the  main  garden, 
ri-ing  -lightly  to  the  retaining  wall 
whii  li  -ii-tains  the  third  terrace. 
(Continued  on  page  82) 


56 


House     &     Garden 


August 


THE  GARDENER'S  CALENDAR 


Eighth  Month 


Keep    t  h  e    ground 

working  by  planting 

another  crop  as  soon 

as  one  is  over 


Before     replanting 

evergreens,    cut    off 

any    bruised    or 

broken  roots 


Tramp    in    the  soil 

firmly   about  the 

roots  after  the  tree 

is  set 


SUNDAY 

MONDAY 

TUESDAY 

WEDNESDAY 

THURSDAY 

FRIDAY 

SATURDAY 

1.    Late  cel- 
ery,    cabbage. 

2.  Strawberry 
beds    may    be 

3.    Early 

celery     should 

4.    Flowers 
intended   for 

5.  Neglected 
ground  that  Is 

6.  This  Is  the 
time  that  spe- 

7. Evergreens 
may  be  planted 

cauliflower  and 

set  out  at  this 

now   be  ready 

cultivation     In 

Intended   for 

cial     attention 

at    this    time. 

kale  may  stilt 

time,   which 

for  use.   Bank- 

the  greenhouse 

cul  ti  vatlon 

should  be  given 

These    are 

be  planted.  Use 

will  bear  a  full 

Ing    this    with 

this  winter 

next    year 

to  cabbage  and 

plants  tbat 

plenty  of  water 

crop     of    fruit 

earth  is  not  ad- 

should   be 

should  be  brok- 

other   green 

need    a    great 

when   setting 

next    year. 

vised     on     ac- 

started  now. 

en  u  p.     The 

vegetables    on 

deal  of  water 

out    these 

Make     certain 

count  of  the  In- 

Seeds   of   vari- 

proper  forking 

account  of  the 

sy   !t  is  advis- 

plants and 

that  both   the 

tense  heat.    It 

ous   annuals 

or  plowing  with 

leaf  eating  In- 

able  when  re- 

make    a    habit 

perfect  and  im- 

is best  to  use 

such  as  stock. 

the  subsequent 

sec  ts.    The 

setTing  them  to 

of  watering 

perfect      types 

paper  bleachers 

mignonett  e 

harrowing   will 

plants     should 

saturate  the 

them    twice 

are    planted. 

or    boards    for 

and    snapdrag- 

remove      large 

be  sprayed 

soil    thorough- 

daily until  the 

This  will  assure 

this   purpose. 

o  n    may    be 

quantities    of 

with    arsenate 

ly     to    restore 

plants   show 

proper     fertili- 

blanching only 

sown,  or  small 

the    trouble- 

of lead  to  de- 

and  encourage 

that  the  roots 

zation    of    the 

In  usable  quan- 

plants may  be 

some    rye    and 

stroy    the    in- 

activity of  the 

are  established. 

flowers. 

tities. 

purchased. 

twitch  grass. 

sects. 

roots. 

8.  Vegetables 

9.       This    is 

10.  Bay  trees, 

11.       New 

12.      Melons 

13.  Bulbs  for 

14.   Crops 

of  the  different 

the    lime    that 

palms,  hydran- 

lawns   can    be 

ripening      now 

forcing    In   the 

that  remain  In 

forcing      types 

cuttings  should 

geas  and  other 

seeded    down 

should  be  kept 

greenhouse 

the    ground, 

may  be  started 

be  taken  of  all 

plants  custom- 

now.      Failure 

sprayed      with 

should    be   or- 

such  as   Swiss 

for  greenhouse 

the    various 

arily    used    for 

with    lawns    is 

Bordeaux  mix- 

dered   at    this 

chard,     par  - 

cuItivation.To- 

bedding  plants 

Piazza    decora- 

often    due    to 

ture  to  prevent 

time.    Boxes, 

snips,      etc., 

matoes,    cauli- 

such as  coleus. 

t4on  are  usually 

the      improper 

blight.     It  Is  a 

pans,   soil   and 

should   have  a 

flower,  lettuce, 

geraniums  and 

infested      with 

preparation   of 

good    plan    to 

other  necessary 

topdresslng  oc- 

spinach,   pars- 

alternantheras. 

various  aphids 

the  ground  and 

Klace    smal  1 

materials   used 

casionally  with 

1  e  y  ,    beans 

These  plants  if 

and    other    In- 

the meagre  al- 

oards      under 

in    the    forcing 

a    strong     fer- 

Swisschardand 

carried     in     a 

sects.    It  is  ad- 

lotment  of 

the  young  mel- 

of these  plants 

tilizer    to    pre- 

New      Zealand 

cool      green- 

visable   to   use 

seed.  Sow  grass 

ons    to    assure 

should  be  made 

vent    them 

spinach    are 

house  through- 

tobacco sprays 

thickly,  as  this 

ripening.  Allow 

ready,  as  some 

from  becoming 

vegetables      of 

out  the  winter 

regularly    as  a 

will      help      to 

the    melon    to 

of  these   bulbs 

tough.    Soluble 

easy    culture 

will  make  good 

preventive     of 

choke  the  weed 

leave  the  vine 

are      available 

fertilizers     are 

under  glass. 

stock  plants. 

these  pests. 

growth. 

voluntarily. 

now. 

more  available. 

15.      Hedges 

16.    There  Is 

17.    Roses 

18.      If   you 

19.  The  cane 

20.      If  you 

21.    Don't 

of     all     types. 

still     time     to 

showing  a  sub- 

want  high- 

fruits   should 

have   a   green- 

let your  flower 

evergreens  that 

sow  some  cool 

stantial  growth 

grade    dahlia 

be  looked  over 

house  make  up 

garden   run 

have  been  con- 

crops    In     the 

should    be    en- 

blooms   it   will 

at     this    time. 

a  compost  heap 

down.        Keep 

fined  to  a  form 

garden.    Sev- 

couraged   by 

be  necessary  to 

Old   shoots   on 

of    all     plants. 

the  tall  flowers 

and    various 

eral  sowings  of 

top      dressings 

keep  the  plants 

the  raspberries 

Use     top     soil 

staked  and  cut 

plants  that  are 

peas  should  be 

of   bone    meal 

properly    dis- 

and    blackber- 

with a  good  sod 

out  all  the  dead 

clipped,  should 

made    this 

or     any     good 

budded.      This 

ries  should  be 

growth  adding 

flowering 

be    gone    over 

month,    also 

fertilizing 

means    a    con- 

cut    out     en- 

manure   and 

stalks.       Keep 

now  as  growth 

spinach,    cress. 

agent.   Though 

stant  and  con- 

tirely as  these 

bone  meal  and 

the  edges  trim- 

is  about    to 

radishes,    let- 

it does  not  im- 

sistent    pinch- 

do     not     bear 

stacking   it   up 

med    and    stir 

cease.  This  will 

tuce,     turnips, 

prove  the  qual- 

i n  g    of    the 

again.      Young 

at  a  convenient 

the  soil  on  the 

be     the     final 

etc.        If    the 

ity  of  the   fall 

young    growth 

shoots  for  next 

point    so    that 

surface.  This  is 

clipping    and 

ground  Is  dry, 

flowers  It  gives 

in  order  to  re- 

year   should 

the  green  ma- 

as   necessary 

should  be  done 

water  well  be- 

the plant  more 

duce  the  num- 

now    be     tied 

terial    will    de- 

now as  In  the 

carefully. 

fore  sowing. 

vigor. 

ber  of  buds. 

firmly  in  place. 

compose. 

spring. 

22.     This  Is 

23.      This   is 

24.    After 

25.    It  is  ad- 

20.      Newly 

27.      Gather 

28.  Biennials 

the     time     to 

an    excellent 

gathering     the 

visable  to  have 

set   out    plants 

the  onion  crop 

such     as     fox- 

build   cold- 

time  to  go  over 

peach    crop. 

a    small    step- 

that     are     not 

now.  When 

glove  and  cup- 

frames  for  the 

and  prune  the 

spray  the  trees 

ladder     or     at 

growing    satis- 

the  tops    have 

aml-saucer,can 

fall  and  winter. 

shade  trees,  as 

with  Bordeaux 

least  a  box  to 

factorily  can  be 

died  down  the 

be  started  from 

Brick    or    con- 

it is  easy  to  see 

mixture  to  keep 

stand  on  in  or- 

stimulated into 

onions     should 

seed.now.   It  is 

crete  is  prefer- 

how  the   work 

the    v  ar  ious 

der    to    get    at 

growth  by  ap- 

be  pulled   and 

good     practice 

red  but  a  sub- 

should be  done. 

foliage  diseases 

the  lop  of  the 

plication  of  ni- 

left In  the  sun 

to  sow  quanti- 

stantial   wood- 

Remove   the 

In  check.  Trees 

poles    when 

trate    of    soda. 

to  dry  ;  then  the 

ties    of    peren- 

en   frame   will 

limbs   very 

afflicted      with 

picking      liinas 

sulphate  of  am- 

tops    can     be 

nials  now,  car- 

last some  time. 

close    leaving 

the    yellows 

or  other  types 

monia  or  other 

twisted  oft  and 

rying    them 

Next     to     the 

no   shoulders 

should    be  cut 

of   pole    beans. 

materials   of 

the    onions 

over  the  winter 

greenhouse  the 

and    paint   the 

down     and 

It  is  usually  at 

this  kind.  After 

themselves 

in      the     cold- 

coldframe   is 

wounds      care- 

burned to  pre- 

the    top     that 

using    these 

stored  In  a  dry 

frame  and  set- 

the   gardener's 

fully.    Make 

vent  the  spread 

the    greatest 

good    results 

cool  place  until 

ting  them  out 

best  friend. 

cuts  clean. 

of  the  disease. 

yield  is  found. 

will  be  noticed. 

ready   for   use. 

in  early  spring. 

29.  Before 

30.     Buds 

31.   It  is  just 

cold     weather. 

will  be  forming 

as  necessary  to 

This  calendar  of  the  gardener's  labors 

Hushed   with 

look    over    the 
greenhouse,  re- 
placing broken 

on  most  of  the 
greenhouse 
chrysanthe- 

fnn ir  vines  as 
t    is    other 
plants.    All  old 

is  aimed  as  a  reminder  for  undertaking 
all  his  tasks  in  season.     It  is  fitted  to 

broad      tmit- 
lioht  lies   the 
hill. 

glass,    doing 
any    necessary 

mums    at    this 
time     and 

and  unproduc- 
tive    wood 

the  latitude  of  the  Middle  States,  but 

And,    minuting 

repair    work. 
Be  certain  the 
boiler    is    In 
working  condi- 

strong  feedings 
will    be    neces- 
sary     if      you 
want      highest 

should    be    re- 
moved.      This 
will  give  more 
room    for    the 

whole    country    if    it    be    remembered 
that  for  every  one  hundred  miles  north 
or  south  there  is  a  difference  of  from 

loss, 
The     cedar'  t 
shadotc,     slow 
and   still, 

larly  Inagreeu- 
house    that 
was  closed  last 

Also  spray  oc- 
casionally with 
tobacco     prep- 

more   vigorous 
shoots.  Now  is 
the     time     for 

performing    garden    operations.       The 
dates    given    are,    of    course,     for    an 

Creeps   o'er  its 
dial    of    gray 
tnoss. 
•  —  LOWELL 

year. 

aration. 

this  work. 

average  season. 

7)1  D   ye   ever   stop   to   think  how  Nature    changes   her   music,   like,   from   season   to   season?      In   June    an' 

***    early  July,  fer  instance,  it's  birds  a-singin'  from  afore  sunup  to  after  sundown.      Then  these  sorter  quit, 

an'  durtn'  the  rest  o'  the  summer  an'  inter  the  fall  ye  hardly  hear  one  o'  them.     'Stead  o'  daylight  bein'  the 
singin'  time,  it's  night,  an'  ten  million  crickets  an'  sich-like  bugs  starts  a-fiddlin'  an'  a-sawin    an'  a-scrapin' 

soon  as  dark  comes.      Dinged  if  I  know  how  they   do  it,   but  some  o'  them  critters  don't  seem  to  stop  fer 

breath  the  whole  blamed  night.     I've  laid  awake  many   a  time  listenin'   to  some  little   cuss  jus'   outside  my 

window  cheepin'  away  ev'ry  second  —  thousands  an'   thousands  o'   times  without  a  hitch  or  break.      Reminds 

me  o'   one  o'   these   here  labor   agitators  what   come  through  our   township   a  while    back,    tryin'    to    tell   vis 

farmers  how  we  oughter  stand  up  fer  our  rights.    He  talked  an'  talked  an    talked,  an'  far  as  I  could  see  he 

only  really  said  about  one  thing.     But  he  kep'  firin'  that  one  idee  at  us  so  many  times  that  we  got  durn  tired 

o'  hearin1  it,  an'  fin'ly  run  him  to  hell  an'  gone  out  o'  town.-     A  man  hates  to  be  told  he's  a  deef,  dumb  an' 

blind  fool  —  'specially  when  he  ain't  asked  fer  no  advice  in  the  fust  place. 

—  Old   Doc  Lemmon. 

A    wooden    rake    is 
good    to    smooth 
over  the  groiuid  be- 
fore planting 


Hydrangeas  may  be 

pruned   after    the 

blooms  have  passed 

their  prime 


Tomato  plants 
should  not  be  ne- 
glected. Training  and 
pruning  are  needed 


The   time   to  plan   changes  in   the   flower 

garden  is  during  the  summer,  when  existing 

effects  are  clearly  to  be  seen 


Judicious  thinning  of  the  foliage  on  trained 

dwarf  fruit  trees  is  advisable  in  order  that 

the  fruit  may  develop  better 


Never  let  the  vegetables  remain  ungathered 
so  long  that  they  become  tjugh.    Any  sur- 
plus from  the  table  can  be  canned 


August,    1920 


57 


ear* 

3CJJ 


$ 


ARTISTIC  FRENCH  CARPETS 

IN  THOSE 

SOFT  FRENCH  COLORS 


|ANY  women  have  a  remarkable  eye  for  color 
and  can  detect  instantly  the  most  delicate  nuances 
of  shade  and  tone.  The  French  people  have 
the  keenest  color  sense  of  all.  Color  is  their  metier.  So 
we  went  to  France  for  these  carpets.  Not  that  England 
or  America  do  not  excel  in  color,  but  that  France  leads 
them.  Take  these  French  Carpets,  for  example.  The 
colorings  are  superb.  It  is  not  inapropos  to  say  that 
they  have  chic.  In  some  degree  it  is  due  to  the  dry 
spun  yarn  they  use.  But  most  of  all  it  is  due  to  the 
nice  perceptions  of  the  Gallic  temperament.  And  the 
woman  who  is  in  search  of  a  typically  French  color 
scheme  will  certainly  be  pleased  with  these. 

The  quality  is  excellent,  and  the  price  is  particularly 
reasonable  because  we  are  able  to  give  you  the  advaiv 
tage  of  depreciated  exchange. 

W.  &  J.  SLOANE 

Floor  Coverings  and  Fabrics  Furniture  Makers 

FIFTH  AVENUE  AND  FORTY-SEVENTH  STREET   NEW  YORK 
Washington,  D.  C  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


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House     &•     Garden 


WING'S    IRIS 

"A  sword  for  its  leaf  and  a  lily  for  its  heart." —  Ruskin. 


The  Iris,  taken  as  a  single  plant  or  massed  in  the  border,  is 
of  surpassing  beauty.  Graceful  in  flower  and  leaf,  of  noble, 
stately  habit,  with  coloring  of  pearl-like  delicacy,  intense  bril- 
liancy, or  deep  velvety  richness,  the  plant  is  without  a  fault.  It 
is  of  easiest  culture  and  perfectly  hardy. 

Our  collection  is  one  of  the  largest  in  the  world,  and  includes 
the  rarest  and  loveliest  American  and  European  hybrids. 

The  following  collections  we  recommend;  they  furnish  an  in- 
finite variety  of  type  and  color. 


Collection  D. 
Price  $10.00 

Caprice Deep    Violet   Rose 

Cherubim Pinkish    Heliotrope 

Candelabra^ Violet  Tigered  Brown 

Chester  Hunt Pale  and  Deep  Blue 

Ctsse  De  Courcy White  and  Lilac 

Dalmarius Pale   Blue  and  Amber 

Eldorado Bronze  and  Violet 

Her   Majesty Glowing   Rose 

Hiawatha Lavender  and  Purple 

Iris  King Old  Gold  and  Crimson 

Innocenza Pure    White 

Jeanne  D'Arc White  Frilled  Lilac 

Juniata Bright  Blue 

Lohengrin Cattleya     Mauve 

Collection  E. 
Price  $5.00 

Canary    Bird Pale    Yellow 

Chester  Hunt Pale  and  Deep  Blue 

Chelles.  .Golden  Yellow  and  Red-Purple 

Darius Red,  Violet  and  Gold 

Fairy White  and  Soft  Blue 

Honorabilis Mahogany  and  Gold 

Iris  King Old  Gold  and  Crimson 

Jacquesiana Fawn    and   Red-Violet 

Juliette Snow-White  and  Violet 

Khedive Deep   Lavender 

Loreley Sulphur  and  Purple 


Tall  Bearded  Iris 

Actual  Value  $12.45 

Loreley Sulphur  &    Purple 

Mary  Garden.  .Cream  Stippled  Maroon 
Mme.   Guerville. .  .White  Sanded  Violet 

Monsignor Pale  and  Deep  Violet 

Mrs.  Neubroner Golden  Yellow 

Nokomis White  &  Velvety  Blue 

Nuee  d'  Orage Stormcloud  shades 

Pallida  Dalmatica. ..  .Silvery  Lavender 

Pare  De  Neuilly Deep  Blue  Violet 

Prince  d'  Orange 

Golden  Yellow  &  Brown 
Princess  Victoria   Louise 

Primrose  &  Plum 
Quaker  Lady. .  .Lavender,  Blue  &  Gold 

Tall  Bearded  Iris 

Actual  Value  $6.25 

Mme.   Chereau White  Frilled  Blue 

Mme.  Guerville... White  Spotted  Violet 
Nuee  d'  Orage...  ."Storm  Cloud"  color 

Othello Deep   Blue 

Pallida  Dalmatica Silvery  Lavender 

Pallida   Mandraliscae 

Rich  Lavender  Purple 

Queen  of  May Soft  Rose 

Silver  King Pearl  White 

Trautlieb Deep    Rose 

Wm.  Wallace Bright  Violet-Blue 


By  express  not  prepaid.    If  wanted  by  mail,  add  postage  for  5 
pounds  for  collection  D,  4  pounds  for  collection  E. 

Catalogue  free  upon  application. 

THE  WING  SEED  COMPANY 
Box  1427,  Mechanicsburg,  Ohio 

THE  HOUSE  OF  QUALITY  AND  MODERATE  PRICES 


Gingham      Glorified 

(Continued  from  page  33) 


is  gold  framed,  and  on  the  top  of 
the  walnut  commode  is  set  a  henna 
jar  upon  a  runner  of  black  and  gold. 
A  scheme  such  as  this  also  would  be 
found  charming  in  the  living  room,  the 
more  formal  dining  room,  or  in  the 
library. 

A  Green  and  Rose  Bedroom 

Appealing  particularly  to  the  beauty- 
loving  feminine  heart  is  the  bedroom 
of  green  and  rose,  again  gingham- 
glorified.  Against  walls  of  ivory,  above 
a  floor  laid  with  a  rose  and  gray  car- 
pet, are  hung  drapes  of  green  and  white 
gingham  showing  a  broken  diagonal 
plaid  and  lined  with  an  ashes-of-roses 
Jap  crepe.  The  furniture  is  green  with 
a  wide  band  of  a  bronze-putty  color,  and 
decorated  with  a  bit  of  rose  color  in  the 
posies.  The  bed  is  draped  with  the 
gingham,  but  has  a  throw  cover  of  gray 
linen  stitched  with  rose  wool,  which 
wool  also  forms  the  tassels  on  the 
bolster  case.  The  floor  pillow  is  of 
ashes-of-roses  velour,  the  chair  is  of 
gray  linen  with  appliqued  strips  of  ging- 
ham and  old  rose  wool  tassels;  the  glass 
curtains  are  of  sea  green  georgette. 

The  Gamut  of  Ginghams 

It  is  wise  to  visit  your  local  gingham 
counters  before  setting  your  heart  on  an 
impossible  color  scheme.  I  have  hov- 
ered near  mine  long  enough  to  glimpse 
many  alluring  lengths,  which  should  be 
fairly  indicative  of  an  average  assort- 
ment. In  the  large  bar  plaids,  broken 
pleasantly  in  color  distribution,  were 
seen  deep  rose  and  black,  with  an 
emerald  green  line ;  brown  and  black 
with  a  lavender  line,  both  of  these 
showing  a  white  ground ;  on  a  back  of 
fine  black  pin-bar  on  white,  a  broad 
band  of  salmon  brown,  formed  by  the 


combination  of  brown,  rose  and  blue; 
on  a  background  of  golden  brown 
braided  on  white,  a  wide  cross-bar  of 
rose  and  black  on  powder  blue;  on  a 
ground  of  white  finely  lined  in  green 
and  black,  a  noticeable  cross-band  of 
two  tones  of  deep  rose  and  black.  There 
were  many  attractive  stripes,  blues, 
greens,  tan  and  cream  and  black,  lav- 
enders, pinks.  Small  pin  blocks  of  black 
on  Alice  blue,  of  yellow  on  white;  un- 
equal large  checks  of  deep  pink  and 
green  on  white;  a  double  small  plaid 
of  lavender  and  purple,  of  old  blue  and 
dark  blue,  both  on  a  white  background; 
a  small  broken  plaid  of  tan  and  blue; 
a  small  double  bar  plaid  of  rose  and 
white  on  a  dark  green  ground.  Surely 
on  any  counter  there  are  ginghams 
enough  to  choose  from,  and  to  inspire. 

A  Gingham  Dining  Room 

In  a  dining  room  guaranteed  to  scare 
away  the  blues,  and  to  make  life  in 
general  a  beauty  and  a  joy  forever, 
gingham  of  turquoise  and  orchid  lined 
with  soft  yellow  was  hung  at  the  win- 
dows, with  glass  curtains  of  a  plain  buff 
crepe.  The  walls  of  this  room  were  a 
creamy  buff,  on  the  floor  was  a  mauve 
carpet.  Gay  cottage  furniture  was 
used,  with  a  drop-leaf  table  and  Welsh 
dresser,  all  painted  in  putty  color  and 
a  clear  greenish  turquoise,  the  latter 
lining  the  interior  of  the  dresser,  where 
English  porcelain  in  black  and  yellow 
on  cream  was  effectively  displayed,  to- 
gether with  a  few  luster  glasses.  The 
final  touch  of  color  in  this  room  was 
arranged  in  the  window  seat,  for  it  was 
cushioned  in  soft  peacock,  and  the  pil- 
lows laid  on  it  were  of  old  gold,  black, 
turquoise,  orchid  and  gingham.  A  room 
that  was  a  veritable  garden  spot  in  a 
gay  little  house! 


The  Setter,  An  Aristocrat  Among  Dogs 


(Continued  jrom  page  45) 


factory  around  the  average  house. 
Many  thoroughbred,  pedigreed  setters 
are  to  be  had  which  have  not  the  ex- 
treme nervous  development  of  those  of 
field  trial  stock,  and  it  is  from  among 
these  that  your  selection  should  be 
made.  The  Llewellyn  strain  is  a  good 
one,  and  dogs  with  a  fair  percentage 
of  Laverack  blood  in  their  veins  are 
also  excellent.  Many  setters  are  of  Glad- 
stone stock,  than  which  none  is  better. 


In  conclusion,  treat  your  setter  with 
due  regard  for  his  physical  as  well  as 
mental  nature.  Remember  that  he  is  a 
dog  which  needs  exercise,  good  food  and 
wholesome  surroundings  in  order  to  be 
at  his  best.  A  pine  tree  from  the 
mountain  top  will  not  thrive  in  a  mush- 
room cellar,  nor  will  an  English  setter 
with  an  ancestry  of  open-air  hunters 
succeed  in  a  boudoir  atmosphere  of 
sachet  powder  and  steam  heat. 


NOTES  of  the  GARDEN  CLUBS 


THE  Garden  Club  of  Illinois, 
founded  1912,  is  composed  of  60 
active  members  (women),  and  IS 
honorary  members,  including  men,  rep- 
resenting several  places  near  Chicago, 
notably  Lake  Forest.  Ten  meetings  are 
held  at  private  houses  during  the  sum- 
mer. An  annual  report  is  published  in 
loose-leaf  form  for  filing  in  note  books. 
Twenty-eight  members  have  a  "special- 
ty"— bulbs,  novelties  in  perennials,  wild 
flowers  in  gardens,  bog-gardens,  etc. — 
on  which  they  become  authorities. 

The  surplus  from  the  gardens  has 
been  given  to  the  Chicago  City  Garden 
Association.  This  year  the  Club  is 
planning  a  weekly  flower  market  in 
Market  Square,  Lake  Forest,  the  pro- 
ceeds to  be  used  for  municipal  planting. 
Nearly  $3,000  was  given  in  the  last 
three  years  for  planting  the  municipal 
gardens  of  Chicago.  Last  year  five 
truck-loads  of  shrubs  and  plants  were 
sent  to  beautify  the  temporary  quarters 
of  soldiers  at  Fort  Sheridan.  A  com- 
petition is  held  for  garden  designs. 
Prizes  are  offered  at  horticultural  shows. 
Among  the  most  valuable  accom- 
plishments of  the  Club  are  the  land- 


scaping and  planting  of  a  beautiful  park 
in  Lake  Forest  and  the  establishing  and 
conducting  for  two  years  in  Lake  Forest 
of  a  school  of  landscape  architecture 
open  to  members  of  the  Club  and  the 
College.  This  work  was  interrupted  by 
the  war.  This  spring  the  Club  was 
addressed  by  Mr.  Jens  Jensen,  land- 
scape architect,  on  "Our  Native  Land- 
scape". He  advocates  the  naturalistic 
school,  and  the  use  of  native  vegetation 
rather  than  foreign. 

THE  Garden  Club  of  Camden,  Maine, 
founded  1913,  jointly  by  summer 
and  permanent  residents,  now  numbers 
over  100  members,  men  and  women. 
One  of  the  presidents  was  a  descendant 
of  John  Alden;  another,  Mr.  C.  Ded- 
derer  Thompson,  of  New  York.  The 
president  for  1920  is  the  daughter  of 
Italian  resident  parents. 

The  Club  has  interested  townspeople 
in  civics,  and  secured  a  sprayer  for  the 
town's  use,  to  preserve  its  trees.  Repre- 
sentatives of  the  State  Agricultural  De- 
partment, and  professional  gardeners 
from  large  private  estates,  have  given 
(Continued  on  page  60) 


August ,     1920 


59 


r  •"'HE  dominant  appeal  of  the  Premier 
.A.  lies  in  its  artistic  wholeness.  It  is 
to  this  singleness  of  impression  that  the 
car  owes  its  striking  dignity  and  grace. 
Every  component  part  of  the  Premier 
— from  its  wonderful  aluminumized 
motor  and  its  exclusive  electrical  gear- 
shift to  its  luxurious  appointments, 
and  its  refinement  of  detail  —  lends 


itself  to  this  effect  of  unified  complete- 
ness. The  Premier  has  that  distinctive 
quality  of  beautiful  things — economy 
of  design. 

En  tour  in  Europe  or  America,  occu- 
pants of  this  well  -  poised  car  enthusias- 
tically confess  their  feeling  of  confidence 
and  reliance  —  their  abiding  sense  of 
pride  in  ownership. 


MOTOR.        CORPORATION 

INDIANAPOL.I  S  ••••  USA 

THE        ALUMINUM        SIX        WITH        MAGNETIC        GEAR.       SHIFT 


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House     &     Garden 


FROM  New  England 
to  California  leading 
furniture  stores  are  en- 
abling their  patrons  to 
share  in  the  nationwide 
vogue  for  Mathews  Gar- 
den -  Craft  —  the  artistic 
out-door  furniture  pains- 
takingly fashioned  of  cy- 
press, the  "wood  eternal." 
Chairs,  tables,  benches, 
hooded  seats,  trellises- 
all  are  shown  in  their  dis- 
plays. 


Do  yon  ivisfi  us  to   send  yon   the   name, 
of    the   stores  in  your   vicinity/' 

THE  MATHEWS  MANUFACTURING   CO. 
Lakewood,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

New  York  Headquarters: 

THE  MOUNTAIN   COMMUNITY 

No.  3   West  47th    Street 


GARDE'N 

Furniture 


Notes     of     the     Garden     Clubs 

(Continued  from  page  58) 


practical  talks  on  soil,  fertilizers,  prepa- 
ration and  use  of  insecticides,  culture 
of  small  fruits,  preservation  of  apple 
and  elm  trees.  Opportunity  for  ques- 
tioning the  speakers  was  especially  valu- 
able. Local  papers  reported  the  ad- 
dresses, enlarging  the  audience.  The 
Club  started  school  children  in  making 
bird  houses,  for  which  prizes  were 
offered.  The  Camden  Club  has  a  won- 
derful region  for  roses  and  dahlias. 
Field  days  are  held,  and  the  flower  show 
is  staged  in  September. 

THE  Garden  Club  of  Williamsport, 
Pa.,  founded  1916,  has  160  active 
and  40  associate  members,  including 
men  and  women.  A  new  by-law  per- 
mits also  non-resident  members.  Meet- 
ings are  held  at  private  houses,  from 
early  February  to  early  November. 
This  year's  program  is  printed  in  most 
artistic  form  with  illustrations  and  quo- 
tations. Topics  of  lectures  include  the 
financial  side  of  gardening,  cultivation 
of  special  flowers,  "Flower  Arrange- 
ment" by  Prof.  E.  A.  White,  of  the 
Department  of  Floriculture,  Cornell 
University;  Historic,  Italian  and  Aus- 
tralian Gardens,  the  two  last  illustrated 
with  slides;  Table-top  Gardens,  an 
Outdoor  Pageant,  a  Flower  Show,  a 
Garden  Mart,  and  finally  slides  of  mem- 
bers' gardens.  At  the  flower  mart  one 
May,  1,000  Dorothy  Perkins'  roses  were 
sold  in  three-quarters  of  an  hour.  Five 
hundred  shrubs,  100  trees,  600  perennials 
have  been  sold  on  one  occasion. 

The  Club  has  interested  residents  in 
beautifying  Williamsport.  Interest  has 
been  aroused  also  in  preservation  of  the 
lovely  wild  flowers  so  abundant  in  this 
region.  A  war  garden  was  planted, 
contributions  sent  for  re-orcharding 
France,  and  last  year  Liberty  Bonds 
were  bought  which  partially  financed 
the  Club's  chief  project  this  year — the 
planting,  with  some  co-operation  of 
money  and  labor  from  the  next  town, 
of  twelve  miles  along  an  important  high- 
road. Trees,  shrubs  and  vines  will  be 
planted  first,  and  if  the  public  respects 
the  work,  smaller  plants  and  bulbs  will 
be  added  later. 

THE  Garden  Club  of  Lawrence,  L.  I., 
founded  1912,  has  a  membership 
"well  over  a  hundred"  open  to  men 
and  women.  The  president  for  1920 
is  Mr.  Julian  Hinckley.  The  Club  is 
formed  mostly  of  summer  residents  of 
Cedarhurst,  Hewlett,  Woodmere  and 
Lawrence. 

This  year's  program  includes,  besides 
lectures,  a  tulip,  a  peony  and  rose,  and 
a  chrysanthemum  show,  as  well  as  one 
general  fruit,  flower  and  vegetable  show. 
During  the  war  the  Club  assisted  in 
neighborhood  war  gardens.  The  Club 
dues  support  a  scholarship  at  the  School 
of  Horticulture  for  Women,  Ambler,  Pa. 

THE  Garden  Club  of  Ridgewood, 
N.  J.,  formed  in  1914,  with  eight 
members,  by  Mr.  Robert  L.  Roe,  after- 
wards president  for  four  years,  has  now 
300  members,  all  men,  commuters,  in  a 
town  of  8,000  population.  This  Club 
is  said  to  be  the  largest  of  its  kind  in 
the  United  States,  perhaps  in  the  world. 
Evening  meetings,  which  were  held  first 
in  private  houses,  are  now  held  in  a 
public  hall.  Co-operative  buying  of 
seeds  and  other  garden  supplies  was 
found  to  be  so  satisfactory  that  it  has 
been  extended  to  necessities  for  house- 
hold use. 

Shows  are  held  in  June  and  Septem- 
ber, including  vegetables,  fruit,  flowers 
and  classes  of  artistic  arrangement. 
General  standards  of  gardening  have 
been  improved  and  advice  on  gardening 
published  in  the  local  papers.  The  real 
estate  men  declare  the  Club  is  the  most 
valuable  asset  the  town  possesses.  Each 
of  a  number  of  members  grows  over  a 
hundred  varieties  of  dahlias,  and  one 


has  250  varieties.  Hohokus,  adjoining 
Ridgewood,  has  also  a  garden  club  of 
men,  recently  founded.  The  program 
for  1920  is  confined  to  definite  flower 
and  shrub  topics,  beautifying  Hohokus, 
arrangement  of  cut  flowers,  a  garden 
night,  field  day,  and  a  social  night. 

THE  Garden  Club  of  Morristown, 
founded  in  1912,  has  a  membership 
of  sixty,  all  women,  which  may  be  in- 
creased to  125.  Meetings  are  held  twice 
a  month,  from  April  to  November. 
There  are  monthly  exhibits  of  flowers, 
for  which  prizes  are  given.  The  topics 
for  meetings  this  spring  include  iris 
growing  and  hybridizing,  scientific  grass 
growing,  birds  and  insects,  Italian  gar- 
dens, shrubs  and  hardy  plants.  Lectures 
are  given  in  the  Public  Library,  ad- 
mission by  cards  issued  on  application. 
The  local  papers  report  the  lectures. 
The  Club  has  given  the  Library  books 
on  gardening  and  vases  which  they  keep 
filled  with  flowers.  The  Garden  Club 
co-operates  in  the  care  of  the  grounds 
of  the  Community  Club,  and  is  affili- 
ated with  the  Wildflower  Association, 
interesting  school  children  in  the  preser- 
vation of  wild  flowers. 

THE  Park  Garden  Club  of  Flushing, 
Long  Island,  organized  in  1914, 
has  100  active,  85  associate  and  16 
non-resident  members,  including  men 
and  women.  Bi-monthly  meetings, 
usually  with  lectures,  are  held  through- 
out the  year;  also  there  are  two  field 
days,  two  flower  shows,  and  informal 
flower  exhibits.  This  June  the  Club 
in  cooperation  with  the  newest  of  the 
special  flower  societies,  the  American 
Iris  Society,  arranged  a  garden  party 
and  iris  exhibit  at  the  residence  of  the 
Club's  President,  Mrs.  John  W.  Paris. 
In  1919,  a  quarterly  bulletin  was  started^ 
publishing  the  Club's  program  and 
records,  also  items  of  general  garden 
interest.  Some  of  the  members  are 
hybridizing,  others  write  for  publication. 
At  the  International  Flower  Show  in 
New  York,  members  of  the  Club  made 
19  entries,  and  received  13  prizes  and  3 
commendations.  The  Club  has  done 
public  tree  planting,  aided  in  organizing 
other  clubs,  has  cooperated  with  the 
Ridgewood  Garden  Club  in  lighting  a 
30-foot  living  Community  Christmas 
tree  and  is  affiliated  with  the  Long; 
Island  Council  of  Women's  Clubs,  Amer- 
ican Rose,  and  American  Dahlia  So- 
cieties. 

THE  Garden  Club  of  Lenox,  organ- 
ized in  1911,  has  a  membership  of  93 
men  and  women,  many  of  them  owners 
of  the  finest  places  in  Stockbridge,  Great 
Barrington,  Pittsfield,  Lenox,  etc.  Mr. 
Thomas  Shields  Clarke,  the  sculptor  and 
painter,  is  an  ex-president.  Meetings 
are  held  fortnightly  from  July  to  Octo- 
ber. Original  work  is  done  by  the 
members  in  designing  miniature  gar- 
dens and  in  writing  papers.  In  1918 
the  Club  subscribed  $1,000  to  support  a 
Unit  of  the  Women's  Land  Army,  has 
endeavored  to  protect  the  native  flora 
and  forests  of  the  Berkshire  Hills,  and 
awards  prizes  to  school  children  of  the 
country  for  the  best  bird-houses. 

'TpHE  Garden  Club  of  Dutchess  and 
A  Orange  Counties,  New  York,  includes 
men  and  women.  The  President  is  Dr. 
E.  L.  Partridge,  of  New  York.  Meet- 
ings are  held  during  the  summer,  and 
an  occasional  winter  lecture  is  arranged 
in  New  York.  Members  contribute 
many  of  the  papers  for  the  Club  pro- 
gram. This  Club  was  organized  by  the 
late  Mrs.  Fairchild,  formerly  Mrs.  Ely, 
author  of  "A  Woman's  Hardy  Garden." 
Mrs.  Verplanck,  who  lectures  before  gar- 
den clubs,  and  Miss  Mary  R.  Jay, 
Garden  Architect,  are  other  members. 
(Continued  on  page  62) 


August,     1920 


61 


LIGHT-SIX 

Touring  Car  ...  $1485 
Landau-Roadster  .  .  1SSO 

Sedan 2450 

F.  O.  B.  South  Bend 

SPECIAL-SIX 

Touring  Car  .  .  .  11875 
2-Passenger  Roadster  187? 
4-Passenger  Roadster  UTS 

Ccuf* 2850 

Sedan 2950 

F.  O.  B.  Detroit 

BIG-SIX 

Touring  Car      .     .     .  12350 
F.  O.  B.  Detroit 


SERIES  20  BIG-SIX 

Power— plenty  of  it,  yet  under  the  instant  control  of  the  driver. 
Quick  acceleration — wonderful  pulling  power  at  low  engine  speed 
—sixty  miles  or  better  in  high.  The  BIG-SIX  gives  you  every- 
thing you  expect  in  a  high  class  automobile. 

60-H.  P.  detachable-head  motor:  126-inch  wheelhase,  insur- 
ing ample  room  for  seven  adults.  All  Studchaker  Cars  arc 
equipped  with  Cord  Tires — another  Studebuker  precedent 

Ask  the  Studf  baker  Dealer  what  Gasoline  and 
'lire  Mileage  /J/(/-.V/A'  oit-ners  are  £ttlin% 


' 


62 


House     fy     Garden 


Safeguard  the 

beauty  of  your  lawn 

and  grounds 

YOU  protect  your  lawn  and 
grounds  when  you  have 
available  a  constant  supply  of 
running  water.  The  wither- 
ing heat  of  torrid  summer  days 
does  not  leave  its  mark  on 
grounds  that  are  kept  well- 
watered. 

A  Fairbanks-Morse  "Typhoon" 
water  system  will  protect  your 
grounds  at  low  cost.  A  safe- 
guard against  fire,  also.  Pro- 
vides all  the  running  water 
you  want  for  baths,  laundry, 
stock,  barns  and  fountains. 


en- 


Operated  by  famous  "Z" 
gine  that  runs  on  kerosene  as 
well  as  gasoline  with  low  up- 
keep cost.  Easily  and  simply 
operated.  See  your  local  deal- 
er, who  can  tell  you  which  size 
is  best  suited  for  your  home. 


Fairbanks,  Morse 

^MANUFACTURERS       I       I          CHIC 


New  York 


CHICAGO 
Baltimore  Boston 


Notes  of   the   Garden   Clubs 


(Continued  from  page  60) 


THE  Gardeners  of  Montgomery  and 
Delaware  Counties,  Pa.,  are  40  wo- 
men, all  doing  personal  garden  work, 
who  meet  sixteen  times  a  year.  The 
Club  operated  a  Farm  Unit  during  the 
war,  and  has  cooperated  with  other 
clubs  in  organizing  Flower  Shows  and 
Community  Gardens,  etc.,  which  later 
became  self-managing. 

THE  Garden  Club  of  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, organized  in  1916,  has  a 
limited  membership  of  35  women  who 
all  work  in  their  gardens.  Monthly 
meetings  are  held  excepting  July  and 
August.  Members  exchange  plants  and 
write  many  papers  for  their  meetings. 
The  Club  has  planted  the  grounds  of  the 
Connecticut  Institute  for  the  Blind,  and 
also  of  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  Asylum. 
This  year  the  Club  plans  to  visit  the 
Arnold  Arboretum. 

THE  Garden  Club  of  Chestnut  Hill, 
Massachusetts,  organized  in  1915,  is 
composed  of  105  men  and  women.  Mr. 
R.  M.  Saltonstall  has  just  retired  as 
President.  Meetings  are  held  approxi- 
mately once  a  month  from  November 
to  May ;  also  there  are  field  days  in  the 
Spring,  and  an  annual  flower  show. 

Mr.  E.  H.  Wilson,  of  the  Arnold 
Arboretum,  who  has  introduced  thou- 
sands of  plants  from  China  into  this 
country,  is  among  the  eminent  men  who 
have  addressed  the  Club.  Miss  Marian 
C.  Coffin,  landscape  architect,  spoke  in 
April  on  "Spring  Planting."  In  May, 
Miss  Edna  Cutter  delivered  "A  Message 
from  the  Farm  Women."  Many  mem- 
bers work  in  their  gardens,  and  some 
have  hybridized  orchids.  The  Club  es- 
tablished a  community  canning  kitchen 
during  the  war  and  contributed  through 
the  Royal  Horticultural  Society  of  Eng- 
land for  the  benefit  of  distressed  Bel- 
gian horticulturists.  Recently  the  Club 
has  assisted  in  fitting  up  the  dormitories 
of  Amherst  Agricultural  College. 

THE  Rumson  (N.  J.)  Garden  Club, 
organized  about  1914,  has  150  men 
and  women  members,  mostly  summer 
residents  of  seven  or  eight  settlements, 
including  Seabright,  Rumson,  Red  Bank, 
Monmou'.h  Beach,  Elberon,  Oakhurst, 
etc.  Gardens  thus  vary  from  the  walled 
sunken  garden  of  Mrs.  Hamilton  Fish 
Kean,  within  100  feet  of  the  ocean,  to 
elaborate  plantations  in  the  sheltered  in- 
land areas.  Meetings  are  held  monthly 
from  June  to  November,  usually  with 
lectures  by  professionals,  but  some 
original  papers  are  read  by  members. 
Mrs.  S.  A.  Broun,  author  of  "Gardens 
to  Color  and  Individual  Gardens"  and 
who  lectures  on  "Old  English  Herb 
Gardens,"  is  a  member  of  the  Rumson 
Club.  This  year  besides  several  field 
days  and  monthly  flower  exhibits,  there 
will  be  two  flower  shows.  The  Presi- 
dent, Mrs.  George  Ward,  Jr.,  has  given 
special  attention  to  the  premium  list 
which  was  referred  to  Professor  Nash 


of  the  New  York  Botanical  Gardens  and 
professional  gardeners.  The  Club  has 
been  helpful  with  a  woman's  cooperative 
training  farm,  and  has  especially  en- 
couraged children's  gardens,  in  which 
Mrs.  Howard  Borden,  one  of  the  found- 
ers of  the  Club,  is  particularly  inter- 
ested. This  season  there  will  be  a  paid 
supervisor  and  an  entertainment  for  the 
children  when  the  prizes  are  awarded. 
Among  new  committees  are  the  Tree- 
planting,  Lantern  Slides  (of  members' 
gardens)  and  the  Plants  Bargain  Com- 
mittee. The  last  is  to  offer  surplus  seed- 
lings, etc.,  from  the  larger  places  to 
small  householders  at  small  prices. 

THE  Garden  Club  of  Albemarle 
County,  Virginia,  organized  in  1911, 
has  50  members,  all  women,  who  meet 
monthly.  There  are  plant  sales  in  May 
and  September,  and  an  autumn  flower 
show.  A  "Curb  Market"  was  conducted 
during  the  war.  At  present  the  Club  is 
engaged  in  replanting  the  old  Schele  de 
Vere  Garden  situated  on  the  grounds 
of  the  University  of  Virginia,  Char- 
lottesville,  Va. 

THE  Garden  Club  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
organized  in  1914,  has  30  members, 
all  women,  but  includes  men  in  its  list  of 
associate  and  honorary  members.  Meet- 
ings are  held  every  month  in  the  year, 
at  which  there  are  exhibits  of  forced 
plants  and  bulbs  as  well  as  outdoor 
grown  flowers,  fruits  and  vegetables. 
The  opening  lecture  this  year  was  by 
Mr.  Underwood  on  "New  England  Gar- 
dens." Mrs.  Samuel  H.  Taft,  President 
of  the  Club,  is  also  regional  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  American  Iris  Society  for 
Ohio,  Kentucky,  Indiana,  and  Michigan. 
Mrs.  Taft  has  created  many  valuable 
dahlias,  some  of  which  she  has  named 
for  her  Club  members.  Mrs.  Charles 
Anderson  and  Mrs.  James  Perkins  have 
also  specialized  in  dahlias,  Mr.  John 
Wareham  in  iris,  and  Mr.  Carl  H.  Krip- 
pendorf  in  daffodils  and  lilacs.  Miss 
Isabelle  Pendleton,  another  member,  is 
a  graduate  of  the  Lothrop  School  of 
Landscape  Gardening.  By  permission  of 
the  Park  Commission,  one  year  the  Club 
held  a  flower  fete  in  Eden  Park,  selling 
everything  connected  with  gardening, 
from  gloves  and  weeders  to  bird  baths 
and  trees.  The  proceeds  were  used  for 
beautifying  the  city  streets  and  road- 
sides. In  1915  the  Club  sold  9,000  pink 
rose  bushes  at  cost  (10  cents  each),  the 
school  children  buying  3,000.  In  1916, 
10,000  Dorothy  Perkins'  rose  bushes 
were  sold  in  three  hours,  and  two  weeks 
later,  thousands  more  were  bought  and 
planted  all  over  Cincinnati.  On  the 
Wooster  Pike  the  Club  has  naturalized 
50,000  daffodils,  10,000  iris,  and  planted 
thousands  of  flowering  shrubs.  To  quote 
Mrs.  Taft,  "The  Garden  Club  is  directly 
responsible  for  placing  flower  boxes  in 
the  windows  of  all  the  business  houses 
and  shops  along  the  main  thorofares." 
ELLEN  P.  CUNINGHAM. 


August,     1920 


GERMAN  IRIS 

The  splendid  effect  to  be  had  with  German  Iris  is  well  shown  by  the  illustra- 
tion below.  They  are  among  the  most  beautiful  hardy  plants  grown  and  are 
of  the  easiest  culture. 

We  make  a  specialty  of  Iris  and  our  collection  of  all  varieties  hardy  enough 
for  this  climate  include  Japanese,  German,  Pumila,  Siberian  Interegna, 
and  native.  Irises  are  best  planted  early  in  September.  Order  now  and 
we  will  send  them  at  the  proper  time  for  planting. 

Named  varieties,  20  cts.  each,  $1.75  per  doz.,  $10.00  per  100,  unless  otherwise  noted. 
Mixed  varieties,  $1.00  per  doz.,  $6.00  per  100. 


Aurea.  A  pure,  rich,  deep  yellow:  extra-large  (lower, 
distinct  and  beautiful.  30  cts.  each,  $3.00  per  doz.; 

Canary-Bird.  Standards  and  (alls  pale  yellow.  25  cts. 
each. 

Carlottn  Patti.  Standards  lemon-yellow;  falls  same, 
veined  reddish  brown;  dwarf,  j 

Dalmatica.  Delicate  lavender.  Tall,  vigorous  plant, 
with  very  large  flower;  one  of  the  li nest  of  all  Irises. 
35  cts.  each.  $3.50  per  doz. 

Darius.     Y<-llow  and  lilac;  large  flowers. 

Donna  Maria.     White,  tinged  lilac. 

Florcntina  alba.    Silvery  white;  early. 

Fragrans.     Lovely  white,  edged  with  violet. 

Gracchus.  Standards  yellow;  falls  crimson,  reticulated 
white,  with  yellow  margins.  25  cts.  each. 

Her  Majesty.  lively  rose-pink;  a  variety  of  great 
distinction  and  Ixxiuly.  35  cts.  each. 

King  of  lri«.  (New  )  A  striking  novelty,  with  flowers 
of  perfect  form,  the  standard  clear  lemon-yellow;  falls 
deep  satiny  brown,  with  a  broad  border  of  golden- 
yellow.  5O  cts.  each. 

Lucretius.  Standards  white,  delicately  shaded  blue; 
falls  velvety  violet-purple. 

La  Tendre.      Standards  white,   tinted  lavender;  falls 

light  purple. 
Lohengrin.      (New).     Foliage  and   flower  of  gigantic 

size,  of  a  deep  violet-mauve.    50  cts.  each. 


ibelungen.       (New).      Standards  fawn-yellow,    falls 
violet  blue,  with  fawn  margin;  distinct  and  pretty. 


Loreley.  (New).  Perfect  shaped  flowers,  falls  of  a  deep 
ultra-marine-hlue,  more  or  less  veined  with  creamy- 
white  and  bordered  sulphur-yellow;  the  standards  are 
a  pale  sulphur-yellow,  making  a  beautiful  contrast. 
50  cts.  each. 

Madame  Cliereau.  Pearly  white,  daintily  edged  with 
lavender. 

Nibelun, 

violet  I 

50  cts.  each. 

Oroya.  Standards  light  purple;  falls  dark  purple,  upper 
half  reticulated  white. 

Pariaienne.     fXt'p  purple;  dwarf. 

Princess  Victoria  Louise.  (New).  Standards  pure 
sulphur  yellow;  falls  rich  plum  color,  with  cream- 
colored  edges.  A  new  ana  distinct  combination  of 
colors.  50  cts.  each. 

Queen  of  the  Gypsies.  Standards  bronze;  falls  light 
purple. 

Queen  of  May.    Lovely  rose-lilac.    25  cts.  each. 

Rhein  Nixe.  Standards  pure  white;  falls  deep  violet- 
blue,  with  white  margins,. will  attain  a  height  of  3  feel, 
with  many-branched  stems.  50  cts.  each. 

Stylosa  Innocenza.  Exquisitely  beautiful,  almost 
pure  white  flowers,  tinted  with  blue  and  yellow;  a 
color  never  before  obtainable  in  German  Iriaes. 
35  cts.  each. 


Special  Offer  of  German  Iris.   ^  3X^^£3ft^&Zt£ 

assortment  at  $1.25  per  doz.,  $8.00  per  100,  $60.00  per  1,000. 


SEND  FOR  CATALOGUE 

of  Tulips,  Hyacinths  and  Narcissi  for  fall  planting, 
Peonies  for  September  planting  and  complete  list  of 
Irises. 

ELLIOTT  NURSERY 

340  Fourth  Avenue 
Pittsburgh,  Pa. 


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House     Gr     Garden 


IT  is  only  fair  that  the  country  should 
now  turn  the  tables  upon  the  city. 

Every  bit  of  water  equipment 
which  for  so  long  has  been  monopo- 
lized by  those  who  have  city  water 
pressure  is  now  within  the  reach  of  the 
country,  making  it,  with  its  natural 
advantages,  an  ideal  home  not  alone 
for  children,  but  for  everybody. 

A  V-K  Water  Supply  System  will 
take  care  of  any  problem  of  water  dis- 
tribution anywhere,  furnishing  a  stand- 
ard water  pressure  of  50  pounds, — 
enough  to  throw  a  stream  over  the 
house. 

It  protects  against  fire  and  drouth. 
It  saves  labor.  It  beautifies  the  sur- 
roundings. It  extends  the  home-build- 
er's territory  enormously. 

No  matter  what  Electric  lighting 
system  you  install,  be  sure  to  buy  a 
V-K  Water  Supply  System  for  best 
results. 

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Yours  truly 
Address 


The  electric  fan  comes  in  many  decorative  designs 

to  suit  the  color  of  the  room.     Courtesy  of  The 

Edison  Co. 


Good    Air     in     the     Home 

(Continued  from  page   53) 

air   agitators   such    as    fans,   etc.     The  house   with   some   of   the   steadily   im- 

theory  is  that,  as  the  pores  of  our  skin  proving    devices   now   on   the    market, 

exude  moisture,  the  body  is  comforted  „,,      p,          t     Ventilate 
and    cooled    and    the    nervous    system 

stimulated  by  its  evaporation  which  is  Any  device  to  be  useful  to  the  home 

effected     more    readily    by    constantly  must,    of    course,    be    convenient,    eco- 

moving  air.    Moving  air,  however,  does  nomical,  safe  to  operate,  and  durable, 

not  mean  a  draught.  Let   us  begin   with   the  kitchen;    for 

In  the   ideally   "atmosphered"   house,  there  ventilation  is  more  necessary  than 

the    doors    and    windows    are    ideally  any  place  else  in  the  house, 

placed  so  that  the  warm  air  exits  from  Not   only  is  it  difficult  to   keep  the 

the  top  of  the  room  and  the  cold  air  kitchen  in  equable  temperature,  but  to 

comes  in  from  the  lower  parts  of  the  have  it  cool  often  means  a  draft,  and 

rooms  (such  as  lower  windows  or  well  a  draft  means  a  cold  for  the  cook,  and 

placed   air  intakes).     Thus,   the  air  is  a   cold  for  the   cook  means   danger  to 

moving  without  the  least  draught.  the  whole  household. 

But  why  do  humans  need  special  air  Then     there     are     odors     from     the 

treatment?     For   the   simple   fact  that  kitchen.     These  are  continually  getting 

human  beings  have  different  capacities  loose,   unless   the   door   of   the   kitchen 

for  air  consumption,  or  converting  the  is   kept    closed    (which   is   trying)    and 

air   inhaled   into   carbon   dioxide   as  it  infecting    the    house    prematurely    with 

is  exhaled.     Scientists  have  found  that  the  taste   of  dinner.     All   of  which   is 

a  woman  exhales  600  cubic  feet  of  car-  uncomfortable    and   gives   the   home   a 

bon  dioxide  per  hour;  young  men,  614;  commonplace     tenementy     atmosphere, 

young  women,  453  ;  boys,  363 ;  girls,  343.  Your    home    may    be    judged    by    its 

Consequently  the  air  has  to  be  con-  amount  of  laundry  and  cooking  odors! 

stantly  renewed.     In  the  average  room  The  fewer,  the  better.     Did  you  ever 

the  average  air  change  is  one  to  two  think  of  that? 

times  per  hour.    In  the  well-built  house  The  cellar  is  another  important  room 

it   is   two   to   three — due   to   fireplaces,  to  keep  well  aired  and  should  be  pro- 


windows,  doors,  etc. 

The  requisites  for  good 
ventilation  are: 

1.  Equable      tempera- 
ture from  about  60°   to 
65°   Fahrenheit,  and  the 
moderate  relative  humid- 
ity or  moisture  of  45°  to 
60°.     In   order   to   keep 
the  room  moist  in  winter 
it  is  well  to  keep  a  pan 
of  water  on  the  radiator. 
Regular    humidifiers   can 
be  bought  for  this  pur- 
pose. 

2.  Clear  air,  free  from 
impurities  such   as   dust, 
insects,  oily  vapors,  soot, 
etc. 

3.  Odorless     air,     free 
from  gases  and  vapors. 

4.  Air  in  motion;  but 
the  motion  must  be  ac- 
complished without  those 
objectionable     blasts    of 
wind  that  so   frequently 
startle     you     in     some 
houses    which    are    sup- 
posed to  have  the  most 
up-to-date    equipment. 

Air  is  no  mysterious 
chemical  combination.  It 
is  a  mechanical  mixture 
of  21  parts  of  nitrogen, 
79  parts  of  oxygen,  from 
0  to  4%  of  moisture,  and 
usually  4  parts  of  carbon 
dioxide  gas  per  10,000 
parts  of  air.  So  it  need 
not  distress  anyone  to 
effect  a  good  clean  sup- 
ply of  air  and  equip  the 


Fan  standard 
in    painted 

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vided  with  windows  and 
doors  to  formulate  a  cur- 
rent of  air.  Pantry  and 
laundry,  too,  should  be 
built  with  ventilation  in 
view,  in  order  that,  as  in 
the  kitchen,  these  rooms 
can  be  kept  sweet  and 
savory  at  all  times  and 
under  all  ordinary  con- 
ditions. 

Without  extra  ventila- 
tion apparatus,  the  ordi- 
nary air  in  a  room  cools, 
and  as  it  cools,  it  falls, 
and  as  it  falls  it  is  heated 
and  rises  again — keeping 
up  a  rotary  circulation. 
Remembering  this  fact, 
we  can  put  into  opera- 
tion in  our  homes  these 
simple  practices: 

1.  Lower    windows 
from   top  and  bot- 
tom    so     that    the 
warm    air    will    go 
out  at  top  and  cold 
air  come  in  at  bot- 
tom,    starting     the 
circulation  of  air. 

2.  If  not  too  draughty, 
have    a    door    open 
opposite     the     win- 
dows,    or     use     a 
draught     board 
which  can  be  easily 
placed    on    window 
sill    to    curb    the 
draught. 

3.  Cool   moist   air  can 
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How  many  times  have  you  been  embarrassed  by 
having  visitors  find  your  home  permeated  with 
the  penetrating  odors  from  cooking — that  heavy 
"dead"  atmosphere  that  resists  even  the  open 
windows  and  lingers  for  hours  after.  How 
often  must  you,  because  of  this,  deny  your  family 
their  favorite  dishes.  Keep  your  home  atmos' 
phere  always  as  sweet  as  the  outdoor  air  by 
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work  in  —  feel  the  stimulation  of  cooking  where 
the  air  is  always  thrillingly  fresh,  clean,  sweet  — 
free  from  the  unpleasant  mixture  of  cooking  odors, 
the  oppressive  smokey,  steamy  air  and  heat 

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Good     Air    in     the     Home 

(Continued  from  page   64) 


be  had  often  by  hanging  up  a 
damp  sheet  and  rewetting  it  as  it 
dries. 

4.  Fireplaces  with  small  or  large  fires 
in  them  cause  air  current. 

5.  In  some  rooms  which  have  a  grated 
air  intake  cut  into  the  walls  near 
the  radiators,  the  air  circulation  is 
effected  easily. 

6.  Give  the  risen  hot  air  a  chance  to 
get  out  of  the  top  of  room,  and 
give  the  cold  air  a  chance  to  come 
in    at   the    bottom    of   room — and 
keep  it  agitated — this  is  about  the 
best  advice  for  fulfilling  the  gen- 
eral  requirements. 

With  the  new  ventilators,  cookery 
odors,  draughts,  smoke,  steamy  vapors, 
smudges  collecting  over  walls,  curtains, 
etc.,  are  obviated  because  they  are  all 
dissipated  and  sent  flying  to  the  big  out- 
doors. Its  blowers  blow  out  the  bad 
air,  and  its  fans  agitate  the  new  air 
which  comes  in  to  take  its  place.  The 


apparatus,  which  is  simplicity  itself  to 
operate,  is  attached  to  the  ordinary 
lamp  socket  and  placed  in  effective 
places.  The  improved  motors  are  en- 
cased and  almost  frictionless  in  action, 
which  means  the  minimum  wear  and 
tear  and  no  cost  for  repairs.  Some  of 
the  motors  are  self-cooled,  which  also 
does  away  with  wear  and  hot-boxes. 

There  are  various  kinds  of  fans  which 
may  be  used.  Those  which  change  their 
direction  in  process  of  revolution  are 
good.  But  whatever  kind  you  use,  it 
should  be  so  placed  as  not  to  make 
draughts.  The  steady  movement  of  air 
is  the  only  thing  necessary. 

In  the  study  where  it  is  necessary  to 
have  light  and  air  and  no  draught  to 
blow  papers  away,  the  ventilator,  which 
may  be  put  on  the  window  sill  over 
the  radiator,  thus  obviating  the  uncer- 
tain winds  coming  rashly  through  the 
open  window,  will  prove  a  boon  to  the 
writer  or  housewife. 


The  Art  of  the  Ancient  Medalists 

(Continued  from  page  37) 


sider  what  that  good  gossip  Pinkerton 
wrote  (and  what  his  good  neighbor 
James  Dodsley  in  Pall  Mall  printed  for 
him  in  1784):  "The  principal  and  most 
legitimate  source  of  pleasure  arising 
from  the  science  of  medals  is  their 
workmanship.  The  motives  of  delight, 
which  owe  their  origin  to  the  other 
efforts  of  imitative  art,  will  here  likewise 
of  course  predominate.  A  philosophic 
enquiry  into  the  prime  causes  of  our 
pleasures  arising  from  art,  though  it 
would  make  an  admirable  subject  for 
a  treatise,  yet  were  in  this  place  foreign 
and  impertinent.  .  .  . 

"The  chief  and  most  rational  amuse- 
ment, therefore,  which  springs  from 
this  study,  originates  from  the  strength 
and  spirit,  from  the  finish  and  beauty, 
which  the  engraver  had  displayed. 

"But  besides  this,  there  are  many 
other  sources  of  entertainment  in  the 
science  of  medals.  Such  is  the  personal 
acquaintance  which,  so  to  speak,  it  gives 
us  with  all  the  great  men  of  former 
times.  Nothing  can  well  be  more  amus- 
ing than  to  read  history,  with  contem- 
porary coins  before  you.  It  brings  the 
actions,  in  a  manner,  before  our  eyes; 
and  we  fit,  as  in  a  theatre,  with  the 
actors  before  us. 

"Portraits  have  been  always  very  in- 
teresting to  mankind;  and  I  doubt  not 
but  the  love  of  them  gave  rise,  not  only 
to  painting,  but  to  sculpture.  Nowhere 
are  they  to  be  found  so  ancient,  so 
numerous,  so  well  preserved,  as  in 
medals.  For  a  knowledge  which,  though 
unimportant,  is  yet,  to  our  trifling  na- 
tures, most  interesting,  namely,  that  of 
the  form  and  features  of  those  whose 
virtues  and  talents  almost  surpassed  hu- 
manity, we  are  indebted  to  this  science 
only.  Lawgivers,  monarchs,  warriors, 
authors,  all  pass  as  in  a  fairy  review 
before  us.  ... 

"To  this  satisfaction  we  may  add  that 
of  beholding,  in  lively  portraiture,  the 
various  dresses,  manners,  and  customs, 
religious  and  civil  ceremonies;  in  short, 
the  very  form  and  pressure  of  the  times 
of  the  ancients.  Medals  almost  present 
an  history  of  manners,  an  article  but 
very  lately  cultivated,  yet  perhaps  the 
most  useful  and  interesting  of  all  the 
provinces  of  history." 

Medals  vs.  Coins 

The  coins  of  ancient  and  of  medieval 
times  do,  of  course,  present  a  wonderful 
field  for  study  and  are  of  absorbing 
interest.  So,  too,  are  Renaissance  coins, 
and  subsequent  issues  have  their  de- 
votees. But  those  commemorative  pieces, 
struck  or  cast  for  extraordinary  pur- 


poses or  occasions  (and  not  in  circula- 
tion as  money),  to  which  we  give  the 
name  medal  in  contradistinction  to  the 
name  coin,  shall  here  occupy  our  im- 
mediate attention,  and  particularly  those 
medals  of  the  period  of  the  Italian 
Renaissance  which  have  not  been  sur- 
passed in  medallic  art  either  for  interest 
or  artistic  quality. 

The  very  zenith  of  the  art  of  the 
medal  was  reached  between  the  middle 
of  the  15th  Century  and  the  end  of  the 
16th.  Undoubtedly  the  greatest  mas- 
ters of  the  plastic  arts  in  ancient  Greece 
applied  their  talents  to  medallic  design, 
and  so,  too,  did  some  of  the  greatest 
Italian  masters  centuries  later. 

Superiority  of  Italian  Medalists 

While  medallic  art  found  its  heyday 
in  the  two  great  schools  of  the  Renais- 
sance period — Italian  and  German  (Ger- 
many borrowed  the  art  of  medal  cast- 
ing from  Italy) — the  Italian  masters  ex- 
hibited superior  taste  and  respect  for 
the  limitations  of  the  circular  form  of 
the  usual  medal,  developing  an  artistic 
expression  consistent  with  it.  While  one 
does  not  find  the  Italian  medal  of  the 
Renaissance  exhibiting  the  perfect  beauty 
of  the  finest  Greek  coins  of  the  ages 
that  preceded  them,  a  certain  nobility 
and  grandeur  of  conception,  relevance 
of  subject-matter,  fine  composition,  a 
lack  of  that  foreshortening  which  Cretan 
engravers,  for  instance,  employed  in  or- 
der to  crowd  as  much  as  possible  within 
the  circle,  and  "Emphasis  of  purpose," 
as  some  one  has  put  it,  mark  the  Italian 
medals  of  the  Renaissance  as  noble 
works  of  art  which  deserve  more  popu- 
lar appreciation  and  study  than  they 
have  as  yet  received. 

Alberti's  portrait  medal  of  himself 
(in  the  Dreyfous  Collection,  Paris),  is 
one  of  the  first  of  Italian  medals,  if  not 
the  earliest,  probably  dating  about  1435. 
The  German  medal  begins  in  1453,  the 
English  in  1480,  the  Spanish  in  1503, 
the  Dutch  in  1566. 

"The  first  Italian  medals,"  says  War- 
wick Wroth,  F.S.A.,  "must,  indeed,  be 
reckoned  as  a  new  artistic  product  of 
their  time:  the  processes  by  which  they 
are  made  are  not  those  of  the  older 
coin  or  medallion  engravers,  and  they 
are,  at  first,  entirely  unofficial  in  char- 
acter. It  is  only  by  degrees  that  the 
medal  becomes  more  or  less  official,  and 
is  employed  to  commemorate  public 
events.  The  earlier  specimens  of  Italian 
workmanship  were  not  intended  to  com- 
memorate events  or  even  to  do  honor 
to  illustrious  men  after  their  decease; 
(Continued  on  page  68) 


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The  Art  of  the  Ancient  Medalists 


(Continued  from  page  66) 


they  were  destined  rather  to  serve  the 
purpose  of  the  painted  portrait  or  of 
the  modern  photograph.  The  noble 
families  of  the  time  welcomed  with  a 
natural  eagerness  this  new  art,  which 
not  only  portrayed  their  features  with 
all  the  power  of  painting,  but  which 
rendered  them  in  a  material  which  was 
readily  available  for  transmission  from 
friend  to  friend." 

Vittore  Pisano 

Vittore  Pisano  of  Verona  must  stand 
forth  as  the  greatest  of  these  early  mas- 
ters of  the  medal.  From  1439-1449  he 
devoted  his  skill  to  productions  of  this 
sort,  some  thirty  examples  from  his 
hand  being  extant.  As  his  medals  often 
bear  the  signature  "OPUS  PISANI  PIC- 
TORIS",  we  have  in  this  a  reference  to 
Pisano's  position  as  a  painter — his  St. 
Eustache  in  the  National  Gallery  will 
be  recalled  by  the  reader. 

It  must  be  remembered  that  medallic 
engraving,  which  attained  perfection 
with  the  Greeks,  had  reached  a  sorry 
and  miserable  state  during  the  Middle 
Ages.  Pisano  and  his  successors  lifted 
medallic  art  from  this  mire  of  deteriora- 
tion, lending  to  it  their  training  in  paint- 
ing and  in  sculpture.  As  the  large 
medals  of  these  new  masters  were  not 
possible  from  dies  such  as  were  known 
to  the  mechanical  processes  of  their 
time,  nearly  all  the  early  medals  (and 
many  16th  Century  medals  as  well )  were 
cast  in  metal  from  molds  instead  of 
being  struck  from  engraved  dies. 

"The  first  Italian  medallists,"  says 
Wroth,  ''made  their  models  from  the 
life  in  wax-working,  in  fact,  as  did  the 
sculptor  of  bronze  who  modelled  in  clay 
— and  from  these  wax-models  they  pre- 
pared, by  a  careful  and  elaborate  proc- 
ess, a  mold  into  which  the  metal  was 
finally  poured." 

Pisano's  first  distinguished  follower 
was  Matteo  Pasti,  of  Verona,  whose 
work  begins  about  1446.  Then  there 
was  Sperandio,  who  made  many  medals 
for  the  Este  and  the  Bentivoglio.  In 
the  15th  Century  there  also  comes  Gio- 
vanni Boldu,  with  Guacciolotti,  Enzola, 
Melioli,  Lixignolo,  Pollaiuola  and  others, 
precursors  of  Pomedello,  Spinelli,  Ben- 
venuto  Cellini,  Francia,  Ronano,  Cara- 


dossa,  Valerio  Belli,  Lione  Lioni,  Pas- 
torinp  of  Siena,  Pier  Paolo  Galeotti,  An- 
nibali  Fontano,  Jacopo  da  Trezzo,  Ales- 
sandro  Vittoria,  Federigo  Bonazagona, 
Lodovico  Leoni  and  the  rest. 

Vassari  tells  us  that  Francia's  medals 
obtained  for  him  "not  only  immortality 
and  fame,  but  likewise  very  handsome 
presents",  and  we  know  from  Cellini's 
Autobiography  what  store  Cellini  set  by 
his  medallic  productions.  Pastorino's 
many  portrait-medals  were  most  dis- 
tinguished in  quality.  "He  has  copied 
all  the  world,"  said  Vassari,  "and  per- 
sons of  all  kinds,  great  nobles,  distin- 
guished artists,  and  persons  of  unknown 
or  of  low  degree."  Truly  it  has  been 
remarked  that  we  have  in  the  Italian 
Renaissance  medals  (few  of  which  com- 
memorate events,  portraiture  being  their 
main  purpose),  an  astonishing  series  of 
portraits  in  which  the  chief  actors  in 
the  tragedies  and  comedies  of  their  times 
pass  before  us. 

Decline  of  the  Art 

Italian  medals  decline  in  merit  with 
the  beginning  of  the  17th  Century.  G. 
F.  Hill,  the  English  authority,  says  "The 
decay  of  the  medal  was  assisted  by  an- 
other development  which  craftsmen  like 
Cellini,  so  proud  of  their  improvements 
of  old  methods,  doubtless  hailed  as  the 
greatest  technical  advance  of  the  age. 
A  few  bold  spirits  of  the  15th  Century 
such  as  Enzola  of  Parma,  following  the 
example  of  the  artist  of  the  Carrara 
medals  of  1390,  had  attempted  to  em- 
ploy engraved  dies,  and  hammers  or 
striking  machinery  for  making  medals. 
But  the  process  of  casting  fortunately 
held  its  ground  until  the  16th  Century. 
By  that  time  the  machinery  had  been 
so  greatly  improved  that  many  medal- 
lists began  to  employ  it.  Once  the  labor 
of  engraving  and  punching  the  dies  was 
over,  an  indefinite  number  of  specimens 
could  be  produced  without  the  trouble- 
some preparation  of  fresh  molds,  and, 
more  important  still,  without  the  sub- 
sequent chasing  which  was  necessary  in 
almost  every  case  to  remove  the  im- 
perfections left  by  the  process  of  cast- 
ing." Extreme  finish  resulted  from  the 
die  method,  but  dryness  and  hardness 
resulted  in  this  more  mechanical  process. 


Where    The    Sign    Still    Swings 


(Continued  jrom  page  47) 


bar-keeper,  discreetly  keeping  both 
hands  below  the  bar,  gestured  with 
a  wink  and  a  crooked  elbow  towards  a 
door  that  led  out  again,  whither  the 
guide  propelled  her  with  accelerated 
gait,  quite  neglecting  the  door-casings. 

She  was  proudly  told  that  no  one 
seemed  to  know  the  exact  age  of  the 
Flagstaff  Inn,  formerly  called  the  Ches- 
ter Cross-roads  House,  but  that  the 
masons  imported  to  build  the  Brick 
House,  now  the  Chester  House  Hotel, 
down  the  street,  were  boarded  at  the 
Cross-roads  hostelry,  and  that  was  in 
1812  or  thereabouts.  Dr.  Green  could 
tell  her  more,  but  Dr.  Green  was  never 
found,  for  hunger  prevailed,  and  just 
out  of  Chester  the  luncheon  kit  was 
unpacked. 

Mendham  yielded  a  wealth  of  sketch- 
ing treasure  right  on  the  four-corners. 
We  made  for  the  bare-swept  and  lonely 
bar-room  of  the  Black  Horse  Inn,  where 
lounged  the  proprietor  to  whom  until 
recently,  thirty-three  years  of  possession 
had  given  no  such  opportunity  for 
leisure.  This  older  house  had  suffered 
much  by  being  modernized.  Seventeen 
thirty-five  is  the  date  claimed  of  its 
erection,  and  over  the  bar  hangs  a  series 
of  pictures  showing  the  desecration  to 
which  it  has  been  submitted  in  the  years 
of  its  existence.  It  is  now,  undoubtedly, 
a  neat  country  hotel  with  no  frills  about 
it,  and  the  old  stable  yard  is  bare  of 


wagons  and  teams.  Gone,  whither,  are 
the  trucksters  and  drovers  who  fre- 
quented its  tap-room  until  scarce  a  year 
ago? 

No  one  had  prepared  us  for  the 
shadow-flecked  Phoenix  House  across 
the  street,  and  we  blundered  into  it, 
thinking  to  find  possibly,  a  musty  par- 
lor and  a  dark-painted  uninteresting  in- 
terior, but  surprise  and  joy  awaited  us. 
Cool,  long,  gray-painted  rooms  pre- 
sented a  neutral  background  for  the  ef- 
fective placing  of  most  beautiful  old 
furniture,  and  charming  arrangement 
of  garden  flowers.  Quaint  chintzes, 
sparingly  used,  exquisite  orderliness,  and 
all  the  calm  invitation  to  repose  of  soul 
and  body  a  motorist  could  desire  but 
rarely  finds,  were  miraculously  present. 

Up  through  the  wide  hall  swept  a 
beautifully  proportioned  spiral  staircase, 
with  spindles  and  rail  so  delicately  slen- 
der that  their  survival  is  a  thing  of 
note.  The  bedrooms  were  delightfully 
adequate,  with  an  air  of  sturdy  com- 
fort in  the  deep  mahogany  dressers,  the 
rag  rugs,  and  the  attractive  chairs.  The 
beds  were  modern  reproductions  of  the 
old  designs,  but  gained  thereby,  per- 
haps, an  added  charm. 

We  returned  to  the  end  of  Washing- 
ton's route,  at  Morristown,  full  of  his- 
torical interest  but  lacking  somewhat  in 
picturesque  inns,  and  so  on  to  Madison 
(Continued  on  page  70) 


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In  addition  to  Prohibition  most  of  the  old 
inns  today  seem  to  be  suffering  from  alleged 
architectural  improvements,  yet  often  enough 
of  the  old  building  is  left  to  charm  the  eye 

Where   the   Sign   Still   Swings 

(Continued  from  page  68) 


once  called  Bottle  Hill.  The  old  Man- 
sion House,  "Ye  Olde  Inn"  as  the  sign 
reads,  was  duly  sketched.  Its  dark  red 
color  is  not  alluring,  but  the  building 
has  a  dignity  and  simplicity,  notwith- 
standing. 

The  next  run  had  the  '76  House  at 
Tappan  as  its  objective.  Washington 
still  pursued  us,  although  we  had  now 
no  intention  of  trailing  him.  But  it 
was  useless  to  ignore  history,  and  the 
very  nice  proprietor  of  the  Mansion 
House  at  Hackensack  refused  to  let  us 
slight  it  in  the  least.  His  almost  per- 
sonal knowledge  of  the  doings  of  Wash- 
ington and  his  staff  was  most  impres- 
sive. He  showed  us  the  spot,  where 
in  1776,  Washington  had  been  informed 
of  the  attack  upon  Fort  Lee,  departing 
immediately  for  Englewood  on  horse- 
back only  to  meet  his  troops  in  retreat, 
returning  with  his  staff  to  Hackensack 
where  he  camped  upon  the  Green  just 
opposite  the  Mansion  House,  not  at 
that  time  bearing  so  impressive  a  title 

We  were  urged  to  hunt  up  another 
inn  towards  North  Hackensack,  but  this 
we  never  located,  unappeased  hunger 
and  the  inevitable  hunt  for  the  best 
place  to  spread  our  luncheon,  inter- 
fering. Not  one  of  the  casual  passers- 
by  could  enlighten  us,  but  an  amiable 
and  interested  housewife  sent  us,  in- 
stead, to  a  charming  old  house  by  the 
river,  said  of  course  to  be  a  stopping 
place  of  the  General.  We  ate  our  luncheon 
here,  by  the  bridge. 

Tappan  was  reached  at  the  end  of  a 
delightful  run  through  old  Dutch  coun- 
try, but  we  found  the  '76  House  dis- 
appointing. Although  not  obliterated 
by  gingerbread  porches,  and  though  a 
large  sign  told  us  proudly  that  it  was 
restored  by  the  owner  not  so  long  ago, 
its  corrugated  iron  roof  and  its  general 
air  of  country  delapidation  makes  one 
wish  that  the  inn  that  prisoned  that 
brave  and  gay  Andre  might  be  preserved 
for  us  in  a  more  attractive  state. 

Another  day's  run,  taken  upon  the 
faint  rumor  of  inns,  from  Far  Hills  to 
Pluckemin  and  Somerville,  yielded 
nothing  of  interest  until  Bound  Brook 


was  reached.  The  old  tavern  at  Plucke- 
min had  burned  down  some  years  ago 
and  the  new  and  prosperous-lookil  g 
Kenilworth  Inn  had  been  built  upon  its 
pleasant  site.  Disliking  its  dressy  ce- 
ment work  and  flaunting  red  geraniums 
so  out  of  character  with  the  sleepy  lit- 
tle town,  we  did  not  linger,  but  pressed 
on  through  Somerville,  where  both 
taverns  about  the  County  Court  House 
had  been  "done  over"  so  awfully  we 
escaped  with  relief  and  made  for  Bound 
Brook. 

Here,  persistent  inquiry  led  us  to  S. 
Louise  Fisher's  Hotel — and  a  quaint  lit- 
tle place  we  found  it  externally.  Aunt 
Louise,  herself,  was  cleaning  out  a  pan- 
try but  her  gentlemanly  nephew  showed 
us  about.  Though  still  sporting  a  sign, 
it  was  evident  that  with  prohibition  the 
life  had  gone  out  of  the  place.  For  a 
hundred  years  and  over,  the  Fisher  fam- 
ily had  dispensed  hospitality,  and 
changed  outwardly  but  little  the  aspect 
of  the  building,  whose  years  numbered 
almost  two  hundred.  Between  the  great 
beams  of  the  tap-room  we  were  shown 
the  crescent  marks  made  by  the  old 
muskets  of  the  Revolutionary  soldiers 
as  they  hammered  them  .against  the  low 
ceiling,  when  they  paused  there  for  the 
refreshment  that  is  now  denied. 

Not  being  able  ever  to  pass  through 
the  vicinity  of  the  Dutch  Oven  near 
Westfield  without  a  hungry  feeling,  we 
piled  out  here  at  the  old  house  whose 
rustic  swinging  sign  calls  in  from  the 
road  many  a  long  distance  motorist  to 
enjoy  the  famous  "cheese  surprises". 
Some  of  the  old  furniture  alone  would 
fascinate  a  collector  or  even  a  mere 
novice  at  the  game  of  admiring  the  an- 
tique, and  the  house  itself  has  a  com- 
fortable dignity  of  well-being  as  it  sets 
back  amongst  its  shrubs  and  flowers, 
partly  hidden  from  the  road. 

Only  a  few  are  these  of  the  many  tav- 
erns along  the  post  roads  of  New  Jersey, 
but  they  recall  most  vividly  in  passing, 
the  days  when  travel,  even  thirty  miles 
from  a  metropolis,  was  a  thing  to  under- 
take only  after  weeks  of  preparation 
and  due  reflection  and  prayer. 


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But  woman's  work  JIT  NOON  is  done  — 

if,  in  her  daily  cleaning  task».as  caretaker  of  the  home,  she  does  not  rely  upon 
her  own  frail  strength  but  depends  on  the  Inexhaustible  power  and  energy  of 
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more  thoroughly  than  any  other  method  without  any  of  the  wear,  injury  and  damage  that  result 
from  sweeping  and  beating. 

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American  Magnestone  Stucco 


The  possibilities  of  artistic 
treatment  offered  by  American 
Magnestone  Stucco  are  limit- 
less. Imagine  a  surface  com- 
bining the  cameo-like  tints  of 
pink  granite  and  white  marble 
— standing  out  in  natural  lustre. 
Or  the  richness  of  red  granite 
and  spar.  Or  the  stately  dignity 
of  spar  and  marble.  Any  of 
these  finishes  can  be  applied  to 
American  Magnestone  Stucco. 

Into  a  pliable  base  of  American 
Magnestone  Stucco  are  dashed 
these  crushed  granites  and  mar- 
bles. The  resulting  mosaic  har- 
dens into  a  surface  of  stone-like 
durability.  Moisture  cannot 
harm  it.  Fire  cannot  destroy 
it.  Cold  cannot  penetrate  nor 
crack  it. 

Magnestone  Stucco  endures. 
Like  the  mother-stone  it  lives 
through  the  generations  —  al- 
ways beautiful,  always  the  same. 

It  invests  the  new  home  with 
modern  charm.  It  makes  over 
the  old  home,  giving  it  a  new 
and  permanent  beauty.  On  walls, 
on  floors,  on  patios,  Magnestone 
Stucco  offers  an  untold  variety 
of  treatments. 

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Pressed  glass  from  the  works  of  the  New  England  Glass  Co.  at 

Sandwich,  Mass.,   1824-54,  and  some  paper-weights  made  in  the 

different  glass  works  of  America 


Early     American     Glass 

(Continued  from  page  27) 


never  surrenders".  Nearly  a  hundred 
different  varieties  of  historical  bottles 
may  be  collected  which  record  events 
of  history  and  give  medallion  portraits 
of  prominent  men  who  have  served 
their  country  with  honor  and  distinc- 
tion. 

The  pressed  glass  manufactured  by 
the  New  England  Glass  Company  at 
Boston  at  the  Sandwich  glass  works 
from  1824  to  1855,  will  of  itself  make 
a  most  charming  collection,  which  as 
the  years  pass  on  will  become  very  valu- 
able and  be  of  great  historical  interest. 
A  collection  of  this  Sandwich  glass 
should  include  cake  and  preserve  dishes, 
historical  cup  plates,  all  of  heavy  pressed 
glass  and  lace-like  effect,  which  graced, 
in  grandmother's  time,  the  white  linen 
on  which  they  were  placed. 

The  Sandwich  factory  also  made 
opalescent  salt  cellars,  curtain  holders 
and  furniture  knobs,  besides  table  glass 
of  pressed  crystal  such  as  compotes, 
celery  holders  (blue,  amethyst,  canary 
and  white),  goblets  and  other  drinking 
glasses,  candlesticks  and  glass  lamps  of 
different  colors  and  great  beauty  of  de- 
sign. Examples  of  these  are  shown  in 
the  illustrations. 

The  historical  cup  plates  have  in  their 
centers  medallion  scenes  of  log  cabins, 
beehives,  monuments,  eagles,  steamboats 
and  prominent  men,  which  portray 
American  historical,  social  or  political 
events  during  the  period  between  1840 
and  1850. 


A  separate  collection  of  candlesticks 
of  American  glass,  including  the  early 
whale  oil,  fluid  or  camphene  oil  lamps, 
examples  of  which  are  shown  in  the 
illustrations,  will  also  make  a  collection 
of  great  interest  and  charm.  No  other 
nation  of  the  world  outside  of  Italy  can 
compete  with  America  for  beauty  and 
variety  of  design  in  its  glass  candle- 
sticks. Personally,  I  like  best  the  dol- 
phin glass  candlesticks  of  pure  white 
jade  color,  with  their  turquoise  blue 
tops,  made  at  Sandwich,  Mass,  (where 
most  of  the  candlesticks  one  collects 
were  made),  at  the  time  when  the  sail- 
ors on  the  New  England  whaling  and 
clipper  ships  decorated  their  clothing 
chests  with  dolphins  to  insure  fair 
weather,  white-caps  and  blue  skies. 

Another  interesting  by-path  to  fol- 
low in  the  collecting  of  glass  is  mille- 
flora  paperweights,  which,  beside  Ameri- 
can manufactured  ones,  may  include 
those  made  in  France,  England  and 
Italy.  Anyone  who  has  in  the  home  a 
collection  of  these  beautiful  artistic  lit- 
tle ornaments  has  a  crystallized  flower 
garden  of  wondrous  beauty  and  delight. 
The  American  ones,  especially,  show  de- 
signs of  wild  flowers  and  old-fashioned 
garden  flowers  such  as  pansies,  migno- 
nette, forget-me-nots,  bachelor's  but- 
tons, etc. 

Collecting  Steigel,  Wistarberg  and 
Millville  glass  has  become  very  difficult. 
Few  specimens  appear  on  the  open  mar- 
(Continued  on  page  76) 


Druggists'  jars  for  maple  sugar  cakes 

and  a   pressed  glass   bowl,   below  a 

portrait 


August ,     1920 


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Here's  A  Material 
For  Tree-Filling 
That  Gives  and  Sways 
With  The  Tree 


No  matter  how  light  a  wind  may  be 

stirring,  a  tree  sways. 

Not  only  sways,  but  slightly  twists. 

Evidently,   a   material   to  best   fill   a 

cavity  in  a  tree  trunk,  should  ''give'' 

enough  to  sway  with  the  tree. 

It  should  be  semi-flexible. 

But   while   "giving"   it   should   never 

crack,  break  or  loosen. 

That  means  the  entrance  of  moisture 

to  breed  decay  back  of  the  filling. 

Such    a    material    is    Bartlett's    new 

Flexifill,     a     composition     expressly 

made    for    filling   trees — filling    them 


tight,   without  crack,  crevice,  or  sec- 
tions. 

Just  what  Flexifill  is,  how  it  came  to 
lie,  and  the  many  reasons  why  it  is  su- 
perior to  other  materials  for  filling 
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to  explain  to  you.  At  your  request  he 
will  call,  and  talk  over  with  you  the 
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This  places  you  under  no  obligation 
and  may  save  you  hundreds  of  dollars. 
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A  HOUSE  situated  on  beautiful 
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shrubs,  is  a  real  home — a  home  that 
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after  year. 

Our  Landscape  Experts  will  make  sug- 
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The   Cost  of  Not  Building 
A  Greenhouse 

It  costs  more  to  eat,  nowadays,  and  to  dress,  and  to  go 
to  the  theatre :  yet  we  must  do  all  of  these. 

Yes,  it  costs  more  to  build  a  greenhouse,  too. 

But  the  cost  of  not  building  a  greenhouse  now  is  far  greater 
rxprrssed  in  terms — not  of  money — but  of  enjoyment  deferred,  or 
perhaps  missed  altogether. 

Why  not  get  the  most  out  of  living  as  you  no  along,  for  yourself, 
your  family  and  your  friends.  If  a  greenhouse  will  add  to  their 
happiness,  give,  it  to  them  now.  The  extra  investment  will  yield 
the  best  kind  of  dividends. 

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House     &     Garden 


\Vhcn     installed    antler    Hie    till, 
it's  as  unobtruaice  as  a  key  hole. 


Initalletl    abore    tlie    sill,    tjie    trreen 

need  not  he  touched  tchen    the   trindmr 

i8  opened   or  cloffd. 


Silencing 

Casement 

Windows 


Art  has  won  your  appreciation  of  outswung  case- 
ment windows. 

But  how  often  in  the  night  has  their  banging  dis- 
turbed your  repose? 

How  do  you  control  them  when  the  winds  of  an 
approaching  storm  start  them  slamming? 

With  the  Monarch  Control-Locks,  these  windows 
are  held  absolutely  firm  in  any  position — tightly 
closed,  wide  open  or  at  any  angle  in  between. 

Each  sash  is  operated  by  a  neat  little  handle  on 
the  inside.  Raise  it,  and  the  sash  is  free  to 
swing;  turn  it  down,  and  the  sash  is  locked. 
Screens,  curtains,  pot  flowers — none  of  them  are 
disturbed  in  the  least. 

There  is  nothing  about  the  hardware  to  get  out 
of  order. 

A  distinct  charm  pervades  the  whole  house  with 
casement  windows  silenced. 


If  your  dealer  doesn't  handle  Monarch 
send  us  his  name.  We'll  mail  both 
of  you  full  information  and  prices. 


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CASEMENT  WINDOW  HARDWARE 


Early    American     Glass 

(Continued  from  page  74) 


ket,  owing  to  the  fact  that  an  actual 
house-to-house  canvass  of  the  districts 
adjacent  to  these  early  factories  has 
been  made  and  most  of  the  pieces  ac- 
quired have  already  found  their  way 
into  the  hands  of  the  collectors.  Oc- 
casional pieces  appearing  find  ready  sale 
at  high  figures. 

Steigel  glass  is  very  delicate,  light  in 
weight,  and  beautiful  in  color.  Besides 
the  plain  glass,  there  are  many  pieces 
finely  engraved  and  also  others  beauti- 
fully enameled  in  colors.  Steigel  glass 
is  distinguished  as  the  only  early  Ameri- 
can glass  that  is  enameled  in  colors, 
many  of  which  are  highly  effective. 

Millville  glass  manufactured  in  Mill- 
ville,  N.  J.,  during  the  first  half  of  the 
19th  Century  is  heavier  in  make  than 
Steigel  and  generally  streaked  with 
opaque  white  or  other  colors.  It  fol- 
lows somewhat  the  designs  of  the  earlier 
Wistarburg  factory. 

But  the  Wistarburg  glass  is  the  great 
glory  of  all  American  glass.  It  is  sturdy 
and  strong,  beautiful  in  its  single  colors, 


sometimes  streaked  or  flecked  with  other 
colors.  With  its  royal  blue  and  greens 
of  the  sea,  with  its  amber-like  golden 
topaz  and  deep  olive  green  shading  to 
blue  like  deep  pools  of  water  where 
spruce  and  cedars  grow,  it  rivals  in 
beauty  any  glass  made  in  any  country 
of  the  world. 

There  are  indeed  many  sorts  and  con- 
ditions of  objects  whose  appeal  to  the 
born  collector  cannot  be  denied.  It  is 
far  from  my  purpose  to  decry  the  gath- 
ering together  of  foreign  things,  for  to 
many  of  them  attaches  an  interest  no- 
where else  to  be  found.  But  there  is  a 
peculiar  appeal  in  the  old-time  products 
of  one's  own  country.  The  knowledge 
that  this  old  glass  of  which  we  have 
been  talking  is  essentially  American,  un- 
changeably an  output  of  American 
hands  and  thought  and  taste,  gives  it 
an  especial  attraction.  Let  us  do  what 
we  can  to  insure  its  preservation  as  an 
enduring  expression  of  the  art  which 
America  knew  in  the  earlier  days  of 
her  establishment. 


The  Way  They  Do  It  Now 

(Continued  jrom  page  49) 


cinerator  is  insulated  to  keep  in  the 
heat,  else  Sonya  would  go  out  to  the 
movies  and  never  return.  As  a  rule,  fire 
bricks,  vitrified  clay  or  sometimes  metal 
(in  the  portable  types)  are  used  as  lin- 
ing, not  only  because  they  prevent  the 
heat  from  escaping  into  the  room  but 
because  they  are  impervious  to  the  tre- 
mendous attack  of  the  chemical  sub- 
stances released  in  combustion. 

Portable  Incinerators 

These  portable  incinerators  are  of 
various  sizes.  There  is  the  capable  dwarf 
who  stands  only  30"  high,  with  IS"  for 
his  other  two  measurements.  His  appe- 
tite is  insatiable  and  he  will  eat  a  bushel 
at  a  time.  His  cost  at  present  would  be 
in  the  neighborhood  of  $70,  but  who 
can  tell  whether  a  rise  in  the  price  of 
Siam  rubies  or  Tibetan  lambskins  next 
week  may  not  dis-stabilize  the  incinera- 
tor market?  Other  portable  incinerators 
range  in  size  up  to  the  tallest  of  the  fam- 
ily 64"  high,  and  31"  34"  wide  and  deep. 
These  incinerators  are  all  built  of  heavy 
serviceable  castings,  brass  and  sheet 
steel,  well-lined  and  insulated.  The 
grates  are  removable,  and  there  is  noth- 
ing that  can  put  out  of  order. 

We  have  recorded  the  fact  that  the 
lady  in  question  deigns  to  be  pleased 
with  her  mistress  for  her  policy  in  re- 
garbage.  We  have  alsa  to  add  that  His 
Majesty  the  Medical  Health  Officer 
would  be  equally  affable  if  he  could  get 
his  troubled  mind  off  the  few  odd  mil- 


lions of  his  fellow-townsmen  who  still 
cling  to  the  old  per-Rastus  methods. 
For  the  one  created  thing  that  the  fear- 
less M.  H.  O.  really  cringes  before  is 
the  blood-thirsty  house-fly,  and — the 
house-fly  dines  on  garbage  by  prefer- 
ence, before  he  walks  across  the  baby's 
face. 

That  the  fly  costs  the  United  States 
of  America  $350,000,000  a  year  is  serious 
enough.  The  M.  H.  O.,  however,  doesn't 
reckon  primarily  in  dollars,  but  in  death 
rates.  And  the  number  of  times  that 
the  fly  puts  the  crape  on  the  tenement 
house  door  is  one  of  the  tragedies  of  the 
big  city  everywhere.  The  Health  De- 
partment assures  us  that  the  fly  is  re- 
sponsible for  nearly  ninety  per  cent,  of 
intestinal  and  typhoid  fever  cases.  If 
all  the  landlords  swatted  the  fly  with  an 
incinerator — there  would  be  fewer  flies 
and  more  babies. 

Common  Sense  and  Incinerators 

Quite  likely  Miss  Effie's  great-grand- 
daughter doesn't  realize  that  she's  as- 
sisting the  M.  H.  O.  when  she  burns  her 
garbage.  With  her,  civic  righteousness 
is  just  a  by-product  of  common  sense. 
She's  merely  living  life  in  accordance 
with  the  age,  just  as  they  did  in  those 
leisurely  days  back  in  the  big  white 
house,  and  she  would  no  more  think  of 
re-installing  the  garbage  man  and  the 
garbage  can,  than  she'd  think  of  keeping 
Lion  and  Tiger  and  the  well-sweep  in  a 
ten-roomed  apartment! 


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the     SHOPS 


Thev  may  be  purchased  through  the  House  &  Garden 

Shopping   Service,    19    W.    44tfc    St..    New    York    City. 

In  ordering,  kindly  mention  number. 


(1)  An     imported     French     inkstand 
that  would  be  charming  in  a  boudoir  is 
of  delicately  colored  china  with  a  gilded 
top  and  base.    In  the  pockets  around  the 
inkwell  are  candle,  seal,  sealing  wax  and 
quill  pen.    The  price  is  $25.    Quill  pen 
in  any  color,  $1.50  extra.    This  comes  a 
trifle  smaller  without  the  pocket  of  shot 
for  $18. 

(2)  From  the  same  shop  comes  a  pair 
of  candle  lamps  about  13"  high  in  an- 
tique ivory  finish  faintly  decorated  with 
old  rose  or  delicate  blue.    They  would  be 
excellent  for  a  dressing  table  and  are  $15 
each.     Painted  parchment   shades   that 
harmonize   in   coloring   are   made   over 
silk  with  the  design  of  flowers  cut  out 
of  the  parchment.    $15  each. 

(3)  The     breakfast     tray     illustrated 


comes  in  white  enamel  wicker  with  a 
collapsible  stand  that  folds  flat.  It  has 
a  reversible  tray  that  is  cretonne  under 
glass  on  one  side  and  all  cretonne  cov- 
ered on  the  opposite.  The  side  compart- 
ments are  large  and  deep  with  bottoms 
of  cretonne  under  glass.  Tray  meas- 
ures 23"  by  15"  and  the  stand  is  22" 
wide  by  33"  high.  Tray,  $18.50.  Stand, 
$6. 

(4)  A  chocolate  set  that-is  effective  on 
either  a  white  enamel  wicker  or  mahog- 
any tea  table  is  of  Royal  Worcester 
ware  in  delicate  pastel  shades.  The  only 
decoration  is  a  spray  of  gaily  colored 
flowers  set  in  an  oval  black  medalion  in 
the  center  of  each  piece.  Set  consists  of 
six  cups  and  saucers,  chocolate  pot  and 
(Continued  on  page  78) 


August,     1  920 


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Anchor  Post  Chain  Link  Lawn  Fences 
protect  your  grounds  from  dogs  and 
thoughtless  trespassers.  Each  firmly  an- 
chored post  secures  permanent  alignment, 
while  the  strong  fabric  retains  its  original 
tension  and  does  not  bulge  or  sag.  The 
gates  swing  without  dropping,  and  lalch 
automatically. 

We  also  manufacture  and  erect  High 
Woven  Wire  and  protective  Chain  Link 
Fences;  Electrically  Welded  and  Ornamental 
Iron  Railings  and  Gates;  Arbors,  Trellises, 
Tennis  Backstops,  and  Poultry,  Dog  and  Cattle 
Enclosures.  Our  Branch  nearest  you  will  gladly 
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Why  Use 
Garbage  Cans? 

Do  you  continue  to  use  gar- 
bage and  rubbish  cans  because 
you  are  satisfied?  Or  do  you 
tolerate  them  because  you 
think  they  are  necessary  evils? 


[ERNERATOR 


Built-in  tHe-CHimney 


has  at  last  emancipated  the  home  from  these  evils. 

The  door  shown  is  located  in  the  kitchen.  Into  it  is  put 
everything  that  is  not  wanted — tin  cans,  garbage,  broken 
crockery,  paper,  sweepings,  bottles,  cardboard  boxes — in 
fact  all  those  things  that  accumulate  in  the  home  from 
day  to  day  and  are  a  continuous  nuisance  and  dangerous 
health  hazard. 

The  material  deposited  falls  down  the  regular  house 
chimney  flue  into  the  incinerator  built  into  the  base  of 
the  chimney  in  the  basement.  From  time  to  time  a  match 
is  touched  to  it  and  it  burns  itself  up.  The  material  de- 
posited is  the  only  fuel  required. 

Xot  one  penny  for  operating  cost  and  yet  you  have 
abolished  garbage  and  refuse  cans  forever. 

SANITARY— ECONOM ICAL 
CONVENIENT— ODORLESS 

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(actual  blueprints) 

For  the  first  time  there  are  available  to  everybody,  complete  working 
drawings  (actual  blueprints),  specifications,  and  bill  of  masonry  materials 
and  labor  for  a  variety  of  small  brick  houses. 

35  of  these  houses — bungalows,  cottages,  and  two-story  Colonials — are 
completely  described  in  new  plan  book  "BRICK  for  the  Average  Man's 
HOME",  which  will  be  sent  postpaid  for  $1.  This  book  shows  floor 
plans,  two-color  exterior  views,  cost  estimates. 

Upon  your  selection  of  any  house  in  this  book  we  will  send  working 
drawings  (actual  blueprints)  and  complete  architectural  service — all  at 
nominal  price.  Send  $1  for  book  today. 

This  National  Educational  Campaign  is  sustained  by  the 
Common  Brick  Industry  of  America.     Address  the  Set 


tary-Manager.     1303     Schoficld     Bldg.,     Cleveland, 


yecre- 
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Contrast  and 
Harmony 

OF  course,  you  realize 
that  the  effect  of  a 
room  depends  upon  its 
background,  just  as  the 
effect  of  a  picture  de- 
pends upon  its  frame. 

Wall  paper  is  the  setting 
that  makes  or  mars  the 
artistic  arrangement  of 
everything  in  the  room. 

How  important  it  is, 
then,  not  only  to  con- 
sider the  best  wall  cover 
ing  made,  but  also  to  be 
sure  of  the  harmony  of 
the  color  scheme,  de- 
signs, etc. 

Send  for  our  Home  Service 
Chart ;  it  will  help  solve  your 
decorative  problems  without 
cost  to  you. 

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dle the  best  and  most  up-to-date  line 
of  artistic  wall  papers  we  have  a 
most  attractive  proposition  to  offer. 


RICHARD  E.  THIBAUT,  <»< 


Wail  Paper  Specialists 

MADISON  AVENUE  at  32nd  ST. 
NEW   YORK 


The  Largest  Wall  Paper   House 
in  the  World 


An  Italian  antiqued 
iron  and  gilt  poly- 
chrome lighting  fixture 
with  crystal  drops.  $50 


Seen     in     the     Shops 

(Continued  from  page  76) 


BRONX  WASHINGTON    HEIGHTS  BROOKLYN 

Willis    Avenue        (New  York  City)    3621    Broadway          Flatbush   &   DeKalb   Aves. 

BOSTON  NEWARK 

96-98    Federal    Street  141    Halsey   Street 


bowl  for  either  sugar  or  whipped  creini 
$56. 

(5)  A  nest  of  mahogany  tables,  three 
in  a  set  are  interesting  for  their  size  and 
the  fact  that  the  tops  are  glass  set  in  a 
two-inch     rim     of     mahogany.       Top 
measures    14"    by    11".     The   height   is 
22".    Prices  range  from  $35. 

(6)  For  the  fall  preserving  some  at- 
tractive oval  shaped  jelly  glasses  come  in 
the  following  sizes: 

3J4"  long  by  2J4  wide     $.75  doz. 
3-)4"  long  by  2l/2  wide       .85  doz. 
4J4"  long  by  3J^   wide     1.00  doz. 
Also  preserving  jars: 
J/>  pt.  4"      high  by  3!4"  across  $1.75  doz. 

1  pt.  5-'4"  h'gh  by  3J/6"  across    2.00  doz. 
Iqt.  8"      high  by  3 l/,  "across    2.25  doz. 

2  qt.  10"    high  by  4J4"  across    3.00  doz. 
The  ordinary  size  jelly  glasses  with  cov- 
ers are  $.75  a  doz. 

(7)  Of  great  aid  in  jelly  making  is  this 
strainer  which  stands  firm  with  cheese 
cloth  straining  bag.    Price  $1. 


(8)  For  the  nursery  there  are  some 
attractive     white    enamel     trays     gaily 
decorated  with  Mother  Goose  scenes  and 
rhymes     Size  is  16"  by  10".    They  are 
$3.25  each. 

(9)  A  handy  garden  basket  that  is  a 
great  aid  to  the  work  that  must  be  done 
continually  in  the  garden  comes  in  dark 
green  wicker.    It  is  round,  has  a  handle 
and  contains  a  dibble,  fern  trowel,  pru- 
ning knife,  flower  scissors,  budding  knife, 
pruning  scissors  and  spool  of  twine  and 
one  of  fine  wire.    S16.75. 

(10)  A  hanging  lantern  suitable  for  a 
porch  or  gateway  comes  in   brass,  an- 
tiqued.    It  is  round,   17"  high  and  7" 
across — a   reproduction   of   an   antique. 
It  is  priced  at  $10.25. 

(11)  For   the   busy   housewife   there 
comes  a  device  that  has  helped  solve  the 
silver  cleaning  problem.  It  is  a  flat,  elec- 
trically  treated  steel  plate  about  8^" 
across.     This  is  placed  in  a  solution  of 

(Continued  on  page  80) 


Watt  bracket  in 
tan  cedar  or 
black  lacquer 
and  rice  paper. 
With  candle  $5. 
For  electricity, 
$10 

A  French  ink- 
stand with  seal, 
wax  and  candle 
is  $25.  Quill  pen 
in  any  color 
$1.50  extra 


Preserving  jars  range  from  $1.75  a  doz.  to  S3  for  the  2-qt.  size     Oval 

jelly  moulds  are  $.75  a  doz.  for  smallest  she  and  $1  for  the  largest. 

Jelly  strainer  $1 


August,     1920 


79 


ndMdualism- 

in  Good  T'urniturf* 


—became  an  art  when 
it  achieved  the  crea- 
tion of  this  Italian 
Renaissance  hall  or 
music  room  cabinet. 

Carved  from  walnut, 
and  hand-painted  in 
oil,  it  is  characteristic 
of  the  exquisite  repro- 
ductions for  which,  for 
the  past  twenty  years, 
The  Elgin  A.  Simonds 
Company  has  been 
famed. 


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3k 

Elgin  A.  Simonds 

Ccnnpanij 

~Ma  nu/iicturers  of  v?u  rniture 

SYRACUSE       NEW   YORK 


Tobey 


Wabash  Avenue 
CHICAGO 


Fifth  Avenu» 
NEW  YORK 


Where  You  Can  See 
Tobey'made  Furniture 

The  Tobey  showrooms  in  Chicago  and 
New  York  are  the  only  places  where 
you  can  see  Tobey 'made  furniture. 

We  design  and  build  this  famous  fur' 
niture  in  our  Chicago  shops,  from 
where  it  is  sent  directly  to  our  New 
York  and  Chicago  showrooms. 

Tobey 'made  furniture  is  not  sold  to 
dealers,  nor  is  it  obtainable  through 
agents. 

Ae  TOBEY  FURNITURE  COMPANY 


C7°/        C2/P  ( 

O/ie  cf&ezter'Jt: 


Alhcrt  Herter,  President 

1,    3nc. 


841    Madison  Avenue,    New   York   City 


W« 


'  eavcrs  on  hand 
looms  of  tapestries 
for  churches,  public 
buildings  and  resi- 
dences. 

Manufacturers  of 
hand  woven  tex- 
tiles for  walls,  floor 
coverings,  uphol- 
stery and  curtains 
from  samples  sub- 
mitted. 


Manufacturers  of 

LAMPS      and 
SHADES 

ANTIQUES 

INTERIOR 
DECORATIONS 


f\lso    251     Post     Street,     San     Francisco,    Cal. 


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WM.  A 


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WALL.  C7OVKRIXOH*  ORAPERIEH 
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House     &•     Garden 


Furniture  (SramcenfJinij 

the  (Zotnmcmplaire 


Early  English.  French  and  Italian 
Furniture  and  Decorative  Objects: 
Reproductions  and  Hand-wrought 
Facsimiles  of  Rare  Old  Examples 
Retailed  Exclusively  at  These 
Galleries,  well  within  moderate  cost 


Grand  Rapids  fiirniture  Company 
4IT-421  MADISON  AVENUE 

48r-"-49-"  Streets    -    -    New  York  City 

Formerly  of  West  32  *  Street 


Qenuine  Sfceed^urniture 

Will  Last  a  Lifetime 

DISTINCTIVE   MODELS 
for  Homes  of  Refinement,  Clubs  and  Yachts 

By  patronizing  a  Shop  that  Specializes 
in  Reed  Furniture  you  hate  the  advan- 
tages o/  Exclusioeness,  Unusual  Designs, 
Preeminence  in  Quality,  and  Reliability. 


CRETONNES,    CHINTZES,    UPHOLSTERY    FABRICS 
Interior  Decorating 


REED  SHOP,  INC. 


581    FIFTH    AVENUE,    NEW    YORK 

"Suggestions  in  Reed  Furniture"  forwarded  on  receipt  of  25c  postage 


A  Colonial  fixture  oj  pol- 
ished  brass   and   ebony   is 
$50 


A   Georgian  candle  sconce 

in  hand  scoured  silver  finish 

comes  at  $35 


een      in     the     Sh 

(Continued  from  page  78) 


ops 


salt,  soda  and  water.  The  silver  is  then 
placed  on  it.  The  tarnish  is  removed 
jy  the  chemical  action  of  the  solution 
and  the  plate.  Full  directions  on  each 
box.  Price  $1. 

(12)  For  lighting  the  fires  on  cool  fall 
evenings  a  Cape  Cod  Lighter  will  prove 
a  great  convenience.     In  brass  without 
tray,   $4.50.      With    small   tray,   $5.25; 
large  tray,  $5.50. 

(13)  One  of  the  many  electrical  con- 
veniences on  the  market  is  a  utility  iron- 
ing set.     This  consists  of  an  iron  on  an 
inverting  stand  which  converts  the  iron 
into  a  small  electric  stove.    The  iron  also 
has  two  holes  in  the  back  into  which 
curling  tongs  can  be  inserted.    Complete 
with   pair   of   folding   tongs   and   cloth 
covered  box,  $10. 

(14)  Percolators  are  always  interest- 
ing.   One  comes  in  a  Colonial  design  of 
copper  with  handles  and  legs  of  white 
metal,  faucet  has  ebonized  wood  handle 


finished  in  polished  nickel.  The  inside  is 
silver  plated.  This  size  holds  nine  cups, 
cord  and  plug  attached,  $18.75.  A 
smaller  size,  holding  five  cups,  is  also 
copper,  finished  in  nickel  with  white 
metal  spout  and  ebonized  wood  handle, 
fibre  tipped  feet,  cord  and  plugs,  $13.50. 

(15)  A  graceful  willow  stand,  6'  6" 
high     holds    a    hanging    lantern,    $35. 
Stained  any  color,  $38.    Enameled,  $40. 
Attractive  silk  shades  in  any  color  with 
black  silk   fringe  and  long   tassel,  $30. 
Painted  parchment  shades,  $20. 

(16)  Desk  sets  for  the  country  house 
come  in   rose   or  blue   flowered  chintz. 
They    consist    of   blotter,    inkwell,   pen 
tray,  paper  holder,  calendar,  paper  cut- 
ter  and   hand    blotter,   all    covered    in 
charming  cretonne.    Price  $12.50.    Cup;; 
holding  shot  and  quill  pen  to  match  in 
color,  $1.50  extra. 

(17)  Round  pillows  of  good  quality 

(Continued  on  page  82) 


A   combination  electric  iron,  stove  and 

curling    tongs.      Complete    in    cretonne 

covered  box  $10 


White  wicker  collapsible  stand,  re- 
versible cretonne  covered  tray  un- 
der glass.   Tray  $18.50  Stand  $6 


Willow  lamp  stand,   6'    6"   high, 

$35.    Stained  any  color  $38.  Silk 

shade   in  any   color  $30 


August,     1920 
RBI 


LEAVENS 

FURNITURE 


APPRECIATED  in  the  homes 
^-Xof  good  taste  and  refine- 
ment, Leavens  Furniture 
makes  its  strongest  appeal  to 
those  who  discriminate  in  their 
selection  of  interior  furnishing. 
A  wide  variety  of  styles  and 
finishes  from  a  manufacturer's 
extensive  stock  enables  one  to 
exercise  individual  taste  in 
selection. 

Leavens  Furniture  may  be  had 
unfinished  if  desired,  or  fin- 
ished to  suit  the  purchaser. 
Write  for  set 
.No.  4  of  illus- 
trations and 
Leavens  stains. 


Gov.  Bradford 
Rocker 


William  Leavens  &  Co.,  Inc. 

Manufacturers 
32  Canal  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 


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FAMOUS 

FOR 

STYLE. 

SERVICE 

AND 

SMARTNESS 

MoJel  1600 

NurseS  Uni- 
form, white 
pre-shrunk 
Service  Cloth 

$5.50 

In  white 
linene  $4.50 


Leioinc  depart- 
ment slwes  e?wy- 
wlitre  carry 
S.  E.  I.  uniforms. 
In  Creilcr  New 
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Arnold  Conatable 
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franklin  Simon 
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__  John  Wanan.kat 

Mtttl  37f—  Maid's  Uniform-  Individuality 

itself.    Black  cotton  Pongee.  tS.SO 

Mohair  $8.50  to  $13.50 

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Alrrielife  booklet  of  other  stylei  on  reque.l. 

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New  York  City 


Danersk  Decorative  Furniture 

Those  who  have  given  the  most  study  to  the  question  of  prices 
and  production  have  come  to  the  conclusion  that  there  are  no 
material  reductions  in  costs  of  building  antj  manufacturing  in 
sight.  \Ye  have  done  our  best  to  keep  prices  down  for  the 
benefit  of  our  customers  by  efficiency  and  constant  watchful- 
ness. Our  costs  are  never  haphazard.  They  are  based  on 
integrity  in  labor,  the  best  of  materials,  and  a  budget  carefully 
thought  out  in  advance. 

Buy  DANERSK  FURNITURE  now  for  1921.  There  is  true 
value  and  exquisite  artistry  in  each  setting.  Your  own  color 
scheme  without  added  cost ! 

Send  for  "The  Danersk"  No.  A-8,  and  buy  through  your 
dealer,  decorator  or  direct. 

Channinif    sets   on    exhibition    done   in    hartnonv 
-^'itlt     choice    fabrics    of    our    otcn     importation. 

ERSKINE-DANFORTH  CORPORATION 

2  West  47th  Street,  New  York 

F-'ir.st  Door  West  of  Fifth  Avenue — 4th  Floor 


Bravs  /«, 

Established  1388 

35Q  Fifth  Aye.  at  34"St 

New  York 

Interior 
Decorating 


r — fluid   and    Color 
16  i   \n':-    lnr\rt 
$21.50   Eocft— Electric 


8  Ft..  Wroaoltt  Iron  BaM 
Parchment    Shade    (42.50 


Pa/n//ngs,  Mezzotints,  Mirrors 
Lamps,  Shades.Period  Fur  nil  ure 
Hangings,  Framing 


GIVES  ENDURING  CHARM 

/GRACEFUL  Pottery  Forms  delight  the 
vJ  eye  and  will  add  pleasing  spots  of  in- 
terest to  your  garden. 

Our  collection  includes  Bird  Baths,  Sun 
Dials,  Gazing  Globes  and  Benches  as  well  as 
Flower  Pots,  Vases  and  Boxes,  strong  and 
durable  pieces  that  will  enhance  the  beauty 
of  your  flowers  and  plants. 

Catalogue  will   be   «ent  upon   request. 

GAUOWAY TERRA  GOTTA  Ob. 

3218  WALNUT  ST.  PHILADELPHIA 


1466 — Black  porcelain 
lamp  and  black  paper  shade 
with  colored  wistaria  deco- 
ration. IS  in.  high,  $10.00. 

IF  you  have  de- 
serted town  for 
the  summer,  we 
want  you  to  know 
that  Ovington's 
maintain  an  efficient 
mail  service,  through 
which  you  can  be 
sure  of  the  same 
courteous  considera- 
tion you  would  re- 
ceive at  the  shop 
itself.  China  dinner 
sets,  lamps  and 
shades,  and  Sheffield 
ware  can  be  had  by 
mail  as  well  as  in 
person. 


1443 — This  pearl  green  lus- 
tre glass  refreshment  set 
consists  of  jug,  6  glasses,  6 
glass  spoon  straws,  and 
wicker  tray.  Price  $1230. 


If  13 — This  mirror  is  done 
in  brown-toned  and  an- 
tique gold  frame.  It  is 
34  in.  long  and  costs  only 
$20.00. 


OVINGTON'S 


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House     &     Garden 


ACCORDION  PLEATED  "GO-UP-OR-DOWN" 

WINDOW    SHADES 

Give  the  "Finishing  Touch"  to  a  Modern  Residence 


THESE    shades    are    made 
from   fine,   cheerily-translu- 
cent,   herringbone    weave 
coutil   cloth,    hard-calendered   to 
shed    dust    and    permit    of    easy 
cleaning.     They  give  the  general 
effect  of  Venetian  blinds  or  cost- 
ly puff  shades. 

Pleats  close  and  open  like  a 
Japanese  fan,  by  the  pull  of  cords 
at  either  side ;  and  pulling  both 
cords  bunches  the  closed  pleats 


into  a  small  panel  in  any  desired 
position  on  the  window. 

Shade  is  strung  on  tight  piano 
wires,  stretched  musically-taut 
between  sturdy  forged  fixtures 
at  top  and  bottom.  Practically 
everlasting. 

Truly  a  thing  of  beauty;  and  a 
daily  delight  and  comfort  in  com- 
bining free  access  of  air  and 
light,  with  privacy. 

Send  for  a  sample — free 


ATHEY    COMPANY 

Also  makers  of  the  famous  "Athey"  Cloth  lined  weather  strips 


6O41  W.  65th  STREET 


CHICAGO 


Interior  Decorations — Furnishings 


Tapestries  Fabrics 

Furniture  Objets  D'Art 

Distinctive  Decorations 


The  J.  G.  Valiant  Company 


J.  W.  Valiant,  President 
224  N.  Charles  Street 


Wm.  J.   MacMullin,  Phila.,  Director 
1718  Chestnut  Street 


Seen     in     the     Shops 

(Continued  from  page  80) 


china  silk  shirred  onto  heavy  cords  can 
be  had  for  $3.45.  They  come  in  old 
rose,  French  blue,  gold  and  black.  Also 
figured  silk  in  oriental  colorings.  They 
are  22"  across. 

(18)  Two  Italian  pottery  jars,  repro- 
ductions of  museum  pieces  that  will  har- 
monize  with   almost  any  color  scheme 
are  S'A"  high  and  have  a  design  of  ap- 
ples in  deep  blue  on  a  gray-buff  ground. 
$20  each. 

(19)  A  pair  of  twisted  Italian  pottery 
candlesticks  in  a  lovely  shade  of  old  blue 
are  12"  high  and  $18.50  a  pair. 

(20)  A  Wedgewood  salad  set  is  charm- 
ingly colored  with  a  background  of  soft 
cream  decorated  with  a  design  of  baskets 
of   flowers   in   mauve,   rose,  green   and 
blue.     The  bowl  and  dozen  plates  are 
octagonal  shaped.    Price  $31.50. 

(21)  White  enamel  child's  table  and 


bench  has  blue  birds  painted  in  the  cor- 
ners of  the  table  which  is  18"  high  by 
29"  long  and  15"  wide.  Price,  $8 
Bench,  $5. 

(22)  A    delicate    lantern    stands    19" 
high.     It  comes  in  tan  cedar  or  black 
lacquer   and   is   lined   with   rice   paper. 
Fitted  for  candle,  $5 ;  equipped  for  elec- 
tricity, $10. 

(23)  To  hide  an  unsightly  fixture,  this 
graceful  wall  bracket  has  proven  most 
satisfactory.    In  tan  cedar  or  black  lac- 
quer lined  with  rice  paper.    With  candle, 
?5.    Equipped  for  electricity,  $10. 

(24)  An   Italian   rusty  iron   and  gilt 
polychrome  lighting  fixture  has  antique 
finished  crystal  drops.    $50. 

(25)  Colonial   fixture,   polished   brass 
and  ebony  finish.    $50. 

(26)  Georgian  candle  sconce  in  hand- 
scoured  silver  finish,  $35. 


The    Eight-Hour    Kitchen 

(Continued  from  page  21) 


await  further  attention.  How  many 
times  a  day  dishes  should  be  washed, 
and  after  which  meals  is  a  matter  for 
the  house  manager  to  decide  according 
to  the  specific  need  of  her  own  family. 

While  there  is  no  other  equipment  in 
the  house  which  will  go  toward  mak- 
ing entertaining  popular  with  the  kitch- 
en-staff, in  order  to  complete  the  clean- 
ing equipment,  the  dish-washer  should 
be  supplemented  by  a  buffing-wheel  for 
silver  cleaning  and  polishing.  Where 
the  household  possesses  some  form  of 
kitchen  motor,  this  will  not  be  a  sepa- 
rate device,  but  merely  one  of  the  many 
functions  of  the  apparatus  already  pro- 
vided for  mixing,  grinding,  and  beating. 

The  test  of  the  soundness  of  any  fac- 
tory organization  is  not  merely  how  it 
works  when  everything  goes  well,  but 
more  especially  whether  it  continues  to 
function  under  pressure. 


Similarly,  the  test  of  a  well-equipped 
kitchen  is  not  altogether  whether,  with 
the  available  household  staff,  the  fam- 
ily's regular  three  meals  per  diem  can 
be  produced  without  distress  to  all  con- 
cerned, but  rather,  whether  the  kitchen 
operations  are  so  planned  that  the  ar- 
rival of  one  guest  or  many,  does  not 
necessarily  disrupt  the  home  factory  and 
its  working  staff. 

If  modest  entertainment  is  one  of  the 
admitted  functions  of  the  modest  home, 
surely  the  more  elaborate  household 
should  be  equipped  so  that  the  rites  of 
hospitality  need  not  necessarily  come  in 
conflict  with  the  rights  of  labor. 

When  the  household  wheels  groan 
and  creak  ominously  under  the  weight 
of  an  additional  mouth  to  feed,  the 
house  manager  should  look  for  the  weak 
spot  in  her  kitchen  system  and  apply 
the  remedy  that  fits  the  particular  case. 


A  City  Garden  in  Southern  California 


(Continued  from  page  55) 


The  pools  form  the  central  feature  of 
the  main  garden.  One  slightly  above  the 
other,  they  suggest  abundance  of  water, 
even  in  a  dry  season,  the  water  over- 
flowing the  low  curved  curb  of  the  up- 
per pool  into  the  lower.  The  upper 
pool  is  backed  by  a  wall  of  cement  dec- 
orated with  Spanish  tiles  from  which 
bronze  fountain  taps  throw  a  fine  spray. 
On  each  side  of  the  pools  the  retaining 
wall  is  broken  by  flights  of  steps,  and 
surmounted  by  large  vases. 

From  the  east  porch  of  the  house,  one 
enjoys  the  full  value  of  a  long  vista. 
The  walks,  the  steps,  the  pools  flanked 
by  the  two  flights  of  steps,  are  on  the 
main  axis,  while  above  and  beyond  the 
perspective  carries  the  eye  to  the  log- 
ical terminus  of  the  axis,  the  wall  foun- 
tain at  the  farthest  end  of  the  garden. 
The  fountain,  a  beautiful  bowl  of  classic 
form  in  a  niche  tile  lined  in  dull  blue, 
is  built  under  a  brick  arch,  on  either 
side  of  which  are  seats  of  brick  com- 
bined with  carved  wood,  and  peering 
into  the  water  of  the  bowl  is  a  bronze 
statue  by  Edward  Berge.  Over  this 
lovely  figure  of  Undine,  small  bronze 
fishes  spout  water  which  overflows  the 
bowl  into  a  shallow  basin,  and  thence 
trickles  down  a  channel  in  the  middle 
of  an  inclined  walk,  hollowed  to  receive 
it,  until  it  drips  into  the  upper  pool. 


Although  the  ground  has  been  planted 
but  three  years,  almost  constant  sun- 
shine, assisted  by  soil  preparation,  has 
developed  a  growth  which  soon  will  be- 
come luxurious;  blending  the  planting 
and  the  architectural  details  into  a  con- 
tinuity of  design.  Skilful  use  of  a  min- 
gling of  broad-leaved  evergreens,  both 
trees  and  shrubs,  with  delicate  leafage  of 
small  scale,  varying  heights  and  intrigu- 
ing shadiness,  have  brought  about  most 
charming  vistas  from  almost  any  point 
in  the  garden. 

More  than  in  impressions  of  space  and 
distance  and  sensations  of  the  unex- 
pected, the  fundamental  charm  of  the 
garden  lies  in  its  livableness.  No  one 
enters  without  becoming  conscious  of 
its  happy  mingling  of  indoors  and  out. 
Between  flowering  borders,  broad  walks 
lead  from  one  division  to  another.  Rest- 
ing places  furnished  with  benches  or 
seats  are  easily  accessible.  Where  there 
is  an  excess  of  sunshine  wide  awnings 
afford  protection  and  add  a  suggestion 
of  festivity,  while  stepping  paths  lead 
the  seeker  for  seclusion  to  the  cool  shel- 
ter of  greenery.  In  whatever  part  of 
the  garden  one  may  be,  there  is  the  sat- 
isfying sense  of  privacy.  No  reminder 
of  the  city  streets  outside  destroys  the 
"garden  magic"  and  seclusion  which 
lie  within  the  walls. 


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CONDE    NAST,  Publisher 

RICHARDSON    WRIGHT.     Editor 

R.    S.     I  I   M  M0\      \l..,,.,    ,„     Editor 


FALL     PLANTING     NEXT    MONTH 


TO  the  sincere  gardener  there  is  always  an 
available  future.  Autumn  comes,  the  flower? 
die  down  and  Nature  goes  to  rest.  It  is  a 
season  of  reflection.  It  is  also  a  season  of 
great  activity  in  the  garden.  The  mistake-  of  this 
year  can  be  rectified  in  the  year  to  come.  The 
neglected  corner  can  be  made  to  blossom  next 
spring.  Next  year  we  will  do  better  by  that 
border.  Next  year !  Next  year !  Every  good 
gardener  is  thinking  of  next  year. 

And  yet  much  of  this  year's  mistakes  can  be 
rectified  now.  From  the  earliest  day  of  next 
spring  many  of  this  season's  errors  will  be  recti- 
fied. The  secret,  of  course,  is  fall  planting.  Start 
the  changes  now,  and  you  will  have  no  regrets 
next  year. 

This  whole  subject  of  fall  planting  is  so  im- 
portant that  we  devote  an  issue  to  it.  Both  the 
practical  data  and  the  inspirational  suggestions 
are  in  this  issue.  It  is  an  issue  the  gardener  will 
want  to  study  thoroughly  and  keep  on  hand  in 
his  fall  work. 

But  that  is  only  one  phase  of  the  magazine. 
although  the  most  important.  You  turn  from 
articles  about  the  autumn  garden,  about  Fall 
Planting  Tables  and  instructions  on  planting  roses 


In     the    October    number    Mrs. 

Francis   King   writes   of  this   old 

English  garden 


in  the  fall,  to  the  delicious  attic  that  was  made 
into  a  dormitory  for  a  bachelor,  to  the  page  of 
enclosed  porches  furnished  for  winter  use,  to  the 
unusual  halls  and  the  shopping  sugge;tions  that 
are  as  tempting  as  a  Fifth  Avenue  shop  window 
on  an  autumn  morning. 

There  are  two  rather  unusual  houses  in  this 
issue — an  old  one  from  New  England,  done  in  the 
Adam  manner,  and  a  new  one  for  a  suburb,  a 
clever  solution  for  a  narrow  lot.  Both  are  excel- 
lent pieces  of  architecture,  which  means  that  they 
should  be  full  of  suggestions  for  the  prospective 
house  builder. 

The  household  equipment  pages  are  no  less 
packed  with  suggestions.  Here  is  an  article  on 
the  bathroom,  showing  the  latest  fixtures,  the 
most  modern  conveniences,  and  with  the  neces- 
sary data  that  one  should  know  before  purchasing 
fixtures.  There  is  also  an  equally  illuminating 
page  on  the  laundry  and  one  on  household  man- 
agement. 

So  this  is  the  gamut  of  the  Fall  Planting  Num- 
ber, a  compact  and  busy  little  book.  It  behooves 
you  to  order  it  now  from  your  newsdealer,  be- 
cause the  paper  shortage  is  playing  havoc  with 
the  supply. 


Contents  for  September,  1920.      Volume  XXXV III,  No.  Three 


COVER  DESIGN:  A  I?TH  CENTURY  FLEMISH  PAINTING  (ON  WOOD) 
REPRODUCED  THROUGH  THE  COURTESY  OF  Au  QUATRIENNE, 
JoHi<  WANAMAKER 

INSIDE  AN  ENCLOSED  PORCH 26 

Agnes  Foster  Wright,  Decorator 

COMPOSITION   IN    DECORATION 2' 

Ruth  de  Rochetnont 
THE  HOME  or  E.  C.  THIERS,  PASADENA,  CALIFORNIA.  .  30 

Reginald  D.  Johnson,  Architect 

THIS  AND   THAT 

AN  ARCHITECTURE  FOR  REMODELING 

Farrar  &  Study,  Architects 

THE   JAPANESE   TEA   CEREMONY 

Gardner  Teall 
THE  RESIDENCE  OF  ALBERT  K.  WAMPOLE,  GUILFORD,  MARYLAND.  .     36 

Molt  B.  Schmidt,  Architect 
ROOMS  IN  Miss  HELEN  DRYDEN'S  APARTMENT.. 
THE  DECORATIVE  VALUE  OF  FRENCH   PRINTS.. 

Honorc  Raoul 

PANSIES  FROM  YEAR  TO  YEAR 

/.  Horace  McFarland 
CHINESE  ROOMS  IN  THK  HOME  or  M.  GASTON  LIF.BERT 41 


CURTAINS  THAT  GIVE  A  ROOM  DISTINCTION 42 

THE  HOME  OF  EDGERTON  PARSONS,  HADLYME,  CONNECTICUT....  44 
Alfred  Hopkins,  Architect 

GROWING  YOUR  OWN  ORCHIDS 46 

Annette  Cannert 

EIGHT  OF  THE  NEW  FALL  CURTAIN  FABRICS 48 

A  L  ITTLE  PORTFOLIO  OF  GOOD  INTERIORS 49 

THE   RETURN   OF  QUILTING 52 

THE  HOSTESS  SELECTS  CARD  TABLES S3 

THE   ADAPTABLE   DAFFODIL 54 

Etna  Rehman 

A  DIVERSITY  OF  HALLWAYS 55 

FURNISHING    YOUR    KITCHEN 56 

Ethel  R.  Peyser 

THE   HIDDEN   RADIATOR 58 

How  TO  USE  BLUE 59 

Ethel  Davis  Seal 

THE  SELECTION  AND  CARE  OF  BRUSHES 60 

SIMPLE  UPHOLSTERY  62 

Alice  F.  and  Bettina  Jackson 

UNUSUAL    BOXES 63 

THE   GARDENER'S   CALENDAR 64 


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Hood 


INSIDE      AN      ENCLOSED      PORCH 


One  of  the  desirable  features  in  an  enclosed 
porch  is  that  it  shall  bring  some  of  the  atmos- 
phere of  the  outside  garden  into  the  inside  of 
the  house.  It  should  register  a  permanent 
air  of  spring  and  summer.  That  desirable 
quality  is  found  in  this  window  grouping  of  a 
second  story  porch  in  a  New  Jersey  home.  The 


two  white  porcelain  birds,  the  wrought  iron 
console,  and  the  clapboard  effect  of  the  walls 
are  reminiscent  of  the  garden  beyond.  The 
window  divisions  are  painted  red.  A  valance, 
shirred  on  a  curved  frame,  is  of  fawn  and 
red  striped  French  sateen,  with  thin  sunfast 
curtains  below.  Agnes  Foster  Wright,  decorator 


September,     1920 


27 


CO   iM   POSITION        IN       DECORATION 

The  Test  of  the  Maker  of  Homes  Is  the  Ability  to  Devise  Arrangements  of  Furniture 
Which  Satisfy  the  Double  Demands  of  Use  and  Beauty 


THE  beginning  of  wisdom  in  decoration  is 
a  just  fear  of  the  laws  of  composition. 

It  matters  less — and  they  who  will  not  wise- 
ly listen  to  the  word  will  learn  it  in  the  costly 
ways  of  experience — what  one  puts  into  a 
house  than  where  one  puts  it. 

A  well-planned  room  has  the  perfection  of 
a  Japanese  print.  Taken  as  a  whole,  it  is  an 
impeccable  and  complete  composition,  but  it 
breaks  up  on  analysis  into  many  subordinate 
compositions,  each  no  less  perfect  in  itself. 

The  room,  however,  must  also  meet  a  de- 
mand not  made  upon 
the  Japanese  print,  for 
each  of  its  various 
groupings  must  be  suit- 
ed to  the  needs  of  those 
who  pass  some  part  of 
their  hours  within  it. 
The  occupations  of 
these  people,  their  fan- 
cies for  certain  types 
of  chair,  for  light  from 
the  left  or  the  right, 
the  hours  of  the  day  or 
the  night  at  which  they 
will  use  the  rooms,  all 
must  be  considered. 
The  reconciliation  of 
those  needs  with  the 
laws  of  beauty  is  the 
rock  on  which  many  a 
room  comes  to  grief. 

Things  to  Avoid 

AYho  has  not  met 
them — the  coldly  lovely 
drawing  rooms  in  which 
conversation  languishes 
and  the  guest  becomes 
deeply  conscious  of  be- 
ing an  incongruous  ex- 
hibit in  a  museum  of 
decorative  art ;  the  bra- 
zenly comfortable  liv- 
ing rooms  in  which 
beauty  is  not  and  the 
mind  sinks  to  sleep  in 
the  well-padded  arms 
of  davenports  and  ca- 
pacious armchairs 
which  give  the  room 
the  air  of  a  hotel 
lobby? 

It  is  not  a  question 
of  rare  and  handsome 


RUTH  de  ROCHE  MONT 

pieces;  still  less  is  it  a  question  of  cost.  Glim- 
mering lengths  of  lovely  materials  do  not  neces- 
sarily make  a  smart  costume,  and  a  house  may 
be  overflowing  with  costly  furnishings  and  yet 
lie  a  decorative  failure  and  a  menace  to  the 
peace  of  mind  of  those  who  dwell  therein. 

A  nicety  of  taste  in  the  selection  and  group- 
ing of  its  furniture  may  give  to  the  simplest 
room  a  charm  and  a  livable  quality  sought  in 
vain  in  rooms  which  contain  a  far  greater 
number  of  things  lovely  in  themselves.  Again, 
a  room  which  has  been  the  despair  of  a  hostess 


TVDM 

They  are  wise  who,  possessing  a  rare  old  piece,  display  it  to  the  best  possible  advantage  by 
thus  making  it  the  dominant  note  in  a  composition  all  its  own.    Rug,  chairs,  and  wall  lights 


are  all  admirably  in  keeping  and  all  focus  attention  on  the  ccbinet 


and  the  terror  of  guests  may  be  transformed 
and  its  glacial  atmosphere  changed  to  glowing 
warmth  by  a  mere  rearrangement  of  the 
furniture. 

In  general,  it  may  fairly  be  said  that  most 
people  rearrange  their  houses  far  too  seldom. 
Their  furniture  could  hardly  be  more  static  if 
it  were  built  with  the  house  and  securely  nailed 
in  place. 

Now,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  a  single  new 
piece  of  furniture  may  often  necessitate  the  re- 
arrangement of  a  whole  room,  and  constant 
minor  changes  are 
needed  to  give  variety. 
Moreover,  the  arrange- 
ment of  many  rooms  in 
the  all-year  house 
should  be  altered  great- 
ly with  the  change  from 
summer  to  winter.  This 
does  not  mean  a  mere 
substitution  of  gay 
glazed  chintz  for  the 
heavy  damasks  and 
silken  stuffs  of  winter 
or  the  acquisition  of 
taffeta  slip-covers  and 
lighter  rugs. 

Some  of  the  best 
changes  of  all  are  the 
fundamental  changes 
in  the  grouping  and 
the  position  of  the  fur- 
niture. 


Seasonal  Changes 

The  fireplace  and 
the  low  table  with  its 
well-placed  and  adroit- 
ly shaded  reading 
lamps  are  the  natural 
focal  notes  of  the  win- 
ter room. 

When  summer  comes, 
the  outdoor  world 
claims  the  leading  role 
and  sunny  casements 
or  long  French  win- 
dows opening  on  moon- 
lit terraces  may  become 
the  most  important  fea- 
tures of  tin-  .-ami-  room. 

That,  indeed,  is  one 
of  tin-  sec  rets  of  suc- 
cessful arrangement — 
to  seize  upon  a  salient 


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Those  who  turn  from 
the  barren  theory  of 
the  hall  as  a  passage- 
way and  consider  it 
as  the  overture  to  the 
home,  may  attain  such 
success  as  this 

feature  and  play  the 
room  or  the  group  up  to 
it.  In  decoration  as  in. 
life  the  serving  of  two 
masters  is  a  feat  seldom 
accomplished,  and  care 
should  be  taken  that  fine 
pieces  do  not  mutually 
lessen  each  other's  effec- 
tiveness through  con- 
tending for  attention  at 
the  same  moment.  Such 
pieces  should  be  well  i 
placed  where  they  are 
neither  buried  under  sur- 
rounding  mediocrities 
nor  overwhelmed  amid  a 
hoat  of  equal  beauties. 

A  handsome  Oriental 
rug  may  thus  dictate  the 
entire  color  scheme  of  a 
room  and  even  determine 
the  arrangement  of  the 
furniture,  which  will  be 
so  placed  as  to  display 
the  color  and  pattern  of 
the  rug  to  advantage,  yet 
not  to  leave  the  entire 
surface  bare. 

In  another  case,  the  rug  may  be  an  entirely 
subordinate  element,  leading  the  eye,  as  in  the 
group  on  page  27,  to  some  rare  piece  of  furni- 
ture which  is  the  dominating  note  of  a  well- 
planned  composition.  This  arrangement  is 
worthy  of  note  not  only  from  the  point  of  view 
of  appearance  but  from  that  of  actual  use  as 
well.  The  fine  old  cabinet  and  its  quaint 
chairs,  similar  in  character,  are  admirably 
satisfying  to  the  eye,  while  at  the  same  time 


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Not  in  the  center  of  the  room,  but  before  a 

sunny  window  may  be  the  place  for  a  dining 

table.    Hayden  Co.,  decorators 


In  winter,  the  dining  table  at  the  left  wisely 

turns  its  attention  from  the   window  to   the 

fireplace 


September,     1920 


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In  this  boudoir,  piano, 
chair,  and  so/a  invite 
to  soft  music  and  in- 
timate conversation. 
Of  unusual  charm, 
also,  are  the  vistas 


the  requisite  chair  is 
placed  conveniently  be- 
side the  desk  and  stands 
ready  to  the  hand  of  the 
writer. 

A  large  room  natur- 
ally requires  a  number 
of  groupings  of  furni- 
ture, and  the  art  lies  in 
making  each  distinctive 
and  complete  in  itself, 
yet  subordinated  to  the 
ensemble  of  the  room. 

Social  intercourse  re- 
quires that  there  should 
be  in  a  drawing  room 
or  living  room  several 
groups  of  chairs,  seats 
and  sofas  which  afford 
suitable  settings  for  con- 
versing people,  while  less 
formal  rooms  demand 
the  groupings  which  suit 
the  intimate  needs  of 
family  life.  All  these 
groups  require  a  nice 
discrimination  in  the 
combining  of  light  chairs 
of  wood  and  cane,  or  of 

lacquered  and  carved  pieces  with  the  more 
substantial  upholstered  furniture.  A  few  light 
chairs  which  may  be  moved  to  join  any  group 
are  a  true  boon  to  the  hostess,  as  they  make 
possible  those  temporary  changes  in  arrange- 
ment which  are  sometimes  necessary. 

The  lines  also  must  be  harmonious  and  care 
must   be   taken   to   select   types   of    furniture 
which  combine  well.     The  delicacy  of  Louis 
(Continued  on  page.  86) 


A  balanced  composition  is  centered  by  a  rare 
tapestry  and  a  richly  carved  cassone  flanked 
by  candelabra.  Walker  &  Gillette,  architects 

The  French  draped  canopy  may  serve  admira- 
bly to  give  that  variation  hi  height   essential 
in  a  bedroom 


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The  architecture  of  old 
California,  adapted  to 
meet  modern  needs,  fits 
into  the  hillside  setting 
naturally.  The  low  angle 
of  the  roofs  is  a  char- 
acteristic feature,  as  are 
the  doors  and  the  heavy- 
barred  grill  which  is  set 
in  the  wall 


The  main  rooms  of  the 
house  are  built  around 
two  sides  of  this  court, 
the  rest  of  the  space 
being  taken  by  the  ser- 
vice quarters.  So  it  is  a 
small  house,  very  com- 
pact in  its  arrangement, 
quite  unusual  and  yet 
livable 


Behind  the  grill  lies  this 
paved  court  or  patio 
•with  a  wide  door  open- 
ing into  the  living  room 
on  one  side  and  another 
to  the  dining  room.  The 
•windows  of  the  master's 
bedroom  open  on  a,  bal- 
cony with  wooden  bal- 
usters 


Three  bedrooms  and 
two  baths  occupy  most 
of  the  second  floor. 
Stairs,  upper  stair  hall 
and  passage  are  kept  at 
a  minimum  of  size.  A 
storage  room  takes  the 
place  of  the  usual  attic 
and  is  far  more  con- 
venient 


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The  side  of  the  house  shows  a  pleasing  variation  oj  windows— a 
balcony  window  from  the  main  chamber,  another  balcony  from  the 
tall  arched  windows  on  the  stairs  landing  and  one  chamber  window 
tucked  up  under  the  eaves.  The  chimney  is  built  solid  and  deep, 
giving  a  shadow  to  the  wall 


Along    the   dining    room   side,   entrance    is 

gained    by    an    arched    gateway    in    the 

patio  wall,  which  is  here  pierced  by  another 

grill  and  decorated  with  a  fountain 


The  garden  is  built  in  two  levels  and  sur- 
rounded bv  a  low  stucco  wall.     The  small 
window  this  side  of  the  entrance  lights  the 
coat    closet   off   the   entrance   hall 


THE    HOME    OF 
E.     C.     THIERS 

PASADENA,  CALIFORNIA 

REGINALD  D.  JOHNSON, 

Architect 


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FOR  a  while  this  summer  my  work  in  the  garden  has  been  distracted 
by  painters.     Off  and  on  for  a  month  they  have  been  around  the 
house.     Bothersome  fellows,  these,  because  they  take  so  much  time  and 
apparently  accomplish  so  little.    And  yet,  now  that  they  have  departed, 
I  am  beginning  to  understand  the  wisdom  of  paint. 

There  are  two  ways  of  looking  at  paint.  You  can  think  of  it  merely 
as  a  method  for  freshening  up  wall  surfaces  and  furniture  or,  if  you 
are  more  practically  minded,  consider  it  as  a  preservative.  Paint  is  a 
rare  combination  of  the  esthetic  and  the  practical.  It  gives  a  house  a 
cleaner,  fresher  appearance,  increases  its  property  value,  makes  it  a 
richer  contribution  to  the  community's  good  looks — but  it  also  adds  years 
to  the  life  of  the  house.  The  commonplace  fact  that  paint  is  a  pre- 
servative cannot  be  repeated  too  often.  It  stops  wood  from  checking 
and  closes  up  the  pores  and  fibres  of  an  exposed  surface  that  the  ele- 
ments would  otherwise  eventually  ruin. 
Looking  at  paint  from  that  angle,  no  man 
can  begrudge  the  cost. 

Nor  should  he  begrudge  the  time  it 
takes  painters  to  do  their  work.  The 
basis  of  good  painting  is  the  careful 
preparation  of  the  surface  to  be  painted. 
Any  amateur  can  slap  on  a  coat  over  the 
old,  worn  surface,  whereas  a  skilled 
workman  will  take  hours  with  sand  paper 
and  putty  knife  before  a  brushful  of  the 
new  paint  is  applied.  It  is  in  neglecting 
to  make  adequate  preparation  that  most 
amateurs  fail.  In  fact,  it  is  wiser  for 
the  amateur  to  restrict  his  painting  en- 
deavors to  small  and  unimportant  areas 
and  leave  the  larger  work  for  men  skilled 
in  that  line. 

Poor  results  are  often  blamed  on  the 
brand  of  paint  used.  The  manufacturer 
can  only  give  the  owner  the  best  possible 
product;  it  is  the  owner's  responsibility, 
if  he  demands  ideal  results,  to  employ 
the  best  possible  workers. 

The  wisdom  of  paint,  then,  reduces 
itself  to  this — buy  the  best,  standard 
brands  made  by  reputable  firms,  hire 
intelligent  painters  and  give  them  all  the 
time  they  require  for  preparation. 

THE  shortage  of  building  materials 
has  awakened  interest  in  remodel- 
ing and  restoring  old  houses.  All  around 
the  countryside  neglected  farmhouses  are 
beginning  to  live  again,  barns  are  blos- 
soming out  as  summer  homes,  houses  of 
questionable  "Queen  Anne"  architecture 
are  being  remodeled  into  a  more  rational 
style,  and  the  Mansard  roof  is  disappear- 
ing. These  are  good  signs.  Just  as  one 
can  graft  new  stock  on  the  stump  of  an 
old  apple  tree  and  harvest  a  paying  lot 
of  fruit,  so  these  remodeled  houses  pay 
for  the  work  and  time  and  money  that  one  may  spend  on  them. 
This  work  divides  itself  into  two  classes — restoring  and  remodeling. 
If  you  are  fortunate  enough  to  find  an  old  farmhouse  of  good  lines, 
architectural  changes  may  not  be  necessary.  If  any  additions  are  made, 
keep  them  in  character  with  the  original  building.  There  is  nothing 
worse  than  an  Italian  porch  on  a  Colonial  house.  Should  you  wish  to 
remodel,  then  remodel  to  the  full — change  the  house  over  completely. 
Let  the  Rural  Gothic  disappear  behind  half-timber  and  stucco  or  remove 
the  dormers,  flatten  the  roof  and  let  your  Italian  ideas  have  full  swing. 
Remember  that  half-way  remodeling  is  deadly. 

Remember  also  that  in  any  old  house  there  are  two  rooms  which  must 
be  brought  up  to  date.  Even  more  important  than  the  architecture  is 
the  plumbing  in  kitchen  and  bathroom.  See  to  this  first.  Make  ade- 
quate preparation  for  labor-saving  equipment.  Bills  from  the  plumber 
and  electrician  may  stagger  you,  but  this  work  must  be  done. 

It  is  also  the  better  part  of  wisdom  to  make  all  your  structural 
changes  the  first  year.  Otherwise  you'll  have  carpenters  and  plumbers 


Mattio  Edwards  Hewitt 


The  ubiquitous  glass  door  takes  on  a  new  character 

when  it  is  fashioned  in   this  shape  and   is  painted 

opalescent   and   decorated   •with  a  formal   design  of 

conventionalized  flowers 


On  the  other  hand,  in  remodeling  an  old  house  it  is  not  always  pos- 
sible to  follow  your  original  plans.  It  is  best  to  have  a  general  idea 
of  what  you  want  to  do,  and  then,  as  the  work  proceeds,  make  the  other 
changes  as  the  ideas  present  themselves.  This,  of  course,  means  more 
work  and  a  bigger  bill,  but  it  is  more  satisfactory  in  the  end  and  gives 
more  pleasure  in  the  doing.  That  little  afterthought  bay  window,  that 
casement,  those  panels  in  the  hall — all  such  little  additions  make  an 
old  house  richer  in  possibilities  for  comfortable  living. 

One  small  detail  that  should  be  carefully  watched  in  restoring  an 
old  house  is  the  type  of  hardware  used.  Modern  style  locks  and 
handles  in  a  Colonial  house  are  an  abomination  without  excuse. 
Excellent  reproductions  of  Colonial  hardware  are  available  at  reason- 
able prices.  Keep  an  eye  on  your  local  carpenter  in  this  respect;  he  is 
often  lacking  in  hardware  taste,  and  needs  guidance. 

THE  other  day  I  came  across  this 
charming  page  about  wood.  It  is  in 
Romain  Rolland's  portrait  study,  "Colas 
Brengnon,  Burgundian".  The  old  fellow 
stands  before  his  bench  and  rhapsodizes: 

"To  rouse  Beauty  sleeping  in  the 
wood,  her  lover  must  penetrate  to  the 
heart  of  it,  but  the  loveliness  which  is 
unveiled  under  my  plane  has  no  unreali- 
ties. You  know  those  slim  Dianas  of 
the  early  Italians,  straight  behind  and 
before?  A  good  Burgundy  piece  is  bet- 
ter yet,  bronzed,  strong,  covered  like  a 
grapevine  with  fruit;  a  fine  bulging  cup- 
board, a  carved  wardrobe.  ...  I  dress 
my  house  with  panels,  and  moldings,  and 
winding  staircases  in  long  twists  and  my 
furniture  is  like  trained  fruit  trees,  full 
and  robust,  sprouting  from  the  wall, 
made  for  the  very  spot  where  I  place  it. 
The  best  of  all  is  when  I  can  fix  on 
my  wood  something  I  see  smiling  in  my 
mind's  eye,  a  gesture,  a  movement,  a 
bending  back  or  swelling  breast,  flower}' 
curves,  garlands  and  grotesques. 

"How  good  it  is  to  stand  before  the 
bench  with  a  tool  in  my  hand  and  then 
saw  and  cut,  plane,  shave,  curve,  put  in 
a  peg,  file,  twist  and  turn  the  strong 
fine  stuff,  which  resists  yet  yields — soft, 
smooth  walnut,  as  soft  to  my  fingers  as 
fairy  flesh;  the  rosy  bodies  or  brown 
limbs  of  our  wood  nymphs  which  the 
hatchet  has  stripped  of  their  robe.  There 
is  no  pleasure  like  the  accurate  hand,  the 
clever  big  fingers  which  can  turn  out  the 
most  fragile  works  of  art,  no  pleasure 
like  the  thought  which  rules  over  the 
forces  of  the  world,  and  writes  the 
ordered  caprices  of  its  rich  imagination 
on  wood,  iron  and  stone." 


READING  an  architect's  plans  is  not  always  so  simple  a  matter  as 
it  may  seem.  To  visualize  the  completed  house  from  a  set  of 
blue  prints  requires  thinking  in  three  dimensions.  Even  with  projec- 
tions of  the  faqades,  the  prospective  builder  may  not  quite  see  all  that 
the  design  really  holds — the  depth  of  shadows,  the  proportion  of  wings, 
the  massing  of  the  chimney  stacks,  the  jelief  of  windows  properly 
placed.  - 

A  great  aid  in  visualizing  a  projected  house  is  to  have  a  model  of  it 
built.  These  toy  houses  are  a  luxury  and  yet,  if  owners  only  afforded 
them,  they  would  be  much  more  satisfied  with  the  finished  results.  The 
model  may  even  be  made  in  sections,  one  section  to  each  floor,  so  that 
the  rooms  can  be  studied.  And  then,  when  the  house  is  finished,  its 
model  makes  quite  an  interesting  center  for  a  group  on  a  big  table  in  the 
living  room. 

These  models  can  be  made  simple  or  elaborate,  with  paper  walls  and 
a  paper  roof,  or  finished  in  materials  to  simulate  brick  and  stucco  and 
slate.  This  depends  on  what  the  owner  wants  to  pay.  But  if  he  does 


and  painters  around  the  place  until  you  are  tired  of  them;  the  place      treat  himself  to  a  model,  he  should  insist  that  it  be  surrounded  with  the 


will  be  in  constant  confusion  and  the  grounds  littered  with  the  flotsam 
and  jetsam  of  work. 


general  topographical  character  of  the  real  setting — the  slope  of  the 
land,  the  larger  trees,  the  drives  and  walks. 


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AN    ARCHITECTURE    FOR     REMODELING 


It  is  difficult  to  imagine  that  this  typical  small 
English  manor  house  architecture  covers  what 
once  was  an  1840  design.  The  home  of  Guido 
A.  Doering,  it  stands  on  a  picturesque  spot  in 
St.  Louis  overlooking  the  Mississippi.  The 
architects  clothed  the  frame  of  the  old  house 
with  new  walls,  altered  windows  and  doors. 


changed  the  roof  and  added  a  wing  or  two. 
The  transformation  is  remarkably  successful. 
Stucco  and  half-timber  lend  themselves  ad- 
mirably to  remodeling  work  of  this  character. 
Local  limestone  has  been  used  and  solid  heavy 
timbers  dowelled  and  tenoned.  Study  &  Far- 
far  were  the  architects  of  the  remodeling 


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House     &     Garden 

Japanese  incense  burner  of 

the  Tokugawa  Period,  the 

early   17 th  Century 


THE   JAPANESE    TEA    CEREMONY 

The  Epitome  of  Japanese  Culture,  This  Native  Custom  Presents  Many 
Opportunities  to  the  Collector  of  Things  Oriental 


GARDNER  TEALL 


IP  has  been  said  that  a  full  understanding 
of  Japanese  art  in  and  after  the  Middle 
Ages  is  impossible  without  a  knowledge  of  the 
Cha-no-yu,  the  Tea  Ceremony,  a  ceremony 
famous  'in  the  annals  of  Japanese  culture. 
This  is  true. 

The  various  art  objects  connected  with  the 
Cha-no-yu  have  long  received  the  enthusiastic 
interest  of  the  connoisseur  and  collector,  not 
only  in  the  Orient,  but  in  the  Occident  as  well. 
To  this  ceremony  we  undoubtedly  owe  the  pres- 
ervation of  many  exceptionally  remarkable 
art  treasures,  examples  of  the  ceramic  art  of 
China,  Korea  and  Japan, 
objects  in  bronze  and  in 
lacquer  and  probably 
many  masterpieces  of  the 
early  painters  of  the  East. 

The  Cha-no-yu  —  the 
literal  translation  of  the 
name  is  "hot  water  for 
tea" — may,  as  a  Japanese 
authority  says,  briefly  be 
described  as  "a  meeting 
for  tea  drinking  held 
among  people  of  the  high- 
er class  in  accordance 
with  a  code  of  rules  and 
an  etiquette  peculiarly  its 
own.  Historically  it  is 
closely  related  to  the  Zen 
sect  of  Buddhism.'' 


humanity,"  as  it  has  been  called,  may  have  an 
ancestry  of  4,657  years  for  the  traditions  of  its 
cheer.  Dengyo  Daishi,  a  celebrated  Buddhist 
saint,  brought  seeds  of  the  tea  plant  from  China 
to  Japan  in  A.  D.  805.  According  to  an 
early  Buddhist  legend,  as  set  forth  by  Basil 
Hall  Chamberlain  in  Things  Japanese,  "the 
origin  of  the  tea-shrub  was  on  this  wise. 
Daruma  (Dharma),  an  Indian  saint  of  the 
6th  Century,  had  spent  man}-  long  years  in 
ceaseless  prayer  and  watching.  At  last,  one 
night,  his  eyelids,  unable  to  bear  the  fatigue 
any  longer,  closed  and  he  slept  soundly  until 


Tea  Traditions 

Tea  drinking  is  a  cus- 
tom which  was  introduced 
into  Japan  from  China. 
At  how  early  a  period  the 
Chinese  were  acquainted 
with  the  tea  plant  we  do 
not  know,  but  legend 
avers  that  the  Emperor 
Chirmung  discovered  its 
virtues  in  the  year  2737 
B.  C.,  and  so  "the  cup  of 


Japanese    fire    bowl 
or    Zengoro    Hozen 


Korean   tea   bowls,    15th 

and   Ibth  Centuries, 

above;  Japanese  tea  jar, 

1650,    below 


Japanese  pottery   censer, 
}Sth    Century;    Sheng 
Nung,  a  typical  tea  cere- 
mony exhibit 


morning.  \Yhen  the  saint  awoke,  he  was  so 
angry  with  his  lazy  eyelids  that  he  cut  them 
off  and  flung  them  on  the  ground.  But  lo! 
each  lid  was  suddenly  transformed  into  a 
shrub,  whose  efficacious  leaves,  infused  in 
water,  minister  to  the  vigils  of  holy  men." 

Tea  in  Japan 

Notwithstanding  the  credit  given  Dengyo 
Daishi  for  introducing  tea  into  Japan  in  the 
last  year  of  the  reign  of  the  fiftieth  sovereign, 
the  Emperor  Kwammu,  tea  drinking  did  not 
gain  favor  in  this  Heian  Period,  but  awaited  a 
later  development.  Tea 
was  re-introduced  into 
Japan  by  the  Buddhist 
abbot  Myoe,  who  planted 
seeds  from  China  near 
Kyoto,  although  a  coarse 
wild  variety  of  tea  plant 
was  then  native  to  Nip- 
pon. Ir  the  second  year 
of  the  Kempo  era,  A.  D. 
1214,  the  celebrated  Zen 
priest,  Eisai,  offered  a 
brew  of  tea  to  the  Shogun, 
Sanetomo  Minamoto,  who 
was  confined  to  his  bed 
by  a  serious  illness,  recom- 
mending it  as  a  medicine 
and  handing  the  Shogun 
a  volume  by  himself  bear- 
ing the  title  of  The  Salu- 
tary Influence  of  Tea- 
Drinking.  Evidently  the 
Shogun  found  it  a  pana- 
cea, and  thenceforth  tea 
was  to  hold  an  established 
position  in  Japanese  his- 
tory. 

Allusion  has  been  made 
to  the  Buddhist  legend  of 
the  origin  of  the  tea  plant, 
and  we  have  said  that 
historically  the  Cha-no- 


Japanrse    fire    bowl 
of  Yatsushima  ware 


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Tea  jars  are  an  essential  object  in  the  ceremony  and  upon  them  Japanese  ceramicists 
expended  some  of  their  noblest  efforts.     These  four  are  examples  of  Seto  ware  of  the 

nth  and  l&th  Centuries 


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A    Seto    ware    tea 
bowl   of   nth   Cen- 
tury  make 


Fire   pot.    teapot    and   tea    box    of    the   early 
IP/A  Century 

yu  is  closely  related  to  the  Zen  sect.  In  The 
Arts  of  Japan,  Edward  Dillon  says  "Unlike 
other  Zen  sects  of  Buddhists  the  Zen  teaching 
lays  no  special  value  upon  any  special  sutra 
or  scripture.  Wisdom  must  come  from  the 
heart,  so  without  words  the  most  profound 
knowledge  may  be  conveyed  from  the  teacher 
to  the  mind  prepared  to  receive  it  by  a  mere 
glance  or  a  smile.  The  priests  of  this  con- 
templative sect  were  celebrated  for  their  pov- 
erty and  for  their  learning — for  in  later  times 
the  study  of  books  was  encouraged  as  a  help 
to  the  life  of  meditation." 

In  The  Book  of  Tea,  Okakura-Kakuzo 
writes  "A  special  contribution  of  Zen  to  East- 
ern thought  was  its  recognition  of  the  mun- 
dane as  of  equal  importance  with  the  spiritual. 
.  .  .  The  seeker  for  perfection  must  discover 
in  his  own  life  the  reflection  of  the  inner  light. 
The  organization  of  the  Zen  monastery  was 
very  significant  of  this  point  of  view.  To 
every  member,  except  the 
ablx)t,  was  assigned  some 
special  work  in  the  care- 
taking  of  the  monastery, 
and  curiously  enough,  to 
the  novices  were  committed 
the  lighter  duties,  while 
to  the  most  respected  and 
advanced  monks  were  giv- 
en the  more  irksome  and 
menial  tasks.  Such  ser- 
vices formed  a  part  of  the 
Zen  discipline  and  every 
least  action  must  lie  done 
absolutely  perfectly.  Thus 
many  a  weighty  discussion 
ensued  while  weeding  the 
garden,  paring  a  turnip, 
or  serving  tea.  The  whole 
idea  of  Teaism  is  a  result 
of  this  Zen  conception  of 
greatness  in  the  smallest 
incidents  of  life."  It  is 
important  to  bear  this  in 
mind  when  considering 
the  ceremony. 


Eight  examples  of  Japanese  tea  jars  of  the 
l~th  and  Mtth  Centuries 


A    kalsemono    by   San- 

raku,    shown    by     the 

host    to    his   guests 


A  bronze  fire  pot  of  19th  Cen- 
tury    Japanese    workmanship 


A  fire  bowl  of  Jap- 
anese design  and 
workmanship 


The  tea  jar  or  cha-ire  was  kept  in  a  silk  bag  or  cha-ire  fukuro.     These 
collectors,  comprise  only  one  group  of  thirty-one  objects   used  in   the 
Illustrations   by   courtesy   of  the   metropolitan   Museum   of 


Chinese    incense    bowl    to    left    and    Japanese 
bowls  to  the  right 

Lichihlai,  a  Chinese  poet  of  the  Sung  Dy- 
nasty, complained  of  the  three  most  deplorable 
things  in  the  world,  Okakura-Kakuzo  ob- 
serves, "the  spoiling  of  fine  youths  through 
false  education,  the  degradation  of  fine  paint- 
ings through  vulgar  admiration,  and  the  utter 
waste  of  fine  tea  through  incompetent  manipu- 
lation." Eisai  laid  down  rigid  rules  for  the 
infusion  of  tea  and  its  drinking  which  would 
have  delighted  the  heart  of  Lichihlai.  As  a 
Japanese  writer  in  Kokka  says  "In  the  Kama- 
kura  Period  (1192-1355)  tea-drinking  had  as 
yet  developed  neither  ceremony  nor  etiquette. 
It  is  true  there  was  a  secret  in  making  it,  but 
there  was  no  cult  in  drinking  it.  ...  In  the 
middle  of  the  14th  Century  tea-tasting  as  a 
pastime  sprang  up  among  the  knights,  and  it 
came  to  be  practiced  even  in  camp.  ...  In 
the  Ashikaga  Period  (1335-1567)  tea-drink- 
ing as  a  pure  pastime  on  the  other  hand  was 
remarkably  developed.  In  a  meeting  for  tea- 
drinking  art  objects  were 
arranged  and  an  attempt 
was  made  to  taste  tea  and 
at  the  same  time  enjoy 
esthetic  amusements." 

Shiiko,  a  priest  of  the 
Zen  sect  and  teacher  of 
the  Shogun  Yoshimasa 
(1422-1502)  originated 
the  Cha-no-yu,  although 
there  were  later  develop- 
ments of  the  ceremony.  In 
Shuko's  time  the  elabo- 
rate rules  of  the  Cha-no- 
yu  had  not  been  evolved. 
As  Brinkley  notes  in  his 
History  of  the  Japanese 
People,  Shiiko  seems  to 
have  conceived  that  tea 
drinking  might  l>e  utilized 
to  promote  the  moral  con- 
ditions which  he  associ- 
ated with  its  practice. 

jars,  priced  by  'Fhc  l>aSCS  °f  S'nU°'S  ^ 

tea  ceremony.  tcm  were  the   'our  virtues 

Art  (Continued  on  page  72) 


36 


House     ff     Garden 


This  house  is  of  at  informal  Georgian  type  and 
faces  a  quiet  roadway  which  stops  just  be- 
yond, ft  might  be  called  "Journey's  End," 
except  for  the  fact  that  it  is  one  of  the  charm- 
ing out-of-the-ivays  so  near  to  the  city  of 
Baltimore 


THE  RESIDENCE  OF 
ALBERT  K.  WAMPOLE 
GUILFORD,  MARYLAND 

MOTT  B.  SCHMIDT,  Architect 


Three  of  the  jour  master's  bedrooms  overlook 
the  garden,  with  its  lazy  breezes  in  summer 
and  welcome  winter  sunshine.  The  guest  room 
faces  north,  also  the  dressing  room,  with  its 
recessed  alcove,  where  toilet  accessories  stand 
on  mirror  shelves  lighted  by  a  concealed  re- 
flector 


Being  south  of  the  Mason  and  Dixon  line,  the 
main  hall  just  naturally  runs  through  the 
house.  The  curved  stairway  shows  its  iron 
balustrade  silhouetted  against  the  light,  while 
beyond  are  the  paneled  doors  to  the  drawing 
room  and  dining  room.  A  garage  is  in  the 
service  wing 


September,     1920 


Readers  of  Vogue  and 
HOUSE  &  GARDEN,  who  have 
enjoyed  Miss  Dryden's  cov- 
ers, will  be  interested  in  the 
atmosphere  with  which  she 
surrounds  herself.  It  is  old- 
fashioned,  quaint  and  very 
simple,  as  in  the  dining 
room  shown  above 


An  early  American  air  is 
given  the  bedroom  by  the 
old-time,  curly  maple  bed, 
the  old  painted  chest,  the 
curtains  of  moss  rose  chintz 
with  light-blue  box-pleated 
trimming,  and  the  hooked 
rug.  The  walls  of  the  room 
are  plain 


The  dressing  table  in  the 
bedroom  is  early  American 
nuiple.  It  and  the  mirror 
above  it  are  covered  with 
the  blue  of  the  box  pleating 
used  on  the  curtains.  Sil- 
houette portraits,  of  which 
Miss  Dryden  has  a  collec- 
tion, hang  here 


Besides  the  Welsh  dresser 
and  the  old  oak  refectory 
table  there  is,  in  the  dining 
room,  a  rare  red  lacquer 
desk.  The  walls  are  cream 
and  the  curtains  flowered 
chintz  on  tan  ground, 
bound  with  pale  lavender 
tageta 


ROOMS  IN   MISS   HELEN 
DRYDEN'S     APARTMENT 


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THE     DECORATIVE     VALUE     OF     FRENCH     PRINTS 

Elegance  Typical  of  18th  Century  France  Is  Given  a  Room  When  These 
Prints  Are  Properly  Hung  and  Surrounded 


By  HONOREK  RAOUL 


HAVE  you  ever  dreamed  of  a 
small,  intimate  room,  filled 
with  French  marquetry  furniture, 
chinoiserie  lamps,  perhaps  a 
small  French  wall  clock  or  table 
decorated  with  ormolu  to  hold 
under  glass  your  cherished  bibe- 
lots ?  Many  a  charming  room  of 
this  type  could  take  inspiration 
from  the  18th  Century  "estampe 
galante"  so  typical  of  the  charm 
and  gallantry  of  that  period. 

French  ideas  can  be  introduced 
into  our  small  American  homes, 
and   when   used   with   discretion, 
lend  a  dignified  note  to  any  room. 
Almost    all   of   us   have   an    odd 
piece  of  furniture  in  the  French 
style — a  walnut   fauteuil   with   a 
cane   seat,   a  marquetry   desk  or 
table,  perhaps  a  small  commode, 
or  a  garniture   for  the  mantel — 
around  which  can  be  built  up  a 
cosy  room,  differing  from  the  stiff 
parlors  which  are  still  sufficiently 
numerous.     Nothing  could  be  of 
greater    assistance    in    this    task 
than  a  few  reproductions  of  18th 
Century  French  engravings,  which 
are  accessible  to  those  who,  with 
moderate  means,   face   the   prob- 
lem of  redecorating  an  unattrac- 
tive room. 

The  Background 

If  you  are  fortunate  to  be  liv- 
ing in  an  old  house  which  has 
paneled  walls,  your  task  is  com- 
paratively easy,  as  the  most  im- 
portant part  of  the 
room,  the  background, 
is  in  readiness  for  the 
further  development 
of  your  ideas.  It  can 
be  readily  seen  that 
French  prints  look 
better  on  paneled 


The  prints  show  best  to 
advantage  when  hung 
in  proximity  to  small 
decorative  objects  or 
bibelots.  Group  by 
courtesy  of  Darnley 


"Le  Messager  Discret" 
is  an  interesting  and 
decorative  example  of 
the  romantic  landscape 
type  found  among 
French  prints 


walls  mellowed  by  age  than  any- 
where else.     Relatively  few  of  us 
have  that  advantage,  yet  we  can 
work  just  as  effectively  with  sim- 
pler mediums.    As  is  well  known, 
paneled    walls   are   produced    by 
the   use   of   moldings,   which,    if 
good    proportions    are    observed, 
divide  the  walls  attractively  and 
create  the  paneled  effect.     Good 
proportions,    however,    won't    be 
impressive,  unless  you  finish  your 
walls  in  light  colors.     Paint  your 
walls  either  a  deep  cream,  or  the 
lightest  gray,  or  a  soft,  light  green 
(in  that  case,  with  the  moldings 
of  white)  and  any  of  these  com- 
binations will  be  an  appropriate 
background   for  prints.      A   sim- 
pler way  still,  and  one  that  gives 
splendid  results,  is  to  have  your 
walls  suitably  papered.     Select  a 
plain    hair-lined    wall    paper    in 
French  gray,  light  green  or  even 
buff,    and    have   your    woodwork 
painted    gray    or    creamy    white. 
Remember   that    while    a    simple 
background  suits  almost  any  kind 
of    decoration,    it    is    especially 
good   with  prints.     If  the  back- 
ground is  kept  quiet  and  unob- 
trusive, it  will  lend  itself  to  any 
color  scheme. 

Framing 

An     appropriate     background 
can    be    instantly    disfigured    by 
overloading    it    with    too    orna- 
mental   frames    which   also   ruin 
the  effect  of  the  pic- 
ture.    Prints  can   be 
absolutely  spoiled  by 
careless  framing,  and 
it   is  of  vital   impor- 
tance to  give  them  the 
right  setting.    As  they 
are  light  and  graceful 


"La  Promenade  du 
Soir"  is  one  of  twelve 
intimate  plates  of  the 
J  e  une  M  ariee  by 
Freudeberg 


Another  oj  Freudeberg's 
famous  set  is  the  com- 
panion engraving 
known  as  "La  Prom- 
enade du  Matin" 


September,     1920 


39 


St.  Aubin's  "Soyez   Discret"   is  so 
delicately    drawn    that    one    cares 
little  whether  it  is  a  faithful  self- 
portrait  or  not 


A  small  commode,  one  or 
two  objets  d'arts  and  a 
French  print  above  com- 
prise a  group  that  will  en- 
rich almost  any  type  of 
drawing  room.  Darnlev 


in  themselves,  the  simplest 
frames  will  be  the  most  effec- 
tive. Take  a  cream  molding, 
about  1"  wide,  with  a  gold 
band  on  the  inside  and  see 
whether  it  won't  give  the  best 
finishing  touch  to  your  print. 
Suitability  here  as  everywhere 
else  should  be  your  guiding 
motive.  Original  prints  are 
delicate  objects  and  are  han- 
dled as  such  by  collectors,  l>e- 
ing  carefully  tucked  away  in 
drawers  or  portfolios,  only  to 
come  out  on  rare  occasions. 
Reproductions  must  be  treated 
with  due  consideration  also 
and  because  of  their  lightness 
and  grace,  heavily  gilded 
frames,  or  too  wide  ones  richly 
carved,  detract  from  their 
charm.  A  little  leniency  in 
this  regard  may  be  used  in  the 
case  of  larger  sized  prints, 
when  a  dull  gold,  wider  frame- 
will  lie  correct. 

The  Hanging 

As  the  center  of  any  room  is 
the  hearth,  your  best  and  larg- 
est print  should  find  its  place 
over  the  mantel,  especially  if 
t  is  of  authentic  value.  If 
the  frame  happens  to  be  of  an 
ornate  type,  your  print  will 
look  best  hung  by  a  heavy 
cord.  Better  still,  let  it  be 
hung  flat  against  the  wall,  by 
unseen  hooks,  and  if  that  is 
not  satisfactory,  resort  to  the 
wire  method.  This  is  two 
parallel  wires  running  to  two 
small  screws  in  the  molding, 
thus  avoiding  the  protruding 
picture  hooks,  which  prevent 
the  prints  from  lying  flat  on 


"Comptci    sur    mes   sermens",    re- 
futed to   be  a  portrait  of  M.  St. 
.iiibin.    is    typical    of    that    artist's 
engravings 


The  French  print  requires 
either  a  plain  papered  or  a 
paneled  wall.  Its  frame 
should  be  very  simple,  as  in 
the  group  below.  Courtesy 
of  Dantley 


the  wall.  A  careful  observ- 
ance of  such  small  details  en- 
hances the  perfect  ensemble 
and  emphasizes  the  fact  that 
right  proportions  in  everything 
are  imperative  in  carrying 
French  principles  into  a  deco- 
rative scheme.  Only  thus  can 
a  room  receive  the  stamp  of 
real  elegance.  Half  a  dozen 
prints  hung  well,  a  couple  of 
fautcuils  placed  right,  the  sofa 
appropriately  covered  with 
toile  de  Jouy,  and  a  dull,  one- 
colored  carpet,  will  do  more 
than  the  piling  up  of  hetero- 
geneous and  costly  objects  to 
produce  a  milieu  of  distinction. 

Gallantry  in  Prints 

The  intelligent  application 
of  any  medium  necessitates  an 
understanding  of  the  circum- 
stances through  which  it  was 
created.  Really  to  care  about 
the  18th  Century  French 
prints,  the  spirit  of  their  age 
should  be  familiar  to  us. 
Among  the  lesser  arts  that 
flourished  in  the  18th  Century, 
line  engraving  held  a  promi- 
nent place.  The  handling  of 
the  burin  attracted  amateurs 
and  artists  alike  and  many  of 
the  former  spent  (heir  idle 
hours  under  the  guidance  of 
famous  engravers.  Many  well 
known  paintings  were  copied, 
portraits  were  drawn,  and 
other  scenes  were  engraved 
simply  for  a  decorative  pur- 
pose, recording  some  boudoir 
or  pastoral  scene.  The  time 
had  come  when  the  court  tired 
out  after  a  long  dull  period, 

(Continued  on  puy  ')()) 


40 


House     &     Garden 


The  finest  pansies 
come  -from  reliable 
seeds,  so  the  best 
are  the  cheapest  in 
the  final  result 


PANSIES 


FROM 


YEAR 


T  O 


YEAR 


Facts  About  Planting  and  Care  Which  Will  Enable  You  to  Grow  Plants  Richly 
Rewarding  You  with  Their  Perfection  of  Bloom 


THE  general  impression  is  that  the  garden 
pansy  is,  like  the  petunia  and  the  cosmos, 
an  annual,  and  that  the  plants  grown  from  seed 
will  die  after  blooming  because  they  have  com- 
pleted their  life-round.  True,  the  seedsman's 
catalog  usually  carries  the  letters  "HP"  as  the 
class  in  which  the  pansy  belongs.  This  means 
''hardy  perennial,"  which  is  just  what  the 
pansy  actually  is,  though  usually  treated  as  a 
"hardy  annual." 

In  general,  two  propagating  plans  are  used 
by  the  pansy-loving  amateur.  If  he  is  wise, 
he  sows  the  best  pansy  seed  he  can  buy  about 
July  20,  or  even  later,  transplants  the  little 
seedlings  once,  and  then  toward  freezing  time 
moves  them  into  a  cold-frame,  where  the  plants 
winter,  beginning  to  grow  actively  very  early 
in  the  spring,  and  being  finally  transplanted 
in  full  bloom  to  garden,  bed  or  border  during 
April  or  May. 

Or,  the  pansy-desiring  person  sows  the  seed 
in  spring,  and  if  the  season  is  not  too  hot  and 
dry,  the  plants  will  bloom  by  early  fall,  though 
hardly  so  plentifully  as  if  they  had  been  grown 
the  previous  fall.  The  pansy  is  a  cool-weather 
plant,  he  it  remembered,  and  always  does  best 
in  ground  not  heated  by 
summer  suns. 

Summer  Care 

Now  these  fall-grown, 
wintered-over  pansies,  i  f 
the  cold-frames  have  been 
furnished  with  very  rich 
ground,  will  bloom  early 
and  often,  and  if  the  with- 
ered blooms  are  carefully 
removed  —  or  better,  if 
plenty  of  pansies  are  giv- 
en away — they  will  con- 
tinue to  flower.  But  as 
they  bloom  they  grow  and 
become  "leggy,"  spreading 
out  over  the  ground.  The 
central  stems  do  not  so 
well  cover  the  roots,  and 
the  hot  sun  hurts  them.  If 
the  plant  is  permitted  to 
form  seed,  a  process  re- 
quiring vigor  and  strength, 
it  is  not  unlikely  that  by 
midsummer  it  has  either 
given  up  the  ghost  or  is  so 
decrepit  that  the  neat 


.       J.  HORACE  McFARLAND 

gardener  removes  it  on  general  principles.  It 
is  this  situation  which  has  brought  about  the 
idea  that  the  pansy  is  an  annual,  and  must  be 
grown  every  year. 

For  the  most  part,  it  is  probably  better  to 
raise  some  pansies  from  seed  each  year.  A 
favorite  plant,  however,  can  easily  be  carried 
over,  and  will  richly  reward  the  gardener  for 
the  little  trouble  required  to  do  it. 

Carrying  Over 

The  procedure  is  very  simple.  When  the 
pansy  plants  begin  to  lie  long  and  straggling, 
they  may  be  cut  back  to  main  stems,  only  an 
inch  or  two  above  the  ground.  Cut  off  the 
extended  growths  close  to  a  joint,  or  bud,  and 
either  enrich  the  ground  about  the  plants  or, 
after  soaking  the  ground  so  as  to  be  able  to 
lift  the  plants  with  a  ball  of  earth,  transplant 
them  to  rich  ground  in  a  new  location.  If  this 
is  done  in  hot  summer — as  I  regularly  do  it  at 
Breeze  Hill — it  will  be  found  better  to  move 
the  pansies  to  a  somewhat  shady  spot — and 
they  will  stand  much  shade. 

Such  plants,  if  well  watered,  soon  make  new 
growth,  and  will  bloom  as  well  as  ever,  im- 


Pansies  are  cool-weather  plants  and  do  best  in  ground  not  heated  b\  summer  suns. 
With  special  care  they  may  be  carried  over  the  winter  into  a  second  blooming  season 


proving  as  the  cool  days  of  fall  approach. 
These  revived  plants  are  in  order  to  carry 
over  winter  just  where  they  are.  After  the 
ground  is  lightly  frozen,  scatter  over  them  an 
inch  or  two  of  loose  manure,  which  is  all  the 
protection  they  get  at  Breeze  Hill.  Often  they 
do  not  get  even  that,  and  yet  they  carry  over 
successfully.  The  winter  of  1919-20  was  a 
particularly  hard  one,  yet  many  pansy  plants 
came  through  it  uninjured,  though  some  of 
them  had  been  entirely  unprotected. 

It  is  these  carried-over  plants  that  pro- 
vide the  earliest  and  most  bloom.  While  the 
fine  little  cold-frame  seedlings  are  yet  hurry- 
ing to  get  into  bloom,  the  old  plants  are  cov- 
ered with  good  flowers.  One  white-blooming 
pansy  had  its  earliest  flowers  open  in  the  face 
of  a  late  snow,  which  did  not  annoy  it  at  all. 
and  for  each  of  three  successive  Sundays  that 
plant  had  over  forty  good  flowers  open.  It 
was  a  perfect  ball  of  bloom,  doubly  welcome 
because  so  early. 

In   Breeze    Hill's    center   garden    a    whole- 
row  of  pansies  edging  some  climbing  roses  sur- 
vived the  winter  happily,  and  one  plant,  of  the 
rare    Madame    Irene    strain    of    yellow    and 
orange,  has  been  for  weeks 
a   mass   of   flowers.      In- 
deed,  as   I   write   in   late 
June,    these    are    yet    the 
best  pansies  I  have. 

Soil  Richness 


Pansies  are  not  light  or 
dainty  feeders,  it  should 
be  remembered.  They  must 
have  rich  soil,  very  rich,  to 
do  their  beautiful  best,  and 
cultivation  and  watering 
are  also  desirable.  It  will 
be  seen  whenever  a  pansy 
plant  is  transplanted  that 
it  has  a  mass  of  delicate 
fibrous  roots,  feeding  into 
any  near-by  soil  richness. 
It  is  this  fibrous-rooting 
habit  that  makes  both 
transplanting  and  fertili- 
zation easy,  for  the  plant 
may  be  readily  lifted,  and 
it  is  always  ready  to  make 
new  roots  and  new  growth 
in  a  new  place  that  has 
(Continued  on  page  66) 


September,     1920 


41 


During  his  H'ide  consular  experience, 
\f.  Lieberl  was  stationed  many  years 
in  the  Far  East  and  has  acquired  a  re- 
markable collection  of  Chinese  furnish- 
ings and  antiques.  Rarely  are  these 
Oriental  wares  combined  so  successful- 
ly in  a  modern  home  as  in  this  dining 
room.  The  furniture  is  black  wood  of 
the  \blh  and  nth  Centuries.  The  por- 
tieres are  vivid  red,  old  Chinese  bro- 
cade 


Over  the  fireplace  in  the  living  room  is  hung 
a  suit  of  armor  of  ceremony,  belonging  once 
lo  a  Manchu  prince.  Here  also  the  furniture 
is  black  wood — a  wood  harder  than  teak  and 
not  so  hard  as  ebony.  Chinese  hangings  and 
carvings  elaborate  the  walls  and  mantel 
shelf.  The  piano  is  covered  with  embroi- 
dered Chinese  dresses 


CHINESE     ROOMS 

in   the  NEW  YORK 

HOMEo/M.GASTON 

LIEBERT 

Consul  General  of  France 


On  the  other  side  oj  the  living  room  is  a 
wide  divan  with  pillows  of  rich  Chinese 
silks.  As  in  the  dining  room,  the  walls  are 
covered  with  a  neutral  grass  cloth,  which 
furnishes  a  good  background  for  the  em- 
broideries and  paintings  that  fill  most  of 
the  wall  space.  The  lamps  are  Chinese 
lacquer  with  Chinese  silk  shades 


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You  cannot  go  far  wrong  in  treating  an  arched  window 
when  you  set  the  curtains  sheer  with  the  cornice.  These 
curtains  are  of  organdie  with  a  fascinating  applique  of 
violet  larkspur  developed  in  the  same  material  and  with  a 
narrow  violet  binding 


It  is  a  delightful  thing  to  see  a  casement  window  hung  with 
gay  yellow  cross-barred  organdie  and  finished  with  a  plain 
frill  of  the  material.  Low  tie-backs  pass  through  a  slit  in 
the  back  of  the  ruffle.  English  cotton  prints  can  be  treated 
in  the  same  way 


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43 


CURTAINS  THAT 
GIVE  A  ROOM 
DISTINCTION 


Taffeta  is  used  for  thin  unusual  cur- 
tain arrangement  but  it  would  be 
equally  successful  in  any  plain  ma- 
terial, especially  glazed  chintz.  The 
flounces  are  stitched  to  a  backing  and 
are  graduated  in  size.  The  treat- 
ment especially  lends  itself  to  rooms 
with  French  windows  and  high  ceil- 
ings that  deserve  rejuvenating 


Waterproof  silk  has  all  the  appear- 
ance of  sheer  silk  and  comes  in  al- 
most every  shade  in  the  rainbow  and 
in  delightful  checked  patterns.  One 
uses  it  for  the  bathroom  windows, 
where  it  will  prove  both  serviceable 
and  unusually  decorative.  The  ma- 
terial is  cemented  together  instead 
of  bring  sewed  as  in  other  fabrics 


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The  lower  reaches  of  the  Connecticut  River  can  be  seen  through  the 
arches  of  the  living  porch.  A  cool,  picturesque  spot,  this  porch,  with 
its  flagstone  floor,  comfortable  wicker  chair  and  old  ship  lantern 


THE    HOME    OF    EDGERTON 
PARSONS,    HADLYME,    CONN. 

ALFRED  HOPKINS,  Architect 


The  living  porch  from 
the  outside  shows  the 
fine  handling  of  the 
native  stone — immense 
lintels,  rough  pillars, 
rounded  arch  and  rug- 
ged walls 


Behind  the  house  is  a 
stretch  of  lawn  leading 
down  from  the  service 
porch — one  of  the  jew 
cultivated  patches  in  the 
natural  surroundings  of 
the  house 


It  is  a  rambling  farm- 
house, all  on  one  floor, 
but  quite  different  from 
a  bungalow.  The  stones 
were  taken  from  walls 
on  the  property 


September,     1920 


45 


il 


The  servants?  end 
and  back  porch  are 
on  one  level  and 
the  owner's  studio 
above  them  on  the 
second.  A  guest 
door  to  the  terrace 
is  beyond 


The  house  is  set  in 
a  field  and  the 
natural  effect  pre- 
served. Gables 
break  the  slate  roof 
much  in  the  way 
that  rocks  crop  up 
through  the  soil 


One  big  room  with  a  high,  arched  ceiling 

and  general  fireplace  serves  for  living  and 

dining    purposes.      The    walls    are    rough 

plaster  and  the  floor  tile 


The  drive  turns  around  past  the  guest  wing 
o)    the    house    and    the    triple-arched    en- 
trance.    A   terrace  extends  along  the  front 
of  the  guest  rooms 


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One   of   the  showiest   orchid  •va- 
rieties is  the  Odontoglossum,  some 
forms  of  which   bear  a   blossom 
spray   three   feet   long 


Orchids  with  drooping  sprays  should  be  suspended 
in  mid-air.  A  wooden  slatted  box  or  crate  holds 
the  peat  in  which  this  Odontoglossum  is  growing 


The  cattleya  is  the  orchid  generally  sold 
in  the  florists'  shops.  This  splendid  one 
is  planted  in  fibre  compost.  (Right) 


The   majority   of   showy   greenhouse   orchids   are 

epiphytes,  or  air-plants,  and  do  not  root  in  the 

soil.       Air    and    moisture   nourish    them 


Cymbidium    Lowianum    bears   a    spray 

of  blossoms  3"  or  4"  across,  of  greenish 

yellow,  brown  and  purple-maroon 


September,     1920 


47 


GROWING       YOUR       OWN       ORCHIDS 

A  Seldom  Understood  Hobby  Which  Is  Interesting,  Easy  and  Not  Too  Ex- 
pensive— Cultural  Requirements  of  Good  Varieties 


ANNETTE  CANNERT 


.4  showy  while  or- 
chid that  can  be 
easily  grown  with 
cattleyas  is  Coelo- 
gyne  cristata 


R USING  orchids 
has  always  been 
associated  in  the  minds 
of  amateurs  with  a 
great  outlay  of  money, 
minute,  constant  care 
and  only  remote  possi- 
bilities of  success.  Or- 
chids, therefore,  though 
scarce  and  greatly  ad- 
mired, have  been  left 
to  the  untiring  efforts 
of  the  few  men  who 
give  all  their  efforts  to 
growing  them  success- 
fully. 

As  a  fact,  however, 
growing  orchids  is 
really  quite  a  simple 
feat,  and  one  easily 
within  reach  of  any 
amateur  with  a  real 
love  for  flowers.  Given 
a  light  and  sunny  po- 
sition with  proper  heat- 
ing, splendid  results 
can  be  obtained  with 
less  care  than  is  ordi- 
narily expended  by  the 
average  person  on  rais- 
ing ferns  or  other 
plants  in  a  sun  parlor. 
When  one  remembers 
that  orchids  are  purely 
parasites  thriving  in 

the  moist  climate  of  the  tropics,  growing  and 
propagating  in  the  mouldy  bark  of  trees  or 
other  fibrous  substance  and  seeking  the  sun  to 
intensify  their  coloring,  it  can  readily  be  seen 
that  the  closer  one  approaches  the  reproduc- 
tion of  these  very  climatic  conditions  the  bet- 
ter the  results. 

It  is  necessary,  naturally,  that  the  amateur 
make  himself  as  familiar  as  possible  with  the 
habits  of  orchids,  recognizing  those  that  thrive 
in  warmer  or  cooler  temperatures,  those  re- 
quiring greater  or  lesser  quantities  of  water, 
and  many  other  preferences  which  are  of  great 
help  in  growing  them.  Several  books,  the  re- 
sult of  years  of  experimenting  by  men  who 
have  made  orchid  growing  their  life  study, 
will  prove  very  helpful.  But  the  most  helpful 
and  interesting  assistance  an  amateur  can  get 
is  a  trip  to  some  really  good  professional  or- 
chid nurseries,  such  as  those,  for  example,  in 
Rutherford,  New  Jersey. 

Orchid  Houses 

The  standard  orchid  house  as  perfected  to- 
day is  a  moderately  low  span  roofed  house, 
preferably  with  southern  exposure,  and  with 
natural  earth  as  a  base  because  of  the  moisture 
giving  surface  of  soil.  Ventilation  is  gener- 
ally accomplished  through  top  ventilators  op- 
erated by  a  mechanical  device.  These  houses, 
when  of  small  size,  generally  have  a  narrow 
platform  or  shelf  on  each  side,  and  the  regular 
greenhouse  stage  down  the  center. 

There  are,  of  course,  many  varieties  of 
showy  orchids  one  sees  today  in  the  windows 
of  florists  that  are  better  grown  in  cool  tem- 


A  white  oncidium 
growing  in  a  hang- 
ing orchid  pot  with 
holes  for  air  and 
drainage 


peratures.  They  require  generally  a  medium 
temperature  of  50°  to  60°  at  night  and  60° 
to  70°  in  the  day,  but  are  extremely  hardy  and 
will  stand  as  low  as  40°  Fahr.  in  winter. 
With  a  little  ingenuity,  however,  the  amateur 
can  adapt  his  own  sun  parlor  to  raising  or- 
chids, and  provided  he  can  have  a  medium 
temperature  of  60°  during  the  day  (the  sun 
heat  furnishes  the  additional  heat)  and  50° 
at  night  in  the  winter,  many  showy  species  of 
orchids  can  be  successfully  raised.  Among 
these  are  the  Odontoglossum,  which  is  a  spray 
at  least  three  feet  long,  tearing  as  many  as 
fifteen  and  more  small  orchids;  the  Oncidium, 


another  species  of  spray 
orchid ;  the  Cattleya, 
which  is  one  of  the 
species  of  lavender  or- 
chids one  sees  in  the 
windows  of  florists,  and 
several  other  extremely 
decorative  species. 
These  are  known  as 
"cool-house"  orchids, 
and  can  be  obtained  at 
very  reasonable  prices 
from  almost  any  of  the 
growers. 

Amateurs,  if  they  are 
to  meet  with  success, 
must  not  be  so  am- 
bitious as  to  attempt  to 
grow  other  species  of 
orchids  requiring  great- 
er heat  than  they  can 
evenly  supply,  for 
while  the  cool-house 
species  can  stand  a 
warmer  temperature 
than  is  actually  re- 
quired, the  hot-house 
kind  will  not  withstand 
the  cooler  temi>erature. 
Given  an  adaptable 
sun  parlor  or  conserva- 
tory, the  first  question 
of  importance  is  how 
to  heat  it  evenly  day 
and  night,  and  what  is 
tin-  host  heating  system  to  use. 

Heating  Systems 

It  is,  of  course,  conceded  that  hot  water  is 
the  only  satisfactory  method  of  artificial  heat- 
ing for  raising  orchids — in  fact,  for  all  flow- 
ers— because  of  the  gentle,  evenly  radiated 
heat  laden  with  humidity.  Every  effort,  there- 
fore, should  be  made  by  the  amateur  to  have 
hot  water.  There  are  several  types  of  low 
combustion  boilers  which  can  be  installed 
without  great  difficulty  and  which  would  prove 
most  satisfactory.  Tests  must  be  made  of  the 
temperature  during  the  day  and  night  before 
plants  are  set  in. 

Where,  on  the  other  hand,  steam  heat  or  hot 
air  must  be  used,  there  are  several  ingenious 
ways  of  overcoming  the  lack  of  moisture.  One 
of  these  is  by  having  a  vessel  filled  with  water 
at  all  times  on  the  radiator;  another,  by  grow- 
ing varieties  of  plants  and  ferns  requiring 
large  quantities  of  water.  These  tend  to  sat- 
urate the  air  with  moisture. 

After  having  arranged  for  the  heating,  other 
things  are  necessary  to  make  a  sun  parlor  suit- 
able for  raising  orchids  and  generally  adapt  it 
for  the  accommodation  of  the  plants.  It  is 
most  important  that  means  be  provided  for 
adequate  ventilation;  also  shelves  and  plat- 
forms must  be  erected  to  hold  plants,  and  vari- 
ous other  details  which  naturally  suggest 
themselves. 

Where  the  sun  parlor  or  conservatory  is 
small,  ventilation  takes  care  of  itself — the 
small  cracks  in  the  woodwork  of  windows  and 
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48 


House     &     Garden 


EIGHT  OF  THE 
NEW  FALL 
CURTAIN  FABRICS 


Which    may    be    purchased    through 
HOUSE  &  GARDEN'S  Shopping  Service 


^  popular  bird  design  is  developed  in  a 

cretonne  of  violet,  yellow  and  mulberry. 

50"  wide,  $4.90 


An  apple  blossom  design,  either  glazed 

or  iinglazed,  is  in  p'.nk,  blue  and  mauve. 

31",   S2.25 


cos 

pattern,    3o".    o/   gra.v, 

cream     and     icliite     is 

priced  at   S1.3S 


Natural  linen,  30"  wide, 

lias   a    bold    design    of 

violet  and  tun.    S5 


Aii  printed 
has  blue  ribbon 
and  green  foliage 

30",   $3.00 


English  sateen  i  l£&£*ir 
on,  pink  roses  tf£^t*t ^ 
iage  on  cream.  J*  «  T^^  f^* 


An     interesting     blue     and 
white   linen   has   a    conven- 
tional  tan   motif.      52",   $9 
the  yard 


Glazed  or  unglazed,  this  de- 
sign of  navy  blue  and  pink 
suggests  the  country   house. 
27",  ifl.90 


A    Chippendale  design  linen 

has  a  black  stripe  on  yellow 

ground     and     buff     inserts. 

36",  $4.1S 


r  *N 

1 


Se  pt ember ,     1920  4' 

A      LITTLE      PORTFOLIO      OF      GOOD       INTERIORS 


The  dining 
room  of  the 
K  e  w  York 
home  of  :!/>.<. 
Robert  P . 
Breese  —  a  re- 
co  nstriict ed 
brou'iistime  - 
has  rough 
plaster  walls 
an  d  a  m  11 1  - 
Honed  window 
with  the  hang- 
ings of  deep 
blue,  green 


In  the  same 
house  the  li- 
brary shows  a 
ft  n  e  use  of 
books  as  dec- 
orations. Th' 
wall*  are  hun;; 
with  Adam 
green  taffeta. 
The  windou'i 
of  this  room 
open  on  a 
pleasant  city 
hni'k  garden  In 
the  north 


50 


The  window  that 
serves  for  frontis- 
piece is  shown  in 
its  setting  here. 
Close  by  is  a  small 
chair  covered  with 
an  old  piece  of  red 
and  bright  blue 
flowered  glazed 
chintz.  The  desk  is 
walnut  and  the 
chairs  are  walnut 
with  red  rubbed  in. 
Agnes  Foster 
Wright  was  the 
decorator 


House     &     Garden 


The  unusual  fea- 
ture of  this  porch 
is  that  it  leads 
from  two  bed- 
rooms, making  a 
pleasant  place  for 
mornings  the  year 
round.  Rag  mats 
have  been  used  on 
the  floors.  The 
wrought  iron  of 
the  two  window 
consoles  is  reflected 
in  the  wrought 
iron  of  the  mantel 
candlesticks 


September,     1  920 


51 


Red,  fawn  and 
black  with  a  few 
touches  of  bright 
blue  comprise  the 
(olor  scheme.  The 
two  b'.g  chairs  are 
covered  in  black 
sateen  wilh  a  red 
stripe  and  coffee 
colored  piping.  Th? 
lamp  is  turquoise 
and  lite  shade  tur- 
quoise by  day  and 
soft  rose  •alien 
the  lamp  is  lighted 
at  night 


Directly  below  the 
bedroom  porch  is 
another,  leading  off 
the  living  room.  A 
little  magazine  al- 
cove is  placed  here, 
its  roof  serving  for 
the  floor  of  the  bal- 
cony above.  Orange 
linen  is  the  fabric 
used  here,  bound 
with  worsted  fringe. 
The  furniture  is  fin- 
ished in  green  with 
orange  and  black 
cushions 


52 


House     &     Garden 


Charming   in   yellows  and 

reds  is  a  nasturtium  design 

for     table     runners     and 

luncheon  sets 


THE 


RETURN 


O  F 


QUILTING 


An  Old  Domestic  Art  Revived  Serves  Its  Decorative 
Purposes  Again  in  the  Home 


I  In  prairie  rose  de- 
sign is  appliqued  to 
unbleached  muslin 
and  comes  ready  for 
sewing 


OUILTING  is  com- 
ing into  its  own 
again.  It  is  the  same 
gay  quilting  that  once 
served  to  pass  many 
pleasant  hours  for  our 
grandmothers,  in  the 
days  when  everyone  be- 
lieved woman's  place 
was  in  the  home  and 
when  one's  guests  were 
content  to  sit  around  a 
huge  frame  and  watch 
delectable  fruits  and 
flowers  grow  under 
their  busy  fingers,  while 
they  diverted  themselves  with  gossip  followed, 
in  due  course,  by  a  tea  that  makes  one  hunger 
even  to  think  of.  Nowadays  we  seat  our  guests 
around  bridge  tables  and  wear  out  our  nervous 
energy  over  the  gay  little  pasteboards  that,  we 
must  admit,  generally  show  us  a  debit  at  the 
end  of  the  year.  Bridge  is  easy,  but  the  mak- 
ing of  a  quilted  bedspread  is  a  labor  not  lightly 
undertaken  alone.  Genuinely  old  quilts  are 
eagerly  snapped  up  by  collectors,  but  since  all 
of  us  cannot  afford  these  little  luxuries,  we  are 
seizing  on  the  modern  copies  and  adaptations. 

Modern  Quilted  Work 

The  new  versions  of  this  old  story  are  lighter 
in  conception  than  the  old,  and  fit  charmingly 
into    almost    any    simple    modern    decoration. 
Not  only  quilts  but   curtains,   runners,   chair 
covers,  head  rests,  table  cloths,  napkins  and 
cushions  all  fall  under  the  spell  with  delight- 
ful  results.      Most   women   like   to    feel   that 
something     of     their     own 
handiwork    has    gone    into 
their   homes    and    in   these 
days  of  mass  manufacture 
even  the  long  sway  she  held 
over    the    embroidering    of 
her  house  linens  is  passing 
into  the  hands  of  the  expert. 
Perhaps  that  is  the  reason 
quilting    is    gaining     such 
favor,  for  it  is  so  essentially 
a  home  product. 


A  woman  who  is  fond  of  contriving  gay 
schemes  and  decorative  effects  with  her  needle 
will  find  designing  a  pattern  a  delightful  vari- 
ation from  her  usual  embroideries,  but  for  the 
woman  who  loves  the  work  but  likes  it  to  come 
to  her  prepared  there  are  other  methods.  On 
the  Old  Rye  Road  nearer  New  York  than 
Boston,  housed  by  two  old  Colonial  cottages, 
is  an  association  established  in  1912,  to  revive 
the  beautiful  American  art  of  quilting,  and 
here  delightful  articles  are  prepared  de  luxe 
for  the  modern  woman.  In  short,  the  societv 


Mauves,  purple  and  greens  make  up 
the  grape  design  on  a  delightful 
luncheon  set  for  the  country  cottage 


The  hollyhock  pattern  shows  prim,  upstanding  plants  and  comes 
pink  material  for  the  open  flower  with  cross-barred  cambric  for  the 

green  linen  for  stalks 


will  "go  partners"  with  you  and  make  up  a 
design  to  your  order  to  match  your  color 
scheme.  The  various  patterns  come  basted 
ready  for  stitching. 

The  designs  are  developed  by  using  patches 
of  cambric  or  chambray  of  different  patterns 
assembled  to  give  the  best  idea  of  the  flower 
chosen.  For  instance,  if  you  are  using  the 
''hollyhock"  pattern  you  would  choose  a  plain 
rose  pink  material  for  the  open  flower  with  a 
little  cross-barred  cambric  to  simulate  the  buds 
and  plain  green  linen  for  the  stalks.  The 
"prairie  rose",  seeming  to  call  for  something 
to  give  the  idea  of  a  shaded  bloom,  is  devel- 
oped in  a  faintly  dotted  material. 

The  lighter  pieces  such  as  table  runners, 
cushion  covers,  curtains  and  bedspreads  are 
carried  out  in  plain  linen  or  unbleached  mus- 
lin unlined  and  unquilted  and  finished  with  a 
band  of  the  color  predominating  in  the  pattern. 
The  quilted  bedcovers,  cot  sides,  chair  seats 
and  the  like  are  padded  and  stitched  in  the 
usual  way  after  the  pattern  has  been  com- 
pleted. When  the  actual  quilting  is  not  prac- 
ticable at  home,  the  society  will  do  it. 

Repeat  Patterns 

It  is  interesting  to  note  how  the  pattern  is 
repeated  on  the  various  articles  in  the  most 
artistic  and  suitable  manner.  For  instance, 
the  adaptation  of  the  hollyhock  pattern  can 
be  noted  throughout  the  series  of  articles.  The 
bedspread  shows  two  sprays  of  blooms  branch- 
ing diagonally  from  the  center  and  the  curtains 
are  decorated  with  three  upstanding  plants 
each  one  a  little  taller  than  its  neighbor  and 
each  in  a  different  period  of  blooming,  while 
the  little  table  runner  illus- 
trated at  the  bottom  of  the 
page  shows  miniature  holly- 
hocks that  are  prettily  prim 
A  charming  child's  room 
was  developed  in  the  "prai- 
rie rose  pattern" -  —  little 
quilted  cot-sides  had  an 
intriguing  suggestion  of  the 
design  which  grew  into  full 
beauty  on  the  cot  covers  and 
curtains. 


in  a  plain  rose 
buds  and  plain 


September,     1920 


S3 


The  HOSTESS 

SELECTS 

GAME 

TABLES 


(Right)  .1  mahogany  card 
table  with  folding  top 
makes  a  charming  console 
when  not  in  use.  One  deep 
drawer  holds  the  cards. 
Courtesy  of  G.  W.  Rich- 
ardson &  Son 


(Below)  This  mahogany 
folding  bridge  table  is 
fainted  black  and  has  a 
plain  back  moire  cover. 
Other  colors  to  order. 
Courtesy  Nicholas  & 
Hughes 


Some  Barnes,  such  as 
chess  and  checkers, 
do  not  require  a  large 
table.  A  smaller  table, 
such  as  this  Breton 
design,  will  serve  the 
purpose.  At  other 
times  it  can  rest 
under  a  Louis  XIV 
mirror 


The  hostess  finds  a  com- 
plete set  of  games,  from 
chess  to  poker,  under  the 
lifting  top.  Courtesy  of 
F.  A.  O.  Schwart 


.l/i  IS/A  On/wry  mahog- 
any table,  hrautifully  fin- 
ished with  fine  brass  mold- 
ings, has  folding  leaves 
I hul  t unreal  the  haize  cov- 
ered top.  II 'lim  not  in 
use  it  makes  a  handgun 
occasional  tnhlr.  I'unrtesy 
fl  ('•  H'.  Rirhardsun  .'-  Sun 


54 


//  i>  u  s  i'     &     (,'  a  r  d  e  n 


THE       ADAPTABLE       DAFFODIL 

This  Early  Herald  of  Spring  Can  Be  Planted  Formally  or 
Informally  and  Is  Dependable  for  Good  Results 


ELSA  REHMANN 


ONE  of  the  most 
fascinating  things 
about  plants  to  me  is 
their  adaptability.  You 
can  get  a  hundred  and 
one  different  effects  with 
the  same  plant  if  you  arc 
but  keen  enough  to  real- 
ize all  its  possibilities. 
Take  the  daffodil,  for 
instance!  It  has  a  way 
of  adapting  itself  to  all 
manner  of  uses.  It  can 
be  planted  in  clumps  or 
drifts,  in  decorative  rows 
or  solid  masses  and  is  as 
happy  in  the  smallest 
garden  border  as  in  the 
great  woodland. 

The  daffodil  is  one  of 
the  most  familiar  flow- 
ers. As  the  first  great 
herald  of  spring  it  is 
especially  precious.  It 
is  a  very  old  flower, 
gro\ving  wild  in  many 
places,  even  in  the  Ori- 
ent. It  is  well  beloved 
by  the  poets  from  Words- 
worth to  Masefield,  as  is 
well  k  n  o  w  n  .  These 
poets  see  daffodils  as 
they  have  become  natur- 
alized in  their  fields  and 
woodland,  thousands 
upon  thousands  growing 
together  in  strong,  solid 
masses  that  fade  away  in 
a  golden  blur  in  the  dis- 
tance. They  see  the  grass 
dotted  blue-gray  with 
daffodil  leaves  and  the 
golden  bloom  spread  out 
below  the  trees  still  bare 
in  early  spring-time. 

Naturalizing 

We  can  naturalize  daf- 
fodils in  this  way,  plant- 
ed by  the  ten  thousands 
in  long  drifts  that  re- 
mind us  of  the  long 
evening  shadows  or  of 
cloud  shadows  that  wan- 
der over  the  hill. 

Naturalized  daffodils 
seem  best  adapted  to  cul- 
tivated woods  on  slightly 
undulating  ground  and 
where  there  are  long  vis- 
tas, but  many  a  wild 
place,  large  or  small,  can 
be  planted  with  them, — 
a  pasture  by  the  brook, 
the  sides  of  a  road 
through  open  woods  or 
groves,  an  orchard,  a 
hillside  just  beyond  the 
garden  wall. 

Think  of  daffodils 
wandering  up  a  steep 
hillside!  You  plant 


.1  naturalized  plant- 
ing of  daffies  has 
been  made  here  at 
the  base  of  a  rock 
ledge.  They  are 
perfectly  at  home 
in  this  corner  and 
harmonize  well  with 
the  other  spring 
flowers  close  about. 
Marian  C.  Coffin, 
landscape  architect 


Naturalized  in  a 
field,  daffodils  give 
a  bright  spot  of 
color  in  early  spring 
and  will  continue 
their  yield  for  sev- 
eral years.  Marian 
C.  Coffin,  landscape 
architect 


Daffodils  and  hyacinths  are  used  in  a  repeat  pattern  along  this  formal  garden  path.    The 
hyacinths  are  light  blue,  buff,  cream  and  pink;  the  daffies,  Victoria,  Emperor,  and  the 

old-time  Barrii  conspicuus 


them  first  in  little  bends, 
then  in  sweeping  curves, 
hundred  upon  hundred, 
until  they  lose  them- 
selves in  the  woods 
above.  Every  now  and 
again  you  bring  them 
back  toward  the  garden, 
let  them  peep  over  the 
retaining  wall  or  even 
let  them  show  themselves 
within  the  garden  bor- 
ders. Then  you  let  them 
mount  the  hillside  again, 
first  clustered  around  a 
big  tree  trunk,  then  in 
wide  circles  around  it, 
like  a  host  of  little  chil- 
dren in  a  dance,  play- 
fully breaking  away, 
again  and  again,  from 
the  circle,  and  then,  of  a 
sudden,  fleeing  up  the 
hillside  and  away. 

In  the  Garden 

And  then  daffodils  are 
just  as  happy  in  the  gar- 
den. I  have  seen  them 
in  a  quaint  stilted  row  on 
the  very  edge  of  a  curv- 
ing flower  border.  They 
were  "Emperor"  daffo- 
dils and  each  flower  dis- 
played its  great  trumpet 
as  if  it  were  a  stenciled 
pattern.  I  have  seen 
them  planted  in  clumps 
of  twenty-five  or  more 
beside  forsythia — on  tip- 
toe, as  it  were,  to  touch 
the  pendant  golden  bells. 
I  have  seen  them  in  slen- 
der groups  showing 
against  dark  cedars,  and 
again  in  great  masses, 
wandering  through  broad 
borders  accompanied  by 
other  spring  flowers,  by 
fairy-like  grape  hya- 
cinths along  the  edge  of 
the  lawn  and  by  Merten- 
sias  with  their  nodding 
bells  in  the  background. 
I  have  seen  them  ar- 
ranged like  a  short  melo- 
dy of  yellow  notes  in 
back  of  a  line  of  purple 
Iris  pumila,  and  still  bet- 
ter is  their  companion- 
ship with  the  pale  yel- 
low variety  of  these 
dwarf  irises.  Or  again, 
they  were  arranged  in 
longish  masses,  the  flow- 
ers close  together  and 
overlapping  one  another 
in  front  of  the  filmy 
blur  of  Scotch  Brier 
twigs  which  have  not  yet 
come  into  leaf.  I  have 
(Continued  on  page  90) 


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55 


//  one  is  so  fortunate  as  to 
have  a  remarkable  boat  model, 
it  can  find  a  place  in  the  stair 
well,  swinging  out  on  brackets 
from  the  ceiling  of  the  lower 
hall 


The  hall  below  is  large  enough 
to  accommodate  the  manual 
of  an  organ.  A  wide  opening 
to  larger  rooms  beyond  on 
each  side  furnishes  the  requi- 
site space  for  the  sound 


A   DIVERSITY  OF  HALLWAYS 

Three  Uncommon  Treatments 


•  ..-*-     mtr, 

jft 


The  pipes  of  the  organ  in  the 
hallway  below  are  concealed 
beneath  the  stairs  in  the  space 
usually  reserved  for  clothes 
closets.  Slee  &  Bryson  were 
the  architects 


A  landing  window  will  not 
only  light  the  stairs  and  hall- 
way, but  will  serve  as  an  at- 
tractive spot  for  house  plants 
and  aquarium.  Agnes  Foster 
Wright,  decorator 


11     i 


House     &     Garden 


The  plate  warmer  and  refrigerator 
are  in  non-interfering  proximity 
under  the  steel  shelves  of  this 
kitchen  dresser.  C .  P.  H.  Gilbert, 
architect.  Bramhall,  Deane  Co. 


A  substantial  kitchen   table   with 

an    enamel    top    and    protected 

corners.     Courtesy    oj    Lewis    & 

Conger 

(Below)    A   pastry   table   with  a 
wooden    top,   white   metal   trim- 
mings and  slatted  rack.     Bram- 
hall, Deane  Co. 


The  cook's  table  in 
the  New  York  home 
of  Adolph  Lewisohn 
contains  a  plate 
warmer  at  one  end 
and  the  utensil  rack 
above.  Bramhall, 

Deane  Co. 


In  the  residence  oj  W.  H.  Cool- 
idge,  Magnolia,  Mass.,  the  wood- 
tn  cupboards  are  built  in,  with 
plate  warmer  and  refrigerator  be- 
low. The  stool  is  well  designed 


The  plain  wood  table  should  be 
well-built    and,    for    work,    cov- 
ered   with    oil    cloth.     Lewis    & 
Conger 

(Below)    Work  and  pastry   table 

with  plate  warmer  beneath.    The 

top   is   divided  into   marble   and 

glass   sections 


.V  e  pt  em  hi-r  ,     1920 


FURNISHING        YOUR        KITCHEN 

7'fc  Tables,  Cabinets,  Shelving  Units,  Chairs  and  Stools  All  //«,,  *,„,,>,,„,„„ 
rhat  the  Housewife  H'ill  Understand  and  Appreciate 


KTHEL  R.  PKYSKR 


FURNISHING  the  kitchen 
sounds  simple  enough.  But  it 
is  not.  Everything  put  into  the 
kitchen  must  have  not  only  beauty 
and  uniformity,  but  also  utility,  dur- 
ability, tool  shop  convenience,  and 
the  maximum  hygienic  attributes. 
In  one  word,  the  furnishings  must 
have  absolute  utensibility. 

In  the  other  rooms  (save  the  bath- 
room) you  can  humorously  tell  your 
decorator  to  do  it  in  early  Pullman 
or  seriously  in  Louis  Quinze — and 
all  will  be  well.  Your  furniture  in 
these  rooms  must  be  passably  dur- 
able, consistent,  and  beautiful,  but 
it  need  not  be  unstainable,  wash- 
able, non-absorbent,  rigid,  non- 
corrosive,  etc.,  etc.  Equipping  a 
kitchen  is  like  equipping  a  medical 
laboratory — skilled  thought  must  l>e 
employed. 

The  Table 

Chief  among  the  furnishings  of 
the  kitchen  are  the  table  and  its 
relatives.  They  have  to  be  rigid,  en- 
during, and  must  be  the  correct  size 
for  the  job  and  the  correct  kind  for 
the  work  they  are  meant  to  assist  in. 
The  table  has  been  the  storm 
centre  of  discussion  for  years.  The 
problem  is  this: — to  find  a  table 
top  that  is  non-absorbent,  easily 
cleaned  (not  holding  stains  like  aii 
artist's  palette),  not  brittle,  not 
cracking  under  changes  of  temjjera- 
ture  or  when  utensils  are  dropped 
upon  it. 

This  is  a  big  or- 
der. Teachers,  scien- 
tific experts,  and 
manufacturers  of 
lalx>ratory  conven- 
iences (they  are 
never  called  kitchen 
conveniences  in 
these  circles!  Would 
this  nomenclature 
help  the  servant 
problem?)  have 
massed  their  find- 
ings and  the  results 
of  the  world-wide 
demand  for  a  prac- 
tical kitchen  table 
top  are  the  follow- 
ing: 

K  n  a  m  el  tops. 
These  (and  their 
confreres  vitrolite, 
i'tc.)  are  excellent  if 
you  know  that  the 
manufacturer  is 
good.  They  do  not 
crack  or  erase  (fall 
into  multitudinous 
vein-like  cracks) 
.mil  break  with  or- 
dinary usage.  The 
<•  n  a  m  e  1  is  bake.! 


In  denning  a  pantry,  space  must  be  afforded  for  ever\thm* 

mat   is   to   be  put   away,  as,  for  example,   the  rack  for  the 

table  leaves  in  this  pantry 


Here  is  a  kitchen  that  is  very  much  "tabled"— a  butcher's  block,  a  pantrv  table,  and 
lop  tables  opposite  the  range.     Note  the  rubber   m,j/v   ami  tin-  inlrrr\tini;   W;./ 

Dnparquet,  Monet  &•  Htiot 


over  steel  or  iron  and  should  by  at 
least  three  coats  thick. 

Glass  tops.  Not  for  general  util- 
ity, but  well  adapted  for  the  pastry 
table  since  with  this  top  no  special 
pastry  board  is  needed.  Glass  tops 
are  really  very  beautiful  and  have 
every  qualification  but  unbreakable- 
ness. 

-Marble  tops.  Excellent  for  the 
pastry  table,  and  if  one  can  afford 
them,  fine  for  most  things.  There 
is  only  the  remotest  chance  that  they 
may  break  and  only  when  they  are 
less  than  2"  thick. 

White  metal  tops.  Excellent, 
non-corrosive,  flat  coverings.  They 
are  expensive  but  do  not  need  any 
nursing  to  keep  them  in  order. 

Xinc  tops.  Very  much  used,  but 
these  tops  buckle  and  puff  and  are 
very  much  affected  by  acids  and 
alkalis. 

W(xxl  tops.     Far  better  than  zinc 
tor  the  householder  who  cannot  af- 
ford the  other  tops.     The  wood  can 
be    treated    with    non-staining    var- 
nish,  or  a   varnish   that   can   stand 
heat  without  being  annihilated,  and 
you  will  have  a  fine  table.     If  this 
is  not  possible,  the  ordinary  wooden 
table,   fresh  from  the  shop,  if  cov- 
ered with  linoleum  or  oil   cloth,   is 
very  useful  and  durable,  especially 
since  the  linoleum  can   be  changed 
inexpensively  and  often.  There  may 
be  a  metal  binder  around  the  wooden 
table  top  if  desired. 

Comj>osition  lops. 
These  need  a  guar- 
antee as  they  are 
often  of  glass  or 
some  mixture  unde- 
fined. 

Tin  tops.  These 
are  not  used  any 
more,  as  far  as  we 
know. 

Special  Tables 

I  lie  ordinary 
table  length  is  from 
3'  to  7',  depending 
upon  the  size  of  the 
kitchen.  There  arc- 
usually  from  one  to 
three  tables  in  use, 
— more  often  two. 
I  he  ordinary  heights 
are  from  o2"  to  _'s". 
(let  the  height  that 
fits  your  workers. 
He  sure  to  find  thi- 
»ut  if  [Hissible;  oth- 
erwise you  will  have 
to  make  a  later  re 
arrangement 

Maple   is   a   satis- 
laitory    wood     for 
tables;     a-li. 
mi  f>,,K,-   ~(,  ) 


Courtesy  of 


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The 

HIDDEN 
RADIATOR 


A  radiator  beneath 
a  window  can  be 
surrounded  by  grills 
with  a  flat  top  to 
serve  for  a  ledge  or 
plant  shelf.  Cour- 
tesy of  Tuttle  &• 
Bailey 


In  an  enclosed  porch  a  shelf  can  be 
built  above  the  radiators,  supported  by 
side  brackets.  The  top  may  be  marbleized 


A  n  elaborately 
carved  case  can 
conceal  the  radi- 
ator in  a  hall 
and,  at  the  same  . 
time,  serve  as 
console.  Farrar 
&•  Study,  archi- 
tects 


Grills  come  in  a 
variety  of  de- 
signs and  can  be 
especially  made 
to  suit  the  char- 
acter of  a  room. 
Courtesy  of  Tut- 
tle &  Bailey 


In  this  dining 
room  the  radi- 
ator is  not  only 
hidden  by  a  box 
and  grill  but  sur- 
mounted by  an 
elaborate  console 
of  wrought  iron 
and  marble.  J. 
C.  Demarest  & 
Co.,  decorators 


September,     1920 


59 


HOW 


T    O 


USE 


BLUE 


A  Royal  Color,  Full  of  Sublime  Possibilities,  It  Should  Be  Judiciously 
Combined  With  Other  Colors  In  Decoration 

ETHEL  DAVIS  SEAL 


BLUE  is  at  once  the  most  decorative  color 
in  the  world  and  the  most  baneful.  It  is 
decorative  because  of  a  certain  supreme 
strength  of  character,  if  such  a  term  may  be 
applied  to  color,  that  makes  it  hold  its  own  and 
seem  to  sing  with  the  mere  joy  of  living  from 
the  age-old  Chinese  rug  at  your  feet,  from  a 
drapery  at  a  window,  from  a  peacock  blue  bowl 
filled  with  golden  forsythia  or  richly-toned 
lilacs.  It  is  decorative  because,  through  its 
very  combination  with  other  colors,  or  isolated 
against  a  neutral  background,  it  stands  more 
bravely  fine  and  beautiful  than  any  other  color 
we  have. 

But  blue  is  baneful  because  it  has  an  in- 
sidious quality  of  making  people  who  love  it 
wish  to  saturate  the  very  air  they  breathe  with 
blue,  to  wear  it  to  the  last  thread  of  their 
raiment,  and  furnish  with  it  to  the  last  inch 
of  their  rooms.  Whereas  blue  can  only  be 
wholly  appreciated  when  an  atom  of  entirely 
different  color  is  at  hand  to  intensify  its  serene 
beauty,  as  it  shines  forth  against  pale  walls  of 
misty  cream  or  gray. 

An  entirely  blue  house  would  be  deadly;  an 
entirely  blue  room,  from  walls  to  hangings  and 
from  hangings  to  floor,  is  about  as  discordant 
a  note  in  an  otherwise  normal  house  as  it  would 
be  possible  to  find.  And  yet,  strange  to  say, 
a  blue  room  handled  from  another  standpoint, 
could  be  nothing  but  harmonious,  with  a  few 
accents  of  blue  placed  here  and  there  in  the 
adjoining  rooms  to  bind  the  entire  color  scheme 
together. 

Working  From  Cretonne 

A  really  blue  room  that  is  beautiful  and  that 
is  all  the  more  successful  for  the  restraint  in 
which  the  color  is 
used,  is  suggested 
to  me  by  a  bit  of 
cretonne  I  hold  in 
my  hand.  This 
cretonne  has  a 
c  ream  back- 
ground, and, 
gracefully  d  i  s  - 
trihuted  over  its 
surface,  in  me- 
andering fashion, 
there  are  odd  and 
almost  Japan- 
esque  flowers 
resembling  chrys- 
anthemums and 
asters,  with  whol- 
ly attractive  and 
mostly  blue  foli- 
age trailing  be- 
hind them.  As  I 
glance  at  the  cre- 
tonne my  first 
thought  is  blue. 
And  then  as  I 
look  closer  I  no- 
tice the  cream 
background,  the 
gray  shadows  in- 
troduced into  the 
flowers  and 
leaves,  and  the 


In  a  blue  bedroom  the  furniture  itself  can 

be  blue,  the  curtains  blue  lined  with  rose, 

the   carpet   gray  and   the  walls   cream 

black  lining  on  the  flower  petals.  And  yet  the 
cretonne  is  blue.  And  I  think  of  a  blue  din- 
ing room,  developed  from  this  cretonne,  which 
may  be  as  beautifully  blue  as  it  dare  lx' — and 
survive. 

I  see  cream  walls  and  ivory  woodwork,  and 
a  dark  polished  floor.  I  see  furniture  of  the 
adorable  brown  of  American  walnut  wood,  the 
brown  that  looks  like  a  mixture  of  shadow  and 
sunshine,  the  brown  that,  above  all,  goes  best 
with  blue  tecause  of  its  underlying  cool  depth 
of  color  which  is  not  unlike  blue  itself.  I  see 


Against  the  grav  walls  of  this  living  room  are  placed  a  sofa  in  blue  striped  stuff,  a  blue  fire  screen 
and  fool  rest,  some  blue  rugs  and.  for  contrast,  a  wing  chair  upholstered  in  mustard  and  bands  of 
blue  embroidery  in  henna,  peacock  and  mustard,  a  henna  and  cream  lampshade,  and  cushions  of 

the  same  color 


this  furniture  in  the  William  and  Mary  style, 
with  the  most  perfect  plainness  and  dignity  to 
its  everlasting  credit.  What,  indeed,  should 
go  with  blue  but  plain  and  dignified  things? 
For  blue,  at  best,  is  the  epitome  of  these  two 
principles.  Then  the  rug  in  this  dining  room, 
a  dull  blue  and  black  one,  quite  plain  also, 
gives  distinction  to  the  floor.  And  it  is  difficult 
to  decide  whether  the  seats  of  the  chairs  should 
be  upholstered  in  a  horsehair  striped  in  blue 
and  gold  or  in  the  blue  and  cream  cretonne. 
The  china  used  in  this  blue  dining  room  may 
be  blue  Canton  ware,  but  the  ornaments  should 
be  for  the  most  part  of  other  colors,  either 
pewter  or  brass,  and  some  soft  orange  luster, 
old  yellow  pottery  and  a  note  of  peacock  found 
in  a  bowl  and  filled  with  creamy  yellow  roses. 
This  room  is  indubitably  blue  and  yet  we  think 
with  thanksgiving  of  the  cream  walls,  the  ivory 
woodwork,  the  cretonne  hangings  not  entirely 
blue,  the  warm  sunny  notes  on  the  table  and 
buffet  that  make  this  scheme  more  satisfactorily 
blue  by  their  relieving  presence. 

A  Blue  Adam  Room 

Somewhat  less  blue  is  this  pictured  Adam 
dining  room  with  its  mahogany  furniture  and 
cafe  au  lait  walls  banded  by  ivory  molding.  A 
formal  room  yet  pleasantly  homelike  withal,  it 
finds  its  color  scheme  keynote  in  the  deep  blue 
marble  breasting  the  fireplace  and  veined  with 
cream,  black  and  gold.  These  four  colors  are 
blended  in  the  blue-grounded  Chinese  rug  on 
the  floor,  which  has  been  woven  at  once  to  fit 
the  room  and  the  color  scheme.  At  the 
windows  are  hung  dull  blue  velours  curtains 
lined  with  lavender;  the  chairs  are  upholstered 
with  the  same  blue  velours,  but  these  are  em- 
broidered with 
lines  of  gold  and 
medallions  of 
black,  yellow  and 
salmon.  The 
commode,  a  very 
handsome  paint- 
ed piece,  is  done 
in  slate  blues  and 
buffs,  with  hints 
of  gold,  black 
and  copper  color 
in  the  posies.  In 
the  vases  ruddy 
flowers,  such  as 
yellowish  pink 
gladioli,  are 
particularly  hap- 
py ;  and  there 
should  also  be 
these  ruddy  notes, 
as  well  as  the 
blue  -  purple  of 
plums  and 
grapes,  in  the 
fruit. 

Though  it  is 
perhaps  in  the 
dining  room  that 
blue  is  most  emi- 
nently fitting,  I 
should  hesitate 
(Cont.  on  p.  66) 


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Every  well-managed  household  should 
be  equipped  with  a  special  brush 
closet.  This  will  make  for  order  in 
the  house  and  its  work,  and,  inci- 
dentally, add  to  the  life  of  the  equip- 
ment if  the  brooms  and  brushes  are 
properly  cared  for  after  being  used. 
The  illustration  here  shows  a  closet 
equipped  for  a  large  house 


For  cleaning  radi- 
ators and  the  num- 
berless small  cracks 
and  crevices  of  a 
room  there  is  this 
narrow  wedge  brush 
with  a  long  thin 
handle 


The  first  essential  of  the  broom  closet 
is  a  low  sink,  set  close  against  the 
watt  with  back  and  sides,  for  filling 
buckets  and  washing  out  mops.  Next 
come  space  for  pails,  brackets  for 
broom,  brushes,  and  vacuum  cleaner, 
and  shelves  for  cleaning  fluids,  waxes, 
vacuum  cleaner  tools  and  supplies 
of  floor  rags 


The  dustpan  brush 
picks  up  the  final 
sweepings.  Its  han- 
dle is  set  in  line 
with  the  back.  It 
can  be  used  also  for 
(lusting  other  parts 
of  the  room 


A  new  self-wringing  mop  has  a  simple 
wire  ring  in  which  the  mop  is  inserted. 
Pulling  the  mop  through  the  ring  wrings 
out  the  water.  Then  it  is  inserted  again 
and  is  ready  for  work.  Courtesy  of  the 
M.  P.  Co. 


September,    1920 


61 


The  familiar  oil  mop  is  in- 
dispensable in  keeping  floors 
up  to  standard.  These 
brushes  are  shown  by  cour- 
tesy of  Lewis  &•  Conger 


The  double  dusting  brush 
has  soft  bristles  on  one  side 
and  stiff  bristles  on  the 
other.  For  tufted  furniture 
there  comes  a  pointed  brush 


THE    SELECTION    AND 
CARE     OF     BRUSHES 

UPON  the  bristles  depends  the  life  of  a  brush 
or  broom.  Consequently  examine  the  bris- 
tles before  purchasing.  Pay  a  little  more,  if 
necessary,  for  a  broom  made  by  a  reputable  firm. 
Good  brushes  are  not  cheap,  but  poor,  cheap 
brushes  are  the  poorest  sort  of  household  invest- 
ment. 

Although  the  vacuum  cleaner  has  dispensed 
with  much  of  the  work  one  did  with  a  broom  and 
brush,  the  older  equipment  still  plays  a  necessary 
role  in  household  management.  Special  brooms 
come  for  special  work  and  any  householder  can 
appreciate  their  value. 

Having  invested  in  a  supply  of  brushes  and 
brooms,  see  that  a  special  closet  is  given  over  to 
them.  This  should  have  a  sink  for  filling  pails 
and  washing  mop,  racks  for  the  brushes  to  hang 
on,  space  for  the  vacuum  cleaner  and  shelves  for 
waxes,  tools  and  other  supplies. 


This  closet  is  designed  for  a  small 
household.  It  has  the  necessary  sink, 
racks  for  brushes,  brooms  and  dust- 
pan and  a  shelf  for  supplies  and 
equipment.  If  there  is  space  for  two 
such  closets,  the  other  can  contain 
the  vacuum  cleaner  and  this  the  sink 
and  pails.  Closets  designed  by 
Ethel  R.  Peyser 


Felt  edges  prevent  this  type 
of  floor  ivaxer  from  marring 
woodwork.  The  weight  is 
heavy  and  can  be  swung  in 
two  direction* 


Two  varieties  of  ditstbnishes 
are  shown  here,  one  with 
round  ends  and  the  other 
with  broad,  soft  bristles  for 
flat  surface  dusting 


A  good  brush  for 
sweeping  hardwood 
floors  has  fairly  soft 
bristles  with  round- 
ed corners  to  catch 
all  surfaces 


Finally  there  is  the 
ordinary  floor  brush 
with  tufted  ends. 
mbitetttial  back, 
long  handle  and 
well-set  bristles 


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SIMPLE 


UPHOLSTERY 


The  Tape  Measure,  Needle  and  Tack  Hammer  Provide  a  Useful 
Diversion  in  Renovating  Furniture 

ALICE  F.  and  BETTINA  JACKSON 


THE  mysteries  of  upholstery 
are  not  profound.     It  is  not 
difficult  to  rip  off  the  old  cover 
from  a  chair  and  put  on  a  new 
one. 

If  you  are  a  novice,  begin 
with  a  simple  piece,  say  a  slip 
or  set-in  seat,  which  is  merely 
set  into  the  chair  frame  or  held 
in  place  by  a  screw  on  the  un- 
der side  of  each  corner.  Before 
beginning  to  work,  however,  get 
together  the  necessary  tools  and 
materials — a  tack  hammer,  a 
sharp-edged  tack  puller,  regu- 


If  the  springs  are  loose,  the  web- 
bing that  holds  them  in  place  can 
be  drawn  taut  and  tacked  tighter 
on  the  frame 


On  curves  the  tacks  are  placed 
closer  together  than  on  a  straight 
surface.  The  method  of  making 
a  mitred  corner  is  also  shown 


new  (which  may  be  purchased 
from  any  upholsterer),  replace 
on  the  webbing  seat,  distributed 
as  evenly  as  possible  and  well 
into  the  corners,  and  when  ar- 
ranged cover  it  with  two  layers 
of  sheet  wadding.  Lay  on  the 
muslin,  centering  the  front  and 
back  edges,  and  slip-tack  with 
two  or  three  tacks  near  the 
center,  that  is,  drive  in  the 
tacks  very  lightly  so  that  they 
may  be  easily  pulled  out. 
Next,  slip-tack  the  sides.  For 
the  permanent  tacking,  begin 


lator,  scissors,  tape  measure,  a  package  each      over   the  three   tacks   and   fastened    with   two      at   the   back   of   the  seat,   pull   out   the   slip- 


of  8  oz.  and  4  oz.  cut  tacks  and  one  of  No.  2 
gimp  tacks,  and  if  tying  or  buttoning  is  to  be 
done  you  will  need  a  9"  single-pointed  uphol- 
sterer's needle  and  some  linen  twine.  You 
already  know  how  to  handle  these  tools  with 
the  exception  of  the  needle,  which  is  only  a 
giant  darning  needle.  The  regulator  is  a 
long,  thin  wire  instrument  which  one  sticks 
through  the  cover  to  rearrange  and  poke  the 
stuffing  into  proper  place. 

Remove  the  old  cover,  inserting  a  piece  of 
cardboard  under  the  tack  puller  as  you  work, 
so  as  not  to  mar  the  wood,  saving  the  good 
tacks  to  be  used  again,  and  noting  carefully 
how  the  material  is  put  on,  especially  how  it 
is  folded  at  the  corners.  Brush  and  press 
this,  using  it  as  a  pattern.  Under  the  top 
cover  you  will  find  one  of  muslin  which  holds 
the  filling  in  place. 

Rebuilding  the  Seat 

If  you  find  {hat  the  seat  has' not  sagged  and 
that  the  filling  is  still  firm,  you  are  ready  to 
cut  out  the  new  cover;  but  the  chances  are 
that  the  seat  has  sagged  and  needs  rebuilding. 
Remove  the  muslin  cover,  the  stuffing,  and  the 
layer  of  burlap  underneath,  and  set  them  aside 
while  you  repair  the  webbing,  the  stout  inter- 
woven bands  which  support  the  stuffing.  It  may 
be  only  necessary  to  untack  one  side  of  each 
strip  and  draw  it  taut 
again,  tacking  as  in  the 
illustration.  Should  you 
find  that  the  webbing  has 
rotted  and  begun  to  give 
way  it  must  all  come  off. 
Measure  the  old  strips  to 
find  out  how  much  new 
will  be  needed.  Put  on 
the  middle  strip  first,  fold- 
ing over  the  end  about  one 
inch  and  tacking  it  se- 
curely with  five  8  oz. 
tacks.  The  ends  of  the 
webbing  should  come  well 
within  the  outer  edge  of 
the  wooden  frame,  and  the 
tacks  should  not  be  driven 
into  the  old  holes.  With 
your  left  hand  draw  the 
free  end  across  the  frame, 
stretch  it  as  tightly  as  pos- 
sible, drive  in  three  tacks, 
and  cut,  allowing  one 
inch  to  be  folded  back 


more,  placed  between  the  others.     If  the  seat       tacks,     fold    the    edge    under,     and    without 
is  large  and  requires  many  strips,  or  if  there      stretching  or  pulling  it  set  the  tacks  (6  oz.), 


are  a  number  of  chairs  to  be  done,  you  would 
better  invest  in  one  more  tool,  a  webbing 
stretcher.  Study  the  illustration  to  see  how 
the  strips  are  placed,  tacked,  and  interwoven. 
Tack  back  the  burlap,  which  keeps  the  stuff- 
ing from  sifting  through. 

Now  for  the  stuffing,  which  is  usually  hair, 
or  tow.   Work  this  over,  add  a  sm;ill  amount  of 


The   novice   can   make  a   pattern  from 

the  old  covering.    This  shows  the  shape 

of  the  goods  cut  from  one  yard  of  50" 

material 


~| 


All-over  measurements  of  this  kind  are 

made    in    calculating    the    amount    of 

goods  required  for  a  slip  cover 


The  positions  of  the  seams  in  a  slip 
cover  are  illustrated  here.  The  back  is 
fastened  with  snaps,  buttons  or  tape 


working  from  the  center  toward  the  corners, 
spacing  them  about  \l/2"  apart  and  driving 
them  only  halfway  in.  Proceed  the  same  way 
across  the  front,  pulling  the  goods  smooth  and 
snug.  Neatness  and  accuracy  are  just  as  es- 
sential in  putting  on  the  muslin  and  in  the 
final  covering.  Now  tack  one  side,  pulling 
the  goods  fairly  tight;  then  the  last  side, 
stretching  it  firmly.  Tack  the  corners  last, 
folding  the  goods  in  as  neatly  as  possible;  and 
when  the  last  wrinkle  has  disappeared  drive 
in  all  tacks  permanently.  Any  unevenness  in 
the  filling  may  now  be  remedied  with  the 
regulator. 

Cutting  the  New  Cover 

Next  comes  the  cutting  of  the  new  cover. 
Lay  the  old  one  on  the  goods,  both  pieces  right 
side  up,  pin  smoothly,  and  when  cutting  allow 
an  extra  half  inch  all  the  way  around.  Lay 
the  cover  in  place,  center  front  and  back,  and 
slip-tack  it  just  as  you  did  the  muslin,  with 
this  difference:  the  first  tacks  are  spaced  2" 
apart  all  the  way  around  and  then  a  second 
row  is  placed  between  them,  after  which  they 
are  all  driven  in  firmly.  When  you  have  as- 
sured yourself  that  the  slip-seat  fits  properly 
into  the  chair  frame  take  it  out  and  give  a  neat 
finish  to  the  job  by  tack- 
ing on  the  under  side  a 
square  of  black  cambric, 
with  the  edges  folded 
under. 

Renovating  Woodwork 

If  you  have  worked 
with  neatness  and  care 
you  will  be  so  elated  with 
the  success  of  your  slip- 
seat  that  you  will  aspire 
to  a  more  pretentious 
piece  of  work,  possibly  a 
spring-seat  armchair  with 
buttoned  back.  You  can 
probably  remedy  any 
slight  sagging  of  the 
springs  by  tightening  up 
the  webbing  and  making 
sure  that  the  springs  are 
firmly  tied  upon  it;  but  if 
there  is  a  considerable  sag 
or  the  webbing  is  broken, 
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September,     1920 


63 


UN  USUAL 
BOXES 

Which  may  be  purchased 
through  the  HOUSE  & 
HARDEN  Shopping  Service 


This    heart-shaped 

wooden  box  is  7"  across 

and  has  a  painted  glass 

top.     S12 


A  charming  and  useful  acces- 
sory for  any  dressing  table 
is  this  delicately  painted 
wooden  box.  It  is  decorated 
with  garlands  of  flowers  on 
a  buff  ground  and  the  color- 
ing is  a  blend  of  old  rose 
and  blue  with  lining  to 
match.  On  the  top  is  a 
French  print.  S20.  Dress- 
ing table  by  courtesy  of 
Mrs.  Gillette  Nichols 


This  box  conies  in  old 

rose,     blue     or    yellow 

with     satin     lining     to 

match.     SIS 


A  cigarette  box  of  red,  tan,  blue  or  black 
leather    ornamented    with    gold   is    $7.50 


This  box  of 
heavy  card- 
board and 
lacquered  pa- 
per holds 
two  muffs; 
$8 


Below  is  a 
Dutch  silver 
cigarette  box 
about  5 " 
high.  It  is 
priced  at 
$27.30 


This  tooled  and  illuminated  leather  box  for 
photographs  is  17"  long  by  13"  wide.  $60 


One  might  use  this  box  to  hold  laces.    It  is  cardboard, 
18"  x  12",  and  is  lined  with  striped  paper.     $5 


A  box  of  tooled  and  illuminated  leather  contains  two  ink- 
wells and  space  for  pens.     It  measures  10"  long.   $30 


64 


House     &     Garden 


September 


THE  GARDENER'S  CALENDAR 


Ninth  Month 


Tender  outdoor 
flowers  should  be 
given  protection 
when  frost  threatens 


Tomatoes  picked 
green  and  wrapped 
and  stored  in  a  dry 
place  will  ripen 


Lime  is  a  standard 

remedy  for  sick  soil. 

It  can  be  put  on  in 

the  autumn 


SUNDAY 

MONDAY 

TUESDAY 

WEDNESDAY 

THURSDAY 

FRIDAY 

SATURDAY 

This   Calendar    of   the    gardener's    labors    is 
aimed  as  a  reminder  for  undertaking  all  his 

1.    Prune  all 
deciduous  trees 
before    the 

2.     The  last 
sowing  of  peas 
should  be  made 

3.    It  Is  not 
too  late  to  start 
a   strawberry 

4.      Do    not 

neglect  thecane 
fruits.    If   they 

tasks  in  season.     It  is  fitted  to  the  latitude 

leaves  fall,  as  it 
is  much  easier 

the  early   part 
of  this  month, 

bed     for     next 
season,  if  potted 

have   not   al- 
ready been  at- 

of the  Middle  States,  but  its  service  should 

then   to  deter- 

using only  the 

plants  are  used 

tended  to.    Go 

be  available  for  the  whole  country  if  it  be 

mine  what  part 
of   the   growth 

hard    round- 
seeded    type, 

for    planting. 
Use    pistillate 

over  them  care- 
fully,  removing 

remembered    that    for    every    one    hundred 
miles    north    or  south    there  is   a   difference 

is  to  be  re- 
moved.  Cut 
the    branches 

which  is  quick 
and    vigorous 
in  growth.     If 

and   staminate 
types.     Put  in 
plenty   of  [ma- 

the   old    canes 
at   the  ground 
line  and  tying 

of  from  five  to  seven  days  later  or  earlier 

close,     leaving 
no   stubs,    and 

t  he   ground   Is 
dry,  water  the 

nure  and  a  talr 
amount  of  bone 

the  young,  vig- 
orous  shoots 

in  performing  garden  operations.    The  dates 

paint    the 

drills    well    be- 

tneal to  stimu- 

iiHo position  to 

wounds   I  m  - 

fore  sowing  the 

late  strong. 

prevent     dam- 

mediately. 

seed. 

rapid    growth. 

age  by  storms. 

o.  Evergreens 

6.     The    or- 

7.    Do    not 

8.  Vegetables 

9.   Melon 

10.  Where 

11.      This  is 

that  have  been 

chard    that    is 

stopcuttlngthe 

should     be 

frames    and 

heated    frames 

peony     month 

confined    in 

not  growing  sa- 

grass until    all 

started   in   the 

other   garden 

are    available 

in    the    flower 

growth,  hedges 

tisfactorily  can 

growth    has 

greenhouse 

accessories  that 

for  them,  there 

garden.    If  you 

a  -id    various 

be   improved 

ceased.  Failure 

now    for    next 

will  not  be  used 

are    a   number 

want  good   re- 

01 iier    plants 

wonderfully  by 

to  do  this  will 

winter's    use. 

again  this  sea- 

of   crops    that 

sults  next  year 

that  are  clipped 

the   sowing    of 

result  in  a  long 

Cauliflower, 

son   should    be 

can  be  started 

It   will    be   ne- 

frequently 

cover   crops. 

growth,    which 

lettuce    and 

repaired,  paint- 

at   this    time. 

cessary  to  over- 

s lould  be  given 

and   subse- 

when   carried 

airing    beans 

ed    and    put 

Radishes,  spin- 

haul the  plants 

H  final  clipping 

quently     turn- 

over the  winter 

should  be  sown 

away  in  winter 

ach,     etc.,     or 

now,   digging 

at     this    time. 

ing  them  under 

will  turn  brown 

about    every 

storage.    When 

some     of     the 

up  the  clumps 

Do  this  before 

in  the  custom- 

in   spring    and 

three    weeks. 

well    cared   for 

cooler     flowers 

that     are     too 

the    foliage 

ary    manner. 

be    hard   to 

Tomatoes 

they    will    last 

such  as  violets 

large,     cutting 

turns    on    the 

No   orchard 

eradicate  when 

and    Swiss 

for  several  sea- 

and   pansles. 

them  into  four 

d  c  c  i  d  u  o  u  s 

should    be 

the  lawn  is  put 

chard  need  but 

sons   of   actual 

can     be    sown 

pieces  and   re- 

pi ants. 

grown  in  sod. 

in  order. 

one    sowing. 

use. 

in   the  frames. 

setting. 

12.     Do  not 

13.  Thcflow- 

14.     Onions. 

15.      This  is 

Ifi.      Perma- 

17.   K  ver- 

IS.  "Attention 

neglect    to   get 

cr    garden 

parsnips,  spin- 

one of  the  best 

nent  pastures 

greens  that  are 

shouldbe  given 

cuttings  of  the 

shouldbe  given 

ach  and  hardy 

periods  of   the 

for  grazing  pur- 

being   trans- 

now     to     bulb 

bedding  plants 

a  final  clean-up 

crops    of    this 

year   for   seed- 

poses should  be 

planted      now. 

planting    for 

before  they  are 

for  the  season. 

character  may 

ing   down   new 

sown     at     this 

or    have    been 

this  season.    If 

destroyed      by 

The    walks 

be  sown  in  the 

lawns,  the  rea- 

time.    Bear  in 

transplanted 

not    already 

frost.   This  ap- 

should be  prop- 

open with   the 

son  being  that 

mind    that    If 

recently,    must 

placed,    orders 

plies    to    chry- 

erly edged,  all 

idea  of  carry  ing 

most    weed 

properl  y    put 

be     kept     well 

should  be  sent 

santhemums, 

weed    growth 

them  over  the 

growth  is  over 

down,    a    good 

watered.    Al- 

immediately 

c  o  1  e  u  s  ,    etc. 

and     the     old 

winter.    This 

and    the   grass 

pasture    will 

though    top 

as  early  plant- 

Karh     variety 

stalks  of  plants 

can    be    easily 

wilt     get     suf- 

last   for    many 

growth  has  ter- 

ing means  bet- 

should be  kept 

removed      and 

done     with     a 

ficient  start  to 

years.    Do  not 

minated,  these 

ter  results.     It 

separate,    as 

burned.      This 

little    protec- 

carry it  safely 

under  any  cir- 

plants are  mak- 

gives the  bulb 

mixed    colors 

will    destroy 

tion,    such    as 

through    the 

cumstances 

ing    consider- 

a      chance     to 

arc  disappoint- 

many   insect 

salt,  hay  or  sim- 

trials of  winter 

plant     inferior 

a  b  I  e     root 

fcirm     a     root 

ing. 

larvae. 

ilar      material. 

weather. 

seed. 

growth. 

system. 

10.  Chrysan- 

20.     Carna- 

21.      Celery 

22.      Do  not 

23.    Cold- 

24.  Mush- 

25.  Before 

themums     and 

tions  that  were 

should    be 

neglect  to  sow 

frames  that  can 

room  beds  may 

the    leaves 

other    similar 

planted    out 

banked    with 

down  with  rye 

be    protected 

be    started    In 

begin    to    fall  , 

plants  that  are 

may     now     be 

earth  now.     It 

and  clover  the 

throughout  the 

the     cellar     at 

look  the  garden 

in    bud   should 

put    in    the 

is  best  if  this  is 

vacant  patches 

winter    should 

this  time.     lie 

and    grounds 

be    fed     freely 

greenhouse  . 

attended  to  fre- 

in the  garden. 

be    used    for 

sure    to    get 

over    carefully 

with    liquid 

The    glass 

quently,  as  the 

.Sowings   can 

sowing     hardy 

fresh  droppings 

with  an  eye  to 

manures  of  dif- 

should    be 

soil    should 

also    be    made 

vegetables  like 

for     this     pur- 

changes   in 

ferent    kinds. 

shaded  slightly 

never     be     al- 

between   corn. 

cabbage    and 

pose,    and    by 

their    arrange- 

This  operation 

for    several 

lowed  to  work 

cabbage    and 

cauliflower 

all    means    use 

m  e  n  t  .    The 

however,  must 

days,    or   until 

its  way  intothe 

other    crops. 

with    the    idea 

new    culture 

reason  for  this 

be  discontinued 

the  roots  have 

heart     of     the 

with    the    idea 

o  I      carrying 

spawn,     which 

Is  obvious—  you 

as  soon  as  the 
buds    s  h  o  w 
color  and  signs 

again     become 
active.    Over- 
head   spraving 

plant.  Hold  the! 
stalks  together 
while    banking 

of    remaining 
after    these 
crops    have 

them  over  and 
planting   out 
early     In     the 

is  of  high  qual- 
ity   and    the 
most     depend- 

can     tell     now 
just  where  mis- 
takes    in     the 

of  opening. 

is   he'.pful. 

them. 

been  gathered. 

spring. 

able. 

scheme  exist. 

26.   It  might 

27.     Just  as 

28.    A  great 

20.   It  would 

30.     Wire 

be  advisable  to 

soon      as      the 

deal  of  our  so- 

not    be    amiss 

grass,  rye  grass 

build  a  flre  in 
the  greenhouse 

foi  iage    turns 
yellow    on    de- 

called     winter 
losses,     especi- 

with late  grow- 
ing crops  such 

and    other 
heavy  growing 

A    shadowy    tumult    stirs   the 

occasionally. 

ciduous   plants 

ally  with  ever- 

as celery,  ruta- 

grasses   and 

dusky  air; 

Cold    nights 
and    hot    days 

it    is    safe    to 
start    trans- 

greens,   is    the 
result  of  these 

baga,     carrots, 
parsnip    and 

weeds    grow 
very  rapidly  at 

Sparkle  the  delicate  dews,  the 

are  productive 
of  mildew.    To 
overcome    this 

planting;    in 
fact,  the  earlier 
in  the  fall  this 

plants  being  al- 
lowed   to    be- 
come bone  dry 

New     Zealand 
s  p  i  n  a  c  h  ,    or 
other  crops  still 

this   season   of 
the   year,   and 
if    allowed    to 

distant   snows; 
The    great    deep    thrills  —  for 

have  the  pipes 
painted  with  a 
paste   made 

is  attended   to 
the    better,    as 
the    roots    will 

at  this  season 
when  they  are 
developing    a 

bearing,  to  ap- 
ply   frequent 
dressings    of 

overrun      your 
garden    they 
will  be  a  serious 

through  it  everywhere 
The   breath   of  Beauty   blow-s. 

from  flowers  of 

take    hold    be- 

roo*   system 

manure    and 

factor   to   con- 

"A. E." 

sulphur    and 

fore  cold  wea- 

to carry  them 

occasi  o  n  a  1  1  y 

tend  with  next 

water. 

ther. 

over    winter. 

nitrate  of  soda. 

spring. 

rffET  ain't  been  no  frost  yet,  but  I  can't  help  noticin'  how  many  red  leaves  there  be  on  the   trees, 
specially  the  pepperidgcs  an'   swamp  maples.      I  used  to  think   it  was  the  frost  as  made   leai'cs  turn 

red  an    yellcr  in  the  Fall,  but  I  reckon  it  can't  be  that.     Mus'  be  a  change  in  the  way  the  sap  works  — 

the  tree  kinder  pulls  it  back  from  the  leaves  to  store  it  fer  the  winter,  an'  it  seems  reasonable  to  think 

that  this  empties  the  veins  an'  art'ries  in  the  leaves  so's  thev  change  color.      The  yellcr  part  is  easy  to 

undcrstan  ,  fer  it's  nothin'  but  a  beginnin'  o'  the  brown    that  ail  leaves  gits  when   thev   die.      Alebbe   the 

sap  titnis,  too.  fftttin    red  'stead  o'  green.      The  queer  part  of  it  all  is  the  way  a  whole   branch  full  o' 

leaves  will  git   bright  afore  any   o'   the  others  on   the   tree    change   at  all.      I   reckon   it's   because    that 

partic  tar  branch  ain't  got  as  good  circulation  as  the  others,  an'  its  leaves  give  in  quicker. 

—  Old    Doc    Lcmmon. 

Surplus  from  the 
jruit  trees  and  vege- 
table garden  should 
be  preserved 


Clean  the  perennial 

and  other  borders  as 

soon    as    the    plant 

stalks  are  dead 


Vine  crops  such  as 
squash  and  pump- 
kins should  be  gath- 
ered when  fully  ripe 


Onions,  beets,  carrots,  parsnips  and  other  root 

crops  for  winter  use  should  have   their  tops 

twisted  off  before  storing  away  in  the  cellar 

or  pit 


Good    melons    are     the     result     of 

selected    seed,    proper    soil,   and   an 

early  start.    Let  them  mature  fully 

before  picking 


The    cover   crop    is    coming    more   and   more 

into  its  own  as  a  soil  enricher.    /4,  should  be 

plowed  under  in  the  jail,  so  as  to  rot  over  the 

winter 


September,     1920 


Su^estion  at  m 


QUITE  often  a  small  group  or  even  a  single  piece 
of  well-chosen  Furniture  will  infuse   an  entire 
room  with  an  individuality  that  is  charming  beyond 
expression. 

Seeking  the  unusual  in  Furniture,  without 
prohibitive  cost,  the  visitor  to  this  treasure-house 
of  beautiful  things  will  happen  upon  countless  objects 
worthy  not  alone  of  the  best  traditions  of  the 
cabinetmaker's  art  but  of  a  place  in  any  properly 
considered  decorative  scheme. 

So  diversified  are  these  exhibits  that  one's  selection 
is   restricted   only   by   one's    requirements  —  the 

factor  of  cost  being  negligible,  as  in  all  instances  it 

is  kept  within  moderate  limits. 

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AND  DECORATIVE  OBJECTS:  REPRODUCTIONS  AND 
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Chairs 

Tables 

Benches 

Arbors 

Trellises 


SUN-ROOM,  tea-room,\ 
breakfast-room  —  all 
these  as  well  as  porch  and 
garden  can  borrow  added 
beauty  from  Garden-Craft. 
The  varied  artistic  designs 
of  Garden-Craft  painstak- 
ingly fashioned  in  enduring 
cypress,  lend  themselves  to 
a  wide  scope  of  decorative 
styles. 

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An  Adam  dining  room   may  have  caje  au  lait  walls  with 

h<ory    moldings,    dull    blue    velour    curtains    and    notes    oj 

slate  blue,  salmon  and  black 


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to  furnish  any  room  in  the  house  with- 
out incorporating  blue  to  some  degree. 
And  in  the  living  room  it  is  surprising 
how  much  blue  one  can  have  without 
overstepping  the  line  of  good  taste  and 
beauty.  Into  the  framework  of  gray 
walls,  ivory  woodwork,  and  floor  cov- 
ered with  a  carpet  of  black  and  gray,  a 
considerable  quantity  of  blue  may  be 
warmed  into  a  delightful  harmony  by 
the  right  amount  of  synthetic  sunshine. 

Blue  in  a  Living  Room 

In  this  gray-walled  living  room  a  few 
blue  rugs  were  thrown  on  the  somber 
carpet,  the  windows  were  curtained  in 
blue  sunfast,  a  sofa  and  chair  were 
upholstered  in  blue  striped  stuff,  a  blue 
fire  screen  and  footrest  were  embroi- 
dered in  warm-toned  and  brilliant  wool, 
and  there  the  blueness  slackened  and 
the  synthetic  sunshine  stepped  in.  For 
a  wing  chair  at  the  side  of  the  fireplace 
was  upholstered  in  mustard  appliqued 
with  a  band  of  night  blue  embroidered 
royally  in  henna,  peacock,  and  mustard. 
On  the  blue  sofa  there  were  pillows 
matching  in  color  the  embroidery  on 
the  chair,  also  one  in  blue.  There  were 
a  henna  and  cream  lampshade,  yellow 
candles  and  a  copper  kettle,  all  gaily 
shining  as  doth  the  sun,  and  making 
this  living  room  well  balanced  and  en- 
tirely livable,  as  it  could  never  have 
been  if  just  blue. 

But  in  the  blue  bedroom  particularly 
is  there  the  chance  for  the  reversal  of 
things  and  the  indulging  of  that  which 
is  dear  to  the  hearts  of  most  of  us, 
furniture  itself  of  blue.  And  with  blue 
furniture  one  does  not  have  nearly  so 


much  of  the  color  in  other  places.  In 
this  particular  bedroom  rose  plays  a 
large  part  in  the  scheme:  the  bedspread 
is  of  ashes  of  roses,  the  blue  window 
curtains  are  lined  with  rose,  the  inner 
curtains  are  of  white  swiss  dotted  with 
blue,  the  light  above  the  dressing  table 
is  of  rose  with  a  jvool  cord  and  tassel. 
The  arm  chair  is  upholstered  in  blue 
and  quilled  with  rose ;  the  cushion  is 
of  striped  rose  and  blue  taffeta.  All 
this  against  a  background  of  cream 
and  atop  a  gray  carpet,  and  relieved 
by  a  note  here  and  there  of  old  yellow, 
such  as  the  shade  on  the  bird  lamp. 

Cautions  for  Blue 

Don't  be  afraid  to  have  plenty  of 
blue  about  you  if  you  love  it.  But 
handle  it  as  a  tone  befitting  kings  rather 
than  one  popularly  used  for  bows  and 
bands  on  babies.  For  blue  will  stretch 
sublimely  to  any  height  of  beauty  to 
which  you  dare  aspire,  and  one  of  the 
greatest  helps  on  the  path  of  aspiration 
is  one  of  the  new  cretonnes  whose  plen- 
tiful blues  are  interspersed  with  enough 
contrasting  tones  to  supply  you  with 
the  nucleus  of  an  enviable  blue  color 
scheme.  This  cretonne  may  have  leaves 
of  two-toned  brilliant  blue  on  a  biscuit 
ground  and  birds  with  purple  tails  and 
flaming  crests  joyously  hopping  on  pur- 
ple boughs ;  or  it  may  be  blue  grounded 
backing  shaggy  flowers  in  richest  rose 
and  white,  brown  stemmed,  and  green 
with  leaves.  In  either  case  try  match- 
ing the  blue  in  furniture  for  your  tiny 
breakfast  room  and  you  will  find  the 
world  much  as  it  should  be,  beginning 
your  days  in  such  a  place. 


Pansies    From    Year   to   Year 

(Continued  from  page  40) 


good  food  at  hand.  Rotted  barnyard 
manure  is  probably  the  best  pansy- 
fertilizer.  I  find  that  my  truly  fine 
and  large  pansies,  holding  up  their 
charming  faces  to  the  light,  are  rooted 
in  that  sort  of  richness. 

A  word  as  to  pansy  varieties,  or 
strains,  as  the  seedsmen  call  them.  The 
pansy  may  be  increased  by  cuttings, 
just  as  geraniums  are  increased,  but  the 
plants  grown  from  seed  are  more  sure- 
ly vigorous.  Seed  saved  from  the  finest 
flowers  will  produce  the  finest  flowers, 
normally,  referring  to  colors  and  mark- 
ings. The  soil-food  will  considerably 
influence  the  size  of  the  flowers,  but  it. 


will  not  turn  dull,  muddy,  common  col- 
ors into  satisfactory  hues. 

Therefore,  the  wisely  aspiring  pansy- 
lover  will  buy  the  best  seed,  either  in 
mixture  or  in  separate  varieties,  from 
a  seedsman  who  puts  his  honor  and  his 
reputation  into  the  packet  along  with 
the  little  dark  brown  balls  of  potential 
beauty.  The  best  is  the  cheapest,  in 
final  pansy  effect. 

I  hope  any  readers  who  love  pansies 
will  try  carrying  over  a  few  pet  plants 
on  the  plan  I  have  described,  the  fol- 
lowing of  which  has  given  visitors  to 
Breeze  Hill  gardens  much  early  spring 
surprise  and  pleasure. 


September,    1920 


67 


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BiG-Six 

AS  you  climb  steep  grades  and  glide 
/V.  over  rough  roads  in  the  BlG-SlX, 
you  fairly  marvel  at  the  car's  ability 

—  its  well-nigh  unlimited,  yet  re- 
sponsive, power  and  its  steadiness 
regardless  of  road  or  speed — factors 
that  have  made  it  the  most  popular 
among  high  quality  motor  cars. 

Asfe  the  Studebaker  Dealer 
what  gasoline  and  tire  mileage 
BIQ-S/X  owners  are  getting. 


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wheelbase,  insuring    ample    room 

for  seven  adults.    All  Studebaker 

Cars  are  equipped  with  Cord 

Tires — another  Studebaker 

precedent. 


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Sedan 2450 

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SPECIAL-SIX 

Touring  Car       .     .     .  $1875 

2-PosscnKc'r  Roadster    .  1875 

4-Passengcr  Roadster    .  1875 

Coupe 2850 

Sedan         2950 

F.  O.  B.  Detroit 

BIG-SIX 

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F.  O.  B.  Detroit 


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What  consideration  have 
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House    &    Garden 

Simple      Upholstery 

(Continued  from  page  62) 


turn  the  piece  over  to  a  repair  man  for 
his  part  of  the  job,  as  the  ultimate  ap- 
pearance of  your  work  depends  largely 
upon  the  springs  being  firmly  set. 
Should  the  framework  be  loose  or 
broken  and  the  finish  in  bad  shape,  have 
him  attend  to  this  at  the  same  time. 

As  to  finish,  mahogany  and  oak  re- 
quire experience  in  staining,  filling,  and 
varnishing,  but  if  the  wood  is  walnut 
you  can  do  it  over  yourself  by  using 
a  commercial  varnish  remover,  steel 
wool,  boiled  oil,  floor  wax,  and  elbow 
grease.  Do  only  one-half  the  frame- 
work at  a  time,  giving  it  a  good  coat 
of  the  varnish  remover,  and  after  half 
an  hour  rub  it  off  thoroughly  with  the 
steel  wool,  taking  care  to  protect  the 
hands  with  old  gloves.  If  the  old  var- 
nish is  stubborn  repeat  the  process  and 
finish  with  fine  sandpaper.  The  next 
day  the  wood  is  ready  for  the  oil  rub- 
bing, to  be  followed  twenty-four  hours 
later  with  the  wax  polishing.  Speaking 
frankly,  this  is  not  a  pleasant  task,  but 
it  does  pay. 

The  New  Cover 

Granted  that  the  filling  and  muslin 
cover  are  ship-shape  and  need  no  at- 
tention, cut  the  pattern  as  directed,  fol- 
lowing with  special  care  the  cut-outs 
made  for  the  uprights  of  the  arms  and 
back.  Lay  the  seat  cover  in  place  and 
slip-tack.  The  curves  and  uprights  will 
offer  problems  that  are  new  but  by  no 
means  difficult.  Coaxing  and  careful 
folding  are  all  that  is  necessary.  Curves 
will  requ;re  closer  spacing  of  the  tacks. 
Material  that  is  thin  or  frays  easily, 
like  cretonne,  damask,  or  rep  should  be 
folded  in  at  the  corners  and  all  along 
the  tacked  edge;  but  velour  or  other 
fabrics  should  have  a  wedge-shaped 
piece  cut  out  at  the  corners,  and  need 
not  be  turned  under  along  the  tacked 
edge,  but  must  be  neatly  trimmed. 
Tipping  the  chair  so  that  its  back 
rests  upon  the  seat  of  a  straight  chair 
will  facilitate  the  work  on  the  seat. 

Lay  the  cover  of  the  back  in  place 
and  slip-tack  all  around  the  edge, 
drawing  it  smoothly  and  not  too  firmly, 
as  there  must  be  some  lee- 
way for  the  buttoning.  The 
tacks  are  not  to  be  driven 
permanently  until  the  but- 
toning is  done,  as  some  re- 
adjustment may  be  neces- 
sary. If  the  back  has  been 
buttoned  before  it  is  an  easy 
matter  to  locate  the  places 
for  the  new  buttons;  other- 
wise you  must  measure  the 
spaces  carefully,  placing  al- 


Buttons  are 
placed  5"  each 
way  ard  sewed 
through  the  filling 
to  the  back 


The  corners  and   stitching   of  a 

box  cover  are  the  most  difficult 

part  of  the  work 

ternate  rows  of  even  and  uneven  num- 
bers (two  and  three,  or  more  should  the 
size  of  the  chair  demand  it),  and  work- 
ing from  the  central  part  of  the  back 
outward.  Do  not  attempt  to  cover  the 
buttons  yourself,  but  have  them  made 
from  the  cuttings  at  one  of  the  local 
drygoods  shops.  Thread  the  upholstery 
needle  with  the  twine,  stick  it  through 
from  the  back,  run  it  through  the  shank 
of  a  button,  re-insert  it  in  the  back 
about  y\"  from  the  first  stitch,  and  tie 
at  the  back  with  a  slip  knot,  as  illus- 
trated. Before  tightening  the  knot  in- 
sert under  it  a  tuft  of  cotton,  draw 
tightly,  tie  twice  and  cut,  not  too  short. 
The  buttons  may  all  be  threaded  on 
first,  a  little  slack,  and  the  tightening 
and  tying  done  afterward!.  When  the 
buttons  are  all  on,  if  no  adjustment  of 
the  edge  is  necessary  drive  the  tacks 
in  permanently. 

Using  Gimp 

After  covering  the  arms,  which  offer 
no  difficulties,  the  gimp  is  put  on. 
Start  at  the  back  of  the  seat,  working 
from  right  to  left,  at  a  corner  or  next 
to  an  upright,  and  after  fastening  the 
end  slip-tack  the  free  end  of  the  gimp 
with  a  single  tack  as  far  ahead  as 
the  framework  will  permit  it  to  lie. 
Return  to  the  beginning  and 
place  the  gimp  tacks,  driv- 
ing them  permanently,  spac- 
ing them  2^2"  apart,  meas- 
uring the  distance  with  a 
card  or  by  counting  the 
spaces  of  the  gimp  pattern. 
Place  the  tacks  in  the  cen- 
ter of  the  gimp,  except  on 
the  curves,  where  they  must 
be  set  nearer  the  outer  edge 
{Continued  on  page  70) 


The  upholsterer's 
knot  for  tying 
buttons  in  place 
at  the  back  is 
easily  acquired 


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SELECTING  the  dining  room  silverware  is  u  matter  of 
good  judgment  and  pride.  You  would  not  think  of  say- 
ing "I  want  some  knives,  forks  and  spoons.''  You  would 
either  ask  for  "Sterling"  or  a  well-known  brand  in  plated 
ware,  both  of  which  have  stood  for  generations  as  the  stand- 
ard of  quality. 

So  in  buying  grass  rugs,  whether  for  the  dining  room, 
living  room,  bed  room — no  matter  what  room  or  porch — they 
have  their  logical  place  in  each  through  all  seasons — you 
should  ask  for  and  insist  on  getting  genuine  CREX  rugs. 

Strong  in  sanitary  and  wearing  qualities — rich  but  not 
offensive  in  coloring  and  design — CREX  rugs  are  a  joy  and 
comfort  to  the  housewife.  No  beating  required.  Dust  sifts 
through  to  floor.  Surface  dirt  quickly  removed  with  broom 
or  damp  cloth  and  light  shaking. 

Beware  of  imitations,  some  of  which  are  even  made  of 
split  or  crushed  straw.  Buy  CREX  rugs  that  for  more  than 
twenty  years  have  graced  the  floors  in  millions  of  homes — 
modest  and  pretentious  alike. 

CREX  is  easily  said  and  easily  read.  The  name  woven 
in  the  side  binding  provides  an  ineffaceable  identification 
mark. 

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colors  and  sizes   of  the  three   CREX  weaves — 

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Simple      Upholstery 

(Continued  jrom  page  68) 


as  well  as  closer  together,  as  in  the 
illustration,  which  also  shows  how  to 
turn  the  corners.  If  the  gimp  joins 
at  a  corner  mitre  it  neatly;  otherwise 
turn  it  straight  under.  In  gimping  the 
chair  back,  begin  at  the  bottom ;  and 
in  gimping  the  arms  begin  at  the  back 
inside  corner.  The  outside  of  the  chair 
back  is  best  covered  with  the  same  ma- 
terial as  the  front,  but  a  good  quality 
of  sateen  to  match  may  be  used  in- 
stead, finished  with  the  same  gimp. 
The  small  amount  of  filling  in  the  back 
does  not  need  a  muslin  cover,  but  can 
be  kept  in  place  by  the  outside  one. 
Use  black  cambric  for  the  underside  of 
the  seat,  and  when  this  is  on  give  the 
framework  a  final  rubbing. 

Davenports  and  wing  chairs  should 
not  be  attempted  by  the  amateur,  but 
many  other  stuffed  chairs  and  sofas, 
though  presenting  a  bigger  piece  of 
work,  are  no  more  difficult  than  the 
armchair  we  have  just  covered.  Where 
back  and  seat  join,  the  goods  are  pushed 
down  through  the  crevice,  pulled 
smooth,  and  tacked  or  sew"''  onto  the 
frame  at  the  back  of  the  chair.  If  the 
old  pattern  is  carefully  followed  there 
is  little  danger  of  a  poor  j.ib. 

Slip  Covers 


We  recently  helped  make  attractive 
summer  gowns  of  cretonne  for  half  a 
dozen  handsomely  upholstered  chairs  and 
a  davenport  which  the  owner  wished  to 
protect  from  the  dust  and  sun  of  sum- 
mer. To  help  give  the  living  room  a 
lighter  appearance  the  heavy  velour  por- 
tieres were  replaced  by  hangings  of 
linen-colored  monk's  cloth  with  a  broad 
band  of  cretonne  near  the  bottom.  The 
linen-colored  cretonne  was  patterned  in 
old  blue  and  sage  green,  which  harmo- 
nized with  the  rugs  and  wall.  It  was 
surprising  to  see  how  quickly  the  for- 
mality of  the  winter  color  scheme  gave 
way  to  the  refreshing  informality  of 
the  one  adopted  for  summer.  Having 
learned  how  easily  slip  covers  can  be 
made,  the  delighted  owner  decided  to 
make  a  summer  set  for  her  bedroom 
and  the  result  was  charming. 

Because  of  their  design  and  cheerful 
coloring  chintz,  cretonne,  and  printed 
linen  give  the  most  interesting  effect, 
but  patterned  self-colored  Scotch  linen, 
figured  denim,  and  Victor  damask  are 
satisfactory,  the  finest,  of  course,  being 
striped  or  changeable  taffetas.  An  ex- 
tra touch  can  be  given  by  piping  or 
binding  the  seams  with  bias  bands  or 
mercerized  braid  which  repeats  one  of 
the  colors  of  the  design. 

In  measuring  for  the  slip  covers  the 
following  suggestions  will  be  helpful. 
The  dotted  line  in  the  illustration  will 
show  how  to  estimate  the  amount  of 
material  needed  for  a  plain,  full-length 
I  slip.  With  a  tape  measure  begin  at 
A  and  finish  at  F,  allowing  an  extra 
inch  at  each  turn  (B,  C,  D,  and  E)  for 
seams  and  at  A  and  F  for  hems.  For 
the  side  pieces  measure  from  H  to  G, 
allowing  also  for  a  seam  and  hem,  and 
add  twice  this  amount  to  the  yardage 
already  estimated.  Sometimes  the  pat- 
tern and  width  of  the  goods  will  per- 
mit of  both  side  pieces  being  cut  out 
of  one  width.  For  an  arm  or  wing- 
chair,  measure  from  H  to  the  highest 
point  of  the  arm  or  wing,  over  the  top, 
and  down  to  the  seat.  If  you  wish  the 
cover  to  be  finished  with  a  gathered  or 
pleated  valance  start  to  measure  at  A' 
over  back  and  seat  to  F'.  For  the  ruf- 
fle measure  the  depth  of  the  ruffle  and 
calculate  the  amount  needed  by  allow- 
ing \y^  times  around  the  chair  for 
gathers  and  2l/±  times  for  pleats. 

If  the  finished  slip  is  to  be  bound 
lay  the  goods  on  the  chair,  right  side 
up;  if  piped  or  box-seamed  lay  it 
wrong  side  up.  Beginning  at  F,  lay 
the  goods  on  the  body  of  the  chair, 
pinning  it  smoothly  at  the  four  corners 
of  the  seat  and  back  to  keep  it  well  in 


place,  and  making  at  each  angle  a  little 
pleat  with  the  extra  inch  which  was 
allowed.  Remember  to  center  the  pat- 
tern, which  should  always  run  upward, 
and  unless  it  is  reversible  the  material 
must  be  cut  at  B  and  the  back  piece 
turned  right  side  up.  Pin  firmly  or 
baste  along  the  pleated  edges  at  E,  D, 
C,  and  B,  and  then  split  them.  Unless 
you  are  accustomed  to  fitting  you 
would  better  make  paper  patterns  for 
the  sides  before  cutting  the  cloth,  al- 
lowing a  good  half-inch  all  around  for 
seams,  and  then  cut  the  material  and 
pin  or  baste  it  to  the  body  of  the  slip- 
cover, which  is  now  ready  for  stitch- 
ing. It  is  well  not  to  fit  the  cover  too 
snugly,  as  most  goods  shrink  a  little 
in  the  laundering.  For  over-stuffed 
pieces  which  have  a  crevice  where  the 
seat  and  back  join  you  must  leave  at 
least  a  4"  plait  to  be  tucked  into  the 
crevice.  If  the  back  of  the  chair  is 
wider  at  the  top  than  at  the  bottom 
an  opening  or  placket  must  be  made  up 
the  center  of  the  back,  running  high 
enough  to  permit  removal  of  the  slip; 
otherwise  the  opening  may  be  made  at 
one  of  the  back  corners,  and  closed  with 
hooks  and  eyes,  snaps,  or  tapes.  In 
covering  larger  pieces  of  furniture  ap- 
ply the  same  principles  as  have  just 
been  given  for  the  straight-backed  chair, 
except  that,  for  a  sofa  or  davenport 
you  would  have  to  double  or  treble  the 
measurement  from  A  to  F,  according 
to  the  width  of  the  goods. 

Covers  for  Box  Cushions 

Somewhere  about  the  house  you  prob- 
ably have  a  chair  with  box  cushions 
that  look  run  down  at  the  heel.  Their 
forlorn  appearance  may  be  cheered  up 
immensely  by  ripping  4"  at  the  middle 
of  the  lower  front  seam  and  inserting 
several  good  handfuls  of  new  stuffing, 
hair,  tow,  or  excelsior.  Sew  up  the 
opening  and  readjust  the  filling  with 
a  regulator. 

Maybe  you  want  entirely  new  cush- 
ions for  a  chair  or  window  seat  and 
have  the  courage  to  make  them,  but  do 
not  know  how  to  begin.  "The  way  to 
begin  is  to  begin",  so  measure  twice  the 
length  of  the  cushion  you  want  to  make, 
add  8"  for  the  seams  and  boxing  of 
the  ends,  and  an  extra  half-inch  per  foot 
to  be  taken  up  by  the  buttoning.  Thirty- 
six  inch  goods  are  generally  wide  enough 
for  the  top,  8"  for  scams  and  side  box- 
ing, and  the  extra  half-inch  per  foot  for 
tufting.  .Cut  the  top  piece  first,  allow- 
ing 4"  at  sides  and  ends  and  the  extra 
half-inch  per  foot  on  width  and  length. 
Thus,  for  a  cushion  which  is  to  measure 
2'  x  3'  when  finished  cut  a  piece  45^" 
(3'  +  8"  +  \Yz)  X  33"  (2'  +  8"  + 
l").  At  each  corner  fold  the  edges  to- 
gether wrong  side  out  and  at  B,  4" 
from  the  corner  A,  stitch  across  to  C. 
Trim  off  the  extra  and  turn.  When  all 
four  corners  are  finished  baste  the  folds 
from  C  to  C  all  the  way  around,  and 
stitch  the  width  of  the  machine  foot. 
Cut  the  bottom  J4"  larger  all  the  way 
around  than  the  finished  top.  Now 
turn  the  top  wrong  side  out  and  sew 
in  the  bottom,  leaving  one  end  open  to 
within  2"  of  the  corners.  Turn  on  the 
right  side  and  box-seam  the  lower  edge 
and  the  corners. 

Another  way  to  make  a  box  cushion 
is  to  have  the  top  and  bottom  pieces 
the  same  size  and  separate,  joining  them 
with  a  straight  strip  of  4"  boxing  all 
the  way  around,  closing  the  latter  at  a 
corner,  and  leaving  the  opening  lor  the 
filling  at  one  end,  stitching  wrong  side 
out.  Then  turn  and  box-seam  all  the 
edges  and  corners.  This  method  has 
the  advantage  of  giving  a  true  box- 
seam  at  every  edge. 

The  Filling  and  Buttons 

When  you  are  ready  for  the  filling, 
turn  the  cover  wrong  side  out,  and  on 
(Continued  on  page  74) 


September,     1920 

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Peterson's  Perfect 


npHERE  are,  of  course,  others  but  there  are  none 
-••  so  good. 

Peterson  Peonies  are  the  triumphant  result  of 
a  quarter  of  a  century  of  enthusiastic — yes,  loving 
devotion — and  which  has  grown  with  the  years. 

A  trial  order  will  convince  you  beyond  ques- 
tion that  my  roots  are  the  cleanest,  strongest  and, 
last  but  not  least,  truest  that  money  can  buy. 

Can  you  afford  to  "experiment"  when  buying  a 
Mower  that  will  last  as  long  as  you  do — and  longer? 

Special   1920  Peony  Catalogue 

Beautifully  illustrated  from  my  own  fields  and 
flowers  sent  free  on  request. 

(Peonies  must  be  planted  in   the  Fall) 

George  H.  Peterson 


Rose  and  Peony 
Specialist 


Box  30 

Fair  Lawn,  N. 


Burlington,  Vt.,  June  30,   1920 

I  wish  to  let  you  know  that  the  Peonies,  planted  last  Fall,  are  a 
joy  to  behold.  There  were  over  one  hundred  buds  on  the  six  plants 
before  disbudding.  They  are  much  superior  to  other  plants  which 
have  been  in  the  border  for  four  or  live  years,  and  I  can  heartily 
recommend  your  roots. — George  W.  Marks. 


"The  Gem" 

Lawn 
Sprinkler 

and   Stand 

A  sturdy  brass,  non-corrod- 
ing sprinkler  that  will  last 
a  lifetime. 


stand 


Your  Radiator*  Give  Trouble 
Especially   in   the   Spring 

When  warm  days  are  mixed  with  cold, 
causing  irregular  heating,  your  radiators 
annoy  with  banging  and  hissing.  The 
SPECIAL  LOCK  SHIELD  VALVE  pre- 
vents this.  Special  adjustment  lock.  Con- 
densation without  leakage.  $«  Sixfor 
Easily  attached.  Guaranteed  and  |rw«hreior 
inexpensive.  Immediate  delivery  *  $10 

A  Radiator  Footrail! 

A  new  thought  in  home  comfort.  The  rail  is  at- 
tached to  lower  part  of  radiator.  Assures  foot  com- 
fort — draw  up  your  chair  for  reading  or  sewing 
and  see!  Made  in  nickel  or  oxidized  Standard 
finish.  Easily  attached.  Will  he  sent  Length  Z6" 
for  only $5.00 

BEATON  &  CADWELL  MFG.  CO. 

New  Britain,  Conn. 

Manufacturers  of  all  kinds  uf  Plumbing  Sfccialties 


Prepare  now  for  Summer  Lawns 

To  insure  beautiful  velvety  lawns  this 
season  you  should  start  sprinkling  the  very 
first  warm  day.  The  grass  must  catch  an 
early  start  for  a  thick,  even  growth.  The 
"Gem"  is  adjustable,  sprinkles  evenly  over 
a  wide  area,  is  wear-proof,  not  tf  3  for 
expensive.  Price  including 

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$2.50 


The  Greenhouse  of  Quality 

No  argument  is  needed  to  convince  you  that  you 
ought  to  have  a  greenhouse. 

The  question  is  which  greenhouse  to  select;  a  per- 
fectly simple  matter  to  decide  when  you  have  seen 
photographs  of  greenhouses  we  have  built,  and 
looked  over  the  names  of  their  owners. 

The}-  are  people  who  buy  the  best  the  market  affords, 
and  their  approval  of  the  V-Bar  is  an  endorsement 
of  which  we  are  justly  proud. 

Advance  sheets  of  our  catalog  on  request. 


W.    H.    Lutton 
Company,  Inc. 


5 1 2  Fifth  Avenue 
New  York  City 


72 


House    &    Garden 


Portfolio  of  Designs 
Upon  Request 


MarkH.G.M  9-20 
Chinese  Chippendale 
Enqraved  Decoration 

Sizes  8  to  18  inches 
in  height 


Vases  Designed  - 
any  degree  of  importance 
Sketches  Submitted 


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Philadelphia 


Simple      Upholstery 

(Continued  from  page  70) 


the  top,  sides,  and  ends  baste  securely 
a  thick  layer  of  cotton  batting,  turn 
the  cover  and  proceed  to  fill  it  with 
hair,  tow,  or  excelsior,  packing  it  firmly. 
Begin  at  the  farther  corners,  stuffing 
each  very  tightly  and  then  filling  in 
between  them.  Continue  filling  from 
the  sides  toward  the  center,  always 
shaking  and  spreading  the  material  with 
the  hands  to  prevent  lumping,  and  pat- 
ting the  cushion  on  the  outside  to  keep 
it  flat  and  the  edges  well  squared. 
When  no  more  will  go  in,  sew  up  the 
seam  and  use  the  regulator. 

Now  measure  off  for  the  buttons, 
placing  pins  where  they  are  to  go. 
Four  to  5"  is  far  enough  apart,  the 
distance  being  determined  by  the  width 
and  length  of  the  cushion.  Button 
and  tie  according  to  directions  given  for 
the  chair  back,  being  careful  to  insert 
the  needle  straight,  working  from  the 
center  toward  the  ends  and  tying  firmly 
and  evenly.  When  carefully  done,  these 
home-made  cushions  will  keep  their 
shape  for  years.  A  second  cover  may 
be  put  over  the  first,  and  the  latter  then 
becomes  the  casing  which  the  profes- 
sional makes  as  a  foundation  over  which 
the  outside  cover  is  fitted. 

Pillows  a-plenty  you  must  have,  for 
davenport,  easy  chairs,  window  seat, 
and  porch.  We  mean  the  honest-to- 


goodness  comfortable  ones,  not  the 
fussy,  round,  shirred  boudoir  variety, 
but  the  fat,  square  ones  that  make  a 
good  resting  place  for  a  weary  back  or 
a  tired  head.  They  should  not  be 
smaller  than  18"  square  nor  larger  than 
24".  For  sofa  ends  they  may  be  ob- 
long, 16"  by  26".  They  may  be  cov- 
ered with  cretonne,  plain  or  block-print 
linen,  silk,  rep,  damask,  velour,  tapestry, 
or  a  handsome  embroidered  square,  ac- 
cording to  the  furniture  with  which 
they  are  to  associate.  On  a  plain  dav- 
enport it  is  better  to  use  cushions  of 
figured  material  the  colors  of  which 
harmonize  with  the  covering;  while  on 
a  tapestry  covered  piece  the  plain  pil- 
lows should  be  a  color  which  harmon- 
izes with  it.  In  making  the  pillow 
covers  stitch  around  all  four  corners, 
leaving  the  opening  at  the  middle  of 
the  side  or  end  and  blindstitch  it.  The 
edges  may  be  piped,  bound,  box-seamed, 
or  corded. 

In  all  upholstery  work  it  is  very  im- 
portant that  in  piecing  material  the 
design  should  be  perfectly  matched  and 
the  nap  run  the  same  way.  Therefore, 
in  estimating  the  amount  needed,  espe- 
cially if  the  figure  is  large,  allow  some- 
thing extra.  Certain  large  set  patterns 
must  be  centered  on  the  seat  and  back, 
which  calls  for  generous  measurement. 


The    Japanese    Tea   Ceremony 

(Continued  from  page  35) 


— urbanity,  purity,  courtesy,  and  im- 
perturbability— and  little  as  such  a  cult 
seemed  adapted  to  military  men,  it 
nevertheless  received  its  full  elaboration 
under  the  feudal  system. 

The  Early  Ceremony 

In  the  Ashikaga  Period  the  guests 
who  had  assembled  for  the  Cha-no-yu 
partook  first  of  a  repast,  following 
which  they  were  conducted  into  the 
garden  to  contemplate  its  beauties, 
thence  to  the  arbor-room  of  the  Tea 
Ceremony.  On  the  walls  of  the  arbor 
hung  paintings  by  celebrated  Chinese 
artists — it  must  be  remembered  that 
Chinese  art  has  always  been  held  as 
classic  by  the  Japanese — and  a  bronze 
flower  vase  stood  on  a  brocade  covered 
table  while  a  brass  incense  burner  was 
upon  another.  The  sliding  screens  of 
the  arbor  bore  other  paintings,  mostly 
in  the  Chinese  style.  Other  incense 
burners,  boxes  of  red  (Tsuishu)  and 
black  (Tsuikoku)  and  a  tea-caddy  of 
Chinese  make  were  also  in  place.  After 
the  guests  were  seated  on  the  mats,  the 
Master  of  the  Cha-no-yu  brewed  and 
served  the  tea.  Perfect  order  and  no 
confusion  accompanied  the  operation. 
After  all  had  tasted  the  tea,  competi- 
tions in  tea-tasting  were  held. 

In  later  times  the  Buddhist  paint- 
ings of  the  Ashikaga  Tea  Ceremony  gave 
place,  more  often  than  not,  to  secular 
works  of  art  and  to  kakemono  by  Japa- 
nese artists.  In  later  periods  if  a  Cha- 
no-yu  host  could  include  a  single  arti- 
cle descended  from  the  Ashikaga  Period 
great  was  his  joy  in  producing  it  for 
the  inspection  of  his  guests.  The  tea 
arbor  of  Ashikaga  was  supplanted  by 
special  tea  rooms  in  the  house. 

In  the  Tea  Arbor 

James  Lord  Bowes  says  in  his  volume 
on  Japanese  Pottery  "a  small  garden 
would  be  arranged  so  as  to  resemble 
as  closely  as  possible  a  natural  land- 
scape, to  give  the  idea  of  the  feeling 
of  peaceful  seclusion  which  has  always 
been  associated  with  the  ceremony. 
When  the  guests  were  assembled  the 
house  was  kept  entirely  quiet,  the 
servants  being  sent  away,  and  the  mas- 
ter of  the  house  himself  waiting  upon 
the  guests  and  preparing  tea.  The  for- 


mer, leaving  their  swords  outside  the 
house,  would  be  welcomed  by  the  mas- 
ter, who  would  arrange  the  various 
utensils  required.  While  he  prepared 
the  tea  with  water  boiled  the  previous 
day,  the  guests  were  allowed  to  inspect 
the  various  implements — the  box  con- 
taining perfumes  to  be  thrown  upon  the 
charcoal  fire,  the  tea-bowls,  etc.  The 
tea  used  was  in  powder,  and  was  pre- 
pared both  as  a  thick  (Koi-cha)  and  as 
a  thin  (Usa-cha)  beverage,  and  the  most 
minute  and  exact  instructions  are  set 
forth  for  its  preparation.  All  the  vari- 
ous implements  had  their  prescribed 
uses  set  forth,  and  when  the  tea  was 
made,  it  was  drunk  in  accordance  with 
rules  which  were  observed  with  the 
greatest  exactitude.  When  the  host  had 
prepared  the  beverage,  the  principal 
guest  approached  and  received  the  cup 
[bowl]  from  him;  this  he  carried  to  his 
place,  expressing  respectful  thanks  to 
the  master  for  the  honor  done  him,  and 
at  the  same  time  apologizing  to  the  as- 
sembled Chajin  [Tea  Ceremony  guests] 
for  taking  the  first  sip;  he  would  then 
admire  the  color  and  consistency  of  the 
tea,  and,  after  quietly  and  thoughtfully 
tasting  it  two  or  three  times,  pass  it  on 
to  his  neighbor.  In  this  way  the  cup 
passed  from  Chajin  to  Chajin,  until 
it  was  returned  to  the  hand  of  the 
master,  who  would  place  it  in  the  bag 
from  which  it  was  taken." 

From  this  we  see  that  the  Cha-no-yu 
was  not  a  tea-guzzling  bout,  but  rather 
an  assembling  for  intellectual  pastime 
initiated  by  the  performance  of  a  rite 
that  symbolized  much  to  the  Japanese 
mind.  An  anonymous  Japanese  writer 
has  said  "Tea  has  a  taste  of  a  mellow, 
yet  astringent  quality.  These  character- 
istics correspond  to  the  basis  of  the 
Zen  sect.  Religion  has  its  basis  in  con- 
templation, and  yet  sight,  taste,  scent, 
oral  sensation— all  these  faculties  are 
connected  with  contemplation. 

"In  one  sense,  the  Tea  Ceremony  may 
apparently  be  regarded  as  one  which 
secularized  and  rather  deteriorated 
sacred  religion.  But  on  the  other  hand 
is  not  the  Tea  Ceremony  a  kind  of  es- 
thetic culture  which  popularized  the 
profound  and  lofty  spirit  of  the  Zen 
sect?  In  the  Ashikaga  Period  especially 
(Continued  on  page  74) 


September,     1920 


73 


MISS    SWIFT 

11    EAWJT    SSTH    SSTREET 
XEW    VOKK 

INTERIOR 


FURNITURE,  Itt-VX«iIIVCiS, 
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is  the  home  where  Johnson's  Prepared 
Wax  is  used  upon  furniture,  woodwork, 
floors  and  linoleum.  Johnson's  Prepared 
Wax  Is  the  ideal  furniture1  pulish — but  it 
does  more  than  merely  polish — it  renders 
the  same  service  as  a  piece  of  plate  glass 
over  a  desk,  table  or  dresser-top. 


JOHNSON'S 

Aasfv  ' Liquid  ~  Povdtrvd 

PREPARED  WAX 


Johnson's  Prepared  Wax  saves  much  of 
the  time  now  spent  In  mopping  and  clean- 
ing, and  takes  the  drudgery  from  dusting, 
Johnson's  Prepared  Wax  has  a  form  for 
every  use : 


Paste — The    perfect    floor   polish  —  wood, 

linoleum  or  tile. 
Liquid — For  polishiriB  furniture,  woodwork, 

eathcr   Roods    and   automobiles. 
Poudcrcd — For  a  perfect  dancing  surface. 


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House     &     Garden 

The   Japanese   Tea   Ceremony 

(Continued   from    page    72) 


the  direct  contact  between  them  is  un- 
deniable. In  modern  times  the  relation 
does  not  necessarily  exist,  but  indirectly 
one  is"~in  touch  with  the  other." 

A  Tea  Drama 

Okakura-Kakuzo  writes  (The  Book 
of  Tea)  "The  tea-room  was  an  oasis  in 
the  dreary  waste  of  existence,  where 
weary  travelers  could  meet  to  drink 
from  the  common  spring  of  art-appreci- 
ation. The  ceremony  was  an  impro- 
vised drama,  whose  plot  was  woven 
about  tea,  the  flowers  and  the  paint- 
ings. Not  a  color  to  disturb  the  tone 
of  the  room,  not  a  sound  to  mar  the 
rhythm  of  things;  not  a  gesture  to  ob- 
trude upon  the  harmony,  not  a  word  to 
break  the  unity  of  the  surroundings,  all 
movements  to  be  performed  simply  and 
naturally — such  were  the  aims  of  the 
tea-ceremony."  Again  this  author  writes 
"Manifold  indeed  have  been  the  con- 
tributions of  the  tea-masters  to  art. 
They  completely  revolutionized  the 
classical  architecture  and  interior  deco- 
ration. .  .  .  All  the  celebrated  gardens 
of  Japan  were  laid  out  by  the  tea- 
masters.  Our  pottery  would  probably 
never  have  attained  its  high  quality  of 
excellence  if  the  tea-masters  had  not 
lent  to  it  their  inspiration,  the  manu- 
facture of  the  utensils  used  in  the  tea 
ceremony  calling  forth  the  utmost  ex- 
penditure of  ingenuity  on  the  part  of 
our  ceramists.  .  .  .  Many  of  our  textile 
fabrics  bear  the  names  of  tea-masters 
who  conceived  their  color  and  design. 
It  is  impossible  indeed  to  find  any  de- 
partment of  art  in  which  the  tea-mas- 
ters have  not  left  marks  of  their  genius. 
In  painting  and  lacquer  it  seems  almost 
superfluous  to  mention  the  immense 
service  they  have  rendered." 

For  Collectors 

Collectors  of  Japanese  art  objects  will 
find  many  beautiful  pieces  connected 
with  the  Cha-no-yu  still  attainable. 
New  York,  Boston,  Philadelphia,  Wash- 
ington, Chicago  and  San  Francisco  are 
excellent  browsing  grounds,  and  the 
great  public  sales  of  oriental  art  objects 
held  in  New  York  throughout  each  sea- 
son for  which  carefully  prepared  de- 
scriptive catalogues  go  out  in  advance 
to  permit  the  bidding  by  mail  of  dis- 
tant collectors  often  disperse  collections 
that  contain  Cha-no-yu  treasures  which 
chance  so  often  places  within  the  pos- 
sibilities of  a  moderate  purse.  The 
Japanese  Nihon  Fuzoki  Shi  gives  the 
following  list  of  Cha-no-yu  utensils  of 
special  importance:  Cha-ire,  Tea-jar; 
Cha-ire  Fukuro,  Silk  bag  for  enclosing 
the  tea-par;  Cha-sen,  the  Tea-whisk; 
Haboki,  the  Feather  Brush;  Kogo,  In- 
cense Box;  Gotoku,  Kettle-holder;  Hai- 
no-Nabe,  Ash-box ;  Cha-wan,  Tea  Bowl ; 
Ido-cha-wan,  also  Tea  Bowl;  Tem- 
moku,  a  large  Tea  Bowl ;  Fukusa,  Silk 
Cover;  Cha-kin,  Tea  Napkin;  Chasazi 
or  Chahi,  a  spoon-shaped  Tea-measure; 
Hishaku,  Water-dipper;  Hibashi,  Fire 
Tongs,  used  like  chop-sticks;  Kwan, 
Split  Rings  to  lift  the  kettle;  Kama, 
Kettle;  Furo,  Stove  used  in  summer; 
Mizu-zashi,  Fresh-water  Jar;  Haijo, 
Tool  used  in  arranging  the  ashes  with 
a  surface  pattern ;  Chizukei,  Bamboo 
Flower-stand;  Kake  Hana  Ike,  Hang- 


ing Flower-basket;  Jizai,  Pot-hook  for 
suspending  kettle  above  the  fire;  Kama- 
shiki,  Bamboo  Mat  for  the  kettle; 
Setto,  Cover  for  the  Stove;  Kankei, 
Lamp-stand;  Ro,  Fireplace  Iron  Frame, 
for  winter  use;  Sumi-tori,  Charcoal 
basket;  Sukia  Ando,  Paper  Lantern; 
Mizu  Koboshi,  Waste  Basin;  Cha-usu, 
Tea-mill.  Of  course,  the  collector  will 
turn  to  the  Tea-jars,  Tea-bowls,  Lacquer 
Boxes,  Bronze  Vases  and  Incense-burn- 
ers for  his  field. 

Japanese  Pottery 

The  Japanese  pottery  is  most  varied. 
Mr.  Charles  Holme  says  "Some  wares, 
such  as  the  ancient  ones  of  Shigaraki 
and  Iga,  are  fashioned  in  an  earth  al- 
most as  coarse  as  fine  gravel.  Others, 
such  as  those  of  Satsuma  and  Is6,  are 
of  great  fineness,  and  the  porcelain  of 
Hirado  is  justly  celebrated  for  the  ex- 
treme delicacy  of  its  paste.  The  Raku 
ware  of  Kyoto  is  somewhat  soft  and 
tender,  while  the  products  of  the  Bizen 
province  have  an  almost  metallic  hard- 
ness .  .  .  the  soft  paste  of  the  Raku 
bowls,  destined  to  contain  hot  tea,  and 
by  the  custom  of  the  Cha-no-yu  to  be 
clasped  in  both  hands  in  the  act  of 
drinking,  is  especially  suitable,  being  a 
feeble  conductor  of  heat,  to  the  pur- 
pose required.  A  bowl  made  of  it 
could  not  fail  to  be  much  more  agree- 
able in  use  than  one  of  porcelain;  and, 
moreover,  it  would  retain  the  heat  in 
the  liquid  for  a  much  longer  period. 
The  remarkable  hardness  of  Bizen  stone- 
ware adapts  it  to  use  as  incense-burners 
or  pots  to  contain  fire,  and  it  is  there- 
fore often  employed  for  that  purpose. 
...  It  is  a  noteworthy  fact  that  on 
most  examples  of  old  Japan  ware,  how- 
ever they  might  be  otherwise  enameled 
or  decorated,  certain  portions  were  left 
uncovered,  so  as  to  expose  the  earth  of 
which  they  were  composed.  This  is 
especially  the  case  in  jars  and  bowls 
used  in  the  Tea  Ceremony.  The  glaze 
upon  these  was  usually  so  applied  as 
to  leave  bare  the  lower  exterior  part  of 
the  vessel.  This  method  had  two  ad- 
vantages: the  bottom  of  the  object  was 
kept  clear  of  the  irregularities  that 
would  be  caused  by  the  uneven  running 
of  the  glaze  upon  it,  and  it  permitted 
the  earth  to  be  inspected  and  criticized 
by  the  guests — an  important  part  of 
the  ceremony." 

Korean  Pottery 

The  Japanese  have  always  valued 
the  early  Korean  potteries  most  highly, 
and  the  collector  will,  of  course,  hope 
to  add  some  examples  of  such  wares  to 
the  Japanese  wares  of  Iga,  Kyoto,  Sat- 
suma, Seto  and  Soma.  Even  in  the 
time  of  Taiko  Hideyoshi  a  sum  amount- 
ing to  several  thousand  dollars  was  not 
thought  too  high  a  price  to  pay  for 
some  rare  Tea  Bowl  of  Seto  Ware,  and 
still  greater  prices  were  then  paid  for 
rare  Korean  bowls. 

An  outline  of  the  various  sorts  of 
ceramic  wares  of  Japan  cannot  well  be 
given  here  within  the  limits  of  this 
article;  the  writer's  intention  has  only 
been  to  suggest  to  the  lover  of  things 
beautiful  the  wealth  of  interest  to  be 
found  in  the  art  objects  of  the  Japanese 
Tea  Ceremony. 


September,     1920 


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76 


House     &     Garden 


Without  a  Venti- 
lator, greasy  fumei 
from  the  iitchrn 
t  through  every 
room 


Ventilator  Easily  Installed  in  fart  of  window  or  wall 

A  New  Day  in  the  Kitchen 
—  and  the  Home 

Protect  the  fine  things  in  your  home  now  being 
soiled  by  the  grease-carrying  fumes  that  cooking 
daily  sends  through  your  home — even  past  closed 
doors — laying  a  film  for  destroying  dust  on  your 
decorations,  pictures,  curtains,  walls,  etc.  Pre- 
serve their  fresh  cleanliness  by  installing  an 


itcnenj> 


entilator 


Learn  the  comfort  —  the  joy  —  of  working  in  a 
kitchen  where  the  air  is  always  clean,  always 
fresh  with  abounding  energy  —  free  from  the 
taint  and  discomfort  of  cooking  odors,  smokey  and 
steamy  air  —  the  new  day  of  lighter  housework. 

Moderate  in  price.  Easily  installed  in  part  of 
window  or  in  wall.  Connected  with  any  elec- 
tric light  socket.  Costs  but  a  cent  an  hour.  Fully 
guaranteed. 

Go  today  to  your  hardware  store  or  electrical 
dealer  and  see  the  Ilg  Kitchen  Ventilator  in  oper- 
ation; or  write  us  direct  for  illustrated  literature. 
The  Ilg  is  the  only  ventilating  fan  with  the  fully 
enclosed  self-cooled  motor — used  in  thousands  of 
restaurants,  hotels,  homes,  offices,  stores,  factories, 
etc. 


Ilg  Electric  Ventilating  Co. 

162  Whiting  Street        -         Chicago,  Illinois 


The   marble   top  table  and  chairs   here  are  finished  in  white 
enamel,  a  good  kitchen  color 


Furnishing    Your    Kitchen 

(Continued  from  page  57) 


and  pine  for  the  cheaper  kinds  of  top. 

The  marble  top  table  is  the  royal 
pastry  table,  which,  of  course,  though 
not  a  luxury,  is  an  extra  table.  Fancy 
a  seven  foot  marble  slab  2J/j"  thick! 
Isn't  it  like  an  Alma  Tadema  concep- 
tion !  The  pastry  table  usually  has  a 
rack  of  some  sort  beneath  it,  either 
slatted  or  solid.  This  rack  may  be  half 
shelf  and  half  electric  plate  warmer. 
In  smaller  homes  the  pastry  table  of  3' 
length  is  most  convenient  with  a  some- 
what thinner  marble  top  or  glass  top. 

The  top  of  the  cook's  table  is  some- 
times divided  into  two  parts,  one  part 
made  of  marble  or  glass  for  pastry  work 
and  the  other  part  of  polished  wood 
for  ordinary  pursuits.  This  effects  the 
saving  of  a  table  if  the  cooks  do  not 
squabble  or  if  there  is  but  one  cook 
and  little  room ! 

The   cook's   table   is   placed   opposite 


the  range  and  has  a  7'  high  pot  rack 
attached. 

The  legs  of  most  of  these  high-grade 
tables  are  tipped  with  metal  to  keep 
them  unspotted  from  the  washings  of 
the  floor.  The  trimmings,  too,  rre  of 
the  same  metal,  formerly  called  German 
silver. 

It  would  not  be  a  bad  idea  to  have 
a  metallic  tip  of  some  sort  put  on  the 
legs  of  the  less  expensive  tables,  to 
keep  them  from  wearing  and  to  main- 
tain a  rigidity  well  beloved  in  tables. 
For  there  is  no  h~ppiness  in  table  tip- 
ping outside  of  the  spiritual  seance! 

Kitchen  Cabinets 

A  kitchen  cabinet  is  a  thing  of  duty 

and  a  joy  forever.    It  is  first  cousin  to 

the   table   and   really   is   but   the   table 

extended    and    expanded    into    drawers 

(Continued  on  page  78) 


Space  prevents  showing  all  the  various  kinds 

of    cabinets.     This    design    is    of    wood,    with 

round    corners    and    an    enamel    table    top. 

Courtesy  of  Wasmuth-Endicott  Co. 


September,     1920 


77 


KAUFFMAN 

Radiator  Shields 


will 
PROTECT  DECORATIONS 

and 

ADD  to  the  APPEARANCE 
of  YOUR  ROOMS 


Thousands 
in  use. 

They  catch 
the  dust  and 
hold  it. 

Adds 
humidity 
also  if  you 
want  it. 

GLASS, 
MARBLE, 

OR 

METAL 
TOPS 


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Equipped  with    Kernerator 

Residence  of  W.   F.   Wallace.   Winnetka,   111. 

Architects:     Brown  A  Wolcott 


INCLUDE  a 

Kernerutor  in 
the  plans  for  your 
new  home,  and 
your  maids  will 
tell  you  that  dis- 
posing of  house- 
hold waste  by 
burning  is  by  far 
the  better  way. 


'ERNERATOR 


Built-in-tKe-CHimnev 


abolishes  unsightly  refuse  cans.  It  destroys  without  odor  or 
expense,  kitchen  refuse,  wrapping  paper,  paper  boxes,  faded 
flowers,  rags.  Requires  no  fuel  other  than  the  dry  waste  that 
is  thrown  in  a  handy  kitchen  hopper.  It  dries  the  wet  waste 
so  it  can  burn.  Bottles,  tin  cans  and  other  non-combustible 
materials  are  also  disposed  of. 

It  is  buOt  at  the  base  of  the  chimney  when  the  building  is  erected  and 
requires  little  extra  masonry. 
The  Kernerator  is  found  in  85%  of  all 
new   apartment   houses   and   fine    resi- 
dences  in    communities   where   we   are 
established. 

SANITARY— ECONOMICAL 

CONVENIENT— ODORLESS 
If  you  are  building,  ask   your  architect  or 
send  postal  fur  Illustrated  booklet. 

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Trith  the      i 

Duple^i- 
Alca^ar 


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CAREFUL      housewives    are    turning    to    the    economical 
three- fuel    DUPLEX    ALCAZAR    Range    to    solve    the 
problem  of  better,  quicker,  easier  cooking  at  lets  fuel 
cost. 

The  DUPLEX  ALCAZAR  is  the  original  two-ranges-in- 
one.  It  is  a  remarkable  fuel  saver  because  it  burns  gas 
and  coal  or  wood,  singly  or  together,  and  can  be  instantly 
changed  from  one  to  the  other.  And  the  substantial  saving 
shows  in  reduced  gas  and  coal  bills. 

Besides,    with    a    DUPLEX    ALCAZAR    your    kitchen    will 

be  comfortable   the   year    'round.      In   summer,   to   keep    cool. 

cook  with   gas.      In  winter,   for  warmth,   use  coal   or  wood. 

Ask   your   dealer   to   show  you    the    DUPLEX   ALCAZAR 

that  should  be  in  your  kitchen. 

For  sections  where  oat  if  not  to  6«  had.  there 
it  a  DLI-LKX  ALCAZAH  now  loi  OIL  and 
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THE  MAGIC  of  a  TURNED  FAUCET 

Where  a 

pFFMAN 

Instantaneous    * 
Automatic  Water  Heater 

is  part  of  the  equipment  is  expressed  by 
unlimited  quantities  of  HOT  water — in- 
stantly—automatically. 

A  turn  of  the  faucet,  and  lo ! — hot  blue 
flames  from  the  Hoffman  Bunson  burner 
envelop  the  copper  tubing  and  fresh  hot 
water  begins  to  flow  that  very  second — 
continuing  as  long  as  the  faucet  is  turned 
on. 

Turn  off  the  faucet  and  the  gas  is  automatically  shut  off — 
the  flames  extinguished.  You  pay  for  the  gas  that  is  used  in 
heating  the  water  only — not  in  keeping  it  hot  as  in  the  old, 
expensive  tank  system. 

The  Hoffman  patent  thennostatic  control  prevents  overheat- 
ing and  insures  fresh  hot  water. 

Every  Hoffman  heater   is  guaranteed.     There   is  a   size   for     X 
every    purpose,    from    the    cottage-garage-apartment    types   ^' 
to  the  largest  heaters  for  big  residences  and  institutions.  ^       the 
The  Hoffman  Water  Heater  was  the  only  water  heater     ,»       Hoflman 
that  secured  an  award  at  the  Panama  Pacific  Inter-      /    obelfn   AM.' 


national  Exposition. 

Hoffman  engineers  will  be  interested  in 
your  heating  problems-simply  mail  the  , 
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Name 

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78 


Elcrtric  annul fiir  (S<i/>  mid  Wood  U/insit' 
drsinnrd  nnd  built  for  W.  C,  Laiblin, 
Cnr.firc/ts  Luke,  Ohio. 


Are  You  Satisfied 
With  Your  Kitchen  Range? 

Does  the  fire  start  quickly  and  burn  evenly?  Is  the 
heat  distributed  equally  on  all  sides  of  the  oven,  insuring 
uniformly  cooked  and  appetizing  looking  food?  Is  your 
range  easy  to  clean  and  does  it  give  you  satisfactory  re- 
sults at  a  low  fuel  cost? 


does  not  look  like  the  ordinary  kitchen  range.  It  gives  distinction 
to  your  kitchen.  It  has  no  needless  fancy  work  that  takes  valuable 
time  to  clean.  Refuse  cannot  gather  under  the  range  for  the  angle 
base  rests  squarely  on  the  hearth  and  stray  drafts  cannot  cool  the 
ovens.  A  Deane  Range  requires  a  surprisingly  small  amount  of 
fuel.  This  saving  alone  soon  helps  to  pay  for  it. 

Deane  Ranges  are  designed  specially  to  meet  your  personal 
requirements.  The  number  of  persons  to  be  served,  the  fuels  most 
easily  obtainable  and  the  space  available  all  are  considered.  The 
ranges  are  sturdily  built  of  Armco  rust-resisting  iron  in  a  manner 
to  insure  the  longest  possible,  useful  career.  If  they  cost  more 
they  are  easily  worth  the  difference. 

These  features  are  to  be  found  in  all  Deane  Ranges  whether  they 
are  heated  by  coal,  wood,  electricity,  gas,  natural  gas,  gasolene  gas, 
or  any  combination  of  these  fuels. 

Stop  to  consider  how  much  more  home  comfort  you  would  enjoy 
if  you  had  the  right  kitchen  range.  Outline  your  requirements  and 
we  will  gladly  make  recommendations  and  will  send  you  our  book- 
let "The  Heart  of  the  Home."  Use  the  attached  coupon. 

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BRAMHALL,  DEANE  CO., 

263-265  West  36th  St.,  New  York. 

Please  send  me  "The  Heart  of  the  Home." 

How  many  in  family  ? 

Do  you  entertain  extensively  1 

What  fuels  are  available  ? 

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.4  special  sink  cabinet  provides  space  jor  soap  and  brushes.    It  is 
made  in  the  same  general  style  as  the  unit  cabinets 

Furnishing    Your    Kitchen 

(Continued  from  page  76) 


and  shelves  and  closets.  It  signifies  the 
demand  of  the  modern  housewife  for  a 
shipshape  tool  chest  with  all  the  ma- 
terials ready  to  her  hand,  so  that  there 
may  be  no  reaching,  stretching,  or  re- 
lay races  around  the  kitchen  in  the 
preparation  of  the  recurring  daily  meals. 
For  the  most  part  these  cabinets  are 
movable.  That  is,  they  are  not  built 
into  the  walls  of  the  room.  At  present, 
however,  architects  are  planning  for 
them  as  stationary  and  essential  parts 
of  the  kitchen  equipment. 

Materials 

Steel  and  wood  are  the  materials  out 
of  which  the  cabinet  is  made.  The 
steel  ones  are  better  in  many  ways  than 
the  wooden  types  because  they  are 
easier  to  clean  and  are  more  protected 
against  vermin.  However,  the  wooden 
cabinets  which  are  built  with  rounded 
corners  are  a  close  second  to  the  steel 
cabinet,  since  these  corners  cannot  be- 
come a  receptacle  for  food  waste  and 
are  practically  vermin  proof.  Wooden 
cabinets  are  finished  in  a  hard  enamel 
paint  and  can  be  washed  with  impunity. 

Some  kitchen  cabinets  are  equipped 
with  a  rolling  door  which  folds  up- 
wards ;  others  have  swinging  doors.  The 
swinging  door,  although  it  extends  into 
the  room  a  few  inches,  has  the  con- 
venience of  being  able  to  hold  extra 
little  racks  for  extra  little  things,  such 
as  small  bottles,  market  lists,  and  the 
like. 

Never  fill  your  cabinet  too  full  of 
things,  as  they  are  prone  to  fall  down 
and  jangle  the  nerves  of  the  worker, 
thus  really  defeating  the  purpose  for 
which  the  cabinet  is  built,  which  is 
maximum  convenience. 

In  the  illustration  you  can  see  the 
arrangement  of  one  kitchen  cabinet, 
which  will  give  you  a  general  idea  of 
their  general  scope. 

Besides  the  table  top,  which  is  used 


as  a  moulding  board,  there  are  places 
for  the  flour  bin,  sugar  container,  bread, 
cake,  pots,  pans,  rolling  pin,  cutlery, 
jars,  dishes,  marketing  slips,  and  even 
the  favorite  cook  book. 

The  kitchen  cabinet  is  a  boon  to  the 
small  housekeeper  and  is  becoming  so 
appreciated  for  its  concentration  of  work 
and  saving  of  steps  that  even  the  owners 
of  large  homes  insist  on  installing  it. 
That  is  why  architects  are  including 
the  kitchen  cabinet  in  their  plans.  It 
means  a  saving  of  "iS'/r  of  toil  and 
thus  becomes  a  factor  in  making  ser- 
vants willing  to  stay  with  you.  Where 
there  are  no  servants  employed  Mrs. 
Wife  gets  the  benefit ! 

There  are  many  smaller  cabinets  on 
the  market.  The  sink  closet,  which 
contains  all  the  sink  soap,  swabs  and 
brushes,  a  real  convenience  indeed,  as 
is  the  long  and  narrow  broom  closet, 
for  brooms  and  cleaning  materials.  Un- 
til the  housewife  has  her  brooms  prop- 
erly garaged  her  nerves  never  will  be 
entirely  rested. 

Dealers  and  manufactures  are  ready, 
in  fact,  to  make  any  sort  of  cabinet  for 
you  if  they  are  not  in  stock.  Don't  be 
bashful,  get  what  you  need  for  your 
kitchen — but  never  get  more  than  you 
can  use. 

Small  neat  white  cabinets  are  made, 
to  fit  corners  as  well  as  flat  spaces,  and 
give  the  kitchen  the  efficient,  clean 
look  of  the  laboratory. 

Shelving  Units 

Steel  shelving  and  built-in  kitchen 
cabinets  are  growing  more  and  more 
popular.  Stationary  shelves,  built  once 
and  for  all,  can  be  installed,  or  you 
can  begin  with  a  few  units  and  as  you 
require  more  they  can  be  bolted  on  to 
what  you  have,  just  like  sectional  book 
cases. 

These  shelves  are  covered  with  three 
(Continued  on  page  82) 


The   kitchen  stool 

should  be  not_  less 

than  24"  high 


September,     1920 


Forget 

the  Weather 

Outside 


The  severe  rains  of  summer  or 
the  driving  winds  and  snows 
of  the  coldest  winter  never 
interfere  with  sleeping  com- 
fort in  rooms  equipped  with 


I  The  Adjustable  Metal  Vent  i  lator  1 
For  Windows  -Trnnsoms-Door  Panels  1 


By  replacing  the  lower  window  screen  with  a  section  of  Airolite,  any 
bedroom  or  old-style  sleeping  porch  can  be  converted  into  a  fresh  air 
sleeping  room.  The  upward  tilt  and  flanges  of  the  louvers  prevent 
drafts,  insure  privacy  and  give  complete  weather  protection.  Built-in 
screen  excludes  troublesome  insects.  Louvers  quickly  and  silently 

adjusted  to  any  desired  degree 
t>f  ventilation  by  slight  pres- 
sure on  a  thumb  button.  Safe- 
guards against  burglars. 

Airolite  is  made  to  fit  any  open- 
ing or  to  match  any  finish. 

In  writing  for  prices,  give  sizes 
of  lower  glass  sash. 

Complete   Information    on 
Request 

THE  CASKEY-DUPREE 
MFG.  CO. 

AIROLITE  DEPARTMENT 
Marietta,  Chio. 

Also  Manufacturers  of 

"Window-Wall,    for    the    Sleeping 

Porch    DeLuxe" 


Water  Supply- 

without  a  Tank 


—no  attic  tank 
—no  elevated  tank 
—no  pneumatic  tank 
—no  tank  at  all! 

Tin-   last   word   in  water  supply   system  development— 


Tankless  AVater  System 


Von    open    the    faucet,    and    the    ] 
stream  of   water  direct  from  the 


imp   delivers   a    steady 
ell  or  other  source  of 


....  the  faucet  and  the 
e,  rot.  rust  or  collapse. 
.lintain.  No  liclts.  no 


supply,   under  ample  pressure.     (' 

pump  slops.     No  tank  to  It-uk,  fn-i 

No  tank  to   pay   for,    install 

Uears,  no  valves. 

Note  what  n   cnuiiiart.    simple,    yet  eomplete   system   this  Is.      It 

lemilres    tin-    liiiiiiinuiiL    <if    attention.      The    WKSTCO    I'ump    has 

only   line   imivlliR   part     iluesn't   even    need  "lllnB.      Tin-    WKSTCO 

Systrin  is  easy  to  install  ami  ran  he  r\in  nft  regular  electric  light 

elreuit  or  farm    lii-'htiim  plant. 

Tlmusanils  of  WKSTCO  Tankless  Systems  arc  in  tally,  sucressful 

operation. 

Send  f<ir  Hull,  til,   C-7.  \vhieh  tells  the  story. 


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MOUNT.,  ILL. 


Soft,  Delightful  Water 


lor  bathing,  shampooing,  cooking  and  laundering 
can  now  be  delivered  to  every  faucet  in  your  house 
no  matter  how  hard  your  present  water  supply. 

A  small   Permutit  Softener   that  fits  conveniently 
Into  any  house  supply  system  will  turn  the  hardes 
water  softer  than  rain.     Simple  to  operate,  econom- 
ical. — Write    for    booklet    "Soft    Water    for    Every 
Home." 

The  <penmitit  Company 

44o  \  Fourth  Ave.  New^brk 


Offices  in  all  principal  cities 


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PUMP    COMPANY 

DAYKXl'ORT,  IA. 


THere's   a       es  pump 

for  every  purpose 


WINDOW    SHADES 

A  Luxurious  Necessity  For  Every  Handsome  Home 
At  a  Very  Low  First  Cost 

You  can  glorify  the  outward  beauty  of  your  home,  and  at  the  same 
time  add  greatly  to  the  daily  comfort  of  living  in  it. 

Athey  Perennial  Accordion-Pleated  "go-up-or-down"  Window  Shades 


glvo  you  perfect  control  of  both  Unlit  and 
ventilation;  combining  air-comfort  and  eye- 
r< unfurl  with  privacy. 

From  the  outilde.  they  give  the  effect  of 
expensive  Venetian  Blind*  or  puff  MM! 
yet  they  cont  less,  measured  by  yearn  of 
service,  than  the  cheapen  »prl  nit- roller 
H  hades. 

Athey  Perennial  Shade*  are  made  of  a 
superior  quality  of  Imperial  B«TiUMM 
weave  rout  II  cloth ;  reinforced  and  double - 
stitched  at  the  AOOOrdiflD-plMta.  They  an- 
rained  from  tlie  hot  torn,  lowered  from  the 
lop,  or  "bunched"  In  a  small  space  any 


place   on    the    window,    by    the    easy    and    con- 
venient pull  of  cord*  at  the  sides. 

They  admit  the  breezes  without  flapping ; 
do  not  Interfere  with  opening  and  closing  of 
windows ;  and  allow  you  to  "follow  the 
Sun , ' '  so  HA  to  mini  1 1  light  and  a  i  r,  yel 
protect  rug«.  carpets  and  draperies  from 
direct  sunlight. 

An  "Athey-dresned"  house  beam  the  stamp 
of  a  fine  gentility;  has  an  air  of  distinction; 
and  Hives  Us  "Indwellern"  a  luxurious  MBit 
of  comfort  and  satisfaction. 

Send  for  a  sample — FREE 


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Alto  makerm  of  thf  famout  "Athey"  Clolh-lintd  weather  ttript 


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House     &     Garden 


BECAUSE  of 
their  cleanly, 
beautiful,  silver- 
like  appearance, 
"Wear-Ever" 
utensils  are  pre- 
ferred by  women 
who  wish  their 
kitchens  to  be  as 
modern  and  at- 
tractive as  the 
other  rooms  of  the 
home. 


Wear-Ever 


Aluminum  Cooking  Utensils 


"Wear-Ever"  uten- 
sils  are  the  most  eco- 
nomical utensils  you 
can  buy.  A  set  of 
"Wear-Ever"  is  an 
investment  that  pays 
big  dividends  by 
saving  food  and  fuel. 

"Wear-Ever"  uten- 
sils are  made  in  one 
piece  from  hard, 
thick  sheet  alumi- 
num without  joints 
or  seams  —  cannot 
chip  nor  rust. 

Replace  utensili  that  wear,  out 
with  uUniill  that  "Wear-Evrr" 
The  Aluminum  CooklDg  Utensil  Co. 

New  Kentiotton,  Pa. 

In  Canada"Wear-Ever"  utensils  are 

made  by  Northern  Aluminum  Co., 

Ltd.,  Toronto,  Ont. 


This  small  iUunlrathm  sliinrs  haw  a  Dunham  Radiator 
Trap  /fwfcs  irlien  Jilted  to  a  radiator.  The  Trap  in  perma- 
nently atljuateit  at  tile  factory—  nei-er  needs  attention. 

New  Life  For  Old  Heating  Systems 

Did  your  steam  radiators  leak,  knock  and  gurgle  last 
winter  ?  Were  they  half-hot  ?  Did  you  have  to  force 
the  steam  pressure  up  to  five  or  six  pounds  to  get 
things  warmed  up? 

If  you  can  say  one  "Yes",  you  will  welcome  an  easy 
way  to  overcome  such  troubles  —  whether  they  have 
been  in  a  home,  apartment,  office,  store  or  factory  — 
for,  above  all,  you  want  heating  comfort. 

Such  troubles  are  due  to  chronic  clogging-up  of  the 
heating  system.  The  air  and  water  (condensed  steam) 
interfere  with  the  circulation  of  the  steam.  Remove 
these  trouble-makers  through  a  separate  pipe,  and  you 
get  perfect  heating  comfort  —  more  hours  of  comfort 
per  ton  of  coal.  And  this  is  exactly  what  is  accom- 
plished by  the  Dunham  Heating  Service. 


HEATING    SERVICE 


This  Service  is  based  upon  the  Dunham  Radiator  Trap  — 
a  small  device  connected  to  each  radiator,  and  from  which  a 
small  pipe  leads  to  the  cellar  or  boiler  room.  Without  letting 
an  ounce  of  steam  escape,  the  Dunham  Trap  automatically 
removes  the  trouble-making  air  and  water.  The  steam  then 
circulates  freely  at  low  pressure;  radiators  quietly  get  hot  all 
over  ;  you  have  all  the  heat  you  want,  when  you,  want  it. 

It  will  repay  you  many,  many  times  to  have  your  present 
steam  heating  system  "Dunhamized".  Tell  us  exactly  what 
"kind  of  a  building  you  have,  or  intend  to  build,  and  we  will 
make  our  recommendations  accordingly.  Do  this  now  —  be- 
fore winter  gets  closer. 

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Facror.es:  Toront0t  Canada 


Branches    in   36    cities  In 
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Good  for  Years  of  Service 


It's  the  fifth  or  tenth  year  that  proves  the 

difference  between  a  yood  fence  and  a  cheap 

one. 

Anchor  Post  Fences  are  built  to  last.     The 

posts    are    firmly    anchored ;    the    fence    does 

not  sad  or  rust.     Built   to   any   height    and 

in   many  designs. 

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our    interesting    catalogue. 


ANCHOR    POST    IRON    WORKS 

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Boston,    Philadelphia,    Hartfo-d,    Cleveland, 

Greenville,    S.    C.,    Chicago 


Furnishings 
i  and  Decorations 
For  Fall 

!  After  the  slip  covers  come 
:  off  the  furniture  and  the 
screen-doors  come  down, 
and  you  begin  to  figure 
how  long  your  coal  will 
last  —  then  you're  faced 
with  a  multitude  of  things 
to  be  done  that  have 
waited  through  the  hot 
weather. 

New  draperies  to  be 
bought,  your  oriental  rug 
to  be  cleaned  and  mended, 
some  of  the  electrical 
labor  savers  to  be  investi- 
gated, the  respective 
merits  of  French,  English, 
or  American  wall-papers 
to  be  considered  —  not 
such  terribly  important 
questions,  but — can  you 
decide  any  of  them  off 
hand  ? 

Wouldn't  you  like  to  have 
some  facts  at  your  dis- 
posal? Then  write  to  the 

HOUSE  &  GARDEN 

Information     Service 

You'll  receive  a  reply  that 
will  surprise  you  for  its 
practicality,  and  the 
usable  details  given  — 
names,  addresses,  the 
character  of  work  done, 
the  quality  of  merchan- 
dise sold. 

House  &  Garden  knows 
all  the  makers  and  sellers 
of  everything  that  goes 
into  your  house.  And 
whether  you  want  a  whole 
new  scheme  of  decoration 
or  a  half  dozen  clothes- 
pins, or  the  best  way  to 
wash  woollens,  the  easiest 
way  is  to  ask  House  & 
Garden's  Information  Ser- 
vice. 

Information    Service    Coupon 

HOUSE  &  GARDEN 

Information  Service 

19  West  44th  St.,  New  York 

I  have  checked  below  the  subjects 
I'm  interested  in.  Please  send  me 
names  of  dealers  who  sell  these 
articles  and  arrange  for  me  to  re- 
ceive their  illustrated  booklets  and 
catalogues. 


.Furniture 
.Draperies 
.Rugs 
.Pianos 


.  .  Lighting 

Fixtures 
..Wall  Paper 

.  .Linen 
..Clocks 


Name 


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City  . . . 
State  .  . 


September,     1920 


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GUARANTEED    SUNFAST 
DFLAPERIES  &  UPHOLSTERIES 


Orinoka  Guaranteed  Sunfast 
Draperies  in  every  color  are 
permanently  beautiful.  Choose 
whatever  colors  you  wish,  hang 
the  draperies  at  your  sunniest 
windows;  they  will  not  fade, 
and  they  can  be  washed  and 
hung  up  again  as  colorful 
as  new. 

Orinoka  Guaranteed  Sunfast 
Draperies  come  in  a  wide  va- 
riety of  weaves,  patterns  and 
Colors — striped,  figured,  plain 


— for  every  room  and  every 
purpose.  It  is  not  enough  to 
merely  ask  for  Sunfast  goods, 
be  sure  you  specify  Orinoka 
Guaranteed  Sunfast  Draperies, 
and  insist  on  seeing  theOrinoka 
tag,  attached  to  every  bolt, 
with  this  guarantee: 

"These  goorfs  are  guaranteed 
absolutely  fadeless.  If  color 
changes  from  exposure  to  the  sun- 
light or  from  washing,  the  mer- 
chant is  hereby  authorized  to  re- 
place them  with  new  goods  or 
refund  the  purchase  price". 


THE  ORINOKA  MILLS,  New  York 


A    Cross-flood    of    Roscdalc   Xurscriee 

EVERGREENS 

Are   Ever   Beautiful 

NOW  is  the  time  and  Rosedale  is  the  place  to  buy  your  evergreens 
for  August  and  September  planting.  If  you  have  never  bought  here, 
your  tree-wise  friends  will  explain  why  you  should.  They  will  tell 
you  that  our  many-times-transplanted  trees  have  masses  of  fibrous 
roots. 

You  may  choose  from  pur  seventy  varieties  just  the  right  ones  to 
beautify  that  bare  spot  in  your  landscape.  In  spite  of  the  frenzy 
of  increasing  costs,  we  still  adhere  to  our  motto: 

"Prices  as   Low  as    Consistent   with   Highest    Quality" 

Plant  Rosedale  Peonies  This  Fall 

Enjoy  a  month  of  beautiful  bloom  every  year  by 
selecting  Rosedale  Peonies  in  early,  mid-season  and 
late  varieties.  Spec i a  Catalog  of  Peonies  and  other 
Perennials  now  ready. 

ROSEDALE    NURSERIES 

Home  of  Well-Grown  Kvergreens 
Box  H  TARRYTOWN,  N.  Y. 


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Dreer's 

Reliable  Spring  -  Blooming 
k         Bulbs 

DO  NOT  miss  the  joy  of  having 
a    bed    or   border    of    Bulbs 
next  Spring.    Plant  them  this  Fall 
as  early  as  you  can  and  success  is 
certain. 

We  import  the  very  highest  grades 
of  the  finest  varieties  and  offer  in  our 
Autumn  Catalogue  splendid  collec- 
tions of  Hyacinths,  Tulips,  Narcissus, 
Crocus,  Lilies,  etc.,  etc. 

The  Fall  is  also  the  time  to  set  out 
Roses,  Hardy  Perennial  Plants,  Vines, 
Shrubs,  etc.  Our  Autumn  Catalogue 
also  gives  a  complete  list  of  seasonable 
seeds,  plants  and  bulbs  for  out-doors, 
window  garden  and  conservatory. 

Mailed  free  la  anyone  mentioning  this  magazine 

Henry  A.  Dreer 

714-16  Che.tnut  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


BLUEBERRIES 

Sturdy  Nursery  Grown  Plants 
for  October  Shipment 

The  Blueberry,  although  Among  the  finest  of 
fruits  and  (he  finest  of  all  beme*,  for  pies,  is 
almost  unknown  in  the  average  garden.  This 
is  due  to  the  scarcity  of  nursery  grown  plants, 
the  only  kind  that  transplant  easily. 

We  have  to  offer  this  fall  some  excellent  nur- 
sery grown  plants — ideal  for  successful  re- 
sults in  the  home  garden.  The  plants  are 
very  hardy,  rapid  growers  and  heavy  bearers. 
Blueberries  can  be  planted  most  successfully 
in  the  autumn. 

The  flavor  of  the  Blueberry  is  almost  impos- 
sible of  description.  The  Blueb.  rry  is  in  a 
class  by  itself,  with  its  delicious  melting  flesh, 
full  of  rich  creamy  juice  and  a  delicate  wild 
taste  all  its  own.  Next  summer  when  you 
are  eating  luscious  Blueberry  pies  made  from 
berries  picked  from  your  own  bushes  you 
will  appreciate  the  wisdom  of  planting  Blue- 
berries. 

CULTURE  :  Blueberries  do  best  when  the  soil  in  which  they  are  planted  is 
slightly  acid.  Partly  rotted  oak  leaves  give  an  acid  property  to  the  soil.  Mulch 
your  plants  with  these  at  least  once  a  year  and  cultivate  some  of  the  leaves  into  the 
soil  itself'  Sulphate  of  Ammonia  and  acid  phosphates  are  the  two  best  chemical 
fertilizers  to  use. 

Write  today  for  our  illustrated  fall  Catalogue,  describing  Blue- 
berries; also  fruit  trees,  shrubs,  ornamentals  and  evergreens 

J.  G.  Mayo  &-  Co. 

800  Ellwanger  &-  Barry  Bldg.  Rochester,  N.Y. 


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House     &•     Garden 


EAUTY 

imperishable- 


MERICAN  Mag- 
nestone  Stucco  opens 
a  new  realm  in  distinctive 
building.  This  wonderful 
material  offers  untold  varie- 
gation of  artistic  construc- 
tion combined  with  permanency  and 
enduring  beauty. 

Fire  cannot  harm  it.     Water  cannot  de- 
cay or  cause  disintegration.     Unaffected 
by  expansion  or  contraction. 
American     Masnestone     Stucco      admits  ' 
wonderful  color  combinations  and  effects 
both  for  old  and  new  buildings. 


Consult  your  nrchitect  and  building  material 
dealer  or  write  us  about  wide  variety  of  American 
Magneslone  Flooring,  Plaster  or  Stucco  finishes 
when  planning  your  new  home  and  estate. 


AMERICAN 
MAGNESTQNE 


American  Magnestone  Corporation 
SPRINGFIELD  ILLINOIS 


Furnishing    Your    Kitchen 

(Continued  from  page  78) 


coats  of  enamel  baked  on  steel  and  are 
very  durable,  having  the  same  qualities 
as  the  good  table: — rigidity,  non-ab- 
sorptiveness,  and  ease  in  cleaning. 

They  are  'the  parallel  of  the  steel 
filing  case  in  the  office — and  that  is 
another  sign  that  the  kitchen  is  be- 
coming as  systematic  as  the  business 
sanctum.  Just  as  soon  as  the  home  ap- 
proximates the  efficiency  and  standard- 
ization of  the  office,  just  so  soon  will 
the  servant  problem  cease  to  be.  But 
we  are  not  discussing  the  millennium 
in  this  article. 

The  shelves  can  be  made  with  or 
without  doors.  Of  course  doors  are  a 
little  help  in  the  fight  against  dust,  yet 
even  they  are  not  infallible  enemies  of 
this  household  nuisance. 

Veiy  often  under  the  shelves  the 
plate  warmer  and  the  refrigerator  are 
placed.  Their  close  proximity  shows 
that  the  refrigerator  is  insulated  against 
the  heat  and  the  plate  warmer  is  in- 
sulated against  the  cold.  This  is  really 
an  object  lesson  in  the  possible  self- 
identification  of  good  apparatus. 

This  arrangement  will  work  well  both 
in  the  pantry  and  in  the  kitchen. 

Wooden  shelves  are  less  expensive 
than  the  steel  ones,  but  require  careful 
attention,  frequent  cleaning,  and  new 
coverings  at  intervals. 

Plate  Warmers 

In  speaking  about  the  above  luxurious 
pastry  and  cook's  tables,  we  touched  on 
the  matter  of  plate  warmers. 

In  small  homes  plate  warming  is  ac- 
complished by  ovens,  oven  tops,  or 
warming  plates  arranged  above  the 
ovens  or  stove.  In  larger  homes,  how- 
ever, where  guests  are  many  and  often 
and  plates  and  dishes  multitudinous, 
(he  electric  plate  warmer  has  come  to 
do  the  work. 

It  may  be  under  a  table,  as  we  have 
si-en  above  or  it  may  be  a  separate 
entity. 

The  doors  of  the  plate  warmer  are 
generally  of  the  sliding  variety  and 
are  of  a  special  make  of  iron,  trimmed 
with  steel  or  white  metal.  The  in- 
terior of  the  warmer  is  perfectly  in- 
sulated with  asbestos  and  other  ma- 
terials. It  does  not  warm  the  kitchen 
This  is  proved  by  the  possibility  of  its 
being  placed  next  to  a  refrigerator  with- 
out any  bad  results  to  the  ice. 

There  is  a  little  ruby  pilot  light  which 
tells  you  if  the  electricity  is  on  or  off, 
thus  obviating  the  chance  of  unneces- 
sary heat  getting  out  when  one  wishes 
to  find  out  whether  the  warmer  is  func- 
tioning or  not. 

The  electric  warmer  usually  stands  a 
little  higher  than  a  table,  but  does  not 
alter  the  size  of  the  table  when  built 
underneath  it. 

Chairs  and  Stools 

Since  the  kitchen  is  in  no  way  a 
lounge,  the  chair  in  the  kitchen  is  really 
only  another  tool  to  assist  in  the  work 
or  possibly  to  permit  a  few  moments 
of  relaxation.  Of  course,  it  is  quite 
obvious  that  in  some  kitchens  which 
are  a  combination  sitting  room,  living 
room  and  dining  room,  the  chair  and 


even  the  couch  are  real  comfort  factors. 
However,  this  type  of  room  is  not  be- 
ing considered  here. 

In  the  kind  of  kitchen  we  are  fur- 
nishing the  ordinary  modified  Windsor 
chair  is  as  good  a  model  as  any  we 
know,  and  can  and  should  be  finished 
to  match  the  rest  of  the  kitchen. 

The  stool  is  most  convenient  and 
should  be  about  24"  in  height,  because 
a  worker  can  work  efficiently  while 
sitting  on  this. 

The  chair  step-ladder  is  convenient 
in  rooms  that  have  had  to  build  high 
shelves  for  sufficient  storage  room,  lack 
of  space  being  the  only  excuse  for  such 
unreachable  shelves. 

There  is,  too,  the  ladder-stool,  which 
serves  the  same  purpose  as  this  chair 
step-ladder  combination. 

The  little  wooden  step  is  a  conveni- 
ence if  perchance  the  kitchen  maid  is 
not  an  Amazon  and  needs  a  few  more 
inches  added  to  her,  or  if  the  cook  hap- 
pens, too,  not  to  be  of  heroic  mould. 

In  small  kitchens  the  settle-table  is 
a  convenience.  For  when  a  bench  is 
needed  it  can  be  used  as  a  bench,  and 
presto !  when  a  table  is  needed,  it  is 
quickly  changed  into  a  table — the  two 
things  taking  but  the  space  of  one. 

Mats 

Stone,  composition,  tile,  and  even 
wood  floors  are  often  very  trying  to 
the  feet  and  back  of  the  kitchen  deni- 
zens. A  strip  or  two  of  linoleum  or 
cork  is  a  great  relief  as  it  adds  to  the 
unrelenting  floor  a  little  elasticity  and 
resiliency  which  takes  the  strain  off  the 
feet  and  makes  for  comfort  and  ease. 
These  materials  are  the  best,  for  they 
are  washable  and  non-absorbent,  and 
they  add  rather  than  detract  from  the 
beauty  of  the  surroundings.  If  strips 
are  not  usable,  mats  can  be  bought  or 
made  for  the  space  to  be  filled. 

Matching  Up 

It  is  quite  as  possible  to  have  uni- 
formity in  your  kitchen  as  well  as  in 
your  other  rooms.  Even  if  the  kitchen 
must  be  fixed  up  after  the  architect  has 
done  his  worst,  you  can  at  least  have 
the  same  color  scheme  throughout. 

There  are  on  the  market  today  kitchen 
furnishings  to  suit  every  pocket,  so 
there  is  really  little  excuse  for  a  kitchen 
to  look  heterogeneous  and  messy.  Fur- 
nishing a  kitchen  is  a  most  tempting 
problem,  especially  with  not  too  full  a 
purse.  The  trouble  is  mostly  that  peo- 
ple who  know  nothing  about  a  kitchen 
always  furnish  it,  because  it  is  con- 
sidered easy.  It  isn't  easy.  Even  after 
the  furnishings  are  bought  if  they  are 
not  placed  right  they  are  of  as  little 
value  as  if  they  did  not  exist. 

Little  has  been  accomplished  in  these 
articles  published  every  month  by 
HOUSE  &  GARDEN  if  the  reader  has  not 
learned  from  them  that  in  getting 
household  apparatus  the  first  and  great 
demand  is:  Know  your  manufacturer. 
And  the  second  is  as  important:  Buy 
the  best  you  can  afford  after  the  most 
careful  thought,  and  be  very  sure 
where  it  is  going  to  be  placed  when 
you  get  it. 


Growing     Your  Own      Orchids 

(Continued  from  page  47) 

doors  admit  all  the  air  necessary  in  the  used  to  bring  up  the  temperature  after 

winter.    But  in  larger  houses,  even  yen-  sundown.    During  the  day  the  sun  itself 

tilation   must   be   provided    for    in    the  will  furnish  the  additional  heat, 

way  of  a  small  window  in  an  unexposed  The  accommodation   of  the  plants  is 

section  of  the  house  which  can  be  raised  the  next  important  step,  and  means  of 

and  lowered  easily.    When  a  sun  parlor  hanging   plants  as  near  the   surface   of 

or  conservatory,  because  of  its  exposed  the  glass  as  possible  should  be  provided, 

position     in     relation     to     the     regular  as  it  is  essential  that  they  be  given  all 

dwelling,  cannot  retain  a  night  tempera-  the  sunlight  possible.  In  a  standard  hot- 

ture  as  high  as  45°,  an  oil  lamp  can  be  (Continued  on  page  84) 


September,     1920 


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Danersk  Decorative  Furniture 


Artistry  that  is  creative  becomes  power  stored  up  in  the  article 
of  furniture  in  which  it  is  expressed.  We  see  the  force  of  it  at 
work  in  each  person  who  comes  in  contact  with  a  beautifully 
planned  room.  It  is  constantly  contributing  satisfaction  and  giv- 
ing impulses  of  pleasure  that  are  positive  and  in  the  truest  sense 
animating. 

Put  thought  and  artistry  into  your  rooms.     Plan  your  furniture 
and  fabrics  so  that  they  will  present  a  unity  of  appeal.    DAXERSK 
FURNITURE  is  devised  according  to  fine  traditions  of  the  past 
and   each   selection    is   finished    for   those   who    use   it.     To    city 
dwellers  it  brings  charm  and  good  cheer  to  the  apartment. 
Buy  through  your  dealer,  decorator  or  direct. 
Send  fur  The  Danersk — A-9. 

Beautiful  sets  done  in  harmony  \yith  our  own  itnp.jrt.-itiniis  of  f.'ihrii-s, 
both  glazed  and  Unglazed,  on  exhibition  at 

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ROOKWOOD  PANELS  AND  POTTERY 

The  range  and  variety  in  color  and  form  that  are  charac- 
teristic of  Rookwood  Faience  and  Pottery  make  possible 
novelty  and  interest  in  the  embellishment  of  the  home. 

Many  small  articles  of  beauty  are  made  at 
the  Rookwood  Potteries.    Write  for  literature. 


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CINCINNATI,  OHIO 


hould    combine    dis- 
tinctive   beauty    with 


solid  comfort. 

This  low,  broad,  softly-cushion- 
ed, armchair  and  Ottoman  are 
built  to  satisfy  both  the  physical 
well-being  and  the  aes:hetic 
sense  of  the  most  exacting  pur- 
chaser of  The  Elgin  A.  Simonds 
Company  furniture. 
Exhibited  at  all  highest  grade 
furniture  stores. 


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Antique  Louis  XV  Armchair 

INTERIOR  DECORATIONS 
ANTIQUES 

33  East  57th  Street 
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House     &     Garden 


Attractive 


Home   Lighting 


These  charming  fixtures  are  quite 
in  the  spirit  of  the  Old  Masters. 
Designed  to  harmonize  with  furni- 
ture and  decorations  of  the  Adam, 
Hepplewhite,  Sheraton  and  Eigh- 
teenth Centurv  periods. 


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Colonial    Silver    finish * 39.80 

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Light  Antique   Bronze  finish $13.15 

West    of    Rockies 14.15 

Colonial  Silver  finish 15.80 

West    of    Rockies 16.80 

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EDWARD     MILLER 

Established   1844 

Meriden.    Connecticut 


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(Continued  jrom  page  82) 


house,  orchids  of  the  Odontoglossum 
species  are  placed  in  the  coolest  part  of 
the  house,  while  the  Cattleya  and 
Laelia,  which  require  more  heat,  are 
placed  on  the  stagings  where  the 
warmth  of  the  sun  is  stronger.  Still 
other  more  delicate  species  arc  hung 
close  to  the  glass.  This  same  arrange- 
ment can  be  reproduced  in  the  sun  par- 
lor. Cool  plants  can  be  placed  in  that 
section  of  the  parlor  receiving  less  sun 
heat  and  other  varieties  hung  from  the 
wood  frames  holding  the  glass  in  that 
section  where  the  sun  lasts  longest. 

In  the  hot  summer  months,  however, 
the  sun  is  much  too  hot  and  means  of 
shading  must  be  provided  if  the  plants 
are  to  be  protected.  It  is  more  or  less 
customary  to  associate  the  shading  of 
a  hot-house  with  a  preparation  akin  to 
whitewash  applied  only  to  that  side  of 
the  house  receiving  the  afternoon  sun. 
This  is  really  not  very  practical,  especi- 
ally where  the  plants  are  hung  near  the 
surface  of  the  glass,  for  while  the  white- 
wash does  break  the  rays  a  little,  it  does 
not  prevent  the  intense  heat  radiated 
by  the  glass.  Moreover,  the  ordinary 
whitewash  preparation  is  not  rain-proof 
and  will  wash  off.  It  is,  therefore,  best 
to  have  blinds  which  can  be  pulled 
down  as  required.  In  a  standard  hot- 
house, these  blinds  are  generally  fast- 
ened to  wooden  supports  possibly  six 
inches  from  the  glass  on  the  outside  in 
order  that  the  air  may  circulate  between 
the  blind  and  the  glass,  and  the  tend- 
ency is  for  cooler  temperature.  These 
blinds  can  also  be  made  use  of  during 
severe  winter  nights  as  a  protection 
against  sudden  drops  in  the  tempera- 
ture. On  dull  days,  they  must  be  rolled 
back  or  taken  off. 

Growing  Requirements 

Xow  that  the  heating  and  ventilating 
has  been  taken  care  of,  and  accommoda- 
tion for  the  plants  provided,  the  begin- 
ner must  look  over  his  collection  of 
plants  and  plan  how  to  give  them  the 
proper  amount  of  water  and  new  ma- 
terial to  grow  in  when  they  have  out- 
grown their  present  sized  pots.  This  is 
a  most  essential  point  in  successfully 
growing  orchids — how  much  water  to 
give  them. 

The  composition  of  peat,  or  of  peat 
and  moss,  is  the  nearest  approach  to 
the  fibrous  substance  of  the  tropics 
where  the  orchids  originally  come  from. 
In  potting  plants,  the  growers  provide 
good  drainage  which  they  accomplish 
by  filling  the  pots  about  one-third  with 
crocks.  They  then  carefully  surround 
the  roots  of  the  plant  with  peat,  placing 
pieces  of  crock  around  the  peat,  thus 
forming  a  broken  sustaining  wall,  and 
this  in  turn  is  placed  in  the  pot  firmly. 
Growers  are  always  most  willing  to 
show  how  to  pot  the  plants,  and  give 
any  instructions  and  information  they 
can  about  orchids. 

The  re-potting  of  plants  is  a  process 
that  is  in  operation  practically  all 
through  the  year,  with  the  exception  of 
a  few  short  months  in  the  winter  when 
only  the  plants  that  are  in  poor  condi- 
tion are  re-potted.  The  one  best  time  for 
potting,  however,  is  right  after  the  flow- 
ering season. 

Not  all  varieties  of  orchids  have  the 
same  flowering  nor  the  same  resting 
seasons,  although  none  blooms  more 
than  once  a  year.  A  beginner  can  so 
arrange  his  collection  of  cool-house 
orchids  as  to  have  a  plant  in  bloom  for 
practically  each  month  of  the  year.  The 
resting  season  sets  in  when  the  flower 
has  been  cut  off:  No  water  is  then 
given  except  a  little  now  and  then  to 
keep  the  plant  from  too  much  drying, 
if  the  cutting  is  done  during  the  hot 


summer  months.  After  a  month  or  so 
(some  plants  like  the  Odontoglossum 
and  Oncidium  require  a  longer  resting 

season)    the  plant  will   show  growth 

new  roots  will  appear  and  new  leads 
(shoots)  will  burst  forth.  The  resting 
season  is  over  now,  and  watering  is  to 
be  resumed. 

Watering 

The  best  way  to  water  plants  is  by 
immersing  them  into  a  vessel  filled 
with  water.  After  the  peat  is  well  sat- 
urated, they  are  put  back  where  the  sun 
will  dry  them.  Where  orchids  are  sus- 
pended, care  must  be  taken  that  after 
watering  their  drip  does  not  fall  on 
plants  placed  on  the  staging  below,  as 
this  tends  to  sour  the  peat.  No  more 
water  is  to  be  given  until  the  peat  is 
thoroughly  dry,  when  the  same  process 
is  repeated.  In  the  hot  summer  days, 
plants  require  watering  every  two  days 
or  so,  but  during  the  winter  months 
when  the  sun  heat  is  not  hot  enough  to 
dry  the  peat  quickly,  water  is  not  re- 
quired oftener  than  every  week  or  ten 
days.  In  case  of  uncertainty  as  to  the 
amount  of  water  any  given  plant  re- 
quires, it  is  always  best  to  give  it  less 
water  than  too  much,  as  more  harm 
is  done  through  too  much  water  than 
not  enough. 

My  miniature  hot-house  was  origi- 
nally built  by  amateurs  for  the  purpose 
of  growing  ferns  and  hot-house  plants 
with  a  minimum  of  heat.  With  this  in 
view,  its  base  was  built  3'  below  the 
level  of  the  soil,  which  of  course  is  in 
direct  contradiction  of  the  way  a  stand- 
ard orchid  house  should  be  built.  Being 
entirely  separate  from  the  dwelling,  it 
was  originally  heated  by  an  oil  lamp, 
but  later  by  an  ingenious  device:  an 
iron  coil  was  placed  inside  the  steam 
furnace  heating  the  entire  dwelling,  and 
a  hot  water  system  was  thus  installed 
and  conveyed  through  the  ground  solely 
for  the  hot-house. 

The  results  have  been  surprising. 
Being  only  9'  by  6'  and  T  high,  much 
too  narrow  for  a  center  stage,  a  shelf 
was  built  around  the  wall  low  enough 
to  allow  large  plants  to  be  placed  there 
without  being  too  close  to  the  side  win- 
dows, and  in  the  center  back,  plants  are 
hung  from  the  top  and  sides  of  the 
house.  The  collection  of  orchids  began 
with  an  inexpensive  Cattleya  Percival- 
iana,  which  is  the  easiest  growing  la- 
vender orchid,  and  gradually  included 
an  Odontoglossum,  an  Oncidium,  a  Cat- 
tleya Triana,  a  Dowiana,  which  is  an 
exquisite  orchid  of  a  yellow  texture,  and 
several  other  white  species. 

The  temperature  in  this  miniature 
hot-house  is  kept  at  about  50°  at  night 
and  60°  and  above  in  the  daytime. 
Orange  plants,  ferns,  heliotrope  and 
many  flowers  are  grown  and  serve  not 
only  to  keep  the  air  full  of  moisture,  but 
also  as  decoration.  These  plants  are 
placed  on  a  low  shelf  which  is  below 
the  one  used  for  the  orchids,  and  thrive 
very  well  in  the  partial  shade. 

Wearing  and  using  cut  orchids  as  dec- 
orations has  become  tremendously  pop- 
ular, and  the  price  for  these  blooms  is 
extremely  high.  This,  however,  is 
partly  justified  by  the  ban  on  the  im- 
port of  these  plants  from  South  America 
and  other  tropical  countries.  But  the 
popularity  of  growing  the  plants  and 
propagating  them  by  amateurs,  even  as 
is  done  with  palms,  ferns,  and  other 
plants,  is  only  in  its  inception.  Orchids, 
and  especially  the  cool-house  species, 
are  capable  of  being  understood,  given 
a  little  observation  and  a  love  of  flow- 
ers, as  readily  as  any  less  showy  and 
admirable  house  plant  and  the  results 
more  than  compensate  for  all  the  work. 


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fake  <y\3eitei~  Jooomd, 


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ALBERT  HERTER 
Presutent 


Chin-se  crackle  dancing  figure  mounted  on 
painte.t  wood  has?  and  wired  for  two  lights. 
The  shade  is  made  of  mocha  color  taffeta 
which  is  stretched  jlat  and  has  decorative  /ici/i- 
ets  of  flowers  combined  irith  a  lattice  design 
which  is  outlined  unth  Mtic  hraid. 


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WING'S    IRIS 

"A  sword  for  its  leaf  and  a  lily  for  its  heart." —  Ruskin. 


The  Iris,  taken,  as  a  single  plant  or  massed  in  the  border,  is 
of  surpassing  beauty.  Graceful  in  flower  and  leaf,  of  noble, 
stately  habit,  with  coloring  of  pearl-like  delicacy,  intense  bril- 
liancy, or  deep  velvety  richness,  the  plant  is  without  a  fault.  It 
is  of  easiest  culture  and  perfectly  hardy. 

Our  collection  is  one  of  the  largest  in  the  world,  and  includes 
the  rarest  and  loveliest  American  and  European  hybrids. 

The  following  collections  we  recommend;  they  furnish  an  in- 
finite variety  of  type  and  color. 


Collection  D. 
Price  $10.00 

Caprice Deep   Violet   Rose 

Cherubim Pinkish    Heliotrope 

Candelabrae Violet  Tigered  Brown 

Chester  Hunt Tale  and  Deep  Blue 

Ctsse  De  Courcy White  and  Lilac 

Dalmarius Pale   Blue  and  Amber 

Eldorado Bronze  and  Violet 

Her   Majesty Glowing  Rose 

Hiawatha Lavender  and  Purple 

Iris  King Old  Gold  and  Crimson 

Innoccnza Pure    White 

Jeanne  D'Arc White  Frilled  Lilac 

Juniata Bright  Blue 

Lohengrin Cattleya    Mauve 

Collection  E. 
Price  $5.00 

Canary    Bird Pale   Yellow 

Chester  Hunt Pale  and  Deep  Blue 

Chelles.  .Golden  Yellow  and  Red-Purple 

Darius Red,  Violet  and  Gold 

Fairy White  and  Soft  Blue 

Honorabilis Mahogany  and  Gold 

Iris  King Old  Gold  and  Crimson 

Jacquesiana Fawn    and   Red-Violet 

Juliette Snow-White  and  Violet 

Khedive Deep    Lavender 

Loreley Sulphur  and  Purple 


Tall  Bearded  Iris 

Actual  Value  $12.45 

Loreley Sulphur  &    Purple 

Mary  Garden.  .Cream  Stippled  Maroon 
Mme.  GuervJIe. .  .White  Sanded  Violet 

Monsignor Pale  and  Deep  Violet 

Mrs.  Neubroner Golden  Yellow 

Nokomis White  &  Velvety  Blue 

Nuee  d'  Orage Stormcloud  shades 

Pallida   Dalmatica Silvery  Lavender 

Pare  De  Neuilly Deep  Blue  Violet 

Prince  d'  Orange 

Golden  Yellow  &  Brown 
Princess  Victoria   Louise 

Primrose  &  Plum 
Quaker  Lady. .  .Lavender,  Blue  &  Gold 

Tall  Bearded  Iris 

Actual  Value  $6.25 

Mme.   Chereau White   Frilled  Blue 

Mme.  Guerville... White  Spotted  Violet 
Nuee  d'  Orage...  ."Storm  Cloud"  color 

Othc'lo Deep    Blue 

Pallida  Dalmatica. .  ..Silvery  Lavender 
Pallida   Mandraliscae 

Rich  Lavender  Purple 

Oueen  of  May Soft  Rose 

Silver  King Pearl  White 

Trautlieb Deep    Rose 

Wm.   Wallace Bright   Violet-Blue 


By  express  not  prepaid.    If  wanted  by  mail,  add  postage  for  5 
pounds  for  collection  D,  4  pounds  for  collection  E. 

Catalogue  free  upon  application. 

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Chinese  treatment  transforms  this  nar- 
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Composition      In       Decoration 


(Continued  from  page  29) 


Seize  chairs  accords  ill  with  the  weight 
of  Tudor  oak — the  contrast  is  too 
great ;  whereas  the  rich  lacquer  of  a 
Queen  Anne  chair  would  be  a  distinct 
addition  to  a  group  in  the  monotone 
brown  of  Carolean  walnut  with  the 
slim  turned  posts. 

If  one  selects  wisely  with  an  eye 
sensitive  to  line  and  proportion  and 
with  some  knowledge  of  the  history  of 
furniture,  one  may  combine  the  furnish- 
ings of  many  periods  with  admirable 
effect. 

Line  and  color  are  vastly  important 
in  these  groups.  It  requires  a  certain 
rhythm  of  line  to  hold  together  the 
various  pieces  which  compose  a  group 
and  then  lead  the  eye  easily  and  natur- 
ally to  the  next  group.  A  usual  and 
disastrous  mistake  is  to  have  all  the 
furniture  of  a  room  of  approximately 
the  same  height,  producing  on  a  small 
scale  the  level  dulness  of  a  prairie. 
Variety  must  be  introduced  in  such  a 
room. 

The  lines  of  composition  must  swing. 


giving  play  to  the  eye  which  demands 
variety.  Stanford  White  was  noted  for 
the  skill  with  which  he  attained  this 
variation  in  height  by  means  of  palms 
of  varying  sizes.  Plants  and  flowers 
may  indeed  do  much  to  this  end,  but 
better  yet,  because  more  fundamental, 
is  the  selection  of  furniture  which  shall 
afford  the  desired  effect.  Tall  cabinets, 
old  Colonial  highboys  and  secretaries, 
grandfather's  clocks,  high  screens,  may 
all  serve  to  lead  the  eye  up  to  the 
wall,  where  it  may  be  caught  by  well- 
placed  pictures  (which  also  should  never 
be  hung  "on  the  line")  or  carried  up- 
ward to  the  ceiling  by  the  structural 
lines  of  paneling  or  trim. 

Similar  service  in  creating  a  "lo^er 
level"  may  be  rendered  by  low  tables 
and  quaint  old-fashioned  seats  and  foot- 
stools, with  needlework  cavers  reflecting 
the  dominating  color  notes  of  the  room. 

Even  more  subtle  and  intangible  than 
line  in  its  services  in  holding  a  room  to- 
gether is  color.  A  single  note  of  it  may 
(Continued  on  page  88) 


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Composition      In      Decoration 


(Continued  from  page  86) 


flash  from  end  to  end  of  a  long  room,  years  the  theory  that  a  hall  was  merely 
catching  here  and  there  with  rhythmic  a  passageway  reduced  it  to  a  state  of 
recurrence  as  it  goes.  The  colors  of  the  intolerable  bareness,  all  Caen  stone 
rug,  deepened  or  heightened  as  the  case  walls  and  marble  floors  and  little  else, 
may  be,  combined  with  other  colors  yet  Today  there  is  something  of  a  reaction, 
still  present,  may  climb  the  wall  with  and  there  has  come  a  tendency  to  rele- 
the  draperies  and  come  down  again  in  gate  severity  to  the  vestibule  itself  and 
the  fabrics  which  cover  the  furniture,  to  regard  the  entrance  hall  as  a  sort  of 
Flowers,  also,  may  carry  the  color  note  overture  to  the  house, 
or  may  serve  to  introduce  contrasting  The  hospitable  halls  of  old  Colonial 
color.  The  blue  of  the  old  Delft  in  houses  lend  their  support  to  this  new 
some  rare  old  cabinet  may  be  the  key-  arrangement,  while  the  New  York 
note  in  a  delightful  composition,  lend-  house,  with  its  long  and  narrow  hall, 
ing  its  hue  in  varied  tones  and  shades  has  developed  some  interesting  arrange- 
to  the  whole  room.  ments  of  furniture,  which  cleverly  break 
With  color,  as  with  line,  there  must  the  long  spaces  without  obstructing  the 
be  a  certain  rhythm;  the  proportion  passage  and  take  away  the  air  of  bare- 
must  be  true  in  the  spaces  which  sep-  ness  without  creating  the  atmosphere  of 
arate  the  different  "spots"  of  color  in  a  living  room.  The  old  carved  Spanish 
a  room;  the  balance  of  colors,  as  well  chairs  or  the  high-backed,  cane-set 
as  the  balance  of  mass,  must  be  studied  chairs  of  Jacobean  days  or  the  William 
as  carefully  as  an  artist  studies  them  and  Mary  period  have  a  severity  which 
for  his  canvas.  adapts  them  well  to  such  use,  and  the 

What,    after    all,    is    a    well-planned   mirror  may  be  put  to  excellent  use. 
room   regarded  from   the  viewpoint   of  T.     Ir        ,  p. 

appearance  only,  but  a  painting  in  three 

dimensions?  Another  point  where  tradition  lingers 

Admirable  use  may  be  made  of  mir-  in  defiance  of  good  sense  and  new  con- 
rors  in  the  scheme  of  decoration.  A  ditions  is  in  the  hanging  of  pictures, 
tall  mirror  set  in  an  inside  wall  may  Many  houses  have  not  yet  recovered 
change  the  whole  character  of  a  room,  from  the  excessively  bad  habit  of  hang- 
bringing  in  the  sunshine  and  the  green  inS  them  with  the  hooks  so  low  on  the 
of  out-of-doors,  reflected  from  the  op-  frame  that  the  picture  hangs  at  an 
posite  windows.  Again,  the  mirror  angle  to  the  wall,  contesting  every  ar- 
may  serve  to  vary  the  line  of  the  fur-  chitectural  line  and  every  law  of  the 
niture  not  only  by  its  own  height  but  eye.  More  modern  dwellings,  which 
by  the  reflection  of  some  tall  piece  on  would  scorn  such  provincialism,  yet 
the  opposite  wall.  Colors  may  be  re-  blunder  sadly  with  the  problem  of  pic- 
peated  by  reflection  and  the  illusion  of  tures  against  a  paneled  wall,  and  it  may 
air  and  space  may  be  created  in  the  be  stated  with  Irish  accuracy  that  the 
same  way.  on'v  wav  to  hang  a  picture  against  a 

paneled  wall  is  to  set  it  into  the  panel- 
In  Dining  Rooms  and  Halls  mg.     About  the  framed  picture  against 
There    is    danger,    however,    in    too   such  a  wall,  there  is  something  so  hard 
many  laws.     A   room,    like    a    person,    and  so  incongruous  that  the  effect  can 
must  avoid  rigid  conventionality,  if  it   never  be  satisfying  to  the  sensitive  eye. 
is    to    attain    distinction    and    personal   It  is  less  than  hopelessly  bad  only  when 
charm.     In  fact,  certain  rooms  have  some   the    picture    is    hung    exactly    in    the 
distinctly   bad  habits  which   should   be    middle  of  a  panel  of  similar  shape  and 
rigorously  suppressed  at  need.    There  is   is  hung  flat  against  the  paneling  by  two 
the  dining  room,  for  example,  with  its   cords — never  with  a  single   cord  form- 
firm  conviction  that  the  middle  of  the    ing  a  triangle  line  above  it,  at  variance 
room    is   the   one   place   for   the   table,   with  the  structural  lines  of  the  house. 
There  are  many  dining  rooms  where  the   Far  better  than  pictures  to  give  variety 
true  place  for  the  table  is  emphatically   to  paneled  walls  are  tapestries  or   em- 
!   at  one  side  before  a  fireplace  or  at  the   broidered  hangings  or  the  lovely  batik 
j  .end  in  front  of  sunny  windows  which   silk    hangings    so    extensively    used    by 
look  out  upon  a  garden.     It  may  even   decorators  at  present, 
be  that  the  table  belongs  in  both  places       Most   earnestly   of    all   should    it   be 
— before  the  fire  in  winter  and  in  the   urged  upon  those  who  compose   rooms 
sunny  curve  of  the  window   in  spring   to   live   in,   not   to   compose   them   too 
and  summer.                                                   fast   nor   too    firmly.     It   may   take   a 
The   hall,   also,    has   often    been    the   year  of  experiments  to  decide  the  exact 
object   of   much   misguided   severity   in    position  in  which  a  table  or  a  chair  or 
the   matter   of   decoration.     For   many   a  grand  piano  is  most  effective. 


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IT  is  my  sincere  conviction,  confirmed  by  an  actual  field 
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and  that  such  varieties  only  as  will  meet  this  test  are  really 
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beating  sun,  do  this  year  after  year  and  not  go  down,  is  the 
peony  most  desirable. 

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Judge  Berry,  Lora  Dexheimer,  Longfellow,  Martha  Bui- 
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ages  and  sizes. 

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.1  field  planting  of  daffodils  finds  them  quite  at  home  close  up  to 

the  base  of  a  tree.     When  the  flowers  are  gone,  the  grass  hides 

their  straggly  foliage 

The      Adaptable      Daffodil 

(Continued   from   page    54) 


seen  the  choice  white  daffodil,  "Madam 
De  Graff,"  in  a  thinly  planted  cluster, 
showing  against  a  gray  boulder  in  a  wall 
where  arabis  is  tucked  into  the  crevices, 
and  again,  soft  yellow  ones  in  longish 
drifts  just  above  a  dry  laid  wall  which 
is  almost  hidden  under  a  cover  of  lilac 
creeping  phlox. 

A  Border 

I  have  planted  daffodils  in  a  small 
border  not  more  than  35'  long.  Sev- 
enty-live "Victoria"  with  broad,  creamy 
petals,  were  planted  in  an  easy,  swing- 
ing line  between  clumps  of  "Emperor" 
daffodils  that  make  accents  at  either 
end.  Such  combinations  of  daffodil 
varieties,  simple  as  these  are,  are  espe- 
cially fascinating  for  the  garden,  for 
then  the  contrast  of  their  differences  is 
easily  noted.  Clumps  of  large  trumpets 
with  short,  thick  drifts  of  lesser  crowned 
ones  between  arranged  in  a  kind  of  re- 
peat pattern  along  the  border  are  ex- 
tremely effective,  especially  if  they  have 
dark  green  foliage  to  offset  them.  I 
used  the  well-known  "Emperor"  and 
old-time  "Barrii  Conspicuus"  very  suc- 
cessfully in  such  combination  with 
Pachysandra  in  the  foreground  and  ir- 
regular clumps  of  laurel  in  back  against 
a  hemlock  hedge.  Last  year  I  added 
hyacinths  to  the  scheme.  There  were 
several  varieties  of  light  blue  hyacinths 


and  buff  and  cream  and  pink  ones 
planted  just  inside  the  pachysandra  edge 
in  an  irregular  line.  This  is  the  effect 
in  the  accompanying  photograph  where 
the  wealth  of  bloom  shows  plainly, 
though  the  fascinating  color  effect  is, 
of  course,  lost. 

In  the  same  garden  I  planted  daffo- 
dils, too,  around  the  grass  rectangle  in 
the  centre.  I  used  only  one  kind  there. 
Formerly  they  would  have  been  bedded 
out  in  regular  rows,  but  I  spilt  them 
out  thickly  and  irregularly  until  they 
formed  a  band  four  feet  or  more  wide 
around  the  lawn.  Above  them  rose 
Ghent  azaleas  and  abelias  scattered  al- 
ternately through  the  borders.  There 
was  still  room  for  more,  so  I  planted 
poet's  narcissus  in  a  solid  ribbon  band 
a  foot  or  more  deep  just  behind  the 
edging  row  of  pansies.  As/  the  poet's 
narcissus  are  late  in  bloom,  they  were 
still  in  flower  when  the  azaleas  came 
out,  all  in  orange  shades,  rising  above 
the  grassy  foliage  of  the  daffodils  that 
had  gone  by,  where  already  verbenas 
and  heliotrope  gave  suggestions  of  the 
summer  bloom.  This  effect  was  far 
finer  than  I  imagined  when  I  planted  it, 
for  the  clear  white  of  poet's  narcissus 
against  the  rich  orange  of  azaleas  made 
a  color  contrast  that  made  one  quite 
breathless  with  pleasure  and  more  than 
made  up  for  the  work  expended. 


The  Decorative  Value  of  French  Prints 


(Continued   from   page   39) 


searched  for  mediums  in  which  to 
amuse  themselves. 

On  the  death  of  the  old  king  Louis 
XIV,  the  days  of  great  stateliness  dis- 
appeared and  a  more  intimate  life  took 
its  place.  Everyone  was  building,  dec- 
orating and  furnishing  petits  apart- 
ments. Great  artists  such  as  Watteau, 
Boucher  and  Fragonard  gave  their  time 
to  designing  artistic  decorations.  To 
beautify  everything  was  the  general  aim 
and  many  exquisite  accessories  were 
created  by  the  skillful  hands  of  these 
artists.  The  characteristics  of  the  age 
found  expression  in  the  numerous  ar- 
tistic engravings,  which  were  so  per- 
fectly executed  that  they  served  not 
only  as  the  records  of  the  frivolities 
and  gallantries  of  the  beau-monde.  but 
could  be  absolutely  trusted  as  historic 
documents  of  architectural  detail  and 
costume  design. 

That  scenes  such  as  the  "estampes 
galantes"  show  us  were  of  daily  oc- 
currence, is  easily  understood,  other- 
wise engravers  such  as  Launay,  for  in- 


stance, could  have  never  given  us  epi- 
sodes similar  to  "L'Heureux  Moment" 
or  "Qu'en  dit,  L'abbe."  Numerous  de- 
lightful incidents  were  rendered  by  him 
with  such  delicacy  and  vivid  charm, 
that,  once  seen,  remained  in  the  memory 
as  the  most  characteristic  examples  of 
that  old  world  elegance  of  which  the 
18th  Century  can  justly  be  proud.  "La 
Consolation  de  1'Absence"  shows  well 
the  delicate  skill  of  Launay's  burin  as 
regards  the  detail  of  woodcarving  and 
justly  proclaims  him  the  creator  of 
"L'estampe  galante."  These  three  with 
"Le  Billet  Doux"  would  be  a  graceful 
group  of  prints  for  a  small  room  and 
with  the  soft  blues,  pinks,  pale  yellows 
and  greens  would  suggest  many  ideal 
color  schemes.  That  boudoir  subjects 
would  admirably  lend  themselves  to 
color  treatment  was  Janinet's  invention 
and  he  perfected  the  color-printing,  be- 
gun earlier  by  Le  Prince.  He  left  us 
such  masterpieces  as  his  portraits  of 
Marie  Antoinette  and  of  the  ill-fated 
(Continued  en  page  92) 


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The  Decorative  Value  of  French  Prints 


(Continued  from  page  90) 


Queen's  modiste,  the  well-known  Mile. 
Bertin. 

St.  Aubin  and  Others 

Whether  we  can  absolutely  trust 
French  portrait  engraving  as  regards  ac- 
curacy of  likeness  is  much  doubted, 
nevertheless,  as  with  everything  else  in 
that  age,  it  was  a  part  of  decoration 
and  as  such,  extremely  pleasing.  Such  is 
the  case  with  St.  Aubin's  "Soyez  Dis- 
cret"  and  "Comptez  Sur  Mes  Sermens," 
so  delicately  drawn  and  so  French  in 
feeling,  that  it  matters  little  whether  St. 
Aubin  and  his  wife  looked  as  represent- 
ed or  not.  The  two  engravings  of  "Le 
Bal  Pare"  and  "Le  Concert"  prove  that 
he  was  equally  clever  in  handling  large 
groups  of  people. 

A  group  of  lovely  prints  could  be 
made  up  of  the  works  of  Cochin,  Eisen, 
Simonet,  Lepicie,  Gaillard  and  a  num- 
ber of  others  who  produced  these  del- 
icate scenes,  of  which  Boucher's  pastoral 
is  unusually  delightful.  That  his  imagi- 
nation was  fertile  and  that  he  could  de- 
sign almost  any  scene  with  equal  charm 
is  seen  in  "L 'Amour  Frivole"  engraved 
by  Gaillard  in  which  the  frivolous 
boudoir  scene  is  treated  with  the  ut- 
most grace. 

Moreau's  set  of  "Le  Momument  de 
Costume"  would  lend  a  strong  French 
element  to  the  decoration  of  a  room. 
Nowhere  has  intimate  and  delightful 
French  life  been  better  and  more  daint- 
ily rendered  than  in  his  plates  depicting 
the  life  of  the  jeune  mariee.  This  with 
Freudeberg's  twelve  plates  complete  the 
series,  which  have  served  ever  since  as 
authentic  fashion  plates  of  the  period. 
"La  Promenade  du  Matin"  and  "La 
Promenade  du  Soir"  are  characteristic 
bits  of  the  set. 

Our  interest  and  love  for  the  "estampe 
galanie"  is  doubtless  accentuated  by  the 


short  period  of  its  production.  With  the 
names  of  Debucourt  and  Boilly  disap- 
pear the  enchanting  boudoir  scenes,  to 
make  place  for  historical  anecdotes  of 
the  French  Revolution.  Debucourt 's 
"Les  Deux  Baisers"  and  Boilly's  "Le 
Bouquet  Cheri"  which  Chaponnier  en- 
graved, bring  to  a  close  all  expressions 
of  the  frivolities  and  gaieties,  which 
marked  the  time.  All  lovers  of  romance 
and  old  world  charm  will  find  perma- 
nent enjoyment  in  surrounding  them- 
selves with  these  graceful  prints  which 
lend  a  certain  note  of  elegance  and  have 
such  an  undefinable  charm  of  their  own. 
Nowhere  is  the  tale  told  so  well  of 
petits  apartments,  where  powdered  wigs 
and  panniers  and  ardent  youths  in 
satins  and  laces  combine  to  show  us  the 
elegant  but  artificial  life  of  the  beau- 
monde. 

Elegance  in  Decoration 

A  discerning  age  will  soon  discover 
that  quiet  walls  and  soft  colors  are  of 
vital  importance  as  backgrounds  for 
French  prints,  and  any  strong  color 
scheme  will  at  once  create  an  inharmon- 
ious note.  Great  discretion  should  be 
used  also  in  the  furniture  arrangement 
— what  to  keep  in  the  line  and  what  to 
leave  out.  Forget  sentiment,  if  a  har- 
monious effect  is  desired.  Avoid  the  so- 
called  gilt-legged  French  chairs,  and 
don't  substitute  a  •  wicker  chair  while 
you  are  waiting  for  an  empty  place  to 
be  filled  by  a  fauteuil.  Don't  let  your 
impatience  prevent  you  from  waiting 
for  the  proper  accessories,  and  rather 
live  with  a  few  appropriate  things  than 
ugly  substitutes.  A  few  well-chosen  fur- 
nishings lend  elegance  to  a  room,  while 
over-crowding  spoils  the  best.  Treat 
your  prints  as  offsprings  of  elegant  days 
and  don't  compel  them  to  associate  with 
massive  products  of  less  graceful  periods. 


NOTES   OF   THE   GARDEN   CLUBS 


THE  Newport  Garden  Association, 
organized  1909,  is  comprised  of 
108  men  and  women.  Miss  Wet- 
more  of  New  York  is  President. 
Meetings  are  held  monthly  during  the 
summer  and  two  or  three  times  during 
the  winter.  At  intervals  there  are  ex- 
hibits of  flowers,  vegetables,  etc.,  from 
members'  gardens,  and  teas  in  the  "trial 
garden"  of  the  Club.  This  garden  is  of 
special  value  and  interest,  being  open 
to  the  public  who  come  from  even  a 
distance  to  study  the  beds  filled  with 
the  finest  varieties  of  roses,  carefully 
labelled.  One  member  gave  the  grounds, 
another  the  plan  for  the  garden,  still 
another  (Mrs.  Auchincloss)  the  peren- 
nial border,  and  the  President  planted 
some  formal  beds.  Club  funds  have 
secured  a  house,  furniture,  etc.,  for  the 
garden. 

For  two  years  of  the  war,  vegetables 
were  sold  on  the  grounds  and  after- 
wards from  a  market  stall.  Half  of  the 
proceeds  went  to  the  Red  Cross  and 
half  to  the  Home  for  the  Aged.  A  unit 
of  the  Women's  Land  Army  was  also 
financed. 

The  Club  has  prevailed  upon  the 
New  York,  New  Haven  and  Hartford 
R.  R.  to  improve  the  approach  to  the 
station,  the  Club  pledging  itself  to  keep 
the  public  play-ground,  opposite,  in 
good  order.  An  annual  report  is  printed, 
with  the  Club's  motto  "Sub  Sole,  Sub 
Umbra-Vivens",  on  the  cover,  and  one 
year  a  diagram  of  the  trial  garden  was 
included.  Prizes  are  given  to  the  New- 
port Horticultural  Society. 

Among  the  members  of  the  Club  are 
Mrs.  August  Belmont,  Mrs.  Henry 
Clews,  Mrs.  Elisha  Dyer,  T.  A.  Have- 


meyer,  Esq.,  Frederick  Newbold,  Esq., 
Mrs.  LorUlard  Spencer,  Frank  K. 
Sturges,  Esq.,  James  J.  Van  Alen,  Esq., 
Mrs.  Vanderbilt  and  Hon.  George  P. 
Wetmore. 

THE  Tri-City  Garden  Club,  organ- 
ized 1919,  draws  its  fifty  women 
members  from  Davenport,  Iowa;  Rock 
Island,  and  Moline,  Illinois.  Mrs.  J.  G. 
Crawford  is  President.  The  Club  meets 
once  a  month,  the  programs  including 
talks  by  members  or  by  professionals, 
on  subjects  such  as  landscape  architec- 
ture, color  schemes,  bees,  cultivation  of 
vegetables,  etc.  This  year  the  most  im- 
portant civic  work  of  the  Club  is  plant- 
ing the  grounds  of  the  Industrial  Re- 
lief Home. 

-pHE  Garden  Club  of  Santa  Bar- 
J.  bara  and  Montecito,  California,  or- 
ganized 1916,  has  a  membership  limited 
to  100  men  and  women.  Mrs.  Edwin 
H.  Sawyer  is  President,  Mr.  Ralph 
Stevens,  Chairman  of  Committee  on 
New  Plants,  and  Mrs.  Ralph  Isham,  on 
Photography. 

The  Club  meets  at  irregular  intervals 
throughout  the  year,  sometimes  at  a 
ranch  or  in  a  lovely  canyon.  The  pro- 
gram for  the  current  year  includes  lec- 
tures on  Private  Gardens,  by  Ernest 
Braumton;  Rare  Trees  and  Plants,  by 
Dr.  Doremus,  and  an  address  by  Pro- 
fessor E.  T.  Wickson,  Professor  Emer- 
itus in  Horticulture  in  the  University 
of  California.  Mrs.  Oakleigh  Thorne, 
President  of  the  Millbrook,  N.  Y.,  Club, 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Santa  Barbara 
Club.  These  clubs  have  helped  greatly 
to  stimulate  interest  in  gardening. 


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NO  V  EMBER     HOUSE    PLANNING 


THE  secret   of  a  successful   house  lies  in   a 
successful  plan,  and  the  time  to  study  plans 
is  during  the  winter  month?      That  is  why 
we  devote  this  November  issue  to  house  plan- 
ning.   Let's  see  what  it  does  for  the  man  who 
hopes  to  build — 

First  there  is  an  article  on  the  evolution  of  a 
house  plan — how  the  architect  works  up  the 
ideas  of  the  client  until  the  last  detailed  drawing 
is  made.  In  reading  this  evolution  you  will  see 
how  architect  and  client  stand  and  what  each  is 
to  expect  of  the  other.  For  those  who  would 
go  further  and  visualize  the  house  more  realis- 
tically there  is  an  article  on  house  models,  those 
delightful  little  miniatures  made  of  clay -or  card- 
board that  show  exactly  how  the  projected 
house  will  look. 

From  these  plans  you  step  to  the  pages  ol 
finished  houses — two  pages  of  delightful  little 
cottages  in  California,  another  page  showing 
two  small  houses  and  plans  from  the  South. 
This  not  being  enough,  we  include  another  small 
house  that  was  built  for  a  most  unusual  pur- 
pose. It  is  a  cottage  erected  on  the  estate  of  a 
newly-married  couple  and  designed  for  the  re- 
spective mothers-in-law  during  their  visits.  It 


Among  the  many  houses  shown  in  the 
November  issue  will  be  this  example  of 
stucco,  with  fascinating  garden  steps 


quite  solves  the  usual  mother-in-law  problem. 
.  Then  you  pas?  on  to  the  larger  houses,  an 
English  type  of  stucco  and  two  in  the  Italian 
manner  by  Mr.  Guy  Lowell,  the  architect  of  the 
Woolworth  Building.  'Mr.  Lowell  has  trans- 
planted Italian  architecture. most  successfully  in 
these  two  examples.  As"  a^filip  for  this  comes 
an  article  on  gate?  and  grills  in  Spanish  archi- 
tecture, the  sort  one  sees  in  Cuba  and  South 
America. 

Going  inside  the  house,  you  learn  how  a  dec- 
orator works,  what  she  does  for  the  client  and 
what  the  client  does  for  her.  There  is  also  a 
page  of  the  old  scenic  papers.  During  the  war 
it  was  rumored  that  the  blocks  for  printing  these 
papers  had  been  destroyed.  This  proved  false. 
The  blocks  are  safe  and  the  factory  is  now  in 
operation.  We  can  again  have  those  lovely 
papers  on  our  walls. 

The  questions  of  period  designs  in  music 
cases  is  also  discussed,  the  proper  electric  wiring 
for  a  house  and  the  installation  of  stationary- 
vacuum  cleaners. 

The  care  and  placing  of  house  plants  in 
winter  is  a  topic  relative  to  this  season  and  its 
facts  will  be  appreciated  by  the  gardener. 


Contents  for  October.  1920.      Volume  XXXV 111,  No.  Four 


COVER  DESIGN  BY  L.  T.  GUILD.  EXECUTED  BY  GEORGE  BRANDT 

THE  Two  GARDENS 18 

Martha  Brooks  Hutcheson,  Landscape  Architect 
THE  MOODS  OF  AN  AUTUMN  GARDEN 19 

Richardson  Wright 
A  HOUSE  FOR  A  NARROW  LOT 22 

Howard  Major,  Architect 

INTERNATIONAL    GARDENING 24 

THANKSGIVING   24 

Theodore  Maynard 
THE  CHOICE  OF  GARDEN  GATES 25 

Howard  Major,  Architect 
COLLECTING    AUTOGRAPHS 26 

Gardner  TeaU 

ENCLOSED    PORCHES 28 

FROM  FARM  TO  TABLE '.  29 

Laurence  H.  Parker 

THE  ATTIC  As  GUEST  ROOM 30 

Agnes  Foster  Wright 
THE   RECTANGULAR   LOT 32 

Elizabeth  Leonard  Strong 
AN  ENGLISH  GARDEN  IN  SPRING 34 

Mrs.  Francis  King 
CRYSTAL    35 


A  HOUSE  AT  GREENWICH,  CONN 36 

Cross  &  Cross,  Architects 

FALL  PLANTING  AND  TRANSPLANTING 38 

Robert  Stell 

FALL  PLANTING   TABLE 30 

ENGAGING  A  LANDSCAPE  ARCHITECT 40 

Elsa  Rehmann 

A  LITTLE  PORTFOLIO  OF  GOOD  INTERIORS 41 

BOUQUETS  THE  WINTER  THROUGH 44 

Evelyn  Craig  Corlett 

ROSES  PLANTED  IN  THE  FALL 46 

J.  Horace  McFarland 

FLNIALS    47 

THE  SMALL  FORMAL  HOUSE 48 

Harold  Donaldson  Eberlein 
BEAUTY  AND  THE  BATHROOM SO 

Ethel  R.  Peyser 
PLANNING  THE  MODERN  LAUNDRY 52 

Verna  Cook  Salomonsky 

COMFORTABLE  TABLES  AND  CHAIRS 53 

ORDER  BELOW  THE  STAIRS 54 

Wallace  B.  Hart 
THE  GARDENER'S  CALENDAR -56 


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Antoinette  Perrett 


THE        TWO        GARDENS 


There  are  always  two  gardens — the  garden  in  full  sunlight, 
when  every  flower  and  tree  limb  silhouettes  distinctly,  and 
the  wrailhed  garden  seen  in  the  white  mists  oj  dawn,  the 
mauves  of  dusk  or  late  on  summer  nights  patterned  over 
with  silver  from  the  moon.  For  the  beauty  of  color  watch 
the  garden  in  sunlight;  for  the  beauty  of  subtle  tones  and 


delicate  atmosphere  study  the  wraithed  garden.  Such  is 
this  view  in  the  garden  at  the  home  of  Herbert  N.  Straus, 
Red  Bank,  New  Jersey,  showing  a  glimpse  of  the  broad 
stone  step  leading  up  to  the  tree-shadowed  terrace. 
The  landscape  architect  was  Martha  Brookes  Hutche- 
son  and  the  associate  architect  F.  Burrall  Hoffman,  Jr. 


October,     1920 


THE   MOODS   OF   AN   AUTUMN   GARDEN 

In  the  Waning  rigor  of  the  Fall  Lurks  the  Beginning  of 
Next   Year's  Glory 

RICHARDSON  WRIGHT 

THE  garden  shows  three  degrees  of  vigor. 
First  the  resurgent  vigor  of  spring,  lusty 
up-thrust  of  myriad  blades  and  breathless  rush 
to  break  into  flower.  Next,  the  full  tide  of 
summer,  the  complete,  the  robust  growth.  Then 
the  mellow  days  of  autumn  and  the  waning  of 
vigor. 

Each  has  its  own  rare  colors  and  revelations 
of  beauty.  It  is  difficult  to  say  which  season 
gives  the  most  delight.  The  gardener,  though, 
who  has  followed  the  cycle  of  work  (and  only 
he  who  does  the  work  really  appreciates  it) 
finds  the  autumn  garden  full  of  fascinating 
and  subtle  moods. 

The  autumn  garden  is  not  unlike  an  old 
man  who,  for  all  his  occasional  bad  days,  still 
has  many  years  to  run.  Its  vigor  persists 
though  it  is  ebbing  all  the  time.  It  is  uneven, 
and  yet  such  vigor  as  remains  to  it  seems  to 
have  been  carried  from  the  very  beginning,  like 
the  staunch  blood  of  a  good  family.  Those 
cosmos  that  dip  and  nod  along  the  wall  have 
been  sturdy  from  the  very  first  day  they  broke 
the  soil. 

MUCH  of  September's  glory,  it  always 
seemed  to  me,  is  inherited.  She  boasts, 
of  course,  the  flash  and  flame  of  turning  leaf 
and  a  satisfying  number  of  hardy  autumnal 
blossoms  and  she  wears  a  scarf  of  blue  mist 
around  her  shoulders,  but  think  of  all  the 
things  handed  down  to  her  from  August! 

August,  September  and  October  remind  me 
of  three  sisters  endowed  with  diminishing 
;•  mounts  of  this  world's  goods.  Late  August 
possesses  an  abundance — innumerable  asters, 
the  white  of  sneezewort,  the  mallows,  various 
sunflowers  and  golden  glow,  the  flaming  of  tri- 
loma  and  the  diversity  of  chrysanthemums. 
Many  of  these  she  passes  on  to  September,  and 
what  September  has  left  she  hands  on  down  for 
October  to  deck  herself  in  during  her  final 
festive  days  of  Indian  summer.  Then  frosts 
whiten  the  fields  before  the  approach  of  No- 
vember. Poor  thing,  there's  naught  left  No- 
vember save  some  gaudy  berries — the  last  bits 
of  old  family  jewelry  that  even  the  poorest  are 
too  proud  to  part  with. 

It  is  this  gradual  ebbing  of  the  garden's 
vigor  that  makes  so  many  people  look  upon 
autumn  as  a  season  of  regrets.  The  old  Chinese 
poet  Lu  Yun  has  expressed  the  feeling  per- 
fectly in  a  beautiful  line,  "At  the  fall  of  the 
year  there  is  autumn  in  my  heart." 

Once  frost  robs  the  garden  of  color,  once  the 
noble  silhouettes  of  tall  flower  clumps  and 
bushes  and  leafy  trees  are  lost,  then  comes 
autumn  in  the  heart.  And  yet  this  is  strange, 
for  the  autumn  months  are  among  the  busiest 
in  the  garden  year. 

Think  of  all  there  is  to  do  in  the  autumn — 


The  autumn  garden  is  not  unlike  an  old 
man  who,  jor  all  his  occasional  bad  days, 
has  still  many  years  to  run.  Its  vigor  per- 
sists, though  it  is  ebbing  all  the  time.  It  is 
uneven,  and  yet  it  seems  to  have  been 
carried  from  the  very  beginning.  Those 
cosmos  that  dip  and  nod  along  the  wall 
were  sturdy  from  the  first  day  they  broke 
the  sr'l 


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the  divisions  and  transplantings,  the 
mulching  and  enriching  of  the  beds, 
the  harvesting  of  dahlia  roots  and 
gladiolus  bulbs,  the  bringing  of 
plants  indoors  to  winter  over  in  that 
sunny  bay  window. 

Many  people  make  the  mistake  of 
thinking  that  autumn  marks  the  end 
of  the  garden  year.  Autumn  is  only 
the  garden's  ultimate  perfection,  and 
the  ultimate  perfection  of  a  thing,  as 
the  philosopher  has  said,  is  that  it  is 
the  beginning  of  something  new. 

Even  in  the  chill  north  wind  there 
is  the  promise  of  spring  balminess. 
The  withered  stalks  hold  a  hint  of 
greater  growth  next  season.  In  this 
autumn's  smashed  and  scraggly  lily 
clump  is  hidden  the  beginning  of  a 
larger  clump  next  spring.  On  even- 
side  there  is  this  promise  of  some- 
thing new  and  something  better.  In 

Although  much  of  her 
beauty  is  inherited  from 
August,  September's  glory 
is  not  to  be  despised. 
She  boasts  the  flash  and 
flame  of  turning  leaf  and 
a  satisfying  number  of 
autumnal  blossoms.  Also, 
she  wears  a  scarf  of  blue 
mist  lightly  around  her 
shoulders 


the  irreparable  past  of  autumn  lurks 
the  available  future  of  another  gar- 
den year. 

Next  year  is  the  constant  Life-To- 
Come  of  gardeners.  The  mistakes 
of  this  year  will  be  rectified  then. 
The  undesirable  colors  will  be  root- 
ed out  of  that  perennial  border.  The 
iris  that  never  did  do  well  where  it 
is  will  be  given  another  chance  in 
another  environment.  Those  .special 
strains  of  snapdragon  and  sweet  pea 
you've  been  longing  to  try  out  will 
find  a  place  in  next  year's  garden. 

Next  year!     Next  year! 

The  autumn  mood  of  the  garden 
lover  is  quickened  with  this  begin- 
ning of  something  new;  it  is  strong 
with  a  promise  of  fulfillment. 

For  many  of  us  life  is  so  ordered 
that  by  November  we  lose  our  gar- 
den interest.  Not  until  February  or 

Many  people  make  the 
mistake  of  thinking  that 
autumn  marks  the  end 
of  the  garden  year.  Au- 
tumn is  only  the  garden's 
ultimate  perfection,  and 
the  ultimate  perfection  of 
a  thing,  as  the  philoso- 
pher has  said,  is  that  it 
is  the  beginning  of  some- 
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September  and  October  are  like  three  sisters  endowed  with  diminishing  amounts 
of  thii  world's  qoods.  What  August  has  left  she  passes  on  to  September  and  what  re- 
mains, September  hands  on  down  for  October  to  deck  herself  in  during  her  final  festive 

days  of  Indian  summer 


even  as  late  as  March  do  we  feel  the  urge  of 
the  seedsman's  catalogs. 

1AM  beginning  to  think  that  the  best  time  to 
plan  next  year's  garden  is  not  in  February, 
but  in  November  and  December.  At  that  sea- 
son the  data  regarding  your  garden  is  still 
fresh,  and  it  is  just  as  easy  to  work  from  the 
1920  catalogs  as  it  will  be  from  the  1921. 

But  there  is  still  another  reason.  If  you 
have  your  garden  plan  ready  before  the  end  of 
December,  you  provide  your  friends  with  an 
extensive  selection  list  for  Christmas  presents. 
Personally,  I  would  rather  have  ten  of  those 
expensive  new  Chinese  lily  bulbs — the  yellow, 
white,  brown  and  pink  Regale — than  the 
smartest  cravat  on  the  market,  and  the  gener- 
ous soul  who  will  endow  my  garden  with  a 
sturdy  white  lilac  bush,  instead  of  sending  the 


usual jUmbrella,  will  win  my  eternal  gratitude. 

Why  doesn't  this  goodly  custom  of  giving 
garden  presents  enjoy  a  wider  vogue? 

There  must  be  many  a  bride  who  would  pre- 
fer a  garden  started  for  her  instead  of  the 
accustomed  string  of  pearls  from  a  fond  and 
extravagant  parent.  A  rose  garden,  for  ex- 
ample, laid  out  with  little  stone  slab  paths  that 
converge  to  a  sundial  in  the  middle.  Or  a 
perennial  border  planned  for  a  succession  of 
her  favorite  flowers  and  colors,  from  the  first 
peep  of  the  crocus  to  the  last  blossom  of 
autumn. 

JUST  a  year  ago.it  was  my  good  fortune  to 
come  into  the  possession  of  an  old  garden. 
How  old  it  is  I  cannot  say,  although  the  house 
dates  back  almost  a  century  and  the  elms  that 
-liadow  it  are  fully  that  old.     Former  tenants 


planted  it.     This  spring  it  revealed  its  glory. 

Next  year  the  harvest  will  be  greater.  The 
long  border  that  edges  the  stone  wall  by  the 
meadow,  the  little  formal  garden  of  cedars,  the 
rock  garden  beyond  the  study  door,  the  straw- 
berry patch,  the  lines  of  rhubarb  and  aspara- 
gus on  the  hilltop  behind  the  barn,  the  half 
acre  for  vegetables,  all  are  now  ready  with 
richer  soil  for  next  year.  There  is  even  a 
perennial  nursery  started  in  which  new  colors 
will  be  tried  out  before  they  are  given  places 
in  the  beds  and  a  special  corner  is  reserved 
for  experiments  in  columbine. 

This  is  the  available  future  of  one  hilltop 
in  Connecticut.  Next  year!  And  the  next! 
And  the  next! 

Dreaming  of  these  things,  I  disagree  most 
emphatically  with  Lu  Yun.  There  is  no 
autumn  in  mv  heart! 


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A  large  fireplace  with  a 
simple  mantel  and  black 
marble  surround  is  the 
focal  point  of  the  living 
room.  Book  shelves 
reaching  up  to  the  ceil- 
ing are  built  in  between 
the  windows.  The  jur- 
'  nishings  are  simple  in 
line  and  pleasing  in  color 


The  variety  oj  gables 
can  be  seen  from  this 
view  of  the  service  wing 
taken  from  the  garage. 
The  lintels  and  the  edges 
of  the  eaves  are  painted 
black  in  contrast  with 
the  white  walls.  The  cir- 
cular window  is  an  in- 
teresting detail 


This  view  shows  the 
dining  room  and  dining 
porch,  with  the  master's 
suite  above.  Shrubbery 
has  been  admirably  used 
to  screen  the  lower  rco:m 
from  the  street.  It  ties 
the  house  to  the  ground 
and  silhouettes  pleasant- 
ly against  the  white  walls 


October,     1920 


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The  architect  U'OJ  faced  with  the  problem  of  a  long,  narrow  lot  on  a  street  with  houses  in  close 

proximity.     Consequently    a    long,    narrow    house    was    designed.     The   general   style   is   Colonial, 

executed  in  brick  painted  white  and  with  a  slate  roof.     Interest  is  given  the  design  by  the  number 

of  gables,  the  small  pares  and  the  range  of  dormer  windows 

HOUSE        FORA       NARROW       LOT 

The    If  unit'    of   Adolph    Augenblick,    Ne'.cark,    AVer    Jfrssy 
HOWARD    MAJOR.  .lr,-liii?ct  anJ  Drcoralor 


On  one  side  of  the 
hall  is  the  living 
room  and  its  ter- 
minal porch,  on  the 
other  the  service 
quarters,  dining 
porch.  A  brick  wall 
lends  the  garden 
privacy  and  con- 
nects up  the  garage 


The  second  story 
projects  into  the 
roof,  giving  an  in- 
teresting character 
to  the  chambers. 
The  owner's  suite 
occupies  one  end 
and  the  guest  cham- 
ber and  boys'  room 
tin1  other 


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INTERNATIONAL        GARDENING 


STAMP  collectors  have  many  pleasant  habits,  but  the  pleasantest  of 
all  is  their  custom  of  writing  to  other  stamp  collectors. 

The  four  stamp  collectors  in  this  office,  for  example.  They  are  busy- 
executives,  burdened  with  responsibilities  and  constantly  pushed  for 
time.  Each  day  big  baskets  of  correspondence  go  out  from  their  desks. 
And  yet  they  tell  me  that  quite  their  most  enjoyable  correspondence  is 
written  to  brother  stamp  collectors  in  foreign  lands. 

One  of  them  has  been  in  communication  with  a  Belgian  philatelist 
for  ten  years.  During  the  war  the  letters  stopped.  Now  they  are  com- 
ing again,  for  Belgium  is  already  sufficiently  recovered  to  allow  her 
tired  business  men  to  take  up  the  relaxation  of  their  stamp  albums. 
Another  correspondent  lived  in  Kiev,  and  letters  came  through  regu- 
larly, bearing  their  tales  of  personal  experiences  and  stamp  ventures, 
until' the  Bolsheviki  laid  low  that  fair  mother  of  towns.  A  third  is  a 
planter  in  South  America.  There  were  others  in  Germany,  for  the 
Germans  are  great  philatelists,  and  some  in  France. 

THINK  what  this  means,  this  welding  of  a  bond  of  a  common  hobby. 
For  a  common  hobby  forms  a  more  dependable  bond  than  can  any 
amount  of  commerce.  Commerce  presupposes  competition  and  com- 
petition raised  to  its  highest  degree  means  war.  But  the  things  that 
bring  contentment  and  innocent  pleasure,  that  delight  the  eye  and 
quicken  the  brain  to  fine  and  far-flung  imaginings,  these  things  create 
a  camaraderie  not  easily  forgotten  or  readily  shattered. 

There  is  also  the  flavor  of  romance  and  adventure  about  gifts  from 
overseas,  even  about  humble,  everyday  postage  stamps.  Though  their 
intrinsic  value  be  small,  one  prizes  them  above  others  because  of  the 
spirit  that  prompted  their  being  sent  and  the  distance  they  have  traveled. 

Of  course,  not  all  stamp  collectors  ride  their  hobby  this  far  afield. 
Some  are  content  to  buy  and  exchange  duplicates  with  neighbors,  and 
let  it  go  at  that.     But  the  mark  of  the  real 
devotee,    the    finished,    the    complete,    the 
hardened   philatelist   is  his   foreign   corre- 
spondence.    And,  as  the  enthusiast  above 
has  said,  it  is  the  pleasantest  part  of  stamp 
collecting. 

GARDEN  lovers  could  well  learn  a  les- 
son from  the  philatelist.  They  could, 
by  correspondence  with  garden  enthusiasts 
in  other  countries,  make  their  gentle  art 
much  more  of  an  international  affair  than 
it  is. 

All  gardens  today  are  more  or  less  inter- 
national. Scarcely  a  country  under  the  sun 
but  finds  its  representative  in  the  perennial 
border,  the  rockery,  the  bog  garden  or  the 
pool.  The  hollyhock  brings  a  message  from 
China,  the  anemone  speaks  of  Japan.  The 
long  spurred  columbine  represents  the 
Rockies  and  the  vulgaris  types  Siberia. 
Transylvania  has  given  us  the  bellflower 
and  Armenia  the  star  thistle.  The  Peruvian 
lily  comes  up  the  continent  to  us  and  the 
yellow  day  lily  travels  from  the  far-off 
Amur  Valley.  Hot  Asia  Minor  is  repre- 
sented by  one  kind  of  poppy  and  the  arctic 
regions  by  another.  Thus  every  complete 
garden  has  come  to  be  a  map  of  the  world 
blossoming  in  color  and  varied  foliage. 

This  map  could  be  made  more  interest- 
ing, more  of  a  personal  reality,  if  garden 
lovers  corresponded  with  others  in  those 
countries  from  which  these  plants  have 
come.  There  would  be  several  desirable 
results.  First  to  the  plants  themselves.  As 
we  have  them  today,  foreign  plants  are 
usually  hybridized  a  long  distance  from  the 
original.  Nurserymen  have  been  so  anxious 
to  satisfy  the  American  desire  for  novelties 
that  much  of  the  old,  simple,  native  beauty 
of  the  original  flowers  has  gone.  The  lily 
has  been  gilded  out  of  all  recognition,  and 
many  of  our  boasted  double  varieties  can- 
not compare  in  simple  loveliness  with  the 
original  specimens.  Letters  from  gardeners 
overseas  would  bring  in  their  quota  of 


precious  seeds  harvested  in  other  hands.  The  next  year  those  plants 
would  furnish  a  vast  amount  of  interest,  enjoyment  and  study  to  the 
amateur  here  and,  in  many  cases,  would  give  him  the  old  strain  so 
much  desired. 

EVEN  more  important  would  be  the  effect  on  the  gardener.  To  have 
a  flower  in  a  friend's  garden  is  a  common  practice.  Garden  lovers 
are  not  selfish  and  they  dearly  love  to  share  plants  and  seeds  with  neigh- 
bors. This  exchange  makes  for  friendship  and  the  better  appearance 
of  the  community.  What  is  done  now  in  the  small  town  can  be  done  in 
the  world  at  large.  A  common  interest  in  such  gentle  and  beautiful 
things  as  flowers  will  accomplish  more  than  the  mandates  of  a  dozen 
League  of  Nations.  It  will  bring  enjoyment  and  pride,  and  it  will  give 
to  American  gardeners  that  which  so  many  Americans  lack,  an  inter- 
national interest. 

Common  interest  of  this  sort  breaks  down  prejudice  and  goes  a  long 
way  toward  healing  the  wounds  that  the  war  has  left  us.  I  may  dis- 
trust the  German  people  as  a  whole,  but  I  would  feel  differently  about 
them,  I  think,  if  a  slip  sent  me  from  a  German  garden  lover's  rose  tree 
were  blossoming  by  my  front  steps  today.  I'm  a  little  more  lenient 
with  England  over  Ireland  because  of  a  row  of  broad  beans  giving 
promise  today,  gift  of  a  notoriously  British  Britisher. 

Think  of  the  fortunate  rosarians  who  were  on  Dean  Hole's  corre- 
>pondence  list  or  Admiral  Ward's!  The  old  dean,  the  old  sailor  are 
gone,  but  there  are  still  giants  alive  today  and,  if  the  amateur  has  the 
temerity,  she  may  dare  their  wrath  by  writing  them.  If  the  giants  can- 
not be  induced  to  speak,  then  there  are  others.  Many  of  the  prize  win- 
ners in  English  rose  exhibits  have  been  workmen  with  no  more  garden 
space  at  their  command  than  the  allotment  around  a  cottage.  Men  and 
women  of  this  type  "often  have  an  instinct  for  flowers  and  their  experi- 
ences would  be  of  great  value  if  they  could 
be  induced  to  set  them  down  in  a  letter. 


Thanksgiving 

We  have  not  known  (thank  God  for  it!) 
Love  tossed  on  wild  adventurous  seas; 

Or  sought  for  love  on  hills  where  sit 
The  gods  of  bitter  mysteries; 

We  have  not  served  their  altar  fires 

With  fierce  and  perilous  desires. 

But  love  instead  has  come  to  us 

As  quietly  as  April  rain 
On  April  woods,  solicitous 

To  quicken  them  to  life  again; 
As  sweetly  as  the  thrush's  voice 
Making  attentive  dawns  rejoice. 

O  happy  traveler,  I  found 

A  friendly  light  upon  your  face, 

The  head  that  gentleness  has  crowned 
With  tender  gaiety  and  grace, 

Love  deep  and  intimate  that  blessed 

My  heart  with  rest,  my  heart  with  rest. 
— THEODORE  MAYNARD. 


THE  first  question  the  garden  enthusiast 
will  ask   is,   "How  can   I   find   these 
friends  in  other  lands?'' 

It  would  lie  a  perfectly  simple  matter  to 
write  for  names  to  the  Garden  Club  of 
America,  the  International  Garden  Club  of 
America,  the  Women's  National  Farm  and 
Garden  Association,  the  Royal  Horticul- 
tural Society,  and  the  Women's  Farm  and 
Garden  Union  of  England.  These  names 
would  give  a  start.  From  correspondents  in 
England  one  might  branch  out  to  the  Con- 
tinent. Fortunately,  correspondence  on  the 
other  side  hasn't  yet  become  a  lost  art. 

THE  purpose  of  this  correspondence,  of 
course,  would  not  be  the  exchange  of 
pleasantries  on  gardening  in  general,  but  of 
practical  data  on  flowers  in  particular.  No 
especial  purpose  will  be  served  by  rhap- 
sodies, but  very  definite  and  beneficial  re- 
sults might  be  gained  by  correspondence 
between,  say,  American  and  French  chrys- 
anthemum specialists,  American  and  Japa- 
nese iris  enthusiasts  and  American  and 
English  devotees  of  primroses.  While  the 
requisite  information  on  all  plants  is  found 
in  Bailey's  Cyclopedia  of  Horticulture, 
there  are  special  experiences  applicable  to 
special  varieties,  various  personal  color 
combinations  and  methods  of  planting  that 
may  not  be  found  in  the  books. 

Searching  for  this  data  may  seem  an  un- 
necessary waste  of  time  and  effort,  and  yet 
just  such  eagerness  for  all  facts  marks  the 
true  gardener.  To  make  a  pretty  garden  is 
one  thing;  to  know  the  requirements  and 
idiosyncrasies  of  each  plant  in  the  garden  is 
quite  another.  One  can  never  come  to  the 
end  of  gardening  or  know  all  there  is  to  be 
learned.  This  is  the  secret  of  its  fascina- 
tion. There  are  always  other  garden  worlds 
to  conquer.  You  can  set  out  upon  the  quest 
now  with  a  postage  stamp. 


October,     1920 


25 


THE      CHOICE      OF      GARDEN      GATES 


There  are  as  many  kinds  oj  garden  gates  as  there  are  kinds 
of  gardens.  Consequently,  no  element  in  the  architectural 
background  of  a  floral  planting  should  be  more  carefully 
chosen.  Rustic  gates  for  wild  gardens,  Colonial  gates  for 
old-fashioned  gardens,  stately  gates  of  wrought  iron  for 
formal  entrances,  but  lor  the  garden  that  requires  seclusion 


— as  in  a  suburb  or  where  one  is  close  to  the  road — build  a 
wall  about  it  and  pierce  it  with  a  little  gate  such  as  this. 
The  arch  of  brick  above  is  reflected  in  the  shape  of  the  gate 
itself.  The  slat  panel  above  gives  just  enough  glimpse  to  the 
passerby  of  the  beauty  that  lies  inside  and,  to  those  in  the 
garden,  of  the  world  without.  Howard  Major,  architect 


26 


House     &     Garden 


An    interesting    family    letter    of 

Mark   Twain's  expresses  a   desire 

to   go    abroad   that    is   frustrated 

by  lack  of  funds 


Patrick  Henry's  hand-writing  in 

this   letter   regarding   a   sale   of 

land  shows  the  character  of  that 

fiery   patriot 


There  is  the  real  Lincoln  spirit 

in   this   letter   to   the  Secretary 

of    War    regarding    a    prisoner 

and   his   mother 


IOMXW. 
nnanfM  a  AMP  j.  oum.  i 


•  reproduction  of  a  drawing  by  Leonardo  da  Vinci  shows 
the  extraordinary  right-to-left  writing  that  requires  a  mir- 
ror to  decipher.     Courtesy  of  the  Metropolitan 


TVze   tii/e  #age   o/  Leigh   Hunt's 

"Foliage"  records  the  volume  an 

autograph  copy  from  the  author 

to  John  Keats 


Old  age  is  in  this  signature  of  Charles  Carroll  of 

Carrollton,  written  in  1820,  when  he  was  82  and 

the   last    surviving   signer   of   the   Declaration    of 

Independence 


/I  iV/.v.  o/  Swinburne's  "The  Gar- 
den  of  Proserpine"  is  a  treasure 
for   the   poetry   lover.    Anderson 
Galleries 


TITLES 


HONOR. 


By  the  late  Famous  and  Learned  An- 
tiquity JOHN  SELDEN  of  the  In- 
ner Temple,  Efquire. 


Xt>  ma  eutat  unfair  cotton. 


Wild  Addidoni  and  AnKfldmaia  by  the  Author. 


ifl***,  O^it,  AJ»Om/»«i«Digni(M  Improb 
/ j.-n.  7trin  •*•  iafnli  i  trjjttl  timfH  Implobi ^ 
rr«  CHgnlfnibul  nfdB^MI/.J  IHt^Hft  IH,Mll,lal 


LO  N  DON, 

ftiotrd  by  £.  f;/.r ,  ini  K.  JU< .  for  TlMur  Df»'  , 
and  lie  to  be  Sold  M  ihc  Ifkif  L/*.  am 


John    Keats'   dated   signature   at 

the  top  of  this  title  page  rescues 

"Titles     of    Honor"    from    long 

oblivion 


One  glance  at  the  careful  hand- 
writing of  Poe  in  this  Ms.  page 
blasts  most  of  the  legends  about 
him 


This  is  the  first  page  of  an  un- 
published   Ms.    on    Divorce    by 
Coleridge.    Courtesy  of  The  An- 
derson Galleries 


Another    unpublished    Ms.    fur- 
nishes this  page  from  "The  Seven 
Days"    by    the    English    mystic 
poet  and  artist,  Blake 


The  first  draft  of  "Lines  On  See- 
ing a  Lock  of  Milton's  Hair"  in 
the  handwriting   of  John  Keats 
himself 


October,     1920 


27 


COLLECTING        AUTOGRAPHS 

A  Hobby  That  Gives  the  Collector  a  Poignant  and  Realistic 
Touch  with  the  Great  of  the  Past 

GARDNER  TEALL 


EVER  since  handwriting  was  evolved,  the 
actual  written  words  of  the  wise,  the 
great,  the  interesting,  the  entertaining,  in  fact 
of  every  man  who  has  contributed  his  word  or 
two  to  History  have  been  treasured  as  precious 
relics  of  their  authors.  I  suppose  autograph 
collecting  has  claim  to  a  remote  antiquity,  to 
an  age  before  the  invention  of  paper  when 
parchment  and  papyrus  served  to  arrest  the 
thoughts  of  the  scribe.  Suetonius,  chief  gos- 
siper  of  the  first  century  Anno  Domine,  in 
whose  Lives  of  the  Twelve  Caesars  occurs  the 
earliest  known  use  of  the  word  "autograph," 
relates  that  he  possessed  several  little  pocket- 
books  containing  some  well-known  verses  in 
the  handwriting  of  the  Emperor  Nero  and 
written,  says  he,  in  such  a  manner  that  it  was 
very  evident,  from  the  blotting  and  interlining, 
that  they  had  not  l>een  transcribed  from  a  copy, 
not  dictated  by  another,  but  were  written  by 
the  composer  of  them.  This  little  sidelight 
on  the  literary  proclivities  of  the  imperial 
fiddler  would  never  have  come  down  to  us  had 
not  someone,  as  curiously  inclined  as  Sue- 


(Right)   Reproduction  oj  a  lottery 
ticket  signed  by  George  Washing- 
ton, and  showing  the  Father  of  His 
Countrv  in  a  new  role 


rcc«i  •.•<:.  or  the  Provincial  1  realurer,  Vj 

g  Sum  of  THI^TV  SHILLING*,  of  equal  V;i- 1_>; 

jfc  withr-shc  bme  Su»,  of  "the  Bills  of  Cred-f*.; 
Jln-jW  t»v  Law  c"j  -nc,  according  toibc  Dln.c-^ 

tions  ol  an  ;\&  oi'Gen.j*l  4ilrmbly  of  Fmn-  <r 
fy'y/ixwiii. .  made  in  the  Ninth   Venr   cf  tht  t^ 

Reign  of 'His1  Uajefty  GBORCE  JH.     Datct  (•  \ 

thel'M  Day  of  MirclKU  69.     _,-  -          „£'> 


.1  Colonial  note  bearing  the  signature 
of  John  .\ixon,  who  first  read  to  the 
public  the  Declaration  of  Independence 


S^I76S. 

fcfu5r^J  npHIS  TICKET  [Nb.^/^  }  (hall  en- 
•*•    title  the  Pofleffbr  tfr-whaterer  PRIZE 

may  happen  to  be  drawn  againft  it's  Number 
in  the  Mountain  Roadi.otrs.tiTt. 


tonius,  "collected"  and  handed  down  Sue- 
ton  ius's  own  record  of  the  fact.  Thus  we  see 
what  valuable  members  of  society  are  the  col- 
lectors of  autographs,  the  appendices  to  His- 
tory, as  Francis  Bacon  called  them. 

As  the  intelligent  collecting  and  preserving 
of  precious  written  souvenirs  of  persons  of  note 
progressed,  there  followed  those  unintelligent 
faddists  who  imagined  that  signatures  of  the 
writers  were  what  the  collectors  they  sought  to 
imitate  were  seeking.  Hence  it  followed  that  a 
ruthless  slaughter  set  in.  Fine  letters,  priceless 
documents,  family  papers,  unique  manuscripts 
were,  when  set  upon  by  these  misguided 
"fiends,"  slaughtered  and  robbed  of  their  sig- 
natures. I  have  seen  a  collection  of  five  hun- 
dred mere  signatures  of  noted  men  and  women, 
signatures  that  had  lieen  cut  from  their  context 
and  pasted  in  a  book,  proudly  displayed  as  a 
"collection,"  whereas  it  was  merely  a  sad 
"gathering,"  a  sort  of  autograph-morgue,  leav- 
ing one  amazed  that  so  many  treasures  should 
have  been  destroyed  to  obtain  mere  signatures. 
(L'oiitinni'il  on  page  76) 


(Center]    Facsimile  of  the  writing 

of  Caesar  Rodney,  a  signer  of  the 

Declaration,  written  at  the  age  oj 

fifteen 


Robert  Browning  had  an  or- 
derly handwriting,  as  witness 
this  title  page 


,  l- .  — .-  !•*«,  «.  i^l,  . 

>  _.,  ..-,  ...  —',.  ».^ 


The  first  page  The  last  verse  of  "The  Star  Spangled  Marat's  invi- 
nl  "Five  Banner" — a  verse  few  Americans  know  tation  to  Ben- 
Hymns"  by  by  heart — shows  Francis  Scott  Key's  jamin  Frank- 
kmily  Bronte  handwriting  lin 


Shelley's  own  corrections  are 

made    on   this   page   from 

"Queen  lifab" 


i«'J  "i 


*  *- 


28 


House     &     Garden 


A  double  row  of  casement  windows  covers  three  sides  of  the  porch 
in  Mr.  Guido  A.  Doering's  house  at  St.  Louis.  Casement  cloth 
tempers  the  light.  Over  the  radiators  has  been  built  a  long  and 
comfortable  cushion  seat.  The  shoulder  of  the  wall  makes  a  broad 
till  for  plants.  Farrar  &  Study,  architects 


ENCLOSED     PORCHES 


Give  An  All-Year  Glimpse  of  Sunshine 


Entrance  to  the  Doer- 
ing  porch  is  gained 
through  an  arched 
door,  from  which 
point  can  be  seen  the 
comfortable  wicker 
chairs  and  painted 
cottage  pieces 


An  all-year  breakfast 
porch  is  a-  desirable 
feature  for  a  country 
house.  Glazed  chintz 
roller  shades  can  be 
used  and  a  fibre  rug 
over  the  brick.  M.  B. 
Schmidt,  architect 


In  the  home  of  Mrs. 
Edward  Hosier,  Lake 
Forest,  III.,  the  en- 
closed porch  has  ex- 
posed brick  walls,  a 
sand  plastered  ceiling 
and  tile  floor.  Braided 
rugs  and  painted 
Windsor  chairs  have 
been  used.  Miss 
Gheen,  decorator 


October,     1920 


In  order  to  feed  the 
town,  the  farms 
nearby  must  be  cul- 
tivated  and  the 
roads  kept  in  good 
condition 


era  that  ban- 
JL  ished  the  fireplace 
and  snuffed  the  candle 
huddled  people  into 
towns  and  brought  them 
food  they  knew  not 
wherefrom,  with  the  re- 
sult that  the  nation  has 
been  thinking  in  terms 
of  the  town  and  of  man- 
ufactured articles,  and 
the  city  has  forgotten 
the  country. 

We  are  now  facing  the 
inevitable  consequences 
of  this  mal-  adjustment. 

The  townsman  is  com- 
plaining of  the  high  cost 
of  living  and  is  looking 
askance  at  t  h  e  farmer 
who  is  telling  him  that 
unless  the  town  gives 
back  to  the  farmer  his 
laborers  and  the  neces- 
sary hours  of  labor  he 
can  no  longer  feed  the 
town.  We  are  already 
facing  the  fulfillment  of 
the  prophetic  warning 
of  James  J.  Hill,  uttered 
fourteen  years  ago,  that 
the  national  wastage  of 


Intensive  cultivation,  made  necessary  by  the  requirements  of  a  dense  population  and 
made  possible  by  the  division  of  the  land  into  small  holdings,  not  only  assures  a  large 
total  yield  to  the  French  city  but  gives  to  French  farms  the  nicety  of  a  garden. 
Good  roads  and  well-kept  canals  make  possible  rapid  transportation  of  food  stuffs 

FROM    FARM     TO     TABLE 

As  The  French  Solve  The  Food  Problem 
LAURENCE  H..  PARKER 


This  aero  view  of  a 
French  countryside 
shows  the  close  re- 
lation between  the 
town  and  country 

our  mineral  and  timber 
resources  and  of  our  soil 
fertility  must  result, 
within  a  comparatively 
short  time,  in  this  ver- 
itable Land  of  Promise 
lieing  hard  pressed  to 
feed  its  own  people.  We 
are  forced  to  find  a  way 
to  avert  this  evil,  and  we 
are  coming  to  recognize 
the  wisdom  of  Sir  Hor- 
ace Plunkett's  words 
that  a  complete  change 
in  the  whole  attitude  of 
public  opinion  towards 
the  question  of  town  and 
country  must  precede 
any  practical  readjust- 
ment of  American  eco- 
nomic life. 

In  our  helplessness  be- 
fore the  newness  of  our 
problem  we  no  longer 
disdain,  as  in  our  super- 
abundant youth,  to  learn 
from  the  old  world.  To 
those  countries  where 
these  problems  have  been 
met  successfully  we  are 
now  turning  for  methods 
(Continued  on  page  64) 


30 


House    &•    Garden 


The  linen  closets  carry  the 
•same  green  diamond  deco- 


In  the  bathroom  a  stiff 
glazed  chintz  of  mulberry 
lattice  pattern  i.<  used  for 
roller  shades  and  valance, 
dressing  table  and  ceiling 
shades,  as  well  as  covering 
the  inside  of  the  linen  closet. 
The  floor  is  green  and  white 
linoleum.  Agnes  Foster 
Wright,  decorator 


,ation  that  is  used  on  the 
furniture  and  have  the 
same  background  of  old 
ivory.  The  ceiling  shades 
ere  of  green  tarleton  to 
match  the  curtains.  At 
this  end  are  the  alcoves 
that  form  a  sitting  room 


From  the  baseboard, 
where  they  arc  paint- 
ed a  brilliant  green, 
the  watts  fade  up  into 
a  white  ceiling,  giving 
a  sense  of  distance. 
The  color  scheme  is 
black,  ivory  and 
green.  Green  tarle- 
ton curtains  with 
black  ribbon  edging 
on  the  ruffles  have  the 
cooling  effect  of  fresh 
salad 


October,     1920 


31 


THE 


ATTIC 


A   S 


GUEST 


ROOM 


This  Usual  Waste  Space  of  the  House  Can  be  Made  to  Blossom  with  Interesting 
Furniture  and  Accessories  to  Delight  and  Serve  the  Visitor 

ACJNES  FOSTER  WRIGHT 


THERE  is  something  romantic  about  an 
attic,  and  this  seems  especially  true  in  the 
imagination  of  boys  and  men.  It  marks  the 
manhood  of  a  boy  when  he  can  sleep  without 
fear  in  an  attic.  Queer  old  trunks  holding 
queerer  old  hats  and  blankets  of  home-spun, 
an  old  relic  of  a  gun,  a  horse- 
hide  dispatch  box,  all  with 
that  curious,  pungent  atticy 
smell — these  are  the  treasures 
around  which  we  weave  ro- 
mances when  we  are  young. 

Not  long  ago  we  hud  a  queer 
old  furniture  painter  come  for 
the  night  to  our  house  in  the 
country  hills.  For  years  he 
has  been  living  in  a  New  York 
flat.  The  thing  that  gave  him 
the '  most  joy  was  the  rain 
through  the  night  on  the  attic 
loof.  He  had  not  heard  it 
since  he  was  a  boy.  He  was 
a  dear  old  soul,  and  yet  all 
the  country  treats  we  had  for 
him  paled  lieside  that  of  God's 
own  treat  of  pattering  rain  on 
the  roof. 

The  attic  holds  many  pos- 
sibilities for  development.    No 
style  is  expected  of  it.  We  can 
put  all   sorts   of  queer  thing-; 
together   up   there.     With    the 
help  of  water  paint  or  stain  on 
the   walls,   some   braided,   rag 
or  hooked  rugs  on  the  floor  and 
with  fresh  paint  on  the  furni- 
ture so  that  in  col- 
or    at     least     th^ 
pieces  will  go  to- 
gether,   and    some 
gay  chintz  on  the 
furniture    and    a 
crisp,  bright  hang- 
ing at  the  windows 
— we've  a  place  for 
the  boys  and  their 
friends  or   for  the 
grown-up    boys' 
guests. 

In  the  country 
there  often  comes 
the  chance  to  ask 
three  or  four  unat- 
tached men  up  for 
the  week-end's  golf 
or  tennis,  but  the 
house  only  boasts 
one  or  two  guest 
rooms  and  those 
are  reserved  for  the 
married  couples. 
Anyone  who  has  a 
place  knows  how 
often  this  happens. 
The  remodeled  at- 
tic will  give  space 
and  accommoda- 
tion for  these  extra 
guests. 

The  attic  shown 
in  the  illustrations 


was  in  a  house  on  a  golf  course  where  the 
hospitable  owner  never  had  beds  enough  for 
all  the  guests  he  wanted  to  invite.  He  turned 
to  his  attic  for  the  solution.  He  opened  the 
tiny  ladder  stairway  and  made  a  nice  square 
stair  well.  On  the  first  landing  book  shelves 


The  dressing  table  has  jour  compart- 
ments and  a  double  mirror.  The 
furniture  is  ivory  and  brilliant  green 


The  ivory,  black  and  green  color 
scheme  is  relieved  by  gaily  flowered 
hooked  rugs,  and  black  glazed  chintz 


were  built  into  an  alcove  and  a  semi-circular 
top  put  on  it  to  give  it  a  little  distinction.  One 
could  choose  his  night's  story  on  the  way  to 
bed. 

The  rough  plaster  walls  had  countless  angles 
and  the  roof  many  pitches.  It  was  decided  to 
make  the  color  scheme  for  the 
room  black,  ivory  and  clear 
emerald  green.  The  walls  were 
kalsomined,  beginning  at  the 
baseboard  with  the  bright  green 
and  gradually  finishing  at  the 
top  of  the  ceiling  in  white.  In 
this  way  one  did  not  notice 
the  angles,  as  the  color  floated 
from  the  baseboard  into  the 
ceiling  and  the  fresh  green 
gave  a  lovely  cool  effect,  with 
the  suggestion  of  distance  to  it. 
The  floor  was  stained  very 
dark  green. 

The  attic  consisted  of  one 
large  main  part,  an  alcove  on 
cither  side  and  a  long,  narrow 
extension.  The  main  part  was 
used  as  a  bed  dormitory,  the 
alcoves  as  a  sitting  room  and 
the  extension  a  bathroom,  with 
the  linen  and  store  closets  be- 
tween. 

Four    beds   were   placed    in 
the  four  corners.     Beside  two 
were  bedside  tables  painted  to 
match  in  ivory  and  green  with 
green    diamonds    for    decora- 
tions.    The  bed  quilts  are  of 
deep    ivory    sateen 
with    green    dia- 
monds     appliqued 
in  a  stitched  border 
design    of    white 
golf  balls.    All  the 
furniture   was 
heavily    glazed    so 
that     it     will     not 
show  wear  and  yet 
have    an    interest- 
ing   texture    that 
unglazed   furniture 
lacks. 

The  lamps  on  the 
tables  are  of  black 
pottery  with  black 
chiffon  shades 
made  in  bands  of 
bright  green  with 
bunches  of  black 
shiny  cherries 
hanging  from  the 
top.  As  the  space 
did  not  allow  of 
tables  for  the  other 
two  beds,  standing 
lamps  were  used, 
with  a  shelf  and  a 
white  parchment 
shade  decorated 
with  green  bands 
The  house  bring 
the  mecca  of  golf 
(Con't  on  p.  66) 


32 


THE 


RECTANGULAR 


House     &     Garden 


LOT 


Offers  a  Variety  of  Chances  for  Excellent  and  Livable  Landscaping,  as  Shown 
by  These  Five  Moderate  Planting  Schemes 

ELIZABETH  LEONARD  STRANG 


E  small  rectangu- 
lar  lot  is  worthy  of 
more  attention  from  the 
landscape  designer  than 
it  has  hitherto  received 
for  the  simple  reason 
that  so  many  of  them 
exist.  When  the  possi- 
bilities of  this  seemingly 
simple  piece  of  ground 
are  more  fully  realized 
by  potential  clients  we 
shall  doubtless  see  many 
more  charming  small 
places  than  we  do  now. 
Even  if  beauty  did  not 
ever  justify  its  own  ex- 
istence the  increase  in 
actual  value  of  the  prop- 
•  erty  from  a  real  estate 
standpoint  would  be  a 
strong  argument  in  favor 
of  the  improvements. 

Many  factors  enter  in- 
to the  design  of  such  a 
place:  the  environment, 
whether  city  or  subur- 
ban; the  house  plan  and 
its  relation  to  the  lot; 
the  points  of  the  com- 
pass; and  the  tastes, 
habits  and  pocketbook 
of  the  owners. 


City  Privacy 


The  shape  of  the  city  lot  No.  1  lent 
itself  to  division  into  parts — a  rose  gar- 
den, flower  border  and  a  bird  lawn  on 
one  side,  and  on  the  other  drying  yard 
and  kitchen  garden.  Between  lies  a 
square  lawn,  surrounded  by  lilacs  and 
spiraeas.  The  cost  for  plants,  $200 

Lot    Number    One 

(size  60'  x  120')  is  situated  on  the  outskirts 
of  the  growing  city  of  Brockton,  Massachusetts. 
It  belongs  to  a  busy  physician  with  neither 
time  nor  inclination  for  gardening,  who  ex- 
pects to  sell  it  in  the  near  future  and  build 
himself  a  country  home.  To  expedite  this 
sale  he  and  his  wife  wish  to  beautify  the 
grounds  as  much  as  possible  at  small  expense 
for  initial  work  and  subsequent  care.  The 
requirements  are  shade  and  a  fair  amount  of 
privacy  and  the  softening  of  the  harsh  lines 
of  the  boundaries  and  house  foundations.  A 
hedge  of  Ibota  privet  (the  hardiest  variety) 
and  some  good  shade  trees  like  red  oak  or 
sugar  maple  provide  the  former,  while  the 
latter  is  secured  by  massed  planting  of  shrubs. 
The  outlying  boundaries  are  screened  by  na- 
tive thorns,  gray  birches,  witch  hazel,  com- 
mon barberry  and  forsythia,  with  Virginia 
creeper  and  Clematis  paniculata  on  the  high 
wire  fence.  Around  the  house  are  plants  of  a 
more  domestic  character  like  Persian  lilac. 
Spiraea  Van  Houtteii,  Euonymus  alatus  for 
autumn  color,  the  low  Spiraea  callosa  alba  or 
Deutzia  Lemoinei  beneath  the  windows,  and 
elder  or  sweet  pepper  bush  in  the  shade. 
Here  and  there  a  small  tree  like  a  hawthorn 
or  dogwood  breaks  the  monotony.  For  vines 
there  are  the  climbing  evergreen  eounymus 
and  wistaria.  Against  a  sunny  wall  is 
the  new  shrubby  Rose  .Hugonis  with  its 
arching  sprays  of  yellow  flowers.  These  are 
mere  suggestions  for  a  plan  which  in  its  en- 
tirety need  not  exceed  a  cost  of  fifty  dollars 
for  plants. 


The  aim  in  design  No.  1  was  .to  afford 
privacy  to  a  city  lot  measuring  60'  x 
120'  and  to  soften  the  harsh  lines  of  the 
boundaries  and  house  foundations.  The 
property  was  hedged  with  Ibota  privet 
together  with  red  oaks  and  sugar  maples. 
The  plant  cost  was  about  $50 


Lot  Number  Two  (50' 
x  125')  is  in  a  densely 
populated  part  of  i  Cam- 
bridge, Massachusetts. 
It  is  of  necessity  entirely 
fenced  in  and  the  neigh- 
boring houses  are  so 
close  as  to  almost  touch 
it.  The  house  which  is 
of  the  Dutch  colonial 
type,  is  so  arranged  that 
the  living-room  and  hall 
open  on  the  rear.  This 
gives  an  opportunity  to 
develop  the  backyard  as 
a  garden  where  the  fam- 
ily may  work  or  play. 
As  shown,  the  central 
turf  panel  is  surrounded 
by  clipped  hedges  of 
arborvitae  in  front  of 
which  a  border  of  long- 
lived  perennialsy  like 
daffodils  iris  peonies, 
phlox  and  button  chrys- 
anthemums, provide  a 
constant  succession  of 
bloom.  Oleanders  are  in 
the  wooden  tubs.  Around 
the  large  existing  apple 
tree  are  seats  and  a  mass- 
ing of  the  best  ever- 
greens for  city  condi- 
tions, Japanese  yew, 
both  tall  and  dwarf,  and 
Mugho  pines.  As  a 

broad-leaved  evergreen  Andromeda  floribunda 
will  succeed  where  Rhododendrons  fail.  If  a 
tree  must  be  set  out,  the  Ailanthus  is  both 
quick  growing  and  beautiful  if  the  pistillate 
form  is  used. 

This  plan  is  capable  of  development  in 
various  ways.  If  a  less  expensive  type  of 
planting  is  preferred  clipped  Japanese  bar- 
berry or  Ibota  privet  could  form  the  hedge 
and  shade-tolerant  shrubs  like  viburnum  or 
mock  orange  surround  the  seat.  A  garage 
could  take  the  place  of  the  grape  arbor.  A 
drive  would  then  replace  the  stepping-stone 
walk  and  the  drying  yard  give  way  to  a  re- 
movable clothes  reel  on  the  lawn.  The  front 
of  the  house  needs  but  the  simplest  treatment 
— arching  privet  over  the  service  walk,  bar- 
berry hedge,  and  a  few  choice  deciduous  or 
evergreen  shrubs.  The  cost  of  this  scheme 
would  vary  from  $100  to  $500  according  to 
whether  or  not  evergreens  were  used. 

A  Garden  in  Parts 

Lot  Number  Three  is  also  in  the  heart  of 
Cambridge.  It  measures  70'  x  110'.  In  this 
case  the  arrangement  of  the  house  interior  was 
planned  in  conjunction  with  that  of  the 

Clipped  hedges  of  arborvitae  surround  the 
central  turf  panel  in  design  No.  2.  This  is 
on  the  axis  of  the  house-depth  hall  and 
terrace.  A  perennial  border  lines  the  panel 
and  an  outdoor  living  room  has  been  made 
with  seats  under  the  old  apple  trees  at  the 
end.  Variations  of  this  scheme  can  be  used, 
costing  from  $.100  to  $500 


grounds.  The  shape  of  the  lot  lends  itself 
nicely  to  a  division  into  parts.  Because  of  the 
large  elms  on  the  street,  the  house  foundations 
are  masked  by  a  few  shade-tolerant  plants — 
funkias,  ferns,  maple-leaved  viburnum  and 
clethra.  The  hedge  is  of  clipped  privet.  In- 
side it  an  effect  of  strong  contrast  is  secured  by 
dark  Japanese  yew  (upright  form)  and  white 
flowering  almond. 

A  small  rose  garden  occupies  the  sunny  ex- 
posure, with  a  brick  path  and  edging  of  3" 
box,  which  needs  slight  protection.  In  the 
rear  a  summer  house  overlooks  a  bird  lawn 
overhung  by  four  silvery  Eleagnus  longipes, 
beloved  of  the  feathered  tribe. 

The  breakfast  terrace  faces  a  central  lawn 
surrounded  by  lilacs  and  spiraeas  in  front  of 
which  is  space  for  a  display  of  bulbs.  But 
the  brightness  of  the  place  is  in  the  flower 
border  between  rose  garden  and  terrace,  where 
crocus,  iris,  larkspur,  lilies,  phlox,  and  in 
fact  a  little  of  everything  forms  a  concen- 
trated mosaic  of  color. 

A  fruit  and  vegetable  garden  balances  the 
bird  lawn.  Here  dwarf  fruit  trees,  standard 
currants,  and  parsley  edges  make  an  artistic 


The  fourth  lot  measures 
80'  x  130'  and  is  lo- 
cated in  an  open  suburb. 
Large  oak  trees  provide 
the  setting,  to  which  was 
added  a  massed  planting 
of  shrubs  around  the 
rear,  giving  it  a  semi- 
wild  character.  In  in- 
formality lies  its  charm. 
Its  cost  for  development 
would  be  something  over 
SSOO 


The  fifth  plan  is  really 
a  garden  for  three  ad- 
joining houses.  Along 
the  main  path  which 
descends  by  steps  has 
been  laid  out  the  bird 
basin  end  of  the 
spring  garden,  the 
flower  garden  and  the 
winter  garde n — an 
all-year  development 
costing  between  $1000 
and  S2000 


as  well  a.-  useful  combination.  Of  course  only 
a  few  vegetables  are  grown,  or  the  space  could 
be  filled  with  gay  annuals.  Ample  service 
space  is  provided.  A  garage  might  take  the 
place  of  the  vegetable  garden.  The  cost  of 
the  plant  materials  on  this  plan  would  be 
around  $200. 

An  Informal  Development 

Lot  Xumber  Four  (80'  x  130')  is  situated 
in  Newton  Center,  a  town  adjacent  to  Boston, 
in  a  section  where  the  houses  are  far  apart 
and  the  grounds  ample.  Here  also  the  house 
rooms  were  planned  in  relation  to  the  com- 
pass points  and  the  shape  of  the  lot.  One  im- 
provement is  suggested,  in  that  French  win- 
dows and  steps  might  have  opened  from  the 
living  room  to  the  garden.  Several  large  oak 
trees  provide  a  setting,  and  their  high  branches 
do  not  preclude  the  possibility  of  planting  be- 
neath them.  Because  the  ground  slopes  to  the 
rear  it  was  thought  best  to  avoid  the  expense 
of  grading  by  making  an  informal  garden. 
Against  the  fence,  therefore,  are  trees  artd 
(Continued  on  page  58) 


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House     &•     Garden 


AN       ENGLISH       GARDEN       IN       SPRING 

Mathern  Palace,  A  Home  of 
W.  Avray  Tipping 


MRS.  FRANCIS  KING 

FOR  those  who  cannot,  or  who  will  not 
travel,  and  whose  gardening  interests  still 
leap  across  seas  to  other  lands,  substitutes  in 
the  way  of  photographs  prove  the  alternative, 
supplemented,  of  course,  by  written  Descrip- 
tion. And  since  substitutes  some  of  us  mu.;t 
and  will  have,  pictures  of  the  type  with  which 
this  writing  deals  are  as  near  perfection  as 
such  things  may  be. 

Here,  to  the  eye  accustomed  to  finding  color, 
light  and  shade  in  pictures,  are  these  qualities 
in  high  degree.  Here  are  shown  forth  a  par- 
ticularly interesting  ancient  dwelling  in  Wales, 
and  its  gardens  in  the  spring,  Mathern  Palace, 
for  thirteen  hundred  years  an  episcopal  resi- 
dence. 

In  1894,  the  property  came  into  the  hands 
of  Mr.  W.  Avray  Tipping,  the  distinguished 
English  writer  on  architecture.  Under  his 
able  direction,  the  conversion  of  the  old  house 
to  meet  the  needs  of  modern  living,  was  done 
without  losing  one  whiff  of  the  savor  of  an 
antique  time.  That  Mr.  Tipping  is  one  of  the 
best  of  amateur  gardeners,  too,  one  cannot 
doubt  who  sees  these  pictures  and  who  has 
read  of  his  later  horticultural  achievements  at 
a  newer  place,  Mounton  House. 

In  his  own  words,  he  thus  tells  briefly  the 
story  of  the  gardens  of  Mathern  Palace. 

"If  the  house  is  essentially  old,  the  gardens 
are  absolutely  new.  The  sordid  untidiness  of 
a  hopelessly  ill-contrived  and  unrepaired  farm- 
stead prevailed  in  1894.  There  was  a  potato 
(Continued  on  page  58) 


Mathern  Palr.ce  dates  back  thirteen  hundred  years.    Now  restored 

for  modern  living,  it  is  further  enriched  by  a  garden  that  is  counted 

a   distinguished   horticultural  achievement.     This   view   is   of  the 

quadrangle 


In  tulip  time  there  is  a  glimpse 
of  the  old  buildings  for  a  back- 
ground, the  happy  use  of  trees 
and  a  fascinating  foreground  of 
tulips 


The  grass  alley  is  bordered  by 
tulips  and  myosotis  in  beds,  with 
hedges  behind.  This  walk  divides 
two  gardens,  a  rose  garden  on 
the  right 


October,     1920 


3S 


These  graceful  lit- 
tle scent  bottles  are 
oj  engraved  glass 
with  gold  tops. 
They  are  priced  at 
the  pair 


The  set  of  five 
flower  vases  above 
is  of  rock  crystal. 
$30.  The  English 
crystal  comports 
are  $50  the  pair 


This  comport  is  Venetian 
glass  stippled  with  gold. 
Gay  little  pears  in  col- 
ored glass  make  the  han- 
dles and  decoration  on 
the  top.  $18 


Above  is  a  candy  jar  of 
American  glass  in  either 
amber  or  amethyst  color 
which  may  be  had  for 
$5.25.  It  is  10"  high 
and  extremely  graceful 


C  R  Y  S  '    A 


\\  Inch  may  be  purchased  through  the 
House   &    Garden    Shopping    Service. 


Below  is  a  comport  of 
rock  crystal  that  is  smart 
because  of  its  simplicity. 
It  is  about  5"  high  and 
is  priced  at  $7 


The  engraved  crystal 
candlesticks  at  the  left 
are  12"  high.  $11.  The 
10"  fruit  bowl  is  of  aqua- 
marine glass.  $9.25 


The  set  of  glass  shown  below  is  unusually  lovely,  of  rock  crystal  in 
a  graceful  flower  design.  The  prices,  reading  from  left  to  right, 
per  dozen  are — claret  glass,  $33;  cordial,  $25;  sherry,  $27;  cham- 
pagne, $39;  goblet,  $46;  grapefruit,  $75;  finger  bowl,  $50,  and 
finger  bowl  saucer,  S50 


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House     &     Garden 


Early  English  influence  is  seen  in 
the  architectural  contour  of  the 
house — the  massing  of  its  gable 
ends,  the  roof  shingled  to  simu- 
late thatch,  the  long  dormers  and 
the  range  of  casement  windows 
in  the  sun  room  that  open  on  the 
terrace  overlooking  the  lawn. 
The  rough  texture  of  the  walls 
affords  an  excellent  background 
lor  the  terrace,  planting  and  vines 


Off  the  entrance  hall  is  a  little 
black  and  gold  lacquer  coat  room. 
Walls  are  finished  in  old  yellow 
glaze,  the  black  floor  covered 
with  old  Chinese  rugs  in  tones  of 
gold  and  dull  blue  and  the  win- 
dow draperies  and  cushions  are 
of  black  and  gold  Chinese  bro- 
cade. The  furniture,  late  Queen 
Anne  and  early  Georgian,  is 
lacquered  in  black  and  gold 


COUNTRY   HOME 

at  GREENWICH 
CONNECTICUT 

CROSS  &  CROSS,    Architects 
Int,-nors  Av  HAMPTON  SHOPS 


October,     1920 


37 


Dignity  is  lent  the  dining  roam  by  the  paneled  walls  finished  in  deep  ivory.     A  Persian  rug  in 
soft  tones  of  blue  and  gold  covers  the  floor.    Chairs  are  hand-made  reproductions  oj  a  Chippen- 
dale design,  while  the  table  and  console  were  adapted  from  Chippendale  designs  to  fit  the  spaces 
in  this  room.     The  draperies  repeat  the  blue  and  gold  note 


This  simple  little  breakfast  room  looks  out 
on  the  garden  and  the  sea.  Here  the  win- 
dows are  shaded  by  glass  curtains  of  case- 
ment cloth  and  oyerdraperies  of  quaint  old 
English  printed  linen.  The  tiled  floor  and 
sand  colored  rough  plaster  walls  suggest 
being  out-of-doors,  as  does  the  green  painted 
furniture 


There  is  a  fireplace  at  each  end  of  the  sun 
room.  The  walls  are  of  rough  plaster,  with 
the  stone  work  outlining  the  door  and 
window  frames.  The  red  stone  floor  and 
old  Italian  well-head  of  reddish  stone  give 
a  warm  color  note  which  is  repeated  in  the 
chintz  covers  and  draperies  at  the  case- 
ment windows 


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House     &     Garden 


FALL      PLANTING      AND      TRANSPLANTING 

Garden  Operations  this  Month  Which  Will  Give  You  More 
Perennial  Flowers  Next  Season 


ROBERT  STELL 


TO  some  it  may  come  as  rather  a  surprise, 
this  idea  of  planting  the  garden  in  the 
fall.  We  are  prone  to  think  of  spring  as  the 
period  preeminent  for  the  sowing  of  seed,  the 
setting  out  of  bushes  and  young  trees,  of  cre- 
ating a  garden  from  the  union  of  soil  and  the 
literal  fruits  thereof.  In  some  ways  such  an 
attitude  on  our  part  is  justified,  for  vegetable 
seeds  and  those  of  practically  all  of  the  annual 
flowers  are  planted  in  the  early  part  of  the 
year  rather  than  the  later ;  but  there  are  many, 
many  other  plants  which  do  best  when  fall- 
planted.  Roughly  speaking,  these  are  the 
perennial  flowers,  and  the  deciduous  shrubs 
and  trees. 

The  reason  for  fall  planting  is  simply 
this:  it  enables  hard}'  things  to  establish 
their  roots  in  their  new  sites  before  freez- 
ing weather  and  without  check  in  growth, 
with  the  result  that  they  will  be  ready  to 
start  active  life  with  the  first  warming 
of  the  soil  in  the  spring.  Were  planting 
postponed  until  March  or  April,  a  de- 
cided delay  in  development  would  occur 
because  of  the  inevitable  shock  which 
comes  with  moving  a  growing  plant  from 
one  place  to  another. 

TAKING  up  the  perennial  flowers 
first,  we  find  this  situation:  while  in 
the  majority  of  cases  their  seeds  should 
be  sown  in  the  spring  or  summer  in  order 
to  yield  blossoms  the  following  season, 
the  setting  out  of  young  plants  and  the 
root  division  or  replanting  of  old  ones 
are  best  accomplished  in  the  autumn. 
With  one  intervening  transplanting  (or 
without  even  that,  in  many  cases)  the 
hardy  young  plants  which  you  have 
started  in  your  seed  bed  can  go  into  their 
permanent  places  now.  A  light  mulch 
applied  after  the  ground  freezes  will  help 
them  to  come  through  the  winter  safely 
and  develop  into  strong  blooming  plants 
next  season. 

Such  transplanting  follows  the  generaj 
rules  of  all  such  operations :  you  take  the 
youngsters  up  with  plenty  of  earth 
around  their  roots  and  without  injury  to 
the  latter,  and  water  plentifully  as  soon 
as  they  have  been  reset  and  the  soil  well 
firmed  around  them.  New  plants  re- 
ceived from  some  other  grower  should  be 
treated  in  the  same  way,  unless  they  are 
in  the  "division"  class  which  will  be 
considered  presently. 

Root  division  in  the  fall  can  be  practised 
successfully  in  the  case  of  large,  well  estab- 
lished clumps  of  the  majority  of  perennials 
listed  in  the  accompanying  table.  The  true 
bulbs,  of  course,  are  not  handled  in  this  way. 
They  must  be  dug  up  and  moved  complete, 
though  the  offsets  which  the  lilies  form  can  be 
separated  from  the  parent  bulb  and  planted 
by  themselves. 

THE   time  to  divide   and  reset   perennial 
roots  is  after  they  have  ceased  to  bloom 
and  have  entered  into  a  semi-dormant  state. 
Most  of  them  can  be  divided  by  hand,  but 
care  should  be  taken  to  have  each  section  carry 


a  few  strong  buds  or  crowns.  Do  not  let  the 
clumps  be  too  large,  and  do  not  place  them  too 
close  together  when  resetting.  Perennials  as 
well  as  other  flowers  do  best  when  not  over- 
crowded. A  sharp  spade  can  be  used  to 
divide  into  smaller  clumps  the  roots  of  such 
plants  as  cannot  be  separated  with  the  hands. 
This  root  division  has  another  value  than 
merely  increasing  the  number  of  plants  in  your 
garden.  Many  of  the  stronger  growing  per- 
ennials form  such  large  root  masses  after  a 
few  years  that  they  exhaust  the  soil,  and  this, 
together  with  the  more  or  less  unhealthy  con- 
dition of  the  older  roots  which  comes  with 
age,  shows  in  the  fewer  and  inferior  blooms 


SPACINC.    KALI.   PLANTS 

Aconitum    (monkshood)...  2  small  plants  t  i    1   sq.  ft.  of  soil 

Adonis   (pheasant's  eye)...  4 

Asters    (hardy) J 

Astilbe     1       1     ' 

Alyssum    saxatile    4 

Aquilegia     (columbine)  ....  .5 

Anthemis     6 

Bellis    (English    daisy)....  o      1     ' 

Campanulas      (except     (an 

terbury    bells) .'•  "  I     ' 

Convallaria  (lily -of- the 

valley)      6 

Delphinium    (larkspur)  ....  4 
Diantbus    plumarius    (yrar-s 

pink)     5  "1 

Funkia    (plantain    lily) ....  1       "          "       "  2    "    ' 

Gypsophila    (baby's  breath)  1 

Helenium    1 

Herrterncalis     (day     lily)...  1 

Heliupsis    1 

Hibiscus    (mallow) 1 

Iberis  sempervirens    (hardy 

candytuft)     2  "1 

Iris   2       1 

Lupine      2  "        "1 

Myosotis    (forget-me-not)  .  .  2       "          "        "1 

Peony     1       "          "        "  - 

Phlox     2      1 

Veronica    1       "          "       "1 

Salvia     2       "          "        "1 

Spirea    1       "         "       "1 

Crocus    S 

Hyacinth    S 

Lilies    2 

Narcissus     6 

Scilla    (squill) 8 

Snowdrops     8  1     "     "     ' 

Tulip    (May    flowering)  ....  5  1     "     "    ' 

Deciduous  shrubs  and   ornamental   trees. 

Fruit  trees  except  cherry,  apricot,   plum   and   peach. 
Seeds  of   "pit"   fruits   (peach,   etc.). 


1  sq.  ft.  of  sc 

1  "     "    "    ' 

1  "     "     "    ' 

1     '     ' 


which  are  produced.  A  clump  which  has 
reached  this  state  needs  division  for  its  own 
sake.  Cut  out  and  discard  the  superannuated 
parts  of  the  roots,  and  replant  the  healthy 
parts  in  enriched  soil. 

AUTUMN  is  the  best  season  of  all  for  plant- 
l\ing  hardy  bulbs.  They  should  be  set  with 
their  crowns  from  3"  to  S"  below  the  surface, 
depending  on  their  size.  The  larger  lilies  can 
be  planted  as  deep  as  10"  or  even  12".  It  is 
perhaps  unnecessary  to  add  that  all  bulbs 
should  be  placed  with  their  tops,  which  are 
clearly  distinguishable  by  their  pointed  ap- 
pearance, uppermost. 


Shrubs  and  small  trees  set  between  now  and 
freezing  weather  should  come  through  well. 
The  holes  dug  for  them  ought  to  be  large 
enough  to  accommodate  their  roots  without 
crowding.  Any  broken  or  badly  bruised  roots 
had  better  be  cut  off  before  the  plant  is  set  in 
the  ground.  Thorough  and  firm  tamping 
down  of  the  soil  around  the  roots  as  it  is  filled 
in  is  essential  to  full  success,  and,  particularly 
if  the  weather  is  dry,  abundant  water  at  the 
time  of  planting  and  for  a  few  days  afterward 
will  help  a  great  deal  in  enabling  the  roots  to 
re-establish  themselves.  As  with  all  rooted 
things,  shrubs,  and  trees  should  be  left  out  of 
the  ground  as  short  a  time  as  possible,  and 
their  roots  kept  protected  from  the  drying 
effects  of  sun  and  wind. 

Apple,  pear,  quince  and  crab-apple 
trees  may  be  fall  planted,  as  well  as  the 
bush  fruits  such  as  currants  and  goose- 
berries. But  the  so-called  "pit"  fruits, 
like  peaches  and  plums,  had  better  be  left 
until  early  spring.  If  you  have  the 
available  space  and  are  in  no  great  hurry 
for  results,  it  will  prove  an  interesting 
experiment  to  plant  some  pits  of  these 
latter  kinds  in  the  open  this  autumn, 
and  raise  trees  of  your  own.  The  action 
of  the  winter's  cold  and  moisture  will 
split  the  hard  pits  and  they  will  sprout 
in  the  spring.  They  do  not  need  to  be 
planted  deeply — an  inch  or  two  is  enough 
— and  after  the  seedlings  are  a  couple  of 
feet  high  they  can  be  transplanted  like 
other  small  trees. 

And  now  a  word  in  explanation  of  the 
accompanying  table.  The  number  of 
plants  designated  as  sufficient  for  a  cer- 
tain area  of  ground  is  based  on  the  first 
season's  effect  only.  The  second  year  of 
bloom  will  find  many  of  the  plants  so 
large  that  division  and  a  general  thin- 
ning out  will  be  necessary.  It  is  not  an 
easy  thing  to  create  a  complete,  mature 
looking  perennial  garden  in  one  year, 
but  you  can  at  least  help  to  approximate 
it  by  close  planting  while  the  stock  is 
still  small. 

|NE  more  flower  might  be  added  to 
this  list  for  fall  planting — the 
sweet  pea.  In  the  North  they  can  be 
planted  about  six  weeks  before  the  first 
frost — about  the  middle  of  October — if 
one  uses  a  glass  frame  to  cover  them  dur- 
ing freezing  weather  or  as  late  as  the 
end  of  November  when  sown  in  the  open.  They 
should  be  covered  over  the  plants  with  3"  of 
soil. 

The  purpose  in  open  fall  planting  sweet  peas 
is  to  sow  them  late  enough  so  that  the  seed  will 
germinate  but  not  come  up  above  ground  be- 
fore frost.  It  is  held  in  this  condition  until 
the  weather  opens  up  again. 

Both  the  frame  and  the  open  sowing  will 
give  sturdy  plants  early  in  the  spring  and 
blooms  much  sooner  than  if  the  seeds  were 
planted  in  April. 

By  doing  some  of  the  work  in  the  fall,  the 
plants  will  be  hardier  and  will  be  more  ready 
to  start  active  life  in  the  spring. 


October,     1920 


FALL    PLANTING     TABLE 

The  gnrstfons  cf  TiViaf.  where  and  how  to  fall  plant  puzzle 
many  h  o  tn  c  gardeners.  Here  th  ey  are  answered  briefly 
and  without  unessential  I'crbiage.  Let  the  following  table 
he  the  basis  of  your  flozt'+r  and  shrub  planting  this  fall 


NAME 

1 
BLOOMS                       I  Incur                             COLORS                                                                                                REMARKS 

HAKUV  I'HIKNNIAI.S 

May-   June     

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3     —   5 
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2     -  -  4 
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_>     -  -  3 
3      —   I. 
1      •  -  4 

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Blue 

Aconitum.      One  of   the  best    for    shady   and   semi-shady   positions. 
Anchusa.     The  new  varieties  are   great   improvements.      Give   full   sun. 
Anemones.      Beautiful   flowtrs,   lasting  until  hard  frost.     Good   for  cutting. 
Carex    (Sedge).     Good   for  marshy  places   or  wet   spots. 
Chrysanthemums.      Must   important   of   the    late    fall   flowers. 
Dicentra.      Old   favorite,   thriving   in   either   shade  or    sun. 
Dictamuus.      Showy    for   the   mixed   border;   give  rich   soil   and   sun. 
Delphinium.      Indispensable    for   background   in    the   mixed   bonier. 
Ferns.      Good   for   shady   positions,   especially  massed   around   the   house. 
Foxglove.     For  backgrounds  in  the  mixed  border.     Dominate  whole  garden. 

Blues    

Anemones    

Sept.  —  <>ct  
May  —  JutK-     
Sept.—  Xfiv  
May  —  June     
May—  J  ul>     
June  —  Sept  
May     Oct 

Chrysanthemums   .  . 

White,    manmn,    yellow  .  . 
Pink    

Blue 

Foliage    
White,    purple,    lilac  

Foxgloves     
Hardy  grasses  

June  —  July     
May  —  Oct  

Hardy   pinks.      Old    favorite.      Among  the   easiest    to   grow   of  border   plants. 
Hibiscus.     Full  sun,  but  prefer  moist  soil.    Robust  growth  with  immense  flowers. 
Helianthns.      Desirable  for  shrubbi  ry  planting  and  in  clumps.     Newer  varieties. 
Iris.      Select    varieties    for   succession    of   bloom    and    character    of  soil. 

July  —  Aug  
July  —  Sept  
Mav     Julv 

Helianthus     
Iris 

(  )  range,    yellow  
Blue,    lavender,    yellow..  . 

Perennial    p.ippies.  . 
Primroses     
Phlox 

June—  Sept  
April—  May    

Red      white    . 

Perennial    poppies.      "Iceland'*   bloom    all   season;    ''Oriental'*   in    May   and   June. 
Primroses.     Good   for  half   shady  position  ami   rockeries.      Rich   soil. 

White,    yellow 

July—  Aug  
April  —  JuTH'    .... 
July—  Sept  

4      —   (. 
Vi  —  3 
I'A 
3     —  5 
IK—  2 
154 
3—6 
HJ 
1/j  —  4 
K—   1 
</,—  1 

Yellow,    orange  
Pink,    white  
White 

Kudbeckia.      Hardy,   robust;   spreads   by    itself;    excellent    for   screening. 
Saxil'raga.      Very   hardy;   thrives   everywhere:    good    for   bordering   shrubbery. 
Shasta  daisy.      The    popular   original    has  been    improved    in    later   varieties. 

White      pink 

Stokesia.     Good  for  masses  and  beds  in   sunny  positions;   very   hardy. 
Sweet    William.      Extremely    hardy    and    permanent;    tine    for   cutting. 

Sweet    William  

June-   Sept  

Pink,    white  

Htue     red 

Trillium    

Red      white 

Trillium.      Good    fur  moist,   shady  positions  in   the   hardy   border. 
Veronica.      Long   spikes  of   flowers;    extremely   effective    in    mixed   border. 
Vinca.      Good  as  ground  cover  in   shady   position   and  under  shrubs. 

June  —  Aug  

Violets    .  . 

SHRUBS 

Berberis    
Deutzia     
Lilac    (Syringa)..  .  . 

Hydrangea   

April  —  Xov  
May—  July    
May  —  June     

J     —  3 

(i     —  S 

1  5    —  Jo 
10     —15 
8     —10 

0      -    -l.i 
5      —20 

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S      -     1  "" 

Berberis.      Best   general   plant   for  informal    hedges;    color   in   autumn. 
Deutzia.      Very  hardy,   permanent,   and   free-flowering;   any   soil;   full   sun. 
Lilac.      Tall   hedges,    screens,  and    individual    specimens. 
Hydrangea.      Lawn  specimens,  hedge   terminals,   screening  hedges. 
Forsythia.      Single   specimens  and    in  mixed  border.      Best   early  shrub. 
Japanese  maples.      Invaluable  alone  on  the  large  or  small  lawn. 
Rhus.      Unique   and   effective.      Good   background    shrub. 
Spirea.      Invaluable   in   the   mixed   border;    also   isolated.      Many  varieties. 
Althea.     Tall   hedges  and   single  specimens.     Very  hardy. 
Viburnum.     Hardy  and  effective.     Flowers  followed  by  white  or  scarlet  berries. 
Weigela.      Extremely    pretty   and    fret'-flowering.      Graceful    single   specimens. 

White,     lilac  

April—  May    
May—  Oct  
July 

Yellow 

Japanese    maples.  .  . 
Rhua 

Colored     foliage  

May  —  June     

White,    pink  
White,    red  

Althea     .... 

White     . 

Weigela 

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Tulfps  ... 

Plant  —  Inches 
Apart        Detp 
4  —  8      4—  (. 
6—12     5       7 
6  —  8     4-6 
6—10     5—  7 
12—  24—  <>     Pi 
2—  4     3—  .4 
2  —  4      >—  4 
2—  4     3—  4 
6—1-'      3        4 
2—  3     .1 
4—  (.     3 
6              2—4 
3—  (.     2       4 

1       -  .1 

1      —  2 

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J     —  6 
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1      —  2 
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Pink,    purple,    white  

Tulips.      Most   effective    in    long   borders  and   in    front   of   shrubs. 

Yellow    
Blue,    white,    p'nk  
White,    red.    yellow  
White    

Jonquils.      For  the  mixed  border  and   for  cutting.     Plant   early. 
Hyacinths.     Best  for   formal  and  design   bedding.     Mass  in   variety. 
Lilies.     Plant  soon  as  received.     Succession  of  bloom  throughout  summer. 
Snowdrops.      Earliest  flowering;   naturalize   in  open  woods  or  in   rockery. 
Scillas.      Under   trees  or  on   shady   lawn;    will   stand  close    mowing. 
Crocus.      Brightest  of  the  early  spring  blooming  bulbs.     Naturalize. 
Spanish    Iris.      Prefer  a  light,  friable  soil;    good   for  the  mixed  border. 
Grape  Hyacinths.      "Heavenly    Blue"   the  best  variety;   plant   in   groups. 
Anemones.      Prefer   well-drained,  sheltered   position  ;   good   for    rockery. 
Allium.      Naturalize  where  grass  does  not  have  to  be  cut  and  in  borders. 
Chionodoxa.      Prettiest   of   the   early   blue   spring  flowers:    naturalize   in  grass. 

Scillas 

Blue,    white,    yellow  
Blue,   purple  

Grape    Hyacinth.  .  .  . 

Blue,    white  

Blue,    white,    scarlet  
Yellow,    blue  

Blue    

FALL   PLANTING   INSTRUCTIONS 


Be  sure  that  the  plants  arc  in  a  healthy  condition. 
Plants  set  out  in  the  fall  in  a  dormant  or  semi-dormant 
state  do  not  give  evidence  of  infestation.  Buy  from  a 
reliable  nurseryman.  Plants  should  be  U'ell  matured;  the 
wood  should  be  firm  and  hard  in  the  case  of  trees,  shrubs 
and  small  fruits,  and  the  season's  period  of  flowering  over 
in  the  case  of  perennials.  Set  out  immediately  upon 
arrival. 

Any  ordinary  good  soil  will  answer  for  most  plants. 
Avoid  extremes  of  sand  or  clav.  Thorough  drainage  is 
essential.  Heavy  soils  will  be  'benefited  by  an  addition 
of  coarse  rand,  gravel,  coal  ash,  or  broken  brick.  Lime 
is  good  for  both  extremely  heavy  and  light  soils. 

The  amount  of  soil  Preparation  will  depend  on  the 
quality  of  the  soil  and  the  culture  it  has  received.  Add 
rotted  manure  and  ground  bone  where  plant  food  is 
necessary. 


Before  planting  see  that  all  roots  are  in  proper  condi- 
tion. Cut  off  broken  or  straggly  roots.  Prepare  holes 
for  shrubs  and  Put  in  plant  food.  Keep  roots  moist. 
Most  perennials  that  form  in  clumps  or  croums  should  be 
set  out  so  that  the  tops  are  about  level  with,  or  slightlv 
lower  than,  the  surface.  Firm  in  soil  about  roots.  Tag 
all  plants. 

After  soil  is  well  frosen.  apply  winter  mulch.  This  pro- 
tects plants  from  weight  of  snow  and  prevents  premature 
root  growth.  Use  fine,  dry  manure,  marsh  hay,  dry  stable 
litter  or  leaves.  A  depth  of  3"  to  5"  is  sufficient. 

Of  the  larger  fruits,  apples  and  pears  may  be  set  out 
now,  but  cherries,  peaches  and  plums  should  'be  left  until 
spring.  Of  the  small  fruits,  raspberries,  blackberries. 
gooseberries  and  currants  ma\  be  set  out  to  adi'antaae 
this  fall. 


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ENGAGING        A        LANDSCAPE        ARCHITECT 


ELSA  REHMANN 

THE  very  first  thing  to  do  in  engaging  a 
landscape  architect  is  to  arrange  for  a 
visit  with  him — or  her — on  the  grounds.  For 
this  visit  you  pay  a  certain  fixed  fee.  It  is 
not  possible  to  say  just  how  much  this  charge 
will  be,  as  it  varies  with  the  reputation  of  the 
landscape  architect  and  with  the  kind  of  work 
he  is  engaged  to  do.  As  the  work  of  the  land- 
scape architect  is  extremely  varied — ranging 
from  the  design  of  the  smallest  backyard  gar- 
den to  the  development  of  whole  estates  and 
parks  and  university  grounds,  streets,  residen- 
tial communities  and  whole  towns  and  cities — 
let  us  suppose,  purely  for  simplification,  that 
you  are  only  asking  the  landscape  architect  to 
design  a  garden  for  you. 

This  first  visit  of  the  landscape  architect 
is  the  most  important  one  that  he  will  pay — 
and  if  he  is  a  very  busy  man  he  may  not  pay 
another  until  the  work  is  far  toward  comple- 
tion, as  his  assistants  will  carry  out  his  ideas. 
This  first  visit,  then,  is  important  because  it 
is  at  this  time  that  he  will  have  to  form  a  very 
definite  idea  of  the  problem  at  hand.  You 
have  no  idea  how  many  little  things,  and  how 
many  big  ones,  have  to  be  noted  on  this  visit. 
The  lay  of  the  land,  the  situation  of  the  house, 
the  kind  and  position  of  the  trees,  the  style 
of  the  house,  the  arrangement  of  the  rooms, 
the  kind  of  views  and  vistas  that  are  possible 
from  the  various  windows,  and  many  another 
matter  like  these  must  be  noted,  for  they  will 
determine  in  a  large  measure  what  kind  of 
a  garden  it  will  be  possible  to  design  for  you. 
In  other  words,  if  the  landscape  architect  does 
not  fit  your  garden  into  the  spirit  of  the  house 
(Continued  on  page  78) 


This  is  one  of 
the  ends  of  the 
main  path,  as 
indicated  in  the 
first  plan  for 
the  garden  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs. 
J.  H.  Alexan- 
dre,  Glenhead, 
L.  1. 


At  the  first  visit  the  landscape  architect 
studies  the  lay  of  the  land,  the  situation  of 
the  house,  the  kind  and  position  of  trees,  and 
evolves  the  outline  scheme  for  the  entire  gar- 
den. The  example  here  is  the  work  of  Marian 
C.  Coffin 


The  landscape  architect  not  alone  visualizes 
the  design  and  color  of  the  new  garden  but 
studies  the  possible  vistas  and  the  approaches 
to  them  so  that  whatever  way  one  looks,  the 
garden  makes  a  picture.  This  is  a  sedum 
planting  by  the  gate 


October,     1920 


41 


A    LITTLE     PORTFOLIO     OF     GOOD     INTERIORS 


The  Little  Portfolio  this  month  is  devoted  to 
interior  views  of  the  Boston  residence  of  Mr. 
Harris  Livermore  and  the  first  illustration  shows 
the  fireplace  end  of  the  Italian  living-room.  This 
half  is  two  stories  high  with  a  beamed  and  coffered 
ceiling  finished  in  greens,  grays  and  vermillion. 


The  tone  of  the  rug  is  dark  red  and  of  the  tapestry 
green.  The  walls  are  rough  cast  and  the  mantel 
a  simple  design  executed  in  gray  stone.  Italian 
walnut  furniture  with  brocade  and  velvet  cover- 
ings finds  a  distinguished  environment  here. 
Richardson,  Barott  &  Richardson,  architects 


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The  walls  and  ceil- 
ing of  the  entrance 
hall  have  an  old 
Italian  plaster  finish 
in  characteristic 
pink.  This  Italian 
atmosphere  is  fur- 
ther developed  by 
the  stone  floor,  /A." 
fireplace  with  its 
plaster  hood,  the 
wrought  iron  grill 
and  lighting  fixtures, 
the  old  Venetian 
chest  and  the  chair 
in  crimson  broca- 
telle 


The  opposite  end  of 
the  Italian  living 
room  sliown  on  page 
41  reveals  the 
wrought  iron  bal- 
cony and  the  ex- 
posed timbers  of  the 
second  story.  Broad 
oak  boards  pegged 
in  place  make  the 
floor.  The  furniture 
at  this  end  is 
grouped  with  a 
pleasant  regard  for 
comfort  and  utility 
— couch,  long  table, 
chairs  and  piano 


October,     1920 


In  lite  dining  room 
the  floor  is  of  blue 
/He  and  the  walls 
and  ceiling  rough 
piaster  in  tones  of 
light  orange  ami 
yellow  orange.  The 
furniture,  which  is 
Italian  walnut,  is 
finished  in  leather 
and  red  brocatelle. 
Fixtures  are 
wrought  iron.  In 
Ike  alcove  on  the 
higher  level  beyond 
is  the  children's 
d.ning  room 


Antique  gray  oak 
has  been  used  for 
the  library  wood- 
work and  broad  oak 
for  the  floor.  The 
walls  are  cream 
rough  plaster.  At 
the  windows  the 
curtains  are  rose 
brocalelle.  A  gray 
stone  mantel  accents 
t  h  e  fireplace  and 
lends  dignity  to  the 
shelves.  The  low 
pointed  door  to  the 
right  leads  into  the 
living  room 


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House     &     Garden 


BOUQUETS        THE        WINTER        THROUGH 

Wild  Flowers  and  Grasses  and  Even  Many  from  the  Cultivated  Garden 
Can  Be  Collected  Now  for  the  Flowerless  Months 


EVELYN    CRAIG     CORLETT 


Teazel    from    the    waste 

sandy  places  bears  hooked 

spines     and     tiny     lilac 

flowers 


most  valuable 
subjects  for  dried 
bouquets  are  the  com- 
mon wild  flowers  and 
grasses  of  fields  and 
woods.  That  one  may 
know  where  to  find 
these  various  plants  in 
the  autumn,  it  is  well 
to  learn  their  habitat 
and  appearance  during 
their  growing  period. 
Then  while  walking  or 
riding  through  the 
country,  the  location  of 
particular  specimens 
should  be  noted  for  a 
visit  at  the  time  when 
they  are  ready  for  pick- 
ing. 

On  almost  every 
stretch  of  open  meadow 
and  along  every  roadside  the  tall  prairie  dock 
and  wild  lettuce  attract  attention  because  of 
their  large  leaves,  often  a  foot  in  length.  Few 
observers  realize  that  their  leaves  turn  their 
edges  due  North  and  South,  which  gives  both 
the  name  of  compass  weed.  Many  a  traveler 
astray  on  the  prairie  has  been  guided  by  these 
natural  compasses.  Dock  leaves  are  entire 
with  finely  serrated  edges  while  those  of  the 
wild  lettuce  are  deeply  cut,  giving  them  a  less 
robust  appearance.  It  must  have  been  the 
latter  of  which  Longfellow  wrote  in  Evange- 
line: 


Look  at  this  delicate 
plant  that  lifts  its 
head  from  the 
meadow; 

See  how  its  leaves 
all  point  to  the 
North  as  true  as 
the  magnet. 

-  In  the  autumn  the 
leaves  of  both  these 
plants  twist  and  curl 
into  interesting 
forms  and  turn  to  a 
beautiful  brown. 
They  should  be 
gathered  in  October 
before  winds  whip 
and  fray  them.  The 
prairie  dock  leaves 
particularly  furnish 
a  fine  base  for  deco- 
ration where  large 
masses  are  desired, 
and,  combined  with 
feathery  blooms, 
give  a  pleasing 
change  from  the 
conventional,  palms 
or  ferns  that  so  many 
householders  choose 
for  winter. 

At  a  recent  floral 
exhibit,  the  landing 
of  a  wide  staircase 


touches  of  brilliant  col- 
or given  the  tan  and 
brown  mass  by  a  scat- 
tering of  Chinese  lan- 
tern pods  of  orange  red. 
Where  more  formal 
decoration  is  suitable, 
dock  leaves  are  com- 
bined with  the  stately 
lotus,  honored  from 
ancient  times,  but  un- 
fortunately found  in 
but  few  favored  spots 
in  this  country.  Its 
top-shaped  seed  pods 
with  flat  surface  deeply 
pitted,  each  hollow 
holding  a  marble-like 
seed  of  the  same  soft  Honesty,  beloved  oj  our 
brown  as  the  compass  grandmothers  still  con- 
tributes  to  the  winter 


bouquet 
Both  the  dock  leaves 


Prnirie  dock  and  moth  mullein  can  be 
combined,  the  curled  leaves  oj  the  dock 
offering  a  pleasant  contrast  to  the  daintv 
brown  balls  of  the  other  wild  flower 


was  flanked  by  large  jar?  filled  with  tall  wavy 
plumes  of  Japanese  plume  grass  with  a  few 
dock  leaves  close  to  the  top  of  the  jars  and 


An  early  spring  bouquet  can  be  made  of  laurel  and  pussy  willow.    The  laurel 
months.    Set  in  a  large  floor  jar,  as  in  this  music  room,  they  make  a  rarely 
to  a  room     Walker  &•  Gillette,-  architects 


leaves.  A  few  of  each 
in  a  tall  bouquet  make 
a  dignified  ornament, 
and  lotus  pods  are  sometimes  painted  irides- 
cent colors,  giving  a  decidedly  Egyptian  touch 
to  the  decoration. 

The  closely  clustered  seed  spikes  of  common 
sheep  sorrel,  and  the  various  docks  retain  their 
coloring  if  gathered  in  midsummer  before  fully 
ripe,  when  the  colors  shade  from  delicate  pink 
to  crimson  brown.  If  hung  heads  down  in  a 
dark  closet  until  thoroughly  dried  they  are 
valuable  material  for  use  with  grasses. 

Many  wild  flowers  if  picked  in  full  bloom, 
lose  little  of  their 
color  in  drying.  One 
of  the  most  abun- 
dant of  these  is  liat- 
ris  or  blazing  star, 
known  in  practically 
every  section  of  the 
United  States.  In 
midsummer  many 
meadows  are  waving 
seas  of  rose  lavender 
due  to  this  so-called 
weed  which  grows  to 
a  height  of  6'  with 
flower  spikes  of  12" 
or  more  in  length. 
A  bouquet  of  liatris 
in  a  tall  vase  of  har- 
monious tone  gives 
one  of  the  best  ex- 
amples of  the  value 
of  dried  flowers 
where  a  note  of  dig- 
nity and  grace  is 
needed.  Few,  if  any, 
flowers  from  the 
winter  greenhouse 
have  form  or  color 
suitable  to  such  a 
position. 

Resembling  the 
liatris  somewhat  in 
size  and  color  and 
of  the  same  numer- 
ous composite  family 
is  the  ironvveed  — 
bete  noire  of  the 


will  keep  its  color  for 
beautiful  contribution 


October,     1920 


43 


prairie  farmer,  as 
its  masses  of  mul- 
terry  brown  and 
purple  invade  his 
fields.  Its  common 
name  of  flat-top 
describes  the  form 
of  its  loose  flower 
cluster  spread  out 
at  the  top  of  its  tall 
sturdy  stem.  Gath- 
ered about  the  first 
of  Septeml>er  its 
downy  flowerets 
keep  their  rich  col- 
oring. 

Both  liatris  and 
ironweed  are  desir- 
able additions  to 
the  perennial  gar- 
den supplying  as 
they  do  a  dignified 
and  strong  back- 
ground for  smaller 
plants  and  Ijeing 
quite  conservative 
alxmt  spreading. 

Another  memlx-r 
of  the  same  family 
valuable  for  winter 
use  is  the  thorough- 
wort  or  eupatorium 
of  shady  woods 
and  thickets  bor- 
dering streams. 
The  blossoms,  re- 
sembling the  gar- 
den ageratum,  are 
clustered  in  snowy 
heads  on  stems  3' 
or  4'  high,  and  if 

gathered  as  soon  as  fully  opened,  fluff 
into  tiny  pompoms  which  give  airiness 
to  masses  of  heavier  bloom.  They  com- 
bine well  with  the  seed  spikes  of  dock 
and  sheep  sorrel.  Eupatorium  may  also 
be  used  effectively  in  the  home  garden 
where  one  wishes  a  note  of  white. 

Moth  Mullein 

A  dainty  little  wayside  weed  variously 
styled  pernicious  or  beautiful  according 
to  one's  viewpoint  and  called  a  "favorite 
of  mine"  by  John  Burroughs  is  the  moth 
mullein  of  fields  and  roadway.  Grow- 
ing but  a  few  feet  high  it  is  recognized 
in  early  summer  by  its  slender  stem  of 
yellow  flowers  in  a  loose  raceme,  which 
later  becomes  a  spray  of  dainty  brown 
balls.  A  low  dish  of  dull  orange  potter}' 
with  a  loose  arrangement  of  small  wik1 
lettuce  leaves  interspersed  with  several 


Laurel  and  pine 
branches  have  been 
set  in  majolica  jars 
on  this  Italian  mantel, 
making  a  perfect  win- 
ter bouquet.  Walker 
fr  Gillette,  architects 


of  these  dainty 
stalks  of  moth 
mullein  is  a  pleas- 
ing study  in  soft 
browns. 

Familiar  to 
everyone  who  goes 
afield  is  the  as- 
clepias  or  milk 
weed,  more  appro- 
priately silk  weed, 
with  its  esthetic 
tinting  of  dull  vio- 
let browns  and 
crimson  pinks  giv- 
ing beauti  ful 
patches  of  color 
during  July  and 
August  to  fields 
stretching  from 
New  Brunswick  to 
Kansas.  The  in- 
teresting warty 
seed  pods  if  gath- 
ered while  green, 
in  September,  will 
dry  and  open,  re- 
vealing and  releas- 
ing slightly  the  flat 
brown  seeds,  each 
with  its  tuft  --'trf" 
long  silky  whiti- 
hair.  These  pods 
are  interesting 
when  used  with 
pussy  willows  , 
their  colors  har- 
monizing well.  A 
l>eautiful  bouquet 
in  a  slender  gray- 
green  vase  has  a 
stem  of  milk  weed  with  its  open  pod 
veiled  in  silk,  a  stem  of  honesty  and  a 
single  blade  of  grass  with  its  heavy  head 
of  golden  brown  seeds.  Butterfly  weed, 
also  a  milk  weed,  has  small  slender 
pointed  pods  fine  in  combination  with 
misty  white  baby's  breath  which  dries 
well.' 

Wild  Indigo  and  Teazel 

On  many  a  roadside  may  be  seen  in 
June  flat  masses  of  clover-like  foliage 
sending  up  stems  several  feet  high  along 
which  hang  delicate  cream-tinted  pea- 
like  blossoms.  This  is  baptisia  or  wild 
indigo,  so  called  because  indigo,  of  a 
poor  quality,  is  obtained  from  it.  A  mem- 
ber of  the  pulse  family,  the  plant  has  a 
curious  habit  of  turning  black  as  it  with- 
ers. The  wise  collector  of  winter  bouquet 
(Continued  on  page  60) 


One  of  the  most  beau- 
tifully fruited  vines  is 
the  carrion  -  flower. 
Collected  after  a  frost 
it  loses  its  offensive 
odor.  The  berries  are 
blue  black 


Bayberry  has  never  lost 
its  charm  as  a  winter 
decoration,  its  crooked, 
grayish  brown  stem* 
and  white  berries  hold- 
ing their  color 


The  globe  thistle  dates 
back  to  Colonial  gar- 
dens. Its  metallic  blue 
flowers,  gray  stems  and 
foliage  make  a  pleasant 
scheme 


46 


House     &     Garden 


ROSES         PLANTED 


I   N 


THE 


October  and  Early  November  Are  Not  Too  Late  For  Hybrid  Teas  and  Many 
Others  that  Are  Better  for  Being  Set  Out  in  Autumn 

J.  HORACE  McFARLAND 


Kilitnr   of    Tlie   .American    Rose    Annual 


FALL 


THIS  year  of  1920  has  been  one 
of  unusual  rose  prosperity  in 
the  eastern  United  States.  The  cool, 
moist  spring  built  up  good  foilage 
and  strong  t\vigs  from  which  arose 
lovely  flowers,  in  the  case  of  the 
bush  roses,  and  the  climbers  fairly 
jumped  in  growth  and  bloom.  The 
colors  were  more  brilliant  than 
usual,  it  seemed  to  me,  and  the  dis- 
play one  to  be  either  proud  or  envious 
of,  as  one  owned  or  only  gazed  at 
the  healthy,  wholesome  plants. 

Undoubtedly  many  who  were 
mildly  envious  of  roses  seen  would 
now  move  over  into  the  pride  of 
possession  if  the  suggestion  came  at 
the  right  time.  As  the  rose  display 
ends  and  the  growing  year  closes, 
rose  planting  does  not  suggest  itself; 
wherefore,  believing  that  fall  is  the 
right  time  for  much  of  the  rose  plant- 
ing America  needs,  I  here  provide 
the  suggestion. 

Probably  ninety  per  cent  of  the 
outdoor  roses  are  planted  late  in  the 
spring,  and  of  that  ninety  per  cent  a 
very  considerable  proportion  in  con- 
sequence loses  speed,  prosperity,  and 
even  life. 

Cause  of  Failure 

There  is  a  good  reason  for  the 
failure  of  late  spring  planting  of 
roses,  in  the  fact  that  rose  roots  be- 
gin action  very  early,  are  happy  in 
cool  and  moist  soil,  and  resent  dis- 
turbance after  they  have  sent  forth 
the  delicate,  almost  in- 
visible ''root  hair  s" 
which  do  the  wondrous 
work  of  transmuting  dull 
soil  into  exquisitely  alive 
rose  petals. 

I  have  advanced  the 
theory  that  there  is  a 
"critical  date"  in  spring 
rose  planting,  after  which 
the  plants  are  very  seri- 
ously handicapped  for 
the  current  season  at 
least,  if  not  for  all  their 
life.  This  is  not  the 
place  to  argue  in  support 
of  that  theory,  but  it  is 
the  place  to  urge  that 
there  is  no  critical  spring 
date  for  roses  carefully 
planted  in  the  active  and 
comfortable  soil  of  fall. 

Hybrid  Teas 

"But  won't  t  h  e  y 
freeze?"  someone  in- 
quires. Answering  for 
the  Hybrid  Tea  class, 
the  nearest  we  have  in 
the  north  to  constant 
blooming,  or  continually 
recurrent  blooming  roses, 


The  pink   flowering   climber,   Mrs.   F.   W.   Flight,  produces   a 
mass  of  lovely  colored  blooms  that  remain  beautiful  for  sev- 
eral weeks.     The  effect  is  especially  good  when  used  to  form 
a  low  hedge  or  division  fence 


At  the  sunny  corner  of  the  house,  back  of  rhododendrons  or  other  low  shrubs,  a  glorified 

wild  rose,  single-flowered  type  of  climber  will  be  very  effective.     Suitable  varieties  are 

Hiawatha,  American  Pillar  or  Leachstern.    If  there  is  abundant  room,  Paradise,  Evangeline 

or  Milky  Way.     The  foliage  will  remain  good  all  summer 


I  would  say,  "Not  more,  probably, 
than  if  they  had  been  planted  late 
the  previous  spring."  If  carefully 
and  promptly  transferred  from  the 
nursery  to  the  well-prepared  soil, 
some  time  during  October  or  early 
November,  and  if  reasonably  cut 
back  or  pruned,  their  chances  of 
surviving  an  ordinary  winter  are, 
with  suitable  protection  in  the  lati- 
tude of  New  York,  and  north,  very 
good. 

No  close  and  accurate  observa- 
tions have  been  reported,  but  there 
is  reason  to  believe  that  roses  so 
planted  in  the  fall  make  some  root 
growth  before  spring,  and  they  are 
obviously  ready  to  make  the  earliest 
and  best  start  for  bloom  prosperity 
in  the  spring. 

The  Hybrid  Perpetual  roses, — 
which  are  certainly  hybrids  and  just 
as  certainly  not  at  all  perpetual  as 
to  bloom — are  much  more  hardy  to 
the  winter,  and  consequently  there 
is  even  more  reason  for  planting  in 
the  warm  and  kindly  soil  of  October. 
The  splendid  hardy  climbing 
roses  of  the  newer  types,  including 
the  Multi flora  class  as  represented 
by  the  Crimson  Rambler,  and  the 
Wichuraiana  class  of  which  Silver 
Moon  is  a  good  example,  do  much 
better  when  planted  in  the  fall.  For 
these  protection  is  desirable  only  in 
the  more  arctic  portions  of  our 
American  climatic  range  from  sub- 
tropics  to  North  Pole  contiguities! 
Near  Chicago,  for  ex- 
^^^^  ample,  they  require  pro- 
tection every  winter;  my 
good  friend  Egan  at 
Highland  Park  lays 
down  his  climbers  and 
covers  them  with  earth 
and  boards,  to  make 
sure. 


Rugosa  Hybrids 

Rugosas  and  the  Ru- 
gosa hybrids  are  seem- 
ingly immune  to  the  as- 
saults of  Jack  Frost's 
American  legions,  and 
they  also  are  better  when 
fall  planted,  being  early 
to  start  and  earliest  to 
bloom,  save  the  wonder- 
ful Hugonis  and  its  hy- 
brids, likewise  hardy  but 
not  likewise  in  full  com- 
merce as  yet.  (Great 
rose  advances  are  in 
sight,  when  some  of  Dr. 
Van  Fleet's  wonderful 
and  rugged  hybrids,  in- 
tended to  take  a  rose 
place  in  the  shrub-bor- 
der with  the  lilacs  and 
(Continued  on  page  68) 


October,     1920 


47 


Finials  are  found  both  indoors 
and  out,  on  furniture,  hi 
gardens,  on  buildings.  The 
example  to  the  right  is  a 
square-headed  dormer  win- 
dow which  suggests  the  use  of 
finials  in  exterior  woodwork 


This  type  of  stone  finial  is 
often  found  in  houses  of  the 
Holland  Dutch  type  and  is 
generally  used  with  brick- 
work. Jacobean  or  English 
Renaissance  stone  finials  were 
of  the  same  character 


Finials  are  especially  at  home 
on  the  top  of  gate  posts, 
whether  the  material  be  stone, 
wood  or  stucco.  Stone  finials 
very  frequently  appear  as  the 
finish  of  brick  gate  posts  and 
pillars 


THE    USE 

of 
FINIALS 

A    Decorative    Detail     in 
Wood,    Stone    or    Metal 


The  monotony  of  a  long  line 
of  paneling  can  be  effectively 
broken  by  placing  finials  at 
intervals.  They  also  appear 
as  embellishments  on  tall 
clocks,  highboys  and  cabinets 
of  Colonial  design 


The  first  in  this  group  is  a  wooden  gale 
post  finial  of  the  old  Salem  type.  Many 
were  elaborately  carved.  The  second  is  an 
inverted  finial  in  black  walnut  from  an  old 
Rhode  Island  manor  house,  and  the  third 
a  newel  finial  typical  of  early  Colonial 
woodwork 


48 


House     &     Garden 


THE   SMALL    FORMAL    HOUSE 

Bramble  Haw  at  Carshalton  in  Surrey  Illustrates  a  Formal  Design  by  The 
Brothers  Adam  That  is  Adequate  for  Complete  Living 


HAROLD  DONALDSON  EBERLEIN 


A  NOTION  seems 
to  be  more  or 
less  prevalent  that  for- 
mality in  domestic 
architecture  is  some- 
how incompatible  with 
smallness.  That  it  is 
not  true  may  readily  l>e 
seen  from  Bramble 
Haw,  at  Carshalton  in 
Surrey. 

Bramble  Haw  was 
designed  by  the  Broth- 
ers Adam  and  built  in 
1792,  the  year  of  Rob- 
ert Adam's  death.  The 
gray,  close  -  grained 
stone  used  for  the  walls 
came  from  the  old  Lon- 
don Bridge  and  was 
fetched  down  to  Car- 
shalton to  be  fresh 
dressed  and  utilized  in 
the  fabric  of  this  thor- 
oughly characteristic 
bit  of  late  18th  Cen- 
tury urbanity  in  archi- 
tecture. The  house  as 
originally  planned  was 
an  almost  perfect  cube. 
It  has,  however,  suf- 
fered one  defacement, 
added  twenty-five  years 
ago,  in  the  shape  of 
a  lateral  slice  of  struc- 
ture tacked  on  to  the  ground  floor  at  the 
north  side.  Seen  from  the  east,  north,  and 
northwest,  this  excrescence  sadly  mars  the 
symmetry  of  the  composition  and,  to  heap  in- 
sult upon  injury,  it  serves  no  particularly  valu- 
able purpose.  One  cannot  but  regret  that  the 


The  pillars,  cornice  and 
over-door  panel  are  as 
the  original  architects  left 
them,  the  other  panels 
being  of  later  design 


addition  was  ever 
made  and  it  is  best  to 
think  of  the  house 
and  to  visualize  it  in 
its  original  and  wholly 
symmetrical  form. 

Apart  from  the  sat- 
isfying and  distin- 
guishing lines  of  the 
mass,  with  its  nice 
balance  of  solids  and 
voids,  each  detail  of 
Bramble  Haw  will 
bear  and  also  repay 
the  closest  scrutiny. 
The  molding  at  the 
top  of  the  base  course 
and  the  moldings  of 
the  frieze  and  cornice, 
while  quite  sufficient 
to  impress  the  eye  and 
carry  the  conviction  of 
just  proportion,  are 
instinct  with  refine- 
ment and  combine 
delicacy  with  strength 
in  an  exceptionally 
agreeable  manner. 
The  sun-ray  roundels, 
set  at  intervals  in  the 
fluted  frieze,  are  of 
gray  terra  cotta  match- 
ing the  color  of  the 
stone. 

The  only  other  fea- 
ture to  break  the  severe  simplicity  of  the  ex- 
terior is  the  portico  at  the  house  door  where 
chaste  Classic  enrichment  is  concentrated. 
What  appears  to  be  a  fan-light  above  the  door 
in  reality  contains  no  glass  at  all,  but  is  a  semi- 
circular expanse  of  plaster  painted  white  as  a 


The  woodwork  of  the  hall 
shows  a  pleasing  disposi- 
tion of  the  panels  and  ex- 
cellent details  in  moldings 
that  warrant  study 


It  is  a  well-established  old 
English  usage  to  set  the  fire- 
place in  the  corner.  The  sur- 
round is  of  veined  marble  and 
the  over-mantel  a  -wood  panel 
in  scale  with  the  panels  of 
the  walls 


Although  the  glazed  doors  to 
the  library  bookshelf  are  mod- 
ern, the  cupboards  beneath 
and  chair  rail  are  in  the  origi- 
nal condition,  and  worth  not- 
ing for  their  simplicity  and 
refinement 


October,     1920 


49 


The    severe    simplicity    oj    the    front 

facade  is  broken  by  a  classical  portico 

with  a  u'hite  plaster  Jan  device  over 

the  door 

background  to  display  the  delicate  lead 
tracen-  set  against  it.  Its  function  is  purely 
ornamental  and  inside  there  is  no  sugges- 
tion of  the  exterior  treatment. 

Bramble  Haw  inside  fulfills  the  promise 
of  the  exterior.  The  woodwork  of  the  hall 
is  especially  felicitous  in  the  disposition  of 
the  panels  and  in  the  detail  of  the  moldings, 
while  the  fireplace  with  its  veined  marble 
surround,  set  in  the  corner  according  to  a 
well-established  old  English  usage,  is  the 
crowning  gem  of  the  composition. 

In  the  library  the  glazed  doors  to  the 
bookshelves  are  of  modern  addition  but  the 
lines  of  the  cupboards  beneath,  which  are 
in  their  original  condition,  are  worth  noting 
for  their  simplicity  and  refinement.  In  the 
drawing-room,  at  the  back,  the  pillars,  cor- 
nice, and  overdoor  panel  are  as  the  Adelphi 
designed  them,  but  the  large  wall  panels 
with  medallions,  swags  and  drops  are  of 
the  same  date  as  the  addition  of  the  exterior 
excrescence  previously  alluded  to.  At  that 
time  also  the  exquisite  little  dining  room 
was  spoiled  by  lengthening  it  by  covering 
the  walls  with  heavy  William  and  Mary- 
paneling  in  oak,  and  by  a  new  ceiling  of 
(Continued  on  page  58) 


The  house  is  a  thor- 
oughly characteristic  bit 
oj  the  late  18//I  Cen- 
tury urbanity  in  archi- 
tecture. As  originally 
planned,  it  was  an  al- 
most perfect  cube.  The 
stone  for  the  walls  is 
said  to  have  come  from 
the  old  London  bridge 


A  gateway  in  architectural  har- 
mony with  the  house  dignifies  the 
entrance  to  the  grounds.  Its 
classical,  white  painted  posts  stand 
in  striking  contrast  with  the  foli- 
age beyond.  .1  wall  completes 
the  enclosure 


The  severity  of  each  facade  is 
broken  by  base  courses  and  well- 
proportioned  molding,  and  up 
under  the  cornice  the  fluted  frieze, 
is  broken  at  intervals  by  gray 
terra  cotta  roundels  matching  the 
color  of  the  stone 


so 


House     &     Garden 


BEAUTY        AND        THE         B  A  T.H  R  O  O  M 

The  Latest  Equipment  Gives  the  Bath.  Less  of  the  Laboratory  Air  and 
More  the  Atmosphere  of  a  Comfortable  Boudoir 


ETHEL  R.  PEYSER 


PROBABLY  no  de- 
velopment of  the 
home  has  mirrored  hu- 
man accomplishment  to 
such  an  extent  as  has 
the  bathroom.  We  have 
prided  ourselves  on  our 
sanitary  bathrooms;  on 
the  devices  for  comfort 
and  idyllic  perfection 
in  this,  the  smallest, 
yet  the  most  important 
loom  in  the  home.  We 
have  developed  it  to 
such  a  point  that  in 
new  homes  everyone 
has  a  bathroom  to  him- 
self with  comfortable 
additions  to  fit  the  in- 
dividual whim. 

For  a  few  decades 
this  room  has  been  a 
replica  of  hospital  effi- 
ciency and  that  has 
sufficed.  But  today,  the 
artist  in  home-making 
is  bringing  the  bath- 
room back  to  the  lux- 
ury and  ease  seen  in 
the  boudoirs  of  ancient 
days,  the  days  from 
which  we  take  our 
beautiful  drawing 
rooms,  chambers  and 
general  schemes  of  dec- 
oration. 

This  reversion  toward 
bathroom  luxury  has 
come  about  because  the 
ordinary  bathroom  has 
been  too  cold.  It  lacked 
warmth,  well-being  and 
coziness.  Then,  too, 
bathrooms  are  always 
the  smallest  rooms  in 
the  home,  and  for  that 
reason  can  be  more 
easily  dressed  in  glori- 
ous sheen  and  kept  in 
harmony  with  the  color 
scheme  and  general 
plan  of  the  home. 

A  French  Bath 

A  few  years  ago  no 
one  would  have  thought 
of  having  wood  panels 
in  the  bathroom  —  we- 
proudly  felt  that  we 
had  gone  beyond  that 
stage.  Yet  today  in  the 
elaborate  combined 
dressing-bathrooms  we 
find  white  wood  panels 
giving  a  feeling  of 
warmth,  together  with 
almost  as  rich  an  effect 
as  when  marble  itself 
is  used. 

The  French  bath- 
room shown  on  this 


While  it  is  twne  the  less  a  bathroom,  while  it  lacks  nothing  that  makes  jor  complete  sani- 
tation, the  element  of  beauty  has  also  entered  into  the  finish  of  this  French  bath.  The 
walls  are  paneled  in  wood,  the  metal  u'ork  is  gold,  the  toilet  is  camouflaged  and  the 

lavatory  is  spacious 


. 


In  the  other  side  of  this  bathroom  is  the  boudoir  equipment — a  wardrobe  with  carved 
panels  of  glass  and  wood  and  a  generous  dressing  table  placed  in  excellent  light.  A  crystal 
chandelier,  large  mirrors  and  the  light  tone  of  the  woodwork  make  this  a  real  creation 

in  bath  equipment 


page  is  as  carefully  de- 
signed as  any  room  in 
the  house,  even  more 
so,  for  here  both  utility 
and  beauty  are  achieved 
together.  Take,  for  ex- 
ample, the  closet  seat. 
Here  an  ugly  necessity 
is  beautifully  camou- 
flaged to  fit  in  with  the 
entire  scheme  of  the 
dressing  room,  and  it 
gives  no  jar  to  the  in- 
habitant who  must,  for- 
sooth, spend  many 
hours  of  careful  toilet 
making  in  this  superb 
room.  The  fixtures  here 
are  gold  of  lovely  de- 
sign, the  woodwork  in 
keeping.  The  floor  is 
of  large  tile  and  spread 
with  rugs  to  add 
warmth  and  the  room 
is  lit,  not  only  by  the 
regular  bathroom  fix- 
tures, but  also  by  a 
crystal  center  chande- 
lier. 

Some  bathrooms  even 
have  a  corner  for  the 
bathtub  which  trans- 
forms it  into  a  chaise 
longue. 

In  modern  bathrooms 
in  luxurious  homes  we 
have  a  reincarnation  of 
the  art  of  Benvenuto 
Cellini  in  the  gold 
wrought  metal  work. 
This  is  made  to  har- 
monize with  the  general 
style  of  the  room  in 
which  it  is  placed,  and, 
though  expensive,  it  is 
easy  to  take  care  of. 
Besides,  when  one  is 
really  making  a  bath- 
room, what  does  it  mat- 
ter if  it  goes  into  the 
thousands  when  other 
rooms  go  into  tens  of 
thousands  ? 

Usually  only  one  or 
two  bathrooms  —  the 
master's  and  the  mis- 
tress's —  reach  this 
height  of  gorgeousness. 
The  others,  however, 
conform  pretty  well  to 
the  highly  convenient 
and  thoroughly  delight- 
ful rooms  in  the  rest  of 
the  house. 

The  Equipment 

An  interesting  devel- 
opment, too,  is  the 
shape  of  the  bathroom 
— the  departure  from 
the  rectangular.  Some- 


October,     1920 


51 


cult  and  quite  complicated  to  put  in 
plumbing  installation  after  the  house 
is  well  advanced.  There  is  nothing 
quite  so  important  to  the  successful 
builder  as  the  early  consideration  of 
pipe  requirements.  The  plumber  is 
equipped  with  the  sanitary  code,  which, 
of  course,  the  architect  knows  too,  and 
any  householder  can  get  one  to  read 
and  digest.  However,  with  a  licensed 
plumber,  a  good  architect  and  a  faith- 
ful builder,  this  is  unnecessary. 

The  Bathtub 

The  most  interesting  fixture  in  the 
bathroom,  to  Americans  and  Britons, 
at  least,  is  the  bathtub.  Aside  from 
the  kitchen  stove,  this  is  the  nucleus 
about  which  our  content  is  generated. 

Civilization    has   been    kind   enough 


The  bathroom  in  the  New  York  home  of 

Judge  Gary  has  marble  panels  and  gold 

trimmings  on  the  glass  hand  rails 

times  it  is  octagonal,  with  a  radiating  tiled  floor 
and  the  various  functioning  fixtures  in  the  far 
sectors.  One  room  which  we  have  investigated 
has  in  one  corner  a  sunken  marble  tub  and  in 
the  center  the  radiator.  The  gold  work  in  this 
room  is  beautiful,  but  practical,  of  a  design  that 
takes  plumbing  into  the  arts. 

The  thoroughly  equipped  woman's  bathroom 
must  have  the  usual  tub,  showers,  lavatory, 
watercloset  seat,  a  closet  or  two  in  the  walls,  a 
table,  towel  racks,  brackets  for  soap  and  sponge, 
hooks  for  hanging  things,  scales,  rugs,  a  chair 
or  stool,  toilet  paper  receptacle,  mirrors  and  til- 
ing for  floors  and  wall. 

In  the  men's  bathrooms  is  added  the  bidet, 
sometimes  a  shaving 
chair  and  other  shaving 
necessities  such  as  a  spe- 
cial lamp  for  fine  work.  • 
To  both  these  rooms  can 
be  added  various  things, 
more  or  less  necessary 
according  to  different 
people's  taste,  such  as 
the  sitz  bath,  which  is 
luxurious  for  bathing  the 
feet  after  a  hard  walk  or 
a  game  of  golf. 

This  article  in  no  way 
intends  to  be  a  plumbing 
article.  All  it  means  to 
do  is  to  tell  the  reader 
what  there  is  new  in  the 
development  of  the  bath- 
room and  leave  the  choice 
to  him.  In  a  recent  is- 
sue, HOUSE  &  GARDEN 
took  up  plumbing  very 
carefully  and  all  we  need 
to  tell  you  here  is  to  buy 
your  fixtures  at  the  best 
possible  shop  and  then 
get  the  best  plumber  ob- 
tainable to  install  them. 
The  installation  of  all 
good  plumbing  work 
should  be  in  the  begin- 
ning, in  the  plans  of  the 
architect,  for  it  is  diffi- 


.1  bathroom  in  the  residence  of  Mr. 
Felix  Warburg  shows  an  ideal 
shower  arrangement  for  the  shower 


Tiled  walls  and  floors  are  prime  essentials  in  the  modern  bathroom.  The  tub  is  built 
in,  the  rails  and  shelves  are  of  heavy  glass  and  the  toilet  seat  is  beautifully  camouflaged 
to  fit  in  with  the  scheme.  The  illustrations  of  these  two  pages  are  by  courtesy  of 

Meyer  fr  Sniffen 


In  the  home  of  the  late  Theodore  N.  Vail, 

Morristown,  N.  J .,  one  of  the  bathrooms 

is  equipped  with  this  shower 

to  leave  us  two  generally  used  types  of  bathtubs 
— the  solid  porcelain  and  the  enamel  over  iron 
(enamel  lined  or  porcelain  over  iron)  tub.  The 
tin  tub  has  gone  out,  the  glass  tub  is  too  perilous, 
and  the  porcelain  or  porcelain  lined  proves 
about  the  most  satisfactory  when  we  can't  have 
marble  or  old  Italian  basins  for  our  bathing. 

Recent  advances  in  methods  of  manufacture 
and  design  have  made  the  choice  between  solid 
porcelain  or  enamel  iron  baths  a  matter  of  per- 
sonal liking  as  influenced  by  their  fitness  for 
positions  assigned  to  them  in  a  room.  On  ac- 
count of  the  losses  sustained  for  the  manufac- 
ture of  clay  products,  selected  grades  of  porce- 
lain baths  are  of  necessity  higher  in  cost  than 
the  porcelain  lined  or 
enameled  iron.  The 
porcelain  bath  is  fine  in 
appearance,  but  it  is  not 
reasonable  to  expect  the 
same  perfection  in  shape 
and  uniformity  of  glaze. 
This  is  due  to  the  dif- 
ference in  methods  of 
manufacture,  and  allow- 
ance should  be  made  for 
the  irregularities  occa- 
sioned by  the  baking  of 
glazed  clay  products.  In 
the  past  when  English 
porcelain  baths  were  be- 
ing imported  it  was  per- 
haps considered  distinc- 
tion to  have  a  solid 
porcelain  bath.  With  the 
present  extensive  manu- 
facture of  these  products 
in  this  country,  this  con- 
dition has,  of  course, 
changed.  The  porcelain 
lined  bath  is  preferred 
by  some  on  account  of  its 
requiring  less  hot  water 
to  hold  the  desired  tem- 
perature. Against  this 
is  the  fact  that  cheap 
porcelain  lined  baths 
should  be  avoided. 
(Continued  on  page  72) 


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House     &     Garden 


PLANNING   THE   MODERN   LAUNDRY 

A  Scheme  for  the  Complete  Washing,  Drying  and  Ironing  Equipment  Together 
With  Suggestions  for  Laundry  Construction 


VERNA   COOK    SALOMONS KY 


The  electrically  driv- 
en washing  machine 
is  the  first  essential 
piece  of  equipment  in 
a  modern  laundry 


MONDAY'S  operation  nat- 
urally starts  with  the 
clothes  chute  and  for  this  the 
use  of  a  glazed  terra  cotta  pipe 
of  at  least  IS"  diameter  is  rec- 
ommended, although  plaster 
on  metal  lath  is  often  used,  in 
spite  of  the  difficulty  of  suc- 
cessfully plastering  the  inside 
of  a  chute.  A  great  conven- 
ience results  from  the  provi- 
sion of  doors  in  the  kitchen  and 
bathroom  above  so  that  linen 
from  either  floor  can  be  thrown 
directly  into  the  hamper  in 
the  laundry  below.  These 
doors  should  be  of  the  self- 
closing  type  as  a  prevention 
against  fire  and  dust. 

From  the  hamper  the  clothes 
are  assorted  and  then  placed 
in  the  electric  washer  which 
should  l)e,  if  of  the  stationary 
type,  alongside  the  laundry 
trays,  or.  if  movable  and  pro- 
vided with  a  swinging  wringer,  so  placed  as  to 
provide  easiest  manipulation  of  clothes  from 
the  washer,  through  the  wringer  and  into  the 
tubs.  Good  light  and  direct  plumbing  are 
factors  in  determining  the  position  of  both 
trays  and  washer. 

Washing  Machines 

Of  the  numerous  electrically-driven  wash- 
ing machines  now  obtainable  we  find  some 
models  with  wood  shells,  some  of  cast  iron, 
some  of  copper  with  all  steel  frames  and  even 
those  for  attachment  on  twin  stationary  tubs, 
and  each  working  on  a  different  principle. 
There  is  one  type  in  particular  which  differs 
radically  from  the  others,  in  that  it  operates 
on  the  vacuum  or  suction  principle;  the  dirt  is 
not  expelled  by  a  constant  rubbing  against 
cleated  or  corrugated  surfaces  but  by  forcing 
the  water  through  the  garments,  which  does  not 
wear  out  the  materials  or  injure  delicate  laces. 
This  model  is  complete  with  an  electric  wringer 
which  swings  in  any  desired  position  and  is 
also  provided  with  a  small  gas  heater  attached 
to  the  underside  of  the  machine  to  keep  the 
water  hot  or  to  boil  the  clothes  at  the  same  time 
that  they  are  being  washed. 

For  whatever  starching  is  necessary,  water 
can  be  boiled  on  an  electric  stove  kept  during 
the  week  in  the  cabinets. 

The  clothes  are  now  ready  to  be  dried.  Open 
air  drying  is,  of  course,  always  advisable  but 
unfortunately  not  always  possible  and  so  the 


This  plan  is  devised  to  meet  the 
requirements  oj  an  average  family 
and  the  equipment  is  installed  in 
positions  I  hat  save  time  and  steps 


Cabinets  for  supplies 
and  accessories 
should  be  built  into 
the  laundry.  Brooms 
may  be  kept  here 


thoroughly  equipped  laundry 
should  have  an  artificial  dryer 
so  as  not  to  disrupt  the  house- 
hold schedule.  There  are  sev- 
eral types  of  dryers  to  be  had 
in  almost  any  size;  however  a 
dryer  containing  less  than  three 
compartments  is  hardly  ade- 
quate for  the  average  family. 
These  dryers  are  heated  either 
by  gas,  electricity  or  steam, 
and  one  type  has  a  gas  stove 
exposed  in  the  room.  This  is 
a  good  feature  in  a  laundry 
where  a  stove  is  desired  but 
otherwise  it  is  not  to  be  ad- 
vised, as  the  wasted  heat  only 
tends  to  increase  the  tempera- 
ture of  the  laundry. 

Ironing  Equipment 


The  clothes  hamper  stands  below 
the  chute.  Close  to  it  is  the  elec- 
tric dryer  with  one  of  the  sections 
pulled  out  ready  for  the  clothes 


After  drying,  the  next  im- 
portant step  is  ironing.  Those 
pieces  which  are  ruffled  or 
cannot  be  ironed  flat  should  be 
put  to  one  side  for  hand  ironing.  Everything 
else  can  be  ironed  by  the  ironing  machine. 
This  is  operated  by  either  gas,  electricity  or 
gasoline,  and,  where  no  mechanical  power  is 
available,  by  hand.  So  much  has  already  been 
written  on  the  intrinsic  and  labor  economy  of 
the  electric  ironer  that  a  word  here  in  com- 
mendation seems  superfluous. 

A  table  should  l)e  rolled  into  a  position  near 
the  ironer  convenient  for  the  laying  of  the 
finished  work.  A  sanitary  and  inexpensive 
table  for  the  laundry  is  one  with  a  composition 
top  which  does  not  crack  from  heat,  and  which 
is  supported  on  a  white  metal  or  natural 
maple  frame. 

The  ironing  board  with  its  electric  or  gas 
iron  attachment  should  be  provided  for  the 
ironing  of  the  more  elaborate  pieces,  such  as 
shirtwaists  and  summer  dresses.  To  one  model 
is  added  a  pivoting  sleeve  board  which  may 
be  pushed  back  when  not  in  use.  For  those 
who  prefer  a  separate  iron,  a  stand  equipped 
with  main  and  sleeve  boards  only  can  be  had, 
and,  for  the  too  compact  laundry  a  portable, 
folding  ironing  board  should  be  used,  which, 
when  not  in  use,  can  be  folded  up  against  the 
wall.  In  some  communities  electric  power  for 
operating  these  machines  can  be  obtained  at 
the  commercial  rather  than  the  domestic  rate. 
The  machines  should  all  be  on  separate  cir- 
cuits so  as  to  avoid  fuse  blow-outs  when  two 
or  more  machines  are  working  simultaneously. 
(Continued  on  page  72) 


The  clothes  pass 
from  the  tubs  to  the 
washing  machine 
and  are  then  placed 
in  the  drver  at  the 
left 


Two  kinds  oj  iron- 
ing machines  are 
provided  —  <i  large 
roller  for  flat  work 
and  a  hand  iron  for 
the  other 


October,     1920 

COMFORTABLE 

CHAIRS    AND 

TABLES 


Which  tnay  be  purchased 
through  the  HOUSE  & 
GARDEN  Shopping  Service 


53 


In  the  long  run,  a  Wind- 
sor chair  will  always  be 
found  satisfactory.  This 
one  is  of  mahogany  and 
has  a  rush  seat.  It  is 
$27.50 


.1  quaint,  ladder-back, 
sturdy  cottage  chair  of 
excellent  lines.  It  is  of 
mahogany  with  a  rush 
teat  and  may  be  had  for 
$24.50 


An  enormously  comfort- 
able chair  with  down 
cushion  covered  in  black 
and  silver  Italian  damask, 
S 1 50.00.  The  little  table  is 
walnut  finish,  decorated 
with  gold  lines  and  has  a 
glass  top.  $55 


Folly  With  a  Past  chair  in  apple  green  satin  with 
mauve  cordings,  $80.  In  muslin,  SbO.  The  painted 
sewing  tabe  is  apple  green  with  flower  decorations 
and  a  sliding  pocket  of  changeable  taffeta.  $38 


An  easy  chair  covered  in  soft  green  satin  with  a 
purple  satin  stripe  on  the  side.    It  is  $175.    In 
muslin  only,  $145.     The  drop-leaf  table  is  wal- 
nut finish,  with  gold  decorations.    $50 

Another  version  of  the  Windsor  chair 

is   this  small,  graceful  side  chair  in 

mahogany    that    can   be    used   in   a 

variety  of  places.    $23. 50 


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House     &     Garden 


ORDER 


BELOW 


THE 


STAIRS 


The  Basement  is  the  Latest  Section  of  the  House  to  Which  the  Wise 
Householder  Turns  Her  Attention 

WALLACE  B.  HART 


IN   order   to  meet   the   ser- 
vantless  and  costly  living 
of  this  era  it  is  essential  that 
every  part  of  the  house  con- 
tributes its  share'of  delight, 
convenience     and    efficiency. 
Especially  is  this  true  of  the 
small  house  where  space  is  at 
a  premium.   It  is  to  the  credit 
of   American   architects    and 
manufacturers  that  a  gradual 
improvement  is  being  made 
all  along  this  line.   The  attic, 
for    example,    is    no    longer 
merely  a  store  room;   it  has 
been  remodeled  and  finished 
as  a  guest  room,  a  nursery,  a 
quiet   library    for    the    busy 
man  or  a  dormitory 
for  the  boys  of  the 
family.      The   bath- 
room also  shows  an 
amazing     develop- 
ment   and    today    is 
giving  a    maximum 
of  sanitary  comfort. 
Where   space   is   limited   the 
dining  room  has  been  elim- 
inated, making  a  large  living 
room  possible.  There  remains 
one  more  section  of  the  house  to  be  improved, 
and  the  attention  of  up-to-date  householders 
is  being  directed  to  it  now — the  cellar. 

The  possibilities  of  most  cellars  are  either 
not  appreciated  or  not  developed.  Cleanli- 
ness and  order,  prime  essentials  in  themselves, 
will  not  meet  all  the  requirements.  To  make 
his  cellar  one  hundred  per  cent  efficient,  the 
householder  must  study  its  shape  and  size  and 
its  relation  to  the  rest  of  the  house.  He  must 
find  what  equipment  can  reasonably  go  into 
his  cellar,  how  much  space  can  be  devoted  to  it 
and  how  best  it  can  be  arranged. 

The  Equipment 

There  should  be  space  for 
the  following :  the  heater  with 
its  coal  and  wood  supply,  a 
laundry,  a  storage  room  for 
trunks  and  a  preserve  closet 
which  will  also  afford  room 
for  extra  supplies  of  canned 
goods,  soaps,  etc.  A  wine 
vault  and  an  entertainment 
room,  as  suggested  in  the  il- 
lustration, will  depend  upon 
the  taste  and  good  fortune  of 
the  owner.  So  will  the  swim- 
ming pool  and  the  work 
bench.  Such  further  equip- 
ment as  a  built-in  incinerator 
for  garbage,  a  vacuum  clean- 
er and  an  ice  machine  should 
also  find  a  place  down  here. 
Before  installing  these  im- 
provements, the  cellar  should 
be  divided  into  rooms  with 
sealed  partitions  so  that  no 
dust  or  dirt  can  be  conveyed 
from  one  to  the  other. 

The  heating  plant  should 


While  a  shower  bath  for  the  garden  worker  is  an  essential,  it  could  be 
made  very  luxurious  if  installed  in  a  small  swimming  pool.  The  finish 
and  decoration  of  the  pool  will  only  be  limited  by  the  confines  of  the  purse 


be  fully  enclosed  in  a  room  by  itself.  The 
coal  or  fuel  should  be  kept  in  an  adjoining 
room,  conveniently  located  for  easy  handling. 
It  may  be  possible  to  adopt  the  coal  bunker 
system  of  ships — a  hopper  arrangement  which 
permits  the  coal  to  slide  down  to  a  narrow 
door  in  proximity  to  the  heater.  The  wood,  as 
shown  in  the  illustration,  can  be  kept  under 
the  lee  of  the  coal  bunker  and  reached  through 
a  door  close  to  the  heater  itself.  The  handling 
of  ashes  can  be  reduced  to  a  simple  matter  if 
an  overhead  system  for  hauling  the  cans  is 
installed.  This  track  can  be  attached  to  the 
ceiling  and  run  to  the  outside  door.  Or  a 


space  can  be  excavated  for 
an  ash  pit  and  the  ashes  re- 
moved in  bulk  at  intervals. 
As  for  the  heater  itself,  it 
need  no  longer  be  an  eye- 
sore; already  manufacturers 
have  begun  to  beautify  this 
very  necessary  piece  of  equip- 
ment. 

A  Preserve  Closet 

The  requirements  for  the 
preserve  closet  are  dry  air, 
rat-proof  shelves  and  a  strong 
door.  This  closet  should  be 
located  in  the  coolest  section 
of  the  cellar.  The  shelves 
should  be  raised  from  the 
floor  and  all  exposed  edibles 
protected  by  wire  netting. 
The  old  hanging  shelf  is  not 
advisable  unless  one  hangs  it 
on  strong  cables.  After  all, 
the  problem  of  the  rat,  which 
caused  the  hanging  shelf  first 
to  be  made,  should  be  solved 
by  cleanliness,  order  and  good 
construction.  A  well-sealed 
cellar  gives  no  excuse  for 
rats. 

It  is  preferable  that  the  workroom  for  the 
handy-man  be  located  in  the  basement,  where 
he  can  make  all  the  dirt  and  noise  he  pleases. 
A  shoulder  of  the  wall  often  furnishes  adequate 
bench  space.  This  also  might  be  used  for 
garden  tools.  A  little  ingenuity  in  taking  ad- 
vantage of  odd  corners  and  unusual  construc- 
tion will  afford  plenty  of  opportunity  for  this 
kind  of  development. 

That  there  should  be  some  water  connection 
in  the  cellar  is  a  fundamental.  It  will  be 
needed  for  washing  down  the  walls  and  floors. 
A  floor  drain  should  be  on  the  house  plans. 
If  a  shower  bath  is  installed,  the  worker  in  the 
garden  will  appreciate  it. 
The  ultimate  luxury  would 
be  a  small  pool,  either  of 
cement  or  tiles,  set  in  the 
floor  of  the  cellar.  It  could 
be  finished  as  elaborately  as 
the  purse  provides,  with 


Adopting  the  coal  bunker 
idea  from  ships,  the  coal 
slides  down  to  a  narrow 
door  close  to  the  healer 
and  the  wood  is  kept  be- 
neath in  the  remaining 
space 


October,    1920 

benches  along  the  wall  and 
a  special  dressing  room  at- 
tached. 

The  Laundry 

If  no  provision  has  been 
made  elsewhere  in  the  house 
for  laundry  equipment,  it 
should  be  installed  in  the 
cellar.  An  ideal  arrange- 
ment consists  of  a  wash 
room  having  a  minimum 
floor  area  of  8'  x  8',  a  dry- 
ing room  with  an  area  of 
7'  x  7'  and  an  ironing  room 
of  8'  x  8'.  If  desired,  the 
washing,  drying  and  iron- 
ing equipment  can  be  in- 
stalled within  one  room 
having  a  minimum  floor 
space  of  12'  x  16'. 

Of  the  many  factors  that 
should  lie  given  considera- 
tion, ventilation  is  one  of 
the  most  important.  To 
make  a  cellar  a  healthful 
place  to  work  in,  an  abund- 
ance of  fresh  air  must  be 
provided.  This  can  be  done 
by  well-arranged  windows 
or  by  electric  blower  fans. 

An  adequate  lighting 
system  is  next  in  importance 
to  proper  ventilation.  Out- 
lets should  be  provided  for 
lights  in  each  room  and 
special  wiring  for  the  heav- 
ier equipment  of  the  laun- 
dry. It  is  well  to  remember 
that  sunlight  is  the  best 
possible  preservative.  See 
that  the  shrubbery  planting 
around  the  foundations  does 
not  cut  off  this  light. 


P       ?  "°W.I>CZ!"S  '.«  /*«  ««<"•  "nd  it  will  be  made  interesting  if 
eil  proved  a  hospitality  room  close  to  the  precious  home  supply 
7  he  dresser,  table  and  bencl.es  and  wrought  iron  fixtures  of  this  room 
g,ve  ,t  a  fwelfth  Night  appearance.     The  floor  can  be  tile  or  cement  CM 
to  simulate  tile 

While  the  decoration  of  the  cellar  walls  is 
a  matter  of  taste,  their  sealing  and  waterproof- 
ing are  essential.  Waterproofing  paints  are  on 
the  market,  and  the  owner  should  consider 
them.  A  dry  cellar  is  one  of  the  m«st  de- 
sirable features  in  a  house,  and  the  health  of 
the  family  depends  much  upon  it.  Of  colors 
white  is  perhaps  the  best,  and  the  old-fash- 
ioned whitewash  is  not  to  be  despised.  With  a 
modern  type  of  heater,  which  reduces  dust  to 
a  minimum,  and  with  moderate  care,  the  white- 
washed wall  should  keep  in  good  condition 
for  a  year. 

The  pleasant  custom  of  Sunday  night  supper 
parties  that  one  finds  in  our  suburbs  has  sug- 


55 

gested  the  Twelfth  Night 
room  as  a  possible  feature 
for  the  basement.  It  is 
finished  in  an  old  English 
style,  with  solid  table, 
benches  and  dresser,  mak- 
ing a  picturesque  corner  for 
hospitality.  Now  that  al- 
most everyone  is  brewing 
some  kind  of  goodly  potion, 
this  room  will  be  especially 
appreciated.  Since  Prohi- 
bition, as  some  wit  ob- 
served, hospitality,  begins 
in  the  cellar. 

Decorations 

In  arranging  the.  equip- 
ment of  the  cellar  it  is  ad- 
visable to  remember  that  it 
should    not    alone    be    effi- 
cient, but  should  be  pleas- 
ant.    The  happy  color  for 
the    walls,    a    bit    of    iron 
grating  on   the  wine   vault 
door,    a   solid   batten    door 
for    the    preserve     room — 
these  additions  will  make  a 
great    deal    of   difference. 
Such  improvements  are  es- 
pecially necessary  when  one 
remodels  a  city  house  and 
part  of  the  erstwhile  cellar 
will    be   occupied    by    sucli 
different  rooms  as  a  recep- 
tion hall  and  kitchen.     The 
high-ceilinged  basements  of 
the     old-fashioned     c  i  t  y 
brownstone  houses  offers  an 
excellent     opportunity     for 
cellar    beautifying,    an    op- 
portunity that  architects  are 
not  overlooking. 


The  preserve  room  door  can  be 

in  the  Dutch  style,  which  will 

ventilation.       Wrought     iron     strap 
ntnges   and  a   decorative   latch 
give    it    interest.      The    upper 
might  have  an  opaque  light 


cut 

aid 


will 
half 


The  door  for  the  Twelfth  Night  room 
must  be  solidly  built,  provided  with 
sturdy  latches,  locks  and  hinges  and  the 
window  protected  by  a  wrought  iron 
grill.  Solid  oak  is  suggested  for  this  door 


The  low  shoulder  of  the  wall  will 
provide  a  work  bench  for  the 
garden  enthusiast  or  amateur  car- 
penter. With  a  little  ingenuity 
such  a  corner  can  be  made  a 
great  convenience 


56 


House     &     Garden 


October 


THE  GARDENER'S  CALENDAR 


Tenth  Month 


Large  peony  clumps 
may  be  dug  up  and 
divided  now  for  re- 
planting 


Instead  of  dead 
leaves,  excelsior  or 
straw  may  be  used 
to  cover  the  roots 


'          , 


Burlap  spread  over 

the   late   beans   will 

protect    them    from 

night  frosts 


SUNDAY 

MONDAY 

TUESDAY 

WEDNESDAY 

THURSDAY 

FRIDAY 

SATURDAY 

31.     This  Is 
an   excellent 

1.       If    you 

have    heated 

2.  Don't  ne- 
glect    to     get 

time  to  destroy 

/«ae    ana 

This    Calendar    of    the   gardener's   labors    is 

frames  of  any 

hyacinths    and 

any    aphids 
which   may  be 
on    the    white 
pines  and  other 
evergreens.     A 

mix,  with  what 
tmfvlt  degrees, 
•  Clapped  by   the 
faint  horizon's 

aimed  as  a  reminder  for  undertaking  all  his 
tasks  in  season.      It  is  fitted  to  the  latitude 
of  the  Middle  States,  but  its  service  should 
be  available  for  the  whole  country   if  it  be 

kind,  why  not 
use    them    for 
the   forcing    of 
quick  maturing 
vegetables 

other  early 
flowering  types 
of    bulbous 
plants      boxed 
up  or  planted 

thorough 

languid    artns. 

remembered     that    for    every    one    hundred 

such     as     rad- 

in    pots     pre- 

spraying   with 
a    strong     to- 
bacco and  soap 
mixture    will 

Each  into  each, 
the  hazy   di#- 
tnnces! 

miles    north   or   south   there    is   a   difference 
of  from   five  to   seven  days  later  or  earlier 
in  performing  garden  operations.    The  dates 

ishes,    spinach, 
beans,    etc. 
They    may    be 
sown    now,    to 

paratory    to 
forcing  them  in 
the  greenhouse. 
They  should  b<- 
buried    out-of- 

from     this 

—  Loicell 

during  the  win- 

doors to  facili- 

pest. 

ter  months. 

tate  rooting. 

3,     Flower 

4.   Don't  fail 

5.   In  case  of 

6.    The  first 

7.  Hay  thrown 

8.       Dig    up 

9.  Cauliflow- 

beds composed 

to     make     ar- 

a   severe    frost 

few  days  in  the 

over    tender 

and    store    all 

er  just  starting 

of  tender  plants 

rangements   to 

being  threaten- 

house   are    the 

garden      crops 

tender  bulbous 

to     head      up 

can  be  made  to 

pick   the   fruit 

ed,  it  is  wise  to 

critical    period 

such    as    egg- 

plants such  as 

should  be  lifted 

last     consider- 

and   store     it 

cover  the  flow- 

for   indoor 

plant,  peppers. 

gladioli,     dah- 

very   carefully 

ably  longer  by 

groperly.    The 

ers  of  outdoor 

plants.     Use 

lettuce,    will 

lias,  etc.  These 

and    placed    in 

a  slight  cover- 

est method  is 

chrysanthe- 

great   care    in 

protect      them 

must  be  stored 

frames     where 

ing   to   protect 

to    wrap    each 

mums    with 

watering      and 

from     damage 

in  sand  or  saw- 

it  will    mature 

them    from 

fruit  separately 

paper  or  other 

keep  the  foliage 

by  light  frosts. 

dust   in    boxes 

properly.    The 

frost.     An  old 

in  tissue  paper. 

material    at 

sprayed    or 

It  must  be  re- 

and kept  in  a 

plants  may  also 

sheet  or  blan- 

storing  them  in 

night.     This 

moistened.      If 

moved    during 

cool    cellar. 

be   planted    in 

ketof  any  kind, 

boxes  in  a  dark. 

will    prevent 

the  plant  dries 

the     day     and 

Dry  ness    of 

tubs     and 

with  a  few  sup- 

cool place.    Be 

their    being 

up  too  quickly. 

applied  only  at 

packing    ma- 

moved    to     a 

ports,  may  be 

careful    that 

damaged     and 

plunge  the  en- 

night.   Do  not 

terial  and  sur- 

barn, garage  or 

used    for    this 

they     are    not 

add     to     their 

tire    pot    in    a 

use  enough  to 

rounding  air  is 

other    frost- 

purpose. 

bruised. 

life. 

pail  of  water. 

break   them. 

essential. 

proof    place. 

10.     Celery 

11.  Why  not 

12.   All  shal- 

n.   Start 

14.      This  is 

15.    What 

16.       The 

must    be    kept 

have  some  fruit 

low    rooting 

mulching 

an    excellent 

about    some 

plantings    of 

hilled.        Hold 

trees    around 

crops  should  be 

rhododendrons 

time     to     put 

bulbs  for  house 

new  trees  may 

the  stalks   to- 

your   garden. 

afforded    the 

with  leaves  or 

into    execution 

forcing    to 

be  attended  to 

gether    tightly 

preferably     on 

protection      of 

manure.     This 

any  changes  in 

bloom    about 

at    this    time. 

with  the  hand 

the  north  side? 

a  winter  mulch 

is  not  only  for 

your      garden. 

Christmas 

With   the   dry 

to  prevent  dirt 

Or  perhaps  you 

of    manure. 

the  purpose  of 

such     as     sod 

time  ?      Paper 

summers  which 

from    getting 

have  room  for 

This  applies  to 

protecting    the 

borders,   dwarf 

whites.      Pott- 

have  prevailed 

down  into  the 

a    small    or- 

strawberries, 

roots,     but     it 

hedges,  trellises 

baker    tulips, 

for     the     past 

heart.        Keep 

chard.    This  is 

raspberries, 

will  also  furnish 

for  fruit  plants, 

narcissus     and 

few  years,  f:ill 

hilling  as  they 

the  proper  time 

blackberries. 

the  plants  with 

changes  in  wa- 

various    other 

plantings  have 

grow,  since  it  la 

to  set  the  trees 

etc.     With 

considerable 

tering  systems. 

early    forcing 

given  better  re- 

contact    with 

out,  except  the 

strawberries, 

nourishment. 

etc.       A    good 

bulbs    may    be 

su]lts   than 

the  earth  that 

plums,  cherries 

manure  should 

In    the    spring 

map      of      the 

grown  success- 

where work  of 

gives    celery 

and    other    pit 

not   touch    the 

the  leaves  may 

grounds    will 

fully     in     the 

this    sort    was 

llavor.  ___      

fruits. 

crown. 

be  dug  under. 

help. 

house. 

done  In  spring. 

17.      Stop 

18.   Don't 

19.    Carrots, 

20.       Any 

21.    Don't 

22.      A   few 

23.  Start  now 

feeding    the 

neglect  succes- 

beets  and  other 

changes  In  the 

neglect    to 

roots  of   pars- 

to   collect    all 

chrysanthe- 

sional     sowing 

root    crops 

flower   borders 

mulch    with 

ley,  planted  In 

the  old1  leaves. 

mums    just    as 

of     the     vege- 

should be  gath- 

should    be 

manure    or 

pots  and  placed 

bringing    tliem 

soon     as     the 

table    crops 

ered  and  after 

made   now,    as 

any   loose   ma- 

on the  kitchen 

to    one    point. 

buds  show  col- 

planted in  the 

the  tops  are  re- 

the    different 

terial,  all  ever- 

window-sill. 

Do     not     ever 

or.  It  Is  a  good 

greenhouse. 

moved    they 

types   of   flow- 

greens   that 

will    keep    any 

burn  them,  be- 

practice   to 

Lettuce,  cauli- 

can  be   stored 

ers      may      be 

have    been 

ordinary 

cause    when 

shade    the 

flower,  spinach. 

in  trenches  out- 

easily    deter- 

transplanted 

family  supplied 

rotted,    they 

greenhouse 

radishes    and 

of-doors,  or  in 

mined   at    this 

during  the  cur- 

with an  abun- 

are one  of  the 

slightly.     This 

beans     require 

a    cool    cellar. 

time,   even   by 

rent  year.   The 

dance    of    this 

best  of  all  fer- 

will  give  con- 

seeding    about 

If   stored    out- 

the    beginner. 

first    winter    is 

valuable  green 

tilizing    ma- 

s id  e  r  ab  1  y 

every    two    or 

doors,    they 

Old  plants  that 

the    critical 

for    garnishing 

terial.       Store 

longer      petals 

three  weeks  in 

should  be  pro- 

are  not   yield- 

period   with 

and  other  klt- 

them    in   some 

and    larger 

order  to  insure 

tected  from  the 

ing    should    be 

these  trees,  and 

chen    uses 

obscure,     shel- 

flowers. 

a  supply. 

frost. 

divided. 

they  need  care. 

:U1  winter. 

tered  corner. 

24.    Shut  off 

25.  Don't  for- 

26. Hydran- 

27. Potatoes 

28.  After  the 

29.     W  h  e  n 

30.  Arrange- 

and   flrain    all 

get  to  plant  a 

geas,  bay  trees 

and  other  root 

foliage  falls  all 

husking     corn 

ments     should 

Irrigating    sys- 

few of  the  more 

and  other  deco- 

crops stored  in 

fruit  trees  and 

any  exception- 

be    made     to 

tems  and  other 

hardy  types  of 

rative  plants  in 

the    cellar 

other     decidu- 

ally   fine    ears 

protect    the 

exposed 

narcissus    in 

tubs  and  boxes 

should    be 

ous  •trees   sub- 

should   be   set 

roses,  the  best 

plumbing 

some    secluded 

should    be 

looked  over  oc- 

ject to  the  at- 

aside and  saved 

method    being 

pipes,    and 

corner      where 

stored  away  for 

casionally    to 

tacks    of    scale 

for    seed    next 

to  do  them  up 

empty  concrete 

they    may    go 

the  winter.     A 

prevent     dam- 

should    be 

year.    The  ears 

In  straw  over- 

J)ools, etc.    All 

on  naturalizing 

good    eel  lar 

age  by  decay. 

sprayed     with 

should  be  hung 

coats.      In  :ul- 

aucets   should 

and   spreading 

which     is     not 

K  e  m  o  v  e    all 

any  of  the  sol- 

up In  some  dry 

dition  to  these. 

be  left  open  to 

by  themselves. 

too  warm  and 

decayed    or 

uble    oil    mix- 

place where  the 

earth  should  be 

assure     proper 

In  a  few  years 

is    fairly    light 

soft,    spongy 

tures.       Lilacs 

mice    will    not 

banked  around 

drainage  of  the 

enormous 

makes  a  good 

tubers,  because 

are    especially 

be  able  to  reach 

the  plants  so  as 

piping.    If 

masses  are  pos- 

morage      place 

they    are    sure 

susceptible    to 

them.     Sus- 

to   throw    the 

they    freeze 

s  i  b  1  e    from 

for  this  class  of 

to  infect  other 

attacks  of   the 

pending    by 

water    away 

they  will  burst. 

small  pi  an  tings. 

material. 

sound    ones. 

scale  pest. 

wire  is  good. 

from  them. 

S~*HAW1N'S  a  kinder  funny   thing  —  /  mean,   the   pleasure   a  feller   gits  out   of  it.      Nor  1    ain't   thinkin' 

Oo'  tobacker  or  beefsteak  or  gum,  neither;  but  chawin*  the  things  Old  Ma  Nature  grows  for  ye  to  chau1. 

I  mind  as  a  boy  how  I  used  to  pick"  the  pinkish  young  leaves  o'  sassafras  an'  eat  'em  by  the  handful.  I 

ain't  never  gat  over  the  habit.    There's  a  kinder  spicy  flavor  about  'cm  that's  mighty  tasty,  an'  ye  can  keep 
pickin'  an'  chaiuin',  chaivin'  an'  pic  kin'  ,  'long  as  ye've  a  mind  to.      'N  other  thing  I   like  is  wintcrgrccn 

leaves,  an'  them  red  berries  the  pa'tridges  is  so  fond  of.      They  keep  ye  more  busy  than  the  sassafras  —  - 

that  is,  the  leaves  do;  but  winter  green'  s  a  durn  fine  flavor  an'  it  sorter  stays  by  ye.     Some  folks'll  ekaiv 

on  dandelion  leaves,  too,  but  they're  too  bitter  for  me,   I  like  sour-grass  a-  lot  better,  'specially  on  a  not 
day  U'hcn  yer  mouth-  gits  kinder  dry.     Fin'lly,  tliey's  chaivin'  on  a  grass  stem,  a  good,  long,  sweet  stalk  </ 

timothy  that  ye  pulls  out  or  the  load  on  the  hay  wagon  as  she  passes  ye  by  on  the^  road.     I  like  winter- 

green,  an'  young  birch  tips,  an'  ground-nut  an'  all  the  rest;  but  for  real,  solid  chawin'  comfort,  give  me  a 

timothy  stem  on  a  still  July  evenin'  when  the  las'  load's  on  its  way  to  the  hayrick. 
-  —  Old     Doc     Lctnmon. 

Use  plenty  of  dead 

leaves  to  protect  the 

root    crops   stored 

outdoors 


Mast  long-limed 
perennials  need  to 
be  divided  every 
three  or  four  years 


Yott  can  keep  the 
parsley  bed  working 
if  you  protect  with 
boards  and  leaves 


Dead  leaves  make  an  excellent   winter  mulch  for  per- 
ennial beds.    They  should  be  raked  up  and  stored  under 
a  shed  until  you  are  ready   to   use  them 


Fall   is    the    time   to 

prune  grapes,  because 

the  sap  is  down 


The    various    hardy    spring-blooming    bulbs    should    be 

planted   this   month   and   next.     Crocus,   narcissi,   lilies, 

scillas,  tulips  and  snowdrops  are  among  them 


October.     1920 


57 


The  Importance  of 
Proper  "Scale"  in 
Furniture  and  Decoration 


r  success  of  a  room  from  the  decorative  view- 
point depends  more  upon  the  proper  proportions 
of  its  appointments  than  upon  the  Period  represented 
by  the  Furniture  or  the  woods  in  which  it  is  wrought — 

Obviously,  the  graceful,  slender-legged  Furniture 
produced  in  France  and  England  during  the  late 
XVIII  Century  is  admirably  adapted  to  the  moderate 
size  Chamber,  while  the  sturdy  oaken  pieces  of  Jacobean 
days  and  the  robust  styles  of  the  Italian  Renaissance 
find  congenial  surroundings  only  in  rooms  of  large 
dimensions. 

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58 


House     &•     Garden 


Safeguard  the 

beauty  ofy  our  lawn 

and  grounds 

YOU  protect  your  lawn  and 
grounds  when  you  have 
available  a  constant  supply  of 
running  water.  The  wither- 
ing heat  of  torrid  summer  days 
does  not  leave  its  mark  on 
grounds  that  are  kept  well- 
watered. 

A  Fairbanks-Morse  "Typhoon" 
water  system  will  protect  your 
grounds  at  low  cost.  A  safe- 
guard against  fire,  also.  Pro- 
vides all  the  running  water 
you  want  for  baths,  laundry, 
stock,  barns  and  fountains. 

Operated  by  famous  "Z"  en- 
gine that  runs  on  kerosene  as 
well  as  gasoline  with  low  up- 
keep cost.  Easily  and  simply 
operated.  Also  motor  driven 
for  automatic  or  hand  control. 
See  your  local  dealer,  who  can 
tell  you  which  size  is  best  suited 
for  your  home. 


Fairbanks,  Morse  er  (5 

|      MANUFACTURERS       I  *  I          CHICAGO        ^^ 

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The     Small     Formal     House 

(Continued  from  page  49) 


heavily-detailed  plasterwork,  all  quite 
out  of  keeping  with  the  spirit  of  the 
house. 

And  now  a  word  about  the  plan  of 
the  house  and  the  principles  embodied. 
The  18th  Century,  especially  in  its  lat- 
ter half,  was  a  period  when  the  whole 
Anglo-Saxon  race  seemed  to  be  imbued 
with  a  sense  of  graceful  line  and  just 
proportion.  Witness  even  the  simple 
furniture  made  by  country  cabinet- 
makers, and  the  houses  wholly  designed 
and  built  by  country  carpenters,  both 
in  England  and  America.  It  was  a 
period  when  domestic  life  in  all  its 
several  manifestations  was  distinguished 
by  poise  and  balance  and  by  a  very 
practical  sanity  of  judgment  coupled 
with  a  due  appreciation  of  all  the  small 
refinements  that  count.  And  the  houses, 
in  their  fabric  and  plan,  afforded  a 
visible  and  enduring  testimony  to  the 
mode  of  life  lived  within  their  walls. 
They  were  the  shells  unmistakably  pro- 
claiming the  domestic  and  social  ideals 


that  were  maintained  by  the  occupants. 

In  that  age  of  oftentimes  small  and 
finished  elegancies  it  was  possible  for  a 
small  family  to  live  elegantly  a  com- 
plete and  self-contained  life  in  a  small 
house  that  truly  reflected  the  habits  of 
its  inmates.  Such  an  house  was  Bram- 
ble Haw — sufficient  kitchens,  scullery, 
pantry  and  other  offices  in  the  well- 
lighted  basement;  on  the  ground  floor 
a  spacious  hall  and  staircase,  a  conveni- 
ent library,  a  drawing  room  and  a  din- 
ing room  of  comfortable  dimensions;  on 
the  upper  floors  the  bed  chambers;  in 
all,  a  few  good  rooms,  adequate  in  size 
and  number  for  the  amenities  of  polite 
life,  and  all  of  them  fully  used.  Herein 
lies  its  lesson  and  its  value  for  us. 

Bramble  Haw  is  a  standing  protest 
against  neglige  architecture  and  the  fal- 
lacy that  smallness  connotes  a  certain 
inevitable  lack  of  distinction  in  plan  and 
aspect,  or  that  it  is  only  in  large  houses 
that  the  legitimate  elegancies  of  life  can 
be  duly  observed. 


The     Rectangular     Lot 

(Continued  from  page  33) 


shrubs  of  a  semi-wild  character  —  red 
cedars,  flowering  apples,  red-twigged 
dogwood  and  wild  roses.  Placed  as  a 
focal  point,  a  table  and  chairs  of  old 
hickory  furniture  overlook  the  softly 
modulated  lawn  surrounded  by  a  frame 
of  flowers  in  bold  masses  carefully  bal- 
anced as  to  effect.  These  are  early  tu- 
lips, tall  Darwins,  oriental  poppies,  iris, 
peonies,  foxgloves,  larkspur,  Japanese 
iris,  phlox,  and  hardy  asters.  The  nar- 
row encircling  walks  of  stepping  stones 
have  planted  in  their  interstices  forget- 
me-nots,  arabis  and  dwarf  pinks  (Dian- 
thus  deltoides)  instead  of  the  usual 
untidy  grass. 

The  difficulty  in  developing  this  de- 
sign is  in  having  it  look  as  informal  as 
intended,  because  of  the  inveterate  ten- 
dency of  the  handy  man  to  shear  all 
grass  edges  to  a  hard  line.  It  will  no 
doubt  succeed  better  if  given  the  per- 
sonal attention  of  the  owners. 

The  front  is  planted  with  a  few  shrubs 
against  the  house — arborvitae,  spiraea, 
and  cotoneaster.  The  street  hedge  is 
of  undipped  barberry,  its  straight  lines 
relieved  by  flowering  dogwood  trees. 
In  the  rear  is  a  drying  yard  and  space 
for  raspberries,  strawberries,  and  a  small 
hotbed.  Two  years  ago,  this  place 
actually  cost  around  $500,  including  all 
grading,  topsoil,  manure,  plants  and 


labor, — a  reasonable  figure  for  the  time 
The  fifth  house  belonged  to  a  man 
with  an  interesting  idea.  He  lived  in 
a  suburb  of  New  York  in  a  subdivision 
of  small  lots  (42'  x  85')  as  yet  but  lit- 
tle built  upon.  First  he  annexed  the 
adjoining  property  (which  incidentally 
was  several  feet  lower)  and  developed 
it  as  a  spring  garden  of  flowering  crabs 
and  cherries,  lilac,  red-bud,  and  for- 
sythia.  Then  with  his  relatives  he 
bought  another  lot  which  was  devel- 
oped into  a  flower  garden  equally  ac- 
cessible to  the  three  families.  The  cross 
entrances  are  so  planned  as  to  give 
access  to  the  adjoining  lots.  The  main 
walk,  which  leads  from  the  spring  gar- 
den, is  terminated  by  a  stone  platform 
flanked  by  seats  and  arching  dogwood 
trees.  From  this  focal  point,  which 
commands  a  wide  view  of  the  Hudson, 
a  shallow  flight  of  steps  leads  down  to 
an  oval  turf  panel,  where  evergreens 
and  berried  shrubs  make  a  winter  gar- 
den. A  stone  wall  with  artistic  wrought 
iron  gate  separates  the  garden  from  the 
street,  yet  does  not  cut  off  the  view. 
From  $1000  to  $2000  should  cover  the 
cost  of  plants  and  accessories  for  the 
entire  scheme.  Shared  by  three  families, 
this  does  not  seem  so  great  when  it  is 
considered  that  one  man  can  be  the 
joint  caretaker. 


An    English    Garden    in    Spring 

(Continued  from  page  34) 


patch  or  two  amid  the  rubbish  heaps, 
and  some  evidence  still  remained  of  a 
farmer's  wife  who  had  liked  her  few 
flowers  but  had  not  been  able  to  cope 
with  the  difficulties  of  the  situation. 
Here,  again,  care  was  taken  not  to  lessen 
the  value  of  the  picturesque  but  plain 
old  building  by  detailed  architectural  ef- 
fect. Terraces  were  laid  out  on  the 
southern  slope,  but  they  were  walled 
simply  and  with  the  local  limestone. 
A  good  deal  of  pavement  was  used,  and 
broad  grass-ways,  edged  with  borders 
and  backed  by  yew  hedges,  were  con- 
trived. The  steeper  slope  to  the  west, 
was  made  into  a  rock  garden  leading 
down  to  old  fish  ponds,  where  a  good 
deal  of  water  gardening  was  introduced. 
All  this  was  taken  out  of  a  field  and 
orchard,  the  trees  of  which  were  re- 
tained, and  a  matured  effect  was  almost 
at  once  produced.  The  climate  and  the 
soil  are  good,  and  the  whole  of  the 
gardens,  as  the  illustrations  will  show, 


are  rich  in  floral  effect.  The  simple, 
old-fashioned  aspect  of  the  English 
country  home  of  the  past  that  had  its 
farmery  attached  and  that  drew  no 
hard-and-fast  division  between  its  flow- 
er and  vegetable  gardens,  has  been 
sought  for  and  obtained. 

"The  title  of  the  house  has  descended 
from  the  days  of  the  episcopal  lords 
marchers,  and  it  implies  a  certain 
grandeur  in  no  way  reflected  by  the 
place  as  it  is  today.  It  aims  at  being 
a  quiet  home  where  the  simple  life  may 
be  led." 

We  have  not,  it  is  true,  the  rich  back- 
grounds in  buildings,  for  such  garden 
pictures  as  these,  but  ours  is  a  climate 
unsurpassed  for  spring  gardening, — 
subjects  in  untold  variety,  not  only  our 
fine  native  flora,  but  plants,  shrubs  and 
trees  from  the  round  world  itself,  and 
we  may,  we  do  have,  spring  pictures 
unsurpassed.  Such  delicious  disposings 
(Continued  on  page  60) 


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(Continued  from  page  58) 


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of  tulips  and  myosotis  as  are  here 
shown,  should  not  discourage  but  stir 
us  to  fresh  hope  and  effort  in  garden- 
ing. Still,  how  could  such  flowers  as 
these  of  Mathern  Palace  appear  any- 
where to  such  advantage  as  when  they 
shine  against  close-shaven  foliage  as  in 
the  grass  alley;  or  when  each  colored 
cup  of  tulip  and  sky-blue  cluster  of 
myosotis  are  thrown  into  relief  against 
the  smooth  turf  as  seen  in  the  old 
quadrangle? 

Who  can  gaze  at  the  illustration  of 
the  grass  alley,  without  longing  to  look 
on  the  bright  scene  itself?  The  quiet 
setting  of  tree  masses,  the  two  gables 
of  the  old  house  on  the  right,  deep  in 
foliage;  and  gaily  fronting  the  delicate 
spring  background  of  blossoming  tree 
and  lilac,  a  dazzling  effect  of  lines  of 
flowers  against  rich  green.  Filled  with 
color  is  this  picture;  and  the  coquetry 
of  the  topiary  work  seems  to  be  part  of 
the  laughing  beauty  of  the  whole. 
Myosotis  carpets  the  borders  on  either 
side  of  the  walk:  Late  tulips  trail  a 
garland  of  rich  hues  above  the  blue: 
and  the  brilliant  color  has  the  perfect 
foil  in  the  dark  clipped  yew  which  backs 
it  all. 

"Oh  gallant  flowering  May — 

Which   month  is  painter  of  the  world, 

As  some  great  clerks  do  say." 

The  grass  walk  seems  to  divide  two 
gardens,  perhaps  a  rose  garden  on  the 
right;  to  the  left,  a  garden  of  tulips  is 
hinted  at.  The  alley  is  an  example  of 
what  such  a  walk  should  be,  in  width, 
in  height  of  massive  subject  for  the 
border, — a  lesson  in  beauty  of  pro- 
portion. Happy  he  whose  work,  whose 
lovely  creation  is  an  effect  in  flowers 
such  as  this.  Happy  they  who  have 
strolled  in  May  along  this  goodly  walk, 
and  fortunate  we,  who  with  this  pic- 
ture before  us  on  the  page  may  learn 
from  it  once  again,  that  simplicity,  and 
breadth  of  plan,  are  the  successful  prin- 
ciples of  formal  gardening. 

In  the  photograph  of  the  old  quad- 
rangle, the  value  of  shadow  is  first  of 
all  apparent— the  gay  brilliance  of  sun- 
lit flowers  against  sunlit  walls,  all  rich 
because  of  shade.  Here  too,  is  a  paved 
walk  well  placed,  not  cutting  the  green 
into  two  parts  as  so  often  is  the  Amer- 
ican case,  but  allowing  all  possible 
sweep  to  the  reach  of  grass,  ivy,  just 
enough  to  compose  well,  a  few  climb- 
ing roses  against  the  ancient  house  gar- 
landing the  beautiful  old  windows — 
and  one  has  suggestions  which  for  sim- 
plicity and  beauty  cannot  be  surpassed. 

The  tulip  bed  too,  gives  endless  hints 


as  to  picturesque  roof  line  and  mass, 
the  happy  use  of  trees,  an  unobtrusive 
tea-house  fitted  to  perfection  into  its 
corner  of  the  paved  garden,  for  pro- 
tection against  English  rain  and  mist; 
and  again  the  fascinating  foreground 
of  color  in  flowers. 

Gardens  such  as  these,  speak  to  one's 
spirit.  The  harmony,  the  fitness  of  it 
-"All's  Fair  That's  Fit"— the  original- 
ity of  a  plan  which  though  new,  seems 
old — all  fills  the  mind  and  eye  with 
satisfaction  and  high  pleasure.  For  my- 
self, it  is  with  gardens  (and  on  first 
sight)  as  with  people.  They  are  sim- 
patica  or  not.  Let  me  give  two  im- 
pressions of  American  gardens,  which 
in  my  case  happened  either  to  com- 
mend or  not  to  commend  themselves  to 
this  individual  eye,  an  eye  not  suf- 
ficiently intelligent  to  be  over-critical. 

The  two  gardens  in  mind  now,  are 
the  antipodes  of  each  other.  One  a 
formal  garden  with  much  costly  stone 
and  marble — flowers  grown  to  perfec- 
tion, •  all  kept  in  order — but  a  garden 
which  leaves  one  cold.  There  is  no 
heart  in  it,  no  individuality.  It  is  a 
mockery  in  gardening — its  borders  have 
in  it  only  the  pride  of  the  eye.  "See, 
this  is  mine.  I  too  have  a  garden;  is 
it  not  better  than  yours  or  my  neigh- 
bor's? It  is  more  costly."  When 
gardening  takes  this  form,  beauty  is 
gone. 

The  garden  set  over  against  this  in 
my  mind  is  on  a  steep  and  wooded  hill- 
side, upon  one  of  the  loveliest  of  Amer- 
ican lakes,  indeed  one  of  the  loveliest 
lakes  in  any  land.  In  the  center  of  this 
garden,  is  a  glorious  pine-tree,  tall, 
spreading,  symmetrical.  This  has  been 
taken  as  the  pivotal  feature,  and  a 
charming  grouping  of  flower-spaces, 
with  little  box-edged  walks  arranged  to 
radiate  from  it.  Also,  there  is  a  long 
arbor  at  the  higher  end  of  the  garden, 
flagged  with  stone,  and  at  one  end  a 
sitting  place  from  which  a  vision  of  blue 
water  and  purple  mountain  is  a  sur- 
prise and  a  delight.  When  I  had  the 
happiness  of  seeing  this  simple  but 
beautiful  and  personal  garden,  frost  had 
browned  it.  There  remained  only 
smouldering  embers  of  flowers,  embers 
which  but  a  week  before  had  been 
tongues  of  flame.  No  matter.  Here 
was  a  garden  speaking  to  the  heart  as 
well  as  to  the  eye.  Charm  was  in  its 
every  line  and  fragment  of  composition. 
Above  all,  the  words  which  leaped  to 
one's  mind  within  its  boundaries  words 
which  should  be  applicable  to  every 
garden  were  those  most  precious  ones, 
seclusion,  tranquillity,  peace. 


Bouquets  the  Winter  Through 

(Continued  from  page  45) 


material  will  mark  well  the  spot  for  here 
in  August  and  September  will  be  found, 
instead  of  the  blossoms,  beautiful  dark 
blue  oval  pods  with  a  gray  bloom  upon 
them;  each  hanging  free  from  its  dried 
calyx  and  tipped  with  a  sharp  spur. 
The  podded  spikes  are  so  unusual  that 
they  are  exceedingly  attractive  either 
alone  in  a  dull  blue  vase  or  to  give 
character  to  masses  of  lighter  material. 
A  curious  plant  of  waste  sandy  places 
is  the  teazel,  a  tall  coarse  growing  bien- 
nial. Its  Greek  name,  dipsacus,  meaning 
thirst,  comes  from  the  fact  of  its  oppo- 
site leaves  so  closely  clasping  the  stalk 
as  to  form  a  cup  which  holds  rain  and 
dew;  venus'  bath,  venus'  cup  or  basin 
are  names  appropriately  given  it.  The 
liquid  so  held  is  one  of  the  many  "sure 
cures"  for  warts  and  the  theory  is  held 
by  several  naturalists  that  the  many  in- 
sects drowned  in  it  contribute  to  the 
nourishment  of  the  plant.  The  ovate 
flower  heads  appearing  in  midsummer 


are  often  3"  long  and  are  closely  covered 
with  hooked  spines  among  which  nestle 
the  tiny  lilac  flowers,  the  first  appearing 
aiound  the  middle  of  the  head  and  the 
blossoming  progressing  both  upward  and 
downward  in  a  manner  peculiar  to  this 
plant.  The  stiff  spined  heads  have  a 
commercial  value  for  they  are  used  by 
cloth  manufacturers  in  "teasing"  or 
raising  the  nap  on  woolens;  the  large 
central,  king  teazels  for  blankets  and  the 
laterals  or  queens  in  dressing  the  finer 
broadcloths.  Inventors  have  vainly  tried 
to  produce  a  tool  as  effective  as  the  tea- 
zel bur  which  releases  the  tabric  when 
an  obstruction  is  encountered  whereas 
steel  teeth,  however  pliable,  tear  it. 

When  to  Gather 

For  winter  bouquets  the  stalks  should 

be  gathered  in  September  as  soon  as  the 

flowers  have  faded.    There  are  usually 

three  or  more  heads  on  a  stem  and  these 

(Continued  on  page  62) 


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House     &     Garden 


In  the  Heart  of  the  Home 

There's  a  charming  beauty  and 
an  assurance  of  comfort  in  this 
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Bouquets  the  Winter  Through 

(Continued  from  page  60) 


are  so  distinctive,  each  surrounded  by 
long  clawlike  bracts  extending  above  it 
that  but  few  are  needed  for  use  with 
brown  compass  leaves  or  in  a  slender 
vase  alone- 
Teazel  is  interesting  in  its  natural  tan 
color  which  tones  well  with  both  warm 
grays  and  browns  or  it  may  be  tinted  to 
harmonize  with  vase  or  background  by 
painting  it  with  oil  colors  thinned  with 
turpentine.  The  teazel  illustrated  is  col- 
ored a  soft  orange  which  blends  beauti- 
fully with  its  Tiffany  vase  of  iridescent 
golden  tones.  One  sometimes  sees  in 
florists'  windows  teazels  dyed  in  abomi- 
nable purples  and  magentas  which  are 
impossibilities  in  almost  any  scheme  of 
decoration. 

The  Decorative  Vines 

Of  vines,  several  species  bear  fruit  use- 
ful for  winter  ornaments,  probably  the 
best  known  being  bittersweet,  gathered 
so  universally  for  many  years.  This 
vine,  trailing  over  wayside  fences  and 
climbing  woodland  trees,  may  be  recog- 
nized in  early  summer  by  its  small  green- 
ish white  flowers  in  terminal  racemes. 
In  October,  these  have  become  clusters 
of  bright  orange,  berry-like  capsules 
which,  when  brought  into  the  house 
warmth,  burst  open  and  curl  back,  dis- 
closing the  red  berries  within.  These 
berries  keep  their  color  for  several  years, 
being  freed  from  dust  by  occasional 
baths.  Indeed,  most  dried  fruit  and  flora 
may  be  freshened  by  dipping  gently  into 
water.  Spreading  sprays  of  bittersweet 
in  a  low  bowl  make  an  attractive  bou- 
quet or  it  is  pretty  used  with  the  brown 
sheep  sorrel  seed  spikes. 

One  of  the  most  beautifully  fruited 
vines  bears  the  malodorous  name  of 
carrion-flower  because  of  the  offensive 
scent  of  its  small  yellow  blossoms.  Be- 
longing to  the  smilax  family  and  cousin 
to  the  trillium,  it  has  been  reviled  by  all 
naturalists.  Thoreau  compared  its  odor 
to  that  of  "a  dead  rat  in  a  wall."  But 
in  late  September  or  October,  after  a 
frost,  it  is  well  worth  hunting  for  along 
river  banks  and  in  thickets,  for  happily 
its  blue  black  berries,  closely  clustered, 
thirty  or  more  of  them  in  a  ball,  are  en- 
tirely free  from  any  odor  and  make  a 
charming  decoration  where  hanging  vines 
are  desirable. 

Another  vine  of  ill  repute  is  the  poison 
or  three-leaved  ivy,  trailing  its  treach- 
erous length  all  too  commonly  upon 
tree  trunks  and  through  tall  grasses, 
even  appearing  sometimes  in  a  shrublike 
growth.  Its  loose  clusters  of  greenish 
white  flowers  are  followed  by  tiny  gray- 
white  berries  which  persist  into  the  cold 
weather.  These  berries  are  not  of  the 
poisonous  nature  of  the  leaves  for  they 
form  the  winter  food  of  many  birds. 
When  the  leaves  have  fallen,  the  berries 
on  their  brown  twiggy  stems  have  a  de- 
cidedly Japanesque  value.  A  loose  clus- 
ter in  an  Oriental  brass  bowl  was  one  of 
the  most  beautiful  subjects  in  a  recent 
exhibition. 

There  are  many  shrubs  whose  decora- 
tive berries  remain  on  the  plant  through- 
out the  winter  but  which,  when  brought 
indoors,  shrivel  and  fall,  making  them 
valueless  as  material  for  winter  bou- 
quets. 

Bayberry  and  Straw  Flowers 

Bayberry,  waxberry  or  wax  myrtle, 
as  it  is  variously  named,  botanically, 
myrica,  is  an  exception,  for  its  berries 
may  be  kept  for  a  long  time  after  pick- 
ing. Abundant  in  thickets  and  gardens 
of  New  England,  the  bayberry  is  less 
common  in  other  parts  of  the  United 
States.  Its  crooked  grayish  brown  stems 
have  small  clusters  of  dull  white  berries 
covered  with  wax-coated  granules.  In 
olden  times  these  berries  were  collected 
in  quantities  and  boiled  to  obtain  the 
wax  of  which  the  fragrant  bayberry  can- 


dles were  made.  As  with  many  other 
Colonial  products,  a  cheap  substitute  for 
this  wax  is  now  used  and  few  fragrant 
candles  are  now  made  from  the  true 
bayberry  wax.  There  are  few  lovelier 
color  combinations  than  a  gray  vase 
holding  well-arranged  sprays  of  myrica 
placed  against  a  background  of  dull  mul- 
berry carried  through  hangings  and  the 
table  scarf  on  which  the  vase  stands. 

Hapless  mortals  remote  from  prairie 
and  woodland  need  not  be  deprived  of 
blossoms  for  winter  adornment  for  they 
may  grow  their  own  dried  bouquets  if 
they  have  even  small  patches  of  ground 
at  their  disposal.  Most  easily  grown  of 
these  are  old-fashioned  everlastings  or 
immortelles.  All  suggestion  of  funeral 
wreaths  and  memorials  may  be  elimi- 
nated by  avoiding  the  tiny  white  flow- 
ers of  the  latter  name  and  planting  Acro- 
clinium  roseum,  which  blossoms,  as  its 
name  indicates,  in  shades  of  rose 
and  pink.  The  flower  stems  should  be 
gathered  when  the  unfolding  buds  are 
but  half  open  and  hung,  heads  down, 
in  a  dark  place  until  dry.  If  allowed  to 
open  fully,  the  petals  fold  back,  com- 
pletely hiding  their  color  and  disclosing 
the  large  mass  of  stamens  which  in  dry- 
ing have  no  beauty.  Small  wicker  bas- 
kets filled  with  delicate  grasses  and  pink- 
toned  strawflowers  make  dainty  gifts. 

An  interesting  plant  dating  back  to 
Colonial  gardens  is  the  globe  thistle  or 
echinops,  an  effective  subject  for  our 
use.  Often  a  color  scheme  requires  blue 
tones  which  are  admirably  supplied  by 
these  globes  composed  of  tiny  metallic 
blue  flowers.  With  grayish  stems  and 
foliage  and  placed  in  a  gray  and  blue 
vase,  a  bouquet  of  echinops  excites  uni- 
versal admiration.  The  best  specimens 
are  secured  by  cutting  when  in  full 
bloom,  before  the  flowers  begin  in  the 
least  to  fade.  The  plant,  which  is  tall 
and  coarse,  blooms  in  August  and  com- 
bines well  with  white  phlox  in  the  gar- 
den. 

Another  blue  plant  of  entirely  differ- 
ent growth  is  the  lovely  statice  or  sea 
lavender,  which  spreads  its  lavender  blue 
mist  over  the  salt  marshes  of  the  Atlan- 
tic coast  but  which  its  inland  lovers  are 
obliged  to  raise  in  their  gardens.  It  is  a 
hardy  perennial  with  widely  spreading 
panicles  rising  above  flat  masses  of 
leaves.  Gathered  while  in  full  bloom  and 
dried,  its  minute  blossoms  retain  much 
of  their  color  and  lend  delicacy  to  bou- 
quets of  globe  thistle,  pussy  willow  or 
almost  any  of  the  larger  subjects. 

%     Old  Honesty 

But  most  exquisite  of  dried  flora  is 
the  dear  old  honesty  or  satin  flower  of 
our  great-great-grandmothers'  gardens. 
On  the  dresser,  taking  honorable  place 
among  pewter  dishes,  was  often  to  be 
seen  a  bunch  of  its  papery  silver  discs. 
Honesty,  moonwort,  satin  flower,  peter's 
pence  and,  according  to  botanists,  luna- 
ria,  is  a  hardy  biennial,  its  rather  incon- 
spicuous purple  flowers  adding  little  to 
the  beauty  of  the  garden.  But  the  semi- 
transparent  silvery  partitions  of  its  seed 
pouches  are  wonderfully  delicate  on  their 
tall  dainty  stems. 

In  the  Arts  and  Crafts  Exhibit  at  the 
Chicago  Art  Institute  in  October,  1919, 
the  honesty  illustrated  took  its  place  as 
an  aristocrat  when  shown  in  a  large  case 
displaying  hand-wrought  silver  against 
a  setting  of  gray  velvet.  In  its  slender 
vase  of  black,  the  silvery  white  spray 
gave  an  exquisite  touch  to  the  exhibit 
and  was  the  center  of  much  attention. 

Off  in  a  corner  of  the  garden,  where 
its  creeping  roots  cannot  crowd  out  other 
plants,  may  be  grown  the  unique  phy- 
salis  or  Chinese  lantern  plant,  whose 
bright  orange  lanterns  give  a  brilliant 
note  of  color  to  neutral-toned  dried 
bouquets.  In  pockets  of  tan  pottery 
(Continued  on  page  (A) 


October,    1920 


LIGHT-SIX 

Touring  Car     .     .     $1485 

Landau-Roadster  .       1850 

Sedan      ....      2450 

F.  O.  B.  South  Bend 

SPECIAL-SIX 

TowringCar  .  .  $1875 
2-Pas$en&cr  Roadster  1875 
^-Passenger  Rotufcrer  1875 
Coupe  ....  3850 
Sedan  .  .  .  .  2950 
F.  O.  B.  Detroit 

BIG-SIX 

Touring  Car     .     .     $3350 
F.  O.  B.  Detroit 


BiG-Six 

BECAUSE  Studebaker  manufac- 
tures completely  in   its   own 
factories  its  bodies,  axles,  mo- 
tors, transmissions,  steering  gears, 
springs,  tops,  fenders,  and  cuts  its 
own  gears   and  other  vital  parts, 
middlemen's  profits  are  eliminated. 

With  such  unequalled  manufacturing  ad- 
vantages and  large  quantity  production, 
Studebaker  is  able  to  offer  cars  of  sterling 
high  quality  at  prices  that  make  them  the 
most  exceptional  values  on  the  market. 

60-H.  P.  detachable-head  motor; 
126-inch  wheelbase,  insuring 
ample  room  for  seven  adults. 

All  Snidebaker  Can  are  equipped  u  ith  Cord  Tires —      I  Jjrm 
another  Studebaker  precedent.  ,/lK 


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64 


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^Painter  Says 


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"Back  in  1858  the 
first  Overland 
Mail,  linking  up 
the  Pacific  Coast 
and  the  rest  of  the 
country,  began  its 
journey.  Trans- 
portation has 
changed  a  lot 
since  then. 


"But  the  Hard  Oil  Finish 
first  made  by  Berry  Broth- 
ers in  that  year,  and  now 
known  as  Luxeberry  Wood 
Finish,  is  today  still  the 
one  that  all  my  discrimina- 
ting customers  demand. 
Good  things  live." 

LUXEBERRY  WOOD  FINISH 
is  now  but  one  among 
scores  of  varnish  products 
which  have  made  the  • 
Berry  Brothers  label  a 
standard  of  quality  the 
world  over.  Many  other 
Berry  Brothers  products 
are  household  words,  for 
example:  LIQUID  GRANITE, 
the  durable  floor  varnish 
— waterproof,  of  course, 
and  LUXEBERRY  WHITE 
ENAMEL  with  which  the 
fashionable  shades  of 
gray  or  old  ivory  may  be 
reproduced. 


You  will  be  interested 
in  our  color  booklet 
"Beautiful  Homes." 
Sent  free  on  request. 


For  every  varnish  need  there's 
a  Berry  Brothers  product.  The 
'label  is  your  guaranty  of  quality. 


Bouquets    the  Winter  Through 


(Continued  from  page  62) 


against  brown  walls  these  form  an  effec- 
tive decoration  in  a  popular  tea  room 
whose  color  scheme  is  tan  and  brown. 

This  list  of  dried  leaves,  flowers  and 
fruits  by  no  means  exhausts  the  possi- 
bilities of  this  subject,  but  a  theme  so 
dry  must  not  be  too  long  drawn  out  lest 
interest  as  well  become  dehydrated. 

Let  attention  be  drawn  to  this  field 
and  it  is  surprising  how  many  plants 
will  disclose  a  winter  beauty  unthought 
of.  Only  those  less  well  known  have 
been  noted  than  the  specimens  already 
in  common  use;  pussy  willows,  cat  tails 
wheatheads,  hydrangeas  and  the  many 
wild  and  cultivated  grasses  may  be  di- 
versified and  embellished  by  their  addi- 
tion. 

Arranging  the  Bouquet 

Of  course  to  possess  beauty,  a  winter 
bouquet  must  be  arranged  with  a  re- 
gard for  the  principles  of  form  and 
color;  must  be  something  more  than  a 
hodge  podge  or  a  "dusty  bunch  of  noth- 
ingness" wherein  all  individuality  is  lost. 
A  bouquet  of  a  few  choice  specimens 
loosely  arranged  reveals  the  character- 
istic charm  of  each  in  such  a  way  that 
the  eye  never  tires  of  beholding  it,  espe- 
cially if  its  container  be  of  a  color  which 
either  harmonizes  with  or  forms  a  pleas- 
ing contrast  to  it. 

An  adherence  in  a  general  way  to  the 
rules  laid  down  in  the  Japanese  laws  of 
flower  arrangement  as  taught  in  their 
art  schools  for  centuries,  will  help  to 


avoid  bunching  of  numerous  varieties 
in  conglomerate  masses.  One  of  the  most 
important  of  these  is  that  tall  stalks  in 
a  vase  are  most  pleasing  if  of  an  uneven 
number  and  not  more  than  three  or 
five.  Indeed,  the  Japanese  idea  of 
Heaven,  Man  and  Earth  furnishes  a  de- 
sirable model;  the  tallest  stem,  Heaven, 
to  be  about  one  and  one-half  times  the 
height  of  a  tall  vase;  Man  branching  at 
one  side,  one-half  the  height  of  Heaven, 
and  Earth  on  the  other  side,  one-half 
the  height  of  Man ;  any  other  flowers  or 
leaves  to  be  subordinate  to  these  three. 
Though  to  the  occidental  mind  this  seems 
an  arbitrary  and  stiff  arrangement,  its 
very  simplicity  gives  it  the  charm  seen 
in  Japanese  illustrations  of  flowers  and 
plants.  Interspersing  delicate  airy  speci- 
mens among  these  prominent  stems  gives 
lightness  and  grace  to  the  bouquet,  as  is 
well  illustrated  in  the  vase  of  burdock 
and  moth  mullein. 

If  the  container  be  partially  filled  with 
sand  and  the  dried  stems  thrust  firmly 
into  it,  they  will  remain  in  any  desired 
position. 

Arranged  with  due  regard  for  har- 
mony of  form  and  color  combinations, 
a  winter  bouquet  of  dried  flora  may  be 
not  only  as  pleasing  as  one  of  expensive 
cut  flowers,  but  is  often  better  adapted 
to  its  surroundings  in  the  home.  The 
softer  colors  blend  with  those  of  the 
house  furnishings,  giving  a  sense  of  pleas- 
ure and  restfulness  that  continues  all 
through  the  winter  days. 


From     Farm     To     Table 


(Continued  from  page  29) 


RERRY  BROTHER^ 

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and  Point  Spec 


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which  may  be  practiced  in  America  and 
one  of  the  indirect  benefits  of  the  Great 
War  is  the  broadening  of  the  American 
horizon  and  the  realization,  on  the  part 
of  many  of  the  more  thoughtful  of  our 
soldiers,  that  the  countries  of  Europe 
have  found  ways  of  managing  their 
agriculture  and  food  supply,  which  pre- 
serve for  posterity  the  accumulated 
riches  of  the  soil,  while  supporting  the 
present  generation  with  maximum  re- 
turn to  the  producer  and  minimum 
cost  to  the  consumer. 

This  desirable  relation  between  the 
cultivator  of  the  soil  and  the  consumer 
of  his  products,  this  happy  balance  be- 
tween rural  and  urban  living,  was  par- 
ticularly true  of  France  before  the  war 
and  is  the  goal  to  which  that  country 
is  successfully  striving  now  that  she  is 
somewhat  relieved  of  the  strain  of  the 
conflict  in  which  she  bore,  with  Belgium 
and  the  Near  East,  the  most  crushing 
part.  A  brief  consideration  of  French 
methods  will  therefore  prove  of  value 
to  us. 

French  Markets 

The  traveller  entering  France  by  any 
of  the  usual  routes  cannot  fail  to  re- 
mark the  well-cultivated  fields  which 
surround  every  town  and  city.  Indeed, 
the  rows  of  carrots,  cabbages  and  arti- 
chokes press  the  walls  of  the  town  in 
even  ranks.  The  unlovely  and  useless 
"outskirts,"  so  common  in  American 
cities,  are  scarcely  to  be  found  in 
France. 

This  intimate  physical  union  of  town 
and  country,  so  clearly  shown  in  the 
accompanying  aeroplane  pictures,  is 
characteristic  of  the  economic  life  of  the 
people,  for  town  and  country  fully 
realize  their  inter-dependence,  and  each 
is  interested  in  the  welfare  of  the  other, 
the  town  depending  upon  the  surround- 
ing cultivated  fields  for  its  food  and 
upon  the  raisers  of  that  food  for  the 
sale  of  much  of  its  manufactured  pro- 
ducts. This  interest  in  each  other's 
welfare  is  fostered  by  the  marketing  sys- 
tem, for  it  is  a  general  custom  that  the 


farmer  brings  his  vegetables,  his  rabbits 
or  fowl  to  the  public  market-place, 
where,  during  the  early  hours,  the 
townspeople  come  for  the  day's  sup- 
plies. This  system  not  only  reduces 
the  need  of  the  middleman  and  his 
charges  but  also  promotes  a  common 
understanding  of  the  producer's  prob- 
lems and  the  consumer's  needs  and,  to- 
gether with  a  wise  foresight  on  the  part 
of  the  government  authorities,  makes 
possible  an  adjustment  of  supply  to  de- 
mand which  prevents,  to  a  large  de- 
gree, the  fluctuations  in  price  that  often 
discourage  the  American  farmer.  Dur- 
ing a  period  of  sixty  years,  as  Book- 
waiter  pertinently  remarks,  "the  ex- 
treme mean  variation  in  the  mean  price 
of  the  important  cereal,  wheat,  was 
only  six  cents  per  bushel." 

Soil  Fertility 

Since  each  town  draws  its  supplies 
mainly  from  the  immediately  adjacent 
country,  transportation  and  storage 
charges  are  reduced  and  the  consumer 
is  assured  of  really  fresh  products.  The 
losses  due  to  glutted  markets  are  largely 
avoided. 

The  city  has  come  to  realize,  more- 
over, that  soil  fertility  cannot  be  main- 
tained unless  the  nitrogen  and  phos- 
phates which  the  farmer  brings  into 
the  town  in  his  loads  of  succulent 
greens  are  returned  to  the  farm.  The 
waste  of  Paris  is  no  longer  discharged 
into  the  River  Seine,  as  in  the  time  of 
Les  Miserables,  but  is  conducted  to  the 
surrounding  market  gardens. 

Not  until  the  United  States  looks 
with  repentent  alarm  upon  the  prodi- 
gal wastage  of  the  nation's  greatest 
wealth,— the  fertility  of  the  soil,— which 
now  flows  into  our  harbors  and  rivers, 
can  we  hope  to  avert  starvation  from 
ourselves  or  our  children. 

Roads  and  Canals 

The     intensive     cultivation     of     the 
French   fields,   made   necessary   by   the 
requirements  of  a  dense  population  and 
(Continued  on  page   66) 


October,     1920 


65 


Painting  alter  Ham 


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diverse  tastes.  Besides  there  is  the  solid  satisfaction  of 
knowing  that  for  structural  strength,  fire'safety,  and 
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From     Farm     To     Table 

(Continued  from  page  64) 


made  possible  by  the  division  of  the 
land  into  the  small  holdings  shown  in 
the  photographs,  not  only  assures  a  large 
total  yield  but  gives  to  the  French 
farm  the  nicety  of  a  garden.  Well- 
planned  and  well-kept  roads  place  each 
village  within  easy  reach  of  the  neigh- 
boring town  and  a  great  network  of 
canals  connects  all  important  points. 
The  tow-path  on  the  river  bank,  shown 
in  the  illustration,  is  characteristic  of  all 
navigable  rivers  and  wherever  the  stream 
is  too  shallow  to  float  the  broad-bot- 
tomed boats,  its  waters  are  used  to  sup- 
ply a  canal  constructed  by  its  side. 
Thus  motor  and  water  transportation 
supplement  the  rail  system  and  provide 
cheap  and  sure  movement  of  food  and 
other  commodities. 

Warning  to  America 

It  is  in  ways  such  as  these  that 
France  and  other  countries  of  western 
Europe  have  worked  out  practical 
methods  of  maintaining  and  even  in- 
creasing their  production  per  acre  and 
of  getting  their  products  to  the  urban 
dweller  in  the  best  condition  and  at 
the  least  cost.  To  the  superficial  ob- 
server the  relation  between  the  smooth, 
white  roads,  the  green-bordered  canals, 
the  weedless  fields,  the  prominent  com- 
post-heaps and  the  well-ordered  town 
life  does  not  appear  at  the  first  glance; 
but  those  of  our  soldiers  and  educators 
who  looked  below  the  surface  found 


that  Europe  has  many  suggestions  for 
us,  while,  oh  the  other  hand,  certain  of 
our  developments,  especially  machinery, 
can  be  discriminatingly  introduced  by 
the  European  cultivator.  A  realization 
of  what  such  sympathetic  comparison 
might  do  for  each  country,  and  of  the 
importance  of  co-operation  in  the  use 
of  those  natural  resources  which  are 
essential  to  the  well-being  of  all  na- 
tions, has  led  to  the  formation  of  the 
"World  Agriculture  Society"  as  a  "fel- 
lowship of  individuals  and  organizations 
interested  in  the  world-aspects  of  agri- 
culture and  country  life." 

This  "World  Agriculture  Society''  re- 
sulted in  part  from  the  Conference  on 
World-Co-operation  in  Agriculture  and 
Country  Life,  called  by  Dr.  Kenyon  L. 
Butterfield,  Director  of  Agricultural 
Education,  at  the  A.  E.  F.  University, 
Beaune,  France,  in  June  1919,  and  dur- 
ing the  brief  period  since  its  incep- 
tion the  Society  has  secured  the  sup- 
port of  thoughtful  people  in  both  hem- 
ispheres. It  aims  to  meet  the  needs  of 
the  present  time  by  an  appeal  not  only 
to  farmers  and  those  engaged  in  the 
technical  and  educational  phases  of 
agriculture  and  those  concerned  with 
governmental  functions,  but  also  to 
every  town  dweller,  calling  upon  all  to 
think  in  terms  of  the  country  and  its 
products  and  to  realize  that  an  en- 
lightened public  opinion  is  essential  to 
the  solution  of  this  national  problem. 


The    Attic    As    Guest    Room 


(Continued  from  page  31) 


habitues,  the  shades  carry  a  design  of 
golf  clubs  on  their  borders. 

Beside  each  bed  is  an  old  hooked  rug 
in  bright  colors,  green  predominating. 
In  the  center  of  the  room,  under  the 
"community"  dressing  table  is  a  black 
fibre  rug  cut  round  and  bordered  with 
a  deep  scalloped  band  of  brilliant  green 
billiard  felt. 

The  large  round  table  was  made  with 
four  partitions,  so  that  each  guest  might 
have  his  toilet  things  to  himself.  From 
the  middle  of  the  table  is  a  standard 
with  a  shelf  for  jewelry  and  a  revolving 
mirror  with  glass  on  both  sides.  Two 
may  "prink"  at  once. 

At  the  farther  end  of  the  room  is  a 
dressing  case  made  of  two  chiffoniers 
with  a  full-length  mirror  between.  This 
is  for  shirts  and  underwear.  Under  the 
lower  eaves  is  a  closet  for  each  man, 
sufficiently  high  to  hold  clothes.  The 
dressing  lights  are  two  demure  ladies 
holding  ivory  taffeta  parasols  trimmed 
with  green  taffeta  ruche. 

Each  man  has  an  old-fashioned  chair 
painted  old  ivory  and  green,  with  seats 
of  black  sateen  embroidered  in  a  brilli- 
ant bouquet  of  old-fashioned  flowers  to 
match  the  hooked  rugs. 

The  chimney  is  faced  up  with  book 
shelves  and  banded  off  in  green. 

The  alcoves  are  furnished  simply. 
Two  old  English  golfing  prints  give 
them  interest.  An  old-fashioned  barrel 
chair  is  upholstered  in  black  glazed 
chintz  with  brilliant  flowers.  A  chaise 
longue  is  in  green  stripe  material. 

Tarleton  Curtains 

The  view  was  too  lovely  to  cut  off; 
besides,  air  was  needed.  And  yet  the 
room  required  color  at  the  windows. 
So  they  were  curtained  in  brilliant  green 
tarleton  made  up  with  ruffles  edged 
with  black  ribbon.  The  color  is  that 
of  fresh  lettuce  and  it  cooled  the  room. 
Also,  no  air  was  cut  off.  The  ceiling 
lights  were  covered  to  match  these  cur- 
tains. 

Originally  this  attic  was  to  be  called 
"The  Apostles'  Room"  and  on  the  four 
bed  spreads  was  to  be  embroidered  in 


quaint  scriptural  letters,  Matthew,  Mark. 
Luke  and  John.  Then — well,  it  wasn't 
done.  I  hope  someone  will  use  the 
suggestion. 

The  linen  closets  are  painted  ivory 
with  a  tiny  green  diamond  for  decora- 
tion and  the  door  into  the  bathroom 
has  a  large  diamond  in  each  panel. 

This  same  green  is  used  in  the  bath- 
room, although  here  mulberry  predomi- 
nates. The  curtains  in  front  of  the 
alcove  shower  bath  are  brilliant  green 
rubber  banded  with  white.  On  the  floor 
is  green  and  white  linoleum.  The  walls 
are  white. 

The  Bathroom 

A  stiff  English  glazed  chintz  with  a 
small  lattice  design  in  mulberry  and 
white  is  used  for  roller  shade  and  val- 
ance, ceiling  light  shades,  mirror  frames 
and  dressing  table.  These  are  edged 
with  bright  green  rickrack  braid.  An 
old  hooked  bath  rug  carries  out  the  two 
colors. 

The  rooms  are  furnished  so  that  four 
women  would  be  just  as  comfortable 
as  four  men. 

I  think  that  in  furnishing  an  attic  we 
should  avoid  the  stereotyped  fashions 
of  decoration.  Nothing  is  expected  but 
comfort  and,  perhaps,  amusement.  Clear, 
brilliant  colors  can  be  used  or  soft  an- 
tique tones,  but  they  should  not  be 
mixed. 

.  A  small  room  could  be  fixed  up  for 
boys'  or  girls'  guests  by  using  marine 
blue  woodwork,  white  walls  and  yellow 
painted  furniture.  The  curtains  could 
be  of  yellow  gingham  with  a  plain  or 
pointed  band  trimming  of  deep  blue 
chambray.  Put  yellow  rag  rugs  on  the 
floor  and  use  lamp  shades  of  blue,  yel- 
low and  red  French  paper.  The  French- 
Canadians  make  beautiful  home-spun 
bed  quilts  of  yellow  and  white  that  are 
durable  and  particularly  appropriate  for 
such  an  attic  guest  room. 

A  delightful  house  that  I  know  boasts 

an  attic  library  and  music  room.     The 

walls  are  stained,  the  furniture  is  heavy 

oak.     Between  the  wall  beams  are  two 

(Continued  on  page  68) 


October,     1920 


How  will  you  decorate  your  walls  this  fall?  The  wall-cover- 
ing is  an  essential  feature  of  a  room.  Its  choice  reflects  your 
personality,  be  it  tasteful  and  harmonious  or — otherwise.  The 
same  design  is  not  equally  appropriate  for,  say,  a  Jacobean 
dining-room  and  an  old  ivory  bedroom. 


Sanitas  Modern  Wall  Cover- 
ing offers  styles  for  every  room 
in  the  house.  Chambray  and 
grass-cloth  patterns ;  rich  tapes- 
try and  Spanish  leather  patterns 
and  glazed  tile  effects.  Also 
dull-finished  plain  tints  that  can 
be  hung  as  they  are,  or  frescoed, 
stencilled,  blended  or  panelled. 

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Sanitas  is  made  on  cloth,  ma- 
chine-painted with  durable  oil 
colors.  It  does  not  tear,  crack, 
peel  or  fade.  Hangs  just  like 
wall-paper.  Can  be  cleaned  with 
a  damp  cloth. 

Do  not  decide  on  your  fall  dec- 
orations until  you  see  Sanitas  at 
your  decorator's. 

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House     &     Garde: 


THE   BRAND   PEONIES 

Originated  by  O.  F.  Brand  and  Son 
America's  Foremost  Hybridizers  of  the  Peony 

500.000  TEONY  ROOTS 

WE  now  have  an   immense  stock  of   over  500,000  peony 
roots  such  as  we  send  out  at  retail,  of  the  very  choicest 
varieties.     This  great  stock  permits  our  customers  the 
selection  of  almost  any  variety  they  may  want  in  any  size  they 
desire  from  divisions  to  four  and  five  year  clumps. 

OUR  METHODS 

We  have  made  it  a  practice  ever  since  the  growing  of  peonies 
has  become  a  specialty  with  us  never  to  grow  peonies  twice  in 
the  same  soil  without  a  long  period  of  years  intervening. 

In  this  way  we  have  avoided  many  of  the  difficulties  and 
disappointments  encountered  by  other  growers  who  have 
grown  their  stock  continuously  year  after  year  for  many  years- 
on  the  same  ground. 

This  practice  has  kept  our  stock  free  from  disease  and  has 
enabled  us  to  supply  our  customers  roots  that  for  size  and 
constitutional  vigor  are  unsurpassed. 

OUR  GUARANTEE 

We  guarantee  our  peonies  absolutely  true  to  name.  And  as 
fine  stock  everything  considered  as  can  be  purchased  in  the 
world. 

We  are  able  to  make  this  guarantee  because  our  business  is 
handled  entirely  by  experts.  Not  only  is  Mr.  Brand  thoroughly 
versed  in  every  phase  of  the  business  but  every  person  who 
has  anything  to  do  with  our  peony  business  is  an  expert  in 
his  or  her  line.  Many  of  our  men  have  been  with  us  for 
over  twenty  years.  The  father  of  our  peony  field  foreman 
handled  peonies  for  Mr.  Brand's  father  away  back  in  the  sixties. 

OUR  IMMENSE  INSULATED  STORAGE  BUILDING 

The  Largest  Storage  Building  :'»  the  World  devoted  to  the  handling 
of  peonies  enables  us  to  remove  our  roots  immediately  from  the  field  to 
a  place  where  they  can  be  properly  cared  for  away  from  sun,  wind,  and 
air  until  shipped  to  our  customers. 

PERSONAL  INSPECTION 

Mr.   Brand   gives  every  order   personal   inspection   before  it   is  boxed. 
A  business  handled  in  this  way  must  give  satisfaction. 
If  you  desire  peonies  so  handled  I  suggest  you  write  for  my  beautiful 
new    1920    Peony  and  Iris  Catalogue. 

Forty-one  years  a  professional  Peony  Grower 

A.  M.  BRAND 


Faribault,   Minn. 


The    Attic    As    Guest    Room 


(Continued  from  page  66) 


book  cases.  The  room  is  not  cheaply 
done.  It  has  a  certain  elegance,  and 
much  dignity.  After  a  formal  dinner 
it  is  an  entrancing  spot  in  which  to 
spend  the  evening.  The  music  seems  to 
have  a  particularly  mellow,  caressing 
resonance  under  the  roof. 

If  the  walls  of  the  attic  are  not-  in  a 
fit  condition  to  paint,  a  landscape  panel 
paper  gives  the  effect  one  should  get — 
the  effect  of  there  being  no  break  be- 
tween the  wall  and  the  ceiling.  The 
trees  rise  into  an  indefinite  sky.  I 
should  think  that  with  scenic  paper 
bought  by  the  roll  a  rather  good  effect 
could  be  had  if  the  pattern  was  cut 
out  at  the  top,  letting  the  trees  silhouette 


against  plain  paper  put  over  the  ceiling 
and  carried  down  the  walls.  The  wall 
strips  would  overlap  the  ceiling  paper. 
The  same  could  be  done  with  a  large 
floral  design. 

The  exposure  of  the  attic  is  the  de- 
termining factor  in  the  choice  of  the 
color.  On  the  other  hand,  it  must  be 
remembered  that  most  attics  are  hot 
in  summer  and  consequently  the  color 
must  help  counterbalance  the  heat. 

In  an  attic  with  a  north  exposure  we 
might  use  a  pinkish  yellow  side  wall 
with  deep  rose  cotton  voile  curtains  and 
furniture  painted  blue  green.  This 
would  be  soft  and  warm  and  yet  com- 
fortable at  all  seasons  of  the  year. 


Roses     Planted     in     the     Fall 


(Continued  from  page  46) 


spireas,  get  out  from  the  Federal   De- 
partment of  Agriculture.) 

In  the  1920  American  Rose  Annual 
there  appeared  a  "Rose  Zone  Map", 
prepared  by  the  Department  of  Agri- 
culture to  indicate  those  portions  of 
the  United  States  in  which  the  various 
classes  of  roses  would  prosper.  Any 
aspiring  fall-planter  living  near  or  north 
of  the  Great  Lakes  ought  to  see  this  map 
before  planning  a  rose-garden. 

Planting  Roses 

The  detail  of  fall  rose  planting  is 
simple  and  fairly  definite.  Buy  the 
plants  of  a  nurseryman  who  actually 
grows  them,  rather  than  of  a  dealer,  so 
that  fresh  plants  may  be  expected;  the 
rose  is  not  happy  out  of  ground,  despite 
its  endurance.  If  ordered  before  the 
first  frosts  have  removed  the  leaves,  ask 
to  have  the  rose  plants  "stripped"  of 
foliage  before  they  are  shipped  to  you, 
for  every  live  leaf  is  evaporating  water 
to  the  air  every  minute  it  is  on  the 
plant,  and  roots  out  of  the  ground  are 
not  able  comfortably  to  provide  this 
moisture.  Good  rose  plants  look  like 
the  pictures  here,  one  of  which  shows 
the  "Multiflora"  root,  and  the  other 
the  "Manetti"  root. 

Prepare  the  ground  thoroughly  for 
the  roses  to  be  planted  in  the  fall.  It 
is  heretical,  I  know,  not  to  insist  on 
preparation  by  trenching  or  complete 
removal  to  the  extent  of  2'  or  3'  in 
depth  for  the  hybrid  teas,  but  I  have 
begun  to  think  that  such  deep  prepara- 
tion is  not  entirely  necessary,  save  in 
soils  that  do  not  drain  easily.  Fifteen 
to  18"  will  do  very  well,  and  I  have 
seen  good  results  where  the  digging  was 
just  to  the  depth  of  a  spade  with  a  12" 
blade.  Nor  is  the  elaborate  layer  sys- 
tem of  soil  and  manure  and  sand,  etc., 
essential,  unless  the  rose  grower  is  head- 
ing into  the  super-expert  class,  and  en- 
deavoring to  do  the  unusual  thing  with 
varieties  of  known  difficulty. 

Plenty  of  well-rotted  manure  is  es- 
sential, however,  and  only  in  heavy  soils 
which  have  been  thoroughly  and  re- 
cently treated  with  manure  is  it  proper 
to  omit  the  addition  of  a  liberal  por- 
tion of  that  desirable  form  of  plant 
food.  Note,  please,  that  I  bespeak  well- 
rotted  manure,  which  means  that  it  is 
all  at  least  three  months  from  the  ani- 
mal. It  is  not  necessary  to  insist  on 
cow-manure,  though  that  fertilizer  can 
be  used  fresher  than  horse-manure  with- 
out danger.  The  latter,  when  well- 
rotted  and  "cool",  is  just  as  valuable, 
and  mixed  stable  manure  does  very  well. 
Enough  of  it,  and  well  enough  rotted, 
are  the  important  items. 

Manuring 

"Plenty  of  manure"  doesn't  mean  a 
thin  coating  spread  over  the  rose  ground 
and  then  buried  out  of  sight — and  often 
entirely  out  of  reach  of  the  rose  roots — 


by  turning  it  over  with  a  spade. 
"Plenty"  is  a  fourth  or  a  third  of  the 
whole  bulk,  and  to  be  actually  plenty 
for  the  rose  plants,  it  must  be  dug  in 
and  over  and  through  until  it  is  thor- 
oughly mixed  with  the  soil.  Roots,  gen- 
erally, and  rose  roots  particularly,  do 
not  travel  to  find  food  while  they  are 
pushing  up  sap  for  a  newly  set  top. 
The  food  must  be  handy  and  available, 
and  well-rotted  manure  thoroughly 
mixed  with  the  soil  is  both  handy  and 
available. 

Where  suitable  manure  cannot  be  had. 
or  where  it  is  desirable  to  supplement 
a  scant  supply  of  it,  bone-dust  or 
ground  bone  can  be  used  to  advantage. 
In  soils  already  well  pulverized  by  good 
culture,  a  liberal  dose  of  bone-dust  and 
sheep  manure — both  easily  obtainable 
at  any  wide-awake  seed-store — may  be 
used  instead  of  manure.  These  fertil- 
izers are  in  the  coarse  powder  or  grain 
form,  and  will  easily  mix  with  the  aid 
of  enough  elbow  grease  applied  through 
a  digging  fork.  The  unpleasant  odor  of 
the  dried  sheep  manure  will  disappear 
promptly  when  the  mixing  with  the  soil 
is  completed.  As  to  the  quantity  to  use 
of  a  mixture  of  equal  parts  "sheep  and 
bone",  take  into  account  that  this  con- 
densed fertilizer  is  about  four  times  as 
strong  as  good  manure,  and  act  ac- 
cordingly. 

What  I  have  here  written  about  prep- 
aration and  fertilization  has  been  writ- 
ten countless  times,  and  is  trite  to  the 
expert;  yet  I  constantly  find  rose  fail- 
ures occurring  because  neither  prepara- 
tion nor  fertilization  is  well  enough 
done.  It  is  necessary  to  insist,  even  at 
the  risk  of  being  tedious,  that  roses  are 
not  dainty  but  gross  feeders,  that  their 
roots  need  the  food  that  makes  growth 
and  bloom  right  close  by,  and  that 
thorough  mixing  and  solid  planting  are 
essentials. 

I  have  gone  rather  thoroughly  into 
the  simple  detail  of  rose  planting  be- 
cause, simple  as  it  is,  it  has  very  much 
to  do  with  the  home  rose-garden  pros- 
perity I  want  to  promote.  Better  to 
have  one  rose  well  planted  and  well  do- 
ing than  a  dozen  merely  stuck  into  the 
unprepared  ground  toward  a  slow  death 
and  a  discouraging  disappointment. 

The  Roses  to  Plant 

With  this  essential  emphasized,  and 
on  the  basis  that  the  reader  is  a  be- 
ginner in  rose-growing,  the  inquiry  may 
well  be  made  as  to  what  roses  to  plant 
in  the  fall.  The  answer  may  be  put  in 
a  progressive  sequence,  based  on  con- 
ditions about  the  home  to  be  rose- 
improved. 

Is  there  a  doorway,  an  arbor,  a  per- 
gola, a  kitchen  screen,  a  division  fence, 
an  old  stump,  a  garden  entrance,  a  gate- 
way, about  the  home  that  is  vacant  of 
plant  beauty?  If  such  opportunity  ex- 
(Continued  on  page  70) 


October,     1920 


69 


Peterson's  Perfect  Peonies 


The  Flower  Triumphant 

THE  Peony  is  a  flower  that  can  and  does  laugh  at  any 
Winter  which  nature  may  send  us.     It  came  out  smiling 
last    Spring.    100%    there,    after    a    Winter    which    wrought 
havoc  to   many   so-called   "hardy"   plants   of   various   kinds. 
And  this  June  it  was  more  luxuriant  in  growth  and  hloom 
than  I  have  ever  known  it  to  be. 

Do   YOU  Know  the  Peony  of  To-Day? 

Do  you  know  that  in  addition  to  its  unequalled  hardiness,  its 
freedom  from  disease,  and  its  ease  of  culture,  it  is,  withal,  one  of  the 
largest,  most  fragrant  and  beautiful  of  all  flowers? 

I  have  intimately  known  and  loved  the  Peony  for  more  than  25 
years  and  for  the  past  16  years  I  have  devoted  my  life  work  ex- 
clusively to  this  tlower  and  the  rose. 


734   15th  Street,  Washington,  D.  C.,  Nov.    10,   1919 

"I  have  had  the  same  men  planting   for  the  past  five  years  Peonies 
from    France,    Holland,   and    the   United    States,    and    they    all    agreed 
:      that  yours  exceeded   by   far  anything   that   they   had  ever   planted.      I 
agreed  with   them,   and   I  want   to   thank  you   for  your   excellent  ship- 
ment." 

"I   have    no   objection   to   your    quoting   me   at   any    time   you    desire 
to   do   so.      I   think   it  is   well   for  the  public    to    know   where   they   can 
get    good    Peony    roots,    correctly    named,    as    I    have    had    some    sad 
^      experience  in   the  past." 

EDWARD    P.  SCHWARTZ 

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(Peonies  must  be  planted  in   the  Fall) 


A/v  »ci>'  Peony  Catalogue  /"'"  1V2H  ivill  <>/v/;  a  door  of 
fvfr-increasiny  yarden  dclitiht.     May  I  send  it  t<>  you? 

George  H.  Peterson 


Rose  and  Peony 
Specialist 


Box  30,  Fair  Lawn,  N.  J. 


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Picking    Honeysweet.     Sold  on  local  market  summer  of    1920,   fifty  cents  per  quart 

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NATURE   alone  is   responsible 
for   the    qualities    that    make 
White    Pine   such   a  good   home- 
building  wood. 

The  smooth,  even  grain  that  makes  White 
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joints  —  its  long  life  when  exposed  to  the 
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warping,  splitting  and  opening  at  the  joints 
—  are  due  to  the  peculiar  characteristics 
that  Nature  has  given  the  wood. 

WHITE  PINE 

We  especially  recommend  White  Pine  for  use 
on  the  outside  of  the  house,  for  three  centuries 
of  home-building  in  this  country  have  brought 
out  the  fact  that  no  other  wood  so  successfully 
withstands  exposure  to  the  weather. 

White  Pine  costs  a  little  more  than  other  build- 
ing woods,  but  the  prudent  home-builder  will 
find  the  slightly  added  cost  a  sound  investment 
because  of  the  added  life  White  Pine  will  give  to 
his  house,  and  its  elimination  of  repair  charges. 

He  will  have  the  satisfaction  also  of  having  his 
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ance as  the  day  it  is  completed. 


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On  the  left,  a  rose  plant  with  Manetti  roots;  on  the  right  a  plant 

with  Miiltiflora  roots.    Plant  deep  enough   to  cover  junction  of 

roots  and  top  2".     Plant  firmly 


Roses     Planted     in     the     Fall 

(Continued  from  page  68) 


ists,  and  is  exposed  to  the  sun  at  least 
half  the  daylight  hours  of  every  day, 
start  the  rose  adornment  there.  The 
modern  hardy  climbing  roses  are  vigor- 
ous, adaptable,  and  easy  to  grow.  There 
are  three  broad  divisions  of  them — the 
small-flowered  cluster  bloomers,  repre- 
sented by  the  familiar  Crimson  Rambler 
and  its  pink  sister  Dorothy  Perkins  or 
Lady  Gay ;  the  large-flowered  Wichu- 
raiana  hybrids,  represented'  by  Dr.  Van 
Fleet  and  Silver  Moon;  and  the  glori- 
fied wild-rose  single-flower  type,  repre- 
sented by  American  Pillar  and  Hia- 
watha. The  planter  may  choose  which, 
remembering  that  the  small-flowered 
sorts  give  the  largest  bloom  show  with 
the  least  individual  beauty  of  flower, 
that  the  single-flowered  varieties  are 
informal  and  lovely,  and  that  the  other 
group  includes  regal  flowers  of  the  con- 
ventional rose  form. 

Over  a  doorway  the  pink  Lady  Gay 
is  most  pleasing,  as  also  is  Excelsa,  the 
improvement  on  Crimson  Rambler.  An 
arbor  or  pergola  may  have  the  fine  and 
fragrant  Climbing  American  Beauty  for 
crimson  and  Silver  'Moon  for  white — 
and  the  combination  will  be  very  happy. 
Dr.  W.  Van  Fleet  will  put  the  pink 
tone  between,  and  extend  the  season. 

For  Screens 

The  kitchen  screen  or  the  old  stump 
will  become  objects  of  beauty  if  cov- 
ered with  the  strong  canes  of  American 
Pillar.  The  division  fence  can  have 
Paradise  and  Hiawatha  and  Milky  Way, 
with  their  star-eyed  single  flowers,  and 
with  a  little  training  will  become  a  thing 
of  luxuriant  beauty.  All  I  have  men- 
tioned will  climb  to  15'  or  more. 

For  more  intimate  effects,  use  the 
more  or  less  yellow  tints  of  Aviateur 
Bleriot,  Goldfinch,  and  Alberic  Barbier, 
each  providing  a  special  beauty  of  bud, 
and  doing  best  within  a  height  limit 
of  8'  or  10'. 

My  personal  preference  is  for  a  con- 
siderable variety  of  these  climbers,  so 
as  to  extend  the  season,  at  sacrifice  of 
the  greater  impressiveness  of  a  larger 
display  of  any  one  sort.  My  neighbor, 
who  thinks  otherwise,  shows  a  most 
notable  display  of  Lady  Gay  over 
arches,  and  of  Leuchstern  and  Purity 
and  White  Dorothy  on  short  posts. 

But,  the  climbers  placed,  is  there  room 
and  sunshine  for  some  bush  roses?  If 
only  hard-luck  conditions  exist,  and  in 
the  more  rigorous  climates,  put  in  sev- 
eral Rugosa  hybrids — Conrad  Ferdinand 
Meyer  or  Sir  Thomas  Lipton.  Roses 
will  surely  come! 

Next  in  order  of  ability  to  endure 
hardship  are  the  Hybrid  Perpetuals, 
which  give  a  great  burst  of  fragrant 
and  opulent  bloom  in  June,  and  are  out 
of  business  usually  for  the  rest  of  the 
year,  save  for  a  few  precious  flowers  of 
some  sorts  in  favorable  autumns.  Gen- 
eral Jacqueminot,  Baroness  Rothschild, 


Frau  Karl  Druschki,  Magna  Charta, 
Paul  Neyron,  Anna  de  Diesbach,  are 
reliable  and  long-enduring  varieties. 

Trouble  with  H.  Ts. 

Most  of  us  are  adventurers  in  gar- 
dens, and  are  willing  to  take  chances 
for  rose  beauty.  That  is  why  more 
Hybrid  Tea  roses  are  sold  and  bloomed 
every  year  than  all  other  classes  put 
together.  The  "H.  Ts.",  as  they  are 
familiarly  called,  give  us  form,  fra- 
grance, size,  and  color  of  bloom,  and 
theoretically  they  flower  continually, 
wherefore  they  are  much  to  be  desired. 
That  the  bushes  are  ill-shaped,  undeco- 
rative  when  out  of  bloom,  and  subject 
to  bugs  and  bothers,  is  the  sporting  side 
of  the  rose  effort;  for  if  by  care  and 
attention,  plus  weather  and  good  for- 
tune, we  bring  them  to  bloom,  how 
great  is  our  pleasure! 

As  I  write,  I  am  looking  at  a  bowl 
of  these  roses  from  my  own  garden,  and 
I  am  proud  that  I  can  have  them  in 
profusion  to  look  at  and  to  give  away 
all  through  this  humid  July.  Yet  I 
have  failed  more  often  than  I  have  suc- 
ceeded, and  I  no  longer  buy  the  Hybrid 
Teas  with  a  feeling  of  their  permanence 
in  my  garden.  Why  should  I  worry 
about  what  may  happen,  when  I  have 
had  delight  far  beyond  the  power  of 
the  same  number  of  expended  dollars 
to  give  me  any  other  way?  Compared 
with  theatre  tickets  or  candy  or  books, 
the  roses  are  cheaper  by  far,  even  if  I 
have  but  a  half-dozen  blooms  in  the 
season,  and  the  plants  perish  later. 
Sufficient  unto  the  hour  are  the  roses 
thereof ! 

Buy  the  Hybrid  Teas,  therefore,  for 
fall  planting  in  the  hope  of  a  season's 
subsequent  blooming.  Give  them  your 
best  place,  your  best  ground,  best  pre- 
pared, and  agree  with  yourself  to  pet 
them  lovingly  in  the  hope  of  success, 
but  only  to  try  again  should  you  fail. 
If  they  prove  permanent,  you  are 
ahead ! 

H.  T.  Varieties 

There  are  nearly  a  thousand  varieties 
of  Hybrid  Tea  roses  in  American  com- 
merce, which  is  fully  nine  hundred  too 
many.  Some  do  best  in  one  place,  some 
in  another,  and  some  nowhere  in  Amer- 
ica. In  the  1920  American  Rose  Annual 
are  many  pages  of  bloom  records  to 
show  which  sorts  do  best  in  certain 
localities,  and  these  indications  are,  or 
ought  to  be,  precious  in  the  sight  of  a 
careful  rose  buyer.  Many  rose  nursery- 
men can  give  good  advice  for  varied 
localities,  but  after  all,  experience  is  the 
best  teacher,  and  there  is  much  "fun" 
in  the  failures  that  turn  us  toward 
success. 

It  is  hazardous  to  name  any  varieties 
here,  yet  I  may  venture  to  start  the 
rose  friend  with  a  few  of  beauty  and 
(Continued  on  page  72) 


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(Continued  from  page  70) 


vigor  and  broad  adaptability.  Gruss 
an  Teplitz  (probably  not  a  real  H.  T.) 
will  give  an  abundance  of  bright  crim- 
son blooms  if  not  too  violently  abused. 
Radiance  has  reliably  shown  its  pink 
beauty  in  many  places,  and  Ophelia  has 
emerged  from  the  greenhouses  to  be  a 
fine  garden  rose.  Mrs.  Aaron  Ward, 
also  an  escape  from  the  forcing-house 
of  the  florist,  will  delight  with  its  apri- 
cot buds.  Killarney,  Lady  Alice  Stan- 
ley, the  lovely  new  Columbia,  La  Tos- 
ca,  Mad.  Abel  Chatenay,  Mad.  Segond 
Weber,  Duchess  of  Wellington — all  these 
are  likely  to  do  well  in  most  rose-gar- 
dens. Scores  of  other  sorts  will  approve 
themselves  on  trial,  and  some  will  dis- 
appoint— if  I  knew  certainly  which,  I 
would  say  so ! 

Just  a  word  about  winter  protection 
for  these  fall-planted  Hybrid  Tea  roses. 
As  the  outdoor-grown  "open-ground" 
plants  are  received  (I  would  never  think 
of  planting  the  little  own-root  pot- 
grown  plants  in  the  fall),  they  will 
have  the  full  year's  top-growth  on 


them.  This  should  be  pruned  or  "cut 
back"  to  not  over  six  or  seven  buds  or 
eyes  on  each  stem,  and  not  more  than 
three  stems  to  a  plant.  The  roots  also 
need  to  be  pruned  only  to  smooth  any 
ragged  ends.  When  setting  in  the  pre- 
pared ground,  they  should  be  enough 
deeper  than  they  grow  in  the  nursery 
to  cover  the  junction  of  the  bud  with 
the  root  at  least  2".  When  solidly 
firmed  into  the  soil — and  loose  planting 
is  an  assurance  toward  failure ! — pull  up 
3"  or  4"  more  of  ground  loosely  about 
the  stems.  After  this  has  frozen,  weeks 
later,  cover  the  ground  with  evergreen 
boughs  or  other  loose  litter,  to  serve 
as  protection  against  the  winter  sun 
rather  than  against  the  winter's  cold. 
This  protection  must  be  loose  and  open, 
not  close  and  tight;  it  is  to  shield 
against  sun  and  wind,  and  yet  must 
permit  air  circulation.  If  the  spring 
shows  some  freezing  back,  simply  cut 
away  the  dead  wood,  and  if  the  root 
is  uninjured  Nature  will  provide  a  new 
top. 


Planning    the    Modern    Laundry 

(Continued  from  page  52) 


The  laundry  is  not  complete  without 
a  simple  well-arranged  cabinet  to  pro- 
vide for  the  storage  of  soap,  starch, 
sleeve  boards,  clothes  pins  and  other 
accessories.  There  may  also  be  a  com- 
partment for  brooms  and  mops  where 
these  essentials  may  be  hung  up. 

The  flooring  material  should  be  chosen 
with  an  idea  for  case  of  cleanliness, 
comfort  and  durability.  Wood  is  the 
most  comfortable  floor  to  work  upon 
and  is  the  cheapest  but  is  difficult  to 
keep  clean  and  rots  easily.  Since  tile 
and  cement  are  too  hard  for  comfort, 
a  composition  floor  seems  to  be  the  ideal 
material.  This  can  be  carried  6"  up 
the  walls  to  form  a  sanitary  base.  A 
bell-trap  can  be  placed  in  this  floor  to 
carry  off  the  surplus  water  and  to  facil- 
itate cleaning.  For  a  trifling  additional 
expenditure  the  floor  under  the  hamper 
could  be  raised  3"  above  the  main  floor 


of  the  laundry.  This  tends  to  keep  the 
basket  free  from  any  moisture  which 
might  accumulate  on  the  floor. 

If  expense  is  not  too  great  a  con- 
sideration a  tile  wainscot  about  3'  high 
on  all  four  sides  of  the  room  adds  to 
cleanliness  and  looks.  A  very  good 
substitute  however,  is  to  plaster  the 
wall  with  cement  up  to  the  same  height 
and  cover  it  with  a  gloss  finished  paint 
— this  could  be  a  shade  darker  than  the 
wall  above — and  where  the  two  meet 
paint  a  band  of  brown  or  blue  about 
an  inch  wide. 

The  initial  outlay  of  this  up-to-date 
laundry  is  soon  overbalanced  by  the 
saving  in  wages,  by  gas  and  electric 
bills,  and  which  is  of  greatest  impor- 
tance, the  time  and  strength  of  the 
housekeeper.  These  things  far  out- 
weigh the  matter  of  initial  expense  for 
installation. 


Beauty     and     the     Bathroom 

(Continued  from  page  51) 


There  are  some  points  in  favor  of 
the  enameled  tub.  It  doesn't  absorb  so 
much  heat  from  the  water;  hence  a  hot 
bath  can  be  obtained  in  it  more  quick- 
ly. It  is  lighter  in  weight,  therefore 
more  easy  to  install  in  frame  houses  and 
its  plumbing  is  easier  to  handle.  Fur- 
thermore, greater  uniformity  can  be  had 
in  its  construction. 

In  the  tub  which  is  built  into  the 
wall,  there  is  a  tendency  to  neglect 
proper  piping  conditions.  When  in- 
stalling a  solid  tub,  it  is  necessary  to 
build  a  bulkhead  in  back  of  the  tub  so 
as  to  take  care  of  the  waste  pipe  which 
should  be  available  to  the  plumber  as  it 
often  needs  a  new  washer.  Or  it  must 
be  built  against  a  closet  wall  so  that  the 
pipes  are  easy  to  get  at,  or  against  a 
hall  wall  or  some  stable  place. 

Valves 

There  are  myriads  of  styles  of  faucets, 
vents  and  outlets  used  today  in  tubs. 

It  was  at  first  thought  advisable  to 
have  the  inlet  as  near  the  floor  of  the 
tub  as  possible  in  order  to  make  the 
pour  of  the  water  practically  soundless 
after  the  first  inch  or  two  came  in. 
This  is  about  the  only  advantage  of 
this  arrangement.  It  is  far  better  to 
have  the  inlet  higher  up,  either  on  top 
of  the  wall  of  the  tub,  or  even  in  the 


wall  above  the  tub.  If  it  is  in  the  wall 
of  the  room  it  is  impossible  to  hit  one's 
back  while  bathing;  and  one  may  have 
a  shampoo  nozzle  attached;  or  draw 
water  from  it  whether  one  is  in  the  tub 
or  not,  and  when  necessary,  fill  a  pail 
or  dish.  There  is  more  noise  when  the 
water  is  running  into  the  tub,  but  what 
of  it?  If  you  have  a  good  door  on 
your  room,  that  will  silence  the  sound. 

With  the  low  inlet,  there  is  a  remote 
danger  of  drawing  in  through  the  pipe 
dirty  water  from  the  apartment  above 
if  some  one  is  bathing  in  the  tub  which 
is  a  twin  to  yours.  It  is  quite  possible 
for  this  to  happen  unless  the  plumbing 
system  is  very  well  contrived. 

One  can  have  a  hot  water  and  a 
cold  water  faucet  or  one  faucet  from 
which  both  hot  and  cold  come.  This  is 
a  matter  of  taste.  More  often  there  are 
two,  but  many  people  like  one,  so  that 
there  can  be  a  mixture  of  water,  giving 
a  comfortable  temperature. 

Tubs,  of  necessity,  have  to  be  placed 
in  many  ways.  When  in  recesses  or  in 
a  corner,  the  valves,  etc.,  can  be  placed 
at  one  end.  When  against  a  wall,  the 
piping  can  be  placed  above  the  bath  in 
the  wall.  This  method  often  lends  a 
luxurious  air  to  a  room  and  has  been 
utilized  in  the  most  elaborate  ones. 
(Continued  on  page  74) 


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Beauty     and     the     Bathroom 


(Continued  from  page  72) 


Nearly  every  modern  bath  has  a 
shower  of  some  description. 

The  difficulty  with  the  shower  is  the 
splashiness  of  it.  The  first  protective 
device  was  a  cloth  on  a  bracket.  This 
is  still  used  to  a  great  extent,  but  the 
ideal  arrangement  is  to  have  the  shower 
in  a  closet  designed  for  it,  opening  into 
the  room.  This  closet  may  be  of  glass, 
marble,  or  tile,  with  a  cloth  curtain  or 
a  door  to  match  the  material  of  which 
the  section  is  built.  The  door  should 
be  as  small  as  possible.  Twenty  inches 
is  quite  large  enough.  The  smaller  the 
opening,  the  less  chance  for  the  escape 
of  water.  Besides,  a  large  door  is  a 
nuisance  to  clean. 

When  the  compartment  is  used  there 
can  be,  besides  the  ordinary  head  bath, 
a  needle  bath.  This  may  consist  of  from 
eight  to  twelve  nozzles  pointing  in  from 
the  four  corners  of  the  compartment,  or 
it  may  be  a  series  of  apertures  in  metal 
pipes  hung  around  the  inside  of  the  com- 
partment. When  the  separate  compart- 
ment for  the  shower  is  not  desired,  one 
may  find  a  substitute  for  the  sheet  in 
the  arrangement  shown  in  the  Felix 
Warburg  bathroom  picture  in  this  ar- 
ticle. The  glass  sheets  are  practical  and 
not  cumbersome.  Nevertheless,  they  in- 
volve more  cleaning,  and  in  the  average 
home  this  must  be  considered  today. 

Mixing  the  Water 

There  are  various  propositions  on  the 
market  to  mix  the  water  in  the  shower 
so  that  it  can  not  scald  the  bather. 
One  manufacturer  offers  a  little  toe  pipe, 
with  which  to  test  the  temperature  of 
the  water  before  starting  the  bath. 
These  things  are  more  or  less  desirable 
and  dependable  but  are  not  at  all 
necessary. 

It  is  best  to  have  the  valves  at  the 
entrance  as  you  walk  into  the  shower, 
so  that  your  arm  may  not  be  under 
the  flow  when  it  begins.  If  the  piping 
is  well  done  and  the  valves  work,  the 
mixture  of  hot  and  cold  water  can  be 
tempered  sufficiently  to  be  safe  and 
comfortable.  Here,  as  well  as  in  every 
other  department  of  purchasing,  you  are 
told  a  lot  of  things,  and  if  inexperienced, 
you  may  be  horribly  taken  in,  and  led 
to  buy  a  lot  of  unnecessary  things, 
which  though  good  in  themselves,  are 
quite  dispensable. 

The  shower  bath  compartment  must, 
of  course,  be  large  enough  to  permit 
the  bather  to  stand  inside  without  hav- 
ing to  be  all  the  time  under  the  shower. 
This  is  an  important  point.  Glass  doors 
are  not  necessary  either  for  a  tiled  or 
for  a  marble  compartment.  A  light 
weight  curtain  is  good,  with  the  smallest 
possible  entrance.  This  obviates  the 
cleaning  of  the  door. 

Tiled  floors  and  floors  of  honed 
marble  are  better  for  shower  receptors 
than  are  the  porcelain  ones.  They  fit 
into  the  building  problem  better,  can  be 
made  in  any  size  and  are  less  slippery. 
Be  very  careful  in  selecting  the  plumber 
who  puts  in  your  shower,  because  unless 
the  drain  and  curb  are  absolutely  right 


you  will  be  exposed  to  the  danger  of 
flooding  the  room  and  the  partitions  of 
the  house. 

Lavatories  and  Tables 

The  styles  of  these  are  legion.  The 
sizes  are  so  well  standardized  that  un- 
less one  wants  them  made  according  to 
some  bizarre  pattern  it  is  not  necessary 
to  give  dimensions.  The  usual  length 
is  about  3.5".  This  is  ample  and  grace- 
ful. The  54"  takes  more  space  than 
most  bathrooms  can  give  up  to  the 
lavatory,  and  makes  quite  unnecessary 
bulk.  The  33"  lavatory — and  any 
smaller  size — can  be  made  of  vitrified 
china,  which  is  handsomer  and  less  ab- 
sorbent than  the  solid  porcelain  lava- 
tory. The  vitrified  china  is  fired,  and 
therefore  it  is  difficult  to  make  in  large 
pieces. 

Lavatories  may  be  made  for  corners, 
or  straight  walls.  They  may  have  two 
legs,  or  a  center  pedestal  or  four  legs, 
or  they  may  be  simply  hung  on  brack- 
ets. Two  legs,  however,  is  the  usual 
style,  although  four  makes  a  very  lux- 
urious looking  table.  The  legs  can  be 
had  in  nickel,  glass,  brass  or  in  the 
handsomest  types  of  gold,  with  carving 
or  some  other  kind  of  design. 

There  has  been  a  reversion,  too,  in 
the  lavatory.  The  new  style  is  to  make 
them  of  imported  marble,  cut  in  one 
piece.  With  these  the  gold  leg  is  suit- 
able, also  the  glass  which  looks  well 
and  is  most  satisfactory,  being  easy  to 
clean.  Soft  American  marble  is  ab- 
sorptive and  stains  easily,  so  when  ycfu 
use  marble,  get  the  imported  if  possible. 
Another  point  should  be  noted  in  buy- 
ing the  lavatory, — have  enough  space 
on  it  so  that  it  can  hold  a  glass;  other- 
wise extra  cost  will  accrue  from  break- 
age and  ruined  nerves. 

In  addition  to  the  lavatory,  as  we 
have  said,  is  the  bidet,  and  the  dressing 
table.  The  latter  is  sometimes  made  of 
glass  on  gold,  nickel  or  brass  standards, 
but  it  is  oftener  made  of  vitrified  por- 
celain on  four  legs. 

Faucets 

The  faucets  on  tubs,  lavatories,  bidet, 
shower,  etc.,  require  a  great  deal  of  care, 
since  they  must  be  cleaned  so  often. 
Various  materials  have  been  used,  such 
as  cut  glass,  porcelain  and  nickel,  por- 
celain-like enamel,  brass,  silver,  gold, 
etc.  For  a  very  rich  room,  gold  and  cut 
glass,  or  the  gold  alone  is  beautiful. 
But  for  most  rooms  the  porcelain  and 
nickel  faucets  are  the  very  best  and 
demand  the  least  care.  All-white  enamel 
is  not  durable  and  is  hard  to  take  care 
of  properly. 

It  is  very  much  better  to  have  one 
faucet  through  which  both  hot  and 
cold  water  can  flow.  The  faucet  should 
have  an  overhang  of  at  least  1"  from 
the  side  of  the  lavatory,  so  that  it  will 
be  possible  to  get  a  glass  under  it  for 
filling  or  your  hand  under  for  washing, 
thus  obviating  the  necessity  of  filling  a 
basin  every  time  you  want  to  rinse 
(Continued  on  page  76) 


October,    1920 


Mrs.  Harry  Payne  Whitney's  Studio 
Is  Kelsey  Health  Heated 


IMAGINE   if   you   will,    such   a 
studio,  in  which  every  element 
of  harmony  has  been  given  the 
most     careful      consideration      by 
architect  and  owner  alike. 

Imagine  its  lighting  done  in  such  a 
skillful  way  that  its  source  is  no 
more  apparent  than  daylight  itself. 

Xow  imagine  the  same  lighting 
produced  by  insistently  obtrusive 
'lighting  fixtures"  which  are  such 
a  horror ;  and  you  have  a  striking 
similarity  between  Kelsey  Health 
Heat  and  radiator  heats  in  general. 

The  Kelsey  Heat  openings  can  be 
so  inconspicuously  placed  as  to  be 
scarcely  noticeable. 

They  never  extend   into  the  room 


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occupying  desirable  positions  under 
windows,  or  necessitating  expen- 
sive subterfuges  in  an  endeavor  to 
overcome  their  obtrusiveness. 

Even  as  you  scarce  see  the  source 
of  the  heat,  you  seldom  feel  it. 

You  do  not  feel  the  Kelsey  Health 
Heat,  but  you  do  feel  its  comfort. 

You  don't  feel  the  heat  because  it 
heats  with  freshly  heated  fresh 
air,  rightly  humidified. 

Of  decided  importance  in  these 
days  of  high  coal  costs,  it  gives 
more  heat  from  the  same  coal  than 
any  other  heat. 

Which  fact  we  welcome  being  chal- 
lenged to  prove. 

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under  ample  pressure.  Close  the  faucet,  and  the  pump  stops. 
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Beauty     and     the     Bathroom 


(Continued  from  page  74) 


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your  hands.  There  are  fancy  faucets 
which  do  not  meet  these  requirements, 
but  avoid  them.  Faucets  which  only 
flow  when  held  are  a  curse  and  should 
only  be  used  in  public  places  where  the 
water  tax  is  high. 

What  you  must  look  out  for  in  the 
floor  tile  is  that  it  be  as  little  slippery 
as  possible.  Therefore  do  not  get  a 
glazed  tile.  More  and  more  floors  are 
being  tiled  in  colors,  to  match  the  home 
scheme.  Also,  the  dull  tile  obviates  the 
squeak  occasioned  by  the  shoe  touch- 
ing it.  This  is  a  minor  point,  but  one 
worthy  of  notice. 

Walls  can  be  tiled  to  any  height  de- 
sired. In  the  average  room  the  tile  is 
carried  only  4'6"  up  except  at  the  point 
where  the  shower  is  installed.  There  it 
should  be  carried  up  7' . 

The  Closet 

The  syphon  type  is,  of  course,  the 
best  obtainable.  Many  closets  are  sold 
especially  from  catalog  and  by  mail,  as 
absolutely  silent.  Never,  if  you  can 
help  it,  buy  anything  of  this  sort  from 
a  photograph.  No  closet  can  be  ab- 
solutely silent.  If  there  is  any  flow  at 
all.  complete  silence  would  be  impos- 
sible. A  minimum  of  noise  is  the  best 
that  can  be  achieved,  and  the  best 
makers  have  closets  of  this  sort. 

The  bowls  are  generally  of  porcelain, 
and  the  best  ones  are  of  vitrified  china 
(really  porcelain),  which  is  non-absor- 
bent and  quite  the  thing  for  this  use 
because  of  the  freedom  from  discolora- 
tion. 

For  general  use,  the  less  wood  around 
the  seat,  the  better. 

The  tank  as  a  flushing  medium  is 
still  about  the  best  thing  to  use.  There 
are  on  the  market  various  flush  valve 
types,  some  of  which  operate  with  a 
loot  button  on  the  floor  or  with  a  hand 
lever  on  the  right  side  of  the  closet. 
These  may  be  good  in  some  locations, 
but  neither  the  ordinary  plumber  nor 
the  man  in  the  house  can  repair  them 
in  an  emergency.  The  piping  in  the 


valve   type   of   flusher   requires   careful 
arrangement  to  avoid  trouble. 

Sometimes  it  is  rather  convenient  to 
have  the  closet  in  a  doored  recess  open- 
ing into  the  room  and  available  from 
the  hall  as  well.  This  is  especially  to 
the  point  when  there  are  few  bathrooms 
in  the  house. 

Incidental  Fittings 

Chairs  and  stools  are  usually  in  white 
enamel  or  in  fancy  rooms  are  made  to 
match  the  general  style  which  prevails 
in  the  decoration. 

The  question  of  closets  in  the  bath- 
room is  entirely  dependent  upon  in- 
dividual taste.  You  can  have  the  wall 
and  mirror  finished  type,  or  the  long 
door  regular  closet,  or  a  combination 
of  these,  with  or  without  full  length 
mirror.  In  some  rooms  a  glass  shelved 
linen  closet  is  found  to  be  a  real  con- 
venience. 

The  soap  racks,  etc.,  have  lately  be- 
come recessed  in  walls.  This  system  is 
not  popular,  however,  because,  although 
useful  and  economical  for  hotel  or  in- 
stitutional use,  it  adds  no  charm  to  the 
fine  bathroom.  Rather,  it  detracts  from 
its  dignity. 

A  nice  way  to  have  scales  in  a  bath- 
room is  to  have  the  dial  encased  in  the 
wall,  and  the  tray  on  which  one  stands, 
sunk  into  the  floor.  This  arrangement 
economizes  space  and  is  very  welcome 
to  fastidious  people. 

Plan  the  bathroom  of  your  house 
early.  Talk  with  your  architect.  In- 
sist upon  the  best  and  get  it.  Your 
bathroom  need  consist  of  very  few 
things,  in  the  last  analysis,  and  the 
wisest  plan  is  to  get  the  best.  The  cost 
will  be  from  $250  upwards,  for  fix- 
tures. However,  it  is  wisest  to  buy  the 
best  you  can  afford  so  that  a  replace- 
ment cost  is  obviated.  There  must  be 
no  skimping  of  plumbing  work,  be- 
cause that  would  be  a  menace  to  both 
health  and  wealth,  and  the  plumbing 
costs  no  more  for  good  material  than 
for  bad. 


Collecting     Autographs 

(Continued  from  page  27) 


On  the  other  hand  the  growing  in- 
terest in  real  autograph  collecting  has 
led  to  devising  many  delightful  and 
legitimate  uses  for  autograph  letters 
and  documents.  I  know  of  no  more 
attractive  a  wall-decoration  for  a  li- 
brary than  framed  original  letters  of 
famous  writers.  These  are  made  doubly 
interesting  by  having  portraits  of  the 
writers,  preferably  small  engraved  ones, 
placed  within  the  same  mount  with  the 
autograph  letters.  Rare  letters  so 
mounted  should  never  be  pasted  down 
on  the  boards  of  the  mount,  but  should 
be  tipped  with  paste  (never  with  glue) 
and  placed  under  the  mat  opening. 
Wide  frames  are  unsuitable  for  auto- 
graphs, very  narrow  wood  strips  being 
used  instead. 

A  few  unusually  interesting  auto- 
graphs may  well  be  called  a  collection, 
although  one  would  not  care  to  frame 
an  extensive  group  of  autographs.  A 
large  collection  of  letters  is  best  arranged 
with  each  piece  in  a  separate  folder  on 
the  outside  of  which  is  written  a  brief 
biographical  sketch  of  the  writer  of  the 
document  contained  therein,  together 
with  a  clearly  written  transcription  of 
the  writing  if  it  happens  that  the  auto- 
graph is  difficult  to  decipher  readily. 

Again,  autographs  may  be  inserted  to 
add  interest  to  such  books  as  they  may 
have  definite  connection  with.  In  my 
own  library  I  have,  in  addition  to  books 
autographed  by  their  authors,  other  vol- 
umes which  have  become  "association 
books"  likewise  by  the  insertion  of  auto- 


graph letters  and  documents.  Some  col- 
lectors have  taken  a  single  work,  a  Life 
of  Napoleon,  for  instance,  and  by  the 
addition  of  autograph  material  and 
prints  have  expanded  one  volume  into 
twenty  or  more.  As  for  myself,  I  have 
been  content  with  the  addition  of  a 
treasure  or  two,  leaving  to  those  who 
have  but  a  single  hobby,  and  that  teth- 
ered to  such  a  post,  to  pursue  this  sort 
of  extended  extra  illustration  known  as 
"Grangerizing,"  from  the  method  used 
by  an  18th  Century  writer,  the  Rev. 
James  Granger  in  illustrating  his  Bio- 
graphical History  of  England.  It  must 
be  admitted  that  Grangerizing  is  a  very 
fascinating  hobby  and  one  that  is  ap- 
plicable to  every  product  of  literary  en- 
deavor. 

The  uninitiated  who  might  become 
interested  in  autographs  are  often  fright- 
ened away  by  imagining  that  interesting 
autographs  are  beyond  reach  and  be- 
yond purse.  True  it  is  that  good  auto- 
graphs are  becoming  more  scarce  as 
collecting  them  increases,  but  collections 
are  constantly  being  dispersed  by  public 
or  private  sale;  new  "finds"  are  likewise 
constantly  coming  to  light.  Fortunately 
for  the  collector  America  has  become  an 
important  market  for  autographs,  and 
several  noted  dealers  in  autographs  lend 
impetus  to  the  pursuit.  Of  course  fine 
letters  by  great  makers  of  history  are 
not  to  be  had  for  a  song,  except  through 
those  happy  accidents  which  add  zest  to 
collecting  of  any  sort.  I  once  obtained 
(Continued  on  page  78) 


October,     1920 


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ITS  enamel  furniture  and  trim,  and 
trim,  and  bright  hangings  make  it 
bright  and  cheerful.  Particular  care 
should  be  exercised  in  choosing  enamel 
for  sun  parlors  as  the  finish  must  be 
fast  to  light. 


If  you  specify  Johnson's  Perfectone  Undercoat 
and  Enamel  you  are  sure  of  a  perfect  finish 
and  wearing  Quality  and  covering  capacity  are 
of  the  highest. 


JOHNSON'S  PERFECTO1NE 
Under-Coat  and  Enamel 


Johnson's  Pcrfectone  I  'nder-Coat  and  Enamel 
are  absolutely  fast  to  light.  They  will  not  fade, 
chip,  check,  crack  or  perl.  The  stock  shades 
are  White,  Ivory  and  French  Gray — the  ap- 


pioved  shades  of  the  most  discriminating  deco- 
rators.   Insist  upon  JOHNSON'S 


S.  C.  JOHNSON  &  SON, 

Racine.  WIs.  I  .  S.  A. 
"The  Wood  Finishing  Authorities" 


78 


House     &     Garden 


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HE  aim  of  Berkey  fe?  Gay  designers 
is  to  create  furniture  one  delights  to 
live  with. 

Wrought  in  this  spirit,  the  simplest  piece 
becomes  with  the  passing  years  a  more  and 
more  cherished  possession — the  grace  of  its 
lines,  the  soft,  deep  glow  of  its  finish,  a  breath 
of  home. 

How  satisfying  the  purchase  of  such  furni- 
ture— at  so  slight  a  difference  in  price — in 
preference  to  furniture  of  no  particular 
distinction. 

An  illustrated  brochure 

concerning  Berkey  &  Cay  furniture,  together  with 
name  of  nearest  dealer,  sent  upon  request 


THIS  SHOP  MARK 
is  inlaid  in  every  genuine 
Berkey  &Qay  production. 
It  is  the  customer's  protec- 
tion when  buying  and  his 
pride  thereafter. 


Berkey  6P  Gay  Furniture  Company 

444  MONROE  AVENUE 
GRAND   RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN 


Collecting     Autographs 

(Continued  from  page  76) 


for  fifty  cents  a  letter  written  by  Mar- 
tha Washington  on  note-paper  water- 
marked with  a  portrait  of  her  illustrious 
spouse,  a  note  that  would  probably  fetch 
at  least  a  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  had 
not  disaster  overtaken  and  destroyed  it. 
A  holograph  letter  by  Button  Gwinnett, 
a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence would,  if  such  were  extant,  bring 
at  least  S25.000,  although  the  discovery 
of  a  hundred  Gwinnett  letters  would 
send  any  such  price  tumbling.  I  know 
of  only  one  autograph  letter  signed  by 
Thomas  Lunch,  Jr.,  another  signer,  and 
this  brought  something  like  ?7,000,  when 
sold  some  years  ago.  It  is  now  in  the 
collection  of  the  New  York  Public  Li- 
brary. On  the  other  hand  I  find  in  a 
catalogue  just  issued  by  a  noted  Amer- 
ican dealer  fine  letters  by  other  signers 
at  moderate  prices,  one  by  Stephen  Hop- 
kins of  Rhode  Island  at  $20,  one  by 
Samuel  Huntington  of  Connecticut  at 
S10  and  so  on.  This  same  catalogue  of- 
fers one  an  autograph  note  by  John 
Greenleaf  Whittier  for  S2,  a  page  of 
William  Cullen  Bryant's  translation  of 
the  Odyssey  in  his  own  handwriting  for 
$5,  an  extremely  interesting  letter  on 
political  matters  and  giving  her  ideas  as 
to  future  life  by  the  famous  Sarah, 
Duchess  of  Marlborough  for  $10,  a  let- 
ter by  Ouida,  the  novelist  for  S3,  the 
autograph  manuscript,  signed,  of  Jules 
Verne's  Memories  of  Infancy  and 
Youth,  a  poem  in  manuscript  by  Walt 
Whitman  at  .S10,  while  a  fine  two-page 
letter  by  Emile  Zola  may  be  had  for 
less  than  half  of  that. 

Thus  one  need  have  no  fear  that  auto- 
graph collecting  or  the  collecting  of  a 
few  fine  autographs  for  the  purpose  of 
enhancing  the  interest  of  a  room  is  be- 
yond the  purse  or  the  possibility. 
Whether  library,  music-room,  hall  or 
living-room,  autographs  offer  a  sugges- 
tion for  making  one's  house  more  inter- 
esting. 

It  is  not  everyone,  I  know,  wh" 
shares  with  me  a  delight  in  catalogs, 
catalogs  for  the  sake  of  many  things, 
and — I  do  confess  it ! — catalogs  for  their 
own  sake.  It  is  an  enlightening  diver- 


sion with  which  those  who  do  not  know 
its  seductions  might  have  little  patience, 
but  I  daresay  that  if  such  Philistines 
could  be  persuaded  to  dip  into  the  lore 
such  brochures  hold  forth,  they  would 
at  least  make  exception  in  their  anath- 
ema to  catalogs  of  autographs.  Had 
it  not  been  for  a  catalog  of  autographs 
that  arrived  in  the  morning's  post  1 
would  never  have  known  that  Lord 
Byron  contemplated  going  to  America 
to  start  as  a  planter,  that  it  was  Brahms' 
dislike  for  concerts  that  kept  him  from 
a  trip  to  England,  Petrograd  and  Paris, 
that  Charles  I  had  his  stationer  account 
for  a  "skynne  of  vellome  being  guilt 
and  lymnd  very  faier,"  that  G.  P.  R. 
James  troubled  to  send  a  friend  a  recipe 
for  an  infusion  of  roses,  that  Ruskin 
was  "pulled  up"  in  his  plans  of  casting 
from  the  ducal  palace  by  "the  need  of 
paying  a  tax  of  a  hundred  per  cent"— 
how  we  can  feel  for  him ! — and  that 
Robert  Louis  Stevenson  had  no  idea 
that  his  Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde  would 
go  "into  any  other  form  than  the  ig- 
noble shillingswort,"  and  also  that  "pub- 
lishers are  thrifty,"  highly  important 
matters  as  you  will  agree !  Blessed 
catalogs ! 

Yes,  gentle  reader,  I  can  recommend 
autograph  collecting  highly;  one  har 
but  to  begin ;  there  is  no  ending !  But 
let  not  enthusiasm  carry  discretion  along 
the  historic  road  traveled  by  the  late 
M.  Michel  Chasles  of  France,  a  noted 
scientist,  who,  incredible  as  it  may  seem, 
was  induced  by  a  man  named  Vrain- 
Lucas  to  purchase  from  him  a  collection 
of  27.000  "autographs"  for  150,003 
francs,  nearly  all  of  which  were  the  most 
ridiculous  forgeries,  including  letters 
written  in  the  French  language  at- 
tributed by  the  suave  Vrain-Lucas  to 
the  authorship  of  Julius  Caesar,  Cleo- 
patra, Yercingetorix,  Judas  Iscariot, 
Sappho,  Tiberius  Caesar  and,  of  course, 
Mary  Magdalene !  But  the  world,  for- 
tunately, is  not  as  full  of  preoccupied 
scientists  as  it  is  of  ingenious  charlatans, 
and  the  affaire  Vrain-Lucas  did  not, 
fortunately,  fall  as  a  death  blow  to  auto- 
graph collecting. 


Engaging  a  Landscape  Architect 

(Continued  from  page  40) 


and  its  surroundings,  he  will  fail  in  a 
large  measure,  even  if  the  garden  is  ever 
so  beautiful  in  itself. 

That  is  one  of  the  greatest  charms 
of  the  landscape  architect's  work — the 
infinite  variety  of  it,  for  no  two  gardens 
ought  ever  to  be  alike. 

And  what  a  host  of  kinds  there  are — - 
terrace  gardens  for  hillsides,  shady  gar- 
dens for  woods  and  courtyards,  formal 
gardens  and  naturalistic  ones,  walled 
gardens,  rock  gardens,  rose  gardens, 
shrub  gardens,  and  even  vine  gardens, 
stately  gardens  with  fountains  and 
statues,  with  box  bushes  and  bay  trees, 
and  intimate  gardens  with  a  seat  be- 
neath an  apple  tree,  large  gardens  and 
gardens  that  are  made  up  of  a  myriad 
of  small  subdivisions,  gardens  with  long 
vistas,  and  tiny  gardens  that  nestle  so 
close  to  rooms  that  they  become  ver- 
itable parts  of  them. 

On  this  first  visit,  too,  it  is  really  im- 
portant for  the  landscape  architect  to 
determine — I  might  call  it  sense  or  feel — 
your  social  position,  the  kind  of  enter- 
taining you  do  and  the  scale  upon  which 
you  live.  Besides,  he  will  want  to  know 
how  much  you  will  spend  on  the  garden 
and  how  much  you  can  afford  for  the 
upkeep  of  it.  All  these  things  will  de- 
termine the  nature  of  your  garden. 

The  maintenance  of  the  garden  is  a 
very  serious  problem  today,  with  the 
shortage  and  high  cost  of  labor,  but 
somehow  I  feel  that  just  these  difficul- 


ties will  be  the  impetus  to  new  and 
fresh  garden  developments.  After  all. 
these  difficulties  are  not  new  ones — the 
change  from  the  old  and  passee  bedding- 
out  of  plants  to  the  use  of  the  herba- 
ceous border,  for  instance,  was  due,  no 
doubt,  as  much  to  an  increase  in  wages 
as  to  the  decadence  into  which  the  bed- 
ding plant  had  fallen.  So  foresight  into 
the  cost  of  maintenance  is  very  essential. 

I  have  visited  just  recently  some  ex- 
tremely rich  gardens  with  marble  foun- 
tains, great  walls  and  statues,  great  yews 
and  box  and  cedar  hedges — wonderfully 
effective.  Such  gardens  are  very  ex- 
pensive to  build  but  comparatively  sim- 
ple to  take  care  of.  On  the  other  hand, 
charming  little  shrubbery  gardens  can 
be  arranged  with  deciduous  plants  whose 
cost  and  care  will  be  a  negligible  quan- 
tity. The  flowers  for  a  garden  are  its 
smallest  expenditure,  and  herbaceous 
borders  can  be  ever  so  simple  for  main- 
tenance, but  they  do  require  not  only 
constant  attention  but  intelligent  and 
loving  care  to  keep  them  in  beauty  year 
after  year. 

All  these  matters  the  landscape  archi- 
tect is  storing  up  in  his  mind — most 
likely  while  you  are  having  a  very 
amiable  conversation  and  are  getting 
acquainted  with  one  another.  This  get- 
ting acquainted  is  important  in  itself. 
You  must  like  his — or  her — personality 
and  trust  his  artistic  judgment  in  much 
(Continued  on  page  82) 


October,     1920 


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parchment  shade, 
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orange,  old  rose, 
blue,  heliotrope. 
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(27)  A  charming  group 
ing  is  shown   at  the   hot 
torn    of    this    page.      The 
wrought     iron     and     gilt 
candelabra    are    unusually 
graceful    and    one    has    a 
choice  of  orange,  old  gold 
or   blue    candles.     The 
price,  including  candles,  is 
S18.50  a  pair. 

(28)  The  fruit  bowl  in 
the   center   with   the   deli- 
cate, open-work  top  is  of 
deep,    cream-colored    pot- 
tery.    An   interesting   and 
lovely  effect  could  be  ob- 
tained by  filling  the  bowl 
with     oranges    and    using 
orange -colored     candles. 
The    bowl     is    priced    at 
$17.50. 

(29)  In   the   same   shop 
that  has  so  many  charm- 
ing    things,     I     found     a 
painted  .wood  box  or  ham- 
per.    It  is  a  copy   of  an 
old  Dutch  box  and  is  IS"  x 
22"  and  22"  high.     It   is 
gaily  decorated  with  flow- 
ers  and    a    landscape    de- 


Boudoir  clock  17" 
high.  Ivory  with  col- 
ored flowers,  gilt  or 
polychrome.  $7.50 


(31)  For  the  fall  house 
cleaning  comes  a  wool  wall 
brush    that    cannot   injure 
the  most  delicate  wall  pa- 
per.    It  is  made  of  soft, 
white  wool  and  has   both 
a   long   and   short   handle. 
From  $1.60  up. 

(32)  The    little    painted 
table   illustrated,   is  a  de- 
lightful  and  useful   acces- 
sory   to    any    room.      It 
folds  up  and  can  be  tucked 
away,  if  desired.    It  comes 
in  black,  green  or  red,  or- 
namented  with   gold,   and 
is  $18. 

(33)  The      Wedgewood 
comport    illustrated    is 
cream  colored  and  stands 
about  5^/2"  high.     A  pair 
of  these  would  be  charm- 
ing on  any  table.    $20  the 
pair. 

(34)  An  unusual  Italian 
candelabra   is   of   wrought 
iron  combined  with  a  Rus- 
kin    pottery   vase   in   dull, 
old-rose  color,  on  a  teak- 
wood    stand.      A    pair    of 


sign  on  a  buff  ground.    The  price  is  $3S.  these  would  be  excellent  decorations  for 

(30)  The  widespread  interest  in  dogs  a  mantel.  $75  each, 
has  created  a  demand  for  good-looking  (35)  One  can  never  have  too  many 
dog  collars.  In  a  shop  known  for  the  bowls,  especially  in  summer  when  flow- 
excellence  of  its  sporting  outfits,  I  found  ers  should  be  everywhere.  Frosted  glass 
some  collars  heavily  studded  with  brass  bowls,  10"  in  diameter  and  4"  high, 
and  a  brass  name  plate.  They  come  in  that  can  be  used  for  either  fruit  or 
tan^red  and  dark  green  leather  and  are  flowers  come  in  turquoise  blue,  pink, 
!/-£"  wide  and  range  in  length  from  orange  or  black.  $5. 
Ul/2"  to  18".  Price  $2.50.  Leashes  of  (36)  The  tin  bonboniere  illustrated 
the  best  quality  English  harness  leather  is  another  expression  of  the  vogue  for 
can  be  had  from  $1.30  to  $2.75.  (Continued  on  page  86) 


This  pair  of  wrought  iron  candelabra,  22"  high,  are 

$18.50  including  candles.     The  cream  pottery  fruit 

bowl  is  $17.50 


October,     1920 

THE 

STAN  LEY  WORKS 

STORM  SASH  HARDWARE 

is  recognized  the  country  over,  as  genuinely 
practical,  easy  to  apply  and  operate.  Above  all 
it  is  efficient,  good  to  look  at  and  extraordinarily 
durable. 

The  comforts  of  Winter  belong  to  those  who 
prepare  beforehand.  Now  is  none  too  soon  to 

think  of  keeping  the 
chill  winds  out  and  the 
warmth  In  your  home 
when  Jack  Frost  puts  in 
his  appearance. 


81 


Your  nearest  hardware 
merchant  will  welcome 
your  inquiry  for  further 
information. 


:  STANLEY    PRODUCTS 


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We  lure  lasue«l  »  very 

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ghnM-lMK    a    series    or 
M  u   dettignu  In 


"Pergolas" 


Garden  Accessories 
which  are  suitable  and 
just  the  things  required 
to  lend  cheer  and  pleas- 
ure to  the  lurroundinjs 
of  a  home. 


LATTICE    FENCES 

GARDEN    HOUSES 

GATES  AND 

ARBORS 

iriirn    Writing  enclose    lOc   stamps  and 
ask  for  CATALOGUE  "P-J2" 

HARTMAXX-SAXDERS      CO. 

Eliton   *  Wdinter  An-  CHICAGO.   ILL. 

Kastrrn  Offlee:  «  Kasl  3«th  St.     .New  York  Clttr 


there"  Capt.X 
got  a  big  idea  from 


the  "canteen"  cigarettes 
— they  were  round  and 
smoked  freely  —  and 
smoke  was  what  he 
wanted.  He  gave  us  his 
idea — a  big  idea!  A 
round  cigarette  made 
from  the  Famous  Pall 
Mall  blend  that  does 
not  have  to  be  tapped, 
squeezed  or  loosened — 
with  a  free  and  easy 
draught. 

PALL  MALL 

FAMOUS    CIGARETTES 


ounds 


YESTERDAY  the  idea 
of  Capt.  X.- 

TODAY  the  idea  of  all 
who  are  particular — 

FOREVER  a  big  success 
Read  the  story  of  Capt.  X 


MALL 

ROUNDS  (plain 
ends)  in  the  new  CAc 
foil  package  ...-''-' 


'THEY  ARE  GOOD  TASTE" 


PALL  MALL  (regular),  plain  or  cork 
in  boxes  of  10,  50,  100  as  usual. 


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House     &     Garden 


CHENEY 


ALL    MUSIC    FINDS    FULL    AND    TRUE    EXPRESSION    IN    ITS    MELLOW   TONES 


HUMAN  VOICE  and  We  Cfieney 

THE  BEAUTY  of  the  human  voice  as  bestowed 
by  nature,  can  hardly  be  surpassed.  And  its 
principles,  adapted  to  THE  CHENEY,  give  rare 
beauty  to  the  playing  of  this  instrument. 

Just  as  sounds  are  gathered  and  controlled  in 
the  living  human  throat,  so  are  sound  vibrations 
gathered  and  controlled  in  the  acoustic  throat 
of  THE  CHENEY. 


The  Cheney  Acoustic  Throat 


Off  one  side  of  the  main  path  is  this  little  bird  lawn  and 

pool,  set  around  with  perennial  plantings  and  fenced  in  with 

white  pickets 


Engaging  a  Landscape  Architect 

(Continued  from  page  78) 


the  same  way  as  you  must  have  con- 
fidence in  your  physician.  On  the  other 
hand,  the  landscape  architect  will  be 
interested  in  your  ideas  and  in  all  your 
likes  about  flowers,  for  the  landscape 
architect  is  most  successful  if  he  is  able 
to  interpret  your  individuality  in  your 
garden  and  make  you  love  it  as  much 
as  if  you  had  planned  it  all  yourself. 
Flower  gardens  are  perhaps  most  per- 
sonal, and  they  will  reveal  your  feeling 
for  flowers  and  their  color  as  much  as 
they  will  reveal  the  art  of  the  landscape 
architect  himself.  Some  landscape  archi- 
tects have  a  strong  feeling  for  design 
— and  often  think  little  of  the  planting 
— some  have  a  strong  feeling  for  form, 
so  that  their  borders  become  veritable 
sculptural  friezes,  while  others,  again, 
are  particularly  sensitive  to  color — be 
it  subtle  appreciation  or  a  broader  feel- 
ing— and  they  make  gardens  as  won- 
derful as  paintings. 

After  this  first  visit  the  landscape 
architect  prepares  sketches  and  plans. 
The  method  for  paying  for  plans  and 
for  the  supervision  of  the  work  under 
execution  varies  according  to  the  type 
of  the  work  and  according  to  the  wishes 
of  the  client.  These  charges  may  be 
divided,  roughly,  under  three  heads: 
First,  the  charge  may  be  a  fixed  sum 
for  stated  professional  services.  By  this 
method  a  separate  charge  may  be  made 
for  each  visit  and  plan,  or  for  the  total 
services,  including  plans.  The  second 
is  a  percentage  charge  on  the  total  cost 
of  the  work  executed.  This  percentage 
basis  of  charge  is  a  common  one — espe- 


cially for  large  ^work  and  is  similar  to 
an  architect's  j-harge.  I  believe  that 
the  third — a  pcr-diem  charge  for  the 
time  of  the  landscape  architect  and  of 
his  assistants  for  visits  and  consultations 
or  for  supervision  of  the  work  being 
executed — is  the  more  usual  method 
among  landscape  architects.  Plans  and 
office  work  are  then  charged  for  at  a 
similar  rate,  according  to  the  time  spent 
upon  the  work.  It  is  well  to  note  that 
you  pay  a  landscape  architect  for  his 
services  and  for  his  artistic  ability  and 
that  he  takes  no  commissions  on  mate- 
rials nor  makes  any  commercial  profit 
on  material  or  labor. 

The  reading  of  plans  is  generally  a 
difficult  thing  for  laymen.  I  do  hope 
that  aeroplane  riding  will  become  more 
general,  for  I  am  sure  that  then  plans 
will  have  a  new  fascination  and  a  real 
meaning  for  everyone,  for  plans  are 
drawn  as  if  seen  from  above.  Many 
people  do  not  realize  just  what  a  plan 
is — that  it  is,  first  of  all,  a  record  of 
an  idea,  often  an  assemblage  of  many 
complex  ideas  into  an  organized  whole. 
Sometimes  plans  are  the  result  of  much 
study  and  time,  and,  again,  they  will 
be  drawn  overnight,  as  it  were,  in  a 
flash  of  genius  resulting,  of  course,  from 
a  fund  of  knowledge  and  experience  ac- 
quired through  years.  A  plan,  then,  is 
the  work  of  the  mind,  and  that  is  why 
this  mere  thing  on  paper  is  so  valuable. 

After  a  general  plan  has  been  prepared 
then  come  the  working  plans  for  con- 
tractors and  gardeners — drainage  plans, 
(Continued  on  page  84) 


Although   the  Alexandre   house  is  quite  close   to  the  road, 

there   was   space  enough   for  planting   in  front,  a   natural 

planting  that  gives  the  house  a  comfortable  setting 


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Engaging  a  Landscape  Architect 

(Continued  from  page  82) 

grading  plans,  and  all  plans  for  construe-  eral  landscape  architects,  and  yet  I  find 

tion    of   seats,    pools,   steps,   etc.     The  that'   my    own    plans    have    but    little 

number  of  these  plans  and  their  com-  similarity  to  any  of  theirs, 

plexity  depend  upon  the  complexity  of  Planting  lists  and  orders  accompany 

the  work.    They  may  be  ever  so  simple  each    planting    plan.      Some    landscape 

— in  fact,  sometimes  there  may  be  no  architects  give  out  their  whole  planting 

plan    at    all,    for   the   garden    may    be  lists  to  a  nursery,  who  will  fill  all  the 

staked   out   right   on   the   grounds  and  orders.     Other   landscape   architects   do 

verbal    instructions   given    to    the    gar-  all  this   ordering  themselves  and  make 

dener.     And,  unless  there  is  much  con-  every    substitution    themselves.      I   like 

struction,  the  outside  help  of  contractors  this    second    method    best    myself.      It 

is  not  always  necessary  where  the  gar-  sometimes  involves  a  great  deal  of  time 

dener   is   able   to   carry   out   the   work,  and  trouble,  but  I  have  always  found  it 


And  then  there  is 
the  planting  plan.  So 
many  people  do  not 
seem  to  understand 
the  value  of  a  plant- 
ing plan.  I  know  of 
wealthy  men  who 
buy  valuable  paint- 
ings, but  have  ob- 
jected to  pay  for 
planting  plans  because 
they  did  not  realize 
that  planting  plans 
may  hold  within  their 
complexity  of  names 
a  whole  series  of 
wonderful  pictures.  A 
planting  plan  is  a 
record  of  an  artistic 
conception.  In  reali- 
ty it  is  more  than  a 
record  of  one  concep- 
tion, for  it  portrays 
at  one  time  the  effects 
of  an  entire  season. 
And  it  is  more  than 
that,  for  it  is  a  guide 
to  the  landscape  ar- 
chitect when  he  super- 
vises the  planting.  The 
handling  of  plants  on 
a  plan,  and  then  in 
the  garden,  is  similar 
to  the  brush  work  of 
a  painter.  It  is  a 
matter  of  individual 
choice  and  tempera- 
ment. That  is  why- 
some  landscape  archi- 
tects who  are  particu- 
larly interested  in 
flower  gardens  have 
to  supervise  the  plant- 
ing personally  so  that 
their  conceptions 
which  are  rendered  in 
a  plan  may  be  rightly 
interpreted  upon  the 
ground.  This  is  not 
always  possible,  how- 
ever, and  must  be  en- 
trusted to  assistants, 
who  may  do  it  well  if 
they  work  in  the 
spirit  of  eager  disciple- 
ship.  You  have  no 
idea  how  much  a 
matter  of  individual 
feeling  a  planting  plan 
is.  I  formerly  inter- 
preted plans  for  sev- 


worth    while    in    the 
end. 

A  garden  is,  per- 
haps, the  most  perish- 
able product  of  art. 
It  is  subject  to  the 
caprices  of  nature  and 
of  men  and  its  in- 
herent beauty  may  be 
lost  in  a  season.  For 
this  reason  it  is  ad- 
visable to  retain  the 
services  of  the  land- 
scape architect,  when- 
ever it  is  possible,  so 
that  the  garden  may 
retain  its  beauty.  The 
flowers  are  not  only 
growing  and  spread- 
ing and  sometimes 
dying  out,  but  there 
are  bulbs  to  be  added 
and  annuals  to  renew 
— and  once  you  real- 
ize the  infinite  amount 
of  detail  there  is  to 
be  taken  care  of  you 
will  appreciate  the 
yearly  supervision  of 
the  landscape  archi- 
tect. For  this  service 
the  landscape  archi 
tect  will  sometimes 
make  a  yearly  retain- 
ing fee — and  come  as 
often  as  he  finds  it 
necessary — or,  again, 
he  may  simply  charge 
you  for  the  number 
of  visits  that  he 
makes. 

I  like  this  main- 
tenance work  very 
much.  It  has  given 
me  an  opportunity 
not  only  of  making 
some  very  firm  friends 
among  my  clients, 
but  has  given  me  the 
joy  of  watching  my 
gardens  develop  in 
beauty  and  pleasure- 
giving  capacity. 

The  planting  plan  is 
usually  executed  by 
one  of  the  architect's 
assistants.  This  shows 
the  main  path  in  the 
Alexandre  garden 


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down,  or  just  floss  and  feathers? 

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not  moss,  jute  and  excelsior? 

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produced.  Kach  price  is  based  on  the  actual  cost  of  the  labor  and 
materials  involved.  We  are  not  paying  top  wages  for  poor  labor,  but 
reasonable  wages  for  faithful,  conscientious  workmanship  of  skilled 
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proved standard  and  value. 

Every  woman  should  know  more  about  CREX  rugs 
with  twenty  years'  established  reputation.  The  rug 
that  brings  a  little  of  the  outdoors  right  into  \onr  home 
and  provides  an  artistic,  useful  and  inexpensive  floor 
covering  the  year  'round. 

CREX  rugs  do  not  retain  dirt — require  no  beating 
and  can  be  cleaned  with  clamp  cloth  or  broom  and  light 
shaking.  Numerous  designs  and  colors  make  selection 
easy — for  any  room. 

Don't  just  say  grass  rug — you  may  get  an  artful 
imitation  made  of  split  or  crushed  straw.  Insist  on 
the  genuine  CREX. 

CREX  is  easily  said  and  easily  read.  The  name 
woven  in  the  side  binding  provides  an  ineffaceable 
identification  mark. 

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for~  na-me   in  th.0  &dt)a  cF  side 

EX 

'It's  >/i>Mj- 


A  painted  tin  bon- 
boniere  which  may 
be  had  in  green, 
pink,  blue  or  ivor\. 
$15 


Seen     in     the     Shops 

(Continued  from  page  SO) 

tin  flowers.    It  is  effective  and  will  bar-  two  quart?  of  cream,  the  chemical  action 

monize  with  different  color  schemes  as  of  the  salt,  ice  and  vacuum  doing  the 

it  comes  in   pale   green,  pink,  blue   or  work.     SS. 

ivory  with  vari-colored  flowers,  all   in  (41)  The  bowl  shown  here  is  a  good 

tin.     $15.  example  of  the  effectiveness  of  Italian 

(37)  The  French  boudoir  clock  pic-  pottery.     It  is  cream  colored,  decorated 
lured,  is  ivory  color  with   a   blend   of  with  a  band  of  bright   blue  and   pink 
blue  and  pink  flowers.     It  is  17"  long  roses  and  leaves.     It  is  only  $5.     The 
and  has  a  30-hour  movement.     It  may  wrought  iron  stand  is  $10. 

also  be  had  in  gilt  or  polychrome.  $7.50.  (42)   In   the  same  shop  that   housed 

(38)  There  is  always  an  odd  spot  in  the  Italian  bowl,  I  found  some  candle- 
the  house   that  needs  a  lamp.     Some-  sticks,  copies  of  old  Italian  ones.    They 
times  it  is  a  very  small   lamp   that  is  are  of  composition,  old  blue  and  gold 
required.     The   little   lamp,   shown    on  and  extremely  effective.     They  are  S12 
another  page,  is  an  unusual  value.     It  a  pair  and  are  about  12"  high. 

is  13"  high,  of  pottery,  in  orange,  old-  (43)  In  electrical  appliances,  nothing 

rose,   blue    or   heliotrope    with    a    dec-  is  of  greater  comfort  than   an  immer- 

orated     parchment     shade     to     match,  sion   water   heater.     By   simply   placing 

Complete  on  a  black  stand.    S10.  this  rod  in  a  glass  of  water  and  turning 

(39)  A    little    tip-table    that    will    be  on  the  current,  the  water  is  heated  al- 


found  most  useful 
in  the  city  apart- 
ment or  country 
house  is  of  mahog- 
any with  an  inlay  in 
the  center.  It  meas- 
ures 17"  across  and 
is  22"  high.  SI  1.50. 
(40)  If  you  have 
not  an  electric  ice- 
cream freezer,  the 
next  best  thing  is  a 
vacuum  freezer  that 
is  a  refrigerating 
plant  on  a  small 
scale.  No  labor  is 
required  to  freeze 


most  immediately. 
It  is  7"  long  and  is 
$6.25.  A  larger, 
crookneck  shaped 
one,  is  $8.50. 

(44)  Another 
electrical  conveni- 
ence is  a  small 
toaster  stove  that  is 
large  enough  for  a 
slice  of  bread  and  a 
pot  of  coffee  to 
cook  at  the  same 
time.  It  is  $7. 

Handkerchief  box  covered  (45)  Among     the 

in  heavy,  lacquered  paper.  many  attractive  ac- 

S2.75  (Cont.  on  page  90) 


This    cream-col- 
ored Wedgewood 
comport,       $l/i" 
high,  is  $10 


A  painted,  fold- 
ing table  comes 
in  black,  green 
or  red,  orna- 
mented with 
gold.  $18 


A  decorated  Ital- 
ian pottery  bowl 
is  $5.  Iron  stand 

$10 


October,     1920 


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H'hen  buying 
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An  "At  hey -dressed"  house  bears  the  stamp 
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outside  of  every  home  is  sub- 
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This  master  coating  protects  against 
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walls  of  brick,  cement  and  stucco.  It 
prevents  beating  rains  from  seeping 
through,  and  laughs  at  winter  storms 
or  summer  sun. 

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1 


These  andirons  of  wrought  iron  are  a  copy 

of   some    old    Welsh    ones.     Thev    are    32" 

high.    $55 


Seen     in     the     Shops 

(Continued   from   page   86) 


ccssories  for  the  kitchen,  comes  a  white 
enameled  tin  spice  box.  It  is  11"  x  8" 
x  4K>"  and  is  fitted  with  six  separate 
tin  boxes  for  cloves,  ginger,  cinnamon, 
allspice,  nutmeg  and  mace.  Also  a 
prater.  $3.85. 

(4b)  In  this  day  of  small  apartments, 
refrigerators  must  conform  in  size  to 
the  average  kitchenette  to  be  of  any 
real  use.  An  excellent  refrigerator  only 
20"  wide,  40"  deep  and  37"  high  is  $28. 
It  has  two  compartments,  for  ice  and 
food,  and  is  of  white  enameled  wood. 

(47)  In    another    shop   given    up   to 
beautiful  and  unusual  things,  I  saw  a 
set  of  six  after-dinner  coffee  cups  in  the 
lovely   silver   lustre   ware.     The   inside 
of  the  cup  is  a  soft,  pale  green.     The 
price  for  six  is  $22. 

(48)  The  andirons  shown  at  the  top 
of   the   page   are   a   copy   of   some   old 
Welsh    ones.     They   are   32"   high   and 
are  of  wrought  iron.    $55  the  pair. 

(49)  The  handkerchief  box  illustrated 


on  another  page  is  of  heavy  cardboard 
covered  in  imported  lacquered  paper  in 
different  designs.  The  cover  is  hinged. 
$2.75. 

(50)  A  charming  little  sewing  stand 
that  is  useful  as  well  as  decorative,  is 
$16.     It  is  of  mahogany  and  has  two 
compartments    to    hold    the    sewing    as 
well  as  two  drawers  for  spools,  etc.    It 
is  24"  high. 

(51)  A  utensil  that  will  hold  a  prom- 
inent place   in   the  efficient   kitchen   of 
today,  is  of  heavy  tin,   19"   long,   12" 
wide  and  10"  high.     It  can  be  used  as 
a    fruit    canner,    corn    boiler    or    ham 
boiler.     It   is  fitted  with   a  detachable 
rack  to  hold  preserve  jars.    $3.50. 


Under  the  present  market  conditions 
we  cannot  guarantee  that  these  prices 
will  remain  the  same. 

Articles  such  as  glass,  furniture,  etc., 
require  special  crating  for  which  an  ad- 
ditional charge  is  necessarily  made. 


NOTES     of    the    GARDEN     CLUBS 


THE  Garden  Club  of  Short  Hills, 
N.  J.,  Mrs.  John  A.  Stewart,  Presi- 
dent, organized  1907,  has  thirty  active 
members  (women)  and  includes  men  in 
its  associate  membership  list  of  fifteen. 
Meetings  are  held  monthly  in  winter 
and  weekly  in  summer,  and  the  Club 
arranges  a  daffodil,  rose,  and  dahlia 
show.  The  last  named  show  has  been 
held  for  twelve  years  and  is  a  special 
feature  of  the  Club.  In  1917,  admis- 
sion was  charged  for  the  first  time,  the 
proceeds  going  to  the  Red  Cross,  and 
in  1918,  to  the  Women's  Land  Army. 
Mrs.  Charles  H.  Stout,  one  of  the 
Club  members,  has  created  a  long  list 
of  dahlias,  for  which  she  has  been 
awarded  ten  silver  medals,  twenty-four 
silver  cups,  and  in  1919  she  received 
from  the  American  Dahlia  Society  the 
first  prize  for  her  collection  of  seedlings. 
The  New  York  Horticultural  Society 
awarded  Mrs.  Stout  its  silver  medal  for 
her  collection  of  hybrids,  and  this  year 
invited  her  to  send  specimens  of  all  her 
dahlias  to  be  grown  for  exhibition  in 
the  New  York  Botanical  Gardens.  Mrs. 
Stout  sells  her  dahlias  and  also  lectures 
about  them  with  slides,  all  receipts  be- 
ing devoted  to  the  War  work  of  the 
Comte  de  Nanteuil,  France.  The  dahlia 
"Sunshine"  has  taken  "1st"  wherever 
shown,  and  its  sale  realized  about  one 


thousand  dollars  in  two  years  of  the  War 
The  Short  Hills  Club  is  affiliated  with 
the  American  Rose  and  American  Dah- 
lia Societies.  In  memory  of  its  late 
President,  Mrs.  Renwicke,  it  has  found- 
ed a  medal  for  achievement,  the  Emily 
D.  Renwicke  Medal,  to  be  awarded  an- 
nually by  the  Garden  Club  of  America. 

THE  Larchmont,  N.  Y.,  Garden 
Club,  Mrs.  George  Martin  Van 
Slyck,  President,  organized  in  1913,  is 
composed  of  150  women,  who  have  six 
meetings  with  lectures,  two  field  days, 
and  shows  twice  a  year.  All  flowers  at 
the  show,  unless  marked  otherwise,  are 
sold  or  distributed  to  charitable  institu- 
tions. Plants  are  exchanged  in  the 
Club.  Several  members  have  written 
for  publication.  During  the  War  veg- 
etable gardens  and  community  gardens 
were  maintained  in  vacant  lots,  which 
were  ploughed,  fertilized,  and  seeds  and 
tools  supplied,  if  required.  Also  experts 
in  canning  and  dehydrating  were  em- 
ployed and  prizes  given  to  encourage 
the  workers.  Another  War  activity  was 
the  cooperating  with  the  garden  clubs 
of  Rye  and  New  Rochelle  to  supply 
flowers  to  the  East  View  Hospital.  At 
present  the  Club  provides  an  instructor 
for  children's  gardens. 

(Continued  on  page  92) 


October,     1920 


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"CREO-DIPT 


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Consider 
Their  Economy 

Cost! — of  labor.     Scarcity!  — 
of  labor  and  material.     These 
are  seeming  detriments  in  present- 
time    building    that    "CREO-DIPT" 

Stained  Shingles  help  eliminate. 

Stained    separately    and    uniformly    in    soft-toned 
shades  of   red,  brown,  green    and  gray,  these   re- 
markably beautiful  shingles  are  bundled,  ready  to  lay 
without  additional  brushcoating.     Also  economical 
because  the  exclusive   creosote   preserving  process 
defies   time  and   weather,  saving    re- 
painting and  repairs. 

16,  18.  24-inch  lenohs.  The  open  market  does 
not  afford  such  quality  in  shingles  or  stain. 

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"WHAT  A  CONVENIENCE!" 

That's  what  you'll  say  again  and  again  if  your  architect  specifies  a 
Kernerator  for  your  new  home. 

[ERNERATOR 


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destroys  without  odor  or  expense,  all  kitchen  refuse,  wrapping  paper,  faded 
Howcrs,  paper  boxes,  rags  by  burning.  Kr 
quires  no  fuel  other  than  the  dry  waste  that 
is  thrown  in  a  handy  kitchen  hopper.  This. 
in  burning,  dries  the  wet  waste  so  it  can 
burn. 

The  Kernerntor  disposes  of  bottles,  cans  and 
other  non-ci»mbustible  matt-rial.  It  abolishes 
garbage  cans.  Built  of  brick  at  the  base  of 
the  chimney  when  the  building  is  erected. 
Requires  little  extra  masonry. 

Sanitary — Economical  -Convenient  -Odorless 

Atk  your   architect   or   write   for   illustrated  booklet 

KERNER  INCINERATOR  CO. 

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Equipped  with  Kemrntor 

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Architect:     A.    J.    Bodker 


You    can    now    have   a   garage   with    less    fuss 
and  at  a  lower  cost. 

This  Togan  Garage  comes  to  you  ready  to  assemble  and  erect.  The 
building  complete,  even  to  painting,  is  done  for  you  at  the  factory. 

Togan  Garages  are  roomy,  generously  lighted ;  interiors  are  smoothly  finished. 
Service  doors  carefully  fitted,  equipped  complete  with  selected  garage  hardware. 
Windows  are  made  in  casement  or  sliding  sash  with  side  entry  doors  to  match. 
Styles  of  windows  optional,  also  location  of  side  entry. 

Built  in  a  variety  of.  designs,  there's  one  that  agrees  architecturally  with  your  borne. 
In  addition,  a  price  comparison  will  convince  you  that  the  Togan  way  is  the  less 
expensive  way. 

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TOGAN 


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Manufactured  by  Togan-Stiles,  1607   Eastern  Ave.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

An  interesting  brochure  concerning  Togan 
Garages,  with  illustration*,  will  be  sent  for 
fifteen  cents;  also  name  of  nearest  dealer. 


Your  Winter  Garden 


You  who  love  a  garden  are  missing  much  by  limiting  to 
a  few  short  summer  months  the  pleasure  that  may  be 
yours  the  year  'round. 

You  owe  it  to  yourself  to  have  a  winter  garden,  in  which 
you  can  cultivate  your  favorite  flowers  and  fruits. 

The  V-Bar  Greenhouse  represents  the  experience  of 
many  years  in  building  Greenhouses  of  Quality,  and  we 
shall  be  glad  to  send  you  advance  sheets  of  our  catalog 
showing  some  of  those  we  have  built. 

We  can  have  your  V-Bar  ready  for  this  winter  if  you 
act  promptly. 


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Company,  Inc. 


5 1 2  Fifth  Avenue 
New  York  City 


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House     &     Garden 


You  Love  Flowers — 


not  only  during  a  part  of  the 
year,  but  the  year  round.  If  any- 
thing, their  brightness  is  more  ef 
fective  when  all  else  in  the  plant 
kingdom,  except  the  evergreen,  is 
denuded  and  brown. 

There  is  life,  you  know,  in  the 
odor  of  growing  things,  and  there 
is  joy  in  the  sight. 

Why  not  make  your  home  life 
yet  more  complete  by  having  a 
lean-to  conservatory — a  small  gar- 
den under  glass — attached  to  your 
residence?  Or,  if  your  grounds  are 
ample,  a  detached  indoor  garden  or 
conservatory  advantageously  lo- 
cated will  prove  a  perennial  source 
of  pleasure. 

Let  us  help  you  in  your  planning 
with  our  conservatory  book.  It 
is  sent  gratis  and  only  needs  your 
address. 

i 

May  we  have  it  now? 


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NEW    YORK 
5  Columbus  Circle 

KANSAS  CITY 
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Notes   of   the    Garden   Clubs 

(Continued  from  page  90) 


THE  Dolly  Madison  Garden  Club  of 
Virginia,  organized  1919,  Mrs.  Jo- 
seph G.  Walker,  President,  draws  to- 
gether twenty-four  women  scattered 
through  Albemarle,  Orange,  Madison 
and  Culpepper  Counties.  The  name  of 
the  Club  was  chosen  because  Dolly 
Madison's  home,  Montpelier,  with  its 
horseshoe-garden,  copied  from  the 
House  of  Representatives,  is  now  owned 
by  one  of  the  members  of  the  Club, 
Mrs.  W.  Du  Pont,  and  is  a  central 
point  of  the  membership.  Mrs.  Walk- 
er's home,  Woodberry  Forest,  was  also 
originally  part  of  the  Madison  Estate. 
The  Club  meets  monthly,  November  to 
May,  and  original  papers  are  contrib- 
uted by  the  members,  one  of  whom, 
Mrs.  Henry  Holladay,  of  Red  Rock, 
Rapidan,  has  written  for  publication 
and  also  received  a  prize  for  designing 
a  garden.  Prizes  for  vegetables  have 
been  offered  the  Orange  County  Fair. 
It  is  planned  to  establish  in  the  spring 
of  1921,  a  sale  of  seedling  flowers  and 
vegetables,  and  to  advance  gardening 
in  the  locality  by  introducing  groups  of 
new  seeds  for  experiment,  also  encour- 
aging competitions  in  the  growing  of 
vegetables  and  flowers. 

THE  Kansas  City  (Mo.)  Amateur 
Flower  Growers'  Association,  or- 
ganized in  1916,  includes  150  men  and 
women.  Mrs.  Massie  Holmes,  the 
founder,  is  President.  The  Association 
arranges  two  flower  shows  a  year,  with 
the  purpose  of  encouraging  the  cultiva- 
tion of  flowers  in  every  home  in  the 
city.  Mrs.  Holmes  published  a  small 
garden-primer  several  years  ago. 

In  1920,  as  a  result  of  a  series  of 
questionnaires  sent  to  members  of  the 
Association,  she  compiled  and  published 
for  sale  a  flower  garden  guide.  This 
contains  special  information  based  on 
local  experience  which  is  necessary,  ow- 
ing to  the  climate  and  conditions  which 
made  many  planting  tables  and  garden 
books  inapplicable  to  Kansas  City. 
The  Guide's  foreword  says,  "Never  be 
satisfied  until  the  flowers  suited  to  your 
locality  are  growing  in  it."  Cultural 
instructions  are  given  and  a  list  of 
plants  which  grow  without  watering, 
and  of  plants  proven  to  thrive  in  this 
section  of  Missouri.  It  is  found  that 
perennials  are  better  adapted  than  an- 
nuals to  the  irregularities  of  the  climate. 
The  term  "amateur"  in  relation  to 
the  Association  is  applied  to  anyone  not 
making  the  selling  of  flowers  his  sole 
means  of  support,  but  who  is  allowed 
to  sell  garden  surplus.  Topeka,  Kan- 
sas, has  been  inspired  to  organize  an 
Association  similar  to  that  of  Kansas 
City. 

THE  North  Shore  Garden  Club 
(Mass.),  organized  1915,  Mrs.  S.  V. 
R.  Crosby,  President,  has  thirty-five 
members  (men  have  just  been  voted 
eligible)  and  meets  bi-monthly  from 
June  to  September.  Original  papers  by 
members  are  read  at  some  of  the  meet- 
ings. Through  the  New  England 
Branch  of  the  Woman's  National  Farm 
and  Garden  Association,  the  North 
Shore  Club  has  given  a  scholarship  to 
the  Horticultural  School  for  Women  at 
Ambler,  Pennsylvania.  This  year  the 
annual  meeting  of  the  Garden  Club  of 
America,  the  last  week  in  June,  was 
held  under  the  auspices  of  the  North 
Shore  Club.  The  program  of  motor 
rides  and  entertainment  was  extensive 
and  generously  hospitable,  including  a 
visit  to  the  Arnold  Arboretum,  the 
North  Shore  horticultural  show  at  Man- 
chester, drives  to  some  of  the  finest 
gardens  in  Manchester.,  West  Newbury 
and  Eastern  Point,  Gloucester,  Pride's 
Crossing,  etc.,  as  well  as  to  the  old 
houses  and  gardens  of  Danvers,  Salem, 
Nahant,  etc!  The  visiting  representa- 
tives of  garden  clubs  were  entertained 


at  dinners,  luncheons  or  teas  by  Mrs. 
Crosby,  Mrs.  Crane,  Mrs.  Mosley  and 
Mrs.  Lane. 

THE  Garden  Club  of  Rochester, 
N.  Y.,  organized  1912,  is  limited  to 
seventy-five  active  and  twenty-five  as- 
sociate members.  Mrs.  George  C.  Buell 
is  President.  Meetings  are  held  month- 
ly, November  through  March,  and  bi- 
monthly, April  through  October.  Usu- 
ally papers  by  members  are  read,  but 
when  there  are  paid  lecturers,  the  pub- 
lic may  attend  by  paying  fifty  cents 
admission,  though  any  member  may 
bring  a  guest,  and  the  hostess  invites 
as  many  persons  as  she  wishes. 

The  Club  exchanges  plants  among 
its  members,  and  twice  a  year  they 
contribute  flowers  and  plants  for  sales 
open  to  the  public,  when  tea  is  served. 
Funds  are  given  to  civic  organizations, 
and  during  the  war  Victory  bonds  were 
bought,  back-yard  gardens  maintained, 
and  since  October,  1912,  two  fatherless 
French  children  have  been  supported. 
In  Rochester's  beautiful  Highland  Park, 
the  Club  has  planted  a  "poets'  garden", 
to  which  have  been  added  stone 
benches,  a  sun-dial,  and  bird  bath,  the 
whole  forming  a  popular  resort  for 
visitors.  Last  Christmas  an  attractive 
bulletin  was  printed.  The  Club  has  a 
librarian  well  supplied  with  helpful  in- 
formation. 

THE  Amateur  Gardeners  of  Balti- 
more, organized  1908,  is  formed  of 
forty-seven  women.  Miss  D.  L.  Mur- 
doch is  President.  From  September  to 
June  15th  meetings  are  held,  for  which 
members  prepare  papers,  and  they  have 
had  a  garden-planning  competition. 

During  the  War  a  member  loaned  a 
city  lot  to  the  Club  where  it  grew 
vegetable  seedlings,  which  were  used  in 
school  gardens,  vacant  lots,  or  by  per- 
sons applying  through  the  Women's 
Civic  League.  Also  during  the  War,  in 
response  to  an  appeal  from  the  U.  S. 
officer  in  charge  of  the  Military  Hospi- 
tal at  Fort  McHenry,  the  Club  devel- 
oped the  grounds  most  successfully, 
Mrs.  Louis  E.  Shipman  patriotically 
giving  her  services  to  make  the  plan 
for  the  several  acres.  The  cost  of 
drafting  was  paid  by  the  Club.  In  ad- 
dition to  this,  a  flower  guild  was  con- 
ducted at  Fort  McHenry,  other  Clubs 
in  the  vicinity  uniting  in  contribution 
of  flowers  and  plants. 

In  May,  1920,  the  Women's  Civic 
League  held  a  flower  market,  at  the 
foot  of  the  Washington  Monument,  and 
the  Amateur  Gardeners  ran  a  stall, 
greatly  increasing  the  receipts  of  the 
occasion.  In  June,  1920,  a  field  day 
was  devoted  to  visiting,  by  motor,  three 
old  Manors,  the  most  distant  of  which 
was  twenty-five  miles  from  Baltimore. 
The  Manors  were  Doughregan  (Charles 
Carroll  of  Carrolton) ;  the  Folly  Quar- 
ters, built  originally  for  a  daughter  of 
this  same  Charles  Carroll,  and  now 
owned  by  Mr.  Van  Lear  Black;  and  a 
third  Manor  owned  by  W.  Bladen 
Loundes,  Esq. 

THE  Garden  Society  of  New  Or- 
leans, organized  1918,  includes 
about  four  hundred  men  and  women. 
The  President  is  Professor  Reginald  S. 
Cocks,  of  the  Department  of  Botany 
of  the  Tulane  University  of  Louisiana, 
where  bi-monthly  meetings  are  held 
from  October  to  May.  Members  are 
asked  to  bring  to  each  meeting  speci- 
mens of  some  selected  flower,  which  are 
criticised  and  judged,  usually  a  profes- 
sional being  present  to  answer  questions. 
Talks  are  given  by  garden-owners 
whose  relation  of  their  successes  and 
failures  furnishes  a  basis  for  the  even- 
ing's discussion. 

A  little  hybridizing  has  been  accom- 
(Continued  on  page  94) 


October,     1920 


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"The  Gem" 

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season  you  should  start  sprinkling  the  very 
first  warm  day.     The  grass  must  catch  an 
early  start   for  a  thick,  even  growth.     The 
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make  enough  use  of  our  lawns — for  work,  and  rest,  and  play— and 
for  entertaining  our  friends.  Perhaps  there  are  not  enough  shady 
nooks.  A  few  Shade  Trees  will  provide  them^and  then  home  will 
have  a  new  comfort  and  health  and  happiness  for  both  the  grown- 
ups and  the  kiddies, — more  play  outdoors  for  the  youngsters,  more 
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And  how  much  nicer  it  is  to  hold  a  tea  or  a  party  outdoors,  in 
the  cooling  shade!  At  night,  too,  "affairs"  are  ever  so  much 
prettier  in  the  moonlight  shadows  and  under  the  glow  of  Japanese 
lanterns  strung  between  the  trees.  Nor  should  we  forget  that  shade 
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your  fuel  bills  and  food  bills 
and  do  away  with  half  the  work 
and  all  the  annoyance  of  cooking  and 
you  will  go  far  to  solve  the  problem 
every  household  is  facing  today. 

"Double"  Sterling 

The  40  feature,  2  oVen,  2  fuel  range 

actually  accomplishes  these  results.  70 
years'  experience  has  enabled  us  to  secure 
such  perfect  combustion  in  the  Sterling  fire 
box,  grate  and  flue  system,  that  you  have 
absolute  control  of  your  heat  at  all  times. 
This  banishes  cooking  annoyances,  prevents 
wasting  food  in  cooking  and  saves  fuel. 
(The  regular  Sterling  Range  bakes  a  barrel 
of  flour  with  a  single  hod  of  coal.) 

The  49  inch  wide,  4  hole  coal  range  and  4  hole 
gas  range,  all  on  one  level  has  2  separate  ovens.  It 
enables  you  to  cook  easily  and  conveniently  no 
matter  how  few  or  how  many  you  have  to  serve. 
We  leave  it  to  you  if  this  will  not  eliminate  half 
the  work  of  cooking. 

We  will  send  on  request  a  complete  descriptive 
catalog  on  the  "Double  Sterling"  explaining  and 
illustrating  the  40  Sterling  features  which  make  it 
the  range  for  your  kitchen. 

SILL    STOVE     WORKS 

(Established    1849) 

Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Makers    of    Sterling    Toal    Ranges,    Sterling    Scientific 
Combination  Ranges  and  Sterling  Warm  Air  Furnaces 

If  you  do  not  have  gas  connection  write  for  catalog  of  the 

Sterling   Range.      The    Range   that   bakes  a   barrel   of  flour 

with    a    single    hod    of    coal. 


Notes   of   the   Garden    Clubs 


(Continued  from  page  92) 


plished  by  some  of  the  members.  The 
Society  publishes  occasional  leaflets  on 
planting,  the  best  varieties  for  New 
Orleans,  of  shade-loving  plants  and 
vines,  roses,  evergreens,  sweet  peas, 
chrysanthemums,  sweet-scented  plants, 
ferns  for  outdoor  use,  foliage  plants, 
winter-blooming  plants,  annuals,  gar- 
den pests,  and  arrangement  of  small 
gardens.  In  May,  1920,  there  was  a 
garden  contest. 

ELLEN  P.  CUNNINGHAM. 


In  order  to  make  complete  this  rec- 
ord oj  the  work  of  America's  garden 
clubs,  we  would  greatly  appreciate  it 
if  any  club  which  has  not  already  re- 
ceived a  note  from  Mrs.  Cunningham 
would  communicate  with  her,  sending 
the  r.::::es  oj  the  officers  and  other  data 
of  interest.  Mrs.  J.  W.  Cunningham 
may  be  addressed  in  care  of  the  Ed- 
itorial Department,  House  &  Garden, 
19  West  Forty-fourth  St.,  New  York.— 
EDITOR. 


NEW   PAINT    FOR   OLD    FRIENDS 


THEY  were  both  old.  But  where 
one  was  brilliant,  interesting  and 
different,  the  other  was  common- 
place, drab  and  ugly.  An  Egyptian 
mummy  case  and  a  neglected  house  in 
the  Connecticut  hills.  The  link  ?  Paint. 

Paint  had  transformed  a  plain  wooden 
box,  over  five  thousand  years  old  into 
a  thing  of  exceptional  beauty.  Most  of 
the  charm  and  interest  was  due  to  the 
successful  use  of  pigment.  What  might 
not  be  accomplished  by  this  same  means, 
in  the  forlorn  old  house  hidden  away 
amid  sweeping  hills?  Inspiration  had 
come  with  admiration  for  the  art  of 
ancient  Egypt.  Paint  could  solve  our 
problem  and  make  a  house  we  had 
thought  hopeless  not  only  possible,  but 
charming  and  interesting  as  well.  So 
we  went  to  work. 

Fortunately  the  architecture  was  good, 
of  the  rambling  farmhouse  type  that 
is  picturesque  in  spite  of  itself.  The 
shingled  walls  were  painted  white  and 
the  roof,  doors,  shutters  and  trim  a 
dark,  strong  green.  New  red  brick  steps 
with  prim  iron  railings  were  added  and 
a  brick  wall  flanked  on  either  side  by 
borders  of  bright-hued  phlox. 

The  small  porch  was  made  the  most 
of.  For  at  least  three  months  of  the 
year  it  became  an  outdoor  living  room. 
Climbing  honeysuckle  vines  grew  along 
one  end  and  light,  adjustable  porch 
shades,  stained  dark  green  were  added. 
The  furniture  consisted  of  old  wicker 
pieces,  enameled  bright  yellow.  Vivid 
cretonne  that  had  orange,  green,  black 
and  a  tiny  bit  of  Chinese  red  in  it 
made  the  cushions.  Some  odd  tables 
were  painted  a  shiny  black  and  the  green 
flower  boxes  around  the  railing  were 
filled  with  orange-hued  nasturtiums  and 
daisies.  Sand  colored  grass  rugs  were 
on  the  green  porch  floor  and  hanging 
yellow  baskets  were  filled  with  English 
ivy.  It  was  a  spot  to  rest  in. 

The  inside  seemed  utterly  hopeless. 
Brown  was  everywhere — brown  walls, 
woodwork  and  heavy,  mid-Victorian 
furniture,  in  a  summer  cottage  where 
everything  should  have  been  light  and 
graceful.  We  could  not  afford  to  dis- 
card, so  there  was  only  one  thing  to 
do — paint ! 

The  little  entrance  hall  was  dark  so 
the  walls  were  painted  orange,  the 
woodwork  and  stairs  deep  ivory.  Two 
little  chairs  were  enameled  black  and 
the  seats  covered  in  green  and  orange 
striped  linen.  Pale  orange  silk  curtains 
brought  a  glow  of  warmth  into  what 
had  been  a  cheerless,  drab  interior.  A 
long  mirror  painted  black,  with  jade 
green  and  gold  decorations  completed 
the  grouping. 

In  the  living  room  which  was  flooded 
with  sunlight,  we  decided  on  gray  walls 
and  woodwork  and  a  deep  taupe  floor. 
All  the  heavy,  brown  oak  furniture  was 
enameled  light  gray  also  and  two  small 
chairs  and  a  table  were  done  in  a  soft 
yellow.  For  hangings,  cretonne  was 
used — a  lovely  pattern  in  which  gray 
blue  was  the  predominant  color,  com- 
bined with  yellow,  mauve,  a  little  green 
and  gray.  A  plain  rug  in  a  deeper 
shade  of  blue  was  on  the  floor.  The 
lamps  were  brass  urns  with  stiff,  yel- 


low parchment  shades  that  had  a  border 
and  fine  line  of  blue  for  decoration.  As 
the  room  needed  some  contrasting  color, 
two  Chinese  red  jars  were  placed  on 
the  mantel,  flanked  by  brass  candle- 
sticks. From  a  brown  monstrosity,  the 
room  had  become  informal,  graceful 
and  restful,  the  cool,  blue-gray  coloring 
adding  much  to  one's  comfort  during 
the  hot,  mid-summer  months. 

The  dining  room  had  some  lovely  old 
mahogany  furniture  that  demanded  an 
attractive  setting.  We  decided  on  painted 
yellow  walls,  deep  ivory  woodwork  and 
a  dark  brown  floor.  The  chair  seats, 
originally  covered  in  brown  velour,  were 
done  in  a  striped  green  and  buff  linen. 
Flowered  chintz  that  had  lots  of  cool, 
soft  green  in  it  made  the  hangings  and 
as  the  view  of  the  garden  was  especially 
lovely  from  this  room,  no  glass  curtains 
were  used.  A  two-toned  tan  rug  com- 
pleted a  simple,  restful  color  scheme. 

In  one  bedroom  the  furniture  was 
wicker,  enameled  light  tan.  Here  the 
walls  and  woodwork  were  painted  a 
soft  greenish  blue  and  the  floor  dark 
brown.  Sand  colored  pongee  made  the 
hangings,  and  the  cushions  and  bed 
spreads  were  of  glazed  chintz  in  mul- 
berry, greenish  blue  and  yellow. 

Another  bedroom  had  heavy  oak  fur- 
niture that  was  thoroughly  impossible. 
This  was  painted  a  silvery  green  and 
decorated  with  nosegays  of  old-fash- 
ioned flowers.  Immediately  the  aspect 
and  atmosphere  of  the  room  changed. 
The  furniture  could  never  be  graceful — 
its  shape  forever  prohibited  that,  but 
it  assumed  a  certain  grace  and  light- 
ness which  was  the  next  best  thing. 
Cream  painted  walls,  mauve,  terra  cotta, 
blue  and  yellow  chintz  and  a  mauve  rag 
rug  on  a  black  floor  made  a  room  that 
was  effective  and  easy  to  live  in. 

There  was  a  little  store  room  on  the 
upper  floor  that  became  a  den.  The 
walls  were  painted  gray,  and  the  wood- 
work and  floor  the  same  color  in  a 
darker  shade.  The  hangings  were  Chin- 
ese red  silk  and  some  old  chairs  and 
a  bench  were  painted  the  same  red.  A 
jade  green  tea  set  was  on  a  small,  black 
lacquer  table  and  two  brass  bowls  were 
filled  with  yellow  daisies. 

In  a  general  decorating  scheme  the 
kitchen  is  so  apt  to  be  neglected.  It 
can  be  one  of  the  most  uninteresting 
rooms  from  a  decorator's  standpoint  or 
one  of  the  most  effective.  This  kitchen 
was  transformed  from  a  dull,  brown 
room  into  one  that  had  color  for  its 
keynote  and  immediately  became  indi- 
vidual. The  walls  were  painted  butter 
color  and  the  woodwork  black.  Black 
and  white  linoleum  was  on  the  floor 
and  at  the  windows  hung  blue  and 
white  check  gingham  curtains.  All  the 
cooking  utensils  were  bright  blue.  The 
stove  also  was  blue  and  the  cabinet, 
table  and  chairs,  white  enamel.  Surely 
a  room  easy  to  cook  in. 

An  Egyptian  mummy  case  was  re- 
sponsible for  it  all.  Without  it  the  idea 
might  not  have  been  born.  Old  things 
had  become  new,  miraculously  trans- 
formed by  hard  work  and  many  coats 
of  paint.  The  old  house  had  charm. 
MARGARET  MCELROY. 


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Number 


•rentofthetfeneraliife 
But  small  experiences  of  every  day, 
Concerns  of  the  particular  hearth  and  home. 

Browning! 


Standard  Authors  of  all  that  concerns 
the  Particular  Hearth  and  Home 


W&J.  SLOAN  E 

Fifth  Ave.&47^  St. 
New  York  City, 


Rugs, Objects  of  Art, 
Old   English    Interiors 
Decorations  &  Furniture 

San  Francisco,       Washington,  D.C. 


November,     1920 


House  &  Garden 


CONDK    NAST,  Publisher 

RICHARDSON    WRIGHT.     Editor 

R.    -.    I  I  M  Ml  >  V  Managing  Editor 


THE     HOUSE     AT    CHRISTMAS 


EACH  month,  as  the  forthcoming  issue  of 
HOUSE  &  GAKDEN  takes  shape  under  our 
hands,  we  become  absorbed  in  it  to  the 
partial  exclusion  of  all  others.  It  seems  a  living, 
personal  thing,  embodying  with  particular  aptness 
the  spirit  of  the  home  which  we  hold  before  us 
as  an  editorial  ideal.  This  is  true  of  every  issue 
through  the  year,  but  it  applies  with  particular 
force  to  the  Christmas  House  Number. 

For  Christmas  is  essentially  a  home  time,  a  sea- 
son when  one's  thoughts  draw  close  about  the 
blazing  log  fire  on  the  hearth  and  the  glittering 
spruce  tree  behind  locked  doors  in  the  living  room 
where  the  children  may  not  even  peep  at  the 
treasures  with  which  its  branches  are  laden.  And 
the  December  issue  is  a  home  issue,  filled  with 
home  things. 

Outstanding,  of  course,  will  be  the  pages  of 
Christmas  gift  suggestions — ten  of  them  in  all. 
Games  for  the  children  there  will  be  in  abundance, 
to  amuse  them  on  stormy  days  or  clear;  gifts  for 
the  lady  of  the  house,  for  the  man,  for  the  guest 
within  their  gates;  gifts  for  the  girl,  for  the  boy, 
for  the  dining  room,  for  the  boudoir.  And  gifts 
that  can't  be  classified  as  for  any  particular  per- 
son, but  which  will  answer  that  old,  perplexing 


In  the  December  issue  will  be  an 

article    on    the    revival    oj    wax 

miniatures,  of   which   this   is   an 

illustration 


question,  "What  shall  I  give?"  It  occurred  to  us 
not  to  let  the  matter  stop  even  here,  so  we  have 
gathered  together  ideas  for  a  page  on  wrapping 
up  Christmas  parcels  in  ways  that  are  attractively 
distinctive. 

The  spirit  of  indoors  is  carried  on  by  many 
other  pages.  Gardner  Teall  writes  charmingly  of 
old-time  samplers,  and  to  the  subject  of  wax 
miniatures  we  are  giving  two  more  pages.  The 
decoration  o'f  nurseries  is  discussed  through  the 
medium  of  an  interesting  set  of  photographs,  and 
a  New  York  sculptor's  charming  apartment  is 
shown  in  all  its  features.  If  it  would  not  be 
giving  away  a  secret,  we  would  like  to  use  up  the 
rest  of  this  space  talking  about  Peyton  Boswell's 
article  on  wood  blocks,  but  you  can  read  that  for 
yourself  in  a  few  weeks.  The  spirit  of  Christ- 
mas is  coming  upon  us  and  we  want  to  sur- 
prise you. 

One  cannot  enjoy  these  nice  fireside  things  with- 
out a  warm  house  to  shut  out  the  wind  and  snow, 
so  the  story  on  the  why  and  wherefore  of  weather- 
stripping  is  really  apropos.  And  just  to  round  out 
the  issue,  there  will  be  several  new  houses,  a  mill 
remodeled  into  a  home,  and  several  pages  on  gar- 
den walls  and  the  things  that  grow  within  them. 


Contents  for  November,  1920.      Volume  XXXV HI,  No.  Five 


COVER  DESIGN  BY  MARGARET  HARPER 

THE  SPIRIT  OF  THE  LATIN 18 

Guy  Lowell,  Architect 
Is  "ITALIAN"  ARCHITECTURE  REALLY  ITALIAN  ? 19 

Guy  Lowell 
THE  HOUSE  or  DEVEREUX  MILBURN,  WESTBURY,  L.  1 22 

Peabody,  Wilson  &  Brown,  Architects 

CATALOGS — AND  OTHER  THINGS 24 

GRADUAL  STEPS  IN  THE  GARDEN 25 

Peabody,  Wilson  fr  Brown,  Architects 
THE  WARE  OF  THOMAS  WHIELDON,  POTTER 26 

Gaidner  Teall 
GRATES  AND  RAILINGS  OF  SPANISH  IRON 28 

Jesusa  Aljau 
A  CITY  BACKYARD  GARDEN 29 

Ruth  Dean 
THE  COTTAGES  OF  CALIFORNIA 30 

Lucy  Rogers 
A  MOTHER-IN-LAW  HOUSE 32 

Peggy  Nichols 
A  SMALL  COLONIAL  HOUSE  IN  UPPER  NEW  YORK 33 

James  Dwight  Baum,  Architect 
SEEING  YOUR  HOUSE  BEFORE  IT  Is  BUILT 34 

Alwyn  T.  Covell 


THE  EVOLUTION  OF  A  HOUSE  PLAN 36 

Matlack  Price 
How  A  DECORATOR  WORKS 38 

Anita  de  Campi 

THE  RETURN  OF  THE  ZUBER  PAPERS 40 

A  LITTLE  PORTFOLIO  OF  GOOD  INTERIORS 41 

DECORATING   THE   THANKSGIVING   TABLE 44 

Mary  Tucker 
AMERICAN  PRINTS  AND  THEIR  USES 46 

Peyton  Boswell 
PERIOD  DESIGNS  IN  MUSICAL  INSTRUMENTS 47 

Charles  D.  Isaacson 
THE  PLACING  AND  CARE  OF  HOUSE  PLANTS 48 

G.  T.  Huntington 

THE  GROWING  FARMS  OF  FRANCE 50 

To  STAND  BESIDE  THE  DESK 52 

THE  CASE  OF  THE  STATIONARY  VACUUM   CLEANER 53 

Ethel  R.  Peyser 

PLANNING  THE  WIRING  FOR  A  HOUSE 54 

M.  Luckiesh 

CROPS  TO  GROW  IN  THE   CELLAR 55 

Margaret  McElroy 
THE  GARDENER'S  CALENDAR 56 


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House    &f    Garden 


THE     SPIRIT     OF    THE     LATIN 


The  creation  of  a  truly  Italian  house  is 
not  a  question  of  materials,  but  of  the 
way  materials  are  used.  Its  success  lies  in 
the  designer's  art  and  his  skill  in  develop- 
ing perfection  of  detail.  Southern  Cali- 
fornia seems  especially  well  adapted  to  be 
a  setting  for  Italian  architecture,  a  condi- 
tion which  contributes  markedly  to  the 


charm  of  this  white  stucco  house  near 
Santa  Barbara.  From  its  loggia  one  looks 
out  across  a  broad  terrace  to  the  Pacific, 
dotted  with  the  islands  of  the  Californian 
coast.  The  living  rooms,  whkh  here  ap- 
pear to  be  on  the  second  floor,  are  really 
on  the  entrance  level,  as  shown  on  page  21. 
Guy  Lowell,  architect 


November,     1920 


IS 


"ITALIAN"     ARCHITECTURE     REALLY     ITALIAN! 

A  Discussion  of  the  Use  and  Misuse  in  America  of  a  Type  of  Architecture  Whose  Success 
Depends  Upon  the  Three  Factors  of  Design,  Detail  and  Surroundings 


GUY  LOWELL 


AMERICA  has  attained  ac- 
knowledged   pre-eminence 
in  several  of  the  branches  of  art 
during    the    last    twenty  years. 
This    is    particularly    true    of 
architecture,  but  our  art  has  not 
been    developed    under   the    in- 
fluence of  American  surround- 
ings alone.     It  has  been  strong- 
ly affected  by  imported  artistic 
traditions;    the   styles   we   have 
adopted  have  been  firmly  found- 
ed on   foreign   styles;    we  have 
taken  the  best  that  Europe  had 
to  offer  by  way  of  examples  and 
we  have  wisely  studied  the  ar- 
tistic precedents  of  other  lands 
so  as  to  convert  them  skilfully 
to  our  own  use. 

What  is  true  of  art  in  general, 
what  is  true  of  architecture,  is 
particularly  true  of  dwelling 
houses,  and  many  of  the  charm- 
ing designs  which  we  now  see  in 
all  parts  of  this  wide  country  are 
strongly  reminiscent  of  what  we 
have  seen  and  admired  on  our 
foreign  travels.  It  may  have 
been  the  manoir  or  chateau  sur- 
rounded by  the  tall  poplar  trees 
of  France  or  mirrored  in  her 
lazy  rivers;  it  may  have  been 
the  villa  overhanging  the  Alpine 
lake  or  clinging  to  the  Tuscan 
hillsides;  it  may  have  been  the 
cottage  framed  in  by  the  clipped 
hedges  and  park-like  trees  of 
England. 

The  Renaissance  Influence 

There  has  been  above  all  one 
powerful  factor  influencing  the 
evolution  of  our  American  archi- 
tecture. As  one  looks  back, 
one  comes  to  feel  that  there  has 
been  no  more  potent  influence 
m  bringing  our  American  archi- 
tecture to  its  present  high  point 
of  accomplishment  than  has 
been  the  influence  of  the  Italian 
Renaissance  as  interpreted  per- 
haps first  for  us  by  the  late 
Charles  McKim  and  as  con- 
tinued in  the  work  of  his  dis- 
ciples like  York,  Sawyer,  Platt, 
Tracy,  Schwartout,  Magonigle, 
Faville,  whose  work  has  all' 


Aothing  could  be  more  Italian  than  the  way  the  house  sets  on  the  hiU- 

5The,  ±?.fc!"E£5  T*  '*£  Sparsdy  wooded  mountains  behind  it. 

The  mass  o f  the  house  shows  the  variety  of  levels  so  often  seen  in  the 

architecture  on  Italian  hillsides.    Guy  Lowell,  architect 


been  strongly  influenced  b 
what  McKim  himself  taught  us 
and  their  teachings  in  turn 
since  we  Americans  are  crea 
tures  of  habit,  have  had  a  stron< 
influence  on  other  architects. 

It  is  quite  natural,  then,  tha 
those  motives  and  those  propor- 
tions    and     refinements     which 
have  been  developed  by.  the  mort 
skilful    architects    should    have 
been    copied    and    adapted    by 
others  with  less  skill  who  have 
felt  that  in  copying  the  forms 
of     Italian     architecture,     they 
were    expressing    the    spirit    of 
Italian  art.     This  unfortunately 
has  not  always  been  so.      It  is 
no  wonder  then  that  the  feeling 
should   have   arisen    that  much 
which  professes  to  be  Italian  in 
character   is   not   really   so,    for 
often    the    buildings    have    no 
power  to  recall  those  charming 
and    picturesque    houses    which 
the  traveller  has  frequently  ad- 
mired and  wished  to  see  trans- 
planted to  the  soil  of  his  own 
country. 

Design,  Details  and  Surroundings 

So  the  question  is  often  put 
as  to  why  "Italian"  architecture 
m  America  does  not  really  seem 
Italian.    The  usual  explanation, 
which  however  does  not  seem  to 
me  to  be  the  real  one,  is  that  a 
great    deal    of    the    charm    of 
Italian  work  lies  in  its  obvious 
"antiqueness."     As  a  matter  of 
fact,  there  are  many  charming 
buildings  in  Italy  fitting  in  ad- 
mirably    with    the    landscape, 
which  have  been  built  in  recent 
times,    alongside    of    the    older 
buildings  from  which  they  are 
copied,  and  it  is  quite  obvious 
that  their  charm  is  not  the  re- 
sult   of    mildewed    plaster,    of 
worm-eaten  beams  and  of  foot- 
worn flagstones,  but   is  due  to 
design,  to  the  handling  of  de- 
tail,   to    the    harmonious    sur- 
roundings above  all.     If,  then, 
we  can   get    in   this   country   a' 
skilfully    designed    house    with 
sympathetically  handled  details, 


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House     &     Garden 


Outside  stairs  lead 
down  from  the 
main  floor  to  the 
terrace  level  and  on 
to  the  garden  be- 
low. The  planting 
was  done  less  than 
two  years  before 
these  photographs 
were  taken — a  trib- 
ute to  the  Cali- 
fornia climate 

set  in  ;i  landscape  that 
either  naturally  or  as  a 
result  of  skilful  land- 
scape treatment  recall's 
the  Italian,  there  is  no 
reason  why  an  American 
country  house  should  not 
have  all  the  Italian 
charm  which  one  actual- 
ly sees  in  Italy. 

I  do  not  of  course 
mean  to  imply  that  only 
what  is  Italian  can  le 
charming,  for  many  of 
the  adaptations  of  for- 
eign types  are  charming 
in  themselves.  Much  of 
our  own  indigenous 
architecture  of  pre-Revo- 
lutionary  times  is  clean 
cut  and  satisfying.  We 
are  really  concerned  for 
the  moment  only  with 
the  Italian  type.  The 
trouble  has  been  that 
much  which  is  only  a 
crude  imitation  has  been 
wrongly  named.  A 
house  put  up  on  a  small 


At  the  left  is  a 
gardener's  cottage, 
with  the  garage  at 
a  lower  level.  Here 
the  character  of 
t  h  e  surrounding 
landscape,  the 
treatment  of  the 
walls  and  the  pro- 
fusion of  flowers 
are  strongly  sug- 
gestive of  Italy 

suburban  lot,  as  long  as 
it  had  a  red  roof  and 
white  walls,  became  an 
"Italian  villa."  But 
these  Dago  -  Colonial 
buildings  as  they  might 
be  called  in  the  East,  or 
Neo-Mediterranean  as 
they  might  be  called  in 
the  West,  though  they 
follow  the  outward 
forms,  do  not  have  the 
Latin  spirit. 

When  is  the  picture 
complete,  when  does  it 
rightly  recall  the  har- 
monious combination  of 
all  the  elements  of  de- 


sign: 


It    seems   to    me 


that  for  this  the  forms 
and  materials  should 
first  of  all  be  strongly 
reminiscent  of  what  we 
have  seen  in  Italy.  This 
does  not  in  any  sense 
mean  that  we  are  re- 
stricted to  the  use  of  red 
tiles  and  stuccoed  walls, 
for  the  materials  used 


November,     1920 


21 


The  terrace  is  irregularly  paved  and  commands 
tensive    views.     The  white  stucco  of  the  house  n 
admirably  sets  off  the  purple  Bougainvillaea  and 
Golden  Bell 

throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  the 
Italian  peninsula  are  as  varied  as  those  which 
the  energetic  building  material  salesman  offers 
to  us  in  America.  Sometimes  the  carving  is 
done  in  marble,  at  other  times  even  in  Italy 
the  modelling  is  only  in  stucco.  The  Istrian 
stone  of  the  balustrade  may  be  worn  smooth 
where  generations  have  rubbed  against  their 
now  rounded  moldings.  In  Tuscany  the  pietra 
serena  is  as  clear  cut  today  after  several  cen- 


ex- 

talls 
the 


turies,      as      when      it     was 
quarried  in  the  mountainside. 

What  Is  Needed 

It  is  not,  then,  a  question 
of  materials,  but  the  way  ma- 
terials are  used.  It  is  art,  it 
is  skill,  it  is  the  perfection  of 
detail.  That  is  what  is 
needed  here  to  give  Latin 
charm  to  our  Italian  houses. 
The  ready-made  house  build- 
er cannot  do  it  for  us;  the 
man  who  casts  his  balus- 
trades in  cement  cannot  do 
it  for  us;  the  builder-designed 
house  in  the  outlying  suburb 
cannot  do  it  for  us.  Poplar 
trees  planted  to  recall  the 
plains  of  Lombard}',  or  bay 
trees  as  substitutes  for  the 
more  freely  branching 
oleander  cannot  give  it  to  us, 
but  when  all  these  various 
elements  are  right — when 
materials,  lines,  planting, 
surroundings  are  right — then 
a  house  built  on  the  sands  of 
Long  Island  or  on  the  slopes 
«f  the  Western  ocean  ex- 
presses to  us  some  of  the  sun- 
shine and  some  of  the  joyous- 
ness  of  the  soul  of  the  Latin 


race. 

Fortunately  there  are  many  successful  ex- 
amples of  real  Italian  architecture  in  this 
country,  and  nowhere  has  this  work  been  more 
successfully  carried  out  than  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia. To  one  who  has  made  a  study  of  the 
smaller  villas  and  picturesque  farmhouses  of 
the  Italian  Renaissance,  there  is  much  that  is 
full  of  the  cheerfulness  and  charm  of  the 
Italian  work  to  l)e  found  near  Los  Angeles 
and  Santa  Barbara,  and  every  architect  might 


The  steps  leading  down  the  canyon  side  of  the  house 

to  the  garden  are  of  brick.     The  stucco  balustrade 

with    its    plants    in    bright    pots    is    strongly    in    the 

Italian  spirit 


well  wish  to  have  a  chance  to  design  a  home 
for  some  sunny  slope  beside  the  Pacific.  The 
photographs  accompanying  this  article  show 
where  in  a  spot  favored  in  every  way  by  na- 
ture, where  the  hills  rise  abruptly  near  the 
sea,  where  the  live  oaks  give  their  dark  green 
color  to  the  landscape,  where  flowers  and  vines 
grow  up  luxuriantly  almost  over  night,  an 
opportunity  was  offered  to  express  the  Latin 
spirit. 


On  the  entrance  side  the  house  appears  low,  a  characteristic  which  the  view  on  page  19  belies.    The  roof  is  of 
hand-made    variegated    tile,    the    woodwork,    trimmings   and  flower  pots   are   blue,   and   the   stucco   is   white 


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House     &•     Garden 


The  mew  along  the 
south  porch  shows 
the  stucco  watts 
broken  around  the 
doors  and  windows 
with  brick.  The 
ceiling  beams  are 
rough-hewn  timbers 
•with  stucco  be- 
tween. Quarry  tiles 
make  the  floor 


The  house  is  of 
stucco  and  hollow 
tile  with  brick  trim; 
the  rooj  of  vari- 
colored slate.  The 
shutters  are  green. 
This  is  the  view 
from  the  northeast, 
showing  the  kitchen 
wing  in  the  fore- 
ground 


Tebbs 


From  the  southeast 
one  sees  the  garden. 
The  original  prop- 
erty was  an  open 
farm,  innocent  of 
tree  or  shrub,  and 
all  the  planting  was 
put  in  after  the 
house  was  finished 
and  the  terracing 
completed 


In  the  living  room 
the  walls  are  pan- 
eled in  antiqued  ap- 
ple wood,  giving  a 
grayish  brown  tone, 
with  the  knots  and 
irregularities  show- 
ing in  pleasant  re- 
lief. The  mantel  is 
massive  and  of 
carved  limestone 


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23 


Before  the  house  runs  a  broad 
terrace — a  stretch  oj  lawn,  then 
a  bricked  path  close  to  the  wall 
and  leading  to  the  pergola. 
This  gives  gradual  approach  to 
the  house  and  helps  make  the 
house  a  part  of  its  setting. 
Vines  and  transplanted  trees 
soften  the  lines  and  complete 
the  unification 


The     HOME 

of  DEVEREUX 

MILBURN, 

WESTBURY,  L.  I. 

PEABODY,  WILSON 
&  BROWN,  Architects 


Round  brick  pillars  set  on  stone 
bases  are  an  unusual  detail  oj 
the  pergola.  Overhead  the 
beams  are  rough  hewn.  The 
contrasts  between  while  painted 
brick  and  rude  timbers,  be- 
tween the  solid  superstructure 
and  the  low  growth  of  green 
things,  give  the  garden  unique 
charm 


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House     &•     Garden 


CATALOGS— AND      OTHER      THINGS 


SOME  years  ago  there  appeared  in  HOUSE  &  GARDEN  an  article  by  two,  of  the  great  ideal  that  was  developing  day  by  day,  rising  steadily 

a  prominent  'architect  in  which  he  stated  that  on  several  occasions  out  of  the  formlessness  of  rock  mass  and  lumber  pile,  growing,  growing 

prospective  clients  had  come  to  him  bearing  whole  suitcases  filled  with  into  the  house   of  their  dreams,  where  the  years  of   city   apartment 

illustrations  clipped   from  magazines   which   show  houses   and  plans,  dwelling  would  become  things  of  the  past  and  the  man  could  have  a 

out  of  the  mass  of  which  they  had  conceived  a  rather  definite  idea  of  photographic  dark-room  all  his  own.     They  had  entered  a  new  era,  an 

the  sort  of  house  they  wished  to  build.     The  author  went  further  and  absorbing  game  with  the  goal  already  in  sight;   and  it  was  good  to 

said  that  such  clients,  while  some  of  their  ideas  might  be  impractical,  hear  them. 


were  the  most  interesting  to  work  with  and  the  most  completely  satisfied 
with  the  finished  job.  Their  own  investigations  made  it  possible 
for  them  to  understand  their  houses  through  all  the  stages  of  their 
creation,  and  see  the  whys  and  wherefores  of  the  architect's  suggestions. 
Now,  this  is  easy  enough  to  understand,  and  merely  bears  out  a 


Later,  by  the  light  of  an  electric  torch,  we  explored  the  house  again, 
climbing  ladders,  peering  through  doorway  openings,  balancing  along 
exposed  floor  beams.  The  porch  fireplace,  the  finish  of  the  outside 
stonework,  the  trim,  the  windows — all  came  in  for  their  share  of  en- 
thusiastic comment  and  explanation.  Every  detail  was  familiar,  all  the 


principle  which  we  have  often  cited — that  the  man  or  woman  who      pros  and  cons  of  the  many  questions  which  had  arisen  they  understood. 

plans  to  build  a  house  should  learn  beforehand  as  much  as  possible      Everything  was  so  personal,  so  vital  to  them;  almost  as  though  they 

were  doing  the  building  with  their  own  hands.     In  the  broadest  sense 
of  the  words,  the  house  was  theirs. 

I  came  away  from  that  visit  with  three  outstanding  impressions: 
that  these  two  had  studied  magazines,  books  and  catalogs  carefully  as 
their  plan  took  form;  that  it  was  going  to  be  a  splendid  little  house; 
and  that  the  whole  thing  was  the  greatest  fun  in  the  world  for  them. 
And  of  these  three  impressions,  the  one  that  seemed  the  most  worth 

while  was  the  last. 


of  what  goes  into  the  construction  of  that  house,  and  where  it  goes. 
One  does  not  buy  a  motor  car  without  knowing  the  "talking  points" 
of  its  design  and  mechanism.  One  should  not  build  a  house  in 
ignorance  of  its  architectural  details,  equipment  and  finish. 

THE  pages  of  the  architectural  magazines  offer  the  most  obvious 
source  of  this  pre-building  knowledge.    The  many  excellent  books 
on    the   subject    are    another — and    here 
most   people   are  inclined   to   end   their 
search,  overlooking  the  third  source,  and 
the  least  expensive  of  all.    This  is  noth- 
ing more  or  less  than  the  catalogs  of  the 
building  and  house  equipment  trades. 

Do  not  gasp — I  am  not  thinking  of 
the  thousand-page  mail  order  volume, 
illustrated  with  crude  sketches  printed  on 
paper  that  makes  that  of  the  telephone 
directory  de  luxe  by  comparison.  No, 
the  modern  catalog  of  building  or  dec- 
oration or  gardening  is  not  like  that.  It 
is  a  book,  rather  flian  a  price-list.  In 
place  of  the  old-time  line  cuts  it  has 
photographic  reproductions,  often  in 
color  where  the  subject  calls  for  that; 
heavy  plate  paper;  well  written  text  that 
the  non-technical  reader  can  understand, 
and  a  clear,  concise  presentation  of  the 
whole  subject.  Artistic  and  informative 
— one  could  search  further  and  find  far 
less  of  valuable  help  in  whatever  house 
problem  may  be  under  consideration,  be 
it  of  building,  decoration  or  special 
equipment. 

To  suggest  to  prospective  house  build- 
ers that  they  gather  together  a  library  of 
catalogs  may  be  stretching  the  preroga- 
tive of  advice,  but  there  is  something  in 
the  idea.  It  would  not  be  difficult  to 
accommodate  and  classify  such  a  library 
— a  filing  cabinet  with  folders  for  the 
principle  subjects,  such  as  Roofing, 
Paints,  Wall  Materials,  Windows,  In- 
terior Finish,  Furniture,  Kitchen  Equip- 
ment, etc.,  would  contain  it  in  readily 
available  form.  A  card  file  of  references 
would  hardly  be  needed;  the  marked 
folders  would  take  care  of  that. 

Think  what  a  volume  of  pertinent  facts  such  a  library  would  contain ! 

NOT  long  ago  I  visited  a  house  that  was  under  construction.  The 
owners  are  young,  tremendously  interested,  and  evolved  the  whole 
original  conception  themselves  with  the  aid  of  a  home-made  model 
which  gave  their  architect  a  very  clear  idea  of  what  they  wanted. 

We  drove  out  to  the  house  about  sunset,  with  thermos  bottles,  cold 
roast  chicken,  cake  and  all  the  other  ingredients  of  a  modern  al  fresco 
supper  stowed  in  a  corner  of  the  car.  The  carpenters  and  masons  had 
long  since  quit  for  the  day,  and  the  late  summer  orchestra  of  katydids 
and  crickets  was  tuning  up  for  its  nightly  concert  among  the  trees  on 
the  steeply  sloping  hillside. 

On  the  rough  planks  of  the  second  floor  we  improvised  a  table  out 
of  two  boards,  a  nail  keg  and  a  carpenter's  "horse",  and  dined  in 
comfort  while  the  dusk  deepened  and  the  rafter  skeleton  of  the  roof 


A  hall  and  interior  doorway  in  the  New  York 
home  of  Miss  Ruth  Dean,  landscape  architect 


FOR  indeed,  what  would  building  a 
first  house  —  or  a  second,  or  a  third 
—  be  without  the  fun  of  planning?  One 
can  picture  a  great  merchant  watching 
the  erection  of  his  new  office  building, 
coldly  calculating  the  amount  of  floor 
space  in  this  section  or  that,  leaving  the 
details  to  the  architect  he  has  employed, 
asking  nothing,  interested  in  nothing  but 
the  "efficiency"  of  the  completed  whole. 
The  very  magnitude  of  the  work  pre- 
cludes any  feeling  of  intimacy  with  the 
details  of  its  planning.  What  a  dull, 
uninspiring,  worrying  thing  it  must  all 
be  for  him! 

But  let  that  same  merchant  build  a 
house,  and  if  he  is  a  human,  kindly  man, 
you  will  scarcely  recognize  him.  He 
holds  long  conferences  with  his  architect, 
neglecting  his  business,  suggesting,  dis- 
cussing, accepting  or  rejecting.  He  never 
thinks  of  it  as  work  or  duty  or  necessity  ; 
he  is  planning  a  thing  essentially  for  his 
family  and  himself,  and  his  enthusiasm 
for  it  absorbs  him. 

The  feeling  of  ownership,  the  realiza- 
tion that  by  his  own  thought  and  initia- 
tive he  is  creating  a  place  that  is  more 
than  a  mere  hired  protection  from  the 
wind  and  rain  —  these  are  valued  priv- 
ileges indeed.  They  merge  naturally  into 
the  contentment  which  will  come  with 
the  years  of  living  in  that  house.  They 
are  phases  of  the  building  game  which 
are  no  less  real  for  that  they  cannot  be 
seen  by  the  eye  or  touched  by  the 
hand. 


AvTD  so  we  come  back  to  our  starting  point,  to  the  principle  that 
familiarity  with  the  things  of  which  a  house  is  built  and  equipped 
is  essential  to  the  greatest  pleasure  and  understanding  and  ultimate 
satisfaction.  You  can  truly  picture  the  comfort  of  that  living  room, 
or  the  convenience  of  that  kitchen,  or  the  beauty  of  those  roof  lines 
with  the  changing  shadows  of  the  trees  upon  them  only  if  you  know 
the  underlying  bases  which  make  them  what  they  are  to  be.  You  will 
find  your  architect  all  the  more  a  friend  if  you  can  go  to  him  with  a 
broad  knowledge  of  your  own. 

After  all,  the  building  of  a  house  can  be  as  much  a  matter  of  friend- 
ship as  of  business.  It  means  creating  one  of  the  most  personal,  inti- 
mate things  in  the  world,  something  which  through  the  ages  has  held 
as  great  importance  in  men's  lives  as  the  food  wherewith  they  are 
nourished,  or  the  fire  which  warms  their  bodies  against  the  winter's 
cold.  And  in  proportion  as  it  is  an  undertaking  of  the  heart,  so  will 


above  us  drew  away  into  the  gloom.    And  as  we  sat  they  talked,  those      its  planning  become  one  of  the  Great  Adventures 


R.  S.  L. 


November,     192-0 


25 


T.IA3 


GRADUAL  STEPS  IN  THE  GARDEN 


Garden  steps  should  be  broad  and  flat, 
with  short  risers  and  wide  treads.  This 
avoids  abruptness,  and  abruptness  it  the 
one  element  that  should  never  be  permitted 
in  a  garden.  Wide,  low  steps  give  a  sense 
of  gradual  approach  to  the  house,  and  that 
is  as  it  should  be.  Their  stone  is  a  relief  to 


the  green  planting  about  them  and,  if  the 
terrace  wall  has  a  rail  of  wrought  iron  and 
the  front  of  the  landing  a  little  wall  foun- 
tain and  pool,  then  they  are  the  perfect 
garden  steps.  This  example  is  from  the 
home  of  Devereux  Milburn  at  Westbury, 
L.I.  Peabody,  Wilson  &  Brown,  architects 


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House     &     Garden 


Two  examples  oj 
Whieldon  agate  ware 
teapots,  showing  the 
remarkable  veining  of 
color 


THE     WARE     OF     T  H  O  iM  A  S     WHIELDON,     POTTER 

This  18th  Century  Master  Had  Wedgwood  for  Partner  and  Left  Us  a  Heritage 

of  Distinctive  Wares  That  Collectors  Should  Enjoy 


GARDNER  TEALL 


IN  the  history  of  the 
art  of  the  English 
potters,  the  Whieldon 
period,  which  extended 
from  1740  to  1780,  is 
one  of  the  utmost  impor- 
tance. Despite  this  fact, 
collectors  of  Whieldon 
ware  have  been  few  in 
America,  although  devo- 
tees at  the  shrine  of  the 
blue-and-white  Stafford- 
shire have  been  myriad, 
and  hundreds  have  been 
worshippers  of  the  wares 
of  Wedgwood,  who  be- 
came Whieldon's  part- 
ner from  1753  to  17S9. 
There  have  been  those 
who  have  contended  that 
Whieldon  owed  much  of 
his  reputation  to  the 
group  of  his  associates 
and  apprentices  who  sub- 
sequently became  so  fa- 
mous— J  o  s  i  a  h  Wedg- 
wood, Josiah  S  p  o  d  e  , 
William  Greatbach, 
Aaron  Wood  (who  was  employed  by 
Whieldon  as  a  block  cutter  at  Little  Fen- 
ton)  and  others.  Be  this  as  it  may,  I 
think  there  can  be  no  question  but  that  the 
master  hand  and  the  master  mind  of 
Thomas  Whieldon  inspired  the  efforts  of 
these  younger  men  and  gave  them  the 
foundation  on  which  their  later  successes 
were  reared. 


A  group  of 
Whieldon  fig- 
ures, from  the 
collection  o) 
Mr.  Myers 


The  rediscovery  of  the 
original  manuscript  "Ac- 
count and  Memorandum 
Book  of  Thomas  Whiel- 
don" by  Mr.  T.  W.  Twy- 
ford  of  Whitmore  Hall 
in  Staffordshire,  and  its 
presentation    by    Mr. 
Frank   Partridge  to  the 
Hanley  ( Stoke-on-Trent) 
Museum  has  given   im- 
petus to  a  revival  of  in- 
terest among  collectors  in 
the  subject  of  Whieldon 
ware.     In  this  little  book 
we  find  recorded  the  fol- 
lowing   entry:       "1749. 
April    9.       Hired    Siah 
Spoade,  to  give  him  from 
this  time   to   Martelmas 
next  2s.  3d.,  or  2s.  6d.,  if 
he   deserves   it."      If   he 
deserves    it  —  the    great 
Josiah    Spode    who,    as 
Arthur  Hayden  observes, 
acclimatized  the  "Willow 
Pattern"      in      Stafford- 
shire!  The  same  year  he 
"Hired  a  boy  of  Ann  Blowes  for  treading 
ye  lathe"  at  2s.  per  week,  but  I  imagine 
Boy  Blowes  grew  heartily  sick  of  his  job 
and  found  no  incentive  in  it  for  clamber- 
ing up  the  steep  hillside  of  Fame  to  sit 
with    Wedgwood,    Spode    and    the    gods. 
There  must  have  been  many  "now-and- 
thens"  turning  up  at  Whieldon's  pottery 
to  be  set  to  work  for  anything  they  were 


An  oval  platter 
of  Whieldon 
make.  Courtesy 
of  Mr.  Louis  E. 
Myers 


Tortoise  shell  ware  was  a  feature  of 

Thomas  Whieldon's  pottery.     This  is 

a  characteristic  octagonal  plate 


Another  type  of  Whieldon  ware  was  the  ani- 
mal figures.     Teapot  and  cat  of  tortoise  shell 
pattern;  chickens  in  white  and  brown 


In  addition  to  the  remarkable  tortoise 

shell  glaze  that  Whieldon  used  was  the 

pierced  work,  as  in  this  platter 


November,     1920 


27 


Mottled  Whicldon  is  a  type  dis- 
tinct jrom  the  tortoise  shell.  This 
teapot  is  an  example  of  the  mot- 
tled glaze 


Flowers  and  fruit  in  natural  col- 
ors above  a  lattice  base  decorate 
this   example   of  Thomas   Whiel- 
don's  ware 


worth,  entries  showing  that 
to  a  worker  named  Cupit 
Whieldon  was  to  give  "a  old 
pr.  stockins,  or  something", 
while  Wm.  Marsh  was  to 
have  ''a  old  Coat  or  some- 
thing abt.  5s.  value."  A 
shilling  a  week  was  to  be 
given  "little  Bet  Blowr"  the 
first  year,  two  and  thr'pence 
the  second  and  two  and  six 
the  third  to  learn  flower- 
painting.  I  suppose  this 
made  it  possible  to  charge 
Mr.  Thomas  Fletcher  but  8s. 
for  a  dozen  tortoise  shell 
plates  and  but  2s.  for  a  dozen 
painted  ones.  What  would 
the  Workmen's  Committees 
say  to  Thomas  \Yhieldon's 
account  book  today!  How  dimly  re- 
mote seems  the  contentment  of  the 
Staffordshire  potters  of  yesterday! 
A  Time  of  Transition 

When  Thomas  \Yhieldon  became 
an  independent  potter  Staffordshire 
wares  were  in  what  may  well  be  con- 
sidered a  distinctly  transitional  stage. 
The  elder  Astbury,  working  from 
1736  to  1743,  experimented  with  fig- 
ures in  clays  of  different  colors  and 
with  lead  glazes  which,  though  very 
crude,  are  still  interesting.  Agate  ef- 
fects of  intermingled  clays  and  the 
splashed  and  clouded  decoration  later 
perfected  by  Whieldon  and  others  took 
rise  at  this  time.  But  these  pieces 
had  nothing  of 
the  beauty  and 
quality  of  the 
wares  that 
Whieldon  came 
to  produce. 
Half-tone  repro- 


Although  the  interest- 
ing animal  figures  at- 
tract most  collectors, 
examples  of  Whieldon's 
mottled  ware,  as  the 
set  above,  are 
valuable 


quite 


The  two  teapots 
above  are  of 
Whieldon  ware  with 
reliefs  in  the  Chi- 
nese style  and  char- 
acteristic Chinese 
shapes 


The  tortoise  shell  glaze 
wan  used  on  this  cov- 
ered bowl  with  the  leaf 
design  by  Whieldon, 
which  is  in  the  private 
collection  of  Mr.  Louis 
E.  Myers 


ductions  can  scarcely  give 
one  a  hint  of  the  attractive- 
ness of  real  Whieldon,  where- 
in the  colors  are  blended  with 
the  hand  of  an  artist  and  se- 
lected with  unerring  judg- 
ment. The  glazes,  too,  lie- 
speak  Whieldon's  genius  and 
mastery  of  his  art. 

Early  Productions 

Whieldon's  first  products 
were  probably  the  agate  ware 
knife-handles  which  he  made 
for  the  Sheffield  cutlery  trade, 
or  for  the  snufflxw  manu- 
facturers of  Birmingham. 
Up  to  1753  Whieldon  also 
produced  quantities  of  pot- 
tery toy  figures,  chimney  or- 
naments, black-glaze  pots  for  tea  and 
coffee,  plates  of  tortoise  shell  ware, 
and  the  marbled  and  mottled  pieces. 
Although  Whieldon  never  marked  his 
wares  definitely,  thus  making  it  diffi- 
cult to  insist  on  their  identity  at  times, 
nevertheless  they  are  "signed  every 
inch"  as  much  as  might  be  an  un- 
signed Rembrandt.  Whieldon's  wares 
fall  broadly  into  five  classes:  (1) 
Black  glaze  pots  for  tea,  coffee  and 
chocolate;  (2)  Pottery  figures,  bird 
and  animal  toys  and  chimney  orna- 
ments; (3)  Solid  agate  ware;  (4) 
Mottled,  marbled  and  tortoise  shell 
wares;  (5)  Cauliflower,  pineapple, 
maize  and  other  like  wares. 

'I 'he  black  glaze  ware  was  an  in- 
heritance of  pot- 
ters from  a  pre- 
Tudor  period, 
following  the 
black  ware  pro- 
(Continued  on 
Page  68) 


The  chocolate  pot 
to  the  left  is  of 
tortoise  shell  glaze, 
and  the  cream  ju& 
can  be  classed 
among  Whieldon's 
animal  designs 


Some  collectors  hold  that  the  vivid  glazes  of  green  and  yellow    that   brighten   Whieldon's   cauliflower,   pineapple,   maize   and 

melon  wares  were  the  invention  of  young  Josiak  Wedgwood,  who   was  associated  with   Whieldon.     Four  examples  of   this 

type  are  in  the  above  group,  the  fifth  being  a  teapot  in  the  Chinese  style.    Courtesy  of  Mr.  Louis  E.  Myers 


28 


House     &     Garden 


GRATES  AND   RAILINGS   OF   SPANISH   IRON 

The  Role  They  Played  in  Old  Spanish  Architecture  Is 
Reflected  in  Latin  America  Today 

JESUSA  ALFAU 


A^Y  collector  readily  ap- 
preciates the  role  played 
by  iron  in  Spanish  art.  It  has 
not  only  been  used  in  such 
small  details  as  chest  locks, 
knockers,  lamps  and  brackets, 
but  also  in  those  larger  mani- 
festations in  which  Spanish 
forged  iron  was  perfection  it- 
self. One  of  the  developments 
most  worthy  of  study  and  con- 
sideration is  that  relating  to 
grates  and  railings. 

They  were  first  made  to  dec- 
orate and  embellish  churches, 
convents  and  palaces,  and  to 
give  a  more  pronounced  aspect 
of  privacy  to  the  homes,  rural 
properties  and  gardens  which 
are  frequently  surrounded  in 
Spain  by  iron  railings  instead 
of  wall- fences  or  mud- walls. 
Many  splendid  forged  iron 
railings  are  to  be  found  in  the 
old  cathedrals.  Many  are  of 
the  XII  Century  in  which  the 
primitive  Gothic  influences  as 
well  as  Moorish  are  very  pro- 
nounced. As  the  years  pass  by 
we  find  other  influences  of 
foreign  art,  sometimes  French 
and  other  times  German,  but 
as  a  general  rule  the  art  de- 
veloped in  the  designs  and 
forms  of  these  railings  or 
grates  is  purely  and  character- 
istically Spanish  in  spirit. 

Patios  and  Convents 


Some  of  these  rail- 
ings are  huge  in  size, 
such  as  those  at 
chapel  entrances  in 
the  cathedrals  and 
in  the  cloisters  of 


Outside  stairs  executed 
in  wrought  iron  are 
characteristic  of  Span- 
ish architecture.  This 
example  is  found  in  the 
Vedado  at  Havana 


An  interesting  feature 
of  this  Latin-American 
iron  gate  is  the  shutter, 
or  little  door,  used  jor 
ordinary  occasions.  The. 
design  is  characteristic 


numerous  convents  and  monas- 
teries. In  Andalucia,  Spain, 
in  all  the  cities  artistically  in- 
clined, these  railings  are  to  be 
found  at  the  entrances  of  the 
famous  patios  or  yards.  It  is 
an  iron  lace  that  prohibits  the 
entrance  to  the  quiet  and  se- 
cluded privacy  of  the  patio, 
without  depriving  whoever 
passes  by  the  door  from  ad- 
miring this  wonderful  sight. 
Another  interesting  example  of 
Spanish  iron  is  the  railing  that 
closes  the  windows,  the  grates 
around  which  legend  and 
poetry  have  wound  their 
wreaths,  just  as  vines  climb 
and  entangle  themselves  in 
their  braces,  covering  them 
with  flowers  and  foliage.  These 
are  the  railings  through  which 
the  Andalucian  sweethearts 
speak  to  their  lovers,  and  that 
also  preserve  the  sacredness  of 
the  old  convents. 

The  Designs 

Most  of  the  grates  and  rail- 
ings are  made  of  round  and 
square  braces,  sometimes  tri- 
angular ones,  finished  up  at 
the  top  by  neurons,  pikes  or 
spears.  We  also  have  the  most 
ornamental  types  in  which  the 
iron  turns  into  complicated 
curves  and  arabesques  are  en- 
riched with  withered  leaves 
and  decorative  ele- 
ments. These  orna- 
mental railings  give 
ingress  to  many 
buildings,  close  the 
altars  and  the 
(Cont'd  on  page  58) 


A  Moorish  stay  and  letters  remi- 
niscent of  Gothic  influence  deco- 
rate the  top  of  this  corner  gale- 
way  in  the  Vedado.  Tall  pillars 
pronounce  the  gate.  The  railing 
is  set  on  a  rubble  base 


A  low  sods  or  base  forms  the 
foundation  for  this  railing  around 
a  tropical  garden  in  the  Vedado. 
Here,  tall  carved  stone  columns 
support  the  gates,  which  are  elab- 
orately wrought 


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29 


The  garden  was 
made  out  of  a 
typical  New  York 
back  yard,  a  space 
of  about  20'  x  40'. 
The  fences  were 
covered  with  trel- 
lis which  was  car- 
ried up  to  15', 
shutting  out  the 
first  stories  of  the 
surrounding  build- 
ings. The  fence  js 
French  green  and 
th'!  trellis  ivory 


Behind  the  house 
a  space  about  8' 
wide  is  paved  and 
covered  with  trel- 
lis, forming  a 
shady  seat.  Wis- 
taria and  wild 
grape  climb  the 
trellis  and  ivy  is 
in  the  window  box. 
Opposite  is  a  wall 
fountain 


^ 


A  CITY 
BACK- 
YARD 
GARDEN 

RUTH  DEAN 
Landscape 
Architect 


A  wall  at  the  rear 
end  of  the  garden 
conceals  the  origi- 
nal fence.  This  is 
relieved  by  a  niche 
in  which  stands  an 
English  lead  fig- 
ure. Bushes  are 
Chinese  privet, and 
the  trees  are  ailan- 
thus,  "tree  of 
Heaven" 


House     &     Garden 


THE       COTTAGES       OF       CALIFORNIA 

The  Small,  Distinctive  Houses  Have  Architectural  Merit  and  Prove  Very 
Livable  in  this  Servantless  Era 


LUCY  RODGERS 


WERE  you  in  Cali- 
fornia last  winter? 
If  not  you  are  among  the 
very  few  who  weren't. 
If  you  were,  I  wonder 
what  is  the  most  definite 
memory  you  carried 
away  with  you.  Was  it 
the  ruined  and  vine- 
clad  missions,  the  rib- 
bon-like roads,  thread- 
ing primeval  wilderness, 
rose  garden,  and  orange 
grove,  the  fields  of  pop- 
pies, the  bustling  cities, 
the  fairy  seacoast,  the 
wonderful  Spanish  pal- 
aces ?  Or  w  a  s  it  the 
little  houses? 

Miniature  Houses 

I  can  hear  the  voice  of 
Lady  Tourist  Number 
One  to  Lady  Tourist 
Number  Two: 

"Oh,  jane,  look  at 
that  darling  little  house 
covered  with  roses!  That 
is  just  the  sized  house  we 
ought  to  have." 

Lady  Tourist  Number 
Two  sighs  and  thinks  of 
the  eternal  servant  prob- 
lem, housecleaning,  the 
expense  of  keeping  up 
the  big  old  house  (it 
probably  has  a  Mansard 
roof,  high  ceilings,  two 
parlors,  and  a  huge,  in- 
convenient kitchen),  and 
murmurs,  ''Wouldn't  it 
be  heaven"? 

Probably  Lady  Tour- 
ists  Numbers   One    and 
Two  are  thinking  of  go- 
ing into  an  apartment  or 
hotel  at  some  early  date, 
and  will  end  by  :giving 
up  the  old  house  and 
having  no  home  at  all.  But  wouldn't 
they  really  be  more  sensible  if  they 
followed    the    California    custom, 
and  built  a  little  house? 

Yes.  But — there  are  so  many 
difficulties.  To  begin  with  there 
is  the  old  house.  I  once  knew  a 
maiden  lady,  a  creature  of  heroic 
mould,  as  you  will  acknowledge 
when  you  hear  what  she  did.  She 
and  a  bachelor  brother  were  left 
with  a  huge  stone  octagon  house  on 
their  hands.  It  was  the  kind  of 
house  that  servants  flee  from.  My 
friend  tore  down  the  old  stone 
house.  The  stone  was  used  to 
build  an  ideal  little  modern  house 
on  one  side  of  the  lot,  leaving  the 
other  half  to  be  sold  for  a  good 
round  sum. 

Of  course  not  all  people  are 
heroines.  They  will  complain  and 


The  living  room  in  one  of  the  cottages  owned  by  Mrs.  Muchmore,  the  decorator, 
Hollywood,  combines  comfort  and  simplicity  with  a  completeness  not  always  found 

small  houses 


Long  roof  lines  lift  the  cottage  out  of  the  bungalow-appearing 

class  without  sacrificing  any  of  the  conveniences  of  the  lower 

roofed  houses.     Variegations  in  color  add  interest 


sigh,  and  wish  secretly 
that  the  old  nightmare 
would  burn  down,  but 
they  end  by  renting  the 
Mansard  atrocity  as  a 
boarding  house,  and  go 
to  live  a  restless  life  in 
an  apartment  for  which 
their  furniture  is  all  too 
large. 

Don't  talk  of  senti- 
ment. When  the  old  days 
are  gone  they  are  gone, 
taking  their  comfortable 
staff  of  servants  with 
them.  We  are  living  to- 
day, and  all  the  mem- 
ories and  associations 
will  live  in  our  hearts 
just  as  well  without  the 
ravaged  old  ghost. 

If  you  are  living  in  a 
house  that  is  twice  or 
three  times  or  ten  times 
too  big  for  you,  move  out 
of  it,  tear  it  down,  or  at 
least  let  someone  have  it 
who  needs  all  that  space, 
and  build  yourself  a  little 
cottage  such  as  you  have 
been  dreaming  about. 

Another  difficulty,  just 
at  present,  is  the  cost  of 
building.  If  you  are  in 
need  of  a  home  my  ad- 
vice would  be  to  go 
ahead  and  build,  and 
build  just  as  small  as 
you  can,  as  long  as  you 
have  one  large  room.  At 
any  rate,  have  all  your 
plans  made,  so  that  the 
moment  you  can  bring 
yourself  to  build  you  can 
go  ahead. 
at 
in  The  Scrap-Book 

The  first  step  toward 
building  should  always 
be  a  scrap-book.  Cut  out  every- 
thing you  see  that  interests  you. 
Take  snap-shots,  make  plans,  then 
go  to  an  architect,  and  when  he 
sees  your  pictures  and  you  can  say, 
"This  is  what  I  like",  he  will  be 
able  to  concoct  something  that  is 
not  only  a  practical  house,  but 
something  that  means  you. 

And  now  for  a  warning.  Don't, 
don't,  don't,  build  a  bungalow!  I 
mean  one  of  those  flat-roofed 
atrocities  that  belong  to  no  school 
of  architecture,  that  derived  their 
inspiration  from  the  Pullman  car, 
and  which  not  even  the  sunshine 
and  smothering  vines  and  roses  of 
California  can  make  tolerable.  No, 
when  I  spoke  of  the  small  houses 
of  California  I  did  not  mean  them, 
though  the  State  is  full  of  them.  I 
mean  the  lovely  small  houses  that 


November,     1920 


31 


Near  Hollywood  is  a   one-story  cottage   reminiscent   of   the  French 

farmhouse.     At   one  corner  rises  a  round  tower,  with  maid's  room 

above  and  dining  room  below 


Architectural  good  taste  and  convenience  have  been  boiled  down  until 

the  result  is  the  concentrated  essence  of  a  real  house,  not  a  potpourri 

of  monstrosities 


are  being  built  nowadays  by  architects  who 
have  boiled  down  good  taste  and  convenience 
till  they  have  the  concentrated  essence  of  a 
real  house. 

There  are  the  little  Belgian  cottages  which 
are  one  of  the  pleasing  results  of  the  war, 
built  by  two  young  camoufleurs  who  received 
their  inspiration  while  with  the  A.  E.  F.  With 
their  quaint  green  and  brown  and  blue  varie- 
gated shingles,  and  plaster  walls,  they  are 
miniature  French  farmhouses  to  which  every 
modern  convenience  has  been  added. 

Consider  this  one  from  Hollywood,  the  town 
of  make-believe,  where  the  movies  come  from. 
It  is  of  one  story,  with  a  steep  roof  of  mot- 
tled shingles  simulating  the  mossy  effect  of 
age.  A  round  tower  goes  up  from  one  corner. 
Downstairs  this  is  a  round  dining  room,  with 
windows  on  all  sides  like  a 
bird  cage,  and  just  half  a 
step  from  the  kitchen  which 
is  tiny  and  convenient.  A 
winding  stairway  goes  up  to 
the  maid's  room  in  the  tower, 
and  what  maid  could  resist 
such  an  adorable  winding 
stair  and  room  overlooking 
the  country  far  and  wide? 
Then  there  is  a  living  room, 
long  rather  than  large,  two 
bedrooms  with  a  bathroom  in 
between,  and  a  delicious  lit- 
tle garden  with  a  lily-pond 
just  outside  the  glass  door. 
Nobody  could  resist  such  a 
house.  It  is  like  the  witch's 
cottage  in  the  woods,  with  win- 
dows made  of  barley  sugar. 


There  is  one  of  these  Belgian  cottages  in 
Santa  Monica,  right  opposite  the  house  that 
has  been  presented  to  Maeterlinck.  And  then 
there  is  the  English  cottage  style.  I  must  con- 
fess that  that  is  what  my  soul  leans  to.  Just 
look  at  some  of  them,  with  their  gables  snubbed 
off  at  the  corners,  to  remind  one  of  thatch,  their 
diamond  or  square-paned  windows,  and  little 
canopied  entrance  doors. 

Other  Styles 

And  then  there  is  just  plain  house,  the  roof 
brought  down  to  make  a  porch,  and  perhaps  a 
paling  fence  in  front  with  hollyhocks  looking 
over  it. 

There  is  also  the  Colonial,  of  white  clap- 
boards, with  a  pretty  portico  and  long  windows. 

When  it  is  so  easy  to  build  something  simple 


and  delightful,  why  will  jjeople  go  to  the 
trouble  and  expense  of  these  roofs  held  up 
by  truncated  cones  instead  of  posts,  porch 
roofs  supported  by  chains,  chimneys  made  of 
lirick  and  stone  to  imitate  small-pox?  Archi- 
tecture is  supposed  to  reflect  the  times  we  live 
in.  I  don't  know  what  these  hideosities  re- 
flect. The  best  small  houses  reflect  a  time 
when  people  of  good  taste  and  refinement 
choose  to  live  simply  and  comfortably,  to  do 
away  with  every  ounce  of  unnecessary  work, 
so  that  they  can  devote  themselves  to  the  pleas- 
ing task  of  living,  and  when  the  best  in  archi- 
tecture and  mechanical  invention  is  at  their 
command. 

So  build  a  small  house.  Begin  at  once. 
Subscribe  to  some  house  magazine,  buy  a 
scrap-book,  paste  and  scissors,  and  start  cut- 
ting out.  Buy  or  borrow  from 
the  library  a  book  on  architec- 
ture. You  will  be  surprised 
at  how  fascinating  the  sub- 
ject is.  Draw  some  tentative 
plans,  and  then  see  an  archi- 
tect. It  will  seem  only  a  step 
from  this  to  the  enchanted 
moment  when  this  house  is 
done  and  your  dream  is 
realized.  You  will  lie  stand- 
ing on  the  doorstep  of  your 
own  home,  your  little,  mod- 
ern, convenient,  satisfying, 
adorable  cottage  home. 


Many     living     problems 
are  to  be  solved  by  giv- 
ing  up   the   large   house 
for  the  small 


The  white-clapboarded  Colonial  type,  with  portico  and  long  windows, 

retains  the  simplicity  of  its  larger  relatives.    Climbing  roses  about  the 

door  add  a  pleasant  touch  oj  color 


Saner  judgment  has  turned  from  the  brick-and-stone  chimneys,  porch 

roofs  hung  on  chains,  and  other  grotesque  features  and  is  demanding 

more  sensible,  conservative  cottages 


32 


House     &     Garden 


A 


MOTHER 


I    N 


LAW 


HOUSE 


How  a  Cottage  on  a  Little  California  Country  Place  Provided  Rare  Hospitality 
and,  Incidentally,  Solved  a  Problem 

PEGGY  NICHOLS 


I  AM  sure  there  must  be  lots 
and  lots  of  mothers  and  moth- 
ers-in-law in  this  world  today 
who,  just  as  ours,  do  not  care  to 
live  with  their  in-laws  and  their 
in-laws  do  not  care  to  live  with 
them.  And  yet  somehow  they 
seem  so  sadly  lonesome  shifting 
around  in  the  average  big  house 
all  by  themselves.  Or  they  may 
not  have  that  house.  Times  may 
have  changed  for  them,  and  they 
come  to  live  with  their  children. 
Accustomed  to  being  mistress  in 
their  own  homes,  they  find  it  dif- 
ficult to  adapt  themselves  to  this 
new  environment.  Either  of  these 
situations  usually  covers  the  aver- 
age mother-in-law  problem. 

It  was  this  sort  of  problem  we 
faced — and  surely  many  other 
young  married  couples  must  face 
it  too.  It  had  to  be  solved,  and 
this  was  the  way  we  solved  it. 
We  built  the  mother  a  wee,  tiny 
house  in  the  garden,  really  no 
bigger  than  a  minute,  but  all  her 
very  own.  As  our  lot  is  not  so 
large — only  60'  x  100' — and  as 
our  house  is  only  a  wee  bit  of  an 
affair  itself,  this  tiny  cottage  snuggled  away  in 
the  shrubbery  at  the  back  of  the  lot  is  in  per- 
fect scale  and  keeping  with  the  place.  Like 
the  house,  it  was  made  all  on  one  floor,  and 
covered  with  stucco. 

Outside  and  In 

The  entrance  to  this  cottage  had  to  be  off 
the  driveway.  We  laid  a  narrow  brick  run- 
ner, giving  the  effect  of  a  winding  pathway 
instead  of  a  drive.  One  runner  branches  off 
past  a  sundial  and  through  a  wrought  iron 
garden  gate  onto  the  little  terrace  in  front  of 
the  cottage.  A  clipped  hedge  surrounds  the 
corner,  giving  privacy  to  both  places. 

We  built  the  sleeping  porch  out  into  the 
very  heart  of  a  peach  tree,  and  to  the  roof  of 
it  clambers  a  pink  Cherokee  rose. 

Inside,  in  addition  to  this  sleeping  porch, 
there  are  a  living  room,  dressing  room,  bath 


Tucked  away 
in  a  corner  is 
the  little  cot- 
tage for  the 
mother-in-law 


i" 

' 


and  kitchen.  The  dressing  room 
is  commodious  with  plenty  of 
shelves  and  closet  space.  Along 
one  wall  a  great  long  dressing 
table  is  built  in. 

The  kitchen  is  painted  lemon 
yellow  and  has  blue  gingham 
shades  and  dainty  lace  paper  on 
the  shelves  that  give  it  an  old- 
fashioned  air. 

We  made  the  living  room  fairly 
good  sized  because  there  must  be 
accommodation  for  visiting  in- 
laws  and  friends.  Although  not 
much  furniture  was  required,  we 
had  heaps  of  fun  snooping  around 
second-hand  stores  and  antique 
shops  for  most  of  the  things. 
Some  we  had  to  have  made. 
Everything  came  in  for  its  coat  of 
paint,  either  rose  or  gray,  for  rose 
and  gray  seemed  the  color  scheme 
best  suited  to  a  mother-in-law. 
We  had  the  thrill  of  our  lives 
when  the  mother  found  a  quaint 
old  walnut  bed,  a  sort  of  double 
day-bed,  that  would  serve  for 
couch.  This,  too,  came  in  for  its 
share  of  paint.  We  toned  the 
panels  in  soft  color  and  in  every 
place  we  could  we  painted  old  rose  and  blue 
striping.  We  covered  the  upholstery  with  rose 
rep  and  heaped  up  soft  pillows. 

In  this  living  room  is  a  panel  dresser,  bought 
from  an  antique  man,  and  renovated  to  fit  the 
spot.  Its  mirror  was  removed  and  hung  on 
the  opposite  wall. 

Additional  Pieces 

The  other  furnishings  consist  of  a  soft  putty 
color  rug,  a  cheap  oak  gateleg  table  which  was 
made  to  harmonize  with  paint,  four  straight 
chairs  with  woven  seats  and  rose  colored  rungs, 
a  big,  soft,  overstuffed  chair,  a  little  low  rocker 
and,  piece  de  resistance,  a  little  old  peasant 
cupboard  which  we  made  with  a  drop  leaf, 
handy  for  serving  tea  things. 

Taking  it  all  in  all,  we  think  it  a  very  lov- 
able, homey  place,  with  a  rosy  atmosphere 
which  is  inviting  to  all,  even  the  sons-in-law. 


The  cottage 
has  five  rooms, 
ample  for  its 
hospitable  pur- 
pose 


Simple   furniture    is 

used — a    painted 

gate-leg    table,    and 

dresser 


An  old  walnut  bed 

was  used  for  a 

couch    and    painted 

rose   and   blue 


November,     1920 


A   SMALL    COLONIAL    HOUSE    IN    UPPER    NEW    YORK 

Which  Shows  to  Advantage  How  Well  This  Type  of  Architecture  Is  Adapted 
to  a  Narrow  Lot  Where  No  Space  Can  Be  Wasted 


ROBERT  EL  WOOD 


A  FACTOR  whose  bear- 
ing the  prospective 
builder  of  a  house  fre- 
quently overlooks,  is  archi- 
tectural style  as  affecting 
the  interior  plan.  Where 
space  and  expense  do  not 
have  to  be  considered,  this 
may  not  be  of  great  impor- 
tance, but  on  small  grounds 
it  becomes  a  vital  considera- 
tion. The  owner  of  a  nar- 
row lot  cannot  afford  to 
waste  an  additional  foot 
which  could  be  saved  by  a 
compact  house  plan. 

By  reason  of  its  square 
or  rectangular  shape,  the 
Colonial  type  of  house  is 
ideally  fitted  to  effect  this 
economy  without  cramping 
the  size  of  the  rooms.  This 
fact  is  well  brought  out  in 
the  home  of  Roljert  Fein, 
Esq.,  in  the  upper  part  of 
New  York  City  opposite 
Van  Cortlandt  Park.  This 
is  a  comparatively  new  resi- 
dential district,  where  many 
excellent  architectural  ex- 
amples are  to  be  found. 

The  General  Plan 

The  house  is  of  brick 
with  white  trim,  and  al- 
though it  lie's  close  to  the 
street,  attains  a  degree  of 
privacy  by  reason  of  its 
screening  shrubbery.  A 
straight  brick  walk  leads  to 
the  main  entrance,  entirely 
separated  from  the  side 
walk  which  forms  the  ser- 
vice entry. 


The  house  is  of  brick  with  while  trim,  small  but  affording  a  surprising  amount 

of  room  space.    Shrubbery  about  the  main  entrance  adds  privacy  and  helps  to 

shut  off  the  service  walk  at  the  side.    Dwight  James  Baum,  architect 


Entering  the  small  ves- 
tibule, one  steps  directly 
into  a  little  hall  with  the 
living  room  on  the  left  and 
the  dining  room  to  the  right. 
The  former  especially  is  of 
good  size  for  so  small  a 
house,  and  follows  the  prin- 
ciple that  every  house 
should  have  at  least  one 
large  room.  Service  quar- 
ters are  in  the  rear,  so 
planned  that  they  are  not 
obtrusive  as  one  passes  from 
the  living  room  to  the  porch 
which  is  so  integrally  a  part 
of  the  house. 

The  Rooms  Upstairs 

The  second  floor  ar- 
rangement is  noteworthy  in 
that,  although  there  are  but 
four  bedrooms,  two  baths 
are  provided.  All  the  rooms 
are  arranged  around  a 
square  central  hall — another 
space-economizing  feature. 
Plenty  of  closet  space  is  pro- 
vided, and  as  all  the  bed- 
rooms are  corner  rooms, 
abundant  light  and  air  are 
assured. 

An  interesting  fact  about 
the  house  is  that,  although 
it  was  built  during  the  war, 
when  construction  costs 
were  well  on  the  way  to- 
ward their  present  high 
level,  it  cost  but  a  little  over 
$7,000.  Yet  it  is  thoroughly 
good,  and  with  the  growing 
improvement  of  the  land 
about  it  will  soon  fit  ad- 
mirably into  its  site. 


The  first  floor  plan 
shows  a  compact 
room  arrangement, 
with  the  service 
quarters  in  the  rear. 
The  living  room 
opens  directly  on  the 
porch 


All  of  the  bedrooms 
have  abundant  light 
and  air  and  are 
grouped  around  a 
square  hall.  Two 
baths  are  provided 
on  this  floor 


House 


Garden 


Another  view  of  the 
Armour  model  sug- 
gests the  wonderfully 
effective  way  in 
which  the  house  can 
be  visualized  even 
before  ground  is 
broken  for  the  foun- 
dation. The  perspec- 
tive, of  course,  is 
perfect  throughout 


By  a  wise  choice  of 
materials,  a  model 
can  be  made  of  any 
type  of  house.  All 
three  dimensions  of 
the  Hon.  Lathrop 
Brown  residence  at 
St.  James,  L.  I.,  are 
convincingly  clear. 
Peabody,  Wilson  & 
Brown,  architects 


A  great  variety  of  material  is  used:  clay,  wood  and  cardboard  for  the  house;  green  paint,  gravel,  sand  and  glue  for  the  lawns,  walks 

and  drives;  dried  sponges  and  green  dyed  seaweed  for  trees  and  shrubs — these  are  a  few  of  the  things  utilized.     In  this  view 

of  the  Armour  house  model  the  life-like  appearance  of  the  planting  along  the  brick  wall  is  especially  interesting 


November,     1920 


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SEEING     YOUR     HOUSE     BEFORE     IT     IS     BUILT 

The  Scale  Model,  Accurate  in  the  Details  of  Color,  Form  and  Site,  Is  a 
Replica  in  Miniature  of  the  Finished  Dwelling 


ALWYN  T.  COVELL 


PERHAPS  there  are  only  two 
kinds  of  prospective  builders, 
from  the  architect's  viewpoint — 
the  kind  that  can  visualize  and 
the  kind  that  can't.  Of  course, 
those  two  kinds  are  divided  up 
into  as  many  varieties  as  there 
are  varieties  of  people,  and  the 
architect  will  remember  certain 
ones  with  pleasure  and  certain 
others  with  unhappy  sighs. 

Exactly  what  is  meant  by 
"visualizing"?  More  often  it  is 
called  imagination,  though  that  is 
not  so  accurate  a  term,  because  it 
means  other  things  as  well.  The 
architect  must  have  both  imagina- 
tion, and  the  faculty  of  visualiz- 
ing as  well;  his  client  needs  only 
the  ability  to  visualize  what  the 
architect  has  imagined.  Both  are 
gifts,  which  may  or  may  not  be 
possible  to  cultivate;  certainly 
failure  to  possess  either  is  as  lit- 
tle to  be  regarded  as  a  personal 
shortcoming  as  lacking  an  eye  for 
color,  an  ear  for  music,  or  a  sense  of  proportion. 

In  the  matter  of  architectural  models,  how- 
ever, even  the  highly  imaginative  architectural 
visualizer  may  find  very  definite  assistance  and 
assurance,  while  his  client  will  find  the  answer 
to  many  questions  which  the  drawings  do  not 
answer  for  him.  Architectural  drawings,  ex- 
cepting the  colored  preliminary  perspective 


The  1/16"  scale  model  of  Mr.  C.  Norvin  Rinek's  house  at  Easton,  Pa., 

is  a  good  example  of  the  plastic  type.    Photographs  of  the  completed 

house  itself  appeared  in  the  last  August  issue,  and  form  an  interesting 

comparison  with  this  preliminary  study 


view,  are  not  pictures  of  the  proposed  house — 
they  are  drawings  of  it.  They  are  drawings, 
furthermore,  which  are  made  in  a  technical 
manner,  and  with  no  intent  to  convey  anything 
but  forms,  dimensions,  materials  and  construc- 
tion to  the  various  workmen  who  will  build 
the  house.  Architectural  working  drawings 
are  accurate,  but  not  at  all  artistic,  just  as  the 


specifications    are    accurate,    but 
not  literary. 

From  the  point  of  view  of  de- 
tailed visualization,  then,  the  only 
drawing  which  tells  the  client 
what  his  house  will  look  like  is 
the  colored  perspective,  which  is 
good  as  far  as  it  goes.  But  even 
if  it  is  done  well,  and  is  an  ac- 
curate perspective,  the  client  can- 
not walk  behind  it,  or  see  more 
than  one  view  of  the  house  on  any 
one  given  drawing. 

As  a  supplementary  aid  to  visu- 
alization, then,  comes  the  scale 
model,  so  called  because  it  is  very 
carefully  made  to  scale,  in  the 
same  way  that  architectural  draw- 
ings are  made.  In  a  model,  for 
instance,  a  quarter  of  an  inch,  or 
a  hall  or  three-quarters  of  an 
inch,  equals  a  foot  in  the  actual 
building.  In  this  way  the  exact 
proportions  are  shown. 

In  making  a  scale  model,  espe- 
cially if  the  site  for  the  proposed 
house  be  irregular  in  contour,  a  topographic 
survey  should  be  made,  with  a  drawing  show- 
ing all  the  grades,  elevations  and  depressions, 
drawn  at  the  same  scale  at  which  the  house 
model  will  be  made. 

The  plot  of  land,  then,  will  be  modeled  in 
clay,  in  exact  conformity  with  the  surveyor's 
(Continued  on  page  74) 


In  the  more  elaborate  models,  every  detail  is  shown  to  scale.    Nothing  is  left  to  conjecture — even  leader  heads  and  curtains  are  put 

in.    The  representation  is  so  complete  that  one  can  scarcely  believe  the  photograph  is  not  one  of  a  real  house.     This  model  of  the 

Philip  D.  Armour  residence  is  on  the  scale  of  J/g"  to  1'.    H.  T.  Lindeberg,  architect 


36 


House     Gr     Garden 


Following  the  preliminary 
drawing  shown  at  the  top 
oj  the  opposite  page,  the 
architect  makes  a  set  oj 
working  drawings  on  a 
scale  oj  ,'"  ' 

which  blueprints  are  made 
and  the  house  built.  These 
drawings  contain  a  mass  oj 
detail,  as  shown  here.  The 
small  inset  sec/ions  are  re- 
produced actual  size 


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37 


The  preliminary  sketch  is  really  a  picture  of  the  finished  house,  drawn  in  perspective  and  usually 

colored.     It  shows  the  house  with  its  surrounding  planting  well  established,  and  giz'es  a  definite 

idea  oj  what  the  house  is  to  look  like.    H.  T.  Lindeberg,  architect 

THE      EVOLUTION      OF    A      HOUSE      PLAN 

The  Successive  Steps  by  Which  the  Architect  Sets  Down  on  Paper  the  General  Plan  and  the 
Minutest  Details  of  the  House  He  Is  Designing  for  You 

MATLACK  PRICE 


THE  good  old  proverbs,  the  kind  that 
Stevenson  so  drily  laljeled  "pocket  wis- 
dom," certainly  have  not  universal  applica- 
tion. In  the  matter  of  having  a  house  built  for 
yourself,  for  instance,  I  cannot  honestly  say 
that  ignorance  is  bliss,  or  that  wisdom  could  be 
construed  as  folly.  And  yet  the  kind  of  knowl- 
edge I  mean  is  a  special  kind,  and  consists  of 
knowing,  if  even  only  a  little,  how  the  architect 
works  and  what  he  is  trying  to  do;  not  aiming 
to  know  more  than  he  does.  Notwithstanding 
the  lack  of  intelligence  of  such  a  procedure, 
there  are  plenty  of  prospective  builders  who, 
after  devoting  a  few  whole  evenings  to  the 
perusal  of  "How  to  Plan  Your  Own  Home,'' 
or  "What  Alice  and  George  Did  with  Old 
Packing  Cases,"  will  go  to  the  architect  not 
for  advice  and  professional  service,  but  to  tell 
him  how  much  more  they  know  than  he  about 
architecture. 

It  is  the  purpose  of  this  article,  with  its  illus- 
trations, to  describe,  in  categorical  form,  the 
successive  drawings  which  are  customarily 
made  by  the  architect  in  planning  and  building 
a  house. 


The  tipper  drawing  is  part  of  an  "F.  S.  D." 
or  Full  Size  Detail.  These  details  show, 
primarily,  the  actual  profiles  of  moldings, 
and  are  drawn  exactly  the  same  size  as  the 
work  to  be  executed 


OAKUM 
BLOCKIN 


First  there  is  the  idea-sketch,  often  no  more 
than  a  memorandum,  clashed  off  on  a  scrap  of 
paper.  If,  however,  this  little  idea-sketch  rep- 
resents a  definite  visualization  on  the  part  of 
the  architect,  it  is  upon  this  sketch  that  all  the 
subsequent  drawings  are  built. 

Having  made  this  idea-sketch,  and  being 
conviced  that  it  contains  the  essence  of  the  pro- 
posed house,  the  architect  must  now  prepare  a 
drawing  which  will  convey  to  the  prospective 
builder  a  quite  definite  idea  of  what  the  house 
is  to  look  like.  Small  sketch  floor  plans  usu- 
ally accompany  this  first  drawing. 

This  drawing  is  really  a  picture,  drawn  in 
perspective  and  usually  colored.  It  shows  the 
house  with  its  planting  several  years  grown 
and  is  made  on  the  basis  that  the  average  indi- 
vidual is  not  "picture-minded,"  and  must  see 
the  proposed  house  drawn  to  convey  as  closel) 
as  possible  the  effect  of  the  house  itself.  This 
type  of  drawing  is  called  a  "preliminary." 

At  this  juncture  scale  models  are  sometimes 
made,  especially  for  houses  ol  considerable 
size  and  extensiveness  of  plan  and  grounds, 
(Continued  on  page  78) 


At  the  left  is  a  V/i"  scale  detail.  Its  func- 
tion is  to  show  with  greater  accuracy  than 
the  %"  drawings  such  special  pieces  of 
construction  as  stairs,  fireplaces  and  cup- 
boards. Both  drawings  are  actual  size 


House     &     Garden 


HOW 


A 


DECORATOR 


WORKS 


She  Accepts  the  Established  Facts  of  Architecture  and  Adds  to  Them  Furnishings 
That  Give  the  House  Distinctive  Personality 


ANITA  DE  CAMPI 


ONE  of  the  most  in- 
scrutable things  in 
the  world  to  the  ordinary 
lay  person  is  the  method 
of  procedure  of  the  in- 
terior decorator. 

How  does  the  deco- 
rator go  about  the  work  ? 
What  is  the  professional 
secret  of  meeting  with 
success?  Is  a  certain 
fashion  followed  ?  Is  the 
personality  of  the  client 
given  first  importance  ? 
Is  it  quite  a  matter  of 
how  much  or  how  little 
money  must  be  spent  .J 
Or  a  question  of  locality 
and  exposure? 

All  of  these  things  are 
factors,  but  one  consid- 


The  walls  of  the  Hib- 

bard    house    are   dull 

blue    in    the    Italian 

style 


eration  takes  precedence 
over  them.  If  a  client 
wants  decorating  and 
furnishing  done  it  is  a 
foregone  conclusion  that 
the  client  has  an  actual 
place  to  decorate  and 
furnish.  The  first  things 
then  to  consider  are  act- 
ualities. What  manner 
of  place  has  been  decided 
upon,  purchased  perhaps 
finished,  or  in  process  of 
construction  ?  There 
must  of  necessity  be  fixed 
features  in  the  selected 
home,  and  the  expedient 
thing  to  do  is  to  recog- 
nize established  facts 
and  to  make  all  of  the 
(Continued  on  page  58) 


These  are  the  ends  of 
the     Hibbard     living 
.      Miss    Gheen, 
decorator 


November,     192O 


Exposed  brick  walls,  sand-plas- 
tered ceiling  and  a  tiled  floor 
were  the  fixed  features  in  the  sun 
room  of  the  home  of  Mrs,  Ed- 
ward Hasler.  Simple  furnishings 
were  used — wicker  and  Windsor 
chairs,  braided  rugs  and  green 
calico  curtains 


On  one  side  of  Miss  Gheen's  apartment  is  a 
balanced  group  composed  of  an  Italian  walnut 
commode  with  painted  chairs  on  either  side. 
The  mirror  is  flanked  by  small  brackets  hold- 
ing vases  of  trailing  ivy.  The  screen  is  satin 
damask  in  blue  and  gray 


In  Miss  Gheen's  own  apartment, 
in  Chicago,  the  bath  serves  for 
dressing  room,  a  small  kidney 
table  holding  the  toilet  acces- 
sories. At  one  corner  can  be 
seen  a  glimpse  of  the  bed  that 
slides  through  the  wall  to  the 
next  room 


In  order  to  meet  the  requirements  of  a  small 
room,  the  desk  is  a  desk  only  by  day.  At 
night  the  front  pulls  out  and  the  bed  is  drawn 
in  from  the  bathroom.  Italian  walnut  furni- 
ture is  found  here  and  upholstered  pieces  in 
blue  and  gray  satin  damask 


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A  view  of  old  New 
York  Bay  is  part 
of  the  "Vues  de 
I'Amerigue  du 
Nord,"  hand  printed 
in  colors  from  the 
originalwood  blocks. 
Thirty-two  breadths 
in  the  set 


The  Chinese  decora- 
tion paper  used  be- 
low is  in  brilliant 
natural  colors,  each 
breadth  12'  by  21", 
ten  breadths  to  the 
set.  The  original 
wood  blocks  were 
cut  in  1832 


<.  wt  • 
!*«•  ,#&£#•  feS*--$£ 


Printed  from  the 
original  blocks  in 
soft  sepias  and  grays, 
the  Italian  landscape 
affords  a  delightful 
wall  treatment.  Ten 
breadths,  each  12' 
6"  long — greatest 
height  of  picture  6' 
1".  All  of  these  pa- 
pers are  from  the 
factory  at  Rixheim, 
Alsace,  which  sur- 
vived the  German 
occupation.  Cour- 
tesy of  A.  L.  Dia- 
ment  &  Co. 


One  of  the  most  beautiful  of  the  patterns  is  the 
Eldorado,  printed  in  magnificent  colors.  Twenty- 
four  breadths,  each  21"  wide,  complete  the  design 


THE       RETURN       o 
the      ZUBER      PAPER 


/ 

s 


November,     1920 


41 


A    LITTLE   PORTFOLIO   OF   GOOD    INTERIORS 


The  distinguishing  merit  oj  many  old  houses 
built  in  the  first  years  of  the  last  century  is  the 
remarkable  handling  of  the  interior  architec- 
ture— the  nice  balance  of  panels,  the  scale  of 
•window  openings,  the  height  of  the  ceilings,  the 
members  oj  the  moldings.  The  library  of  the 
Henry  Tudor  House  in  Boston  is  a  striking  ex- 


ample of  this  merit.  Shelves  and  a  window 
completely  fill  one  end,  with  panels  and  an  oval 
painting  set  in  above.  The  oval  repeats  the 
curve  of  the  top  decoration  of  the  shelves.  The 
•window  and  its  bottom  panel,  which  is  solid, 
are  on  hinges,  making  a  door  to  the  garden 
lying  directly  without 


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In  remodeling  a  city  house  it 
is  often  possible  to  create  a 
much  more  spacious  Irving 
room  by  eliminating  the  in- 
evitable upper  hall.  This  was 
done  in  the  New  York  resi- 
dence of  Mrs.  Claude  Penney. 
The  walls  are  paneled  in  Adam 
green.  Chairs  and  sofas  lend 
the  air  of  Louis  XV.  The  cur- 
tains are  yellow  taffeta  with 
plain  valances  oj  old  brocade. 
Sterner  &  Wolfe,  architects 


When  one  desires  to  create  a 
room  in  lahkh  to  live  com- 
fortably for  a  long  time  it  is 
advisable  to  use  strong  colors 
with  restraint.  Make  the  back- 
ground neutral  and  concen- 
trate the  color  in  small  ac- 
cessories. This  is  the  piin- 
ciple  employed  in  the  room 
to  the  left.  Another  view,  on 
the  opposite  page,  shows  the 
fireplace  grouping.  Here  are 
shown  plain  taffeta  curtains 


November,     1920 


43 


A  taupe  paper 
with  a  small 
black  dot  forms 
the  background 
of  this  livable 
living  room.  A 
darker  stripe 
taupe  covers  the 
furniture.  The 
strong  color  is 
found  in  the  ac- 
cessories —  cush- 
ions of  mulberry 
and  blue  and 
bright  bits  of 
china  and  pot- 
tery 


The  walls  in  this 
English  dining 
room  are  panels 
of  A  dam  green. 
An  over-mantel 
painting  and 
carved  swags, 
together  with  a 
hob  grate,  finely 
proportioned 
mantel  and 
flanking  mirror 
sconces  pro- 
nounce the  fire- 
place. Josephine 
Chapman,  deco- 
rator 


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A  golden  shea]  of  wheat 
with  twining  grape  vines 
may  shade  the  lights,  and 
be  set  off  by  small  pump- 
kins of  crystallized  sugar 


DECORATING    THE   THANKSGIVING    TABLE 

Harvest  Fruits  and  Customs  that  Were  Old  in  the  Days  of  the  Puritans 
Suggest  Decorations  for  the  Hospitable  Feast 


MARY  TUCKER 


ONCE  more,  as  the  old  chronicle  runs, 
"Since  it  hath  pleased  God  in  comfort- 
able measure  to  bless  us  in  the  fruits  of  the 
earth",  we  are  again  called  on  to  add  up  the 
credit  side  of  the  year  and  to  prepare  the  feast, 
whether  with  or  without  the  transient  blessing 
of  servants,  and  whether  beneath  our  own  or 
our  landlord's  roof. 

The  tritest  commonplace  of  decoration  and 
observance  can  not  conceal  the  meaning  of  the 
Thanksgiving  feast,  its  portion  of  beauty  and 
abundance,  its  symbolism  of  plenty  which  is 
more  than  the  plenty  of  mere  daily  food.  Here 
are  the  fruits  of  orchard  and  field,  and  the 
bidden  guests  sit  down  to  give  thanks  at  a 
common  board.  But  less  frequent  ways  of 
decoration  are  to  be  sought  for,  in  order  to  add 
the  zest  of  novelty  to  the  laudable  duty  of 
being  thankful.  That  beauty  which  reached 
its  mellow  perfection  in  field  and  garden  now 
gains  by  artistic  arrangement  on  dinner  tables, 
and  a  variety  of  attractive  ways  suggest  them- 
selves to  the  hostess  for 
disposing  fruits  or  flow- 
ers or  grains.  The  col- 
orings from  the  rich 
palette  of  autumn  itself 
will  suit  the  menu,  and 
the  glow  of  candles  or 
mellow  lights  will  lend 
the  proper  accent. 

A  Formal  Arrangement 

In  one  very  attrac- 
tive arrangement,  min- 
iature pumpkins  of 
crystallized  sugar, 
fairy-like  enough  to 
have  served  a  sweet 
Cinderella  and  her  ret- 
inue, make  attractive 
spots  of  color,  and 
serve  for  nuts  and  fa- 
vors, while  the  central 
note  of  the  decoration 
is  a  sheaf  of  wheat, 
with  the  lights  glowing 
softly  between  its  satiny 
stalks;  and  grape-vines 
twined  about  it  and 
laid  upon  the  white 
cloth  are  graceful  sug- 
gestions of  the  old  time 
of  vintage.  Nor  is  the 
sheaf  of  wheat  less  sug- 
gestive of  the  old  ori- 
gin of  this  harvest  day, 


as  the  dinner-guest  could  testify  who  had  been 
fortunate  enough  to  take  a  leisurely  journey 
through  Northumberland  at  reaping  time.  In 
this  formal  decoration  he  would  see  a  remi- 
niscence of  the  ''kern-baby" — the  last  sheaf  of 
wheat  to  stand  after  the  bending  reapers  and 
flashing  sickles  had  passed  over  the  ripened 
grain,  leaving  the  stubble  in  their  wake;  and 
after  this  the  kern-baby  was  brought  home  to 
the  shouts  of  the  reapers  and  the  pipes  and 
labours  of  old  England  and  set  up  at  the  fol- 
lowing feast,  just  as  on  more  modern  and  more 
sophisticated  dinner  tables. 

Eor  it  is  the  essence  of  Thanksgiving  to  be 
traditional  and  time-loving  under  the  guise  of 
novelty,  just  as  the  Thanksgiving  dinner  will 
follow  the  old  and  savory  way.  There  are 
those  spicy  fragrances,  those  tempting  whiffs, 
as  familiar  as  the  multiplication-table,  but 
sweeter  than  the  perfume  of  Arab}1  for  all 
that.  Until  it  is  revolutionized,  Thanksgiving 
day  will  float  in  the  aroma  of  New  England 


Mattie  Edwards  Hewitt 


In  this  arrangement  the  Thanksgiving  table  holds  a  note  of  the  harvest  in  its  center 

decoration  of  grasses  and  poppies,  and  of  purple  grapes  on  burnished  silver.    Fine  napery 

and  crystal  add  much  to  the  effect 


cookery,  in  the  sacrosanct  odor  of  mince  and 
pumpkin  which  offers  recompense  for  the  de- 
parted summer  fragrances  of  the  garden. 

And  the  pumpkin  may  hold  as  much  appeal 
for  the  Thanksgiving  hostess  as  for  the  pastry 
cook,  with  its  mellow  and  satisfying  color  and 
its  delicious  contours.  It  has  grown  among  the 
sprawling  vines  from  small  and  gourdlike  be- 
ginnings to  this  lordly  sphere;  and  now  it 
proudly  brims  with  the  delicate  fragrance  and 
varied  hues  and  shapes  of  fruit — burnished  red 
apples,  pears  touched  with  a  cheek  of  pink,  and 
dangling  purple  clusters  of  plump  grapes.  Its 
bed  of  autumn  leaves  and  the  soft  candle  lights 
echo  the  colors. 

Using  Fruits 

Fruits  prove  most  plastic  material  for  the 
decorator,  adapting  themselves  with  equal 
beauty  to  more  dignified  arrangements.  To  the 
long  lines  of  a  refectory  table,  an  array  of 
lovely  fruit  adapts  itself  in  formal  fashion  like 
a  gorgeous  polychrome 
panel  of  the  Renais- 
sance. Two  tall  candle- 
sticks are  the  central 
notes,  and  from  them 
festoon  the  wreathed 
grapes,  the  purple 
plums,  red  pomegra- 
nates and  many  fruits 
with  all  the  blended 
richness  of  mosaic. 

On  a  square  table; 
one  central  mass  of 
fruits  in  profusion  fur- 
nishes the  theme,  and 
from  it  go  trailing  off 
delicate  strands  of  vine, 
which  suit  the  outline 
of  the  table  and  mark 
etchings  uoon  the  white 
cloth.  The  design  is 
completed  by  burnished 
red  apples,  hollowed 
out  and  holding  a  mer- 
rily flaming  candle.  For 
candle-light  itself  is  a 
most  friendly  element, 
the  "yellow  ease  of 
eyes"  in  which  hospi- 
tality takes  on  a  more 
informal  tone. 

There  are  other  vines 
which  may  be  used  to 
mark  lines  upon  the 
Thanksgiving  table 


November,     1920 


45 


A  formal  decoration  for  a  refectory  table  is  a.  long  panel-like   arrangement   of  corn,  fruit    and   flowers,  leading   up  to    two 
tall  candles.    Fruit  as  a  decoration  is  especially  adaptable  to   the  Thanksgiving   table,   whether  formal  or  informal,   because 

of  its  color,  fragrance  and  varied  contours 


with  the  grace  of  an  Aubrey  Beardsley  drawing. 
Trailers  of  various  kinds  are  lovely,  and  for  the 
less  formal  effects  the  woodland  grace  of  laurel 
or  mountain  ash  would  be  charming.  Chestnut 
burrs  with  their  satiny  brown  linings  would 
combine  with  bright  yellow  leaves  to  provide  an 
abundance  of  beauty  to  the  informal  dinner. 
But  the  richest  note  of  woodland  decorations, 
perhaps,  is  bittersweet,  with  its  cunningly 
twisted  stems  and  its  red  beads  in  their  artful 
settings.  Only  red  candles  should  go  with  this, 
to  mark  the  color,  and  the  rough  yet  pleasing 
hues  of  Spanish  pottery  complete  the  effect. 

It  is  not  every  flower  that  can  come  to  the 
feast  of  plenty,  for  there  are  certain  flowers 
which  belongs  to  its  observance,  and  some  so- 
phisticated hothouse  blooms  which  would  not 
serve  at  all.  Not  a  novelty,  but  a  most  satisfying 
color  scheme  is  provided  by  combining  golden 
fluffy  chrysanthemums  with  the  dead  brown  of 
oak  leaves.  The  candle  shades  could  carry  out 
the  color  scheme,  and  flat 
arrangements  of  marrons 
glaces  would  be  a  tempt- 
ing touch,  and  grape- 
fruit could  begin  the 
meal  in  perfect  harmony 
with  the  scheme.  Pop- 
pies, those  silky  short- 
lived flowers,  have  been 
the  harvest  flower  from 
time  immemorial,  long 
l>efore  they  suggested  the 
line  about  reaping  Au- 
tumn, asleep  beside  her 
sickle,  "drowsed  with  the 
fume  of  poppies."  Like 
lovely  parasites,  they 
shine  out  redly  among 


The  lordly  yellow  globe  of  the 
garden  may  brim  with  a  heap  of 
burnished  apples,  delicate  pears 
and  lh"  hanging  clusters  of  purple 
giapes 


the  wheat  and  fall  with  it  before  the  sickle,  and 
so,  although  they  toil  not,  they  are  a  harvest 
flower;  ever  since  the  time  they  were  so  esteemed 
by  the  goddess  Ceres  as  millinery  they  have 
been  a  legitimate  Thanksgiving  decoration. 
For  Thanksgiving  is  an  old  festival  which 


For  the  square  table  a  massed  arrangement  of  fruit  forms  the  central  theme  of 
a    pleasing    design,   and  from    it    are    laid   delicate    etchings    of    trailing    vines 


one  celebrates  in  the  light  of  these  candles,  and 
in  the  perfections  of  the  menu  and  in  the  flow 
of  table  talk;  nor  is  it  fair  to  allow  to  the  Puri- 
tans the  credit  for  originating  l>eing  thankful. 
\Yith  all  due  allowance  for  the  five  deer  and 
the  wild  geese  which  they  consumed  with  ths 
assistance  of  Squanto  and  other  red  gentlemen 
in  stripes  and  deerskins,  it  was  very  likely  an 
over-serious  affair,  l>egun  at  a  very  early  hour 
with  prayers.  It  is  likely  that  earlier  givers  of 
thanks  were  much  merrier  over  it,  even  the 
long-ago  ones  who  never  knew  Christianity  nor 
predestination.  So  it  seems  only  fair  to  sug- 
gest a  table  with  the  horn  of  plenty  for  the 
center,  large,  golden  and  gracefully  curved,  and 
pouring  in  classic  profusion  the  fruits  of  the 
vine  and  tree.  Tiny  horns  of  plenty  could  spill 
out  little  marchpane  fruits  at  each  place,  and 
candle-light  could  glow  golden  through  gold 
silk  shades.  This  would  be  a  formal  decora- 
tion and  would  prove  an  effective  design.  It 
would,  doubtless,  also 
propitiate  the  goddess 
and  ensure  good  harvests 
for  next  year. 

Thanksgiving  is  a 
pleasant  time,  a  time  of 
wished  returnings  and 
journeys'  ends.  The 
child  that  is  in  every 
man  sometimes  looks 
backward  to  Christmas  a 
little  wistfully,  but  we 
are  all  happy  at  the 
prospect  of  the  Thanks- 
giving table,  deftly  ar- 
ranged and  tempting  to 
our  eyes  as  well  as  our 
palates. 


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AMERICAN      PRINTS      AND      THEIR      USES 


Contemporary  Work  That  Is 
Worthy  and  Inexpensive 

PEYTON  BOSWELL 

THIS  article  on  the  use  of  modern 
American  prints  in  the  home  should 
be  of  interest  to  every  man  who  has 
learned  that  expensive  clothes  of  extreme 
style  and  a  huge  diamond  stickpin  fail 
to  stamp  him  as  a  person  of  good  taste, 
and  to  every  woman  who  has  learned 
that  it  is  vulgar  for  her  to  go  around  in 
striking  colors  with  nearly  every  finger 
laden  with  rings.  In  this  social  organ- 
ism of  ours  the  minds  of  people  have 
been  fixed  a  good  deal  harder  on  making 
money  than  on  standards  of  good  taste, 
and  it  is  a  comforting  thing  to  be  able  to 
hold  the  opinion,  as  many  do,  that  we 
have  at  last  reached  a  stage  when  we  as  a 
people  are  rich  enough  and  old  enough 
to  transfer  a  lot  of  our  emotions  to  cul- 
tural enjoyment. 

It  is  for  the  person  with 
walls  and  without  millions 
that  this  article  is  written. 
For  it  is  possible,  by  utiliz- 
ing etchings  and  lithographs 
by  contemporary  artists,  to 
surround  one's  self  with 
pictures  that  administer  to 
true  esthetic  delight,  with- 
out spending  very  much 
money. 

The  average  price  of 
these  contemporary  prints, 
which  are  so  worthy  in  an 
art  sense  that  no  multi-mil- 
lionaire need  despise  them, 
is  less  than  $20  each.  At 
the  last  annual  exhibition 
of  the  society  known  as  the 

(Continued  on  page  72) 


"Sheldrakes,"  by  Frank  W. 
Benson,  is  a  type  of  etch- 
ing which  might  be  used 
almost  anywhere,  jrom 
dining  room  to  nursery 


In  "The  Beeches — Central 
Park,"  Henry  B.  Shape  has 
made  an  etching  com- 
panionable for  the  home 
and  jutt  of  outdoor  spirit 


"Brooklyn  Bridge,"  an 
etching  by  John  Marin, 
makes  a  wall  decoration 
of  originality  and  beauty 


The  spirit,  of  the 
windy  open  is  admir- 
ably caught  in  Horn- 
by's  "Dans  les 
Champs,"  a  subject 
in  the  Marne  region 


John  Marin's  earlier 
style  is  less  extreme 
in  "Cour  Dragon" 
than  in  his  "Brooklyn 
Bridge."  An  excellent 
etching  for  the  wall 


November,     1920 


47 


PERIOD    DESIGNS    IN    MUSICAL    INSTRUMENTS 

They  Link  Together  the  Arts  of  Music  and  Interior  Decoration,  Assuming  a  Rightful  Place 
in  the  Furnishing  Scheme  Without  Sacrificing  Their  Musical  Qualities 


CHARLES  D.  ISAACSON 


THERE  are  many  self-styled 
conservatives  who  see  in  the  de- 
velopment of  the  period  designs  for 
musical  instruments  a  violation  of 
the  art  of  sound.  This  is  a  view, 
however,  which  neither  the  owner  of 
a  house  nor  the  decorator  will  share, 
for  any  musical  instrument  which 
goes  into  a  home  acquires  the  added 
quality  of  being  a  decoration.  The 
violin  and  cello,  in  handsome  cases, 
resting  gracefully  against  the  wall, 
become  decorative  in  value.  The 
larger  forms,  the  phonograph,  the 
piano,  the  harp,  the  pipe-organ,  are 
furniture  in  the  truest  sense. 

One  must  remember,  of  course, 
that  anything  which  detracts  from 
the  best  musical  expression  is  preju- 
dicial to  art,  no  matter  how  beauti- 
ful, aristocratic  or  quaint  the  exte- 
rior of  an  instrument  may  be.  Within 
this  limit,  the  construction  of  a  fine 
instrument  offers  a  wide  field  for  de- 
velopment. We  have  the  opportunity 
of  bringing  the  piano,  organ  or  pho- 
nograph into  a  finer  environment  and 
varying  their  attributes  to  harmonize 
with  the  surrounding  atmosphere. 
Any  desired  type  of  case  which  does 
not  interfere  with  the  musical  idea  is 
permissible.  A  cabinet  may  be  carved 
in.  Florentine  or  ancient  Moorish 
style;  a  case  may  be  illumined  in  the 
florid  spirit  of  the  Louis  XVI  period; 


.  <  i  ii  1 1 1  <  1 1 1  u  i  M  n  i . 


or  a  special  type  of  architecture  may 
be  designed  for  a  piano  which  is  to 
rest  in  a  personally  created  drawing 
room. 

In  a  musical  sense,  the  instrument 
is  simply  the  embodiment  of  a  voice. 
A  tone  which  originates  in  the  strik- 
ing of  the  hammer  against  the  wire 
does  not  end  merely  in  the  vibrations 
of  the  latter.  If  that  were  all  to  the 
tone  of  the  piano  it  would  sound  lit- 
tle different  from  the  xylophone 
played  by  vaudeville  performers.  An 
instrument  has  what  the  French  have 
named  timbre,  which  is  described  less 
effectively  by  the  expression  "qual- 
ity." The  violin  is  of  sweeter,  lighter 
timbre  than  its  larger  sister  the  viola, 
which  is  more  mellow,  deeper  and 
less  carrying.  Thus  the  cello  and  the 
bass  violin  are  exactly  the  same  in 
general  shape  as  the  violin  and  viola. 
But  they  are  as  different  as  soprano, 
tenor,  baritone  and  bass  among  sing- 
ers, because  the  acoustical  construc- 
tion is  so  varied. 

The  piano  has  its  sound  board,  its 
sturdy  case,  its  firm  legs,  its  general 
(Continued  on  page  82) 


Far  removed  from  the  undecora- 
tive  machine  of  early  phonograph 
days  is  this  Adam  cabittft,  placed 
below  a  mirror  as  a  console 
might  be.  Cnurtesy  Columbia 
Graphophone  Co. 


Period  designs  in  musical  instrument  cases  have  reached  a 
point  of  development  which  entitles  them  to  admission 
into  the  best  furniture  circles.  This  Queen  Anne  phono- 
graph is  an  example.  Courtesy  Cheney  Talking  Machine 
Co.,  and  John  Wanamaker 


A  Colonial  highboy  case  is  another  of  the  period  develop- 
ments. With  early  American  jurniture  it  makes  up  a  group 
which  is  effective  and  true  to  the  traditions  in  line  and 
form.  Courtesy  Pathf  Freres  Phonograph  Co.,  and  John 
Wanamaker 


48 


House     &     Garden 


Where  the  space  is 
large,  as  in  a  sun-room 
or  conservatory,  effec- 
tive use  can  be  made 
of  ivy  on  wall  lattices 
of  various  sorts.  The 
necessary  pots  and 
other  soil  containers 
can  be  decorative  ad- 
juncts in  themselves  if 
well  selected 


The  wall  fountain  and 
tiny  pool  add  im- 
mensely to  the  sun- 
room  where  their  use 
is  possible  and  fitting. 
Besides  permitting  the 
growing  of  aquatic 
plants,  the  water  itself 
will  help  keep  the  air 
moist  for  the  other 
flowers 


November,     1920 


49 


THE     PLACING    AND    CARE    OF     HOUSE    PLANTS 

In  Almost  Every  House  There  Is  a  Place  for  a  Winter  Garden  if  a  Wise  Selection 
of  Plants  Is  Made  and  They  Are  Well  Cared  For 


G.  T.  HUNTINGTON 


PRIMARILY,  the  great 

1  value  of  house  plants  is 
that  they  bring  the  interest 
of  the  growing  garden  in- 
doors. Secondarily,  they 
constitute  decorative  ele- 
ments which  in  themselves 
are  worthy  of  our  best  at- 
tention. If  we  bear  these 
two  qualities  well  in  mind 
we  have  a  good  foundation 
on  which  to  build  a  garden 
in  the  house. 

Where  to  Put  Them 

There  can  be  almost  as 
many  places  for  house 
plants  as  there  are  houses. 
A  single  cyclamen  bloom- 
ing in  a  tiny  stairway  win- 
dow is  scarcely  less  effec- 
tive than  a  whole  conserva- 
tory massed  like  a  green- 
house; ivy  trained  on  a  lat- 
tice adds  as  much  to  the 
sun-room  walls  as  do  the 
geraniums,  Paris  daisies  or 
fuchsias  to  its  windows. 
Many  a  rough-cast  hallway 
is  enhanced  by  a  handsome 
fern  in  a  simple  wrought 
iron  brazier,  just  as  a  hang- 
ing basket  of  oxalis  cheers 
the  sunny  bedroom.  There 
are  few  places  in  the  house 

where    some   sort    of   plant 

cannot  be  used,  if  consid- 
eration is  given  to  the  con- 
ditions presented  and  a 

choice  made  in  accordance 

with  them. 

Mark     this     one     point, 

however:  the  size  and  kind 

of  a  plant  must  be  suited  to 

its  location.     A  huge  palm 

in   a  small   city  apartment 

is  grotesque;  a  tiny  pot  of 

pansies  in  a  palatial  living 

room   may    be   pardonable, 

but    is    more    likely   to   be 

ridiculous.     Self-evident  as 

this  principle  may  seem,  the 

frequency  with  which  it  is  violated  is  appalling 

Necessary  Conditions 

The  majority  of  plants  one  is  likely  to  con- 
sider for  anything  except  a  water  garden  need 
five  conditions  for  their  physical  success :  good 
soil  in  the  pot,  plenty  of  fresh  air,  abundant 
light,  suitable  temperature,  and  sufficient  mois- 
ture for  the  leaves  and  stems  as  well  as  the 
roots.  Let  us  take  these  up  in  order  and  study 
their  application. 

A  plant  growing  in  the  open  garden  has 
abundant  soil  space  in  which  its  roots  can 
reach  out  for  sustenance.  Put  that  same  plant 
m  a  pot,  and  its  feeding  range  is  limited  to  a 
space  perhaps  5"  by  6".  All  the  food  it  con- 
sumes in  the  development  and  maintenance  of 
:s  wonderfully  complex  organism  of  stem,  leaf 
and  blossom  must  come  from  that  small  area. 


Here  old  poly- 
chrome iron  gates 
lead  into  a  sunny 
enclosure  filled 
with  growing 
plants.  The  walls 
are  tinted  yellow 
and  green  damask 
hangings  are  used 
at  the  windows 


Little  wonder  the  soil  in 
the  pot  must  be  rich  in 
nourishment. 

Good  garden  loam  is  the 
best  potting  soil  to  use,  and 
with    it    bone   meal    in   the 
proportion    of    about    one 
part     to    fifty     should    be 
mixed.     This  may  be  rich 
enough   to  carry   the   plant 
all   winter,   or  it  may  not. 
Should    the   general   health 
of  the  plant  begin  to  fail, 
it  may  be  a  sign  that  more 
nourishment  is  needed.  This 
can   be   supplied   by  liquid 
manure,  or  one  of  the  con- 
centrated    stimulants     sup- 
plied   for  this  purpose   by 
the  dealers  in  flower  things. 
The  second   requisite  on 
our   list — fresh    air — is   al- 
most   as    important    as    the 
first.       Remember    that     a 
plant    breathes    through   its 
leaves,  and  has  no  greater 
liking  for  stale,  vitiated  air 
than   we  have.     The  effect 
of  this  condition  on  the  ma- 
jority of  plants  is  evidenced 
by    a    general     failing    in 
vigor,  and  it  should  be  fore- 
stalled by  regular  daily  ex- 
posure   to    as    much    free, 
fresh  air  as  is  possible  with- 
out chilling  the  plants  un- 
duly. 

Light  and  Moisture 

Most  of  us  have  at  some 
time  seen  a  plant  that  has 
grown  more  or  less  in  the 
dark,  and  noted  how  thin, 
spindly  and   anaemic-look- 
ing it  was.    This  is  due  di- 
rectly to  the  absence  of  sun- 
light.   Think,  again,  of  the 
conditions    under    which 
flowers  grow  outdoors,  and 
how  important   a  part  the 
sun   plays    in   them.      Ob- 
viously   our    house    plants 
must  have  direct  sunlight — as  much  of  it  as 
possible.     Only  the  ferns,  ivy  and  some  of  the 
other   foliage  plants   like   pandanus   do   well 
with  little  or  none  of  it. 

Suitable  temperature,  the  fourth  requirement 
for  a  successful  garden  in  the  house,  means  a 
thermometer  range  of  from  60°  to  70°  during 
the  day,  with  a  night  reading  of  about  50°. 
These  are  ideal,  though  occasional  slight  vari- 
ations one  way  or  the  other  will  do  no  harm. 

The  moisture  supply  is  usually  quite  easy 
to  regulate.     A  sprinkling  of  the  leaves  with 
cool  water  once  a  week  or  oftener  is  beneficial, 
while  water  standing  in  a  tray  on  a  radiator 
or  near  the  plants  will  help  remedy  the  dry- 
air  evil  which  causes  so  much  trouble  when 
the  house  is  artificially  heated  in  winter. 
Watering  the  soil  in  the  pots  is,  of  course, 
(Continued  on  page  78) 


The  arrangement 
at  the  left  illus- 
trates a  simple 
but  highly  effec- 
tive use  of  house 
plants.  The  win- 
dow is  part  way 
up  a  staircase  and 
receives  abundant 
light 


50 


House     &     Garden 


THE      GROWING      FARMS      OF      FRANCE 


A  Survey  of  Soil 
Recovery 

IN  June,  1917,  General  Henri  Petain 
took  a  group  of  ten  American  women 
into  the  invaded  region  of  Northern 
France,  and  established  them  in  the  little 
village  of  Blerancourt,  a  scant  fifty  miles 
northeast  of  Paris,  half-way  between  the 
Aisne  and  Sarre  Rivers  and  just  at  the 
western  edge  of  the  Department  of  the 
Aisne.  This  is  the  district  that  in  1914 
the  German  wave  rolled  over  in  the  rush 
that  carried  the  gray  hordes  almost  to  the 
gates  of  Paris. 

Headed  by  Miss  Anne  Morgan  and 
Mrs.  A.  M.  Dike,  these  pioneers  were  au- 
thorized to  set  up  their  headquarters  in 
the  old  chateau  at  Blerancourt.  They 
were  requested  to  wear  the  French  Army 
uniform  and  ordered  to  report  to  the  com- 
manding officer  of  the  Third  Army  Corps, 
thus  operating  under  army  authority  and 
direction.  In  the  beginning  some  thirty 
villages  were  given  to  the  American  Com- 
mittee for  Devastated  France  to  supervise, 
and  in  six  months  they  had  charge  of 

With  the  help  of  the  Government  and  the 

American     Committee,     the     indomitable 

courage  of  the  French  is  bringing  the  land 

back  to  productiveness 


. 

- 

'  ,  :' 


The    shattered    homes    are    being 

patched    to    make    them    habilable 

jor    refugees.      By    the    American 

painter,  Harry  B.  Lachman 


Vegetation  springing  up  from  the  shell-torn 
ground  shows  that  the  soil  is  still  fertile. 
Indeed,  the  throwing  up  of  the  sub-soil  by 
the  explosions  will  result  in  ultimate  im- 
provement 


sixty;  their  territory  now  covers  one  hundred 
and  thirty  villages.  The  immediate  object  of 
their  work  was  to  reinstate  the  returning 
refugee  upon  his  own  land  and  help  him  to 
become,  as  quickly  as  possible,  self-supporting. 
That  intangible  something  called  "spirit"  is 
possessed  to  an  extraordinary  degree  by  the 
French  people,  and  there  is  no  evidence  of 
pessimism  among  the  French  farmers  about 
their  land.  Both  men  and  women  have  un- 
usual mechanical  ability.  The  small  farmer 
or  market-gardener  does  not  spare  himself,  nor 
does  his  family.  They  work  from  early  dawn 
until  nine  and  even  ten  o'clock  at  night,  taking 
full  advantage  of  France's  long  twilight  period 
to  produce  the  family  food,  before  and  after 
their  day's  work  on  the  roads,  bridges,  in- 
dustries and  shelters.  The  French  country- 
man is  a  strong  individualist,  but  the  present 
conditions  have  made  co-op- 
eration his  only  salvation. 
With  the  lack  of  man-power 
— one  seldom  sees  a  man  be- 
tween nineteen  and  thirty- 
five  in  Northern  France — 


The  great  need  is  for 
implements,  especially 
tractors  and  other  farm 
machinery,  which  are 
expensive  but  necessary 
to  reclaim  large  areas 


November,     1920 


51 


.  /'a;//  an*  /Joii  it'as  almost  com- 
pletely destroyed,  but  now  over 
200  people  are.  Ih'ing  in  its  ruins 

and  working  in  their  gardens 


valuable  minerals  of  which  the  top  soil, 
used  for  generations,  had  been  depleted. 

The  problem,  therefore,  of  restoring  the 
French  soil  is  one  of  engineering.  Not 
having  received  indemnity  as  yet  from  Ger- 
many, the  French  Government  cannot  af- 
ford to  advance  "damages"  for  the  purpose 
of  making  farm  lands  available  which, 
when  restored  by  expensive  machinery,  will 
not,  for  a  considerable  period,  produce 
crops  that  will  pay  the  expense  of  the 
work.  They  have  neither  the  funds  nor 
the  material  to  restore  these  lands  to  pre- 
war productivity,  but  the  help  of  the  Gov- 
ernment and  the  American  Committee,  to- 
gether with  the  remarkable  courage  of  the 
French  people,  have  resulted  in  bringing 
back  into  cultivation  in  the  Canton  of 
Coucy  alone,  fifty  per  cent  of  the  original 
area. 

The  French  are  a  people  who  love  plants 
and  everything  that  grows,  but  in  places 
like  the  Department  of  the  Aisne,  where 
every  bit  of  food,  all  live-stock  and  every 
tool  were  either  taken  away  or  destroyed, 
little  can  be  done  without  help. 

Tractors    brought    to    France    by    the 

American  Committee  are  distributed  from 

special   centers  to  the   small   farmer   and 

loaned  to  him  until  his  land  is  cleared, 

(Continued  on  page  66) 

The  American  Committee  began  its  work 

in  June,  1017,  under  French  control.    The 

members   are   actively   co-operating   with 

the  farmers.    By  Harry  B.  lachman 


As  the  Germans  left  one  small  farm  and 
garden,  which  are  now  cleared  and  pro- 
ducing crops.  The  photographs  illustrating 
this  article  are  from  the  American  Commit- 
tee for  Devastated  France,  Inc. 


and  of  machinery,  it  has  become  essential  for 
the  small  fanners  that  they  should  form  them- 
selves into  agricultural  syndicates,  which  the 
Government  has  provided  for,  and  with  which 
the  American  Committee  is  co-operating  in 
providing  and  loaning  tractors. 

The  French  are  past  masters  of  agriculture, 
but  they  are  without  tools  and  machinery,  and 
even  shelter  in  thousands  of  cases.  The  sys- 
tematic destruction  by  the  Germans  of  similar 
parts  of  all  agricultural  implements,  making 
it  impossible  to  assemble  remaining  parts,  left 
the  French  peasants  unable  to  put  together  any 
of  the  wreckage  of  their  farming  implements. 
If  France  had  the  needed  tractors  and  motor- 
driven  implements,  the  soil  could  easily  be 
brought  back  to  its  original  fertility;  as  a 
matter  of  fact,  the  trench  digging  and  the 
shell  craters  which  have  upheaved  the  under 
soil,  actually  represent  the 

type  of  cultivation  advocated      One   of   the   American 
by  practical   agricultural  ex-      headquarters.  One  hun- 
perts.     It  has  brought  to  the      dred  and  thirty  villages 
,  ...  ..        are  now  included  in  the 

surface,  without  destroying  it,      territory  supervised  by 
the  deep  soil  which  contains  the  Committee 


52 


House     &     Garden 


Of  paper, in  a  French 
design  suggestive  of 
the  Empire  period, 
this  basket  is  8J4" 
•wide  by  12"  high. 
It  is  priced  at 


The  desk  set  of  silk  and  brocade  matches  the  basket.    All 

are  in  blue,  rose  and  purple.     The  set  is  priced  at  S16.SO 

and  the  basket  at  SIS 


TO  STAND  BESIDE  the  DESK 


And    tv    be    purchased    thrunyh    the    HOUSE    &    GARDEN    Shopping 
Sen-ice,    19   ll'est   44th  Street,  New   York  City. 


For  a  girl's  desk  comes  a  hand- 
painted  basket  in  cream  and  blue 
with  pink  roses.  8^"  by  9J4".  $15 


(Above)  Gray  ground,  with 
rose    wreath    and   figure 


colors.   9 -J4"  by  11-54" 


in 

$7.50 


Another  tin  basket,  painted 
in  rose  with  a  Chinese  de- 
sign. \\y2"  by  14".  $20 


(Above)  Of  oval  tin,  with 
black  ground  and  painted 
design.  lOl/2"  by  12".  $18 


Of  cardboard,  i  .itique  yel- 
low with  print  in  pinks  and 
blues.  ll-H"  by  11".  $25 


An  amusing  varia- 
tion of  the  French 
print  is  found  in 
this  basket  with  its 
gray  background. 
S'A"  by  IV/i".  $10 


This  paper  receptacle  is  of  gay  blue 

garlanded  paper  lined  with  yellow. 

It  measures  V/z"  by  11".     $2 


November,     1920  S3 

THE  CASE  OF  THE  STATIONARY  VACUUM  CLEANER 

The  Advantages  of  the  B-uih-In-Machines  and  the  Situations  in 
Which  They  Are  Most  Valuable 


ETHEL  R.  PEYSER 


A 5  soon  as  we  get  accustomed  to  the 
intricacies  of  one  method  of  doing 
anything  today,  something  new  crops  up. 
This  is  probably  more  true  in  the  realm 
of  housekeeping  than  in  any  other  except 
that  of  military  science.  We  have  no 
sooner  mastered  the  points  of  what  not  to 
do  and  what  we  should  do  with  portable 
vacuum  cleaners  than  up  comes  the  sta- 
tionary vacuum  cleaner  and  we  have  to 
know  about  it,  too.  And  so  this  article 
follows  a  few  months  after  one  on  the 
portable  cleaner.  If  you  forget  the  tech- 
tiicalities  discussed  in  that  article  it  would 
be  well  for  you  to  look  up  HOUSE  &  GAR- 
DEN for  January,  1920. 

To  refresh  your  memory,  every  vacuum 
cleaner  has  five  elements: 

1.  Air    producer     (vacuum    is    a    mis- 

nomer) :    the   pump  or   fan   series 
employed  to  create  the  air  current. 

2.  Dust  collector:    bag,   box,   pail,  etc. 

3.  Dust  conduit:  piping. 

4.  Cleaning  tool:   brush,   felt,  etc.,  etc. 

5.  Human    direction:    the    hand    that 

steers. 

The  portable  type  of  cleaner  has  the 
first  four  parts  mounted  on  one  unit,  so 
that  the  whole  machine  is  moved  in  its 
chase  for  the  enemy  Dust.  Besides  this 
the  electric  wire  must  be  applied  to  an 
electric  connection  in  a  baseboard  or  elec- 
tric fixture. 

In  the  case  of  the  stationary  cleaner, 
the  mechanism  is  larger  and  the  air  pro- 
ducer and  dust  collector  are  in  the  cellar 
or  basement,  and  the  dust  conduit  impar- 
tially spreads  itself  throughout  the  house 
through  walls  and  ceilings  and  politely 
connects  at  convenient  intervals  with  the 
cleaning  tool,  via  the  agency  of  the  vents 
in  baseboards.  With  this  cleaner  the 
only  thing  that  is  manipulated  by  the 
worker  is  the  cleaning  tool  which  "bites 
the  dust." 

Pros  and  Cons 

But  why  should  one  have  the  installed 
cleaner?  Why  not  have  the  portable?  The 
fact  is  that  neither  of  these  cleaners  is  in  com- 
petition very  directly.  But  let  us  quote  an 
expert  who  has  given  most  of  his  time  to  the 
subject  of  air  cleaning: 

"There  is  unquestionably  a  legitimate  field 
for  both  types  of  cleaners,  but  the  stationary 
type  more  nearly  reaches  the  ideal."  The  next 
statement  of  his  will  explain  that:  "If  we 
observe  the  action  of  the  wind  in  an  open  field, 
we  find  that  a  gentle  breeze  will  move  light 
material.  ...  If  the  breeze  changes  to  a 
hurricane,  we  find  that  the  moving  air  has  the 
power  ...  to  move  anything  in  its  path, 
including  fences,  trees,  houses,  etc." 

Therefore  in  considering  purchasing  a 
cleaner  we  must  ask  ourselves  first:  "Do  I 
want  a  gentle  breeze  or  a  little  hurricane  in 
my  home?  That's  the  first  and  foremost  ques- 
tion! Is  my  home  large  enough  to  afford  the 
much  more  expensive  plant  which  makes  the 
hurricane,  at  a  higher  running  cost;  or  isn't 
the  portable  just  the  thing  I  need  because  of 


its  various  adaptabilities  and  small  run- 
ning and  installation  costs? 

It  has  been  held  against  the  installed 
vacuum  cleaner  that  it  is — 

1.  Expensive. 

2.  Unusual  skill  must  be  employed  in 

installation. 

3.  Suction  is  altered  by  length  of  pipe. 

4.  Cost  of  operation  is  high. 

5.  Wear    and    tear    on    the    house    too 

great. 

6.  It  must  be  installed  when  the  house 

is  built. 

Of  course  the  stationary  type  is  more 
ex]x-nsive  than  the  portables,  because  of 
the  larger  machine,  the  indefinitely  long 
pipe  system  and  the  larger  motor.  The 
motor  has  from  six  to  twelve  times  and 
upwards  the  horsejxawer  of  the  portable 
machine.  It  is,  therefore,  more  costly  to 
run  Ix-cause  it  eats  up  more  electricity, 
but  it  can  do  heavier  work  and  quicker. 

Great  skill  must  lx?  employed  in  the  in- 
stalling of  all  machinery.  Not  long  ago 
mistakes  were-  made  when  putting  in  the 
air  system,  but  now  engineers  know  this 
department  of  work  as  well  as  they  know 
gas  and  electric  installations,  and  with  the 
length  of  hose  used  there  is  no  lessening 
of  suction  Ixxause  of  the  construction  of 
the  entire  pipeage. 

The  objection  that  with  this  apparatus 
there  is  tremendous  wear  and  tear  because 
the  hose  is  taken  through  the  doorway 
from  the  hall  so  that  the  door  must  needs 
lie  scratched  when  it  closes  on  the  hose 
as  it  is  dragged  through,  may  be  nullified 
by  installing  double  end  hose  connections 
in  the  wall  near  the  door  so  that  one  line 
of  hose  will  connect  from  the  valve  to  the 
connection  in  the  hall  and  another  shorter 
piece  of  hose  used  inside  of  the  room. 

There  is  no  trouble  at  all  about  in- 
stalling the  stationary  vacuum  cleaner 
(Continued  on  page  76) 


The  fans,  dust  collector 
and  all  machinery  parts 
are  located  below  stairs. 
From  them  the  built-in 
piping  extends  up  through 
the  house  with  an  attach- 
ment for  the  cleaning  pipe 
on  every  floor.  Courtesy 
American  Radiator  Co. 


Instead  of  a  bag, 
the  stationary 
cleaner  has  an  easily 
removed  dust  pan. 
With  the  incoming 
and  outgoing  pipes 
as  indicated  by  the 
arrows,  all  the 
working  parts  ex- 
cept the  cleaning 
tool  are  included 
here.  Courtesy  B.  F. 
Sturtevant  Co. 


54 


House     fy     Garden 


PLANNING      THE      WIRING      FOR      A      HOUSE 

The  Practical  Side  of  an  Important  Phase  of  House  Equipment  to  Which 
too  Little  Attention  Is  Often  Paid 


M.  LUCKIESH 


ONE  of  the  most  discouraging  factors 
in  the  development  of  residence 
lighting  is  the  paucity  of  outlets.  A  num- 
ber of  interests  are  responsible  for  this 
condition.  Those  central  stations  which 
continue  to  penalize  the  householder  for 
the  installation  of  outlets  are  inhibiting 
progress  in  lighting.  The  building  or  elec- 
trical contractor  who  does  not  encourage 
the  installation  of  more  outlets  is  not  only 
failing  to  promote  the  cause  of  lighting, 
but  in  many  cases  is  responsible  for  plac- 
ing a  blight  upon  the  home.  The  architect 
should  appreciate  the  possibilities  of  light- 
ing and  should  give  practical  suggestions. 

The  average  householder  has  about  one 
baseboard  outlet  in  his  home.  This  is 
especially  true  of  apartments.  Consider- 
ing the  inadequacy  of  the  other  outlets  it 
is  not  surprising  that  the  householder  has 
not  learned  of  the  possibilities  of  lighting. 
But  this  scarcity  is  not  confined  to  apart- 
ments. On  investigating  houses  during 
construction  it  is  common  to  find  only  one 
or  two  outlets  in  houses  which  cost  from 
$10,000  to  $25,000. 

Sometimes  the  attitude  of  an  electrical 
contractor-dealer  is  not  only  one  of  in- 
difference but  is  actually  reactionary  in 
character.  For  example,  let  us  take  a 
case  which  occurred  some  time  ago.  A 
man  building  a  house  for  his  own  home 
had  come  to  realize  that  artificial  light 
was  really  an  important  factor  in  making 
a  house  a  home  and  he  had  laid  out  the 
wiring  in  accordance  with  his  ideas  of 
convenience  and  adequateness.  The  wir- 
ing diagrams  were  those  shown  in  the  ac- 
companying illustrations  with  the  excep- 
tion of  a  few  minor  details. 

Householder  and  Contractor 

In  going  over  the  plans  with  an  elec- 
trical contractor-dealer  the  latter  sug- 
gested the  elimination  of  an  outlet  or 
switch  here  and  there  until  a  total  of  ten 
had  been  recommended  for  elimination. 
When  the  contractor  had  finished  his  con- 
sideration of  the  plans,  the  householder 
asked  why  a  contractor  should  assume  an 
attitude  which  appeared  to  operate  to  his 
disadvantage.  He  replied  to  the  effect 
that  he  always  had  the  interests  of  his 
client  in  mind.  But  did  he?  He  was  un- 
knowingly placing  a  blight  upon  that 
home,  but  then,  the  electrical  contractor 
has  not  learned  what  an  important  link 
he  is  in  the  chain  which  leads  to  a  pleas- 
ant home.  The  householder,  who  knew 
that  the  cost  of  outlets  was  insignificantly 
small  compared  with  their  importance,  in- 
sisted that  the  elimination  of  these  out- 
lets at  a  saving  of  a  few  dollars  was  not 
to  his  advantage.  He  knew  that,  in  a  few 
months,  the  house  would  be  completed  and 
the  contractor-dealer  would  then  attempt 
to  sell  the  householder  various  electrical 
devices  such  as  a  heater,  a  toaster,  a  flat- 
iron,  a  vacuum  cleaner,  portable  lamps, 
etc.,  each  of  \\hich  demands  a  convenient 
baseboard  or  wall-receptacle. 


Eleven  baseboard  outlets  are  provided  on 
the  first  floor,  together  with  ample  pro- 
vision for  wall  lights.  Switches  at  stair  and 
front  entrance  are  conveniently  placed 


The  furniture  arrangement  was  determined 
before  the  outlets  were  located.  A  base- 
board outlet  in  the  hall  of  the  second  floor 
furnishes  connection  for  a  vacuum  cleaner 


A  switch  at  the  foot  of  the  basement  stairs 
controls  a  ceiling  lamp  near  the  heater  and 
furnishes  enough  light  to  distinguish  every- 
thing in  the  basement 


All  the  efforts  of  others  toward  progress 
in  residence  lighting  will  be  reduced  in 
effectiveness  as  long  as  electrical  con- 
tractors do  not  appreciate  the  value  of 
adequate  wiring  and  recommend  it.  This 
does  not  mean  that  other  interests  are  on 
the  side  of  progress  as  opposed  to  the  con- 
tractor. In  fact,  none  of  those  who  come 
into  contact  with  the  householder  is  plac- 
ing sufficient  emphasis  upon  the  impor- 
tance of  lighting  effects  and  the  insig- 
nificant cost  of  lighting.  The  central  sta- 
tion should  show  that  lighting  is  not  costly 
and  should  emphasize  that  it  should  not 
be  viewed  with  the  same  attitude  as  the 
householder  maintains  toward  fuel  and 
food.  The  architect  and  builder  must  be 
reached,  for  they  are  often  in  the  best 
position  to  recommend  adequate  wiring 
and  to  show  the  advantages  of  lighting. 
In  fact,  they  can  easily  show  that  a  few 
baseboard  outlets  will  bring  greater  re- 
turns in  the  sale  of  a  house  than  any  in- 
vestment of  equally  small  magnitude. 

The  fixture  dealer  is  generally  consulted 
about  fixtures  after  the  wiring  is  com- 
pleted, but  if  he  had  a  demonstration 
room,  the  householder  would  in  due  time 
acquire  the  habit  of  visiting  the  lighting 
artist  for  advice  concerning  the  wiring. 
It  has  been  found  that  this  would  be  true 
if  the  fixture  dealer  lets  it  be  known  that 
he  has  experts  for  that  purpose.  But  there 
are  so  many  interests  which  come  into 
contact  with  the  householder,  and  some  of 
these  at  an  inopportune  time  in  the  course 
of  the  construction  of  the  home,  that  the 
best  plan  appears  to  be  for  the  house- 
holder to  become  familiar  with  the  possi- 
bilities and  importance  of  lighting. 

Some  companies  engaged  in  lighting  or 
in  the  sale  of  lighting  accessories  have 
attempted  to  inform  the  householder  re- 
garding this  new  era  of  lighting,  but  in 
general,  they  have  not  taken  up  the  matter 
of  lighting  effects  in  the  broader  manner 
which  awakens  the  householder's  interest. 

The  PlanS 

Let  us  take  up  the  wiring  of  a  moderate 
priced  home  which  was  built  three  years 
ago.  Sufficient  time  has  elapsed  to  estab- 
lish a  justification  of  the  various  outlets 
and  controls  and  to  make  it  possible  to 
appraise  the  wiring  plans.  An  inspection 
of  the  accompanying  diagrams  will  reveal 
an  adequacy  of  outlets  and  switches  sel- 
dom approached  and  rarely  equalled  in  a 
middle-class  home  of  similar  size,  but  it 
may  be  stated  that  the  existence  of  each 
outlet  and  switch  has  been  justified. 

Beginning  with  the  first-floor  plan,  Fig. 
1,  let  us  analyze  the  living  room.  No  ceil- 
ing fixtures  have  been  installed,  but  a 
two-circuit  outlet  was  provided  for  pos- 
sible future  demands.  Switches  control 
these  two  circuits  respectively  at  the  main 
entrance  and  at  the  stairway  as  shown  by 
the  dotted  lines.  However,  not  intending 
to  install  a  ceiling  fixture,  the  baseboard 
(Continued  on  page  60) 


November,     1920 


55 


CROPS   TO   GROW   IN   THE   CELLAR 

Methods  Used  in  the  Cultivation  of  the  Mushrooms  and  French  Endive  Under 
the  Conditions  of  the  Average  Home 

MARGARET  McELROY 


IT  was  not  so  many 
years  ago  that  mush- 
room growing  was  re- 
garded as  more  or  less  of 
a  mystery.  There  was  al- 
ways uncertainty  as  to  the 
result  and  this  element 
of  chance  appealed  to 
the  amateur  and  profes- 
sional alike.  In  the  past, 
gardeners,  with  a  great 
faith  and  an  optimism 
very  contagious,  plunged 
in  and  prayed  for  results. 
Now  that  is  changed  to 
a  certain  extent.  The 
faith  has  given  way  to  a 
wider  knowledge  of  facts 
and  an  increase  in  the 
mushroom  crop  has  been 
the  outcome. 

In  the  last  ten  years, 
enough  has  been  accom- 
plished in  mushroom 
raising  to  demonstrate 
the  fact  that  the  general 
principles  of  production 
are  comparatively  simple.  There  is  now  no 
reason  why  an  intelligent  person  should  not  be 
able  to  grow  mushrooms  successfully  if  he  will 
give  the  same  care  and  attention  to  the  work 
that  he  gives  to  the  cultivation  of  any  delicate 
flower  or  fruit.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  the  mush- 
room crop  should  be  a  more  certain  one  than 
many  others,  since  it  can  be  grown  only  in  situ- 
ations permitting  the  practical  control  of  con- 
ditions. Successful  outdoor  mushroom  culture 
is  possible  only  in  regions  where  a  uniform  tem- 
perature prevails  for  a  considerable  period  of 
time.  The  reasons  for  the  failure  of  mushrooms 
planted  in  fields  and  lawns  are  obvious.  In- 
sufficient rain,  unexpected  cold,  or  an  early 
summer  drought  are  enough  to  check  a  plant 
sensitive  to  climatic  con- 
ditions. In  France  and 
England,  outdoor  culture 
has  proven  fairly  suc- 
cessful, but  nowhere  in 
the  world  can -the  mush- 
room grown  in  the  open 
compete  successfully 
with  those  grown  in- 
doors. 

Where  Mushrooms  May 
Be  Grown 

Mushrooms  may  be 
grown  in  outbuildings, 
cellars,  caves,  sheds  or 
in  the  space  under  the 
benches  in  a  greenhouse. 
The  important  thing  is 
to  have  a  place  that  per- 
mits the  regulation  of 
moisture,  temperature 
and  ventilation.  If  a 
house  is  specially  built, 
see  that  there  is  air  space 
in  the  walls  to  prevent 
"sweating"  and  the  drip 
which  accompanit-s  this 


French  endive  is  comparatively  .simple  to  grow  for  a   winter  crop.     Taken   out    of   thi 
garden  in  autumn  and  properly  cared  for  in  the  cellar,  it  will  yield  all  winter  long 


The  height  of  the  ceiling  of  the  mushroom 
house  depends  on  the  number  of  tiers  of  beds. 
When  only  the  floor  is  used  for  planting,  the 
ceiling  should  \x  low,  as  the  air  space  above 
the  bed  is  not  advantageous  for  the  control  of 
both  heat  and  moisture.  The  ventilation 
should  be  sufficient  for  a  constant  but  slight 
drying  of  the  beds  from  day  to  day,  necessi- 
tating an  occasional  sprinkling.  In  stagnant 
air  the  mushrooms  are  apt  to  become  long- 
stemmed  with  relatively  small  caps. 

The  Compost 

The  success  of  mushroom  raising  depends 
on  three  things — fresh  spawn,  the  right  kind 
of  compost  and  proper  climatic  conditions. 


There  is  something  strangely  fascinating  about  growing   mushrooms.     For  market 
are  grown  in  caves  and  specially  built  underground  houses 


The  most  important  of 
these  is  the  compost. 
Stable  manure  has  been 
found  to  be  the  only 
really  satisfactory  com- 
post in  which  to  grow 
mushrooms.  This  can  be 
mixed  with  straw  or 
shavings  to  form  a  good 
bedding  material  and 
when  sufficient  has  been 
gathered,  it  should  be 
slightly  sprinkled  and 
somewhat  packed.  In  a 
few  days  the  temperature 
will  rise  to  perhaps  120° 
to  140°  F.  which  is  in- 
dicative of  active  fer- 
mentation. The  heap 
should  then  be  turned 
daily  to  prevent  burning 
and  should  be  kept  moist 
throughout.  The  total 
time  required  for  fer- 
mentation in  summer  is 
from  eighteen  to  twenty 
days.  A  thermometer 

should  be  used  to  test  the  heat  of  the  compost 
and  when  it  gets  down  to  about  90°  F.,  it  is 
ready  to  l>e  made  into  beds. 

The  kind  of  bed  generally  used  in  this  coun- 
try is  a  flat  bed  from  6"  to  8"  deep  and  from 
2l/2  to  4'  wide.  When  the  compost  has  reached 
90°  it  should  be  firmed  over  night  and  then  the 
heat  tested.  If  the  glass  runs  over  110°  the 
compost  should  Ije  loosened  up  to  allow  more 
heat  to  escape.  If,  however,  the  mercury  re- 
mains nearly  stationary  the  compost  can  then 
Ije  placed  in  the  beds  to  a  depth  of  12"  and 
pounded  firm.  Within  a  few  days  the  tem- 
perature will  begin  to  fall  and  the  bed  may 
Ije  spawned  at  70°  to  75°  F.  Within  a  week 
the  temix:rature  should  fall  to  the  normal  fig- 
ure for  mushroom  grow- 
ing, about  54°  F. 

Spawn 

The  development  and 
growth  of  the  mycelium 
— the  threadlike  growth 
that  is  characteristic  of 
most  fungi  —  yields  a 
"spawn"  which  is  mere- 
ly the  vegetative  stage  of 
the  fungus.  Be  sure  that 
the  spawn  you  get  is 
fresh.  Old  spawn  con- 
tains the  same  amount  of 
mycelium  as  the  new  and 
they  are  about  the  same 
in  appearance.  But  the 
mycelium  of  the  older 
spawn  has  less  vitality, 
and  fresh,  live  spawn  is 
needed  to  insure  good 
results.  It  is  necessary 
to  be  more  careful  in  the 
purchase  of  spawn  than 
of  field  or  garden  seeds. 

The  spawn,  which 
(Continued  on  page  70) 


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56 


House     &     Garden 


November 


THE  GARDENER'S  CALENDAR 


Eleventh  Month 


Y 


Cabbage    m a y    be 

stored  head  down  in 

trenches  and  covered 

with   earth 


^ 


Corn  saved  for  next 

year's    seed    should 

be  husked  now  and 

put  away 


Dry  sand  is  a  good 

material    to    use    in 

the    -winter    storing 

of  root  crops 


SUNDAY 

MONDAY 

TUESDAY 

WEDNESDAY 

THURSDAY 

FRIDAY 

SATURDAY 

>fig    Q    dull 

1.    It  is  now 

2.     It  is  not 

3.   Do  not  ne- 

4.    Garden 

5.  Poinaettia, 

6.     Ill-kept 

" 

time  for  all  fall 

too  late  to  start 

glect    to    make 

changes  should 

lilies  and  other 

gardens    breed 

bulb    plantings 

seeds    of   some 

suceessional 

be    made    now 

heat    -    loving 

diseases  and  in- 

To *er  the  year 

to    be    c  o  m  - 

of    the    more 

sowings  in  the 

before    the 

crops  Intended 

sects.  Clean  up 

dying. 

pleted-  Always 

rapid  -  growing 

greenhouse    of 

ground  Is  froz- 

for   Christmas 

all   refuse  and 

H'hen     ir  inter 

plant    four 

annuals  in  the 

vegetable  crops 

en,   to  prevent 

bloom  must  be 

burn  the  stalks 

\i'  inds 

times    as   deep 

greenhouse  for 

such  as  beans. 

settl  ing    and 

forced  rapidly. 

and  other  ma- 

S -t    tl       veil 

as  the  diameter 

winter  flowers. 

cauliflower, 

othir  irregular- 

A  temperature 

terial  likely  to 

'   '                rf    J/rllOir 

of     the     bulb. 

Of    these    may 

beets,    carrots. 

i  1  1  e  s    in    the 

of  75°    or  even 

decay.    Thor- 

.                   elffn 

mound    the 

be     mentioned 

lettuce,    etc. 

spring.    Plants 

8  0»      when 

oughly  sterilize 

ing, 

earth  up  so  as 

cal  1  1  o  p  s  i  s  , 

The    secret    of 

disturbed    now 

plenty  of  mois- 

the ground  by 

Sigh  i  ttff.       O 

to  shed  water, 

candytuft,  rag- 

success Is  sow- 

are more  likely 

ture    Is    avail- 

the application 

sighing  ! 

and  mulch  the 

ged  sailor  and 

ing     In     small 

to     live     than 

able,     will     be 

of  lime  or  deep. 

—  £0UM/f/> 

surface    well 

the  ever  popu- 

quantities and 

those  moved  in 

beneficial    to 

consistent 

FITZGERALD 

with  manure. 

lar  mignonette. 

frequently. 

midwinter. 

t'hem. 

trenching. 

7.  The  straw- 

S.    It  Is  per- 

0.    Sweet 

10.  Carnation 

1  1  .  There  are 

12.  II    you 

13.      Celery 

berry    bed 

fectly    safe    to 

peas  sown  now 

ElaiiUs     should 

a     number     of 

have     not     al- 

must   be    kept 

should     be 

plant     aspara- 

and     properly 

e     kept    sup- 

popular peren- 

ready   stored 

banked  proper- 

mulched    with 

gus  in  the  fall 

proteetcd   over 

port  e  d    and 

nials    which 

your  root  crops 

ly    to    protect 

well-rotted 

provided      you 

the  winter  will 

properly    dis- 

o r  ce   well. 

for  the  wi»ter, 

the    hearts    of 

manure  :     this 

make  some  ef- 

give   <j  ualit.y 

budded.  Never 

(.'lumps  of  core- 

they should  be 

the  plants  from 

not    only    pro- 

fort to  protect 

flowers    next 

allow     the 

opsis,  bleeding 

Attended  to  at 

damage  by  se- 

tects the  plants 

it    during    the 

year.    A  frame 

benches  to  ac- 

heart,     Shasta 

once.    Burying 

vere  frost.     In 

but    prevents 

winter.     Pull 

made  of  boards 

cumulate  green 

daisy,  dicentra, 

them       In 

fact,  it,  can  be 

the    deteriora- 

plenty of  earth 

ana    covered 

mould  .    The 

etc.,     may     be 

trenches    out- 

stored    in 

tion  or  the  soil. 

up     over     the 

with    manure 

surface   of    the 

lifted,    potted. 

doors  with  the 

trenches    any 

Straw    to    pro- 

plants   and 

after   it   is  put 

ground    should 

and  thenstored 

proper  kind  of 

time    now    for 

tect  them  from 
the  sun  should 

cover  them  well 
with     decayed 

In  place  will  be 
an    excellent 

be  kept  stirred. 
Top-dress  with 

outside  to  ripen 
properly  before 

protecting  ma- 
terial   Is    the 

use  during  the 
late     fali     and 

be  added. 

manure. 

protection. 

sheep   manure. 

forcing. 

ideal  storage. 

winter  months. 

14.     One   of 
t  lie    hardest 
plants   to    pro- 
tect durinn  cold 
weather  is  the 
French     Globe 
artichoke.    If 
covered    too 
much  It  decays, 
so  use  a  frame 
to  prevent  the 
covering    ma- 
terial from  ac- 
tually    raiting 

15.      Goose- 
berries,   cur- 
rants, raspber- 
ries and  black- 
berries are  sur- 
face rooters.  A 
heavy      winter 
mulch    of    ma- 
nure will  build 
up  the  fertility 
of  the  soil  and 
help  to  protect 
the  roots  from 
damage,  by  the 

16.      Tender 
roses    and    all 
tea  roses  should 
be  st  rawed   up 
now  to  protect 
them.    Putting 
earth      around 
the  bases  of  the 
plants    helps 
shed  water  and 
will     serve     to 
protect     the 
lower    part    of 
the  plant  from 

17.  Primula, 
cyclamen,    cln- 
eraria    and 
other    potted 
plants  that  are 
c  u  s  t  o  m  a  r  1  1  y 
grown  in  frames 
may  be  brought 
inside    now. 
Frequent   feed- 
ing with  liquid 
nianuresis  verv 
helpful  to  their 
continued   suc- 

18. Standard 
roses  are  among 
the    hardest 
gardensubjects 
to  protect.     If 
st  rawed  in  they 
must    h  n  v  e 
heavy  stakes  or 
they    will    bc- 
come    t  o  p  - 
heavy.    Laying 
the  stems  down 
and    covering 
with    earth    is 

19.    Manure 
for  the  garden 
should  be  pur- 
chased   now. 
For    garden 
purposes  It  Im- 
proves  greatly 
with    a«e    and 
handling,     and 
It    is    always 
possible  to  get 
manure  in  the 
fall,  while  next 
spring    is    un- 

20.   House 
plaiiui     of     all 
kinds  should  be 
given    a    little 
extra    care    at 
this    time. 
Sponge  the  fo- 
liage with  soap 
solution,  scrub 
the  green  scum 
of!  the  pots  and 
top  -  dress   the 
soil     in     them 
with    sheep 

on   the   plants. 

frost. 

damage. 

cess  indoors. 

the  best. 

certain. 

manure. 

21.  Freesias, 
French    grown 
narcissus,  early 
lilies     5nd    nil 
bulbs    of     this 
type     can     be 
brought  Into  a 
higher  tempcr- 
a  t  u  r  e    now. 
After  the  buds 
show,   free  ap- 
plications   of 
liquid    manure 
will  benefit  the 
roots. 

22.      Apples, 
pears  and  other 
stored    fruit 
should    be 
looked  over  oc- 
casionally    for 
any    decayed 
ones    w  h  i  ch 
would  soon  de- 
stroy   others. 
When  the  fruit 
Is  wrapped  sep- 
arately in  soft 
paper  this  dan- 
ger is  lessened. 

2:1  .    Sweet 
peas    in    the 
greenhouse 
should    be    fed 
freely    with    li- 
quid   manures. 
The  tlrst  flow- 
ers   to    appear 
s  h  o  u  1  d     b  e 
pinched   off   to 
conserve    the 
plants' 
strength.  Keep 
the  atmosphere 
dry    at-    niL'ht. 

24.  V  o  u  n  g 
fruit   trees  had 
better   be   pro- 
tected   n  o  w 
from    the    at- 
tacks   of    fleld- 
niice,    rabbits 
and    other    ro- 
dent s    which 
girdle    the 
trunks    Tarred 
burlap  or  paper 
collars     placed 
above    ground 
will  help. 

25.     At   this 
time   all    hard- 
wooded  forcing 
plants  such  as 
lilacs,  cherries, 
deutzla,    wls- 
tar  la,    etc., 
should  be  lifted 
from    their 
places    about 
the    grounds 
and    placed    In 
tubs    or    boxes 
for  winter  forc- 
ing. 

26.  Low  spots 
In  the  lawn  or 
irregular  1  ties  in 
thesurfacemay 
be   top-dressed 
now    to    over- 
come   t  hese 
troubles.      Use 
good   soil,   and 
when  not  more 
than    2    Inches 
of  it  is  applied 
the    grass    will 
come    through 
all  right. 

27.  Boxwood 
and  other  ten- 
der  evergreens 
should    have 
their    winter 
protections  ap- 
plied now.  Hur- 
lap  covers  that 
are    supported 
so    as    not    to 
come  in  actual 
contact    with 
the  plants  are 
the    best    ma- 
terial for  tils. 

28.     Most 
smooth  -barked 
trees  and  prac- 

29. All  orna- 
mented garden 
furniture,    set- 

30.     Rhodo- 
d  e  n  d  r  o  n  s 
should    have 

This  calendar  of  the  gardei 
is  aimed  as  a  reminder  for  u 

ndertaking 

bttdx     while 

tically  all  fruit 

tees,   etc  ,   and 

their  roots  pro- 

all his  tasks  in  season.      It  is  fitted  to 

Ve  m**¥'  ^     . 

trees   are   sub- 
ject to  the  at- 
tacks   of    San 
Jose    scale. 
These    trees 

all     melon 
frames,    bean 
poles,     tomato 
trellises    and 
such     planting 

tected    by    a 
heavy  mulch  of 
leaves  or  litter. 
Some  branches 
of    pines    or 

the  latitude  of   the   Middle  States,  but 
its  service  should  be  available  for  the 
whole    country    if    it    be    remembered 
that  for  every  one  hundred  miles  north 

still    a-flu- 
ing. 
And    thin    same 
flower     that 

s  li  o  u  1  d    be 

accessories, 

other    ever- 

or  south  there  is  a  difference  of  from 

7*o*1-  mo  r°r  ow 

sprayed      with 
one  of  the  sol- 
uble   oil     mix- 

.should  now  be 
stored  away  for 
winter.      Paint 

greens      thrust 
into  the  ground 
between  -  the 

five  to   seven    days   later   or   earlier   in 
performing     garden     operations.       The 

will    bt-    dy- 
ing; 
HOBERT 

be  purchased., 

those    that   re- 
quire it. 

plants  twill  pre- 
vent sun-scald! 

average  season. 

HEltltlCK 

X7"/?  caw  say  all  ye  want  to  'bout  Fall  bciii'  notltin'  but  a  sad  sort  o'  season,   but  yc'll  never  be  able   to 

convince   me    that    I    o-ug  liter   go    'found   snufflln'    an     wipin'   the    tears    out    o'   mv    eyes   because    all   the 

flowers  an'    t  kings   're    dead.      They   ain't.      Hou<    'bout   them    little    bronze   an'    yeller   an'    brick-red   button 

chrysanthemums  'Ion  aside   my  garden  fence?      Or   the  purple  an'  gold  unld  asters  by   the  road,   an'   the 

fringed  gentians  in   the  swamp  tnedders,  an'   the   deep,   dark  green  cedars  u-ith   their  little   blue   berries  on 

the   hill?      Sure,   the   leaves   're  mos'ly   gone   offcn   the   trees,    but    the    branches  're   stilt  as  strong   an'   live 

as   ever.      Suppose    they    do   look   bare  —  ye   can    see    their    shape    all   the    better.      An'    1   want    to    say    right 

here   that  they's   lots   o'   sadder,    deader    lookin'    things   than    a   white    birch    in    the    Fall,    all  its    trunk    an' 

branches  an'  little  tivigs  set  off  ag'in  a  solid  clump  o'  hemlocks  an'  junipers.     It's  a  mighty  live,  graceful. 

party  lookin'  thing,  an'  so  're  all  the  other  kinds  o'  trees  at  this  time  o'  year. 

—  Old  Doc  Lemmon, 

A  thorough  clean-up 

of    the    last    garden 

odds-and-ends  is  in 

order   now 


Put  a  manure  mulch 

around  newly  planted 

trees,  for  protection 

and  fertilizing 


Rutabagas,  parsnips 

and  other  late  root 

crops  should  now  be 

lifted   and   stored 


Perennial  roots  that  need  to  be  lifted  and  stored 

indoors  for  the  winter  should  be  plainly  labeled 

as  a  guide  for  replanting  next  spring 


Fall  plowing  breaks  up  the  soil  and 

allows  the  lower  strata  to  benefit  by 

the  winter's  exposure 


A   top-dressing  of  manure  put  on  now  and  al- 
lowed to  lie  all  winter  will  enrich  the  lawn  soil 
and  make  a  better  sod 


November,    1920 


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S   often    happens   nowadays,    a    single    piece   of 
Furniture  may  suggest,  by  its  unusual  charm, 
the  decorative  scheme  for  an  entire  room. 

The  dignified  English  Dining  Room  illustrated  here 
is  a  case  in  point:  the  beautiful  Walnut  Furniture 
was  inspired  by  an  original  Early  XVIII  Century 
console.  It  is  in  the  creation  of  just  such  delightful 
ensembles  as  this  —  from  a  seemingly  unrelated  piece 
perhaps  —  that  the  extensive  exhibits  in  these  Galleries 
invariably  prove  an  unfailing  source  of  inspiration. 

The  pleasure  of  acquiring  Furniture  so  uncommon 
in  design,  yet    true   in    its   character  to    historic 

precedent,  is  heightened  here  by  the  fact  that  its 

cost  is  in  no  instance  prohibitive. 

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But  the  ever  welcome  gift  of  hand' 
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charm  only  when  it  bears  a  distinc' 
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To  insure  delivery  for  the  holidays, 
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House     &     Garden 

How    a    Decorator    Works 

(Continued  from  page  38) 


added  features  accord  well  with   them. 

The  client  may  be  a  very  exquisite 
type  of  woman,  fragile,  beautiful,  a  bit 
artificial  in  a  fastidious  fashion,  that 
immediately  suggests  powder  and  patch. 
Le  Petit  Trianon  and  visions  of  a  Louis 
XVI  interior  come  instantly  to  mind. 
But  you  go  with  he?  to  the  home  of 
her  choice  and  you  find  it  is  a  Colonial 
American  farmhouse,  or  a  Frank  Lloyd 
Wright  bungalow,  or  goodness  knows 
what. 

You  ponder  inwardly  that,  while  she 
herself  is  a  dainty  beauty  who  might 
have  graced  the  court  of  Marie  An- 
toinette, she  has  a  husband  and  several 
other  male  members  of  her  family  who 
are  of  the  most  material,  modern  types. 
You  suppress  a  smile  at  the  thought 
of  these  successful  packers  or  smug 
bankers,  gingerly  poised  on  little  gilded 
chairs !  No,  no,  that  would  never  do ! 
The  mantelpiece  and  the  husband  are 
settled  features  of  the  establishment. 
The  mobiliary  selection  must  be  brought 
into  harmony  with  them. 

Let  us  illustrate  with  concrete  ex- 
amples of  a  variety  of  permanent  parts 
used  as  starting  points — going  on  from 
these  points  to  descriptions  of  the  fin- 
ished rooms  and  supplementing  with 
photographs.  The  examples  show  the 
work  of  Miss  Gheen. 

A  Balanced  Living  Room 

In  the  home  of  Mrs.  Frank  Hibbard, 
in  i.ake  Forest,  111.,  the  permanent  fix- 
tures were  side  walls  in  dull  blue  in  the 
Italian  style,  a  marble  mantel,  case- 
ment windows  and  a  floor  in  squares  of 
blue  and  gray  marble.  Now  then,  to 
furnish  it. 

First  a  plum  colored  tufted  rug  was 
laid  on  the  floor,  and  at  the  windows 
and  on  the  French  doors  silk  gauze  in 
neutralized  butter  color.  At  one  side 
of  the  fireplace  is  a  davenport  uphol- 
stered in  blue  and  gray  figured  linen, 
and  an  arm  chair  across  from  it  is  cov- 
ered in  the  same.  Two  comfortable 
gray  wicker  arm  chairs  are  cushioned 
to  match.  A  little  wrought  iron  table 
holding  a  lamp  of  jade  green  pottery 
stands  beside  the  arm  chair,  while  its 
counterpart  is  at  the  side  of  the  daven- 
port. The  bi-symmetrical  arrangement 
is  repeated  in  two  spindle  standards 
holding  pots  of  ivy  that  flank  the  fire- 
place. Over  the  mantel,  reaching  to 
the  ceiling,  is  a  colorful  panel  of  batik 
and  at  either  side  of  this  on  the  mantel- 


top  is  a  delicately  carved  alabaster  vase 
holding  flowers.  Still  another  bowl  of 
flowers  is  on  a  low  occasional  table. 

At  the  other  end  of  the  room  the 
photograph  shows  a  triple  landscape 
window  with  curtains  well  drawn  back 
and  a  pair  of  lovely  consoles  holding 
ferns  and  ivy.  The  little  card  table 
group  is  made  up  of  four  painted  chairs 
covered  in  butter  colored  gaspe  silk  and 
a  card  table  with  its  padded  top  up- 
holstered in  satin. 

The  sun  porch  is  in  the  home  of  Mrs. 
Edward  Hasler,  in  Lake  Forest,  111.  The 
fixed  features  of  this  room  were  the  ex- 
posed brick  side  walls,  sand-plastered 
ceiling,  and  tiled  floor. 

The  textural  quality  of  this  room 
seemed  to  call  for  simple,  hardy  fur- 
nishings. The  material  selected  for  cur- 
tains was  plain  green  calico.  Braided 
rugs  are  on  the  floor  and  the  furniture 
is  a  mixture  of  painted  Windsor  and 
wicker.  Pots  of  flowers  on  the  window- 
sill  seem  to  make  the  garden  overflow 
into  the  room.  A  quaint  lantern  hangs 
from  the  ceiling,  and  ivy  is  trained 
against  the  brick  over  the  mantel. 

A  Hotel  Apartment 

There  is  probably  no  more  difficult 
combination  of  fixed  features  to  deal 
with  than  those  found  in  the  general 
ugliness  of  the  ordinary  hotel  room. 
Just  to  what  extent  native  hideousness 
may  be  baffled  is  shown  in  the  ra- 
maining  two  photographs  of  Miss 
Gheen's  own  living  quarters  in  a  Chicago 
hotel.  The  floor  covering  is  gun-metal 
colored,  the  draperies  blue  and  the  wall 
blue-gray.  The  furniture  is  Italian 
walnut,  and  the  upholstered  pieces  are 
in  satin  damask,  blue  and  gray.  The 
brightest  color  note  in  the  room  is  in 
a  chest  of  drawers  lacquered  red. 

The  remarkable  feature  of  the  room 
is  the  writing  desk.  Notice  it  well. 
The  lower  part  of  the  desk  pulls  out, 
transforming  it  into  a  full-sized  bed 
which,  during  the  daytime,  slides  in 
under  the  false  floor  of  the  adjoining 
bathroom,  through  a  hole  cut  away  in 
the  lower  part  of  the  wall.  The  little 
bathroom,  by  the  way,  is  very  at- 
tractive. It  is  used  as  a  dressing  room 
as  well.  The  upper  wall  is  "papered" 
with  glazed  chintz.  A  kidney  table 
holds  the  convenient  toilet  articles.  No 
one  would  ever  suspect  that  a  bed  was 
concealed  beneath  its  innocent  looking 
white  tiling. 


Grates    and    Railings   of    Spanish    Iron 

(Continued  from   page   28) 


chapels  of  the  churches  and  form  gates 
for  the  parks. 

Naturally  an  industry  which  could  be 
utilized  in  so  many  different  ways  and 
was  in  such  great  demand,  should  and 
did  develop  and  flourish  most  brilliantly. 
Especially  the  cities  of  such  artistic 
lineage  as  Salamanca,  Leon,  Toledo,  and 
of  such  industrial  importance  as  Bar- 
celona and  others  on  the  Mediterranean 
coast  offer  interesting  examples. 

In  Latin  America 

In  Latin  America,  especially  in  the 
historical  cities  of  South  America,  such 
as  those  of  Chile,  Peru,  Bolivia  and  Co- 
lombia where  the  residences  of  ancient 
civilization  still  remain,  v?e  find  inter- 
esting examples  of  grates  and  railings. 
In  Buenos  Aires,  Montevideo,  etc.,  mod- 
ern civilization  has  attired  the  cities  in 
cosmopolitan  apparel  which  is  the  inter- 
national uniform  of  this  century,  and  is 
gradually  casting  into  oblivion  that 
which  is  characteristic  and  exclusive  of 
each  and  every  nation  and  populace.  In 
Mexico  there  are  many  valuable  exterior 
railings  surrounding  the  gardens  and 
parks. 


Sometimes  these  railings  rest  on  a 
stone  or  rubblework  base  and  are  not 
very  high.  Others  emerge  from  the 
ground,  and  are  extremely  tall,  and, 
again,  they  are  small,  about  a  yard 
and  a  half  in  height.  Nearly  always  the 
railings  surrounding  a  garden  or  park 
are  simple.  Frequently,  however,  the 
entrance  boasts  of  an  elegant  door  of 
iron  richly  embellished,  which  reminds  us 
of  the  classical  railings  of  Spain.  More- 
over, as  happens  with  the  majority  of 
Spanish  railings,  the  main  object  in 
placing  the  pinnacle  of  the  rods  is  the 
terminal  lance  which  opens  up  in  the 
leaf  ornaments  that  turn  downward,  of 
the  flower-deluce,  which  is  a  decora- 
tive phase  of  Spanish  art  and  the  pre- 
ferred one  ever  since  the  times  of  Phillip 
the  Fifth,  the  first  Bourbon  who  carried 
it  to  Spain.  There  are  older  railings 
the  pinnacle  of  which  can  be  easily 
taken  for  a"  flower-deluce,  which  is  sim- 
ply the  heraldic  fleuron  that  has  played 
such  an  important  part  in  Spanish  decor- 
ative art,  the  ornamental  motives  of  the 
national  and  provincial  coat-of-arms 
having  frequently  influenced  it. 
(Continued  on  page  60) 


November,    1920 


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Grates    and    Railings    of    Spanish    Iron 

(Continued  jrom  page  58) 


The  four  photographs  appearing  in 
the  present  article  clearly  show  four 
characteristic  and  important  works  of 
iron  in  Cuba.  One  of  them  represents 
the  railing  and  entrance  to  a  garden 
in  a  "Quinta"  or  country-seat  of  Guan- 
abacoa,  Cuba.  The  entire  railing  sur- 
rounding the  garden  rests  on  a  tall  socle 
or  base  of  rubble-work,  and  the  design 
is  simple,  although  classically  Spanish, 
the  rods  terminating  in  lance  points. 
The  entrance  railing,  although  extremely 
light  and  simple,  is  of  decorative  value, 
resting  between  the  two  large  rubble- 
work  pillars.  This  phase  is  also  char- 
acteristic as  regards  the  doors  of  the 
gardens  in  Spain.  The  doors  of  this 
gate  are  made  of  a  strip  of  iron  inter- 
woven with  curves  in  a  geometrical  de- 
sign. The  small  door  or  shutter  lo- 
cated on  the  right  is  worth  noting.  It 
is  an  after-taste  of  an  old  Spanish  cus- 
tom, for  all  the  ancient  manorial  homes, 
as  a  rule,  had  a  shutter  made  on  the 
doorway,  in  the  iron  railings  as  well  as 
in  the  large  wooden  doors.  The  large 
doors  were  opened  only  on  certain 
solemn  occasions,  while  the  daily  en- 
trance and  exit  were  made  through  the 
shutter  or  peep- window  (postigo). 

Another  interesting  view  is  that  of  a 
railing  with  a  gate  located  at  the  corner 
of  the  garden.  It  also  is  built  on 
rubble-work,  the  design  of  which  is  ex- 
tremely old,  especially  the  top  detail  of 
the  gate.  The  center  decoration  is  a 
Moorish  star,  the  letters  and  top  being 
of  Gothic  reminiscence. 

Another  attractive  entrance  is  that  of 
a  beautiful  tropical  garden  in  one  of 
the  modern  houses  of  V'edado,  Havana. 
This  railing  is  small  and  very  simple 
in  proportion  to  the  two  pillars  that 
support  it,  which  are  extremely  large 
and  made  of  carved  stone.  The  rest  of 
the  railing  rests  on  a  low  socle,  as  shown 
on  page  28. 

Stair  Banisters 

Another  interesting  and  characteristic 
phase  of  Spanish  work  in  iron  is  the 
stair  banisters.  One  of  the  photographs 
shows  a  remarkable  example.  It  be- 
longs to  another  Vedado  home  (the 
V'edado  being  the  aristocratic  suburb  of 
Havana)  in  which  the  stairway  develops 
into  two  ramifications  up  to  the  main 
floor  of  the  house.  These  stairs  are  of 
Spanish  tradition.  They  are  found  on 
a  large  scale  in  several  Spanish  palaces, 
and  the  interior  stairs  are  of  a  similar 
construction  to  this.  The  entrance  rail- 
ing is  more  elaborate  than  the  others, 
and  the  design  is  also  classical  and  ele- 


gant, although  this  one,  as  well  as  the 
others  mentioned,  can  be  classified 
among  the  simple  railings,  if  we  com- 
pare them  with  those  known  as  "front 
door  gratings"  which  separate  the 
zaguan  or  vestibule  from  the  patio  or 
yard  in  the  cities  of  Seville,  Cordoba 
and  Granada. 

We  cannot  terminate  this  article  with- 
out mentioning,  although  it  be  rather 
briefly,  other  interesting  phases  of  the 
Spanish  works  in  iron,  such  as  door 
hinges,  lock  plates  and  hasps,  brackets, 
well  cranes  (the  last  being  wonderfully 
beautiful  and  elaborate),  knockers,  door 
keys,  and  a  thousand  other  accessories 
with  which  Spain  is  so  full,  and  of 
which  interesting  examples  are  to  be 
found  in  Latin  America. 

As  regards  all  this,  we  can  only  record 
the  ancient  lineage  of  the  Spanish  works 
in  iron. 

A  Little  Bit  of  History 

The  great  heights  attained  by  Spanish 
works  in  iron  are  not  at  all  astonish- 
ing. Their  marvellous  development  is 
readily  understood  by  merely  reading 
the  history  of  the  Spanish  peninsula. 
From  remote  ages,  Spain  was  the  rich- 
est mineral  country  of  Europe.  Spain 
had  copper,  silver  and  brass  industries 
long  before  iron  was  discovered,  and  it 
is  a  well  known  fact  that  the  Greeks 
exploited  the  iron  mines  of  Spain  as 
early  as  the  6th  Century  B.  C.  The 
Romans  adopted  the  Celtiberian  sword, 
which  they  found  in  Spain  when  they 
invaded  that  country.  Julius  Caesar's 
soldiers  used  Spanish  swords.  Later  on, 
the  Visigoths  gave  a  great  impulse  to 
Spanish  iron  industries,  and  in  the  8th 
Century,  during  the  invasion  of  the 
Moors,  who  were  a  warlike  people  and 
lovers  of  weapons,  and  who  brought 
precious  models  from  the  Orient,  the 
industry  of  arms  developed  notably, 
while  iron  was  made  into  various  shapes 
during  the  establishment  of  the  famous 
weapon  factory  of  Toledo,  now  owned 
by  the  government.  For  centuries,  in 
this  factory,  the  famous  Toledo  blades 
have  been  made,  which  are  a  symbol  of 
nobility  as  far  as  Spanish  knighthood 
is  concerned.  Together  with  the  weapon 
industry,  the  Arabs  in  Spain  established 
the  great  "Damask"  steel  industry,  that 
is  to  say,  along  the  Damask  style— steel 
inlaid  in  gold,  from  which  not  only 
weapons  are  made,  but  also  small  chests, 
amphoras,  jewels,  cigar  cases,  and  all 
kinds  of  modern  objects.  These  articles 
have  become  widely  known  by  the  sim- 
ple name  of  "eibar". 


Planning  the  Wiring  for  a  House 


(Continued  jrom  page  54) 


outlet  at  the  front  end  of  the  room  is 
attached  to  a  switch  at  the  front  en- 
trance. In  order  to  have  artificial  light 
on  entering  from  the  stairway  at  the 
opposite  end,  the  pair  of  brackets  which 
flank  the  mantel  are  connected  to  a 
switch  at  the  stairway  entrance.  The 
arrangements  of  the  furniture  such  as 
piano,  library  table  and  davenport  were 
carefully  studied  before  deciding  upon 
the  location  of  the  outlets,  the  switches, 
etc.  A  table  lamp  is  provided  for  at 
the  front  end.  In  the  corner  on  the 
left  is  an  outlet  to  which  is  attached 
electrical  equipment  (including  a  small 
lamp)  of  a  modern  phonograph.  On 
the  mantel  is  an  outlet  for  decorative 
candlesticks  and  at  the  left  is  another 
outlet  for  a  beauty-spot  of  light.  The 
remaining  baseboard  outlets  are  utilized 
respectively  for  a  floor  lamp  near  the 
piano  (on  the  wall  at  the  right),  for  a 
floor  lamp  at  one  end  of  the  settee 
(on  the  left  center  of  the  room  ordi- 
narily), and  for  a  miniature  floor  lamp 


at  the  other  end.  The  latter  may  be 
moved  close  to  a  chair  and  thus  serve 
as  a  portable  reading  lamp.  Every  out- 
let is  in  use  in  this  room  and  some  of 
them  do  double  duty. 

In  the  dining  room  a  two-circuit  out- 
let is  found  in  the  center  of  the  ceil- 
ing. This  supplies  a  fixture  which  emits 
a  well-controlled  downward  component 
of  light  illuminating  the  table  predomi- 
nantly and  an  upward  component  for  a 
moderate  general  illumination.  An  out- 
let in  the  floor  under  the  table  may  be 
used  for  electrical  devices  on  the  table. 
One  of  the  baseboard  outlets  supplies 
a  pair  of  candlesticks  on  the  buffet ;  the 
others  are  used  for  electrical  apparatus, 
and  are  also  available  for  any  special 
lighting  purpose. 

In  the  kitchen  an  electrical  outlet  in 
the  center  of  the  ceiling  is  controlled  by 
a  wall  switch  conveniently  located.  The 
combination  fixture  is  a  wall  bracket  at 
the  left  near  the  stove.  Another  bracket 
(Continued  on  page  62) 


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62 


House     &     Garden 


TVERKEY  6?  GAY  FURNITURE 
JL/  expresses  in  wood  a  quiet  gra' 
ciousness,  an  artistic  charm,  that  are 
instinct  with  the  highest  and  best  in 
American  home  life. 

Not  everyone  can  own  Berkey  6? 
Gay  furniture — not  because  it  is  ex' 
pensive,  but  because  only  a  limited 
quantity  of  such  furniture  is  made. 

An  illustrated  brochure 

concerning  Berkey  fi^  Gay  furniture,  together  with 
name  of  nearest  dealer,  sent  upon  request 


THIS  SHOP  MARK 
is  inlaid  in  every  genuine 
Berkey  &  Qay  production. 
It  is  the  customer's  proteC' 
tion  when  buying  and  his 
pride  thereafter. 


Berkey  6?  Gay  Furniture  Company 

444  MONROE  AVENUE 
GRAND   RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN 


Planning  the  Wiring  for  a  House 


(Continued  from  page  60) 


with  a  pendent  shade  is  placed  over 
the  sink  and  a  wall  receptacle  is  pro- 
vided for  electrical  devices.  If  win- 
dows do  not  permit  the  use  of  a  bracket, 
the  fixture  over  the  sink  can  be  sus- 
pended from  the  ceiling.  In  the  rear 
hall  and  on  the  rear  porch  are  ceiling 
prismatic  balls  controlled  by  switches 
as  shown.  At  the  front  entrance  is  a 
pendent  lantern  and  in  the  vestibule  is 
a  ceiling  husk,  both  being  controlled  by 
switches.  On  the  porch  at  the  left  is 
a  ceiling  fixture  consisting  of  a  pris- 
matic ball  and  controlled  by  a  switch 
at  the  side  entrance.  Ceiling  outlets  are 
installed  in  the  stairways,  each  being 
controlled  by  a  three-way  switch. 

The  Second  Floor 

The  wiving  diagram  of  the  second 
floor  is  shown  in  Fig.  2.  Here  again 
the  best  arrangements  of  furniture  were 
(k'tcrmined  before  the  outlets  were  lo- 
cated. For  example,  in  the  front  bed- 
rooms the  windows  were  located  in  this 
manner,  and  in  each  of  these  rooms 
twin  beds  may  be  used  if  desired  with- 
out any  interference  of  the  windows. 
Each  room  is  wired  for  a  ceiling  outlet 
controlled  by  a  switch  at  the  entrance. 
A  baseboard  outlet  is  available  between 
the  beds  at  the  windows  in  the  front 
bedrooms.  This  serves  for  connecting  a 
portable  lamp  and  on  certain  occasions 
affords  a  connection  for  electric  devices. 
Two  wall  brackets  are  provided,  one  on 
each  side  of  the  dresser,  and  a  base- 
board outlet  is  installed  for  connecting 
dresser  lamps.  In  case  only  one  bed  is 
used  the  other  baseboard  outlet  may  be 
used  for  the  dressing  table. 

The  den,  which  in  some  cases  would 
be  a  small  bedroom,  is  supplied  with 
two  brackets  and  two  baseboard  outlets, 
and  the  ceiling  is  wired  for  an  outlet 
in  the  center  controlled  by  a  switch  at 
the  door.  All  closets  are  supplied  with 
pendent  lamps  and  pull-chain  sockets. 

The  bathroom  mirror  is  flanked  by 
small  brackets  and  a  wall  receptacle 
near  the  floor  is  provided  for  the  con- 
nection of  electrical  devices.  In  the 
upper  hall  is  a  baseboard  outlet  to 
which  a  portable  lamp  may  be  attached 
for  the  purpose  of  supplying  a  decora- 
tive touch  to  this  otherwise  unfurnished 
space.  However,  the  possibility  of  using 
this  outlet  for  this  purpose  was  not  suf- 
ficiently evident  to  justify  its  installa- 
tion, but  the  fact  that  it  affords  a  place 
for  connecting  a  vacuum  cleaner  which 
can  serve  all  rooms  on  this  floor  with- 
out disconnecting  resulted  in  the  in- 
stallation of  this  outlet.  For  the  latter 
purpose  the  outlet  has  well  proved  its 
worth.  In  fact,  outlets  may  often  be 
justified  on  the  basis  of  a  dual  capacity 
of  this  character. 

Basement  Wiring 

In  the  basement,  Fig.  3,  the  wiring  is 
likewise  adequate.  A  switch  near  the 
kitchen  entrance  to  the  stairway  con- 
trols the  lamp  which  illuminates  the 
stairs.  A  switch  at  the  bottom  of  the 
stairs  controls  a  ceiling  lamp  near  the 
heater  and  this  immediately  supplies 
enough  light  to  make  it  possible  to  dis- 
tinguish any  objects  in  the  basement. 
Above  the  laundry  trays  and  somewhat 


to  one  side  is  a  ceiling  socket  with  a 
pull-cord  snap-switch  and  on  the  wall 
is  an  outlet  for  connecting  a  washing- 
machine,  a  flat  iron,  or  other  electrical 
device.  Over  the  workbench  is  a  pull- 
chain  socket,  and  a  similar  one  is  in  the 
toilet.  The  fuel  bin  and  fruit  closet 
each  contains  a  ceiling  outlet  controlled 
by  an  indicating  switch  installed  in 
each  case  outside.  These  outlets  are 
conveniences  which  add  much  to  the 
satisfaction  of  a  basement  and  make 
most  basements  appear  by  comparison 
as  dingy  caves  whose  chief  function  is 
to  contribute  bumps  upon  the  head  and 
shins  of  the  invader. 

AH  Essential 

A  comparison  of  these  wiring  plans 
with  those  of  houses  costing  several 
times  as  much  would  suggest  extrava- 
gance in  this  case,  but  it  is  confidently 
affirmed  that  every  outlet  and  switch 
has  a  right  to  exist.  The  actual  in- 
crease in  the  cost  of  this  adequate  light- 
ing plant  is  an  insignificant  part  of  the 
entire  investment.  The  house  possesses 
possibilities  in  lighting  which  are  always 
a  source  of  satisfaction  to  the  house- 
holder. One  of  the  best  proofs  of  the 
justification  is  that  not  an  outlet  or  a 
switch  would  be  given  up  for  several 
times  its  cost. 

These  wiring  plans  are  considered  ade- 
quate but  in  no  sense  extravagant.  They 
represent  artificial  lighting  which  ranks 
third  in  importance  in  this  house,  as  it 
should.  It  is  superseded  in  importance 
by  the  house  or  enclosure,  and  by  the 
heating  plant.  By  comparing  these  dia- 
grams with  the  wiring  of  the  moderate 
priced  homes  in  general,  it  is  evident  to 
those  interested  in  bringing  the  possi- 
bilities of  lighting  to  the  householder 
that  each  must  do  his  part  if  this  in- 
terval between  the  prevailing  inadequate 
wiring  and  reasonably  adequate  wiring 
is  to  be  spanned.  It  should  be  borne 
in  mind  that  double  and  triple  recep- 
tacles can  be  installed  at  any  of  the 
baseboard  outlets,  thus  adding  to  the 
convenience  of  the  wiring  by  eliminat- 
ing the  necessity  of  detaching  one  de- 
vice to  connect  another. 

Cost  and  Upkeep 

Adequate  wiring  such  as  has  been 
outlined  does  not  necessarily  increase  the 
operating  cost.  The  slight  increase  in 
investment  is  insignificant  when  con- 
sidered in  terms  of  the  entire  investment 
in  the  home  and  of  the  return  in  con- 
venience and  pleasure.  This  can  be 
easily  ascertained  by  consulting  an  elec- 
trical contractor.  Furthermore,  it  has 
been  proved  that  adequate  wiring  of 
this  character  is  a  gilt-edged  investment 
which  pays  excellent  returns  if  the  house 
is  sold.  The  bills  for  electricity  in  this 
particular  house  have  averaged  about 
two  dollars  a  month — about  seven  cents 
per  day — the  central  station  rates  being 
ten  cents  per  kilowatt-hour  for  the  first 
ten  kilowatt-hours  and  five  cents  each 
for  the  remainder  per  month.  Ade- 
quate, flexible  and  convenient  wiring 
does  not  necessarily  increase  the  cost  of 
lighting  excepting  for  the  slightly  in- 
creased investment.  But  it  contributes 
greatly  toward  making  a  house  a  home. 


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back  up  the  Crane  Service  which  is  available 
through  the  plumbing  and  heating  trade  with 
direct  and  intensive  factory  co-operation. 

These  branches  display  broad  assortments  of  the 
products  supplied  by  the  Crane  Co.  and  can  thus  give 
thorough  and  practical  aid  in  the  selection  of  heating, 
plumbing  and  sanitary  equipment  for  buildings  of  any 
size  or  character.  Whole-hearted  co-operation  based 
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pipe  fittings  and  steam  specialties,  made  of  brass,  iron,  ferrosteel, 
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As  indicated  bv  the  accompanying 
photo.  Crane  Service  in  the  indus- 
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special  work  for  pipelines  as  well  as 
the  customary  standardized  require- 
ments.  At  left,  a  Crane  42-inch 
cast  iron  special  base  elbow,  weigh- 
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the  first  section  of  a  suction  line  to 
a  circulating  pump;  inside  dimen- 
sions, 3  feet  6  inches  bv  4  feet  6 
inches;  8  feet  from  face  to  end. 
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BioSix 

"^RACE  the  wonderful  performance  of  the 
L  BlG-SlX  to  its  source  and  you  find  a  motor 
of  great  power   and   flexibility — a   motor 
which  utilizes  every  particle  of  fuel,  operates  sat- 
isfactorily on  poor  grades  of  fuel,  and  delivers 
its  power  without  waste  to  the  rear  wheels. 

You  will  better  understand  the  enthusiasm  of 
Studebaker  owners  after  you  have  taken  a 
demonstration  ride  in  the  BlG-SlX — anywhere 
and  under  any  conditions  you  choose. 

60-H.  P.  detachable-head  motor; 
126-inch  wheelbase,  insuring 
ample  room  for  seven  adults. 

All  Studebaker  Cars  are  equipped  with  Cord 
Tires — another  Studebaker  precedent. 


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CHENEY 


All  MUSIC    FINDS    FULL  AND   TRUE   EXPRESSION    IN    ITS    MELLOW  TONES 


£2  VI O  LI  N'S  Resonance  in  ^9  fie  QKeney 

THE  essential  principles  of  violin  construction 
are  found  in  the  resonator  of  each  CHENEY. 
The  form,  the  wood,  the  principle  are  identical. 
And  so  the  true  mellow  tonal  beauty  of  that 
wonderful  instrument — the  violin — is  a  distinc- 
tive feature  of  THE  CHENEY'S  musical  quality. 


DEALERS     EVERYWHERE 


The  Cheney  Resonator 


The  French  farmer  is  naturally  thrifty,  but  the  restoration 

of  his   pre-war  prosperity   is  a   tremendous   task.     Cattle, 

crops,  houses — all  must  be  supplied 

The   Growing   Farms   of    France 

(Continued  from  page  51) 

the  soil  plowed  and  seeds  planted.  Cable  Tardieu  in  an  article  recently  issued  by 
tractors  remove  the  barbed  wire  and  him,  reports  3,500,000  hectares  of  shell- 
wreckage.  In  the  Department  of  Coucy,  torn  ground  cleared;  1,500,000  hectares 
where  the  American  Committee  for  placed  under  cultivation;  1,799,000 
Devastated  France  has  established  houses  fully  repaired,  50,000  provis- 
twenty  agricultural  syndicates,  and  ionally  repaired  and  3,500  constructed, 
where  they  have  twenty  tractors  that  France  has  confidence  in  her  destiny, 
they  loan  to  small  farmers,  three  thou-  There  is  not  a  shadow  of  pessimism, 
sand  acres  of  devastated  land  have  been  The  reconstruction  of  her  devastated 
reclaimed  and  are  growing.  Similar  areas  will  be  slow,  but  today,  fields 
progress  is  reported  in  other  districts  and  gardens,  tilled  and  sown,  triumph- 
of  Northern  France.  antly  frame  her  ruined  villages.  The 
In  the  Department  of  the  Aisne  people  are  fully  aware  of  the  pressing 
(where  the  American  Committee  works)  problem  before  the  Government  and 
there  were  approximately  25,000  hec-  Ihe  magnitude  of  the  task  before  M. 
tares  (a  hectare  is  2J4  acres)  which  were  Millerand  to  secure  her  claims  of  in- 
so  badly  scarred  and  so  utterly  de-  dcmnity  with  which  to  reconstruct 
stroyed,  that  no  attempt  was  made,  be-  shattered  homes,  and  to  maintain 
cause  of  the  expense,  to  clear  and  level  France's  position  in  the  world, 
the  soil.  The  American  Committee  in-  The  American  Committee  for  De- 
viled an  expert  from  this  country,  Mr  vastated  France  is  planning  to  organize 
Hal  Fullerton,  to  give  practical  advice  a  French  Agricultural  School,  in  close 
in  this  matter,  and  he  is  in  accord  cooperation  with  the  French  Govern- 
with  the  Director  of  Agriculture  for  ment.  It  will  consist  of  a  demonstra- 
the  Department  of  the  Aisne,  that  it  tion  farm  of  375  acres  with  sufficient 
is  not  a  question  of  uncultivatable  housing  capacity  for  eighty  boys  and 
lands;  on  the  contrary,  there  is  vege-  eighty  girls — war  orphans — and  the  pur- 
tation  at  the  very  bottom  of  the  shell  pose  of  the  school  will  be  to  make  it  an 
holes,  proving  the  soil  to  have  retained  educational  and  demonstration  center 
its  value,  but  until  France  has  settled  for  the  young  farmers  of  the  district, 
pome  of  her  more  pressing  needs,  these  many  of  whom  have  been  denied  edu- 
25,000  hectares  will  remain  untouched  cational  advantages  for  five  years  dur- 
pending  the  settlement  of  her  indem-  ing  the  war,  although  they  are  now  be- 
nities.  The  work  accomplished  by  the  yond  school  age.  There  will  be  prac- 
French  Government  in  putting  the  high-  tical  demonstrations,  for  instance,  of  the 
ways  into  condition,  as  well  as  the  very  use  of  the  wheel-hoe,  one  of  the  most 
great  number  of  temporary  barracks  useful  of  modern  implements,  the  use 
which  serve  as  school  buildings  and  of  the  plow  for  opening  furrows,  of 
homes  which  have  been  erected  by  the  motor-driven  implements  and  the  trac- 
Government,  is  staggering.  Andre  tors  that  have  proven  of  so  much  worth. 


The  American  Committee  has  workers  busy  in   the  fields 
•which  they  have  reclaimed  and  brought  back  from  devasta- 
tion to  a  state  of  fertile  productiveness 


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Things  that  have  never  been  in  your  home  and  that  carry  with  them  an  abiding  charm,  remem- 
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attractive  features,  while  the  wide  shapely 
sleeves  are  cut  in  such  a  way  as  to  dispel  the 
awkwardness  usually  found  in  kimonos  of  do- 
mestic manufacture,  usually  offered  elsewhere 
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silk,  and  is  hand  embroidered  in  cherry  blos- 
som or  chrysanthemum  designs  in  natural  col- 
ors on  grounds  of  pink,  light  blue,  lavender, 
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is  sure  to  appreciate. 


g,    that    any 
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carved  wood  stand.  Design  inlaid  with  col- 
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desired. 

Price,   pair,   $1.50 


No.  19272-H.  Japanese  Marble  Ash  Re- 
ceiver. Made  to  represent  a  piece  of  bamboo 
with  Lizard  crawling  on  the  edge,  looking 
into  the  bowl.  The  lizard  is  made  of  bronze 
and  modelled  by  Maruki.  Comes  in  white, 
mottled  green,  and  variegated  colored  marble. 
Size: 

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Whieldon  bottle,  teapot  and  coffee-pot,  from  the  collection 
of  Mr.  Louis  E.  Myers 

The  Ware  of  Thomas  Whieldon,  Potter 

(Continued  from  page  27) 


duced  by  a  mixture  of  red  clay  and 
oxide  of  manganese  such  as  the  elder 
Elers  is  believed  to  have  made  popular. 
Whieldon 's  black  glaze  ware  is  exces- 
sively rare  and  the  most  difficult  of  all 
his  products  to  attempt  satisfactorily  to 
identify. 

Figures  and  Chimney  Ornaments 

The  figure,  bird  and  animal  toys 
which  Whieldon  himself  called  "image 
toys"  and  the  Whieldon  chimney  orna- 
ments have  truly  high  artistic  quality. 
While  they  lack  in  the  exactness  of  the 
Staffordshire  figurines  by  the  elder  Ralph 
Wood,  I  would  credit  them  with  a  far 
greater  degree  of  true  artistic  excellence. 
Indeed,  I  know  of  no  figurines  of  the 
early  potters  which  approach  Whiel- 
don's  in  their  surprising  modernness.  "It 
is  difficult,"  says  G.  Woolisoncroft 
Rhead  in  "The  Earthenware  Collector," 
"to  fix  a  limit  to  what  Whieldon  could 
have  done  with  the  advantages  of  a 
proper  artistic  training  or  in  a  different 
environment."  But  I,  for  one,  am  quite 
satisfied  with  what  Whieldon  did  do. 

Whieldon 's  solid  agate  ware,  like  other 
agate  wares,  was  produced  by  placing 
thin  lamina;  of  clays  of  different  colors 
in  an  alternating  arrangement,  cutting 
these  crosswise  by  wires  after  doubling 
them  over  and  variously  working  them, 
the  greater  the  number  of  doubling  and 
cutting  operations  the  finer  being  the 
veining  produced.  Turned  agate  ware 
pieces  were  superior  to  the  molded  ones, 
as  such  came  forth  from  the  turner  with 
greater  perfection  in  the  veined  effect. 
While  as  early  as  1724  Redrich  and 
Jones  had  perfected  a  process  for  pro- 
ducing agate  ware,  that  by  Whieldon 
was  of  a  finish  and  quality  which  dis- 
tinguished it  definitely. 

The  Whieldon  mottled,  marbled  and 
tortoise  shell  wares  were  of  a  genre  that 
Redrich  and  Jones  had  also  anticipated, 
but  like  Whieldon's  solid  agate  ware  his 
wares  of  this  sort  possessed  a  remark- 
able and  rich  quality  of  their  own  that 
placed  them  without  real  rivals.  In 
making  these  wares  Whieldon  spared  no 
pains  and  continually  sought  perfection 
and  durability. 

Whieldon  and  Wedgwood 

Some  hold  that  the  vivid  glazes  of 
green  and  yellow  that  brightened  Whiel- 
don's cauliflower,  pineapple,  maize  and 
melon  wares  was  the  invention  of  young 
Josiah  Wedgwood  who  came  to  Whiel- 
don in  1753  and  remained  associated 
with  him  until  1759.  In  the  partnership 
agreement  between  Whieldon  and  Wedg- 
wood it  was  arranged  that  both  should 
utilize  certain  processes  devised  by 
Wedgwood,  the  secrets  of  which  Wedg- 
wood was  to  retain.  Solon  says:  "It 
would  be  interesting  to  discover  the 
share  Wedgwood  had  in  the  production 
of  Whieldon's  more  refined  pieces.  He 
spent  much  of  his  time  in  the  first  years 
of  their  partnership  in  preparing  blocks 
and  molds;  and  it  is  not  improbable 
that  some  of  those  delicate  pickle  trays, 
scalloped  plates,  perforated  teapots  of 
tortoise  shell,  and  agate  ware  so  highly 


prized,  are  the  work  of  his  own  hands." 
Probably  Wedgwood's  experimental  na- 
ture and  ideas  came  somewhat  in  con- 
flict with  what  may  have  been  Whiel- 
don's conservatism,  and  the  partnership 
was  dissolved  in  1759.  During  the  few 
years  of  their  association,  however,  salt 
glaze  ware  was  their  principal  product, 
and  Wedgwood  himself  made  record 
that  "whitestone  ware  was  the  principal 
article  of  our  manufacture,  and  the 
prices  were  now  reduced  so  low  that  the 
potters  could  not  afford  to  bestow  much 
expense  upon  it." 

Cauliflower,  pineapple,  melon  and 
maize  wares  became  very  popular  and 
were  imitated  extensively  in  many  direc- 
tions. The  glaze  of  the  green  leaves  of 
the  cauliflower  ware  against  the  cream- 
white  glaze  forms  a  most  pleasing  con- 
trast. Certain  Whieldon  pieces  of  this 
fifth  class  possess  a  luminous  orange- 
brown  tint,  the  applied  leaf  ornamenta- 
tion being  in  yellow  of  a  pale  tint.  Ast- 
bury  may  have  initiated  this  style  but 
Whieldon's  own  pieces  will  hardly  be 
mistaken. 

True  Whieldon  Ware 

The  collector  interested  in  ceramics 
still  stands  a  good  chance  of  picking  up 
interesting  bits  of  Whieldon  ware,  al- 
though he  must  not  hope  for  "a  dozen 
tortoise  shell  plates  at  2s,"  nor  must  be 
overlook  the  fact  that  the  term  Whiel- 
don has  come  to  be  applied  as  a  generic 
term  to  all  the  variegated  Staffordshire 
wares  of  the  sort  in  which  Whieldon 
himself  excelled.  As  I  have  said,  Whiel- 
don did  not  mark  his  wares  and  one 
must  become  familiar  with  attributed 
specimens  in  private  or  public  collec- 
tions or  in  the  collections  of  reputable 
dealers  in  order  to  obtain  a  "sense"  of 
the  superiority  of  genuine  Whieldon 
pieces.  Fortunately,  American  museums 
have  many  fine  Whieldon  pieces,  and 
although  private  collectors  of  Whieldon 
have  been  few  in  America,  their  ranks 
are  increasing. 

Probably  the  "image  toys"  and  the 
chimney  pieces  will  continue  to  hold  the 
warmest  spot  in  the  heart  of  the  aver- 
age collector.  I  do  not  agree  with  an 
English  authority  on  ceramics  who  in- 
sists that  we  must  assign  the  majority  of 
figures  generally  given  to  Whieldon  to 
the  Wood  family,  unless  he  chances  to 
refer  to  pieces  carelessly  attributed  and 
scattered  at  large,  in  which  case  he  is 
probably  correct,  as  it  has  seemed  more 
than  probable  that  many  such  do  not 
bear  the  impress  of  Whieldon's  own  di- 
rection, however  well  they  may  have 
imitated  or  suggested  it.  In  the  figures 
that  ought  to  be  accredited  to  Ralph 
Wood,  for  instance,  there  is  a  pose  of 
the  head  that  certainly  is  characteristic 
of  his  work  and  which  can  hardly  be 
mistaken.  Whieldon's  type  appears  more 
angular,  the  costume  more  nearly  con- 
temporary and  the  glazing  richer  and 
more  varied.  In  his  later  figurines 
Whieldon  did,  of  course,  introduce  Ori- 
ental motives.  As  for  Toby  Fillpots,  it 
is  unlikely  that  Whieldon  ever  produced 
(Continued  on  page  70) 


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MISS   SWIFT 

11    EAST    S5T33  STREET,  NEW  YORK 


SETH  THOMAS 


IVEo 

ations  have 
marked  their 
time  by  clocks 
bearing  this  cxs 
time  "honored 


name. 


INTERIOR 
DECORATIONS 

FURNITURE,  HANGINGS, 
MATERIALS,  WALL  AN» 
FLOOR  COVERINGS 

MANTEL  ORNAMENTS 
I>ECORAT1VE  PAINTINGS 

SPECIALTIES  IN  DOU1>OIR 
FURNISHINGS,  LAMPS, 
SOAI>ES  AN1>  MIRRORS 


B6nfiAL-IDRi6ftTAL  RUGS 


The  Orient  has  been  (he  inspiration — 

America  the  fulfillment. 

Every   rug  we  weave  faithfully  reproduces 

colorings,  designs  and  richness  of  texture  of 

the  most  representative  rugs  from  the  Far  East. 

Portfolio  of  color  plates,  also  nearest 

dealer's   name    sent   upon  request. 

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Kirman  study 

Backgroundof  mulberry  withroseton«—  «oft  b!u«,  gold 
and  l.ifie  grcrni  are  the  coloring*  Mrndcd  in  the  fictiros. 


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Portfolio  oF  Designs 
Upon  Request 

Vases  Forwarded 
For  Approval 


Pallas  Athena  Vase  of  Silver 

recalling,  by  its  simplicity,  the  exqui- 
site interpretation  of  Doric  art  by 
Phidias  in  the'  Parthenon,  dedicated 
to  the  Greek  Goddess  Pallas  Athena, 
patroness  of  useful  and  elegant  arts. 

In  accord  with  Colonial  or  Geor- 
gian interiors. 

Sizes,  8  to  1 8  inches  in  height. 

p.  C.  Calawell  &  Co. 

Jewelers  «5ilver<s>mifcks>  Stationer? 

Philadelphia 


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The  Ware  of  Thomas  Whieldon,  Potter 

(Continued  from  page  68) 


any  such  pieces,  as  he  retired  from  busi- 
ness in  1780  and  there  seems  to  be  no 
evidence  of  a  reliable  nature  that  assigns 
the  introduction  of  the  Toby  jug  into 
ceramic  art  prior  to  that  date.  There  is 
no  doubt  but  that  Whieldon's  figures 
were  imitated  during  the  period  of  his 
activities  and  afterward,  but  there 
should  be  no  difficulty  in  discovering 
which  was  the  ceramic  wheat  and  which 
the  imitator's  chaff. 

Beyond  the  fact  that  he  became  a 
consummate  craftsman,  we  know  little 
of  Thomas  Whieldon's  early  life.  Like- 
wise the  details  of  later  activities  are 


more  meagre  than  we  could  wish.  But 
we  do  know  that  his  was  a  provident 
nature,  and  that  with  perseverance, 
thrift,  sound  common-sense,  application 
and  ability  he  came  to  exercise  an  influ- 
ence upon  Staffordshire  wares  that  at 
once  gives  him  place  as  one  of  the 
world's  master-ceramicists.  Whieldon 
earned  a  comfortable  fortune,  built  for 
himself  a  mansion  of  goodly  proportions 
near  Stoke,  whither  he  retired,  and  as  a 
considerable  landowner  was  able  to  sup- 
port the  dignity  of  High  Sheriff  of  his 
county,  to  which  office  he  was  ap- 
pointed. He  died  in  1798. 


Crops  to  Grow  In  the  Cellar 

(Continued  from  page  55) 


comes  in  bricks,  should  be  broken  into 
pieces  about  the  size  of  an  egg  and  then 
planted  about  4"  apart  and  from  2"  to 
4"  deep  and  the  bed  then  firmed.  In 
about  ten  days  the  new  growth  should 
appear  about  each  piece  of  spawn.  The 
bed  should  then  be  smoothed  and  again 
slightly  compressed.  If  the  surface  lay- 
er has  become  dry  it  should  be  sprinkled 
and  then  covered  with  a  casing  of 
loamy  soil,  applied  evenly  to  a  depth 
of  about  1"  or  V/2"  and  then  firmed. 
It  must  be  kept  moist  but  not  wet 
while  the  spawn  is  spreading.  It  is 
sometimes  advisable  to  cover  the  mush- 
room bed,  after  the  soil  has  been  ap- 
plied, with  about  a  foot  of  straw  to 
prevent  the  air  from  reaching  the  sur- 
face of  the  bed.  The  mushroom,  like 
all  other  fungi,  is  not  benefited  by  fresh 
air. 

Growth 

The  best  temperature  for  mushroom 
raising  is  about  54°  F.  and  no  one 
should  attempt  to  raise  them  in  a  place 
over  60°  F.  In  warm  atmosphere  in- 
sects and  other  mushroom  enemies  have 
a  better  chance  of  development  and  the 
quality  of  the  mushroom  will  be  af- 
fected. In  hot  weather  they  are  small 
and  long-stemmed.  On  the  other  hand, 
at  a  temperature  continuously  45°  F. 
they  will  develop  so  slowly  as  to  be 
unprofitable.  For  the  best  quality 
mushrooms,  it  is  advisable  to  keep  the 
temperature  fairly  low.  The  surface 
soil  should  be  kept  moist  but  not  wet 
and  care  should  be  taken  that  the  drain- 
age and  ventilation  are  good.  This  is 
particularly  necessary  in  caves  and 
cellars. 

Under  favorable  conditions  mush- 
rooms should  begin  to  appear  in  seven 
or  eight  weeks.  The  mycelium  in  the 
spawn  becomes  active  and  fine  white 
lines  start  running  through  the  bed. 
Where  these  lines  cross  is  the  base  of 
the  mushroom.  Often  they  may  run 
freely  and  never  cross,  which  is  due  to 
poor  planting,  or  the  lines  may  cross 
and  owing  to  weak  spawn  or  unfavor- 
able growing  conditions,  fail  to  become 
active.  But  generally,  if  the  mycelium 
starts  running  through  the  bed,  there 
will  be  a  good  crop.  Sometimes  a  spell 
of  cold  weather  will  retard  the  growth, 
but  where  the  growing  conditions  are 
good  and  nothing  shows  in  ten  weeks, 
it  is  almost  certain  the  bed  will  not 
produce. 

Mushrooms  should  be  picked  before 
they  open  or  just  at  the  time  the  veil 
begins  to  break.  Never  cut  them,  but 
take  the  top  between  the  thumb  and 
second  finger  and  then  gently  twist. 
This  will  bring  the  mushroom  out  clean. 

Families  of  Mushrooms 

Agaricus  campestris,  the  common,  cul- 
tivated mushroom,  when  full  grown  is 
a  somewhat  umbrella-like  plant  with  a 
central  stalk  which  supports  a  rather 
thick  cap.  The  stem  may  be  from  2" 


to  5"  in  height  and  1"  or  more  in  diam- 
eter. Above  the  middle  there  is  a  ring 
or  annulus.  The  cap  varies  in  color 
from  cream  to  brown  or  gray  brown. 
It  bears  on  the  under  side  the  gills, 
blade-like  lamellae,  which,  when  first 
discovered,  are  a  beautiful  pink  color. 
Later  they  darken  and  eventually  be- 
come almost  black. 

Agaricus  arvensis,  known  as  the  horse 
mushroom,  has  much  the  same  qualities 
as  Agaricus  campestris.  They  are  larger 
and  stouter  than  the  field  mushroom 
and  possess  a  double  ring. 

Agaricus  fabaceus  is  the  almond 
flavored  mushroom.  This  is  easily  dis- 
tinguished by  the  long-persistent  mem- 
braneous veil  which  is  covered  on  the 
lower  surface  with  frosty  scales.  It  is 
reddish  brown  with  an  enlarged  lower 
part  of  the  stem. 

Agaricus  silvicola,  an  inhabitant  of 
the  woods,  is  almost  pure  white  except 
as  to  gills.  It  is  small,  occurring  in 
summer. 

Coprinus  is  the  only  other  genus  of 
the  Agaricacece  with  black  spores  im- 
portant enough  from  an  economic  stand- 
point to  warrant  consideration.  It  is 
characterized  by  the  dissolving  of  the 
gills  and  other  parts  of  the  pileus  at 
maturity  to  an  inky  black  liquid.  There 
are  three  edible  species,  usually  appear- 
ing on  lawns  in  the  spring.  C.  comatus, 
a  shaggy-mane  mushroom,  is  the  largest, 
often  6"  high  with  a  cap  sometimes  3" 
long  and  \l/2"  in  diameter.  The  gills 
are  salmon  color.  C.  atramentarius  is 
smaller  and  commonly  grows  in  dusters. 
The  short  oval  cap  is  slaty  gray.  C. 
micaceus  is  much  smaller  than  either 
and  usually  grows  in  a  solid  phalanx, 
covering  several  feet  of  space  about  old 
stumps.  When  young,  the  tan-colored 
cup  is  covered  with  temporary,  glisten- 
ing scales,  like  minute  particles  of  mica. 

The  genus  Lepiota  differs  from  Agari- 
cus in  that  the  spores  of  the  former  are 
white.  The  more  important  species  of 
this  genus  are  Lepiota  procera,  the  para- 
sol mushroom  which  stands  often  16" 
high  with  a  reddish-brown  pileus  5"  to 
6"  in  diameter,  and  L.  naucinoides.  This 
is  usually  pure  white  and  is  about  the 
size  of  an  ordinary  cultivated  mush- 
room. Both  occur  in  lawns,  fields, 
and  meadows. 

The  genus  Amanita  is  interesting  be- 
cause of  the  beauty  of  some  of  the 
species  and  because  among  these  species 
are  several  which  are  the  most  deadly 
poisonous  of  all  mushrooms.  The 
Amanita  phalloides — deadly  amanita — 
is  widely  distributed  in  the  United 
States.  The  plants  reach  a  height  of  6" 
and  a  pileus  diameter  of  4".  As  a 
rule,  the  upper  surface  of  the  cap  is 
grayish,  brownish  or  greenish.  Usually 
there  are  no  scales  on  the  cap,  and  the 
veil,  which  in  mature  mushrooms  ap- 
pears at  the  base  of  the  stem,  is  cup- 
like.  In  the  button  stage,  this  universal 
veil  is  an  outer  skin  or  envelope,  and 
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Crops  to  Grow  In  the  Cellar 

(Continued  from  page  70) 


as  the  plant  grows  it  bursts  through  the 
envelope. 

In  the  same  category  with  mushrooms 
are  found  the  Lycoperdacece  or  puff 
balls.  These  are  a  species  of  fleshy  fungi 
that  are  extremely  edible.  They  grow 
in  gardens  and  meadows  and  frequently 
attain  a  diameter  of  16".  The  flesh  is 
pure  white  until  practically  full  size  is 
attained.  Lycoperdon  cyatkiforme  is  a 
beaker-shaped  puff  ball  varying  in  color 
from  creamy  white  to  pink-brown  with 
white  flesh.  With  the  formation  of 
spores,  it  becomes  purplish  throughout. 
This  puff  ball  has  perhaps  the  highest 
flavor. 

French  Endive 

Brussels  whitloof,  or  French  endive 
as  it  is  more  generally  known,  is  com- 
paratively simple  to  grow.  This  makes 
a  delicious  winter  salad  and  can  be 
grown  successfully  in  the  cellar. 

The   seeds   should   be   sown    an  inch 


deep  in  May  and  June  in  drills  about 
15"  apart  in  good  garden  soil.  When 
up,  cover  lightly  and  thin  out  to  8"  or 
10"  apart  and  water  well.  One  ounce 
of  seed  will  plant  one  100'  of  row. 

In  the  fall  they  should  be  taken  up 
carefully  and  the  roots  shortened  to 
about  8".  It  is  well  to  keep  a  ball  of 
earth  around  each  plant  and  they 
should  then  be  placed  close  together  in 
fibre,  moss  or  some  similar  loose  soil 
in  boxes  in  the  cellar.  The  tempera- 
ture should  by  from  50°  to  60°  F. 
and  there  must  be  plenty  of  air.  To 
blanch,  tie  the  tops  of  the  heads  to- 
gether to  keep  the  light  from  the  heart, 
or  place  an  empty  box  over  them.  The 
shoots  should  grow  to  about  a  height 
of  6".  If  proper  temperature  is  main- 
tained, in  three  or  four  weeks  the  roots 
will  produce  a  head  of  whitened  leaves, 
tender,  crisp  and  of  excellent  flavor. 
A  continuous  supply  of  this  is  possible 
from  December  first  to  April  first. 


American  Prints  and  Their  Uses 

(Continued  from  page  46) 


Painter-Gravers  of  America,  in  New 
York,  held  under  the  management  of 
Walter  Monroe  Grant  and  Mollie  Hig- 
gins  Smith,  approximately  one  hundred 
etchings,  lithographs,  wood  block  prints 
and  engravings  were  sold  for  about 
SI, 600,  or  an  average  of  $16  apiece. 
The  quality  of  these  prints  was  so  high 
that  they  inspired  extensive  reviewD  by 
every  art  writer  in  the  city. 

The  Painter-Gravers'  Work 

Each  of  these  prints  is  an  individual 
work  of  art,  and  each  bears  the  pen- 
cilled signature  of  the  artist.  In  many 
cases  they  are  the  work  of  men  and 
women  who  are  well  known  as  painters, 
for  in  the  list  of  members  are  found 
such  names  as  George  Bellows,  George 
Elmer  Brown,  Ernest  Haskell,  Childe 
Hassam,  John  Marin,  Albert  Sterner,  J. 
Alden  Weir,  Mahonri  Young  and  Jerome 
Meyers.  From  five  to  one  hundred 
proofs  are  made  of  each  subject;  then 
the  plate  is  destroyed.  This  adds  rarity 
to  the  charm  of  a  print  and,  if  it  is  an 
especially  good  one,  causes  it  to  be 
worth  more  and  more  as  the  years  pass. 
For  instance,  a  Weir  etching  that  three 
or  four  years  ago  could  have  been 
bought  for  $20  is  now  worth  $100. 

The  artists  in  this  society  call  them- 
selves "painter-gravers"  within  the  ex- 
act meaning  of  the  term,  because  all  of 
them  are  painters  who  simply  use  en- 
graving as  another  means  of  expression. 
There  are  two  other  organizations  whose 
members  are  doing  similar  work  in  the 
popularization  of  true  art  in  this  coun- 
try. One  is  the  Brooklyn  Society  of 
Etchers  and  the  other  is  the  Chicago 
Society  of  Etchers,  and  both  give  an- 
nual exhibitions  in  the  effort  to  draw 
the  public's  attention.  By  far  the 
greater  number  of  prints,  however,  find 
their  way  to  the  ultimate  consumer 
through  the  activity  of  the  art  stores. 

Just  why  is  it  that  an  etching  or  other 
individual  print  bearing  an  artist's  sig- 
nature is  superior  in  art  value  to  a 
reproduction?  It  is  because  it  carries 
the  individual  "touch"  of  the  artist.  A 
reproduction  does  not  cause  a  thrill  of 
pleasure  to  the  esthetically  inclined  be- 
cause it  is  a  process  that  speaks,  not  the 
voice  of  the  author  himself.  This  is 
best  illustrated,  perhaps,  by  a  reference 
to  music  of  the  variety  that  in  the  ver- 
nacular is  called  "canned".  A  musical 
composition  may  be  reproduced  me- 
chanically exactly  as  the  composer  wrote 
it  and  then  rolled  off  on  a  player  piano 
— every  note  and  every  stop  absolutely 
perfect — but  it  will  strike  the  truly 
artistic  ear  with  no  emotion  whatever. 
But  if  the  former  premier  of  Poland 


should  sit  down  at  the  piano  and  play 
the  same  composition,  the  same  hearer 
would  be  lifted  into  ecstasy  by  the  soul 
of  the  artist.  Just  so  with  pictures. 
The  interpretation  of  the  printing  press 
leaves  the  beholder  cold,  but  the  etcher 
by  means  of  his  pencil  touches  the  very 
artistic  nerve  of  the  owner  of  the  com- 
pleted print  and  gives  him  the  esthetic 
thrill  that  all  true  art  must  give  or  fail 
in  its  mission. 

No  one  has  ever  been  able  to  explain 
this  esthetic  thrill  that  is  stirred  by  art. 
It  defies  all  analysis.  Old  Aristotle  said 
that  it  springs  from  the  nobility  of  the 
work  of  art.  Clive  Bell,  who  is  the 
greatest  exponent  of  the  new  school  of 
Post-Impressionists,  positively  says  the 
thrill  is  caused  by  "significant  form" 
and  gives  it  as  his  further  opinion  that 
this  "significant  form"  springs  from  the 
emotion  felt  by  the  artist.  Volumes  and 
volumes  have  been  written  about  this 
thrill  of  the  esthetic,  but  for  our  pur- 
pose it  is  sufficient  to  know  that  the 
common  man  and  woman  can  get  it 
from  the  $15  or  $20  print  of  the  con- 
temporary artist  just  as  the  multi-mil- 
lionaire can  get  it  from  the  old  master 
he  purchases  for  3500,000— and  perhaps 
more  of  it,  because  the  emotion  of  the 
contemporary  artist  is  a  living  thing, 
whereas  that  of  the  old  master  may 
have  belonged  to  the  soul  of  an  age 
now  dead.  It  cannot  be  had  from  re- 
productions except  in  a  very  slight  de- 
gree. Reproductions  may  appeal  to  the 
memory,  or  to  patriotism,  or  to  the  in- 
tellect, but  they  cannot  impart  the  es- 
thetic thrill  which  true  art  should  give. 

The  person  who  has  decided  to  sur- 
round himself  with  prints  that  can  ad- 
minister to  his  emotional  being,  should 
go  about  it  by  considering  three  things: 

What  to  Look  For 

First — He  should  look  for  a  print  he 
likes  without  any  regard  to  who  else 
likes  it  or  to  who  did  it.  It  should 
satisfy  his  own  taste.  It  should  give 
him  individual  pleasure.  It  is  not  neces- 
sary for  him  to  try  to  analyze  the  work, 
to  find  just  why  it  appeals  to  him.  It 
is  enough  that  it  give  him  a  thrill  of 
pleasure  to  behold  it.  If  it  does  this, 
perhaps  an  acquaintance  with  it  will  so 
develop  his  power  for  pure  esthetic  en- 
joyment that  he  will  afterward  be  able 
to  get  even  keener  pleasure  from  works 
he  does  not  at  present  comprehend. 

Second — He  should  make  sure  the 
work  is  technically  good.  To  this  end, 
if  he  has  not  confidence  in  himself,  he 
should  call  in  friends  who  know.  How- 
ever, he  should  not  confuse  technical 
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73 


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How  incongruous  are  rad- 
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"1858  is  a  memorable  date  for  the 
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American  Prints  and  Their  Uses 

(Continued  from  page  72) 


excellence  with  esthetic  appeal.  It  may 
be  technically  good  and  yet  cause  no 
emotional  thrill  in  his  friends.  It  is  not 
at  all  necessary  that  it  should  cause  this 
thrill  in  them;  it  is  enough  that  he 
feels  it. 

Third — The  price  must  be  within  his 
reach.  This,  of  course,  is  out  of  the 
realm  of  either  esthetics  or  technique. 
In  fact,  it  is  altogether  beside  art.  It  is 
inexpressibly  vulgar — but  necessary. 

Where  to  Use  Them 

There  are  five  places  in  a  house  where 
prints  are  appropriate — in  the  bedroom, 
in  the  library,  in  the  living  room,  in  the 
nursery  and  in  hallways.  Drawing 
rooms  require  paintings.  Dining  rooms 
ought  to  have  something  a  bit  more 
luscious:  color  prints  will  do,  but  black 
and  white  ones  seem  out  of  place. 

In  the  bedroom  the  print  has  its  finest 
triumph.  Not  too  many  should  be  used, 
but  just  enough  to  balance  the  wall 
spaces.  Landscapes,  marines  and  flower 
pieces  in  color  are  most  appropriate,  and 
the  treatment  should  be  delicate.  Etch- 
ing is  the  best  medium.  The  prints 
selected  for  one's  bedroom  should  reflect 
one's  individual  taste  in  the  fullest, 
without  a  thought  to  anyone  else  on 
earth. 

In  the  library,  prints  should  have 
broadness  of  treatment  and  should  be 
selected  with  some  thought  for  decora- 
tive mass.  The  esthetic  thrill  is  not 
quite  so  compulsory,  and  can  give  way 
in  some  measure  to  sentimental  and  in- 
tellectual appeal.  The  latter,  of  course, 
has  nothing  to  do  with  art,  which  is 
purely  esthetic,  but  in  a  library  pure 
art  need  not  necessarily  be  the  sole 
standard.  Historical  or  topographical 
works,  such  as  representations  of  old 
houses,  may  have  both  elements. 

The  living  room  is  the  only  room 
where  it  is  safe  to  mix  prints  and  paint- 
ings, and  whichever  you  use  the  sole 
standard  should  be  your  individual  love 
of  the  picture.  If  there  are  to  be  some 
paintings,  it  is  best  that  your  prints 
should  also  be  in  color,  either  etchings, 
lithographs  or  wood  blocks. 

In  the  nursery,  the  mother  can  em- 
ploy a  great  variety  of  subjects,  from 
childish  fantasy  to  themes  that  at  first 
glance  it  would  seem  only  a  grown-up 
would  relish.  Here  is  the  very  home  of 
the  esthetic  thrill.  Children's  sensibili- 
ties are  not  blunted,  their  emotions  are 
keen  and  they  react  surprisingly  to 
works  that  have  beautiful  color  and 


beautiful  form.  Sometimes  a  simple  lit- 
tle landscape  will  have  the  most  poig- 
nant appeal  to  a  child — an  appeal  whose 
influence  will  greatly  aid  esthetic  enjoy- 
ment throughout  life.  Try  to  find  out 
the  pictures  that  children  enjoy,  and, 
unless  you  want  to  commit  a  crime,  do 
not  try  to  make  them  like  something 
that  does  not  appeal  to  them,  for  if 
you  do  it  will  inevitably  stultify  their 
susceptibility  to  all  esthetic  appeal. 

In  the  hallway  the  architectural  etch- 
ing is  particularly  at  home.  It  imparts 
a  feeling  of  bigness.  Here  again  the  art 
element  may  be  encroached  upon  some- 
what by  the  purely  illustrative  element. 

Frames  and  Mountings 

Having  caught  your  print,  it  is  time 
to  frame  it.  Simple  little  wood  frames 
should  always  be  used.  Never,  unless 
you  are  absolutely  dead  artistically,  put 
a  heavy  carved  frame  around  a  print. 
You  might  as  well  load  your  fingers 
down  with  diamonds.  In  bedrooms  and 
nurseries,  either  natural  wood  or  white 
or  gold  is  appropriate,  while  in  living 
rooms  and  hallways  it  is  best  to  use  the 
more  positive  mahogany,  dark  oak  or 
black  frames. 

Prints  should  be  mounted  on  mats 
that  fill  quite  a  considerable  space  be- 
tween the  picture  and  the  frame.  These 
mats  should  harmonize  in  shade  with 
their  surroundings.  They  are  in  reality 
the  bridge  between  the  print  and  the 
wall  of  the  room,  and  when  not  white 
should  be  tinted  so  as  to  pull  every- 
thing together  in  harmony.  If  color 
prints  are  used,  the  mat  should  com- 
prehend both  the  color  of  the  picture 
and  the  hue  of  the  wall. 

The  movement  in  favor  of  individual 
prints  in  the  home  corresponds  in  a  way 
with  the  arts  and  crafts  tendency  in 
America.  The  latter  is  a  crusade  against 
ugly,  machine-made  utensils  of  every- 
day use,  while  the  latter  is  an  expres- 
sion against  department  store  and  nov- 
elty shop  art.  Both  make  for  the  free 
exercise  of  individual  taste,  and  this  is 
the  important  thing.  There  can  be  no 
general  art  appreciation  among  a  peo- 
ple who  buy  so-called  art  because  it  is 
labelled  this,  that  or  the  other.  Nothing 
is  art  unless  it  brings  a  thrill  of  esthetic 
pleasure  to  some  one  or  other.  Is  your 
home  full  of  thrills?  If  it  is  not,  see 
if  our  contemporary  artists  who  make 
prints  cannot  give  you  the  emotion  that 
will  tend  to  make  life  a  little  more  com- 
plete and  a  little  more  worth  living. 


Seeing  Your  House  Before  It  Is  Built 


(Continued  jrom  page  35) 


RERRY  BROTHERS 


drawing,  so  that  the  best  location  for 
the  house,  and  the  best  plan  for  its 
approaches  and  gardens  can  be  accurate- 
ly determined. 

The  house-model  itself  may  be  vari- 
ously constructed,  the  work  being  done 
either  by  a  professional  model-maker,  or 
by  the  draughtsmen  in  the  architect's 
office.  The  material  may  be  clay,  wood, 
or  card-board,  or  a  combination  of 
these,  colored  up  as  artfully  and  con- 
vincingly as  the  skill  and  ingenuity  of 
the  maker  may  contrive.  Some  models 
are  made  rather  roughly,  especially  small 
scale  models,  while  others  are  made  with 
the  utmost  care  for  every  detail  which 
can  be  shown.  Lawns  are  usually  done 
with  green  paint,  gravel  walks  with  glue 
and  sand,  brick  walls  with  paint,  and 
trees  and  shrubbery  with  dried  sponges 
or  seaweed  dyed  green. 

The  reader,  by  this  time,  doubtless 
shares  the  writer's  opinion  that  it  must 
be  no  end  of  a  lot  of  fun  to  make  one 
of  these  models,  which,  indeed,  it  is — 
if  one  enjoys  handicraft  even  a  little. 
With  the  expenditure  of  a  sufficient 
amount  of  time  (and  hence  money)  a 
really  beautiful  model  may  be  con- 


structed. In  many  cases  the  makers 
contrive  effects  in  the  texture  of  mate- 
rials, and  put  transparent  celluloid  in 
the  windows  for  glass.  / 

Obviously,  the  making  of  a  scale 
model  is  an  extra  piece  of  work,  and 
cannot  be  called  for  as  a  part  of  the 
architect's  services  as  embraced  in  the 
standard  form  of  agreement  in  accord- 
ance with  which  he  works. 

What,  exactly,  does  the  scale  model 
accomplish?  The  illustrations  of  this 
article  should,  to  a  large  extent,  answer 
the  question.  In  several  of  these  photo- 
graphs of  the  scale  model  of  the  Armour 
house,  of  which  Harrie  T.  Lindeberg  is 
the  architect,  it  is  difficult,  at  a  glance, 
to  realize  that  they  are  not  views  of 
the  actual  house  and  its  immediate 
grounds. 

The  scale  model  accomplishes  much, 
not  only  for  the  client,  but  for  the 
architect  himself.  It  verifies  the  ac- 
curacy and  the  esthetic  qualities  of  his 
vision,  and  often  suggests  certain  subtle 
changes  which  could  become  apparent 
only  in  a  three  -  dimensional  study. 
When  the  model  has  reached  a  stage  of 
(Continued  on  page  76) 


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perfection  which  either  corresponds  ex- 
actly with  the  drawings,  or  improves 
upon  them  to  some  extent,  it  is  ready 
for  the  client — and  it  enables  him  to 
see  what  his  house  looks  like  before 
even  ground  is  broken  for  its  building. 

The  client  can  see  his  house  from 
different  angles — can  imagine  its  effect, 
as  seen  from  entering  the  drive  in  a 
motor  car.  He  can  walk  around  it, 
and  view  it  from  the  sunken  rose-gar- 
den, or  from  the  pavilion  at  the  far  end 
of  the  garden.  It  is  as  though  he  could 
read  the  future  in  a  crystal  globe — and 
it  is  a  more  accurate  kind  of  prevision, 
because  the  architect's  supervision  of 
the  making  of  the  model  makes  certain 
that  it  is  accurate,  and  that  it  checks 
with  the  drawings. 

The  element  of  uncertainty  and  mis- 
giving, which  assails  the  minds  of  many 
prospective  builders,  to  the  ruination 
of  many  a  fair  project,  is  eliminated, 
and  complete  reassurance  substituted  in 
place  of  it. 

Most  important  public  buildings  are 
worked  out  with  scale  models,  and,  in 
the  process  of  actually  constructing  the 
building,  all  ornamental  detail  is  mod- 
eled to  scale  and  at  full  size. 

Scale  models  are  especially  useful  in 
cases  of  committees,  or  groups  of  people 
who  are  to  pass  upon  design.  Though 
drawings  might  mean  different  things 
to  different  people,  the  model  is  more 
nearly  likely  to  mean  the  same  thing  to 
every  person  who  sees  it,  quite  regard- 
less of  individual  ability  to  visualize,  or 
varied  degrees  of  the  faculty  of  im- 


agination on  the  part  of  the  individual. 

Above  all,  the  scale  model  is  of  value 
in  showing  the  exact  relationship  be- 
tween house  and  grounds,  which  seldom 
declares  itself  in  drawings.  Certainly  a 
garden  plan  looks  very  little  like  the 
garden  itself,  whereas  a  well  made  model 
will  tell  the  story  with  amazing  realism. 

While  model  making,  outside  the 
architect's  draughting  rooms,  is  a  dis- 
tinct business,  one  cannot  but  wonder 
why  it  is  not  more  frequently  met  with 
as  a  hobby  of  people  who  enjoy  doing 
things  with  their  hands.  The  prospec- 
tive builder  himself  might  experience  a 
great  deal  of  very  real  pleasure  and  a 
sense  of  creating  the  roof-tree  which  is 
to  be  his  home  and  shelter,  if  he  were 
to  undertake  ..the  making  of  a  rough, 
preliminary  'model  before  consulting 
with  his  architect.  Even  supposing  this 
model  were  quite  inaccurate,  and  to 
some  extent  impractical,  the  prospective 
builder  would  at  any  rate  gain  some 
very  interesting  first-hand  knowledge 
and  realization  of  how  much  more  there 
is  to  building  a  house  than  "making 
some  blueprints".  Knowing,  in  this 
way,  some  of  the  difficulties  which  the 
architect  is  trained  to  solve,  the  pros- 
pective builder  would  feel,  from  the 
start,  far  more  kinship,  sympathy  and 
understanding  than  usually  characterizes 
the  relationship. 

Certainly  a  scale  model  may  clarify 
many  of  the  mysteries  of  architectural 
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The  Case  of   the   Stationary  Vacuum  Cleaner 


(Continued  jrom  page  53) 


after  the  building  is  erected,  but  natu- 
rally it  is  less  expensive  to  put  it  in  dur- 
ing the  building  and  when  planned  for 
ahead  than  it  is  to  put  pipes  through  a 
house  after  it  is  built. 

Operation 

With  the  stationary  type  cleaner  you 
have  no  machine  to  move  about — you 
simply  move  the  tool  attached  to  the 
hose  and  the  tools  are  just  as  light  as 
those  of  the  portable  machines.  There 
is  no  electric  connection  to  make,  no 
electric  wire  to  carry  unconsciously 
along.  All  there  is  to  be  done  by  the 
worker  is  to  slip  the  end  of  the  cleaner 
hose  into  the  suction  pipe  opening  in 
the  baseboard  of  the  room.  A  patented 
device  prevents  the  hose  from  becom- 
ing detached  accidentally. 

The  usual  tools  come  with  the  in- 
stalled cleaner,  such  as  handle,  blower, 
felted  sweeper,  book  cleaner,  duster, 
etc.  Other  tools  can  be  made  to  order 
to  fit  any  particular  need. 

One  thing  delightfully  obviated  in  the 
stationary  cleaner  is  the  noise.  The 
writer  has  what  she  considers  the  best 
portable  cleaner  on  the  market,  yet  the 
noise  is  a  great  drawback.  The  sta- 
tionary cleaner  is  therefore  a  boon  to 
the  sick  room  and  it  is  easy  to  see  why 
the  newer  hospitals  take  as  readily  to 
them  as  to  the  piped  water  system. 

Then,  too,  having  the  baseboard  vent 
in  each  area  in  large  houses,  with  the 
consequent  needlessness  of  carrying  a 
cleaner  upstairs  and  down,  over  hill  and 
dale,  is  a  selling  point  for  the  piped 
cleaner.  Also  the  swiftness  of  clean- 
ing, due  of  course  to  the  tremendous 
air  velocity — a  canned  hurricane.  How- 
ever, in  the  small  residence  the  greater 
cost  would  be  unwarranted  because  of 
the  great  efficiency  of  the  portable  ma- 
chines. 

Where  there  is  a  garage  in  the  family, 
and  it  is  piped  for  cleaning,  the  ma- 
chinery, instead  of  being  permanently 
installed,  can  be  mounted  on  rollers  and 


can  be  wheeled  and  attached  to  the 
pipes  in  that  building.  Therefore  the 
necessity  of  two  machines  is  obviated 
where  the  other  building  is  piped. 

Yet  when  the  buildings  are  widely 
separated  it  is  best  to  have  one  of  the 
good  portable  machines  which  are  on 
the  market  in  so  many  designs,  and  are 
adapted  to  so  many  and  varied  uses. 
Therefore  we  see  the  portables  as  in- 
dispensable and  see  them  rilling  fields 
that  the  installed  can  never  hope  to 
fill. 

The  fact  that  the  stationary  entails 
no  dust  bag  cleaning  is  a  time  and 
labor-saving  actuality.  Then,  too,  no 
matter  how  good  the  dust  bag  is  on 
the  portable  vacuum  cleaner,  some  of 
the  very  fine  dust  must  escape  through 
the  bag  into  the  room.  In  the  station- 
ary type  the  cjeaner  politely  does  its 
exhaling  in  the  cellar.  This  point  has 
been  made  valuable  to  chocolate  makers 
who  want  to  save  the  loss  of  chocolate 
in  packing  boxes,'to  manufacturers  who 
want  to  obviate  'the  retaining  of  poison- 
ous dust  among  the  workers,  etc.,  etc. 

In  the  stationary  as  well  as  in  the 
portable  vacuum  cleaners  the  suction  is 
caused  by  the  pump  or  fan  type  ma- 
chine. Some  manufacturers  advocate 
one,  some  another.  In  picking  your 
winner  you  must  go  to  the  best  manu- 
facturer'of  each  type  and  let  him  give 
you  his  tale,  and  then  see  whether  you 
come  out  a  pump  fan  or  a  fan  fan! 

The  other  intricacies  of  this  simple 
machine  need  not  bother  us.  Go  to 
the  best  makers  and  make  them  re- 
sponsible for  your  purchase.  Not  all 
of  us  being  engineers,  we  have  to  de- 
pend on  the  reputation  of  the  best 
makers. 

The  stationary  cleaner  can  do  more 
work  than  the  portable,  it  will  last 
longer  because  the  machinery  is  heavier, 
yet  there  are  drawbacks  to  it  as  to  all 
machinery  which  is  not  at  all  points 
open  to  the  eye.  For  example,  the 
(Continued  on  page  78) 


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The  Case  of  the  Stationary  Vacuum  Cleaner 


(Continued  from  page  76) 


pipes  may  clog.  But  we  must  remem- 
ber that  water  pipes  can  clog  and  that 
gas  pipes  do  very  exasperating  things; 
yet  we  use  them  without  blinking. 

For  the  very  large  residence,  factory, 
hospital,  hotel  and  institution,  of  course 
the  stationary  machine  is  best,  mainly 
because  it  is  difficult  to  get  help  today 
to  carry  about  the  premises  anything 
that  is  heavy.  To  lift,  push  or  carry 
the  lightest  portable  over  a  very  large 
residence  or  institution  is  a  trial,  and 
the  stationary  type  overcomes  this  diffi- 
culty. 

In  some  cases  the  heavy  duty  port- 
able is  advised  with  its  increased  horse- 
power, but  when  the  purse  and  area  of 
residence  match,  the  stationary  type  is 


really  the  best,  although  we  know 
householders  who  prefer  to  use  the 
portable  and  heavy  duty  portables 
everywhere. 

The  stationary  plant  is  only  another 
real  "pipe  dream"  come  true,  and  in 
addition  to  piped  water,  piped  gas  and 
conduited  electricity  it  will  tend  to 
hasten  the  processes  of  home  mainte- 
nance and  free  the  homekeepers  to  do 
more  spiritual  home  tending. 

But  remember  that  in  the  average 
home  or  apartment  the  portable  ma- 
chine is  the  ideal  sweeper  and  fulfills 
more  than  every  requirement  of  sani- 
tary sweeping  combined  with  the  least 
effort.  The  stationary  is  for  the  large 
house,  not  the  small. 


The  Placing  and  Care  of  House  Plants 


(Continued  jrom  page  49) 


essential.  No  hard-and-fast  rule  can  be 
laid  down  for  its  frequency ;  every  day 
or  once  in  two  or  three  days — it  all  de- 
pends on  the  local  conditions.  The  soil 
should  never  be  allowed  really  to  dry 
out,  nor  should  it  be  kept  muddy.  When 
water  is  applied,  put  on  enough  so  that 
it  comes  out  through  the  hole  in  the 
bottom  of  the  pot.  If  the  pots  are 
kept  standing  in  shallow  saucers,  this 
surplus  water  will  not  soil  the  floor  and 
will  aid  in  maintaining  the  general 
moisture  supply. 


Finally,  there  are  the  problems  of 
dust  and  insect  pests.  The  first  should 
be  regularly  removed  from  the  leaves 
of  large  plants  with  a  sponge  and  warm 
water,  and  from  small  ones  by  sprink- 
ling. Water  forcibly  applied  with  a  fine 
hose  or  a  sprayer  will  take  care  of 
most  of  the  insect  pests  which  may  ap- 
pear. If  it  fails,  and  your  nostrils  can 
stand  the  strain,  whale  oil  soap  or 
tobacco  emulsion  liberally  applied  will 
rout  them.  Pests  are  not  so  likely  to 
appear  if  the  plants  are  healthy. 


The  Evolution  of  a  House  Plan 

(Continued  jrom  page  37) 


These  models,  ingeniously  executed 
in  detail  as  shown  on  the  two  preced- 
ing pages,  are,  in  effect,  miniatures  of 
the  proposed  houses  they  represent. 
Model-making,  however,  like  many 
other  pleasant  things,  is  expensive,  and 
the  usual  procedure  is  to  go  at  once 
from  the  "preliminary"  to  the  "work- 
ing drawing." 

The  whole  plan  for  the  house,  its 
exterior  and  interior  treatment,  now 
begins  to  assume  an  aspect  of  definite- 
ness.  The  preliminary  perspective  has 
been  discussed  and  perhaps  changed. 
The  prospective  client  has  shown  it 
to  his  friends,  and  the  plans  as  well 
as  the  general  exterior  effect  have  been 
thoroughly  considered. 

The  third  drawing  now  to  be  made 
is  in  fact  a  set  of  drawings — the  one- 
quarter  inch  scale  working  drawings 
from  which  blueprints  are  made  and 
the  house  built.  A  word  about  blue- 
prints. The  drawings  from  which  blue- 
prints are  made  are  on  thin  tracing 
paper  or  tracing  cloth,  so  that  they 
may  be  printed  exactly  like  a  photo- 
graphic film.  The  drawing  being  posi- 
tive, however,  the  prints  are  negative, 
showing  white  lines  on  a  dark  back- 
ground, instead  of  black  lines  on  a 
light  background.  The  original  draw- 
ings always  remain  in  the  architect's 
office,  and  the  purpose  of  sets  of  blue- 
prints is  to  furnish  the  client,  the  local 
building  department  and  all  the  con- 
tractors on  the  job  with  identical  data 
about  the  house. 

The  meaning  of  "one-quarter  inch 
scale  drawing"  is  simply  that  these 
drawings  are  accurately  made  on  the 
basis  of  one-quarter  of  an  inch  in  the 
drawing  equaling  one  foot  in  the  actual 
building,  so  that  even  the  smallest  rel- 
ative proportions  are  faithfully  por- 
trayed. 

The  set  of  one-quarter  inch  scale 
drawings  includes  the  following :  com- 
plete plans,  beginning  with  foundation 
and  ending  with  attic,  complete  eleva- 


tions, and  a  typical  section,  and  some- 
times a  roof  plan. 

The  foundation  plan  will  show  all 
the  cellar  walls,  and  all  piers  or  posts 
of  masonry,  as  well  as  the  exact  defi- 
nition of  what  portions  of  the  whole 
area  will  be  excavated.  This  drawing, 
and  all  other  plans,  are  thoroughly 
"figured" — that  is,  all  distances,  meas- 
urements and  dimensions  are  given  in 
figures  denoting  feet  and  inches,  thus 
supplementing  the  drawings  themselves. 
There  will  also  be  seen  a  great  many 
notes,  which  either  refer  to  other  draw- 
ings (larger  scale  detail  drawings),  or 
to  points  also  covered  in  the  written 
specifications.  Concerning  written 
specifications,  an  entire  article  might  be 
written. 

A  study  of  the  one-quarter  inch  scale 
plans  illustrated  here  will  show  exactly 
how  much  information  is  conveyed  by 
them  to  the  contractors  and  workmen. 

The  scale  "elevations"  are  four  in 
number,  and  show,  with  figures  and 
notes,  the  exact  facts  about  the  build- 
ing's appearance,  as  seen  from  the 
four  points  of  the  compass.  A  work- 
ing elevation  is  not  a  picture  of  one 
side  of  a  house,  but  more  like  a  pat- 
tern. It  is  drawn  as  though  every  por- 
tion of  the  building  were  on  an  exact 
level  with  the  eye.  Thus  the  decep- 
tive distortion  and  foreshortening  of 
perspective  is  avoided. 

The  one-quarter  inch  scale  section  is 
one  of  the  most  important  drawings  of 
the  set,  because  it  carries  so  much  in- 
formation on  the  construction  of  the 
house.  It  shows  the  different  floor 
levels  and  ceiling  levels,  usually  the 
working  out  of  the  stairs,  and  of  door 
heights  and  window  levels.  A  skilled 
draughtsman  can  lay  out  a  section 
which  will  comprise  virtually  all  the 
essential  points  in  the  construction  of 
the  house.  A  typical  one-quarter  inch 
scale  section  is  given  in  one  of  the 
illustrations. 

(Continued  on  page  82) 


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The   Evolution   of   a   House   Plan 


{Continued  from  page  78) 


The  one-quarter  inch  scale  roof-plan 
is  of  obvious  value  in  making  sure  of 
the  exact  execution  of  the  complicated 
roof  of  a  rambling,  spread-out  kind  of 
house,  and  any  extra  thought  which  is 
expended  upon  this  very  important  part 
of  a  house  should  be  well  rewarded 
by  results.  Mr.  Lindeberg,  who  de- 
signed the  house  shown  in  the  various 
drawings  illustrating  this  article,  has 
devoted  much  thought,  and  an  equal 
amount  of  natural  imagination,  to  the 
possibilities  of  the  roof;  the  result  is 
apparent  in  his  work. 

The  Scale  Details 

Progressing,  now,  beyond  the  one- 
quarter  inch  scale  drawings  (general), 
the  next  drawings  to  be  made  are  the 
scale  details,  which  are  very  important 
as  instruments  of  service  in  securing 
fine  results. 

Scale  details  are  made,  in  different 
architects'  offices,  variously  from  one- 
half  inch  equaling  one  foot,  to  three 
inches  equaling  one  foot.  One-half 
inch  to  the  foot,  three-quarter  inch  and 
one  and  a  half  inch  are  the  scales  most 
frequently  used. 

These  are  the  drawings  so  frequently 
referred  to  in  the  notes  on  the  one- 
quarter  inch  scale  drawings,  and  their 
purpose  is  to  show  with  greater  ex- 
actness than  is  possible  at  small  scale 
such  special  pieces  of  design  and  con- 
struction as  stairs,  fireplaces,  built-in 
bookshelves,  window  seats,  pantry  cup- 
boards and  the  like. 

Even  these  details,  however,  often 
need  to  be  supplemented  by  a  still 
more  exact  kind  of  drawing,  which,  as 


appears  on  the  drawing,  is  an  "F.  S.  D.," 
meaning  "Full  Size  Detail."  These  de- 
tails are  used,  primarily,  to  show  the 
actual  profiles  of  moldings,  and  are 
drawn  at  identically  the  same  size  as 
the  work  itself  is  to  be  executed.  Be- 
cause of  the  necessarily  fragmentary 
manner  in  which  actual  size  moldings 
and  other  details  are  shown  on  a  sheet 
of  "F.  S.  D.,"  it  is  often  difficult  for 
the  non-architectural  mind  to  grasp 
the  meaning  of  a  sheet  of  moldings  and 
other  close-ups  from  the  general  draw- 
ings. 

Full  size  details  are  very  important 
in  that  they  assure  the  execution  of 
the  work  in  true  accordance  with  the 
architect's  intention. 

All  Things  Considered 

It  will  be  seen  from  this  very  brief 
review  of  the  evolution  of  a  set  of 
plans  (which  aren't  all  "plans")  that 
every  detail  of  a  house  comes  under 
consideration  in  the  making  of  the 
drawings  from  which  it  is  to  be  built. 
Certain  things  may  be  changed  as  the 
work  proceeds,  and  many  details  which 
were  roughly  suggested  in  the  one- 
quarter  inch  scale  drawings  will  be 
seen  fully  developed  and  worked  out 
in  the  later  scale  details. 

These  are  the  main  facts  about  ar- 
chitects' drawings,  which  should  be 
thoroughly  understood  by  any  pros- 
pective builder.  \o  architect  but 
would  be  glad  to  discover  that  his 
client  could  talk  with  him  understand- 
ingly  and  appreciatively  about  the  suc- 
cessive stages  of  the  different  drawings 
which  come  up  for  approval. 


Period  Designs  in  Musical  Instruments 

(Continued  from  page  47) 


design.  And  when  that  is  very  much 
altered,  the  instrument  is  changed. 
The  same  idea  applies  to  the  phono- 
graph. Primarily  it  is  created  to  re- 
produce sounds.  It  cannot  be  modi- 
fied to  take  some  entirely  different 
form,  to  be  combined  with  the  lamp  or 
concealed  in  a  closet,  without  impair- 
ing its  effectiveness.  The  first  consid- 
eration in  the  choice  of  musical  in- 
struments is  that  they  be  irreproach- 
able in  their  tonal  attributes,  but  from 
that  point  on  the  use  of  one's  discre- 
tion and  artistic  advice  is  to  be  re- 
commended. 

Louis  XVI  and  Adam 

In  models  of  Louis  XVI  days,  the 
character  of  the  straight  lines,  with 
the  finely  elaborated  carving,  is  re- 
produced by  many  excellent  manufac- 
turers of  the  pianoforte.  In  some  in- 
stances, the  craftsman  of  today  has 
so  cleverly  caught  the  mood  of  yester- 
day that  he  has  given  three  pairs  of 
supports  instead  of  three  legs,  each 
pair  substantial  but  of  such  fashioning 
that  they  look  rather  delicate,  and  each 
pair  held  together  by  a  typical  orna- 
mented coupling.  Some  instruments  of 
this  period  are  admirably  adorned  with 
sunken  panels  ornamented  with  florid 
mouldings,  legs  lined  with  parallel  fret- 
tings,  and  similar  conventions  of  the 
period. 

Adam  pianos  and  phonographs  are 
quite  the  vogue.  They  are  in  the  mood 
of  those  simple,  delicate  creations  of 
Robert  and  James  Adam;  they  have 
the  fine  proportions  and  the  hand- 


painted  decorations  those  men  loved  se 
well.  Practically  every  period  has  been 
quite  faithfully  covered  by  the  better 
makers  of  the  phonograph,  organ  and 
piano.  The  Georgian  epoch  with  its 
spiral  legs  and  somewhat  erratic  de- 
signing is  represented.  The  Colonial 
days  of  our  country  are  remembered 
faithfully  with  an  almost  Puritan  char- 
acter of  decorativeness,  and  there  are 
the  Chinese,  the  Renaissance,  the 
Phyfe  and  many  other  types.  Chip- 
pendale of  massive  though  graceful, 
beautiful  quality  is  represented;  Wil- 
liam and  Mary  models  with  the  grilles 
and  florid  motifs  are  included;  Heppel- 
white  has  the  delicate,  diminutive  air; 
the  Jacobeans  are  still  the  cold,  straight 
designs.  The  noble  Umbrian  crafts- 
men of  Italy  during  the  Middle  Ages 
have  influenced  the  modern  instrument 
makers,  and  even  the  Florentine  work, 
with  the  now  very  popular  polychrome 
effects,  have  found  a  place  in  the  affec- 
tions of  the  artists  of  today. 

Phonograph  Cases 

If  the  piano  makers  have  succeeded 
so  well  in  making  their  instruments  such 
accurate  art  furniture,  they  have  been 
well  seconded — and  I  am  inclined  to 
say,  surpassed — in  this  respect  by  some 
of  the  phonograph  manufacturers. 
From  the  unsightly  old  instrument  with 
the  large,  cumbersome  horn  of  tin  to 
the  authentic  cabinets  of  forma!  period 
type  is  an  important  epoch  in  the  popu- 
larization of  the  arts  of  music  and 
decoration. 

(Continued  on  page  96) 


November,     1920 


83 


House  at  Highland  Park,  Illinois.     Robert  E.  Seyfartht  drtkiuct 


THE    ter- centennial    celebration    this 
fall  of  the  landing  of  the  Pilgrims  at 
Plymouth  Rock  is  refreshing  our  memories 
on  the  sterling  qualities  of  the  forefathers. 

They  realized  the  paramount  importance  of  the 
home  in  their  quest  for  political  and  religious 
liberties.  And  their  experience  as  home- 
builders  is  of  interest  to  present-day  builders. 

From  among  the  many  woods  in  the  virgin 
forest  they  soon  found  that  for  ease  of  working, 
durability,  and  "staying  put"  no  other  wood 
equalled 

WHITE  PINE 

The  wisdom  of  their  selection  is  evidenced  by  the 
many  homes  of  the  Colonial  period  still  stand- 
ing along  every  roadside  ot  New  England. 
Through  generations  these  houses  have  with- 
stood the  severe  New  England  climate. 

That  is  why  we  recommc'iid  White  Pine  for  use 
on  the  outside  of  the  house.  Other  cheaper 
woods  will  serve  you  as  well  inside  but  for  out- 
of-doors  use  you  cannot  afford  to  compromise. 

It  is  true  that  White  Pine  costs  a  little  more, 
but  from  the  point  of  view  of  service  and 
satisfaction  it  is  the  most  economical  wood  for 
this  special  purpose. 


"White  Pine  in  Home-Building" 
is  beautifully  illustrated  with  old 
Colonial  and  Modern  homes,  full  of 
valuable  information  and  suggestions 
on  home-building,  and  gives  a  short, 
concise  statement  of  the  merits  ot 
White  Pine.  Send  for  it  now. 
There  is  no  charge  for  it  to  pros 
pective  home-builders. 


WHITE  PINE  BUREAU, 

1104  Merchants  Bank  Building,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 


— ana  you,  too, 


nave  been  courting  tne  beautiful  out-doors 
with  all  its  wea/th  of  sweet  odors,  brilliant 
colorings  contrasted  witn  restful  aeefi  greens 
ana  under  all  tne  smell  of  old  mother 
earth  -rich,  moist  and  life-giving. 

Ana  now  winter  is  drawing  the  curtain 
across  this  hafifiy  vacation  land  of  yours. 

But  it  can  t  take  it  all  away  from  you  if 
you  have  an  AGMCO  indoor-  gar  Jen. 
For  here  you  can  nave  it  all  in  miniature 

all  but  the  mountains,  lakes  and  rivers. 

So  remember  !  Time  is  fleeting.  You 
can't  afford  to  miss  a  single  day  of  the 
clean,  sweet  joy  of  living  close  to  tne  purest 
beauty  in  the  world  —  nature  s. 

An  AGJvfCO  conservatory  boolt  will  tell 
you  all  about  it        ^X^e'll  send  it  gratis  — 


wnere 


AMERICAN  GREENHOUSE  MFG.  Co. 


NEW     YORK 
5   Columbus  Circle 

KANSAS  c  I'l  V 
New   York   Life  BMK. 


CHICAGO 

Masonic  Temple 

SEATTLE 

Smith    Blilg 


84 


House     &     Garden 


I 


C-VS.     Over  a  mantel  is  where  this  mirror  belongs,  where  it  can  lend 

en  additional  depth  to  the  appearance  of  the  room.      It  is  furnished  in 

blue  anil  gold  uith  earner  decorations  and  high  lights  burnished.    Size 

2S   *  57  in.      Price   $75.00. 

"The  Gift  Shop 

of   Fifth  cAvenue" 

IT'S    early    now,    but    not    too    early. 
Christmas  gifts  bought  in  a  hurry  are 
generally  not  the  kind  you  would  like 
to  have  accompany  your  card.     You  may 
order  by  mail  with  the  sure  assurance  that 
your  gifts  will  be  charming  in  themselves, 
carefully  packed  and  correctly  sent. 

Catalog  C  sent  on  request 


A 


C-42.  No  picture  is 
ever  complete  without 
a  frame.  This  one  of 
antique  gold  is  with  a 
pedestal  base  and  a 
carved  design  wit  It 
shield  top.  I  'or  a  photo- 
graph  8  x  10  in.  $7.50. 


C-73.  By  raising  the 
leaves  and  lowering 
the  handle  this  solid 
mahogany  tea  wagon 
becomes  a  good  sized 
tea  table.  The  top  tray 
of  mahogany  and  glass 
is  removable.  As  a 
wagon  the  top  meas- 
ures 17  in,  u'ide  x  27 
in.  long.  As  a  table  the 
top  measures  27  in. 
wide  x  38  in.  long.  T 
price  is  $55.00. 


C-59   Massive  Sheffield 

basket  richly  lined  with 

gold,    stands    18%    in. 

high.    Price  $22.50. 


C-66.  This  reading 
lamp  in  bronze,  gold 
or  silver  finish,  is  30 
in.  high  and  extends 
to  54.  Price  $18. 
Parch  m  ent  shade 
with  blue,  black  or 
green  band.  $5.00. 


C-62.  Colonial  console  set  of  solid 
mahogany.  Table  32  in.  high,  top 
15  in.  wide  and  30  in.  long 
$25.00.  Mirror.  20  x  29  in.  $30. 
Set,  $50.00. 


OVINGTON'S 

"The   Gift  Shop   of  Fifth   Avenue" 
312-314  Fifth  Ave.       nd^EET    New  York 


Box  10"  long  of  tooled  and  illumi- 
nated leather.  Different  colors.  $30 


SEEN    in    the    SHOPS 

They  may  be  purchased  through  the  HOUSE  & 
I.AKDEN  Shop/ting  Service,  19  ll'rst  14th  St..  Neil' 
1  ork  City.  In  ordering,  kindly  mention  number. 


(52)  There  is  an 
ever   increasing    de- 
mand for  attractive 
boxes.     The    one 
illustrated     on     an- 
other    page     is     of 
painted  tin  and  un- 
usually effective.    It 
may     be     used     for 
candy  or  crackers,  is 
7"  across  and  has  a 
bright    design    of 
roses  and  leaves  on 
a  cream  ground.    $5. 

(53)  I    found    a 
lovely  set  of  sheets 
and  pillow  cases  in 
a  shop  renowned  for 
the  excellence  of  its 
linens    and    cottons. 
This    set    comprises 
one   pair    of    72"    x 
108"  sheets  and  one 
pair  22"   x  3o"   pil- 
low    cases    of    fine 
cotton,    mono- 
grammed,  laundered 
and     boxed.       The 
price     complete     is 
$23.      With     00"    x 
108"   sheets,   $25.25. 

(54)  Among    the 
many  electrical  con- 
veniences is  one  that 
will  appeal  strongly 
to  the  motorist.     It 
is  a  heater   for   the 
inside   of   the   hood 
to  keep  the  radiator 
and     water     jacket 

from  freezing.     It  is  strongly  made  of    page 


Cope-land  ware  decorated 
with  flowers  and  blue  design. 
$16.50,  $15,  $12,  $10  a  doz. 


The  cooking  can  be 
watched  through  a 
glass  door,  thus 
avoiding  opening  the 
door  and  losing 
heat.  $28. 

(56)  An  interest- 
ing pair  of  andirons 
is  illustrated  on  an- 
other   page.      They 
are     of     hammered 
iron     with     brass 
knobs  andarelS^i" 
high.    $35. 

(57)  An  effective 
luncheon     set     that 
has   proved  most 
practical,  consists  of 
a     centerpiece,    six 
plate  doilies  and  six 
small  doilies  of  oil- 
cloth with  a  smart, 
hand-painted  design 
of    gaily    colored 
flowers  on  a  gray  or 
buff  ground.     It   is 
$16  a  set. 

(58)  I    found    a 
lovely   little   French 
porcelain     box,     a 
modern    reproduc- 
tion of  an  old  piece. 
It     would     be     a 
charming  bibelot  for 
a  dressing  table  and 
is  priced  at  $13.50. 

(59)  A  most  use- 
ful    and     attractive 
lamp  is  shown  at  the 
bottom    of    another 

It  is  of  wrought  iron   and  gilt, 


steel  with  a  black  enameled  body  and  adjustable,  with  a  changeable  rose  taf- 

nickel  plated  ends.    It  is  7J4"  long  and  feta  shade   piped   in   American    Beauty 

3"  in   diameter.     $5.00.  color.    A  practical  lamp  for  almost  any 

(55)  Another  electrical  appliance,  suit-  purpose.    It  is  $28  and  the  shade  is  $18. 

able  for  a  small,  kitchenless  apartment  (60)    Another    box    that    should    be 

is  a  lamp  socket  oven.    This  comes  14"  found   in   every   household   is   a   string 

x  14"  x  13"  and  is  large  enough  to  roast  box  that  has  been   made  attractive  as 

a   chicken,  bake  two   loaves   of  bread,  well  as  useful.     It  is  of  glazed  calf  skin 

two  pies,  etc.    It  is  made  of  steel,  nickel  and  comes  in  green,  blue,  purple,  gray, 

trimmed,  with  the  inside  of  white  nickel.  (Continued  on  page  88) 


This  unpaint- 
ed  drop  lea) 
table  is  18" 
high,  $15. 
Painted  any 
color,  $24 


November,     1920 


85 


UHLlGHt^ 

GRKNHODSES 


Refinite  Soft  Ulater  will 
lower  your  Operating  Costs 


IF   HARD  water  is  going  into   the  boilers  of  your 
power  plant,  into  the  dyehouse  of  your  textile  mill, 
into  the  washroom  of  your  laundry  or  the  laundry 
department  of  your  hotel,   hospital  or  other  similar 
institution,    you    are   carrying    an    unnecessary    and 
easily  avoidable  operating  expense. 

Refinite  Water  Softeners  have  proven  this  fact  for 
users  in  all  parts  of  the  country. 

By  their  saving  in  fuel,  in  supplies,  in  equipment 
renewal,  in  time  and  in  labor  they  have  quickly 
written  their  costs  from  the  books — and  then  kept 
right  on  adding  to  the  profits. 


EF1N1TE 


Nature's  Water  Softener 


Ojpymbt  1930— Tb* 


The  Refinite  Water  Softener  attaches  to  the  cold 
water  supply  line.  Occupies  little  space — requires 
no  expert  supervision,  practically  no  attention  — 
built  in  sizes  to  suit  all  needs — reasonable  in  price. 

Refinite  softened  water  is  ideal  for  beauty  parlor, 
barber  shop  and  for  home  uses.  Fresh,  clean,  vel- 
vety soft,  it  is  soothing  to  the  skin,  beneficial  to  the 
complexion,  delightful  for  the  bath  and  shampoo. 

LIME-SODA  WATER  SOFTENERS  —  FILTERS 

We  build  also  the  Refinite  Rapid  Pressure  Filter  and  the 
Booth  Lime-Soda  Water  Softener.  The  latter  is  designed 
especially  for  railroads,  municipalities  and  the  larger  steam 
power  and  central  heatiivg  plants. 

Let  us  give  you  particulars  about  a  Water  Softener  for 
your   use.     No    obligation.     Address   our   nearest    office. 

THE  REFINITE  CO.,  Refinite  Bldg.,  Omaha,  Neb. 

Refinite  Mineral  Factory,  Ardmore,  S.  D. 
Equipment  Assembling  Factory,  Omaha,  Neb. 


CHICAGO    Branch 

Special  Display  Sales  Rooms 

'HI.:   S.    Michigan   Ave. 


NEW  YORK 

1116  Nafl  Assn.  Bldg. 
ATLANTA 

320  Hurt  Bldg. 
CINCINNATI 

410  Traction  Bldg. 
SPOKANE 

nil''.  Old  Nafl  Bank 

Bldg. 


Member 

Associated   Manufacturers  of 
Water   Purllymg    Equipment 


SAN  FRANCISCO 

419  Call  Bldg. 
MINNEAPOLIS 

703-4  Plymouth  Bldg. 
ST.   LOUIS 

438-9    Boatmen's 

Bank   Bldg. 


Let  Your  Dream  House 
be  a  Sunlight  Greenhouse 

It  will  pay  for  itself  in  pleasure, 
recreation  and  profit - 

VKHY  likely  the  greenhouse  of  your  day- 
dreams was  a  costly,  troublesome  affair  both 
to  ereot  and  to  operate  and  perhaps  you  have 
sacrificed  the  pleasure  of  owning  one  for  these 
reasons.  Not  so  with  the  Sunlight  Double-Glazed 
Greenhouse. 

Don't  let  another  winter  pass  by  without  owning 
a  Sunliftlit  Greenhouse,  when  you  can  enjoy 
growing  "out-of-season"  vegetables  and  flowers. 

The  Patented  Double-Glazed  Construction 

is    an    exclusive    feature    of    the 

Sunlight  Double-Glazed  Greenhouse. 

It    forms    a    transparent    "blanket" 

which  retains  the  heat  from  the  sun 

and  repels  the  cold.  It  holds  an  even  temperature 

in  the  greenhouse  during  the  night  and  makes 

growing  successful,  inexpensive  and  profitable. 

No  costly  heating  plant — a  small  oil  heater  in  severe 
weather  only  is  required — no  coal  to  buy — no  sleep  lost 
fussing  over  fires  and  no  guessing  about  the  growing. 

We  have  put  "Sunlight"  into  "Greenhouses"  and  the 
Double-Glazing  feature  holds  the  temperature. 

Shipped  Ready  to  Set  Up 

Anybody  can  easily  set  up  a  Sunlight  Double-Glazed 
Greenhouse.  They  are  built  and  shipped  in  sections,  all 
carefully  milled  and  perfectly  fitted  before  shipping. 
Sunlight  Double-Glazed  Sash  as  used  in  the  Greenhouses 
are  interchangeable  for  nse  on  Hotbeds  and  Cold 
Frames  and  need  no  mats,  shutters  or  other  extra 
covering. 


Our  Free  Illustrated  Booklet 
explains  everything  in  detail, 
gives  prices  and  valuable  in- 
formation about  Greenhouse, 
Hotbed  and  Cold  Frame  opera- 
tion. Send  for  a  copy — and  get 
your  order  in  early. 


Sunlight  Double -Glass  Sash  Co. 

Division  of  Alfred  Struck  Co.,  Inc. 

E«t.   I860 

944  E.  Broadway  Louisville,  Ky. 


86 


House     &     Garden 


Y 


Flickerless"5AFETY  STAN  DARD" Motion 

A  Christmas  Gift  for  the 

whole  family  for  a  life-time 

NOTHING  can  give  so  much   enjoyment  to   so  many 
people,  for  so  long  a  time,  with  such  safety— as  a  Now 
Premier  Pathescope.     It  may  be  used  to  broaden  the 
education  of  your^children ;  it  brings  to  all  the  pleasures  of 
travel    without   the   usual   time   or    expense;    and   offers   a 
never-ending  and  most  delightful  form  of  entertainment  to 
every  member  of  the  familv. 

With  a  Pathescopc  in  your  home,  motion  picture  programs 
can  be  arranged  to  meet  any  individual  taste  or  preference. 
Thousands  of  reels  of  the  world's  best  Dramas,  Comedies, 
Animated  Cartoons,  Scientific,  Travel,  Educational  and 
War  pictures  are  available  and  more  are  being  added  every 
week.  The  famous  stars  of  filmdom — the  darlings  and 
heroes  and  comedians — Mary  Pickford,  Norma  Talmadge, 
Douglas  Fairbanks,  Win.  S.  Hart,  Charlie  Chaplin,  Roscoe 
Arbuckle  and  scores  of  others,  will  bring  their  •  choicest 
treasures  to  your  home  for  a  quiet  "family"  evening  or  for 
the  delight  of  your  friends. 

Take  Motion  Pictures  Yourself 

Think,  too,  how  entrancing  to  see  your- 
self in  motion  pictures!  Photograph  your 
children  -at  play,  your  travels,  delightful 
little  indoor  or  outdoor  picnic  parties — 
with  a  Pathescope  camera.  Re-create  the 
living,  moving  reality  of  your  most  en- 
joyable memories. 
The  Pathescope  projector  is  so  exquisitely  built  that  its 
pictures  amaze  expert  critics.  And  perhaps  the  finest  feel- 
ing that  comes  with  owning  a  Pathescope  is  knowing  that 
it  is  safe.  Ordinary  inflammable  film  is  dangerous  and  its 
use  without  a  fire-proof  enclosing  booth  is  prohibited  by 
State,  Municipal  and  Insurance  restrictions.  But  all  Pathe- 
scope pictures  are  printed  on  "Safety  Standard"  film,  ap- 
proved by  the  Underwriters'  Laboratories,  Inc.,  for  use  by 
anyone,  anywhere,  anytime,  without  a  fire-proof  booth. 
The  New  Premier  operates  from  any  electric  light  current 
or  from  a  storage  battery. 

Call  and  Operate  the  Pathescope 

No  description,  or  lifeless  still  picture  can  convey  any  ade- 
quate impression  of  the  thrill  and  indescribable  charm  of 
seeing  the  New  Premier  in  actual  operation.  Come — and 
bring  your  friends — to  any  Pathescope  salon — select  your 
own  pictures — and  operate  the  Pathescope  yourself. 

Write  for  address  of  the  nearest  Agency, 

The  Pathescope  Co.  of  America,  Inc. 

Willard  B.  Cook,  President 
Suite  1828,  Aeolian  Hall 

New  York  City 
Agencies  in  Principal  Cities 


PATHESCOPE 

•SAFETY  STANDARD 


A  corner  in  a  garden  remembered  for  the  luxuriance  of  the  planting. 
A   pergola  completely   covered  with  vines  forms  a  natural  archway 

THE    APPEAL    OF    SMALL    GARDENS 


IT  is  a  pleasant  experience  when  some 
particular  attraction  in  a  garden  is 
recalled  again  and  again  so  that  we 
long  for  an  excuse  to  go  back  and  renew 
our  enjoyment  of  it.  It  may  be  a  deft- 
ly placed  piece  of  statuary,  or  a  vine- 
covered  arch  over  a  gateway  or  through 
the  end  of  a  pergola  which  frames  a 
perfectly  familiar  view  in  such  a  way 
that  it  gives  a  sudden  breathless  pleas- 
ure. Or  it  may  be  a  recurrent  note  of 
color  in  a  perennial  border  which  will 
haunt  us  afterward  much  in  the  same 
manner  as  a  theme  in  music. 

In  this  busy,  distracting  life  of  the 
present  day,  more  than  ever  before  we 
feel  the  need  of  the  diversion  of  our 
gardens,  and  it  is  fortunate  that  the 
beauty  and  satisfying  quality  do  not 
increase  only  according  to  the  ratio  of 
size;  in  fact,  in  the  smaller  gardens 
there  are  unlimited  possibilities  for  a 
certain  intimacy  and  perfection  of 
charm  which  larger  gardens  very  often 
do  not  possess.  Let  us  review  a  few 
points  of  concentrated  beauty  which 
have  left  lasting  impressions  upon  those 
who  have  visited  them. 

In  a  certain  garden  of  extreme  love- 
liness there  is  a  walled  fountain  of 
Batchelder  tiles.  The  tiles  are  of  clay 
in  neutral  tones  of  soft  brown,  except 
where  scrolls  or  designs  occur  and  then 
the  depths  of  the  design  are  colored 
blue.  Growing  up  beside  this  fountain 
and  bending  over  it  is  a  shrub  of 
Duranta  plumieri  which  has  clusters  of 
delicate  blue  flowers  exactly  the  shade 
of  the  blue  in  the  tile.  The  play  of 
light  and  shadow  over  the  face  of  the 
fountain,  the  episodes  created  by  the 
birds  as  they  visit  it  to  bathe  or  perch 


on  the  bowl,  the  blue  in  the  tile  matched 
by  the  blue  over-arching  flowers  create 
an  effect  unique  in  its  charm. 

In  another  garden,  embowered  in 
shrubbery  at  the  foot  of  the  steps  lead- 
ing up  to  the  main  entrance,  is  a  statue 
by  the  sculptor  Edward  Berge,  called 
Wild-Flower.  That  little  figure  with 
her  petal-like  hands  and  her  face  of 
'•nods  and  becks  and  wreathed  smiles", 
crowned  with  an  inverted  corolla,  seems 
to  cast  a  sort  of  magic  influence  upon 
all  who  pass  along  that  walk  so  that 
terraced  slopes,  box-bordered  paths  and 
tall  evergreen  trees  possess  an  entrancing 
beauty.  A  pool  planted  with  wild 
grasses  which  we  have  gathered  our- 
selves on  a  trip  to  the  marsh  lands  by 
the  sea,  will  always  sing  a  peculiar  song 
a=  though  the  sea  breezes  had  strayed 
into  our  garden  to  rustle  among  them 
— such  is  the  value  of  association. 

There  is  a  certain  small  formal  gar- 
den so  closely  associated  with  the  house 
that  it  becomes  a  sort  of  outdoor  room. 
French  windows  open  upon  a  broad, 
shady  porch  just  half  a  step  above  the 
level  of  the  lawn.  It  is  a  walled  gar- 
den, these  walls  forming  a  background 
for  varied  and  exquisite  planting,  the 
charm  of  which  is  so  diverting  for  a 
new-comer  that  a  connected  conversa- 
tion is  a  practical  impossibility.  Two- 
thirds  of  the  way  down  the  garden  is 
a  pergola  running  from  wall  to  wall 
with  vine-covered  arches,  and  the  eye 
travels  over  lawn  and  low  foundation, 
between  Italian  cypress  trees  to  the 
central  opening  in  the  pergola  which 
perfectly  frames  Romanelli's  Smiling 
Child,  squeezing  water  from  a  shell. 
MIRA  B.  CULIN. 


This  little  statue 
is  deftly  placed 
against  a  back- 
ground of  dense, 
dark  foliage 
which  admirably 
outlines  its  deli- 
cate grace 


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ROOKWOOD  TILE 
IN   MOSAIC  FORM 


We   have  executed  other 
workinthisspiritfor  panels 

in   churches   and    various 
interiors. 


On  the  shelf  are  new  forms 
of  Rookwood  vases. 


Write  for  literature. 


THE  ROOKWOOD  POTTERY  ^  O. 
Cincinnati 


/tfter  a  Chilly  Day 
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One's  instinctive  fondness 
for  a  rest-spot  for  tired  feet 
finds  ready  answer  in  this 
practical  device  as  hundreds 
of  home  owners  have  long 
since  proved.  If  you're  build- 
ing, remodelling  or  if  you've 
already  built,  drop  us  a  line 
—you're  sure  to  make  im- 
mediate installations  of  these 
Beaton  &  Cadwell  foot  rails. 


Attachable  to  radiators  of  every  type  and  design, 
nickel  plated,  and  substantially  constructed  of 
heavy  brass  tubing  and  pressed  steel  brackets — 
strong  enough  to  bear  an  adult's  weight.  Standard  26 
inch  lengths,  $5.00  each — larger  sizes,  5c  each  added  inch. 


Inquire  about  our  special  Lock  Shield 
radiator  talce  that  preterits  tanging  and 
hiising.  Attachable  to  any  radiator. 
Price  SI  .00  Six  Jo,  $5.00  Twice  /or  SI 0.00 

Correspondence  cordially  incited 

The  BEATON  &  CADWELL  CO. 


NEW  BRITAIN 


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For  FALL  WEDDINGS 
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CATERING,  complete 
in  every  detail:  trained 
butlers,  ladies'  maids, 
coatmen,  carriage  men, 
musicians.  Canopy, 
floral  decorations, 
chairs,  etc.  Estimates 
submitted. 


628  Fifth  Avenue 

NEW  YORK 


Established  Etgnty-onf  Years  Ago 


Danersk  Decorative  Furniture 


HA VK    you    cxi>erience<l    the    joy    of    creating    a    color 
•cheme  that  is  your  own?     This  is  your  opportunity 
in     Danersk     Decorative     Furniture:    the     chance    to 
select    the  individual   pieces   you   need    for   any    room,    ami 
have  them  finished  in  some  delightful  color  harmony  to  go 
with    a    quaint    old    Ivm-.tislt    print    or    the    fabrics   of    your 
own  choice. 

HV  make  the  furniture  we  offer  and  finish  it  for  your 
home.  Luxurious  overstuffed  pieces;  dignified  dining  room 
sets;  beautiful  decorated  groups  harmonious  with  the  choic- 
est line  of  English  prints. 

Send  for  The  Danersk  A-l  1  and  buy  through  your 
dealer,  decorator.  <>r  direct. 

ERSKINE  -  DANFORTH    CORPORATION 

2   WEST   47th    STREET,    NEW   YORK 

I-'ir-t    door    west    nf    5th    Avc..    4th    floor 


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CUT  your  fuel  bills  and  food  bills 
and  do  away  with  half  the  work 
and  all  the  annoyance  of  cooking  and 
you  will  go  far  to  solve  the  problem 
every  household  is  facing  today. 

"Double"  Sterling 

The  40  feature,  2  oven,  2  fuel  range 

actually  accomplishes  these  results.  70 
years'  experience  has  enabled  us  to  secure 
such  perfect  combustion  in  the  Sterling  lire 
box,  grale  and  flue  system,  that  you  have 
absolute  control  of  your  heat  at  all  times. 
This  banishes  cooking  annoyances,  prevents 
wasting  food  in  cooking  and  saves  fuel. 
(The  regular  Sterling  Range  bakes  a  barrel 
of  flour  with  a  single  hod  of  coal.) 

The  49  inch  wide,  4  hole  coal  range  and  4  hole 
gas  range,  all  on  one  level  has  2  separate  ovens.  It 
enables  you  to  cook  easily  and  conveniently  no 
matter  how  few  or  how  many  you  have  to  serve. 
We  leave  it  to  you  if  this  will  not  eliminate  half 
the  work  of  cooking. 

We  will  send  on  request  a  complete  descriptive 
catalog  on  the  "Double  Sterling"  explaining  and 
illustrating  the  40  Sterling  features  which  make  it 
the  range  for  your  kitchen. 

SILL     STOVE     WORKS 

(Established    1849) 

Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Makers    of    Sterling    Coal    Ranges,    Sterling    Scientific 
Combination  Ranges  and  Sterling  Warm  Air   Furnaces 

If  you  do  not  have  gas  connection  write  for  catalog  of  the 

Sterling   Rcngc.      The    Range   that   bakes  a   barrel    of  flour 

with   a   single   hod   of   coal. 


Royal  Doulton 
plate  comes  in 
black,  lavender  or 
yellow  striped  with 
white.  $59  a  doz. 


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in     the     Shops 


(Continued  jrom  page  84) 


tan   and   pink      There   is   a   little   blade 
on  the  top  for  cutting  the  string.    S7.50. 

(01)  For  the  refectory  tables  new  so 
much   in   vogue,   comes   an    unusual   set 
of  Italian  hand-woven  linen  doilies  and 
runner.   The  runner  is  18"  x  54"  and  the 
six  mats  are   12"  x   18".     The  set,  com- 
plete  is   S30.     Extra   mats,  S3   each. 

(02)  A  plate  in  an  unusually  striking, 
striped  design  may  be  had  in  two  sizes. 
The  one  shown  here   is  the  salad  size. 
It  is  Royal  Ooulton  and  the  colors  arc 
lavender  and  white,  black  and  white  or 
yellow  and  white.     They  are  $59  a  doz. 

(b3)  A  great  convenience  for  the 
traveller  or  for  the  apartment  that  does 
not  boast  a  laundry,  is  a  collapsib'e 
aluminum  pressing  board.  When  open, 
it  is  44"  long  and  Q"  wide  Closed,  it 
measures  22"  long  and  9"  wide.  It 
comes  complete  with  a  fabric  cover 
lined  with  silence  cloth  that  fits  tight. 
S5. 

( t>4 )  Another  box  that  is  extraordi- 
nary for  its  color  and  design  is  shown 
at  the  top  of  another  page  It  is  of 
tooled  and  illuminated  leather,  10"  long 
and  7"  wide.  It  comes  in  a  variety  of 
colors,  ornamented  with  gold.  S30. 

(05)  A  convenience  that  is  time  sav- 
ing and  practical  and  should  be  found 
in  every  kitchen  is  a  dish  drainer  and 
drain  board.  It  consists  of  a  wire  screen 
that  fits  in  a  white  enameled  drain 
board  that  in  turn  is  placed  on  the  tub 
or  next  to  the  kitchen  sink  The  dishes 
are  placed  in  this  and  the  water  is 
allowed  to  drain  off.  The  dishes  will 
drain  perfectly  dry  in  a  few  minutes, 
thus  eliminating  another  unit  of  the 
servant  problem.  Made  in  white  enamel 
with  white  rubber  guard  on  edge,  $3.50. 

(bb)  The  plates  illustrated  are  Cope- 
land  ware,  attractively  colored  and  at- 
tractively priced.  On  a  cream  ground, 


the  French  blue  ring  in  the  center  and 
the  gay  wreaths  of  flowers  around  it, 
make  an  interesting  splash  of  color.  The 
sizes  are  10",  8",  7",  and  Sy^",  and  the 
prices,  respectively,  $16.50,  S15,  S12, 
and  S10  a  doz. 

(o7)  An  iceless  refrigerator  comes  in 
three  sizes  for  $4,  $6  and  $7.50.  This 
consists  of  two  earthenware  crocks  that 
are  submerged  before  filling  in  cold 
\valer.  Wlv.-n  kept  in  a  draught  or  in 
an  open  window,  the  food  inside  is 
kept  cool  by  means  of  evaporation. 

(b8)  There  is  an  excellent  flower  box 
for  windows,  porches  or  sun  rooms.  It 
is  self-watering  and  sub-irrigating  and 
needs  filling  only  once  a  week.  In  size 
8"  high  x  0'  ',"  wide  x  29"  long,  $4.  It 
is  finished  in  aluminum  or  dark  green 

(00)  I  found  a  charming,  little,  fold- 
ing table,  20"  high.  It  was  painted  a 
deep,  dull  blue  with  a  c'oisonne  design 
in  colors.  The  under  side  was  also  deco- 
rated. S25.  It  may  be  had  in  any 
desired  colors. 

(70)  A  beautiful  iridescent  glass  fruit 
bowl  is  $lb.50.     The  bowl  has  a  cover, 
lopped    with    a   little    colored    piece    of 
fruit.     Around  the  bowl  is  a  compart- 
ment for  ice. 

(71)  Buddha  in  any  form  is  interest- 
ing and  especially  so  when  he  is  made 
into   book   ends  that  are   deep   red  and 
gold  or  dull  blue  and  gold.     They  are 
b"  high  and  are  $5  the  pair. 

(72)  A    lovely     crystal     mayonnaise 
bowl  and  plate  is  priced  unusually  low 
at  $7.50.     The  glass  is  decorated  with 
a   gold   band  in   a   Grecian  key   design 
and    a    wreath    of    transparent    enamel 
roses.     The   bowl   is   b"   and   the   plate 
~i1/". 

(73)  A   graceful   water   pitcher,  Sl/>" 
high   is  of  crystal,  etched  in  a  Wedg- 

(L'onliniied  on  page  90) 


Wrought  iron  and 
gilt  adjustable 
lamp,  S28.  The 
changeable  rose 
tafeta  shade  is  SIS 


November,     1920 


The  famous 
HAYS  glove 
"Doublebill." 


You  do  not  need  to  wear  a  larger  size  to  get 
comfort  in  a  LINED  glove  if  you  buy— 

S  doves 


ways  warm  and  com- 
:i   finger  or   so — must 


Lined  gloves  that  really  FIT — that  .-.re  a 
fortable — that  cannot   bind   and   frccXL- 
lie  made  as  we  make  HAYS  lined  gloves. 

We  use  special  <!icsin  the  cutting  and  considerably  MORI",  leather  than  is  usual, 
so  Hays  gloves  are  roomy  and  warm  but  still  are  your  regular  size. 

Like  HAYS  unlincd  gloves  they  arc  made  in  vane  1  and  attractive  models — 
"Supcrseam"  stitching  of  course — the  scams  cannot  ravel,  even  though  the 
thread  is  cut  or  broken. 

HAYS  Lined  Gloves  for  Men  and  Women  in  Buckskin,  Cape 
and  Mocha  are  sold  by  the  Dealers  you  like  to  patronize. 

The  Daniel  Hays  Company,   Gloversville,  N.  Y. 


ANTIQUES 


The  illustration  shows  an  original  Dresser  in  oak,  part  of 
a  collection  of  old  oak  furniture  from  a  house  in  Hert- 
fordshire County,  England,  purchased  on  the  premise*  by 
Mr.  Lans.  There  is  also  on  view  an  unusually  handsome 
collection  of  18th  Century  French  Furniture,  Needlework 
and  Tapestry. 

554  Madison    Ave.,   New   York 

CORNER    OF    55th    STREET 
Paris:    32   FAUBOURG    POISSON1ERE 


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EARLY  ENGLISH  AND  COLONIAL, 


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room,    f !  t  f  t'  tl   with    appropriate    f  q  u  i  p  rn  rn  t . 

Plate  7  illustrating  fire  tools  will  be  sent  upon  request. 

ARTHUR  TODHUNTER,    Showroom,.  101  Park  Ave.,  New  Yo,k 


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There  is  something  about  this  sofa, 
the  replica  of  an  Italian  design,  be- 
speaking the  sacred  charm  of  old 
things. 

Its  richness  in  color,  fabric  and  line 
exemplifies  the  bond  between  the 
masters  of  yore  and  the  craftsmen  of 
The  Elgin  A.  Simoncls  Company  of 
today. 

Sold  at  better  class  furniture  shops 
everywhere. 


. 


The  El£m  A.Simonds 

Company 

Manufacturers  of 
'^\  f        Furniture  •-' 

SYRACUSE  .NEW YORK 


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One  of  these  is  a 
YALE  lock — the  other  is  not 

At  first  glance  they  look  alike. 

The  outside  shape  is  very  similar  in  both 
cases. 

But  the  inside ?  Ah!  Now  you're  coming 
to  it. 

Inside  there  is  a  big  difference  indeed- 
all  the  difference  between  a  Yale  Lock  and 
a  lock  that  is  not  Yale. 

Without  the  name  there  would  only  be 
two  ways  of  finding  out. 

One  would  be  to  take  the  lock  to  pieces 
and  look  at  its  inside.  The  other  would  be 
by  watching  it  at  work,  seeing  how  it  stood 
up  to  every  demand  that  a  good  lock  is  sup- 
posed to  meet.  Either  way  would  satisfy 
you  that  Yale  quality  is  very  much  of  a 
reality. 

But  you  don't  have  to  do  either  of  those 
things. 

When  you  buy  a  lock, 
there's  just  one  thing  that  you 
have  to  do  to  satisfy  yourself 
that  it's  the  sort  of  lock  you 
really  want  —  see  the  name 
Yale  on  it. 

Without  that  name,  a  lock 
is  not  a  Yale.  But  when  that 
name  is  there  you  know  that 
the  inside  of  that  lock  has 
everything  that  makes  a  Yale 
Lock. 

And    it's    the    inside 
that  counts. 


Yale  Made  is  Yale  Marked 


Yale 

Builders' 
Hard^vare 


Yale  Cylinder  Night  Latches 


Yale  Door  Closer. 


THE  YALE    &   TOWNE    MFG.  CO. 

Makers  of   the    Yale  Locks 

General  Offices  &  Works      STAMFORD,  CONN. 

New  York  Office:  9  E.  40th  St.  Chicago  Office:  77  E.  Lake  St. 

Canadian  Yale  &  Towne  Ltd.    St.   Catharines.   Ont. 


Painted  tin 
box,  cream 
ground  with 
gaily  colored 
flowers,  is  $5 


Seen     in     the     Shops 

(Continued  from  page  88) 


wood    design.      Around    the    top    is    a 
sterling  silver  band.     It   is  S7.50. 

(74)  Pottery  birds  that  are  immensely 
decorative  come  in  a  variety  of  colors 
and  can  also  be  had  in  plain  green  or 
orange   china.     They   are  8"   high   and 
range   from  $10  apiece,  up. 

(75)  The   little   drop-leaf   table   pic- 
tured is  only  18"  high.    Painted  in  any 
color  it   is  S24.     Unpainted,  $15. 

(76)  I  was  on  the  lookout  for  un- 
usual  gifts.     I   wanted  attractive,  out- 
of-the-way  things  that  were  not  to  be 
found    in    the    ordinary    shops.      Fortu- 
nately   I    ran    across    exactly    what    I 
wanted   in    a   shop   that   goes   to   Italy 
for  its  ideas  as  well  as  most  of  its  mer- 
chandise.     Here    were    Italian    pottery 
candlesticks  and  comports  in  that  soft 
cream  colored  glaze  that  is  so  difficult 
to  imitate;  flower  holders,  pitchers,  jars 
and  bowls  in  this  ware,  and  also  some 
effective   heavy,  orange-colored  pottery 
made  in  North  Carolina.    But  what  in- 
terested  me   the   most   was   the   Italian 
gesso  work.     Many  of  the  treasures  of 
the  Borghese  palace  and  the  Louvre  have 
been  reproduced  in  this  gesso  work,  a 
composition,  which  is  decorated  by  hand 
in   soft,   dull   colors   and   antique   gold. 
There  were  candlesticks  and  candelabra 
in   various  designs,  mostly  in   old  blue 
and  gold  coloring.  These 

ranged  from  $8.50  to 
$18.  There  were  also 
book-ends  in  classic  de- 
sign at  $12.50  and  wall 
plaques  from  $6  to  $18. 
But  the  things  that  at- 
tracted me  the  most 
were  the  boxes.  Large 
boxes  and  small  boxes 
for  trinkets,  cigarettes 
or  bonbons,  with  de- 

String  box  of 
glazed  calfskin  in 
green,  blue,  pur- 
ple, tan  or  pink. 
$7.50 


signs  taken  from  the  paintings  of  An- 
drea del  Sarto  and  Botticelli,  or  a  girl's 
head  from  the  Museum  of  Milan,  or  the 
Three  Graces,  and  many  others.  A  box 
which  could  be  used  for  stationery  was 
in  the  shape  of  an  old  Italian  coffer,  in 
panelled  design  of  heraldic  beasts.  This 
was  $15.  These  boxes  would  make 
charming  gifts  and  range  in  price  from 
$4  up. 

In  quite  a  different  style  were  the 
painted  tin  articles  also  made  by  this 
firm.  Here  again  were  boxes  of  every 
shape  and  color,  made  of  tin  and  gaily 
decorated  with  flowers  or  fruit.  These 
were  all  prices  and  for  all  occasions. 

(77)  Baskets  are  necessities  as  well  as 
luxuries  these  days,  and  I  found  some 
especially  lovely  ones  made  by  the  blind 
They  are  all  shapes  and  can  be  stained 
any  desired  color.  One  basket  tray  for 
fruit  or  flowers  was  flat,  about  10"  long 
with  a  handle.  This  was  $2.  Stained 
any  color,  $2.25. 

Under  present  market  conditions  we 
cannot  guarantee  that  the  prices  of  any 
of  these  things  that  we  show  from 
month  to  month  will  remain  the  same. 
Nor  is  it  possible  to  insure  the  stock 
being  sufficient  to  fill  all  orders,  al- 
though we  make  every  effort  to  select 
things  of  which  there  is  a  good  supply. 
It  is  well  known  that 
stocks  of  many  kinds 
are  depleted  and  diffi- 
cult for  the  shops  to 
replenish  without  con- 
siderable delay. 

Articles  such  as  glass, 
furniture,    etc.,    require 
•ft  special   crating,   for 

which    an    additional 
charge     is     necessarily 
•  made. 


The  andirons  be- 
low are  of  ham- 
mered iron  with 
brass  knobs, 
IS1/,"  high,  $35 


November,     1  920 


91 


Something  Really  New 
In  Window  Shades 

While  a  thousand  wonderful  and  welcome  improvements  have  been  de- 
vised for  house-equipment  and  furnishing  in  the  last  few  years  the  world 
has  continued  to  right  and  struggle  with  spring  roller  shades  ever  since 
grandmother's  days. 

Now  comes  something  really  .V£H' — a  luxurious  yet  inexpensive  neces- 
sity for  every  home — every  apartment,  school,  hospital,  lintel. 

Athey    Perennial    Accordion 
Pleated  Window  Shades 

These  shades,  from  the  outside,  give  the  effect  of  elegant  ecru  Venetian 
Blinds  or  costly  draperies. 

And  to  the  occupants  of  any  room,  they  mean  perfect  cimtrol  nf  light 
and  ventilation,  combined  with  privacy. 

They  open  and  close  like  a  Japanese  fan,  going  up  from  the  bottom.  d»wn 
from  the  top  or  may  be  "hunched"  in  any  position.  Shades  are  made  of  a 
fine  herringbone-weave  coutil  cloth,  in  douhle-stitehed  panels  or  accordion 
pleats.  They  are  strung  on  taut  piano  wires,  and  arc  raised  and  lowered. 
opened  and  closed  by  pulling  plaited  cords  at  the  sides. 

Cost   less,   in   the    long   run,    than   cheap    spring    roller    shades 
Send   for    sample   and    circular. 

ATHEY  COMPANY 

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A  Soft  Water  Shampoo 

imparts  a  beautiful,  clean,  glossy  texture  to  your 
hair  that  can  be  obtained  in  no  other  way.  You 
can  have  soft  water  from  every  faucet  in  your 
own  home,  not  only  for  shampooing  but  for  cook- 
ing, laundering  and  every  personal  use. 

Permutit  Water  Softeners  fit  conveniently  into 
any  house  supply  system,  and  turn  the  hardest  water 
softer  than  rain.  Simple,  inexpensive  to  operate 

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Brighten  Your  Home  With 

Beautiful  Little  Evergreens 

For  Porches,  Windows,  Tables 
Entrances,  Sun  Parlors,  Balconies 


(Shipping  Weight  25  Ibs.— Express  or  Parcels  Post) 

The  special  assortment  above  illustrated,  comes  in  a  box  3  feet  long, 
7  inches  wide  and  6  inches  deep.  Box  painted  dark  green.  Shipped 
carefully  packed.  You  simply  remove  cover,  fill  box  with  earth 
and  plant  evergreens  as  illustrated.  The  only  care  required  is 
frequent  watering. 

Write  for  pamphlet  which  shows  other  combinations;  also  how  ever- 
greens grown  for  the  purpose  can  be  planted  in  pots,  tubs,  urns, 
etc.,  for  decorative  purposes.  Hardy  indoors  and  out. 

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scape effects.  Contains  valuable  data  on  choice  and  care  of  nursery 
stock.  Used  as  a  reference  work  in  schools,  and  listed  in  library 
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Owners  of  Little   Tree  Farms 


Built    for    Modern    Home    Needs 

The  Kewanee  Lighting  Plant,  simple  in  construction, 
easy  to  install  and  operate,  provides  electricity  for 
the  electric  iron,  vacuum  cleaner,  washing  machine, 
electric  churn,  grindstone  and  separator.  There  is 
also  a  Kewanee  Water  Supply  System,  or  a  Com- 
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should  be  planted  this  month.  Lilacs  are 
essential  to  the  garden;  in  early  spring 
the  bushes  are  laden  with  beautiful  flow- 
ers and  their  delicate  perfume  is  not  sur- 
passed by  any  other  flower. 

There  arc  many  new  varieties  at  Wyomissing 
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larger  trusses  than  the  old  types.  My  collection 
embraces  over  a  hundred  varieties. 

1'arr's  Hardy  Plant  Specialties  (seventh  edition, 
1920)  contains  a  full  descriptive  list  of  all  the  material 
used  by  landscape  gardeners.  Copies  will  be  sent  with- 
out further  notice  to  my  customers;  to  others  copies 
are  free  on  request. 

BERTRAND   H.   FARR 

Wyomissing  Nurseries  Company 
106  GARFIELD  AVENUE,    WYOMISSING,  PENNA. 


Residence  of  G.    W.   Wattles,  Garden  Front,  Hollywood,   Calif. 
Myron  Hunt  &  Elmer  Grey,  Architects 

BAY  STATE  COATING 

Permanent  beauty.  That's  the  kind  that  one 
or  two  applications  of  Bay  State  Brick  and 
Cement  Coating  imparts  to  all  walls  of  brick, 
cement  or  stucco.  It  waterproofs  them,  too. 
No  rain,  sun,  or  storm  affects  its  protection 
and  lasting  qualities. 

Your  choice  of  white  or  a  range  of  colors. 
We  will  send  you  a  sample  of  any  tint  you 
wish.  Let  us  mail  you  Booklet  No.  2.  It  shows 
a  number  of  Bay  State  Coated  Homes.  Drop 
us  a  postal. 

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Paint  and  Varnish  Makers 


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Philadelphia  Office: 

1524  Chestnut  Street 


November,     1920 


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Your  home — and  its  hardware 

IN  planning  that  new  home,  are  you  giving 
the  thought  to  hardware  which  it  should 
have  ?  You  are  building  for  permanence,  your 
hardware  should  be  durable — possessing 
built-in  wearing  quality.  You  are  building 
with  an  eye  for  beauty,  your  hardware  should 
be  pleasing  and  in  accord  with  its  surroundings. 

In  Sargent  Locks  and  Hardware  you  find  all 
this — security,  permanence,  ease  of  operation, 
and  a  choice  of  design  which  fits  in  exactly 
with  your  scheme  of  architecture. 

Sargent  Night  Latches 

Combine  safety,  security  and  strength. 
Afford  security  for  any  outside  or  in- 
side door  lacking  a  dependable  lock. 
Simple,  convenient  and  safe.  There  is 
no  possibility  of  their  getting  out  of 
order  by  forcibly  closing  the  door. 
Many  styles  and  finishes. 

Send  For  the  Sargent  Book  of  Design*  and 
go  over  it  with  your  architect 

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31   Water  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Put  Your   Own  Key  in  Your  Own  Front  Door 


The 

DUNHAM 

Radiator  Trap 


The  Smallest  Part  of 
a  Steam  Heating  System 
is  the  Most  Important 

A  fire  as  hot  as  Vesuvius  under  the  biggest  boiler 
ever  made  could  not  force  steam  through  a  heating 
system  if  the  radiators  were  clogged  with  air  and 
water — and  this  is  usually  the  trouble  with  noisy, 
leaky  radiators  that  will  not  get  hot  all  over.  You 
know  this  kind. 

There  is  an  easy,  sure  way  to  get  rid  of  these 
troubles  in  existing  systems,  and  to  prevent  them 
in  new  systems.  Simply  insist  that  the  Dunham 
Radiator  Trap  be  specified  by  your  architect  and 
used  by  the  contractor.  It  is  you  who  pay  the  coal 
bills,  and  you  who  want  heating  comfort;  it  should 
be  your  earnest  desire  to  spend  a  little  time  investi- 
gating this  standard  radiator  trap — whether  you  in- 
tend to  build,  or  re-vamp  your  old  system. 

The  Woolworth  Building  engineers  selected  the  Dunham 
Trap  above  all  others.  Many  similar  buildings,  factories,  apart- 
ments, hotels  and  fine  homes  enjoy  the  beating  comfort  made 
possible  by  this  trap — the  original  thermostat ic  disc  trap. 


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heating  and  ventilating  engineers 
and  steam  heating  contractors. 

The  "reason  why"  of  the  Dun- 


ham Trap  and  Dunham  Service 
will  be  explained  promptly  end 
fully  If  you  will  tell  us  what  type 
of  building  you  are  Interested  In. 
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"People  Say- 

t<  7  SM'T  it  shocking my  dear,  it's  an  outrage   .    .    .    Have 

*  you  ever  seen  anything  so  merciless — so  infuriating  f  .  .  . 
Of  course,  if  people  will  go  to  operas,  dances,  cabarets,  midnight 
frolics— they  deserve  to  be  exposed  .  .  .  I  wouldn't  hare  it  in  my 
house  ,  .  .  It's  scandalous"  .  .  .  What?  II' hy  that  new  book — 

HIGH  SOCIETY 

hints  on  how  to  attain,  relish, — and  survive  it 

A  Book  of  Satirical  Drawings,  by  Fish 


Precepts  by  Dorothy  Parker. 

(ii'orjse  S.  Chappcll. 
and  Frank  Crowninshield 


Did  you  ever  sec  a  duchess  stripped 
of  a  life-time  of  pretense  by  one  swift 
line?  Did  you  ever  read  the  whole 
horrid  history  of  a  bridge  maniac  in 
a  skilfully  placed  eyebrow?  Have 
you  seen  all  the  naive  sophistication 
of  a  debutante  expressed  with  a 
single  clever  curve? 

If  you  haven't,  then  let  Miss  Fish 
introduce  you  to  the  original,  amus- 
ing and  truthful  society  which  she 
has  created  on  her  miraculous  draw- 
ing board.  And.  as  Vanity  Fair  read- 
ers know,  the  drawings  in  this  book 
are  the  work  not  only  of  a  clever 
intelligence,  but  of  a  true  artist. 


Miss  Fish  is  one  of  the  most  dis- 
tinguished of  present-day  illustrators: 
her  work  shows  mastery  of  line,  a 
decorative  and  dramatic  use  of 
blacks,  and  a  characteristic  satire  of 
men.  women  and  events. 

"High  Society''  is  a  new  collection  of 
Miss  Fish's  remarkable  drawings  of 
life  in  our  upper  circles.  And. 
whether  your  name  appears  in  the 
Social  Register  or  in  the  minutes  of 
the  Dorcas  Society,  whether  you've  a 
box  at  the  opera  or  a  pass  to  the 
movies — knock  at  the  title  page,  open 
the  door,  take  off  your  tiara  or  your 
toque,  and  make  yourself  perfectly  at 
home  in — "High  Society." 


"High  Society"  is  the  smartest  book  of  the  season. 
It  contains  156  of  Miss  Fish's  inimitable  drawings  and 
their  entertaining  captions;  is  attractively  bound  and 
beautifully  printed. 

"High  Society"  is  published  by  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons 
and  is  on  sale  at  all  better  class  book  stores.  Or — fill 
out  the  coupon  below  and  mail  it  with  your  check 
to  us  for  one  of  the  first  copies  off  the  press.  Price 
$5.30,  postpaid. 


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Fish's  "High  Society." 
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cover  book  and  postage. 
Please  send  me  one  of 
the  earliest  copies  off 
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VANITY    FAIR 

19    West    Forty-fourth    Street,    New    York    City,    New  York 


Name 
Street 
City.. 


The  oU  system  embodies  a   thermostat,  an  elec- 
trical   control    box,    a     blower,     a     combustion 
chamber  with   a  pilot   light,  and  an   oil   supply 
tank.     Courtesy   The  Steam   Corporation 

HEATING     WITHOUT     COAL 


State. 


H&G-11-20 


IX  this  autumn  of  grace  of  1920,  sev- 
eral factors  exist  which  complicate 
the  all-important  problem  of  heat- 
ing the  house.  Furnace  tenders  are 
scarce,  independent  and  extortionate; 
coal  prices  have  soared  and  supplies 
subsided ;  and  a  realization  has  come 
to  the  householder  of  the  importance 
of  cleanliness  and  freedom  from  fur- 
nace dust  and  ash  below  stairs  as  well 
as  above.  The  trend  of  public  demand 
is  toward  all  possible  simplification  of 
heating  methods  and  apparatus. 

Oil  versus  Coal 

Prominent  among  the  devices  cal- 
culated to  meet  this  demand  is  a  sys- 
tem which  utilizes  oil  instead  of  coal 
as  a  fuel  to  heat  the  steam,  hot  water 
or  hot  air  which  circulates  through  the 
house.  It  substitutes  for  the  coal  fire, 
with  its  attendant  ashes  and  labor,  a 
smokeless  oil  flame  which  burns  in  a 
square  combustion  chamber  within  the 
furnace.  It  can  be  installed  in  any 
standard  system  which  does  not  con- 
sume more  than  forty  tons  of  coal  a 
season,  and  consists  principally  of  a 
thermostat;  an  electrical  control  box 
attached  to  a  blower  and  connected 
with  the  thermostat;  a  blower  or 
atomizer;  a  combustion  chamber  in- 
closing a  gas  pilot  light  which  is  always 
burning;  and  an  oil  supply  tank. 
Thermostatic  action  causes  the  blower 
to  operate,  drawing  up  oil  before  a 
fan  which  blows  it  into  a  cool  spray 
within  the  combustion  chamber,  where 
it  is  ignited  by  the  pilot  light.  Thus 
it  will  be  seen  that  about  all  the  sys- 
tem requires,  outside  of  the  furnace 
and  piping  to  which  it  is  attached,  and 
a  110  volt  direct  electric  current  or  a 
110  volt  60  cycle  alternating  current, 


and  a  small  supply  of  gas  for  the  pilot 
light. 

One  of  the  big  advantages  of  this 
oil  system  is  the  elimination  of  fuel 
waste  which  it  accomplishes.  The  fire 
is  started  by  the  action  of  the  thermo- 
stat, which  in  turn  is  governed  entirely 
by  the  requirements  of  the  house. 
When  no  heat  is  required,  the  fire  goes 
out.  This  cannot  be  done  with  coal, 
which  calls  for  a  constant  fire  through- 
out the  heating  season. 

An  interesting  comparison  of  operat- 
ing costs  of  one  of  these  oil  installa- 
tions and  a  coal  system,  in  the  same 
heating  plant,  shows  that  when  thirty 
tons  of  coal  were  required  at  S12  a 
ton,  the  saving  affected  by  the  use  of 
oil  was  S4S  for  the  season.  The  coal 
figures  included  furnace-man  service, 
which  of  course  was  eliminated  in  the 
oil  installation  because  of  the  latter's 
ease  of  operation  and  freedom  from  ash 
carrying.  And  to  the  credit  side  of 
the  oil  should  be  added  those  items 
such  as  absence  of  worry  and  time 
which  can  scarcely  be  set  down  in  dol- 
lars and  cents. 

Another  System 

Another  device  which  offers  the 
same  sort  of  freedom  from  dirt  and 
labor  as  the  foregoing,  together  with 
the  advantage  that  it  can  be  installed 
where  no  regular  heating  plant  exists, 
embodies  a  gas  Bunsen  burner  in- 
closed in  the  bottom  of  a  specially  built 
radiator,  the  whole  being  a  comolete 
heating  unit  which  needs  only  connec- 
tion with  a  regular  gas  supply  pipe  and 
water  in  the  radiator  to  make  it  ready 
for  operation.  It  gives  quicker  and 
more  economical  heat  than  would  a 
regular  hot  water  system  using  coal. 


nn  cu 


Water 


Flames 


A  specially  con- 
structed radia- 
tor with  inclosed 
Bunsen  burner 
and  gas  connec- 
tion makes  a 
complete  heating 
unit.  Courtesy 
James  B.  Clow 
&  Sons 


November,     1920 


95 


BUILDING? 

HOUSE  &  GARDEN'S 
Information  Service 

Will  Advise  You 


I-  the  brick  the  right  size  ami 
color?  Will  the  fireplace  draw? 
Does  the  doorway  live  up  to 
the  picture?  Is  the  porch  de- 
veloping into  a  mistake?  Or 
do  you  know,  beyond  a  doubt, 
that  the  house  you're  building 
is  going  to  be  just  as  fine  and 
suitable  as  the  plans  promised? 


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Why  Use 
Garbage  Cans? 

Do  you  continue  to  use  gar- 
bage and  rubbish  cans  because 
you  are  satisfied?  Or  do  you 
tolerate  them  because  you 
think  lliev  are  necessary  evils? 


ERNERATOR 


Built-in-the-Chimney 


has  at  last  emancipated  the  home  from  these  evils. 

The  door  shown  is  located  in  the  kitchen.  Into  it  is  put 
everything  that  is  not  wanted — tin  cans,  garbage,  broken 
crockery,  paper,  sweepings,  bottles,  cardboard  boxes — in 
fact  all  those  things  that  accumulate  in  the  home  from 
day  to  day  and  are  a  continuous  nuisance  and  dangerous 
health  hazard. 

The  material  deposited  falls  down  the  regular  house 
chimney  flue  into  the  incinerator  built  into  the  base  of 
the  chimney  in  the  basement.  From  time  to  time  a  match 
is  touched  to  it  and  it  burns  itself  up.  The  material  de- 
posited is  the  only  fuel  required. 

Xot  one  penny  for  operating  cost  and  yet  you  have 
abolished  garbage  and  refuse  cans  forever. 

SAMTAR  Y— ECONOM ICAL 
CONVENIENT— ODORLESS 

.1  p, >stiil  to  us  today  :ri//  brin//  an  interesting  catalog  to  you  tomorrow. 

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Delight     your    friends     with    a    Christmas    Box    of 
Delicacies     from     the     GENESEO     JAM    KITCHEN 


Kleven    inch    round    wooden    box   with   attractive   hand    painted   design    on    cover. 
fight  (classes  of  jellies  and  jam*  and  a  one  pound  box  of  Crystallzed  Crape   Fruit. 

Crystallzed  (Jrapu  Fruit,   a  dellelous  confection,  one  pound  boxes 

One  half  pound  boxes $  .75 

Assorted  jellies  and  jams  in  glass 

11      oz.  jams   per   dozen $5.30 

9      oz.  jellies    per    dozen $6.50 

6      oz.  jellies  and  jams  per  dozen $3.50 

2%  oz.  jellies   and  jams  per   dozen 12.10       y. 

Pure  Clover  Honey  ^  *JL 

14  oz.  Jars   per   dozen.   ...16.00  ^^^^^   ^H 

.',  oz.  Jars  per  dozen.  ...$3.85 
Assorted  Fresh  Fruits,  per 

dozen.     Quarts $14.00 

Pints  per  dozen $  9  00 

AssorU-d     Preserves     P*r     doun 

Pint*   $12.00] 

Assorted    Jams   In    Enamel-lined  \ 
tins,  in  dozen  or  half  dozen  lot* 

'2(1  oz.   per  dozen fi'K 

14  oz.    per  dozen $6.00 

Fur  sale  by  leading  grocers, 
»r  7(T*(r  for  list  of  other 
delicacies  put  up  in  glass  to 

Miss  Ellen    H.  North 

Geneteo,  N.  Y. 


Contains 
....$6.00 

.     $1.1111 


JUST  think  how 
J  much  more  attrac- 
tive and  modern 
your  kitchen  will  be 
if  you  equip  it  with  a 
set  of  "Wear-Ever" 
aluminum  cooking 
utensils. 

"Wear-Ever" 

utensils  add  to  the 
bright,  cheerful 
atmosphere  of  the 
kitchen  because  they 
are  so  cleanly  and 
silver-like. 


Wear-Ever 

Aluminum  Cooking  Utensils 

help  make  the  kitchen 
the  inviting  place  it 
should  be — as  up-to- 
date  as  are  the  other 
rooms  of  your  home. 

They  are  made  from 
hard,  thick  sheet  alum- 
inum —  without  joints 
or  seams.  Cannot  chip 
— cannot  rust — are 
pure  and  safe. 

Figuring  the  cost  of 
"Wear-Ever"  utensils 
on  the  basis  of  theyears 
they  last,  they  are  the 
•most  economical  uten- 
sils you  can  buy. 

Replace  uteniilf  that  wear  out 
with  atentils  that  ' ' Wear-F.vrr" 

Thr  Aluminum  Cooking  Utrntil  Co. 
New  Kensington,  Pa. 

In   Canada,   "Wear-Ever"   uteniiU 

are  made  by  Northern  Aluminum 

Co.,  Ltd.,  Toronto,  Ont. 


House     &     Garden 


The  "Velasco"  is  moderate  in  price 
as  well  as  in  si"c.  It  is  attractive 
and  home-like  and  one  of  those  il- 
lustrated in  the  Mott  ttathroom 
Hook. 


IOTV 


Ol''  course,  your  bathroom  will  be  sanitary 
— why  not?  In  these  days  important 
sanitary  features  are  largely  taken  for  granted. 
But — and  here  is  our  suggestion — Go  into  the 
J  el  ails  a  bit  yourself. 

For  instance,  all  toilets  look  more  or  less  alike, 
but  our  "Silentum"  shown  in  the  picture  is 
extremely  quiet  in  operation  and  has  a  large 
bowl  and  water  area  and  other  features  which 
make  it  better. 

The  lavatory — There  are  many  more  expensive 
than  the  "Velasco"  but  there  is  nothing  more 
durable  or  beautiful  in  finish.  Be  assured  it 
is  worth  knowing  about. 

And  the  bath — Though  comparatively  inex- 
pensive, there  is  nothing  better  made  for  the 
purpose  than  our  light  weight  solid  porcelain. 
The  "Pomona'1  is  designed  for  a  recess,  and 
what  an  admirable  shower  compartment  it 
makes  where  space  is  limited. 

Let  us  send  you  the  Bathroom  Book  referred  to 
above.  Address  our  Dept.  A. 


The    J.    L.    MOTT    IRON    WORKS,    Trenton,  N.J. 


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Seattle 
•Des  Moine3 

St.  Paul.  Minn.  "Toledo 

Columbus.  O.  "Detroit 

Indianapolis 
Dayton.    Ohio 

MOTT    COMPANY,    Limited 

•Montreal,     "Toronto,    Winnipeg,    Canada 

MOTT   CO.   of  PENNA. 

•Philadelphia,    Pa. 


Houston,  Texas 
Portland.  Ore 
Kl  Paso.  Texas 
Lincoln.  Xeb. 
Havana.  Cuha 


•New  Orleans 
"St.  Louis 
•Kansas  City.  Mo. 
•Salt  Lake  City 
•Washington,  D.  C. 
Pittsburgh 

MOTT    SOUTHERN    CO. 

"Atlanta,    Ga. 

.MOTT    CO.     of    CALIFORNIA 
•San     Francisco,     Los    Angeles 


The  Sheraton  period  offers  wide  opportunity  for 

good  design  in  decorated  cases.     Courtesy  Victor 

Talking  Machine  Co. 


Period  Designs  in  Musical  Instruments 

(Continued  from  page  82) 


The  phonograph  is  an  American  prod- 
uct which  took  its  first  form  as  a  mat- 
ter of  convenience  and  utility.  When 
the  horn  first  put  its  head  under  cover, 
some  wealthy  home-owners,  unwilling 
to  have  a  cabinet  which  even  then 
was  out  of  keeping  with  the  rest  of 
their  furniture,  had  special  custom- 
made  "bodies"  built.  These  cases,  some 
of  which  cost  thousands  of  dollars,  gave 
a  prestige  to  the  rest.  Clever  business 
men,  seizing  upon  this  interest  and 
sensing  the  vast  new  growth  of  knowl- 
edge concerning  furniture,  began  to  de- 
velop authentic  designs.  A  by-product 
of  the  organized  effort  in  this  direction 
has  been  the  development  among  the 
lay  public  of  a  desire  to  understand 


more  of  the  meaning  of  period  furni- 
ture. A  beautiful  William  and  Mary 
phonograph,  perhaps,  was  the  fore- 
runner of  some  William  and  Mary 
chairs;  perhaps  was  responsible  for  the 
purchase  of  a  complete  suite  of  Wil- 
liam and  Mary  drawing  room  furniture ! 
This  discussion  is  addressed  primarily 
to  those  who  are  planning  the  en- 
largement of  their  home  music  inter- 
ests. There  are  all  kinds  of  musicians, 
and  all  kinds  of  instruments;  but  both 
gain  by  having  the  proper  setting,  the 
proper  atmosphere.  Decidedly  it  is 
a  beneficial  and  heartening  influence  to 
bring-  into  the  period  room  a  perfect 
example  of  a  musical  instrument  case 
in  that  same  period. 


•Showrooms    equipped    with    model   bathrooms 


A  larger  Sheraton  cabinet  is  of  decorated  mahogany 

and    measures    3'    4"    high    by    5'    long.      Courtesy 

Thomas  A.  Edison,  Inc. 


.V  o  v  e  m  b  e  r ,     1920 


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Leavens    Furniture 

The  careful,  discriiuin:itii)K,  pur- 
chaser plans  a  home  thai  will  beCOOR) 
more  beautiful  as  the  years  go  by — 
which  both  in  exterior  and  interior 
uppea ranee  will  take  on  additional 
charm  as  it  jjrows  older. 

He  selects 
Leavens 

Colonial 

Furniture 

for  interiors  knowing  that  like  the 
house  itself  this  wonderful  furniture 
will  grow  old  gracefully — remaining 
always  in  vogue  and  satisfying  even 
the  most  fastidious  taste. 

Personal  preference  may  be  exer- 
cised in  the  matter  of  finish.  We  will 
gladly  supply  unfinished  pieci-s  if  de- 
sired to  be  finished  to  match  any  in- 
terior. 

Write  for  set  No.  4  of  illustrations 
and  Lruu'ns  stains. 


WILLIAM  LEAVENS  &TCO.  me. 

32  CANAL   STREET, 

BOSTON.MASS. 


This  Beautiful  Hepplewhite 

Flap-Top  Card  Table, 

Price  $50.00 

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order   from   select   woods, 
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cause these  go 

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Such  pieces  make  excellent 
gifts  and  being  properly 
made  will  live  to  be  admired 
for  generations. 

I  am  a  specialist  in  inlaid  work 
and  QUALITY  period  style  fur- 
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The  Touch  of  Elegance 

OAK  has  always  been   recognized   as   the   hand- 
somest and  most  durable  flooring.      The  rich 
luster  of  a  fine,  dustless  oaken  surface  lifts  even  the 
simplest  room  arrangement  out  of  the  commonplace. 

Oak  responds  beautifully  to  care.  Its  charm  in- 
creases with  age.  After  a  hundred  years  oak  floors 
are  still  in  use  in  many  old-time  mansions.  Mellowed 
by  time  and  polished  by  the  tread  of  departed 
generations,  they  have  the  rare  color  of  old  mahogany. 

We  have  prepared  two  interesting  books  on  Oak 
Flooring.  They  explain  why  people  often  have  an 
erroneous  impression  that  oak  flooring  is  expensive. 
They  also  tell  how  to  lay  oak  over  old  floors,  and 
contain  much  valuable  information  for  those  planning 
to  build  or  remodel. 

Write   for  these   books  today.      They   are   free. 


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ARE    THESE    YOUR     PROBLEMS? 


Questions  Which  Have  Been  Answered  by 
the  HOUSE  &  GARDEN  Information  Service. 


Questions  pertaining  to  house  building,  interior  decoration  and 
gardening  will  be  ansivercd  through  the  Information  Service 
by  personal  letter.  A  fee  of  25  cents  is  asked  for  each 
question,  u'hich  should  be  inclosed  with  the  original  inquiry. 


Inquiry — I  am  sending  with  this  let- 
ter the  rough  plans  of  a  house  we  have 
just  bought.  It  is  about  thirty-five 
years  old.  The  floors  of  hardwood  are 
in  good  condition,  but  the  inside  wood- 
work needs  repainting.  What  color 
would  you  advise  for  the  woodwork 
throughout? 

I  would  also  be  very  glad  of  some 
help  on  the  wallpaper  question.  The 
house  faces  directly  west  and  all  the 
downstairs  rooms  are  on  the  south  side 
of  the  house.  I  am  fond  of  warm  col- 
orings, something  cheerful.  No  putty 
or  gray  papers  appeal  to  me.  Will  you 
please  suggest  color  scheme  that  would 
be  attractive  for  both  floors.  Also 
whether  figured  or  plain  papers  should 
be  used. 

Do  you  advise  the  use  of  over- 
draperies  in  all  the  rooms?  If  so,  please 
suggest  material  and  colors. 

At  present  the  bathroom  is  most  un- 
attractive. It  is  plastered  in  white  from 
the  baseboard  up  and  is  cracked  in  sev- 
eral places.  The  room  is  small  and 
narrow  and  has  a  north  window.  What 
would  you  advise  for  wall  treatment? 

In  every  case  I  would  appreciate  it 
if  you  would  make  your  suggestions 
suited  to  a  very  modest  pocketbook. 

With  many  thanks  in  advance  for 
your  kindness,  I  am,  . 

Answer — Your  letter  asking  for  sug- 
gestions for  color  schemes  for  your 
house  has  just  come  to  me.  I  think 
there  are  great  possibilities  there  and 
feel  sure  you  can  make  it  most  attrac- 
tive. 

In  the  first  place  I  should  have  all 
the  woodwork  cream  white.  This  is 
the  most  effective  and  satisfactory  in  the 
end. 

I  should  also  have  the  walls  down- 
stairs alike.  These  can  be  either  painted 
or  papered  and  I  would  suggest  that 
they  be  a  warm,  deep  cream.  This 
color  makes  an  excellent  background  for 
whatever  color  scheme  you  choose  and 
by  having  all  the  walls  the  same,  a 
sense  of  space  is  created. 

In  the  living  room,  a  color  scheme  of 
tan,  green  and  mulberry  would  be  at- 
tractive and  restful.  Let  the  hangings 
be  of  cretonne  in  which  mulberry  and 
green  on  a  tan  ground  are  the  colors 
and  the  rugs  of  plain  mulberry  or  deep 
tan  would  carry  out  the  same  scheme. 

In  the  library  the  same  coloring  can 
be  followed.  Here  the  cretonne  can  be 
used  on  one  or  two  chairs  and  the  hang- 
ings, of  plain  color  mulberry  pongee, 
will  carry  out  the  color  idea.  In  the 
dining  room  a  cretonne  of  vivid  blue, 
orange  and  black  would  be  most  ef- 
fective. The  glass  curtains  could  be  of 
pale  orange  silk  and  if  the  furniture 
were  painted  orange  with  a  blue  line 
running  through  it,  and  the  rug,  plain, 
deep  blue,  the  effect  would  be  both 
unusual  and  charming. 

In  the  bedrooms  I  should  use  both 
figured  and  plain  papers.  In  one  room 
a  pink  and  white  flowered  paper  with 
hangings  of  pink  taffeta,  a  taffeta  bed- 
spread and  plain,  deep  pink  rug  would 
make  a  most  effective  room.  Another 
could  be  furnished  in  yellow  arfd  white 
checked  gingham  with  a  wall  paper  of 
cream  white  with  bunches  of  yellow 
flowers  in  it.  Still  another  might  have 
a  lavender  and  white  striped  paper  with 
lavender  taffeta  or  linen  hangings  and 
a  bright  yellow  pottery  jar  used  as  a 
lamp.  Or  the  paper  could  be  a  pale 
yellow  and  the  hangings  blue  and  white 
checked  gingham.  In  all  the  windows 


I  should  have  ruffled  dotted  Swiss  mus- 
lin curtains. 

The  bathroom  should  be  plastered  and 
then  painted  with  a  water-proof  paint. 
This  should  be  cream  white  and  is  most 
satisfactory  as  it  can  be  washed  con- 
stantly. The  curtains  here  should  be 
of  dotted  Swiss  muslin,  too. 

If  at  any  other  time  we  can  be  of 
assistance  to  you,  please  do  not  hesi- 
tate to  let  us  know. 

Inquiry — My  home  is  in  the  country 
and  as  it  is  somewhat  run  down,  I  am 
anxious  to  improve  the  appearance  of 
the  place,  I  am  writing  to  ask  you  to 
help  me  to  plan  the  shrubbery  for  it. 

It  is  an  old-fashioned,  square  white 
house  with  green  shutters,  in  a  yard 
about  ISO'  square,  set  about  100'  from 
the  road.  In  the  yard  are  two  big 
elms,  a  hard  maple  and  an  ash  tree. 
I  am  enclosing  a  rough  sketch  showing 
the  position  of  the  trees. 

East  of  the  yard  is  the  barn  lot,  with 
almost  no  shrubbery  to  conceal  it,  ex- 
cept a  row  of  hollyhocks  which  I  started 
this  year.  I  would  like  to  plant  some- 
thing there  for  a  screen  which  will  grow 
quickly  and  hide  the  barn  lot. 

The  fence  along  the  front  is  a  picket 
one  and  is  rather  unsightly.  West  of 
the  yard  is  the  garden  and  beyond  that 
the  fields.  Just  outside  of  the  back 
fence  I  have  planted  elderberry  bushes 
which  are  growing  nicely  and  will  make 
a  good  screen  next  year. 

I  would  like  your  suggestions  as  to 
planting  as  I  am  at  a  loss  to  know  just 
what  is  best  and  how  to  arrange  it. 
I  have  no  shrubbery  for  foundation 
planting  either.  I  live  in  the  country, 
the  level  prairie  land  of  central  Illinois. 
I  shall  be  most  grateful  for  any  sug- 
gestions you  can  give  me. 

Answer — I  have  been  much  interested 
in  your  letter  asking  about  the  planting 
around  your  house  in  the  country.  Here 
are  a  few  suggestions,  which  I  trust 
will  be  of  some  assistance  to  you. 

In  order  to  screen  the  barn  lot  on 
the  west  of  the  property  I  should  plant 
a  hedging  of  California  privet.  This 
grows  very  rapidly  and  is  sufficiently 
high  to  serve  the  purpose  admirably. 
If  the  fence  along  the  front  line  is  in 
good  enough  condition  to  retain,  you 
might  plant  climbing  honeysuckle  along 
it  to  improve  its  appearance.  Other- 
wise I  would  suggest  your  putting  in 
a  good  quality,  heavy,  woven  wire 
fence,  such  as  is  used  for  fencing  live 
stock  fields.  Of  course,  this  type  of 
fence  is  not  decorative,  but  in  conjunc- 
tion with  the  honeysuckle  it  becomes 
quite  presentable  and  durable. 

Good  shrubs  for  foundation  planting 
would  be  spiraea  van  Houttei,  forsythia 
and  deutzia.  Without  knowing  a  little 
more  about  the  exact  size  and  ground 
plan  of  the  house,  I  cannot  tell  you 
just  how  many  of  these  bushes  you  will 
need  or  exactly  how  they  should  be 
placed. 

It  would  add  somewhat  to  the  ap- 
pearance of  the  place  if  you  planted 
lilac  bushes  on  either  side  of  the  en- 
trance gate,  which  I  presume  is  on  the 
south  property  line.  Also  you  might 
naturalize  here  and  there  in  odd  cor- 
ners a  variety  of  narcissus  bulbs,  in- 
cluding poet  narcissus,  the  Emperor, 
and  the  Barii  Conspicuus. 

None  of  these  suggestions  involves  the 
outlay  of  very  much  money,  but  I 
think  that  they  may  satisfy  the  con- 
ditions that  you  describe. 


rlouse^Garden 


(Christmas  ffifts    r^umber 


IDEALS  and  tastes  naturally  find  expression  in  the  home.     Our 
very  lives,  in  fact,  are  reflected  by  our  surroundings. 

The  color  scheme  has  most  to  do  with  the  interior  decoration  of 
the  modern  home.  For  instance,  the  proper  use  of  color  yields  an 
atmosphere  of  luxury,  comfort  and  good  cheer. 

Whatever  your  color  scheme,  Liquid  Velvet  enables  you  to  carry  out  the  various 
period  styles  and  tones  on  your  interiors.  For  Liquid  Velvet  comes  in  numerous 
washable  colors  and  tints  —  one  for  every  need.  Rich  and  clean-cut  in  tone 
Liquid  Velvet  combines  the  beauty  of  water  colors  with  the  durability  of  enamel. 

Let  us  give  you  the  name  of  a  competent  Master  Painter  who  will  estimate  your 
work.  We  will  also  provide  you  with  the  name  of  your  nearest  dealer. 

Send  ten  cents  in  coin  for  our  new  "Portfolio  of  Interiors"  —  gives  many  practical 
suggestions  for  the  proper  use  of  color.  Our  Department  of  Decorative  Service 
will  gladly  assist  in  solving  your  problems. 


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CONDE    NAST,  Publisher 

RICHARDSON    WRIGHT.     Editor 
K.   S.    I.EMMUX.  Manofin/t  Editor 


NEXT   MONTH,   THE   FURNITURE   NUMBER 


STRANGE,  how  short  a  time  it  seems  since 
we  were  selecting  pictures  and  editing  "copy" 
about  summer  draperies,  and  porch  furniture 
and  other  warm-weather  topics.  Winter  seemed 
very  far  away,  then,  and  here  we  are  with  the 
January  HOUSE  &  GARDEN  all  arranged  and  start- 
ing on  jts  journey  through  the  varied  stages 
which  lie  between  our  editorial  typewriters  and 
your  subscribers'  hands.  Yet  that  is  ever  the 
way  with  magazine  making;  issue  succeeds  issue 
so  steadily  that  before  we  know  it  the  year's  cycle 
is  complete  and  a  new  one  opens  the  first  of  its 
twelve  stages  just  ahead. 

In  this  first  i?sue  of  the  new  year  we  have 
concentrated  on  things  inside  the  house,  for  with- 
out-doors  snow  and  ice  are  likely  to  discourage 
all  but  necessary  activities.  A  series  of  sketches 
showing  different  types  of  chair  legs  will  prove 
an  interesting  and  helpful  aid  in  the  matter  of 
period  identification  at  a  glance.  Odds  and  ends 
of  decoration  always  appeal,  so  we  have  made  a 
selection  of  them,  too,  to  fit  various  occasions. 
Gardner  Teall  continues  his  series  of  collector'; 
monographs,  and  Ethel  R.  Peyser  her  articles  on 
practical  aids  to  modern  housekeepers.  Uphol- 


A  corner  of  one  of  the  Dutch  Col- 
onial houses  in  the  January  number 


stery  fabrics,  the  Little  Portfolio  of  Good  Inte- 
riors, things  that  our  shoppers  have  found  in  the 
stores,  the  fitting  up  of  a  practical  storage  room — 
these  are  some  of  the  other  features  which  help 
to  round  out  the  story  of  the  interior  as  told  in 
this  number. 

One  of  the  two-page  spreads  of  photographs 
to  the  publishing  of  which  we  have  been  looking 
forward  for  some  time  is  being  made  up  for  the 
January  number.  It  shows  one  of  the  early  Long 
Island  farmhouses,  a  delightful  little  place  over 
two  hundred  years  old,  which  has  been  restored 
without  sacrificing  a  particle  of  its  former  atmo- 
sphere and  charm.  Then,  too,  there  will  be  sev- 
eral pages  of  medium-sized  Dutch  Colonial  houses 
by  Dwight  J.  Baum,  and  another  charming  place 
designed  by  Frank  J.  Forster. 

Even  though  it  is  winter,  we  haven't  forgotten 
the  gardener,  of  course.  Mrs.  Francis  King  con- 
tributes to  this  issue,  and  prominent  among  the 
other  landscape  and  flower  features  is  a  practical 
exposition  of  the  decorative  and  useful  possibili- 
ties of  the  retaining  wall.  Altogether,  a  well- 
balanced  number,  a  true  earnest  of  what  HOUSE 
&  GARDEN  will  bring  you  in  1921. 


Contents  for  December,  1920.      Volume  XXXVIII,  No.  Six 


COVER  DESIGN  BY  HARRY  C.  RICHARDSON 

THE  FLOOR  or  INLAID  WOOD 18 

ROMANTIC  GIFTS  OP  OTHEK  DAYS 19 

Grace  Norton  Rose 
THE  RESIDENCE  OF  F.  J.  O.  ALSOP,  ESQ 22 

Chapman  &  Frazer,  Architects 

As  THE  CHRISTMAS  GIFT  MAY  SEE  IT 24 

AN  OLD  DOOR  IN  ALBANY 25 

EMBROIDERED  PRIMERS  OF  THE  PAST 26 

Gardner  Teall 
A  GUEST  HOUSE  AND  A  BOULDER  GARDEN 28 

W.  Maredydd  Harrison,  Landscape  Architect 
SOME  AMERICAN  WOOD  BLOCK  ENGRAVINGS 30 

Peyton  Boswell 

NURSERIES  THAT  FULFILL  THEIR  MISSION 31 

THE  STUDIO  HOME  OF  RUDULPH  EVANS,  SCULPTOR 32 

THE  GAZEBO  AN-)  THE  GARDEN  WALL 34 

H.  D.  Eberlein 
WAX  MINIATURES  ARE  HERE  AGAIN 36 

Emily  Burbank 
A  REMODELED  MILL  IN  MASSACHUSETTS 

Nina  L.  Durvca 


DWARF  FRUITS  FOR  THE  SMALL  PLACE 40 

Maud  Robinson  Toombs 

A  LITTLE  PORTFOLIO  OF  GOOD  INTERIORS 41 

PARGETRY  INSIDE  THE  HOUSE "44 

Costen  Fitz-Gibbon 

A  BIT  OF  NORMANDY  ON  THE  NORTH  SHORE 45 

Mary  H.  Northend 

OUTSTRIPPING  THE  GALE 46 

Ethel  R.  Peyser 

WAYS  OF  WRAPPING  CHRISTMAS  PARCELS 47 

CHRISTMAS  GIFT  SUGGESTIONS 48 

USEFUL  PRESENTS  FOR  THE  DINING  ROOM 49 

ATTENTION  OF  SANTA  CLAUS 50 

To  PUT  UNDER  THE  STOCKING 51 

I  INENS  MAKE  WELCOME  GIFTS 52 

REMEMBRANCES  FOR  THE  BOUDOIR 53 

To  GIVE  TO  A  MAN 54 

FOR  MANY  OCCASIONS 55 

THE  GARDENER'S  CALENDAR 56 


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House     &     Garden 


THE    FLOOR    OF    INLAID    WOOD 


We  have  grown  so  accustomed  to  thinking  the 
floors  of  our  living  rooms  must  depend  upon 
rugs  for  warmth  and  pattern  in  their  color 
effects  that  we  often  overlook  the  possibilities 
of  wood.  Yet  where  the  inlays  are  wisely 
chosen  for  tone,  design  and  grain,  a  floor  can 
be  achieved  which  fulfills  every  decorative  de- 
mand. An  arrangement  of  dark  and  light  in- 


lays, with  those  subtle  lines  and  shading:  which 
the  grain  of  many  woods  presents,  offers  the 
architect  wide  latitude  of  choice.  Such  a  floor 
is  in  this  room,  the  trim  and  ceiling  of  which 
are  of  still  darker  wood.  The  walls  are  of  deco- 
rative tiles,  the  fireplace  fittings  black  iron,  and 
the  surrounds  raked  and  carved  limestone. 
Growing  ivy  in  window  lends  a  light  touch 


December,     1920 


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ROMANTIC      GIFTS       OF       OTHER       DAYS 

Some  Presents  of  Our  Forefathers  Which  Parallel  in  Spirit  and  Often 
in  Form  the  Things  We  Give  Today 


GRACE  NORTON  ROSE 


DOES  life  through  the  centuries  repeat  itself 
with   regard    to   gift-giving    as    well    as 
other  idiosyncrasies  of  the  human  race?     Are 
there  not  distinct  parallels  to  be  found  today 
in  some  of  the  presents  of  other  times  ? 

That  thrifty,  almost  wily  Quaker  husband 
who,  under  the  stress  of  persistent  nagging, 
finally  promised  his  new  wife  a  coach,  and 
living  up  to  his  present  only  in  the  letter  of 
the  law,  neglected  to  furnish  the  horses  to 
draw  the  equipage,  might  find  his  counterpart 
in  the  modern  father  who  unwillingly  pre- 
sented his  daughter  *vith  the  car  upon  which 
her  heart  was  set,  but  who  remained  niggardly 
and  stern  about  pin  money  for  gasoline.  \Ve 
can  picture  the  chagrined  Philadelphia  bride 
gazing  upon  her  horseless  ornament  almost  as 
easily  as  we  can  the  girl  of  our  times  "hanging 
up"  her  gas  account  until  her  next  allowance 
falls  due. 

In  the  18th  Century,  as  in  the  20th,  silver 
was,  perhaps,  the  most 
popular  gift  for  all  occa- 
sions. The  silversmith's 
work  was  artistry  of  the 
finest  sort.  Churches  be- 
came the  happy  recipients 
of  many  pieces  that  have 
historical  significance. 
Among  the  examples 
from  Historic  Silver,  by 
Francis  Hill  Bigelow,  is 
a  silver  tankard  of  un- 
usual beauty  with  the 
London  date  letter  for 
1775-1776.  It  was  given 
Martin  Hern  by  the  two 
parishes  of  St.  Giles-in- 
the-Fields  and  St.  George, 
Bloomsbury,  for  "having 
laudably  assisted  in 
bringing  forward  a  num- 
ber of  volunteers  which 
these  parishes  had  to 
raise  for  His  Majesty's 
Armv  in  December, 
1796." 

Porringers,  we  know, 
graced  birthdays  perhaps 
more  than  any  other  an- 
niversary, but  tea-pots 
seem  always  to  have  had 
a  distinctly  feminine  and 
Christmasy  flavor.  Of 
such  a  one  is  that  en- 
graved with  the  Pickman 


arms  and  given  by  Love  Pickman,  the  wife  of 
that  renowned  citizen  of  Salem,  to  her  daugh- 
ter-in-law, Mrs.  Mary  Toppan  Pickman. 

"To  Mr.  Isaac  Harris  for  his  intrepid  and 
successful  exertions  on  the  roof  of  the  Old 
South  Church  when  on  fire,  December  29, 
1810'' — is  part  of  the  inscription  upon  a  cider 
pitcher  of  later  date.  On  the  other  side  is  a 
representation  of  the  fire  on  the  steeple  which 
the  mast-yard  apprentice,  who  had  a  share  in 
the  building  of  the  Constitution  extinguished. 

College  Presents 

Made  by  John  Burt  of  Boston  is  a  pair  of 
candlesticks  inscribed  ''Donum  Pupillorum 
1724,"  and  they  became  the  property  of  Nich- 
olas Sever  of  Kingston,  Mass.,  then  a  tutor  at 
Harvard  College.  A  much-loved  tutor  he  must 
have  been,  for  we  are  told  that  many  other 
beautiful  pieces  fell  to  his  lot. 

A  silver  punchbowl  with  a  removable  rim 


Here  in  America  are  several  pieces  of  furniture   Riven   by  the  Bonaparles.     In   Girard 

College  is  a  satinwood  secretary  presented  to  Stephen  Girard  by  Napoleon  Bonaparte. 

In  the  center  oj  its  arch  is  a  block,  and  a  musical  box  is  within.    A  gray  marble  table 

of  pedestal  type  was  another  gift 


in  the  possession  of  Dartmouth  College,  was  the 
interesting  gift  of  His  Excellency  John  Went- 
worth,  Esq.,  Governor  of  the  Province  of  New 
Hampshire,  and  others,  to  the  Reverend  Elea- 
zer  \Vheelock,  D.D.,  the  first  president. 

Of  all  the  romantic  and  alluring  gifts  known 
to  this  country  in  its  early  days,  none  seems  to 
have  more  charm  or  fascination  than  those 
brought  by  ship  from  the  Orient  to  the  old  sea- 
ports of  our  coast.  When  the  China  trade  was 
opened,  and  even  before,  returning  vessels 
brought  among  their  spicy  cargoes  niany  a  rare 
and  wonderful  present  from  that  strange  land. 
Whalers,  back  from  the  South  Seas,  carried 
their  share,  too,  of  odd  things  of  patient  work- 
manship, and  so  it  chances  that  many  an  old 
home  of  seafaring  ancestors  treasures  its  carved 
ebony  cabinet,  its  lacquered  work-box  full  of 
intricately  carved  little  ivory  trinkets,  its  wicker 
chairs,  its  nested  tables  and  its  rare  porcelain. 
Many  a  descendant  of  those  lonely  wives  cher- 
ishes the  China  shawl 
that  the  sea  captain 
brought  home  as  a  special 
gift  to  her  who  had  wait- 
ed so  long  and  fearfully 
for  him.  Occasionally  a 
cloisonne  incense- burner 
found  its  alien  way  to 
these  unfamiliar  shores; 
a  precious  gift  that  may 
have  cost  the  donor  more 
than  history  can  tell. 

Romance  of  the  Orient 
encircles  the  gift  of  the 
wonderful  Buddha  of 
white  jade  that  was  chis- 
eled from  its  base  in  a 
small  rock-set  temple  and 
sent  to  America  to  protect 
and  watch  over  the  lives 
and  destinies  of  the  foster 
,  parents  of  the  powerful 
Ah  Foo;  he  of  the  twelve 
beautiful  daughters,  all 
eventually  married  to 
Americans,  as  the  story 
goes,  he  in  whom  early 
education  and  training  in 
one  of  the  prosperous 
whaling  ports  of  the  pad 
had  not  eradicated  in  one 
whit  the  pure  pagan  su- 
perstition nor  the  ever 
lasting  gratitude  and 
f rally  of  his  race.  After 


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years  of  peaceful,  perhaps  supercili- 
ous, abiding  in  the  home  of  the  New 
England  foster  mother,  this  idol  is 
now  awaiting  its  ultimate  fate.  The 
recent  attempt  of  a  shabby  Lascar 
sailor  with  well-filled  money-belt  and 
quite  concise  information  regarding 
the  treasure,  to  buy  it  from  its  pres- 
ent owner — and,  not  succeeding,  to 
steal  it — suggests  that  for  some  rea- 
son more  potent  than  we  know  the 
possession  of  the  idol  is  desired  in 
the  country  of  its  creation.  There  is 
more  than  an  air  of  mystery  about 
the  tale;  and  meanwhile  the  inscru- 
table little  cross-legged  figure  of  the 
jade  god  smiles  eternally  and  extends 
downward  its  pointing  arm  polished 
so  suavely  by  centuries  of  stroking 
hands.  In  its  carvings  the  gold  leaf 
shows  faintly,  but  the  jade  shines 
with  an  almost  unearthly  luster. 

Vases   from  the  Orient 

Ah  Foo  also  sent  across  the  sea 
the  gift  of  a  rare  pair  of  Chinese 
vases  on  teakwood  stands,  all  green- 
ish yellow  and  gold,  standing  nearly 
three  feet  high.  About  them  is  a 
tale  of  Chinese  thoroughness  and 
kingly  giving  that  has  no  counterpart. 

The  vases  stood  for  many  years 
in  the  best  parlor  of  Her-whose- 
name- 1 -am- not -permitted -to-men- 
tion,  and  it  must  have  been  that  their 
rare  preciousness  was  not  enhanced 
by  the  purely  American  setting.  At 
any  rate,  their  great  value  seems 
hardly  to  have  been  instantly  recog- 
nized, as  a  workman,  one  day,  in  re- 
pairing a  picture-molding  set  a  plank 
across  from  vase  to  vase  and  stood 
thereupon!  As  may  be  imagined, 
the  delicate  neck  of  one  crumpled 
under  the  strain. 

•  •  In  a  letter  to  Ah  Foo  the  accident 
•was  explained,  how  naively  we  can 
only  guess.  Many  months  passed, 
and  then  one  day  three  Chinese  pre- 
sented themselves  at  the  door  of  the 
house :  a  trusted  clerk  and  two  cool- 
ies who,  with  Oriental  bows  and 
much  ceremony,  offered  credentials 
and  begged  for  written  permission  to 
take  the  damaged  vase  back  to  China 


In  the  18th  Century,  as  in  the  20th,  the 
work  oj  the  best  silversmiths  was  in  great 
demand.  A  tankaid  of  unusual  beauty  was 
given  by  two  parishes  to  Martin  Hern,  and 
a  teapot  bearing  the  Pickman  arms  com- 
memorates that  famous  Salem  family. 
Other  interesting  gifts  were  the  cider 
pitcher  of  1810  and  the  1724  candlesticks 


In  jewel  cabinets  oj  mar- 
queterie  the  ladies  of  Louis 
XVI's  time  kept  their 
costly  trinkets.  Marie-An- 
toinette's "coffre  de  mar- 
iage"  was  made  in  the  last 
years  oj  the  reign  of  Louis 
XV,  while  the  jewel  cab- 
inet at  the  left  is  of  slightly 
later  origin 


to  be  repaired.  They  had  been  months 
on  their  journey  to  fetch  this  treasure 
— from  China  to  the  Pacific  Coast 
of  America  and  thence  across  the 
continent — and  they  carefully  packed 
the  vase  and  promptly  departed  on 
their  arduous  return  trip,  promising 
to.  bring  back  the  vase  before  many 
moons.  They  left  with  this  New  Eng- 
land woman,  however,  another  gift 
from  Ah  Foo,  an  exquisitely  carved 
and  inlaid  box,  lined  with  rose- 
colored  washable  leather  and  well 
stocked  with  gold  pieces,  to  help  con- 
sole her,  so  the  message  ran,  for  the 
temporary  loss  of  the  vase. 

Lady  Clare's  Carriage 

During  the  14th  and  15th  Cen- 
turies in  Merrie  England,  the  gift 
commendable  was  a  bed  with  bed- 
hangings  and  furnishings,  or  else  a 
great  carriage,  carved  and  elaborate 
with  coverture,  carpets  and  cushions. 
Such  a  carriage  as  that  illustrated 
in  the  Louterell  Psalter,  M.  Jusse- 
rand  says,  became  in  1355  the  prop- 
erty of  the  eldest  daughter  of  Eliza- 
beth de  Burgh,  Lady  Clare.  Drawn 
by  three  or  four  horses,  with  postil- 
lions, its  long,  tunnel-like  body  with 
its  curtained  windows  gives  us  an 
idea  of  the  luxury  of  the  day. 

"The  details,"  M.  Jusserand  goes 
on  to  say,  "were  extremely  elegant. 
The  wheels  were  carved  and  the 
beams  were  painted  and  gilt,  the  in- 
side was  hung  with  those  dazzling 
tapestries,  the  glory  of  the  age;  the 
seats  were  furnished  with  embroi- 
dered cushions;  a  lady  might  stretch 
out  there,  half  sitting,  half  lying;  pil- 
lows were  disposed  in  the  corners  as 
if  to  invite  sleep — thus  travelled  the 
noble  lady — ' 

Card-tables,  work-tables,  spinets, 
love-chairs,  toilet-glasses  and  dower- 
chests  were  all  favorite  gifts  of  the 
17th  and  18th  Centuries.  Queen 
Anne's  giving  has  become  a  fable. 
If  one  should  count  the  communion 
sets  in  this  country  alone,  one  might 
find  the  figures  rather  astounding. 
The  poor  lady  probably  had  other 
occupations  than  the  giving  of  altar 


The  music  cabinet  or  read- 
ing table,  executed  in  mar- 
queterie  by  Martin  Carlin, 
has  a  rising  top  inlaid  with 
a  Sevres  plaque.  Its  tripod 
is  ornamented  with  chased 
ormolu  mountings — indeed 
a  worthy  and  beautiful 
present  for  the  great  queen 
to  select 


Uecen.oer,     1920 


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ROSE 


silverware — in  fact,  we  know  she  had.  That 
all  her  gifts  were  not  religiously  inspired  is 
proved  by  an  ebony  and  tortoiseshell  cabinet 
in  the  possession  of  the  Wren  family,  her 
queenly  gift  to  Sir  Christopher.  The  frame- 
work is  eljony  and  the  tortoiseshell  is  laid  over 
bright  red  paste.  The  inside  is  inlaid  with 
ivory  and  contains  four  mirrors  divided  by 
black  pillars  with  gold  capitals. 

Several  times, perhaps,  has  a  hardwood  work- 
box  which  Grace  Vallois  shows  in  her  book. 
Antiques  and  Curios  tn  Our  Homes,  figured 
as  a  gift.  A  royal  romance  shadowed  its  first 
fair  possessor;  that  Mrs.  Fitzherbert,  the  wife 
of  George  Fourth  whose  faithful  love  was  so 
illy  repaid  by  the  profligate  king.  The  box  is 
greenish  in  color  and  around  the  edges  are 
bands  of  satinwood.  It  has  a  heavily  weighted 
bottom.  The  drawer  is  supposed  to  defy  in- 
spection and  there  is  built  in  it  a  contrivance 
for  holding  embroidery  that  allows 
the  work  to  be  wound  up  as  it  pro- 
gresses. The  heaviness  of  the  box 
holds  it  steady  during  the  worker's 
exertions.  The  present  owner  received 
it  as  a  gift  from  Miss  Prujean,  the 
niece  of  Mrs.  Fitzherbert's_  cousin. 

A  Present  from  Captain  Kidd 

A  gift  of  later  date  with  more  than 
ordinary  romantic  flavor  about  it 
stands  at  present  in  the  Metropolitan 
Museum,  loaned  by  the  owner.  It  is 
an  eld  brown  stoneware  jug  of 
English  Fulham.  Encircling  it  is  a 
band  of  cut  silver  bearing  the  legend 
of  its  history,  of  course  added  in  re- 
cent times.  The  redoubtable  Captain 
Kidd  was  the  donor  and  Lady  Lyon 
Gardiner,  of  Gardiner's  Island,  the 
recipient.  It  was  a  gift  of  apprecia- 
tion of  hospitalities  received  at  the 
Manor  House.  On  Gardiner's  Island, 
it  will  be  remembered,  much  of  the 
booty  of  the  pirate  was  unearthed. 


Few  gifts  oj  early  American  days 
possess  more  romantic  charm 
than  those  brought  by  ship  from 
the  Orient  to  the  old  seaports  oj 
our  Atlantic  Coast.  In  those  days 
the  China  trade  yielded  far  more 
than  spices  and  teas  and  pieces  of 
rare  old  silk 


A  long,  tunnel-lik:  carriage,  elegantly  ap- 
pointed and  with  curtain'd  windows  in  its 
sides,  was  a  commendable  gift  in  England 
of  the  \4th  and  \Sth  Centuries.  Of  later 
date  is  a  brown  stoneware  jug  of  English 
hulham,  given  to  Lady  Lyon  Gardiner  by 
the  redoubtable  Captain  Kidd  to  show  his 
appreciation  of  the  hospitality  extended  to 
him  nt  the  Manor  House 


Many  infamous  gifts  have  become  famous 
through  the  glamour  of  romance  and  the 
charms  of  age,  and  Fragonard  panels,  painted 
for  what  shameless  favorite  of  France's  most 
outrageous  king,  are  none  the  less  Fragonard 
panels,  handled  in  his  truly  tender  and  dainty 
manner,  and  as  such,  delight  us  always.  We 
know  of  gilt  clocks  from  the  cleverest  makers 
in  the  world  that  once  graced  those  gay  bou- 
doirs, one  among  them  the  gift  of  Louis  XV 
to  La  Pompadour. 


In  the  Morgan  Collection  in  the  Metropoli- 
tan Museum  there  are  painted  and  jeweled 
patch  boxes,  scent  tattles  and  dance  programs 
known  as  Carnet  de  Hal  during  the  reign  of 
Louis  XVI,  that  have  all  doubtless  been  the 
graceful  gift  of  some  lordling  to  some  fair 
lady.  There  are  snuff  boxes  also  that  suggest 
a  certain  extravagance  on  the  part  of  the  fair 
dames.  In  jewel  cabinets  of  marqueterie  they 
kept  these  costly  trinkets,  and  in  elaborate 
bureaus  and  coffers  of  ebony,  lacquer  and  gilt 
bronze  they  stored  their  artful  frippery.  The 
"Coffre  de  Manage  de  la  Dauphine  Marie- 
Antoinette,"  illustrated,  was  made  in  the  last 
years  of  the  reign  of  Louis  XV,  and  it  was 
purchased  by  Le  Brun  on  behalf  of  Marie- 
Antoinette  at  the  sale  of  the  Due  d'Aumont's 
collection  in  1  782.  The  jewel  cabinet  belongs 
to  the  period  of  Louis  XVI. 

The  music  stand  or  reading  table  in  nr.ir- 
queterie,  made  by  Martin  Carlin, 
with  rising  top  inlaid  with  a  Sevres 
plaque  bearing  the  date  letter  for 
1778,  its  tripod  stand  ornamented 
with  mountings  of  chased  ormolu, 
was  the  regal  gift  presented  by  the 
same  ill-fated  Queen  to  Mrs.  Eden, 
who  afterwards  became  Lady  Auk 
land. 

Gifts  of  the  Bonapartes 

Here  in  America  are  several  pieces 
of  furniture,  gifts  of  the  Bonapartes. 
A  secretary  given  to  Stephen  Girard 
by  Joseph  Bonaparte,  Napoleon's 
brother,  is  now  in  Girard  College. 
It  is  of  satinwood  ornamented  with 
ormolu.  The  columns  are  of  marble 
with  brass  capitals.  In  the  center 
of  the  arch,  a  clock  is  placed,  and 
the  secretary  is  equipped  with  a  fine 
musical  box. 

A  gift  of  Caroline  Bonaparte  to 
Judge  Joseph  Hopkinson,  the  confi- 
(Continued  on  page  80) 


Many  an  old  home  oj  seafaring 
ancestors  still  treasures  its 
lacquered  workbox.  its  wonderful 
vases,  greenish  yellow  and  gold, 
set  on  teakwood  stands,  its  rare 
porcelains.  Even,  perhaps,  it  has 
a  white  jade  Buddha,  like  Alt 
Foo's  strange  gift 


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The  house  is  low  to  the  ground,  a  comfort- 
able, spreading  structure  whose  lines  give  it 
marked  unity  with  its  site  and  surrounding 
trees.  The  architects  have  considered  these 
matters  with  a  full  realization  of  their  im- 
portance and  produced  an  effect  the  har- 
mony of  which  is  evident  at  once 


A  STUCCO  HOUSE 

WHICH  FITS 

ITS  SITE  AND 

SURROUNDINGS 


The  watts  are  rough  stucco,  giving  soft 
gradations  of  light  and  shadow.  What 
might  otherwise  have  been  a  somewhat 
monotonous  roof  line  in  the  servants' 
wing  has  been  broken  by  raised  dormer 
eaves  over  the  larger  windows 


On  the  second  floor  are  three  bedrooms 
and  two  baths,  besides  the  sleeping  bal- 
cony, dressing  room,  sewing  room,  and 
the  servants'  quarters  in  the  wing.  The 
hall  can  be  made  continuous  from  end 
to  end  of  the  house 


December ,     1920 


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The  absence  of  visible  foundation  does  much 
to  tie  the  house  to  the  ground  and,  inci- 
dentally, makes  easier  the  arrangement  of 
the  plantings.  Wide  projecting  eaves  cast 
relieving  shadows.  French  doors  and  tall 
•windows  admit  abundant  light  and  air  on 
the  lower  floor 


THE  RESIDENCE  OF 

F.  J.  O.  ALSOP,  Esq. 
AT  MILTON,  MASS. 

CHAPMAN  y  FRAZER, 

Architects 


Behind  the  house,  and  somewhat  to  one 
side,  is  a  small  sunken  garden  which  one 
enters  by  rough  stone  steps.  Here  wide 
grass  paths  lie  between  the  beds,  their 
smooth  surface  and  irregular  outlines 
alluring  alike  to  eye  and  foot 


At  one  side  of  the  entrance  hall  are  a 
small  conservatory  and  the  long  living 
room  adjoining  a  covered  porch,  and  on 
the  other  the  dining  room.  A  coat  closet 
is  convenient  to  the  door.  The  drying 
yard  is  a  unit  with  the  house 


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AS      THE      CHRISTMAS      GIFT      MAY      SEE      IT 


AI-H-H — I'm  glad  to  be  out  of  the  city  at  last!     Think  of  it — 
after  weeks  of  gray  slush  and  cluttering  crowds,  of  greasy  streets 
where  no  self-respecting  sled  could  set  runner  without  a  shudder,  I 


''Oh,  here  it  is!"  he  exclaimed,  looking  first  at  the  paper  and  then 
at  me  in  a  near-sighted  sort  of  way.  "She  wants  a  nice  book  of  verse 
for — "  and  his  voice  rambled  off  incoherently  so  that  I  couldn't  catch 


peeked  out  of  the  back  of  the  expressman's  sleigh  coming  over  from      the  rest.     Then  his  long,  skinny  fingers  closed  on  me  and  dragged  me 
the  station  yesterday  and  saw  snow,  clean,  sparkling,  dry  snow  a  whole 
foot  deep! 

No  matter  that  I've  never  glided  a  foot  in  my  life,  nor  had  a  chance 
to  wear  the  new  red  paint  off  my  legs — I  know  my  birthright  when 
I  see  it.  It's  out  here  in  the  country,  where  the  ways  are  steep  and 
the  air  clean  and  nipping,  where  a  fellow  can  have  a  boy  to  skim 
with  down  long,  winding  roads,  past  snow-buried  rail  fences  and 
straight,  dark  cedars  pointed  against  a  blue  sky.  How  I'll  bend  and 
swerve  around  the  curves,  and  leap  clear  of  the  track  at  the  thank- 
you-ma'ams,  settling  back  again  to  fly  on  faster  than  before!  How 
the  sun  will  gleam  overhead  and  the  snow  hiss  under  my  feet !  How 
his  dog  will  race  after  us,  a  distant  speck  in  the  road's  white  path! 

Best  of  all,  I  shall  love  the  cold,  still 
nights,  all  set  with  glittering  points  like  an 
old-time  Christmas  card,  when  the  moon 
rides  white  in  the  sky  and  every  twig  and 
branch  is  etched  in  shadow  on  the  crust. 
No  roads  will  be  for  us,  then,  but  the  broad 
shoulders  of  the  hill  pastures.  Slipping, 
scrambling  on  the  icy  surface,  crunching 
through  a  little  here  and  there,  we'll  reach 
the  crest  of  the  slope.  A  pause  for  breath, 
and  then  the  downward  plunge,  the  boy 
flat  on  my  back,  the  keen  air  sweeping 
against  our  faces,  the  clear  black  ice  of  the 
lake  a  dark  pool  far  lielow.  Faster,  faster, 
the  whine  of  the  wind  rising  to  a  roar,  the 
valley  rushing  up  to  meet  us.  Trees  swirl 
up  to  us  and  whisk  past,  blurred  and  form- 
less. A  fence,  bars  down,  a  scattering  fringe 
of  weeds,  and  we  shoot  out  on  smooth,  silent 
ice,  endlessly  on  into  the  moonlight. 

Yes,  I  see  it  all  so  clearly,  hidden  though 
I  am  in  a  locked  closet  under  the  stairs, 
waiting  for  Christmas  morning.  And  I 
know  that  it  will  all  come  true,  for  several 
times  I  have  heard  through  a  chink  in  the 
wood  a  toy's  voice,  strong  and  merry,  and 
the  scratching  patter  of  his  terrier  as  they 
romped  through  the  house.  This  afternoon 
they  tried  to  open  my  closet,  the  boy  pulling 
at  the  knob,  the  dog  sniffing  noisily  at  the 
crack.  And  I  know  I  won't  have  to  wait 
much  longer,  for  his  mother  (she  must  have 
guessed  what  they  were  about)  called  down 
the  stairs: 

"Only  two  days  more,  Billy,  old  boy. 
Saturday  will  be  Christmas!" 


away  from  Amy's  side. 

All  that's  happened  since  then  has  been  a  horrible  nightmare.  A 
silent  man  in  a  dark,  littered  room  wrapped  me  in  layers  of  rough 
cardboard  and  paper,  thumping  mg  about  unmercifully.  Not  satisfied 
with  smothering  me,  he  must  have  tied  me  up  with  ropes,  for  suddenly 
I  felt  something  cutting  deep  into  my  head  and  feet  and  sides.  I 
writhed  and  groaned  in  agony,  struggling  to  escape.  Then  came  a 
heavy  blow  on  my  chest,  and  I  lost  consciousness. 

It  must  have  been  hours  later  when  I  came  to  myself.  Everything 
was  still  and  unutterably  dark.  A  great  weight  was  crushing  me  down 
against  a  sharp,  hard  lump,  like  the  corner  of  a  box.  For  days  and 
days  I  lay  there,  unable  to  move  hand  or  foot,  sick  and  dizzy  with 

pain.  Now  and  then,  in  half  lucid  inter- 
vals, I  thought  of  my  old  home  on  the  shelf, 
of  Frank  and  Amy  cordially  quarreling 
about  the  merits  and  demerits  of  news- 
papers. How  comfortable  and  peaceful  and 
faraway  it  seemed ! 

At  last,  through  my  wrappings,  I  heard 
a  man's  voice,  harsh  and  grumbling. 

"Why  don't  people  do  their  Chris'mas 
shoppin'  theirselves,"  it  rasped,  "  'stead  o' 
havin'  things  sent  by  mail?  Anybody'd 
think  us  post  office  clerks  didn't  huve 
enough  to  do,  without  havin'  a  lot  o'  fool 
presents  throwed  at  us  to  deliver.  Look 
at  that  there  big  box — bet  it's  got  glass  in 
it.  All  right,  Tom,  here  goes  for  a  long 
toss — see  if  ye  can  ketch  it!"  I  heard  a 
heavy  thump,  followed  by  a  laugh.  Then 
the  same  voice  again,  "Don't  ye  care,  Tom. 
Mebbe  we  can  bust  the  next  one  good!" 

That  was  weeks  ago,  it  seems.  I'm 
growing  used  to  such  things  now — to  rough 
voices  and  heart-breaking  falls  and  long, 
bumping,  swaying  hours  tumultuous  with 
the  clanking  of  steel  wheels  on  steel  and 
the  din  of  railway  yards  and  lurching  mail 
trucks.  Whither  I  am  going  I  know  not; 
of  the  days  ahead  I  can  only  guess.  But 
of  this  I  am  quite  certain:  I  am  a  Christ- 
mas present  for  someone  who  wants  a  nice 
book  of  verse,  if  I  ever  get  there. 


A   window  bright   with  colored  glass  in  the 

remodeled    farmhouse    of    Mrs.    Charles    H. 

Sabin  at  Southampton,  Long  Island 


MON  dieu,  what  a  crude,  bourgeois 
place!  Since  four  dark,  so  long  days 
I  am  prisoned  here  alone  by  myself,  suf- 
focated, strangling,  dying.  I,  with  the  luster  of  the  sea  glowing  within 
me;  I,  for  whom  men  braved  the  ocean  depths  of  Inde  with  knives 
to  battle  away  the  ugly  sharks;  I,  whose  beauty  made  to  gasp  even 
the  Great  Parisian;  I,  the  queen  of  the  magnifique  pearl  case — ah, 
miserable,  that  I  should  come  to  dwell  here  with  handkerchiefs  and 
collars  all  dark  in  a  drawer  so  reeking  of  that  terrible  tobacco! 

Oh,  could  I  but  escape  myself  again  to  the  light,  the  air,  the  life! 
What  have  I  done  to  hie  buried  alive  by  a  huge,  rough  animal  of  a 
man  ?  All  my  friends,  my  little,  glittering,  gay  companions,  how  happy 
are  they  still  there  in  the  case  where  the  people  come  to  admire!  While 
I,  to  whom  praise  is  as  the  very  breath  and  soul  of  life,  shiver  to  the 


PRETTY  way,  this,  to  treat  a  perfectly 
good  three-months-old  pup — drag  him 
into  a  strange  room  before  sun-up  on  a  cold 
winter  morning  and  leave  him  tied  to  the 
trunk  of  a  funny  looking  green  tree  all  hung 
over  with  fancy  boxes  and  doodads.  Why 
the  dickens  don't  they  bring  me  something 
to  eat? 

Hey,  wait  a  minute — I  smell  something  good!  Seems  to  be  up  in 
the  air  somewheres;  no — yes  it  is,  too — that  paper  bag  tied  to  the  big 
branch.  It's  all  lumpy  and  heavy  looking,  like  candy;  let's  see  if  I 
can  reach  it.  No,  doggone  the  luck,  I  can't — this  blame  chain  they've 
hitched  me  with's  too  short.  Maybe  I  can  twist  out  of  my  collar,  if  I 
turn  around  backwards.  No,  it  won't  come  over  my  ears.  Just  my  luck ! 
Why  doesn't  somebody  come  ?  It's  cold  in  here,  and  darn  lonesome. 
Must  be  an  hour  since  the  old  man  in  his  blue  bathrobe  sneaked  me  in 
from  that  nice  warm  box  by  the  furnace  and  chained  me  to  this  fool 
tree.  Seemed  to  think  it  was  a  good  joke — told  me  what  a  nice  Christ- 
mas surprise  I'd  be  for  the  kids  when  they  came  downstairs.  That's 


heart  as  he  lifts  me  out  of  my  box  with  his  great  thick  fingers  every      all  right  for  him  and  them,  but  how  about  me?     Does  he  think  it's 


night  and  rumbles  like  a  ferocious  old  cow, 

"Hope  she'll  like  'em,  for  they  set  me  back  an  awful  price,  even 
for  pearls.     But  they're  not  half  worthy  of  her!" 


a  joke  for  a  hungry,  homesick  pup  to  be  left  in  a  great  big  room  all 
by  himself? 

I've  tried  to  get  loose,  and  I  can't.     I've  reached  for  that  candy,  and 
it's  too  far  away.     I've  eaten  part  of  the  rug,  the  bark  off  the  tree, 

\I7"HAT  does  it  all  mean?     There  I  was  sitting  on  the  shelf  in      the  paint  on  the  Noah's  ark  and  everything  else  I  could  get  at,  and 
the  book  store,  sandwiched  in  between  F.   P.   A.'s  "Something      I'm  still  hungry.     I've  listened  and  waited  for  somebody  to  come  and 
Else  Again"  and  a  volume  of  Amy  Lowell's  verse,  trying  to  keep  a      pet  me,  and  they  won't  do  it.      I   want  my  Ma,   and  I'm  going  to 
nice  Christmasy  peace  between  them,  when   a  simpering  clerk  came      call  her — 
along  with  a  piece  of  paper  in  his  hand  and  stopped  right  in  front  of  us.  Yow — yow — yow-ooo-oooooooo!  R.  S.  L. 


December,     1920 


25 


AN     OLD     DOOR     IN    ALBANY 


The  goodly  heritage  of  American  architecture 
boasts  many  things  worth  preserving  and  copy- 
ing. Not  the  least  are  the  doors  oj  its  city  houses. 
The  Meads  House  in  Albany  still  retains  its  re- 
markable curved  entrance.  From  the  flat  arch 
back,  the  whole  doorway,  inclusive  of  the  side 


lights  ami  Hutfil  columns,  is  concave.  JTA.»  top  is 
is  mini  \hrll,  bluish  in  color,  giving  a  pleasantly 
tempered  light  to  the  inner  hall.  Th-  htm-r  i\ 
gray,  -^-ith  white  stone  trimmings,  iron  rail  and 
fence,  u  rugged  wistaria  vine,  and  red  brick  pave- 
ment. It  is  well  over  a  hundred  years  old 


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EMBROIDERED       PRIMERS       OF      THE      PAST 

Whereon  It  Was  Customary  for  the  Very  Young  Lady  to  Record  Her  Knowledge  of  Needlework  and  Numerals, 
Animals  and  Alphabets,  Together  with  Whatever  Devices  and  Mottoes  Her  Imagination  Suggested 

GARDNER   TEALL 


T  DO  not  know 


who, 

nowadays,  reads  Miss 
Mitford,  but  every  time 
I  turn  to  "Our  Village'' 
and  read  one  of  the  de- 
lightful sketches  it  con- 
tains I  feel  sure  that 
everyone  ought  to  read 
Miss  Mitford.  Only  to- 
day I  browsed  through 
the  volume  and  in  the 
sketch  which  bears  the 
title  "Lucy"  I  found  this 
bit  which  touched  a  ten- 
der chord  in  the  heart  of 
one  who  must  confess  to 
finding  much  joy  in  col- 
lecting antiques  and 
curios: 

" .  .  .  There  are  some 
girls  now  in  the  school 
working  samplers  to  be 
framed.  'Such  a  waste 
of  silk,  and  time,  and 
trouble!'  I  said  to  Mrs. 
Smith.  .  .  .  Then  Mrs. 
Smith  recounted  the 
whole  battle  of  the  sam- 
plers, and  her  defeat; 
and  then  she  sent  for  one 
which,  in  spite  of  her 
declaration  that  her  girls 
never  furnished  anything, 
was  quite  completed 

(probably  with  a  good  deal  of  her  assistance), 
and  of  which,  notwithstanding  her  rational  ob- 
jection to  its  uselessness,  Lucy  was  not  a  little 
proud.  She  held  it  up  with  great,  delight, 
pointed  cut  all  the  beauties,  selected  her  own 


MMMMMnH 


&y^&j*jri£-p  v*&yi% 

& '/  V  t 


Young  Miss  Bulger's  knowl- 
edge of  letters  and  numbers, 
to  say  nothing  of  flowers,  is 
recorded  within  a  neat  bor- 
der. Metropolitan  Museum 
of  Art 


favorite  parts,  especially 
a  certain  square  rosebud, 
and  the  landscape  at  the 
bottom;  and  finally 
pinned  it  against  the 
wall,  to  show  the  effect  it 
would  have  when  framed. 
"Really  that  sampler 
was  a  superb  thing  in  its 
way.  First  came  a  plain 
pink  border;  then  a  green 
border,  zigzag;  then  a 
crimson,  wavy;  then  a 
brown,  of  a  different, 
more  complicated  zig- 
zag; then  the  alphabet, 
great  and  small,  in  every 
color  of  the  rainbow,  fol- 
lowed by  a  row  of  figures, 
flanked  on  one  side  by  a 
flower,  name  unknown, 
tulip,  poppy,  lily — some- 
thing orange  or  scarlet, 
or  orange  scarlet;  on  the 
other  by  the  famous  rose- 
bud, then  divers  sen- 
tences, religious  and 
moral; — Lucy  was  quite 
provoked  with  me  for  not 
being  able  to  read  them; 
I  daresay  she  thought  in 
her  heart  that  I  was  as 
stupid  as  any  of  her 
scholars;  but  never  was 
Ms.  so  illegible,  not  even  my  own,  as  the  print 
work  of  that  sampler; — then  last  and  finest, 
the  landscape,  in  all  its  glory.  It  occupied  the 
whole  narrow  line  at  the  bottom,  and  was  com- 
posed with  great  regularity.  In  the  centre  was 


(Left)  A  sampler  from  the 
\&th  Century,  of  either 
Scotch  or  English  origin,  is 
of  combined  drawnwork  and 
relief  embroidery  in  intricate 
design 


Although  she  was  only  ten  years  old  in  1824, 

Priscitta    Hashing,    of    England,    placed    no 

faith  in  the  future.    And  yet,  she  evidently 

possessed  a  lively  imagination 


Even  royalty  made  samplers. 

This    one    is    attributed    to 

Queen  Victoria's  mother,  the 

Duchess  of  Kent 


Another  English  sampler,  this  time  from  the 
year   1826.     Some   modern   versification   ex- 
presses less  of  rhyme  and  theme  than  does 
this  old  piece   of  needlework 


December,     1920 


27 


Xn   /ImmVan    sampler  from    the   early 
part  of  the    19th  Century,  still  in  ex- 
cellent condition 

a.  house  of  a  bright   scarlet,   with  yellow 
windows,  a  green  door,  and  a  blue  roof: 
on  one  side,  a  man  with  a  dog;   on  the 
other,  a  woman  with  a  cat — this  is  Lucy's 
information;  I  should  never  have  guessed 
that  there  was   any  difference,  except   in 
color,  between  the  man  and  the  woman,  the 
dog  and  the  cat,  they  were  in  form,  height, 
and  size,  alike  to  a  thread,  the  man  gray, 
the  woman  in  pink,  his  attendant  white 
and  hers  black.    Next  to  the  three  figures, 
'on  either  side,  rose  two  fir-trees  from  t\vo 
red  flower-pots,  nice  little  round  bushes  of 
a  bright  green  or  intermixed  with  brown 
stitches,  which  Lucy  explained,  not  to  me 
— 'Don't  you  see  the  fir-cones,  sir?     Don't 
you  remember  how  fond  she  used  to  be  of  pick- 
ing them  up  in  her  little  basket  at  the  dear  old 
place?     Poor  thing,  I  thought  of  her  all  the 
time  I  was  working  them!     Don't  you  like  the 
fir-cones?'     After  this,  I  looked  at  the  land- 
scape almost  as  lovingly  as  Lucy  herself." 

Never  was  written  a  more  delightful  descrip- 
tion of  a  sampler,  embroidered  primer  of  the 
craft  of  needlework  in  the  days  of  long  ago! 

What  would  we  not  give  to  come  across 
Lucy's  sampler,  or  Miss.  Mitford's,  in  our  col- 
lecting browsings!  Time  has  brought  to  us 
the  samplers  embroidered  by  Charlotte  Bronte 
and  the  samplers  of  her  sisters,  Emily  and 
Anne — Charlotte's  worked  in  1829,  Emily's  in 
the  same  year,  and  Anne's  in  1830.  If  any 


(Above)  Maria  Anna 
Mayr  was  a  German, 
and  her  taste  ran  to  im- 
perialism, l&th  Century 


(Below)  Another  Ger- 
man sampler,  from  the 
same  period.  Both  are 
in  the  Metropolitan 


A  sampler  of  Spanish  ori- 
gin, \&th-l9th  Centuries 


m  v™ 


American,   of   the    lSth-\9th   Centuries. 

The  house,  it  would  appear,  is  of  brick, 

with  a  simple,  dignified  entrance 

extant  samplers  are  more  austerely  elegant, 
more  elegantly  austere  I  have  yet  to  behold 
them.  They  were  worked  in  black  silk  on 
coarse  gray  canvas.  Charlotte's  contains 
seven  lettered  quotations,  her  name  and 
date,  all  within  a  simple  border.  Emily's 
sampler  and  Anne's  were  worked  with  the 
same  border  design  and  with  lettered  quo- 
tations. I  know  of  nothing  more  sombre 
in  samplers  unless,  perhaps,  the  sentiment 
which  Eleanor  Knot  embroidered  on  hers, 
albeit  in  gay-colored  threads: 

"With  soothing  wiles  he  won  my  heart, 
He  sigh'd  and  vo w'd,  but  oh  he  feigned  the  smart ; 
Sure  of  all  friends  the  blackest  we  can  find 
Arc  ingratcs  who  stab  our  peace  of  mind." 

\Ye  all  know  the  ancient  churchyard  verse 
so  often  given — surely  never  selected  by — little 
girls  to  work  in  their  samplers: 

"Man's  life  is  like  unto  a  winter's  day, 
Some  break  their  fast  and  so  depart  away. 
Others  stay  dinner,  and  then  depart  full  fed. 
The  largest  age  but  sups  and  goes  to  bed." 

Robert  Herrick,  the  English  poet  of  the  17th 
Century,  probably  had  read  the  verses  on 
neighborhood  samplers,  for  in  his  poem  <;The 
Wounded  Heart"  we  find  these  lines: 

"Come  bring  your  sampler,  and  with  art 
Draw  in  't  a  wounded  heart." 

In  a  sampler  dated  1742,  now  in  the  Vic- 
(Continued  on  page  68) 


From  England  of  Queen 
Anne's  time.  A  sampler 
of  unsymmetrical  de- 
sign and  varied  colors 


Along  with  a  variety  of  typical  sampler  birds  and  beasts,  this  \8th-l9th  Century  Spanish 
example  combines  drawnwork  and  embroidered  effects 


An  old  English  sampler 
with  the  alphabet,  nu- 
merals,  cat,  swan  and 
an  angular  frog 


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"The  Bandbox?' 
is  a  cosy  little 
•white  clapboard- 
ed  cottage  just 
big  enough  for 
one  or  two,  set 
among  holly- 
hocks and  climb- 
ing roses,  within 
brick  paved 
paths.  Here,  of 
a  summer  after- 
noon, tea  tastes 
all  the  better  for 
being  served 
among  surround- 
ings of  hospitable 
simplicity  and 
garden  charm 


From  the  middle 
of  the  rock  and 
water  garden  is 
caught  a  glimpse 
of  the  main 
house  through  a 
rustic  arch  and 
seat .  In  the 
background,  be- 
yond the  bould- 
ers, is  the  rose 
garden.  All  of 
the  rocks  were 
hauled  in  and  set 
in  place  —  none 
of  them  was  here 
originally,  though 
now  they  appear 
entirely  natural 


December,     1920 


Levick 


(Above)  That  one  oj  the  SK- 
ries  of  pools  which  lies  nearest 
the  little  guest  cottage  is  about 
three  feet  deep  and  is  stocked 
with  trout.  Above  it  is  a  lily 
pool,  and  below  has  been  built 
a  deeper  and  larger  one  for 
swimming.  The  boulder  gar- 
den and  cottage  are  part  of 
the  property  of  Mrs.  Emma 
Flower  Taylor,  of  Water/own, 
JV.  K. 


A  GUEST  HOUSE 

and  a  BOULDER 

GARDEN 

VV.  MAREDYDD  HARRISON 

Landscape  Architect 


(Left)  The  main  staircase  of 
the  garden,  where  the  rocK- 
work  shows  to  splendid  ad- 
vantage. The  landscaping  is 
all  in  accordance  with  the 
geological  characteristics  of 
the  surrounding  country,  the 
stones  themselves  being 
markedly  stratified  and  in- 
cluding some  specimens  of 
very  old  Azoic  rock.  Little 
planting  is  used  here 


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SOME      AMERICAN      WOOD      BLOCK       ENGRAVINGS 

The  Product  of  the  New  School  and  Its  Rightful  Place  in  Room  Decoration 
—Hand  Work  versus  Printing  Press  Art 


PEYTON  BOSWELL 


WHEN  it  comes 
to  decorating 
a  room  with  prints, 
the  owner  has  the  choice 
of  several  kinds  of 
them.  There  are,  first 
of  all,  etchings,  and  more 
of  them  than  of  anything 
else.  Then  there  are 
mezzotints  and  litho- 
graphs, to  say  nothing  of 
monotypes,  which  are 
merely  paintings  done  on 
a  flat  surface  and  trans- 
ferred in  their  entirety 
to  paper.  All  of  these 
are  likely  to  be  collectors' 
pieces,  and  are  apt  to  be 
placed  en  the  wall  be- 
cause they  are  things  of 
beauty  in  themselves, 
rather  than  appropriate 
notes  in  the  scheme  of 
decoration.  As  a  conse- 
quence, the  visitor  to  the 
home,  if  he  be  at  all  an 
art  lover,  will  probably  lose  sight  of  the  fact 
that  they  are  there  for  decorations,  and  will 
step  up  close  and  admire  them  purely  for  their 
esthetic  quality. 

This  is  as  it  should  be,  of  course.  It  is  a 
pleasant  thing  to  possess  exquisite  prints,  to 
put  them  on  our  walls  and  to  see  our  friends 
admire  them.  Even  when  they  do  not  particu- 
larly help  along  a  scheme  of 
decoration,  it  is  all  right  to 
have  them  there.  Nobody 
will  quarrel  with  the  art  lover 
who  makes  his  home  assume 
somewhat  the  aspect  of  a 
museum.  He  makes  it  all 
the  more  precious  for  himself 
by  so  doing,  and  that  is  all 
he  could  do  if  he  laid  stress 


This  glimpse  of  the 
New  York  waterfront 
in  winter,  by  R.  Ru- 
zicka,  shows  in  black 
and  green-brown  tints 
how  boldness  and  deli- 
cacy can  be  blended  in 
a  wood  block 


Though  only  three  inches 
square,  "The  Strong,"  a 
decorative  black  and  white 
wood  block  by  John  J.  A. 
Murphy,  is  full  of  contrasts 
and  makes  a  distinct  note 
on  the  wall 


"The  Landmark"  is  by 
Gustave  Baumann  and  is 
in  colors.  It  is  a  fine  ex- 
ample of  decorative  land- 
scape, especially  suitable 
for  the  wall.  Courtesy 
Ehrich  Print  Gallery 


on  decoration  instead  of 
connoisseurship. 

But  for  the  ordinary 
man  or  woman  who  has 
simply  conceived  the  use 
of  prints  in  the  home  to 
help  along  the  scheme  of 
beautification,  the  two- 
fold appeal  of  these 
prints,  particularly  of 
etchings,  tends  to  main? 
the  task  of  selection  more 
complex.  The  etching 
may  be  both  a  fine  work 
of  art  and  a  nice  decora- 
tion, or  it  may  be  simply 
a  fine  work  of  art  that  is 
pretty  nearly  valueless  as 
a  decorative  note  on  the 
wall.  And  a  cunning 
little  joke,  coming  along 
as  a  corollary,  is  that  the 
etching  that  is  merely  a 
fine  work  of  art  is  likely 
to  cost  a  great  deal  more 
than  the  .one  of  much 
poorer  esthetic  quality,  but  of  more  positive 
appearance.  A  little  Whistler  etching,  or  a 
delicate  lithograph  by  the  same  master,  may  be 
worth  $1,000  to  the  connoisseur  and  still  be 
absolutely  without  value  to  the  person  who 
wants  a  print  solely  to  decorate  a  room.  An 
etching  or  lithograph  from  the  strong  hand  of 
Brangwyn  may  answer  both  purposes,  but  in 
this  it  will  be  rather  the  ex- 
ception than  the  rule. 

Now,  the  home  builder  is 
not  apt  to  be  both  a  connois- 
seur and  a  constructive 
decorator,  and  if  he  isn't,  he 
can  take  comfort  in  the  fact 
that  there  is  one  kind  of  print 
that  is  almost  proof  against 
.  (Continued  on  page  70) 


"Vignole — From  a  Gon- 
dola." A  wood  block 
print  in  gay,  light  col- 
ors by  Margaret  Pat- 
terson. Done  with 
water  colors  mixed  with 
rice  paste.  Ehrich  Print 
Gallery 


The  use  of  strong  masses, 
of  black  contrasting  with 
white,  is  well  shown  in 
"Two  Women,"  a  decora- 
tive wood  block  engraving 
done  by  John  J.  A. Murphy 


December ,     1  920 


31 


The  D  ev  ereux 
Afilburn  nursery 
at  Westbury, 
L.  I.,  is  stocked 
with  the  things 
that  children  love, 
from  animal  de- 
sign rugs  to  veloci- 
pedes. Peabody, 
Wilson  &  Brown, 
architects 


In  the  nursery  be- 
low are  four  fea- 
tures of  special 
appeal  to  the  chil- 
dren: a  real  play- 
house, a  thicket 
of  growing  geran- 
iums, a  swing  in 
the  doorway,  and 
beyond  a  carpen- 
ter's bench  for  the 
boys 


Rabbits  in  an  ab- 
sorbing variety  of 
funny  poses  cover 
the  chintz  of  the 
curtains  and  up- 
holstery. Rag  rugs 
are  on  the  floor, 
i  heir  sturdiness 
withstanding  the 
constant  patter  of 
small  feet 


Painted  furniture 
is  particularly 
good  for  the  nur- 
sery. It  is  not 
easily  marred,  can 
be  kept  free  of 
dust,  is  cheery 
and  lends  itself  to 
simple  bird  and 
animal  decoration. 
Miss  Quacken- 
bush,  decorator 


NURSERIES 
THAT  FULFILL 
THEIR  MISSION 


Hal-linn 


32 


House     6-     Garden 


Italian  feeling  is  strong  in  this  loggia  in  Mr.  Rudulph  Evans'  house. 

although    the    furniture    consists    mos'ly    of   antique    Louis    Xlllth 

peasant  pieces.     A  simple  limestone  fireplace  and  an  interesting  old 

iron  grille  at  the  rj:r.dow  h;lp  to  create  this  atmosphere 


The  soft  gray  plaster  walls  throw  in  bold  relief  the  fine  old  French 
furniture  and  make   an  admirable   background  for  a   brilliant   wall 
hanging.     Rough,  unfinished  beams  that  have  weathered  to  a  beau- 
tiful color  make  the  ceiling,  and  the  floor  is  of  brick,  waxed 


December,     1920 


33 


The  walls  and  woodwork  in  this 
very  modern  bedroom  are  in  one 
tone  of  gray.  A'o  moldings  have 
been  used  and  the  woodwork  is 
flush  with  the  walls.  Blue  velvet 
and  green  and  gold  striped  satin 
have  been  used  effectively  on  th? 
furniture 


Below  is  a  corner  of  the  loggia. 
Gray  walls  and  an  interesting 
brick  floor  surround  an  interior 
dignified  because  of  its  simplicity. 
The  charm  of  the  room  lies  in 
I  he  wide  window  with  its  grow- 
ing plants  and  shaded  by  a  blue- 
green  awning 


Gray,  yellow  and  mauve  are  the  color 
notes  of  the  dainty  dressing  room  which 
connects  with  a  sleeping  porch  beyond. 
Primrose  yellow  walls,  gray  woodwork 
and  modern  fainted  furniture  throw  in 
relief  the  delicate  mauve  hangings  and 
upholstery 


The  STUDIO  HOME  of 
RUDULPH  EVANS 

Sculptor 
IN  NEW  YORK  CITY 


34 

THE 


House     &     Garden 


GAZEBO      AND      THE      GARDEN      WA  L  L 

Their  Relations  to  Each  Other  and  to  the  Architectural  and  Landscape  Scheme- 
Some  Examples  of  How  and  Where  They  May  Be  Used 

HAROLD  DONALDSON  EBERLEIN 


One  oj  the 
Russell  House 
gazebos  over- 
looks the 
highway. 
Here  the  mas- 
ter and  mis- 
tress sat  and 
ivatched  the 
stage  coaches 


GARDEN  walls  and  gazebos,  how- 
ever much  glamour  may  attach  to 
them,  are  very  material  creations  and  not 
at  all  to  be  relegated  to  the  nebulous 
realm  of  fiction  and  romance,  there  to 
be  surrendered  to  the  novelist  as  pictur- 
esque "properties"  against  which  to  pose 
his  characters.  They  are  tangible  reali- 
ties and,  as  such,  have  all  the  appropri- 
ate advantages  thereto  appertaining,  if 
we  use  them  aright. 

There  seems  to  be  some  confusion  in 
the  public  mind  as  to  just  what  a  gazebo 
is;  there  are  many  good  people  who  are 
not  quite  sure  whether  it  is  a  new  break- 
fast-food or  a  quadruped  of  the -antelope 
species.  The  dictionary  kindly  tells  us 
that  the  term  is  humor- 
ously formed  from  the 
word  gaze,  and  then  goes 
on  to  define  a  gazebo  as 
"a  summer-house  so  situ- 
ated as  to  command  an 
extensive  prospect."  In 
its  strictest  sense  that  is 
what  a  gazebo  is.  As  a 
matter  of  actual  fact, 
however,  the  word  has 
gradually  assumed  a 
more  comprehensive 
meaning.  Besides  afford- 
ing a  distant  outlook  over 
a  broad  expanse  of  coun- 
try, or  an  intimate  view 
over  the  garden,  as  the 
case  may  be,  it  was  in- 
evitable that  such  posts 
of  survey  should  serve  a 
variety  of  other  purposes 
as  well,  so  that  gazebo, 
once  the  word  was  coined, 
soon  came  to  be  a  generic 
term  for  almost  any  sort 
of  small  garden  structure, 
detached  from  and  inde- 
pendent of  the  house — 
even  when  the  original 
purpose  of  outlook  had 
been  largely  or  altogether 
obscured.  In  this  sense 
the  word  is  here  used. 

Charm  and  Utility 

Those  who  built  the 
old  garden  walls  and 
gazebos  in  Italy  and 
France,  in  England  and 
early  America  were  seem- 
ingly conscious  of  two 
things  that  we  have  some- 
what lost  sight  of — the 
charm  inherent  therein, 
which  the  makers  were 
wise  enough  to  deem  an 
actual  asset;  and  the 
practical  utility  and  con- 
venience in  them  abiding. 
As  considerations  of  util- 
ity and  convenience  ordi- 
narily take  precedence  of 
other  ends  to  be  served, 


•Mr 


From  the  ele- 
vatedveranda 
on  the  south- 
east side  there 
is  a  lull  view 
oj  the  garden 
and  a  broad 
outlook  to 
the  south  and 
east 


\ 


s 


let  us  cede  them  the  customary  priority. 
So  far  as  gazebos  are  concerned,  re- 
garded from  the  point  of  view  of  the 
utmost  practical  utility  and  quite  disso- 
ciated from  all  esthetic  considerations, 
here  are  a  few  of  the  purposes  they  may 
well  serve,  oftentimes,  too,  in  connection 
with  the  primary  intent  of  giving  a  coign 
of  vantage  for  a  vista.  They  can  be  of 
great  use  for  the  orderly  and  convenient 
storage  of  garden  tools  and  other  horti- 
cultural paraphernalia,  or  for  putting 
away  tennis  and  croquet  things  where 
they  can  easily  be  got  at.  Likewise,  they 
may  be  used  for  aviaries  or  for  the  hous- 
ing of  domestic  pets,  while  the  upper  por- 
tion may  do  duty  as  a  dovecote.  Again, 
where  such  things  may  be 
necessary  as  parts  of  the 
establishment,  they  may 
contain  the  pumping  or 
lighting  plants,  or  an- 
swer as  well-houses  or 
water-tanks.  Best  of  all, 
they  afford  a  sheltered 
place  to  sit  in,  and  are 
thus  a  distinct  aid  and 
encouragement  to  the 
wholesome  habit  of  gar- 
den dwelling  Several  of 
the  fo-egoing  functions 
may  very  well  be  com- 
bined in  one  building. 

Not  a  Foolish  Frill 

The  gazebo  so  devised, 
therefore,  is  not  merely  a 
picturesque  accessory,  but 
Incomes  a  comely  part  of 
the  mechanism  of  daily 
life.  Unlike  the  fantastic 
trellised  summer-house  of 
the  Victorian  era — a  con- 
trivance cousin-german 
to  the  Victorian  center- 
table  and  having  just 
about  as  much  raison 
d'etre  to  recommend  it — 
it  is  not  at  all  an  amus- 
ing architectural  frill. 

The  score  of  esthetic 
value  should  be  called 
the  score  of  esthetic  util- 
ity, for  we  have  happily 
come  to  the  age  when 
beauty  is  at  least  begin- 
ning to  be  recognized  as 
a  utilitarian  asset  in  very 
truth,  an  asset  which  has 
an  actual  cash  value. 
Considered  upon  this 
ground,  the  gazebo  be- 
comes an  architectural 
adjunct  of  the  greatest 
service,  contributing,  as 
it  may  well  be  made  to 
do,  most  substantially  to 
the  logical  completeness 
of  the  whole  composition, 
and  yielding  an  element 
of  balance  and  symmetry 


December,     1920 

that  cannot  be  so  fully 
supplied  by  any  other 
means. 

Even  in  a  purely  in- 
formal and  a  symmetric 
scheme,  a  well-conceived 
gazebo,  whatever  its  spe- 
cific  utilitarian   purpose 
may  be,  is  infinitely  pref- 
erable to  the  patently  un- 
related and    fortuitous 
outbuilding  of  shed-like 
aspect  that   is  too  often 
allowed  to  spring  up  and 
mar   what    might  other- 
wise  be   an   harmonious 
and  engaging  ensemble. 
In  many  cases,  where  a 
plan  embodying  some  de- 
gree of    formality  has 
been  followed  and  where 
the  garden  is  wholly  or 
partially  enclosed,  the 
gazebo  may  be  an  outpost 
between  the  house,  with 
its  adjoining  and  closely 
related  garden,  and  what- 
ever woodland,  farm 
land,  or  neighboring 
property  lies  beyond.  Or, 
again,  it  may  be  a  focus 
toward  which  the  garden 
arrangements  converge 
or,  in  some  other  way,  it 
may  supply  the  appropri- 
ate architectural  stress  to 
a  given  point  to  be  em- 
phasized in  the  garden's 
scheme. 

It  is  not  difficult  to 
conceive  of  a  variety  of 
ways  in  which  gazebos 
may  be  effectively  used 
to  enhance  the  architec- 


The  second  of  the  gaze- 
bos  at    Russell    House 
was   meant    to   contain 
an  aviary 


As  a  garden  background  the  wall  offers  un- 
limited possibilities.     It  is  intrinsically  in- 
teresting, with  its  varied  lines  and  shadows 
and  provides  a  climbing  place  for  vines 


The  aviary  gazebo  was 

built  about  1701,  when 

the     place     was     done 

over  and  Adamized 


35 

tural  composition  where 
the  planning  is  avowedly 
symmetrical  and  formal. 
With  a  purely  informal 
plan,  however,  the  man- 
ner of  rational  applica- 
tion is  not  so  obvious. 
Examples  for  illustra- 
tion, therefore,  have  been 
chosen  with  a  view  to 
showing  the  use  of  gaze- 
bos in  gardens  where  the 
plan  has  been  of  gradual 
growth  and  without  re- 
gard to  symmetrical  ar- 
rangement. 

The    two    gazebos    at 
Russell  House,  in  Broad- 
way,   were    built   at    the 
end  of  the  18th  Century 
for  different  purposes. 
One,  constructed  at  a 
bend  of  the  garden  wall, 
has  two  windows  on  the 
road  commanding  a  long 
view  of  the  highway. 
Here  of  an    afternoon 
were  wont  to  sit  the  mas- 
ter and  mistress  of  Rus- 
sell House  and  watch  the 
stage-coaches,    of    which 
twenty    or    more    passed 
the  house  daily.      There 
was  a  fireplace  for  winter 
warmth,    and    here    they 
could   have  tlu'ir   tea  or 
read  when  not  looking  at 
the    post-road    traffic. 
From    the    elevated    ver- 
anda   on    the    southeast 
side  the}'  had  a  complete 
view  of  the  garden  and  a 
broad  outlook  beyond  to 
(Continued  on  page  78) 


!e  rfie  •glrde"1  wal1  at 

Oi,  ''A       n   and  3hows  much  "I  Me  charm 
of  old  walls     It  is  full  Of  holes  irom  lac"s 

and  covered  with  the  traces  of  tendrils 


At  the  end  of  a  long  walk  on  the 
grounds  of  Avenue  /louse  is  a  white 
Georgian  gazebo  set  among  trees.  It  is 
painted,  and  its  wooden  sides  are  rusti- 
cated in  imitation  of  stone 


36 


House     &     Garden 


WAX      MINIATURES      ARE      HERE      AGAIN 

Another  Old  Art  Has  Been  Revived  and  Once  More  Takes  Its  Place  in  Portraiture 
— How  the  Miniatures  Are  Made  and  What  They  Are  Like 


EMILY  BURBANK 


IT  is  again  the  chic  thing  to  have  one's 
portrait  done  in  wax.  The  revival 
of  this  old  art  is  one  more  sign  indi- 
cating that  the  tide  of  taste  has  turned 
in  favor  of  beauty,  grace  and  a  delicacy 
of  tone  and  touch  characteristic  of  the 
18th  Century.  The  world  appears  to 
be  reacting  from  a  long  period  of  realism 
which  in  art  has  often  emphasized  the 
ugly,  the  abrupt  and  the  vivid. 

Interior  decoration  was  prompt  to 
declare  for  this  18th  Century  mood  by 
a  revival  of  the  Directoire  type  in 
furnishings  and  decoration.  The  read- 
ing public  and  the  publisher,  the  thea- 
tre-goer and  the  manager,  are  satiated 
with  the  brand  the  hallmark  of  which 
is  "punch,"  and  are  on  the  lookout  for 
this  new-old  key  to  be  struck  in  books 
and  plays. 

As  for  books  and  the  stage,  we  shall 
see.  But  the  waxes  are  here  and  some 
of  them  are  shown  on  these  pages,  the 
modern  ones  all  being  the  work  of  the 
foremost  artist  in  this  field,  Miss  Ethel 
Mundy.  Miss  Mundy  is  an  American, 
well  known  to  connoisseurs  at  home 
and  abroad.  Her  sitters  live  in  many 
parts  of  the  United  States,  as  the  illus- 
trations show. 

It  was  the  well-known  collection  in 
the  Musec  Cluny,  at  Paris,  that  first 
cast  a  spell  over  Miss  Mundy,  who  had 
been  trained  in  some  of  the  foremost 
American  art  schools  of  modeling  and 
painting.  She  tells  how  da}'  after  day 
she  returned  to  the  waxes  in  the  Cluny — 
waxes  by  Benoits,  Clouet,  Dupre  and  the  rest 
— of  the  fascination  that  the  great  Conde  and 
Louis  XIV,  done  in  wax,  had  for  her.  Finally, 
she  bought  a  tiny  steel  scapula  and  felt  she 
had  taken  the  first  definite  step  in  her  career. 


An  Italian 
18th  Century 
miniature  of 
a  gentleman 
of  the  court. 
Metropolitan 
Museum  of 
Art 


(Left)  Por- 
trait of  a  Girl, 
one  of  Miss 
Mundy's  re- 
vivals of  the 
old  art  of 
modeling  in 
colored  wax 


From  Paris  Miss  Mundy  went  to 
London,  where  she  studied  the  Wallace 
collection  of  waxes,  the  foremost  in  the 
world.  There  she  saw  all  schools  and 
every  country  represented:  waxes  in 
low  and  high  relief,  wax  statuettes, 
pure  white  waxes  like  those  of  John 
Flaxman,  and  portrait  reliefs  by 
S.  Percy.  Among  the  latter  were  Na- 
poleon, the  Empress  Josephine,  others 
of  the  Bonaparte  family,  Marie  An- 
toinette and  Murat.  In  London,  too, 
were  ancient  Egyptian  wax  portrait 
panels,  a  miniature  of  Michael  Angelo 
done  from  life  in  reddish  yellow  wax, 
James  I  in  a  wax  relief,  three-quarter- 
face  pose,  done  in  colors  by  the  Italian 
Alessandro  Abandio.  The  great  Pitt 
was  there,  in  pink  wax!  But  the  18th 
Century  type  of  waxes  in  delicate  col- 
oring following  Nature  had  the  greatest 
charm.  There  were  exquisite  statuettes 
of  Sir  Peter  and  Lady  Teazle  (un- 
signed), true  to  type  and  time,  in  satins 
and  flowered  silks,  lace  frills,  powder 
and  patches,  snuff-box — even  elaborate 
manner. 

Infinite  variety  of  manner  and 
method  was  there  to  choose  from,  and 
Miss  Mundy  at  once  began  experi- 
ments with  wax  and  color.  Together 
with  an  expert  chemist  she  worked  out 
a  secret  formula,  a  wax  which  does  not 
melt,  and  colors  which  do  not  run  or 
act  chemically  upon  each  other.  Here, 
too,  she  trod  the  royal  road  of  her  pre- 
•  decessors,  for  each  great  artist  in  wax 
has  had  his  own  formula,  the  secret  of  which 
died  with  him,  adding  to  both  the  difficulties 
and  the  fascination  of  this  art.  For  instru- 
ments she  had,  besides  the  steel  scapula  from 
Paris,  tiny  tools  which  she  made  from  orange 


Little  Miss  Natalie  Mae  Coe  has  been  de- 
picted within  a  simple  round  frame.  These 
wax  portraits  are  remarkable  for  their  fidel- 
ity to  line,  features  and  coloring,  and  are 
distinctly  original 


Marjory  and  Her  Mother  show  clearly  the 
strikingly  effective  way  in  which  the  figures 
are  built  up  into  a  relief  that  reproduces 
every  shadow  and  detail  of  cloth,  hair  and 
facial  expression 


Miss  Merl  Whitcomb,  a  Schoolgirl,  is  an- 
other effective  modern  wax  miniature. 
These  three  examples  at  the  bottom  of  the 
page  were  executed  in  colors  by  Miss  Mundy 
and  are  representative  of  her  work 


December,     1920 


37 


The  spirit  oj  childhood  has  been  ad- 
mirably caught  in  A  Boy  with  His 
Block,  a  modern  wax.  This,  like  the 
rest,  is  built  up  bit  by  bit  on  a  metal 
plate 

wood  as  she  needed  them.     But  most  valuable 
of  all  were  her  own  deft  fingers. 

Miss  Mundy's  waxes  demonstrate  how  char- 
acter moulds  the  facial  tissues.  In  a  recent 
private  exhibition  in  New  York  she  showed 
serene  and  beautiful  old  men  and  women, 
energetic  college  boys,  debutantes  with  verve, 
and  lovely,  winsome  little  children.  Fleeting 
mannerisms,  a  tossing  lock,  the  characteristic- 
droop  of  eyelids,  the  way  a  flower  was  held, 
the  fall  of  rare  old  lace  or  the  sag  of  a  pet 
tweed  coat,  even  the  baby's  bunny,  vise  a  vise 
to  the  little  man — all  were  depicted.  And  it 
is  impossible  to  say  whether  the  color,  the 
unbelievably  fine  modelling  or  the  sure  line 
holds  one. 

A  characteristic  of  her  work  is  that  she 
never  obtrudes  herself.  One  feels  that  she- 
withdraws  on  tiptoe  after  having  left  a  part 
of  herself  in  her  creation.  And  she  goes  about 
her  work  in  the  simplest  way  possible,  rapidly 
building  up  the  delicate  relief  as  she 
studies  her  subject,  after  first  outlining 
the  figure  on  a  metal  plate  covered 
with  wax  to  the  depth  of  a  small  frac- 
tion of  an  inch.  On  this  she  builds 
up  and  adds  small  particles,  each  color 
having  been  ground  and  worked  into 
the  wax.  Some  of  the  colors  are 
brought  over  from  China. 

Wax  Portrait  History 

Whether  or  not  one  has  seen  good 
waxes,  such  as  are  now  shown  at  the 
Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art  in  New 
York  (five  of  which  were  owned  by 
the  late  Clyde  Fitch  and  given  as  a 
memorial  by  his  mother),  it  is  inter- 
esting to  read  a  charming  essay  on 
waxes  by  Mrs.  Bolton,  published 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Daughters 
of  the  American  Revolution  in  Massa- 
chusetts in  the  form  of  a  small  book 
which  includes  another  essay  on  sil- 
houettes. Mrs.  Bolton's  essay  gives 
the  history  of  waxes  briefly,  but  has 
most  to  say  about  the  early  American 
examples.  Those  of  the  18th  Cen- 
tury, here  as  well  as  in  England,  were 
much  finer  than  the  Victorian  \va.v.-. 
which  is  a  reason  for  gratitude  for 
Miss  Mundy's  revival  of  the  spirit 
and  technique  of  the  earlier  and 
greater  periods. 


Miss  Gwendolin  Armour  holds  a  posie  that  is  no 

less  effective  for  being  done  in  colored  wax.    Miss 

Mundv  modeled  her 


In  the  Clyde  Fitch  collection  is  an 

18th    Century    miniature    in    very 

high  relief  and  delicate  tints 


From  the  Italian  late  18lh  Century  period.  Real  jewels  are 
set  into  the  wax,  which  is  fully  colored.  In  the  Clyde  Fitch 
collection  in  the  Metropolitan  Museum  oj  Art,  New  York 


Small  Miss  Hamilton,  a  granddaugh- 
ter of  the  late  J.  P.  Morgan,  stood 
for  her  portrait  in  a  demure  pose  that 
the  wax  reproduces  admirably.  Ethel 
Mundy  fecit 

Some  of  the  old  waxes  are  adorned  with 
real  jewels.  One  of  the  Clyde  Fitch  group,  a 
quaint  Italian  grande  dame,  wears  tiny  emer- 
ald chips  in  earrings  and  brooch.  Seed  pearls 
are  oftenest  used,  and  in  some  of  the  old  Ger- 
man examples  we  find  bits  of  silk,  velvet  and 
feathers  as  well  as  gems.  This  is  not  regarded 
as  the  best  art. 

Spanish  waxes  are  interesting,  but  not  to  be 
compared  with  the  test  French  and  Italian. 
I  would  say  that  while  the  English  were  very 
much  done  in  wax  in  the  17th  and  18th  Cen- 
Luries,  the  French  and  Italians  were  the 
greatest  artists. 

An  Early  American  Miniaturist 

It  is  not  generally  known  that  a  wax  minia- 
turist who  had  great  vogue  in  London  alxjut 
1772  was  an  American,  born  and  brought  up 
in  Bordentown,  New  Jersey — Patience  Lovell 
Wright.  She  did  the  King  and  court  circles, 
and  one  may  see  her  wax  figure  of 
Lord  Chatham  in  Westminster  Ab- 
bey. Before  going  abroad  Patience 
Wright  had  done  wax  portraits  of 
well-known  people  in  Philadelphia, 
and  at  some  time  during  her  career 
she  modeled  Benjamin  Franklin  from 
life.  It  may  have  been  while  he  was 
experimenting  with  printing,  at  Bur- 
lington on  the  Delaware  River,  not  far 
from  Bordentown.  She  also  did  a 
wax  miniature  of  George  Washington 
from  a  bust  modeled  from  life  by  her 
own  son. 

The  student  of  waxes  will  find  very 
little  published  data  concerning  them. 
Besides  the  book  referred  to  by  Mrs. 
Bolton,  there  are  a  few  articles  in  old 
periodicals  concerning  the  great  for- 
eign collections,  and  a  rare,  very 
small  book  dated  1755,  printed  in 
Geneva  and  giving  a  lecture  read  by 
Monsieur  Le  Comte  de  Caylus  before 
1'Academie  des  Belle  Lettres.  Tin- 
title  of  this  book  is  Un  Memoir  Sur 
La  Peinture  a  1'EncaustiquL-  des 
Anciens. 

Besides  some  privately  owned  fam- 
ily portraits  in  wax  here  in  the  United 
States.  Mrs.  Yunderbilt  has  an  inter- 
esting collection,  and  so  has  Mr. 
Kidiard  Hunt,  of  New  York.  Thwv 
may  be  others  unknown  to  us. 


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On  the  side  nearest-  the  road  the  mitt  is  but  two  stories  high,  but  as  the  land  slopes  down- 
ward toward  the  stream  there  are  three  stories  on  the  inner  side.  The  old  wheel,  at  rest 
now  ajter  a.  century  of  usefulness,  still  looms  above  the  stream,  a  hoary  relic  as  stalwart 
as  the  rocks  which  guide  the  water  to  it  from  the  h-lls  above.  Trees,  ferns,  wild  flowers — 

all  remain  unspoiled 


A   REMODELED   MILL 
IN     MASSACHUSETTS 

NINA  L.  DURYEA 


f  I  AHE  Hindoos  hold  that  nothing  can  exist 
JL  in  the  human  mind  which  does  not  actu- 
ally exist  on  the  physical  plane.  Wise  men 
are  they — I  have  proved  the  truth  of  their  con- 
tention. It  was  in  this  wise. 

One  sunny  afternoon  I  climbed  a  modest 
hill  near  Stockbridge,  in  the  Berkshires.  Great 
trees  arched  above  the  roadway.  Forest-clad 
hills  rolled  away  to  the  horizon,  green  waves 
of  beauty.  In  the  distance  church  bells  chimed. 

Nearing  the  top,  I  stopped  short  at  sight  of 
a  low  gray  building  under  a  mossy  roof  which 
snuggled  beneath  giant  trees.  The  sound  of 
running  water  mingled  with  the  songs  of  birds. 
At  one  side  a  rocky  cliff  towered,  topped  with 
trees,  green  with  ferns  and  flowers.  A  bat- 
tered chimney  rose  above  the  roof;  the  land 
sloped  away  toward  a  stream  over  which  aged 
willows  leaned  in  the  friendliest  fashion.  Dim 
vistas  opened  below,  and  across  the  valley  rose 
the  everlasting  hills.  And  what  should  loom 
high  above  the  stream,  through  a  sort  of  terrace 
thirty  feet  long,  but  a  gigantic  mill-wheel,  stal- 
wart and  hoar)1,  at  rest  after  a  century  of 
usefulness. 

In  ten  minutes  I  was  at  the  owner's  door. 
In  ten  minutes  more  I  was  wheedling  my  pret- 
tiest with  a  woman  who  assured  me  that  the 
old  mill  was  a  priceless  possession  of  sentiment 
which  no  amount  of  money  would  allow  to  be 
destroyed,  as  it  had  been  in  her  family  for  a 
century.  But  when  she  was  assured  that  it 
was  my  intention  to  preserve  and  beautify 
every  timber;  make  the  place  into  a  thing  of 
comfort  and  beauty,  a  home  where  not  a  bird 
would  be  disturbed,  where  flowers  should  re- 
place weeds  and  lawns  flourish  instead  of 
vegetables,  she  yielded. 

The  Remodeling 

A  few  months  later  the  fun  began.  Car- 
penters were  requisitioned,  who  plainly  con- 
sidered the  new  owner  quite  mad.  But  as 
weeks  passed  and  the  great  wheels  within  were 
carted  away,  and  order  and  comfort  grew  into 
being  where  shavings,  grist  and  mysterious 
paraphernalia  had  reigned  in  rusted  disorder, 
their  interest  and  sympathy  grew.  Partitions 
were  run  up.  The  solid  walls  and  great 
beamed  ceilings,  the  wide-planked  floors,  solid 
as  rocks,  were  left  intact.  There  were  sundry 
struggles  against  the  contractor's  longing  for 
varnished  pine  floors  and  modern  windows, 
but  in  the  end  some  innate  understanding  and 
sympathy  got  the  better  of  his  education  and 
he  too  caught  the  spirit  of  my  dreams. 

The  mill  is  two  stories  high  on   the  side 


The  mill  has  been  made  thoroughly  comfortable 
and  homelike  without  sacrificing  its  atmosphere 
of  picturesque  age.  Flower  boxes  brighten  the 
window  sills,  hollyhocks  are  already  glowing 
against  the  gray  old  walls,  and.  down  by  the 
wheel  an  outdoor  living  room  has  been  created. 
Next  year  a  garden  of  old-fashioned  flowers  will 
be  well  under  way 


Notwithstanding  the  carpenter's 
skepticism  and  predilection  for 
varnished  pine  floors  and  modern 
windows,  the  original  lines  were 
kept  intact.  The  old  beams  and 
floors,  solid  as  rocks,  remain  un- 
changed; the  wheel  was  left  in 
place  above  the  stream 


December,     1920 


39 


nearest  the  road,  but  as  the  land  slopes  down- 
ward toward  the  stream,  three  stories  allow 
three  tiers  of  rooms  on  the  inner  side.  From 
the  lawn  facing  the  road  one  enters  through 
an  old  green  door,  bound  with  iron,  into  a 
living  room  forty-seven  feet  long  by  twenty- 
five  wide.  Four  large  windows  open  to  the 
lawn  at  the  side.  Opposite,  other  windows 
open  directly  on  the  tumbling  stream  below  the 
hoary  walls  whence  the  rocks  rise  green  and 
shadowed.  A  large  fireplace  fills  the  center 
of  the  room.  Wide  glass  doors  open  out  on 
the  upper  terrace,  where  the  safety  of  the  in- 
habitants is  assured  by  flower  boxes  which 
form  the  railing. 

The  upper  floor  has  three  bedrooms  and  a 
bath,  and  below  are  another  bedroom  and  bath. 
The  lower  floor,  facing  the  lower  terrace  and 
tree-shadowed  stream,  contains  the  dining 
room,  whose  pale  gray  walls  and  furniture 
rely  on  gay  cretonne  curtains  and  flowers  for 
color. 

The  kitchen  is  whitewashed  from  its  beamed 
ceiling  to  the  old  flooring,  and  water  gurgles 
past  its  door,  White  curtains  catch  the  sun 
and  shadows  from  the  trees  across  the  stream. 
Maiden-hair  ferns  cling  to  the  rocky  founda- 
tion where  it  rises  from  the  water,  and  forget- 
me-nots  smile  at  the  blue  sky  above. 

The  Furnishings 

To  insure  the  note  of  simplicity,  furnishings 
had  to  be  found  that  were  old  and  primitive. 
Rich  mahogany  and  Turkish  rugs  were  out  of 
keeping,  whereas  rag  carpets,  cherry  furniture, 
brass,  copper  and  general  rusticity  were  es- 
sential. Hence  many  trips  about  the  sur- 
rounding countryside  were  in  order,  and  many 
skirmishes  with  farmers'  wives  resulted  in 
amusing  incidents  and  happy  acquisitions. 
Windsor  chairs,  brown  with  age;  spindle-leg 
tables,  rush  bottomed  chairs,  brass  andirons, 
a  spinning-wheel,  India  jars,  hand-woven  table 
covers,  quaint  prints  and  endless  other  treas- 
ures were  obtained  from  attics  and  barn  lofts. 
The  prices  paid  were  absurdly  modest,  yet 
they  gave  the  recipient  an  opportunity  to  ex- 
change what  she  considered  shabby  and  worth- 
less property  for  new  splendors  of  golden  oak 
and  brilliant  plush. 

And  so  the  mill's  interior  took  on  the  atmos- 
phere of  settled  age  and  homelikeness.  Dull 
tints  of  rag  carpets  glowed  from  the  dark 
plank  flooring.  Copper  gleamed  in  dusky  cor- 
ners, and  pine  furniture,  painted  to  match  the 
walls'  coloring,  lent  gaiety  to  simplicity. 

The  owner's  room,  directly  above  the  stream, 
and  facing  the  greenery-draped  rocks,  called 
for  golden  walls,  while  the  great  beams  alx>ve 
remained  reddish  brown  with  paler  panelling 
between.  A  delicately  modeled  bed  of  old 
spindle  pattern  was  painted  sky  blue,  as  were 
the  old-fashioned  dressing  table  and  rush-bot- 
tomed chairs.  A  rug  from  the  Vale  of  Cash- 
(Continued  on  page  68) 


On  the  lower  floor,  facing  the  lower  terrace  and  giving  glimpses  of  the  trees  through  the 
skeleton  frame  of  the  great  wheel,  is  the  dining,  room.  Here  the  pale  gray  walls  ana 
painted  furniture  rely  upon  gay  cretonne  curtains  and  cut  flowers  to  give  the  needed 
loaches  of  bright  color.  On  ike  platform  without  is  a  pleasant  breakfast  porch  jor 

summer  mornings 


The  back  of  the  mill  has  two 
"terraces" — the  lower  adjoining 
the  dining  room,  and  the  upper, 
surrounded  by  flower  box  rail- 
ings, connecting  with  the  living 
room  by  means  of  wide  glass 
doors.  Awnings  and  Dimple  fur- 
niture add  comfort  and  charm 


From  the  lawn  facing  the  road  one  enters  the 
living  room,  47'  long  and  25'  wide.  A  large  fire- 
place fills  the  center  of  the  room.  Rush-bottomed 
chairs,  a  spinning-wheel,  India  jars,  rag  rugs  and 
many  other  reminders  of  early  New  England 
maintain  the  feeling  of  age  which  the  plain  wood- 
work and  massive  ceiling  beams  so  strongly 
emphasize 


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DWARF      FRUITS      FOR      THE      SMALL     PLACE 

Growing  Apples,  Pears  and  Plums  Where  the  Space  Is  Small  and  the  Desire 
Great — A  Solution  of  a  Frequent  Garden  Problem 


MAUD  ROBINSON  TOOMBS 


The  espalier  grown 
fruit  tree  must 
have  a  trellis  to 
which  its  branches 
can  be  tied.  Above 
is  a  dwarf  trained 
horizontally 


'TpHE  fruit  -  growing 
JL  ambition  of  the  own- 
er of  a  small  lawn  or 
yard  does  not  often  reach 
further  than  cultivating 
a  few  berry  bushes.  The 
four  walls  or  fences  sur- 
rounding his  domain  are 
too  frequently  left  bare 
when  they  might  be  made 
useful  and  beautiful, 
turned  into  hedges 
weighed  down  with  the 
larger  kinds  of  fruit.  It 
does  not  require  great 
capital  to  do  this — only 
a  small  financial  outlay 
and  a  fair  stock  of 
patience. 

D.warf  fruit  grown 
espalier  fashion — or,  as 
we  more  generally  call  it, 
wall  grown  fruit — is  not 
a  recent  fad.  Indeed,  it 
is  one  of  the  oldest  meth- 
ods of  cultivation.  The 
Italians  were  the  first  to 
discover  it,  then  the 
Swiss  and  French,  and 
lastly  the  English.  Amer- 
icans have  been  rather 
slow  to  take  it  up  be- 
cause, I  suppose,  econo- 
my of  space  has  been  rel- 
atively unimportant  with 
us;  we  have  been  content 

to  accept  from  several  trees  the  yield  a  Euro- 
pean would  expect  from  a  fraction  of  the  space 
they  occupy.  These  dwarf  fruits  are  far  from 
being  for  the  rich  man's  grounds  alone.  They 
should  appeal  particularly  to  the  small  house- 
holder and  to  all  who  seek  to  decrease  the  high 
cost  of  living  by  using  every  available  bit  of 
space  for  cultivation. 

For  a  Hedge 

Dwarf  apple  and  pear  trees  can  be  planted 
a  few  feet  apart  so  as  to  form  a  continuous 
hedge.  In  the  spring  the  branches  of  a  well 
cared  for  hedge  of  this  sort  are  crowded  with 
blossoms  that  are  a  mass  of  beauty  in  them- 
selves. Later  the  fruit  comes,  a  great  burden 
of  it  that  is  all  the  heavier  because  the  strength 
of  the  little  trees  is  directed  toward  bearing 
rather  than  making  a  large  wood  growth. 
Every  fruit  will  ripen  as  it  should  because  it  is 
directly  exposed  to  the  sun's  rays,  and  it  can 
be  easily  reached  when  the  time  comes  to  pick. 
Still  another  advantage  to  be  noted  is  that  the 
diminutive  height  of  the  trees  makes  the  neces- 
sary pruning  and  spraying  operations  far  easier 
to  accomplish  than  in  the  case  of  the  standard 
size  trees. 

In  this  country  you  can  buy  dwarf  stock 
outright,  or  train  it  yourself  with  the  advice 
of  a  nurseryman.  An  eight-year-old  tree,  al- 
ready trained  in  the  fan,  U  or  horizontal  shape, 
and  with  a  good  root  ball,  is  to  be  had  for  $16 
or  so.  Dwarf  trees  not  trained  in  shape  for 
wall  cultivation  are,  of  course,  much  lower  in 
price. 


A  fan-shaped  pear 
growing  close  to  a 
wall  against  which 
it  is  decorative 
and  productive  of 
an  abundance  of 
high  quality  fruit 


There  is  a  great  deal  of  pleasure  to  be  had 
from  planting  and  shaping  your  pear  or  apple 
hedge  yourself,  for  the  older  and  better  trained 
it  is  the  more  valuable  it  becomes.  First  of 
all,  be  sure  to  have  a  firm  and  durable  support 
for  the  wire  or  trellis  on  which  the  trees  are 
to  be  trained,  for  it  must  last  as  long  as  they 
do.  Solid  chestnut,  cedar  or  locust  posts  will 
be  entirely  satisfactory  for  most  situations. 

Good  one-year-old  trees  from  a  reliable 
nursery  will  do,  but  the  best  results  with  ap- 
ples are  had  from  those  grafted  on  the  roots  of 
one  of  the  two  sorts  of  French  dwarf  stock 
which  are  imported  to  this  country  in  a  dor- 
mant state.  These  are  known  as  the  Paradiss 
and  Doucin  stocks.  Of  them,  the  Paradise 
seems  the  more  popular  just  now.  Nearly  every 
variety  of  apple  grafted  on  this  stock  seems  to 
thrive,  and  give  the  earliest  and  heaviest  yield. 


Dwarf  pears  are  grafted 
on  quince  roots,  while 
our  varieties  of  plums 
and  cherries  are  grafted 
to  dwarf  European  roots. 
Early  bearing,  by  the 
way,  is  one  of  the  ad- 
vantages of  the  dwarf 
tree  which  will  appeal  to 
the  owner  of  a  new  coun- 
try place.  The  Alexan- 
der apple,  for  instance, 
often  bears  the  second 
year  when  grown  as  a 
dwarf,  while  you  must 
wait  six  years  for  th; 
standard  tree  to  give  ap- 
preciable results. 

Training  the  Tree 

After  selection  and 
planting,  tjhe  next  con- 
sideration is  training  the 
shoots.  They  must  be 
gently  bent  and  tied  into 
position  as  soon  as  they 
develop.  If  a  brick  wall 
or  the  side  of  a  garage 
or  other  building  is  used, 
wires  must  be  strung  at 
regular  intervals  in  either 
the  fan,  the  horizontal  or 
the  U  shape — whichever 
you  decide  upon.  The 
branches  are  bent  and 
tied  to  these  a  foot  apart 

until  perfect  symmetry  of  design  is  obtained. 
All  superfluous  growth  is  rigorously  pruned 
away,  and  the  roots  cut  so  that  they  form  a 
ball,  with  no  long  leaders  or  tap-roots.  The 
result  is  that  all  the  strength  of  the  tree  is 
concentrated  in  the  few  branches  which  are 
allowed  to  grow. 

Wh«n  a  brick  wall  or  the  side  of  a  building 
is  used,  the  tree  should  not  be  started  as  close 
to  it  as  in  the  case  of  the  detached  trellis. 
Where  the  horizontal  style  of  cultivation  is 
adopted,  as  in  the  upper  photograph  on  this 
page,  as  many  strands  of  wire  a  foot  apart  are 
used  as  will  fill  the  space  and  support  the 
branches  evenly.  These  branches  should  ulti- 
mately be  of  equal  length  and  begin  at  the 
same  level  on  the  right  and  left  sides  of  the 
trunk. 

Different  Shapes 

The  fan-shaped  arrangement  starts  close  to 
the  beginning  of  the  root  graft  and  radiates 
outward  and  upward  like  a  fan,  while  the 
U-shaped  tree  is  composed  of  four  long  shoots 
bent  outward  near  the  bottom  of  the  trunk  and 
then  upward  to  the  top  of  the  wall  or  trellis. 

An  attractive  apple,  pear  or  cherry  hedge 
may  be  formed  of  dwarf  trees  set  two  feet 
apart  and  trained  to  single  upright  main  stems. 
The  effect  of  these  trees  along  the  sides  of  a 
walk  is  very  beautiful,  and  their  branches  will 
be  literally  loaded  with  fruit. 

If  your  trees  show  too  much  tendency  to  run 
to  wood  growth,  they  may  be  taken  up  and 
(Continued  on  page  66) 


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41 


A   LITTLE   PORTFOLIO  OF  GOOD   INTERIORS 


The  exposed  radiator  is  ever  unsightly  and 
many  wovs  have  been  devised  to  mask  its 
undecorative  lines  without  interfering  with 
its  proper  heating  function.  Here  the  ladi- 
ator  has  been  set  in  the  fireplace  behind  a 
metal  screen  and  andi-ons.  It  may  be  re- 


moved ij  desirable  and  the  fireplace  given 
over  to  its  normal  duties.  The  modeled 
i  himney  breast  and  ceiling  and  the  excel- 
lent panelling  of  the  walls  are  wholly  in 
keeping  with  the  furnishings  and  the  metal 
work  which  closes  th-  opening 


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Pine  was  the  mainstay 
wood  of  our  forefathers, 
and  it  is  still  one  of  the 
best  for  many  purposes. 
In  this  early  American 
room  it  has  been  used 
effectively,  even  in  the 
butterfly  table  and  the 
•wooden  candle  stand.  The 
curtains  are  of  thin  mus- 
lin, giving  an  unobstmcted 
view  through  the  range  of 
long  windows.  Executed 
by  E.  Spencer-Guidal,  of 
B.  Benguiat,  decorator 


The  dining  room  of  Mrs. 
Joseph  E.  Higgins,  at 
Bronxville,  N.  Y .,  has 
painted  panelled  walls  in 
deep  ivory,  curtains  of 
casement  cloth,  and  ma- 
hogany furniture  follow- 
ing Georgian  precedent. 
The  rug  is  a  Chinese  an- 
tique in  ivory,  gold  and 
blue,  harmonizing  with 
the  blue  and  gold  striped 
damask  chair  seats  and 
the  blue  and  gold  damask 
over-draperies.  Hampton 
Shops,  decorators 


December,     1920 


43 


Here  again  pine  is  used 
as  the  background  for  an 
atmosphere  that  is  strong- 
ly suggestive  of  the  old 
Paul  Revere  house  in  Bos- 
ton. Old  dishes  and  pew- 
ter, with  an  occasional 
piece  of  early  American 
glass,  are  ranged  on  the 
mantel  and  the  shelves  of 
the  built-in  dresser.  An 
early  American  hook  rug 
is  on  the  floor.  E.  Spencer- 
Guidal,  of  B.  Benguiat, 
decorator 


An  unusual  couch  treat- 
ment is  shown  in  this  chil- 
dren's room,  where  a 
canopy  is  used.  The  pat- 
tern of  the  fabric  is  re- 
peated on  the  side  walls 
mid  in  the  curtains  at  the 
windows.  No  paper  is 
used,  the  walls  on  either 
side  of  the  couch  being 
left  in  a  flat  finish  which 
sets  off  the  mirror,  the 
little  cabinet  and  the  sim- 
ply decorated  fireplace- 
like  rad'-aior  srri'rn 


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Decorative  designs  in  purge  may  be  used  appropriately  on  ceiling  surfaces  in  conjunction  with  exposed  beams,  oak 
panelling  or  other  treatment  of  the  room  which  harmonizes  with  the  sturdy  character  of  the  material 

PARGETRY        INSIDE        THE        HOUSE 

A  Revival  of  an  Old  Form  of  Decoration  Which  Can  Fittingly  Embellish 

Many  Rooms  of  Today 


PARGETRY,  or  parge  work,  in  interior 
decoration,  notwithstanding  a  certain  satis- 
factory revival,  is  a  resource  of  embellishment 
for  ceilings  and  walls  that  many  are  disposed 
to  look  upon  rather  as  an  archaeological  curi- 
osity, out  of  common  reach,  a  thing  to  be 
admired  from  afar  and  not  to  be  really  taken 
hold  of  and  appropriated  to  our  own  use.  As 
a  matter  of  fact,  however,  pargetry  is  a  deco- 
rative factor  well  within  the  range  of  average 
possibilities,  and  it  is  a  useful  means  of  adorn- 
ment not  to  be  despised  for  the  interest  it 
imparts. 

The  revival  alluded  to,  up  to  the  present 
time,  has  been  chiefly  in  the  form  of  repro- 
duction. Architects  and  decorators,  who  have 
introduced  16th  and  17th  Century  English 


COSTEN  FITZ-GIBBON 


Vases,  urns,  fleur-de- 
lys,  shells  and  heraldic 
devices  all  lend  them- 
selves to  parge  work 


oak-panelled  rooms  into  their  schemes,  have 
frequently  had  old  parge  ceilings  faithfully 
reproduced  from  squeezes  or  moulds  and  have 
incorporated  them  as  fitting,  and  often  neces- 
sary, elements  in  the  composition.  But  there 
is  no  reason  at  all  why  the  revival  of  parge 
work  should  be  confined  to  reproductions. 
Admirable  as  the  reproductions  are,  and  ap- 
propriate to  the  environment  in  which  they 
appear,  there  is  abundant  opportunity  for  fresh 
and  original  design  in  this  accommodating 
medium. 

That  there  may  be  no  uncertainty  about  the 
matter  and  about  the  possibilities  afforded,  let 
us  define  briefly  just  what  parge  is  and  how  it 
has  been  customary  to  employ  it  in  the  past. 
(Continued  on  page  62) 


Another   appropriate   place   for   pargetry    is   on 
upper  wall  surface  or  along  the  frieze 


the 


Modern   reproductions   are    usually    fashioned    on   a 
canvas    background   and    are    easily   fixed    in   place 


December ,     1920 


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A    BIT    OF    NORMANDY    ON    THE    NORTH    SHORE 

The  Farm  Buildings  at  the  Home  of  Mr.  Francis  Meredyth  Whitehouse,  Manchester,  Massachusetts, 
Show  How  a  European  Style  of  Architecture  Can  Be  Adapted  to  an  American  Setting 

MARY  H.  NORTHEND 


HALF  a  century  ago,  the  North  Shore  of 
Massachusetts,  with  its  bleak,  rocky 
headlands,  was  the  home  of  fisher  and  farmer 
folk.  Today  it  has  been  transformed.  No 
longer  are  the  little  huts  of  the  fishermen  the 
only  interesting  features,  though  to  be  sure 
they  are  still  to  be  found  in  the  villages.  In 
many  places  beautiful  summer  mansions  have 
supplanted  them. 

Midway  between  Manchester  and  Mag- 
nolia a  winding  road  leads  past  green 
meadows  well  denned  by  stone  walls — mod- 
ern structures  of  huge  rocks  laid  in  white 
mortar,  instead  of  the  simpler  boundaries  of 
an  earlier  day.  Finally,  in  a  hollow  at  the 
curve  of  the  road  surrounded  by  mowing 
fields,  appears  a  group  of  farm  buildings 
that  might  have  been  transplanted  from  Nor- 
mandy. They  belong  to  '"Crowhurst",  the 
home  of  Mr.  Francis  Meredyth  Whitehouse. 

The  long  stretch  of  reclaimed  mowing  land 
which  slopes  from  the  rocky 
headland  back  to  Kettle  Cove 
Road  gives  a  proper  setting 
to  this  small  colony  of  farm- 
houses, separated  by  the  road 
from  the  home  estate.  Every- 
thing about  the  grounds  has 
been  treated  in  a  scientific 
and  thoughtful  manner.  No 
discordant  note  appears 
Ducks  are  seen  calmly  drift- 


The  main  entrance  to  the 
group  is  through  one  of 
the  buildings,  by  an  arch- 
way framed  with  wood- 
bine and  closed  at  night 
by  iron  gates 


A  feature  of  the  courtyard 
is  a  vine-clad  well-head  oj 
stone  and  masonry  with  a 
shingle  roof.  Its  architectural 
style  fits  that  of  the  build- 
ings themselves 


ing  in  a  pool  to  the  right  of  the 
main  entrance  and  cows  graze 
peacefully  in  the  meadow. 

A  wide  graveled  avenue, 
shaded  by  trees,  leads  over  a 
wooden  bridge  under  which  a 
merry  brook  runs  gurgling  to 
the  sea,  on  to  the  entrance  to 
the  group  of  buildings.  This 
entrance  is  directly  through 
one  of  the  buildings,  which  are 
in  the  form  of  a  hollow  square. 
Within  is  a  forty-foot  court- 
yard enlivened  by  flocks  of 
doves  which  whirl  fearlessly  to 
and  fro  about  their  cote  cun- 
ningly contrived  in  a  tower 
surmounting  the  main  house. 
At  night  the  wide  gates  are 
closed  and  form  a  protecting 
barrier. 

The  buildings  are  finished  in  stucco,  show- 
ing half-timber.  Unusual  combinations  have 
been  effected  in  gables  and  dormers  which 
>how  interesting  openings  and  give  telling 
projections  such  as  only  an  architect  of  cour- 
age could  arrange.  The  chimneys  are  much 
higher  than  the  curving  towers  and  offer  a 
wdl  relieved  yet  harmonious  skyline.  ' 
ment  windows  with  tiny  diamond  pain--  give 
a  note  of  individuality  that  is  refreshing. 
This  N'ormandy  farm  style  of  architecture 
was  planned  by  Mr.  \Vhitehouse  himself. 
(Continued  on  page  66) 


The   buildings   are  arranged   in   a    hollow 
square.    They  arc  finished  in  stucco  show- 
ing half-limber.     /I   dove-cote  i.i   built  in 
the  tower  oj  the  main  house 


Looking  put 
through  t h e 
entrance  arch 
one  sees  the 
long  graveled 
drive  with  its 
white  bound- 
ary f.enc  es 
leading  away 
to  the  main 
road 


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OUTSTRIPPING 


THE 


GALE 


A  Study  of  Modern  Weather  Strips  and  Their  Rightful  Roles  of  Making  Our  Different  Types 
of  Doors  and  Windows  Proof  Against  Wind  and  Weather 

ETHEL  R.  PEYSER 


WEATHER  strips  are  not  the  caviar  of 
the  building  menu — far  from  it.     They 
are  a  whole  lot  more  like  the  roast  beef  with 
pan  gravy  and  baked  potatoes. 

Those  of  us  who  bought  weather  stripping 
years  ago  and  either  put  it  on  ourselves  or  had 
the  town  carpenter  tack  it  on,  do  not  believe 
it  is  any  good,  and  at  best  only  a  "fancy 
fixing".  But  those  days  are  passed  and  the 
weather  strip  has  properly  outstripped  many 
other  things  in  development  and  has  come  to 
be  no  hors  d'oeuvre  but  the  piece  de  resistance 
of  the  bill-of-fare.  So  important  has  the  ef- 
fect of  the  strip  become  that  heating  and  ven- 
tilating engineers  have  been  and  are  today 
carrying  on  experiments,  not  to  prove  their 
value  (no,  for  this  has  been  proven),  but  to 
have  exact  data  to  show  how  much  fuel  is 
saved  and  just  how  evenly  the  temperature  can 
be  maintained  throughout  a  home  under  vary- 
ing conditions  of  gale  and  stability  outdoors 
and  in. 

Things  They  Obviate 

Do  you  care  to  heat  the  great  outdoors  ?  This 
is  the  first  important  question.  If  you  do, 
how  dare  you  with  the  shortage  of  coal  today? 
Have  you  sufficient  coal  to  waste  it  ?  Is  your 
home  hard  to  heat?  Why?  Do  you  like  the 
gales  and  little  hurricanes  racing  over  your 
floors,  chasing  the  little  snow  flakes?  Do  you 
like  to  cultivate  colds  and  other  draught 
diseases?  These  are  pertinent  questions  even 
if  they  seem  impertinent.  They  suggest  the 
graphic  pictures  that  we  do  not  want  inhabiting 
our  homes. 

These  conditions  can  be  obviated. 

If  you  inquire  from  your  friends  who  know 
intelligently  the  value  of  the  furnishings  they 
use,  you  will  get  concrete  figures  before  in- 


At  the  romantically  called  meeting  rail — 
where  the  upper  and  lower  sash  meet — 
is  a  hooked  metal  strip.  Courtesy 
Chamberlin  Metal  Weather  Strip  Co. 


As  silently  as  the  rubber  clad  wheel,  the 
window  runs  on  a  track  with  tubular 
metal  inserted  in  the  unlined  sash. 
Chamberlin  Metal  Weather  Strip  Co. 


vesting.  One  conspicuous  friend,  Uncle  Sam, 
says  that  in  1918  he  saved  two  million  dollars' 
worth  of  coal  by  the  use  of  weather  strips. 
And  this  led  the  director  of  conservation  to 
make  the  extravagant  statement  that  weather 
strips  are  100%  fuel  conservation. 

What  They  Are 

In  the  past  when  the  telephone  had  just 
become  a  household  staple  and  before  horse 
cars  evaporated  we  used  to  paste  the  weather 
strip  on  the  outside  of  our  windows.  Then 
they  were  made  of  cloth,  or  rubber  or  heavy 
paper,  and  they  made  life  slightly  fair  and 
warmer;  but  most  of  the  heat  accrued  by  them 
.was  that  which  was  fired  in  trying  to  raise 
the  windows  which  stuck  due  to  the  adherence 
of  the  weather  strip. 

Today  the  weather  strip  is  gentler  and  not 
only  keeps  the  cold  air  at  bay,  but  keeps  out 
the  dust  and  noise  and  permits  the  window  to 
go  up  and  down  more  easily  because  it  runs 
on  a  metal  track;  really  the  weather  strip 
allows  it  to  glide  like  magic.  To  move  a 
window  with  the  weather  stripping  affixed  is 
a  pleasure  to  which  the  weakest  reed  can  bend. 

The  dictionary  says  "the  weather  strip  is 
a  narrow  strip,  as  wood  edged  with  rubber 
prepared  to  be  placed  over  crevices,  as  at  doors 
and  windows  to  exclude  wind,  rain,  etc." 

This  is  the  old  weather  strip.  Today  they 
are  in  general  metallic  tubular  strips  fitting 
into  complementary  depressions  in  metal 
linings  or  window  sashes  that  are  designed 
and  shaped  to  seal  the  cracks  that  naturally 
occur  between  and  around  doors  and  windows 
and  their  frames,  sealing  up  these  openings  so 
that  the  elements  are  turned  back  before  they 
get  even  their  noses  into  the  house.  They  are 
(Continued  on  page  74) 


Here  is  the  double  casement  window  with  the  metal  intersealing 
and  locking  devices.  Head  and  side  (above) ;  meeting  rail 
(center)  ;  sill  seal  with  its  weep  holes  (lower)  which  stem  the 
floods  while  the  rest  of  the  locking  device  keeps  out  the  air 
and  wind.  Courtesy  of  the  Monarch  Metal  Products  Co. 


The  sliding  window  in  this  case  runs  on  a  flat  strip  from  which 
a  tubular  bit  of  metal  fits  in  a  metal  lined  sash  grove  (lower 
left).  The  head  of  the  window  (upper  left),  the  meeting  rails 
(upper  right),  bottom  oj  window  and  its  seal  and  sill  (lower 
right).  Courtesy  of  Monarch  Metal  Products  Co. 


December,     1920 


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A  wreath  of  holly  and  poinsettias, 
a  fluffy  bow  and  ribbon  pasted  at 
the  corners,  make  the  attractive 
package  above.  The  other  box  is 
covered  in  silver  paper,  tied  with 
pale  green  ribbon  to  match  the 
bunch  of  mistletoe 


(Above)  White  tissue  paper  bro- 
ken by  strips  of  silver  and  gay 
little  seals  holding  the  ribbon 
make  this  box  unusual.  On  the 
other  is  pale  green  tissue  tied  with 
silver  cord  and  pasted  down  with 
tiny  bunches  of  flowers 


Here  is  a  package  wrapped  in 
plain,  heavy  white  paper,  its  se- 
verity making  it  smart.  The  holly 
ribbon  is  of  paper  and  is  pasted 
on.  Seals,  also,  have  been  used 


To  paste  on  a  present  for  a  child  come  ail 
kinds  of  delectable  seals.  Above  is  one  of 
a  wooly  lamb.  The  little  box  in  the  center 
is  gay  with  red  crepe  paper  and  gold  paper 
ribbon  pasted  on  to  form  a  pattern.  In  the 
center  is  a  seal  showing  the  Child  in  the 
manger.  The  other  is  green  with  silver 
paper  ribbon 


WAYS    oj    WRAPPING 
CHRISTMAS     PARCELS 

Packagfi  by  fourtfjy  of  Dennijon  Mfg,  Co. 


The  paper  wreath  is  the  interest- 
ing part  of  this  box.  It  is  of  holly, 
punctuated  with  little  hanging 
lanterns.  The  paper  is  green  crepe 
and  I  he  cord  gold  tinsel 


Perhaps  it  did  take  a  lot  of  time  to  do  up  this  box,  but  isn't  it 
worth  it?  The  band  of  red  crepe  paper  is  immensely  effective 
against  the  white  tissue  and  it  is  banded  with  paper  ribbon 
that  has  prim  little  poinsettias  on  a  white  ground.  This  is 
pasted  on  flat  and  the  whole  made  gay  with  a  bunch  of  holly 


For  a  large  box  a  piece  of  scenic  crepe  paper  makes  an  excellent 
decoration.  When  the  scene  is  snow  laden  pines  surrounding  a 
little  red  house  and  when  a  long  spray  of  holly  tied  with  ribbon 
and  silver  tinsel  covers  one  end,  this  package  becomes  at  once 
the  most  Christmasy  of  all 


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CHRISTMAS    GIFT 
SUGGESTIONS 


Which  may  be  purchased  through  the 
HOUSE  &  GARDEN  Shopping  Service,  19 
West  44th  Street,  Nev>  York.  Directions 
for  ordering  it'ill  be  found  on  page  58 


2001.  (Left)  A  Colonial  mahogany 
mirror    18"    by   30"    over   all,   $25. 

2002.  The  Colonial  brass  sconces  are 
10"  high,  and  are  89  the  pair 


2003.     (Above)   Pair  of  polychrome 

candlesticks  7"  high,  $5.     Decorated 

candles,  $1.50  a  pair.     2004.   Basket 

for  fruit,  stained  any  color,  $2.25 


2005.     (Right)  This 

lamp  is  a  reproduc- 
tion of  an  old  Ital- 
ian pharmacy  jar, 
green  and  white, 
$22.50.  2  00  5 -A. 
Parchment  shade,$14 


2006.  (Below)  A 
cigarette  set  con- 
sisting of  four  ster- 
ling silver  ash-trays, 
matchbox  and  glass 
jar  is  $15.95,  plus 
the  SOc  tax 


2007.    Kidney-shaped  mahogany   reading-table,   14"   high,  $28.     2008.  Bronze 

finish  book-ends,  $8.50  a  pair.    2009.  Japanese  crackle  pottery  lamp,  13"  high, 

$15.     2009-A.  The  shades  come  in  either  black  lacquer  or  cedar,  covered  with 

silk  in  gold,  gray,  tan  or  rose,  $5.50 


2010.  A  graceful  vase  of  sim- 
ple   design   in    sterling   silver. 
The  price  is  S15.50  plus  the 
78c  tax 


2011.    This    pair    of    Colonial 

andirons    is    of    solid    brass, 

15' -2"  tall.    They  may  be  had 

for  $12  the  pair 


December,     1920 


49 


2012.  A  brilliant- 
ly colored  pottery 
bird  to  hold  ivy. 
It  would  be 
charming  in  a 
breakfast  room. 
$2  each 


2013.  Gold  band 
and  line.  Goblet, 
$23  doz.;  ice  tea, 
$22;tumbler,$2l; 
sherbet,  $22.50; 
finger  bowl,  $36; 
plate,  $28, 


2014.  This  vegetable  dish  is  of  heavily  plated 

silver.     The  cover  can  be  used  as  a  dish  also. 

It  is  $15.  plus  the  75c  tax 


2017.  Anyone  looking 
for  an  unusual  gift 
would  do  well  In 
choose  the  brass  nut- 
cracker pictured 
above.  It  may  be 
had  for  $1.50 


2016.  This  Colonial 
silver  -  plated 
water  pile her.  $7 .50 


2015.  .-1  most  useful  gift  is  the  bread  tray 
shown  above.  It  measures  ""  by  12",  is  of 
silver  heavily  plated,  and  may  be  had  for  $10 


2018.  .1  three-piece, 
silver-plated  coffee  set 
of  simple  Colonial  de- 
sign is  shown  at  the 
left.  Complete  with 
tray,  $50,  which  in- 
cludes tax 


2010.  Crystal  may- 
onnaise bowl  and 
plate.  $7.50 


USEFUL  PRESENTS  FOR  THE 
DINING  ROOM 


2020.  Wedgwood  plate,  8"  in 
diameter,  with  design  in  mul- 
berry   on    a    cream    ground. 
Six  for  $7.50 


2021.    This   salad  plate   is   of 

Copeland  ware.     Flowers  and 

blue  band  on  a  cream  ground. 

$15  a  dozen 


2022.  A  silver-plated  trivet  in  Colonial  design,  $8.50. 

plus   43c  tax.     2023.   The  little  bonbon  dish   is  also 

silrer-plated,  S4.50  and  23c  tax 


2024.  A  torchere  of  hand- 
wrought  iron  5'  tall  can 
be  used  in  any  roam.  $15 


2025.  A  charming  Japanese  sweetmeat  dish  comes  in 
black  lacquer  with  the  compartments  of  yellow  china 
with  a  cherry-blossom  design.  It  may  he  hmi  fur  s< 


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ATTENTION     OF     SANTA     GLAUS 

In  Christmas  Giving,  Toys  Hold  the  Paramount  Place 

Before  ordering  kindly  consult  page  58 


2026.  All  children  love  things  th:y  can  pull.  These 
three  inquisitive  geese  are  of  solid  wood  mounted 
on  a  gaily  colored  base.  This  sturdy  toy  is  hand- 
made and  unusually  attractive.  The  price  is  If  5 


202  7.  A  miniature  bicycle, 
painted  black  with  a  bright 
red  seat.  It  is  about  12"  high 
and  has  rubber  tires.  $6.50 


2028.  Have  your  questions  answered  by  electricity! 
The  plug  is  placed  on  the  question  at  the  left. 
On  the  right  is  the  answer,  which  buzzes  when 
touched.  Twelve  cards  of  various  subjects.  $4 


2029.  An  excellent  small  typewriter  that  has  cap- 
itals, small  letters  and  numerals.    It  is  about  10" 
long  and  simple  to  operate.     The  price  is  $5.     A 
smaller  size   (2029-A)   comes  for  $3 


2030.  This  baby  doll  is  fully 
dressed  from  top  to  toe.  She 
may  be  had  for  $15.  2031. 
The  little  white  enamel  high- 
chair  is  $2.75 


2032.  An  enchant- 
ing push  toy  is  this 
clown  with  bells. 
It  is  of  solid  wood, 
hand-made  and  at- 
tractively colored. 
It  is  priced  at  $6 


2033.  A  proud 
swan  tops  this  gor- 
geously colored 
aeroplane,  which 
is  of  wood,  hand- 
made,  and  un- 
breakable. $6.50 


2034.  Ten  elephants 
just  waiting  to  be 
knocked  down. 
This  alluring  set 
of  ten-pins  is  at- 
tractively painted 
and  comes  at  $12 


December,     1920 


TO     PUT     UNDER     THE     STOCKING 

Eight  Unusual  Gifts  That  Will  Bring  Cheer  on  Christmas  Morning 


More  toys  trill  be  found  on  pages  60   and  82 


2036.  These  three  ducks  are  an  admirable  toy  jor 
the  kiddie  whose  greatest  delight  is  something  to 
pull.  They  are  hand-made  oj  solid  wood  and 
Painted  bright  yellow  with  red  beaks  and  wheels 
$2.50 


2035.  A  band-wagon  oj  gaily 
painted  wood  that  plays  many 
tunes  on  the  small  victrola  in- 
side, $15.  Extra  records  lOc 
each 


2037.   A  quaint  ark,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  .\oah  and  the 
animals  following  "two  by  two,"  make  the  peren- 
nial Christmas  gift  of  toyland.    This  is  the  smallest 
size  and  may  be  had  jor  S2.50 


2038.    A    Humpty    Damply    circus    that    can    do 

enough  tricks  to  fill  three  rings.     The  clown  and 

animals  are  jointed  and  unbreakable  and  can  be 

arranged  in  hundreds  of  positions.     $6 


2039.  This  small  hand-organ 
plays  two  airs.  It  is  $4.  2040. 
The  monkey  is  separate  and 
is  made  of  soft,  white  felt.  $3 


2041.  There  are 
three  Humpty 
Dumptys  to  have, 
a  great  fall  in  this 
bowling  set  that 
comes  for  $6 


2042.  The  aero- 
plane on  the  right 
is  made  by  the 
Japanese.  It  is  ex- 
tremely light  and 
will  actually  fly. 
$2. 50' 


2043.  Playing  store 
will  always  be  a 
prerogative  of 
childhood.  This 
store,  with  ten 
drawers  to  hold 
merchandise,  is 
$6.50 


2042.  This  toy 
aeroplane  is  made 
of  elastic  and  the 
thinnest  silk. 
When  started  it 
will  fly  15  feet. 
$2.50 


52 


House     &     Garden 


LINENS    MAKE 
WELCOME  GIFTS 


Before  ordering  kindly  consult  page  58 


2043A  (Above)  A  tea  napkin 
small  enough  to  be  unusual, 
is  made  of  natural  colored 
linen.  It  is  9"  by  5",  is  hem- 
stitched by  hand  and  make* 
a  charming  gift.  The  price 
is  S9  a  dozen 


&•• 


'?"!'*  f>^      '"'SMS-t-*'*  ' 


2045.  (Above  center,  beginning 
at   top)    Madeira-embroidered 
towel,  12"  by  16",  $3.25  each. 

2046.  Hand-embroidered  towe'f 
20"    by   36",   $4   each.     2047. 
Spanish-embroidered  towel  of 
momie   cloth   27"    fry   40",  S9 

apiece 


2044.  <4  lovely  hand-embroi- 
dered pillow  case  for  a  lin- 
gerie pillow  is  this  one  shown 
above.  It  measures  l3'/i"  by 
nl/2"  and  is  of  fine  handker- 
chief linen.  It  may  be  had 
at  $3.25 


2048.  (Belou-  center)  Hand- 
embroidered  guest  towel  with 
Italian  cut-work  and  filet  lace. 
15"  by  26",  $7  each.  2049. 
Oporto  towel,  IS1/'"  by  23", 
S3  each.  2050.  Madeira-em- 
broidered towel,  14"  by  21". 
S2.50  apiece 


2051.  (Right)  A  Madeira  hand-embroi- 
dered luncheon   set    of   thirteen   pieces. 
The   work   is   done   on  fine   linen   and 
makes  a  charming  gift.    $9.50 


2052.     (Above)   This  luncheon  set  consists 

of   thirteen   pieces   of   hand-woven   Italian 

linen   in   natural   color,   with   stitching    to 

match,  or  in  blue.     $26  the  set 


2053.  (Left)  Madeira-embroidered  tea  nap- 
kin, Sll.SO  a  dozen.  2054.  Mosaic  embroi- 
dery and  hemstitching,  13^"  square,  $16  a 
doz.  2055.  With  filet  edge,  $19.50  a  doz. 


2056.  (Left)  This  Madeira  tray- 
cover  measures  6"  by  12".  It  is 
done  on  fine  linen  and.  charmingly 
embroidered.  It  may  be  had 
for  S1.7S 


December,     1920 


S3 


2057.  Crystal  perfume 

bottles,    5"    high,   are 

$10  the  pair 


2057.  This  crystal  bot- 
tle has  a  gold  top  and 
encrusted  gold  bands 


2058.  A  breakfast  set 
in  the  lovely  lustre 
ware  in  soft  blue  lined 
with  gold  or  orange 
with  mother-of-pearl 
lining  is  $30 


REMEMBRANCES 
FOR  THE  BOUDOIR 


2059.  A  beautiful  throw  for  a  chaise  longue 
comes  in  old-rose  taffeta  edged  with  a  picoted 
ruffle.  Silk  flowers  in  pastel  shades  add  a  fin- 
ishing touch.  S73.  2060.  Ova!  pillow  to 
match,  22"  long,  $27 


2061.  For  this  heart-shaped  pillow  the  em- 
broidered batiste  case  is  $4.75.  The  pillow  is 
SI. 25  and  the  silk  slip  $2.10.  2062.  Madeira 
embroidered  pillow-case  complete  with  silk- 
covered  pillow,  $13.50 


20e3.  A  delicate  French  mirror  that 
would  be  charming  in  a  boudoir. 
It  is  16"  by  20"  and  a  lovely  com- 
bination of  gilt  and  old  blue.  $20 


2064.  Above  is  a  coffee  pot,  sugar 

bowl  and  cream  pitcher  in  one,  in 

American  Sheffield  plate.     It  o  6" 

high  and  $6.95,  plus  35c  tax 

2065.  The  pottery  lamp  shown 
on  the  table  is  colored  to  match 
any  room.  It  has  a  soft  glaze. 
SIS.  2065-A.  Italian  paper 
shade,  $9 

2066.  (Left)  This  lamp  is  tur- 
quoise blue  and  gold,  5'  high 
and  $42.  2066-A.  The  shade  is 
of  pleated  ruffles  in  lace  and  tur- 
quoise silk,  $60 


House 


Garden. 


TO   GIVE    TO 

A    MAN 


Before  ordering  kindly  consult  page  58 


2068.  A  most  effective  gift  is  this 
three-piece  sterling  silver  set,  hand 
hammered.  Clothes  brush,  $17.50, 
tax  88c;  hair  brush,  $24.50,  tax 
$1.23;  comb,  $7.50,  plus  38c  tax 


2067.  These  nickel  trimmed  ash 
trays  are  lined  with  colored  enamel. 
There  are  jour  in  the  set  and  the 
colors  are  red,  blue,  yellow  or  dark 
green.  Set  complete,  $5 


2069.  A  leather  set  consisting  of  telephone  shield,  memo- 
randum pad  and  cover  for  th?  telephone  book.    The  colors 
are  blue,  green,  violet  or  pink.    $19  the  set 


2073.  The  door  knocker 
pictured  above  is  Co- 
lonial in  design  and  of 
heavy  brass.  It  makes 
a  charming  gift  and 
mav  be  had  for  $4.50 


2070.  (Above)  To  hold 
hot  water  is  this  ham- 
mered Russian  pot, 
b/2."  high.  It  is  of  cop- 
per and  unusually  at- 
tractive. S6.50 


2074.  (Left)  Ma- 
hogany table, 
$11.50.  2075.  Sil- 
ver plated  box, 
$13.50,  tax  68c. 
2076.  Humidor, 
10"  long,  $40 


2071.  The  unusual 
candlestick  shown 
at  the  left  is 
high.  It  is  brass, 
with  a  bell  in  the 
center.  $10  the  pair 


2072.  (Below)  A 
brass  cigarette  box 
4"  by  3"  with  oc- 
tagon corners. 
$2.50.  20724.  5l/2" 
by  3l/2"  for  $3.50 


2077.  (Below) 
This  collar  case  is 
of  seal  grain  leath- 
er in  black.  It  is 
lined  with  silk  and 
mvy  be  had  for  $5 


2078.    The  candelabra   below  is  a  re- 
production of  an  antique.    I3l/z"  high 
in  brass,  $6 


December ,     1920 


SS 


FOR      MANY 
OCCASIONS 


2079.  A  welcome  gift  would  be  a 
year's  subscription  to  the  "Gazette 
du  ban  Genre."  It  is  Parisian  to 
the  last  word  and  invaluable  to 
anyone  interested  in  designs  and  the 
application  of  color  to  form  and 
fabric.  $32  a  year.  Single  copies 
$4 


In  ordering  kindly 
consult  page  58 


2080.  A   brilliantly  colored 
china  bird  makes  a  charm- 
ing  decoration.      The   one 
shown  here  is  $15 


2081.  (Right)  A 
mahogany  tip  ta- 
ble with  marquetry 
inlay.  Oval  top 
measures  14"  by 
22".  It  is  27" 
high.  #20 


\ 


2080.  A   side  view  of  the 

same  china  bird.    A  pair  of 

these  would  be  lovely  on  a 

mantel.     $30  a  pair 


2082.  (Right)  A 
plain  Colonial 
brass  candlestick 
that  is  always  in 
good  taste.  It  is 
11"  high.  S8  the 
pair 


2083.    (Above)    This    candle- 
stick is  of  hand-wrought  iron. 
The  price  per  pair  with  orange 
candles  is  $4.50 


2084.     (Below)     An     antique 

Italian  chair  in  walnut  finish 

with  carved  urn  in  back  and 

rush  seat.    $60 


2085.   (Above)   This  wicker  breakfast  tray 

comes  in  pastel  shades.    The  stencil  design 

is  done  in  delicate  colorings.     $20 


2086.  A  painted  tin  cigarette  box  that  may 

be  had  in  any  color  with  flower  decorations. 

It  u  priced  at  $3.50 


2087.   (Above)   A   folding   table  that   is 

painted  deep,  dull  blue.     It  has  a  cloi- 

sonni  design  in  colors  on  both  the  upper 

and  under  sides.     $25 


2088.    The    very    attractive    seven-piece 

desk  set  shown  at  the  left  is  of  excellent 

quality  tooled  leather.    It  comes  in  navy 

blue  and  is  priced  at  $18.50 


House     &•     Garden 


December 


THE  GARDENER'S  CALENDAR 


Twelfth  Month 


Paper  white  narcissi 
can  be  brought  into 
bloom  if  planted  in 
pebbles  and  water 


After  the  bulbs  are 

set   in   the    pebbles, 

the    bowl    is    nearly 

filled  with  water 


Put  the  bowls  in  the 

dark  for  several 

weeks    to    promote 

root  growth 


SUNDAY 

MONDAY 

TUESDAY 

WEDNESDAY 

THURSDAY 

FRIDAY 

SATURDAY 

This   Calendar   of   the  gardener's  labors   is 

1.      All    the 
various     types 
of     bulbs     for 

2.  All  tender 
evergreens 
that  require 

3.     All  new 
plantings 
should  be  heav- 

4. Hyacinths, 
Chinese  sacred 
lilies,    paper- 

aimed  as  a  reminder  for  undertaking  all  his 

winter     bloom 

protect  ing 

ily    mulched 

white,  narcis- 

tasks in  season.     It  is  fitted  to  the  latitude 
of  the  Middle  States,  but  its  service  should 

may  be  forced 
in    the    green- 
house now.     It 

should   be   at- 
tended   to    at 
once.     Fine 

with     manure. 
This  not  only 
serves  to  pro- 

sus Soleil  d'Or, 
etc.,  may  now 
be     forced     In 

be  available  for  the  whole  country  if  it  be 
remembered    that    for    every    one    hundred 
miles    north   or   south   there    is   a   difference 

Is  best  to  bring 
the  bulbs  into 
the   heat    in 
small     quanti- 

boughs,   corn- 
stalks  an  d 
other  coarse 
material    can 

tect  the  plants 
by    reducing 
the    penetra- 
tion   of    the 

bowls  of  water 
for  the  house. 
Place    the 
bulbs    In    the 

of  from   five  to   seven  days  later  or  earlier 

ties    so    as    to 

be  used  to  pie- 

frost,    but    In- 

cellar   for 

in  performing  garden  operations.    The  dates 

keep  a  contin- 
uous   supply 

vent  sun  scald. 
Manure     mul- 

creases the  fer- 
tility and  pro- 

about   two 
weeks    after 

given  are,  of  course,  for  an  average  season. 

of    blossoms 

ches  are    beet 

ductiveness   of 

planting  so  as 

coming    along. 

for  the  soil. 

the  soil  as  well. 

to  form  roots. 

5.  Low  spots 

6.  D  o    not 

7.  All    the 

8.  Trees  that 

9.  If    cold 

lO.Grapecanes 

11.  Look  over 

in    walks    and 

neglect  to  pro- 

garden   tools 

are  subject   to 

weather    pre- 

can be  cleaned 

the    tender 

drives  that  are 

vide  for  those 

and    im  p  1  e- 

scale  insects  of 

vails  It  is  well 

up  and  pruned 

bulbs  that  are 

invariably  wet 

friends   of    the 

ments     should 

various     kinds 

to    look    over 

at    any    time 

stored   for  the 

should     be 

garden,    our 

be    thoroughly 

should    be 

the    vegetable 

now.     It   Is  a 

winter,  such  as 

raised  to  shed 

birds.    Feeding 

cleaned,  coated 

sprayed      with 

trenches    to 

good     practice 

dahlias,    can- 

water;    or    If 

boxes   may    be 

with    a    cheap 

one  of  the  sol- 

make sure  that 

to   remove   all 

nas,    gladioli. 

the    earth    is 

placed    wheie 

oil    and    put 

uble    oil    mix- 

the frost  is  not 

the  loose  bark 

etc.    Frost  will 

taken  out  and 

the    birds    will 

away    tor    the 

tures.    Fruit 

getting  In  and 

and   wash   the 

surely    destroy 

the    roadbed 

be   out   of   the 

winter.    Those 

trees    of    all 

Injuring    the 

canes    with    a 

them,    while 

nlled  with  cin- 

reach  of   cats. 

that    are    in 

kinds,    roses, 

roots.      Plenty 

good    strong 

too  much  heat 

ders    It    will 

Suet     tied     to 

need  of  repair 

evonymus,  and 

of  leaves  piled 

soap    insecti- 

or   moisture 

help    to    make 

the    branches 

should    be    at- 

al 1    smooth- 

on    top   is   the 

cide    or   spray 

will  start  them 

them   dry  and 

is  attractive  to 

tended  to  now 

barked    trees 

best    protec- 

them  with   an 

Into  growth  be- 

passable   in 

several    spe- 

while   outdoor 

are    susce  p- 

tion     for     the 

oil  spray  to  de- 

fore     planting 

bad  weather. 

cies. 

work  is  slack. 

tlble. 

winter. 

stroy  larvae. 

time  returns. 

12.  Frames 

13.  Asbestos 

14.     Do  not 

15.  Rhubarb 

16.    Succes- 

17.  Plants 

18.    Necta- 

in which  semi- 

torches,    or 

scrape    the 

may  be  forced 

sional    sowings 

that  are  grow- 

rines,    peaches 

hardy    plants 

torches     made 

bark    on    trees 

in    the    cellar 

of  those  crops 

ing  in  benches, 

and    grapes 

ate  being  wln- 

of   burlap   and 

to   destroy   in- 

or attic  of  the 

In    the    green- 

such as  carna- 

which   are 

t  e  r  e  d  ,     or 

soaked     in 

sect  pests  —  it  is 

dwelling    by 

house  that  re- 

tions,   roses, 

forced    under 

frames    that 

kerosene    to 

impossible    to 

planting  good- 

quire   It,    such 

antirrhinum, 

glass  should  be 

are      used      as 

make  them  in- 

get     into     the 

sized    clumps 

as    lettuce. 

etc.,  should  be 

pruned    and 

growing    me- 

f lammabl  c, 

crevices   where 

in     barrels     or 

beans,    cauli- 

mulched   with 

cleaned    by 

diums,    should 

should  be  used 

insects     hiber- 

boxes   and 

flower,    spin- 

cow   manure 

washing    them 

have    some 

to  go  over  all 

nate,    and     in 

placing      them 

ach    and    rad- 

01 soil  made  of 

with    strong 

kind  of  cover- 

the    trees    and 

many  cases  the 

beside  the  fur- 

ishes,     should 

equal   parts  of 

insecticides  . 

1  ng  .     Loose 

destroy    win- 

tree is  injured 

nace  or  chim- 

be made.  Rhu- 

top    soil    and 

Remove    some 

hay    may    be 

tering    over 

by    removing 

ney.     The  soil 

barb    and    en- 

well-rotted 

of  the  top  soli 

used,    but    the 

nests  of  cater- 

the     green 

should  be  kept 

dive    may    be 

manuie  with  a 

afterward    and 

best     covering 

pillars    and 

outer    bark. 

moderately 

stai  ted     under 

little  bone 

replace  It  with 

is  jute  mats. 

other  pests. 

Use  stiff  brush. 

moist. 

the  benches. 

meal  added. 

fresh  earth. 

19.     At  this 

20.  Boxwood 

21.       Ferns, 

22.  Melon 

23.    Chicory 

24.  The  foli- 

25.    This  is 

season    of    the 

must    be    pro- 

palms   and 

frames,  tomato 

Is    one    of    the 

age    of    house 

the     time     to 

year  It  Is  nec- 

tected,   else    it 

other    house 

trellises,    gar- 

best   winter 

I  [;mis  must  be 

plan  and  even 

essary    to    fer- 
tilize    indoor 

is  very  apt  to 
winter-kill  . 

K  I  ants     should 
e   top-dressed 

den   seats   and 
other    wooden 

salad    plants. 
It  can  be  forced 

kept  free  of  In- 
sects.     Spong- 

instal   some 
sort   of    irriga- 

cucumbers and 

Burlap  covers, 

occasionall  y 

garden     mate- 

in     any     ordi- 

ing the  leaves 

ting  system  in 

tomatoes    to 
assure    trult. 

cornstalks, 
pine  boughs  or 

with    some    of 
the    concen- 

ilal   should   be 
painted.    Ufee 

nary  cellar  by 
planting    the 

with    a    soap 
solution    to 

your    garden. 
Don't  wait  un- 

Collect   the 

any    material 

trated     plant 

good    pain  t  , 

roots   In   boxes 

which   a   good 

til  summer  for 

poll  en    in    a 

that   will   keep 

foods   sold    for 

and  where  nec- 

and   keeping 

tobacco    ex- 

dry weather  Is 

spoon  and  dib- 
it ibute    it    to 

out     the     sun 
but   admit    air 

the    purpose. 
Keep    the  sur- 

essary   apply 
two  coats.  This 

t  hem    dark  . 
They    can  also 

tract  has  been 
added  will  de- 

Just as  sure  as 
taxes  and  yon 

the  other  blos- 

may   be    used 

face  of  the  soil 

1.3  considerably 

be  grown  out- 

stroy   white 

had     best     be 

soms    with     a 

for     this    pur- 

loosened   so 

cheaper    than 

side  In  trenches 

scale,   red   spi- 

icady   for    it 

camel  's-halr 

pose.    Apply  it 

that    no   green 

constant    re- 

filled with  hot 

der,  mealy  bug 

well  in  advance 

brush. 

now. 

scum  forms. 

newals. 

manure. 

and  green  fly. 

of  Its  arrival. 

26.  The  value 

27.   Fruit 

28.   Vegeta- 

29.   Poor 

30.  The  plant- 

31.  Mush- 

From    out     (he 

of     the     land- 

trees,   and    es- 

bles   of    all 

lawns    should 

Ing   of  decidu- 

rooms may  be 

white    and 

scaping    de- 

pecially    small 

kinds  that  are 

.  be  top-dressed, 

ous    trees    and 

grown    in   any 

pulsing 

partments 

ones,  should  be 

stored    in    cel- 

using   a    com- 

shrubs may  be 

ordinary    cel- 

storm 

maintained  by 

protected  from 

lars  should   be 

post    made    of 

continued    Just 

lar;     the     im- 

J    hear     the 

the    big     nur- 

rats,    rabbits 

looked    over 

screened    top 

as  long  as  the 

portant     point 

snowbirds 

s  e  r  y  m  e  n 

and    other    ro- 

with   the    pur- 

soil with  about 

weather    per- 

Is fresh  stable 

calling; 

should  not  be 

dents.        Ordi- 

pose of  remov- 

20   per    cent 

mits.     Mulch- 

droppings    for 

overlooked  . 

nary  tar  paper 

ing     any     de- 

bone meal  and 

ing    heavily 

the  bed.  Don't 

,    In  fit      (f/n/jfc 

They   are   pre- 

wrapped 

cayed     tubers 

wood    ashes 

immediately 

let   them   ever 

winux    •j™*** 

pared    to   plan 

around     the 

there  may  be. 

added.     This 

after     planting 

get  really  dry. 

o  er  ine  tui,-,. 

all     sorts    of 
plantings    for 

s'em  from     he 
ground    to    a 

A  few  bad  ones 
will  soon  cause 

may  be  applied 
to     the     lawn 

will     prevent 
the     penetra- 

Use   new    cul- 
ture   spawn, 

And  fiist  (fit 
snow  is  fall- 

you    and   sub- 

height   of     1  5 

considerabl  e 

liberally     now. 

tion  of  frost  If 

as   It   is   more 

ing. 

mit    figures   of 

Inches  is  suffi- 

damage to  the 

with    some 

It  should  come 

certain    than 

—  John 

costs,  etc. 

cient. 

rest. 

grass  seed. 

soon. 

the  old  kind. 

Burroughs. 

JlfAU,  here's  another  year  gone  by,  an'  I'm  still  in  the  ring,   purty  near  as  chipper  as  ever.      Reckon   I 

'?  wouldn't  be,  though,  if  'twarn't  for  my  buck-saw  an'  stack  o'  cordwood  out  thur  by  the  woodshed.     They 

keep  my  blood  a-movin'  ,  them  things  do,  an'  my  mind  from  gittin'  stale.     I  can  work  the  of  saw  an'  chaw 

terbacker  an'  recollec'  all  to  oncet,  so  it's  a  durn  good  gen'ral  sort  o'  exercise.     They  say  as  how  the  Kaiser 

took  to  sawin'  wood  after  he  run  away  out  o'  Germany,  an'  while  t   don't  know  nothin'  'bout  his  chawin* 

terbacker,  I  bet  he  did  do  a  whole  lot  o'  thinkin'  back  while  he  was  a-cuttin'  up  them  Dutch  logs.     Me  an' 

him's  mighty  diff'rent,  though,  'cause  my  woodpile  thoughts're  pleasant,  while  his  n  mus'  be  kinder  onmelcome. 

To  hear  some  folks  talk  ye'd  think  thar  ain't  no  fun  in  cuttin'  up  wood,  but  I  cal'late  they  ain't  never  really 

done  it,     Thar's  the  voice  o'  the  saw,  fer  one  thing  —  just  deep  an'  rough-like  as  ye  straighten  yer  arms  out. 

an'  then  low  an'  soft  as  ye  Pull  'em  back.     The  smell  o'  the  sawdust  is  mighty  nice,  too,  'specially  from  the 

birch  an'  hick'ry;  an'  1  never  git  tired  o'  seein'  the  little  spurt  o'  yallerisn  white  that  comes  out  o    the  cut 

with  ev'ry  down  stroke.     Ye  saw  an'  rest,  saw  an'  rest  fer  an  hour  or  so,  an'  when  ye  git  through  ye  put  on 

yer  coat  an*  mittens  ag'in  an'  feel  like  all  the  snow  an'  cold  Old  Man  Winter  can  bring  ain't  a-goin    to  count 

fer  nothin'  ag'in  that  cracklin'  blaze  ye're  goin'  to  have  in  the  big  settin'  room  fireplace. 

—  Old  Doc  Lemmon. 

t 


Cornstalks  make  an 
excellent  winter  pro- 
tection for  tall  grow- 
ing tender  things 


Celery  stored  in  an 
outdoor  trench  cov- 
ered with  leaves  will 
keep  jor  winter 


Bring  the  bulbs  into 

the  light  only  after 

I  heir  roots  are  well 

developed 


For  the  perennial  bed  or  tender  shrubbery  border  dead 
leaves  inside  a  netting  inclosure  are  a  good  winter  pro- 
tection.    Apply  them  after  the  ground  has  frozen 


A  week  or  two  in  the 
sunlight  will  bring  out 
the  narcissi  blossoms 


A  mulch  of  well  rotted  manure  will  serve  the  double 
purpose  of  enriching  the  soil  and  preventing  the  de- 
structive alternate  freezing  and  thawing  of  winter 


December,     1920 


57 


I 


ICH-#-BACH 

GRANDETTE 


NCOMPARABLE  for  every  musical 
essential,  from  sympathetic  respon- 
siveness to  an  unapproachable 
purity,  sweetness  and  volume  of 
tone — the  honored  produdt  of  half 
a  century's  piano-creating  achieve- 
ments. 

Despite  its  diminutive  proportions, 
the  Grandette  is  the  marvellous  rep- 


'"The  Qrand  Incomparable 
— In  Miniature" 


lica  ot  the  Kranich  &.  Bach  Con* 
cert  Grand,  having  identically  the 
same  grand  action  and  delightfully 
free,  wondrously  balanced  touch. 

Yet  it  requires  but  a  trifle  more  space 
than  an  upright  —  measuring  less 
than  five  feet  in  length,  adding  an 
impressive,  delightfully  decorative 
note  to  any  interior. 


Booklet  of  the  Qrandette, 
together  with  address  of  nearest 
Kranich  &  Bach  showrooms, 
gladly  forwarded  on  request. 


V"RANICH  &  BACH 


ESTABLISHED  1864 


235  East  Twenty-third  Street,  New  York 
215  South  Wabash  Avenue,  Chicago,  111. 


House     &     Garden 


C-61 — A   charming  table  decoration  in   purple,   amber   or  celeste  blue   olats. 

The  candlesticks  are   10    in.    high  and   cost   $15.      The   bou-l   to  match   is    12 

in.    across  with  a  wrought   iron  stand  in  brown   or   verde  green.      Bowl,    $12. 

Stand,      $8.50.      Complete     with     candles,      $35.00. 


FIRST  AID  TO  CHRISTMAS 
SHOPPING 

GIVE  gifts  with  a  definite  value  in  home 
adornment.    Give  gifts  with  the  smart 
distinction  which  Ovington  gifts  pos- 
sess.    You  may  order  by  mail  with  the  sure 
assurance  that  your  gifts  will  be  charming 
in    themselves,    carefully    packed    and    cor- 
rectly sent. 

Catalog  "C"  will  be  sent  upon  request. 


f-76 — The  "Thinker"  OH 
a  bookend  —  handsomely 
finished  in  either  bronze 
or  terde  green.  Standing 
9  in.  high,  these  are 
priced  at  $10.00  a  pair. 


C-S7 — -4     Colonial     sih-»«t 

water      pitcher      of      antique 

lines     holding     2%     pints. 

Price,    |7. JO. 


C-201  —  This  chocolate 
set  of  si-x  chocolate  cups 
and  saucers  and  une 
chocolate  pot  is  of  Len- 
ox china  in  ivory  tone  and 
decorated  with  the 
"Ming"  design.  Price, 
$22.50. 


C-228 — One  of  our  newest 
A  Him  has  sent  UK  thin  un- 
usual carafe  and  tumbler 
made  of  amber  glass  in  a 
sparkling  iridescent  finish 
Stands  8  in.  high  and  cvx:* 
$7.50. 


C-46 — This  oval  mirror 
has  a  handsome  carved 
frame  and  shield  top  fin- 
ished in  antique  gold. 
Measures  1 3  %  in.  wide 
by  2<J%  in.  long.  Price, 
$20.00. 


C-300 — Ash  tray  of 
brown  colored  glass 
richly  decorated  with 
a  gold  inlay  design 
of  lines  and  flowers.  3 
in.  high,  $5.00.  Same 
ash  container  in  jet 
black  glass  inlaid 
With  a  bird  and  vine 
design  in  silver, 
$2.50. 


C-244  —  This  black 
glass  jar  is  decorated 
in  silver  with  a  bird 
and  flower  design,  be- 
ing worked  on  both 
sides  and  with  eUver 
handles  and  eilver 
band  about  the  top 
and  base.  10  in.  high, 
'  $5.00.  12  in.  high, 
$7.50. 


C-73 — This  solid  mahogany  tea  wagon   becomes  a  good  sized  tea   table  with  its   top 

tray   of   mahogany   and  glass.      As   a  wagon   the  top   measures    17    in.    wide   x    27    in. 

long.      As  a  table  27  in.  wide  x  38  in.    long.      The  •price  is  $55.00. 

Mail  orders  promptly  filled 

O  VI  NG  TON'S 

"The  Gift  Shop  of  Fifth  Avenue" 

312-314  Fifth  Avenue        32nSsatrree      New  York 


HOW  TO  ORDER  THE  GIFTS  THAT 
HOUSE  cjf  GARDEN   SUGGESTS 


HOUSE  &  GARDEN,  as  you  will 
see  on  pages  48  to  55,  has  taken 
the  one  sure  way  of  arranging 
that  you  do  your  Christmas  shopping 
early.  It  has  done  it  for  you.  That 
is,  it  has  done  all  the  difficult  part, 
which  means  going  about  in  shops 
and  making  selections;  the  only  thing 
that  you  need  to  do  is  to  decide  what 
you  want  and  follow  the  directions 
below. 

House  &  Garden  is  going  to  make 
every  effort  to  purchase  for  you  ex- 
actly the  mahogany  table  or  leather 
desk  set  or  anything  else  that  you  may 
select  from  these  pages  as  your  choice. 
But  it  asks  you  to  remember  that 
stocks  of  goods  are  far  below  the 
normal  to-day  and  that  no  manu- 
facturer knows  when  his  next  strike 
is  due.  Therefore,  in  case  the  pre- 
ferred stock  should  be  exhausted  be- 


fore your  order  arrives,  House  & 
Garden  suggests  that,  to  save  time  and 
correspondence,  you  state  a  second 
choice  or  permit  the  Shopping  Service 
to  buy  another  gift  as  nearly  as  pos- 
sible like  the  original  selection.  If 
House  &  Garden  has  pleased  your 
taste  in  selecting  the  gifts  shown  in  its 
pages,  it  will  not  disappoint  you  when 
it  is  left  to  its  own  discretion — and  you 
might  like  the  substitute  even  better. 
There  is  one  infallible  rule  in  Christ- 
mas shopping — do  not  put  off  till  to- 
morrow what  you  can  order  to-day. 
The  Shopping  Service  is  ready,  the 
shops  are  ready  and  it  won't  take  more 
than  an  hour  or  two  spent  at  your 
desk,  at  the  most,  to  set  them  both 
to  cooperating  with  you  in  making  a 
Christmas  that  you  and  your  family 
and  your  friends  will  always  remem- 
ber kindly,  because  it  wasn't  a  burden. 


IMPORTANT  NOTICE 

ORDER  these  gifts  by  number.  Full  instructions  for 
ordering  are  given  on  this  page.  Order  your  gifts  at 
the  earliest  possible  date.  Christmas  stocks  are  limited  this 
season  and  every  day  that  you  put  off  your  ordering  lessens 
your  chance  of  obtaining  what  you  want  and  of  having  it 
delivered  on  time.  Those  who  order  first  will  be  served 
first.  Every  order  will  be  numbered  and  filled  in  the  order 
of  its  receipt  by  the  Shopping  Service. 


November   15,   1920. 
House  and   Garden   Shopping  Service, 
19   West   44th    Street,  New    York. 

Enclosed  is  my  cheque*  for  forty  dollars,  for  which  please 
send  by  parcel  post  the  following  articles  to 

Mrs.    Arthur    Tames, 

255   Elm  Street. 

Austin,  Tex. 

Xo.  2001 — Colonial    mahogany    mirror,    December    House    and 
Garden,  page  48.     $25. 

No.  2011 — Colonial     brass    andirons,     December     House     and 
Garden,   page  48.     $12. 

My   Second  Choice** 

If,  after  making  every  effort  to  secure  my  first  choice. 
House  and  Garden  finds  it  impossible  to  do  so,  please  pur- 
chase the  following  second  choices: 

No.  2012 — Pottery   bird,    December   House  and    Garden,   page 

49.     $2. 
No.  2041 — Humpty    Dumpty    bowling    set,    December    House 

and  Garden,  page  51.     $6. 
Very  truly  yours, 

Margaret  James. 
*  Or  draft  or  money  order. 
**  Instead  of  giving  second  choices,  it  is 
often  desirable  to  leave  it  to  the  discretion 
of  the  Shopping  Service  to  purchase  an  ar- 
ticle as  nearly  like  the  original  selection  as 
possible,  in  case  that  is  not  to  be  found. 
The  first  choice  will  always  be  purchased, 
except  where  special  popularity  has  ex- 
hausted the  stock  in  an  article  at  an  early 
date. 


House  and  Garden  will  buy  for  you, 
without  charge  for  its  services,  any 
article  mentioned  in  its  Christmas  gift 
section.  When  ordering,  give  the  or- 
der number  of  the  article,  the  number 
of  the  page,  and,  when  necessary,  the 
size  and  color  desired. 

Write  Plainly.  It  is  advisable  to 
print  your  name  and  address.  When 
ordering  articles  to  be  sent  to  an- 
other person,  give  both  your  own  ad- 
dress and  that  of  the  consignee. 

Remittances.  As  a  purchasing 
agent,  the  House  and  Garden  Shopping 
Service  cannot  send  articles  C.  O.  D. 
or  carry  charge  accounts;  nor  can  we 
charge  purchases  to  individual  ac- 
counts at  the  shops.  Send  cheque  or 
money  order  to  cover  the  cost  _of  ar- 
ticles ordered.  If  the  price  is  not 
known,  send  an  approximate  amount, 
and  any  balance  will  be  refunded. 
Cheques  should  be  made  payable  to 
"The  House  and  Garden  Shopping 
Service." 

Deliveries.  Wherever  possible,  and 
unless  otherwise  requested,  all  orders 
will  be  sent  by  insured  parcel  post. 
Many  shops  today  charge  postage, 


and  as  the  amount  varies  with  the 
weight  and  distance  of  shipment,  it 
will  simplify  the  transaction  if  a  suffi- 
cient sum  is  added  to  the  original  re- 
mittance to  cover  these  charges.  Any 
overpayment  will  be  refunded.  Ar- 
ticles such  as  glass  and  furniture  re- 
quire special  crating,  for  which  an 
additional  charge  is  necessarily  made. 

When  Ordering  Articles.  Give  the 
fullest  possible  description  of  what 
you  wish,  but  rely  to  a  reasonable  ex- 
tent upon  the  shopper's  discretion. 

Returned  Articles.  Articles  returned 
for  exchange  or  refund  should  be  sent 
to  the  House  and  Garden  Shopping 
Service,  19  West  44th  Street,  and  not 
to  the  shop  from  which  they  were 
purchased.  We  cannot  be  responsible 
for  delays  in  adjusting  accounts  un- 
less this  rule  is  strictly  complied 
with.  In  exceptional  cases,  when  an 
article  is  not  exchangeable,  the  pur- 
chaser will  be  notified  before  the  ac- 
tual purchase  is  made. 

Telegrams.  It  is  sometimes  neces- 
sary to  communicate  by  telegraph. 
When  it  is  obviously  to  the  sole  in- 
terest of  the  purchaser,  the  telegrams 
are  sent  collect. 


HOUSE  y  GARDEN  SHOPPING  SERVICE 

Nineteen  West  Forty-Fourth  Street,  New  York 


December ,     1920 


"Is  Breakfast  Almost  Ready  ? 


Christmas  1920 

will  be  one  that  Mother 
will  remember  during 
the  years  to  come  if 
you  give  her  a  set  of 
beautiful,  silver-like 


'Wear -Ever 


These  bright,  cleanly 
utensils  will  make  more 
cheerful  the  hours  she 
spends  in  the  kitchen. 


"Wear-Ever"  in  the  kitchen  indicates  a  thorough  ap- 
preciation of  the  influence  of  this  important  room  upon 
health  and  happiness. 

"Wear-Ever" 

Aluminum   Cooking    Utensils 

are  so  bright  and  cleanly  that  food  prepared  in  them  is  always 
appetizing — always  seems  to  taste  better  than  food  prepared  in 
ordinary  utensils. 

"Wear-Ever"  utensils  are  made  without  joints  or  seams  in  which 
particles  of  food  can  collect.  Cannot  chip — are  pure  and  safe. 

jp&     Replace  utensils  that  wear  out    8T 
ii     with  utensils  that  "Wear- Ever"    15 

Look  for  the  "Wear- Ever"  trade  mark  on  the  Bottom  of  each  utensil 

Write  for  free  booklet.  "The  'Wear-Erar*  Kitchen."  which 
tells  how  to  save  fuel,  food  and  work.     Address  Dept.  36. 

The  Aluminum  Cooking  Utensil  Co.,     New  Kensington,  Pa. 


In  Canada  "Wear-Ever"  utensils  ar*  made  by 
Northern  Aluminum  Co.,  Ltd..   Toronto,  Ont. 


Hillii'iliHHBBM 


•  • 


<7he  more  modern  a  home  is 
in  its  furnishings,  the  more 
certainly  ^kar-Ever  will  be  found 
in  its  bright,  cheerful  kitchen 


House     fy     Garden 


sin  Important  Silver 

Mark  H.  G.  M.   12-20 

Engraved  decoration  of  entwined 
leaves  and  flowers  with  bow-knots, 
after  the  style  of  the  French  Louis 
periods.  Gray  finish. 

Sizes  ranging  from  10  to  20  inches 
in  height. 

Portfolio  of  Designs  upon    Request 
Vases  Forwarded  for  Approval 


<J.  C.  Caiaweli  &  Ccx 

Jewelers'  «5\lvers><m,ib)i5>  5*tationer^ 

Philadelphia 


2089.  This  doll  is 
completely  dressed 
and  her  frock  is 
made  of  pink  or 
blue  gingham.  $15 


SEEN       IN       THE       SHOPS 


More  toys  will  be  found  on  pages,  50,  51  and  82 
In  ordering  kindly  consult  page  58 


2090.  An  entertain- 
ing clock  that  is  also 
a  picture  puzzle.  On 
one  side  are  Arabic 
numerals,  on  the 
other,  Roman.  $2 


2091.  (Above)  The 
object  of  this  game 
is  lo  throw  the  ball 
into  the  space 
marked  100.  Try  it! 
The  price  is  $2.50 


2092.  This  frog  may 
not  jump  as  jar  as 
Mark  Twain's,  but 
his  appearance  is 
gayer.  He  may  bs 
had  for  $1  only 


2093.     A    well-made   doll's   go-cart   of   white   enameled 

wood,  decorated  with  ducks  and  gay  blue  clowns.     It 

is  $8.50.    2094.  The  doll  is  completely  dressed  and  wears 

a  rakish  little  knitted  cap.    She  is  priced  at  $11 


December,     1920 


61 


SEVEN-PASSENGER  BIG-SIX 


With  unexcelled  manufacturing  advan- 
tages and  large  quantity   production  — 
Studebaker  is  able  to  offer  cars  of  sterling 
high  quality  at  prices  that  make  them  the 
most  exceptional  values  on  the  market. 


Basing  your  purchase  of  a  car  on  actual 
value  comparisons,  your  judgment  will 
tell  you  which  shows  the  greatest  care  in 
workmanship  —  which  offers  the  most  in 
equipment  and  appointments.  Demon- 
strations will  give  you  the  "feel"  of  the 
car  and  tell  their  own  story  of  perform- 
ance. The  reputation  of  the  manufac- 
turer  is  your  guarantee  of  quality. 

All  Studebaker  Cars  are  Equipped  with  Cord  Tires 
— another  Studebaker  Precedent 


60 -horsepower  detachable -head  motor, 
126-inch  wheelbase,  insuring  ample  room 
for  seven  adults. 


BIG-SIX 

Touring  Car  •  $2150 
F.  O.  B.  Detroit 


LIGHT-SIX 

Touring  Car  -  $1485 
Landau-Roadster  1850 
Sedan  -  -  2450 
F.  O.  D.  South  Bend 


Touring  Car  •  $1750 
l-Pau.  Roadster  1750 
4-Pajj.  Roadster  1750 
Coupe  -  -  2650 
Sedan  -  .  2750 
F.  O.  B  Detroit 


is  is  a 


62 


Attractive 
Home  Lighting 


Tl  IESE  charming  fixtures  are  quite  in  the 
spirit  of  the  Old  Masters.     Designed  to 
harmonize    with    furniture   and   decora- 
tions   of    the    Adam,    Heppelwhite,    Sheraton 
and  Eighteenth  Century  periods. 


No.  700 
2-Light  Bracket 


Light      Antique 

Bronze    finish      $33.15 
West   of  Rockies     .15.65 


Bronze    finish 
West   of  Rockies 

Colonial      Silver 

finish 
West   of  Rockies 


Prices  do  not  include  shades,  bulhs  or  hanging 


Write  for  name  of  MfLLER 
distributor  near  vou. 


Edward  Miller  &  Company 

Established  1844 


Meriden,  Conn. 


House     &•     Garden 

Pargetry     Inside     the     House 

(Continued  from  page  44) 


Parge,  as  the  term  was  understood  by 
the  16th  and  17th  Century  English  arti- 
sans, who  wrought  decorations  as  well 
as  plain  surfaces  in  it,  was  a  material 
very  similar  to  the  parge  or  plaster 
now  used  for  parging  or  coating  the  in- 
side of  flues.  It  was  an  ordinary  plaster 
composed  of  sand,  lime  and  hair,  to 
which  mixture  was  added  a  certain 
amount  of  cow  manure  and  road  scrap- 
ings, which  latter  ingredients  seemed  to 
increase  its  tenacity  and  toughness,  pos- 
sibly reduced  its  brittleness,  and  im- 
parted a  creamy  tone  less  trying  to  the 
eye  than  a  glaring  white.  At  times  a 
good  deal  of  grit  was  left  in  the  mix- 
ture so  that  the  texture  was  fairly 
coarse.  According  to  an  old  workman, 
whom  Mr.  Lethaby  quotes,  the  "old 
material  was  well  washed,  beaten,  stirred, 
and  tested  so  carefully,  and  for  so  long 
a  time,  that,  when  laid,  it  was  as  tough 
as  leather." 

How  It  Was  Applied 

Parge  was  used  for  both  exterior  and 
interior  work,  and  in  each  case  served 
sometimes  as  a  covering  for  plain  sur- 
faces, sometimes  as  a  vehicle  for  mod- 
elled decoration.  The  parge  for  exterior 
work  was  commonly  more  coarse  than 
that  for  use  indoors.  In  either  case  it 
was  laid  on  in  the  usual  manner  with 
floats  and  the  decoration  wrought  after- 
ward in  situ,  while  the  parge  was  still 
"green"  and  workable,  being  either  mod- 
elled by  the  fingers  and  moulding  too'.s 
of  the  plasterer,  or  else  pressed  with 
moulds  or  dies  and  finished  off  by  hand. 

The  modern  reproductions  of  old 
parge  work  are  very  commonly  made 
by  taking  impressions  from  the  origi- 
nals, fashioning  moulds  therefrom,  and 
then  turning  out  fac-simile  casts  ad 
libitum.  These  casts  are  usually  con- 
structed on  a  canvas  foundation  or 
backing,  are  thin  and  comparatively 
light  in  weight,  and  can  be  easily  trans- 
ported, fixed  in  place,  and  the  joints 
then  smoothly  plastered  over.  In  the 
case  of  ceilings,  the  sections  are  cast  in 
a  size  convenient  to  handle,  fitted  to- 
gether in  place  one  by  one,  and  the 
joints  concealed  as  just  indicated.  This 
method  has  the  advantage  of  ease  and 
cleanliness  in  handling  and  also  admits 
of  unlimited  commercial  multiplication, 
so  that  the  decorative  resources  of  par- 
getry  are  brought  within  ready  reach 
of  any  who  may  desire  to  avail  them- 
selves of  this  form  of  embellishment.  It 
has  also  the  merits  of  accuracy  in  exe- 
cution and  of  archaeological  fidelity  to 
type. 

The  examples  of  parge  decoration 
shown  in  the  accompanying  illustrations 
were  all  cast  in  the  manner  just  alluded 
to  and  were  made  by  maimed  ex-ser- 
vice men,  but  are  to  a  great  extent  the 
result  of  modern  design  based  upon  the 
old  traditions,  the  originals  or  moulds 
being  made  by  an  experienced  crafts- 
man. 

The  drawbacks  attaching  to  cast  parge 
are  not  serious,  and  in  order  to  avoid 
or  eliminate  most  of  them  it  is  only  a 
case  of  being  forewarned.  There  is  the 
danger,  of  course,  that  the  makers  will 
not  sufficiently  heed  the  character  of 
the  mixture  and  will  be  tempted  to  use 
plaster  of  Paris  instead  of  sticking 
strictly  to  the  original  formula,  and  will 
thus  reproduce  merely  pattern  without 
securing  the  quality  of  texture  and  col- 
or that  imparted  so  much  of  the  charm 
to  the  old  work.  This  danger  it  is 
easy  to  dispose  of.  Nor  can  one  ex- 
pect to  find  in  cast  work  the  same  de- 
gree of  spontaneity,  the  same  engaging 
little  irregularities  and  whimsicalities, 
the  same  ingenious  adaptation  to  odd 
spaces,  as  in  the  parge  work  wrought 
in  situ  by  the  trained  craftsman  mod- 
elling as  he  goes,  using  only  his  fingers 
and  the  simplest  of  graving  tools. 


But  this  limitation  is  not  at  all  seri- 
ous if  those  who  employ  the  cast  parge 
work  show  at  all  an  inventive  spirit  in 
the  varied  combinations  it  is  perfectly 
possible  to  devise.  The  chief  pitfall  to 
avoid  is  that  previously  noted — wrong 
mixture  and  the  resulting  unsatisfactory 
color  and  texture — for  upon  the  mellow 
color  and  vigorous  texture  of  parge  de- 
pend not  only  its  intrinsic  charm,  but 
also  its  fitness  as  a  medium  for  ex- 
pressing a  certain  robust  type  of  pat- 
tern, and  its  scope  of  satisfactory  com- 
bination with  other  materials. 

There  is  no  reason  why  parge  work 
wrought  in  situ,  with  its  straightfor- 
ward technique  and  its  broad  field  for 
originality  of  design  and  individuality 
of  interpretation,  should  not  be  revived 
as  a  recognized  branch  of  craftsmanship, 
and  hold  a  place  of  esteem  quite  as 
much  as  woodcarving,  ironwork,  or  any 
of  the  other  accessories  of  architecture, 
and  that,  too,  on  a  basis  sufficiently 
commercial  to  afford  the  necessary  en- 
couragement to  the  craftsman.  There 
is  also  ample  scope  for  cast  work  from 
modern  designs,  as  the  illustrations 
show. 

The  places  in  which  decorative  de- 
signs in  parge  may  appropriately  be 
used  are  the  surface  of  the  ceiling,  in 
whole  or  in  part;  the  upper  wall  sur- 
faces, as  much  or  as  little  as  may  be 
desired;  the  cornice  and  frieze;  chim- 
ney-pieces and  overdoor  spaces;  lunettes 
at  the  ends  of  vaults,  and  the  sides  of 
window  reveals — in  short,  almost  any 
place  where  it  is  proper  to  employ  a 
plaster  surface. 

The  possibilities  of  design  suitable  to 
expression  in  parge  are  limited  only 
by  the  technique  demanded  by  the  na- 
ture of  the  material,  and  by  the  char- 
acter of  the  particular  place  to  be 
adorned.  Conventionalized  and  bold 
devices,  simple  rather  than  complicated, 
of  fruit,  foliage  and  flowers;  scrolls, 
strapwork  and  tendrils ;  birds  and  beasts 
whose  forms  can  be  indicated  in  vigor- 
ous silhouette;  vases  and  urns;  geo- 
metrical patterns  and  ribbings;  stars, 
fleurs-de-lys,  shells,  and  other  heraldic 
or  symbolic  motifs;  cartouches,  panels, 
and  medallions — all  of  these  and  many 
others  of  kindred  nature  lend  themselves 
to  successful  rendering  in  parge. 

Inherent  Limitations 

What  is  the  general  character  of  parge 
decorations  may  be  seen  from  the  illus- 
trations, but  emphasis,  too,  must  be  laid 
on  the  fact  that,  as  parge  when  properly 
composed  is  a  heavy,  full-bodied  and 
fairly  coarse  material,  it  is  not  a  suit- 
able medium  in  which  to  attempt  fine 
lines  and  sharply-incised,  minute,  crisp, 
or  undercut  details,  such  as  are  found 
in  late  17th  or  18th  Century  plaster- 
work,  or  in  the  delicate  creations  of  the 
Adam  period.  If  the  essay  be  made  to 
translate  such  motifs  into  parge  the  re- 
sult will  not  only  be  indistinct  and  lack 
emphatic  definition,  but  will  be  flat, 
weak  and  unconvincing.  Designs  of  this 
sort  require  more  suavity  of  surface  and 
substance  than  parge  should  have. 

If,  on  the  other  hand,  the  quality  of 
the  parge  be  altered  and  slicked  down 
to  admit  of  a  technique  foreign  to  its 
original  nature,  the  very  raison  d'etre 
of  pargetry  is  destroyed.  Its  use  then 
becomes  merely  an  affectation.  One 
might  as  well  have  done  with  it  at  once 
and  use  plaster  of  Paris  or  compo  in- 
stead, media  much  better  for  accurate 
finish  and  sharp  detail.  The  material 
has  its  own  inherent  proprieties  in  the 
realm  of  design,  proprieties  which  any- 
one with  a  feeling  for  texture  in  rela- 
tion to  design  will  appreciate  and  re- 
spect. Much  of  the  attraction  of  parge 
lies  in  the  seemly  combination  of  tex- 
ture, substance  and  pattern,  and  if  this 
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Pargetry     Inside     the     House 

(Continued  from  page  62) 


consistency  be  violated,  the  spell  is 
broken. 

Although  the  warm  cream  tone  and 
the  low  relief  of  parge  are  beautiful  in 
themselves,  the  enhancement  of  color 
and  gilding  may  be  added  with  perfect 
propriety,  both  in  actual  effect  and  in 
strict  accord  with  historical  precedent, 
if  it  be  desired.  When  color  or  color 
and  parcel  gilding  are  used  they  should, 
of  course,  be  confined  to  the  raised 
decoration  and  no  shading  should  be 
employed,  as  the  relief  is  sufficient  to 
give  the  necessary  gradations  of  light 
and  shade,  and  a  delicate  use  of  shading 
would  appear  artificial  and  finicky. 

Parge  work  may  be  appropriately 
used  in  conjunction  with  oak  or  deal 
panelling,  or  with  stone.  It  is  a  sturdy, 


full-bodied,  vigorous-textured  substance 
and  accords  with  these  materials.    It  is 
a  mistake,  however,  to  use  it  with  ma 
hogany,  walnut,  or  painted  woodwork 
as  the  nature  of  these  materials  seems 
rather  to  require  plasterwork  of  smooth 
er  texture  and  more  finished,  crisp  de- 
tail. 

Judiciously  used,  parge  work  is  a  most 
valuable  resource;  study  its  nature  and 
affinities,  and  then  either  accept  it 
wholly  or  else  reject  it  wholly,  but  don't 
try  to  modify  and  adapt  it  to  a  setting 
fundamentally  unsuited  to  its  genius. 
Above  all,  don't  try  to  render  parge 
designs  in  plaster  of  Paris.  Such  a 
course  can  result  only  in  disappoint- 
ment and  failure,  and  ia  mischief  to 
the  reputation  of  parge. 


A  Bit  of  Normandy  on  the  North  Shore 


(Continued  from  page  45) 


The  main  house  is  at  one  corner  of 
the  square  and  the  stables  and  horse 
stalls  on  the  other.  Each  building  is 
designed  for  a  special  purpose  and  har- 
monizes with  the  others. 

One  of  the  central  features  of  the 
courtyard  is  the  large  vine-clad  well. 
The  well  curb  is  of  rough  stone  evenly 
set  in  mortar,  and  the  roof  over  it  is 
supported  by  four  stout  columns  of 
masonry.  There  is  a  welcome  invitation 
and  an  atmosphere  of  homelikeness  in 
the  very  presence  of  vines'  foliage. 

The  bareness  of  the  stone  and  the 
somewhat  heavy  architecture  of  the 
buildings  is  relieved  by  a  profusion  of 
ivy  and  woodbine.  Vines  are  not  used 
lo  cover  up  or  conceal  the  architecture, 
but  the  house  needs  their  softening  and 
toning  effect. 

On  the  highest  part  of  the  land,  across 
the  road  from  the  farm  colony,  is  the 
main  house,  one  of  the  largest  and  most 
beautiful  of  the  North  Shore  residences. 
This  also  was  planned  by  Mr.  White- 
house  with  the  assistance  of  Arthur 
Heun  of  Chicago. 

The  house  is  English  in  feeling,  built 
of  concrete  and  showing  half-timber  fin- 
ish, with  big  sloping  gambrels  from 
which  rise  chimneys  of  more  than  ordi- 
nary size,  attractive  loggias  and  bay 
windows  with  small,  diamond  shaped 
panes.  Massive  stone  pillars  support 
the  main  entrance  and  porte-cochere. 
Over  the  house  the  tendrils  of  soft  cling- 


ing vines  creep  upward,  lending  color  to 
the  rough  exterior.  Window  boxes  add 
much  to  the  picturesque  beauty  of  the 
whole. 

The  garden  also  is  English,  containing 
features  most  harmonious  with  the  rough 
landscape.  Tall  arrow-like  trees  which 
have  been  left  in  their  natural  state 
form  a  windbreak  for  the  tender  plants. 
All  underbrush  has  been  cleared  away 
and  wood  paths  lead  in  every  direction, 
a  delight  to  the  botanist  from  the  time 
of  the  first  blue-eyed  violet  to  the  late 
glow  of  the  goldenrod. 

Within  the  box  borders  is  an  infinite 
variety  of  plants,  the  tiny  bluebell,  state- 
ly hollyhock  and  soft  tinted  roses,  each 
adding  its  particular  charm.  In  the  cen- 
ter is  a  circular  basin  surrounded  by 
graceful  lilies,  and  dotted  here  and  there 
with  water  lilies.  Jets  of  water  from 
the  fountain  splash  softly  into  it.  Rus- 
tic masonry  is  shown  in  the  steps  at  the 
extreme  right  which  lead  to  a  lower 
terrace.  Here  is  cunningly  tucked  away 
one  of  the  most  attractive  of  tea  houses, 
thoroughly  in  tune  with  the  natural  sur- 
roundings. 

It  is  an  unusual  estate,  even  among 
the  many  effective  grounds  found  today 
along  the  North  Shore.  Its  simplicity 
and  marked  novelty  have  been  brought 
about  through  careful  study  of  natural 
environment  and  a  site  which  offers 
superb  views  of  rocky  headland,  ocean 
and  extensive  woodlands. 


Dwarf  Fruits  for  the  Small  Place 


(Continued  from  page  40) 


their  roots  pruned  while  in  a  dormant 
state.  However,  it  is  well  not  to  do 
this  without  the  advice  and  assistance 
of  a  good  nurseryman,  as  it  is  rather 
heroic  treatment.  The  best  soil  for 
dwarfs  is  rich  and  contains  plenty  of 
ground  bone,  muriate  of  potash  and 
guano.  About  400  pounds  each  of  the 
bone  and  potash,  and  100  pounds  of 
guano,  are  the  right  amounts  for  the 
average  acre. 

The  delicious  English  Morello  cherry 
grows  particularly  well  when  trained 
fan-shaped  against  the  sunny  side  of  a 
wall,  while  peaches  do  well  also  on  the 
south  side  of  a  brick  wall,  as  this  re- 
tains the  heat  of  the  sun  for  some  time 
after  nightfall.  Cherries  grown  on  glass 
walls  have  long  been  a  feature  of  gar- 
dening de  luxe  in  Germany. 

Instead  of  hiding  your  drying  yard 
with  ornamental  vines,  you  might  try 
a  screen  of  plum  trees  trained  to  a  sin- 
gle stem  or  cordon  and  planted  close 
together.  It  will  serve  the  two  purposes 
of  a  screen  and  a  source  of  delicious 
fruit  for  the  table  or  preserving.  Many 


other  practical  places  for  these  little 
trees  will  suggest  themselves. 

If  you  wish  to  grow  dwarf  fruit  trees 
for  ornamental  use  principally,  there  are 
no  limits  to  the  fanciful  shapes  which 
may  be  evolved  by  training  the  cordons 
on  a  flat  surface.  The  most  wonderful 
urns,  animals  and  geometrical  designs 
are  seen  in  the  large  estate  gardens  of 
Europe.  Any  decorative  scheme  is 
within  the  reach  of  the  amateur  gar- 
dener if  he  will  use  patience,  retarding 
the  growth  of  the  strong  branches  to 
enable  the  weaker  ones  to  catch  up, 
suppressing  useless  buds  on  strong  parts 
and  encouraging  them  on  the  weak. 
Depriving  the  too  strong  parts  of  light 
and  removing  fruit  from  the  weak 
shoots  to  stimulate  their  growth  will 
help  in  guiding  the  development  of  the 
tree. 

There  are  endless  interest  and  won- 
derful results  to  be  had  from  this  form 
of  fruit  culture.  It  is  suitable  for  the 
humblest  as  well  as  the  richest,  and  it 
becomes  almost  a  duty  in  this  era  of 
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Plate    144   Dcattr 
"Royal"  Gas  Ranyc 


Boil,   Roast,   Bake  and 

Toast  On  This   Range, 

All  At  One  Time 


Yes,  and  fry  too,  if  necessary.  Occupying 
the  least  available  amount  of  floor  space,  it 
will  help  you  prepare  a  complete  meal  that 
ordinarily  requires  a  range  at  least  double 
the  size.  This 


is  another  of  our  many  contributions  to  the  de- 
mands for  greater  efficiency  and  conveniences  in 
the  kitchen. 

The  surface,  covered  with  corrugated  removable 
bars,  has  six  burners.  The  main  oven,  22  inches 
wide  and  19  inches  deep,  is  plenty  large  enough  for 
a  turkey  or  large  roast.  In  the  shelf  is  a  broiler 
that  can  be  used  for  toasting,  open-fire  roasting 
and  browning,  and  a  roll  or  breakfast  oven  that  is 
just  the  right  size  for  a  pan  of  muffins  or  even  a 
small  roast. 

Deane  French  Ranges  are  built  of  Armco  rust- 
resisting  iron  with  polished,  hand-forged,  wrought- 
iron  trimmings.  They  are  free  from  needless  frills 
and  bright  surfaces  that  take  time  and  energy  to 
keep  clean.  They  use  the  minimum  of  fuel. 

Deane  "Royal"  Gas  Range  fills  every  requirement 
of  the  average  home. 

For  over  half  a  century,  we  have  specialized  in 
designing  kitchen  equipment  for  electricity,  coal 
and  gas,  singly  or  in  any  combination.  If  you  wish 
a  special  range  ask  for  our  portfolio,  "The  Heart 
of  the  Home."  If  you  want  more  information  on 
the  Deane  "Royal"  Gas  Range,  ask  for  Catalogue  34. 

BRAMHALL,  DEANE  Co, 

265-265  West  36th  SUfewYorkNY 


A  Remodelled  Mill  in  Massachusetts 


(Continued  jrom  page  39) 


mere,  blue-bordered,  its  cream  center 
embroidered  in  pink,  blue,  pale  green 
and  lavender,  lends  a  warm  note  to  the 
room,  duplicated  by  cretonne  curtains. 

Above,  the  guest  room  facing  the 
hills  shimmers  with  harmonious  tints  of 
green.  Cretonne  curtains  of  pale  green 
deepening  into  darker  shades  reveal  pink 
water  lilies  among  their  leaves.  Behind 
them  are  filmy  curtains  of  palest  yellow. 
Quaint  furniture  is  painted  a  darker 
green,  and  rag  carpets  cover  the  floor. 

Another  chamber,  looking  down  on 
the  stream  and  double  terraces,  being 
of  necessity  boyish,  has  hangings  of  wil- 
low design  with  yellow  daffodils  among 
grayish  stems.  Yellow  walls  panelled 
lightly  with  brown,  and  brown  old  fur- 
niture, render  the  room  both  gay  and 
serviceable.  But  with  all  this  simplicity 
throughout,  there  are  porcelain  tubs  in 
the  mill  today,  electricity  and  a  modern 
range,  comfortable  armchairs,  deep 
lounges  plentifully  supplied  with  cush- 
ions, and  every  invention  which  lightens 
labor  and  precludes  dirt. 

The  exterior  of  the  mill  is  of  equal 


importance.  A  garden  of  delight  is  in 
the  making.  Already  tall  hollyhocks 
blaze  against  the  gray  walls.  Japanese 
iris  raise  pale  faces  to  the  shadowing 
trees.  From  beneath  each  window  trail 
long  tendrils  of  hanging  nasturtiums. 
Ferns  preen  themselves  among  the  rocks, 
and  the  newly  made  lawn  grows  in 
velvety  softness  on  the  slope  of  land 
ending  among  the  willows.  Next  spring 
a  tall  hedge  of  lilacs  will  shelter  the  mill 
from  the  road,  with  a  latticed  arch  on 
which  Dorothy  Perkins  roses  will  clus- 
ter their  blossoms.  Over  the  great  wheel 
columbine,  honeysuckle  and  grapevines 
already  throw  their  airy  traceries  of  leaf 
and  flower. 

Below  the  .second  terrace  there  will 
soon  be  built  a  small  dam,  to  form  a 
deep  pool  where  one  may  enjoy  a  morn- 
ing bath  among  pink  and  yellow  pond 
lilies,  and  in  the  further  stretches  of  the 
land  Mr.  Daniel  Chester  French,  the 
sculptor,  is  to  lay  out  an  informal  gar- 
den in  which  shall  bloom  in  careless 
prodigality  all  the  old-fashioned  flowers 
dear  to  our  grandmothers'  hearts. 


Embroidered  Primers  of  the  Past 


(Continued  jrom  page  27) 


toria  and  Albert  Museum,  London,  this 
verse  is  worked: 

"Gay  dainty  flowers,  go  simply  to  decay, 
Poor  wretched  Life's  short  portion  flies 

away; 

We  eat,  we  drink,  we  sleep,  but  lo,  anon, 
Old  age  steals  on  us  never  thought 

upon." 

Perhaps  it  was  such  a  sampler  as  this 
that  lingered  in  Shakespeare's  mind 
when,  in  the  fourth  scene  of  the  sec- 
ond act  of  Titus  Andronicus,  he  has 
Marcus  say 

"Fair  Philomene,  she  but  lost  her  tongue, 
And   in   a   tedious  sampler   sewed  her 
mind." 

Gammer  Gurton's  Needle,  an  early 
English  drama,  written  by  John  Still, 
who  became  Bishop  of  Bath  and  Wells 
in  1593,  suggests  how  rare  were  needles 
in  the  early  part  of  the  16th  Century. 
This  will  account  for  our  finding  no 
samplers  of  an  earlier  period  extant. 
John  Skelton,  English  poet  (1460-1529), 
gives  us,  in  his  Garlande  of  Laurell,  the 
earliest  literary  reference  to  samplers 
that  I  have  been  able  to  find.  It  runs 
as  follows: 

"When   that   the  tapettis   and   carpettis 

were  layd 

Whereon  their  ladys  softly  myght  rest, 
The  saumpler  to  sew  on,  the  lacis  to 

embraid ; 
To  weve  in  the  stoule  some  were  full 

preste 
With  slaiis,  with  tauellis,  with  hedellis 

well  drest." 

Then,  perhaps,  only  the  rich  could  af- 
ford the  luxury  of  possessing  needles. 
Old  English  inventories  and  records 
of  various  sorts  repay  a  diligent  search 
with  bits  of  sampler  history,  as  the  fact 
that  in  July,  1S02,  Elizabeth  of  York 
"pais  eightpence  for  an  ell  of  linen  cloth 
for  samplers";  that  in  1S46  a  lady  be- 
queathes  to  "Alyes  Punchbeck,  my  sys- 
ter's  daughter,  my  sampler  with  semes"; 
that  in  1552  there  existed  a  sampler  of 
Normandy  canvas  wrought  with  green 
and  black  silk.  But  although  samplers, 
as  we  know  them,  were  originated  in  the 
reign  of  the  first  Charles,  the  one  of 
1638,  owned  by  Mrs.  Croly,  an  English 
collector,  and  one  dated  1643  in  the 
Victoria  and  Albert  Museum,  appear  to 
be  the  earliest  examples  that  have  come 
down  to  us. 


These  l"th  Century  samplers  all  ap- 
pear to  have  been  embroidered  on  long, 
narrow  strips  of  unbleached  linen.  An- 
other characteristic  is  their  patterned 
bands,  successively  arranged.  Occa- 
sionally drawnwork  was  introduced, 
now  and  then  a  sampler  of  drawnwork 
alone,  or  of  cutwork  resembling  the 
Italian  cutwork  sufficiently  to  be  mis- 
taken for  it.  Occasionally  raised  work 
was  employed.  As  in  later  samplers, 
specimens  of  lettering  were  worked  in 
these  17th  Century  samplers.  These 
early  samplers  were,  generally,  in  length 
three  times  their  width. 

With  the  18th  Century  there  were 
many  changes  in  sampler  forms.  By 
the  end  of  this  period  the  openwork  pat- 
tern disappears.  Eighteenth  Century 
samplers  became  pictorial,  in  the  ma- 
jority of  cases,  and  Bible  texts,  mot- 
toes and  rhymed  verses  were  introduced 
into  the  design.  I  know  of  no  dated 
sampler  of  the  type  of  17th  Century 
work  later  than  1704.  With  the  begin- 
ning of  the  18th  Century  a  yellowish 
linen  was  employed.  The  middle  of  this 
century  found  the  colors  used  in 
samplers  reduced  to  more  sombre  hues 
than  had  obtained  before.  By  1740 
the  all-around  borders,  introduced  about 
1728  had  become  universal,  and,  of 
course,  the  shape  of  the  sampler  had 
also  undergone  changes — or  more  prop- 
erly speaking,  was  to  be  found  in  many 
varied  forms. 

Sampler  cloth,  a  woolen  tammy,  re- 
placed linen  for  sampler  work  in  the 
mid- 18th  Century.  This  is  the  cloth 
which  is  thrice  mentioned  in  Oliver  Gold- 
smith's The  Vicar  of  Wakefield,  first 
published  in  1766.  In  the  early  part  of 
the  19th  Century  coarse  linen  for 
samplers  came  into  vogue  again.  On 
such  a  ground  a  little  girl  worked  the 
following  verse  in  threads  of  bright 
colored  silk: 

"Sarah  Bond  is  my  name 
And  England  is  my  nation, 
Bratby   is  my   dwelling-place 
And  Christ  is  my  salvation." 

"In  the  history  of  needlework,"  said 
Walter  Crane,  "no  less  than  in  that  of 
all  art,  one  may  follow  the  course  of 
human  history  upon  which  it  is  the  dec- 
orative commentary  and  accompani- 
ment." And  so  may  we  look  to  the 
sampler  as  such  a  commentary  and  ac- 
companiment in  that  it  conveys  hints  of 
the  age  which  produced  these  embroi- 
dered primers  of  our  ancestresses. 


December,     1920 


SETH  THOMAS 


Oil  may 
pect,andyou 
will  surely  find, 
the  epitome  of  the 
clock-maker's  art 
in  a  clock  bearing 
the  name 

SETH  THOMAS 


After  a  Chilly  Day 
-*1  tl.»  ^~  ~/_ 


on  the  Street- 
One's  instinctive  fondness 
for  a  rest-spot  for  tired  feet 
finds  ready  answer  in  this 
practical  device  as  hundreds 
of  home  owners  have  long 
since  proved.  If  you're  build- 
ing, remodelling  or  if  you've 
already  built,  drop  us  a  line 
—you're  sure  to  make  im- 
mediate installations  of  these 
Beaton  &  Cadwell  foot  rails. 


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of  every  type  and  design, 
nickel   plated,  and  sub- 
stantially constructed  of  heavy 
brass  tubing  and  pressed  steel 
brackets — strong    enough    to 
bear    an    adult's    weight. 
Standard    26     inch     lengths, 
$5.00   each — larger    sizes,    5c 
each  added  inch. 

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EARLY  ENGLISH  and  COLONIAL  REPRODUCTIONS 


ARTHUR   lOIHIl'MER  t  »«TH<Tivr./«Tu»i*>; 


ANDIRONS,    GRATES,    FENDERS    and    FIRE    BACKS 

1' I -I  I  ••       9      ttluMtrating      above       will      be      j  0  n  I       upon      request. 


THIS  Simonds  adapta- 
lion  of  an  old  English 
fireside  chair  is  an  excellent 
example  of  historic  atmos- 
phere retained  in  a  piece 
that  a  suitably  modern. 


The  art  of  reproducing 
all  the  beauty  and  charm 
of  the  antique  in  furniture 
for  homesof  today  is  partic- 
ularly an  achievement  of 
the  Elgin  A.  Simonds 
Company. 


Wherever  there  is  a 
food  furniture  shop 


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That  everyday,  plain  key  that  you  are  accustomed 
to  seeing  in  the  pantry  door — 

It  can  be  every  bit  as  much  a  YALE  key  as  that 
small,  flat  key  in  your  pocket. 

Maybe  more  so.  Because  maybe  that  small,  flat 
key  in  your  pocket  is  not  a  YALE  key  at  all — take 
a  look  at  it  and  see. 

Because  no  key  is  a  YALE  without  the  name 
YALE  graven  into  it. 

Shape  does  not  settle  identity,  but  the  presence  of 
the  name  does. 

In  future,  don't  worry  about  the  design  of  a  key  or 
a  lock  or  any  piece  of  builders'  hardware.  Hold  it 
up  to  your  eyes  and  buy  by  the  YALE  name  on  it. 

That's  the  test  for  the  best,  in  keys  that  are  flat  or 
keys  that  are  round. 

And  that's  the  test  for  all  that  is  finest  in  reputa- 
tion, invention,  design,  workmanship  and  material 
in  everything  else  that  is  made  by  the  makers  of 
YALE  keys :  Builders'  Locks  and  Hardware,  Bank 
Locks,  Padlocks,  Night  Latches,  Door  Closers  and 
Chain  Blocks. 


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"The  Moon 
B  r  id g  e,"  b y 
Helen  Hyde,  is 
distinctly  Japa- 
nese in  feeling. 
I  n  colors,  and 
especially  suit- 
able for  the  nur- 
sery. Ehrick 
Print  Caller:' 


Some  American  Wood  Block   Engravings 


(Continued  from  page  30) 


bad  judgment — the  product  of  the  new 
school  of  American  wood  block  gravers. 
The  wood  block  by  its  very  nature 
almost  has  to  be  decorative;  it  is  either 
that  or  worthless  for  any  purpose.  The 
reason  is  that  the  artist  in  cutting  it  has 
to  deal  with  masses  rather  than  lines, 
and  masses  show  up  on  a  wall.  Either 
for  good  or  bad,  they  show  up.  This 
boldness  of  technique  is  a  trait  common 
to  all  wood  blocks  except  those  done 
with  infinite  fineness  and  pains,  as,  for 
instance,  the  work  of  the  old  masters 
or  of  such  a  consummate  modern  crafts- 
man as  Timothy  Cole. 

The  cause  for  the  boldness  of  the 
wood  block  as  compared  with  the  unob- 
trusiveness  of  the  etching  and  the  litho- 
graph is  to  be  found  in  the  nature  of 
the  processes  used  in  production.  The 
artist  in  making  an  etching  takes  a  per- 
fectly smooth  piece  of  metal  and  with 
a  sharp  and  fine  instrument  incises  the 
surface.  He  keeps  in  mind  the  fact  that 
when  his  task  is  done,  the  piece  of  metal 
will  be  rubbed  with  ink  which  will  after- 
wards be  wiped  away,  leaving  only  so 
much  as  stays  in  the  depressions  made 
by  his  instrument.  It  is  only  the  ink 
that  stays  in  these  depressions  that  will 
be  transferred  to  the  paper  which  is 
"printed"  by  being  pressed  tightly  to 
the  block  until  it  absorbs  this  ink.  Thus 
it  will  be  seen  that  for  the  artist  to  pro- 
duce a  solid  mass  of  color  of  any  size 
is  an  impossibility.  The  nearest  he  can 
approximate  it  is  in  a  series  of  bold  lines 


placed  close  together.  An  etching  from 
the  very  nature  of  the  process  lends  itself 
to  fineness  and  delicacy  of  line  and  not 
to  mass. 

When  it  comes  to  making  a  litho- 
graph, it  is  possible  to  attain  boldness, 
as  Brangwyn  does,  but  the  natural  use 
of  the  medium  tends  to  delicacy  and 
that  grainy  appearance  which  is  readily 
recognized  as  the  lithograph's  most 
prominent  characteristic.  The  lithograph 
is  in  the  first  place  a  drawing,  trans- 
ferred from  the  stone  to  the  paper. 

But  when  the  artist  uses  the  wood 
block,  the  first  technical  consideration 
is  the  fact  that  whatever  part  of  the 
block  he  does  not  cut  away  with  his 
instrument  is  sure  to  be  printed  in  solid 
color  on  the  paper.  Whether  he  wills 
it  or  not,  he  is  compelled  to  think  of 
his  picture  in  terms  of  masses.  He  pro- 
duces his  composition  by  cutting  away 
masses  of  solid  color,  and  naturally  one 
of  the  first  problems  he  considers  is  the 
artistic  balancing  of  the  masses  he 
leaves  to  be  printed.  In  a  sense  he  is 
sculpturing  in  wood — creating  a  bas  re- 
lief, only  the  high,  flat  surfaces  of  which 
are  going  to  be  seen.  He  is  working  in 
a  plastic  material,  creating  form  as  he 
goes.  He  obtains  direct  effects,  which, 
because  of  their  directness,  are  all  the 
more  poignant.  There  is  nothing  fin- 
nicky  about  them. 

So  it  will  be  seen  that,  from  the  very 
nature  of  the  material  used,  the  wood 
(Continued  on  page  72) 


A  quaint  bit  of  olct  New  York  done  in  colors  by  R.  Ruzicka. 

It  is  printed  from  several  plates,  used  one  at  a  time — a 

method  different  from  that  producing  the  bold  masses  of 

the  newer  school 


December,     1920 


71 


so- 


GOOD taste  requires  that  your 
cial  stationer}-  be  as  correct  as 
the.  clothes  you  wear  to  formal  social 
functions. 

And  Hampshire  Stationery  is  not 
only  of  highest  quality — crisp,  crack- 
ling and  distinctive  in  "feel" — but  in 
shape,  surface,  and  texture,  it  is  in 
perfect  taste,  always.  A  box  of  sam- 
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They  come  in  sections — already 
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Don't  Guess — buy  Known  Quality 

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Gloves  that  wear  the  HAYS  Button  are  cut 
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stamped  on  a  HAYS  "outseam"  Glove  means  that  the 
glove  is  so  stitched  with  silk  that  the  seams  will  not  ravel 
even  though  the  thread  is  cut  or  broken. 

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Vlending  vith  the  color  tcheme  of  the 
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Some  American  Wood  Block   Engravings 


(Continued  from  page   70) 


Where  Lafayette 
Talked  to  Philadelphia 

FROM  the  balcony  of  this  old  Post  House  in  Phil- 
adelphia, where  the  stages  to  New  York  stopped 
for  passengers,  General  Lafayette  addressed  the 
citizens  during  his  triumphal  visit  to  the  United  States 
after  the  Revolution.    Just  beyond  the  extreme  right 
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block  tends  to  decorative  effects.  This, 
of  course,  does  not  preclude  the  idea  of 
illustration,  for  the  first  transcendent 
creative  wood  block  engraver,  Albrecht 
Durer,  though  a  master  of  decorative 
line,  was  at  the  same  time  the  greatest 
illustrator  the  world  has  ever  known, 
and  his  fame  is  undimmed  by  the  four 
centuries  that  have  passed  since  he  en- 
graved such  immortal  works  as  "Melan- 
cholia" and  "Knight,  Death  and  the 
Devil".  It  is  the  wood  block's  peculiar 
adaptability  to  decoration  that  is  making 
it  a  favorite  with  an  ever  growing  group 
of  American  artists  whose  work  is  just 
beginning  to  attract  due  attention. 

This  modern  use  of  the  wood  block 
really  owes  its  inspiration  to  Aubrey 
Beardsley,  although  that  revolutionist 
never  used  it  himself.  From  him  is  de- 
rived the  idea  that  books  should  be  dec- 
orated rather  than  illustrated.  In  his 
pen  and  ink  drawings  he  balanced  black 
masses  and  white  spaces,  and  as  for 
figures  and  costumes  he  did  not  hesitate 
to  sacrifice  literalness  for  decorative  ef- 
fect, the  result  being  a  fantastic  quality 
that  called  down  on  his  head  the 
anathemas  of  the  conservative.  The  idea 
prospered  and  spread,  as  every  lover  of 
fine  books  knows.  It  was  a  natural 
transition  from  the  book  decoration  to 
the  decorative  print  designed  for  the 
adornment  of  a  wall.  Some  artists  do 
both,  an  instance  being  John  J.  A. 
Murphy,  who  has  a  preeminent  place 
as  a  decorator  of  printed  words  and 
also  of  walls. 

The  New  American  School 

The  new  group  of  American  wood 
block  gravers  known  as  the  Province- 
town  School  is  composed  mainly  of 
women  and  devotes  itself  principally  to 
decorations  in  broad,  bold  masses,  and 
its  work  is  entitled  to  the  particular 
consideration  of  the  home  builder  who 
seeks  beautiful  and  positive  effects  at  a 
modest  cost. 

The  wood  blocks  of  the  Province- 
town  group  are  thoroughly  modern  in 
aspect  and  conception,  and  consequently 
there  is  an  up-to-dateness  in  their  use 
that  will  appeal  to  some  people  and, 
by  the  same  token,  may  prejudice  others 
against  them  for  a  time.  At  first  glance 
they  may  seem  extreme,  particularly  to 
the  person  who  is  in  the  habit  of  ex- 
pecting photographic  exactitude  in  a 
work  of  art.  But  in  reality  they  are 
not  extremist  works,  any  more  than  are 
Japanese  prints  or  those  matchless 
formal  decorations  that  were  used  in  the 
Middle  Ages  by  illuminators  to  decorate 
the  pages  of  manuscript  books.  Lib- 
erties are  taken  with  form,  but  merely 
in  the  interest  of  decoration,  as  similar 
liberties  were  taken  with  the  leaves  of 
the  oak  and  the  laurel  by  the  ancient 
Greeks.  These  wood  blocks  should  be 
considered  solely  as  esthetic  notes  for 
the  wall,  either  in  consideration  of  their 
design,  when  they  are  in  black  and 
white,  or  in  consideration  of  their  color 
and  design  when  .they  are  in  colors. 

The  work  of  the  wood  block  artists 
is  of  especial  importance  inasmuch  as 
it  is  a  part  of  the  new  movement  in 
America  to  get  away  from  the  inspira- 
tionless  machine-made  art  that  confronts 
the  citizen  on  every  hand  and  beguiles 
him  when  he  seeks  to  furnish  his  home. 
Printing-press  art,  set  off  in  cheap 
frames,  is  purveyed  to  the  people  by 
tons  and  tons  at  the  department  stores 
and  novelty  shops.  But  they  can  no 
more  satisfy  the  person  who  truly  loves 
art  than  mercerized  cotton  can  please 
the  woman  who  loves  fine  silk,  or  col- 
ored glass  suffice  for  him  who  loves 
the  glow  of  a  real  gem. 

Department  store  prints  are  cheap, 
but  there  is  not  so  much  difference  in 
price  between  them  and  the  "real  thing" 
that  it  ought  to  be  an  obstacle  to  the 


man  or  woman  who  desires  the  best.  A 
few  dollars  will  buy  these  imitations  in 
their  standardized  frames,  but  a  very 
few  more  dollars  will  buy  a  work  by  a 
recognized  artist.  The  very  best  work 
of  the  new  wood-block  folks  can  be  had 
from  $18  to  $50,  and  when  it  is  con- 
sidered that  one  placed  here  and  there 
on  the  walls  will  have  a  vastly  better 
decorative  effect  than  the  many  printing- 
press  prints  that  are  frequently  used  to 
overload  the  walls,  the  difference  in  cost 
of  the  good  and  the  bad  sometimes  dis- 
appears altogether. 

The  ordinary  commercial  print  may 
be  a  fine  example  of  the  pressman's  skill, 
but  it  can  never  compare  in  crispness 
and  beauty  with  the  individual  proof 
the  artist  prints  himself,  with  colors  he 
mixes  with  rice  paste,  from  blocks  that 
he  has  cut.  There  is  something  com- 
pletely mechanical  about  the  first,  while 
the  latter  is  completely  individual,  a 
thing  symbolized  by  the  actual  signature 
of  the  artist,  always  done  with  a  pencil 
beneath  the  picture.  The  one  is  like 
the  human  voice  imitated  by  the  phono- 
graph, while  the  latter  is  as  the  human 
voice  itself,  together  with  a  hand-clasp. 

The  wood  block  print  is  only  one 
process  removed  from  the  brain  of  the 
artist.  He  cuts  his  design  by  means  of 
a  sharp  instrument  in  the  wood.  Then 
the  ink  is  applied  carefully  by  hand — 
and  most  carefully  indeed  where  two  or 
more  colors  are  applied  to  the  same 
block.  The  paper  is  spread  over  the 
block,  pressed  tightly  against  the  sur- 
face and  rubbed,  then  removed,  the 
print  being  complete.  In  some  instances 
where  more  delicate  color  values  are  de- 
sired, the  artist  cuts  two  or  more 
blocks,  in  which  case  the  utmost  exact- 
ness is  necessary  in  placing  the  paper 
on  the  blocks  so  as  to  get  the  extra 
impressions  in  the  right  places  in  rela- 
tion with  the  first.  But  in  the  sketchy 
work  of  the  Provincetown  School  only 
one  block  is  cut,  valleys  being  left  in 
the  wood  between  the  surfaces  where 
different  colors  are  used.  This  adds  to 
the  boldness  of  the  masses  used,  and 
aids  the  decorative  effect. 

Where  Wood  Blocks  Fit 

The  wood  block  prints  are  appropriate 
in  any  room  of  the  house  except  in  the 
serious  stateliness  of  a  library,  where 
black  and  white  engravings  are  de- 
sirable, or  in  the  formal  atmosphere  of 
reception  or  drawing  rooms,  where 
paintings  are  almost  inevitable.  They 
are  of  particular  decorative  value  in  the 
bedroom,  where  the  more  delicate  and 
tender  designs  are  preferred;  in  the 
dining  room,  where  their  luscious  quality 
is  at  home;  in  the  living  room,  where 
the  owner  can  give  full  vent  to  his  deco- 
rative sense  and  his  own  predilections, 
and  in  the  nursery,  where  the  fantastic 
quality  of  certain  of  them  make  a  never 
ending  delight  for  children.  Even  hall- 
ways that  are  inclined  to  be  gloomy  can 
be  brightened  up  with  wood  block 
prints  in  gay  colors. 

Care  should  be  taken  not  to  use  too 
many,  as  owing  to  their  positive  quali- 
ties their  decorative  influence  is  far 
reaching,  and  often  a  single  one  on  a 
wall  is  all  that  is  needed.  They  should 
be  hung  with  special  regard  to  the 
furniture.  Owing  to  their  masses,  they 
complement  the  outlines  of  furniture, 
and  often  their  exact  place  on  the  wall 
is  determined  by  what  stands  under 
them  or  what  is  in  the  corners  of  the 
room.  It  should  be  remembered  that 
wood  block  prints  are  never  placed  in 
a  room  because  of  themselves  alone,  but 
always  because  they  throw  in  a  note 
that  helps  the  ensemble. 

The  frame  of  a  wood  block  print 
should  not  be  seen — that  is,  it  should 
be  so  unobtrusive  as  not  to  divert  at- 
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Some  American  Wood  Block  Engravings 


(Continued  from  page  72) 


tention  from  the  print  or  from  anything 
else  in  the  room.  The  frame  and  the 
mat — for  prints  usually  require  mats — 
merely  afford  a  transition  from  the  print 
to  the  wall  and  should  join  the  two  in 
a  harmonious  and  unobtrusive  way. 

It  is  difficult  to  consider  the  subject 
of  the  new  school  of  wood  blocks  with- 
out scolding  the  dealers  in  prints.  The 
art  stores  have  neglected  them  and 
almost  ignored  them,  so  that  when  the 
home  builder  in  the  past  has  desired  to 
obtain  them  he  has  had  to  go  either  to 
the  artists  themselves  or  to  one  of  the 
exhibitions  the  artists  arrange  period- 
ically through  their  societies.  The  art 
dealer  finds  it  more  profitable  to  get 
his  customers  interested  in  prints  that 
sell  for  higher  prices,  such  as  etchings 
by  Zorn,  Brangwyn,  Fitton  and  Haig. 
However,  in  spite  of  this  drawback,  the 
wood  block  folk  have  obtained  a  hearing 
for  themselves.  It  is  well  worth  while 
for  the  prospective  purchaser  to  go  to  a 


little  extra  trouble.  It  adds  to  the  pleas- 
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provides  a  zest  akin  to  the  hunting 
fervor  of  the  real  collector. 

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artists  is  Arthur  W.  Dow,  now  an  in- 
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Hopkins.  Daphne  Dunbar,  Eleanor 
Schorer,  Marguerite  Zorach,  Elizabeth 
Colwell,  Mildred  Fritz,  Eliza  D.  Gar- 
diner, Ada  Gilmore,  Florence  Ivins, 
Ilonka  Karasz,  Mildred  McMillen,  Flora 
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Outstripping      the      Gale 

(Continued  jrom  page  46) 


made  of  non-corroding,  non-rustable 
metals  such  as  zinc,  bronze  and  copper, 
and  they  keep  their  elasticity  plus  non- 
leakage  qualities  as  long  as,  and  some- 
times longer  than,  the  building  itself. 

Every  type  of  door  and  every  type 
of  window  present  different  problems, 
and  every  window  or  door  of  each  type 
has  again  different  problems,  so  to  each 
there  must  be  different  applications. 
The  following  will  explain  more  particu- 
larly than  the  foregoing. 

The  Sliding  Window 

The  sliding  window  is  the  most  gen- 
eral type  to  be  treated. 

Here  the  top  and  bottom,  sides  and 
meeting  rail  must  be  considered.  How 
to  stop  leakage  and  seal  against  unwel- 
come callers  are  the  problems. 

At  the  top  of  the  window,  as  in  the 
illustration,  two  strips  are  used;  the 
tubular  protuberance  in  the  head  of  the 
frame  nestles  cosily  in  the  depressed 
concavity  of  the  window  sash.  Some 
brands  line  the  depression  with  metal — 
others  do  not. 

When  the  window  is  closed,  there  is 
a  complementary  interlocking  device  at 
the  rail  where  the  upper  and  lower  sash 
meet,  often  in  the  upper  sash  of  S 
shaped  bronze  and  in  the  lower  sash  a 
hook-shaped  copper  strip. 

The  side  of  the  frame  upon  which  the 
window  is  raised  and  lowered  is  a  real 
problem.  The  weather  stripping  makes 
the  window  weather-proof,  yet  it  makes 
it  open  and  shut  easier  than  it  could 
before  the  application  of  the  strip. 

In  some  brands  the  frame  lining  and 
sash  lining  are  of  metal.  In  some  only 
the  frame  is  metal  lined.  In  some  the 
frame  is  corrugated  and  the  window 
sash  slides  up  and  down  easily  as  the 
protuberance  slides  into  the  depression 
in  the  unlined  sash  furrow.  In  another 
brand  two  metal  tubular  strips  are 
used,  the  metal  protuberance  fitted  into 
a  metal  lined  depression.  Here  the  win- 
dow slides  easily  and  no  amount  of 
warping  can  disturb  the  nice  adjust- 
ment. In  such  weather  strips  are  cre- 
ated conditions  which  absolutely  pre- 
vent the  side  action  of  windows,  so  hard 
to  cure  with  carpentry  or  cheap  types 
of  weather  strips. 

The  lower  sash  is  managed  as  is  the 
upper,  only  the  strips  are  reversed. 

Other  Cases 

The  casement  window  has  its  pecu- 
liarities of  treatment,  as  have  doors  and 
windows  which  open  in  the  center. 


In  the  casement  which  opens  in,  for 
example,  a  brass  triangle  is  provided 
with  "weep  holes"  to  drain  out  any 
water  which  may  accumulate  on  the  sill 
and  follow  through  into  the  room.  The 
meeting  rail  is  sealed  in  a  way  approxi- 
mately as  in  the  sliding  window. 

The  sill  strip  is  peculiarly  shaped  to 
spring  into  its  sealing  power;  sometimes 
it  is  called  a  Z-shaped  plate,  each  manu- 
facturer having  his  own  name  and  pet 
plan. 

Doors 

The  door  sills  are  made  with  metal, 
and  metal  strips  forming  a  sealed  joint 
against  warping,  settling  air,  etc.  There 
is  a  very  nice  device  used  to  prevent 
the  cold  air  let  into  the  bedroom  at 
night  from  escaping  into  the  halls  and 
cooling  them  off.  On  the  lower  edge  of 
the  door  is  fitted  a  spring  which  when 
the  door  is  closed  by  contact  with  the 
hinged  side  of  the  frame  releases  a  felted 
pad  which  fits  tightly  against  the  sill  of 
the  door.  This  makes  one's  winter  im- 
mersions a  pleasure,  for  the  bathroom, 
if  you  have  one  connecting  with  your 
room,  as  well  as  the  hall  will  be  warm 
for  your  morning  use. 

Application 

Weather  strips  can  be  applied  after  as 
well  as  when  the  house  is  built. 

"My  house  is  so  well  built,"  said  a 
friend  of  mine,  "that  it  does  not  need 
weather  stripping."  If  that  could  have 
been  so,  it  was  a  unique  house.  There 
is  hardly  a  house  where  the  wood 
around  the  doors  and  the  windows  does 
not  warp  or  shrink  or  do  something 
equally  obnoxious.  Whether  seasoned 
by  long  processes  of  actual  weathering 
or  rapidly  kiln  dried,  wood  in  captivity 
becomes  restless,  and  seems  to  strain  and 
struggle  in  its  fury.  Nothing  can  be 
said  against  the  builder — it  is  the  nature 
of  wood.  The  builder  is  always  glad 
to  install  the  strips  because  then  the 
owner  does  not  get  a  chance  to  feel 
antagonistic  on  account  of  recalcitrant 
windows,  difficult  heating,  etc.,  and  is 
therefore  relieved  from  grumbling. 

The  weather  strip  must  be  put  on  by 
the  experts  from  the  manufacturers  of 
the  brand  of  weather  strips  that  you 
buy.  Do  not  call  in  your  favorite  car- 
penter or  plumber,  for  ne  cannot  do  it 
right.  The  putting  on  of  weather  strips 
is  a  science  in  itself.  They  must  be  put 
on  so  as  to  insure  a  uniform  efficiency 
during  the  inevitable  warpings,  shrink- 
(Continued  on  page  76) 


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Outstripping      the      Gale 

(Continued  from  page  74) 


ings  and  swellings  of  the  window.  The 
windows  have  to  be  conditioned  care- 
fully because  the  stripping  must  be  so 
fixed  that  it  can  be  removed,  if  neces- 
sary to  do  anything  to  the  window  it- 
self afterwards,  such  as  fitting  new  pul- 
ley cords,  etc.  Every  window  and  door 
offers  different  problems,  so  an  expert 
must  apply  the  strips  to  your  window 
and  door.  This  is  not  a  commodity 
that  a  baby  can  affix — it's  a  man  sized 
job. 

Purchasing 

Remember  the  weather  stripping  that 
you  buy  should  last  as  long  as  the  life 
of  your  house.  For  this  reason  the  all 
metal  kind  is  the  best  to  buy.  The 
metal  and  'cloth  are  efficient  as  long  as 
they  last,  and  so  are  other  combinations ; 
but  they  do  not  last  long  enough.  You 
must  get  a  longevity  insurance.  They 
must  be  made  of  non-rusting,  non-cor- 
roding materials  such  as  bronze,  copper, 
zinc  or  brass  manufactured  to  a  high 
degree  of  dependability,  and  subjected 
to  the  most  rigid  inspection  and  tests 
for  accuracy,  thereby  awarding  the 
buyer  a  rich  guarantee. 

Find  out  from  users  of  the  brand  you 
think  you  will  buy,  before  you  buy,  and 
see  what  they  say  and  what  their  ex- 
perience has  been. 

Weather  strips  can  be  put  on  any 
opening,  and  should  the  purveyor  you 
speak  to  say  this  or  that  opening  can- 
not be  properly  stripped,  that  is  your  cue 
for  seeking  elsewhere.  Buy  only  from 
established  makers,  who  will  be  in  busi- 
ness for  years — because  in  twenty  or 
thirty  years  you  might  want  a  window 
adjusted. 

Early  in  this  article  mention  was 
made  of  the  saving  in  fuel  by  Uncle 
Sam.  Professor  Allen,  of  the  Research 
Laboratory  of  The  American  Society  of 
Heating  and  Ventilating  Engineers,  in  a 
letter  to  the  writer  said: 

"Roughly  with  ordinary  good  house 
conditions  we  can  say  that  the  air  in  a 
room  changes  every  hour  due  to  leak- 
age around  windows.  With  good  weather 
strips  you  reduce  the  leakage  very  con- 
siderably. Of  course,  this  depends  upon 
:he  type  of  construction  in  the  house. 
Some  years  ago  I  installed  a  complete 
system  of  weather  stripping  in  an  entire 
nstitution  and  we  roughly  estimated 
:hat  the  saving  of  fuel  was  about  15%." 
Since  then  other  tests  have  been  made 
to  bring  the  percentage  of  saving  of 
fuel  from  15%  to  40%. 

When  you  think  that  a  window  shade 
<eeps  in  19.2%  of  warm  air,  think  what 
the  fitted  metal  and  interlocking  strips 
can  do. 

The  weather  strip  not  only  keeps  the 
cold  air  out  but  actually  by  not  ad- 
mitting the  cold  air  allows  the  heated 
air  inside  to  maintain  the  moisture 
necessary  for  comfort.  With  the  ad- 
mission of  cold  air  the  moisture  is  pre- 


cipitated from  the  air  and  we  have  not 
got  the  proper  humidity  necessary  to  be 
happy.  The  moisture  in  the  home  comes 
from  water  evaporation  in  kitchen  lava- 
tories, air  itself  which  comes  in,  etc. 

The  warm  air  can  carry  the  humidity, 
but  the  cold  air  does  not  do  it  as  well, 
and  when  it  strikes  the  warm  air  the 
latter  is  forced  to  condense. 

Comfort  is  the  main  thing  in  the 
home,  even  more'  sometimes  than  saving 
fuel  bills. 

"Comfort,"  says  Professor  Allen  in  an 
address,  "is  the  prime  consideration, 
more  than  maintaining  a  definite  tem- 
perature. Getting  the  temperature  right 
brings  comfort.  We  should  aim  at  40% 
to  50%  of  moisture  in  the  winter  with 
68  to  70  degrees." 

The  fact  is  that  the  heating  engineer 
today  allows  for  about  y$  more  heating 
area  when  the  house  is  not  weather 
stripped.  And  then,  sad  to  relate,  at 
this  consequent  extra  expense  the  house 
will  be  probably  unevenly  heated,  be- 
cause some  rooms  will  have  big  window 
and  door  leaks  and  other  rooms  little 
leaks,  so  there  will  be  overheating  in 
some  rooms  and  underheating  in  others. 

Another  engineer  said,  "I  have  caught 
snow  in  my  hand  at  a  distance  of  two 
feet  from  a  tightly  locked  window  in  a 
house  supposed  to  have  better  than 
ordinary  construction. 

"What can  better  this  condi- 
tion? Weather  strips,  metal  weather 
strips  ..." 

He  also  said  in  the  same  address  on 
heating  the  home  that  the  builder  did 
all  he  could  do,  with  the  materials  he 
had.  So  there  is  the  dilemma ! 

The  storm  window  can  often  be  ob- 
viated by  weather  strips.  The  storm 
window  is  much  more  of  a  nuisance  than 
the  appliqued  weather  strips.  Who  wants 
to  add  another  set  of  windows  to  be 
cleaned?  And  who  enjoys  the  manipu- 
lation of  them  in  rush  moments  of  storm 
and  wind? 

For  Wind,  Dust  and  Noise 

The  weather  strip  is  the  solution  of 
the  gale  exposed  home,  of  the  noise,  dust 
and  weather  exposed  home,  of  any  home 
with  windows  at  all.  It  is  not  subject 
to  depreciation  but  increases  in  value, 
and  as  the  house  depreciates  the  weather 
stripping  takes  on  the  burdens  of  the 
ever  increasing  depreciation  and  prevents 
any  more  rapid  fuel  consumption,  keeps 
down  the  dust  infiltrations  and  lessens 
the  cleaning  bills.  If,  by  chance,  the 
woodwork  is  still  obstreperous  the  de- 
fect can  always  be  corrected,  if  a  good 
brand  of  stripping  has  been  used. 

In  other  words,  weather  strips  are  a 
good  investment.  Good  weather  strips, 
like  any  good  material,  are  a  good  in- 
vestment. 

Much  of  our  trouble  with  the  heat  in 
our  homes  comes  from  the  impossibility 
(Continued  on  page  78) 


December ,     1920 


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KANSAS  CITY  SEATTLE 

New  York  Life  Bldg.  Smith  Bldg. 


Outstripping      the 

(Continued  from  page  76) 


Gale 


of  even  heating.  Do  what  he  will,  the 
furnace  man  cannot  seem  to  heat  the 
house.  Often  we  say:  "Why  do  you 
burn  so  much  coal  and  give  us  so  little 
heat?"  There  may  be  other  causes,  but 
the  lack  of  weather  stripping  is  very 
prone  to  be  one. 

Quiet  and  Cleanliness 

The  charm  of  the  house  is  quiet. 
Don't  we  all  unconsciously  gauge  the 
dignity  of  the  homes  that  we  visit  by 
the  quiet  of  them? 

The  weather  strip  keeps  much  of  the 
street  noises  out.  It  dulls  and  reduces 
the  raucousness  of  the  clang  and  clatter. 

Every  housewife  knows  that  the  hang- 
ings next  to  the  windows  get  very  dirty. 
She  also  knows  that  the  room  gets  full 
of  dust  whether  the  windows  are  closed 
or  not.  A  certain  amount  of  dust  will 
.set  into  the  room  no  matter  what  pre- 


cautions are  taken,  but  there  will  be 
less  of  it  when  weather  stripping  is  ap- 
plied to  the  windows.  This  is  a  con- 
sideration worthy  of  notice,  as  the  ser- 
vant problem  today  makes  all  effort  in 
the  home  more  arduous  and  the  less 
cleaning  there  is  to  be  done  the  better 
for  all  concerned. 

Weather  strips  are  not  a  luxury.  They 
save  money  and  give  comfort  by  main- 
taining an  equal  temperature  and  hu- 
midity, and  by  permitting  more  quiet, 
less  drafts  and  a  minimum  of  dust. 
Finally,  the  weather  strip  is  a  good  in- 
vestment and,  although  not  intrinsically 
a  thing  of  beauty,  is  a  thing  of  duty  and 
lasts  forever. 

But  remember  weather  strips  are  easy 
to  make — cheap  ones.  There  are  many 
mushroomic  dealers — born  today  and 
dead  tomorrow.  Beware  of  them  and 
buy  the  best. 


The  Gazebo  and  the  Garden  Wall 


(Continued  from  page  35) 


the  south  and  east.  The  lower  portion 
is  used  to  house  horticultural  imple- 
ments. 

The  other  gazebo,  with  an  outside 
staircase  and  beautiful  wrought-iron 
balustrade,  besides  affording  an  agree- 
able lookout  and  a  place  to  sit,  was 
meant  to  contain  an  aviary.  The  clock 
at  the  top  chimes  the  hours  and  the 
quarters. 

The  gazebo  at  Avenue  House — de- 
signed by  Sir  William  Chambers  and 
originally  part  of  the  garden  equipment 
at  Houghton  Towers — backed  against 
a  wall  of  trees,  fittingly  terminates  the 
vista  up  a  long  walk.  From  an  archi- 
tectural point  of  view  it  really  makes 
this  garden,  or  rather  this  small  park; 
as  an  accessory  of  daily  convenience  it 
is  of  distinct  utility,  and  the  writer  can 
personally  testify  to  the  comfort  of 
often  sitting  there  to  work  in  quiet, 
unbroken  save  for  the  bells  of  the 
church  near  by  striking  the  quarter 
hours. 

The  little  stone  structure  at  The 
Court,  in  Broadway,  is  merely  a  tool- 
house  for  the  gardener,  but  it  imparts 
not  a  little  architectural  value  to  the 
general  composition  by  the  simple  dig- 
nity it  brings  to  the  termination  of  the 
garden  wall.  The  other  little  building 
of  brick,  in  an  angle  of  the  walled  gar- 


den at  Shottery  Manor,  is  a  dovecote 
above  and  a  tool-house  below — both 
humble,  though  immensely  useful,  func- 
tions— but,  apart  from  this,  it  gives  an 
interest  to  that  garden  out  of  all  pro- 
portion to  the  small  outlay  of  labor  and 
cost  it  originally  involved.  Indeed,  in 
every  instance  noted,  the  interest  con- 
tributed by  these  small  garden  struc- 
tures, quite  aside  from  their  manifest 
utilitarian  services,  is  sufficient  to  justify 
their  existence  and  commend  them  to 
favorable  consideration. 

The  connection  between  gazebos  and 
garden  walls  is  so  intimate  that  one  can- 
not forbear  adding  a  few  words  touch- 
ing the  fundamental  logic  and  wisdom 
of  a  practice  against  which,  curiously 
enough,  some  display  of  prejudice  crops 
up  every  now  and  again — the  enclosing 
of  gardens  with  a  barrier  more  substan- 
tial than  a  hedge  or  an  iron  paling. 

First  of  all,  a  walled  garden  gives  a 
degree  of  protection  and  shelter  rarely 
obtained  in  a  garden  less  effectually  en- 
closed. It  also  collects  and  holds  the 
heat  in  chilly  weather  so  that  the  plants 
within  it  come  into  bloom  earlier  in  the 
spring  and  last  later  into  the  autumn 
than  where  there  is  less  substantial  pro- 
tection. The  walls  themselves  make  the 
best  possible  support  for  vines  or,  if 
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At  The  Court,  Broadway,  is  a  little 
Cotswold  type  of  building,  an  excellent 
termination  to  strengthen  the  appear- 
ance of  the  garden  wall.  It  is  designed 
to  keep  garden  tools 


December,     1920 

Oriental  Rug  Essentials 

WITHOUT    WHICH,     NOTHING: 

1 .  Honesty :    Age    proves 
merit;  new  rugs  are  acid- 
washed,  ironed.    Old  rugs 
were    better    made,    finer 
material,  no  aniline  dye. 

2.  Quality:  Thick  like  plush, 
rich  in  color,  no  blending, 
no  stain. 

3.  Beauty:    No    raw    tones, 
velvety  luster  and  texture, 
artistic  design. 

4.  Condition:    No  holes,  no 
worn     spots,     no     ragged 
edges  or  ends. 

5.  Fineness:  Not  a  factor  ex- 
cept between  rugs  of  same 
name,  and  then  only  when 
other  factors  equal.     We 
can  not  compare  Anatoli- 
ans with  Persians;  we  buy 
both     and     for    different 
reason. 

6.  Rarity:     Buy  no  rug  for 
rarity  of  name;  buy  only 
rarity  of  beauty,   quality, 
condition. 

My  rugs  arc  their  own  salesmen,  war- 
ranting my  paying  express. 
My  customers  are  experts  who  do  not 
look   elsewhere   anymore. 
Write   for   descriptive    list.      Rnys   sent    on 
approval  for   inspection  without  any   obliya- 
tion  to   buy. 

L.  B.  LAWTON 

Skaneateles  New  York 

Thousands   of  Dollars  worth   of  rugs  sold 

to    House    &    Garden    readers    in    the    past 

ten    years. 


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Vacant   Corner 
in  Your   Heart? 

It  doesn't  take  much 
room  for  a  puppy.  He 
can  creep  into  a  very 
crowded  heart  —  a  very 
sophisticated  burglar- 
proof  heart.  You  mayn't 
have  loved  a  soul  in 
twenty  years.  .  .  . 

He  just  wags  his  tail  and 
walks  right  in. 

Of  course  it  must  be  the 
right  puppy.  (But  we 
know  him.)  And  the 
right  heart.  (But  you've 
got  it.)  Just  drop  a  line 
to 

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Dealers  in 

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Leavens   Furniture 

The  careful,  d!scriiiilii;itiiic  pur- 
chaser pinna  a  home  Unit  will  become 
more  beautiful  as  the  years  go  by — 
which  both  In  exterior  and  interior 
appearance  will  take  on  additional 
cburm  as  it  grows  older. 

He  selects 
Leavens 

Colonial 

Furniture 

for  Interiors  knowing  that  like  the 
house  Itself  this  wonderful  furniture 
will  crow  old  gracefully — remaining 
always  in  vogue  and  satisfying  even 
the  most  fastidious  taste. 

Personal  preference  may  be  exer- 
cised in  the  matter  of  finish.  We  will 
gladly  supply  unfinished  pieces  if  de- 
sired to  be  finished  to  match  any  in- 
terior. 

Write  for  set  No.  4  of  Illustrations 
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permanent.  They  shel- 
ter not  only  one  genera- 
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They  are  warmer  in 
winter,  cooler  in  sum- 
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The  Gazebo  and  the  Garden  Wall 


(Continued  from  page  78) 


PLUM   PUDDINGS 

"PLUM  PUDDING"  is  an  institution.  Through  long  ages  it  has 
symbolized  Yuletide  rejoicing.  "PLUM  PUDDING"  still  plays 
the  leading  role  in  the  good  cheer  that  adorns  the  festive  Christ- 
mas table.  For  four  generations  Dean's  Plum  Puddings  have 
ruled  supreme.  The  masterly  combination  of  the  very  choicest 
ingredients  is  the  secret.  Made  in  half-melon  shapes  from  Dean's 
own  recipe.  Prices  $2.00,  $3.00,  $4.00,  $5.00,  $6.00,  $7.00. 

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The  Kestful  Corner 

The  most  comfortable  corner  of  the  Living 
Room  is  incomplete  without  a  Reading  Lamp. 
One  that  is  simple  in  design,  yet  pleasing  to  look 
upon  is  a  charming  accessory  to  a  restful  chair. 
A  Read- Right  Booklet  is  yours  for  the  asking. 

For  sale  at  good  furniture  stores 
and  interior  decorators,  or  direct  of 

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25  West  45th  Street.  New  York  City 
Factory  at   Milwaukee.  Wisconsin 


one  chooses,  for  espaliered  fruit  trees 
or  shrubs.  • 

The  next  great  asset  is  privacy.  The 
flower  garden  is,  before  all  else,  an 
intimate  place  to  be  kept  for  the  delight 
of  one's  family  and  friends  and  not  to 
be  exposed  to  the  rude  gaze  of  passers- 
by.  It  is  too  personal  a  thing  for  that 
and,  since  its  aspect  is  more  or  less  of 
a  personal  revelation,  entrance  into  it 
ought  to  be  within  the  owner's  power 
to  control.  The  garden  is  a  haven  to 
be  gained  and  access  thereto  a  privilege 
and  a  mark  of  friendship  to  be  conferred 
on  those  worthy  of  the  favor.  To 
spread  it  forth  unscreened  to  the  public 
eye  is  much  like  telling  all  one's  private 
affairs  to  the  first  chance  comer  that 
will  lend  an  ear.  If  the  garden  be  not 
private,  half  its  restfulness  and  all  its 
proper  reserve  are  gone.  And  the  world 
does  not  resent  the  wall  and  the  privacy 
it  gives;  rather  are  its  respect  and  a 
stimulating  curious  desire  aroused. 

Furthermore,  definite  bounds  give  not 
only  a  sense  of  completeness  to  the  space 
contained,  but  also  have  a  wholesome 


psychological  effect  in  that  they  spur 
the  owner  to  the  fullest  intensive  culture 
and  development  of  which  the  space 
is  capable  and,  in  fact,  act  as  a  filip  to 
ingenuity  and  resourcefulness. 

Last  of  all,  the  wall  oftentimes  serves 
as  an  indispensable  link  between  the 
house  and  the  gazebo  or  whatever  other 
structure  may  have  to  be  taken  into  ac- 
count, and  is  a  necessary  element  to 
the  completeness  of  the  architectural 
composition.  Whether  the  wall  be  of 
brick,  of  stone,  or  of  stucco,  it  assumes 
in  time  a  patina  or  character  of  surface 
that  becomes  increasingly  beautiful  with 
the  lapse  of  years,  as  those  well  ac- 
quainted with  old  garden  walls  can  tes- 
tify. It  is  produced  by  the  clinging  of 
tendrils,  by  the  growth  of  mosses  and 
lichens,  and  most  of  all  by  the  little  holes 
and  irregularities  left  by  generations  of 
gardeners  tacking  vines  against  it.  No 
matter  what  the  material  of  the  wall 
may  be,  it  can  be  made  in  itself  a 
source  of  no  little  architectural  interest 
and  satisfaction,  a  distinct  asset  to  the 
appearance  of  the  place. 


Romantic  Gifts  of  Other  Days 

(Continued  from  page  21) 


dential  friend  of  Joseph,  is  a  gray 
marble  table  of  the  pedestal  type. 
We  know  that  the  Judge,  who  man- 
aged the  estates  of  the  ex-king  in 
America,  was  the  recipient  of  a  gift 
from  him  of  a  valuable  painting  of 
still  life  by  Snyders.  The  interior  of 
Point  Breeze  near  Bordentown,  where 
Joseph  dwelt  for  fourteen  years,  was 
filled  with  rare  tapestries,  furniture  and 
paintings,  many  of  them  given  to 
Joseph  by  Cardinal  Fesch,  and  it  was 
among  these  treasures  that  Lafayette  was 
acclaimed  so  enthusiastically  by  the 
people  of  that  vicinity  upon  the  occa- 
sion of  his  call  upon  the  ex-king  in  the 
days  of  his  memorable  return  to  the 
country  he  had  aided  in  her  need. 
Esther  Singleton's  most  interesting  book, 
"The  Furniture  of  Our  Forefathers," 
quotes  from  Levasseur's  Lafayette  in 


America  concerning  this  historic  oc- 
casion. 

In  this  book  is  pictured  also  a  heavy 
mahogany  chair  from  the  library  of  Na- 
poleon I  that  was  given  by  Louis 
Philippe  to  the  Marquise  de  Marigny 
of  New  Orleans. 

Romance  now  gilds  even  the  gifts  of 
the  Victorian  era,  that  period  of  bad 
taste  so  recently  exploited  as  to  be  in 
danger  of  a  fashionable  renaissance,  but 
they  shall  not  be  granted  space  here. 
Time  enough  when  age  has  softened  the 
heavy  curse  of  gigantic  walnut  night- 
mares, the  oppression  of  red  velvet  and 
the  slippery  gloom  of  black  horsehair, 
and  when  only  the  faintest  memory  re- 
mains of  the  clever  fingers  that  built 
up  the  wax  fruit  piles  and  embroidered 
the  gaudy  lambrequins  and  worsted- 
work  slippers! 


The  Protection  and  Special  Care 
of  Cut-Flower  Roses 


TN  the  northern  half  of  the  country 
•^  cut-flower  roses  need  winter  protec- 
tion. This  may  be  provided  by  coarse 
manure,  straw,  or  leaves  applied  after 
the  preparatory  pruning  has  been 
done.  Evergreen  boughs  or  even 
branches  from  deciduous  plants  are 
often  helpful  in  holding  the  other  mate- 
rials in  place,  besides  being  a  protection 
in  themselves.  Individual  specimens  are 
often  wrapped  in  straw  or  straw  and 
burlap.  There  is  some  danger  of  trouble 
from  mice  in  the  use  of  straw  and 
strawy  manure,  especially  during  hard 
winters.  This  is  minimized  by  banking 
earth  about  the  plants  before  mulching. 
This  banking  of  earth  is  also  a  most 
effective  preventive  of  injury  from 
cold.  Earth  banked  up  about  the 
plants  to  a  height  of  a  foot  or  more 
makes  an  excellent  protection,  especially 
if  covered  well  with  manure  after  the 
ground  first  freezes.  The  earth  cover 


must  be  promptly  removed  in  early 
spring,  as  soon  as  danger  from  freezing 
is  past.  In  some  sections  it  is  advisable 
to  protect  cut-flower  rose  plants  from 
strong  winds  by  shrubbery  borders, 
evergreens,  vine-covered  fences,  or  other 
windbreaks. 

As  opposed  to  protection  in  the  win- 
ter, it  is  sometimes  desirable  to  subject 
cut-flower  roses  to  somewhat  rigorous 
treatment  in  summer  to  force  a  rest. 
This  is  usually  found  necessary  only 
where  plants  are  grown  under  irrigation 
a  part  of  the  year  and  have  but  a  short 
winter  check.  Under  such  conditions  it 
will  be  advisable  to  dry  the  plants  out 
for  a  month  or  six  weeks. 

When  plant  growth  is  not  satisfac- 
tory and  some  plants  do  not  seem  to 
take  hold  as  well  as  others,  the  applica- 
tion of  a  diluted  liquid  manure  often 
stimulates  and  starts  a  plant  to  growing 
well. 


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