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July, 1922

House & Garden

ABOUT THE AUGUST ISSUE

THERE was a bride we knew once, who had a
doting uncle. A man of means, this uncle,
and of a generous disposition. When the
wedding day arrived and the presents were displayed,
Uncle was represented simply by a little card. The
card said that the kitchen in that new house was
to be his gift. Thereupon the bride, although she
didn't say so, was secretly disappointed. Pots and
pans and stoves and patented garbage buckets seem
unromantic gifts. Not till she had come down to
earth again, had returned to the regular three-meal-
a-day existence, did she realize that the kitchen was
quite one of the most acceptable — and expensive —
presents she had received.

When we first began planning this August number
we felt not unlike the bride. It was difficult to wax
enthusiastic over household equipment. Then, as the
material began to be assembled, we realized that this
August issue was going to be one of the most interest-
ing and useful numbers of the year. It has a lot to
do with kitchens, but it has also a lot to do with
other kinds of equipment, for furniture is as neces-
sary a piece of equipment as a frying pan.

So we start off the issue with an article on kitchens.
Not the ordinary sort of kitchens, nor the ultra-
modern kind that smack too much of operating rooms
in their immaculate whiteness, but human kitchens.

Decor

shown

alive doors are
in the August
number

in which color is used effectively. Then you turn a
few pages and come to pictures showing the use of
colored oilcloth in decoration. You think of kitchen
tables covered with oilcloth. But these pages have
nothing to do with kitchen tables; colored oilcloth
has become quite a smart material today. Then you
turn some more pages and encounter a page of good
advice on how to care for furniture, and beyond that
photographs of two new kitchens and, still further
on, shop pages of kitchen things.

But this is only skimming the surface, for the in-
terest in this issue changes every time you turn the
pages. Here is a small city garden ; next comes a sea-
shore house; then a fine tennis court; then two pages
of chimney stacks and chimney pots. You pass from
a contribution on the American birches to a page of
delightful bay windows. You finish reading about
Imari ware and fall into the spirit of a jolly story
about coming upon books unexpectedly in a country
house. Or you may be envying the owners of the
group of houses in Kansas City when you turn the page
and find yourself equally envious of the man so
fortunate as to possess the delightful little water garden
in Denver.

And so this issue goes. It will really be one of the
best — a lively number to keep you awake on an
August afternoon.

Contents for July, 1922. Volume XLII, No. One

COVER DESIGN BY CLAYTON KNIGHT

COMFORT AND PERIOD FURNITURE 29

THE GARDEN SIDE 30

Sir Edwin Lutyens, Architect
ELEGANCE IN THE SMALL HOUSE 31

Agnes Foster Wright

FORMAL AND INFORMAL TYPES OF GARDENS 34

IN PRAISE OF THE LITTLE HOUSE 36

Charles Hanson Towne
A HOUSE THAT WAS A DAIRY 37

Chester A. Patterson, Architect
WHEN You INHERIT A BROWNSTONE HOUSE 38

Alexander King

LOG CABINS FOR THE SUMMER 40

BROOK GARDENS AND FERNERIES 66

Richard Rothe
A NURSERY THAT A CHILD REMEMBERS 44

De Armond, Ashmead & Bickley, Architects

USING GRAY IN DECORATION 45

SHEER CURTAINS FOR THE COUNTRY HOUSE 46

A LITTLE PORTFOLIO OF GOOD INTERIORS 47

Miss Gheen, Inc., Decorators

NEW ENGLAND ix GEORGIA SO

CONVENIENT GARAGES OF ARCHITECTURAL MERIT 52

IF You ARE GOING To BUILD 53

Mary Fanton Roberts
GARDENS IN OLD FOUNDATION WALLS 56

Norman K. Morse
CREAM AND APPLE GREEN FOR THE COTTAGE 58

Weymer Mills
A STANDARDIZED SMALL HOUSE 59

Patterson-King Corporation, Architects
PLANNING THE SMALL CITY GARDEN 60

Charles S. Le Sure

A GROUP OF Six HOUSES 61

QUENCHING THE GARDEN'S THIRST 42

£. /. Farrington
THE NEW SHINGLES 68

Henry Campion
MODERN MIXERS IN THE KITCHEN 69

Ethel R. Peyser

SEEN IN THE SHOPS 70

THE GARDENER'S CALENDAR 72

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July, 1922

COMFORT AND PERIOD FURNITURE

Our Modern Habit of Being Comfortable Makes the Exclusive
Use of Old Furniture In Our Houses an Impossibility

MANNERS, speech, the habits of daily life change con-
tinually from age to age. The history of taste is a
history of incessant and generally quite unreasonable
fluctuation. The world has never thought or acted in a consis-
tent way for fifty years together. To our ancestors, the life of
the present generation, with its flappers, jazz and illicit drinking,
would seem mad and immoral; and, looking back at our ances-
tors, we can cordially reciprocate the opinion.

One of the most complete and radical changes in the stan-
dards of everyday life that has taken place during the last two
or three centuries is the change in the standard of comfort. The
well-sprung armchair, the sofa, the davenport, the chaise longue
and the noble army of cushions have become, in this 20th Century
of ours, an indispensable part of our daily life. The 20th
Century drawing room is a reclining room, a sprawling room,
where comfort reigns supreme. Comfort is creeping in even--
where, into public places as well as the home. The seats in our
places of entertainment steadily widen and soften

Looking at the furniture in a typical 20th Century shop, you
would imagine that the contemporary American spends at least
half of his three-score years and ten sitting or reclining. And
you would not be so very far wrong.

HO\Y different this is from the order of things which pre-
vailed only a few generations ago. Our ancestors, unless
they were persons of considerable wealth and eminence, ate
their dinner sitting on stools or benches. Their nearest approach
to the easy chair was the high-backed wooden armchair. The
sofa did not exist; it remained for the 17th Century to invent its
ancestor, the day-bed.

Most of our social life today is passed in chairs and on
sofas; our ancestors spent most of theirs standing. If they
frequented the court or the houses of the nobility, etiquette
demanded that they should stand, whether they liked it or not.
And even the great seemed to have preferred peripatetic conver-
sation to an armchair talk by the fireside. The ideal Elizabethan
drawing room was not stuffed with enormous chairs and sofas
like the reclining rooms of today. It was a long gallery, unob-
structed by furniture, where one could walk up and down, like
a sea captain on his quarter deck, in silent meditation or in
converse with one's friends.

WITH the passing of the 17th and 18th centuries, comfort
gradually increased. The sofa made its appearance and
the padded chair opened its inviting arms. But the armchairs of
the 18th Century, comfortable as they are, were still demure,
respectable pieces of furniture. One had to sit in them with a
certain rigid propriety. Good manners did not allow one to
sprawl, and the chairs were the guardians of good manners.
The modern easy chair, in which repose takes on so abandoned
a posture, dates from very recent times. It represents a final step
in the direction of the ideal of comfort, which only became
possible with the relaxation of etiquette and a change in the
standard of good manners.

To us, comfort is now a necessity; we have contracted the
habit of it and cannot give it up. We can judge how unpleasant
it would be to revert to the standards of the past by visiting a
country like Italy, where the standard of comfort is still very
much what it was in the 18th Century. Sit on the wooden
benches of an Italian third class carriage; go to an Italian eve-
ning party, where every one stands for hours together: you will
realize then how profoundly our habits and standards have
changed in the last century or so. Inured from their tenderest
years, the Italians positively enjoy standing; they sleep soundly
on the diabolic seats of their third class carriages, and when
they want a rest the}1 really like sitting on marble benches
at the wayside. It is all a matter of habit. We who have
contracted the habit of comfort cannot now return to ancient
standards.

IT is this fact which renders so absurd any attempt to recon-
struct an ancient period in the furniture of a modern house.
A purely 18th Century drawing room is a possibility. Though
he may resent the absence of deep easy chairs in which he can
sprawl, the 20th Century man will be able to accommodate him-
self well enough in the round armchairs and on the sofas of
Louis XV and XVI. The trouble begins when one turns the
clock back another hundred years or so. No 20th Century
American will feel really comfortable in a room furnished com-
pletely in the Jacobean or Elizabethan style. A room in which
there is no sofa, but only a few carved wooden chairs, would
strike him as insufferably austere. In such surroundings hi:
would find himself thinking — with what an aching nostalgia —
of the leather monsters in the club smoking room, of those huge
elephantine chairs in which it is miraculously possible to com-
bine the most restful slumbers with the most earnest perusal of a
magazine. A room fitted up with Gothic furniture would merely
be one worse than the Elizabethan.

No, given our habits of today, a strictly period room is an
absurdity. We are not Elizabethans, we are not contemporaries
of Chaucer, we are not early Italians or even modern Italians —
and it is silly to pretend that we are. A really accurate period
reconstruction looks like a museum and is impossible to live in
with reasonable comfort.

THK way to use old furniture is frankly to combine it with
modern pieces. A contemporary drawing room must have
armchairs and a sofa, or even a chaise longue; it must also have
upright chairs, and there is no reason why these should not be
old English or old Italian, old French or old Spanish.

To harmonize old pieces of different periods and countries
with one another and with modern furniture requires a certain
tact and judgment, a sensitive taste. But when that taste has
been duly exercised, the result will be infinitely preferable to a
dully correct period room.. It will also be possible for people
with modern standards of comfort to live in such a room. This
fact is important. Furniture was made for man, not man for
furniture; let us think of ourselves before our antiques.

House & Garden

THE GARDEN SIDE

Houses should have two sides — one to face the
world with, the other to face the garden.
Each is indicative of the sort of person it was
who built the house. To some the road side
is highly important: to others the garden side.

The feature of the garden ja(adt of this house
is found in the large windows, made necessary
by the desire to see the garden view and by the
close proximity of the large overshadowing
tree. The architect was Sir Edwin Lutyens

July, 1922

ELEGANCE IN THE SMALL HOUSE

Is Produced Not By Lavish Expenditure But By the Exercise of Discriminating
Taste In the Selection of Furnishings and Colors

FURNISHING the small house with ele-
gance does not necessarily mean furnish-
ing it with lavishness. Elegance should
be the result of fastidious discrimination; it
should create the sort of rooms in which re-
fined, cultured family life finds a sympathetic
background.

Nor does elegance mean furnishing in the
style of the French periods, which were essen-
tially elegant in detail. An English 18th Cen-
tury room can have elegance, so can a Colonial
room, so can a room of no period style at all;
although, as a rule, the very traditions of a
period room give it more associations of ele-
gance— elegant ladies and gentlemen who

AGNES FOSTER WRIGHT

lived formal and dignified lives — than a room
in which we cannot recognize a single piece
of period furniture. Like the proverbial wo-
man of good breeding who is always at home
anywhere, so is furniture of good lines. A
heavy oak arts and crafts chair lacks elegance
because there is no fineness to its lines and it
finds no suitable place except in a camp or
bungalow; but a comfortable, over-upholstered
chair of traditional contour can have elegance
and be at home in almost any surroundings.

How can you apply these general principles
of elegance to the furnishing of a small house?

\Yhen you have only a limited amount of
money to spend, you are pulled between quan-

tity and quality. Choose quality every time.
Consider your mode of living and the surround-
ings in which you want that living to be placed.
Furnish for the future. Look ahead, with the
assurance that, five years hence, your rooms
will still be standing up well, your tables and
chairs giving good service and your curtains
still usable.

You can't buy furniture with the same view-
point as you do clothes — for only one season's
service. Good furnishings cost good money,
but they warrant the expenditure. Before you
start to furnish, decide what is the most you
can afford to spend — not easily afford, but
afford with effort and the sacrifice of other

FostilKovs taste is shown by every piece used in the decoration of
this living room. The background is sulphur colored: walls paneled
and painted and hung with old kakomonos and French embroid-

ered pictures on satin. The rugs are Chinese, in yellow and blue.
Some of the chairs are covered in petit-point. Curtains are plain
blue silk with painted valance boards. Miss Ghssn, Inc.. decorators

House & Harden

Balance in the fireplace
groups gives this living
room an air of restful
dignity — the two winged
chairs and the two wall
bookshelves above small
commodes. Miss Gheen.
Inc., decorators

Toile de Jouy in brown,
rose and plum on a cream
ground furnished the
colors for this room.
The furniture ranges
from Louis XV to the
Directoire. John Morri-
son Curtis, decorator

things. If you find it difficult
to reconcile your apparant ex-
travagance with your house-
hold budget, remember that the
initial expense in furnishing a
house should be allotted or pro-
rated over at least five years
to come. Or if you are so
placed financially that each
year must take care of itself,
and your buying of furniture
is spread over five successive
years, then decide which pieces
are essential to your comfort
and pleasure and buy them
first.

In the event of your not em-
ploying a decorator to make up
an approximate estimate of
costs and work, it is well to
draw up a systematic scheme
yourself. Each room should
be given a separate sheet of
paper, with all the necessary
notations, and each should be
filled out with details and ex-
tensions showing costs. Ex-
amples of such estimates are
found at the end of the article.
The wall costs are generally
covered by the building con-
tract up to the final plastering
or, in some cases, the painting and paneling is
included. Have what you really want in wall
finish, as that is an expense which will be
lasting and give the essential tone of elegance
to the room. The main living rooms should
be painted or paneled and the bedrooms can
be papered or painted or, if economy must be
considered, finished temporarily with water
paint.

For the living room the best finish is either
wood or canvas and molding paneling, painted
with an antique glaze finish. The painted wall
seems to afford a richer background for fur-
niture than the average papered wall. Some
architectural specifications call for rough cast
interior walls. I feel that these very rough,
"gobby" walls are being overdone; save in
houses of the Italian style they do not suit the
character of the furniture generally used.

A library should be paneled entirely in wood
and stained or waxed, with the bookshelves
recessed. A fine bit of wood carving over the
mantel adds distinction. A portrait or panel
of old tooled leather gives the same rich effect.
These may not be included in the approximate
estimate, but should surely be in the back of
our mind, when planning.

A dining room affords a little more freedom
in its wall treatment. Fine old paper in
panels, or painted glazed walls with a bit of
marbleizing on the trim gives it an air of dis-
tinction. One is apt to tire of decorated walls
sooner, but if one's purse allows, it is more
interesting to do the unusual thing and, later,
change.

The restraint with which this library is
furnished accords with its background
of rough walls and simple cornice. Such
a background serves to enhance the
value of the pieces used. Miss Gheen,
Inc., decorators

July, 1922

Halls and foyers are receiv-
ing infinitely more attention
than they did. They are
rather an indication of the rest
of the house and one seldom
hears as we used to so often,
"Oh, I'll stick it in the hall."
It is a problem to get away
from the commonplace in halls,
as the essentials are restricted
to a group or groups of table,
chair and mirror. The walls
should be made unobtrusive, if
the room is unsightly in shape,
but if of pleasant proportions
with well placed openings, the
walls should be made a fea-
ture. Painted canvas decora-
tive panels give it immediately
a certain animation. The ceil-
ing may be made interesting
by using gold or silver leaf
and glazing it down, and using
a little of the gold or silver
rubbed into the moldings. All
the halls in the world seem to
have William and Mary or
Colonial furniture. To get
away from this bromidic treat-
ment try a rich painted com-
mode, and, on either side, a
small French walnut console
with a mirror above. On the commode place a
big bowl of flowers. The two smaller mirrors
will be a relief from the everlasting large mirror
with table beneath. Halls generally look dim
and "leggy" because we have no chance to
use an upholstered piece, so the commode gives
the necessary weight at the bottom. On the
opposite side try two semi-upholstered Louis
XVI walnut chairs with petit-point or tapes-
try coverings. Such a hall has elegance and
the pieces are interchangeable.

The main bedroom walls should be paneled
and painted or just painted, depending largely
on the type of furniture used. If the furniture
is to be French or Georgian, the paneled walls
set it off better than plain paint. In guest
rooms the walls may be treated with a little
more freedom, and unconventionally. An un-
usual paper may be used, either set into the
panels or papered all over and the moldings
may be painted in a different tone from the
wall. For instance, if the walls and woodwork
are mauve, use soft blue moldings and rub in
a little deep mauve and then glaze the whole
thing to enrich and subdue it. On a light wall
I find a gray glaze gives just the effect needed
and does not leave a dirty look to the walls
and also does not bring out imperfections of
plastering, woodwork and painting as a dark
glaze does.

Carpets and rugs are so varied in quality

that one must be sure that the fine qualities

are fine enough. Seamless chenille is by far

the best thing to use, leaving a foot border.

(Continued on page 76)

Although one generally associates sturdi-
ness with early English furniture, rooms
in this style can also have an elegance
when authentic designs and colors are
used, as in the dining room to the right.
Miss Gheen, Inc., decorators

In the same residence the
entrance hall has an un-
usual treatment of the
frieze, which is gaily
painted in Italian reds,
blues and green. An
antique mirror and con-
sole form the foyer group

Another view of the liv-
ing room on page 31
shows furniture in black
damask with bronze col-
ored medallions. An old
Chinese hanging in black
and gold damask is used
for overmantel

House & Garden

The wild, woodsy
type of garden has
a distinct charm of
its own. JJere can
be grown shade-lov-
ing flowers and
shrubs — columbines
and foxgloves, aza-
leas, rhododendrons
and a multitude of
ferns. Charles W.
Leavitt, landscape
architect

Contrasted with the
informality of the
woodland garden is
the more formal
type, with a stone
edged pool, an archi-
tectural pergola,
brick paths and beds
planted in straight
lines and right
angles. Charles W.
Leavitt was the
landscape architect

July, 1922

FORMAL

and

INFORMAL

TYPES

of
GARDENS

Contrasts in
Garden Planting

Peonies possess such remarkable beauty that
they can well be used in masses or as specimens
set in a stretch of turf, with nothing to offer
them competition in color and form. Here
they arc massed. Across the path, set behind
low hedges and a low ground planting, stand-
ard roses are given the same opportunity for
display. Charles W. Leavitt, landscape architect

The herbaceous border, planted for
a succession of color and form, serves
as contrast with the massing of
single flowers shown above. The
border in this garden is happily lo-
cated in front of vine-covered trellis.
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House & Garden

PRAISE OF THE LITTLE HOUSE

A Man Has Arrived at Wisdom When His Castle in Spain Becomes a

Cottage in the Country

CHARLES HANSON TOWNE

A RECENT visitor to our shores spoke of the pathetic new-
ness and bigness of our dwellings; of the lack of mem-
ories and gentle ghosts in our corridors; and he told me,
after he had seen our finest abodes, scattered like jewels over
the country, that it made him heartsick to think of our poverty
of background.

To him, a home was more than a roof over one's head. He
thought of home as a place where there were old secret cup-
boards and mysterious doors, haunted attics and, best of all, a
few little mice to creep out in the darkness, after the family had
settled down for the night, to find those crumbs which even the
tidiest housewives must sometimes leave strewn about. Of
course you have guessed that, he was an Englishman.

Home! There is no more magical word in our whole lan-
guage; and sad indeed are they who-have no permanent abiding
place. Home has been called heaven on earth; and through all
•time the cry of the homeless has been the bitterest, the most
agonizing that men could hear. But the word home need not
be associated with riches — on the contrary, there has always
been a tradition that palaces are seldom homelike, and the
simpler one's surroundings the happier one is likely to be.
Thbreau convinced us long ago that one needs only a few feet
of earth and the smallest of dwellings to be. as contented as a
• mortal can be. He even pointed out that two chairs are suffi-
cient. If more than one guest arrived, the host could sit upon
the floor in solid comfort.

As we grow older we see how much, that in our youth we
thought was indispensable, comes to be simply so much un-
necessary impedimenta. We obstruct the pathway of our hap-
piness by placing useless goods and chattels at every turning.
You remember, perhaps, the definition a little country boy gave
of the word "parlor." "A parlor," he said, "is a room which
is never opened except for funerals and weddings."

Think of having so much wasted space! Think of the lack
of imagination in filling a great, staring room with hideous
furniture, closing the square piano, polishing the central stove,
placing the shells carefully by the family album, and then
drawing the curtains and lowering the shades, and leaving this
mausoleum in its false dignity and isolation to have nightmares
by itself!

Such a room plays no part in the home life of the occupants
of the house. Then why have it at all? It is like a delightful
old lady I once knew who craved a hat with an aigrette. Final-
ly she purchased one, and then, instead of putting it upon her
top-knot, she put it upon her top shelf. There are plenty of
people like that. But I prefer the kind of person who has but
a small house, and yet utilizes every nook and corner of it. A
friend of mine in the country, who owns the tiniest of gray-

shingled and vine-covered dwellings, is proud of what he calls
his "Gun Room." This is, in fact, merely a closet under the
stairway; but here he stores his three bits of armament, and
takes a certain foolish delight in thinking of them as in a
cloistered "room." He has another cranny, scarcely bigger than
a cracker box, which he designates his "Butterfly Room" — -for
he collects rare specimens, and must have a special place for
the captured beauty of the fields and meadows.

I think the first thing that smites one's eyes after a trip abroad
is the ugliness of our country architecture. In Europe, the
meanest house is apt to be beautified by a bit of surrounding
garden. Especially is this so in England, where every working-
man takes a native pride in his geranium-bed; and the smaller
his dwelling, the larger he tries to make his garden, creating,
as it were, another room which will always know the sun-
light. Haven't you motored along a highroad and exclaimed,
"What a darling little house!" But we seldom cry out in sud-
den joy at a glimpse of some monstrous mansion. We may be
awed and impressed by it, standing as it does among its stately
trees; but certainly our hearts do not miss a beat at the thought
of the life lived within its sombre and pretentious walls. No! it
is the little homes that thrill us, that bring a sense of longing to
us, the older and wiser we grow. For we come to know that
one can be happier amid simplicity than amid pomp, and that
One's own dusting' and sweeping can take on the nature of a
sacrament, while the obsequious movements of a dozen flunkeys
may bring to us nothing but a miserable satiety.

In America, it has become our foolish habit to tear down old
landmarks. Our ancestors may have created for us a certain
beautiful thing; but the generations that speed onward to the
music of jazz and the loud motor-horn have no reverence, it
would seem, for that which should be most precious to us all.
"Old fashioned!" they cry, looking out upon some quiet garden,
with a border of phlox and mignonette, and enchanting flag-
stone paths leading to a quaint sun-dial ; and in the place where
a venerable oak has stood, one is very likely to find — a gasoline
station! Such is the tendency of our time, and it is a tragic
commentary on us as a people that we tolerate such ruthless
destruction, and refuse to stay the hand of the unimaginative
and brutal executioner. We would smile now at such a poignant
poem as "Woodman, Spare that Tree!" And again I can hear
that glib phrase, "old fashioned!" coming to the ready lips of
the present generation. "For each man kills the thing he loves1'
is packed with truth, as well as with poetry; and blind indeed
are they who do not see how charged with meaning is that
single line.

Now, in art, the surest way to be dead tomorrow is to be the
(Continued on page 76)

July, 1922

A HOUSE THAT WAS A DAIRY

There's no telling, in this era of hectic restoration
and remodeling, whence any house started. Its
previous incarnation saw the residence of R. B.
Dula, at Tarrytown, N. Y., a dairy building on an
estate. The large house being sold, the dairy
building was remodeled. A little garden was laid
out on cross axes from the main rear windows,

evergreens effectively placed for accents, rose beds
edged with box set around, a circle, the paths
marked with stepping stones laid in irregular pat-
tern and the lawn fenced in with white pickets
and panels for privacy. Thus a dairy building
became a home and the dairy yard a garden.
Chester A. Patterson was the architect

House &• Garden

WHEN YOU INHERIT A BROWNSTONE HOUSE

Do Not Condemn It Utterly, for With Discreet Handling
It Can Be Made Habitable in the Modern Taste

ALEXANDER KING

WHEN the only sur-
viving member of
the family belong-
ing to the Age of Inno-
cence goes to join the other
characters in that charm-
ing book, in realms be-
yond or above, and in due
time the will is read, you
may find yourself heir to
the brovvnstone - front
house, with the contents
thereof.

What can you do with
it?

Obviously it was in-
tended you should live in
it, keeping up the family
traditions on the tidy sum
at present paid to your
landlord for the modern
flat.

The first visit to your
new domicile is calculated
to leave you cold. It is
narrow, the stoop is high,
and the rooms beyond the
polished walnut door ut-
terly impossible. A par-
ticularly difficult feature
of these spaces is the soar-
ing height of ceilings,
coupled with great length
and constricted width,
producing a most unpleas-
ant impression of bleak
corridors rather than
rooms. In addition to
this, curiously formed
plaster details conspire
with top-heavy black wal-
nut wood trim to produce
a strangely dismal effect
on one accustomed to well
planned and graciously
decorated rooms. Where
in this cheerless setting can you properly dis
pose your charming 18th Century antiques,
culled with so much care for the present flat?
Of course, when alterations can be made
without counting the cost, it is simply a matter
to turn over to the architect of your choice.
Reconstructions recently done under the direc-
tion of some of New York's best architects have
been amazingly successful, but such transfor-
mations are both costly and time-consuming,
these days of inheritance taxes and practical
economies it is worth while knowing what can
done with a typical brownstone- front house
without indulging in elaborate structural al-
terations, with the inevitable outlay involved
The accompanying illustrations offer an
amazingly simple solution of the problem
Directions run in this fashion. Send for the

W alnut paneling
(by means of paint)
and gold damask at
the windows pro-
vided a charming
background for fine
old furniture in the
living room

Before the altera-
tions the living
room was a bare,
mid-Victorian gal-
lery, totally lacking
in interest or livable
and comfortable
qualities

painter (and make sure he
knows his business).
While waiting for him, get
in the truckman from
around the corner and
have him cart away to
auction all the black wal-
nut horrors not perma-
n e n 1 1 y attached. The
picture marked "before"
will give a working idea
of what to eliminate. And
only in rare instances can
you afford the luxury of
sentimentality about these
original furnishings, if the
house runs true to form.

When the painter ar-
rives, he will protest vol-
ubly at the idea of paint-
ing over the black walnut
trims. Very well then, of-
fer him the alternative of
producing the effect of
walnut by painting the
plaster walls, paneling
them and finally graining
them to match these trims.
This was done in the case
of the living room shown
in illustrations. Behold!
our Mid-Victorian horror
has become a charming
walnut paneled room
reminiscent of the Re-
gence. Only the most dis-
turbing gewgaws of wood
trim were removed and the
arched tops of the book-
cases reproduced for win-
dow cornices to balance
both ends of the room.
The rest is paint. Mould-
ings are applied quite sim-
ply on the original plaster
in the usual way. The

arrangement of large balanced panels on long
wall spaces greatly helps the bad proportions,
and a clever disposition of furniture still fur-
ther reduces to livable comfort this long nar-
row gallery.

The stair hall which opens into this trans-
formed living room, has been made far more
spacious and hospitable in effect by a careful
management of light. The original wainscot
and other woodwork are painted jade green,
and the walls gilded and aged to give a becom-
ing background for a fine old mirror and
needlework sofa, formally placed. Appliques
and tall jardinieres in the Directoire taste com-
plete this attractive arrangement. Another
mirror on the opposite wall near the entrance
door, helps to coax much needed light into an
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July, 1922

A breakfast room was a de-
sirable feature. As the kitchen
was quite large, with the range
and sink in the rear, the
garden end of the room of-
fered possibilities for decora-
tion. Red tiles cover the
floor. The woodwork is
painted yellow and a color-
ful paper was hung above the
dado. Gingham curtains and
painted cottage furniture com-
plete the equipment

When the gimcracks had been
removed from the living room
chimney piece, it was found
to have quite presentable
lines. It was then painted to
simulate walnut, thus match-
ing the walls which were
paneled and painted in the
style of the Regence. With
its crystal lustres and chande-
lier and its over-mantel paint-
ing, the room as it stands to-
day is quite colorful

Large simple panels
help produce an air of
spaciousness in the liv-
ing room. This group-
ing of tapestry, couch
and table is especially
pleasing

The hall woodwork is
painted jade green and
the walls antiqued gold,
an excellent setting for
the red and black lac-
quer mirror and the
needlework sofa

In the reception room
the chimney piece of
red lacquer, marbleized
columns'* and etched
glass panels recall the
Directorate. -The walls
and woodwork are
green

House & Garden

o ,

Cement caulking was used
in this log cabin in Sea
Breeze, Florida, designed
by Frank J. Forster, archi-
tect. The doors are batten,
windows are casement

As several of these Florida
cabins were erected, there
was a slight variation given
the arrangement of the
rooms. The plans are sim-
ple and compact

The construction of a log cabin is
simple. Concrete or log foundations can
be used, with -walls of notched and jilted
logs and wood or composition shingle
for the roof

Painted furniture is in keeping with the
log cabin atmosphere. A fireplace dom-
inates the living room. The equipment
fits in compactly. Furnishings by
Miss Chaffee

July, 1922

The middle west type of log cabin often
boasted a porch made by the extension
of the low roof. A huge outside chim-
ney is also a feature. This reproduction
is on an estate near St. Joseph, Mo.

The plan affords adequate room for
camping — a large living room, one bed-
room, a kitchen and a bath. The porch
can be used for outdoor sleeping.
Eckel &• Aldrich were the architects

LOG CABINS FOR
THE SUMMER

The summer cottage
of W. H. Shields at
Spirit Lake, Idaho,
is a combination of
stone, log slabs and
white trim, the stone
and slabs giving the
house suitable rela-
tion with the site.
Whitehouse &• Price,
architects

On the lower level
of the Shields' cot-
tage one finds a din-
ing room, a break-
fast alcove with
kitchen and storage
behind. The second
floor is given over
to a big living room
and one chamber
and bath

House & Garden

BROOKSIDE GARDENS AND FERNERIES

The Man With a Trickling Stream on His Country Place Possesses
a Rare Opportunity for Naturalistic Gardening

RICHARD ROTHE

WATER gardens are of varied
types, and of them, none is more
fascinating than a garden laid
out along a brook. Fortunate indeed is
the man whose country place can boast
such a little stream; his water garden is
already commenced.

In gardening along the sides of brooks,
we usually first have to face the problem
of preventing overflows caused by heavy
thaws in winter and violent rain-storms
in summer. For the low and level shores
in the plain the rampant root-systems of
moisture-loving plants may prove suffi-
cient safeguard, but the swiftly moving
water that traverses rolling land districts
often requires a more careful securing of
its banks by rocks to prevent washouts.
This security of structure must be as-
sured before the plants are set out. When
we come to the plant material that is
available for brookside gardens, our in-

Funkias of various kinds, hem-
erocallis, ferns, Japanese and
Siberian iris and some of the new
and colorful Arends astilbe hy-
brids have been planted effective-
ly here

terests naturally turn to the semi-aquatic
section and hardy herbaceous denizens
of lowland regions.

Representing a type which, under
Congenial conditions, frequently assumes
an almost tropical luxuriance in foliage
and flowers, the possibilities for the en-
joyment of arrangements of rare beauty-
appear propitious. Thus in setting out
the plants we can observe the wonderful
effects gained by contrasting the graceful
forms of ferns with, for instance, the
magnificent leafage of Senecio Veitchia-
nus and Wilsonianns. The massive
growth and the metalic lustre of Funkia
Sieboldiana and Funkia fortunei gigan-
tea nowhere show to better advantage
than along the brookside. Within the
tempered atmosphere that lies near the
clear running stream of water, one can
use such types as Iris orientalis, pseudo-
acorus and sibirica varieties. We will

Where the stream becomes a tor-
rent in spring and fall the banks
should be supported by rocks or
plants with especially rampant
root systems that will hold the soil
from washing out

July, 1922

The fernery at "Campion"
the residence of the late
John T. Morris, Chestnut
Hill, Pa., is a brookside
planting reconstructed
under glass

also admire the stately growth
and graceful panicles of Spiraea
aruncus — palmata and palmata
elegans — and, having been re-
galed once by the brilliant spec-
tacle of the highly attractive
white,, salmon and pink shades
of the new Astilbe Arendsi
varieties in beauty vicing with
gorgeously hued masses of
flowers of the Japanese iris, we
always long for enjoying it
again during ensuing seasons.
When we have dotted the immediate water
edge with plantations and clusters of the swamp
forget-me-nots, swamp marigolds, moisture-
loving hardy primrose and Saxifraga cordi-
folia, we begin to realize the enchanting pos-
sibilities of brookside gardening.

The brookside can also serve for a fernery.
The rising banks of a brook running through
sections of woodland afford an ideal location.
Aside from a congenial atmosphere, there is
frequently diversity in natural ground eleva-
tion at hand which favors the arrangements
of effects and fully demonstrates the. grace

and supreme beauty of the foliage of ferns.
Lacking this ideal brook bank, one may re-
construct it indoors under glass. The late
John T. Morris of Chestnut Hill near Phila-
delphia, when designing his famous country
seat "Compton," understood how to take ad-
vantage of the brookside. In order to enjoy
the incomparable perfection in outline and for-
mation of -the fern fronds throughout the whole
year he went a step further and built a small
fernery, 60' by 45' under glass. In this green-
ery sanctuary there is ingeniously designed
rockwork and an audibly trickling stream run-

ln making a brookside gar-
den, first the rocks are put
in position and such a lit-
tle bridge as this built.
Then the plants are set out
between them

ning down into a pool near the
little bridge. His 200 species
of ferns and selaginellas Mr.
Morris succeeded in arranging
in the way Nature sometimes
does when, in her holiday mood,
she gleefully scatters ferns in
deep, remote, wind-sheltered
ravines of the mountains. There
is no doubt that for indoor and
outdoor work on a small scale
the artistic conception and exe-
cution of the fernery of Compton
is one of the best and most instructive object
lessons we have in America.

However small or large our brookside garden
may be, formality or any suggestion of forced
effects must be absolutely barred. We are deal-
ing with elements which are essentially natur-
alistic, and they must be used in nature's own
manner. Exotic plant material, however strik-
ing in appearance, could but clash with the
rightful denizens of the site and conditions.
We do not necessarily limit ourselves to plants
naturally found growing there, but we must
hold to kinds of their general type.

House

Garden

Color plays a more important part in the nursery
than in any room in the house. Children are pe-
culiarly susceptible to it and for this reason walls,
furniture and floor should be vivid in tone and
decorated in a manner to intrigue a child's im-
agination. The painted walls above, in a series of
fairy tale scenes, are colorful and decorative

A NURSERY THAT A

CHILD REMEMBERS

Comfortable and convenient is this nursery with
its ample space for books and toys, sturdy furni-
ture and graceful low settee covered in gay chintz.
The Windsor chairs, table and shelves are painted
in soft tones taking their decoration from the em-
broidered flowers on the curtains. De Armond,
Ashmead & Bickley were the architects

July, 1922

USING GRAY IN DECORATION

While the Least Emphatic of Colors, Gray Can Be Used Successfully When the
Textures of the Paint, Paper and Fabrics Are Suitable

GRAY, of all the colors, may
best be described as neutral ;
of all, it is the most color-
less— the least emphatic. Com-
pared with the variety in other
colors, the tones and the shades
of gray are inconsiderable; it is
weak in contrasts — in short, it is
the neutral tint par excellence.

Yet, in spite of these negative
qualities, gray is by no means a
submissive, pliable factor in the
decorative scheme; the browns
can be blent with practically all
arrangements; not so the grays.
Strange though it sounds, it is
nevertheless a fact that even with
the delicate shades, you get quite
surprisingly positive effects; a
room needs very careful handling
where gray is the keynote.

It is, in the first place, a cold
color, taking it as a whole. This
quality is valuable in sunny lati-
tudes to temper the strong light and to give the
effect of shade and coolness. It has also a
sombre — not to say a sad — propensity; "sad-
colored" was, in fact, the old word used to
describe the color. The decorative use of gray,
then, is beset by certain difficulties, but these
should not act as deterrents; rather the con-
trary, for the gray room has never been over-
done, and, when it is well done, distinction and
originality are added to its real beauty.

In gray, as in all other colors, there are two
scales: the cold shades and the warm. Cold
grays are made simply from black and white;
to white, black is added for the pale tints; to
black, white is added for the dark shades.
Some slight variation is produced by the dif-
ferent blacks which are used; pure ivory black
has a well-marked blue tinge, while lamp
black and gas black are brownish. In iron
gray the black and white appear to be fairly
evenly balanced; in pearl gray the white pre-
dominates; in charcoal gray, the black. The
lead shades — dark and light — are made by
adding lamp black to white lead, and slate
gray is similarly produced. These shades and
the like are not sympathetic; tact in dealing
with them is necessary in order to exorcise a
certain bleakness that they are apt to bring into
the home. The lighter tints are easiest to
manage. It is a wise precaution to keep the
slate, steel, and iron grays on the light side;
time so very soon adds grayness to gray.

The warm shades are produced by the addi-
tion of primary colors to the black and white;
yellows, reds, and blues, according to the hue
required. French gray, though not strictly a
warm shade, is blended in this way. Crimson
lake and ultramarine may be added in small
quantities to white that has been grayed with a
little drop of black. Or the black may be omit-
ted, and the blue, with Venetian red, used to
tint the white. These and other combinations

The walls of this living room are covered with a water paint of gray.
Against this background there show to advantage curtains and carpet
of green and cretonne covers gaily patterned on a black background

will give quite accurately the well-known shade
with its faint lilac tinge. Other shades and
tints of gray are less definite; color nomencla-
ture is always a little confused and misleading.
People do not see color alike; one trade name
differs from another when the same thing is
intended. There really is no fixed standard.

Elephant gray does certainly convey a clear
image, and this may be quoted as a very good
color to work with; but it may be confused
with smoke gray — another valuable shade —
and both are made much alike, on a basis of
white lead, tinted with lamp black and yellow
ochre; a little ultramarine is added to the in-
gredients for the "elephant" shade. Silver
gray is an extraordinary elusive tint; every
painter would seem to have his own formula on
the matter. It should show a very faint lav-
ender tinge, and white lead should form the
chief part, tinted with lamp black and a trace
of indigo; yellow is sometimes added. The
exact proportions cannot be given, but it should
always be borne in mind that a little black
for tinting purposes goes a long way; it should
be added by degrees, in small quantities, and
well mixed. A nice greenish gray can be made
with zinc white tinted with black, and the
green which is called middle chrome. Mouse
color just verges on brown; this useful tint is
also based on zinc white, and toned with black
and brown (burnt sienna and raw umber
mixed). Another version is made with white
lead, ten parts, burnt umber, five parts, with
one part of prussian blue added — or less, ac-
cording to the blueness or grayness that is
desired.

In the successful using of gray much de-
pends on textures; by this means we get con-
trast, and subtle gradations of tone and tint
are stressed. In towns especially the action of
smoke and atmosphere has a dulling, flatten-
ing effect upon color, which gray least of all

can withstand. Partly on this ac-
count, it is rarely a good choice
for painting the woodwork. Cer-
tain colors are actually improved
and mellowed in use, but never
gray ; even the more delicate warm
tints soon turn leaden-hued and
dark enough to mar a carefully
considered scheme. When this has
occurred, or when gray-painted
doors, windows, and woodwork
have been painted an unbearable
shade, quality can be restored or
added by means of glazing. This
is a thin coat of transparent col-
or laid on to tone and modify the
groundwork. Gray makes a very
satisfactory basis, and is often
chosen for this purpose.

Brush-graining and stippling
are also quick and excellent de-
vices, which even the amateur may
carry out with success. Yellow
brushed over the gray has a won-
derfully good effect; the yellow enamel should
be laid on with one brush"" and lightly
"grained" with another kept clean and dry for
the purpose. Stippling needs a special brush,
wide and flat, with a leather strap to go over
the hand. A thin coat of color is laid on with
the usual paint brush, and then patted all over
with the stippler; this gives the mottled even
effect with the ground showing through. The
stippler must be kept as free as possible from
accumulation of paint, and sometimes pads
made of pile carpet are substituted; this is an
excellent plan — it saves trouble, answers the
purpose well, and each pad can be thrown
away directly it begins to thicken. A violet
stipple, or one of emerald green, according to
the room, would answer the purpose.

Water paint is a particularly satisfactory
medium for gray; the soft dull texture robs
gray of its hardness and gives a charming
effect. Before applying the water paint the
walls should be treated with a thin wash of
weak size combined with a little whiting. Wall
papers that have faded or become discolored
may be successfully renewed by a coat of water-
paint, provided that the pattern is not strong
enough to show through. A preliminary sizing
is necessary. There are many well-known
makes of water-paint which are sold ready for
use, and can be obtained in most of the gray
shades.

For the gray room, wall paper gives more
scope to the decorator than paint, and is a
more satisfactory way of introducing the dom-
inant shade. A soft smoke color with the
velvety surface of flock, or a plain ash-gray
paper, would make a good beginning. White
woodwork would do here, or better still, black.
Black, contrary though it sounds, is not dingy
or darksome in this connection; it gives bril-
liancy and point, always providing that the
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House & Garden

// the lines and trim oj a window are decorative
and pleasing, it is inadvisable to hide them behind
heavy draperies. The graceful, arched windows
above are simply curtained with one layer of
rather coarse net, hung inside the trim. This
affords just enough protection without obstruct-
ing the view

In a country house dining room a window may
serve as background for a low sideboard. In
this case no over hangings should, be used, suffi-
cient protection being afforded by a curtain of
coarse cream colored net with a border patterned
after Italian filet lace. Coarse fringe in the same
shade adds a finishing touch

SHEER CURTAINS FOR
THE COUNTRY HOUSE

S'/toa'M by courtesy oj the
Quaker Lace Company

Sometimes it is desirable to conceal the outside view. A net
curtain in an all-over design accomplishes this, at the same time
allowing sufficient light to filter through. It is more transparent
than a closely woven material and yet insures the same amount
of privacy. The hangings are of striped taffeta

In the country house morning room above the French windows
have only one set of hangings of cream colored lace patterned all
over in a fine geometric design. These may be looped back during
the day. The simplicity of this window treatment accents the
ornamental gilt cornice and Chinoiserie panels that are so decorative

July, 1922

A LITTLE PORTFOLIO OF GOOD INTERIORS

The Little Portfolio shows six views of a jarmhouse at Indian Hill,
III., jurnished in a manner suitable to the atmosphere of such a resi-
dence. The living room has an early American paper in yellow and
gray, a black carpet with gray roses, couches in red and gray check

In the dining room the whiteness of the paneled walls is relieved by
curtains oj brown linen edged with blue woolen fringe and topped by
valances in blue needlework with a design in gay colorings. The table
and chairs are made from old models. Miss Gheen, Inc., decorators

House &• Garden

The simplicity of the
furnishing is character-
istic of a farmhouse.
There has been no ef-
fort to make it other
than it is. The result
is an atmosphere of
peace and ample com-
fort. That is the air
of this guest room,
with its Jacobean four-
poster, and its glazed
chintz dressing table

Another view of the
dining room shows the
Duncan Phyfe side-
board which set the
note for the rest of the
furnishings. In one
corner is an old walnut
cupboard with glass
doors. The chandelier
is of crystal, the side
lights of silver. Neutral
carpeting gives the
room a quiet founda-
tion

July, 1922

The master's bedroom
has gay curtains and
one wing chair in an
old-fashioned chintz of
foxglove pattern. An-
other winged chair is
covered with green
frieze. The bed is an
early American piece in
maple. The bureau and
its mirror and side
chairs are suitable com-
panions for the bed

Another master bed-
room has old-fashioned
rag carpeting on the
floor, and a wall paper
of moss roses and lilacs.
The bed and the bed-
side table, the bureaus
and the chairs are all
early American pieces.
Scrim curtains with
ruffled edges and bow
tie-backs are perfect
accompaniments for the

The square columns, sleep roof and

free-hanging balcony are distinctive,

near-New England features of this

house at Newman

This old house at Clinton re-
peats in its entrance portico and
window above the door a beauty
found in Colonial Salem houses

A street in Clinton is lined with trees

in the New England fashion, and the

branches are festooned with clusters of

purple wistaria

House & Garden

NEW ENGLAND
IN GEORGIA

A Study in Transplanted
Architecture

ONE often wonders why the casual Amer-
ican critic is so prone to lament the ab-
sence of an American architecture, to
bewail the fact that we have added nothing
original to the art of building. Visiting for-
eigners are much more lenient with us. W. L.
George only recently has sung a paean in praise
of our sky-scrapers (a typical and beautiful
American word ) and many other world citizens
grant us rather inspired achievements in mon-
umental or civic building.

But my plea is for a few wreaths to be
laid at the feet of the delightful things we
have done — and not too entirely in the past —
with domestic architecture. In spite of the in-
fancy of our civilization we are precocious
enough in architectural traditions to put for-
ward a fairly sound claim to having created
distinctive and charming styles of dwellings
that are quite American notwithstanding ad-
mittedly derived influence.

It is too obvious to state that at this com-
paratively late date in human evolution any art
or science must be to a great extent derivative.
The tepee of the aboriginal and the log cabin,
which were the a, b, c's in building of the
earliest native and imported Americans, might
conceivably have been translated by some im-
aginative super-designer into lasting architec-
tural forms. But failing that, we have more
conservatively, if not so originally, succeeded
in assembling several architectural contribu-
tions over whose merits we need not be too
downcast.

If architecture, as has been said, mutely
and accurately spells the history of a locality,
so too does it set forth the character and ten-
dencies of a people. "Show me what a man
builds and I'll tell you what he is." We have
set up vivid historical documents in the form
of our Colonial architecture — original varia-
tions of age old themes which speak clearly
and with a very native tang of a not too un-
civilized and not too sophisticated America.
Are our critics like the man who couldn't
find the forest for the trees? To refute them
our early American dwellings stand on the
Atlantic seaboard in at least three defined
types — Georgian England, out of Greece un-
doubtedly— but attaining a personal and de-
scriptive distinction that could not come of
slavish borrowing. Put any fine example of
New England Colonial, Dutch Colonial or
Southern Colonial in a typical English setting
and see what aliens they are — hear the eagle
screech, and with what a Yankee accent! These
three types while often lacking the classical
perfection of some of the beautiful Georgian
architecture of Virginia, Maryland and
Charleston (which was generally the work of
English architects) have, perhaps through the
"defauts de ses qualites" a freshness and in-
dividuality that no mere adaptation attains.
They have the beauty and suitability of the

'uly, 1922

indigenous, are characteristic outgrowths of
the soil.

But I started out not to wave the Star
Spangled Banner for sycophantic critics but
to give evidence of how one of our native vari-
ations has kept its distinct qualities, positively
flaunts its ancestry and personality while mak-
ing itself at home at the other end of the con-
:inent.

It is so far a cry from New England to
Georgia, that, architecturally one would say
lever the twain shall meet. But, should you
:hance, some spring morning, on a little town
:alled Clinton on the high road from Macon
lo the old capitol of Georgia, Milledgeville, —
should you turn down the narrow elm lined
•oad where wistaria hangs purple festoons from
:ree to tree and lilacs blow their sweetness from
ivery fence corner, while the cool sun of April
[apples the prim white houses with faint tree
shadows — should you look twice at the simple,
raceful houses in their composed settings, you
rould forget the exotic red soil, condone the
lilapidation and say convincedly, "New En-
;land."

Clinton was settled the last part of the 18th
Yntury by some enterprising New Englanders
i'ho came to make and sell cotton gins in
Jeorgia. They transplanted to their new set-
lenient just as much as was humanly possible
f the atmosphere of the homes they had left
ehind. Their dwellings have the fineness,
le restrained beauty and charming severity of
ic best New England designers and as these,
ligrators prospered they put delicate furniture
gainst the panelled walls or polychrome wall-
apers of their "parlors", they planted their
rim gardens with old New England flowers
nd kept white their picket fence boundaries —
^created a bit of New England here in the
ir South.

One gets here a breath of a cooler clime, a
linter fragrance than that pervading the sur-
ounding country with its almost too colorful
ichness — red of soil, blue of sky, deep lush
reen of vegetation. These vignettes of New
England set against the overgrown Southern
ackground, have the wistful beauty of the
:ray vebenas one sometimes sees blown from
)me old fashioned garden to perpetuate them-
elves in a forest clearing — out of place but
/ith a subtler challenge for all that, a more in-
ividual appeal than when hemmed behind
'hite gates or clustered around Grandmother's
mch-shell borders.

There are occasional examples elsewhere in

reorgia, though none so perfect as Clinton, of

ic New Englander's carrying with him to a

istant home what he loved best and what most

ividly expressed him in his architectural tra-

itions. Somehow in setting up his home he

is always managed to make clear for "pry-

ig historians of today," the unmistakable

ualities of the Puritan builder — the serious

;strained outlook on the "carefully ordered

ays of this uncertain life", the ascetic dignity,

ic poise and precision. A sampler from one

f these old houses preserves some of the flavor

f his philosophy. Its simple burden is this:

"Seize, Mortals, seize the present hour,

Improve each Moment as it flies;

Life's a short Summer, Man a Flower,

He dies, alas how soon he dies."

It ts thought that the same architect

built both this and the house shown

opposite. Both have the steep New

England roof

A house in Milledgeville, showing
a delicately designed doorway in
the manner of the Greek revival
and an unusually good balcony

This house in Clinton is interesting for

its two story porches of super-imposed

orders, delicate cornice and steps of old

millstones

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H.-aly

The problem of a hillside garage was solved, on the country place
of George J. Dyer, Norfolk, Ct., by excavating a bank. The car
floor is on the level of the road; above are servants' and chauf-
feur's quarters and in the corner is a small greenhouse. Arthur
Nash, architect

The owner's desire to have a garage erected
on a piece of land opposite his own house
without marring the landscape was accom-
plished by putting the entrance in the rear
and finishing the front to resemble a bungalow.
It is the property of Thomas Skinner, North-
ampton, Mass. Murphy &• Dana, architects

CONVENIENT GARAGES OF
ARCHITECTURAL MERIT

In the New England Colonial farmhouse one
often finds that the passage from the house
to the barn is built as an arcaded series of
sheds. In the home of Francis Boardman,
Riverdale, N. Y., this old-fashioned device was
used for the garage attached to the house.
Dwight James Baum, architect

July, 1922

The fireplace, with its chimney piece and overmantel, is in-
variably the jocal point of a room. Consequently, one
should select the design according to the types and purposes
of the room. The living room in the home oj W. Perry Cur-

tis, at New Haven, Cl., is paneled and furnished after the
Colonial taste and the chimney piece and paneled over-
mantel are in harmony with the fine collection of early
American furniture. Charles E. Cutler, architect

IF YOU ARE GOING TO BUILD

Consider the Fireplace and Its Contribution to the Comfort
and Beauty of the Rooms in that New House

BUILDING a house is a romantic ad-
venture. As we grow in architectural
grace, it may also become an educational
enterprise. In time, quite likely, chatty sen-
tences embracing "Doric detail", "Palladian
influence", "Colonial variation", will fall trip-
ingly from our lips. Gradually the difference
between concrete and cement will become es-
tablished in our reluctant minds. We will
learn to turn coldly away from cast iron (it
must be wrought); eventually we will read a
blue print as lightly as though it were a best
seller, and check up a specification as easily
as a bill from the milliner's. To our homeless
neighbors we will speak of hollow tile, ex-
panded metal lath, of trim, of valves, of clas-
sic hoods, airily, yet as to one having authority.

By and by, we learn to support this weight
of knowledge with quiet grace, eventually it
slips into a useful background, and then we
awaken to the real romance of building a
house, with the realization of all the wonder
mere windows and doors have added to civili-
zation— in fact, to what extent they are civili-
zation. And the fascinating importance of the
fireplace is born in upon us.

Early in the development of home architec-

MARY FANTON ROBERTS

ture, the fireplace became the center of decora-
tive interest. In time it was ornamented from
ceiling to hearth, richly carved pillars sup-
ported its lintel, the chimney breast of the
French fireplaces carried the finest examples
of Grisaille and Camieau; swags in polychrome
-or white circled the fireplace. Then it was in-
terpolated into famous furniture periods, set-
tles and great couches were placed in front of
it, and in Colonial and Jacobean times the
opening for the actual fire was so broad, that
seats, were built in the chimney sides. Stone
and brass were finely and fantastically devel-
oped for fireplace fittings, tiles were brought
from southern countries for the hearth and the
fireplace became the pet of the domestic archi-
tect.

The fireplace has been no mere home-build-
ing detail, not just an opportunity for com-
fortable evenings in the winter time. It has
helped make history. It has brought romance
into architecture, just as the casement window
did centuries ago, and as the garden gate did
later.

The first fireplaces were built of stone in the
center of the room, in fact the central hearth
is still found in the teepees of our North Ameri-

can Indians. The only way in which the
smoke was carried off in those early days was
through a hole in the roof, through crevices
about the windows and through open doors.
Chaucer was troubled by smoke at some femi-
nine occasion, and noted complainingly, "Full
sooty was her bower, and eek hir hall, in which
she eet full many a sclendre meal". But the
central hearth with all its inconveniences did
bring warmth into the house and furnished
opportunity for cooking indoors, and at night
the masters and their henchmen and their dogs
clustered about it to sleep. But civilization
moved and at last smoke turrets were intro-
duced into the roofs and louvers came into
existence so that smoke could escape without
letting in rain and wind.

A little later the movable brazier arrived
and was definitely more comfortable than the
fixed hearth in those enormous huge halls.

Gradually a little imagination crept into
the question of heating great palaces, and the
fireplace was shifted back against a wall, some-
times to' the corner of the room. There were
no chimneys, to be sure, but tall hoods were
introduced that projected over the hearth, and
sloped back to the wall at the roof, the smoke

House & Garden

The supporting stone columns, carved
wood mantelshelf and fireback in her-
ringbone pattern make this a distin-
guished fireplace. Walker & Gillette,
architects

(Below) In a remodeled farmhouse one
may well preserve the sturdy old fire-
places. This was done in the home of
Webb W. Wilks at New Canaan, Ct.

A room of such handsome proportions
as that above is fittingly enhanced by a
late 17th Century Italian Baroque fire-
place. Walker &• Gillette, architects

An authentic Colonial design, in the
home of Lawrence M. Keeler, Whitins-
ville, Mass., is usual for the wide open-
ing of the fireplace. Joseph D. Leland,
architect

escaping through a hole in the roof, di-
rectly over the top of the hood. These
hoods were very beautifully proportioned
and seemed to be an integral part of the
great coved stone ceiling through which
they passed at a vast height. They are
still to be found in some of the old
English Chapter houses. The hearth
projecting out in the room from the
wall, with a metal hood, sloping back
to a chimney, is much in vogue today in
England, especially in those charming
smaller English homes designed by Ray-
mond Unwin and Barrie Parker. The
idea being that no heat can be lost up the
chimneys.

July, 1922

An unusual fireplace, found in the New
York City home of Clayton Sedgwick
Cooper, consists of a black plaster chim-
ney breast with a bronze insert. Dwight
James Baum, architect

Carved wood decorations in the manner
of Grinling Gibbons surround the over-
mantel panel in one of the rooms of the
home oi Leland H. Ross at Madison,
N.J.

The Tudor atmosphere is crystalized in
the stone surrounds and paneling of this
fireplace in the home of Leland H. Ross,
Madison, N. J. F. G. Behr and O.
B. Smith, architects

The Elizabethan paneling and furniture
in this bedroom of an English country
house are fittingly accompanied by a
high stone fireplace. Richardson & Gill,
decorators

Some magnificent fireplaces were built
with these hoods in old English houses,
but the finest of them could not equal
the hooded hearths still to be found in
France, at Langeais, Blois and other
chateaux in the Valley of the Loire.

Although the beginning of the use of
recessed chimneys carrying the hearth
back in the wall, was really a develop-
ment of the 15th Century, they were not
entirely unknown in the 12th Century.
When drawn back in the wall in this
fashion, they were nearly always of stone
with a stone lintel and stone pillars at
the sides. When a large enough stone

House & Garden

Eight months after
the greenhouse was
moved, the garden
was finished. This
view of the iris gar-
den is taken from
the same spot as the
picture below

. 1

The plan shows how
the greenhouse walls
enclose the garden.
Its floor levels made
possible the various
interesting garden
divisions. Morse &
Morse, landscape
architects

On another place a ramshackle farmer's cottage was removed and
the stone used for steps, and- to wall in a little garden of shade-loving
plants and ferns. Rhododendrons, mountain laurel and other broad-
leaved evergreens give it background

This photograph of the La-vino garden was taken before the razing

oj the greenhouse had been completed. Fresh soil was placed in

the terraces and the garden planted according to the plan shown.

It was finished in eight months

July, 1922

GARDENS IN OLD FOUNDATION WALLS

The Foundations of Old Razed Out-Buildings Often Form the Best
Sort of Garden Background for a Country Place

NORMAN K. MORSE

IN the course of remodeling old houses and
the grounds near them, we often encounter
old foundations which must be removed
or else utilized so that they will blend with
the new order of things. It frequently causes
a pang of regret to tear down these old bits of
masonry — sometimes nicely covered with moss
and creepers — and sometimes with little wild
flowers growing in the scant soil of the crev-
ices. The possibilities of beautifying and us-
ing them as an asset to the grounds is always
well worth considering. It is wonderful to see
how attractive they can be made with a little
cleaning up and some changes here and there.
In one instance, on the place of Mrs. E. G.
La vino, Rydal, Pa. — where a greenhouse had
been moved, the foundations were in just the
right position for a very interesting garden
built on the various levels of the
old greenhouse floors, one level
being connected to the next by
rough masonry steps, each terrace
handled individually but with re-
lation to the whole scheme. The
greenhouse had been protected on
the north by a high wall. This \vas
allowed to remain, all other walls
were razed to the surface of the

From the upper terrace of the
Lavino garden one commands
the lower terrace and the path
that leads down to the iris
garden

ground at the various levels. The old cement
floors were removed and deep beds of new
rich soil were made for the shrubbery and
flowers.

The upper terrace, about 16' x SO', is shaded
by an arbor of rough red cedar. The floor
of this level is covered with large irreg-
ular slabs of flat stones, set so that the grass
can grow between the joints. Steps lead from
this terrace down to the level which was origi-
nally the main house. This space is 30' x 55'
and here ornamental shrubs and dwarf ever-
greens form a background for a simple ar-
rangement of flower beds for the old garden
favorites. A large, ivy-covered sun dial forms
the central feature, stepping stones circle
around it and at right angles to the garden,
lead to another set of rough steps descending

to the iris garden. This has a small rectangu-
lar pool 5' x 8', surrounded by a grass panel
with a border bed of iris and peonies, forming
the background. One of the old greenhouse
walls enclosing the iris garden was made of
rough field stones and crevices have been made
in the wall in which a number of the alpine
plants were placed. These little plants spread
so quickly that it will be only a short time be-
fore they almost cover the stones. The collec-
tion of plants, selected so that their time of
bloom would give color and foliage effects all
through the flower season, insures an interest-
ing and ever changing variety.

The whole scheme of this garden was sug-
gested by the position and levels of the foun-
dations and it is surely more attractive in the
interest of its unique outlines than it would
have been with the walls torn
down and the ground leveled at
considerable expense in order to
have a comparatively unattractive
formal garden.

An interesting and quite dif-
ferent development was the treat-
ment of the foundation of a
farmer's cottage which had been
(Continued on page 88)

This garden, on the place of
Mrs. E. G. Lavino, Rydal, Pa.,
was built on the varying levels
of the joundations oj an old
greenhouse

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CREAM AND APPLE GREEN FOR THE COTTAGE

A Simple Summer Arrangement of Color
For Five Small Rooms

WEYMER MILLS

THE HALL

Walls: Cream.

Woodwork: A bluish apple green.

Floor Covering: A cream and green linoleum in large squares to

imitate marble.

In front of the hat-rack a hook rug with an arrangement of
quaint, soft colored flowers or a portrait of some farm pet, per-
haps a horse or dog.
Furniture: An early American style hat-rack in shape of a lyre.

This can be painted cream and stenciled with gold and green

ivy leaves.

A simple hall table with spindle legs decorated to match the

hat-rack.

On either side of the table a Windsor chair— a copy of an

early English or American model painted the bluish apple

green of the woodwork.

The chairs should have flat cushioned seats covered with old
American glazed chintz in which a sealing-wax red tone predomi-
nates. The baluster rail can be painted this same red and any
hall pictures, old prints suggested, shoul have red frames to carry
out the effect.

THE LIVING ROOM

Walls: Cream.

Woodwork: A bluish apple green, with more blue than the hall.

Chimney Piece: Simple Georgian design in wood. The fireplace
tiled with copies of 18th Century Dutch tiles, yellow birds on
blue branches suggested.

Over the chimney piece: An old portrait in which pink and
red predominate.

On the chimney piece: Blue and white dolphin candlesticks
and other ornaments of the same glass.

Window Curtains: Chintz blinds or shades of a pattern of pink
and white roses on a green ground.

Under-curtains: Heavily pleated green tarleton, a variety com-
monly known as mosquito net.

Furniture: A large circular maple table, a settee, a reading chair,
a sewing chair and several occasional chairs and tables — the
same wood suggested.

Floor Covering: Pale green Japan matting.

In such a room the lamp shades can be made of pale green
paper bound with apple green and for any chair covering a
pink, white, and apple green chintz should be used. White
pottery urns holding white and mauve garden flowers would be
effective as table decorations.

THE DINING ROOM

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Walls: Cream.

Woodwork: Cream.

Floor Covering,: Stained apple green and varnished.

Furniture: Table and chairs, any copies of pleasing 18th Century
models painted white. The seat cushions of heavy cream col-
ored china silk.

Curtains: Curtains in such a room should be heavy white linen
or cotton bound with a cream silk braid. A pleated valance
would be effective. The dining room windows should open
upon a flowering garden.

The table ware should be coarse cream colored pottery if a
white table cloth is used. The centre piece, a cream vase holding
white flowers. The glasses and any glass table ornaments, of
apple green Venetian glass.

A LARGE BEDROOM

Walls: Apple green.

Woodwork : Cream.

Floor Covering: Cream Japan matting.

Window Curtains: Pink and white striped chintz or pink and
white checked gingham.

Furniture: Painted furniture of cream white and pink, copies of
Sheraton shapes suggested.

The pictures is such a room should be soft 18th Century water
colors of flowers or modern reproductions of the same. Cream
frames would be effective; each picture hanging from a pink
silk cord the color of the pink in the chintz.
For rugs, large rag rugs in shades of pink and green are sug-
gested.

A SMALL BEDROOM

Walls: Cream.

Woodwork: Cream.

Floor Covering: Apple green velvet carpet with cream border one

yard wide.
Window Curtains: Cream linen chintz with design of mauve

flowers and foliage.
Furniture: Painted furniture of pale mauve with decorations of

deep purple grapes and green grape leaves. Victorian walnut

pieces, obtainable at any second-hand shop, are suggested for

repainting.

The pictures in such a room should be two or three amusing

samplers or pieces of Victorian needlework, birds or flowers.

Apple green frames would be effective, each picture hanging

from a cream silk cord.

July, 1922

A solution for the small house
problem may be found in the
house erected with standard-
ized materials on a plan that
will permit of several different
exteriors. The model shows
the "Salem Cottage" design

The architects estimate that
the Salem Cottage design can
be executed for $15,000. This
figure includes shades, screens,
decorations and lighting fix-
tures. Grading and land-
scaping are additional

A STANDARDIZED SMALL HOUSE

The Model Shows a
'''Salem Cottage'

The minimum plot she required for
such a house is 75' front by 100' deep.
From the view shown below we can see
the pergola enclosing the third side of
the garden. The rear wing houses two
bedrooms and a bath with a connect-
ing corridor

Six other exterior designs can be built
on this or an alternate plan, including
English, Colonial brick and Italian.
The family's bed chambers, living room
and porch all face the garden. De-
signed and built by the Patterson King
Corporation

House & Garden

PLANNING THE SMALL CITY GARDEN

Careful Selection of Material and Due Thought for Its Arrangement Will
Accomplish Much Even in Small Spaces

CHARLES S. LE SURE

AFTER a strenuous
day in the mart of a
busy city, the atmos-
phere of a simple land-
scape garden of foliage and
flower is soothing to mind
and body. Perhaps it is
just a tiny garden of twen-
ty-five or thirty feet
breadth, but even so, we
know that some of the most
interesting bits of landscape
planting, real jewels of the
art, are to be found in
crowded cities. However
small the area, it is possible
to create a true garden home
with a little study and ob-
servation and sincere appli-
cation to the problem. And
what fun it is to plan the
garden, select the plant
materials and do the plant-
ing! There is a wealth of
happiness in learning to
compose foliage and flower
color, but the greater hap-
piness comes when the garden is complete.
Then the home owner is richly rewarded for
his sincere efforts to create a living landscape
of his own.

No area is so small that it may not include
a simple, pleasing arrangement of hardy flow-
ering shrubs and flowers accented with a few
small trees. With a little pleasant reading of
good landscape books, which are to be found
in every library nowadays, and close attention
to magazines devoted to such topics, the city
dweller will soon gain a small education in the
principles of landscape gardening, so that he
will be enabled to plan and plant his own
small garden. It can be done if the desire is
present, for after all it is no more difficult than
learning to play golf or run a new auto, and
all of us take such pastimes as a matter of
course. It is just a matter of reading and
then application of the principles. Read-
ing of a dozen books, and most of these are
interesting, will make the principles plain,
and then by observing carefully drawn
plans and noting their chief character-
istics, any earnest student can create gar-
den pictures. One man has said that the
reason more people do not plant their
grounds right is because they do not try.
Even if the owner desires to employ the
services of a professional landscape archi-
tect, he could do better work if the owner
had a fair knowledge of the principles he
employs in the work.

Many of our cities would appear far
more attractive if more people would get
the spirit of modern landscape planting.
The writer is familar with hundreds of

Unsightly objects may be screened from view and delightful privacy
simple arrangement of shrubs and fiowers. The picture may not show
glance, but every bit of the planting was carefully thought

residence streets and there is everywhere an
apparent lack of knowledge of creative plant-
ing. In many cities, while the house archi-
tecture is good, it is to be noted that the plant-
ing is not at all in keeping with the lines of
the house itself. We frequently see in the lead-
ing architectural magazines, pictures of the
very best in house architecture, yet the effect
is injured by the careless methods of plant-
ing. A small tree or shrubs improperly placed
near the house will often ruin the picture from
the artistic standpoint. Most of this careless-
ness is due to the lack of general education in
gardening as an art, coupled with the fact that
as yet the landscape profession is compara-
tively new and its members few in number.
Those of us with a vision look forward to the

achieved by a
it at a casual
out

The available space for the planting, shown in its

completion at the top of the page, was only 30' by

45', yet it shows perfect balance and considerable

variety

time when both the city and
country will be a beautiful
garden. The home owner
who takes a real interest in
his planting problem will
hasten the day.

The garden illustrated
here is typical of what may
be accomplished on a very
small area, this plot being
about 30' in width and 45'
in length. The primary
object was to make a se-
cluded, restful retreat, a
private garden of simple de-
sign that would give plea-
sure to the household as well
as shut out from view the
unsightly buildings at the
rear. How well this has
been done, the picture indi-
cates. Care was used in
the selection and arrange-
ment of plants to bring
about simplicity and bal-
ance, and at the same time
to show variety.
The center of the garden is left as a panel
of lawn enclosed on three sides by the hedge
of shrub foliage, which with the corner ac-
cents of pyramidal birches will completely
shut out the rest of the unsightly view in an-
other year. The maple tree in the foreground
casts its shadow in an effective way to the
lawn below, giving to the garden a rich appear-
ance. The flowers are arranged in small
panels in the lawn at the sides and ends, the
white seats and bird bath serving admirably
as accents without marring the simplicity of
the whole composition. No shrubs were used
which are not of proven worth in varied cli-
matic conditions. In the corners with the
birches are massed Persian lilacs, these being
chosen because of their refinement in contrast
to the coarser varieties. The Persian lilac,
moreover, does not sprout at the base nor
wait so long to present us with its wonder-
ful flower clusters. Frequently it will bloom
the same year it is planted, although the
plants are very small. Among the other
tried and true shrubs are the staghorn and
fragrant sumac, Regel's privet, ninebark,
mock orange and the snowberry.

In choosing the flowers, only tested
varieties were used like the gaillardia,
achillea, iris, phlox, Black-eyed Susan,
platycodon and campanulas. These all
furnish cut flowers over a fairly long pe-
riod and look well in the beds. Rather
than make a regular collection of indi-
vidually attractive plants, it was the de-
sire of both owner and gardener to arrive
at an intimate garden enclosure, simple
and pleasing in outline.

July, 1922

The home of Gene
Buck, writer of song
lyrics, at Great Neck,
L. I., exemplifies the
charm of Italian archi-
tecture of the simpler
type. Patterson & King,
architects

An interesting feature
of the entrance door is
a Grecian panel in bas-
relief. The planting
around the house is
formal and especially
suitable for its type of
architecture

A GROUP

of
SIX HOUSES

The first floor plan is
unusually complete, and
includes the maid's
quarters. On the second
floor are a master's
suite with dressing room
and bath and three guest
rooms and bath

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Projecting bays on the front facade oj this house, at
Saratoga Springs, N . Y ., give added interest to the exterior
and form pleasant features of the living and- dining rooms.
A recessed terrace and a piazza off the dining room provide
more than the usual outdoor sitting space

To keep the direction oj the building from being accentuated
vertically, as the two chimney stacks suggest, the architect
has placed a belt course over the first story windows. This
is shadowed by a slight flare of the shingles. The colors
of the house are suitable for a country site — white painted
shingles, green blinds and a brown roof. Lewis E. Welsh
was the architect

A large central hall with shorter halls
on either side provide an air of spaci-
ousness to the first floor that is par-
ticularly desirable in a summer house.
In fact, the entire arrangement of
rooms is one that lends an air of
comfort rather than suggesting studied
economizing on space

All the chambers are arranged with
separate baths, a desirable provision
in a country house designed for hos-
pitality. In the attic is ample space
for two more large rooms and baths
The corridor in the ell is lighted by
tu-o windows and a large stair win-
dow lights the middle corridor

July, 1922

The earliest New England types furnished the suggestion

for the projecting second story, adding considerable extra

space to the second floor and giving a pleasant shadowing

to this facade

This and the house shown opposite were designed as guest
houses on a large estate near Saratoga Springs, N. Y. A
view of twenty miles across country determined the loca-
tion of the room in the rear. Steep roofs were adopted
as a precaution against heavy snow, but the chance of
freezing in winter prevented the use of leaders and gutters.
Instead an eighteen inch curb, which runs around the
foundation, takes care of the drip

The house was so designed that it
could be adequately served with one
maid. It would be suitable for a
family of three living in the country
or suburbs. There is a commend-
able compactness about its rooms
downstairs. The dining room and
living room command the view

The two main bedrooms are located
on the view. All the chambers can
be closed off from the hall and still
be entered from each other. An alcove
provides space for a writing desk.
Two bedrooms, bath and storage
closet are on the top floor. Lewis
E. Welsh was the architect

House & G ar dei

Half-timber is one of the authen-
tic styles for English cottage
architecture. When it is honestly
built, it lends a structure a de-
sirable semblance of age and an
interesting watt pattern. It has
been effectively employed in the
building of this small house at
Greenwich. Ct.

A feature of one of the facades
is the style in which the first floor
stone wall is continued on to en-
close the rear garden. A bay
window built on a brick and
stone base stands under the over-
hang of the second story. The
roof exhibits an inspiring sweep
of multi-colored slate

This cottage was originally built for the occupancy
of the owner whilst the large house on his estate was
being erected. It now serves to house families of the
gardener and chauffeur. It is so designed that the
erection of simple partitions makes a comfortable
two-family house. The plans as shown would re-
quire but little modification to make them suitable for
a family of three or four. Ample service and porch
space is provided. William F. Dominick. architect

July, 1922

DINING OH. _V LIVING' RM >

By keeping the hall down to a
minimum, a great sense of space
is given the interior. Wide doors
between the first floor rooms
make it one large apartment

The same economy of space is
effected upstairs. There are jour
bedrooms, a nursery, and in char-
acteristic English architectural
fashion, a solitary bath

A small English house
American countryside is
at Carshdlton, Surrey,
creamy white, broken by
red brick chimney stacks
ground to the garden. A
flanked on

that could be readily adapted to the
the home of Robert Atkinson, architect,
The walls are rough cast, washed a
the leaded casements and relieved by the
Thus the walls form a pleasant back-
flagstone walk runs in front of the house
either side by flower beds

For the residence of Miss N.
M. Talle\, Terre Haute, Ind.,
a modified Georgian style was
used, executed in brick and
with white trim. The house
is pleasantly set behind trees

A typical balance is found in
the plans of both upstairs and
down. Upstairs are four
chambers, two baths and a
sleeping porch. Johnson, Miller
&r Miller were the architects

QUENCHING THE
GARDEN'S THIRST

Modern Sprinkling Systems Take the
Place of the Rain that Fails to Fall

E. I. FARRINGTON

House & Garden

,..«**•" >^

l-or smaller areas there are
portable oscillating sprin-
klers that can be attached
to a hose line. Courtesy
Campbell Irrigation Co.

The nozzle line, especially
adaptable to vegetable gar-
dens, produces artificial rain
when you want it. Cour-
tesy Skinner Irriga'ion Co.

EVERY garden has a
healthy thirst. Its
very existence de-
pends upon moisture in abun-
dance. The average garden
can worry through the aver-
age season with what moisture
it gets from occasional rain-
falls, especially if there is
frequent cultivation so that
evaporation does not rob the
soil too fast. In times of
drought, however — and such

The sprinkler at the right
is adapted to catering
quite large areas, yet with
its flexible hose connection
it is easily moved around
the garden. Andrew Wil-
son, Inc.

times are inevitable in all but
the most favored sections of
the country — artificial water-
ing must be resorted to in
order to obtain anything like
an average crop.

Irrigation, therefore, be-
comes crop insurance. Such
insurance is worth while, but
probably irrigation would not
be much practiced in private
gardens if it promised no
more than that. In point of

Upright nozzle stand-pipes,
connected underground,
will water the vegetable
garden with the minimum
inconvenience. Courtesy
John A. Brooks and Munn
& Munz

July, 1922

Pipes laid underground and connected
with concealed nozzles form an excellent
system for lawns and open flower gar-
dens. Courtesy John A. Brooks and
Murui & Munz

fact it gives better vegetables and more of them,
finer flowers and in greater numbers, a lawn
that can be depended upon, and a longer season
even in normal years.

Average crops are made better than the aver-
age by the use of water. The color and foliage
of flowers no less than the flavor of vegetables
are improved by it. There are plenty of statis-
tics to prove that statement.
But statistics are dry things
at the best, and this is a wet
article. Every garden maker
who has made the experiment,
though, knows that he can get
far more celery, far better
tomatoes and far more certain
crops of cauliflower and Brus-
sels sprouts if he has an ample
supply of water at his com-
mand. He knows that grow-
ing quality lettuce in- hot
weather is almost impossible
unless he can assuage its
never-failing thirst. He has
learned that plenty of water
at transplanting time always
makes for success, while re-
ducing labor. He may not
know, but it is a fact, that
market gardeners often let the
water run for hours on the
ground where celery is to go,
with results that are measured

(Left) A rotary, portable sprinkler that
will cover evenly and perfectly a circle
75' in diameter. It is capable of many
adjustments. Courtesy Ramapo Irri-
gation Co.

by dollars instead of dimes in the market.
The season is lengthened, because the use of
water will ward off early fall frosts. Experi-
ence has shown this to be true. Garden makers
equipped with an irrigation system are able to
save their vegetables and flowers when their
neighbors lacking this advantage lose them. In
connection with a simple tile drainage system,
which makes the garden ready
for cultivation very early in
the spring, an irrigation sys-
tem adds several weeks to the
length of time when vegeta-
bles can be cropped. One
other point in this connection
is worth noting. Vegetables
which are kept growing rap-
idly have better flavor than
those which grow slowly, and
as a rule are much better able
to resist the attacks of insect
pests and fungous diseases.

Irrigation to the average
person means a ditch by
which water can be distrib-
uted through the fields. This
is a primitive type and can
(Continued on page 92)

The stand-pipe type can
operate unobstructed in the
midst of tall flowers. Cour-
tesy W. G. Cornell Co.

House & Garden

THE

NEW

SHINGLES

Show Metal, Wood and Composition Handled in Novel
Fashions for Roofs and Walls

THE shingle does not stand still in these
days of new fashions in building. It
has a fascinating way with it, and bends
and curves over roof and wall into a variety
of new effects. It is sometimes colorful, often
indestructible, and in shapes that take on the
beauty most desired by architects and builders
of imagination. There is not only a tile
shingle today but a thatch shingle and metal
and rubber shingles, and of composition
shingles, usually fireproof, there is literally
no end.

The older, more middle-aged shingles have
already won their spurs in house-building —
from the broad white pine, hand-rived variety
down to the shingles with every rich tone of an
autumn wood blended into a mellow, seductive
surface. Among the composition shingles, the
asbestos varieties loom large with their mys-
terious woodland hues and picturesque surfaces.
While the Spanish rose-color, hand-made tiles
still seem the essential covering of certain types
of Spanish and Italian models, we import the
shining emerald green tiles from China for
some of our great summer palaces, and there
are home lovers who will not build an Italian
house without Italian . tiles, or a California
bungalow without tiles from California, if pos-
sible from the roof of a disintegrated old Mis-
sion building.

But these specialized roofs are not in the
main the things we are looking for. There is
a perfect whirlwind of home building sweeping
over this country and the great mass of people
who have decided to own a home are people
who have saved money to put into this invest-
ment, people who want houses from six thou-
sand dollars up to forty thousand. This group
of home owners are not looking for elaborate
and fantastic covering for their houses. They
want the best modern roofing, weatherproof, as
economical as is consistent with good building,
appropriate to their architecture and durable.

BECAUSE of this very widespread de-
mand for home building, roofing, in-
teresting and practical, is developing
along as many lines as there are varying types
of architecture. A great variety of metal
and composition shingles seem to be having
their innings this season, and there are new
developments in asbestos, asphalt, rubber
and wood. Some shingles are purchased in-
exactly the tone that they will carry for years
to come. Others are known to weather into
tints quite different from the original surface;
bright orange copper, for instance, will weather
a frosty green like a Roman patine; certain
shades of green slate will weather yellow and
brown ; asbestos frequently mellows from bright
shades to the tints of a November woodland.
And all this is known and understood ; in pur-
chasing shingles, all their temperamental ways
are explained to the buyer. He is taken into
the confidence of the manufacturers these days,

HENRY COMPTON

and so far as it is humanly in his power, the
buyer is helped to understand all that the dif-
ferent roofing materials may accomplish, as
well as their vagaries and lovely whimsicalities.

THE copper shingle was until a year ago
a type of metal roofing practically un-
known. We had seen, to be sure, mag-
nificent copper roofs of frosty green in China
and Japan, some of them at least five centuries
old. These Oriental countries prized their cop-
per roofs, and even when a temple was torn
down, the copper roofing was saved for a new
building venture. In Egypt, too, and in Assyria
copper roofs furnished immunity from heat
and dampness. But the copper shingle — that
is a new development, and one of the most prac-
tical and economical that building industry
has accomplished in this country. These shin-
gles may be obtained in the natural, vivid
orange tone which will weather to rich varie-
gated green; or they may be obtained in warm
tones that make jewel-like roofs, suited in var-
iety to almost every building material. For in-
stance, there is a blue, like the turrjuoise from
India, and a green that is the shade of a vivid
hue in a peacock's feather; there are olive
greens and browns and yellow browns and
brown reds. In fact, the whole gamut of red-
brown tones that frost brings to maple and oak
are found in these copper shingles. And the
color is not painted on, but inherent in the
original surface. A velvety texture is given by
the chemical treatment that also produces the
color.

Until recently the laying of a copper roof was
a costly operation, but since shingles have been
substituted for the large copper sheets, the ex-
cessive cost of installation has been wiped out.
It is well to remember that pure copper is
practically indestructible, hence the initial cost
is the only one. Also it is exceedingly light in
weight, which means that the sub-roofing need
not be so heavy nor so expensive as is sometimes
deemed essential. Of course, with the copper
shingles all flashings and fittings must be of
copper, including copper nails; sometimes, as
in the case of .the flashings about the chimney
and along the ridges, the copper is left to
weather until it finally achieves the frosty green
so jewel-like. Or it may be treated to match
any of the colors of the roof. As a matter of
fact, the use of copper flashings for every sort
of roof is coming to be more and more regarded
as a necessity in well-built houses.

The copper shingles are put in place over
sheathing boards, which are laid tight without
open joints. Under this, of course, is the
customary coat of sheathing paper, which is a
benefit to any roof. In assembling these shin-
gles, they are interlocked in a manner which
allows for the expansion and contraction of
metal, yet they are weather-tight. The ques-
tion of ventilation is also taken into considera-
tion, as are moisture and wind.

Zinc shingles are another development of
metal roofing which is encroaching upon the
interest of all thoughtful builders. Zinc,
like copper, has been used successfully in the
past in the form of large sheets, but it is only
recently that the interesting silver-gray zinc
shingles have been put upon the market, and
the new pre-oxidized zinc shingles have much
the effect of silver maple or pale gray slate. Of
course, these shingles can also be painted, but
with the fashion just now for so much silver
color, most builders prefer the gray surface.

The zinc shingles are also interlocking and
weather-tight, and to prevent sweating of the
roof, each shingle is designed to form a venti-
lating space between it and the roofing board on
which it is laid. The exposed surface of this
shingle is a perfectly plain square, and the oxi-
dation gives this surface a feeling of depth and
beauty. Naturally, with the zinc roofing, zinc
leaders, gutters, valleys, flashings, etc., are
used, and the zinc spouting, which has been so
widely employed in European countries for a
hundred years, is now coming into fashion here.
These zinc fittings are distinctly picturesque
and have an ornamental value, especially
where they come in contact with brick, stone, or
wooden walls. Although zinc roof and fittings
are very practical and easily installed, they
are definitely economical. They are practica-
ble for public as well as domestic buildings.

A TAPERED shingle is one of the new de-
velopments in composition roofing. It is
not only practical and durable, but years
of scientific experiment have developed it into
one of the most beautiful roofings now on the
market. This shingle is made of pure asbestos
fibre compressed with cement in water by hy-
draulic pressure, and colored with iron oxide.
This process of compressing in water renders
them color-fast, an objective greatly to be de-
sired. They are also fireproof and weather-
proof.

Because no two of these shingles are alike, a
most attractive variation in a weathered effect
is obtained for the finished roof. Not only is
there irregularity of color, but the part of the
shingle exposed is roughened so that the roof
has the beauty of age from the start. These
shingles are all tapered as are wooden shingles,
and the edges are beveled. The color of the
tapered shingle is ' rich and mellow, a warm
silvery gray and a sort of rosy terra cotta. A
beautiful effect is gained by the combining of
these tones. These roofs are peculiarly inter-
esting on houses finished with pale gray cement
and a black trim.

BEAUTY and permanence are the two
qualities that every home builder is seek-
ing in selecting a roof. For many years it
has been possible to have either a beautiful roof
or a durable one, but the asbestos shingles are
(Continued on page 84)

July, 1922

MODERN MIXERS IN THE KITCHEN

The Electric and Hand Operated Rotary Devices Which Minimize
Labor and Attain the Maximum of Results

RE you a culinary ro-
tarian? Or do you
still beat it by hand?
The Kitchen Rotary Club
is becoming a real factor in
culinary economics. By
means of rotary motion the
mixer, the stoner, the beater,
etc., and the combinations of
these have come to relieve the
back, arm and hand, and
where electrically driven
cause no waste of time.

To begin with, the electric
rotaries are somewhat like
and unlike patent medicine
advertisements - - alike be-
cause they claim to do many
things, and unlike because
they can and do fulfill all
their claims.

For example, they beat
eggs; mix bread, dough, may-
onnaise; stir cake batter, frostings, dressings;
whip cream; mash potatoes; grind nuts, spices
and meat; drive (some) ice cream freezers;
turn the food chopper. Some have grinding
and buffing wheels for sharpening cutlery and
polishing silver. In fact, they are companions
not idly to be cast aside.

This will especially appeal to the housewife,
because many a good mayonnaise has been
wasted by inefficient mixings by the mixer be-
ing called away suddenly, etc. Then, too,
many a mayonnaise is never born at all be-

A little electric
beater that fulfills
all claims. Courtesy
Kottins Kitchen
Kraft

ETHEL R. PEYSER

cause the housewife or the cook "hasn't the
time today". Where the mixer is electrically
driven, time is added unto the menage and
while the mayonnaise is forming the cook is
performing elsewhere.

Egg beating, cream whipping, batter beat-
ing— all these take time. Now with the elec-
tric machine the home can revel in souffles and
cake. It can buy coffee in the bean and grind
it with no effort — here is a real epicurean sav-
ing. For coffee in the bean and grinding it at
home save the volatile essences of the bean
which give to perfect coffee the added aroma
and full flavor. These machines grind cutlery
and so can indirectly add finesse to a slice of
meat.

As with mayonnaise mixing, these utili-
tarian investments take the guess-work out of
cake, meringues, batters. Improper mixing is
an immorality not easily cleansed from
kitchens. Yet these instruments with perfec-
tion of mechanical agitation do the mixing
with assurance and become real vice chasers.

Imagine! (all things being
right) you can tie sure that
success will come to your
cakes, sauces, breads, rolls,
pies, cookies, doughnuts,
puddings, etc. Remember
that lumpy cream sauce?
Well, no more of that. Your
sauces and your mashed
vegetables will l>e lumpless.

Removing doubt removes
nerve strain in a kitchen—
and maybe the cook without
nerve strain will be affable
and a comforting dweller in
your halls.

Among the best machines
is one so made as effectively
to chop food and meat, grind
coffee, slice vegetables and
fruit, etc., etc., and has with
its attachments a hot-water
and ice container to be used
as a "bath" if stirring must needs be done in a
cold or hot medium. Soup strainer and col-
ander connection, ice cream freezer attach-
ment; a meat slicer (a great comfort and sav-
ing of meat) are other features. This machine
has an effective motor and three speeds. You
may have never felt the need of these types of
workers, but then you never knew the use of
the radiogram until you used it.

Don't you hate to strain and persuade large
quantities?

(Continued on page 88)

Home ground coffei
with minimum effor
is possible with thi.
grinder. Landers
Frary &• Clark

A mayonnaise mixer and

cream whipper that specializes

in quick results. Landers,

Frary & Clark

The modern bread mixer sub-
stitutes a crank and gears for
the old-time arm motion.
Landers, Frary & Clark

The rotary cake mixer has

geared paddles which insure

even mixing of the batter.

Landers, Frary & Clark

Left to right: knife cleaner,
rotary fruit parer and meat

House & Garden'

Suitable for a side table
in the living room is this
black glass flower bowl
with a rim of white.
W high. $3.75

English pheasant china has a brilliant
bird and flowers in rose and green, with
a black and yellow border. Teapot
$4.50, sugar bowl $2.50, creamer $1.65.
jug $1.85, cup and saucer $1.02. Rattan
tea trav, 20" across, S2.30

A flower painting done
in the antique style is
framed in black with a
gold rim. It is 16" high
and 13" wid?. $12.95

Wrought iron standing flower baskets
prove decorative both indoors and out-
side on the porch or terrace. This type,
36" high, is touched with gold. The
basket is 5" high and 13" long. The
price complete is $24

Salad plates to accompany the
bowl shown opposite come in
cream colored pottery, flowers in
mauve, rose and orange, with a
blue band on the border

One of the new salad sets consists
of an octagonal bowl and six
plates. The bowl, 4J/2" high and
9" across and the plates 6". The
set is priced at $9.24

The music of ice in the pitcher is even more enjoy-
able when the pitcher has an unusual design. This
one, vy/t" high, is accompanied by six tumblers. $5.94

For the cottage table come an opaque yellow glass
bowl and candlesticks to match trimmed with blue.
Bowl, 5V," high, #2.74. Candlesticks, 9", $1.24 each

Iridescent pale green or yellow glass
sherbet glass, 3" high, comes rea-
sonably at $.39

July, 1922

Tie-back rosettes, repro-
duced from a Colonial
design, in crystal, blue
opal, amethyst or topaz

These Colonial tie-back
rosettes are 4l/>" in di-
ameter and are priced
S4.50 the pair

Italian pottery pieces, canary yel-
low, turquoise blue, oyster white
and grayish blue. Bowl 4!/>" high,
candlesticks, 7J/>"- $5.75

An English pheasant design dessert
plate, 9" across, has a brilliant de-
sign in rose and soft green. $.95
each

A lawn pillow of brown or black

leather has handle and a pocket for

a book or magazine. 14" long and

13" wide, $8.50

Blue and white Wedgwood plates

of simple designs, come in various

convenient sizes: 8" in diameter,

$12 a dozen; 9", $14; 10" $16

Among the early American reproduc-
tions enjoying a vogue today are the
candlewick bedspreads. They are of
unbleached muslin tufted in rose,
French blue, gold, lavender and all
cream color. 72" * 100", $7.94:
81" * 100", $8.44; 90" * 100", $8.94

The articles on these pages may be

purchased through the House &

Garden Shopping Service, 19 West

•44tfc St.. New York City

SEEN

/ n the

SHOPS

A luncheon set, suitable for a coun-
try house breakfast or luncheon
table, comes in natural colored linen
with hand-drawn blue threads and
wreaths of French knots in yellow,
pink, blue and green. Cloth, 21" *
21", 4 doilies, 17" x 12", $8.50.
Complete with six doilies, $10.75

The country house can never have
too many occasional tables. This
octagonal design lends itself to a
dozen uses. It comes in red lacquer,
•with figures in gold, black and blue.
The top is 17" across, and the table
stands 22" high. $13.50

House & Garden

July

THE GARDENER'S CALENDAR

Seventh Month

"Happiness" is a
canary yellow car-
nation flecked with
pink. C has . II.
Tatty

Do not let the beans

and other vegetables

get old and tough

before picking

Hand cultivation
close up to the rows
is necessary for hun-
dred per cent crops

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

/eal'late it's no more'n huntan nature to like to set dovn an' talk easy-like with yer friends, gayin'

1. Sweet
peas must not

whatever pops into yer head so long as it's pleasant an' comes from yer heart. It sorter makes yer

be allowed to

job in life happier to know that ev'ry note an' then, even if it's only once a month, ye can lean back

become dry at

an' be yerself, like, kinder hvldin' out yer hand to a lot o' real folks an' speakin' straight to 'em without

the roots;

no fuss an' feathers.

heavy mulch-

An' so it gives a man pretty near a jolt when one day he faces the foe1 that he ain't a- go in' to have no

ing Is preferred

more o' them little talk* — that he's aoin' to leave the meetin'-place fer good an' drov out o' the lives o'

to surface wa-

whatever friends he niay've made there. He's likely to feel kinder quiet, then, an' to find that savin'

tering. When

good-bye ain't a* easy <IR he. Jiggered U wan (join' tn be.

necessary the

Still an' all I reckon that after he does go, he'll be able to look back an' remember how he enjoyed them
visits while they lasted ; they're somethin' he can't never fergit: An' if he can hope that mebbe
some, n' them that'* listened to what he said ha* got fun out of it too — wa'l, then he can eave 'em with

ground should
be well soaked.
Use a stick to

OLD DOC LEMMOX

penetration of
the water.

2. Do not
neglect the nec-

3. The pota
toes should be

4. The main
shoots on the

5. Keep the
cultivator

6. Do not
fall to keep up

7. Set out
some plants of

8. Do not
neglect the

essary pruning
of the early

sprayed once
more with

dahlias should
be reduced to

working stead-
ily. Deep and

sowings of
those crops

the late plants
of cabbage.

flower garden.
Keep all the

flowering

arsenate of lead

three. Close

frequent culti-

that require

cauliflower,

spaces between

shrubs after

to destroy late

cultivation will

vation will re-

seeding, such

kale, Brussels

the plants well

they have fin-
ished flowering.

hatchings of
the potato

keep the shoots
from increas-

lieve to a great
extent the ne-

as beans, corn,
cucumbers, let-

sprouts, celery,
etc. Dig deep

loosened up to
admit air to

Remove some

beetle. Early

ing. The plants

cessity of arti-

tuce, etc. If the

trenches for

the soil. The

of the old

potatoes

must be dis-

ficial watering.

weather is dry

them, adding

tall flowers.

shoots at the

should now be

budded. Do

Be sure to work

and hot, water

plenty of ma-

especially.

base and re-

ready for use;

this regularly if

the ground

the drill thor-

nure. Water the

should be

duce the num-

dig them only

you want to

after each rain

oughly. This

plants for sev-

staked, and

ber of the thin

In such quan-

have real 1 y

so as to con-

should be done

eral days or

when this is

weak Interior

tities as you

high quality

serve the nat-

before putting

until they start

done, remove

branches.

can use.

flowers.

ural moisture.

In the seed.

to grow.

all dead stems.

9. The time

10. Why not

11. Weeds!

12. If you

13. Don't

14. The last

15. After the

the climbing

sow cover crops

We must make

have fruit trees

wait for blight

sowing of corn

outside roses

roses should be

on that waste

war on them

it would be

to destroy your

should be made

have finished

looked over is

land or In the

now. This is

greatly to your

plants before

at this time.

flowering, some

after they have

orchard? This

the time to kill

advantage to

you start

Use both the

attention

finished flower-

is the most

all obnoxious

start now to

spraying.

very early and

should be given

ing. Some of

economical

growths as

get acquainted

Melons, cu-

medium varie-

to the bed to

the old woody

means of soil

they are now

with summer

cumbers, toma-

ties. Plant sev-

improve the

shoots can now

restoration.

In full develop-

pruning. This

toes, celery and

eral rows quite

quantity and

be removed at

Corn, rye.

ment. Early

Is the accepted

othersoftplants

close together

quality of the

the base, and

clover and

morning is the

method with

are subject to

so that In late

fall flowers.

the lateral

beans are good

best time to

fruiting trees

blight a n d

fall they can

With a fork ap-

shoots can be

for this purpose

destroy them.

and it should

should be

be protected, if

ply a liberal

reduced some-

and make ex-

afterwards

be attended to

sprayed with

necessary. This

top dressing of

what, improving

cellent summer

raking them up

at this time to

Bordeaux mix-

willincreasethe

bone to the bed

their growth.

cover crops.

In the evening.

produce results.

lure.

amount grown.

as fertilizer.

16. R u t a -

17. After the

18. This Is

19. What

20. Keep a

21. This Is

22. During

bugas, beets

fruiting period

an excellent

about some fall

sharp lookout

the time of the

the dry wea-

and carrots for

is over the cane

time of year to

peas In the gar-

for caterpillars

year when the

ther that usu-

winter use

fruits should be

look over the

den ? Don't

of all kinds. All

chrysanthe-

ally prevails at

should be sown

examined very

trees on your

think because

these pests are

mums in the

this time, it

now. Sow in

carefully. First

grounds. Any

you failed the

very destruct-

greenhouse

would be an ex-

the drills and

remove all the

minor repairing

first time that

ive at this time

should have

cellent plan to

thin out to the

old fruiting

necessary

it, is not prac-

of year, but

some attention.

study the dif-

required dis-

canes and then

should be at-

tical. Use ma-

there is little

Frequent feed-

ferent types of

tance. In dry

tie the new

tended to.

nure in the

excuse for their

ings with liquid

irrigation.

weather look

canes In posi-

Paint all scars.

trench and for

damaging any-

plant foods are

Sooner or later

out for green

tion. If care is

remove all dead

good results

thing as they

advisable. Use

you will have

(lies, and If at-

taken, these

wood. Any

use the round

are easily de-

various mate-

one of these

tacked, spray

will be your

trouble should

type of pea

stroyed. Most

rials so aa to

rain machines

with tobacco

next year's pro-

be examined by

such as New

easily done

give a well-bal-

In your garden.

solution.

ducing canes.

an expert.

York Market.

with a torch.

anced food.

Do it now.

23. What

24. Cool

25. The

26. The

27. Carna-

28. Why not

29. Sow sev-

about next win-

nights and hot

pi anting season

melon plants

tions in the

start a number

eral rows of

t e r in the

days are mil-

is again here.

should be fed

field must not

of perennials

beans rather

greenhouse?

dew and blight

p:\-ergreens of

.'reely with liq-

be neglected.

from seed now?

closely to-

Now is the best

breeders. If the

all types may

uid manures.

It is on the

This is the eco-

gether so they

time to start

leaves are in-

be moved now.

First make

condition of

nomical meth-

can be easily

some of the

fested, they

Be sure to use

some holes

these plants

od of raising

protected In

vegetables for

should be

plenty of water

around the hills

that the flower

these plants in

case of an early

forcing.

picked off and

In this work.

so that the ma-

crop of next

any quantity.

frost. Use

Cucumbers, to-

then the plants

and where pos-

terial will reach

winter to a

If you have no

water in the

matoes, mush-

sprayed with a

sible, spray the

the roots, then

large extent de-

frame to carry

drill to hasten

rooms, New

strong solution

foliage in the

lay boards un-

pends. Culti-

them over in.

germination.

Zealand spin-

of copper. Sul-

evening for the

der the fruit.

vate the ground

they can be

and keep the

ach, parsley.

phite of potas-

first few weeks.

This will assure

well and keep

protected dur-

ground around

etc., give the

sium is best for

(Jood results

you much bet-

the plants

ing winter with

the plants

best results.

mildew.

will follow.

ter melons.

pinched back.

boards.

stirred deeply.

30. Keep the

31. Some

runners r e -
moved on the
strawberry

flowers for the
greenhouse
should be

This Calendar of the gardener's labors
is aimed as a reminder for undertaking

Here be shadows large and long;
Here be spaces meet for song;

bed. This is
also an excel-
lent time to set
out new beds.
If this is prop-
erly attended

started now,
such as stocks,
calceolarias,
cinerarias, cal-
endulas, etc.
These are but

all his tasks in season. It is fitted to
the latitude of the Middle States, but its
suggestions should be suitable for the
whole country if it be remembered that
for every one hundred miles north or

Grant, O garden-god, that I,
Now that none profane is
nigh, —
Now that mood and moment

to, they should

a few of the

south there is a difference of from five

please, —

produce next
season. Spray
with Bordeaux
If the leaves

many flowers
which can be
started'now for
finishing in the

to seven days later or earlier in per-
forming garden operations. The dates
given are, of course, for an average

Find the fair Pierides!
—A USTIN DOBSON.

are blighted.

greenhouse.

season.

Dainty pink is the
color of the new
single chrysanthe-
mum "Kitty
Riches." Tatty

The well - known
pink Columbia rose
is now available in
red. Chas. H. Tatty
Co.

Fruit trees should

be well sprayed as a

precaution against

insects and disease

Funkias are among the relatively jew hardy

perennials that will flourish in shade. They

are commonly known as day lilies, white or

lilac according to the variety

Artificial watering is essential at some time dur-
ing every summer. It should not be resorted to
except when necessary, but done thoroughly
when the time comes

Perfect balance of planting and accessories

should characterize formal pools such as

this one of C. A Belin's, at Scranton, Pa.

C. W. Leavitt, landscape architect

July, 1922

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originally dark and dismal doorway.
Small rugs adroitly placed to reduce
length are among the many little
things" which all help in the final result.
Another bit of decorator's lore is made
the most of in using, where possible, a
balanced arrangement of furniture and
ornaments, thus reducing to a minimum
the "uneasiness" produced by lack of
proportion.

Following the usual arrangement of
these old houses, there is a reception
room directly off the hall near the en-
trance door, with openings on two sides
into the hall itself. Here again the most
has been made of the existing floor
plan. The chimney-piece once more re-
calls the Directoirate, with ingeniously
inserted panels of etched mirror glass
set in a framing of red lacquer and
marbleized columns. A charming man-
tel garniture of old tole adds a distin-
guished note. The walls here are a
lighter tone of green with moldings and
wood trim to match, and form a charm-
ing background for a collection of fine
old prints with black glass mats and
frames of delicate gold molding.

Below-Stairs Rooms

Below stairs, the kitchen and laundry
were due for sweeping changes. Since
structural alterations were taboo, and
a breakfast room essential, why not
have the breakfast room at one end of
the kitchen ? Fortunately, the range
and sink were already located at the
end of the room furthest from the win-
dows, leaving only the laundry tubs
directly in view. The unsightly tubs
were boarded in, to form an excellent
service table. When needed, the hinged
top lifted up, and below a storage space
is found in shallow closets set in such
a manner that they clear the sloping
edges of the tubs. When the breakfast
room is in use a wall paper screen shuts
off a too intimate view of the range and
sink. The painted gate-leg table and
ladder-back chairs with rush seats have
a gay background of red tile floor, clear
yellow paint and smartly varnished wall
paper. Casement curtains of checked
gingham are tied back to reveal a
glimpse of greenery in the tiny garden
beyond.

Almost all the houses of the type of
this one have to be quite thoroughly re-
painted or papered before they are even
habitable, and the slight additional ex-
penditure involved in this thorough
transformation is really negligible when
the results are so entirely satisfactory.
Needless to say work of this sort re-
quires the supervision of an experienced
interior decorator, and represents a far
more difficult problem for that individ-
ual to solve than any new house could
offer.

The present delightfully livable qual-
ity is directly due to the skilful manage-

ment of color to offset bad proportions,
and the equally experienced arrange-
ment of lighting to give the best pos-
sible effect. Wall brackets and lamps
help in this artful conspiracy by throw-
ing the far-up ceilings into shadow,
and graceful, appropriate curtains please
the eye before the attention reaches the
fact that the windows are ugly in them-
selves.

Hidden Excellence

While this particular house offers a
complete solution of what to do with a
Mid-Victorian town house, there is
much to be learned from it which can
be applied to almost any dwelling of
the period, the general arrangement of
architectural detail being much the
same in all of them. Often underneath
the distressing gimcrack ornament a
genuinely graceful outline will be found,
and in almost every case the construc-
tion is strong and honest beneath the
tawdry ornament.

Before utterly condemming these old-
er houses to destruction or complete
reconstruction, strip off the gimcracks
and there is always the chance of be-
ing well repaid for the effort. Not so
long ago a country house, inherited with
all the trappings of Mid-Victorian imi-
tation brown sandstone and black wal-
nut, developed under the hand of its
present owner into a charming villa of
the type familiar to travelers in North-
ern Italy. Of course, exterior changes
had to be included in this transforma-
tion, for a country house has no moral
support from nearby neighbors in its
unpleasant brownstone smugness. The
emaciated columns of the verandah,
however, proved stronger than they
looked, and on this framing it was a
simple matter to develop a charming
Italian loggia with graceful arches — the
material, concrete toned to a creamy
yellow color. Here again paint helped
to work wonders, once distressing and
meaningless trimmings had been elimi-
nated both within and without, and
the formal original spaces made a most
gracious background for a collection of
really fine Italian furniture. A few deft
touches from a good landscape gar-
dener brought the original setting into
line with this Italian villa, and again an
ancestral blunder in architecture was
cleverly and inexpensively brought into
line with present day ideas of what a
house should be.

This, then is the moral of our story —
when you come by a late Victorian
house, be it great or small, do not con-
demn it as utterly hopeless for this en-
lightened age to live in, but take ad-
vantage of its good points in sincere
workmanship, hardwood trims (how-
ever hideous in existing detail) and de-
velop a new setting for these worth-
while features, totally in keeping with
the better trained taste of our own time.

Using Gray in Decoration

(Continued from page 45)

proportions are kept right. As for car-
pets, those of gray are so charming and
so altogether satisfactory in use that
one is almost tempted to write: when
in doubt, choose gray. Certainly a
plain pile carpet is an invaluable help
in determining the gray room and giving
the basis for lesser features.

The introduction of color is a matter
of taste, and the success of the room is
largely dependent on it. Rich yellow
would accord with a mole gray paper,
where lemon yellow might be over-
whelmed into feebleness; the grayness
must -be -balanced, -kept in place. • 'Where

light blues would be stupid, a blue
verging on royal would be entirely
charming. Green with gray is quite
pretty, though a little inclined to be
commonplace; Chinese pink in this con-
nection forms one of the loveliest and
the rarest schemes imaginable. Gold
and gray combine admirably; with a
gold ceiling the difficulty of creating
the gray room is cut in half. The
scheme will evolve almost of itself —
gray velvet for curtains and for cover-
ing a few chairs; a gray striped paper,
yellow lampshades, and rugs in which
yellows predominate.

July, 1922

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(Continued from page 36)

vogue today. An English lawn is love-
lier than any other because the seeds
were planted hundreds of years ago, and
then the planters sat down and waited
for the fulfilment of their dream.

We must have background if we are
to have any enduring beauty ; and the
moment I see a man cut down an
ancient tree, I know that he has no love
of tradition and dreams, no feeling for
the old sanctities. He would pluck a
star out of the heavens, if he could;
but thank God he can't!

I have never understood that desire
in most people to turn something al-
ready simple and lovely into something
huge and unwieldy. ''We must add a
wing to the east side of the house," the
master proclaims some morning at
breakfast. "What! and tear down those
beautiful crimson ramblers!" the Lady
Behind the Coffee-Urn cries. "And
then there's that maple — it can't grow
up in the middle of the new room I" she
adds. But the master looks stern. He
has made up his mind. "We can chop
it down then," he says with a great and
terrible definiteness. And his word is
law. "If we are to entertain more this
summer, we shall need the extra space,"
he goes on, loving the sound of his own
voice, and rather glorying in the con-
fusion he has created at the other end
of the table.

Well, I would rather "entertain" less,
do away with noisy and needless week-
ends, feeling comfortable with the few
old and choice friends who used to love
to visit us, than to go in for a bungling
Spring of carpenters, architects and
builders. But the master thinks that,
as his income increases he must "show
the world' that he is a powerful mag-
nate. If he could wear a gold crown,

he would; but the only way he can ex-
ploit his wealth is to express himself in
a larger house; and so it is good-bye to
the peace of the little place, a long fare-
well, a cold adieu to the grace and love-
liness of old. The servants must be im-
pressed— it is his only altruistic attitude
toward them. Has not Jenkins, down
the road, hired an English butler, and
two second men? He must do the
same; and there must be extra rooms
for these gorgeous men to walk about
in, a plethora of guests for them to
serve.

Myself, I have my watchful eye upon
a little — oh, a very little! — house down
on Long Island. It sets just far enough
back from the roadside, and it is all
but covered with the greenest and rich-
est of vines. It has no porch; it does
not boast more than two doors; but it
has smiled at me for years as longingly
I have passed it. It is so old that
sometimes I even think it may have
nodded to me, as it dozed away its
dreamful days in the sun. Some day I
may own it — who knows? — with its
worn shingles and crumbling chimneys
and its thin, ricketty steps. I may put
Georgian panes in the front windows —
or in all of them, since there are so
few — and I shall certainly repair the
old-fashioned plumbing; but beyond
that I prefer not to touch it at all.
Certainly I shall not build a dreadful
"addition," for the sake of "looks"; but
some fresh paint will do no harm, and
my Old Lady House will probably grow
young again for a little while, with the
brilliant youngness of a girl; but al-
ways she will seem, I hope, a bit tired,
a bit settled; and I shall be so grateful
for her enfolding arms — arms just big
enough to gather me in.

Elegance in the Small House

(Continued from page 33)

In the bedrooms a much more ele-
gant, softer appearance is gained by
carpeting to the baseboard, but be sure
and see that the building contract
doesn't call for fine hardwood floors
underneath. Orientals are good for the
library and, in a subdued tone, are
suitable for the dining room as well,
but they should not be used in bed-
rooms except as a small piece before
the fireplace, and they should be in
soft tones to harmonize with the color
scheme.

The essential furniture in an elegantly
decorated small house is a problem that
more than repays close study.

More elegance is given the living
room by using two small, semi-uphol-
stered sofas than one great large one,
because generally the large sofa is often
out of scale with the rest of the furni-
ture. Preferably choose kidney-shaped
sofas, as they cannot go at strictly
right angles to the square mantel; if
oblong sofas are used they give the
fireplace grouping a box-like appear-
ance.

Except in the case of a large room,
select several medium size tables rather
than one very large one. Using these,
magazines, books and lamps can be dis-
tributed over the room, forming the
nuclei of comfortable groups. On the
other hand, the vogue for extremely
small occasional tables has been over-
done; an abundance of them gives the
room too busy an appearance.

A semi-upholstered chaise longue of
rather formal lines lends an air of ele-
gance and an air of intimacy that are
so often lacking in our living rooms.
Living rooms are becoming more and

more masculine in their character, los-
ing a little of their grace. Every tired
business man demands an over-uphol-
stered lounge !

Certain things in the living room
should be chosen — beautiful to be sure
— because they are essential; others as
objets d'art. Thus, the main comfort-
able chairs and sofas and tables are es-
sential. They should be chosen for
their beauty as well as their utility.
Other pieces are chosen because they
are lovely in themselves and add ele-
gance and richness to the room ; such
as a pair of small, fine Sheraton book-
cases, with little brass wire grill doors,
or a lovely Italian credenza or a fine
old red lacquer secretaire, and, of course,
lovely mirrors, pictures and other ac-
cessories.

The dining room table which can be
enlarged by adding console ends seems
to give good service. It is an excellent
way of making the room more hand-
some. On ordinary occasions these
ends serve as consoles.

Thus a dining room might have deep
ivory paneled walls, tete de negre car-
pet, champagne gauze under-curtains
and hangings of a heavy rough antique
self-toned damask in gold. A broad
oblong table could have walnut legs with
some dull gold rubbed in and a marble-
ized top. The two semi-circular ends
finished in the same way could stand
either side the fireplace. These two
console tables are in addition to the
serving table and the buffet, which by
the way, might have a slender wrought
iron base of delicate tracery and black
walnut top.

(Continued on page 78)

July, 1922

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The solft colors used in this bedroom, the rich flowering of the cur-
tains and valances, and the unusual treatment of the four-posters
all contribute to the impression of elegance and comfort

Elegance in the Small House

(Continued from page 7b)

Dining rooms are apt to be a little
sparsely furnished, since china cabinets
are no longer used. The serving table
and buffet are generally put to such
utilitarian purposes that they have lit-
tle or no decorative value in the room.
Semi-circular table ends can be made
quite a feature of elegance with hand-
some vases or some objet d'art.

One word about breakfast rooms;
the day has passed when the ladder-
back chair and drop-leaf table were all
that were necessary. One wants to
make this room an exquisite little place,
an epigram in decoration. Put on the
walls a rich red and gray Directoire
paper with a heavy glaze. The furni-
ture can be bronze and black, of fine
classical lines. Directoire wrought-iron
stands holding ferns can be placed at
balanced points. Curtains may be of
dull, thin velvet flecked with copper.
In a sunny spot on a flat velvet cushion,
the color of Bermuda blue water, set a
goldfish bowl ; the blue of the velvet
will show through, with the fish against
it. This little room can serve as a
card room in the evenings, being equally
suitable to begin and end one's day in.

In bedrooms nothing is more lovely
than linen over-curtains to the floor, a

wide, shaped valance and draw cur-
tains of a warm, glowing taffeta. This
gives a much softer and more elegant
appearance to the windows than draw-
ing the linen over-curtains. The same
combination can be used for a bed
canopy. Bed covers of the taffeta
should be elaborately enough made
about the bottom to give them a pleas-
ant hang. In here, as in the living
room, there should be a few pieces of
antique furniture just to give the room
a rich character and a feminine touch.
For example, an inlaid pearwood sewing
table, a French bergere and a high nar-
row commode to hold trifles. These
should be picked up after the essentials
are taken care of.

Elegance in color is produced by a
fine blending of colors. Do not be too
meagre with the variety of colors; for
example, in a rose and gray room in-
troduce soft yellow, a little violet and
some clear, ciel blue, for if one keeps
only to rose and grey, the color har-
mony will be very meager and thin.
Elegance is never thin, just as it is
never lavish.

The following specifications for the
furniture and color schemes in four
(Continued on page 80)

Light Italian pink plaster walls, hangings and some of the coverings
in blue satin damask, a sola in old Italian red cut velvet, mirrors
and sconces in silver and bookshelves with painted panels and
lunettes combine to make this a distinguished living room. Miss
Gheen, Inc., decorators

July, 1922

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For the Breakfast Room

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Elegance in the Small House

(Continued from page 78)

rooms may serve as examples in plan-
ning the decoration of a small house
furnished with discriminating elegance.

DINING ROOM

Walls: Beep ivory paneled, woodwork
to match.

Floor: Tete-de-negre rug.

Fixtures: Dull gilt and crystal.

Curtains: Champagne gauze under-
curtains. Over-curtains of antique
gold damask.

Furniture: Three-piece dining table in
walnut with dull gold decorations.
Top of table marbleized. Long buffet
of wrought iron with black walnut
top. 6 walnut side chairs. 2 walnut arm
chairs. Seats of chairs covered in an-
tique satin striped in blue and gold.

LIVING ROOM

Walls: Paneled and painted taupe and
glazed with grey.

Woodwork: Painted to match walls.

Floor: Neutral colored seamless chen-
ille.

Curtains: Under-curtains of taupe silk
gauze. Over-curtains of changeable
plum and taupe silk damask.

Fixtures: Sconces of walnut and gold
with needlepoint inserts.

Furniture: 2 Kidney sofas covered in
tete-de-negre uncut velvet. 4 pillows
for these of vari-colored taffetas. 2
semi-circular end tables, of dull wal-
nut and gold. 2 lamps for tables.
1 over-upholstered easy chair in
handsome linen, in an architectural
pattern. 1 high-backed walnut wing
chair in old tapestry or needlepoint.
1 low coffee table. 1 small smoking
stand. 1 long wall chest of fine lines.

1 walnut and gold arm chair with
seat and back in gunmetal taffeta bro-
caded in dull red. 1 painted and
crystal lamp. 1 overmantel mirror.

2 small painted chairs with taffeta
seats. Owner's piano.

Walls: Painted cafe-au-lait and pan-
eled. Mouldings green picked out in
silver. Two decorative wall paper
panels, set into wall and outlined in
green mouldings.

Woodwork : Cafe - au - lait — baseboard
black.

Floor: Rug of green seamless chenille.
12 inch border of black sewn on.

Lighting Fixtures: Decorative lantern
of wrought iron and silver.

Curtains: Door curtain of apricot
gauze.

Furniture: Painted commode, green
with decorations. 2 French walnut
consoles. 2 small mirrors. 2 walnut
chairs on opposite wall with tapestry
seats.

OWNER'S BEDROOM

Walls: Pale mauve with mouldings
picked out in orchid.

Fixtures: Mirror sconces with mauve
crystals.

Floor: Mauve wilton carpet covering
room entirely.

Curtains: Cream silk gauze under-cur-
tains. Draw curtains of striped taf-
feta in mauve and orchid. Over-
curtains of grey linen with grisaieles
on mauve background, and valances
to match.

Furniture: Four-poster bed of French
walnut with swans holding canopy of
silk. Bed curtains of orchid taffeta
Bed cover of orchid taffeta with blue
trimmings. Bedside table of antique
satinwood. French walnut bureau
with mirror over it. Overmantel
mirror with painted top. Chaise
longue covered in grey and mauve
brocade. Easy chair by fireplace in
dull blue satin. Sewing table in an-
tique pearwood. High cabinet near
bathroom door for small articles.
Slipper chair in taffeta. Dressing
table and stool, in taffeta.

If You Are Going to Build

(Continued from page 55)

for the lintel could not easily be found,
a great oak plank was used, and here the
beginning of the decorating of the fire-
place took place in the carving of the
lintel. Naturally the recessing of fire-
places brought about variations of con-
struction, and ranges of iron were placed
at the sides to take the spits, which were
turned by young boys.

The origin of the present day type of
fireplace goes back to the latter of the
Norman architecture, not to the inva-
sion of England by the Normans in the
llth Century, but later when the Nor-
man Keeps came into existence with the
more developed fireplace with the use
of brick or tile for lining the chimney.
Ornamentation was most magnificently
realized in the late Gothic and Tudor
times especially, in the reign of James
I. The most elaborate carving came in
the Tudor period and was noticeable in
the reign of the Stuart's. In the time
of Elizabeth the gorgeous effects of
decoration grew almost tawdry and
without purpose. Henry VIII is blamed
not a little for this over elaboration in
decoration, for he imported Italian
artists with their spirit of Rococo deco-
ration, and some of the great beauty
of the Gothic time with its exquisite
fireplace arch disappeared.

Queen Elizabeth followed in the foot-
steps of her father and insisted upon
importing craftsmen for house decora-
tion. Her preference, however, was for
the Flemish and German artisans, and
the result was types of decoration that
would have been put to shame by the
village smith. When wood became
scarce in Elizabeth's time, coal was

burned in "cradles of iron" which must,
of course, been the movable braziers.

Fortunately for the grace and beauty
of English homes, Inigo Jones began
doing some very fine things along the
first of the 17th Century. He was much
more scholarly than the workmen of the
royal family had been importing. And
it was during his time that the great
oak chimney-pieces took their place in
those splendidly paneled walls that be-
came famous through history. Sir
Christopher Wren followed, with Gring-
ling's carvings "which gave to wood the
loose and airy lightness of flowers".
Even Chippendale designed iron grates
to fit into his schemes of decoration, and
the Adam Brothers made some delicate-
ly beautiful grates of cast iron, which
rather astonishes us. As the court beau-
ties of these days decided to have mir-
rors over their fireplaces, instead of
carving or painting, the actual fireplace
was reduced in size and the mirrors
made very deep that the lovely ladies
could view themselves, from powdered
wigs to tiny slippers.

It is interesting to notice the variation
in the roof-line and ornament as fire-
places acquired chimneys that must have
good draughts for the comfort for the
more luxurious civilization. Smoke
turrets appeared and the tall brick tur-
rets on the Tudor houses, with their
picturesque construction, which are be-
ing imitated in America today, just as
we are still imitating the carving of the
Gothic and Tudor lintels. We remem-
ber too, that Hans Holbein did a chim-
ney piece so beautiful that it is in the
(Continued on page 82)

Oriental Rugs

Endowed with a keen sense of
color combination and graceful de-
piction of floral and animal forms,
the rug weaver of the Ease expresses,
in his simple way, a practical beauty
entirely individual.

Environment, in addition to an
inherent perception, has resulted in
designs and color effects of an artis-
tic beauty peculiar to a natural and
untutored art.

While exacting no premium in
their cost, these interesting Oriental
Rugs serve not alone a purpose of
utility but add a distinctive charm
to the home.

We will be pleased to furnish
details of those rugs we have that
may be particularly suitable to your
requirements.

W. & J. SLOANE

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WASHINGTON SAN FRANCISCO

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of Permanent Charm
from Old 'Virginia

The latest and most artistic surfacing for
composition shingles is

Flint-Arrow Blue Slate

For generations this distinctive slate has
been the favorite roofing for the fine old
colonial mansions of the South. The soft,
charming effect of these old slate roofs can
now be obtained by using shingles sur-
faced with

Flint- Arrow Blue Slate

A quiet silver-blue tone — everlasting and
unchanging — nature's own shade as slate
is mined from earth. Flint-Arrow Blue
Slate shingles lend dignity and old time
charm to your home.

Many Manufacturers supply shingles
of Flint -Arrow Blue Slate

ASK YOUR DEALER, OR
WRITE US FOR SAMPLES

Blue Ridge Slate Corporation

ESMONT, VIRGINIA

The rare beau-
ty of a well de-
signed fireplace
depends upon
the detail of its
mouldings

If You Are Going to Build

(Continued from page 80)

British Museum today, and that Wedg-
wood, the famous potter, made panels
for the chimney breasts of his day.

Here in America we have created one
type of fireplace, the Colonial, with its
many variations and also with its debt
to the classic period decoration in Eng-
land. Of course, in our very simple
early settler homes, we have the splen-
did old brick fireplaces with the huge
hearth and seats inside the chimney
and beautiful wrought iron fittings, and
vast oak lintel, covered with pewter
or Lowestoft or the memorial china
celebrating historical events. Today we
build so many period houses with which
our fireplaces must be in harmony ;
Tudor, French, Italian with its beau-
tiful fluted pillars, Colonial ; but few
people demand creative work in the
planning of their fireplaces, but few ex-
pect anything more than a modified in-
teresting "period" reproduction.

But we do demand well built chim-
neys today, capacious, permanent, and
practical. A builder is more or less
judged by the fact that his "chimney

will draw". Apparently there is no de-
pendable recipe for this, so much de-
pends upon the location of the house,
the force and directions of the winds,
the size of the fireplace in relation to the
draught and the actual construction of
the interior of the chimney. The archi-
tect and builder have got to study far
afield for all the conditions that will
make for a good fireplace and chimney;
the material construction alone is not
enough. Of course today we often add
decorative hoods and we plan our chim-
neys with controlling dampers, with re-
volving caps on the turrets; but the big
responsibility still dwells with the
builder. He must work a fresh miracle
with every chimney he builds, and as a
rule he does.

Cement has entered very largely into
the building of picturesque fireplaces
today but the stone house still demands
the stone fireplace, and a richer archi-
tectural detail than the modem va-
riegated brick fireplace it would be hard
(Continued on page 84)

This type of fireplace with a stone hood,

reminiscent of both Italy and Normandy,

is set effectively with a panel of rough

plaster. Lawrence P. Peck, architect

July, 1922

Isn't this feeling about tires
pretty universal

)ST car-owners in-
tend to have a car the
rest of their lives.
Economical opera-
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fashionable.

How many men do you know
who won't expect tires to do
their share of the saving?

This is the year for tire mer-
chants to study their customers

closely.

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The makers of U. S. Royal
Cords have recently stated what
is the biggest opportunity to
serve in the tire business.

U. S. Royal Cords cannot take
care of all the people who want the
upward quality in tires.

Nor do they claim a monopoly of
all good tire making methods.

The makers of United States Tires urge upon
everybody — manufacturer and dealer alike a
new king of competition.

Let us compete for more and more public
confidence.

Let us compete for higher and higher
quality.

Let us compete for still more de-
pendable public service.

It is the things they refuse to leave
undone that make U. S. Royal
Cords the measure of all automo-
bile tires.

Not only what is put in but what
is never left out — that reveals the
Royal Cord practical ideal.
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they have said before —

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at Moderate Cost

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the very wealthy home. The Mott "Eclipso"
Enameled Iron Bath brings real luxury within
the reach of the average home-builder.
The unusual beauty in design and finish of the
Mott "Eclipso" recommends it to many who are
not especially interested in its economy. It is
built for recess as shown, or for corner, as desired,
either type being admirably suited for use with
shower.

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The same high quality and moderate prices that characterize
the Mott "Eclipso" Bath are equally evident in all Mott Bath-
room Equipment.

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(Continued from page 82)

to imagine. The fashion that came in
some years ago in the country home,
of breaking up the surface of the chim-
ney wall with little shelves for bric-a-
brac has happily wholly gone out. It
quite spoiled the dignity of a chimney
breast and added nothing to the beauty
of a room.

For people who are planning their
homes in America today, it is possible to
buy ready-made a varied and beautiful
assortment of fireplaces, the most sim-
ple and practical in wood or concrete
as well as exquisitely developed pieces
appropriate to almost every period of

interior decoration. Catalogues are
sent out by some of the manufacturers
showing the varied beauty of their
achievement, and the brick manufac-
turers furnish interesting designs for
modern brick fireplaces. Fireplace hard-
ware is also being made in vast assort-
ments, in wonderful designs suited to
Tudor, Gothic, French, Colonial or
merely practically modern houses.
Catalogues of fireplaces and fireplace fit-
tings should be added to the shelf of
building materials, which we have advo-
cated so enthusiastically since the be-
ginning of this series.

The New Shingles

(Continued from page 68)

• Showrooms equipped with model bathrooms

now helping us to secure a roof that is
fireproof and waterproof, that is grace-
ful, rich, and appropriate to a variety of
building materials. Shingle roofs have
been intimately associated with Amer-
ican architecture, back to the days of
our most interesting, original Colonial
architecture. In those days, in the main,
there was but one kind of shingle used,
the picturesque, wooden, hand-rived de-
sign. The advent of asbestos shingles
has brought about a revolution in roof
making. First, in color they are deep
red, warm brown, gray, or a combina-
tion of browns. These shades brought
together in one roof harmonize with
almost any color that may be used on
the walls of a house, and with both
winter and summer landscape. Because
of a quaint picturesqueness, they seem
in turn to suit the Dutch Colonial, the
adapted Elizabethan, the Gothic, the
Norman and even the reticent dignity
of the French chateaux.

They are very simple in construction,
made of asbestos rock fibre and port-
land cement, compressed under a hy-
draulic pressure. Because of their tough
base and resilient structure, they are
unaffected by time or the elements.
They are quickly laid up and are prac-
tically indestructible. These shingles
can be laid up with either the diagonal,
hexagonal or honeycomb method and
the sub-roofs are the same as prepared
for other durable roofing. Old houses
can be re-roofed effectively by these
asbestos shingles, making a roof that
will endure as long as the house lasts.

Asbestos shingles are fireproof and
unalterable; do not readily crack or
exfoliate when exposed to fire. Even if
the snow should drive under them in
winter, thaw under the rays of the mid-
day sun and freeze as night comes on,
it would not in any manner cause de-
terioration, as they are sufficiently elastic
to prevent any cracking or splitting up
to the nail hole under these malign cir-
cumstances.

On account of the light weight of
these asbestos shingles, a sub-structure
can be built up with much less expense
and time. Thus a very considerable sum
is saved in building construction.

Thatch Roofing

The thatch roof has been one of the
most picturesque features of domes-
tic architecture for centuries throughout
Europe, and there is also a fine feeling
for form in the roofline of these pictur-
esque cottages. But in houses built
closely together, as is so often the case
in our American suburbs and villages,
the old rye thatch roof would be found
too inflammable, as well as damp, and
fairly unstable in fierce winds. Yet the
beauty of the thatch roof was something
that the picturesque loving American
public would not easily forego; so with
the ingenuity for which we have always
been famous, a thatch shingle was in-
vented which gives us much of the

beautiful old line, soft color and mellow
surface of the old rye thatch. By an
ingenious method of sawing the shingle
buffs in special thatch patterns, and
with printed instructions and working
drawings, the average good workman
can lay a modern thatch roof so success-
fully that this type of roof is being
adopted by some of the most brilliant
American architects. These shingles are
laid up out of the horizontal, in long
irregular waves, varying the width of
exposed surface of every course from 1"
to 5". Part of the artistic effect in the
modern thatch roof is gained by having
no sharp angles or corners on any part
of the roof. The eaves, ridges, valleys,
etc., are all rounded and the thatch shin-
gles are bent lengthwise and crosswise
as the form of the roof may require. In
order to gain the softness of the weath-
ered, old, rye thatch, the color of the
roof should not be uniform, so three
shades of thatch shingles have been
created ; when these are laid up together,
a sense of rich texture is given with
interesting individuality.

Shingle Thatch

The firm that has done so much for
picturesque domestic architecture in the
invention of the thatch shingle roof has
also devised a great variety of modern
wooden creosote shingles, in shapes,
colors and sizes that are practicable for
a variety of American homes, for walls
as well as roofs. A Colonial house with
a white shingle wall, green shingle roof
and green shutters, is still the ideal of
about fifty per cent, of American home
lovers. In addition to the white and
green shingles, there are for the wooden
houses at least thirty colors. These
stained shingles do not require close
sheeting. They may be laid up in a
variety of designs. They do not make
a cumbersome roof and are compara-
tively noiseless during heavy storms.
As they are poor conductors of heat
and cold, they make a house cooler in
summer and warmer in winter. The
creosoting of these shingles causes them
to last longer than the unstained, brush-
coated shingle, and the fact that they
are selected from the first growth of
coast cedar makes them durable beyond
the average time of wood.

Tile roofs, in spite of the immense
variety of roofing that has recently
achieved success, still hold their own for
certain types of houses and for certain
effects of picturesque beauty. If you
want the proper roofing for genuine
Spanish architecture, the covering that
will most quickly realize your ideal is the
old curving tile in the real earth tones
of terra cotta, red-brown and brown-
red. There are unquestionably types of
houses, the full beauty of which cannot
be realized without the high hip roll,
the high ridge and terminal. In addi-
tion to the round Spanish tile and the
barrel Mission tile, there is a shingle tile
(Continued on page 86)

July, 1922

GRAY GOOSE -
THE WILLS SAINTE CLAIRE

'- The owners of the Wills
Sainte Claire are the men and
women who can afford any kind
of motor car. They have driven motor
cars of European and American de-
sign. They know motor cars. In the
Wills Sainte Claire these men and
women are finding a new thrill, a new
security and a new utility in motoring.
*I They recognized in the Wills Sainte
Claire a new standard of motoring
made possible by advanced engineer-
ing— not only a more beautiful motor
car, but a lighter, stronger, safer car —

a car vastly simpler, easier and finer
for these men and women to drive.
*I They have been quick to see in the
Wills Sainte Claire a motor car not
only much smarter and more beautiful,
but intrinsically better, scientifically
more sound. *I The eight -cylinder,
sixty-degree-angle motor and a score of
other distinctive features have actually
given them a new experience and a.
new standard of luxurious motoring.

Upon request we shall be glad to mail
you a n cw book — "Fourteen Unseen.
Things in the Wills Sainte Claire."

C. H. WILLS & COMPANY, Marysville, Michigan

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sh and Bathe in Ru n n i n g - W a t e r

Why a morning shower
gives you a two hour
start on the day

Let your plumber tell
you about Speakman
Showers. He will also
give you a Speakman
Shower Booklet; or
write us. You might
also ask your architect
about Speakman
Showers.

This applies especially to a cold
shower. The clean, sparkling spray
strikes the skin and contracts the sur-
face blood vessels. This drives the
blood momentarily towards the heart.
Aroused to greater activity the heart
drives the blood back again with still
greater force filling even the tiniest
blood vessel to its utmost capacity,
stimulating and invigorating the en-
tire system — and then the water runs
off. Besides being delightfully refreshed
you are actually clean.

The Speakman Shower shown in the
illustration is the H-9521/2j ideal in
connection with the Deshler Bath fix-
ture (the three handles) for either
built-in corner or recess tub ; has Mix-
ometer and Anyforce Shower Head
which put the shower's force and
temperature under the instant control
of the bather. With this and many
other types of Speakman Showers you
can easily bathe without wetting your
hair.

SPEAKMAN COMPANY

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE

The New Shingles

(Continued from page 84)

vith hip starters, ridge and terminal all
omewhat after the old Spanish fashion
nd a French tile shingle with the m-
erted tile, also a close shingle roof of
ile, and other varieties which with their
ppropriate fittings give the unusual
oof. The installation of these roofs
s a matter, of course, for an expert
uilder. Fortunately, today, every de-
ail for the laying up of roofing tiles,
whether of the French, Spanish, Mission
r Roman variety, can be had from the
manufacturers who have made a study
f these attractive roofings and who
nstruct builders in the method of con-
truction which will bring about the
most interesting and permanent results.
A thatch of stone is perhaps one of
he most curiously interesting new roof-
ngs today, that is, it is new so far as
he use of stone in this country is con-
^erned. For centuries it roofed the old
houses in Sussex and in the Cotswold.
The top layers of stone, which they dug
out of their fields, were split and broken
up, and used for roofs, fastened down
o the hand hewn oaken rafters with
leavy oaken pegs.

But it is only within a comparatively
brief time that we have thought of
,tone roofs for domestic architecture in
.his country. It seems that scattered
throughout certain parts of New Eng-
and are some of the finest roofing slate
deposits in the world. The quality,
texture and coloring of this slate varies
n different sections, in fact from quarry
to quarry. This gives an individuality
and variation in the roof that could
easily have come from weathering half
a century. The making of these stone
batches into a desirable, almost lovable
roof, is not only the result of breaking
up stone into requisite sizes; it is also
the skillful making of a huge mosaic
into which various shapes, sizes, colors,
density of slate are brought together.
The sub-roof for the stone thatch is
very simple; rafters are covered with
sheathing boards which in turn are
covered with heavy felting, and then the
stone, which will endure for limitless
time.

Composition Roofing
Composition roofing is a field of such
wide activity that to begin to do jus-
tice to it would not only take an entire
article in HOUSE & GARDEN, but an en-
tire issue of the magazine, and even then
some practical permanent and interest-
ing roof covering would doubtless be
left out.

One of the very best of these prac-
tical new roofings is a heavy wool roof-
ing felt which comes in both shingles
and rolls, in interesting shades of red
and green. These are thoroughly im-
pregnated with a waterproofing mate-
rial, then coated on one side with gen-
uine crushed slate. Sometimes these
wool slate shingles come four on a strip,
and instead of having square corners,
each shingle is octagonal. These four-
in-one shingles save much labor cost,
also time in laying the roof. That they
are fire resistent and weatherproof we
do not need to add.

A roll composition "shingle" is one
of the most practical of economical roof-
ings. It comes in red and green, and can
be put on old wooden shingles which
have commenced to leak. It also may
be used on the new house, in which case
it is laid over a tight wooden sheathing.
It is the ideal roofing for a modest
home, and has much the effect of a flat
tile, while it is most inexpensive to lay.
An asphalt shingle which is designed
in a twin shape for the speeding up of
laying is a very practical fireproofing
type. It comes in red and green slate
surface and if laid according to direc-
tions will protect every point on the
roof. It can also be used over old
wooden shingles, eliminating labor, time

and extra cost. There is also a compo-
sition roofing with a mineral surface
which is unaffected by extreme heat,
cold or dampness. This particular roof-
ing can be put on by unskilled labor
and is most economical because of the
long service it renders. It is not only
used on the modest home and all kinds
of farm buildings, but is practical for
summer camps, and bungalows can be
built of it quickly and economically,
using it for side walls as well as the
roof. It comes in rolls and is strong
enough to stand any kind of wear and
tear and is good looking because of its
mineral surface.

Using Slate

Some of the most interesting slate
roofs today are reproductions of the
ancient slate roofs, for slate was used
centuries ago.

A rare variety of beautiful slates are
found in various parts of America today
— deep grays of the Pennsylvania quar-
ries, rich red from New York State,
black and gray from Vermont and sea
green from Western Vermont. Nothing
could be more durable than these modern
slate roofs. The texture is rough and
as picturesque as the old Cotswold
slate.

For flat roof purposes, slate possesses
several leading advantages. It elimi-
nates the clogging of leaders and drains
as from loose gravel or slag. Being a
light surface it seals in the volatile mat-
ter of the asphalt thus making perma-
nent its waterproofing qualities. Snow
can be easily shovelled off. And such a
roof is automatically cleaned by every
rainstorm or can be swept or scrubbed
clean if necessary. Rain water from the
slate roof is clean and potable. The flat
slate roof can be made use of for play-
ground, storage, clothes yard, etc., with-
out damage of any sort. It can also be
trucked over. Its permanent surface
never becomes a fire hazard.

Dignified and artistic treatment is of
manifest importance in handling slate.
With its 900-year ancestry, slate abso-
Ijtely avoids fads. Its range includes
both period and individual adaptations.
In standard grades, slate is adapted to
the most modest of structures — even
cheap speculative work, if investment
counts.

The old European custom of cover-
ing buildings with slate was always to
use slabs of different thicknesses, vary-
ing lengths and random widths. Crude
quarrying facilities enforced the use of
slate of a rough texture and uneven
assortment of sizes, and the method of
laying was so ingeniously developed that
eventually graduated roofs became dis-
tinct features of the buildings, many
examples of which stand today as
masterpieces. Prominent architects in
this country have reverted to this old
graduated method of laying slate roofs,
finding in them an individuality impos-
sible of expression with the checkerboard
precision of the more conventional ar-
rangement.

The Role of Tin

Tin of the best quality finds a prac-
tical place among the sought after
modern roofs. It is equally serviceable
for hip or flat roof and has the advan-
tage of being economical as well as inter-
esting. Most of us do not know that
roofing tin has been on the market for
over a hundred years for public build-
ings as well as houses; this fact is un-
questionably related to other important
facts, namely, that it is fireproof as well
as damp-proof; that it is water-tight as
well as weather-tight; that it actually
diverts lightning from its destructive
path.

To accomplish such beneficent ends,
a tin roof, of course, should be put up
with locked and soldered seams; also,
when so much is expected of a tin roof,

July, 1922

Talcum
tin, .50
glass, .75 //yX

Extract v
$1-50, $2.50
$6.00

It's present vogue at Newport

and other smart American
watering places, rivaling its
wide use by fair Parisiennes at
Deauville and Ostend, proves
that good taste is the same the
world over.

Toilet Water . . $4.00

Sachet .... $1.75

Brilliantine, solid $1.00

Rouge .... $1.00

Poudrc Compact $1.00

Bath Salts . . . $1.25
Toilet Sets, 4 PCS. $15.00

Boudoir Patties . $3.50

Face Powder

$1.50
Lip Stick

.50

w I w /\ M D O U

NEW YORK

House & Garden

Residence, Highland Park, Illinois
Robert Seyfarth, Architect, Chicago
Exterior of Red-wood Sawn Shingles

Redwood
Special
Sawn
Shingles

Redwood Special
Sawn Shingles

FOR residences of the bet-
ter class, these new style
"Seyfarth" shingles give

that appearance of wide clapboards which is a pleas-
ing note in the design of many of the newer city and
suburban homes in the Middle West and in the East.
These new Redwood shingles may be had 24 inches
or 26 inches long, as desired. Both sizes are 5 ) 2 inches
wide and ?i-inch thick at the butt. Laid 13 inches to
the weather they give an air of solidity and dignity
which is well illustrated in the house shown here.
These shingles are sawn from the finest selected
grade of Redwood, are thoroughly seasoned and
cured and will not warp, swell or shrink. They take
and hold paint unusually well.
A natural, odorless preservative, which permeates
the wood during the growth of the tree, protects
Redwood against all forms of rot and decay.
Ask your architect to specify Redwood for all ex-
terior construction. Redwood is sold at prices which
compare favorably with prices of other woods which
do not have Redwood's qualities of rot-resistance,
high percentage of clear lumber, OP freedom from
shrinking, warping or swelling.

Redwood should

Exttrior Contraction
including— Colonial siding,
clapboards, shingles, door and
\vindowframes~gutters. eaves,
water tables and mudsills —
porch rail, balusters and col-
umns—mouldings and lattice.
Pickets and fencing — Pergolas
and Greenhouses

be specified for

Interior Finish

Natural, stained or painted

Wood Block Floors.

Farm and Dairy Uses
Such as — Silos, tanks and
troughs— Hog feeders and im-
plement Bheds — Wood block
floors, etc

If you are plan-nine to build, write for "Redwood Homes
Booklet." To architects and builders we will gladly send our
"Construction Digest" and our "Engineering Digest". Please
address inquiries to either our New York or Chicago office.

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The Largest Manufacture and Distributors of California Redwood

"The Western wood for Eastern homes'

The New Shingles

(Continued from page 86)

it should be laid up with flashings, gut-
ters, valleys, etc., of the very best tin.
This will prevent rust and corrosion.
It is an interesting fact that a well laid
roof of the best quality of tin, with tin
fittings, has been known to last seventy
years, while a tin roof lasting thirty

years in good condition occasions no sur-
prise whatever. It is a significant state-
ment made by manufacturers of superior
tin roofing that it takes thirty-five
minutes to coat a sheet of the best tin,
whereas ordinary tin roof sheets are
sometimes coated in twenty seconds.

Modern Mixers in the Kitchen

(Continued from page 69)

The strain is gone from straining
large quantities now. This is gently
done by the coaxing strainer and col-
ander device.

One mixer is also accompanied by a
cabinet if desired. It is finished in
white and is made especially for this
device and houses comfortably all its
attachments. It has an enameled metal
top and does not add much to the total
cost of the machine.

Another power unit advertises two
speeds and has all the above attach-
ments. It comes with a metal table
with a shelf (open), on which all the
work can be done with comfort.

If you don't want a machine that
can do so much there is one on the
market electrically driven, which beats
eggs, mixes mayonnaise, angel cake and
light batter, mashes potatoes and fluffs
them if mixed with butter and cream,
mixes custard, souffles, etc.

It has a small }/> H. P. motor of fine
construction designed for 110 voltage.
It is necessary in this case to state
whether your current is direct or al-
ternating (DC or AC). This motor
can run on either direct or alternating
if the speed control device is not to be
used. But the speed control in this in-
strument is its crowning glory. That is,
you can mix rapidly or slowly, a per-
formance the older type of mixers could
not do. It was racing speed or nothing.
All cooks know that some things take
rapid beating or stirring, some other
things slower agitation. The cook or
housewife ran in the course of her ex-
perience with these new-comers into our
kitchens find new uses continually for
them.

For example, this small motor has a
speed regulator which ranges from
4800 to 8000 revolutions per minute.
This motor takes from 25 watts (ex-
tra load) to 60 watts (heavy load. It
is well to have a detachable motor
as in this one, for when cleaning is

necessary the motor remains unharmed.

The beater itself here is the ancient
and honorable Dover type, so you see
it is not so foreign to your ken.

One thousand revolutions is all you
can effect in a minute by hand. This
machine goes 2000 revolutions.

In from one to five and ten minutes,
eggs, frostings, and mayonnaise can be
accomplished.

Full speed for heavy mixtures, half
speed for lighter, a gram of cream is
perpetrated in less than five minutes.

A gallon of oil in relation to a may-
onnaise dressing takes but ten minutes
to be used up.

This little angel weighs but 2J4
pounds, and its lightness is one of its
charms.

All these machines should be easily
attached to wall lighting sockets.

They must be easily cleaned.

The motors must be protected from
you and food stuffs and you must be
protected from them.

All attachments must attach easily.
All parts must fit, so that the doing
of a new operation is not accompanied
with dread. It must be a pleasure to
depart from coffee grinding to turning
the ice cream pail and polishing silver.

Now, kitchening is no endurance test.
The fatigue is eliminated. At the end
of the day you will feel like the theatre
and what not.

The hand-turned cake and bread
mixers are better than mixing by hand
and spoon — but if possible, the elec-
trically driven mixers which come in
many styles and prices will give you
more than comfort and will outlast
many a cook. The hand-turned stoners
and grinders are very efficient, too, but
not the Utopian things that electric
homes can utilize.

These machines are Utopian agita-
tors. Agitating for food and helping the
Kitchen Workers of the World.

Gardens In Old Foundation Walls

(Continued from page 57)

removed. These old walls stood for
years in the shade and became over-
grown with moss and creepers: an ideal
location for a sunken fern and shade
plant sanctuary. In making the changes,
two of the outside walls were taken
down and rough stone steps laid through
one of the remaining foundations to
make an entrance. Stones were care-
fully taken out to make niches in the
walls for alpine plants and rock-loving
ferns; all the old plaster and refuse was
removed and the floor of the garden
covered with a thick layer of woods
soil and leaf mold and this planted
closely with masses of various sorts of
shade ferns and shade flowers with
backgrounds of rhododendron, moun-
tain laurel and some of the other broad-
leaved evergreens.

It is very important to remember that
lime plaster was used in most of these
old walls and that lime is certain death
to a great many of the shade plants we
love: trilliums, rhododendron, most of
the ferns, violets, arbutus, mountain
laurel — in short almost all of the plants

found naturally growing in deep rich
leaf mold. Where you have the lime
it can be overcome only by removing
the old soil for a depth of at least 18"
and replacing with new woods soil and
if the best results are to be retained, it
must have a yearly mulch of leaves. If
it is not possible or desirable to make
this change in soil, there are some beau-
tiful plants which thrive in a lime con-
dition and nurseries specializing in the
native plants are usually willing to sug-
gest one suitable to the location.

Another and more elaborate devel-
opment was in altering the foundation
of the barn which was built years ago.
These old walls and the barnyard wall
have been used to make the enclosure
for an outdoor swimming pool.

The barn was on a hillside farm of
twenty-five acres at Bryn Mawr, near
Philadelphia, which was acquired by
Mr. Edwin L. Blabon for the develop-
ment of his country home. The farm
underwent a great change, an attractive
modern residence was built on the
(Continued on page 90)

July, 1922

The Luxury of Electric Refrigeration

— at less than the cost of ice

"ORIGIDAIRE will bring to your home a new sense
•*- of luxury. It satisfies a fine instinct in living —
the love for nicety and cleanliness in kitchen habits.

Without care or attention, Frigidaire preserves
your food in a cold, dry, circulating air of unvarying
temperature, 10 degrees colder than is possible
with ice.

Fruit comes to your table perfectly chilled, vege-
tables have the delightful freshness that is custom-
arily associated with only the finest hotel service.

Dainty ices, creams and frozen puddings are easily
made. There is a special compartment to freeze
them — and also to make sparkling, crystal-clear
cubes of ice from your favorite drinking water, just
the right size for a glass.

Frigidaire eliminates the uncertainty of ice delivery.
It is entirely automatic, is easily installed and is
operated from any electric light current.

Built as a single, self-contained unit, developed
by the engineers of the General Motors Corporation,
Frigidaire is absolutely dependable.

And with all its advantages, Frigidaire will cost
you less to operate than you now pay for ice.

Frigidaire is a year-round utility, serving every day
in the year. It is most used and most appreciated
of all modern conveniences.

A copy of the Frigidaire booklet will be sent on
request, together with the name of our local dis-
tributor in whose display room you can now see
Frigidaire in operation.

DELCOLIGHT COMPANY, Dept. HG-8, Dayton, Ohio

THE ELECTRIC ^—-^REFRIGERATOR foi MODERN HOMES

House & Garden

BUILD OF CYPRESS
the 'Wood Eternal'
AND YOU BUILD
BUT ONCE."

^^nae Wafer

Cypress

"Tki MM/ ettnul-

You Both Lo've to
Linger

a moment on your own Cypress
door'Step to enjoy your own Cypress
entrance 'hood and those delightful
Cypress trellises — and back of your happy
pride is the great satisfaction of knowing
that your investment is a solid asset, because
with "the 'Wood Eternal1 all over the
place" you're pretty well insured against
the repair bill bugaboo. It's a very comfort'
able feeling. It pays to insist on genuine
Tidewater Cypress, the true" Wood Eternal."
Ask the lumberman to show you the Cyp'
ress trade'mark arrow (shown below) on
every board or bundle.

Vol. 28 is the Trellis Si Arbor Book. 68 pages. 28

pictures. 23 working plans with specifications. 2

valuable Vine Charts. FREE on request. Write.

(Also ask for Vol. 43, a surprise book.)

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Insist on TRADE-MARKED Cypress at your local lumber dealer's.
If he hasn't it, let us know promptly and we will see that you are supplied.

Gardens in Old Foundation Walls

(Continued from page 88)

ground overlooking the farm buildings
and the meadows and fields converted
into a lawn, a beautiful terraced gar-
den was built near the house and shade
trees, ornamental evergreens and shrubs
were planted. With the character of
the ground so completely changed, the
transformation of the barnyard into a
formal outdoor pool with flowers and
ornamental evergreens does not seem
so out of place.

The barn was torn down shortly after
the landscape changes were made, the
foundations and the partition walls to
the second floor remaining. The ac-
companying plan shows these walls and
also shows the parts which were re-
moved and the additions necessary to
make a suitable enclosure for the swim-
ming pool.

The building, according to the usual
custom was built on the southern slope
of the hill, so that the open part faced
the sun and was protected from the cold
north and west winds. This wall now
forms the north boundary for the pool
enclosure, and if you will glance at the
plan you will see how the space within
the enclosure is laid out. The base
planting of evergreens next to the walls
bordered with hardy perennials: then
the grass panel and a walk of random-
size stones set in the sod around the
pool.

Above the north wall is a platform,
all that is left of the old "barn bridge"
which as usually planned with the old
barns made it possible to drive wagons
and farm implements into the second
floor of the building, the natural grade
of the hill at the north being about
level with the second floor of the
building. This high platform at the
back of the wall is an ideal location
now, for a tea house or pergola over-
looking the swimming pool and a view
of the lovely hills and valleys beyond
it to the south.

The changes in the masonry had to
be made carefully. The original walls
were built of local field stone, random
sizes and shapes, and held together with
lime mortar. As a precaution, the walls
to remain were repointed with cement
mortar, the joints being left rough or
"raked".

All the suitable stone from the old
partitions and other sections which were
removed was saved and used for build-
ing the new parts of the wall and for

bringing them to the correct level.

The character of the new masonry
was, of course, made to match the old
as nearly as possible, and a 3" coping
of flat local stone laid on the entire
wall, helped to give a uniform finish.

The old foundation at the north is
about 8' high and the one at the south
(the old barnyard wall) about 3'. This
was left low so that it would not in-
terfere with the view beyond. The top
of the side walls does not slope between
the eight foot north wall and the low
front wall, but drops with ramps at
regular intervals.

Vines of English ivy and Euonymous
vegatus have been planted along the
base of the enclosure and in time will
form a green background for the ever-
green planting. This planting is com-
posed entirely of plants transplanted
from the very thick groupings already
on the grounds. There was a double
advantage in using these plants, the
thinning out of the groups was badly
needed as the plants were crowding one
another in several instances, damaging
valuable specimens and at the same time
large plants making an immediate effect
were available for the new planting.

A broad flight of steps of local stone
leads from the enclosure about midway
between the north and south bound-
aries, at this point, the rise to the nat-
ural grade of the ground outside the
wall is only about 2'. These steps lead
to a winding walk through the trees
to the terraced garden several hundred
feet away.

These instances have been given to
show what was done with three foun-
dations. Each could have been han-
dled in several ways, you will find each
problem will always suggest several sol-
utions. The development decided upon,
of course, will be governed by the ex-
isting conditions and your inclinations.
I have seen lovely sunken gardens, cozy
summer house enclosures, bird sanctu-
aries, rose gardens, formal pools, nat-
uralistic pools and rockeries, all trans-
formations of old foundations. It is
fascinating work to make these changes
and well worth careful forethought and
planning, and when the work is fin-
ished, you have the satisfaction of
knowing that your garden is a little
different and its history will always
make an added interest to you and your
friends.

PLANTING YOUNG TREES

A LARGE' portion of newly planted
trees die the first year, accord-
ing to the Nebraska" Agricultural
College. Improper planting or careless
handling of trees before planting is
usually responsible for the largest share
of the loss. The roots of the trees
should be protected from exposure to
sun and wind during the planting
operation. They may be wrapped in
wet gunny sacks or placed in a barrel
or pail of thin mud.

The important things to bear in
mind in planting the trees are: The
hole must be large enough to receive
the roots without cramping and deep
enough so that the tree will stand
three or four inches deeper than it was
in the nursery; some loose, moist, sur-
face dirt should be placed in the bot-
tom of the hole; the tree should be in-
serted in the hole so that the lowest
permanent branch would be on the
southwest side of the tree and the
tree leaned to that side to counteract
the tendency to grow to the north;
the dirt should be firmed by stamping
at least twice during planting process.
In order to pack the soil firmly about
the roots, at least 2" or 3" should be
left unpacked as a mulch.

The mistake is often made in plant-
ing trees and other plants of not get-
ting the soil firmly packed about the
roots or allowing air spaces about the
roots. This may be prevented by
shaking the tree up and down as the
dirt is applied and firmed.

When the trees are dug from the
nursery row many of the feeding
roots are left in the ground and it is
necessary to remove some of the top
of the trees in order to more nearly
establish a balance between the tops
and the roots. This pruning should
be given immediately after the tree has
been set.

The following points should be kept
in mind when performing this opera-
tion: Three or four branches should
be left in addition to the central leader.
The lowest of these branches should
be on the southwest side to prevent
sun scald; the branches should be four
or five inches apart and on different
sides of the trunk in order to avoid
crotches; the branches that are left
should be cut off eight or ten inches
from the trunk and the leader short-
ened back two-thirds. All other
branches should be removed close up to
the trunk. ALFRED I. WILDER.

July, 1922

TREASURE-TROVE

When a Rorimer-Brooks designer starts
to plan a decorative scheme, he has
at his call, first, the looms, the potters,
the rug makers, the pigment mixers
and all the other artistic craftsmen
of the fiv'e continents; second, right
at his elbow in the studios, available
examples of the finest specimens of in-
terior art from both the Old and Nev?
Worlds; and third, out in the Rorimer-
Brooks shops a group of artisans whose
present work in furniture will, with the
passage of time, become treasured
heirlooms.

It is little wonder, therefore, that a
Rorimer-Brooks decorative scheme vJins
such instant appreciation from every
cultured visitor.

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The sale includes not only the rare period furniture
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The collection can be viewed by appointment and
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(Continued from page 67)

be used successfully in small gardens as
well as in western orchards, but takes
much labor and is a waste of water. The
flooding of the ground with the hose
having no nozzle attached is one of the
best ways to water a rose garden, but
not a plan for general use. The com-
mon practice of sprinkling the garden
with the hose having a spray nozzle is
about as ineffectual as can be imagined.
A mere surface sprinkling does no good,
but may do positive harm by coaxing
the roots to the surface. On the other
hand, a heavy watering with large drops
often breaks the flowers and foliage of
the more fragile plants.

All these facts having been recognized,
American inventive genius has produced
types of rain-making machines which
solve the problems for the home garden
as well as on the large estate and the
market gardener's acres.

There are several systems quite differ-
ent in appearance and operation. A
selection will depend largely upon the
character of the garden, the volume of
water available and the pressure to be
obtained. These matters may be taken
up with the manufacturers or agents of
the different systems, who will supply
the information necessary for choosing
just the system needed for one's special
location.

In the nozzle line system, all classes of
crop growers are given a method of
distributing water which is efficient and
inexpensive. This consists of pipes hav-
ing small nozzles inserted in a perfectly
straight line 4' apart. These pipes are
carried at the top of supporting posts of
wood or iron, which may be from 2' to
6' high. The low supports are best used
when the pipes run the same way as the
vegetable rows. Being low, they are
inconspicuous. If the pipes run across
the field, however, it is better to have
them high enough so that the gardener
can walk under them without stooping.
The system is fed by a pipe attached to
the water main, or if more convenient,
by means of a hose leading from an out-
side faucet.

A necessary and very convenient fit-
ting is a turning union located where
the system starts. By means of a small
handle attached to this union the dis-
tributor pipe can be revolved so as to
throw the water at any angle on either
side. This arrangement makes it possi-
ble to cover a total area 40' or 50' wide.
There are few troubles with this sim-
ple system, although it requires some
attention to keep it working properly
as the fine nozzles occasionally get
clogged. The water is distributed in the
form of a mist, which soaks into the
ground wherever it falls without making
the soil muddy and without any danger
of washing out even the smallest seed-
lings. Moreover, it is warmed in pass-
ing through the air, a fact for which the
plants are grateful. It reminds one of
the quality of mercy. "It falleth like
the gentle rain from Heaven upon the
place beneath." Moreover "it is twice
blessed." It is blessed by the plants
that receive it, and by the man who
pays the bills, as the costs are surpris-
ingly small for the results obtained.

A single line of pipe run down a
vegetable garden 50' square will supply
all the moisture needed. The pipe will
be arranged in sizes so that the nozzles
at the end of the line will throw the
same distance as those at the head. If
it is too much trouble to turn the line
at intervals, you can install an auto-
matic device which will do it for you,
the pipe turning gradually on its own
axis and carrying a spray across the
garden as fast or as slow as you wish.
Naturally this adds to the expense.

An obvious system like the one de-
scribed is well enough for some situa-
tions, but might be unsightly in the
flower garden. If so, you can have a

sprinkling line laid just beneath the grass
roots which will follow the contour of
the lawn, the beds or the walks. Finally,
you can have a portable sprinkler of
the same type, which can be wheeled
into position anywhere, and includes an
automatic oscillator with a little motor
which clicks along quietly, carrying a
spray back and forth over a given space.

Quite different in type but efficient in
operation are several sprinkler systems
which cost but little and are adapted to
both large and small properties. Several
kinds are so constructed that they can
be kept entirely concealed. In one well
known system the nozzles are placed in
metal cups, which give them adequate
protection, while they are low enough
so that lawn mowers and rollers can
be run over them without difficulty.

In another and somewhat similar sys-
tem the spray heads are entirely covered
when not in use. In operation, an inner
nozzle rises up above the grass so as to
give an unobstructed delivery of the
water.

Home makers may feel that to install
an underground system will necessitate
deep digging, but this is not true. It is
only necessary to take up a narrow strip
of sod which can be replaced readily
when the work has been finished, and
the pipes themselves go only a few
inches below the surface. At the same
time they are so arranged that the water
can be completely drawn off in the Fall.
It is a pleasure to see the miniature
fountains covering an entire lawn with
a fine, mist-like spray, keeping the grass
green and beautiful in the most torrid
weather.

One of the underground systems has
a modification by means of which the
same nozzle is used for overhead and
low down systems, one for vegetable
gardens and orchards and one for the
flower garden, where the owner may
desire to have the system inconspicuous.
By means of added pipe sections, this
system may be built up high enough so
as to spray the tallest shrubs. This is
a distinct advantage, as all plants grow-
ing out of doors are benefited by having
their foliage wet down. There is also
a half nozzle adjustment by which the
water can be thrown in a semi-circle
to meet any special arrangement of
flower beds or grass borders.

While permanent systems are required
for large estates, portable devices are
needed for a small garden. One such
apparatus has been mentioned. Most of
the other systems have devices which ac-
complish similar results. One kind
which while light and easily handled is
yet substantial and efficient is moved
about on skids wide enough so that they
will not damage lawn or garden. A
motor oscillates the water jets, which
throw a straight stream for several feet,
after which the water breaks up and
falls in tiny drops on the plants. As an
area 60' by 12' is covered at one time,
it is necessary to move the apparatus
only at long intervals. This apparatus
is extremely useful, and its unique ad-
justments allow it to be employed in
any part of a large estate or very small
garden plot.

Some of the newer sprinklers whicn
are portable but are raised on standards
are notable for the ease with which they
are handled and adjusted. You can
approach them without danger of get-
ting a wetting while they are in full
operation. One kind throws a spray a
distance of 40' at twenty-five pounds
pressure.

Finally, there is a rotary sprinkler,
which came onto the market this year
and which is very inexpensive, while
covering a wide radius. This device,
like the one previously mentioned, is
attached to an ordinary hose. The water
pressure causes the revolution of a wheel
(Continued on page 94)

July, 1922

Lovers of the Beautiful

Those who take pleasure in artistic excellence
will particularly appreciate the true beauty
of Elgin A. Simonds Company Furniture. There
are many delightful designs — interesting orig-
inal models as well as replicas and adaptations
from the best period furniture.

Look for the trade-mark, shown below, on
furniture in the leading establishments. It is
an assurance of quality.

If you should find any problem in arranging or selec
ting the furnishings of your home, write for advice t
our Department of Interior Design through your deal
if possible, or direct.

Ask us to send you our Booklet "H"
on Home Furnishings.

No. 29661

Six light.?
Height without
links, jo inches.

An Adam

Chandelier

THIS Pendant Electrolier pos-
sesses all the charm of French
periods, without excessive orna-
ment. Especially suited to the
Reception or Dining Room.

Plain surfaces finished in
bright silver; relief parts in
mellow French gold. Leaf
treatment hand wrought.
Urns of Amethyst, Canaria
or Royal Blue Lustres clear
or vari-colored. Shades of
pale gold silk, with bands
top and bottom to har-
monize with surroundings.

We shall be pleased to submit
sketches and advice to those
genuinely interested in cor-
rect lighting fixtures.

Write for our small portfolio
shouting a few authentic
pieces. Prices on request.

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With a Hoffman there is no tank of water to be heated. You
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Quenching the Garden's Thirst

(Continued from page 92)

which cuts the water into drops like rain.
The machine rotates in a circle, the dis-
tance covered being regulated by the
pressure. Another rotary with two
nozzles delivers fan-shaped sprays which
evenly and properly cover a 75' circle,
besides being capable of several special
adjustments.

While devices of this kind cannot be
substituted for the more permanent sys-
tems for use in the vegetable garden
and large flower gardens, they are espe-
cially valuable for lawns and for use on
small garden plots, where larger systems

are not needed.

All these systems are so simple that
no special directions are required for
their use. Yet it is well to remember
that the best time to apply water is late
in the afternoon or on dull days, as
there is much more evaporation when
the sun is shining brightly. Likewise,
it is just as important to cultivate the
ground after an artificial rain as wh.n
the water actually descends from the
skies, for moisture escapes from the
soil very rapidly unless the crust is
broken up and a dust mulch created.

TINTED LIGHT

THE human race evolved through
thousands of years of adaptation
to natural daylight. This white
light is suitable for the utilitarian re-
quirements of plant and animal life but
it is not generally satisfactory from an
esthetic viewpoint in interiors. Let us
speculate for a moment upon the rea-
son for this.

Many thousand years ago, when
primitive beings made the wondrous
discovery of nre, the corner-stone of
civilization was laid. The application
of fire and artificial light by those early
primitives has given the greatest impetus
to civilized progress. They warmed
themselves, cooked their food, and de-
veloped simple industrial processes.
They carried fire to their caves, and
chill and darkness fled. Their clammy
dens were converted into homes by the
introduction of comfort, cheerfulness,
and protection which fire and arti-
ficial light provided. This happened
many centuries ago, but from the view-
point of evolution of the human being,
it was only yesterday. In other words,
the human race has just come indoors.
Throughout the centuries which have
intervened mankind continued to burn
material in the production of artificial
light. Wood, fat, oil, and gas were
consumed by fire to provide light.
These flames were an unsaturated yel-
low in tint. They radiated warmth
and cheerfulness, and through untold
centuries of association with the home
their characteristics have become deeply
rooted into the psychological status of
the human race.

A century ago organized science at-
tacked the problem of light-production.
Increasing the efficiency of light-sources
was its slogan and as a consequence
real advancement began. The gas-man-
tle, the arc-lamp, and the incandes-
cent filament lamps appeared. These
have been great boons to human prog-
ress and they have represented in gen-
eral great strides from the tint of the
flame of burning material, toward the
whiteness of sunlight. They supply the

utilitarian needs of the human race
much more effectively than the more
primitive flames, but these develop-
ments appeared so suddenly and so
recently as to leave mankind still ad-
miring and desiring the cheerfulness,
and warmth of tint of the flame as a
light-source for the home.

The relatively high efficiency and
great convenience of modern light-
sources which serve so well in com-
merce and industry can be taken ad-
vantage of by the lighting artist. He-
can tint these sources to suit the
esthetic requirements of the home.
Thus an electric incandescent lamp
may be tinted so that its resultant
light matches that of the candle-flame
or of burning fuel. This has been done
on a large scale in the case of the so-
called "flame-tinted" lamps. But the
lighting artist may be guided by the
scientist who has determined that light
to live with must not depart widely in
color from the natural scale of hot
bodies. Lights of various tints have
many applications in the vast field of
artificial lighting, but these applica-
tions are relatively few in comparison
with those of the unsaturated yellow-
lights of the natural-temperature scale.
The flame-tint is of the latter class.

Thus, in this brief analysis we have
attempted to present a glimpse of the
evolution of artificial light in relation
to civilized man. The flames which
have been the torches of progress
throughout untold centuries were aban-
doned yesterday for the modern light-
sources which work wonders in utilitarian
fields. Today we have altered these
highly efficient sources by the applica-
tion of scientifically correct coloring
media so that the resultant tone
matches the color of the light of com-
mon flames. Thus, today, science has
given back to mankind in much im-
proved form that which it took away
yesterday, and we again have flame-
tinted light which is so effective in
making a house homelike.

M. LUCKIESH.

HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS

WITHIN recent years there
has been a great awakening
of interest in the plants which
our grandmothers used to cultivate in
their old-fashioned gardens. These
plants, commonly called herbaceous
perennials, include such familiar flowers
as the peony, phlox, iris, larkspur,
Michaelmas daisy, day lily, columbine,
rocket, anemone and spirea. With a
little care these will live from year to
year, although the tops die back to
the ground each year.

Perennials are valuable because:

1. They vary greatly in habit and

growth and in shape, size and color of
the flowers.

2. Some can be found suited to any
condition, whether it be wet, dry,
sunny or shady.

3. By careful selection, continuous
bloom may be had from early spring
until late fall.

4. In general, they are comparatively
cheap, propogate easily, increase rapidly
and are permanent.

5. Nearly all are good for cut
flowers.

Some plants, such as peonies and day
lilies, may be planted as specimens in

July, 1922

very fine old Georgian room for sale

P. JACKSON HIGGS

IMPORTANT

Mr. Higgs announces the placing on sale of many ex-
amples from two important and historic houses of England.

There are no less than eighteen Panelled Rooms from one
house including superb Mantels and Furniture of the period.

Also included are all the Garden Ornaments, Fountains.
Lead Figures and Marble Statuary, very important Paint-
ings and rare Chinese Porcelains.

11 East 54th St.

New York City

To Use Your China Closet
To Enclose A Radiator

This gives you the hint.

Our booklet called Radiator Enclosures, shows .you ex-
actly how it is carried out on a corner cupboard very
like this mantle-side-one.

This particular Decorative Metal Grille used, is one of
our Special Designs, of which we have over 500, a
goodly number of which are shown in the booklet which
be assured you are most welcome to.
Of course if you want your own or your architect's
design of grille, we gladly model it especially for you.
It costs more, but your personal satisfaction would be in
proportion.

TUTTLE & BAILEY MFC Co.

2 West 45th St. New York

rODHUNTER.

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AND

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The G-E Tum-
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touch of the
elbow or a flip
of the finger.

It's tine Little Touches of Convenience
that Make a Home

OMPLETE electrical convenience is just a
matter of forethought. Above all things,
you want the house you live in to be home-
like— comfortable and convenient.

What can contribute more to your comfort and
convenience than electricity properly applied ?

Have switches in every room. Be able to
control the upstairs lights from downstairs and
vice versa; to light the garage or cellar from
the kitchen.

With plenty of well located convenience out-
lets you can place attractive lamps wherever
you wish. You can use several electrical devices all at the
same time, if need be; a vacuum cleaner in any part of the
house, a sewing machine where the sunlight is brightest, a
chafing dish in your living room or den for those "clubby"
little spreads.

These economical home comforts may be had in the
house you are living in just as well as in a new one, for any
qualified electrical contractor will do the work with little
muss or trouble — and it costs very little more to have com-
plete electrical convenience.

A New Booklet for Home Lovers

How to secure this electrical conveni-
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in detail in a booklet prepared for you
by household specialists of the General
Electric Company.

This booklet will be sent you free, to-
gether with the name of a nearby elec-
trical contractor qualified to assist you in
planning adequate electrical convenience
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If you own or rent a home, or ever
expect to, you will find this booklet
well worth reading.

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Herbaceous Perennials

(Continued from page 94)

the place of shrubs along the walls and
driveways. The most common and
satisfactory method of planting them is
in mass in a border. Here they should
be arranged according to their size,
color of the flowers, time of blooming
and habit of growth. A carefully
thought-out planting plan should be
made in which the location and rela-
tive arrangement of each variety should
be indicated. The plants should be set
in the border according to height, with
the taller ones at the back and the
lower ones toward the front. How-
ever, the grading should not be too
pronounced, as an uneven line is much
more pleasing. Planting in groups of
ten or a dozen of one kind is also more
effective than scattering the plants in
groups of two or three. The plants
should also be carefully arranged so
that all the early sorts will not be at
one end of the border, leaving this end
unattractive later in the season. One
should aim to have flowers at all times
all along the border.

In arranging the plants for color, as
with annuals, it is best to choose only
two or three colors which harmonize.
Harmony of color is obtained in two
general ways, — by blending or contrast.
In the blending arrangement, tints and
shades of the same primary color may
be placed next to each other, arranged
according to successive intensities of
that color. For example, using the red
primary we would place light pink,
pink, deep pink, light red and red to-
gether, and expect the effect to be
pleasing. Likewise with the two other
primary colors, yellow and blue, suc-
cessive intensities of them could be
placed side by side without producing
bad effects. Many of the most success-
ful flower gardens today are laid out
using only one color, or at most, two,
viz., pink or blue. White flowers may
rlways be used because white is really
absence of color and does not interfere
with other colors. Too much of white,
however, may give an appearance of
"spottiness."

In arranging colors by contrast, two
colors are chosen which are unlike in
composition and therefore contrast.
The following table of colors and their
contrasts will act as a guide in this
method of arrangement:
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Violet

The green of the foliage aids materi-
ally in maintaining a proper balanced
harmony.

The following three color combina-
tions are satisfactory:
Red
Yellow
Blue
Orange
Green
Purple
Blue
Yellow
Red

It is a common mistake to plant too
thickly, so that the roots are not given
enough room to spread out. In general,
the plants should be spaced a distance
equal to one-half their height, varying
this in the case of plants that are very

bushy to a distance equal to their
height, and in the case of plants that
are tall and slender, to about one-
fourth their height.

With the exception of peonies, Yucca,
bleeding heart and a few others, peren-
nials should be dug up, divided into
several pieces according to their size,
every three to five years. This is done
because the crowns which produce the
best flowers, flower only a few seasons
and die. However, most of the plants
spread out and new crowns are pro-
duced around the center of dead ones.
These should be dug up and reset. The
best time to do this is immediately
after flowering in most cases. At this
time it is also best to set out new plants.
By lifting the plants as suggested, it
also affords an opportunity to fertilize
the soil in the border, which after
several seasons of growth will have be-
come depleted. Early spring and early
fall or late summer are good times to
plant out new borders.

FOR SHADY POSITIONS
Aconitum — Monkshood
A ctiza spicata — Barberry
Anemone Pennsylvania — Wind flower
Convallaria — Lily-of-the-valley
Dielytra — Bleeding heart
Hardy ferns
Funkia — Plantain lily
Hepaticas — Liver leaf
Mertensia virginica — Blue bell
Thalictrum — Meadow rue
Trillium — Wake-robin .

FOR DRY SOILS

Asclepias tuberosa — Butterfly weed
Aquilegia canadensis — Canadian colum-
bine

Aquilegia alpina — Alpine columbine
Gypsophila — Baby's breath
Gaillardia — Blanket flower
Helianthus multiflorus — Mexican sun-
flower

Inula grandiflora — Fleabane
Saxifraga crossifolia — Saxifrage
Sedums — Stonecrop

FOR WET SOILS

Hibiscus moscheutos — Swamp mallow
Iris pseudacorus
Iris sibirica — Sibirian iris
Iris Icevigata — Japanese iris
Lobelia cardinalis — Cardinal flower
Monarda — Oswego tea
Polygonium cuspidatum—Gianl knot

weed
Spiraea

FOR STONY SOILS

Achttlea tomentosa — Woolly yarrow
Arabis albida — Rock cress
Campanula carpatica — Carpathian hare-
bell

Geum coccineum

Gypsophila repens — Baby's breath
Phlox amoena — Creeping phlox
Sedum in variety — Stone crop
Tunica saxifraga
Yucca filamentosa — Adam's needle

NOTE — The above article, written
for the Massachusetts Agricultural
College Extension Service News, by
Professor Richard T. Mutter, Depart-
ment of Floriculture, shows the home
owner how to make permanent gardens
of beauty and taste, that last from
year to year and require a minimum of
care and attention.

Sales Offices in
all large cities

July, 1922

DIRECTORY0/DECORATION 8 FINE ARTS

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Antique Finish
Wrought by Hand

Price $14.50 a pair
Catalogue H sent on request

THE H.W. COVERT COMPANY
1 37 East 46lh Street, New York.

An unusual wrought iron table for

a garden or sun room is 24" high.

The top is 11" x 14". $16.50

This may be purchased through the
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House fef Garden

19 W. 44th St.

New York

The MACBETH GALLERY

1892

I Q22

ART NOTES

THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY NIMBER

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and contains a brief article on

Questions to ask oneself when
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House & Garden

Your Bathroom—

Glittering tile and resplendent
porcelain prove a sad disappoint-
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from rust-clogged pipes or your
bathtub fills with rusty water.

Complete comfort in your
bathroom requires brass pipe.
Any other pipe will rust — and
that is not all, inferior pipe will
clog, leak or split.

Anaconda brass pipe resists
corrosion. It insures you
against torn-out walls, falling
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The added cost is only $75.
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Painted jurniture and interesting chinz in shades of mulberry and red

bring color to this dressing room with its delicate green walls and

deep mulberry rug. Mrs. Gillette Nichols was the decorator

FOR THE DECORATING SCRAPBOOK

When neutral toned walls and dark furniture are chosen, it is advisable
to have plenty of color in the hangings. Here a gay chintz has been
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Cool paneled walls and a nicely balanced disposition of openings create
a sense of space in this country house living room. The warm tones
of book binding.';, the chair covered in bright chintz and the mellow
hues of Oriental nigs provide the necessary color. W. F. Dominick
was the architect

July, 1922

DIRECTORY OF DECORATION AND FINE ARTS

ANTIQUE ORIENTAL
RUGS LIKE GLOWING
VELVET

About 100 gems imported
annually compared with 100,-
000 of the usual. A resident
of South Battery, Charles-
ton, writes : "Your rugs have
been an education and a de-
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95% of my sales are to old
customers : my whole argu-
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Write for descriptive list
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Chicago, Boston, etc.

Prices now at the low of

many years.

L B. Lawton, Skaneateles, N. Y.

THE NIGHTRACK

The new and popular adjunct to your com-
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A\" unusual scrap basket is painted
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colors. It may also be had in other
combinations. The price is $5. It
may be purchased through the
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HOUSE & GARDEN

19 West 44th Street

New York

who will gladly help you secure any
article necessary to your decorating
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Bird Baths

are a source of endless pleasure.
The birds they attract to your gar-
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32ND STREET NEW YORK

THE

FLORENTINE CRAFTSMEN

MASTERS of THE METAL ARTS

?53 CHURCH STREET

NEW YORK
Phone FRANKLIN 4304

No. Ill

HAND WROUGHT
LANTERN

Size 6"x 1 4"--) 6" over-
all, yellow cathedral
glass wired, black fin-
ish complete, $16.50,
old steel finish, 17.50
hammered fin. 20.50

Wrough t
iron candle-
stick JM"
high black
$3.00 t>r.
withcandles.
prepaid

What is HOME

without
A FIREPLACE

The Colonial Fireplace gives
greatest heat, health, and happi-
ness. Comes to you complete — de-
sign, damper, lining, fender, brick,
etc. Any bricklayer can install
with the plans we send. Colonial
Head Throat and Damper insures
right construction of vital part of
fireplace. Only damper made that
provides for expansion and con-
traction within itself — no danger of
cracked fireplace facings. Perfect
draft, easily controlled, never
smokes.

Everything for the Fireplace
Andirons, Tire Sets, Orates, Etc., In
Colonial and other designs. Catalogue
of Fireplace Equipment mailed Free.
Ask for it.

Free booklet "Home and Fireplace"
shotcs manu excl»nn-c deigns. Helps
you avoid mistake* in building your
fireplace.

COLONIAL FIREPLACE CO.

* 30 Years Building Fireplaces
4603 Roosevelt Rd., Chicago

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Hand Painted in Antique Effect

STUDIO

219 East 60th Street

New York

House & Garden

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Home of E. B. Hunting. Baltimore. Md.— "FarQuar" Heated

Facts About House Heating

Mere beliefs and opinions are not depend-
able. The REAL FACTS are vital to your
entire household.

This is proven by the following comment
of a prominent New York Heating Engineer:

"It does not take an expert to realize that the
house furnace as commonly installed, is a source
of foul heat and contaminates the air. The fur-
nace gases pollute the air we breathe, compelling
us to open windows to get a breath of fresh air.
There is something radically wrong with the ac-
cepted methods of house heating. After reading
your literature, I believe you have solved this prob-
lem better than any other known method of
heating."

It was FACTS that convinced this man of
the efficiency of the

FARQUAR

SANITARY HEATING
SYSTEM

The chief consideration
is not only a matter of
physical comfort but of
pure, fresh air for your
lungs, — a factor of vital
importance to everyone.

A FarQuar Heated Home is distinctive for
its refreshing atmosphere. It is never de-
pressing nor enervating. Always there is an
abundance of gently warmed, pure, fresh air
which keeps the rooms delightfully comfort-
able.

Interesting Booklet Free

You will find a multitude of facts and
helpful information on the subject of com-
fortable homes, in our booklet called "The
Science of House Heating." A copy will be
mailed free on request.

The Farquhar Furnace Co.

707 FarQuar BIdg. Wilmington, Ohio

Very restful and livable is this room with its wide span of casement
•windows, colorful chintz and old furniture. Plain walls are advisable
•when figured hangings and Oriental rugs are used. W. F. Dominick,

architect

FOR THE DECORATING SCRAPBOOK

Painted furniture, flowered glazed chintz and

rose organdie curtains are used with delightful

effect in this country house bedroom. Mrs.

Emotl Duel, decorator

Batting

Books are so decorative in themselves that very little else is needed

in the way of color to make a corner of this kind attractive. Here

the soft tones of the rug and deep red velvet settee serve to accent

the brighter colors of the bindings

July, 1922

101

En/ay ffie Fa// Comfort

of Your Porch

This Season

The porch enclosed with Vudor
Ventilating Shades is always
hospitable and inviting.

Guests and friends need no
second bidding to share its cool,
cozy, sun-flecked corners. But
you and the children will enjoy
it most of all as a delightful
place to live through the sum-
mer days and nights.

Vudor Shades have become a
necessity to homes of comfort
and good taste — whether simple
cottages or magnificent man-
sions.

Vudor Shades are made of wood
slats beautifully stained in per-
manent colors — arranged so that
you see passers-by but they can-
not see you. Ventilator woven
in top — exclusive Vudor feature
— assures perfect ventilation.
There's nothing quite like them
for appearance, utility and com-
fort. Write for color illustra-
tions, prices and name of local
dealer.

Hough Shade Corporation

261 Mills St.

SELF-HANGING

Janesville, Wis.

Vudor

VENTILATING

PORCH SHADES

SECTIONAL UNIT STEEL DRESSERS

KITCHEN COMFOKT

There is nothing more trying to the busy house'
wife than to spend hours of her day in an un-
pleasant, inconvenient, unsanitary kitchen.

A White House Kitchen Dresser starts your day
right. Its gleaming white enameled surface lends
cheer to the room, and is easy to keep clean.
The compartment arrangement meets the house-
wife's needs. Its comfortable height, anti-friction
drawers, doors with individual catches and pest-
proof bins for flour, sugar, cereals, etc., do awa>
with kitchen worry.

WHITE HOUSE KITCHEN EQUIPMENT
comes in sections to fit any kitchen, large or small.
Send for our illustrated catalog. It gives many
points on kitchen efficiency and shows photo-
graphs of actual installations.

JANES £r KIKTLAND

ESTABLISHED 1840
133 WEST 44TH STREET, NEW YORK

Sat with your Sye^
dcquire this Sixth Sense by Using

The Re fined i

iper Doilies

Summer Homes
Summer PorcKes
Lawn Pa rt i es
Picnic Lunches
Buffet Suppers

Winter Homes
Breakfasts
Luncheons
Teas
S u p p e r s
T r a $ s

Conservatories

Hospitals

Under

AU Moist Foods
where the use of
real linens offends
good taste.
Also Under

Fruits, Soups
Rolls. Ices
Meats, Cakes
Candy and
100 et ceteras.

Appetizing Daintiness Without Labor

The American Paper Doily — a Delicate Illusion of Lace and Linen

AMERICAN LACE PAPER COMPANY MILWAUKEE, Wis.

American Lace Paper Co.

Milwaukee, Wis.
Please send me your special
t-tio gross package — 4 patterns
in individual sift boxes for trie
enclosed $1.00 bill.

Did You Sleep Well?

f\N your hours of rest depend the vigor and freshness with
^-' which you meet the problems of a new day. A soft
downy mattress will make your sleep restful and relaxing.
Your sheets and quilts are constantly washed. But it's im-
possible to wash a mattress. Mattress Protectors will keep
the mattress fresh and clean. They are made in any size
and are quilted with dainty snow-white wadding, encased
in heavy white muslin. They remain soft and light and
fluffy in spite of washing and continuous use.

We originated iln
quilting In ISflT.'Ever
slBpe, uiir product has
been-Tmpro ved in
Quality to its present
perfection.

The EXCELSIOR

15 I.AIGHT STREET

See that our little red
Trademark Is stitched
in the corner of every
Protector you purchase
from your dealer; or
write to us.

QUILTING Co.

NEW YORK CITY

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House & Garden

Imitated!

Few articles have been so widely
imitated as Richards - Wilcox
Slidetite sliding-folding garage
door hardware. The countless
attempts to imitate Slidetite only
serve to prove its superiorities.
Before erecting a garage of any
size, it will be worth your while to
investigate —

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Garage Door
Hardware

Doors hung on Slidelile. snugly fit any opening up to 30
feet wide and always remain weathertight. It is utterly
impossible for them to blow shut, thus preventing in-
jury to both automobile and person. The doors operate
on a jointless track — smoothly, quickly, securely. A
mere push is all that is required to open or close them.

Slidetite is the only garage door hardware that can suc-
cessfully be used in openings requiring more than six
sliding-folding doors. F.ven after years of service they
will not sag or stick.

Your local hardware or
lumber dealer probably
carries Slidetite in
stock. If not, it may be
quickly secured from our
nearest branch. Write for
a copy of Catalog M-22.

House doors equipped U'ith R-ll'
Vanishing Door Hard^varc arc
a (/enuine economy. They arc
spacc-sarcrs, noiseless, and per-
fect in operation. II' i. I never
stick.

AURORA,! LLINOIS, U.S.A.

Chicago NewYork Cleveland

Boston St. Louis Indianapolis

RICHARDS-WILCOX CANADIAN CO IS
Winnipeg LONDON. ONT. Montreal

Los Angeles
San Francisco

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The fine, proportions oj the arched bookcases, the cool restjulness of

the paneled walls and the sturdy lines of the comfortable chairs make

this fireplace group the focal point oj in'erest in the room

FOR THE DECORATING SCRAPBOOK

Painted furniture and hooked

rugs combine charmingly with a

modern chiriz in this country

house living room

In this breakfast room peasant
dishes and painted furniture con-
trast pleasingly with the plain
walls and muslin curtains

How effective old furniture can be when silhouetted against neutral
toned walls is shown in the dining room end of a studio pictured
above. Old china adds its notes oj color, while a gay screen, on
which are mounted old fashion prints, is unusually decorative. Arthur
Wanamaker, decorator

July, 1922

103

Tliis Paul Water System is
ecomiucndi'd to supply all
:ie water requi renients of
PS i deuces like the home
llustrated, f urn i sh in g
kater under constant pres-
urr in all buildings.

Also for supplying soft

water in large city home

from cistern.

Water under pressure when
and where you want it

THE big country estate can have ample
water supply under constant pressure
in every building and on every floor. The
little cottage and the camp in the woods
can have the same service at little cost,
pumping water from well, lake or spring.
Paul Water Systems are trouble-free, oper-
ate without attention, are self-priming,
require no delicate adjusting, and operate
with either electric power or gasoline
motor.

Complete systems with pressure tank
storage, or direct (tankless) service.
Capacities from 100 gallons to 1440 gal-
lons per hour.

Write for name of Paul dealer
in your vicinity

Ft. Wayne Engineering & Mfg. Co.
1701 N. Harrison St. Ft. Wayne, Ind.

EMS

How Will You Dispose

of Garbage and Refuse?

IN that new home you are planning, in that "per-
fect" home which is to have all those convenien-
ces you've wanted and waited for so long, will you
be content to have an unsightly, insanitary garbage
can and an improvised refuse receptacle? You won't
need them if you have your architect include in his
plans the Kernerator, the modern system for dispos-
ing of household waste.

The Kernerator consists of a brick incinerator, built
into the base of the chimney when the house is
erected, and a hopper door located in the flue on the
first floor. It takes care of all household refuse —
rags, sweepings, wilted flowers, broken crockery, tin
cans, garbage — without cost, since no commercial
fuel is required. Non-combustibles are dried and
sterilized and later dropped
into the ashpit.

Is/.- your architect about the
Kernerator and write for an
interesting booklet we have
just prepared, showing some
of the fine homes in which
it has been installed.

KERNER INCINERATOR Co.

1025 Chestnut St., Milwaukee,
Wis.

ERNERATOR

Built-in-me-CHimtiey

Reg. U. S. Patent Office

Olde^tonesfleld j^ofe

and Flagging

Tho-. Vietor residence
Hid Hank. N. J.

Send lor booklet .\o. 27

11. T. T.iiulebMK
Arcliiteet

THE JOHN D. EMACK CO.

HOME OFFICE:

1 12 So. 16th St.

Philadelphia

DoYouKnoW the Pathfinder?

The Sentinel that

Welcomes and Protects

THE Pathfinder is a miniature
lamp post only 2l/2 feet high
shedding light on the ground over
a radius of fifteen feet. It is so con-
structed as to absolutely eliminate
glare from the eyes of pedestrians
and, what is more important, from
drivers of automobiles.

The Pathfinder throws light where
it should be thrown — on walks,
drives, roads, at entrances, yet it is
inconspicuous.

Handsomely finished in cast iron.
Write for prices, and mention num-
ber you can use. In quantities of 3
or more there is a reasonable dis-
count.

The complete Smyser-Royer Line of
Exterior Lighting Fixtures ranges
from quaint bracket lanterns to the
most complete lighting systems.
Many of America's most famous
buildings and estates are Smyser-
Royer lighted.

For an interesting half hour send
for our booklet "The Lamp of Hos-
pitality."

SMYSER-ROYER

COMPANY

Main Office and Works— York, Pa.
Philadelphia Office — 1609 Sansom Street

Use This Request Blank

SMYSER-ROYER CO.,

1609 Sansom St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Please send me your Booklet "The
Lamp of Hospitality.'*
Architects and electrical con-
tractors should request our Cata-
log H.

Name

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House & Garden

\HINTS FOR BUILDERS

More Fresh Water
is needed for Health

HEALTH demands plenty of
fresh, running water in the
home. Any physician will tell you
that.

Have you running water in the
kitchen ? Have you a bathtub — a
wash bowl — a toilet of modern com-
fort and convenience? Running
water brings these health necessities.

Do you carry water on wash day?
Running water brings sanitary tubs
into the cellar. You just turn a faucet.

Running water means plenty of
water, for every need, UNDER
PRESSURE. Water to sprinkle the
lawn and garden. Water to wash
the car. Water for fire protection.

Why put up with pump and pail
or other old-time methods, when at
little cost you can have this famous
home water plant?

It's Automatic

FAIRBANKS -MORSE
HOME WATER PLANT

It is a private pumping station. Operates
from any electric light socket or home light-
ing plant circuit. Pumps water from cistern,
shallow well, spring, stream or lake, under
pressure. Practically noiseless. Pressure auto-
matically maintained. No switch to turn.
No adjusting. Has special galvanized tank.
Highly perfected, extra efficient Fairbanks-
Morse Pump, a vital feature. Water for the
whole family and for every need at a few
cents a week.

Capacity, 200 gallons per hour

Quality of plant guaranteed by the name,
Fairbanks-Morse. Don't accept a substitute.
If you do not know the local Fairbanks-
Morse representative, write for his name.
See this plant. Literature sent free upon re-
quest. Write «s at once.

FAI RBAN KS, MORSE & CO.

manufacturers Chicago

The Canadian Fairbanks-Morse Co., Ltd., Montreal

25C

IF you are building your own home,
that is, selecting plans and then let-
ting the work out to a building con-
tractor; or buying the materials and
hiring the labor yourself, you should
always bear in mind a few little "Do's"
and "Dont's": things which add only a
very slight amount to the original cost
but which later pay for themselves many
times.

If you are purchasing a new home
ready built, you should have your eye
out for certain points which show
whether or not a house has had the
proper attention in the smaller details,
which, if lacking, would in time show
up as a detriment to the property. If
you are purchasing a home before it
is completed, you can give it a small
amount of your own personal super-
vision in the way of small details which
will more than pay you for the time and
trouble it may cost.

After all, you really do not know
what kind of a house your new home
is until you have lived in it for over a
year. At the end of that time you find
out how and of what your house was
built. At first sight you can readily ap-
preciate a nicely planned house : plenty
of wall space in the living room, with
a cozy fireplace, a cheerful dining room,
a convenient and well arranged kitchen,
bedrooms which not only look ample
but in which there is plenty of room
after all furniture is arranged and which
have good cross ventilation, a satisfac-
tory heating system, sanitary plumbing,

etc. But what kind of a house have
you when cold weather comes? Does
the wind come in around your windows
even with weather strips on? Have the
floors settled? Has the flooring opened
up and cracked, especially above the
furnace? Has the plaster cracked
around the chimney? And do the win-
dows rattle?

To avoid these catastrophes at the
start-
First: See that the bearing plates on
the main foundation walls are properly
bedded in cement mortar before any
joists and studding are put on. Do not
allow the plates to be laid directly on
the masonry work to be pointed up
later (figure 1). What little pointing is
done under this condition (if not en-
tirely forgotten) is bound to crack off
with the shrinking of the lumber, etc. A
full bed of mortar should be spread on
top of the foundation and the plates,
then tamped into it before the cement
has set. In this way all the unevenness
of the wall is taken up and wind and
cold cannot possibly get through (fig-
ure 2).

Second: See that there is no connec-
tion between the chimney and any part
of the frame work. The chimney should
be entirely independent of any wood-
work, especially if the house is built on
soil which is likely to settle. Do not
allow any plastering directly on the
chimney. Studding with lath and plas-
ter should run entirely around the chim-
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fiKtliRicK,

// bearing plates are laid directly on mortar,

to be pointed up later, there will be cracks

when the lumber shrinks

Bearing plates embedded in cement spread on
the foundation take up all uneven-ness and pre-
vents the wind and damp coming through

Hurry-up construction which

will permit opening between

floor and carpet strips as joists

shrink

Careful construction showing

carpet strip fastened to floor

with tight intersection between

all members

July, 1922

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UK1VERSAJ.

ENGLISH

CASEMENTS
and Windows
I far banks, of-
fices, schools,
hospitals, tic.

Steel Casements

for artistic residences and
other substantial buildings

Made in •varied designs
to meet all conditions

CRITTALL CASEMENT WINDOW CO.

Manufacturers Detroit Michigan

Architects Ebling, Magnuson &.
Klinert, N. Y. City used "CREO-
DIPT" 16-inch Moss Green Stained
Shingles on roof and 18-inch Dixie
White Wide Exposure on sides for
true Colonial White Effect.

A CTUAL economy values as well as artistry are
**• deciding factors in selecting side walls and
roof materials.

"CREO-DIPT" Stained Shingles have quality the open
market does not afford. Only the best grade of shingles
are used, cut from sound timber. While market grading
permits a large percentage of flat grained shingles, only ver-
tical grained shingles are worthy of the " CREO-DIPT "
process ; preserving each shingle with creosote stain in
color desired that will not wash or fade. The result is a
roof and side wall material that can not rot or curl.

If you are going to build or remodel, write for Portfolio of Fifty
Large Photographs of Homes by Leading Architects: Sample
Colors on Wood. Ask about 24-inch "Dixie White" side walls;
also about "CREO-DIPT" Thatch Roofs.

CREODiPT COMPANY. Inc.

1012 Oliver St. North Tonawanda, N. Y.

Sales Offices in Principal Cities. Many Lumber Dealers Carry Standard Colors
Portfolio

in Stock.

"CREO-DIPT"

Stained Shingles

Residence of E. A. Meckes
12534 Lake Ave., Cleveland. Ohio

Hubbell & Benes, Architects
I. S. Gifford, Plastering Contractor

Under the Protection
of Bay State

/CEMENT and stucco homes are beautiful, and se-
\~> cure from weather when under the protection of
Bay State. For this master coating waterproofs every
home it beautifies. Driving rains cannot beat through
a Bay State coated wall. It permanently seals a home
from dampness. It changes the drab color of cement
or stucco to a rich white or one of many beautiful tints.

Let us send you samples of Bay State Brick and
Cement Coating. In white and a complete range of
colors. Booklet No. 2 shows many Bay State coated
homes. Write for samples and booklet today.

WADSWORTH, HOWLAND & CO., Inc.

Paint and Varnish Makers

BOSTON, MASS.
Branch Stores in All Principal Cities.

New York Offire Philajt/phia Office

211-219 FORTY-SEVENTH ST. BROOKLYN 1524 CHESTNUT ST.

BAY STATE

Brick and Cement Coating

THE BAY STATER

Are you ashamed

of your back porch ?

Garbage Is not only an embarrassing nuisance,
but a distinct menace to health.

Unwelcome — and yet no place to go. That
is the plight of the garbage. How it heaps up !

Always accumulating and making you
ashamed of the back porch. The clouds of
flies, the bad odors, disease germs, yowling
cats that come at night, all can be traced to
the influence of the garbage pail.

The truth is that we have been putting up
with make-shift methods of garbage disposal.

You can't throw it in the furnace lest the
grates clog up and the house be filled with
foul odors. Strangers must be permitted to
prowl about the place if it is to be hauled
away — a none too safe idea. How simple is
the army method in comparison as embodied
in the Ranz Garbage Destroyer!

A Ranz Garbage Destroyer slips into old or
new buildings (or outdoors) as easily as a
stove, and costs less than one.

Dump all wet or dry garbage, old papers, trash,
tin cans, bottles — in fact everything — into it. A
steady draft of air dries out the garbage and carries
away all odor. Touch a match once a week and the
job is done. Everything is reduced to ashes or steril-
ized. Every inch of your place is kept sanitary and
clean when there is a Ranz around.

Ranz Garbage
Destroyer

Fine homes, apartment, business blocks and picnic
grounds find it indispensable.

A Ranz Incinerator will increase the value of your
property. Ten years from now every building will
have one, as surely as they have doorbells and bath
tubs today. If you want to be proud of your place,
you must have a Ranz.

For old or new

buildings or

outdoors

Write today for free booklet on
sanitation. Read how the U. S.
army keepa things clean. Your
name and address in the coupon
below brings it to you.

Amp ihis out with your scissors
and mail today

______ _-_ __.„__

Neenah Brais Works.
Dept. 27, Neenah, Wis.

Please mail me your booklet on
garbage disposal for homes. ,ipts.,
hospitals, picnic grounds (check).

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House & Garden

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fr '" W™ '*

h&efi. Curtain HODS

in your new home

ey are the modern fixtures
for window drapings — insure
neat, up-to-date effects— are
strong, durable and economical.

The flat construction gives sagless
jl strength — the Velvetone brass or
Velvetone white finish is guaranteed
to prevent rusting or tarnishing.

Kirsch Curtain Rods come single, double, triple
— extension style or cut-to-fit for any kind of

windows. The patented Kirsch bracket is simple,
strong, practical; permits rods to be put on or

.detached with ease and safety, yet can't come
down accidentally.

Sold by better dealers everywhere.

Correct, Up-to-date Ideas on
Window Draping in
FREE BOOK

Attractive windows are illustrated for every room)
many in colors. Valuable suggestions given as tc
materials, colors, rods. Mailed free on request.

KIRSCH MFG. COMPANY

241 Prospect Ave., Sturgis, Mich., U. S. A.

KIRSCH MFG. CO. OF CANADA, Ltd. 452 Tecumseh St., Woodstock, Out.

CURTAIN RODS

Come Single, ^Double, trifle — to Secure Any Effect

The patented Kirsch
bracket is simple and
strong. Rod easily
attached or removed
by tilting. Can't come
off accidentally.

Bracket and End of
double rod for cur-
tain and valance— fo r
curtain and s i de
drapes, or for side
drapes and valance.

Bracket and end of
triple rod — for cur-
tains, side drapes and
valance. This rod
used in window illus-
trated above.

Remember
Vfie Original Jlat Curtain Rod

Hints for Builders

(Continued from page 104)

ney. This, practically everyone knows,
but through carelessness or the desire
to get just a little more space in a room,
a builder may take a chance, and usually
with the result of cracked walls.

Third : Be sure that good water-proof
aper is put behind all four sides of the
window frames before they are nailed
into the walls. Do not let the builder
put a couple of strips of cheap paper
behind the two side casings — that is the
tightest place anyway. Insist that good
paper be put behind top and bottom of
the frame also. At the bottom of the
frame, under the sill, the paper should
be nailed into the sill and then run out
and wedged into the groove in which
the siding fits, the surplus being cut off
flush with the siding. This point, if not
made tight, is where most of the wind
comes in around a framed window.

Fourth: How many homes have you
been in. where the floor looks as though
it were dropping down, especially on
an inside wall over the furnace, near a
heat pipe or register? In some cases you
can put your finger between the shoe or
carpet strip of the baseboard and the
floor. This defect (figure 3) is gener-
ally caused by the shrinking of the floor
joists, due in most cases to severe heat
from furnace or pipes, and can quite
easily be overcome.

The usual hurry-up construction is to
nail the baseboard to the studding, then
to nail the carpet strip to the baseboard
as shown in figure 3, so that the painter
may finish the entire two members as
one. This looks well for a time, but as
the joists shrink the opening between the
floor and the carpet strip appears. The
following procedure should be observed
to overcome the difficulty: After the
base has been nailed to the wall, the
painter should finish this single member
entirely to the floor-line. The carpet
strip should then be painted or stained,
as the case may be, before it is nailed
into place. When the floors have been
scraped and finished the carpet strip is
nailed on — not to the baseboard, but by
slanting the nail into the floor (figure 4).
The nail holes in the carpet strip are
then puttied up and this member given
a final coat of enamel or varnish accord-
ing to the requirements. The joists may
now shrink and the floor go down th:
full height of the carpet strip, but there

will still be a tight intersection between
base members and also between carpet
strip and the floor. Even if more of the
baseboard is exposed, it has the original
finish on it and will look the same all
the way to the floor-line.

Fifth : To avoid the shrinking and
cracking of floors, you cannot take too
much care in the laying of the flooring.
Circulars issued by large flooring manu-
facturers may be sent for and studied
and instructions followed, such as,
"flooring must be delivered when thor-
oughly dry and must be kept dry; all
plastering must be dry and the house
heated, etc." This should apply to every
home built, but in a great many houses,
especially in the less expensive ones, it
is almost impossible to fulfill all these
requirements. In a great many houses
the sub-floors are omitted and the finish
floors are put down before plastering is
done, this is especially true of the sec-
ond floors. Sub-floors, including a good
grade of paper, should be used, at least
on the first floor. The cost is only
about five cents a square foot. In addi-
tion to this, and it becomes a necessity
if sub-floors are not used down stairs,
nail to the bottom of the floor joist
some kind of fire-proof wall-board or
plaster-board over an area of at least
ten feet square directly over the furnace.
This will deflect the intense heat which
is bound to be found directly over the
furnace and heat pipes, and relieves the
flooring and floor joists of the extreme
heat to which they would otherwise be
exposed.

If your house is built and your win-
dows rattle or stick, with a very small
additional cost you may install adjust-
able washers and screws in setting the
window stops. Then all that is neces-
sary to have them work right is a screw
driver to set the stops in the proper
position. It is also worth while to use
these on door stops. This convenience
will be appreciated.

The above instructions are simply a
repetition of what most every home
owner will eventually discover for him-
self, but how much better it is, if a per-
son is building a home, to know how to
avoid mistakes instead of later having
the expense and worry of rectifying
them.

H. N PUTNAM.

FIGHT THE CORN BORER

SPECIAL efforts to prevent the
European corn borer from spread-
ing, will be made this season by
the United States Department of Agri-
culture. The most important single
measure will be the rigid enforcement
of Federal quarantine regulations by
the Federal Horticultural Board of the
Department.

The Federal quarantine includes 144
cities and towns in Massachusetts, 3 in
Michigan, 12 in New Hampshire, 115
in New York, 42 in Ohio, and 13 in
Pennsylvania, and prohibits the ship-
ment of corn and broom corn, includ-
ing all parts of the stalk, cut flowers
or entire plants of chrysanthemum,
aster, cosmos, zinnia, hollyhock, and
cut flowers or entire plants of gladi-
olus and dahlia, except the bulbs, to
other States throughout the year.

To control the corn borer the Depart-
ment recommends the following prac-
tices:

1. Burn, or otherwise destroy, before
May 1 of each year, all cornstalks,
corn cobs, corn stubble, vegetable, field
and flower crop remnants, weeds and
large-stemmed grasses of the previous
year.

2. Keep cultivated fields, fence rows,

field borders, roadsides and such places
free from large weeds or large stemmed
grasses.

3. Cut and remove sweet corn stalks
from the field as soon as the ears are
harvested.

4. Do not plant corn within 50 feet
of beets, beans, celery, spinach, rhu-
barb, or flowering plants intended for
sale.

5. Do not transport outside of the
infested area any of the plants, or
plant products, listed in Federal quar-
antine No. 43.

6. Do not place in swill container-
any sweet corn ears or portions thereof
or discarded portions of celery beets,
beans, rhubarb, and spinach when this
material is suspected of containing the
borer.

7. Do not dump cornstalks, or other
plant refuse from the vegetable and
flower garden on public dumps, or on
the edge of bodies of water where the
borer can breed.

8. Do not feel angry if products are
confiscated at border lines for viola-
tion of quarantine regulations. Such
action is the most lenient that may be
taken under the law.

ALFRED I. WILDER.

July, 1922

107

Letyour plumber showyou
how to take full advantage
of the many conveniences
afforded by MODERN
bathroom equipment

This message in the interest of
the plumbtng contractor, is
published by a firm that has de-
voted the energies of three gen-
erations to the development of
sanitary fixtures for the home—

MADDOCK !

THOMAS MADDOCK'S SONS CO., TRENTON, N. J., U.S.A.

A Suggestion^

In judging motor car value, consider
the maker as well as the car. Recall
that this is the twenty 'Second year
that National has devoted to the
higher development of motor equi'
pages and that the present product of
America's^rst builders of Sixes must
have profited mightily by the search'
ing experience of its producers. There
is no finer mechanism than the 1922.
National Six. Its style is refreshing.

NATIONAL MOTOR CAR AND VEHICLE CORP.

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Boston, Mass.

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Chicago, 111.

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Cincinnati, Ohio

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Cleveland, Ohio

6500 Euclid Ave.

Denver. Colo.

1324 Broadway

Des Moines, Iowa

1304 Locust St.

Hartford, Colin.
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Indianapolis, Ind.
960 N. Meridian St.
Los Angeles, Calif.
1049 S. Fowler St.
Louisville, Ky.
418 W. Chestnut St.
Milwaukee. Wis.
5th & Cedar Sts.
New Haven, Conn.
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New York City
1759 Broadway

Pittsburgh, Pa.

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ICE CREAM

without cranking!

Let's forget the old freezer
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In it ice cream literally makes itself,
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anything you want — in less than an
hour ice cream is ready to serve.

THE Auto Vacuum is a one-piece, all-
metal container, white enameled, light
in weight. It's as easy to clean as a milk
bottle! It's more economical, too, than the
old kind — much less ice is needed.

There's nothing like rich, pure, home'
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WET rubbers and dripping umbrel-
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108

House & Garden

The Brand Peonies

Originated by O. F. Brand & Son
America's Foremost Hybridizers of the Peony

THE largest Plant Breeding Establish-
ment in the World that is devoted to
the origination and bringing out of new
varieties of the Peony. We carry over 1,000
varieties. There are over 17,000 new seed-
lings in our seed beds this season.

The quality of our productions is attested
to by the fact that of the World's 22 best
varieties of this beautiful flower the follow-
ing four or a little better than 18% were
originated by us :

E. B. Browning

Martha Bulloch

Frances Willard

Longfellow

We have in our fields this season for this
fall's shipment the largest stock of first class
peonies that we have ever carried, among
which will be found such beautiful sorts as

Mine. Jules Dessert
Marguerite Dessert
Mignon
Milton Hill
Mons. Martin Cahuzac

Alsace Lorraine

Asa Gray

Bayadere

Cherry Hill

Enchantress

Grace Loomis

Karl Rosenfield

Kelway's Glorious

Kelway's Queen

Lady Duff

La Fee

La Lorraine

La France

Laura Dessert

Le Cygne

Loveliness

Mme. Emile Lemoine

Phyllis KeKvay
Jubilee
Primevere
Raoul Dessert
Reine Hortense
Rosa Bonheur
Sarah Bernhardt
Solange

Standard Bearer
Therese
Tourangelle
Walter Faxon

and many others of the World's very best
American and European peonies.

We also offer for your consider-
ation these wonderful BRAND
PEONIES:

Benjamin Franklin
Brand's Magnificent
Chas. McKellip
David Harum
Desire

E. B. Browning
Faribault
Frances Willard

J udge Berry
Longfellow
Lora Dexheimer
Martha Bulloch
Mary Brand
Mrs. A. G. Ruggles
Mrs. Jennie R. Gowdy
Phoebe Carey
Richard Carvel
Winnifred Domme

Henry Avery

If you do not see listed here what you
want write for our 1922 Price List now out,
and our 1922 Catalog which will be issued
about July ist.

Brand Peony Farms

_. Box 424

Fanbault, Minn-

The root tip show-
ing the root cap and
the root hairs. The
former is used to
push the particles of
dirt to one side so
that the root can
grow forward; the
latter are used to
absorb moisture

WHEN TO WATER PLANTS

ON those hot muggy days when the
sun beats down upon the plants
in both field and garden, the soil
is hard and crumbly and parched. It
seems as if all the moisture has been
drawn from it, and that the plant must
die. But there is always some water
found at deeper levels, and this is avail-
able to those plants which have long
tap roots.

It is surprising with what avidity
roots are able to take moisture from the
different types of soils, although the
moisture content of the various soils
differs according to texture and organic
constituents. Pure quartz sand has a
capacity of holding 46.4% of its volume
of water, loam has a capacity of 60.1%
and humus generally holds 70.3% of its
volume of water, although under some
conditions it can retain more. But all
soils do not give up their entire moisture
content to the roots. A plant growing
in pure sand begins to wilt when all but
one-half per cent of water .has been re-
moved. In a loamy soil, plants begin to
wilt when the soil still retains 10% of
water. A soil rich in humus gives off
still less moisture, and when plants are
placed in moist sawdust they begin to
wilt when the dust still retains one-third
of its weight of water.

For these reasons it is difficult to de-
termine those specific conditions when
it becomes absolutely necessary for pot-
ted plants to be watered, and since too
many factors must be taken into con-
sideration, only general answers can be
given. Dampness is much more injur-
ious to a plant than an occasional dry
spell, but when the soil is dry, the plant
requires water, and this should be gen-
erously provided. Giving the plant
moisture drop by drop, or supplying an
insufficient quantity is always injurious,
as under these conditions the upper layer

of soil becomes moist leaving the lower
dry and hard. This first injures the
roots and later affects the entire plant.

Watering the garden during a dry spell
in the summer is very essential. But
this should be done in the early morn-
ing hours or late in the afternoon, pref-
erably, at twilight. When the plants
are watered during the hotter parts of
the day, while the sun is still shining,
it is more injurious than beneficial.
Older plants require less water than
seedlings, since the roots of the older
plants penetrate to a deeper level than
the younger plants, where they receive
the benefit of the ground waters; at the
same time, transplants should not be
kept too dry. Older plants should be
watered more thoroughly so that the
moisture will penetrate to a lower level.
Simply spraying the upper layer of the
soil so that it can not penetrate it is of
practically no advantage.

The thicker roots do not take up the
water. Almost all of the moisture re-
quired by a plant is absorbed through
the tiny root hairs which are found on
the recent growths of the younger roots.
These hairs not only take up water, but
also the soluble salts necessary for the
life of the plant.

But plants can also be pampered in
their moisture requirements. When the
wind blows, much moisture is taken
from such plants, and the sun also draws
large quantities of water from them.
Such individuals will be found in a more
or less wilted condition with loosely
hanging leaves and drooping shoots
although the soil contains a sufficient
quantity of moisture for a vigorous
plant's requirements. In both cases, the
leaves, through the agency of the Sto-
mata (tiny openings usually found on
the under side of the leaves and used
(Continued on page 110)

The flowerpot should
never be placed di-
rectly into the sau-
cer, it should first be
placed into a wire
stand

The Stomata, tiny
openings usually on
the under surface of
the leaf, are used to
absorb gases and
transpire moisture

July, 1922

109

The Most Greenhouse— For the Least Money

TOY the least money, we mean, the least that is con-
•^ sistent with lastingness and the making of a happy
healthy home for your plants.

It's just a clean cut. thoroughly practical green-
house, in which the ornamental touches and extra
refinements, so to speak, have been eliminated.

Still it is decidedly good looking, and will grow
just as many and just as fine quality of flowers, as any
house that costs more.

It is a house we have been building for years. But
the times have made so many folks want to strip
things for the running, as it were, that they quickly
buy this Practical Purpose house, when they would
not buy our regular one with its curved eaves and
other features.

Glad to send you fullest of particulars, or one of
us will come and talk it over with von.

J5tirriham(o.

Builders of Greenhouses and Conservatories

IRVINGTON NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO BOSTON CLEVELAND ATLANTA TORONTO

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Irvington. N. Y. Des Plaines, III. St. Catherines. Ont.

Right now there's
a very destructive
foe in your garden,
on shrubs and flow-
ers—it's Aphis. It
attacks leaves and
stems.

miS^ • You can kill Aphis,

|fj Thrip, Leaf Hopper

and similar sap-
Bucking insect- pests on
trees, shrubs, vines,
vegetables, and flowers
by spraying them with
"BLACK LEAF 40"
(nicotine sulphate.)
Bottle, making about 6 gallons
of spray 35c. Order it through
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RAIN'S ONLY RIVAL

Your lawn and shrubbery may be
kept green and beautiful thru the long-
est summer drought by installing a
Brooks System of Lawn Sprinkling
and Irrigation.

Underground — Self-Draining —
Frost Proof

Write for further information

I JOHN A. BROOKS

Main Office: 443 PENOBSCOT BLDG., DETROIT, MICH.
297 Madison Ave., N. Y. C.

VJPOTTERY

Gives the
Essential Touch

A Bird Bath will make
a delightful spot in your
garden. The beauty of your
plants will be enhanced by
interesting Vases and Jars.
Many attractive designs
can be selected from our
collection of enduring
Terra Cottas, which also
includes Benches, Fonts,
Sun Dials and other charm-
ing decorative pieces for
the garden, sun room and
, home.

!£taD. Send 20c. in stamps for

1810 catalogue.

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3218 WALNUT ST. PHILADELPHIA.

en to

House & Garden

Water Plants

The NEW Hardy Flowers
of 1923

will be in bloom in your garden next summer if you
sow seeds now. New and very rare Perennials for
gardens of individuality!

I Viola (Tufted Pansies) Cyclops.
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The charming new feature about this
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Pkt. 50c.

Fringed Moon-
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(Continued from page 108)

for the transpiration of water and the
absorption of gases), give off more
moisture than can be compensated by
the absorption of water through the
roots. This means that more water is
given off by the plant than it is able to
take up. These plants will recover their
vigor in the night without watering
them.

The watering of potted plants should
be accomplished with water that has
been standing for some time until it has
taken the temperature of the air. When
water is taken which is colder than the
soil, the plant will refuse to take it until
it has attained the temperature of the
soil. This is especially the case when it
is necessary to water before the heat of
the day has passed or the sun still shin-
ing brightly.

For out of door plants it is advisable
not to let a heavy soil crack when the
moisture has been withdrawn, either
after watering or after a heavy rain.
Under these conditions the roots cannot
receive a sufficient supply of air, on the
other hand it also hinders water from
penetrating into the soil, no matter how
much it may be watered. Here the hoe
should first be used to loosen the soil

and then watering the plants. Hoeing
also has its advantage in that the garden
does not have to be watered so fre-
quently, since an open soil takes up the
night moisture very readily and so
makes it available for the roots.

There is another very important fact
to be taken into consideration in the
watering of potted plants. This is that
when these are watered care should be
taken that that part which has drained
is not allowed to remain standing in the
saucer. It has filtered, and has given up
all of its soluble salts to the soil. In
this condition water is more injurious
than beneficial. Therefore a stand
should be attached to the flower pot so
that the pot does not rest in the saucer
but a short distance above it. Such
specially constructed pots are on the
market and are to be preferred to the
flat bottomed type.

A flower pot standing in water is in-
jurious to the plant, especially to the
root system, since they not only require
moisture but also air. No garden plant
will thrive in a soil supersaturated with
moisture except swamp and bog plants,
and these are seldom cultivated in the
window garden. DR. E. BADE.

PROPAGATING FERNS

THE' ferns are the largest and the
most beautiful of all the crypto-
gamis. The height of their de-
velopment lies in the far distant past,
the Coal Age. At that time all plant
life was flowerless. The Equisites as
well as the Lycopodiaceae gave a dismal
appearance to the carboniferous land-
scape, while the innumerable ferns with
their bright light-green, lace-like foliage
were of a more pleasing appearance.
The lower varieties of ferns formed a
thick carpet which covered the dead
yellow-brown leaves lying on the black,
turfy top-soil, while the more slender
tree ferns spread their feathery capitals
of spirally-formed shafts far above their
humbler relatives.

Still to-day the fern tree forests along
the damp coasts of southern Australia
and New Zealand are of the most won-
derful beauty and grace. There the
plants depend more upon air which is
saturated with moisture than they do
upon heat. On the western coast of
New Zealand fern trees even occur in
the immediate vicinity of glaciers.
Other varieties, as the Cyathea deal-
bata, Cyathea medullaris, Alsophila aus-
tralis and Dicksonia antarctica, are
found in certain regions of southern
Australia and Tasmania where snow
falls at stated periods. This is con-
vincing proof that fern trees can be cul-
tivated in the house if a sufficient quan-
tity of water is provided, and if the
leaves and the trunk are often sprayed.
In summer the plants should be some-
what shaded against the burning rays
of the sun but in winter they should
receive their beneficial warmth.

Ferns thrive best in a coarse unfer-
tilized humus which should be kept
damp constantly. But care must be tak-
en that the water does not remain in
the container. For this reason the vent
of the flower pot receives a foundation
of potsherds which allows the surplus
water to drain through the root balls.
Standing water is just as fatal to the
fern as an insufficient supply. If the air
of the room is not well ventilated
thrips will make their appearance.

The majority of the ferns which are
cultivated in the dwelling room belong
to the Polypodiacese, which approxi-
mately embrace 3,000 species. These,
as far as they are considered as house
plants, closely resemble the tree ferns

in their mode of life. No fern varieties
are especially fitted for the dwelling
room since a moist atmosphere is of
more importance than heat.

The trunks of the Polypodiaces are
hidden in the ground. The fronds, on
the other hand, reach much nobler pro-
portions. Their ideal outline and tex-
ture, which is found on no other plant,
charms the love of nature. In regard
to growth, the fronds resemble twigs, as
the green soft tips do not stop their de-
velopment when the leaf surface has un-
folded itself. In some varieties, where
a periodical growth of the leaves takes
place, the mid-rib takes up the func-
tions and the appearance of twigs.

A characteristic of all fern varieties
are the coiled leaf buds, which are not
unlike a bishop's staff. When their de-
velopment has stopped these leaf buds
unfold themselves, each leaf then being
divided and subdivided into two, three,
four, or five and sometimes even more
parts. In many cases they require more
than one year for their full develop-
ment.

The apparently highly developed fern
is only an unsexual plant. The sexual
plant is very small, consisting of a
heart-shaped leaf the size of a small
coin. These grow from spores found in
uncountable numbers within little pro-
jections on the under-surface of each
frond. To the eye the contents of
these little mounds appear as a pulveru-
lent mass. When one of these spores
has found a favorable place to grow, a
tube-like short thread makes its ap-
pearance. The upper part flattens and
produces a green leaf called the pro-
thallium. On the under part of this
leaf, long unbranched hairs are found
which attach themselves to the ground
thus becoming an independent seedling.
This is the true fern. It produces an-
therids, the male organs, in which the
spermatozoids are formed, and the arch-
egonii, the female organs, which en-
gender the egg cells. The spermatozoids
become free after the cell wall which
contains them bursts. If they come in
the vicinity of a ripe female egg, they
penetrate and fertilize it. The egg then
divides itself into two hemispheres, then
into four equal parts, and so on until
it has grown into a young plant, the
embryo, in which we can distinguish
(Continued on page 112)

July, 1922

Mark Twain Said:

"A great, great deal has been
said about the weather, but
very little has ever been done."

IF Mr. Clemens had known
about the modern Cornell
Irrigation Systems for gardens
and lawns, his whimsical re-
mark would have lost some of
its pointedness.

Nowadays something is done
about the weather and much
of the disappointment attend-
ant with trying to make a gar-
den or lawn grow is a thing of
the past. For Cornell systems
actually do give you rain when
and where you want it.

We are prepared to make com-
plete surveys and submit plans
and specifications covering
the installation of piping sys-
tems and pumping units.

The coupon, or a postal or letter

111

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out obligation.

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one or two leaves, the main root and a
tube-like arm through which the mother
plant supplies it with food until it lias
become independent. This grows into
the sexless plant which develops the
spores.

If ferns have been propagated from
spores they should be transplanted into
a sandy humus as soon as two leaves
have been fully developed. Although
this method*"of propagation is very in-
teresting, still it is somewhat tedious.
The spores are sown into flower pots
filled one-third full with soil, the re-
quisite amount of moisture being sup-
plied by a saucer upon which the pot
should be placed. The spores and the
young plants are protected by placing a
glass plate on the rim in such a way
that the drops of water which may
form must run down the sides. Neither
should they be exposed to the penetrat-
ing rays of the sun.

Some fern varieties form adventitious
buds both on leaves and on the veins.
These should be taken off and planted

individually into flower pots where they
will soon grow into beautiful and val-
uable plants.

Shrubby ferns can be rapidly multi-
plied either by dividing the older plants
or by taking off runners, i.e., young un-
developed fronds appearing at the base
of the plant. These should be pro-
vided with roots. A division of the
plant should only take place before the
fronds have developed, and then only
when the roots completely fill the pot.
Only free, independent, and uninjured
root balls should be used for this pur-
pose. But before transplanting they
should be somewhat loosened with a
small, round stick. They should never
be cut. An ideal soil, which should be
yearly renewed, consists of decayed
wood, or leaf mould mixed with sand.
Transplantation generally takes place in
March or April. Then they should be
moderately watered until the fronds
grow perceptibly larger.

As a rule ferns are shade plants and
(Continued on page 114)

(Left) Fern
trees will
thrive under
glass when
sprayed daily

A dia n t u m
trapezijorme
requires more
light than the
tougher spe-
cies

(Below) Dry-
opteris cou-
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Adiantum hispidum, or hairy adiantum, a finely

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Zealand

Propagating Ferns

(Continued from page 112)

therefore do not want the direct rays
of the sun. The delicate and light
leaved Adiatum varieties require more
light than the tougher and darker
leaved species. Younger plants are also
more sensitive to an intensely bright
light than the older plants.

Fertilizing the soil should be avoided
although luxuriantly growing ferns can
be given some cow manure dissolved in
water.

He who has little time for the care
and the cultivation of ferns should turn
his attention to other plants which do
not require so much attention, since
ferns are only healthy and beautiful as
long as the leaves are daily sprayed.
For proper culture they should be
placed either in an east or a west win-
dow where they will not receive the
strong sunlight which is very injurious
to them.

The Elkhorn is a typical example of
an epiphytical fern. These plants,
which are the most peculiar of the en-
tire fern family, are found growing on
trunks and limbs of trees, from which
they receive no nourishment whatso-
ever. For cultivation they are placed
into a soil consisting of decayed wood
or leaf mould mixed with sand. They
require a warm room and must be often

sprayed. This plant, which is com-
paratively large, has two kinds of leaves,
one kind is somewhat rounded and
heartshaped which later becomes brown,
these are the protective leaves pressing
closely to their support, shingle fash-
ion ; the other kind are long, forked, and
hang downward. In their youth the
former serve as reservoirs, the water be-
ing held by a network of fibres ; in later
years, when the leaves have decayed,
these containers serve as collectors of
humus. Then the decayed leaves are
completely immeshed with rhizoids
which take up all available constituents
which may be left or which may have
been deposited by wind or rain. The
protective leaves produce the spores,
which develop like those of other ferns.
A few climbing ferns, as the Lygodium
japonicum, are also known. These vines
have winding and forked stems which
do not climb very high. For this rea-
son they are especially adapted for the
window garden where they make a very
pleasing appearance. But if this Jap-
anese climbing fern is kept too dry, it
will suffer from an attack of a tiny
beetle, the thrips. In this case the vine
is cut back, and the roots transplanted,
after which the fern will force new
shoots. DR. E. BADE.

BRACING TREES

FRUIT trees are pruned and trained
to produce a strong, sturdy frame
to resist wind pressure and to sup-
port a load of fruit.

The correct principle is known to
every fruit grower, but often one can-
not visualize the result. Accidents will
happen or a branch will not develop as
was expected.

It is an easy matter to correct these
faults, to make weak branches strong
or to support branches heavily laden
with fruit if certain fundamental prin-
ciples are remembered.

'Never put a wire or band around
the trunk or branch of a tree. The sap
runs up and down the green inner bark,
consequently as the tree grows it tight-
ens the wire which chokes the branch
and cuts through it.

The proper way to strengthen large
branches that form the head of the
tree is to bore a hole through the trunk
or branch and insert an iron rod, with
an eye on one end, through the hole.
Cut away the bark around the bolt
enough to put on a washer and a nut
and screw it up tight. In a few years
new bark will grow over the nut and

around the eye so that the branch will
not be injured in the least.

When the bolt has been put on op-
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chain may be fastened in the eyes and
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place.

If three or more branches form the
head they may all be held in this way
by putting a ring in the center and
running a chain from each branch to
the central ring, being careful that the
weight is evenly distributed.

The two ways to brace fruit trees hav-
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ened by the weight of the fruit, are:

1. A pole is placed in an upright
position in the center of the tree against
the main trunk, to which it is fastened.
A rope is tied to each of the branches
that need bracing and fastened to the
central pole, thus drawing them up to
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SPEAKING OF SEPTEMBER

READERS often ask us, "Where do you get
all the pictures you show in HOUSE &
GARDEN?" And we usually answer, "Oh, we
pick 'em up here and there." But that is only a
gentle bluff, because we have to pick up something
like over a hundred pictures for each issue and
good pictures do not grow on every bush. It isn't
just done with a flip of the hand; it's hard work
and sometimes the old game of finding the needle
in the haystack is tame compared with it.

For a matter of fact, from twenty-five to fifty
pictures pass across this desk each day. One or
two will be chosen, and tucked away as the nucleus
for a group. Scouts in a dozen different countries
and from almost every State in the Union report
this house and that garden which is photograph-
able and up to our standards. A photographer
"shoots" it and then maybe it isn't the sort of
thing we want, so into the discard it goes and we
try again.

Once in a while — once in a great while — some-
thing comes unannounced and unheralded through
the mails. But these occasions are rare. In the
majority of cases each page or each article is de-
liberately schemed out — and then we sail forth to
find those pictures or those objects that can be
photographed to illustrate it. When these ob-

One of the pleasantest de-
tails of some types of
houses is the fanlight over
the entrance door. This is
one of quite a number
shown in September

jects don't exist, an artist is called in and creates
(hem according to our plans.

But there's more to the artist's work than that.
If all the pages of an issue were plastered with
photographs, you'd be bored with them before
you reached the Gardener's Calendar. We inter-
sperse line cuts here and there as a relief to the
eye. Moreover, there are many things that simply
won't photograph successfully — oil stoves, for
example, or sinks.

Then after we get the pictures, what happens?
They go to a layout man, and together we talk
over which picture can be "played up" large and
which should be "held down" small. By and by
he evolves a scheme or schemes for the page.
When the satisfactory one is finally chosen, the
photographs are measured, the borders drawn, and
the pictures started down to the engraver, which
is the first step toward bringing them into the
range of your eyes.

Now speaking of September, we have, on this
20th day of June, which is our birthday, deliv-
ered into the hands of the layout man an impres-
sive stack of illustrations for that number. He
likes them very much. So do we. Somehow,
we believe you are going to like them too. They
will arrive at the newsstands August 23rd.

Contents for August, 1922. Volume XLII, No. Two

COVER DESIGN BY BRADLEY W. TOMLIN

RAIN BEFORE SEVEN 29

CONCENTRATED DECORATION 30

Chester A. Paterson, Architect
THE ETERNAL KITCHEN 31

Ruby Ross Goodnow
PLANTS FOR A GREEN CITY GARDEN 34

Minga Pope Duryea
MEALS THAT ARE EASILY EATEN 36

Sarah Field Splint
A REMODELED CITY HOUSE 37

Frank J, Forster, Architect
THE IMARI WARE OF JAPAN 38

Gardener Teall
FLOWERS OF THE RAINBOW 40

Harold H. Scudder
A DECORATED ENTRANCE HALL 41

Allyn Cox, Mural Artist
THE HOME OF HENRY SAMPSON, DOUGLAS MANOR, L. 1 42

William A. Dominick, Architect
USING COLORED OILCLOTH 44

Agnes Foster Wright

THE USES AND BEAUTIES OF BROWN 46

A LITTLE PORTFOLIO OF GOOD INTERIORS 47

H. T. Lindeberg, Architect

AN ENCLOSED TENNIS COURT SO

Dwight James Baum, Architect

How TO ALTER THE COLOR OF FLOORS 51

OPERATING ON TREES 52

John Davey
COMING ON BOOKS UNEXPECTEDLY • 54

Montrose J. Moses

DOORS OF OLD SPAIN IN MODERN CALIFORNIA 56

A GROUP OF FOUR HOUSES 57

IF You ARE GOING TO BUILD 60

Mary F ant on Roberts

EQUIPPING THE KITCHEN 62

AUGUST EMPHASIZES COOL SHOWER BATHS 64

Ethel R. Peyser

FIVE DECORATIVE BAY WINDOWS 66

THE ITALIAN SPIRIT IN A REMODELED CITY HOUSE 67

Frank J. Forster, Architect

A CITY GARDEN IN DENVER 68

De Boer & Pesman, Landscape Architects

PYRETHRUMS FOR FORMAL AND INFORMAL GARDENS 69

John L. Rea

SEEN IN THE SHOPS FOR THE KITCHEN 70

THE GARDENER'S CALENDAR 72

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be effected in less than one month.

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RAIN

BEFORE

SEVEN

TO people who live in cities the weather is a factor that
makes but little difference in their lives except when it
runs to extremes. Rain or shine we rise, go to an office,
work and return home. If it is clear and pleasant, perhaps our
heels hit the pavement with a quicker ring; if it is raining, we
have the bother of carrying an umbrella. When it snows, the
city man finds peculiar delight in seeing such huge machines as
trolley cars and trucks being incapacitated. Snow seems to give
him more exhilaration than any other form of weather.

These may seem broad statements. If you doubt them, listen
to city folks talking about weather. When the day is hot they
say, "Well, is it hot enough for you?'' When it rains they say,
"Well, is it wet enough for you?" Rather banal and unimagina-
tive. Somehow, weather doesn't seem to get under the hides of
people who live in cities, except to depress them when it rains
incessantly. But in the country—

To the man who lives in the country, to the man who has a
garden, the weather is a constant and inexorable influence. All
his labors depend upon it. Too much or too little rain, sudden
frosts, destructive winds are big and deciding factors in his life.
He soon finds himself, as his interest in gardening deepens, con-
sulting thermometers and barometers and reading weather prog-
nostications. He will also learn queer countryside weather
legends, and come to depend upon them, such as —
Rain before seven
Sun before eleven.

These old country weather jingles may not be highly scientific,
but the most of them are amazingly true. Suspect rain, and what
do you observe? That the leaves of the trees turn back. That
the crickets' song is sharp and clear. That frogs seem to change
color before a storm, turning from green to brown. That the
down blows off the dandelion even though there is no wind. That
the fireflies are very bright. That marigolds close their petals.

ONE of these days, when I've nothing else to do, I'd like
to make a collection of these old weather rhymes. Doubt-
less, they would all be about alike irrespective of country
or time, for the observations of people -who live close to the soil
have an eternal sameness. Perhaps each in his own way and
tongue — wheat farmers in Kansas and Siberia, cotton raisers in
Georgia and Egypt — agree that

A mackerel sky
Is very wet, or very dry.

Which is a commendably cautious attitude to take. Or this
Between twelve and two
You'll see what the day will do.

Likewise cautious. For caution, be it remembered, is the country
man's prime virtue. He doesn't make rash promises. The
weather has deceived him too often. Still, however disillusioned
he may have been at times, he clings to his jingles and will quote
them as gospel truth whenever the occasion offers. Your weather
man, reading sky signs from a tall city building and broadcasting
the country with weather reports and promises, has never made
a truer — certainly never a more poetic — observation than the

farm wife at the foot of my hill, who assures me that
When the wind is in the south
Tis in the rain's mouth,
When the wind is in the east
'Tis neither good for man nor beast.

NOW all this chatter about rain and shine has been
brought up by the fact that we've been haying.

Along in March, when we plowed the garden, my old
Swede remarked that we were going to have a wet summer. ''It'll
make the hay grow," he said, "but we will have the devil's own
time getting it in."

If you've never helped take in hay, all this is lost on you.
Hay, you must know, is cut, and left in the meadow a day or so
to be cured by the sun. If there is rain, it becomes sodden and
is apt to mold. It can't be placed into the barn while wet, because
it would rot and might catch fire from internal combustion. So
the farmer prays for plenty of rain to make a big hay crop and
bright sunshine when haying time comes.

We had the rain — and we needed it- — but the skies were im-
moderate. They gushed water like the Anti-Saloon League.
The meadow became a jungle, so high the grass . . . Then one
morning we awoke to hear the click of the mower and the abrupt
remarks of the farmer to his horse, as he pulled her up to clear
the knives. All day the mown grass scented the air. We prayed
for another clear day. But the wind was wrong, and the leaves
of the trees warned us, and so did the crickets' sharp cries and
the sparkle of the fireflies. Sure enough, it came down, a deluge
of rain. Only after three days were we vouchsafed sunshine and
the hay could be cured and hauled to the barn.

THE gardener soon finds that his sport is a gamble against
big odds. If he wins, he wins big; if he loses — well, he
has to be a good looser. He will work for a year raising,
as I have done, some superb delphiniums. The best of his efforts
have gone into those plants. He has dreamed of the vision that
will greet his eye when those blue spikes are lifted up toward the
sky. He fights for them against blight and slugs. He feeds them
delicious plant foods. He waters and mulches them when it is
dry. He stakes them against destructive winds. Then of a
sudden comes a storm that uproots huge trees and lifts roofs
from barns. It passes, and he goes out to see his flowers. The
tall spikes, that but an hour ago gave such promise, lie broken
and bedraggled in the mud. Next year he'll have better luck.
I have a notion (I may be wrong) that many of our folk
legends and jingles have been produced as antidotes to dis-
couragement and fear. Just as small boys keep their courage up
while passing a cemetery by whistling, so do gardeners and farm-
ers put their trust in simple rhymes and homely sayings in the
hour of their defeat. They arise, after a night of rain, hopeful
for a sunny day. It is still pouring. A glance at the clock on
the bureau. There's still an hour to go before seven. That's good!
Rain before seven,
Sun before eleven !

House & Garde\

CONCENTRATED DECORATION

Decorative architectural detail may be scattered all
over the exterior of a house or it may be concen-
tiated in one spot. In a small house the latter course
is more generally advisable. The other details may be
simple and unassuming, whereas the entrance door
will be emphasized by an imposing and carefully
planned design. Like a woman simply dressed who
wears one fine and beautiful piece of jewelry — both
the frock and the jewel are richer for the contrast.

The home of E. C. J. McShane, at Great Neck, L. I.,
has been designed with this in mind. There is a
certain austerity about the lines oj the house, the
shape and position of the windows, and the rough
coating of the walls. Contrasting with these is the
doorway — a dignified Georgian design with fluted
pilasters and arch pediment, broken to make room
for the traditional and beautiful pineapple ornament.
Chester A. Patterson was the architect

August , 1 922

THE

ETERNAL KITCHEN

Some of the Romance and Color of Old-Fashioned Kitchens
Shoidd Be Used to Enliven the Kitchens of Today

WHEN I think of my grandmother's
kitchen, I am convinced that it has
an eternal spirit, a warm, fragrant,
comfortable spirit that will go on forever.
I cannot associate modern conveniences
with its deep shadows, its worn boards, its
beams hung with red peppers and herbs.
\Yhen I realize that old
Aunt Cherry, the black
mammy who. gave me cake
bowls to scrape when I was
a little girl, is still the mis-
tress of that old kitchen I
am reasurred of the rewards
of life. I am a little girl
again, sitting under the big
table eating my own special
cake, cooked in an egg shell,
or trying to help Aunt
Cherry churn, or sitting on
the steps shelling peas and
listening to stories of Uncle
Remus. It is wonderful to
realize that dozens of us
grandchildren and great
grandchildren have breathed
in the simplicities of that
old kitchen, and dozens of
children before us. The
march of fashion in house
furnishings, of ingenuity in
equipment, has touched it
very gently. Aunt Cherry
is still supreme and prefers
to do things in her own way.
In the South the kitchens
of old-fashioned houses
were detached buildings,
small empires ruled by ty-
rannical but gentle colored
women who directed the
constant and countless in-
dustries of the family.
Work never ceased in the
kitchen, but it was leisurely
work with an accompani-
ment of tranquil songs and
a pervading aroma of heav-
enlv smells.

RUBY ROSS GOODNOW

I wonder what takes the place of such a
kitchen in the childhood of today? Cer-
tainly I spent a large part of my childhood
in the kitchen. It was there I heard my first
fairy stories. A kitchen should be a de-
light to all the senses — it should be equally
good to smell, to see, to taste, to touch, and

An Italian kitchen built around a pair of Venetian cupboards boasts quite

an architectural workshelf — a slab of yellow marble supported by two iron

brackets. The walls are washed with lemon yellow

to hear, and all these exquisite requirements
were satisfied by this old kitchen. My eyes
became aware of the simple beauties of bare
walls, and scrubbed boards, and piles of
highly colored vegetables, and brown baskets
of fresh creamy white eggs, and quantities
of brilliant fruits and berries, and foaming
churns and pans of milk.
My ears were soothed by the
sweet old spirituals and the
fantastic and good humored
field songs of the negroes.
My tongue — oh, the adven-
tures of tasting the thou-
sands of good things in the
various processes of cook-
ing! My nose was one con-
s t a n t in-drawn sniff of
curiosity. Even before one
reached the kitchen one be-
gan to sniff the pleasures to
come — hot gingerbread or
ham boiling in sherry, or
pungent smells of vinegar
and sweet spices advertising
new pickles to the furthest
reaches of the garden. My
fingers were ever eager to
learn the secrets of vege-
tables and fruits. If I had
been blind my fingers could
have defined everything in
the kitchen for me!

I review the various
kitchens that have made in-
delible impressions on my
memory — a great English
one, hundreds of years old,
with an open hearth where
fifteen wild boars could be
turned on the spits at once.
An Italian farmhouse one,
where everything took place
within the deep chimney
place, several women cook-
ing at once, where little arti-
chokes were browned in a
deep oven, and spaghetti
cooked to melting before my

House & Garden

An Adam cupboard, which has a surpris-
ing variety of colors — several delicate blues
without and a candy pink within — is the
main object in the kitchen of this New
York home

eyes. A huge one-room house outside the
walls of Toledo, in Spain, where one corner
was the kitchen, another the dining room,
and the rest the living quarters of the fam-
ily. Here we ate little green olives cooked
with fresh peas, and drank sparkling white
wine called Diamente. There was a very
sophisticated kitchen in an apartment in
Paris, with tiled floor, and beautiful Re-
gence woodwork, evidently a fine boudoir a
hundred years ago. And there have been so
many shining white-and-metal city ones,
young honeymoon kitchens in New York,
and austere great-aunt kitchens in New
England, but never one so precious to me as
the old lady kitchen on our Georgia planta-
tion.

Now that our architects are coming inside
our houses and concerning themselves with
bathrooms and kitchens as well as roof lines
and facades, we have opportunities to evolve
fascinating kitchens which reflect the period
of the house. What could be more remote

Fresh green paint, dark red tiles, peasant
furniture of crudely carved oak, white-
washed walls and curtains of red and white
striped linen create the atmosphere in this
kitchen

August , 1922

This compact apartment kitchen trusts to
white paint and navy blue and white ging-
ham for distinction. It is modern, sanitary
and convenient, and still a picturesque
place

from an old custom of placing the kitchen
as far away from the front door as possible
than our new architectural trick of placing
the kitchen spang beside the front door?
The New York fashion of turning the front
room on the ground floor into the kitchen is
a very sensible one, and also a very uplift-
ing one, because then it must live up to its
position.

A house in Sutton Place recently
remodeled by Miss Elizabeth Marbury has
a dignified Georgian facade of light gray
stone, and a red lacquered front door. As
important a detail of the facade as the en-
trance door is the treatment of the kitchen
windows. They are hung with curtains of
gingham of bold red and white checks. One
longs to go into the kitchen the moment one
enters the hallway of this charming house,
and that is as it should be, for the red check
curtains are but indications of the English
kitchen within. The oak paneled dining
(Continued on page 94)

To take the ultra-modern curse of an up-
to-date kitchen, install some interesting
china cupboards, such as this corner piece
of Colonial design. It can be painted
brilliant colors

House & Garden

In a city garden and especially against the warm background of
brick walls, it is advisable to have shrubbery that remains green
the year round. In the garden of Mrs. Harry H. Our yea it is used

with good effect to bank the entrance to the studio and serves to
enhance the charming statues done by Mrs. Duryea. This green effect
survives the smoke, dirt and scant sunlight of a New York backyard

PLANTS FOR A GREEN CITY GARDEN

Altnough Sunlight Is Restricted Quite An Interesting
List Can be Maintained Throughout the Year

NOTHING is more delightful on a
bleak winter's day than to look out
into a charming green garden where
once gleamed a white backyard fence with
a few drear leaves and twigs about. This
pleasurable sensation can only be enjoyed
by choosing plants that remain green.

In the spring my city garden is a thing
of delight. Against the deep green of
rhododendron leaves and dwarf holly gleam
the crocuses and daffodils. Then come nar-
cissus and tulips, followed by the iris; then
the rhododendron blossoms. All the lily
bulbs seem to grow without trouble, particu-
larly lilium speciosum, which blossoms the
latter part of August and September.

In the summer I border the forward part
of the beds with pink geraniums, which are
repeated in the tubs. Or, after the bulbs
are quite through blooming, I plant pansies,

MINGA POPE DURYEA

for these, with constant picking, will last
through the summer. In the late fall pots
of chrysanthemums are sunk into the
ground along the border and these will
bloom very late.

This does not mean that you cannot grow
all manner of flowering shrubs and peren-
nials in a city garden. Forsythia, lilac and
tulip trees, in fact, almost all the shrubs
that thrive in a country garden if given
proper care will live in the city provided
they are not in the midst of smoke and dirt.
I can especially recommend the Japanese
yew as being the most satisfactory shrub for
a city garden. The rhododendron and
Abies Nordmanniana are lovely in color
and have proven successful. I still main-
tain, however, that the most satisfactory
garden is the green one, as this may be en-
joyed throughout the year.

Uo not forget the vines when you are
planning a city garden. They do very well,
the hardiest and most satisfactory being
wistaria and Virginia creeper. Tree ivy
with its lovely white blossoms in August
and blue berries in the fall is too pictur-
esque to be neglected. I can also recom-
mend the hardy ivy tree.

The best way to make a green city garden
thrive is to add each year some rich soil
mixed with rotted manure.

The shrubs which will keep green all win-
ter and still be beautiful during the summer
are: Japanese yew, rhododendrons, Abies
Nordmanniana, wistaria, Japanese ivy,
dwarf arborvitae, box, holly, Ilex verticillata,
Euonymus radicans, actinidia, dianthus,
German iris, yucca, kalmia, Ilex crenata,
Leucothoe, Scotch pine, retinospora squar-

August , 1922

How effective a small
space can be made is
shown in this view of
.'he terrace of Mrs.
Harry H. Duryea's gar-
den in New York City.
The cool green of
shrubbery, urns with
flowering plants and
picturesque garden
furniture make it an
ideal spot for the
summer months

Corners can be
made spots of
vivid interest
if the shrubbery
is so placed as
to silhouette a
graceful statue

In planning a
city garden
leave enough
space fora brick
or flagstone
walk. Both
are used here

House & Garden

MEALS THAT ARE EASILY EATEN

Knowledge of Foods, Imagination in Serving Them and Proper Kitchen
Equipment Are Three Essentials j or This Achievement

SARAH FIELD SPLINT

THERE is a lovely house in the country to which I am some-
times asked, a cheerful, spacious place with children and a
flower garden and a view of distant blue mountains, all
three of which greet my grateful eyes when I sit down to breakfast
each morning. To me this first meal of the day would be an event
even if the food were commonplace. But it never is. The mistress
of the house is a strategist who not only decides what she wants
her family to eat but cannily sees to it that they eat it.

Perhaps strawberries are our portion some fine June morning.
The luscious red fruit, still proudly wearing their green caps, are
at our places when we come down, heaped on a gray green grape
leaf, beside them a mound of glistening white sugar. Later I
watch the children actually devouring their cereal because a few-
raisins have been cooked with it. And still later I discover that I,
who declare an abhorrence for eggs whenever food is under dis-
cussion— I have eaten two eggs because they came to me scrambled
in an enchanting blue shirred-egg dish, sizzling hot and adorned
with a sprinkling of finely chopped parsley.

Simple as these decoys are, they trap us, children and grown-
ups alike, into eating what is good for us. And, between meals, we
consume sweet wholesome cookies instead of candy because the thin,
crisp hearts and stars, crescents and oblongs, rings and twists tempt
us as no plain round cookie possibly could. I find the aversion
formed in my own childhood for rice and tapioca puddings, cus-
tards and similar you-must-eat-it-because-it's-good-for-you-dishes
gradually disappearing under the beguiling influence of cherry and
nut, meringue, and whipped cream garnishings. As for spinach, I
view its appearance three times in one week with pleased interest,
having followed it from its bed in the orderly vegetable garden,
through the kitchen to its final destiny of timbale, of entree, and of
a delicate creamed vegetable, seasoned to perfection.

A GLANCE into the kitchen of this house gives one an im-
mediate understanding of the success achieved in the dining-
room. It is moderately large with walls of primrose yellow.
The doors, trim and chairs are of delft blue. Sun sifts in through
Dutch curtained windows. A figured blue and yellow linoleum
glistens on the floor. Half a dozen pieces of highly polished cop-
per adorn the walls. Everything is spotless, including the plump
intelligent cook in her white percale frock. And within easy
reach of her capable arm is a shelf of labelled glass jars — raisins,
currants, dried parsley, angelica, nut meats, bread crumbs, candied
fruits, marshmallows, shredded cocoanut, alphal>et vermicelli. In
some cool place I know she has olives, pickles, pimentos, grated
cheese and capers tucked away, and I know, too, she appreciates
the tactful suggestions of her mistress as to how and when to use
them. Her pantry shelves are filled with a variety of molds and
cookie cutters, with casseroles and baking dishes, glass bells,
vegetable scoops and pastry tubes.

It is a kitchen which belongs to the new era in housekeeping and
that it makes an important contribution to the health and achieve-
ment of the family is very evident.

No greater contrast to- this cheerful, convenient kitchen can
be imagined than that of an old-time, brown-stone mansion in New
York. From its gloomy precincts ascends nightly a dinner like
this: oysters, cream of pea soup, roast beef, Yorkshire pudding,
potatoes roasted in the pan, cauliflower with Hollandaise sauce,
hearts of lettuce with Roquefort dressing, steamed fruit pudding
and coffee. The cook, now finishing her thirtieth year of service
with this one family, has planned and executed it. That her em-
ployers have survived a generation of this massive catering is due

to their iron constitutions and their unalterable satisfaction with
the old order. To cover the ugly dark brown of kitchen walls and
woodwork with paint of a lighter hue, to substitute a gayly pat-
terned linoleum for the brown unfigured one, to retire the faithful
old cook to a position of less responsibility and replace her with a
well-trained younger woman would seem to them a trivial and un-
necessary proceeding. They will continue as they began, unimag-
inative, sublimely indifferent to advancing advoirdupois and
inertia.

I WONDER if most of us are not the reflection of our kitchen.
We live by what it is and what proceeds from it. For it to
furnish us with wholesome, nourishing food is not enough. It
must make that food so attractive that we cannot resist it. Most
women to-day personally direct the menu planning in their homes
and their frequent presence in the kitchen is working out with ad-
vantage to the help no less than to the family. For inconvenient
equipment and dismal surroundings must go in the light of modern
housekeeping which recognizes that work cannot be well done unless
the mind of the worker is reasonably contented.

A young bride whom I know says she thinks of her meal plan-
ning as a game in which she wins or loses points. Her object is,
of course, to advance her peerless young husband to the dizziest
heights of success and to reach them he must eat even-thing she
orders for him. He should go far if he carries off his share of the
responsibility as well as his wife does hers, judging by a Sunday
night supper I recently had at their apartment. There were delec-
table looking sweetbread canapes at our places when we sat down,
whose taste proved to be as good as their looks; then came scalloped
oysters piping hot with hot biscuit and a vegetable salad in which
I quite openly counted thirteen ingredients all charmingly arranged
in a big silver salad bowl; the dessert was a mold of Canton gela-
tine cream and with it were served little cakes which the bride had
made herself, icing them in different colors and decorating them
with angelica, almonds and raisins.

Her kitchen, small and compact, held an inspiring view of the
Hudson from a west window. The sash curtains were drawn back
so that she might glance out at the river as she cooked. It was a
blue and white kitchen and on a convenient shelf were the season-
ings and condiments and trimmings that achieve inviting looks and
flavors. Her young husband, full of enthusiasm to conquer the
world, carries the reflection of her kitchen with him into his work.

An old maid's children are always the best brought up, and in
pronouncing my theories about the proper feeding of families I
realize I am at it again. But the editor has asked me for this
article and there is nothing to do but to push intrepidly forward.

Knowledge and imagination are the two first furnishings to be
acquired for the kitchen of to-day — knowledge of the laws of nu-
trition, then imagination to enforce them on one's family without
friction or ostentation. Many books and pamphlets have been
written on these subjects which can be obtained with little trouble.

And then a bright and convenient kitchen is necessary, a cooking
laboratory that, under proper supervision, will yield big dividends
in health, pleasure and success for the family it serves.

As the young bride says, meal planning is a game. You win if
your husband and children yield to your skill by eating what you
place before them. You lose if they ignore it. If they prefer
a meal at home to one anywhere else, if they like active exer-
cise and have clear eyes and skins, if they sleep well and are
not over or under normal weight, then you may class yourself as
a champion and greatly to be envied.

August, 1922

A REMODELED CITY HOUSE

In New York and other cities the old brownstone
front house is experiencing a revival of popularity
because it offers so many and so varied possi-
bilities for remodeling. Usually the high stoop is
removed and- the entrance placed on the ground
floor. Any number of architectural styles seem
suitable for the fac.ade — • Georgian and Italian
adaptations being the most popular. In remodel-

ing the New York City residence of Dr. Harold R.
Mixsett, the Italian style was chosen, with cream
colored stucco quoins of interesting texture and
decorative wrought iron hardware, grills and rail-
ings. The front door is painted turquoise blue
and the hinges black. Circular balconies give the
composition an interesting play of light and shade.
The architect of the house was Frank J. Forster

House & Garden

These five amusing little flower bowls are examples of rare Imari. They have detachable wheels and were originally

used as stands for saki cups. Each is 2J4" high by 5J4" long. They are part of the collection of Harry Maxwell of

Kobe, Japan, from which the other illustrations have been chosen

THE keramic wares of Japan, partic-
ularly Japanese porcelains, have al-
ways exercised their fascination on
collectors in the Occident. This is not sur-
prising, when one takes into account their
unusual decorative features, features which
endear Japanese porcelains to the American
and European art-lover far more, indeed,
than to the Japanese connoisseurs them-
selves, for the Japanese prefer those quieter
and almost undecorated bits of pottery which
enter the ceremony of tea drinking, the chti
no yu, based on the four virtues of urbanity,
purity, courtesy and imperturbability. Up
to a few years ago Japanese collectors paid
no attention to the highly decorated Japanese
porcelains so dear to the hearts of western
collectors, in consequence of which nearly
all the decorated porcelains of the ''Old

THE IMARI WARE
OF JAPAN

Collectable Porcelains of the Hizen
Province

GARDNER TEALL

(Below) Two plates and cov-
ered bowl, examples of th*
highly colored enameled ware
reproduced eighty years ago
from \"th Century export de-
signs

Japan" sort went out to other lands, and
now the Japanese collector must scramble to
find examples in out-of-the-way places in
his own country. Today these old pieces of
decorated porcelains are being eagerly sought
by native collectors who have come to recog-
nize their interest and importance in the his-
tory of Japanese keramics.

Japan's debt to Chinese culture has been
enormous and it is without doubt that her
knowledge of porcelain was derived from
China by way of Korea, if not
from Korea. We can well imag-
ine that such pieces of porcelain
as found their way into Japan
in those early days were treas-
ured and admired, and led the
Japanese to attempt porcelain
manufacture for themselves. The

(Below) These two pieces of Hirado
ware show a p/acque with tower and land-
scape decorations and a deeper placque
with a center landscape surrounded by
decorations in relief

In the circle
above is the
crest of the
Prince of Hizen ;
the other marks
are found on the
finest old Imari
porcelain

(Below) From left to right—sauce pot with land and sea scape, oil

bottle, tea waste bowl of Hirado ware with raised cord, Hirado saki

cup stand with designs in relief and a blue and white sauce pot with

teakwood lid

August , 1 922

Blue and white Imari comes in a diversity oj forms. In this group one finds a medicine or seal box in three sections,

a saki cup stand with pine, bamboo and plum design in the pierced work, a square saki cup stand and a number oj

other pieces. These belong to the group known as Nabeshima ware

Japanese potter, Toshiro of Seto had, about
the year 1230, succeeded in producing a
good glazed pottery after his trip to China,
where he learned the secrets of the Chinese
faience, but it was not until after the year
1513 that Gorodayu Shonsui succeeded in
making a passable porcelain imitation of the
Chinese ware of the Ming period. However,
porcelain-making in Japan lagged deplor-
ably until after the Japanese invasion of
Korea at the end of the 15th Century. Then
the returning victors brought
with them into Japan numerous
Korean artists and craftsmen,
many master- potters among
these. Strangely enough, al-
though earths suitable to porce-
lain manufacture abounded in
the vicinity of the very place

where Shonsui had settled down, this Jap-
anese investigator did not succeed in discov-
ering materials suitable for his wares, and
probably such as he produced were made of
earths imported for the purpose from China.
It appears to have remained for one of the
Koreans, Risampi, to discover in the de-
composed trachytic rocks abounding in Kiu-
siu an earth which seemed to lie equal to
the Chinese kaolin used in porcelain manu-
facture. There in the Province of Hizen, in

(Below) Placque with land
and sea scape, deep bowl with
phoenix, pomegranate and tor-
toise decorations and a placque
with pine decorations are in
this group

this most westerly island of the main group
proper, earths were found in abundance,
particularly at Idzumiyama, and there pot-
tery and porcelain kilns sprang up shortly,
Two natives of Imari, the potters Tokuzaye-
mon and Kakiyemon, share honors for the
discoveries made which led to the glazes of
these first Hizen porcelains. Their wares
followed the Ming style in decoration.

In this connection it is important to bear
in mind that the development of porcelain-
making in the Japanese Province of Hizen
witnessed the activities of the Portuguese
and the Dutch commercial relations with
Japan. Three Portuguese voyaging by junk
from Spain to Macao were driven out of
their course by adverse winds and landed on
the coast of the ''hitherto unknown land" of
(Continued on page 82)

(Below) Conventionalized
pine, bamboo, plum and peony
are found in one of the
placques. The other depicts a
carp ascending a waterfall

The sixteen-
petal Kiku
crest of the
Japanese Em-
peror, forbid-
den to imitate
on early Imari
for export; be-
low it are other
Imari porcelain
marks

The pierced blue and white Imari composes a distinct group. In the

examples below are found — reading from left to right— a saki cup

stand, bowl, covered sweet-meat box with tortoise knob and two other

stands lor saki cups

House &• Garden

FLOWERS OF THE RAINBOW

A Survey of the Iris Available for American Gardens Discloses a Fast and
Varied List That Gives a Long Season of Bloom and Color

H. H. SCUDDER

THE iris is very beau-
tiful. Even Joseph
Pitton de Tournefort,
who, more than 2SO years
ago, gave it its name, grew
ecstatic when he came to
consider it, and called it the
flower of the rainbow. And
M. de Tournefort was no
novice to be swept off his
feet by the first pretty blos-
som he encountered, for he
was the official collector of
plants to his most Christian
majesty, King Louis XIV.
and named and described in
his day, quite unemotional-
ly, 8000 species.

And yet it is not its beau-
ty alone which commends
the iris. There is beyond
this, something more; some-
thing exotic, something sug-
gesting other lands and
other times, including more
than a hint of round tow-
ered castles perched on
rocky heights, of mounted
knights and streaming ori-
flamme. It is by no mere
chance, I am sure, that Mr.
Bliss, the great English
grower, has called one of
his latest seedlings dn
Guesdin.

Yes, there is more than
mere rainbow beauty in the
iris, there is romance, and
it has worked its spell upon
mankind for centuries. In
his notes on the history of
the plant, John C. Wister
says that the Moslem in-
vaders carried the iris all
over southern Europe,
planting it upon the graves
of their soldiers. Who else
became interested in its cul-
tivation is not known, but it
was evidently taken into
English gardens early, for
Chaucer speaks of it, and
Francis Bacon lists both the
tall and dwarf bearded
irises among the desirable
cultivated plants. Since
Elizabeth's day many varie-
ties have been both discov-
ered and produced, until at
present the genus is divided
into ten sub-genera, while
the species and garden va-
rieties are innumerable.

Windham, one of the new tall bearded iris hybrids, has standards oj
soft lavender pink and jails heavily veined -with darker shades

The ideal way to select iris is to see plants blooming at a nursery. On
the right is a nursery block of Mithras, and to the left, Rhein Nixe

The classification of the
iris is based primarily on
the character of the root,
and the first seven sub-
genera are distinguished by
thick, fleshy, creeping root-
stocks, known botanically
as rhizomes. They are
named, Apogon, Pardan-
thopsis, Evansia, Psudevan-
sia, Oncocyclus, Regelia,
and Pogoniris. The re-
maining three, Xiphion,
J u n o and Gynandriris,
grow, not from rootstocks,
but from bulbs.

The irises of our gardens
are by no means evenly dis-
tributed among these ten
sub-genera, but are confined
largely to three of them,
and almost exclusively to
two of them. First in im-
portance are the Pogoniris,
the bearded irises, formerly
and still to some extent list-
ed in the catalogues as
''German" irises. These
irises all have a heavy line
of "beard" down the center
of each of the lower petals,
or falls. Of these bearded
irises there are dwarf kinds
a few inches in height,
known as Pumilla irises;
intermediates, a foot in
height; and the tall varie-
ties which attain to 4' or
even more. The dwarf
irises are the earliest to blos-
som, appearing in April or
early May, the intermedi-
ates follow, and the tall
come last. The great pop-
ularity of this group is
illustrated at every iris-
show. That of the Amer-
ican Iris Society at the New
York Botanical Garden this
spring devoted 21 of the 2\
classes to Pogoniris.

Next in popularity are
the beardless irises, or mem-
bers of the Apogon sub-
genus. They are found in
American gardens in two
groups, one the sibirica
irises in blue and in white,
and the other the Japanese
irises. The sibiricas grow
in clumps with narrow
foliage and masses of me-

(Continued on page 88)

August , 1922

DECORATED

ENTRANCE

HALL

In the New York
Home of Mrs. W.
K. I'anderbilt

Clarl

In the home of Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Sutton Place, New
York City, the entrance hall has been decorated in the
"Chinese taste", characteristic of the late Georgian era. At
the top and bottom of the curved stairs niches are painted,
with large figures to simulate porcelain. The background
of the niches and the fish-scale pilasters are dull yellow.
Flowers, birds and bamboo are in natural colors on an ivory
ground. A black marbleized base keys up these colors

-.,

The foundation of the flat walls is wood paneling on which
the decorations are painted. The stiles are pale rose and
the background and principal moldings ivory, the moldings
being picked out with vermilion, blue and green. A door at
the farther end is enriched with Chinese figures and symbolic
flowers painted into the panels. A porcelain pagoda assists
in creating the Chinese atmosphere. The floor is of hexag-
onal tiles. Allyn Cox, artist; Molt B. Schmidt, architect

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While an English atmosphere has been incor footed in the design, the house has typical
American windows, which are decorative and make for coolness. It is built of terra cotta
blocks stuccoed and has a cream and purple variegated slate roof of interesting lines.
Connected to it by a drying yard is the garage with a picturesque outside stairway leading
to the owner's workshop above

The unusual shape of the plan was dictated by the unusual shape of
the property and also in order that the living room and owner's
bedroom might obtain the benefit of the prevailing southwest
breezes. The main entrance is from the terrace, which connects
with the sun parlor

Off the owner's bedroom is a sleeping porch, with canvas sides
lashed on in stormy weather as on a ship's deck. Both upstairs and
down there is excellent cross ventilation. On this second floor, in
addition to the owner's rooms, are two guest chambers, bath and
servants' rooms

August, 1922

A terrace connects the sun parlor with the main entrance of the house, which is through a vestibule projecting out from the

house, with a roof, picturesquely laid with slate that also extends across a bay window in the living room. On the other

side a little conservatory of regular greenhouse construction is attached to the dining room, forming a sort of glorified bay

window. These buildings, which are seen from all sides, show no unattractive rear

The

HOME OF
HENRY SAMPSON

DOUGLAS
MANOR, L. I.

WILLIAM F. DOMINICK

Architect

A decorative balustrade on
the terrace and sleeping
porch form the only ob-
vious ornament, the interest
of the house lying mainly
in its unusual shape and
pleasant treatment of gently
sloping roof and wide eaves

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In a country bedroom the curtains
may be of blue chambray edged with
perforated yellow oilcloth, the val-
ance, of course, having a wider edge
than the curtains. The slipper cab-
inet is painted blue with an oilcloth
inserted panel. The slipper stool is
covered with blue chambray and
bands of the yellow oilcloth

USING

COLORED

OILCLOTH

Having Passed Through The Chintz and Satin Era, We Now Elevate This Humble Fabric
To An Honored and Useful Place In Decoration

OILCLOTH? Why not? We have
used satins, taffetas, nets, brocades,
laces, rep; we have advanced from
plain chintz to glazed chintz. It is only
natural that the next step be oilcloth. Its
use is new, its colors diverting and it can
serve innumerable decorative purposes.

For example, the pillows clustered about
the red and black folding porch chair on the
opposite page — one has per-
forated points stitched back
onto a darker background,
another is black with per-
forations showing red; the
triangle design for ham-
mock corners is red, black
and white with black and
white tassels ; the round pil-
low has laced sides of green
and yellow with a tiny yel-
low fringe, the next is an
automobile cushion with
side pockets to hold veils
and gloves, or the hexag-
onal car pillow and finally
the laced design in white
and cool yellow. The avail-
able color combinations are
amazing. These designs
hold their shape well; they
can be easily cleansed and

AGNES FOSTER WRIGHT

the colors are permanent even in sunlight.
Using oilcloth in a country house bed-
room affords several diverting schemes. In
one I am suggesting curtains of blue cham-
bray with an edging and valance of yellow
oilcloth. The slipper cabinet, which is
painted blue, has oilcloth inserted in the
door. Inside the slippers are hung on rods;
the drawers are for stockings. Below is a

little slipper stool in the blue chambray and
yellow bands.

A smart little breakfast room could be
furnished with curtains of gray glazed
chintz having a brilliant cherry colored de-
sign and edged with narrow bindings of
red oilcloth. For the valance use a straight
piece of red oilcloth with a looped fringe.
The undercurtains will be sheer red net.
A finishing touch will be
given by red cord pulls with
wooden tassels painted
black. A table with a red

D oilcloth top has gray legs

with red decorations. The
simple ladder-back chairs
— II — are painted gray and have

tight slip seats of the red
oilcloth. To complete the
color scheme, even the
porcelain cock contributes
the scarlet of his comb, the
gray of his feathers.

For a child's room one
might use a bed painted
green with blue oilcloth
inserts in head and foot
boards. This can be
washed. Spread, stool
and curtains are green
gingham with a narrow
band of blue oilcloth

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In a breakfast room the curtains may
be gray glazed chintz of a brilliant
cherry design edged with narrow
bindings of red oilcloth, and for pulls,
red cords and. wood tassels painted
black. The valance will be of red
oilcloth. For undercurtains one might
select sheer red net. The card table
is covered with the same red oilcloth

A terrace set consists of a
table with wrought iron
base and tin top over
which fits tightly a red oil-
cloth cover held in place
by heavy acorn tassels of
red and black oilcloth. The
chair has the same colored
slip cover

Oilcloth lends itself to innumerable
decorative purposes both inside and
out of the country house. This fold-
ing chair, for example, is painted
brilliant red with a seat and back of
black oilcloth decorated with an oil-
cloth fringe. The cushions scattered
about are in various combinations of
brilliant colors. Designed by Agnes
Foster Wright

THE

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USES AND BEAUTIES OF BROWN

Suggestions for Turning the Usefulness of Brown
to Decorative Ends

A BROWN color scheme is not often
deliberately chosen, which is a pity,
though quite often it happens that
brown predominates in a room. This, too,
is rather a pity, but hardly to be wondered
at. In the first place the browns are always
with us, all over the house. With floors,
tables, chests, shelves, paneling in tones of
oak, walnut, mahogany, and pine, it is not
surprising that another color is chosen in-
stinctively when it comes to decoration. To
this unconscious avoidance of monotony is
added a lively enough dread of dinginess,
for unquestionably brown used without dis-
crimination does tend that way.

Apart from these considerations, brown is
the most adaptable of colors; the least skill-
ful decorator using brown as leitmotiv could
hardly produce a discord, though he might
fail to create the perfect symphony.

Brown is unobtrusive, eminently adapt-
able, and it blends with all colors; this is
partly the reason why it is chosen with
such tiresome frequency for all-over-the-
house painted woodwork. Also the brown
pigments for paint are cheap and exceed-
ingly durable. These useful qualities are
so well known and so highly rated that the
decorative side of brown is apt to l>e passed
over.

IN order to draw out the latent charm
and beauty of brown and to avoid
its dullness and monotony, great care
must be exercised with regard to its var-
ious shades and tones. A cool brown lean-
ing towards grey or green is better in nine
cases out of ten than the hot heavy shades
that are so commonly used. This can
be proved by comparing the soft neutral
tints of old oak that only time has dealt
with, and the slick opacity of modern oak
which has been treated with what is called
"antique finish," or again, by contrasting
the cool transparency of raw umber with
"chocolate." The shade which is known
as tete de negre has more variety and in-
terest; the "wallflower," among the dark
browns, has distinction. On the whole,
however, the lighter tints give better results
for paint woodwork. Light and dark stone
color, tan shades, teak, cinnamon, and snuff
color — all these are excellent in the right
place.

Sometimes it happens that in old houses
the fine and difficult graining of an earlier
age is found intact on doors and woodwork,
mellowed and toned by years to a charm-
ing consistency. This a wise decorator will
not demolish; he will note its value in the
decorative scheme and use it accordingly.
Ordinary brown paint work may be fresh-
ened or altered by brush-graining, which is
a less exacting and costly process than a
new coat of paint. For this eggshell var-

nish paint of a different shade to the under-
lying coat is lightly brushed on, using a
coarse brush and keeping it very dry.

Insensibly brown slides into the yellows,
and if harmony rather than a contrast is
the aim, these two used together are per-
fect. A touch of orange will give point to
the scheme, and a note of gold will raise it.
Any color can be led by subtle gradations
into brown, so when a vivid arrangement is
wanted the tones must be distinct. A yel-
lowish brown with a cold blue makes one
of the most charming schemes imaginable;
it is familiar enough in Chinese work, and
a piece of Oriental embroidery is a valu-
able guide for such a room. When Chinese
embroidery or Japanese color prints are to
be hung on the walls there is no better
background than the old-fashioned brown
paper. It is always admirable as a back-
ground; unobtrusive, and yet pleasing in
itself, it shows up blue china to perfection.
Brown paper is made in a considerable
range of tone, shade, and texture; it should
always be chosen in situ, as these neutral
tints are subtle things and cannot be judged
apart from their ultimate surroundings. An
arrangement of cinnamon and rose red
strikes a higher note; here the pale brown
should predominate, and the deeper tones of
rose red be used almost sparingly. A good
and unusual decoration can be evolved by
using a light brown something like "natural
camel's hair" or cafe-au-creme in connec-
tion with cream colored hangings and black
enameled woodwork — brilliant as patent
leather. Walls and ceilings might be hung
with a plain velvety paper of the camel's
hair brown, with curtains of beech brown
velours and blinds of cream silk. In such
a room a few pieces of ebonized furniture
would tell admirably, with touches of can-
ary yellow and turquoise blue introduced
on cushions.

MORE than any color the quality of
brown is affected by the materials
used. Silk, chenille, velvet, velours,
and so on, in shades of tawny and golden
browns, Vandyke, bronze, and chestnut, are
sure to be beautiful; but the same shades for
reps, serges, and suchlike cotton and woolen
stuffs are apt to be questionable. Brown
needs play of light and variety of surface,
and turns dull and dingy when these are lack-
ing, and looks poor. Leather has a quality
of its own that is both delicate and rich;
applied in the form of panels for a wall
treatment brown leather is admirable, or it
may be used as portieres over a door. A
piece of leather ornamented with gold
can be fitted to the chimney breast and
framed narrowly with a gilt border to form
a library overmantel. There it will be ap-
propriately complimentary to the gilt and

tooled calf of the bookbindings, always a
decoration.

Quite often rooms stop short of success
on account of a badly treated floor. Where
rugs are used over bare boards, or where
they show beyond the carpet, it is most es-
sential to get them right in color and sur-
face. Usually a stain of some kind is
applied — -"light oak" or "dark oak", and
there the matter ends till a fresh applica-
tion is needed. This plan is rarely satisfac-
tory; the brown that results is dull and
heavy, and finally opaque, with no value in
the scheme. The color of the floor is hardly
less important than the color of the carpet.
A little oil, warmed and rubbed evenly into
new wood, will deepen it to a mellow tone
and emphasize the grain; while beeswax
and turpentine will keep it beautiful. It
may mean a little trouble, but the anomaly
of Persian rugs on a dull stained floor
should not be suffered for a moment, and no
fine carpet should be mocked at by a dingy
''surround". The cork carpet looks best in
a natural brown shade, and this, too, should
be kept brightly polished.

THE deep rich tones of old mahog-
any are due to the wood and are high-
ly desirable if you can avoid the crude
reddish color found in much modern mahog-
any work. This is largely due to French
polishing; and the unpleasant yellow tinge
of Victorian oak is owing to the same
method. Walnut wood is always of the soft
"nut" brown shades, and is never tinged
with the ugly red and yellow. New oak is
now sometimes left in its natural color,
neither treated nor polished in any way,
and, as the certain rawness that is inevitable
wears off with time, the tone imperceptibly
deepens. These slow processes can 'be
hastened; parquet blocks, for example, can
be darkened by oiling first and then polish-
ing, or the oil may be omitted and the wood
rubbed with ammonia ; this gives the grayish
tinge, and corrects the newness.

When brown paint is used for a wall
treatment the risk of a dull and monotonous
effect must be faced and eluded. An un-
compromising flat brown, say, for paneled
walls, is a doubtful experiment, and should
be modified by scumbling, glazing, and
stippling, and so on. A charming rosy
brown is evolved by first painting the walls
a lightish green and, when dry, stippling
with light red. This may be elaborated by
a silver line on the moldings in connection
with an apricot colored ceiling.

Rooms painted in the manner of tortoise-
shell are interesting and distinctive, and
the color scheme is a beautiful range of
browns. The painting must be done with
vigor and "go" if it is to look well, and
follow the tortoiseshell pattern closely.

August , 1922

A LITTLE PORTFOLIO OF GOOD INTERIORS

The part that architecture plays in the creation of
a room may be considered from the point of the
details, beautiful in themselves, or as a background
which establishes the use, period, or character of a
room, the composition being completed by the
furniture. In the Little Portfolio this month these
two aspects are presented. The illustrations show

work by H. T. Lindeberg, architect. This break-
fast room, for example, finds its architectural
character in its shape, which is oval. Th° walls
are painted warm gray. A black and gold marble
mantel, gilt fixtures, black terrazo floor and black
and green furniture are some of its features. It
is in the home of Clyde Carr, Lake Forest, 111.

House & Garden

The dining room in the
Clvde Carr residence al
Lake Forest, 111., is Tudor
in character, this feeling
being given by the oak
paneling, which forms the
background of the room,
the hand-finished plaster
ceiling in a traditional
molded design, the crewel
work hangings which are
of the period, and the
larger pieces of Tudor fur-
niture. Such a room is
commendable for Us pro-
portions and for the
restraint with which the
decorations are handled

It is often possible for the
architectural beauty of a
room to culminate in one
detail. Thus, in the break-
fast room of the home of
Horace Havemeyer, at
Islip, L. I., the walls of
rough molded plaster are
kept as a subdued back-
ground for the fireplace
mantel. This mantel is
made of black slate. Its
decorative panel is carved
with Chinese figures in low
relief. A simple fluted de-
sign has been used for the
fireback

August, 1922

The hallway in the home of Clyde Carr is of ample propor-
tions that afford space for broad stairs of pleasantly sweep-
ing lines. The balustrade is of slim wrought iron surmounted
by a wooden rail. The paneled wainscot and other wood-
work are painted a sojt green, harmonizing with the light
green tones of the mural decorations by William Mackay.
The table to the right is of black lacquer; behind it stands
a black Chinese screen

Quite a different hallway is found in the home of
Paul Moore, at Convent, N. J. By building a
circular vestibule, entrance is effected to two cloak
rooms on the right and left. Thence one goes on
into the main hall. The stairs are on one side.
This vestibule provides the floor for a wide land-
ing which affords the desirable setting for the large
window above

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The tennis court on the country place oj

R. A. Rowland at Rye, N. Y., is enclosed

with decorative lattice set in panels and

painted white and green

AN ENCLOSED
TENNIS COURT

An evergreen planting faces down the
exterior oj the court. The long wall is
pleasantly broken by the recessed pavil-
ion with a pagoda roof

DWIGHT JAMES 15AUM
Architect

August, 1922

HOW TO ALTER THE COLOR OF FLOORS

It is Possible to Transform the Appearance of a Room Merely by Giving
Proper Attention to its Floor Space

ATTENTION to the floors, in a dec-
orative sense, usually stops short with
the rugs and carpets. While these
are the subject of profoundest thought, the
boards and parquet are often accepted just
as they are, as a matter of course. The
stained floor gets a fresh coat of stain,
though we deprecate the process; the pol-
ished boards are kept polished whether
they accord in tone and color and style with
the rest of the room or not. Yet the floor
can be altered with less trouble and cost
than, say, the painted woodwork, and the
difference to the room is no less refreshing.
The commonest and almost the worst of
floors are those which have received coat
after coat of varnish stain and lost in the
process that transparency which is the es-
sential quality and beauty of a stain. A
floor of this description spoils any room
and should not be endured.

Of the various ways in which old stain
can be removed there is none better than a
strong solution of soda in boiling water.
This may be brushed on, left a few mo-
ments, and wiped off as the old stain rises
and dissolves. Plenty of rags are needed
and a bowl into which the old stain may be
squeezed, for it must not be allowed to dry
back into the boards. The edge next the
skirting needs especial care, because there
the stain is hardest and thickest. If one
treatment with the hot soda water is not
sufficient, it must be continued until the
grain of the wood shows clear, and the
boards are of an even brownish tone. On
no account should this \x stained brown
again; when it is perfectly dry it must be
waxed and the color can be mellowed or
deepened to the soft look of old oak by mix-
ing a little raw umber with the wax and
scrubbing it well into the wood. This first
polishing, after the old varnish stain has
been removed, takes time and energy, but
the resultant floor is well worth the trouble ;
it is permanent and only needs the usual
polishing to keep it in nice condition. If
something entirely different from the "nat-
ural" brown is wanted, the floor may be
ebonized or it may be colored a dark green,
after the old stain has been cleared off in
the manner described.

SOME of the receipts for ebonizing
are too elaborate for a floor treatment,
but it can be done quite satisfactorily
by means of an aniline black dye, or ivory
black in powder form, mixed with size and
water and applied to the floor in repeated
coats till the proper depth of black is
achieved, and then polished in the usual
way. As for the green, it will be of an olive
or some soft neutral shade, no matter what
dye is used on this floor, deeply ingrained
with brown as it- is. Aniline green, which

is, one of the strongest of staining colors,
will give merely an approximate to that soft
shade which is described as fumed oak.

If a clear stained floor or surround is to
replace one that has been painted in a solid
color — chocolate or some dull heavy shade
— the process is more troublesome and less
sure of success. A paint remover is neces-
sary, or a solution of oxalic acid in water,
and these are unpleasant to handle and
liable to burn or bleach the wood unless
washed off and treated with vinegar to
neutralize the acid. Planing is more satis-
factory in the end, but as all floors cannot
be safely planed, and as the process is a
troublesome one in any case, a better plan
is to have the floor re-painted. This really
is the best way to alter the color of our old
floors.

There is no need to remove the old paint
before re-painting, but it is necessary to
scrub the floor very drastically with hot
strong soda water in order to remove every
trace of wax and of dirt. It should then be
rubbed down with pumice stone (though
this may be omitted), but a final wiping
with warm clean water is essential to get
rid of any remaining hint of the soda, be-
fore re-painting is begun.

All painted floors need three coats at least,
with ample time for drying between each.
The time cannot be specified; it depends on
the weather and the paint; some paints dry
quicker than others. A hint of stickiness is
a sign that the floor is not sufficiently hard
for a fresh coat of the paint.

The final coat of varnish should be given
on a bright day, and dust excluded, as far
as possible, during the whole process. Car-
ried out on these lines, the painted floor has
remarkable durability, and it can safely be
used without a carpet at all. In this case a
border, varying in width according to the
proportions of the room, can be added in a
contrasting color. For example the floor
might be painted smoke grey and a border
done in ivory white, to match the skirting
and the rest of the woodwork. This would
make a nice change in a bedroom, where
an old carpet has been discarded, with here
and there a few white washable rugs. Or
let us suppose that the room is to have a
new carpet of soft blues and yellows and
creams, and that the existing surround is of
thick and dingy brown paint. Here the
re-painting done in pale yellow or old gold
would just make all the difference in the
room, and serve to emphasize the tone and
beauty of the new carpet.

A floor that has been painted black looks
quite unlike the floor that has been ebonized
or stained black, as has already been de-
scribed. There is a depth in paint, a
greater intensity of black than is compatible
with the transparent stain. Both are charm-

ing, each in its own way. Whether the
black is used as an all-over foundation for
rugs, or merely as a surrounding for carpet
or felt, the black floor is, in nine cases out
of a dozen, a good and safe choice.

There is no point in the usual choice of
brown or neutral shades for floor painting;
once a floor has been painted, its resem-
blance to wood is at an end, and, ethically
speaking, vermilion or blue are as "natural"
on the ground as they are on the panels.
There is more show of reason in the matter
of a bright colored stain; the idea of the
natural grain and figure of wood in cerise
or violet is, perhaps, a little startling to
conventional views. That light color stains
are not much used is probably due partly
to this idea, and to the dread of an odd or
freakish effect. An unnecessary dread, for
the natural color of the wood prevents a
stain from ever looking as vivid as paint,
and as a matter of fact, charming and deli-
cately fine effects can be obtained in this
way. The real difficulty lies in the fact
that we rarely get a new floor to work on,
and new — that is to say untreated — boards
are here a sine qua -non. In the nursery or
playroom carpets are unusual, and we will
suppose that an old oilcloth has been taken
up and a good floor with nice even boards
is revealed. Here a bright golden yellow
stain would look well and give a sunny ap-
pearance.

A WATER stain is the easiest to apply,
and the yellows that are soluble in
water, and therefore suitable, are
gamboge and yellow lake. The colors are
bought in powder form, and size is added
to the water in the proportion of about one
pound of size to half a gallon of water —
but exact quantities do not matter so long
as the color is fixed and does not come off
when the stain is dry. Boiling water is
used for mixing, and the stain, still quite
hot, should be laid on in flowing coats with
a big soft brush, and sometimes before it is
dry the work is wiped over with soft cloths
to give a smooth even quality and to prevent
hard edges. It dries quickly, and it is bet-
ter to deepen or strengthen the color by
successive washes rather than to attempt the
full color in one application. To some ex-
tent the color of these new stained floors
can be altered; yellow, for instance, makes
a splendid foundation for a dark blue
stain, and a thin wash of aniline green gives
a brilliant effect. Rose color or violet,
however, would never come true over yel-
low, since the stains are quite permanent.
Most aniline dyes are suitable for the pur-
pose; they can be had in bright colors for
water or oil staining. In some, green es-
pecially, a very few grains have enormous
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House & Garden

(Left) A maple treated A tree wrongly braced Fine healing over filling
late in 1920 started heal- with iron was injured promises new life to this
ing growth immediately and broke its girdle tree

An old tree, carelessly patched,

gradually began to lose its cement

filling and to decay

The aid patch removed, the cavity was

cleansed, sterilized and braced ready to

receive the new filling

The filling in place. This is in sec-
tions, allowing the tree to sway with-
out breaking the cement

A frost crack such as

this can never heal

without help

Fungous growth start-
ed in a sterilized but
unfilled cavity

Rounded top cavities

rarely heal without

rapid growth

A ugust , 1 922

The story of this elm is characteristic of many large old trees. The inroads of wind, rain

and ice, followed by insects and fungous diseases, threatened its life. To save it the decav

was removed, the trunk braced and the cavity filled to prevent a recurrence of its weakness.

Illustrations by courtesy of the Davey Tree Expert Co.

O P E R

A T I N G ON T

The Ills' and Injuries Made by Pests, the Elements and Man
Often Require Drastic Surgery

JOHN DAVEY

R E E S

ONE of the principal, but not neces-
sarily the most important, operations
in the care of trees is the treatment of
cavities in their roots, stems and branches
in a manner much like that which a dentist
employs in taking care of a cavity in a
tooth. It is possibly this phase of the treat-
ment that gets the most abuse, and about
which the tree owners desire and need the
most information.

Cavities develop indirectly, because of
wounds in the protective bark-covering of
the tree. The insect pests and fungous dis-
eases find these wounds and immediately
start destruction. It may be six months or
even a period of a year or more before the
cavity is well started, but it always comes.
And, because of the nature of a tree's
growth, a cavity once started cannot be
healed without the assistance of skilled hu-
man hands. It may become covered over
on the outside but it never heals, and most
of us know what happens to ourselves when
the skin heals over a wound before the in-
fection has been removed from beneath

The causes of wounds on trees are almost
infinite, so numerous in fact that only a

few of the more important ones can be men-
tioned in this brief article. One of the most
serious is the many storms which sweep over
the country. Those of last November in
New England, of March in Wisconsin and
Michigan and of June in New York are so
well remembered that little more need be
said. Branches are torn from the trunks,
and sometimes the roots even are torn
asunder and the giants are hurled to the
ground. Lightning, too, does its damage in
many ways.

Many of the insects which cause so much
havoc after the wounds are made have also
the facilities for making their own wounds.
These cannot be better illustrated than by
the various borers, especially those which
are killing our hickories and white birches
throughout the county.

Last, but far from least, is man's own
carelessness and ignorance. Lawn mowers,
automobiles, wagons and many other man-
controlled machines -take their yearly toll
of trees because of the wounds which they
have made in years gone by. But all of
these together do not take any greater toll
than does pruning which is done improperly.

Almost fifty per cent of the cavities in trees
result from improper pruning. Branches
are cut off too far from the parent stem,
leaving a stub which absolutely cannot
heal; or they may be cut too close, leaving
a larger wound than necessary, which will
certainly decay before it can possibly be
covered by the new growth.

Still other trees are structurally weak and
split almost from their own weight. These
are known as crotched trees; and with them
we are becoming more familiar every day.
Water freezing in the crotch during the win-
ter exerts a tremendous pressure which rup-
tures some of the fibers. A yearly repeti-
tion of this soon produces a cavity that,
without skilled treatment, means destruc-
tion.

Several times skilled treatment has been
mentioned and now let us consider what
constitutes skilled treatment. Probably all
of my readers have had dental work done,
and it may be just possible that some of
them have had cavities filled when a small
bit of decay had escaped the dentist's eye.
What followed was a sad experience. In a
(Continued on page 86)

Inside the door leading out to the garden one may come
across a niche, jilted with books above and drawers below.
Here can be kept the kinds of books one reads out-oj-doors
— novels, and short stories and perhaps a gardening book or
two. Sweaters jor cool nights can be kept in the drawers

House & Garden

COMING on BOOKS
UN EXPECT ED LY

MONTROSE J. MOSES

THE five foot book-shelf has set me
thinking. Strange how the mind
can play fantastically with a sug-
gestion; and from it there slowly evolves
some new avenue of truth that beguiles
you, and at the same time is useful. If
it is possible for one to think of suitable
poetry for porches, books for bedtime,
wicked literature for wicker chairs and
tables, tales for the tub, and so on, why
do not books in general influence archi-
tecture more than they do?

An architect will spend hours studying
the proper relation of a bay window to
a group of trees nearby, but a window in
relation to a special binding of Keats
does not disturb him. A decorator will
haunt the shops until certain upholstery
pleases the senses, as a meerschaum color-
ing hits the fancy of a fastidious smoker.
Of course the architect knows that a li-
brary is included in the specifications of
every modern house; vistas of volumes
are part of his decoration.

But books have a will of their own.
They are like the mighty waters of a
river that overflows into rivulets, estu-
aries, ponds, and so on. An architect
never counts on the overflow of books.
And there is where he is mistaken. The
test of any good library is not alone that
it is well stacked with stately editions
and rich bindings of colored cloth and
gold: it lies in the suitable, get-at-able,
unexpected places — by window seats, at
the top or bend of the stairs, even with-
in reach of the telephone, where central's
"Wait a minute, please" might be
(Continued on page 74)

Yon can tell the sort of people who live in a house by the
kinds of books they read, and the odd nooks and corners
where you find them. In a cultured household you don't
have to reach very far for a book. Convenient shelves can
be built each side of a bay window seat

A ugust , 1922

On each side of the
Dutch door of this
cottage living room-
are shelves set into
the wall. If one
wanted to make
their discovery un-
expected the shelves
could be concealed
with plain doors

"ITU

The stairs offer sev-
eral happy nooks
for books. They can
be placed on the
side of the treads as
here, or the treads
may be extended in
the rear, affording
space for small vol-
umes of uniform size

House & Garden

An old patio door of wooden
spindles is painted soft verde
green touched with gold. By-
zanline columns and a wide
ovahang frame the composi-
tion picturesquely

Burled redwood planks, heavy
Moorish nailheads and Span-
ish hinges, a massive lock and
a wrought iron grill are all
combined in this modern Cali-
fornia doorway

Into this door of oak planks
has been introduced an old
Spanish circular observation
wicket, with a huge knocker
below. The gate comes from
Cordova

DOORS OF OLD SPAIN
IN MODERN CALIFORNIA

This old door, carved by
Spanish craftsmen, is suit-
ably fitted with old silver
hardware and given a
mod-ern setting

From a door in the San
Diego Mission wzs lake-i
this pattern of flowing
lines known as "The River
of Life"

As this door was brought
practically complete from
Spain, it required merely
to be restored and set in
place

An old grill, antique na;l-
heads and a pull in the
form of a lady's hand are
used in the creation of this
door

August , 1922

This month the Group oj Houses is composed oj four selections from the Country Club
District of Kansas City. The variation in both architecture and size is representative of
that remarkable suburban development. One of the attractive houses possessed of distinc-
tive aichilecture is the residence of William R. Jacques. It is of English cottage design,
executed in rich cream stucco, dark brown trim and a shingle roof laid with rounded
corners to simulate thatch. The planting oj hollyhocks along the front terrace is particu-
larly effective. Root & Siemens, architects

An irregular arrangement of the rooms on the
first floor provides for a narrow entrance hall
with a large living room behind, and the dining
room, breakfast room and kitchen in a unit.
The stairs are not featured. A house-depth
porch adds to the size of the living room

A GROUP OF

FOUR HOUSES

The chambers are arranged around a central
hall. In the rear is a bath and in front a dress-
ing room. Two of the bedrooms open on a
sleeping porch. Space under the eaves is util-
ized for closets. Casement windows in each
room afford plenty of light and ventilation

House, fr Garden

The problem of adapting a simple
and economical plan to a sloping
site is solved in the home of Harry
A. Burke. The house is execut-
ed in shingles with white trim.
Courtlandt Van Brunt, architect.

(Below) The architect has saved
floor space in the central hall by
enclosing the main stairs, a lower
landing providing access to the
kitchen, thus dispensing with a
separate service stairway

A two-car garage is located under the
north service wing, the garage doors
being attractively screened by shrubbery

The space gained by eliminating the ser-
vice stairs makes possible three large
bedrooms on the second floor

A ugust , 1 922

The openness of the first floor
plan is a feature, the stairs be-
ing placed out of the way on
one side. Kitchen, breakfast
and dining rooms are con-
veniently located

By holding the hall down to
a minimum the architect has
been able to find three bed-
rooms, a bath and two sleep-
ing porches, with plenty of
closet room besides

Italian details have been pleasantly adapted to this small

house design. It is built of white stucco, with cream trim,

vivid green shutters and a soft green shingle roof. Edward

W. Tanner, architect

A single drive-
way affords en-
trance to both
houses. Each has
i n addition its
footpath. The
first floor is com-
pactly arranged
with the space
necessary for a
small family

An effective
method of treat-
ing the end of a
block is to con-
nect houses of
like architectural
style with an
arched wall or
trellis , thus
screening the
rear of other
houses

Although not
quite twins, these
two houses have
approximately
the same second
floor arrange-
ment, including
the sleeping
porch, apparent-
ly sine qua non
in Kansas City

House &• Garden

A fine study in proportion h this Adiron-
dack cottage, at Paul Smith's, N. Y.,
with its massive stone corner chimney.
W, G. Massarene, architect

Picturesque detail of Tudor chimney
stacks closely related to the sumptuous
modern house, designed by Walker &
Gillette for Thomas Lament, New York

A splendid stone gable, ending in
twin chimneys reveals Sir Ed-win
Lutyen's perfect handling of ma-
terials in this fine example of En-
glish country house architecture

Tall evergreens planted against a white
brick chimney make a distinctive archi-
tectural feature of the home of C. C.
Rumsey, Roslyn, L. I.

(Below) A stone chimney with delicate

Gothic ornament here appears intimately

related to the brick Elizabethan chimney

stack. W. F. Dominick, architect

This white plaster chimney with
its wrought iron staple adds dig-
nity to the simple classic dwelling
designed by C. A. Patterson, and
is located at Larchmont, N. Y.

August , 1922

IF YOU ARE GOING TO BUILD

Look to the Skyline of Your House and the Part the Chimneys
Will Play in Its Picturesque Dignity

YOU may not make your roof into a
flower garden, as Time has done for
some of the lovely old continental
houses; but you can, if you are going to
build, study the details of roof-making so
that from form, line and color all possible
beauty is obtained. There is no greater
mistake in architectural detail than a misfit
chimney and stack, and no greater charm
than, added to graceful roof lines and win-
dow grouping, a chimney
stack and pot in harmony
with the type and period
of your house.

What an entrancing
spectacle is an old house
in Strassbourg with a tall
wide stone chimney stack,
opening at the sides for
the smoke and capped with
stone — and there on the
little chimney roof, resting
season after season, a
beautifully fashioned Al-
satian stork's nest. But
can you imagine that fas-
cinating chimney, weather
worn, roughly outlined, on
a modern neat white Col-
onial house, with its fresh,
red shingle roof ! The Col-
onial house must have, to
realize its own perfection,
the square strong chimney
stack of brick or stone.
And where the side walls
are white, painting the
stack white also is one of
the new-old effective fash-
ions. On the other hand,
the white painted stone
stack would be frightfully
misplaced on a little dark
California bungalow or on
a flat-roofed, dignified
Italian villa.

One cannot picture a
stately Tudor house with
the low battlemented chim-
neys of an old Castilian
palace. The definitely cor-
rect detail for an Eliza-
bethan house is the twisted or decorated
chimney stack, used either singly or in
group. These tall slender brick stacks may
be decorated with fleur de lis patterns, in-
herent in the brick structure, or with a
family coat-of-arms beautifully set in brick.
And the slender stacks, topped by decora-
tive chimney pots, lift the whole structure
with a Gothic upward swing.

Only a shade less ornamental are the old
round stone chimney stacks of Normandy,

MARY F ANTON ROBERTS,

having the quality and style of battlemented
turrets, sometimes climbing high up into
slender pinnacles, like the famous chimneys
at Bayeux. The round chimneys also pre-
vailed centuries back in old Spanish towns,
running like pilasters up the outside wall
and sometimes ending half way to the roof
in quiet bulging pots like the chimneys on
that picturesque group of old buildings
resting on the river bank at Orehuela.

Circular Tudor chimney stacks that embellished some of the finest old
17th Century English houses are equally appropriate to the type of archi-
tecture embracing half-timber construction combined with stone, as em-
ployed by Walker & Gillette in W. R. Coe's Long Island residence

Except for our modernized Tudor houses,
the round chimney stack has very little
place in American architecture. Our love
of luxurious comfort, which rests more or
less on a perfect system of heating, reduces
our chimney, stack and pot to a utilitarian
detail closely associated with heaters, fur-
naces and pipes. Happily we can still
claim beauty for the outside chimney
whether of brick, stone or cement. It con-
tinues to rest with gracious charm on our

outside walls where it is made an orna-
mental architectural detail, in time half hid-
den under drooping vines, the home of
birds' nests from season to season.

But the chimney stack itself is made first
and always to carry the flue or flues so that
the utmost benefit accrues from it to the
heating system, and the chimney pot, which
has been such an ornamental feature for
centuries in Europe, is mainly a practical
detail which encourages
the smoke to leave the
chimney and vanish away
in the wind. We expect
our chimneys to perform
their duty in a righteous
Puritan fashion, doing
yeoman service for the
comfort of the household.
Occasionally, they are
merely projections up from
the outside chimney, cap-
ping its fine form at each
end of the house, or they
may be of brick, square, a
few feet high, like little
towers on the top of a
hipped or gambrel roof,
with a row of terra cotta
pots in good proportion to
control the smoke.

In the English cottage
type of house, a strong
brick chimney just where
the body of the house meets
the ell gives a further lift
to the chimney and binds
together the two roof lines.
A chimney especially suit-
ed to the real California
bungalow is roofed over
with Spanish tile and has
somewhat the effect of a
Mission bell tower, tall, of
plaster, with a series of
arched openings; it might
easily send out a call for
prayer. It is the ideal
bungalow chimney stack,
lifting the entire architec-
tural form to a dignity and
grace often impossible with
ordinary bungalow construction.

A fine chimney detail for a little cement
cottage with low sweeping roof line is to
have the stack start from the first story, half
way up the roof slope; square, of good pro-
portion and not very wide, it should extend
up well above the ridge. The treatment of
a chimney stack so that it will be in har-
mony with other roof details, as for instance
with Mansard windows, is well worth care-
(Continued on page 78)

House & Garden

EQUIPPING

th e
MODERN KITCHEN

Examples of Recent Work in New
York and Boston Residences

The modern kitchen has become a gastronomic laboratory. It is equipped with
all manner of machines which lighten labor and assure speed, ease and cleanli-
ness in the preparation of meals. This equipment is so arranged that only the
necessary steps have to be taken, and so finished that only the minimum of labor
is required to keep the kitchen clean. In some large houses the main kitchen is
augmented by a smaller complete kitchen upstairs. In the New York home of
William Ziegler, Jr., the diet kitchen shown here is on the fourth floor

III!!"

Equally important in the manage-
ment of a house is the well-equipped
btttler's pantry. Here the china is
kept in cupboards set above a wide
counter. It should contain a sink
for washing dishes and glassware,
which can be immediately put away
without having to be carried to the
kitchen. An electric plate warmer
and tray rack are additional helps.
This pantry is in the New York home
of Dr. Samuel Milbank. Edward M.
Wheeler, architect

In the service department of a well-
managed house of size the labor is
distributed — the meals are prepared
in the kitchen and in the kitchen only
those utensils used in the prepara-
tion of meals are washed; the butler's
pantry houses the china, silver and
linen and in there the after-meal
washing of dishes and clearing away
is done. This pantry, in a Boston
home, was designed by Butler &
Corse, architects

August , 1922

The

GASTRONOMIC
LABORATORY

Assures Dispatch and Cleanliness
in the Preparation of Meals

The equipment in this modern kitchen is well arranged for the maximum of
service with jew servants. It consists of a soapstone sink above which supplies
and china for the servants are kept in a cupboard; the electric stove with two
ovens is below the skylight, assuring ventilation of cooking odors; substantial
work table, incinerator for garbage, set tub for the washing of tea towels, etc.,
and a gateleg table for servants' meals. A pot rack is arranged above the work
table. Butler & Corse were the architects

Hewitt

In the New York home of William
Ziegler, Jr., the main kitchen is com-
plete and up-to-date. The walls are
of white tile and the cabinets set
flush with the walls. Blue and white
linoleum covers the floor. All tlie
cupboards and cabinets are of steel
enameled in white. The large door
in the lower cabinet to the right con-
ceals a flour barrel set on a sliding
truck. Bins for cofjee, sugar, etc.,
and shelves for dishes are equally
convenient

Another view of the Ziegler kitchen
shows the built-in refrigerators. In
close proximity to the electric stove
is the steel table with rack for pots
and an electric plate warmer. An in-
cinerator consumes the garbage. The
opening in the wall behind the refrig-
erator goes through to the pantry.
It contains a revolving drum on
which are placed the dishes. Photo-
graphs by courtesy of Janes & Kirt-
land. Sterner & Wolfe, architects

House & Garden

AUGUST EMPHASIZES COOL SHOWER BATHS

But the Wise Builder Will Consider All the Types and Accessories
Before Installing this Luxury in the House

ETHEL R. PEYSER

IF we had to bring
Freud into it we would
say that the shower
bath is masculine and the
tub bath feminine! Yet to-
day there is such a mix up
on these sex matters that
even the shower bath is be-
coming quite feminine,
along with bobbed hair and
nearly shaven pates !

There is not the slightest
doubt that men feel distinct-
ly cheated. if the shower isn't
omnipresent in the bath-
room and very often, in the
past at least, women wished -
the shower bath somewhere
else! The reason for this
was:

1. The shower bath was
unprotected and the whole
bathroom frequently under
water.

2. The floor and curb of
the shower was so badly
made that floods occured in
adjoining parts of the build-
ing.

Now the shower bath can
be made the most convenient
thing in the home —

1. If it is built correctly.

2. If it is placed properly.

3. If the water power is

sufficient.

As to the sanitary code,
it is no concern of this arti-
cle; what we are concerned
with is that the firm which
installs the shower bath
cabinet knows how. There
must be a certain pitch to
the floor (or receptor) to prevent backing up
of water. There should be a lead pan built
in under the receptor about 8" high as to
its sides. This prevents any possible seep-
ing of waters through tiling cement. The
curb must be high enough and slanted in-
ward so that the water cannot enter the bath-
room from the shower, and if there is a door
to the cabinet this must be so made that if
it opens into a room there is no cartage of
water. This is accomplished by a "weep"'
strip on the edge of the down side and bot-
tom.

However, we suggest a curtain and no
door. The opening need be but 20", and if
your curb, floor and shower head are correct,
the curtain is ample protection. Doors of
tile, plate glass, etc., are handsome, but need
constant cleaning.

When ordering doors always state if the

Above the glass door
to this built-in
shower an open
space is left for the
escape of steam

door is to be hinged at right
or left hand jamb. It
should be grilled to allow
steam to escape.

The bathroom with a
separate cabinet for the
shower is here the subject
of discussion. These cabi-
nets are made in tile, mar-
ble, iron, vitreous enamel
and plate glass. They con-
tain the shower head, side
shower heads, pipes, faucets,
soap cup, test nozzles,
valves, mixers, thermome-
ters, and light, which must
be in ceiling and as water-
proof as possible.

Shower baths can be as
luxurious as the bathroom
in which they are installed.
For example, where the
bathroom is furnished with
silver or gold hardware and
decorations the shower can
be of the same metal. It is
the wisest thing (barring
gold, which few can afford)
to have porcelain or enamel
fixtures. These are easy to
wash and keep clean.
Where there are many bath-
rooms in the home, the care
of them is burdensome and
the easier the bathroom is to
clean, the more the servant
problem is simplified. Pomp
and show in the bathroom
today are not considered
good taste. Though we
know of gold, crystal, car-
ven, Cellini-like bathrooms,
we believe that simplicity is
not only wiser but more sanitary.

One manufacturer makes a metallic shower
bath casing, welded and firm, which can be
built in any bathroom and finished to match.
This comes in curved and square styles, and
in various sizes, 33" x 42" x 6' 6" high — the
circulai one 42" diameter and 6' 6" high.
These are light in weight and therefore can
be placed in inexpensive buildings.

The next style of shower is the uncabi-
neted, the ones that have the shower head
over the bathtub. These are often very
splashy — but a good sheet affords adequate
protection. There are also plate-glass fold-
ing leaves to be had, which can be flattened

It is possible to install this shower
after the bath is in place. The water
is driven directly against the body,
in contrast with the overhead type.
Courtesy the Curtainless Shower Co.

Part of the necessary equip-
ment is an adequate mixer
whichregulates the shower's
temperature. Courtesy of
the Speakman Co.

August, 1922

against the wall when the shower
is not in use. This obviates a
cabinet, a recessed closet or a par-
tition in the bathroom.

For those who want every
known convenience, there are on
the market anti-scalding devices
which make the water mixing de-
vice pretty sure, regardless of
water pressure. In this thermo-
stat the temperature and volume
of water are automatically con-
trol led. Some are built in,
attached to the outside of the wall,
others to the inside. A test nozzle
is often used with the shower to
try a spout of water on the hand
or leg before involving the whole
body in an undesirable tempera-
ture. A thermometer which tells
the story can be installed, but is
not necessary.

Some houses have metal lined
closets for the shower equipment.
These are entirely divorced from
the regular bathroom, thus in-
creasing the bathing opportunity
in the house, and there is no dan-
ger of flooding if the floors and
curbs are correctly built.

Country clubs find these well-
placed locker baths most prac-
ticable, and industrial buildings

The complete types of showers pro-
vide for both overhead and needle
sprays, the latter delivered from side
pipes. Such a shower is housed in a
separate compartment. Courtesy of
the Crane Co.

Hewitt

The simplest form of permanent
shower is an overhead spray placed
above a built-in tub. Curtains afford
sufficient protection against splashing
water

The advantages of the direct spray
system is that the hair does nut get
wet and curtains and protecting walls
are not required to prevent splash.
Courtesy of the Curtainless Shower
Co.

too, have them, together with rows
of showers in one long room, un-
marred by partitions or sheets.

Unless there is sufficient water
power, no matter how good the
equipment, the shower will be a
failure. To obtain what is called
a rose spray water, there should be
at least 35 Ibs. pressure, with
pipes amply large. In the needle
bath there should be at least 20
Ibs. pressure, again with amply
large pipes.

There is no doubt that the
thermostatic control wherever ap-
plied has added to ease and com-
fort, and in no place has it found
a more hospitable welcome than
with the shower bath.

There are now on the market
as many devices as there are
manufacturers of heat control,
water mixers, testers and the like,
which are supposed to do away
with unnecessary burns, chills
and waste of water while jockey-
ing it to get the correct tempera-
ture.

The mixers are valves which
mix the cold and hot water im-
mediately so that you have the
proper temperature without guess
(Continued on page 96)

Because it gives a minimum of brass
to clean, the old style rib type of
needle, shown here, is being superseded
by the simpler rose spray needle
Courtesy of J. L. Molt Iron Works

House fy Garden

In the residence of C. A. Belin,
Scranton, Pa., a bay window serves
as an effective connection between
the two wings of the house, connect-
ing the two eaves of unequal levels.
Paul Belin, architect

FIVE

DECORATIVE
BAY WINDOWS

This bay window completes the
composition of the entrance fa-
fade. Bering & Fitch, architects

(Right) An English half -timber

house of the 16th Century, with

a variety of bav windows

A variation of the bay window in

a house at Spuyten Duyvil, N. ¥.,

Another entrance enriched by a

bay window, finished in Tudor

Style. Hermg & Fitch, architects

August , 1922

In the New York City home of Dr. H'orold R. Mixsell, of
which the front fafade is shown on page 37, the Italian spirit
is carried on indoors. Living room walls are rough plaster
glazed in tones of blues and browns and the fireplace is of
Caen s'.one. Casement windows lead to the circular balconies

THE ITALIAN SPIRIT IN A

REMODELED CITY HOUSE

FRANK J. FORSTP:R. Architect

The plaster used, in this house is
put on by hand, giving the walls
a rough surface, which is desir-
able for an Italian house

The reception hall has an inter-
esting floor of red and brown
tiles, blue and brown rough walls
•with wrought iron and marble

House & Garden

A CITY GARDEN
IN DENVER

In the Denver garden of J. J. Hall, a lot
200' x i25' has been cleverly handled to in-
clude a large irregular swimming pool. De
Boer fr Pesman, landscape architects

Although the garden is
only a year old it already is
hedged in with shrubbery
and colorful with wild
flowers and roses

Near the house, seculsion
for a formal rose garden
was formed by a pergola-
in which are housed a small
fountain and pool

August, 1922

PYRETHRUMS FOR FORMAL AND INFORMAL GARDENS

The Pyrethrums in Both Single and Double Forms Make
A Colorful Contribution at Peony-Time

A PLANT altogether too seldom met
with in our gardens, and one worthy
a far wider recognition is the pyre-
thrum. One member of this great branch
of the genus chrysanthemum, to which so
many of the daisy-like flowers belong, the
old Feverfuge, more commonly "Feverfew"'
now-a-days, has long been known to our
American gardens and actually furnished
our ancestors with the basic ingredient of
the strong bitter tea they brewed for use in
the treatment of fevers. Another. near rel-
ative did yeoman service, along with the
pay colored coleus and the other so-called
foliage plants in those unregretted (Shall I
say Victorian?) flower beds of not so long
ago. With both of these we are all more or
less familiar. The member of the family
to which I more particularly wish to draw
attention is the pyrethrum roseum of the
botanists, a native of far Persia, which is
apparently living down its somewhat un-
savory historical connection and taking at
last an honored place in our beds and
borders. I say unsavory advisedly, for, if

JOHN L. REA

the truth must be told, it is this flower, dried
and ground into a powder, which has long
furnished the Persian insect powder of com-
merce. At present, however, a closely re-
lated species of Caucasian origin, because
its flowers all open more nearly at the same
time, is largely taking the place of its Per-

sian cousin, a change for which I am not
sorry, for while I recognize the usefulness
of the flower in its commercial state yet, as
it has become a great favorite of mine, I
prefer that it forswear the old association.

The plant is by no means an absolute
newcomer to the garden. As far as my own
knowledge goes, however, it can hardly, in
respect to American gardens at least, be
called an old-fashioned flower. It was not
at any rate, so far as I can discover, grown
in the old gardens hereabouts. In Europe
it has been a favorite for a longer time.
One is likely to find with some surprise that
the catalogues of the great seed and plant
houses of England and the Continent carry
long descriptive lists of named varieties of
this flower. The beautiful colored illustra-
tions which most of these foreign catalogues
contain help to give an idea of the great
variety of form and the wealth of color the
hyhridisers have succeeded in producing.

There are several reasons why we do not
find more of these forms common to our
(Continued on page 80)

To be appreciated, pyrethrums or

feverfews, should be massed against

a background of green foliage, as in

this grape arbor planting

A vase, of single and double py-
rethrums makes an excellent house
decoration. The flowers last long in
water and keep their color

A comfortable kitchen contains bowls
of all sizes. Here is a small wooden one
only 7" across for chopping nuts, $.98.
Fragile, delicate pastry is made with a
glass rolling pin containing ice, $.69

House & Garden

There will be no last minute worry if
this white enameled tin reminder is hung
in a prominent place in the kitchen. Lit-
tle red pointers mark off the needs of
the day, 14" high $.91

Things one uses constantly
should be within easy reach.
This set consisting of a potato
masher, pancake turner, egg
beater, cake spoon, can opener
and measuring spoon comes
complete with a rack, $1.64

A set of good steel knives
belongs in every well-
equipped kitchen. The ten
piece set above includes two
jorks and two spatulas.
Complete, $5.34 (At the
top) Stainless steel fruit
knife. $.67

This rack should be hung very
near the kitchen table as it
holds nine wooden spoons of
various sizes and two mud-
dlers. The price complete is
$5.10

SEEN

in the
SHOPS

for the
KITCHEN

All the articles on these pages mav

be purchased through the House &

Garden Shopping Serrice, 19 West

44«t Street, Neu- York City

Designed for the tiny kitch-
en of a bride, this trousseau
kitchenette will be wel-
comed by every housewife
forced to cook in a limited
space. Closed it measures
only 34" high x 22" wide x
21" deep. It is completely
fitted, containing altogether
67 pieces, $60

August, 2922

A cereal set of vivid Czechoslovak
earthen-ware, cream colored with a
design in bright blue and black
ivould be an addition to any
kitchen. The set contains 15 pieces,
S8.50

When planning the equip-
ment of tlie kitchen be
sure that it contains
enough mixing bowls.
Bug colored crockery
•with a design of old blue
stripes makes the nest of
six above. The largest
measures 9J4" across, the
smallest 5". The set
complete is $1.39

Decorative porcelain with a blue
wild rose pattern. l/2 doz. each of
large plates, small plates, soup
plates, saucers, cups and saucers;
two platters, two vegetable dishes,
one sauce boat, butter dish, sugar
bowl, cream jug and cake plate,
$24.75

This sturdy step ladder folded
measures only 2l/z" x 7^" x 52".
It may be hung on the inside of the
door. Open it is 49" high permit-
ting one to reach easily curtain
rods and moldings. A hook be-
neath the upper step will hold a
pail, $7.20

Time and labor saving devices will be welcomed eagerly by the
busy cook. Reading from left to right above are a chocolate mud-
dler of hard wood, $.50; a parsley mincer, $.50; a combination
aluminum basting spoon and fork, $.15; a plate scraper of hard
wood, $.45; a new knife sharpener, $1.90, and a beater that prevents
the cream from splashing, $.85

As the season of jelly making approaches, the wise housewife sees
to it that her equipment is as complete as possible. The jelly strainer
above is $.63. Small oval' jelly glasses 2" high are $.75 a dozen,
round slightly larger $.63. Regulation size with patent cover, $.10
each. Pint preserving jars, $.19 each; quart size, $.21. An oval
aluminum ladle is $.7?. The duplex fork is $.38

// i> u s e fr G ti r <1 r n

August

THE GARDENER'S CALENDAR

Eighth Month

Japanese arrange-
ment by Mrs. H. J.
Fisher, Greenwich
Garden Club

Bird of Paradise

flower, by Mrs. /•'. C.

Littleton, the ist

Prize

The 2nd Prize, by

Mrs. Seton Lindsay,

of Long Island

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

1 Evergreens

2. Vegetables

3. if you

4. This Is

5. Newly

This Calendar of the gardener's
labors Is aimed as a reminder for

may be planted
at this time.

of the different
forcing types

have a green-
house make up

the time to
build cold-

set out plants
that are not

undertaking all his tasks in sea-
son. It is fitted to the latitude of

These are
pi ants that

may be started
for greenhouse

a compost heap
of all plants.

frames for the
fall and winter.

growing satis-
factorily can be

the Middle States, but its ser-

need a great

cultivation. To-

Use top soil

Brick or con-

stimulated into

vice should be available for the

deal of water,

matoes, cauli-

frith a good sod

crete Is prefer-

growth by ap-

whole country If it be remern-

so it is advis-

flower, lettuce.

growth adding

red but a sub-

plication of ni-

uercd that for every one hundred

able when re-

spinach, pars-

manu re and

stantial wood-

trate of soda.

miles north of south there is a
difference of .from five to seven

setting them to
saturate the

ley, beans,
8 wins chard and

bone meal and
stacking it up

en frame will
last some time.

sulphate of am-
monia or other

days later or earlier in perform-
ing garden operations. The dates
given are. of course, for an ave-

soil thorough-
ly to restore
and encourage

New Zealand

spinach are
vegetables of

at a convenient
point so that
the green ma-

Next to the
greenhouse the
coldframe is

materials of
this kind. After
using these

rage season.

activity of the

easy culture

terial will de-

the gardener's

good results

roots.

under glass.

compose.

best friend.

will be noticed.

li. Gather

7. Strawberry

8. The cane

!>. If you

10. There is

11. Biennials

12. Neglected

the onion crop

beds may be

fruits should

want high-

still time to

such as fox-

ground that is

now. W hen

set out at this

be looked over

grade dahlia

sow some cool

glove and cup-

intended for

(he tops have

time, which

at this time.

blooms it will

crops In the

and-saucer, can

cultivation

died down the

will bear a full

Old shoots on

be necessary to

garden. Sev-

be started from

next year

onions should

crop of fruit

the raspberries

keep the plants

eral sowings of

seed now. It is

should be bro-

be pulled and

next year

and blackber-

properly dis-

peas should be

pood practice

ken up. The

left in the sun

Make certain

ries should be

budded. This

made this

to sow quanti-

proper forking

to dry: then the

that both the

cut out en-

means a con-

month, also

ties of peren-

or plowing with

tops can be

perfect and im-

tirely as these

stant and con-

spinach, cress.

nials now, car-

the subsequent

iwisted off and

perfect types

do not bear

sistent pineh-

radishes, let-

ry ing them

harrowing will

the onions

are planted

again. Young

1 n g of the

tuce, turnips.

over the winter

remove large

themselves

This will assure

shoots for next

young growth

etc. If the

in the cold-

quantities of

stored in a dry

proper fertili-

year should

in order to re-

ground is dry.

frame and set-

the trouble-

cool place until

zation of the

now be tied

duce the num-

water well be-

ting them out

some rye and

ready for use.

flowers.

firmly in place.

ber of buds.

fore sowing.

in early spring.

twitch grass.

13. This is the

14. Crops

15. Roses

16. This is

17. Bay trees.

18 New

19. Hedges

tune that spe

that remain in

showing a sub-

the time that

palms, hydran-

lawns can be

of all types.

clal attention

the ground,

stantial growth

cuttings should

geas and other

seeded down

evergreens that,

should be given

such as Swiss

should be en-

be taken of all

plants custom-

now. Failure

have been con-

to cabbage and

chard, par-

couraged by

the various

arily used for

with lawns is

fined to a form

other green

snips, etc..

top dressings

bedding plants

piazza decora-

often due to

and various

vegetables on

should have a

of bone meal

such as coleus.

tion are usually

the improper

plants that are

account of the

top dressing oc-

or any good

geraniums and

infested with

preparation of

clipped, should

leaf-eating in-

casionally with

fertilizing

alternant heras.

various aphids

the ground and

be gone over

sects. The

a strong fer-

agent. Though

The.se plants If

and other in-

the meagre al-

now as growth

plants should

tilizer to pre-

it does not im-

carried in a

sects. It Is ad-

1 o t m e n t of

Is about, t o

be sprayed

v e n t them

prove the qual-

cool green-

visable to" use

seed. Sow grass

cease. This will

with arsinate

from becoming

ity of the fall

house through-

tobacco sprays

thickly, as this

be the final

of lead to de-

tough. Soluble

flowers it gives

out the winter

regularly as a

will help to

clipping and

stroy the In-

fertilizers are

the plant more

will make good

preventive of

choke t he weed

should be done

sects.

more available.

vigor.

stock plants.

these pests.

growth.

carefully.

20. Early

21. It is ad-

22. Melons

23. This Is

24. Bulbs for

25. Buds

20. Before

celery should

visable to have

ripening now

an excellent

forcing in the

will be forming

cold weather.

now be ready

a small ste|>-

should he kept

time to go over

greenhouse

on most of the

look over the

for use. Bank-

1 adder or at

sprayed with

and prune the

should be or-

greenhouse

greenhouse, re-

ing this with

east a box to

Bordeaux mix-

shade trees, as

dered at this

c h r y s a n t h e -

placing broken

carl h is not ad-

stand on in or-

ture to prevent

it is easy to see

t Ime. Boxes,

mums at this

glass, doing

vised on ac-

der to get at

blight. It is a

how t he work

pans, soil and

time and

any necessary

count of the in-

the top of the

good plan to

should be done.

other necessary

strong feedings

repair work.

tense heat. It

poles when

place small

U e m o v e the

materials used

will be neces-

Be certain the

Is best to use

picking limas

boards under

limbs very

in the forcing

sary If you

boiler is in

paper bleachers

or other types

the young mel-

close leaving

of those plants

want highest

working condi-

or boards for

of pole beans.

ons to assure

no shoulders

should be made

quality flowers.

tion, particu-

1 his purpose,

It is usually at

ripening. Allow

and paint ttic

ready, as some

Also spray oc-

larly in a green-

blanching only

the top that

the melon to

wounds carc-

of these, bulbs

casionally with

house that

in usable quan-

t he greatest

leave the vine

fully. Make

are available

t obacco prep-

was closed last

Iliies.

yield is found.

voluntarily.

cuts clean.

now.

aration.

year.

27. It is just

28. Late cel-

20. Flowers

30. 1) on ' t

31. After

as necessary to

ery, cabbage,

intended for

let your flower

gathering the

prune vines as
it is other
plants. All old
and unproduc-

cauliflower and
kale may still
be planted. Use
plenty of water

cultivation In
the greenhouse
this winter
should be

g a r d en run
down. Keep
the. tall (lowers
staked and cut

peach crop ,
spray the trees
with Bordeaux
mixture tokeep

Then cntnf Die row-slip.
Like a dancer at (he fair,
She spread her little mat of

tive w o o d

should be re-
moved. This

when setting
out these
plants and

started now.
Seeds of vari-
ous annuals

out all the dead
flowering
stalks. Keep

the various
foliage diseases
in check. Trees

green.
And on if danced the.
With a fillet bound about her

will give more
room for the
younger and
inure vigorous

make a habit
of watering
them twice
daily until the

such as stock,
m i g n o n e t t e
and snapdrag-
on may be

the edges trim-
med and stir
the soil on the
surface. This Is

afflicted with
the yellows
should be cut
down a n d

broic,
A flllct round her happy brow,
A (joldfn fillet round her brow.
And rubies in her )>• ir.

shoo's. Now is

plants show

sown, or small

as necessary

burned to pre-

— hytfnrii l)!-h"J

the time for

that the roots

plants may be

now as In the

vent the spread

this work.

are established.

purchased.

spring

of the disease.

/KXOll' not whether it is the change of air which is conducive to good sleep and healthy morning appe-

tites, or the sight of green groining things, i^-hich arouse in bcth men and women some of their primal

earthincss — the reasons do not matter — but breakfast in the country is sure to be a prodigious affair.

The city does not breed the same sort of hunger that grips you in the country. In the city one cats

because it is time to eat; in the country one can eat irrespective of time.

Your city guest will protest, on guing to bed, that it is his custcm to be quite content with a piece of

dry toast and a cup of black coffee, but should you give him these alone he will be mightily starved. Set

before him ra'shcrs of bacon. Stint net on the eggs. Fill the ccffee urn to the top. Make a mountain <'f

toast. Add fruit and marmalade and hot cakes if you will. None will be 'eft. He may apologize fcr his

hunger, he may protest that he has never eaten so much before in all his life, nevertheless, every crumb

and drop of these good things will disappear before the Gargantuan appetite of him who vowed that he was

satisfied with toast and coffee. Like as m,t, despite ail this, he will be hungry before noon.

— The Journal of a Country House.

Pussy willow, by

Mrs. S. L. Fuller,

Kve Garden Clul,

Forsythia, by Mrs.
E. Mac Rea, Green-
wich Garden Club

Third Prize at Flow-
er Show, by Mrs.
R.Mallory,Jr.,Rye,

N. Y.

Trellis is effectively used between the house

and garage of R. H. Keith, Country Club

District, Kansas City. E. B. Delk was the

architect

The use of shrubbery in the completed

house picture can be learned from these

views of the Kansas City home of James

L. Cultura

These views of the Cultura^ garden were

taken two years apart, showing remarkable

contrasts in that space of time. A. H.

Buckley, architect

August, 1922

THE ESTEY RESIDENCE PIPE ORGAN

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or flowers, no one in this age will deny. Nearly a garden. And so, more and more lovers of music

every home has music in some form. But the are installing in their homes the greatest musical

lover of books asks something more than a shelf instrument of the world, a pipe organ,

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While one expects to find books in the living room, they can be given
a fresh aspect by using shelves of unusual shape. Couch and chairs
are conveniently arranged beneath. The Oriole Company, decorators

Coming On Books Unexpectedly

(Continued from page 54)

drowned in needed poems of patience.

As a reader who likes to carry books
on the cars or on walks, I would sug-
gest that tailors make duodecimo or
octavo pockets to order. So in like man-
ner, there are odd spaces to a house,
which could be as definitely thought out
and used for duodecimo or octavo books.
But we do not consider these problems
as of similar importance to the placing
of the grandfather's clock. All sorts of
books need to be scattered, as lovingly
as you place candlesticks in rooms and
odd corners; they should light the way
of the mind at every step.

Somehow a house to me is never hab-
itable until a bird builds a nest in an
unexpected place. The architect has
nothing to do with it. The will of the
bird is law unto itself. The eaves and
sheaves of country life, the rafters of
the studio, the window shutter that the
lover of light and zephyrs keeps open
the season through, the old well bucket,
yes, even the cannon's mouth, we are
told, are grounds for building. All you
— as owner of the house — know is that
in the garden there is the flash of the
blue bird, the orange of the oriole, and
the brown breast of the ubiquitous

robin, whose young are as much at home
in some hidden corner as you are in
your room.

So it is with books. Their homing in-
stinct is well worth studying when you
plan your house. There is nothing
against the precision of formal shelves.
Their regularity is as decorative to a
room as a regiment of soldiers on pa-
rade is to the drill-ground. But there
are books that are shy and loving, books
that are young and tender with the hint
of wisdom, books that shun sets, and
are of themselves necessary in idle mo-
ments. These delight in obscure cor-
ners.

I am suspicious of a house that al-
lows books only in the library. Take a
volume from the shelves, and uncon-
sciously lay it down on the hall bench —
and some hand fetches it back to its
proper place. To such people, children
are to be seen and not heard ; books are
to be had but not "seen about." Both
ideas are wrong. I like children to be
well heard, provided it is musical happi-
ness. I like books to be well thumbed,
as Charles Lamb did — and were it pos-
sible to resort to criminal processes, each
(Continued on page 76)

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Coming On Books Unexpectedly

(Continued from page 74)

reader's finger print would tell me what
joy my library, outside its routine regu-
larity, was giving to the household.

The moist touch of excitement, the
trembling touch of sentiment, the firm
touch of interest — these are more to me
than the bindings that look well, and
can be bought by the yard or the five-
foot, without meaning a thing. An im-
personal library, rich in its editions,
photographs well. But it is merely a
stage set. You are the flame or flicker
of it — you are the warmth or the dead
ash. Go into a hotel room and you are
greeted with a Bible and a telephone
directory. They are both sharp looking
in their official purpose and officious evi-
dence. One says, Be good ; the other,
Be patient. Open your grip and take
out the book you have been reading on
the train. The personal flavor creeps in ;
it is like a Greek lamp in a temple.
That's what I mean.

It makes no difference how you plan
your flowers in a garden ; you are not
going to regulate the flight of birds.
The hummingbird dips into any avail-
able chalice of honey for sustenance.
The library is all right, but it is very
far away when you are somewhere else,
in comfortable mood for reading. Books
in unexpected places invite the dipping
quality of the soul.

So, in my house I will ask the archi-
tect to consider carefully the placing of
book sanctuaries. I recall a long box-
seat in a studio. It was very near the
massive fireplace. Above it were three
slim shelves, for a host of slim volumes
that perched there like swallows on a
telegraph wire — poetry and drama, let-
ters and essays. Their very smallness
gave pleasure against the wall that
towered above them. You could lay
among pillows and play upon them by
the stretch of an arm — light volumes
that did not make a noise when they
slipped from your fingers as you slept.
I treasure the usefulness of some other
shelves that caught the morning warmth
of the sun by a rose-bush near a win-
dow, and here on a tempting seat one
browsed in bygone "Garlands" and early
editions of Emerson and Thoreau. They
had a musty odor that comes with book
age, but somehow the scent of roses
crept in and memory became alive.
Time vanished.

When you begin to calculate on the
overflow of your library, the rescuing
spirit comes upon you, and you go to
the shelves to see how many of the vol-
umes are wrongly placed: how they can
escape your formal institution, and
come into the reach of your personal
desire. You know what a motley as-
sortment usually sinks to the bottom
shelf, the large shelf built for the dic-
tionaries and books that are not books,
but merely statistical reports in covers.
I shall never see a copy of the Life and
Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
without recalling the loving eyes that
rescued it from between some metallur-
gical reports and a gazetteer of names.
Where did it fly to? To a desk within
reach of a bed, where it could be picked
up at will. It never got back to the
library, but homed unexpectedly in the
hall on a shelf by a west window.

I recall some frail bookshelves beneath
the portrait of a lady — just such a shelf
series as goes with delicate draperies, and
a sensitive face, and pastel colors. On
top were filigreed bowls of porcelain
holding spring flowers, and vases that
threw their handles in perfect curves
above the opening like dancing girls,
lithe and beautiful. Reminiscences of
court ladies, some Kate Greenaway re-
prints, books with pressed leaves be-
tween the pages — delicacy of mind and
matter.

At such places bindings do not count,
though fine chisellings of gold lines, and
delicate traceries of letters, gilt edges
and bright leathers and brocade are very

agreeable to look upon. But books with
distinctive backs are so often like ladies
at the opera — disappointing to talk to.
What selections are best suited to a pic-
ture such as I speak of? Here comes
your discrimination and your taste. Ap-
propriateness is everything. You burn
candles to the saints. Can you not place
books before the one you love?

Do I mean to suggest that you must
select your place to read in accord with
what you read? Shall we travel to the
living-room and put our foot on the
tiger's head while we peruse a chapter
of Roosevelt's African travels? Should
we not own these Travels unless we
also own a tiger-skin rug? Of course,
here is food for thought as to whether
books regulate the furnishings of a
room. A sportsman's walls, can you not
count on the character of the pictures?
A golf champion's bouffet — can you not
imagine the silver trophies? A hunter's
hall — are there not mounted heads ga-
lore? You come upon them in formal
and unexpected places. I think there
are books that would look well near
marble benches, others that are inviting
on the grand piano, with its gold drapery
and silver vase. Such books have the
air of "I've just been bought but haven't
been cut or read yet. I'm much talked
about. I'm the right thing at the mo-
ment to have. I'm the correct thing to
look at. Tomorrow you'll come upon
me unexpectedly beneath a pile of jazz
music." It can't always be Shelley —
there must be a little of Irving Berlin,
even in the most marble palace.

Why has not someone thought of a
book lectern for the bedroom ? I would
place it near the window with the best
view, overlooking the farthest reaches,
where the sun is either richest in the
morning, or the sky most tinted in the
evening. There are sundials for the
garden. Why not book dials for each
hour of the day? I could much more
countenance — in this democrats age! —
a flunky carrying a book on a plush
cushion to such a lectern, than one
carrying my lady's dog and lap-robe to
the limousine. It would be much more
a ceremonial worthy of human partici-
pation.

Hurry, you flunky, there is a west
wind blowing from the meadow — where
is my Masefield? Lay it open, with a
book-mark woven of golden daffodils.
Let us be joyfully sentimental about the
things we love to read. "What time of
day is it?" you ask. And someone says,
"It's the hour of Wordsworth" — just as
on shipboard they call out, "Three
bells." "Dinner," announces the maid.
"I knew it," you reply, "for the cook-
book was on the lectern in the hall."
Gourmand of beauty or of food, your
hour will come.

Think also of the healthy shock this
meeting with books unexpectedly gives
to the advanced, the jaded, the stoic.
The modern bobbed hair is bent over a
copy of "Lucille," and rather enjoys it;
she slips it to her bedroom, and puts it
under her pillow. It is found there by
the second girl on the morrow, and it
appeals to her, too. It finds its way
eventually to a shelf over the desk.
That's how it got there.

Think of the roue's holding Blake's
"Songs of Innocence" after a night of
supper dancing. The stock broker picks
up, in his slippered comfort, a stray
translation of Horace, and peeps into it
with a surprised realization that for the
middle-aged the gentleman farmer is
rather an enviable role. For the mod-
ern man, thanks to suburban ambitions,
has a sneaking desire to believe himself
both a gentleman and a farmer. The
stoic picks up Tagore's "The Crescent
Moon" which is accidentally on the
bookshelf in his room, and discovers
that his tear duct actually holds a tear.

These unexpected dippings are what
(Continued on page 78)

August , 1922

A D

There is no subtle nor secret explanation
for women's preference for the Cadillac.

Delving straight to the heart of good
motoring, women demand the rarest, the
most unusual trait in an automobile —
utter dependability.

They require that the motor car of their
choice shall be so sound mechanically
that they need never give it a moment's
thought, save of admiration for its consis'
tent, flawless performance.

In addition, they require that it be safe,

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House & Garden

KENSINGTON FURNITURE

^A Wall in the Showrooms
Early 1 7th Century Cnglish Oak Court Cupboard by Kensington

THE fascination of old furniture lies no doubt
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brings and in the sense it imparts of service faith-
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inherent in the well defined style that has devel-
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life of a people ; but above all in the fact that it
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Coming On Books Unexpectedly

(Con.inued from page 76)

break the regular routine of the per-
fectly equipped library, and the strenu-
ousness of life. What daughter with
cropped hair has scorned the story of
Rapunzel, or the balcony love moment
of Melisande? What advocate of eu-
genics has not longed for the untabu-
lated, unchecked moment with Orlando
in the Forest of Arden? To come un-
expectedly on your own self, in some
removed corner of the house, is pleasant.

The tattered raiments of magazines
and papers usually festoon the chair or
the hammock on the porch. It is sur-
prising what a grab-bag of literature the
hammock is, — French novels, Greenwich
Village free verse, the latest play — like
Maughan's "The Circle," or Clemence
Dane's "A Bill of Divorcement" — the
Blue Book, and, sandwiched in between
them all, yourself. You have brought
your own book, but like as not you read
some other. Or better still, with the
lazy clouds and the butterflies, and the
distracting sounds of obscure bird's nests,
you read nothing. You poke your book
under the secret recesses of a soft pil-
low.

In the days of Addison, writers used
to recommend books suited to a lady's
boudoir. The Restoration taste, in these
days of cosmetics, might be restored.
We fill our columns now with discus-
sions of what books we would take
with us on a desert island. The Bible
has been the chief recommendation, as
containing under one cover the largest
mixture of allspice. The questions are
now raised: What are some good bed-
time stores for the grown-up sleeper?
What are the just-before-dinner books,
when most of your attention is riveted
for the second gong? What would be
permissible reading for the bath, other
than "The Water Babies" and "Three
Men in a Boat"? I think the book in
relation to the uses of the different
rooms is just as important as the archi-
tect's perturbations regarding the physi-
cal aspects of the landscape in relation
to the house.

I am sure that beds could be designed
with the picturesque hint of a shelf as
part of the head board ; desks are hugged
on either side or topped by shelves with
diamond panes of glass, behind which
the old-fashioned tastes of a past gen-
eration are assembled in quaint volumes.
In other words, in planning a house,
we should allow the same rule to per-
tain that holds in the city of New York
regarding branch library buildings. I
think it is the boast of the Trustees that
there is not a citizen of the town who is
farther away from a public collection of
books than a mile. Books should never
be more than a few steps away from a
reader in the home at the moment of
desiring to read. Hence the necessity
for book sanctuaries.

There is one house in my remem-
brance whose owners always did the
correct thing. There were dogs, but these
were kept in the kennels. There were
children, but these were kept in the
nursery. People like these keep their
books strictly in a library. My hostess
would say, as occasion demanded: "Go
up into the nursery and bring Mary
Ann or Peter Boy down," "Go into the
kennel and get Barbe Bleue," "Look in
the library for that book I was reading."
Thus did she sprinkle largesse; thus did
she show her possession. But, as I
have hinted more than once, if the good
God of Life is set on humanizing the
race, even country houses must conform
to His will. You cannot order a dog not
to bark; even the most unhappy chil-
dren laugh aloud at their own thoughts.
And a book delights sometimes in being
where it ought not to be.

Such people as my hostess have ro-
mantic notions of how they should look
on such and such occasions. How well,
in a painting, the mother would appear
with her golden-haired child sedately
descending the winding staircase. Send
for the child, please. How well the mas-
ter, in his riding togs, with his hand
resting on the Dane's head — so like Sir
Walter Scott ! Send for the dog, please.
"Don't you think," suggests the artist,
"a little touch of the literary would look
well amidst the delicacy of your gown ?"
Send for a book, please — oh, anything
that isn't heavy, so that your ringed
finger may rest lightly on one of the
leaves in the act of turning. That gives
life to the picture, it leaves an impres-
sion of you !

I recall going to a very formal func-
tion there. My outside wrappings were
whisked aside by groomed magic, my
feet sank into the soft carpet of the
stairs. And an unwilling will propelled
me up toward the drawing room. But
just as I was reaching the top, my foot
kicked against the open pages of a
child's "Swiss Family Robinson." I could
tell by crumbs between the leaves where
youthful eyes had left off reading. I
held the book, and a warm thrill passed
over me. I recalled in years gone by — in
a much humbler house — a small boy
being allowed — on rainy and thunderous,
evenings of a southern summer — -to get.
out of bed and bring his book to the
head step leading into the hall below.

Ah, madam, send for your boy, send,
for his book, and place them there on
the steps. The curve of the baluster
leads, not into the drawing room, but
into the realm of imagination; the stair-
covering is the magic carpet ; the bracket
lights are the flame of desire — all be-
cause one book has escaped the nursery,,
and is found in an unaccustomed place.
So it is with' all books that have-
escaped the formal library.

If You Are Going to Build

( Continued from page 61 )

ful study, just as the old Spanish archi-
tects designed chimneys that were
almost indistinguishable from their tur-
rets and towers.

It is not at all necessary to have
chimney stacks in pairs. A single stack
even at the corner of a roof announces
its purpose. It is of necessity in that
particular place. That is where it does
its work in connection with the heating
system. An unnecessary twin to match
it would be an absurdity.

Where there is a deep pitched roof, as
in the French chateaux type of archi-
tecture, usually a tall slender stack
starts up from the first story at the
corner of the house. A low square
chimney on this type of roof would
make the whole house chunky and

heavy in effect, which is undesirable..
But after all, types of houses and.
chimneys are studied in relation to each
other, the first consideration is the;
utilitarian one — the chimney so con-
structed and placed that it will in every
possible way co-operate for the right and
adequate heating of the house. And.
never will the wise home owner sacri-
fice health, and physical well-being to.
a purely decorative roof detail. Of
course, the ideal house will have beauty
of form combined with the most prac-
tical and aesthetic construction, but if,,
for any fundamental reason, because of"
any peculiarity of site or building ma-
terial, a compromise is necessary, prac--
tical design should take precedence over',
the picturesque deta'l.

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How to Alter the Color of Floors

{Continued from page 51)

potency to color, and caution in using
them is necessary.

When bare boards are to be deep-
ened in the natural color, the simplest
and the best way to give tone, quality,
and finish is a treatment of linseed oil.
The oil must be slightly warmed to
facilitate its spreading, and applied to
the floor with clean cloths and rubbed
in with a short -bristled fine hard brush.
An old clothes brush answers the pur-
pose well. It is important to remem-
ber that the oiling must be done along
with the grain and never across it, and
that the smallest amount of oil consist-
ent with easy working is the best.
Clearly the treatment cannot be hur-
ried; it needs elbow-grease — hard and
steady rubbing; the oil must penetrate,
and when finished no trace should come
off on the surface. Sometimes a weight
wrapped in flannel is a help and speeds
things up. Till a deal floor has been
finished in this way, no one can realize

what a quality of grain and of texture is
latent in this common wood.

Oak parquet blocks that are too yel-
low cannot be altered to the proper
tone merely by waxing, which deepens
the tone but does not eliminate the yel-
lowness. This is a quality of new oak
which time alters, but it can be done
by the hand of man very nearly as well.
The wax must first be washed off, and
when the blocks are quite dry, they
should be treated with strong ammonia
in a little water; this soaks in, greying
the oak to the soft natural look in the
process. Several applications may be
needed before the grey triumphs over
the crude yellowness. When it has been
rewaxed the parquet floor will present
an old and mellow appearance. This
greying treatment does not darken the
oak to any appreciable extent. A light
oak parquet floor can be changed to a
dark one by a very thin solution of
japan black.

Pyrethrums for Formal and Informal Gardens

(Continued from page 69)

plantings here in America. One, per-
haps a sufficient one, is that the pyre-
thrum is a very difficult plant to trans-
port over long distances, and the im-
porters find they cannot handle them
profitably. Then, too, our very hottest
weather sometimes tries them severely,
causing them to crownrot. These, at
all events, are the reasons the plant
selling fraternity give us for not
listing the choicer named varieties and
offering us instead only seedlings in an
indiscriminate mixture.

These mixtures upon reaching the
flowering stage produce in the main
a single flower very like our common
daisy, chrysanthemum leucanthemum,
which by the way is itself an importa-
tion. The similarity in the general ap-
pearance of the two plants at flowering
time is very marked. Fortunately, per-
haps, the pyrethrum has not the same
constitutional robustness of the field
daisy, particularly in the matter of
propagating itself, for it shows no ten-
dency to overrun the meadows and pas-
tures. The daisy foliage is coarser, that
of the pyrethrum being much more
feathery and fernlike in appearance.
The flower stalks of the two plants are
of about equal height. In regard to the
flower itself, in the single type of the
pyrethrum the difference is almost en-
tirely one of color, and even the whitest
pyrethrum is seldom without a trace
of pink upon first .opening, which it
soon loses, however, becoming for all
practical purposes as white as the daisy.
From this fa'ntly flushed white with the
typical daisy center the colors range
through various tones of pink to a rich
deep red in pyrethrum atrosanguin-
arium. All of the colors are good and
with the light airy grace it exhibits, the
full headed plant is a most desirable
acquisition for any garden. A well de-
veloped specimen will send up above the
feathery foliage a great number of
nodding flowers, each rising on a sep-
arate stalk to a height of from 18" to
24". I can speak with some assurance
of this nodding characteristic, for even
in a light breeze I have been forced to
wait for hours with my camera focused
trying to surprise the plant in a mo-
ment of restfulness.

Discouraged at not being able to pro-
cure the finer named sorts, I set about
trying to obtain something that might
at least approach an approximation of
some of them through continued seed
sowings of my own. At first I obtained
a packet of seed from my favorite

American grower. These were sown late
in July in an outdoor seed bed. A
large percentage of the seed sprouted,
and by fall I had a goodly number of
thrifty young plants. These were set
out along the grape arbor in the garden
some time in the fall. Snow came early
and deep that year and so no other cov-
ering was given the you,ng plants.

In the spring the new leaves started
betimes, and soon the buds were rapidly
pushing up above the dainty greenery.
That first batch of seedlings proved to
comprise mainly single types. There
were a number of semi-doubles and two
doubles. One of those with the double
flowers was white with the character-
istic pink flush, at first, and the other
was a beautiful red tinted lighter, al-
most white at the center.

Since then I have made repeated sow-
ings, using seeds of more aristocratic
parentage, and as the plants seem per-
fectly hardy, I am gradually adding to
my collection singles, doubles, and in-
termediate forms in considerable
variety.

With me the pyrethrum seems to de-
mand no special coddling. It grows
very satisfactorily in a well drained
ordinarily rich garden soil. After the
plant is through flowering, I cut it back
rather closely; a scattering second crop
of blooms may be induced to material-
ize under this treatment. The main
crop of flowers normally comes just at
the close of the peony season and before
the delphiniums are in full flower. It
is useful in the hardy border or in the
more formal plantings ; I have used it in
both places with equally good results.

One pyrethrum characteristic which
makes it especially desirable is its value
as a cut flower. I know of nothing
that will outlast it in water. Aster
blooms last as long perhaps, but aster
stems have an unfortunate proneness to
decomposition, which the pyrethrum
does not exhibit to anything like the
same extent.

One of the accompanying photo-
graphs gives an idea of its beauty as a '•
cut flower. The outdoor picture is less
successful, owing to the difficulty of
catching the plants at rest, already re-
ferred to. By studying the picture of
the flowers in the vase one can easily
distinguish the various types of bloom
one is likely to obtain from a packet
of seeds. It is better to buy the seed of
the double sorts. Many of them will
give single flowers, but in this way one
will likely have a greater variety.

August , 1922

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House & Garden

The Imari Ware of Japan

(Continued from page 39)

E A S E

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Soft blue tones are found in these pieces of Imari — the flower

boat, bowl and covered sweetmeat box with the outspread wings

of birds forming the four legs

Butterfly mark
found on com-
mon Imari

- Japan. This was in

/ J \ \ 1 1542' They 'Were
/ No/i hospitably received,

and thus began
European inter-
course. Up to 1593
the Portuguese pos-
sessed a monopoly
in the oversea com-
merce with Japan.
Thence onward it
diminished until the
Imperial Edict of 1639 practically termi-
nated the Portuguese trade with Japan.
During this period, or from 1550 to
1639, the Portuguese carried many pieces
of Japanese porcelain into Europe, and,
of course, some of these very early
pieces may be among those in European
collections, although it is practically im-
possible to identify any such since the
Japanese porcelains of this period, and
even of following centuries, lacked reign
date marks, rarely show Province desig-
nation marks, and are difficult to distin-
guish, if indeed the earliest pieces can be,
from contemporary Chinese pieces.

While we are quite in the dark con-
cerning the porcelains exported during
the period of the Japanese commercial
relations with Portugal, when we reach
the period of Dutch influence we begin
to have some record of the manufacture
of porcelain in Japan. In 1611 the
Emperor had issued letters patent to
Dutch traders. Some forty years later
the privileges of the Dutch were cur-
tailed, yet amid conditions at once hu-
miliating and distressing they continued
a trade with Japan which still proved
lucrative. By 1842 still greater indigni-
ties were inflicted on the Dutch trading
masters, yet the exports of that year
at their hands amounted to a sum ex-
ceeding $3,500,000, their imports total-
ing as much. From this year porcelain
became one of the standard articles car-
ried by the Dutch out of Japan, at least
100 bales being shipped annually, ex-
clusive of private consignments. We are
told that 44,943 pieces of porcelain ar-
rived in Holland in 1664, while 16,580
pieces of the same ware left the Dutch
settlement of Batavia for Europe.
Nearly all these pieces, if not all of
them, were from the kilns in the Prov-
ince of Hizen.

The early Japanese manufacturers
who exported porcelain lent willing ear
to the suggestions of the Dutch traders.
The Dutch taste was by no means in ac-
cord with the Japanese, and Holland
would have paid little attention to the
simple, restrained form of Japanese dec-
oration. Instead, the Dutch demanded
heavily patterned surfaces, panels with
a great deal of ornament, floral decora-
tion in plenty. The Land of Tulips had
no notion of letting the Land of Cherry-

Blossoms dole forth any meagre flor-
escence. To make certain that there
should be no mistake about it, one of
the Dutch managers, Wagenaar, him-
self a connoisseur and artist, designed a
pattern of a white flower on a blue
ground, (possibly the very thing we call
the Hawthorn Pattern), and the first
two hundred pieces of it which reached
Europe were immediately bought up by
admiring collectors. The Japanese, with
an eye to the advantages of such sales,
were not finicky in meeting the Dutch
taste and henceforth Dutch influence
was strongly exhibited in Japanese
porcelains manufactured for export !

August II, King of Poland and Elec-
tor of Saxony, had built for his amuse-
ment what was called the Japanese
Palace. Between 1698 and 1724 "Old
Japan" porcelain pieces were acquired
for decorating its various halls. There
were covered vases, beakers, gourd-
shaped bottles, jars, plates and the like,
in red, blue and gold decoration, occa-
sionally with a note of black. The
paste of this porcelain was of a hard
uniform texture, pure white, and de-
noted careful manipulation in manufac-
ture. A few pieces were partly deco-
rated in relief. Such of these as sur-
vived went to form the superb Imperial
Collection in Dresden, but unfortunately
when they were removed from their
original setting in the Japanese Palace
no note was made of their placing
there, a great pity since they were all
carefully marked with dates of importa-
tion and other data when placed in the
Elector's "palace." The appearance of
the Japanese Imperial Crest, the Kiku-
mon on pieces in the Dresden collec-
tion, as on pieces in the collection
formed by the Duke of Devonshire at
Chatsworth, recalls the imperial Jap-
anese edict, which forbade the exporta-
tion from Japan of any piece of porce-
lain decorated with the Imperial Crest.
One of the early potters, Tomimura
Kanyemon, is supposed to have sold
pieces so decorated to the Dutch, and,
being detected in the illicit act, was
sentenced to commit hara kari and so
met his death. Notwithstanding the
vicissitudes of the potters as well as of
the traders, Japanese porcelain manu-
facture progressed apace, reaching its
zenith between 1750 and 1830, roughly
speaking, and embracing the famous
porcelain products of Hizen, Kyoto,
Satsuma, Kutani, Owari, Bizen, Taka-
tori, Banko, Izumo and Yatsushiro. Of
these the porcelains of Hizen are, his-
torically, the most interesting, being the
wares we have already traced in connec-
tion with their introduction to the
Western world.

Since, in later years, nearly all the
(Continued on page 84)

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How Do You

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The G-E Twin

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you enjoying the convenience of elec-
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at your breakfast table, or do you stand over
a hot range? Or must you climb on a chair
to attach an unsightly cord to your lighting
fixture?

You will be surprised to find how little it
costs to turnpartial'mto complete convenience
— either in your present home or one now
being planned — to substitute convenience for
inconvenience.

BE sure to have beautiful table lamps, cooling
breezes from fans, or quick heat from portable
heaters all over the house. Be able to have
electrical kitchen -helpers to work for you;
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PLAN for enough switches so that you will
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The Imari Ware of Japan

(Continued from page 82)

porcelains from the various kilns in the
Province of Hizen came to be shipped
through the port of Imari, the name
Imari-yaki, meaning Imari Ware, came
to be given to all these products, al-
though there was no kiln in the city of
Imari itself. So strongly has the name
of this port attached itself to the porce-
lains of Hizen, that one uses the term
Imari Ware more frequently than any
other in referring to the porcelains of
Hizen's various kilns — those of the
Arita, Nabeshima and Hirado wares
(the three principal ones), and elsewhere
the wares of Ichinose, Hirose, Nanga-
wara, Ohotaru, Hokao, Kuromouda,
Shida, Ko-Shida and Yoshida. The
Arita ware was produced at Arita, the
Nabeshima ware at Ohokawachiyama
and the Hirado ware at Mikawau-
chiyama, but to all, as we have said, was
given the inclusive name of Imari Ware,
as applied to wares intended for export,
wares distinguished by their brocaded
effect, decorated in few bold laid-on col-
ors in floal, scroll and diaper pattern,
and often with figures, landscapes, birds
and animals. The Imari style was, it
should be remembered, preceded by
what may be called the premiere sorte
du Japan, the Kakiyemon, whose milky
white paste bore the cobalt blue enamel
decoration applied over the glaze, dis-
tinguishing it from the 18th Century
Imari Ware, or "Old Japan" which had
the cobalt blue decoration under the
glaze. The heavily decorated Imari was,
of course, in strong contrast to the deli-
cate and restrained Kakiyemon.

Arita Imari

One cannot do better than here to
quote Captain Brinkley's description of
Arita porcelain— made at Arita, an im-
portant town near the Idzumiyama — as
contained in his authoritative volume on
keramics in his well-known work "Ja-
pan and China": "The Arita artists
made enameled brilliancy a subordinate
feature, and sought, by careful painting
and refined motives, to compensate for
what was lost in richness of effect. This
conception and execution of the ware
was excellent. The pate was fine and
pure, having a clear and bell-like timbre.
The milk-white glaze, soft, yet not lack-
ing in lustre, formed a ground harmon-
izing well with the ornamentation which
was simple sometimes to severity. The
enamels were clear and rich in tone, but
of few colors; lustreless red, frequently
showing an orange tint, grass-green, and
lilac-blue (over the glaze) constituted
nearly the whole palette. Of decorative
subjects, floral medallions were perhaps
most common, but the dragon, the
Phoenix, the bamboo, the plum, the pine,
birds fluttering about a sheaf of corn,
other naturalistic subjects, together with
various kinds of diapers, were constantly
depicted. The characteristics of this
ware are not only the sparseness, but
also the distribution of the decoration;
instead of being spread over the sur-
face, the designs were confined to a few
places, the object 'apparently being to
surround each little picture with as
ample a margin as possible. This de-
scription applies to Arita porcelain after
the processes of enameled decoration
and other technical details had been ful-
ly mastered, a condition which was
probably attained about the year 1660."

Sir A. W. Franks tells us that in the
period of Tempo, about the year 1830, a
wealthy inhabitant of Arita named
Hiratomi Yojibei, an amateur of dis-
tinction, found that the clay from
Hirato was much better suited for re-
ceiving the Arita glazes than was the
slower drying clay obtained from the
Idzuyama (Idzu mountain). Later
Goto Island clay was found to be
superior and came generally into use
at Arita. The making of the Arita tea-
cups with saucers is believed to have

been begun by Yojibei, as were also
the Arita flower vases, all of which
found ready sale to the foreigners visit-
ing Nagasaki. These pieces were all
marked with the characters signifying
"Sampo", a title which has been given
Yojibei.

Nabeshima Imari

Some three miles north of Arita lies
the village of Ohokawachiyama, where
the Nabeshima Imari was produced.
This ware was so called from the found-
er and patron of the manufactory, the
Prince of Nabeshima, Nabeshima
Naoshige, feudal chief of Hizen, who,
in the year 1710, removed the works
thither from Iwayagawa, as the
Iwayagawa site was so near the public
highway that it was not found possible
to maintain the secrecy desired in con-
nection with the porcelain's fabrication.
Only the finest pieces were made here,
pieces used by the Imperial Court, the
Court of the Shogun and by the Daimio.
We are told that its sale to private in-
dividuals and to foreigners was strictly
prohibited, any transgression of this
prohibition being severely punished.
This fine Nabeshima porcelain differed
from the Imari-yaki in the milky white-
ness of its glaze and the comparative
sparseness of its decoration. The pecu-
liar greens, turquoise blue and fine black
of the Nabeshima ware is not to be
found in other contemporary Japanese
porcelains.

The Hirado ware, produced at Mika-
wachi, a town some six miles south of
Arita was so called since it enjoyed the
particular patronage of Prince Mat-
sura, the feudal chief of Hirado. Al-
though this manufactory had been
established about the year 16SS, it was
not until 1751 that the Prince of Hirado
took over the works and the mid- 18th
Century to about 1830 is the period of
its finest examples, pieces of rare beauty.
Official prohibitions prevented this ware
from finding its way into the market
and its production was limited. Col-
lectors seek for specimens of Hirado
eagerly. Apropos the variety of Hirado
styles Egan Mew says: "Among the
modeled and colored figures those of
little boys and old men are well known.
. . . The colors of Hirado work are put
on in glazes of a curious brown, varying
from bright and light to dark, and black
and blue. The Hirado works are also
famous for their delicate under-glaze
blue productions, which without having
the depth and vivid qualities of the
Chinese blue, from which it was re-
fined by an elaborate process, are very
charming. Figure subjects are more fre-
quent here than in most of the Japan-
ese factories. It has been supposed
that the number of boys shown in the
piece marks the quality of the example,
seven standing for the highest classes
and three the lowest."

Collector's Chances

None of the crude late wares of in-
ferior quality, "picturesque" but having
no appeal to the true connoisseur, which
the Japanese kilns have produced in
enormous quantities can be mistaken for
the old Imari Ware. Fortunately the
field is not entirely combed and the col-
lector of today may hope to come across
a fine piece in Europe and America, but
it would probably be the work of a
lifetime now to assemble an Imari col-
lection through "browsing", or by other
than the rare chance of some important
group of Imari offered at public sale. In
Japan the native collectors seem to have
penetrated to the haunts of every bit
of "Old Japan" that happened to re-
main on the islands, in consequence of
which Japan as a gathering field for old
Imari is anything but hopeful.

The illustrations which accompany
(Continued on page 86)

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this article have been obtained through
the courtesy of Mr. Harry Maxwell, of
Kobe, Japan, from photographs in his
private collection, which I have been
told is one of the most important in
Japan. Led by an interest in Imari
Ware, Mr. Maxwell started many years
ago to form a dinner set of Imari, se-
lecting only such pieces as were, in his
judgment, of the finest quality. Writ-
ing of his collection, Mr. Maxwell says:
"Like Japanese color prints, Imari was
long neglected by the" Japanese, but
when foreigners had nearly cleared the
country of the finest examples, the Jap-

anese collectors awakened to the charms
of this porcelain and Imari, in conse-
quence, is now rarely to be obtained."
The pieces in Mr. Maxwell's collection
date back, with some exceptions, from
one to two centuries. Mr. Maxwell
says: "There is no mistaking the old
Imari Ware, as it is impossible to imi-
tate it today. The Imari of the present
time is quite a different article, both in
colors and in forms. Mr. Maxwell's col-
lection also contains some fifty-two
pieces of reproductions made some forty
years ago of the 17th Century Imari
patterned with Dutch ships and figures.

Operating on Trees

(Continued from page S3)

short time the work was worthless, and
in many cases really harmful. The
same is true in regard to cavities in trees,
and consequently one of the first and
most important tasks is to remove every
particle of decayed or diseased wood.

When a wound of any consequence is
made in your protective skin, one of
the first things you do is to put on it
iodine or some other disinfectant which
will kill the germs which are almost om-
nipresent and infect open wounds in
living tissues. Now, the tree's wood
is living tissue and germs thrive there
in a luxuriant fashion. Therefore when
your trees are treated, see that a proper
disinfectant is used on every wound.

In most cases the protection result-
ing from disinfection is of comparative-
ly short duration and it must be insured
by something more permanent. This
insurance is usually provided by a
waterproofing or wound dressing of
some kind. Unfortunately such dress-
ings do not all possess the same merit.
In spite of the fact that many have
recommended coal tar and asphalt prod-
ucts, experiments have proved beyond
the possibility of doubt that the creo-
sote contained in these remedies kills
back the tender growing and healing
bark from one eighth of an inch to two
or three inches from the edge of the
wound. This means a much larger
wound, with several years additional
time needed for healing.

Most of the wood which ordinarily
decays forms the structural strength of
the tree. It is only natural then, that
a decided weakness is always present at
the point where a cavity is made. This
strength must be restored as nearly as
possible with mechanical bracing. Some
of the strains will be taken by the brac-
ing itself. Also the separate parts of
the tree will be so bound together that
they will work in unison, resisting the
stresses in the most efficient way. The
proper bracing of a weakened tree neces-
sitates much training and experience for
the successful application of accumulated
technical knowledge.

After the cavity has been braced it is
ready for filling. It might be mentioned
here that some tree men advocate that
cavities should not be filled. However,
experiments have proved that cavities
made in sound wood, and then carefully
and thoroughly waterproofed, are so
subject to fungous diseases that within
a period of ten months luxuriant fungous
growths had developed in ninety per
cent of the unfilled cavities. It might
also be said at this point that no filler
has yet been discovered which will suc-
cessfully take the place of sectional con-
crete fillings. Many have been tried,
some at the direct expense of the tree
owners and to the direct harm to val-
uable trees, but all of them have been
found wanting. One of the substitute

fillers highly recommended in a book
published on the care of trees was tried a
few years ago in an experimental way,
and now the fillings are on the ground.

Of course it is taken for granted that
the cavity to be filled has been properly
shaped to receive and hold the filling.
This filling is made of concrete com-
posed of the proper mixture of sand and
cement and wet so that it has neither
too much nor too little water in it.
Starting at the bottom the concrete has
to be built up in sections of the proper
size one above the other with a piece of
weather-proof tarred paper between.
These tar paper joints serve a dual pur-
pose. First, they allow for expansion
and contraction during the heat of sum-
mer and the cold of winter. Second,
they are built in much the same shape
as a ball and socket joint, thus permit-
ting the otherwise inflexible filling to
move with the swaying and bending of
the tree in the wind.

Like many other things worth while,
only time will disclose the benefits or
injury from cavity work in trees. The
callousing or healing over the entire
edge of the filling is the most trust-
worthy sign of benefit. This healing
should be well on its way by the middle
of the season following the operation.
In this way the wound is quickly and
securely sealed against all outside in-
fluences. It is assumed, of course, that
the filling is of a kind that will remain
permanently in place.

In order to facilitate the healing it is
necessary to shape the cavity in a cer-
tain way. If you have ever examined
very carefully the usual healing around
a tree wound, you have probably no-
ticed that most of the new growth is
along the sides of the wound and very
little is developed at the top and bottom.
Following this fact in cavity treatment,
it is well to make all the edges of the
cavity as sides. This leaves the top and
bottom as points and there is no place
where healing is not rapid.

Still another great aid to rapid cal-
lousing is the careful preservation of the
tender growing tissues in the cambium
wherever it is cut. It often happens that
uncared for cambium will dry out and
die back, causing the bark to brea'c
away from the wood for several inche;
around the edges of the cavity. Some
material such as shellac, which will not
injure the tender tissues and which wi'I
dry almost immediately, must be ujed
to insure success.

Detail after detail could be mentioned
and described, each one of which makes
for or against successful cavity treat-
ment. However, if those already dis-
cussed will to a slight degree help my
readers to protect themselves and their
trees this article will render some meas-
ure of service to those who own and
love trees.

August , 1922

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Japanese iris is a lover of moisture, and in that differs

from the bearded or Pogoniris, which loves a dry, hot

location

Flowers of the Rainbow

(Continued from page 40)

dium sized but brilliantly colored flow-
ers, effective as groups rather than as
individual blossoms. The Japanese
irises are beyond the occidental imagi-
nation. They are of every combination
of blue, white and yellow, gigantic flat
flowers 7" or more in diameter, and
barbarically gorgeous. Their relative
lack of popularity is not due to their
unworthiness, but in part to the fact
that they are not quite so easy of cul-
tivation as are the bearded iris, and in
part to the fact that their nomenclature
is absolutely chaotic. In many cata-
logues they are listed under Japanese
names which are meaningless, and which
one strongly suspects of having been
made in America. One of the important
tasks ahead of the Iris Society is the
straightening out of the names of these
plants. At present the buyer has no
means of getting comparative estimates
of value, as it is rare for two dealers to
list the same names. There are a few
others of the Apogon group to be had of
American dealers, one the tall, yellow
English semi-aquatic, Iris Pseudacorus.

Among other miscellaneous irises cul-
tivated in the United States are a few in
the Evansia group. These are char-
acterized by a crest on the falls, replac-
ing the beard of the Pogoniris group.
Two Evansia irises commonly listed are
Cristata, a tiny dwarf blue variety, three
inches in height and suitable for rock
gardens, and tectorum in both blue and
white, a beautiful species from the
Orient, where it is grown on the
thatched roofs of cottages. The tec-
torum is said to be hardy, with some
winter protection, south of New York,
but the writer has failed completely in
his attempts to carry it through a New
Hampshire winter.

The remaining irises in cultivation in
America are confined to the Xiphion or
bulbous iris groups. Very few of these
bulbs are now available however,
though where they can be had, they are
well worth securing. The flowers are
beardless, come in many combinations
of blue, yellow, and white, and seem
ssery large in contrast with the slender,
grass-like foliage. Newly sprouting
plants in spring look like onions. There
are two groups of these bulbous irises
most commonly cultivated, one called
Spanish iris and the other called English
iris. "The latter are the larger and more
robust. Both have relatively flat flow-
ers, wide spreading and somewhat spi-
derish in effect, due to the fact that in
the irises the standards are narrow and
spreading, and the petaloid style arms
are more prominently developed than
in the bearded iris. There are no irises,
so dainty, so delicate and so graceful as
the Spanish and English irises. One
naturally wonders why flowers so attrac-
tive should be so neglected. The present

quarantine law accounts for the phe-
nomenon in the case of the bulbous
irises. American growers have depended
upon Holland for their supply of bulbs
and now the bulbs are forbidden entry.

The Regelia and Oncocyclus groups
contain what are generally admitted to
be the most beautiful irises in the world,
and one of them, Iris Lorteti is one of
the most famous, a combination of
cream, crimson, white and violet, 7"
across, with standards 5" high. But
these plants are desert species from the
mountains of Asia Minor, and defy cul-
tivation in Europe and America.

The beginner with irises finds it neces-
sary to understand the structure of the
individual flower, for the terms, falls,
standards and style arms occur con-
stantly in all descriptions of the plants.

The typical iris blossom consists of a
circle of six petals known collectively
as the perianth. These petals are united
at their bases into a relatively long and
narrow tube, and below this there is
the green ovary, which, after flowering
time, becomes the seed pod. Three of
the six petals stand outright or hang
down, and are known as the falls. The
other six are upright and are called the
standards. There are three stamens,
each one hidden under one of the three,
arching, ribbon - shaped, petal - like
branches of the style. The style
branches press close down, each upon a
fall, and between the two is the stamen.
The stigma is transverse membraneous
growth on the under side of the style
arm near its extremity, like a little pro-
jecting shelf.

All these flower parts are ingeniously
arranged to facilitate cross fertilization
by insects. The bee alights on one of
the falls, which serve as convenient land-
ing stages for aerial insect visitors, and
enters the flower in search of honey by
burrowing in under the overhanging
style arm. He disappears completely
from view, but emerges a moment or
two later with his back well dusted with
pollen from the overhanging anther of
the stamen. When he enters the next
flower, some of this pollen is scraped
from his back by the stigma of that
blossom, and the fertilization is accom-
plished.

An impression is more or less preval-
ent among those who have not grown
them that irises demand water, or at
least moist soil for their successful cul-
ture. When I set out my first bearded
irises I was instructed by a friend who
had had much more gardening experi-
ence than I, to set the plants immedi-
ately in front of the rainspouts at the
corners of the house that they might
be deluged each time it rained, with the
moisture they craved. Those of that
first lot of irises which still survive owe
(Continued on page 90)

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Height without
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In creating new iris the hybridizer plucks with fine pointed pincers
the stamens of the blossoms selected for seed parents

Flowers of the Rainbow

(Continued from page 88)

their existence to the fact that I have eased portion without removing the
since transplanted them. This persist- plant and filling in the cavity with
ent belief among the uninitiated that powdered gypsum. This method has
the iris is semi-aquatic is probably due proved successful with him and has the
to the fact that the native wild iris, /. obvious advantage over other methods
versicolor, really is a semi-aquatic, and that it leaves the plant undisturbed.
thrives in swampy meadows. This par- Nine-tenths of the irises under culti-
ticular species, however, and the Eng- vation in American gardens are Pogon-
lish, /. Pseudacorus, both Apogons, are iris, the tall bearded irises. The Amer-
perhaps the only irises that can live in lean Iris Society finds that more than
water. A few others prefer damp soil, 2500 named varieties have been offered
notably the Japanese, and these can for sale in this country since American
stand actual water in summer ; but most seedsmen have sold the plant, and it is
of the others, including the great army thought that 1300 of these are still ad-
of bearded irises, demand dry soil and vertised. A recent balloting by mem-
full sunshine. bers of the society resulted in a selection

One is usually warned against the of but 750 of these as worthy of any
use of manure as a fertilizer, and to consideration at all, and of these not
bring manure into actual contact with more than 100 scored more than 80 on
the rhizomes is said to be fatal. Bone a scale of 100. Hereafter dealers can
meal, dug in around the roots, is al- hardly afford to fail to publish in their
ways recommended. The fear of catalogues the society's rating for each
manure is perhaps somewhat exag- variety offered for sale, as the peony
gerated for I have used it successfully dealers are already doing. With this
in my own garden, as a top dressing, rating as a guide the beginner may make
later dug in. A dressing of lime is a his selections with a good deal of con-
necessity for success with bearded fidence.

irises, but strangely enough, the Apo- The tall bearded irises may be con-

gons must never be given lime. sidered in two groups, first the novelties,

Irises have some insect enemies but introduced within the last five or six

not so many as do some other garden years; and second, the standard varie-

plants. Tent caterpillars occasionally ties, introduced prior to that period.

destroy a few flower buds, while the iris The former are, of course, much higher

borer is a more formidable foe. This in price, but as the work of the plant

pest, the larva of a moth, enters the breeders goes on constantly, and is

flower stalk, which soon shows by its yearly more intelligently conducted, the

withering that the borer is within, and newer irises can, in general, be counted

works downward. He may enter the on to be better than most of those now

root and destroy it. Keeping the beds existing, and each year will see many

cleanly cultivated and free from rubbish now standard varieties discarded for

is the remedy prescribed for the borer, manifestly improved forms. It will be

It is obviously also necessary to kill gratifying to the possibly slender pursed

the individual borers wherever found, novice to know that a high priced iris,

to prevent their reaching the root. Cut if it is really good, will not remain high

worms also occasionally do damage. priced, or excessively so, for any very

Usually more serious than insect pests lengthy period. This is due to the fact

is the root rot disease which reduces that irises are propagated by root divi-

the normally firm, brittle rhizomes to sion, and if the plant is a reasonably

the consistency of cus-
tard. I first made its ac-
quaintance several years
ago when I received a
large consignment of
roots and discovered they
were all affected. I cut
away the rotted portion;
and soaked the remainder
for an hour in water
tinged pink with potas-
sium permanganate. The
treated rhizomes gave a
perfectly normal crop of
flowers. Dusting the
roots with powdered sul-
phur after the diseased
portion has been cut
away is . also recom-
mended, and Mr. E. B.
Williamson recommends
scraping away the dis-

The structure of the iris

flower. Courtesy of the

American Iris Society

rapid grower the stock
will multiply rapidly
enough to permit price
reduction, if it does not,
the variety is, obviously,
not completely good. It
is certainly a poor grow-
er, and such a variety
will in all probability
soon be replaced by an-
other equally valuable as
a flower and improved as
to annual growth. The
constantly growing de-
mand for all the better
irises is, however, an-
other factor which tends
to keep prices high in
spite of rapidly multiply-
ing stocks.

Pogoniris are often ar-
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ranged in subdivisions according to col-
or, and as these section names occur fre-
quently in catalogues some explanation
is called for. These sections and some
of their outstanding characteristics, fol-
low :
Germanica: May flowering, blue and

purple flowers.

Pallida: Wide foliage, maximum height,
the flowers in blues, purples, laven-
ders and pinks.

Variegata: Standards always yellow.
Falls of various colors, including yel-
low Amoena: Standards white. Falls
Amoena: Standards white: Falls of

various colors.
Neglecta: Standards and falls, lavender

to purple.
Plicata or Aphylla: Petals white with

colored borders.

Squalens: Standards copper to fawn.
Falls of various colors.
There are many varieties which can
hardly be assigned to any of these sec-
tions.

It would be very difficult to give a list
of the ten best standard bearded irises,
probably quite impossible, but for the
beginner's guidance the following list
may be of value. It contains one or two
of the best in each of the principal sec-
tions.
Germanica. Kochii, a rich deep purple,

2' in height, very early.
Pallida. Pallida dalmatica. This is a
tall silvery lavender, self-colored flow-
er. A variety of it, Princess Beatrice,
is ranked as the best standard iris in
America. There can be few flowers in
the world more beautiful than this in
form, texture and color. Lord of
June, lavender blue, 31/?', and Juniata,
of similar color and height. Queen of
May, 21/.', pink.

Variegata. Loreley, standards pale yel-
low, falls purple with pale yellow
border. Very effective in the garden.
Maori King, standards bright yellow;
falls crimson, yellow bordered. Aurea,
standards and falls both bright yellow.
All these are from 2' to 2%' high.
Amoena. Rhein Nixe, blue white stand-
ards with pansy violet falls, 40" tall.
Thorbeck, 2', violet blue velvet falls.
Wyomissing, standards tinged pink;
falls deeper pink lightening at edges.
Neglecta. Standards violet, falls darker;
32". Archeveque, standards violet,
falls purple; 27".

Plicata. Madame Chereau, white bor-
dered with lavender; 3'. Introduced
in 1844, this is still one of the best.
Ma Mie, violet margins, height 3'.
Squalens. Prosper Laugier, standards
bronze red, falls velvet red purple;
32". Jaquesiana, introduced in 1840.
Standards coppery crimson, and the
falls a brown red. 3'.
The constantly increasing interest in
hybridizing makes it certain that most
of the standard irises are, in the com-
paratively near future, doomed to be
driven out by the newer and better
varieties. There are hosts of these nov-
elties now offered for sale and already
establishing themselves, but it takes time
to achieve the general introduction of
a new iris, because until stock is plenti-
ful, prices are too high for the average
purchaser.

The best of the newer irises relatively
few growers have seen, and it is in con-
sequence with some hesitation that any
of them are here named. The following
are, however a few of those receiving
the highest commendation from those
fortunate enough to own them :
Lent A. Williamson, violet and purple;
frequently rated the finest iris ever
produced in America if not in the
world.

Ambassadeur, red violet.
Ballerine, a fragrant, blue iris.
Dominion, standards bluish violet, falls
indigo purple velvet. The most fa-
mous iris produced in England. Also a

competitor for worldwide first honors.
Souvenir de Madame Gaudichau, deep

purple.

Magnified, standards blue, falls reddish
violet. A French production famed
for its size. Blossoms 6" in height.
Queen Caterina, pale lavender violet.
Phyllis Bliss, pale rosy lavender.

The iris is propagated by breaking the
rhizomes into several pieces and plant-
ing these just beneath the surface of the
soil, late in summer. Irises may also be
grown from seed, though many varieties
are sterile and produce no seed. As
present day irises are of very mixed ori-
gin, it follows, when they still retain
the power to produce fertile seed, that
this seed will, in turn, produce plants
which may reveal any trait of any an-
cestral plant, or any combination of such
traits. It is from this situation that the
joys of seedling raising arise, for he who
plants iris seed experiences at once the
thrills of both gardening and gambling.
Anything may happen, but interest is
greatest when the seeds are not the re-
sult of chance insect fertilization, but of
the deliberate hand crossing of two
prominent varieties.

The usual procedure of the hybri-
dizer is to pluck with fine pointed pin-
cers the stamens of the blossoms selected
for seed parents, while these flowers are
still in bud. This results in a rumpled
flower, but one which can not fertilize
itself. Bags of white muslin are tied
over each of these mutilated buds.

We will suppose, for sake of illus-
tration, that the seed parent selected is
a purple iris which is known to produce
seed. When the blossoms are well
opened within their insect excluding
muslin bags, the hybridizer gathers sta-
mens from the plant he has selected for
pollen parent. We will assume that th's
is a yellow iris. He transfers the pollen
from these yellow iris stamens to the
stigmas of the purple stamenless blos-
soms and again ties on the protecting
bags. To accomplish this pollen transfer
he may use a camel's hair brush, or sim-
ply rub the anther of the stamen on the
stigma. Bags may be removed as soon
as blossoming is over and the seed from
the resultant pods is planted in the fall.
This seed will ordinarily germinate the
following spring, and the plants usually
blossom the spring after that. In the
case under consideration these flowers
may be expected in all possible combina-
tions of yellow and purple, together .
with other unpredictable colors derived
from unknown ancestors of both parents.
It is in this way that the producers in
France, England and America are bring-
ing forth each season the new irises des-
tined to drive out the present standard
varieties. Each hybridizer, and in these
days everyone has his seedling bed,
hopes to make a great discovery. The
greatest of all hybridizing stories is that
of Mr. E. B. Williamson of Bluffton, In-
diana, who had a row of Amas bearing:
about 500 blossoms. Mr. Williamson
applied pollen to every one of these 500-
flowers and was rewarded with but a
single seed. It was this lone seed, how-
ever, which produced the famous Lent
A. Williamson.

The novice hybridizer must bear in
mind several important facts. Many
irises, for example, are sterile and will
give no seed, and others which will
produce seed under cross fertilization,
produce nothing but sterile pollen.
Many seeds themselves are sterile, and
many which are fertile will not germi-
nate the first year. There is one re-
corded case of an iris seed that delayed
18 years before germinating! It is
necessary to plant iris seed in the fall,.
as the winter freezing is essential to
germination. The seeds may be planted
in rows like sweet pea seed, and the little
sturdy seedlings are at once identifiable
from the accompanying grass and weed!

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room with its red tiled floor has deter-
mined the kitchen's character — a plain
red oilcloth on table tops, red tiled
floor, red gingham in cupboard doors,
everything as in an English cottage.

As kitchens become more and more
convenient to the hand, more and more
laboratory-like, we are apt to lose sight
of the old charms, and overstress shin-
ing white porcelain and metalic effi-
ciency. There is, of necessity, so much
shining metal and enamel that such
colors as we bring into the kitchen
may be strong ones. There is a certain
amount of color always established — the
white of the tiles or enamel; the black
of the stove and heavier pots and pans;
the glitter of bright aluminum and
nickel; the occasional strong crude spot
of copper; and the terra-cotta of brick
and earthenware. The most successful
colors to add to these are fresh pure
ones. Red check gingham seems to
have the same affinity for a kitchen that
red geraniums have. Blue, a good
coarse washable blue, is equally friend-
ly. Green is very agreeable and too
rarely used. There is a green linoleum
made in imitation of green marble that
is cool and clean looking. Orange and
lemon yellow are delightful.

Trying to make a kitchen too pretty
may easily become a silly and absurd
performance, but if decoration meets
the requirements of cleanliness and has
a certain relation to the crude shapes
of pots and pans and such, I see no
reason why we should not indulge our
taste for modern art here. One of my
friends who has fallen a victim to the
delights of the Russian peasant scheme
of decoration of the Chauve-Souris has
established a modernist bee hive in his
apple orchard, because he has no op-
portunity for that particular sort of
taste in his Georgian house. He has
a row of bee hives painted in vivid
colors — green and red yellow and vio-
let and pink and blue and orange —
and it is a sudden and amusing joy
to the eye. The gay and innocent color
of the Chauve-Souris is applicable to
the decoration of the kitchen, whereas
more sophisticated decoration is not,
because there is no possible careful
scheme among kitchen furnishings.
Therefore, brilliant color is desirable.

In a Long Island house built in the
Italian style the kitchen is one of the
most interesting rooms in the house.
The floor is of linoleum blocks, huge
black squares separated by gray lines.
The walls and ceiling are washed with
lemon yellow, and the trim is stained a
dark Italian walnut. We had a pair
of old Venetian kitchen cupboards, yel-
low glazed to a faded tone, painted
with baskets spilling over with turnips
and carrorts and such, which gave
the kitchen so fine an air we had to
search for other Italian things which
would also be sensible as well as beau-
tiful. A working table was necessary,
so we bought a slab of yellow marble
and placed it under the large window,
supporting it by a pair of wrought
iron brackets. This kitchen console is
quite as useful as a white enamel table,
and very decorative as well. Curtains
were made of a heavy washable orange
linen, and the kitchen table has a set
of cloths and napkins of the same linen
for intimate breakfasts.

Another kitchen equally amusing is
in the little French lodge house of a
lady who has fastidious requirements.
This kitchen has a floor of real red
tiles, true to the French in color, white-
washed walls, and a light green trim.
A reproduction of an old Breton cup-
board in oak has the place of honor.
An ordinary drop-leaf table of no period,
several Breton oak chairs with rush
seats, a lot of Brittany peasant china
and red and white striped linen cur-
tains emphasize the French note of the

room. I must not forget the orderly
rows of little brown earthenware pots,
so reminiscent of thick cream, that are
used for tea and coffee and such, on a
long shelf. These squatty little pots
are embellished with labels adapted
from the designs of the Brittany china,
and lettered according to the contents.
Under the pot shelf, which is green,
there is a smart little ruffle of red and
white striped linen that can be hooked
on and off easily.

My own kitchen in my New York
house is to be a mixture of English and
French — Adam and Directoire, friendly
periods because they both come from
the classic Italian. This kitchen is
planned around a lovely old Adam cup-
board, painted light blue, with deeper
blue lines in its groovings, and white
lines in its panels. The interior of the
cupboard is painted an extraordinary
bright pink, and my collection of blue
and white glass is lovely in its candy-
colored setting. The walls and trim of
this kitchen are light blue, enameled to
the quality of lacquer. The floor is of
a plain black linoleum waxed to shine
like marble, and the curtains are of
pink — very pink chambray, with wide
ruffles. These ruffles are of coarse
lace, embroidered with pink and blue
cotton threads, imitating the Russian
peasant lace. The two long French
windows open into a tiny yard (we
call it a "garden" in New York) en-
closed by a high boarded fence. This
fence I purpose to have painted from
that joyous design by Rousseau, "Les
Farceurs," a mass of tropical green-
leaved plants and trees with two mon-
keys beaming at you from among fan-
tastic branches. The painted branches,
the brick pavement, and a wide awning
of dark green will make this little yard
an open air breakfast room. It will be
furnished with iron table and chairs.

The average American kitchen is
small, and therefore, must be compact
and ship-shape. A small kitchen must
have washable walls, although a large
room, with plenty of windows, may
have its walls papered. In Falls Vil-
lage, Connecticut, there is a refreshing
kitchen in a remodeled farmhouse.
Several doors and windows supply ade-
quate air, so the walls, which are cov-
ered with a large green and white lattice
paper, are immaculate after several
years use. The doors and shelves and
tables are painted bright green, and
the floor is covered with a plain dark
green linoleum. The doors here have
long full curtains of black mosquito
netting, which keep flies out, and give
the coolest effect you can imagine.

A fresh and convenient apartment
kitchen is shown in one of the illustra-
tions. Here the space is so precious that
every bit of wall space is required
for provisions. This little kitchen is
shining white paint or shining black
metal, and navy blue and white china
and linen. The sash curtains are blue
and white check gingham. The spice
pots and headboxes are blue and white,
everything is of the simplest, but the
cool impression is far from ordinary.

One of the finest rooms I know any-
where, is the kitchen in a remodeled
American house, beautiful white panel-
ing, large flagstones making a floor,
whitewashed ceiling and very delicate
white beams crossed by three great
supporting oak ones — a deep chimney
place, with oak settees under the hood,
and a checked gingham curtain pleated
under the mantel shelf. Geraniums on
the window sill. A drop leaf table in
the center of the room with two wheel-
back chairs. A great dresser of deal,
with cups and saucers and plates spread
out, and great copper pots beneath it.
A grandfather clock between door and
fireplace. What a kitchen to sit still
and dream in.

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House & Garden

August Emphasizes Cool Shower Baths

(Continued from page 65)

"Little Home", Ferd. Von Beren
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Plant Evergreens
This Fall

Fall is an ideal time for setting out Evergreens.
In the photograph of the garden above, arbor
vitae, dwarf pines, hemlocks, rhododendrons and
spruce serve as a delight to the eye during hot
clays of summer, or when winter's white mantle
falls o'er the landscape.

Various types of evergreens are suitable either
in a formal garden, or as sentinels posted at the
entrance of a drive or walk, as a foundation plant-
ing, or as single specimens on a broad lawn. We
can tell you which varieties fill your horticultural
need best.

And while planting shrubs this autumn, add a
few beautiful varieties of roses to your garden.
Fruit trees, both dwarf and standard, and hedge
plants, can also be planted to advantage at this
season.

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work. It is sometimes a three-cham-
bered valve with places marked for hot
and cold water. The graduation of hot
and cold is controlled by a plunge so
arranged that you can set it to all de-
grees of temperature from hot to cold,
to no water at all. The volume adjuster
too, is a great convenience.

When building a recess for the shower
a cabinet can be placed in the wall,
taking up no bathroom space whatever,
thus leaving the bathroom clear and
free even if small. A door or sheet
here saves the room from splashing.

Many people crave the luxury of the
shower where there is no space; for
such there are installations which in-
volve no extra "fussing" or demoliting
of the bathroom. This is a device
which fastens to the faucet (one that
ejects hot and cold out of the same
vent is most desirable) and is attached
to the shower head by rubber woven
cord and seamless tubing. Shower head
and sheeting of finest quality are avail-
able for such an installation.

Shower heads can be placed in the
ceiling or on the side wall. The first
is a head wetter, the second is set at
such an angle that it can be used whilst
leaving the head dry. Some people
use douche, needle sprays on the three
sides of the cabinet and a shower head
above for a very stimulating type of
shower bath. There are various types
of sprays and water flows to suit these
tastes.

In some installations nothing but the
valves and nameplates (made of nickel,
silver, gold or porcelain) show. In
others all the pipes show. One shower
installation shows a battery of vertical
pipes, the pipes perforated their entire
length and a thermostatic device regu-
lating heat and volume.

Though open plumbing openly ar-
rived at is a good scheme, the recessed
closet with pipes is also good. Here the
pipes do not show, yet their doings are
easily reported. However when a good
firm installs the shower with the fix-
tures cavity re-packed from the out-

side, the hidden plumbing is a safe
venture.

The soap dish and sponge rack are the
only accessories needed in the shower
bath — outside you can hang your towels.
Where the floor of receptor is slippery
a rubber mat or something equally as
stable should be used. Some mats come
with suction cups, so that it is impos-
sible for the mat to slide. These can
be had in various sizes and shapes.

A mat directly outside the shower is
a necessity, for you are wet-footed and
may slip on the bathroom floor unless
the non-skid device is surely in place.

If you are traveling in by-ways there
is a brush device with shower valve —
which enables you to carry your shower
with you. Use it in connection with a
faucet and an ordinary water basin, and
be refreshed.

A few final words of caution, to be
remembered when you are planning to
install a shower:

1. Automatic mixers and thermostats
are more or less dependable according
to the manufacturer. They are genu-
ine luxuries, but not absolutely neces-
sary.

2. The valves of the thermostat
should be near the entrance of the cab-
inet, so that the arms or shoulders need
not be showered until the water is the
desired temperature.

3. If the piping is done well, you can
temper your hot and cold water usually
with little trouble even without extra
devices.

4. Remember that you are often
urged to buy "hifalutin" things which
are sometimes excellent and sometimes
rubbish. Be careful. Keep the bath-
rooms simple. Dispense with what
dispensable and get what is comfortable,
studying economy when possible.

5. Tiled or honed marble floors have
proven wiser than porcelain for recep-
tors.

6. Before deciding on your shower,
look at many manufacturers' things
and select the simplest that is well made
and of the best materials.

THE BOOK OF THE DAHLIA

THE AMATEUR'S BOOK OF THE DAHLIA,
by Mrs. Charles H. Stout. Double-
day, Page & Company.
The planting and raising of dahlias,
to Mrs. Stout, seems no less important
than the establishing and developing of
nations, and it is for this very reason
that her book of the dahlia is so signifi-
cant a volume. Taking the story of the
dahlia so seriously, she has brought to-
gether in her charmingly and practically
illustrated book, a volume of material
of overwhelming interest to the stu-
dent as well as the lover of this today
most popular flower.

Not only does this book contain com-
prehensive instruction on the propaga-
tion of dahlias, their birth and growth,
all the detail of cross-breeding and fer-
tilization, but in addition to these homely
details, Mrs. Stout gives a fascinating ac-
count of the discovery of the dahlia in
Mexico centuries ago. We read that Her-
nandez was sent as an envoy by Philip
II. to "study the plants and animals of
New Spain", all because Mexico had
produced the dahlia, which had caught
the fancy of kings and queens, of gar-
deners and other royalties.

At the beginning of the 19th century,
Mrs. Stout tells us, a perfect craze for
dahlias swept over Europe. No garden
was complete without it. Every variety
of color and combination of colors was
undertaken and accomplished. A Na-
tional Dahlia Society was formed in
Great Britain, and enormous sums of

money were spent on every novelty.

In the 'course of time naturally the
meteoric way of the dahlia brought it
back to America and here its success
continued and increased. Of course we
have a dahlia society here, and accord-
ing to Mrs. Stout's wonderful story of
the dahlia there are over five thousand
varieties to be found in trade catalogues.
Strangely enough the dahlia does not
seem to have grown arrogant with its
international triumph. It still consents
to grow on mountain slopes, in lowly
gardens, near the sea, far north in Eng-
land and south in America. But two
conditions must always surround dahlia
culture, fresh air and moisture. The
ideal place is an open, level bit of land,
with the morning sun, a few trees for
shade, a gentle rise of ground at the
back to bring enough but not too much
' rain. In fact this sounds like an ideal
set for a charming cottage where hu-
man beings could flourish as well as
dahlias.

A summary of Mrs. Stout's book
would really make an interesting article
in itself. And with all its importance
to dahlia lovers, it is no easy matter to
bring it down to the space allowed in
a mere book review. In the introduc-
tion to the book of dahlias, we are told
that if dahlia culture in America con-
tinues to increase in the future, we shall
have a place in the world of horticulture
as the propagator of a race of magnifi-
cent flowers.

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House & Garden

FALL PLANTING IN OCTOBER

YOU can tell a real gardener by the fact that
his gardening enthusiasm has a second
blooming in the autumn. Almost everyone
gets out and digs in the spring, and yet there is a
powerful lot of digging to be done in the autumn if
you want a successful garden next year. By plant-
ing now several months are saved and you have a
cleaner slate to begin with next spring. If House &
Garden could only initiate its hundred thousand
readers into the goodly habit of autumn planting,
the gardens of America would make incalculable
progress. That is the purpose of the October issue.
It is edited with a view to giving gardeners a re-
newal of their gardening enthusiasm.

If you are contemplating some landscape work
you will want to read the article on how to lay out
an approach to your house, study the views of the
remarkable California gardens, consider the contri-
bution on how to lay garden paths and the pages on
the principles of landscape design. In addition to
these are articles on how to grow bulbs indoors, on
the method of planting an English garden, on the
covering capacity of vines, on a city backyard gar-
den, on the flowers to grow in the greenhouse this
winter, and, of course, the fall planting table with
its explanation of how to do this planting.

Among the delightful houses to be
shown in the October issue is this
restored and remodeled Pennsyl-
vania farmhouse

While this work is going on outdoors there is a
continuation of autumn furnishing inside the house.
Those who take up this interior work in October
will find in the suggestions pages of mantel fixtures,
of new glassware, of rugs, tassels and the Little
Portfolio of Good Interiors. The Portfolio in Oc-
tober is devoted to views of a small country house
furnished in simple, livable taste.

Nor are the interests of the prospective house-
builder neglected in this issue. We will show four
houses witli plans — one large design in half-timber
and three smaller suggestions. There will also be
an article on patios and a practical discussion of
paints. To make the house-building measure full
to overflowing, we show how an old Pennsylvania
farmhouse, on the verge of decay and collapse, was
restored and enlarged to a beautiful all-year resi-
dence. If you are going to build suggestions such
as these are invaluable.

In this October number there will also begin a
monthly page conducted by Ruby Ross Goodnow,
a page of suggestions from this well-known decor-
ator which will be welcomed both by those who
plan to have a decorator assist them in the furnish-
ing of their homes, or who wish to do it themselves.

Contents for September, 1922. Volume XLH, JYo. Three

COVER DESIGN BY H. GEORGE BRANDT

HOUSE & GARDEN SETS UP ITS BULLETIN BOARD 33

A HOUSE SEEN FROM ALL SIDES 34

Howard Major, Architect
MODERN VIENNESE AND FRENCH DECORATIONS 3?

Giles Edgerton
THE HOME OF NORMAN TOERGE, LOCUST VALLEY, L. 1 38

Howard Major, Architect

EXTENDING SUMMER 40

THE STREET SIDE OF THE ITALIAN HOUSE 41

DECORATED PANELS 42

Caroline Duer

TASTE IN CURTAIN TRIMMINGS 44

FABRICS FOR THE FALL 45

COLOR SCHEMES FOR MEN'S ROOMS 46

Chandler W. Ireland

THE SUN ROOM IN THE HOME OF WILLIAM HALLE, CLEVELAND,
OHIO • • 48

Howell & Thomas, Architects
TAPESTRIES IN THE DECORATIVE SCHEME 49

Phyllis Ackerman
COLLECTING ENGRAVED GEMS SO

Gardner Teall

A LITTLE PORTFOLIO OF GOOD INTERIORS 51

THE VILLA DANTE ALIGHIERI 54

Robert Carriere & Morgan Heiskell

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OUR AMERICAN BIRCHES 56

H. Stuart Ortloff
THE RICH COLORS OF TULIP GARDENS 58

Antoinette Ferret
SEPTEMBER BEGINS THE DAHLIA SHOW 60

DELPHINIUMS FOR AMERICAN GARDENS 61

Bertrand H. Farr
WEATHERVANES FOR HOMES WITH HOBBIES 62

FIVE SMALL HOUSES 63

IF You ARE GOING TO BUILD 66

Mary Fanton Roberts
THE VARIETY OF FANLIGHTS 68

Costen Fitz-Gibbon
LINEN CLOSETS 70

Verna Cook Salomonsky
INSULATING THE NEW HOUSE 71

Henry Compton
To LESSEN KITCHEN LABOR 72

Peter Dunham
A GARDEN SCHEME ON Two LEVELS 73

C. W. Leavitt, Landscape Architect

FURNITURE FOR MANY PLACES 74

THE GARDENER'S CALENDAR 76

How TO MEASURE FOR CURTAINS 78

Ada La Hints

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HOUSE & GARDEN SETS UP
its BULLETIN BOARD

\ CCORDING to Vogue's excellent arti-
_/\ cles on etiquette, the proper way
to introduce dinner guests is to say: "Mrs.
Blank, I want to introduce my husband."
Well, readers of HOUSE AND GARDEN, we
want to introduce this new page. It is to
serve our mutual interests in a number of
ways, becoming a bulletin board or an ex-
perience meeting, as the case may be. There
are things constantly happening that would
interest HOUSE AND GARDEN readers, things
that somehow just can't be squeezed into
the body of the magazine. Some of these
will be noted on this page. It will be a
regular monthly feature.

GOOD small houses do not grow on
every bush. Members of the Ameri-
can Institute of Architects, however, have
determined to increase the crop. Through
the medium of the Architects' Small House
Service Bureau plans and designs for good
small houses are being distributed at rea-
sonable cost. Obviously, any one group of
designs will not suit all sections of the
country, and there are now being issued
books of plans for houses applicable to each
section. The latest to reach our desk is the
book of the Mountain Division, with de-
signs particularly adaptable to Colorado,
Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico.

THE Bureau of Plant Industry in the
Federal Department of Agriculture in-
cludes in its personnel many investigators,
experimenters and hybridists at home and
abroad. These men are constantly en-
deavoring to discover better methods and to
produce better varieties for the improvement
of American horticulture. Ranking high in
this body was Dr. W. Van Fleet, whose un-
timely death in January, 1922, leaves the
rose world poorer. Silver Moon, American
Pillar, Dr. W. Van Fleet, Sir Thomas Lip-
ton, Bess Lovett, Alida Lovett, Mary

Lovett, are some of the familiai because suc-
cessful American roses produced by this
great American worker for the American
public, and not "made in Europe."

A the time of his death there were on
trial, of Dr. Van Fleet's hybridization,
a dozen or more roses produced by this
genius with a view of providing what he-
called "dooryard roses," able to do satis-
factory service "with the least care in the
most places. Some of these roses had been
tried for years; others were just being prop-
agated for dissemination. But the Depart-
ment of Agriculture has no means of selling
or distributing large quantities of roses.
Therefore, various members of the Ameri-
can Rose Society suggested a way in which
these Van Fleet rose creations should be
'given proper distribution.

E Bureau of Plant Industry will
J_ provide a few plants of each variety to
be disseminated. These will be put into
propagation by the American Rose Society,
so that a reasonable distributing quantity
may be provided. Nurserymen and rose
men who are members of the American Rose
Society are then given opportunity to sub-
scribe to an arrangement by which this
propagating material is equally divided
among the signatories. The American
Rose Society thus becomes the intermediary
which makes possible simultaneous, coun-
try-wide distribution of these rugged new-
roses. The first rose now in hand under
this system has been christened Mary Wal-
lace, in honor of the daughter of the Secre-
tary of Agriculture.

AN ingenious and picturesque method of
handling a little brook is to be found
in the Country Club District of Kansas
City. One of the roads cut across a brook.
The obvious method would have been to
build a bridge. But the designer was
avoiding obvious methods, and instead of
throwing a bridge across the stream, he dug
out the stream bed at this point and laid in
a concrete base the width of the road. Step-
ping stones on each side are for pedestrians.
Cars and horseback riders splash through
the stream. In spring and fall when the
water is too high the ford is closed, and
traffic goes around another way.

ONE of the reasons why HOUSE &
GARDEN is valuable to its readers is
the fact that it shows the work and -prints
the articles of professionals who are con-
stantly desiging houses, laying out gardens
and decorating rooms. These professionals
have more to offer than the mere hack
writer. Thus, in this number, we shpw the
work of, or contributions from, eight prac-
ticing decorators, seven of whom are New
Yorkers. The work of six architects is
shown, three from New York and three from
California. The illustrations are from such
widely distributed areas as New York,
Vienna, Paris, Florence, Cleveland, Pasa-
dena, Detroit, England, Boston, Philadel-
phia and Delaware.

DOWN in this corner we purpose to
print each month something about
these contributors. For example, old read-
ers of the magazine may often wonder who
Gardner Teall is. He's been writing regu-
larly for these pages since 1915. Or what
Ethel Peyser looks like and why she knows
so much about kitchens. Or Mrs. Perrett,
who writes on tulips in this number, or Mr.
Ortloff, who writes on birch trees. Next
month, when there is more space, we'll tell
who these good people are.

House & Garden

Ciillits

A HOUSE SEEN FROM ALL SIDES

When a house can be approached openly from
all sides, there can be no definite jront or rear
to it; the service wing must be as attractive as
the master's wing. An example of this is found
in the home of Norman Toerge, Locust Valley,

L. I. It is built on a low hill surrounded by
trees. As there is no attempt at formal land-
scaping, the house can be equally well appre-
ciated from any point. Other views of it are
on pages 38 and 39. Howard Major, architect

September, 1922

MODERN FRENCH and VIENNESE DECORATION

France Is Combining Period Decoration With Art Nouveau. Vienna Shows
The Ultra Secession Spirit in New Decorations

TO originate, to work wholly without
tradition as though no art had ever
existed before in the world, seems to
be the intention of the modern school of art
in middle Europe. Whether the expression
is architecture, sculpture, or the making of
furniture, fabrics, silver or porcelain, the ef-
fect must be (in form, color and texture)
new to the existing art
world.

It is this absolute de-
termined originality that
sometimes produces a sense
of shock in the minds of
those more accustomed to
being led into art adventures
down gently sloping paths
of tradition and memory.
But the whole scheme of in-
terior decoration in Europe
today is to experiment, to
test, to evolve from the un-
known and mysterious new
expressions of beauty in
homemaking, or what seems
beauty to eyes attuned to
the "new art" movement in
decoration.

Germany is unquestion-
ably less handicapped in
this new movement by de-
veloped periods in architec-
ture and decoration. This
is a curious fact, when you
realize what she has accom-
plished in other intellectual
achievements; in music and
literature and philosophy
you recall vast springs of in-
terest that have influenced
the drama, the scientific
spirit throughout the mod-
ern world. But in art and
architecture you seek in
vain for a Goethe, Schiller,
Wagner, Kant, for a Haupt-
mann, or Strauss!

There were, to be sure,

GILES EDGERTON

Boecklin and Stoeck and Klimpt, but these
were men rather of naive fantasy with fresh
poetical minds, who found quaint adven-
tures into strange art lands. They could not
well be imitated. Their art was not so much
calculated to inspire thought, as to create an
emotional reaction to their creation.

It is not so many years, a decade or two,

An entrance hall in latest Viennese style, furnished and decorated by Joseph
Urban. Chairs are enamelled tea color with frieze of silver scrolls; the rug
black and white velvet. The center of the decorative motif is a painting by
Gustav Klimpt, famous for delicacy of form and freshness of color. The
silver vases and tea sets by Hojmann

since Europe decided upon self-determina-
tion in art. It is easy to remember those
famous art slogans that came to us from
Paris and Munich — "Art for art's sake",
"Art without tradition", "Art a law unto
itself". And yet, of course, in time, these
gentle lawless creators became organized and
in Munich they were the Secession men and
in France Art Nouveau. But
even though grouped they
still recognized no authority.
They expected to achieve a
fully developed art in one
generation, and yet with
their furious determination
to be original, they were con-
trolled by one point of view,
to dominate art with flow-
ing lines. One could be
original, but not individual.
And perhaps because of this
very limitation the new art
swept over Europe, domi-
nating architecture, sculp-
ture and the crafts, admit-
ting no other period of art
into companionship. The
past was ignored and there
was no truth in any present
art except the often spine-
less fluidity of Secession and
Art Nouveau. In France
Lalique was its prophet, in
Germany and Austria there
were several in command,
Hermann, Pechi, Reinhardt,
dominating.

In no way should this
movement be associated with
the modernist movement of
today, the Cubists, the Fu-
turists, the Primitives.
These schools are all a re-
action from the conventional
early periods of art, not a
development of European
Secessionists. Today, espe-
cially in America, we seek

II 0 U

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The study in the Paris
home of M. Bernheim has
vails hung in fluted folds
of green velvet. The fur-
niture is Louis Phillipe in
form with gold frames

The bathroom in Mine.
Bernheim's home is of blue
ind. green mosaic. The bath
lias a marble surround, and
the dresser has a. marble
bracket

Drawing room, in the
home of M. Kapjerer, has
walls of gray and yellow
damask and a typically
Art Nouveau fireplace of
yellow marble

to be archaic or to be wholly
primitive. It doesn't in the
least matter which. We
either want art that seems
very old or that is so infan-
tile that it still seems a little
incoherent.

In time, as the craze for
the "new art" increased the
most adamant of the pro-
ducers began to crave some
sort of authority, some
whisper of paternal wisdom,
and the Secessionists as
well as Lalique turned to
Nature for help, feeling
quite safe on her green
threshold. And for a num-
ber of years this phase of
art was dominated by curv-
ing vines, rounded flower
petals, strangely elaborated
leaves, always curves, cir-
cles, ovals, delicately mod-
eled figures twined about
other curves; an essentially
graceful art, without fire or
ecstasy except in color.

This epoch of art, for we
would not be allowed to call
it a "period," has continued
its grip on Europe up to the
present day, especially in
architecture and interior
decoration. It has devel-
oped some very curious
manifestations according to
the temperament of the in-
dividuals most interested in
Its expression. Just before
the war in some instances it
degenerated horribly into
monstrosities in architecture
and decoration. "Anything
to be different'' had become
the slogan, and eccentricity
became the goal in both
France and Germany. The
early influence of the beaut}'
of nature was swept aside,
and terrible distortions fol-
lowed, not only of nature,
but of the human body, and
then manifestations of
cruelty, of strange delight in
wantonness, — as the use of
man's heads for the capitals
of supporting columns, the
weight of mighty walls rest-
ing on upturned faces. And
then a cessation of art ex-
pression during the war.
And today a vigorous upris-
ing, especially in Vienna,
along the finer, earlier Se-
cession lines, and in France
still an appreciation of Art
Xouveau but some barriers
down and occasionally sim-
plified period furniture in-
troduced quite charmingly
with the "new art."

September, 1922

A recent exhibition in
New York reveals to us the
old spirit of Viennese art in
its purest forms and richest
trappings. In these rooms,
shown in our illustrations,
the decorations and furni-
ture are all designed and
executed by Joseph Urban,
that Viennese genius who
has done so much for stage
decoration in this country
with his scientific knowl-
edge of color and his fear-
lessness in creating new
forms of decoration. In
these schemes we see Ur-
ban's great cleverness in the
use of simple materials for
ornate effects, the original
forms of his furniture and
cabinets and the interesting
manner in which he has in-
corporated all paintings into
his scheme of wall decora-
tion.

There is no trace here of
that tortured spirit of a
dozen years ago. It is sin-
cerely and earnestly the
presentation of the New Art
as one skilled believer in it
can set it forth.

Pechi's wall papers and
silks are used to decorate the
wall — -those curious, shaded
stripes of gray, or yellow,
red and black, often with
superimposed designs of
white lace or colored flow-
ers. Black woodwork pre-
dominates, with a fine finish
of silver beading in one
room, with white beading on
black stripes or black on
white in two other rooms.

The walls on which the
modern lace is displayed are
tightly stretched gray velvet.
And all the little cabinets
and alcoves which show por-
celains and silver are lined
with a cool strong shade of
green. Floating curtains are
cool, apple green chiffon
with an interlining of sky
blue. If one could write as
simply, freshly and surely
as Urban uses color you
would easily picture these
rooms, so startling, so fresh,
their beauty resting so com-
pletely on the new art of
Vienna as Urban sees it and
accepts it.

One of our illustrations
shows the entrance hall,
with a famous Klimpt fig-
.ure painting in the center
panel. Either side of a cir-
cular black and white rug
{Continued on page 108)

A baroque note is given
this detail of a French bed-
room in the shell pediment
over the door. Pla'.n silk
is the wall decoration

Definite suggestion of Louis
Phillipc in these chairs, wi'li
Art Nouveau mirror, and
walls covered with tightly
stretched mauve satin

M. Monteux's salon with
Ait .\onvean side lamps
i>f metal and alabaster.
The mantel also new art,
and the chairs Louis Phil-
lipe in feeling

House & Garden

Gillies

An unusual effect has been given the living room
watts; they are crackled and antiqued in blue. The
floor is painted red and waxed. Hangings are of
a brilliant red design on a gray background. The
ritg also is gray. The chimney piece is of red
lacquer with the brick surrounding painted white
to act as a vivid contrast to the mantel

A vaulted ceiling and brick •walls painted
white form the background of the living
porch. The furnishings consist of Colonial
oak Windsor chairs and a gateleg table com-
bined with wicker. The floor is of red tiles,
a color repeated in the glazed chintz shades.
The architect was the decorator of the house

In the dining room, mauve colored hangings
are used against dark walls. The lighting
fixtures are painted the mauve of the hang-
ings and the floor painted a darker mauve
and waxed. These painted and waxed floors
are a distinctive feature of the house, each
room being treated in a different color

THE HOME OF
NORMAN TOERGE,
LOCUST VALLEY, L. I.

HOWARD MAJOR, Architect

September , 1922

The house is set in a natural grove and both
the front and the rear are treated with dignity.
The brick walls are painted white and left to
weather. The shingle roof has also weathered
to a silver gray. Touches of color are found
in the stiles of the shutters, which are painted
pale blue

EXTENDING

House & G a r d r n

U M M E R

Take Advantage of The Early Spring and Late Autumn Months,
and Learn What the Countryside Can Offer You

COMMUTERS to country districts may have noticed of late
years a strange company traveling on the trains in early
summer and late fall. School children, boys and girls, with
their books and their noisy enthusiasm. The younger ones are
guarded by their fathers; the elder are quite able to travel alone.
Finally arrived at the city, there are affectionate good-byes at the
train gate. The children go on to school and their fathers to the
office.

There was a time when this was not so noticeable. Ten or fifteen
years ago the custom of country house'owners was to stay in town
until school was closed and rush back in the autumn for the opening
bell. It seemed to be the orthodox belief that country living began
and ceased when the Education Board said so; that summer started
and ended according to the dates in the almanac. This strange
dogma was shattered, like so many of our quaint and beloved dog-
mas have been of late by the realization that common sense had no
regard for such things as educational boards and almanacs. We
found that the clock could be moved forward, although some
preachers at first ranted against this, apparently believing that
Divine Providence went about the world like an expert watchmaker,
setting the clocks. Having found the day elastic, we are now learn-
ing that summer also is elastic and that the enjoyable seasons in the
country, especially in the North, range anywhere from March 15th
up to Christmas.

IX thus extending summer we had been able to accomplish
many things.

First, we are now able to enjoy the country ourselves. In
July and August the average country house is filled with company.
We live from one hectic week-end to another. The grocery lulls
swell to enormous proportions. Father is obliged to take an oc-
casional night off in town in order to rest up after his arduous
duties as host; mother sleeps from Tuesday night till Friday brings
the next batch of guests. One has constantly to be dressed up. It
wouldn't do, so custom says, for your guests to see you in gardening
clothes. But in early spring and late autumn guests apparently
manifest no enthusiasm for the country. The grocery bills are nor-
mal again, and you go puttering about the place or tramping across
country in any old comfortable rag that comes first to hand. To put
it in candid and not altogether polite parlance, the country house
owner secretly looks on the summer months as the time he runs a
free boarding house for his relatives and friends. In early spring
and autumn he can be himself and enjoy his family and the country.

A SECOND advantage in extending summer is that you really
have a chance to garden adequately. The heavy work in the

gardens comes in spring and fall months. In the spring you
are starting the garden off — clearing off the borders of their winter
mulch, sowing annuals, laying out the kitchen garden, and a thou-
sand other duties. In the autumn there are bulbs and roots to be
harvested, new borders to be built or old ones changed, shrubbery to
be set out, and the kitchen garden spaded up or sowed to a cover
crop. Such things cannot be accomplished with a houseful of
guests, but no garden can exist unless they are done. By extending
summer we give our gardens opportunity for the care they need.

TO these two advantages may be added a third, and quite the
most obvious advantage. Until you have tried the early
spring and autumn months in the country, you will never
know what the country really is like, or how beautiful spring and
;iutumn can be. Those sharp weeks before the elms show their red-
dish haze are filled with a peculiar beauty. It is the sort of beauty
a child has just before it awakes. On all sides are to be found
promises of the rich burgeoning that will follow — in protected
corners the grass is delicately green, a courageous crocus appears in
a sheltered pocket of the garden, the forsythia is just about to release-
its golden bells. In these early days you go about peeking under
the mulch of the borders for old friends of last year, you count your
gains and your garden casualties. Walk along country roads, and
on all sides you see life beginning again — farmers at early plowing,
bonfires burning up trash, windows that were closed all winter being
flung open to the first warm breeze.

The late autumn months are the reverse of this. Stubble flies in
the fields. The garden beds are mulched now, and the tender things
hidden from the frigid blasts in pit and cold frame. Only a hint
of autumn's color is left. Neighboring houses that were hidden by
the trees now stand out naked and near. The roads are hard to your
feet and there's a snap to the air that sets your blood atingle.

XTENDING summer into late autumn has its effect on the
house. Porch furniture looks strangely out of place indoors;
and it is hidden away till next season. If one intends to
stay in the country through autumn, heavier curtains supplant the
lighter fabrics of summer, slip covers are taken off the chairs, furni-
ture is moved about in the living room so that it is convenient to
the fireplace.

Meantime the apartment or the house in town is being fitted up
for the winter. When you finally leave the country and go back to
town, the transition is gradual. By degrees the weather has driven
you indoors. You return to town, and the change is no shock to you.
You have taken all that the country has to offer you. Now you are
ready for what the city gives.

September, 1922

THE STREET SIDE OF AN ITALIAN HOUSE

The Italians had a habit of building their
houses directly on the roadway and pre-
senting !o that public street a facade that
indicates little of the life inside. Shuttered
windows on the second floor and windows
protected by grilles on the ground floor of-
fer, with the .entrance door, a rather forbid-

ding aspect to the passer-by. This custom is
especially well shown by the Villa Dante
Alighieri, on the Street of the Scissors, near
Florence. Contrasting with this facade is
the friendly and colorful arrangement of the
house on the sides which face the garden and
interior court, as shown on pages 54 and 55

House & Garden

This panel, the one at the bot-
tom oj the page and the one
shown opposite belong to a
set painted by the French ar-
tist Jolly for Francis Cottenet.
This is a glimpse of the Hudson

A companion piece to
the two circular painted
panels shown opposite,
this colorful study of
ducks brings an old-
fashioned air to a mod-
ern dining room

Color and the dignity of bal-
ance can be given a dining
room by using two painted
panels, copied after designs by
Robert, and hung above twin
console tables

This painted panel, and the
one shown opposite, both cop-
ies by Victor White of panels
by Herbert Robert, hang in
the dining-room of Mrs. E
V. Douglas

The panels by Jolly are dated
1858 and in both method of
painting and color are char-
acteristic of that time. They
bring into a modern apart-
ment a Victorian note

September , 1922

These circular panels, origin-
ally painted by the French ar-
tist Jolly for the home of
Francis Cottenet, on the Jfud-
son, now grace a new York
apartment

DECORATIVE

PANELS

Though Not So Elaborate or Important as Frescoes, These Painted Panels
Contribute to the Beauty of the Modern Home

THE decorative panel, as such, had had
a hard time in surviving the modern
conditions of home-changing. \Yhether
the trouble is with our characters or our cir-
cumstances we do certainly
move about a great deal more
than the artists who painted
panels, and the people who
had them painted, ever in-
tended. They imagined that
they were beautifying a home,
not contributing to the im-
pedimenta of those who now
lightly "pitch a moving
tent a day's march nearer" —
they know not what!

Such is the case, however,
and. many pleasant pictures
set over doors, or mantel-
pieces, or in dining room
walls, have chanced to be
abandoned when younger
members of a family left the
old family house. Happy
those who could remove the
charming paintings and bring
them, not inappropriately,
into new surroundings; or
have beautiful views copied
by competent hands and
placed in the time-honored
positions of panels long since
gone from them. They make
a most delightful sort of deco- |
ration; not so elaborate as a jyv*
wall fresco, not so important
as a portrait, but companion-
able to live with and, once
detached from their original
resting places, convenient to
move.

Of the panels shown in
these illustrations, seven came
from one of the fine, digni-
fied old countrv-houses on

CAROLINE DUER

the banks of the Hudson. The house of
Francis Cottenet, "Nuit" ,— next to "Nevis"
the house of Alexander Hamilton, — and
now absorbed into the Ardslev Golf Club.

While originally designed for definite places in a room, painted panels

can be moved about advantageously. This panel by Jolly, made for the

library overmantel in a Hudson River home, serves for decoration in

an apartment

The largest of these panels, that with the
white steps leading down to the water, was
once over the library mantelpiece. The two
other views, one of the distant Hudson and
one of the bridge across a
narrow ravine in the grounds,
were over the doors. They
hang at present on the draw-
ing room walls of Miss Fanny
and Mr. Rawlins Cottenet's
apartment in New York. The
round panels with the birds
and rabbits hang in the pres-
ent dining room about as they
once were placed in the past
one, whose high ceiling, long
French windows and stately
proportions belonged to a
period when people built to
provide themselves with light
and space, not to economize
room. Interestingly enough
the family tradition has it
that the pictures were painted
by the French artist, Jolly,
who also did some decorative
panels for the Belmont house,
and who, upon discovering
some particularly excellent
method of coloring stuffs,
abandoned his brush and
founded the present dyeing
and cleaning firm of C. Jolly
and Son.

The two long lovely land-
scapes, over the beautiful
tables, are the property of
Mrs. E. V. Douglass, and
painted, after two celebrated
pictures, by her son Victor
White, whose charming Room
of the Fountains at Wana-
maker's is well known. These
panels are particularly suit-
able for their place.

House &• Garden

Uncut moss edging in black
and gold mikes a delightful
curtain finish. (Right)
Charming Direct oire fringe
in ted, while and blue

Very plain and smart is the
gold silk braid shown in the
photograph above with its
central stripe of vivid red
adding an unusual note

TASTE IN CURTAIN TRIMMINGS

Whether One Uses Fringe or Braid, Much of a Curtain s
Success Depends on its Edging

ALEXANDER KINC

THE same selective
sense which deter-
mines the p r o p e r
molding to frame a partic-
ular picture or mirror
planned for a definite space
determines the exact type of
trimming which is best
suited to the curtains at
the windows.

There is a fine old tradi-
tion to lie followed in the
matter of trimming for
those who know their

At the left is a narrow
galon in crimson and gold.
In the center is cream silk
galon with accents of
green. The other is a nar-
row silk border woven in
two colors

(Beginning at top) Tassel fringe of multi-
rolored wools with gold beading. Nar-
row silk braid in fawn and purple with
tinsel accents. Galon in mauve and
gold. Venetian edge in crimson and
fawn with sapphire crystal drops. Open-
work trimming of silk and gold tinsel.
Wool tassel fringe for tapestry

history. Each of the great
styles produced its own
particular method of treat-
ing this essential detail.
Early examples are still
extant on church vestments
of the Middle Ages, and as
we pass on towards modern
times the trimmings keep
pace with the luxury and
refinement of each succeed-
ing generation, resulting in
a bewildering array of
(Continued on j><ige 80)

to right) Narrow
„.„.„ in classic design
woven any color. Border
with scalloped edge solid
center. Silk edging in
ivory and crimson. Cour-
tesy of Edward Maag

(Left
braid

September, 1922

FABRICS FOR THE FALL

U'hic/t .I/a v Be Purchased Thnugh the House &
Garden Shopping Service, 19 1C. 44th St., N. Y. C.

Dignified enough for a liv-
ing room is this glazed
chintz with a mulberry
ground and brightly col-
ored flowers, 31". $1.80

Below is an effective

sunfast silk damask

in black and gold, 50"

wide, S6.50 a yd.

Napoleon in all his

glory is pictured on a

natural linen ground,

40", $11.25

The glazed chintz above
has an all-over flower de-
sign in soft colors on a
warm brown background.
31" wide, SI. 65 a yd.

(Above) Charming

toile de Jouy in rich

rose color on a white

ground is .SI. 65, 30"

Glazed chintz with a

pale green ground and

design in blue-green

and pink, 25", $2

Glazed chintz in a design of bright fruit

and softly colored foliage on either a tan

or apple green ground, $3.95. 25" wide.

Linen in blue and mauve, 50", $7.50

In order not to have too much figured chintz in a room, it is advisable

to use. a striped material on the chairs. Durable denim in combinations

of nui/berry and gray, blue and gold or brown and blue is 36" wide

and 85c a vard

This gay striped mercerized fabric that is practical as well as effective

would be charming on chairs. It comes in blue and red, blue and

yellow, red and green, red and yellow, tan and brown or cream and

yellow, 50", S3. 75

House & Garden

COLOR SCHEMES
FOR MEN'S ROOMS

Color Should Be the First Consideration
In Planning a Man's Room

CHANDLER W. IRELAND

CIVILIZATION has decreed that a
man should appear a sombre creature,
merely a background for the showing
of Milady's gamut of color. As a reward
he is allowed a bit of color in the shape of
a bright cravat, a gay ribbon band for his
straw hat, or a splash of brightness in his
handkerchief. These are his allowances in
the division of color, to be displayed to the
world in general. But when it comes to a
question of his own rooms it is quite a
different story. Here he may burst forth in
all the glory of the rainbow if he so desires,
and where is the man who does not like a
spot of strong red or blue or yellow some-
where ?

When the problem of furnishing a man's
room comes up, visions of the old-time
"den" with its unbreakable Mission furni-
ture and turkey red hangings are invariably
brought to mind. Fortunately we have gone
a long distance from that horror and now

Soft old pink
walls, Directoire
chairs done in
apricot, blue and
black, interesting
Godey prints and
an old Victorian
needlepoint above
the black mantel
makes this a room
of glowing color

A colorful living
room can still
have plenty of
dignity. Here the
walls are blur
green, the curtains
gold taffeta and
the carpet dull
Venetian red.
Chandler W. Ire-
land, decorator

September, 1922

realize that men's rooms are not necessarily
lacking in dignity and masculine quality if
they are made interesting by an intelligent
use of color.

In the early days of the world, it was man
who provided the color interest, by the
feathers in his hair and the brilliant skins
about his waist. He it was who drew crude
pictures on the cave walls and hung up
brilliant trophies of the hunt to satisfy his
own craving for color. So it may be still
this inherited longing for brightness that
his own rooms are usually never lacking in
color.

If he is a man whose greatest interest lies
in outdoor life, in sports, hunting and the
like, he will have a fine collection of old
English hunting prints, showing the vivid
hues of the chase. Oak-grained walls, if real
oak paneling cannot be managed, Jacobean
printed linen curtains bound in red over
soft green casement curtains, a fine old
English oak or walnut desk, simple carved
high-back chairs, one or two big comfort-
able over-stuffed chairs covered in the same
linen as the curtains, a couple of small green
and gold lacquer smoking tables and a heavy
plain tete-de-negre carpet, would make
a splendid background for the prints, and a
most restful comfortable room full of color.
If the room is large enough there should be
a sofa done in red velvet, flanked by a pair
(Continued on page 106)

Here the cool
tone of the pale
gray walls is
more than bal-
anced by the red
damask bed-
spread green lac-
quered screen
and chair seats
done in plain red
sateen. The lamp
stand is turquoise

Multi - colored
glazed chintz
hangings contrast
charmingly with
the old pink
walls, prune satin
spread and deep
taupe carpet.
Chandler W. Ire-
land was the
decorator o f
both rooms

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v .

irtfl

THE SUN ROOM
IN THE HOME

of
WILLIAM

HALLE,

CLEVELAND,

OHIO

HOWELL & THOMAS

Architects

*•!

V;,- Am!;!

/n the West and Middle West the sun room has been de-
veloped to a higher degree than in the East. It has be-
come a room distinctly furnished as a transition between
the garden and the indoors. Thus, this end of the sun
room in the Cleveland residence of William Halle has a
reminder of the outdoors with its touch of wicker, its
goldfish bowl and flowering plants

The other end of the room is indicative of in-
door furnishing. The arches shown in the
other view are balanced at this end by two
narrow architectural bookcases on each side of
the door. Below the bookshelves are radiators
concealed behind grills of the door. The tiling
of the floor is softened by a rug. It is the sort
of outdoor-indoor room that can be lived in
the vear round

September, 1922

TAPESTRIES IN THE DECORATIVE

Used Either As Background or Decoration They Invariably
Enrich Any Interior With Their Color and Design

SCHEME

TAPESTRY is an ambiguous decora-
tion. It plays several roles in the
furnishing of a room so that it is often
something of a problem to know which is it«
proper part. In the first place, it may be
counted just a woven mate-
rial, more elaborate to be
sure, but still on a par with
the simpler wools and silks
that have long been used for
curtains and upholstery.
Or it may be considered in
a class with the leathers and
the heavier damasks and
brocades that have from
time to time been used as
wall coverings, permanent
part? of the finish of a

Here a characteristic nth
Century Flemish tapes-
try serves purely as dec-
oration. From the col-
lection of H. S. Firestone

PHYLLIS ACKERMANN

room. Or, finally, it may be regarded less
as decorated fabric than as decoration pure
and simple, step sister to murals and
painted panels.

If it is to be used as drapery, we hang it

in full folds to cover wall or door or win-
dow. But when a wall space is to be cov-
ered, it becomes an aristocratic wall paper
and we stretch it tight and fast in panels,
or even in continuous surfaces. Or if it is
a fabricated mural that we
have in mind, it is hung in
an architectural setting, and
used as a kind of indirectly
painted picture.

Tapestry, at different
times, has been all three of
these things, drape, wall
covering, woven painting.

Gothic tapestries were of
two sorts, the decorative and
the ecclesiastical. Decora-
(Contiinied on page 94)

Colorful Renaissance
tapestry hung in soft
folds makes a dignified
background for the fine
old Jacobean table

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Hercules and the Lion, a

Greek cameo. After Thomas

Woolridge's etching of the

original gem

COLLECTING ENGRAVED GEMS

Both Ancient and Later Examples of the Glyptic Art
Are Available for the Gem Enthusiast

GARDNER TEALL

DIFFICULT indeed would it be to
conceive of a time when the love of
jewelry did not play some part in per-
sonal adornment. If prehistoric man en-
graved figures of mammoths on selected
pieces of ivory tusk, that same
decorative instinct as surely had
led him to conceive the begin-
nings of trinkets for the person.
The ancientry of historic jewelry
is well established. Babylonia, As-
syria, Egypt, Greece, Rome — civi-
lizations of these ancient states
produced marvelous pieces of the
jeweler's craft, things that reached
so high a state of special perfec-
tion that it is the despair of the
modern craftsman to attempt to
compete with their workmanship.
From earliest times engraved
gems have found great favor in
jewelry. The ancient signet rings
which have come down to us stand
testimony to this, also the Biblical
references in the Book of Genesis
and elsewhere, — the signet with
which Darius sealed up the lion's
den (Gen. xii. 42), the signet
which Judah found so discomfit-
ing (Gen. xxxviii) and the signet
with which Queen Jezebel signed
the false letters about the vine-
yard of Naboth (Dan. vi. 17), to
note a few instances of such men-
tion. Undoubtedly these signet
rings were set with engraved
gems, cut intaglio. In the British
Museum there is an egg-shaped
piece of pink-veined marble, some
254" long, pierced from base to
apex and engraved with a Baby-
lonian inscription which has been
deciphered to read as follows, in
translation: "I, Sargon the King,
King of Agade have dedicated to
Samos in Sappira". This ancient
intaglio has been determined by

authorities to have been cut 3900 B. C.,
5721 years ago, think of it! One of the
most ancient evidences of sophisticated art.
The Egyptian engraved gems in the form
of the scarab (the sacred scarabaeus beetle)

A Roman
cameo of
Harpokrates
mounted in
gold

.4 Roman intaglio

signet ring of head

of a man

An archaic Greek

intaglio of Boreas

and Orytheia

A Roman cameo of
Amazons, in a mod-
ern setting

Engraved gems are mainly cut in two ways — intaglio, i.e. cut
in, and cameo, i.e. cut in relief. The two directly above are
cameo cut. To the left, Europa cut in sardonyx, dating from
the Classical Roman Period; to the right, Psyche, a Greek cameo
cut in amethyst. Illustrations by courtesy of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art

were in general use as early as 2500 B. C.,
thirteen hundred years after the reign of the
Babylonian King Sargon. From an epi-
gram in the Greek Anthology, we learn that
the sly Cleopatra's signet ring was set
with an amethyst engraved with a
figure of Methe, who was the god-
dess presiding over drunkenness
and who was depicted as a nude
figure surrounded by various
symbols, — cups, hydra, thyros,
grapes, vine, etc. The engraved
gems of steatite, rock crystal,
carnelian and chalcedony of the
Mycenaean period in Greek civ-
ilization survived the Dorian
invasion of 1100 B. C. which
submerged that power and un-
doubtedly gave impetus to the
engraved gems of the later and
glorious period of Greek glyptic
art which produced the incom-
parable intaglios cut between 450
and 300 B. C. The Greek en-
graved gems of the archaic period
(down to the end of the Fifth
Century B. C.) were, mainly,
scaraboid in form. An excep-
tionally fine agate gem of this
sort in the collection of the Brit-
ish Museum represents a dancing
satyr holding forth a drinking
cup. The minute details are ex-
quisitely wrought and it is, in-
deed, a monument of art of the
Greek gem engravers of the time
(circa 500 B. C.)

The engraved gems of the fin-
est Greek period (450-300 B. C.)
are more rarely to be met with
than those of the earlier and later
periods. The ancient engraved
gems were mostly cut intaglio,
that is to say, the device was cut
in forming depressions which,
when used as a seal would give
(Continued on page 104)

September, 1922

A LITTLE PORTFOLIO OF GOOD INTERIORS

Color plays an
important part
in this living
room. Rough,
plaster walls
tinted dull gold
contrast pleasing-
ly with old nee-
dlepoint chairs, a
couch done in
plum colored vel-
vet and a carpet
of tele de negre

Quite the most
interesting thing
about this un-
usual hall is the
•wrought iron
gate through
which one
catches a
glimpse of the
dining room. J.
C. Demarest &
Company were
the decorators

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In the morning room
of the New York
apartment of Mrs.
Isaac Untermyer the
•walls and woodwork
are gray tan. For
hangings is used a
chintz of antique
Portuguese design,
bound in red sateen.
One chair is in red
leather

A bedroom in the
same apartment has
soft yellow walls and
woodwork, a tan
carpet and old
hooked rugs. The
bed is draped in a
chintz brilliant with
mulberry, yellow
and turquoise blue.
Fakes, Bisbee, Rob-
ertson, decorators

September. 1922

A sense oj openness
is given a room not
only by wide doors
and windows but by
the furniture being
grouped so that
much of the floor
space is unoccupied.
Both of these fea-
tures are found in
this country house
living room

On another side oj
the morning room in
the Untermyer

apartment is found
a delightful grouping
of an old mahogany
secretary, with its
chair in red leather,
together with two
occasional tables of
antique design placed
close at hand

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At the southernmost end of the garden is a terrace where one may walk on a sunny spring

day — much as the Divine Poet must have walked — and enjoy the superb view of the City

of Flowers spread along the valley below

THE VILLA DANTE ALIGHIERI

The Former Home of the Divine Poet Is Still Preserved
As a Thirteenth Century Italian Manor House

ROHKRT CARRERE and MORGAN HEISKELL

NESTLING at the foot of the Fiesole
hill, completely concealed in an ilex
wood, stands the Villa Dante
Alighieri. In this villa Dante lived and
worked before the years he spent in exile
from his beloved city of Florence. After-
wards purchased in 1332 by
the Portinaris, the family of
Beatrice, the villa has
changed hands many times
and now it has passed into
the possession of Signer
Bondi.

Situated on a gentle rise
of ground, it commands from
its loggia a magnificent pan-
orama of the distant city.
On the eastern side is the
approach to the villa, which
is quite characteristic of Tus-
cany— one arrives at the door
opening directly on the street
called Via Forbici or the
Street of the Scissors. Be-
yond the vaulted vestibule, is
the delightful mediaeval cor-
tile entirely surrounded by
an open loggia on the second
floor. The loggia is support-

ed by one of the earliest types of Florentine
arcade, the stone work painted in the old
manner. The ceiling of beams and rafters,
that forms the roof of the loggia, is painted
in tempera in designs of coats of arms and
arabesques exactly as they were when the

The loggia on the western side of the villa opens out upon the
ilex, chestnut and oak. It is through this forest that one can

villa

ancient place housed the Divine Poet.
Around the cortile, on the ground floor,
are many rooms for entertaining. The
drawing room, formerly the only large room,
was in Dante's time the living and dining
hall combined; since then various rooms
have been added in each
epoch and decorated in the
contemporary taste of the
age. There is a splendid
open staircase ascending to
the floor above where one
finds today, in addition to
the rooms that the poet
used, many others that have
been built in recent times.
However, none of the
changes detract from the at-
mosphere of the 13th and
14th Century manor house.
All that was originally part
of it has been scrupulously
preserved by the present
owner, who is celebrated in
Florence as an authority on
the art and architecture of
his country.

The surroundings of the
villa consist of a charming

old forest of
approach the

September, 1922

natural park shaded by old ilex, chestnut
and oak, descendants of those that stood
guard seven hundred years ago. To the
south of the villa, on the slope of the hill,
lies the garden whence one looks across the
valley of the Arno with Florence's many
campaniles and domes rising along its
banks. The first half of the garden near
the villa is new, as things go in Italy, hav-
ing been laid out as a tropical garden after
the fashion of the 19th Century. The sec-
ond half compensates for the first in as
much as there is nothing of the deplorable
Mid- Victorian influence found there. Flow-
ers in profusion, trees natural to the land-
scape of Tuscany, all the features of the
formal garden that are so necessary a setting
for the Italian villa, have been preserved.

When one stops to think of the influence
that the work of Dante has had on the lit-
erature of Italy and its consequent effect on
the civilization of Europe, one realizes that
the Villa Dante Alighieri preserved through
nearly a thousand years in perfect condition,
is one of the most interesting historical mon-
uments to be found in any country.

Perhaps the most vital monuments are
those houses which have held a great per-
sonality and which are in themselves pieces
of architecture worthy of that occupant.
When, as here, they have been scrupulously
preserved, they become part of the cultural
background of the nation and the world.

The principal feature of the western facade
is the tower, whose counterpart is always
to be found in the old Tuscan villa. The
l&th Century addition at the extreme left
contains the bedrooms

The delightful mediaeval cortile is en-
tirely surrounded by an open loggia on
the second floor. In the center stands
an old stone well, upon the head of
•which can be faintly traced the arms of
Beatrice Portinari, whose family pur-
chased the villa in 1332

To the south is an open loggia, sup-
ported by an arcade, that looks down
upon the flower garden. As will be
noted, the villa and its gardens are being
maintained and the atmosphere of the
\3th Century manor house scrupulously
preserved

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OUR AMERICAN BIRCHES

These Native Trees Present a Great Variety of Kinds Which are
Available for Landscape Work

H. STUART ORTLOFF

WHO is there who has not wandered
down some leafy forest glade and
stopped to admire the arched grace-
fulness of the white birch, or to exclaim at
the delightful pictures they make against a
sombre background of leafless trees in
winter. Yet consider how rarely this much
admired tree, and all its kin no less lovely
than itself, is used to form pictures in our
own landscape compositions.

Perhaps it is because we have only stop-
ped to admire native scenery as scenery,
and have not taken the time or the trouble
to assure ourselves that these same things
which go to create beautiful, natural pic-
tures, can do the same in the more intimate
spaces of a country place. Or again, per-
haps the birch is merely a tree of striking
appearance to us, and we have no further
knowledge of its characteristics or possibili-
ties. If this be the case then it is high time
that we became acquainted.

The birch tree has always been a factor
in our lives, and the lives of our fore-
father, the country's pioneers. They in
their turn appreciated the benefits and utili-
tarian possibilities of this tree from the
Indian, who used its bark for his canoe

and his wigwam, and who knew that cer-
tain species had bark with a medicinal
value. Then later this valuable tree became
a source for paper pulp, and cabinet woods.
However, it has always been a tree which
appeals to the esthetic sense of the artist
and the poet. It has that gracefulness of
line, and the delicacy of texture which cap-
tivates and charms.

But as plant material for landscape com-
positions it has a place of its own. It does
not make a street tree of lasting duration or
of great usefulness. It is best suited to a
location at the edge of the forest, where
it stands out in great beauty in front of a
background. It is seen to a great advan-
tage when its long, drooping, graceful
branches trail almost to the water's edge,
and double their beauty by reflections. As
a specimen tree it is admirable, for it de-
velops into a close branched, rounded
head, and adds distinction to its surround-
ings. Another interesting possibility is to
use it as an accent point or the termination
of a vista in the woods themselves. The
white purity of the birch trunk will invari-
ably attract the eye, and lend color to the
mottled green of the woodland.

The birch tree has been known and
valued for centuries. Pliny in his writing
speaks of it and derives the name from the
word bitumen, but others have derived it
from its Celtic name bitu. However, the
most interesting derivation is from the Latin
word batuere, meaning to beat. Perhaps
there are many schoolboys of a few years
back who will appreciate this meaning, for
they remember how formidable the birch
stick was in the hands of an irate school-
master. But in the Latin it is used l>ecause
the fasces of the Roman lictors were made
of birch rods, and these were used to beat
or drive the people back.

There are twenty-eight known species of
the birch family in the Northern Hemi-
sphere; ten in North America; six or seven
in Europe, and seven or eight in Asia. The
most common and abundant with us is the
gray birch (betula populifolia), or, as it is
sometimes called, the Oldfield birch. This
tree thrives even on poor soil, and is one of
the first things to spring up on abandoned
fields and burnt-over areas. For this reason
it serves as a cover or protector to more
valuable plants which spring up more
(Continued on page 82)

The yellow birch (betula lutea) is the sturdiest and, generally, the largest of the species. Its bark dark-
ens with age from a silvery gray, through light orange, to a reddish brown, and while it is apt to lose some
of its gracefulness at maturity, the warm tones of its surfaces make it a splendid tree for mass plantings

September, 1922

With all its shimmer and
glisten, and with all its sug-
gestion of delicacy and fragile
beauty, such a grove of young
birches as this makes a
sturdy, effective wind-break

The river birch (betula nigra)
is the black sheep of the birch
family; ragged but interest-
ing, erratic in its habits, and
a partner in the (birch) beer
industry

(Left) A natural growth of
white birch seedlings (betula
alba), because of its grace,
airiness and varying color, cre-
ates a superb setting for the
green of the wild garden

The paper birch (betula
papyri f era) is distinguished
as the "farthest north" of
trees and as the provider, in
both the practical and poetic
sense, of canoe covering

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The tulip garden of Mrs. F. G. Tollman, Wilmington, Dela-
ware, is planted as a wide border around the outer edge of
an oval lawn. A hedge affords a green background to the

delicate tints of Clara Butts, white Stanley Picotees, pale
rosy Flamingoes, the rich amethyst of Valentines and the
neutral-toned hues of the lavender-blue Dreams-Uterpes

THE RICH COLORS OF TULIP GARDENS

In These Two Delaware Gardens One May Find Many Suggestions
For This Autumn s Bulb Planting

ANTOINETTE FERRET

ONE of the most pressing things in bulbs in your favorite pink or blue or yel-
October (although now it seems afar low, the way we used to buy our ribbons
off), is to prepare for the May-flower- and sashes when we were girls. It's ever so
ing tulips. Not that you really have to put much subtler than that, and, of course, that
them into the ground until
the end of October, and if
your garden is still abloom
with heliotrope and zinnias
or with chrysanthemums,
you can even wait until the
tenth or twelfth of Novem-
ber. It's the planning that
takes time, the endless
working up and correcting
of your color scheme and
the grouping and re-group-
ing of the bulbs by re-
peatedly changing the little
pencil dots that represent
them on your garden plan.
Tulips are such wonder-
ful chalices of color, they
come in such a myriad of
marvelous tones, that it is
no easy task to select them.
It isn't just a matter of or- In tlle Tallman garden the tulip planting is brought directly up to

derine a certain number nf The tulif beds are edged u>ith En&lish Daisies and pansies, which

for ground covers

is just why it is so fascinating and why you
give such an endless lot of time and thought
to the delightful and responsive task.

And how fascinating it is to have a host
of suggestions to work upon.
That is why I should like
to tell you about Mrs. Bar-
ton's garden, for it is one
of the most suggestive tulip
gardens that I know, and
of Mrs. Tallman's garden,
which also is rich in color
suggestions.

Tulip gardens are not
unlike people. Sometimes
you'll meet the loveliest
garden, with tulips beauti-
fully blended in their color-
ings, an altogether satisfy-
ing garden, but you'll be
able to take it in all at a
single glance. A sentence
would describe it. You
like it. You have no fault
to find with it. It is per-
fect. But somehow it is
not intriguing. Mrs. Bar-

the house,
also serve

September, 1922

ton's garden was so much more than
just lovely. It was so altogether
stimulating. You could go into it
for a glimpse before breakfast. You
could have tea in it in the afternoon.
You could sit in it after dinner
'way into the gloaming, and never
feel that you really knew it at all, or
that you'd ever be able to penetrate
its charm. It affected you with a
haunting sense of beauty like one of
Heine's little poems or Franz's
songs. And the more you went
about and studied the tulips and
their various combinations one by
one and one after another, the more
stimulating the little garden would
become, until it seemed as though it
were a hundred gardens all in one.

Its appeal, too, was so varied. It
did not limit itself to one mood or
to one personality. There were, for
instance, the Clara Butts, that
circled about the little round pool
with its Italian sky-blue painted
bottom. You know the Clara Butts
and their brilliant rose color. The}'
look well almost anywhere. I've seen
them by a brick garden wall under
windows, and in the deeper shade of
some splendid old masculine ginkgo
trees. Their rose color, too, is lovely
with all the blue May flowers, lovely
with the blue of phlox divaricata,
with the blue of the tall scillas, with
the blue of the early irises. Mrs.
Barton, herself, uses them with the
light and feathery little flax. But
they seemed above all to love the com-
panionship of the light and cloud-
reflecting water of the little pool
with its vivid blue bottom. I always
think of the Clara Butts as one's
first love in tulips.

You will know what I mean when
we compare their deep rose with the
subtle tones that Mrs. Barton used
(Continued on page 114)

The garden of Mrs. C. Marshall Barton,
Wilmington, Delaware, is enclosed by
a rough stone wall that serves as foil to
the subtle tones of the tulips — the yel-
low of Ellen Willmott and Mrs. Keight.
ley, the old gold of Jaime d' Oeuj

The brilliant rose of Clara Butt is al-
ways one's first love in tulips. In the
Barton garden they are planted around
the rim of a little pool, of which the
bottom has been painted a vivid blue.
English daisies cover the ground

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SEPTEMBER BEGINS
THE DAHLIA SHOW

The heavy, waxy whiteness
rif Hortula-niis Wilte, one
of the finest of the decora-
tive dahlias, suggests to a
remarkable degree the lus-
cious texture of the much
more tender gardenia

Kckjord Century, one of
the strains of the century
dahlia, is a large specimen
of the single variety. It is
a pure white flower with
splotches of purple crimson

Note the divergence
in type between
this bloom of
George Walt ers and
the flower from
the same plant in
the upper right
hand corner

Pride of Califor-
nia is a deserved-
ly popular prize-
winner. Being a
successful exhibi-
tion dahlia, it is
an ideal bloom
for decorating
both the house
and the garden

The brilliant salmon pink
coloring of George Walters,
combined with its long-
stemmed sturdiness, makes
it stand out from many of
its neighbors in the hybrid
cactus group

One of the strains in the
peony-flowered class is this
dark-toned Hortulanus
Budde. It is one of the
loveliest and most satisfac-
tory of the scarlet dahlias

Both for garden
decoration and for
cut-flower pur-
poses, Princess Jul-
iana, of the decor-
ative dahlias, is
undoubtedly one of
the best 'of the
ivhite viritties

September, 1922

Delphinium!: have been given
unusual effectiveness in the
garden at "Weld", near Bos-
ton, where they form great
panels of waving blue

GRAND and stately arc the im-
proved hybrid delphiniums. Their
tall spires of bloom rising to a
height of five to seven feet supply our
gardens with a wealth of blue that would
be sadly lacking, were it not for these
magnificent plants.

Xo other flower combines so many
varied shades of this lovely color, the
rarest in the garden. The soft azure of
the forget-me-not, the rich blue of the
gentian and the dee]) sapphire, royal
purple, lavender and mauve hues are all
represented. The petals suffused with a
beautiful and indescribable rose irides-
cence form a brilliant setting for the
tuft or "bee" as it is called of small
white, golden or black central petals,
which, by striking contrast, accentuates
the beauty of these large outer petals.

Delphiniums are particularly effective
in the hardy border or in masses in front
of and among shrubs. In fact, they
should always be seen against the back-
ground of some harmonious contrasting
color, rather than against the blue of the
sky. Yellow or white hollyhocks for in-
stance, form a pleasing contrast.

Delphiniums of all shades harmonize
with each other, and the effect of a group
of seedlings or mixed varieties is perhaps
more pleasing than a mass of a single
variety.

In Europe a great many varieties have
la-en developed and named. Most of
these are very expensive, but -while these
fine European varieties are eagerly sought
for, and man}- attempts have been made

DELPHINIUMS

for

AMERICAN
GARDENS

BKRTRAND H. FARR

Seeds from well developed speci-
mens of the best varieties, like
King of Delphiniums, should be
used for the propagation of new
plan's for the garden

to establish them in this country, the im-
ported plants have proved to be short-lived
and gradually disappear. I do not know
of any adequate stock of named varieties
existing in the country to-day. They are
very difficult to import, being unable to
survive the long period in transit. Only
a small percentage can be saved on arrival,
and often all are dead. Now since the
Foreign Plant Embargo is in force, fur-
ther attempts seem hopeless.

There are two reasons why these Euro-
pean varieties have not succeeded here.
First the change of climatic conditions is
too great. Coming from the cool moist
climate of northern Europe, they cannot
endure our hot dry summers. In the cool-
er atmosphere of New England or the
higher altitudes of our mountainous sec-
tions, they thrive to perfection. I have
seen, in the Pocono Mountains of Penn-
sylvania, wonderful plants 7' to 8' in
height, which originally came from our
garden, but growing with a vigorous lux-
uriance that I have never been able to
produce.

This would suggest that in the warmer
and more humid valleys the coolest loca-
tion in the garden should be selected for
them, preferably where they receive some
protection from the direct rays of the after-
noon sun.

The second and probably the greater
reason for failure of the imported plants is
that named varieties must be increased
from year to year from cuttings or frecjuent
division of roots, and gradually the vital-
(Continufd on page 94)

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WEATHERVANES FOR
HOMES WITH HOBBIES

It may be bad taste to wear your
heart on your sleeve, but you
may, with impunity, flaunt your
hobby from your ridge-pole.
The flight of ducks is jor the
sportsman

Modern I zaac Waltons
might delight in this cari-
cature of their favorite sport

For the garage, Jack Held

designs this reminder of

"pleasantries" with the

police

The barn on a country place
might be topped by this sil-
houette of waddling geese

There is a smile in every
zephyr where this cow sur-
mounts the barn ridge-pole

-f

Goats are ridiculous at best
— and even more ridiculous
in such a weathervane

-f

The kennel can be represented
by puppies of unnamed breed

When the hobby is gardening,
Jack Held suggests this symbol

And where it is golf, a bunker
shot will mark the veeringwind

September, 1922

FIVE SMALL
HOUSES

Located in New York

and
California

.4 low wall, with the house,
and the garage, encloses the
old flower garden in the
house of Wesley Bessell,
architect, at Port Washing-
ton, L. I.

This view shows
the garden and the
living room and
dining room wings

A stone paved path
and arbor lead off
the dining room
toward the studio

On an angle behind
the studio the gar-
| age is conveniently
located

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House & Garden

On these facing pages are shown four
small houses from California, each dis-
tinctive in its design. The clapboard
house is an American type inith broad
front porch and central hall. A down-
stairs bedroom is provided in addition
to the two chambers upstairs. Reginald
Johnson, architect

Stucco walls, a latticed porch, and a
range of casement windows are features
of the small house shown below. The
living room occupies half of the first
floor space. There are three chambers,
a bath and sleeping balcony upstairs, as
well as a sizable cedar closet. Louis du
P. Millar, architect

September , 1922

California appears to accept all
types of architecture, even the
small house of English anteced-
ents. This English house at
Pasadena is executed with a high
pitched shingle roof and plaster
walls. J. H. Woodworth was the
architect

The rooms enclose a garden and
terrace on three sides. There are
two master's bedrooms and bath,
a living and dining room, and the
service concentrated in a long
wing. The house has no vesti-
bule, the entrance leading directly
into the living room

Reverting to the early California
style, the architect has built this
small house with flat finish plas-
ter walls. An entrance leads both
into the house and into a patio,
which is enclosed by a high wall
making it another room

Adequate space is provided for a
small family — two bedrooms and
a bath, dining room, living room
and patio opening on to each
other, a kitchen and laundry
porch. It was designed by J. H.
Woodworth, architect

House & Garden

Dutch double doors, oj the days when New York
was called New Amsterdam, were finished with
wrought iron strap hinges, bolts and thumb latches
in pure Colonial design. The latches were set on
the bias for strength. At the left a detail is given
of the thumb latch

(The top three) A Roman-
esque door latch suitable lor
a modern concrete structure.
An Egyptian door knocker oj
fine simplicity with spreading
vulture wings and Pharaoh
mask. A substanial and grace-
ful wrought iron design for a
hinge

The Colonial bell and door
knob with graceful scroll elab-
oration in the key plate are
suited to the more elegant
type of Colonial house.
Adapted to wrought iron or
bronze

IF YOU ARE
GOING TO BUILD

Consider The Period of
Your Hardware

MARY FANTON ROBERTS

THE old craftsmen had a way of mak-
ing the essentials of house fittings
interesting, picturesque, often beauti-
ful. Every article of use, every garment
worn, in old Japan for instance, was so
wrought with love and appreciation that
they became in time actual sources of beau-
ty. It was the French craftsmen, the de-
signers of furniture, the weavers of rugs,
who made the French periods of decoration
famous — not the pretty flippant ladies or
the gallant little kings. In fact, it is the
craftsmen the world over from Cellini to
Duncan Phyfe who have woven years into
epochs, not the politicians or the profes-
sional beauties.

If you know and treasure iron work —
whether an ancient grille of Valencia or a
window latch from an old French palace —
you will realize how definitely and finely
both tell the story of their time. How
representative, for instance, is the sturdy,
simple Colonial plate of those strong young,
sincere days of our Republic; how inevit-
ably the Elizabethan door-pull suggests rich
old Tudor buildings with their dignity and
fine ornamentation and costly beauty.

While Chinese craftsmen told pretty tales
in brass and crystal and jade, and the
Syrian smiths favored silver, finding its
delicate beauty more to their taste, in the
main it is that most sturdy yet most decora-
tive of all metals, iron, in
which the craftsmen of count-
less generations have wrought
the history of their times.

As the quality of our archi-
tecture in this country is im-
proving, becoming more dis-
tinguished, more individually

(The lower three) A door
knocker oj English
Gothic influence with the
typical ecclesiastical de-
sign rather delicate in
form. Bell and key plate
of Italian Renaissance
design

Sept em ber , 1922

significant, it would seem natural that we
should also develop furniture and fittings
of -a kind closely in harmony with these
beautiful, modern American homes. But,
as a matter of fact, we are not doing this to
any extent. As yet we have no furniture
except the Colonial that is in any way
original and typical of a period of archi-
tecture. Neither have we devised hardware,
silver or fabrics that could be grouped to-
gether and called "typically American", a
product of this generation.

Although our Colonial architecture, fur-
niture, decorations and wrought iron may
carry a hint of a beauty that was originally
England's, it is, nevertheless, a product of
a certain type of civilization in this country.
The fine design, .the beautiful simplicity of
the houses, the warmth of color on the walls,
the severe grace in the furniture and the ut-
most simplicity with good form and pro-
portion in the hardware, are all characteris-
tic of the social, political and spiritual lives
of those very charming ancestors of ours.

As we acquired more money and came in
closer touch with Europe, this type of civil-
ization seemed to disintegrate; we began
importing things that did not relate to our
lives. We became, if not ashamed, a little
reticent about our Americanism. We either
copied Europe — corners of it that we
liked — or we did atrocious, original things.
In that Victorian era, we developed that
shocking vogue for "invisible mechanism".
Everything had to appear as though it did
not exist. We hid our locks and latches;
doors that were a noticeable entrance to
another room or a hallway were regarded as
an indiscretion. .We could not tell how a
window opened or a picture was hung,
woodwork was flat and painted, everything
was veneered. All of life seemed to be a
flat-footed, bare-faced secrecy, as though
nothing were really fine or interesting ex-
cept it pretended to be some-
thing else. Those were sad
days for art and architecture,
for all craftsmen, for mental
and spiritual development. It
was at this time that imitation
velvet was born and imitation
(Continued on page 92)

(Above) A group of
Colonial drawer pulls
and an interesting cab-
inet hinge of the same
period. At the right
above an intricately
beautiful Louis XVI
latch for a casement
window

Solid wooden shutters of the old Colonial type
had wrought iron strap hinges and wrought
iron dogs. This kind of window finish has
come again into fashion for the best modern
Colonial houses. At the right are detail draw-
ings of hinge and dog

At the left center, a richly de-
signed drawer pull and below
it a window lift and door han-
dle with elaborate escutcheon
in the manner of the Italian
Renaissance, interesting in
wrought iron

(Above) An elaborate and
ornamental copper lock plate.
Left of this, a delicately de-
signed Louis XVI lock for
casement window and below,
a simple but very graceful
Colonial door plate

House & Garden

THE VARIETY
OF FANLIGHTS

Decorative Details
Worth Studying

COSTEN FITZ-GIBBON

THE collecting mania is all-embracing
in its choice of objects, from postage
stamps to ancient bronzes. People
aplenty have been known to collect old
houses, figuratively speaking, and a widely-
read publication recently contained an arti-
cle on collecting cellars of ruined New Eng-
land dwellings. The precise whereabouts
of each beloved excavation the author-hob-
byist kept jealously to himself and regaled
the reader with only a description of his far-
scattered treasures.

The collection of fanlights — mentally
and, by comparison, rather than bodily —
is an hobby of easier indulgence and calcu-
lated to lead to more useful and constructive
results. Once formed, the habit of keeping
the eye open to note the numerous, variant
phases of this particular feature, keenness
of sight and memory will be stimulated and
the sense of architectural appreciation meas-
urably broadened. The faculty of judg-
ment thus unconsciously acquired, as one
goes from place to place, will inevitably be
valuable to the observer whether he is actu-
ally seeking for inspiration to embody in a
prospective dwelling or whether he is bent
merely upon critical satisfaction.

Charm is given this doorway by its
position and the fanlight. The re-
cessed vestibule is painted the white
of the door frame. The fanlight has
radiating divisions, embellished by
swags. This doorway, dating from
the early 19th Century, is in the Bea-
con Hill section of Boston

This late \&th Century doorway in
Sidmouth, Devonshire, England, is
remarkable for the intricate, web-
like composition of its semi-circular
fanlight. Radiating divisions are the
major motif and lesser semi-circles,
swags and cross divisions the minor
motif of the design

September , 1922

Sometimes the fan-
light of the door is
repeated in windows
on the same fafade.
This early 19th
Century example
from Beacon Hill,
Boston, has iron
radiating lines with
molded lead rosettes
at intersections

The fanlight is one of those items en-
dowed with a double capacity of decora-
tion and utility. Its physical function is
to admit light over the door to hallways
oftentimes otherwise devoid of windows.
As a factor of ornament, its close and in-
separable association with the doorway
renders it a fitting vehicle of more or less
elaborate decorative treatment whose de-
tail is largely governed by the general
character of the building. It also per-
mits considerable latitude for the play of
individual fancy.

The term "fanlight" is rather broad and
elastic in its application so that in ordi-
nary parlance it includes any overdoor
light of semi-circular or semi-elliptical

An early V)th Century
doorway in the Greco-
Roman mode, found in
Philadelphia, has radiating
scrolls approximating the
fan motif

(Left) The side door of an
inn in Bedfordshire, Eng-
land, shows a simple inter-
secting arch motif. It
dates from the mid-l&th
Century

(Right) Tlie heavy divi-
sions and semi-circular
heads of this fanlight in a
Gloucestershire inn are
characteristic of early \&th
Century work

Wallace

shape, irrespective of the way in which the
glazing is divided or the decorative motifs
employed. The origin of the name it is
easy enough to understand. The shape of
the window is the shape of a fan when it
is opened out all the way; the divisions
of the window, in the majority of cases,
radiate fanwise from the centre of the base
like the ribs of a fan. The resemblance to
an opened fan is very striking when, as
sometimes happens, the space above the
door is filled with radiating wooden slats
instead of being glazed. This device be-
longed particularly to the beginning of the
19th Century and the very end of the 18th.
It was graceful and diverting but open to
(Continued on page 100)

House & Garden

LINEN CLOSETS

Planned for Both Upstairs
and Down

VERNA COOK SALOMONSKY

TO closet the household linens of the
moderately sized home one main
closet is essential. By using this as
a base of supplies with dependent closets
in each bathroom to take care of the daily
demand for towels, and a series of drawers
or enclosed shelving convenient to or in the
dining room to supply the table linen, many
useless steps will be avoided and the linen
kept in a much better and less crowded
condition. A well-ordered linen closet with
its geometric rows of white linens instantly
bespeaks good housewifery.

A satisfactory type for the principal
linen closet, which, in general, is most con-
veniently located in the second story hall
and within easy reach of the various bed-
rooms, is wide but shallow. The depth need
not exceed 30", divided into upper and
lower compartments, each provided with a
pair of tightly fitting doors. A sliding
countershelf is located at a convenient
height to form, when extended, a working
shelf on which the linens may be sorted.
The upper compartment is equipped with
(Continued on page 86)

.4 closet for table linen can be built in the
lower part of a recessed china niche in the
dining room. The shelves are constructed
to slide forward, thus facilitating the
handling of the linen

In many bathrooms there is a space at the
end of the tub in which can be built a
narrow, but adequate, closet for towels.
The lower shelves contain soap and extra
bathroom supplies

The main linen closet is usually placed on
the second floor, accessible to the bedrooms.
In this design sliding shelves are provided.
The bottom compartments house blankets
and a soiled clothes hamper

September, 1922

INSULATING THE NEW HOUSE

A Protection Against Fire and Dampness and the Changes of
Heat and Cold, Insulation Is an Important Building Material

HENRY COMPTON

ALL home builders today regard com-
fort, health and convenience as the
essentials of a successful house. To
acquire these blessings a house must be so
designed that the details of construction
preclude the possibility of fire, dampness,
intense heat and cold and the annoying lit-
tle house insect that is such a burden to
most city dwellers.

The question of insulation has become
one of the most significant details of modern
building. Insulation for wall, floor, ceiling
and roof is no longer considered an added
expenditure, it is an investment, and actual-
ly returns large dividends to the home owner
wise enough to employ it. The properly in-
sulated structure is not only a means of
economy in a matter of health and fuel, but
it means, in the long run, that your house
is an infinitely more delightful place to live
in. It is quieter, the atmosphere is more
wholesome, and your children are happier
and healthier.

It is also worth considering that many of
the New York bond and mortgage com-
panies will not give full loan value on unin-
sulated buildings, because houses that are
not protected against noise, heat and cold
are harder to sell and rent and usually
bring a lower rental than the house that has
been built with a view to occupancy by peo-
ple of sensitiveness and refinement. And
so people who really want houses as invest-
ments or as homes in the fullest sense of the
word are beginning to realize that a house
worth living in is worth the best insulation
obtainable.

It has been very cleverly said by people
who have studied modern building that it
is much cheaper to build a warm house than
to heat a cold one, also much less work and
annoyance, and the building of a warm
house is just one expense while the heating
of a cold one is a lifetime leakage.

It is also important and satisfactory to
know that insulation well considered and
well applied will meet all the temperamental
building difficulties the house is heir to. If
you insulate for fire, you will insulate for
heat and dampness as well and the reverse
is also true, so that proper insulation in
your house meets three or four of the most
complicated problems the home owner had
to face in the old days of building.

When you consider properly insulating
your home, the question should be thorough-
ly looked into. Send for catalogues, com-
pare them, put them before your architect
and builder; get their advice, because the
best insulation in the world is the only right
kind. It must be sanitary, fire-resisting and
durable or it will deteriorate and the neces-
sity for replacing it would mean great ex-

Sftoviny Insulation,
in, l^oof construction

Roof insulation for fire, heat and
cold, is placed between the sheathing
and the shingles

Section of insulation
Shown, in f>/art

Floor insulation in upper and sub-
floor, showing its position in relation
to floor timber and furring strips

Z/ " Boards-
/itrr.-ny JttryH

- /"boards
-~ furf/na j

Insulation in brick wall and floor.

This insulation is against heat, cold

and dampness

Me/hod of Construction fir /he uje o
Jltsulaiion in Walls and floors

Cross section of floor and wall show-
ing the placing of a special kind of
insulation material

pense if it were possible at all. There are
many fillings on the market which make a
cheerful pretense of keeping your house free
from fire, dampness, etc., but as a matter of
fact a sad percentage of them are inflam-
mable, a refuge for vermin and too tightly
packed down to be of any importance.

Among the many really excellent insula-
tion materials, there are some made of wool
that are unequalled, of eel grass that is re-
garded as a miracle worker, of hair that
certain builders and architects refuse to build
without. Of course, there are many other
insulating materials and combination of
materials, and it is impossible to go into
the details of all their virtues. But we do
know that wool, hair and eel grass, as well
as cork and asbestos, felt and gypsum, prop-
erly treated, properly prepared, will prove
beneficial to construction.

The use of wool for insulation of heat
and cold, sound and fire, is one of the sig-
nificant developments in the progress of
building today. There is nothing organic
in its composition so that it cannot decay or
become musty. The average weight of in-
sulating wool used in building construction
is about twelve pounds per cubic foot. And
it is just as valuable in a warm climate as
in cold countries. It is used in the side
walls, in roofs, in the floors, in partitions.
In the roof it is packed between the rafters
with sheathing underneath them, and a
minimum of 2" has been found effective. In
walls and partitions wool should be put in
at. the same time the lath are being put up,
whether the lathing is of wood or wire.
After lathing up 2' or 3', fill in the wool as
high as lathed, then a few feet more of lath,
and fill up as before until the top is reached.
Pack the wool closely to fill all the space
compactly. It is obvious that one side of
a partition should be lathed complete be-
fore any of the wool is put in. The pres-
sure behind the lath does not prevent the
plaster keying. It is sufficiently pliable to
give way to the pressure. One necessity is
applying the wool dry and seeing that it is
not trampled upon before it is put in place.

The use of this wool in the roof of a
house will make it possible to occupy the
upper story without an air chamber. As a
lining about bathrooms, it is especially im-
portant since it deadens the sound of valves
and flowing water. Wherever it is used in
bulk, it must, of course, be held in place
by some retaining support or casing. The
elasticity of this wool and lack of solidity,
prevent the transmission of sound where it
is used. As sound is communicated by the
actual contact of beams or the vibration of
air between them, it is easy to see how any
(Continued on page 84)

House & Garden

TO LESSEN KITCHEN LABOR

An Intelligent Use of Modern Equipment Reduces Both the
Time and the Effort of Household Work

PETER DUNHAM

An electric mixer, equipped
with various attachments,
quickly handles sauces,
puddings, meringues, etc.
Courtesy of the Troy
Metal Products Co.

ALTHOUGH householders may find
difficulty in inducing servants to use
modern equipment, the householder
herself should miss no opportunity to inves-
tigate these new devices. Once convinced
of their value, she may be able, by subtle
diplomacy, to introduce them into her kitch-
en. When they have been tried — that is,
given a fair, intelligent trial — and their
value assessed, they can l>e either perma-
nently installed or discarded. But they
must be given a fair trial. Too often one
hears it said that some of our modern kitch-
en equipment is more bother to take care of
or to run than the old style. In nine cases
out of ten, the equipment has never been
tried intelligently. On the other hand,
many of the newer devices are equipped for
electricity and their introduction into the
household will depend upon the local price
of power. Where power is cheap, electricity
is the greatest aid to household work and
electrically equipped devices the greatest
boon to the householder.

Of the suggestions illustrated here, some
are new, some not quite so new; each of
them possesses some peculiar advantages.
They might well be considered in this month
when one is planning to refurnish the house
for winter occupancy.

The first is an electric unit that beats and
mixes puddings, sauces, creams, meringues,
dressings and batter with a minimum of
energy. Electric units such as this are in-
valuable. Straining is no longer a strain,
freezing ice cream no longer an agony,
mixing has lost some of its terrors. The
attachments of this electric mixer are easily
attached. It is equipped with a motor and
stands 26" high.

Next comes a new laundry dryer,
equipped for electricity or gas. Its size —
22" by 38" high by 47" long— make it at-
tractive for the small household. Below it
are shown three excellent pieces of equip-
ment— an electric hot plate with an open
(Continued on page 88)

Because of its size and ease of operation, this laun~
dry dryer is attractive for small households. It
measures 22" deep, 38" high and 47" long, and is
equipped for gas or electricity. The Ra-Ne-Day
Clothes Drver Co.

Heat from coils in this
electric plate passes directly
to the utensil. The Liberty
Gauge and Instrument Co.

To clean the inside work-
ings of a piano one may
use this suction cleaner.
The American Device Co.

The new waffle iron is
easier to open and cleanse
than the old types. From
thf George Borgjeldt Co.

With this type of
socket the light re-
mains on for a
minute after being
turned of. Tre-
mont Products Co.

A double socket is
easier to handle
than a poorly
spliced electric
wire. From Mag-
nus Electric Co.

Since there are no levers or pedals to work, this elec-
trically-driven ironing machine leaves the hands and
feet free. It is operated by a two-button dial on the
right of the board. From the Hurley Machine Co.

September , 1922

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The lower level of Mr. H. Fletcher's
garden is tucked into an angle formed
by the pergola and the garage; the
latter becoming an integral and un-
usually attractive part of the garden
picture

A GARDEN SCHEME
ON TWO LEVELS

AT WILMINGTON
DELAWARE

The second terrace lies above the third section on the
Opposite flank of the pergola and is formally planted with
well-placed evergreens in upright shapes. In the center
prostrate junipers are used effectively to soften the lines
of the pool coping. Evergreen vines cover the walls

The vine-covered pergola separates two levels and is
itself a place from which both sections of the garden may
be enjoyed in turn. Charles Wellford Leavitt was the
landscape architect and James Barton Keen was the
architect of the house and the architectural elements of
the garden

House & Garden

FURNITURE FOR

MANY

PLACES

All the pieces shown on these Pages mav be purchased through
the House & Garden Shopping Service, 19 W. 44th St., N. Y. C.

The decorative Queen Anne ma-
hogany highboy at the left would
be effective in either a bedroom
or living room. It is 54" high,
33" wide and priced at $118. A
mahogany Windsor chair with
brace back is $16.24

A comfortable over-stuffed davenport is an im-
portant part of every living room. The graceful
one above comes covered in a small figured denim
in blue, mulberry or taupe. It is 6' long and the
cushions are down filled, $135

(Right) This three-
cornered drop-leaf
mahogany table 28"
high is $32. The top
measures 25" when
down. Open it is
round and 25"
across. Very grace-
ful is the Windsor
chair, mahogany
finished, $21

A walnut table clover
leaf in shape is 28"
high, the top measur-
ing 21", $38. Coral red
papier mache vases 9"
high are $7.50 the pair

A Salem chest of solid
mahogany, sturdy of
line and always usable
may be purchased for
$95. It measures 35"
high, 38" wide and 20"
deep

September, 1922

TO PUT IN THE

NEW

HOUSE

At the right is a solid mahogany
single bed, a reproduction of an
authentic design, $34.50. The
splat back chair, copied from an
early American model, is also ma-
hogany with a rush seat. It costs
$21.74

The comfortable over-stuffed chair below is cov-
ered in figured- mohair denim in black and gold,
mulberry or blue and tan, $26.25. A little end
table in mahogany finish is $6.24. Wrought iron
lamp and parchment shade $5.74 complete

(At the left above)
For a bedroom
comes a graceful
chaise longue, re-
markably low priced
at $37.50. // is cov-
ered in figured blue
or rose damask

A decorative walnut
console 42" long, only
lOl/2" wide and 32" high
is $25.50. Mirror to
match 2V/2" x 16^",
$15.48. Set oj green
glass candlesticks and
bowl $25

This low mahogany
coffee table is $21. The
top measures 26" x 16".
Wedgwood coffee pot,
cream color with blue
and yellow band $3.50,
cups $14.00 a dozen

House & Garden

September

THE GARDENER'S CALENDAR

Ninth Month

Narcissi — these are
Empress and Em>-
peror — s hould be
planted before frost

The trumpet narcis-
sus belongs in moist,
well drained loam.
This is Mme. Plemp

A wading pool walled

in with ledgestone

and fed by a tiny

woodland stream

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

1. Do not

neglect the cane

2. Onions,

parsnips, spin-

This Calendar of the gardener's labors is
planned as a reminder for undertaking his
tasks in season. It is designed for an aver-
age season in the Middle States, but its
suggestion should fit the whole country if

Season of mists and
mellow fruitfulness!
Close bosom-friend of
the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how
to load and bless

fruits, if they
have not al-
ready been at-
tended to. Go
over them care-
fully, removing
the old canes

ach and hardy
crops of this
character may
be sown In the
open with the
Idea of carrying
them over the

it be remembered that for every one hun-
dred miles north or south, garden opera-
tions will be retarded or advanced from five

With fruit the vines that
round the thatch-eaves
run.

at the ground
line and tying
the young, vig-
orous shoots

winter. This
can be easily
done with a
little protec-

to seven days.

— John Keats. '

Into position to

tion, such as

prevent dam-

salt, hay or sim-

age by storms.

ilar rfaterial.

3. The last

4. Prune all

5. Melon

6. The or-

7. Attention

S. The flow-

9. Vegetables

sowing of peas

deciduous trees

frames and

chard that is

should be given

er garden

should be

should be made

before the

other garden

notgrowing sat-

now to bulb

should be given

started in the

tlie early part

leaves fall, as it

acceasories that

isfactorily can

planting for

a flnal clean-up

greenhouse

of this month.

is much easier

win not be used

be improved

this season. If

for the season

now for next

using onlv the

then to deter-

again this sea-

wonderfully by

not already

The walks

winter's use

hard round-

mine what part

son should be

the sowing of

placed, orders

should be prop-

Cauliflower,

seeded type,
which Is quick
and vigorous

of the growth
is to be re-
moved. Cut

repaired, paint-
ed and put
awav In winter

cover crops,
and subse-
quently turn-

should be sent
Immediately,
as early plant-

erly edged, all
weed growth
and the old

lettuce and
string beans
should be sown

In growth. If

the branches

storage, when

ing them under

ing means bet-

stalks of plants

about every

the ground is

close, leaving

well cared lor

in the custom-

ter results. It

removed and

three weeks.

drv water the

no stubs, and

they will last

ary manner.

gives the bulb

burned. This

Tomatoes

drills well be-

paint the

for several sea-

No orchard

a chance to

will destroy

and Swiss

fore sowing the

wounds Im-

sons of actual

should be

form a root

many insect

chard need but

seed.

mediately.

use.

grown in sod.

system.

larvae.

one sowing.

10. This is

11. Where

12. Ever-

13. This is

14. Do not

16. Evergreens

17. Do not

peony month
In the flower
garden. If you

heated frames
are available
for them, there

greens that are
being trans-
planted now.

one of the best
periods of the
year for seed-

neglect to sow
down with rye
and clover the

that have been
confined in
growth, hedges

stop cutting the
grass until all
growth has

want good re-

are a number

or have been

ing down new

vacant patches

and various

ceased. Failure

sults next year
it will be nec-

of crops that
can be started

transplanted
recently, must

lawns, the rea-
son being that

In the garden.
Sowings can

other plants
that are clipped

to do this will
result In a long

essary to over-

at this time.

be kept well

most weed

also be made

frequently

growth, which

haul the plants

Radishes, spin-

watered. Al-

growth is over

between corn.

should be given

when carried

now, digging

ach, etc., or

though top

and the grass

cabbage and

a flnal clipping

over the winter

up the ciumps

some of the

growth has ter-

will get suf-

other crops,

at this time.

will turn brown

that are too

cooler flowers

minated, these

flclent start to

with the Idea

Do this before

in spring and

large, cutting
them into four

such as violets
and pansies.

plants are mak-
ing consider-

carry it safely
through the

of remaining
after these

the foliage
turns on the

be hard to
eradicate when

pieces and re-

can be sown

a b 1 e root

trials of winter

crops have

deciduous

the lawn is put

setting.

in the frames.

growth.

weather.

been gathered.

plants.

in order.

17. Before

18. Perma-

19. Chrysan-

20. It Is not

21. A great

22. Do not

23. Mush-

the leaves

nent pastures

themums and

too late to start

deal of our so-

neglect to get

room beds may

begin to fall.

for grazing pur-

other similar

a strawberry

called winter

cuttings of the

be started in

look the garden

poses should be

plants that are

bed for next

losses, especi-

bedding plants

the cellar at

and grounds

sown at this

in bud should

season, ifpotted

ally with ever-

before they are

this time. Be

over carefully

time. Bear In

be fed freely

plants are used

greens, is the

destroyed by

sureto get

with an eye to

mind that if

with liquid

for planting.

result of these

frost. This ap-

fresh droppings

changes in

properly put

manures of dif-

Use pistillate

plants being al-

plies to chry-

for this pur-

their arrange-

down, a good

ferent kinds.

and staminate

lowed to be-

santhemums.

pose, and by

ment . The

pasture will

This operation

types. Put In

come bone dry

coleus, etc.

all means use

reason for this

last for many

however, must

plenty of ma-

at this season

Each variety

new culture

is obvious-you

years. Do not

be discontinued

nure and a fair

when they are

should be kept

spawn, which

can tell now

under any cir-

a* soon as the

amount of hone

developing a

separate, as

is of high qual-

takes in the

plant Inferior

color and signs

late strong.

to carry them

are disappoint-

most depend-

scheme exist.

seed.

of opening.

rapid growth.

over winter.

ing.

able.

24. It would

25. Celery

2f>. Cold-

27. It might

28. Just as

29. Carna-

30. Wire

not be amiss

should be

frames that can

be advisable to

soon as the

tions that were

grass, rye grass

with late grow-

banked with

be protected

build a tire in

foliage turns

planted out

and other

ing crops such

earth now. It

throughout the

the greenhouse

yellow on de-

may now be

heavy growing

as celery, ruta-

Is best if this is

winter should

occasionally.

ciduous plants

put in the

grasses and

baga, carrots,

attended to fre-

be used for

Cold nights

it is safe to

greenhouse.

weeds grow

parsnip and

quently, as the

sowing hardy

and hot days

start trans-

The glass

very rapidly at

New Zealand

soil should

vegetables like

are productive

planting ; in

should be

this season of

spinach, or

never be al-

cabbage and

of mildew. To

fact, the earlier

shaded slightly

the year, and

other crops still

lowed to work

cauliflower

overcome this

in the fall this

for several

if allowed to

bearing, to ap-

its way into the

with the Idea

have the pipes

is attended to

days, or until

overrun your

ply frequent

heart of the

of carrying

painted with a

the better, as

the roots have

garden they

dressings of

plant. Hold the

them over and

paste made

the roots will

again become

will be a serious

manure and

stalks together

planting out

from flowers of

take hold be-

active. Over-

factor to con-

occasionally

while banking

early in the

sulphur and

fore cold wea-

head spraying

tend with next

nitrate of soda.

them.

spring.

water.

ther.

Is helpful.

spring.

'T'HERE are practical tests by which you may know if you are really a gardener at heart, or merely CD

*• common man, u-ho thinks that he is a gardener. What, for instance, is your view of a nurscyman's

autumn listf Do you- let these things seduce you every year? Do you linger over them when you should

be reading Shakespeare or improving yourself in other ways? Do you make out long catalogues of plants

and pretend to yourself that you are only doing it for a joke; and then pep your list into the post, and

presently, when a box comes and there is half a crown to pay, declare that you had forgotten all about it?

If you do these things, you may consider y&urself a gardener, and I shake your hand. Nurserymen's

catalogues ought to grow upon a young gardener like drink. He must, of course, begin by believing every
word. _ Only bitter personal experience extending over many years should shake him. I myself still have

faith in nearly everything but the pictures of vegetables. I will net accept the illustrations of peas, and

French beans, and melons. I can prove that most of the other things can be produced with an effort and

a little management of the photographic apparatus; but I have never yet grown a green pea-pod a foot long

with thirty peas the size of cherries in it, and I never expect to do so.

— Eden Philpott.

Set the narcissus

bulbs six inches deep

in the ground to get

the best results

Daffodils should be

scattered in informal

drifts and clusters

over the lawn

A combination of ar-
chitecture and nature
that suggests Paris's
Pare Monceau

With September comes the first faint
sign of the transposition of garden inter-
ests to the fascinating regions under glass

This is a splendid time of the year to gather

material for such an experiment in fencing as

is suggested by this Japanese barrier

No other flower melts so nicely into the
hazy atmosphere of late September as
the gray-blue bloom of the globe thistle

September, 1922

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In the Galleries devoted to Furniture for the Dining
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House & Garden

HOW TO MEASURE FOR CURTAINS

The Methods of Making Exact Figures on Heights and Widths
Are Explained Here for the Home Decorator

ADA LA HINES

o
I

TO the uninitiated- cur-
tain measuring may
seem an unimportant
item. But, after you have
made your living room cur-
tains a foot too short, or find
the chintz in the guest room
wrong side up or to your
great dismay, discover one
of those gorgeous birds on
the chintz roller shades in
the dining room has been
decapitated and the other
minus its tail-feathers, after
such mistakes you will see
the wisdom of knowing how
to measure. Start with a
folding 4' rule.

For the purposes of this
article, it is best to take as
model a window where you
will use three sets of cur-
tains— glass curtains, silk
curtains to draw at night,
and overcurtains and val-
ance which frame the win-
dow.

For the glass curtain,
which may be of any soft,
thin material such as net,
muslin, or silk gauze, take
the width measure closest to
the glass, also the length to
the sill. Determine where you are to place
your brackets, and allow about fifty per
cent fullness. These curtains should be
made with a three-quarter-inch casing for
your rod to run through and a heading the
same size. See that they just escape the
sill, because otherwise they may sweep up
the dust from the sill.

The silk draw curtains should be placed
a little farther out from the glass. You
will find a detail of molding on the casing
which seems the logical place for them.
Take your width measure first, and allow
about fifty per cent fullness. These should
just escape the sill also. Having your
correct window measure, and having the
width of your material, cut this down to
the required fullness if necessary. It is
better to part with eight or ten inches of
material than to crowd your window.

The draw curtains should be finished
with a 1V>" hem on the fronts and lower
edges, and weighted tape run in the lower
hems to make them hang straight. After
making a 3" heading, which should be
double, pleat them into the rod measure-
ment. Sew heavy wire rings to the back
of the box pleats, every 5" or 6" apart.
These will take your draw cords.

Next let us take the measures for the

WIDTH

• GLASS CURTAIN

Gi/455 CUKTAIN-

Portiere measurements are fairly simple. The height is^the height of

the door casing and the curtains are hung to within 1" of the floor.

The width is the width of the inside of the casing. Glass curtains

depend upon the size of the glass

-1/a.favce Width

The measurements indicated here are for

three sets of curtains — glass curtains, draw

curtains and over-curtains. The valance

width is also shown

over-curtains and valances.
These will be of some heavier
fabric, either a heavy printed
linen or silk. They should
hang to the floor in a formal
room. We must also take
into account the repeat of the
design. The latter may seem
formidable to one unaccus-
tomed to measuring, but it is
really not difficult. Let us
suppose your window meas-
ures 9' in height. The repeat
in the design is found by
measuring from a certain de-
tail of design down to the
next point exactly like it.
Suppose this to be 2'. Then
it is obvious that you must
allow each cut of your ma-
terial to be five repeats, or
10', instead of 9', so as to
have each length begin at the
same point. Be sure to place
at the bottoms of the curtains
that part of the pattern which
seems heaviest, both in color
and design. These will be
bound, if of printed linen, on
the front and lower edges
with a 2" taffeta band to
harmonize. Line them in
satine and sew them to the
very top heavy rings. No pleats are
necessary on over-curtains. Let them hang
1" above the floor. Set the rods out on the
casing as close to the outer edge as possible.
When you take your valance measure,
it is customary to use the width from the
very outside of the trim, although in some
cases, where the trim is extra heavy, the
valance and curtains may be placed en-
tirely within the inside line of the trim.
The valance width should be the same as
the total width of the over-curtains, so that
the vertical line on the outside of the cas-
ing is not broken. It is preferable to make
the valance with a tape stitched to the
back at the very top, so that it may be
tacked to a valance board. Allow a 3"
return at each end to tack around the
board. In depth the valance should never
be more than one-fifth of the curtain length,
and preferably much less. About 15" is
a good depth for a plain shaped valance,
although in the curves it may have to be
more or less to take in the design nicely.
Center the most important part of the de-
sign, and if piecing is required, do so on
the sides; never in the center. A box-
pleated or gathered valance, which is
straight on the lower edge, may be 12" to
(Continued on page 112)

September, 1922

III

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An uncut edging for curtains in shell design has a

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Courtesy of Edward Maag

Taste in Curtain Trimmings

(Continued from page 44)

beautiful things suggestive of the jewel
setter's art in terms of weaving.

With such a treasure store to draw
upon it is now possible for the modern
householder to have curtains correctly
and charmingly finished. Trimming
makers of today have every facility ior
turning out marvels of color and weave
and possess an amazing ability for re-
producing the most intricate patterns
in a short space of time. Many stand-
ard designs are carried in stock for
immediate use, and others can be dyed
to sample in twenty-four hours, while
specially ordered galons or fringes are
finished in a few weeks.

From this it follows that good or
bad trimmings are up to the decorator
in the final analysis. Happily for all
concerned, the day is past when brassy
looking tinsel galon and fringe to match
or a meaningless gimp was the stand-
ard for curtains and furniture. Tinsel
still plays its part as an accent in
trimming, and so used provides a much
needed contrast otherwise unobtainable,
but this modern version is a far cry
from the ineffectual and tawdry copies
of Renaissance galon of a generation or
two ago.

It is not easy to generalize on where
to use a fringe and where a galon. So
many conditions and circumstances
must be considered that here — as every-
where— the saving grace of common
sense should be relied upon. Just as
walls of stone or rough plaster demand

strongly patterned and colored stuffs
for curtains, so does it follow that the
curtains themselves should be finished
with an elaborate tasseled trimming
and a possible line of openwork galon.
On the other hand, the wide simple
surfaces so popular at present with their
air of repose and spaciousness call for
curtains of shimmering satin or crisp
taffeta, striped or plain, outlined and
finished in a delicately woven trim-
ming reproducing the color of the mate-
rial or a color in pleasing contrast. Or
perhaps two or more colors arranged
in separate little blocks or alternat-
ing threads will give the needed deft
touch.

Gorgeous brocades in the manner of
18th Century Venice may well be
trimmed with a woven sea-foam, opal-
escent and sparkling; whereas sur-
roundings redolent of the classical
severity of the Brothers Adam natu-
rally require quite a different curtain
treatment.

Chintz, an essentially informal fabric,
offers a far freer scope in the mattei
of finish. Ribbons as bindings, ruffles
or ruchings are extremely attractive but
perhaps do not achieve quite the same
air of good breeding as the quaint old
ball or tassel fringes prized by oui
grandmothers. The delightful old
binding tapes in gay stripes are also
finding their way into popular favoi
with present day lovers of chintz whc
appreciate a note of quaintness.

At the top is a quaint Victorian tassel fringe in blue and yellow.
Much of the effectiveness of the narrow trimming in the center
is due to its being black and white. The wide openwork galon
at the bottom is of white silk or it may be dyed to match any
sample

September, 1922

The owner of a Cadillac is impressed almost
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But what cements and seals his allegiance to the
Cadillac is the continuity of this fine performance
over a period of years.

He gradually realizes that this dependability which
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while the car is new, but that it is to endure
in all its fullness throughout his entire term of
ownership.

From the time of that realization forward, and the
realization comes certainly and clearly to every
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Every far-off state and city of fancy becomes

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Every trip, whether of one mile or one thousand,
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will he travel in complete comfort, but that arrival
and departure at a particular time in his Cadillac
is almost exclusively a matter of his own decision.
This is what the veteran owner of a Cadillac has
in mind when he becomes extravagantly enthu-
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It is a dependability that the Cadillac owner sin-
cerely believes is unequalled; that he knows will
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and that is the deep, determining reason for his
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Our American Birches

(Continued from page 56)

slowly under such conditions. It also
serves as a mantle of green to hide an
ugly scar on Nature's face.

The bark of this tree is a dull chalky
white, not easily separated from the
trunk, and is marked with dark lines
and dots. Often the small branches are
black or dark red and marked with
dots. The leaves are smooth and var-
nished in appearance so that they re-
flect and intensify the light. They are
hung on long slender petioles so that
even the slightest breeze sets them a-
dancing and the tree seems ever in mo-
tion and gives a dash of life to an
otherwise quiet scene, snapping it out
of lethargy. Lowell has written of it:

"Thy shadow scarce seems shade, thy

pattering leaflets
Sprinkle their gathered sunshine o'er

my senses
And Nature gives me all her summer

confidences."

Another of the family, which is
often confused with the gray birch, is
the white birch (Betula alba var. papy-
rifera), or as it is called by others, the
paper birch, or the canoe birch. This
tree has a slender pure white trunk
which sometimes attains a height of 90'.
The tree is not as abundant as the
gray birch but it has a large range of
growth, being found from Newfound-
land to Alaska and as far south as the
State of Washington, eastward to New
York City. It is essentially a northern
tree, and, where it is found most
abundantly, it is used as a source for
paper pulp. The Indian made use of
the fact that its bark peels off in large
layers, and made admirable material
for canoes. Longfellow in his tale of
Hiawatha sings:

"Give me of thy bark 0 Birch tree ....
.... I a light canoe will build me."

As a tree for landscape planting it
has many possibilities, for not only is
it attractive with its slender column of
white, but it has a beautiful and pictur-
esque habit of drooping twigs of hand-
some foliage.

The red birch (Betula nigra) is hap-
pily called the river birch because it
prefers the rich slopes and bottom lands
of rivers and little streams. This is the
southern variety and it rarely attains
a height greater than 90' except in the
south. It is very abundant in the New
England states, but rarely as far north
as Canada. The tree develops into a
round irregular headed tree which is
very picturesque. It has a bark when
young which is a lustrous reddish
brown, but as it grows older it peels
into papery scales in varying shades of
red and brown. These fluttering in the
wind make a charming variation. In
landscape compositions this tree is
valuable for its long graceful branches
which overhang the water and almost
sweep it with its graceful foliage. And
not only for this reason, but because
it has a very fibrous root system which
serves to hold in place the soil which
might otherwise be washed away when
the stream was high. It is also a rapid
growing tree, and easy to transplant.

It is unfortunate that the river birch
should be called nigra, inasmuch as we
have a black birch (Betula lenta).
However, this tree is more fortunate
in its common names, of which it has
several. It is the black birch because
it has such a dark colored bark. It is
the cherry birch because it resembles
so closely the native wild cherry. It is

the sweet birch because of the aromatic
sweetness of the young twigs. The
bark, when young, is fairly smooth,
but as it grows older and the trunk
increases in size, the bark begins to
peel off transversely in long thin strips,
and finally it becomes scarred with
irregular scales which gives it a dis-
tinguished and venerable appearance.
The black birch thrives best on damp
hillsides, or in places where it can ob-
tain a moderate supply of moisture.
It is a widely distributed species, being
found from Nova Scotia south along
the mountains to Georgia, and often
as far west as Minnesota. It com-
monly grows as high as 80' and de-
velops into a wide symmetrical headed
tree, which is very attractive. It is
especially attractive in the early Spring,
when the leafless branches are hung
with myriads of long yellow catkins,
like so many golden tassels fluttering in
the breeze.

There is a western species of the
black birch which is called fontinalis.
It is found in the mountain canons
and while it is very attractive, it is
not a large tree for it rarely grows as
high as 40'.

One of the most abundant trees in
the hard wood forests of Canada and
New England is the yellow birch
(Betula lutea). It usually grows as
high as 100' and it is an important
item in the source of lumber, paper
pulp, and fuel. The tree is wide spread
from Newfoundland south to Delaware
and along the mountains to Tennessee.
It is essentially a northern tree, for here
it attains its greatest height and most
beautiful development.

The young tree has a beautiful
smooth bark which is a silver or golden
gray. As the tree increases in size,
however, this smoothness disappears
for the bark breaks and rolls back in
long ribbon-like curls, which are per-
sistent and rustle in the wind.

There are several reasons why this is
a valuable tree in landscape work.
First, it develops into a well rounded
tree with pendulous branches. Second,
it has an unusual and interesting color
tone in its bark and branches. Again,
it is very easy to transplant and thrives
well if given sufficient moisture. And
last, but by no means the least of its
several virtues, is the fact that it is
very hardy, and seldom is attacked by
insect or fungus enemies.

There is a birch found in the north-
ern New England states which is said
by some authorities to be the western
representative of the European weep-
ing birch. It has been given the name
of blue birch (Betula coerulea) and al-
though it is not very common it is
interesting and worthy of as much at-
tention as many imported plants.

Then there are one or two more of the
family which are native. Although not
as common as the ones named above
they have interesting characteristics
and possibilities. Three are varieties
of the white birch and are almost
Alpine in character for they prefer the
cool woods of the north and do not
attain great size. They are Betula alba
var. cordifolia; var. minor and var.
glutinosa. We also have a swamp va-
riety which is found as far south as
New Jersey. This is Betula pumila,
and thrives from Labrador to Dela-
ware, and as far west as Minnesota.
And there is still another dwarf va-
riety which grows in the mountains of
New Hampshire and the more Arctic
regions of Canada, called Betula
glandulosa.

September, 1922

GRAFLEX

Graflex advantages are valuable every
time you take a picture, whatever the
nature of the subject.

You know when the focus is sharp, you
see what the view includes because a big
image of the subject, right side up, is
visible in the focusing hood until the
very instant of exposure.

Graflex focal plane shutter, with
speeds of i/io to 1/1,000 of a second,
and a superfine lens such as the Kodak
Anastigmaty.4.5, are a combination that
safeguards proper exposure even under
difficult light conditions.

The Graflex cameras are fully described
in the 1922 catalog — ask for your copy
by mail or at your dealer's.

Pictures reproduced from Graflex negatives

Eastman Kodak Company

Folmer &? Schwing Department

Rochester, N. Y.

House & Garden

APPRECIATION

The owners of the Wills Sainte Claire are
those owner- drivers who appreciate the
thrill of tremendous power and eager obedi-
ence to the lightest touch; who realize that
in this car, and this car only, perfection of
balance is combined with lightweight,
sturdiness, readability, ease of riding and
responsiveness that give them a new expe-
rience in safe, yet thrilling travel.

The Motor — Eight 'Cylinder, actually twin
fours; 60 horsepower; overhead camshafts
and valves in cylinder head. This construc-
tion produces the enormous, flexible power;
the smooth, noiseless operation; the un-
equaled simplicity and accessibility of all
essential parts.

C. H. Wills &. Company, Marysville, Michigan

WILLS SAINTE CIAIRE

Insulating the New House

(Continued from page 71)

porous material would have a muffling
effect on the solid parts of the building.
Wave motion is not possible where the
air chamber is sufficiently isolated.

It is rather a romantic idea to know
that some homes are being made sound-
proof, fireproof, and every other proof,
by the use of cushions of eel grass. And
yet one of the best known scientific in-
sulators of heat, sound and fire is a
fabric of eel grass. This grass is woven
into a thick elastic cushion, filled with
dead air spaces. It seems that it is neces-
sary to use long flat blades of grass for
perfect insulation. And the eel grass is
also practically indestructible. A sample
280 years old is in possession of one of
the insulating manufacturers. We under-
stand that it is absolutely sanitary, that
it will not harbor insects or vermin, that
it is an actual fire retardent. It grows
in salt water and contains silicon to a
large extent. This renders it non-in-
flammable, uninviting to rats and mice
and also tough and elastic.

This lining is very popular in warm
climates as it makes rooms habitable
that have been thought perfectly use-
less through intense mid-day sun. On
the other hand, it has a popularity in
Greenland and was used to shelter some
of the huts in the Scott Antarctic Ex-
pedition. As to noise, it seems to perish
in the face of these eel grass cushions
which have a power of breaking up and
absorbing sound waves. Think of the
delight of renting an apartment without
being tortured with the fear of the
midnight festivities of the tenants above,
or at the side or below.

Eel Grass Sheets

These sheets of eel grass may be used
as an insulation medium throughout
the building, for floor deadening, wall
insulation, roofs and partitions; for
sound and cold it is used about a half
inch thick. For cold storage at least
three quarters of an inch; for water-
proofing purposes, it is made up with a
waterproof paper on both sides and
with the needle hole seal. Charts are
sent out showing the method of using
this material for every detail of house
insulation.

Practically all these insulation mate-
rials, including felt, cork and asbestos,
are very light weight. They are also clean
and inodorous. The best of them repel
rather than attract insects so that, on the
whole, they seem to have become an
essential in good building construction.

Hair insulating is singularly effec-
tive as a sound deadener. It consists
of a heavy layer of thoroughly cleaned
cattle hair securely fastened between two
sheets of protective paper. The cattle
hair is treated with a chemical process,
which renders it vermin proof and odor-
less. It will not dry out, split or rot with
age; it shrivels when it comes in contact
with fire, but will not carry flame. It
is extremely light in weight and is so
flexible that it fits into odd corners,
which makes it very easy to apply. The
round and beveled edges allow one inch
lap, assuring an excellent insulation.
There are many varieties of this hair
insulating material, some especially for
weather, some for water, some for ver-
min and, of course, a number for fire.

Gypsum

Many architects will tell you that
some of the most desirable qualities in
insulation are afforded by the modern
wall plaster made from gypsum rock.
This plaster has the unique property of
reverting, when set, to its original rock
state. As a result of the present highly
developed methods of manufacture, it
can be made to rival concrete in com-
pressive strength.

It was several years ago that a manu-
facturer of gypsum products conceived
the novel idea of casting gypsum plas-
ter between two layers of fibrous ma-
terial into sheets, or wall sections, ready
to be nailed directly to the studding or
joists, thus combining the excellences
of the gypsum plastered wall with rapid,
clean and usually economical applica-
tion.

In order that the large sheets — they
are 32" or 48" in width, 6' to 10' in
length, and Y^" in thickness— will not
break when handled, the gypsum used
is toughened by a special process, so
that the sections, although solid and
rigid, can actually be bent without
cracking the plaster core. One of the
virtues of wall plaster is that the
changes in humidity which cause heavy
furniture to come apart and doors and
drawers to stick, never cause it to warp,
shrink or bulge. If the walls and ceil-
ings of the building are lined with gyp-
sum wallboard, fire would undoubtedly
be confined to the room in which it
started for some length of time. Tests
made in the experimental laboratory of
the University of Illinois have demon-
strated that less than the Volsteadian
one-half of one percent of sound can
pass through a gypsum slab.

Hollow Tile and Metal Lath

In addition to the actual fireproof
construction such as hollow tile, and
metal lath, there is a concrete which is
waterproof in its composition. This is
considered one of the most economical
and important developments in building
materials. Waterproofing in concrete,
added as an integral part of the material,
lines the tubes or pores throughout the
mass with a water-repellent rilm that
resists dampness permanently. There is
also a waterproofing paste that can be
put on over other substances, and pastes
that are incorporated in cement and
stucco. It is also essential to remember
a fire felt sheet and block which are
especially adapted for hot surfaces.

Insulating sheets for fire, dampness,
heat and cold are used as a plaster base.
And there is a variety of wall boards
which can be incorporated in the ex-
terior walls and floors for insulating
purposes. Good builders today consider
it essential to use an insulating sheath,
ing for furnaces, heating pipes, refriger-
ators, etc., in fact, for every kind of
mechanism where it is desirable to avoid
the dissipating of heat or cold. Innu-
merable paints and stains are listed as
waterproof and fire deterrent.

It has been proved by architects as
well as builders that cork flooring also
has a fire resisting quality, that fire has
a harder fight through a cork surface on
the floor than almost any other material
except concrete or tile, and where lino-
leums are laid down in a concrete bed
they are fire deterrent to a degree in fin-
ishing a home.

Stock Room Fittings

One of the needs today is to have a
stock room so insulated that it can be
kept cool, no matter what the change in
temperature outside. To automatically
correct the temperature in a stock room
that has become warm, connect your
stock room with the outside air by
means of two separate conduits of
rather limited cross section; both con-
duits to end in the open near each other,
preferably on the shady side of the
house, both running as straight as pos-
sible, one ending in the stock room very
close to the ceiling, the other ending in
the stock room close to the floor.

These two conduits assure automatic
ventilation, without direct draft, espe-
(Continued on page 86)

September, 1922

Time to Re-tire?

(Buy Fisk)

THE outstanding margin of extra quality pos-
sessed by Fisk Tires is the one conspicuous
fact held in the minds of the best-informed buyers
in America today. Compare before you buy.

There's a Fisk Tire of extra value, in every size, for car, truck or speed wagon.

ish HARC! Woven Linens

**r

Assurance

THE charming poise of the
hostess faced with the
thousand problems entertaining
brings about is something more
than a matter of personality and
self confidence. It is a reflection
of the knowledge that the ap-
pointments of her home are in
keeping with the character of
her guests, and are an external
evidence of her taste. Beauty
alone in the design and texture
of Fleur-de-lis Hand-woven
IRISH LINEN damask table cloths
and napkins would recommend
their better use by the average
woman, but their general usage
indicates the clever woman who
knows their incomparable ser-
viceability.

Shown at the better stores in the
United States and Canada. A cata-
logue will be mailed on request.

There are also Fleur-de-lis
linen towels, linen sheets and
pillow cases of suth general ex-
cellence as to justify them for
finer use or for hard wear.

IRELAND BROS, j

INCORPORATED

102 Franklin St., New York

Identified by the Fleur-de-
lis and the words 'IRISH
HAND -WOVEN
LINEN DAMASK,'
woven on the end of table
cloths and napkins.

House & Garden

Insulating The New House

(Continued from page 84)

dally in the winter time, and cease to
work as soon as the temperature of the
open air is equal to or above that pre-
vailing in the stock room.

Experience advises pipes of \y2"
diameter only, for stock rooms of about
1000 cubic ft. contents in country houses
in the open, and a 2" pipe for city
houses in built-up sections.

A very slight rise of the outlet pipe
towards its exit will tend to increase its
sensitiveness. Avoid bends and curves
as much as possible and meet such draw-
backs by larger pipe diameters. Only
at the outside ends apply occasionally
45° elbows to keep out the rain water
and wire netting against vermin and
rodents in particular.

Only where their larger cross sections

permits of it should rectangular sheet
metal leader conduits be used to save an
inch or so of space; generally iron pipes
are more suitable and lasting.

As one goes over the variety of means
to make modern houses waterproof,
dampproof, fireproof, air-tight and
sanitary in every detail, it is difficult to
understand how any house ever has the
temerity to burn down or leak or get
warm in summer or cold in winter or
has the audacity for a minute to harbor
an insect. With an imaginative archi-
tect and a conscientious builder, and all
the shelves of catalogues to help us build
the perfect house, we really should be
ashamed to own a house which is not
letter perfect so far as these modern
golden rules are concerned.

Linen Closet

(Continued from page 70)

shelves set at least 12" apart and pro-
vided with high backs and with sides
tapering to the width of a narrow
strip which runs across the front of
the shelf to hold the piles of linen
in place. Shelves open at the front
permit the linen to be quickly inspected.
To further facilitate the handling of
linens these shelves are constructed to
slide forward by means of hardwood
strips working in channels grooved along
the sides of the shelves. The topmost
shelf, because less accessible, is fixed
in place and reserved for out-of-season
and rarely used linens.

One side of the lower compartment is
given over to the clothes hamper, or, if
the plan of the house allows, an ideal
arrangement can be made by starting
the clothes chute from the floor of this
cupboard. In either case the floor of
the entire lower compartment should be
raised a few inches above the main
floor level to insure cleanliness. Draw-
ers and additional shelves are provided
on the opposite side for blankets, cur-
tains, and the keeping of odds and ends
of linen.

A very narrow space is required for
the bath room closet, the minimum di-

mensions which will accommodate the
average towel being approximately 10"
wide by 20" deep. The often unused
space at the end of the built-in bath
tub lends itself excellently to the re-
quirements of a small linen closet. Be-
neath a series of stationary shelves is
a drawer for sponges and brushes, and,
underneath, more shelving for a supply
of cleaning fluids, powders, soaps and
for the storage of the usual overflow
from the medicine cabinets.

A practical suggestion for the keep-
ing of table linens and at the same time
one that would enhance the attractive-
ness of the dining room is the combin-
ing of the linen shelving with a recessed
china cabinet, the lower portion of
which would be a series of drawers or
shelves similar in construction to those
of the main closet, and enclosed behind
wood paneled doors. A drawer at the
bottom serves to protect the small
doilies and the centerpieces rolled on
tubes. If space permits it is advisable
to lay the centerpieces flat.

The supply of service linen can be
adequately taken care of by means of a
few drawers incorporated in the built-
in kitchen or pantry dressers.

PLANTING TIME FOR LAWNS

SPRINGTIME is commonly consid-
ered to be seedtime, but with
lawns better results often are ob-
tained by seeding at some other season.
In ' the growing of lawns most persons,
both in the cities and in the country,
cling to the old idea that spring is the
time to put in the seed. And many a
mangy lawn has been the result.

Except, perhaps, in the northern
States and in New England, says the
United States Department of Agri-
culture, early autumn seeding is much
more satisfactory than spring seeding.
South of the latitude of New York
spring seeding should rarely if ever be
practiced. There are good reasons for
this rule. Young grass does not stool
well in spring and summer and is not
sufficiently aggressive to combat crab-
grass and other summer annual weeds.
In the area south of this and north of
tfie Potomac and Ohio rivers the time
is early in September. The reseeding
of an old lawn should be done at the
same season as new seeding.

Treating the soil — A suitable soil is of
first importance, especially where the
climate is not particularly favorable to
the formation of good turf, and most
of them can be improved by treatment
such as drainage, manuring, fertilizing,
and liming. A deep loamy soil is easily
prepared, as it already has the right

texture, but it may need fertilizing with
barnyard manure, or bone-meal in ap-
plications of 20 pounds to 1,000 square
feet. Stiff clays need both sand and
vegetable matter before they are ready
to support a good turf, and there is
little .danger of overdoing the use of
either of them. An inch layer of sand
worked into the clay will produce a per-
manent improvement in texture. Con-
versely, clay may be used to improve
light sandy soils. Decayed vegetable
matter lightens the texture of clay soils,
increases their water-holding capacity,
and improves their drainage; it also
improves sandy soils and makes them
more retentive • of moisture. About a
half ton to 1,000 square feet ordinarily
is sufficient.

When white clover and bluegrass do
not grow well, it is probable that lime
is needed. One hundred pounds of air-
slaked lime to 1,000 square feet of
lawn, well worked in before the seed is
planted, is a satisfactory application in
mast cases. It is not recommended as a
top-dressing for turf, and should not be
used for bent grasses or fescues unless
the soil is very acid. The soil should be
thoroughly prepared for planting sev-
eral weeks before the seeding takes
place in order that there will be time
for it to settle and for weed seeds to
germinate. ALFRED I. WILDER.

September, 1922

Danersk Early
American Furniture

' I AHE original of the wing chair illus-
\. trated above was once owned by General
William Heath, who served on Washing-
ton's Staff. It is undoubtedly a true Chip-
pendale fireside chair of the finest quality.
The construction of the frame alone is an
art in order to obtain the refinement of line
and the gracious spread of seat and comfort
of the back.

The little Connecticut Tavern Table is
made of walnut or maple and pine. Low in
height with typical turnings and stretchers
of the period of 1690, it is most useful for
magazines and as a coffee table to draw up
before the fire.

We have paid as much for a pen and ink
drawing of a classic border for advertising
as we ask the trade for this beautiful table,

the artistry of which is as exquisite as was
the drawing referred to.

We offer many unusual designs in bed-
room, dining room and living room furni-
ture; some done in beautiful lacquer colors,
and others in fine woods. Call now at one
of our salesrooms. Decorators and their
clients are always welcome.

ERSKINE-DANFORTH CORPORATION

2 West 47th Street, New York

315 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago

643 South Olive Street, Los Angeles

in Good

Qualities To Look For

IN selecting a new piece of furniture there are
three points to look for. Is it so pleasing in
design that you will always enjoy -it? Will it en-
dure through years of service? Is it harmonious
with the other furnishings?

Elgin A. Simonds Company Furniture is most
graceful in its proportions and beautiful in its
designs and finish. Skilled workers make it of
strong construction. Our Department of Interior
Design is ready to help you with your problems of
selection and arrangement.

Look for the trade-mark shown below in the
leading furniture establishments.

u Write for our interesting Booklet "H"

on Home Furnishing.

The Hijin A

I .Simonds |

ICompanql

Eloin ~A. Simonds

Manufacturers of furniture

SYRACUSE. N.Y.
NEwYoRK BOSTON CHICAGO

House & Garden

marksmen who
•*— ' know that quality, preci-
sion and superior workman-
ship are necessary for high
scores, are practically unani-
mous in their selection of
Smith & Wesson superior
revolvers.

SMITH 6? WESSON

eJfrCanufacturers of Superior 'J^evo/vers

SPRINGFIELD
MASSACHUSETTS

No arms are genu-
ine Smith & Wesson
Arms unless they
bear plainly marked
on the barrel, the
name SMITH&WESSON.

SPRINGFIELD. MASS.

Catalogue sent on request
Address Department F

One of the advantages of this new ice-making re-
frigerator is that the condenser is air-cooled.
Courtesy of the Colddack Co.

To Lessen Kitchen Labor

(Continued from page 72)

work top, the heat passing directly from
the hot copper coils to the utensil; then
a suction cleaner for piano players,
which extracts dust from the tracker
board, quite a necessary operation ; and
then a waffle iron that has the advantage
of being easily lifted and the parts
readily removed for cleansing. Two
other small devices are found in the
electric socket and the cord lengthener.
This socket is so arranged that although
one pulls the cord and puts out the
light, the light remains burning for a
minute afterwards. Thus one can put
off the light and still have light by
which to show the way up stairs or out
of the room. It sounds like a contra-

diction, but it really does save stubbed
toes and barked shins. The other is a
neat socket by which an electric cord
can be lengthened without a dangerous
and bungling splice.

Of new ironing machines the name
seems to be legion. Here is still another.
It is run by electricity and its advan-
tage lies in the fact that it has no levers
or pedals, the operating being conducted
by push buttons on a two-button dial.

And of ice-making machines also the
name is legion. In the new type illus-
trated here ethyl chloride is used instead
of sulphur dioxide. The condenser is
air-cooled, which appears to make the
(Continued on page 90)

An electric steel and
white enamel plate
warmer is an adjunct
jor the butler's pantry.
Janes & Kirtland

(Left) A combined per-
colator and boiler of
aluminum cooks faster
than most pots. Perco-
Ware Co.

September , 1 922

FRENCH

Hand Made T urmture

APIECE of French hand made fur-
niture has all the charm of a family
heirloom and the sturdiness to serve for
more than one generation. Experience
teaches that in the long run it is economy
to buy the best.

If your dealer does not handle French
Furniture, write us and we will see that
you are served satisfactorily.

Branded underneath every piece, this mark
is a guaranty of quality

WM. A. FRENCH & Co.

Interior Decorators
90 Eighth St. S.

Makers of Fine Furniture
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

This high dresser of oak is taken from the type used in the better class of farm houses of Yorkshire
in the late Stuart period. The gate leg table, from a rare old specimen, is uncommon in its
silhouette leg and stretcher. The finish of these pieces is softened and mellowed in tone as if by age.

This Window Seat
Is Also A Radiator Enclosure

To meet your particular requirements, we will make it of any

wood, in the design shown.

It can be sent to you in the plain wood, ready for finishing,

or we will finish it as you desire.

The grilles will be made of our Ferrocraft metal, in designs

you may select from our collection of 500; or it can be made

specially from one you may furnish.

In either case, they will be choice renderings in our Ferro-

craft metal, done by honest craftsmen, who have a love

for their work.

TUTTLE & BAILEY MFG Co.

36 Portland St.
Boston

Established 1846
2 West 45th St.
New York

1123-29 West 37th St.
Chicago

LTODHUNTER:

Fine '•Reproductions of

WOOD cAND ZMARBLE ^MANTELPIECES
of the Early English and Colonial feriods

A 20% REDUCTION IN PRICES
To supply, without delay, rnantels for houses already
under construction, we are now carrying a certain
number of designs in stock, made to standard sizes

A new ten page illustrated book'let describes the details of this substantial
saving in the cost of these high quality mantels. Sent upon request.

ARTHUR TODHUNTER, 414 MADISON AVE., NEW YORK

House & Garden

DECORATIVE LIGHTING FITMENTS

Consider the Importance

of Your
Lighting Fitments

A ROOM that has been most carefully planned and deco-
rated may be marred by inappropriate lighting fixtures.
A knowledge of Riddle Fitments will prove helpful in choosing
either individual fitments or an entire equipment, for they
may be chosen with the certainty that they will add to the
beauty of their setting.

Riddle Fitments are wrought of metal, and are decorated
in Silver Estofado and Gold Estofado, jn color tones that
harmonize with practically any scheme of interior decoration.
As they include ceiling and wall pieces as well as floor and
table lamps, they permit a complete lighting installation in
harmony.

The Riddle Fitment Book

describes and illustrates in actual colors various Riddle styles.
It will prove interesting and helpful to all concerned with
beautiful interiors. Copy, with name of nearest Riddle dealer,
sent on request. Please address Dcpt. 262.

THE EDWARD N. RIDDLE COMPANY

TOLEDO, OHIO

Makers of Lighting Fitments since 1892

In the center above is
illustrated Riddle Fitment
for hall with lantern of
hammered cathedral topaz
glass. The Console Sticks
at either side are general-
ly used in pairs, and may
be grouped with Server,
illustrated at the right.

Architects are invited to
send floor plans with ele-
vation details, on receipt
of which we will make up
and submit definite sug-
gestion for a residential
lighting installation, with
estimated approximate
cost of fitments installed
by dealer.

This small kitchenette electric stove

measures only 34" long by 26" high by

15" wide. Courtesy oj the Simplex

Electric Heating Co.

To Lessen Kitchen Labor

(Continued from page 88)

machinery simpler, and is said to pre-
vent leaking in summer. It can be in-
stalled in a refrigerator.

A new pot that offers many advan-
tages is guaranteed against burning,
scorching, spilling and boiling over, and
it doesn't need to be stirred. It is of
aluminum and therefore light and easily
cleaned. Being a combination of boiler
and percolator, it cooks by percolation.
The locked-on top makes it self-drain-
ing.

Another advantageous piece of equip-
ment is found in the electric plate
warmer. Built of steel enameled white,
it would be quite an addition to the
buttler's pantry.

Each season sees many additions to
the equipment of those households where
housekeeping is light. The two and
three person family and the dweller in
the small apartment, always welcome
compact equipment. This new kitch-
enette electric stove is certainly com-
pact, being only 34" long, 26" high and
15" wide. The oven is 13" by 13" by
13", and is equipped with an upper heat-
ing unit for broiling. The whole stove
is geared to three heats.

Modern equipment and modern

methods have done much to reduce the
time required in the actual preparation
of meals. Thus, the new steam electric
pressure cooker develops 259° of steam
under twenty pounds pressure. Inset
pans make it possible to cook several
foods at the same time without mixing
the flavors. It is an ideal canner for
fruit and vegetables. Being of aluminum,
there is no chance for corrosion or the
formation of poisonous verdigris. Such
a cooker cuts down kitchen time
amazingly. Under the old style of
cooking, ham required two hours, with
this it takes only forty minutes; the
chicken that wanted ninety minutes is
done in thirty.

The manufacture of kitchen unit cab-
inets has given the modern kitchen much
the same air of orderliness that one finds
in a well-equipped office. They range
in size from the smallest type one might
use in a kitchenette to the vaster pieces
for the kitchen of a big establishment.
They can be added to as need requires.
One of the illustrations shows a new
series of units, with refrigerator, sink
and cupboards above and below. Such
a unit would be ample for a moderate
size house in either the country or town.

A pressure cooker
reduces the time
required for cook-
ing. Albert Sechrist
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Unit cabinets bring
order into large or
small kitchens.
Courtesy of Janes
& Kirtland

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Rich and graceful over-draperies in just the proper
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Remember that Orinoka colors are dyed fast
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(Concluded from page 67)

laces and imitation furs, and a deaden-
ing gray reticence crept over every
artistic expression.

And then, as we realized how des-
perately bad this civilization was artist-
ically, we turned a cold shoulder upon
the dullness of an existence of mystery
and sham, and began to study European
conditions in earnest. We actually
brought over whole villas and chateaux,
or rooms thereof, or fittings of rooms
and incorporated them into our own
homes. Or we took our architects and
builders to France and Italy, Spain and
England, and had fairy-like palaces re-
produced for ourselves to live in, in a
county where they didn't belong.

At last, however, our architects
stopped, and said "No, there is a dif-
ferent type of home needed in this
country." And although we still see
on Long Island, square Italian villas,
with Chinese green tile roofs, and state-
ly ecclesiastical French chateaux on the
Hudson, and English half-timber con-
struction wherever there is a beautiful
old town with a beautiful old street;
in the main, these houses are not copies
but adaptations. Some fine inspiration
from foreign beauty, some wonderful
memory of century-old villages, may
seep through the mind of the architect
who builds our American homes today.
This is quite right; the beauty of all
the world should be the background of
every beautiful home in this country.

Our furniture still has the "period"
fetish, our hearts warm and throb to
the various Louis and to those fine old
English craftsmen and to the leather and
oak of Spain in the 18th Century. On
the other hand, we have isolated cases
of fine furniture making, people who are
thinking out fascinating ideals of a new
type of luxury and comfort for Amer-
ican homes. There is a sense of life and
progress also beginning in our fabrics,
and a decidedly new feeling in our use
of old-world fabrics.

But when we come to hardware, —
wrought iron, brass, bronze, copper,
nickel, even silver and gold, we seem to
lack freshness of inspiration, of design
and execution.

American Craftsmen

We do not lack craftsmen, we find
them making amazingly perfect repro-
ductions of our old Colonial wrought
iron, and we have one significant crafts-
man in the original use of iron, Samuel
Yellin of Philadelphia. But in the main,
when we are planning our houses, after
we have decided upon the woodwork
and the plumbing, heating and lighting,
the big essentials for our comfort, we
look about in vain for a new type of
hardware, whether we wish it for our
doors, or windows, or shutters, or as a
finish for our furniture. It is difficult
to find. To be sure, Colonial hardware
can be used satisfactorily with almost
every simple American home, especially
since at least twenty-five per cent, of
simple American homes are modified
Colonial. But when we look through
the beautifully illustrated catalogues
that are sent out by the important
manufacturers of hardware, we find
ourselves once more feasting our eyes
on examples of wrought iron from the
Italian and French Renaissance, on fine
Gothic designs with their trefoil arches,
or examples of elaborate Elizabethan
hinges and door-pulls and escutcheons,
rich enough for our finest Tudor homes ;
and delicately elaborate things, too, in
the spirit of the court of Louis XVI,

finely wrought handles for casement
windows and key escutcheons, with fleur
de lis, that talisman of French period
art, woven into the pattern, and lovely
cupids, too, a delicate invitation subtly
incorporated in the design. And there
is beautiful old cabinet wrought metal
work of silver and iron and bronze, all
suited to fragrant boudoirs, for desks
too fragile to hold aught but love let-
ters, for window latches too decorative
to open for aught but a rendezvouz.

A sturdier lot has its inspiration from
Flanders, where the crafts in wrought
iron reached a perfection of technique
in the 17th Century. We can also go
back, in these fine catalogues, to hard-
ware that owes all its beauty to Greece,
designs that suggest somewhat an orna-
mentation by Phidias, intricate elabora-
tion, combining the palm, the bay, the
laurel and acanthus leaves. Models
from Rome are more severe, more
mathematical, simpler, and well suited
to some of our simple, sturdy types of
modern houses.

For The Cottage

More practical still for the bungalow,
for the cottage, for that charming con-
crete house known as the American
type, is a fascinating group of hardware
called Mission. There is very little
ornamentation either in the escutcheons,
pulls or latches of this type of craft
work, but the metal is beautifully han-
dled, and is put in place, simply, with
heavy nails, that in some instances form
the only ornamentation. One firm is
also putting out iron ware suited to
rooms with Secession decoration, the
sort of rooms Lalique designed in Paris
and Hoffman in Vienna.

But after you have gone through all
the exhibitions of iron, silver, copper,
bronze and brass, again and again, you
realize that the beauty is inspired largely
by the mediaeval craftsmen of Europe.
We would be much more surprised to
find an original group of finely modern,
wrought-iron fittings than to have
offered us Gothic door-pulls with grace-
ful pear-shaped pendants, or a Bolog-
nese knocker with elaborately conven-
tionalized birds and figures of the 16th
Century. It is much easier to discover
in the open market a Pompeian brass
tripod with fine plain handles, than a
20th Century wrought-iron bowl made
by some young craftsman with a flame
of beauty in his heart and an inspired
technique.

The craftsmen who do want to work
as the gold and silversmiths did cen-
turies ago practically all find places to-
day in the big manufactories where they
are imitating or adapting or modifying
the accomplishments of their predeces-
sors in the crafts, but where very little
opportunity is given for the cultivating
of their own imagination and the de-
velopment of modern ideals of beauty.

The fact, however, that we do not
often see original hardware designs, does
not mean that the utmost skill is not
displayed in the production of adapted
ideals. A great variety of materials is
used, with new finishes, and suited to
all the purposes of the modern luxurious
home, which must be. fitted up with the
last degree of comfort and convenience.

It is quite possible that the widespread
use of such extremely good models as
our manufacturers are handling, made
with such a variety of metals and fin-
ishes to suit the infinite individuality of
American home decoration, may even
prove to be the very school to develop
craftsmen so needed in this country.

September, 1922

glDIRECTORYfl/DECORATlON 8 FINE ARTS

Design 943

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WROUGHT IRON ANDIRONS
with Rosettes of Polished Brass

Antique Finish
Wrought by Hand

Price $14.50 a pair
Catalogue H sent on request

THE H. W. COVERT COMPANY
137 East 46th Street, New York.

moKer

of either sex would appreciate a
gift of a maroon-colored French
porcelain ash-receiverwilh bronze
rests and tray-drop; $12.50. The
matching cigarette box costs $ 1 5.
Send to Peggy Deotz, the shop of
imported gifts.

Strau-s Building

565-H Fifth Avenue. New York
Phone: Vanderb.lt 8672

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" The little thop with the red brick front "

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at moderate prices

THE PLATT SHOP, Inc.

45 West 48th St. New York

Tel. Bryant 2750

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aisle in its well stocked galleries but
contains some fine old piece of En-
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quaint specimen of needlework, or
some exquisite piece of decoration in
the form of leather screen or mirror.

Correspondence incited. Photographs sent on
request.

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New York

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This reproduction of a Col-
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crystal, blue, opal, amethyst
or topaz. It is 4M>" in diam-
eter and is priced at S4.50 a
pair. It may be purchased
through the

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Shopping Service

19 West 44th Street.
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The Colors of Fall

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Tapestries in the Decorative Schemes

(Continued from page 49)

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live Gothic tapestry was an elaborate
kind of material, a luxurious woven
wool to hang over the cold and barren
stones. This was hung in rather full
folds from ceiling to floor or to the top
of the two or three foot paneled base,
covering the whole length of the wall.
There were the mille fteurs designs, the
hunting scenes, the long and complicated
battle tapestries and the peasant pieces.

Hanging Gothic Designs

Today we try to convert them into
a kind of picture and this distorts their
finest qualities. Because they were de-
signed to be hung entirely to the floor
the pattern on them focuses rather high
and if hung at picture height, they
seem uncomfortably out of reach of the
eye. And, too, when used as a picture
they seem unsatisfyingly disorganized.
The drawing of a decorative Gothic
tapestry is conceived, not for the steady
and minute examination granted to a
picture, skillful though it is, but for a
general decorative effect, with strong
outlines and broad flat surfaces that will
avoid confusion in the folds of the ma-
terial. Stretch the fabric flat and it
loses much of its pictorial quality.

The ecclesiastical Gothic, on the other
hand, is a kind of mural, the Northern
version of the Italian church painting.
It is the supplement to stained glass
windows, part of the color relief of the
cathedral interior. Playing the part of
a decorative painting it, too, is but lit-
tle focussed. The interest and episode
are distributed equally over the whole
with only moments of accent and no
one emphatic center. Being more nearly
a painting in its character it can be hung
flatter, with fewer folds, and usually, it
can be hung higher.

Renaissance Tapestries

The Renaissance swept tapestry be-
fore it straight into the field of painting.
The designs became centered and dra-
matic, truly pictorial. The textile tra-
dition, however, held true for quite a
while and tapestry in the 16th Century
was still being used to cover walls from
top to floor. The weaver filled his
spaces with rich subordinated ornament,
landscapes and flowers and minor scenes
in a more appropriate decorative man-
ner. In fact, many Renaissance tapes-
tries look like a decorative textile with
an unrelated painting suddenly imposed
upon them in quite a different scale. As
paintings these tapestries are poor and
should be used as decoration simply and
hung as originally intended the full

height of the wall in wide vertical folds.

In the 17th Century tapestry went
two ways at once. The painting aspect
of the Renaissance stepped out, and
took up its journey independently, trav-
eling on into the huge woven episode of
Rubens and his mistaken contemporaries
and of the early Gobelin. The decora-
tive interest, on the other hand that had
filled the interstices of the 16th Century
pieces with little scenes and bits of
foliage spread out to cover the whole
in the verdures. These verdures are
valuable as rich and quiet backgrounds
softly and unobtrusively hung. They
may be used as a permanent wall cov-
ering, stretched flat like a leather or a
paper, part of the structure of the room.
Though simple in their possibilities
these verdures often are misused today.
They are set up and made important as
a picture panel, an honor which they
do not merit in the least.

The Rubens and early Gobelin types,
however, are no simple problem in any
decorative scheme. Only in wide spaces
without much conflicting furniture can
they truly succeed. But the ambitious
householder continues to hang them in
his drawing room regardless of the scale
of walls and furniture.

18th Century Work

In tapestry, as in all things decorative,
the second half of the 18th Century
offered a new conception. There were
no more bulging animals bursting off
the walls, no more quiet, dull toned
verdures either, but gay, brilliant, deli-
cate designs, that starting as rivals to
the luxurious silks, ended as substitutes
for the painted panels. These tapestries
of 18th Century France are truly paint-
ed weaves. They and they only can
overlook their woven quality and be
stretched flat in frame or panel molding
as a picture.

Tapestry has been many things to
many men and to confuse the kinds is
to lose the value of them all. A Gothic
tapestry stretched tight in a frame is
flat and dead. A mille fleur as a dec-
orative piece above the natural level of
the eye conceals itself and confuses the
balance of the room. A Renaissance
piece treated as a painting is neither
good painting nor good tapestry, and
a 17th or 18th Century verdure made
important as a panel is an absurdity. It
is not a panel but a background. In
the same manner hang a late 18th Cen-
tury piece as a background and you
have sacrificed all of its perfection and
won nothing in return.

Delphiniums for American Gardens

(Continued from page 61)

ity of varieties continually propagated
in this way is weakened. There is a
theory among many plantsmen that
plants, like animals, have their natural
period of life, and that only by a rebirth
through a natural process of reproduc-
tion can a species long exist. According
to this theory a cutting or root division
is merely a portion of an individual al-
ready old, and cannot live as long or
possess the vitality of a youthful seedling
impregnated with the germ of a new
life.

Fortunately for those of us who love
delphiniums, it is possible for anyone to
have healthy vigorous plants as fine as
any of the most costly named varieties
raised in Europe, by planting seeds saved
from some of the best forms. A well
established plant or two of the best, as
a stock from which you can save your
own seeds, is all that is necessary to be-
gin with. If these cannot be obtained

there are houses in Europe from whom
seed of most of the best named varie-
ties can be purchased, and in America
there are several sources from which a
good strain can be obtained in a mix-
ture that will give good results.

The seed can be sown in the open
ground in mid-summer or early autumn
as soon as ripe, and the young plants
given slight protection during the winter.

In early spring the young seedlings
can be moved to their permanent posi-
tion, and all will bloom by mid-summer.
Most of them will produce a second
crop of bloom, in September and Octo-
ber, if the first stems are cut off as soon
as the bloom is finished.

From the best forms among your seed-
lings select the ones from which you
wish to save the seed for the following
year. The earlier blooms usually pro-
duce but little seed, and it is from the
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September, 1922

DIRECTORY OF DECORATION AND FINE ARTS

What is
HOME

without a
Fireplace

Everything for the Fireplace

Andirons, Fire Sets, Grates, Etc., in
Colonial and other designs. Catalogue
of Fireplace Equipment mailed Free.
Ask for It.

Free booklet "flame find Fireplace"
thnwt ninny exclusive degifjn*. Helps
you avoid mistakes in building your
fireplace.

COLONIAL FIREPLACE CO.

30 Years Building Fireplaces
4613 Roosevelt Rd., Chicago

Amazing Antique
Oriental Rugs

Such rarities are seldom
seen ; thick, sparkling, vel-
vety. Some of my rugs are
now in museums, many were
pictured in leading rug
books. Volume of supply is
off 90% since 1914, and will
fall more. Persia is bare of
antiques today. Each rug is
a collector's dream, the best
of over 10,000. That is why
I have sold rugs in all of
our large cities. Descriptive
list on request ; then, if you
like, I will prepay an assort-
ment on approval.

Write for descriptive list.

L B. Lawton, Skaneateles, N. Y.

Bird Baths

are a source of endless pleasure.
The birds they attract to your gar-
den bring life, color and delightful

entertainment.

Erkins Bird Baths are to be had in a
variety of distinctive designs and arc
rendered in Pompeian Stone, a stone-like
composition that is practically everlasting.

Our catalogue il-
lustrating a large

rurhtv •/ bird
and other garden
furniture at price*
that are practically
normal, tent on re-
quest.

The

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Studios

Established
1900

240 Lexington Ayr at 34th Street, New York

Miss Gheen, Inc.

Decoration of Houses

19 & 27 West 46th Street
New York

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Chicago

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Come in and let us solve your Drapery Problems for you

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MASTERS of THE METAL ARTS

253 CHURCH ST., NEW YORK

Phone FRANKLIN 4304

No. IOI

Beautiful Hand
Wrought Iron

ITALIAN
RENAISSANCE

LANTERN

Size q"xi6"-36" overall
yellow cathedral glass —
wired, complete, black
finish $21.00 old steel
finish or polychrome
$26.50, same can be
had with wall bracket
for outdoor — black
complete $35.00.
We are the makers of
handwrought hard-
ware, furniture, light-
ing fixtures etc.
Prices on special de-
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FURNITURE

"AS YOU LIKE IT"

UNFINISHED

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2O3 LEXINGTON AVE.
32ND STREET NEW YORK

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Although widely imitated. Slide tit c Garage Door
Hardware continues to hold its place in the spotlight
of public approval. Various exclusive features, to-
gether with the ability to withstand years of service.
account for its popularity. Before erecting a garage
of any size, be sure to investigate the merits of
Slidct'itc. No other garage door hardware can give
you such lasting satisfaction.

SCidzlitz*

Garage Door Hardware

Slidctitc equipped doors move smoothly on a joint-
less track. A mere push is all that is required to open
or close them. Yet they fit the opening snugly and
always remain weathertight.

When open, Slidctitc equipped doors fold flat
against the wall, completely out of the way. They
cannot possibly blow shut, thereby preventing harm
to both automobile and person.

Slidetitc is the only garage door hardware that is
practicable for use in openings requiring more than
six sliding-folding doors. Even in openings as wide
as 30 feet, the doors will never stick or sag.

Your local lumber or
hardware dealer should
be able to supply you
with Slidetite. If not ob-
tainable in your town, it
may be secured from our
nearest branch. Write to-
day for your copy of
Catalog M-22.

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Maumee. Ohio

Langdon and Hohly
Architects

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For Old and New Houses

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House & Garden

Delphiniums for American Gardens

(Continued from page 94)

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second crop of bloom which comes lat-
er, when the atmosphere is cooler, that
the best seed is produced. Seed sown
in the house in February and the young
seedlings pricked off in flats an inch
apart as soon as the first pair of leaves
appear, and transplanted to the garden
after danger from hard frost is past,
will bloom freely the first season.

Raising from Seed

I am sure a joyful surprise is in store
for anyone who, for the first time, raises
delphiniums from seed, for there will be
every possible shade of blue and all
manner of forms; — some of the single
flowerets as large as a silver dollar, the
blooming portion of the spike sometimes
more than 2' in length. The second
year, if the plants are properly fed and
in good soil, the height and number of
spikes of bloom will be doubled, and
the size of the flowers increased. The
third year the plants should be divided.
This should be done in the spring at the
first appearance of growth. Every piece
of root, with an eye or shoot attached,
will form a blooming plant.

If one wishes still further to increase
a particularly fine seedling, cuttings can
be made at this time of the young
shoots 2" or 3" long. These should be
cut so as to leave a small heel of the
fleshy part of the root at the base of
the cuttings. This is important; as the
soft stems of the shoots being hollow,
only a very small percentage of them
can be rooted if the heel is omitted.
Cuttings can be rooted in sand under
glass in a frame outside, shaded with
white muslin, or in shallow boxes of
sand in the house. Bottom heat is not
necessary, but the greatest care must
be used in watering. The cuttings must
not be allowed to wilt, but if the water
given is more than enough to prevent
wilting, the cuttings will rot or damp
off. As soon as roots are formed, which
will be in about three weeks, they should
be planted into shallow boxes of soil,
or small 2" pots and thereafter treated
in the same manner as seedlings.

It is of vital importance that fresh
seed be secured, as delphinium seeds
soon deteriorate and after six months
the percentage of germination rapidly
decreases. For mid-summer and early
autumn planting, unless you can save
your own seed, it is difficult to get seed
that will germinate, as, at that season
most of the seed obtainable is old an4
worthless. The new crop of the cur-
rent year does not reach the seed houses
in time for early distribution.

This spring I have raised and planted
out upwards of one hundred thousand
seedlings. As a list of the best named
varieties may be of interest to many I
will name here the varieties I selected as
parents to my seedlings, and I think this
may be considered a fairly comprehen-
sive list of the. very best varieties and
colors, all of which I have previously
grown here, and have seen in bloom.
They are as follows:

Amos Perry, Corry, Hugo Poortman,
K. T. Caron, Zuster Lugten, Andrew
Carnegie, De Ruyter, Josef Israels, Rev.

E. Lascelles, Chamud, Dusky Monarch,
King of Delphiniums, Salland, Francis

F. Fox, Lize Van Veen, Queen Wil-
helmina, Statuaire Rude.

All but the last four are double or
semi-double. It is a matter of personal
taste whether single or double flowers
are most to be desired. My reason for
using double varieties as seed parents, is
that from them one gets both single and
double forms, while from single varie-
ties only singles will be produced. Gen-

erally these single forms are better and
stronger growers, the bloom spikes long-
er and the individual flowers larger.
Most of the named varieties and particu-
larly the single ones, will reproduce
themselves in a fair percentage of the
seedlings, but the greater number will
break into many shades and forms.

Delphinium Belladonna is an old fa-
vorite, with medium sized single flowers
of a beautiful soft shade of forget-me-
not blue. It does not grow as tall as
the English hybrids. Its habit is more
branching, the foliage more finely cut,
and it • blooms profusely and continu-
ously the entire season. It should find
a place in every garden. The true Bel-
ladonna does not produce seed, but
within recent years a seed bearing strain
has been developed, the seedlings of
which will come 90% true. The rest
of them will come a dark gentian blue
with an occasional deep violet. There
are several hybrids of Belladonna all
desirable: Mrs. Brunton, a very bright
dark blue; Capri, deep corn flower blue,
and Moerheimii, a lovely white, which is
the only really satisfactory white del-
phinium except Chinensis Alba. The
Belladonna hybrids can only be in-
creased by division, as none of them pro-
duce seeds.

Delphinium Sinense or Chinese lark-
spur, blue and white, is a distinct species
with smaller flowers borne in the great-
est profusion. They are easily grown,
very hardy, and fine for massing, re-
producing themselves freely from self-
sown seed.

Delphinium Formosum or "bee" lark-
spur is an old garden favorite, the har-
diest and most permanent of all. The
flowers are very dark blue with white
centers and violet spurs. It seems to be
more susceptible than any of the others
to the attacks of a fungus which black-
ens the leaves and flower buds. Fre-
quent spraying with bordeaux mixture
is recommended to control this.

All delphiniums are subject to a
fungus disease which attacks the roots
of strong plants in bloom, which sud-
denly wilt and die from this cause. A
mixture of equal parts of hydrated lime,
flower of sulphur and tobacco dust,
mixed with water and poured around
the roots is said to be effective in check-
ing this disease.

The Proper Soil

Delphiniums thrive best in a sandy
loam deeply worked and well drained.
As they are strong growers, feeding is
necessary to produce the largest spikes.
Most growers recommend an abundance
of manure. I believe great care should
be exercised in the use of fresh stable
manure, as I am of the opinion that this
often causes the root fungus previously
referred to. Any manure used should be
well rotted and not applied directly to
the crown of the plant. I think a mod-
erate use of pulverized sheep manure or
bone meal worked into the soil around
the plants a few inches away from the
crown will be safer and more effective.

Delphiniums are perfectly hardy and
it is not considered necessary to protect
them in winter. Where slugs are present,
a sprinkling of coal ashes over the
crowns will be beneficial, and in ex-
tremely cold latitudes an inch of loose
straw or any light material may be used
as a protection. Any thick covering of
heavy wet material will cause them to
rot. In fact delphiniums cannot endure
an over-wet soil at any time, but should
not be allowed to suffer for want of
water during a period of drought.

September, 1922

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House & Garden

The Variety of Fanlights

(Continued from page 69)

the criticism that the fanlight had be-
come all fan and no light.

The seemingly endless variation in fan-
lights is due in part to the general trend
of architectural change with the passage
of time, in part to peculiarities of local
usage, and in part to the fertile inven-
tion of individual designers. Most of
the earlier fanlights, dating from the
first sixty years of the 18th Century,
display robust divisions and a general
vigorous simplicity of pattern. About

the middle of the 18th Century, and
from thence onward, when Strawberry
Hill Gothic and Chippendale Gothic
had gained a hold on popular imagina-
tion, appeared a greater diversity of
motifs, some of them very ingenious
and pleasing. The straight radiating
divisions were often dispensed with and
in their stead we find arrangements of
circles, intersecting curved lines, and
other engaging patterns. The divisions
themselves in this period were common-

Late 18th Century fanlight

with cast iron glazing bars

and molded lead swags

A mid-l&th Century semi-cir-
cular fanlight based on the
radiating motif

The half-oval fanlight is often

found in late 18th Century work

in this country

Another half-oval design with

radiating bars in shape of a vase

— a graceful variation

In early 19th Century work one often finds the fanlight

set in a rectangular overdoor opening. This example is

from a house in Salem, N. J.

September, 1922

101

Which wiL

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Once that Reading has been installed you have reduced
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House & Garden

Hardware That Completes
the Decorative Scheme

SARGENT locks, knobs and trimmings may
be selected to harmonize with the doors on
which they appear. They may be in accord
with the decorative spirit of a home. Though
but a detail in building construction and rela-
tively insignificant in total costs, Sargent Hard-
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becomes the finishing touch to an artistically
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In the Sargent Book of Designs you will find
hardware appropriate for mansion or cottage of
every architectural type. And remember that
Sargent Hardware will give you the utmost in
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remove the bane of the door that
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They close all doors silently and
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A semi-ellipse overdoor opening, found in

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The Variety of Fanlights

(Continued from page 100)

ly much thinner than during the pre-
ceding era. In the latter part of the
18th Century and early in the 19th
Century the Adam influence was re-
sponsible for a great variety of agree-
able conceits in fanlight design. The
Adam fondness for ellipses contributed
a new shape for the fanlight — the semi-
ellipse. The use of lead for the glazing
divisions, oftentimes ornamented at the
intersections with molded lead rosettes,
made it possible to execute much lighter
and more intricate patterns and added
to the attenuated gracefulness which
characterized this period.

The realization of the decorative pos-
sibilities afforded by the fanlight and
the common partiality to its employ-
ment as a means of gracing the prin-
cipal entrance sometimes led to its in-
sertion in a rectangular overdoor open-
ing. These rectangular fanlights were
not infrequently very successful as
pieces of design. Again, in other in-
stances, where no overdoor opening had
been provided to light the hallway, a
false fanlight was sometimes contrived,
purely for purposes of decoration, and
set in place on the occasion of erecting
a new doorway. This device of false
fanlights, which were also sometimes
set forward flush with the pilasters

flanking the doorway, was a rather
favorite trick in the Midlands of Eng-
land. The writer knows of no similar
instance in America. Apart from the
palpable sham, it is not an altogether
happy way of dignifying the house
door. The genuine fanlight, set in its
natural plane, is a far more satisfying
feature.

In the use of the varied forms, other
than the radiating motif, the provincial
builders of England — for many of the
fanlights were the invention of local
builders rather than of architects —
showed a more daring disposition to
depart from established precedent than
did their American contemporaries.
Some of these departures were well con-
ceived, others were less felicitous. All,
however, are interesting and more or
less suggestive.

The general adherence to the radiat-
ing motif as the foundation of design,
whatever subsidiary diversities and
elaborations might be introduced be-
sides, shows the intrinsic soundness of
the conception. Adherence to this tra-
dition did not in any way involve a
curtailment or hampering of the de-
signer's liberty. To be convinced of
this one has only to look at the examples
shown here.

(Above) Mid-mh
Century semi-cir-
cular design

(Right) Gothic
tracer\ in mid-
18th Century light

(Above) A late
l&th Century fan-
light '

(Below) Late l&th
Century half - el-
lipse fanlight

September, 1922

103

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House 6r Garden

Collecting Engraved Gems

(Continued from page 50)

A Bathroom

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an impression in relief on the wax.
However, cameo gems (gems engraved
in relief instead of intaglio) also date
from a very early period. The Egyp-
tian scarabs were a combination of
both forms — the top part representing
a beetle being cut cameo and the in-
scr-ption on the under face being cut
intaglio. Cyril Davenport ("Cameos"),
says: "In the first Century B. C. the
onyx cameo began to take a high posi-
tion as a much esteemed article of
adornment or possession, and its ap-
preciation quickly increased with the
more and more beautiful workmanship
brought into the art of the Greek gem
cutters. Following, to some extent the
fashion of the small seal ring intaglios,
the smaller cameos were sometimes
used in the same way, but never to any
great extent. The larger cameos were
no doubt used as fastenings for cloaks
or shoulder brooches; but they were al-
ways very interesting as wonderful
works of art only, and also because
they often bear portraits of great per-
sonages. No existing form of portrai-
ture is so strong and, at the same time,
so delicate and beautiful as that to be
found on a first-rate antique onyx
cameo. Such portraits were by mas-
ters in their art, and are compar-
able with the finest art of any age, or
executed in any medium."

Gems' Long Life

As Davenport remarks, it is true that
few things made by mankind will • re-
tain their original surface, color, and
beauty longer than a cut or engraved
gem. The engraved gems by the glyp-
tic masters of ancient times that have
come down to us give abundant proof
of this, likewise do the engraved gems
of the masters of the Italian Renais-
sance.

It has been suggested that engraved
gems became popular with the Romans
in the First Century B. C. when Pom-
pey displayed the treasure of Mithri-
dates in the three days triumph at
Rome. However this may be, it is re-
corded that Julius Caesar presented a
collection of engraved gems to the
Temple of Venus Genetrix. Probably
the Romans had long used engraved
gem signets and the Mithridates treasure
may merely have set the fashion for
more ornamental application of glyptic
art by the Romans.

Early Roman Examples

According to Pliny the Elder, Scipio
Africanus was the first Roman to have
a sardonyx gem and Davenport ventures
the suggestion that it was a cameo.
This would seem likely, for I think
intaglios were certainly used by the
Romans before Scipio's time. From
Seneca we glean that a cameo portrait
of Tiberius was owned by Paulus.
Even before Pompey's day the Romans
produced in glass imitations of both
intaglios and cameos. However, vve will
not here consider what Pliny described
as "the glass gems of the rings of the
populace" — how modern it sounds !
The year 70 A. D. marks the apex in
cameo-cutting, and for some three
hundred years thereafter the art of the
cameo was sustained above the some-
what abrupt decline which followed and
which was occasioned by Roman glyp-
tic artists taking the place of the Greek
gem cutters who had, through the
earlier period, produced the so-called
Roman gems. Never again was the
work of such cameo cutters as Hero-
philus, Hyllus, Epilhynchanus, Boethus,
Philemon, Scylax, Sostrates, or Diodot-
res to be surpassed. One wonders
what has become of the famous "Gon-
zaga Cameo," an antique sardonyx

bearing portraits of King Ptolemy II
of Egypt and Arsinoe, his queen, a gem
of three strata which was in the collec-
tion of the Hermitage Museum in
Petrograd at the time of recent revolu-
tion. The British Museum, the Louvre
and the Vienna Museum are rich in
ancient cameos.

Through the Middle Ages glyptic art
was far less, in the deterioration, than
even a shadow of the Roman decline
in gem engraving. Fortunately ancient
intaglios and cameos were kept and
perhaps appreciated to some extent.
At least the designers and makers of
ecclesiastical ornaments employed them
in an astounding fashion and we see
Christian religuaries, shrines, etc., dec-
orated with gems engraved with genre
subjects from pagan mythology !

The Italian Gems

With the advent of the Italian Renais-
sance, the revival of learning focused
again the attention of many on the
beauty of the engraved gems of an-
t'quity. Cardinal Barbo (Pope Paul II)
made an extensive collection of these
gems which were, upon the Pontiff's
death, acquired by Lorenzo dei Medici,
another ardent gem collector. Indeed,
Lorenzo encouraged the revival of the
glyptic art and soon Italian gem en-
gravers were producing marvellously
beautiful intaglios and cameos inspired
by Greek and Roman gems. One of the
gems from, the Medici collection now
reposes in the Cabinet des Medailles,
Bibliotheque Xationale, Paris. It is a
cameo portrait of Lorenzo himself. The
cinquecento engraved gems never, of
course, reached the height attained by
the finest Greek gems, although the
Italian work was of very high quality.
At the Marlborough sale the cinque-
cento cameo "Eros and Psyche" fetched
some £2000, and was worth more. It
is difficult, if indeed it is possible, to
see wherein this particular cameo is not
the equal of the finest cameos of an-
tiquity.

The 16th Century witnessed the pro-
duction in Italy of an enormous number
of engraved gems. Imitations of an-
tique gems were common, frauds nu-
merous. For some strange reason such
collectors as Fulvio d' Orsino, who had
contemporary glyptic artists deliberate-
ly fake antique gems, with fraudulent
"ancient" signatures that he might fool
the unwary with his brag, were com-
mon enough during this period. In one
of his famous '"Lives," good old Giorgio
Vasari tells us that through the in-
strumentality of Lorenzo dei Medici, a
young Florentine named Giovanni delle
Corniole learned the art of engraving
gems and earned for his excellent work-
manship an enduring name, as "testified
by his countless works, great and small,
but especially a large one with a por-
trait of Fra Girolamo Savonarola, the
idol of Florence for his preaching."
How furious Savonarola must have been
at such vainglory in sardonyx, he who
preached against the vanity of jewels!
What a wonderful time the collectors
of Vasari's day must have had when we
reflect on his remark that "At Rome,
cameos, the sardonyx and other fine in-
taglios are found daily."

French Glyptic Art

When Catherine dei Medici came into
France she brought many intaglios and
cameos with her, and brought along her
gem cutter, Giovanni Antonio dei
Rossi, to help set their fashion. French
gem cutters soon became adept in the
art. It was a French glyptic artist,
Julien de Fontenoy, for whom Queen
Elizabeth sent to do her portrait in
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Collecting Engraved Gems

(Continued from page 104)

ger in the hope that the token would
lead Elizabeth to commute his sentence.
The terrible Countess of Nottingham,
who had no liking for Essex, overheard
the Earl's instructions to the messenger
and intercepted this ring and Essex was
led to the scaffold. On her deathbed
the Countess confessed her act to the
Queen and Elizabeth, disregarding the
presence of the Angel of Death, slapped
the face of the Countess and cried
"May God forgive you, I never can."
The 17th Century found fewer en-
graved gems produced, but the 18th
Century Italian gem cutters produced
a quantity of work of high merit.
Flavio Sirletti, for instance, cut some of
the finest gems to be found among
modern specimens, nearly approaching
the ancient. German glyptic artists
also produced some exceptionally fine
work, — Natter of Nuremburg, Sirieas
and Pichler of Vienna and others.

Some very fine gem engraving has
been done in the l°th Century by such
artists as Bernardo Pistrucci, and later
gem engravers, but the old "spirit" had
departed with the passing of the best
of the 18th Century gem engravers.

Fortunately for lovers of engraved
gems, it is possible to acquire interest-
ing specimens for collections in the
reputable shops of Europe and Amer-
ica. Some very fine engraved gems, an-
tique and modern, have been offered
from time to time at various public art
sales. Exceptionally fine pieces have
brought adequate prices, but many de-
sirable pieces have often gone for what
has seemed a very small price indeed,

and a little browsing in New York,
London or Paris would be sure to dis-
cover to the collector things worthwhile
within reasonable expenditure.

In passing it will, I think, prove in-
teresting to the reader to quote Vasari's
description of the cutting of intaglios
and cameos, found in the introduction
to the 1550 edition of his "Lives,"
which runs as follows: "Those oriental
stones . . . are cut in intaglio with
wheels by means of emery, which with
the wheel cuts its way through any
sort of hardness of any stone whatever.
And as the craftsman proceeds, he is
always testing by wax impression the
intaglio which he is fashioning; and in
this manner he goes on removing ma-
terial where he deems it necessary, till
the final touches are given to the work.
Cameos, however, are worked in relief,
and because this stone (sardonyx) is in
layers, that is white above and dark
underneath, the worker removes just
so much of the white ground as will
leave the head or figure white on a dark
ground. And sometimes, in order to
secure that the whole head or figure
should appear white on a dark ground,
he dyes the ground when it is not so
dark as it should be. In this art we
have seen wonders and divine works
both ancient and modern."

And indeed we have ! Fortunately
our American museums such as the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, and the Boston Museum of Art
are rich in antique and Renaissance en-
graved gems, which will prove absorb-
ingly fascinating to those interested-

Color Schemes for Men's Rooms

(Continued from page 47)

of pewter lamps with parchment shades
incorporating old sporting prints.

Or he may be interested in old French
objets d'art which require an entirely
different setting. Here a French atmos-
phere can be created successfully with-
out being in the least effeminate. The
walls can be paneled with wood mold-
ings, and painted a gray green. The
simple French mantel should be mar-
bleized in black and gold over which
may be hung a fine old mirror. Let the
window draperies to the floor be of yel-
low, green and apricot striped damask
over plain apricot silk gauze draw cur-
tains. In one corner stand a small flat
top rosewood and ormulu desk, with a
bronze and ormulu figure lamp and
striped taffeta shade. On either side of
the mantel two low black and gold
bookcases, the colored bindings showing
through the antiqued gold wire doors,
would be an effective note. Beside the
simply carved old walnut arm chair,
covered in dull prune uncut velvet,
stand a small blue and gold painted
magazine table. One high-back walnut
arm chair in black ground needlepoint
would tend to balance the big uphol-
stered arm chair done in striped silk
damask. All of these colors show to
advantage on the dark blue carpet. Red
chalk drawings, and a few good paint-
ings with some old lustre on the mantel
bring color to the gray green walls.

There are so many ways in which
color can be brought out. The draper-
ies, carpets, furniture covering, pictures
and lamp shades all stand ready to ac-
cent the desired note. The room may
be monastic in its simplicity or may
have the richness and elegance of a
Louis XV bedroom. In either case, col-
or can be its dominant note, expressed
in great masses or by a few deft touches.

One of the bedrooms illustrated shows
a putty wall, a good background for the
fine old etchings over the bed. The in-

laid walnut bed is a good foil for the
dull red damask spread and the green
ground lacquered screen. The walnut
chairs have plain red seats, which note
is repeated in the octagonal frame of the
old French print. This room has a great
deal of quiet charm and just enough
color to warm the large expanse of cold
wall. The curtains are gay colored
glazed chintz in bright greens and pinks.

The study shown here is also unusual
in its color scheme. Walls of greenish
blue, a carpet in Venetian red, and over-
hangings of dull gold rough taffeta,
heavy fringed at the top, are exactly
right in tone value. Over the sofa hangs
an interesting old map, its faded coun-
tries pictured in mellow shades. In one
corner stands an antique ivory arm
chair covered in multi-colored old
striped damask. At the side of the
black marbleized mantel are a pair of
soft old mythological paintings in warm
reds and yellows. Over the mantel
hangs an ancient Italian banner in red
and gold. The carved Spanish desk and
the big sofa in damask tend to pull to-
gether these numerous colors. On the
mantel stands three cream white Bas-
sano figures, an arresting spot against
the green blue walls. Finally a chintz
covered chair beside the fireplace adds
its note of welcome, in which are the
combined colors of the room.

The bedroom shows the touch of a
collector, for on the walls over the black
and gold mantel are hanging a series
of interesting old Godey prints framed
in many colors. The draperies are of
multi-colored Directoire glazed chintz
with double sash curtains in soft blue
green. Between the windows stands a
fine old Italian commode on which
stands a pair of tole vases. A lovely
antique Italian mirror is hung above.
The chairs are Directoire, covered in
old blues with a touch of apricot. The
carpet is plain taupe.

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(Continued from page 37)

are huge armchairs in pale tea color
enamel, with broad bands of silver scroll
work as an ornament and upholstered
in Pechi silk, shaded stripes of blue,
mauve, rose, gray and black. On the lit-
tle side tables, which match the chairs,
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case, and in the other jade. The wall
panels are white, each one serving as a
frame for a print of some rare painting
by Klimpt.

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per wall is of silk with showy bouton-
nieres in brilliant colors on black ground.
The hanging lights are crystal and an
elaborately planned door is in black and
white. The furniture, Urban's design,
has black frames with curved high
backs, upholstered in a cool but brilliant
green, with a passementerie of green and
silver, and silver beads in a tiny frieze at
the back. The long black table is de-
signed with flower stands at each end,
birch treated in a simple but effective
method of Urban's to attain dull black.
Some of the finest of the Viennese crafts
are shown in this room, tall fluted vases
of silver, laces designed in true Secession
spirit, large and small porcelain figures,
single and in groups. The only hint of
the influence of bygone days is in the
archaic handling of the porcelain.

We were fortunate in securing pictures
of modern French rooms decorated by
Sue et Mare, which show Art Nouveau
at its best, blended with the very latest
development in interior decoration,
involving somewhat a return to old
period designs and to a degree the break-
ing of faith with the former cast-iron
standards of new art. For instance, in
the drawing room of M. Monteux there
is a combination of new art decoration
and furniture of the 19th century which
bring back much of the old elegance of
France's traditional school. The com-
fortable luxurious chairs are definitely
Louis Phillipe shorn of decoration. The
wall lamps of metal and alabaster are
unquestionably Art Nouveau, as is the
mirror in its curved frame of gilded

wood and the ebony fireplace with
rounded corners and metal beading.

The walls of this salon are quite in
the newest mode covered entirely with
tightly drawn satin in a delicate shade
of mauve, which makes a charming
background for the rich velvet furniture.

The handsomest of these modern
rooms do not entirely ignore the bril-
liant eccentricities of Poiret and Mar-
tine, but there is a new note being
struck. You feel it in the charming
room of M. Kapferer in Paris, the walls
covered with damask, gray and yellow,
a velvet couch which is reminiscent of
Beidemyer. And then the yellow marble
mantel softly curved with its flowered
Art Nouveau pilasters.

A new wall treatment is shown in M.
Bernheim's Parisian apartment. From
under a smooth, dark wood molding,
green velvet curtains hang to the floor
in graceful fluted folds. The ceiling with
a softly curved cornice is entirely dull
gold and the dark velvet luxurious fur-
niture is framed with gold. A delightful
novelty in this room is the flower shaped
alabaster bowl supported on slender
shafts of metal, the bowl intended to
hold an electric bulb from which the
light seeps out through the alabaster in
a pleasant glow.

It is hard to say whether the gorgeous
bathroom in the home of Mme. Bern-
heim in Paris is wholly original, an ar-
chitect's dream or the owner's ideal
The walls are covered with blue am
green fine mosaics in patterns like a
huge quilt. Marble is used for the
bracket dressing table, the bath and the
radiator frames. Blue satin curtains
cover the doorway, and under the
dressing table is a satin cushion in
case the mosaic floor is found too hard
or cold.

Altogether this acknowledgment by
some of the best modern French deco-
rators that there is beauty in the past,
and value in tradition as a background
for decoration is really working out for
more harmonious and elegent interiors
than we can remember to have seen in
the purely Art Nouveau house.

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HEATING THE HOUSE

HOT or tempered air in our homes
is the theme. How the air in our
homes is kept pleasantly warm in
cold weather and not too hot. This is
the duty of the heating plant.^

Not wishing to compete with heat-
ing engineers, we shall not drag you
through technical descriptions of pipes
and valves, but simply tell you what
you must demand in a heating installa-
tion. There are several kinds of systems
to be considered.

First: Hot air or furnace heating. In
this system the furnace heats the air and
it rises through a register in the floor
or wall of the room. According to J.
Byers Holbrook, the distinguished heat-
ing engineer, this type of heating tarn-
ishes silver; your book bindings crack
and your lungs are either made immune
to poison or function in spite of the rich
air reaching them. The pipeless heating
system which works on this principle,
and is the simplest form of hot air heat-
er, delivers its heat through one register,
usually placed in the hall. Where all
the rooms do not open on the hall, there
is apt to be an unequal distribution of
heat.

Second: Steam heat. This is an excel-
led system well adapted to large resi-
dences and buildings, hotels, institutions
and business houses.

Third: Vacuum and vapor. The
steam circulates through the system at
practically atmospheric or greatly re-
duced pressure. Vapor heating is used
in residences, vacuum heating mostly in
large buildings.

Fourth: Hot water, which is probably
best for household purposes.

As we have inferred, there is such a
person as the heating engineer. He it
is who can tell you to an iota how much
heating surface you have to heat in your
home. He it is who can subtract and
add footage and finally tell you whether
you must heat 4400' or 3000'. When
you know this, you can more readily
order the boiler which is best adapted
to heat such a surface.

For example, suppose you add a con-
servatory to one end of a living room.
Your heating engineer could tell you —
due to the glass surface — how much
more heat is required for this room.
Glass windows add to the heat units re-
quired.

Computing heating areas is not easy,
'because the shapes of rooms, kinds and
varieties and areas of walls and door
openings come into the problem, to say
nothing of badly fitted windows and
doors that permit draughts.

Usually the householder isn't asked
about her heating plant at all. The
contractor, architect and builder fix it
all up. But — we don't hold with this.
You have to live with your heating
plant, they do not — and it's pretty much
on your head that the discomfort falls.
Were we building we would be quite
intimate with the heating end of the
house. After your plans are decided up-
on, call on a heating engineer for a few
suggestions, and then go to your con-
tractor and see where he is to buy your
boiler and what type. Then tell him
what is required of your boiler. These
desirable features, necessary for your
winter of content, are listed below.

Steam heat heats by means of circu-
lating steam through pipes to radiators.
This is effected by a one-pipe system
sometimes, or a two-pipe. In the for-
mer, the steam ascending from the boiler
in the pipe and condensing into water
falls back into the boiler in the same
pipe. In the two-pipe system the steam
ascends in one and returns in the other.
The one-pipe system, of course, is
cheaper, but takes skill in setting as the
angle of the pipe must be perfection.
Hot water heating circulates hot wa-
ter through pipes to radiators. The
heated water, being lighter, rises, and
as it cools in giving off its heat, it falls

back again into the boiler where it is
again heated and takes another "rise",
and so it circulates through its system.
Therefore, in all heating systems there
are two main divisions: the generation
part or boiler and the circulation part
or piping, throughout the house. Both
parts must be perfect to insure perfec-
tion of heating. The first part depend-
ent on many factors, the second on a
few more. In the hot water system an
expansion tank is always placed at top
of house to take care of the overflow.

The boiler must make every pound
of coal do its best; it should respond
rapidly to climatic changes; it must be
easily fueled, shaken, regulated and
cleaned. It must keep free from repairs,
rust and leaks, of water, heat or gas.

Save coal? Yes. But economy in
coal means getting out of every pound
the maximum of heat. When you buy
coal ask what its fuel value is. It ought
to be about 12,500 to 14,500 B.T.U.—
that is, it takes to raise 1 Ib. of water 1°
Fahrenheit, 1 British thermal unit of
heat. The B.T.U. is the way to measure
heat units, just as a yard is the way you
measure goods for a dress.

The best type of boiler for the home
is the sectional cast iron. In this the
water is run through the sections which
present a large number of surfaces of
water to the heat.

The fuel portion of the furnace must
be deep, to insure at least eight hours
of heat. In the morning your house
will be warm and some coal will be left
to be joined to the next supply. A deep
fuel box leaves no interim of coolness.

Find out the rating of your boiler.
If its capacity only assures you six
hours of heating, you must not ex-
pect it to do eight or ten. Only in the
best makes do the ratings have much
weight. On the other hand, your own
experience can tell approximately. But
buy the boiler you don't have to force.
Forcing a boiler adds to your coal bill.
Your boiler's capacity should be a lit-
tle beyond what you actually need. It
should be able to maintain 70° in zero
weather.

Rapid water heating is essential, that
is water-ways should be thin enough to
heat water rapidly. The quality and
position of heating surface must not
permit wasted heat. Sixty-five per cent
of the heating surface should be in
direct contact with the heat; 35 per cent
in flue surface. Response to your damp-
ers will show you if you have 65 per
cent of your heating surface in direct
contact with the flame.

Operating must be as easy "as pie".
Grates should be easily pivoted and
balanced. The arrangement must pre-
vent all accidental dumpings of fuel into
the fire pot.

One boiler employs a damper rod run-
ning to the front which enables the care-
taker to open and close the smoke
damper rapidly when building a fire,
thus preventing gas or smoke leakage
when the door is open.

Feed doors should be wide mouthed,
enough to accommodate a shovel of
coal comfortably. The ash pit must be
big enough to hold ashes away from
the grates.

Sectional construction is desirable.
These sections make it possible to en-
large a boiler; to move a boiler into a
house without tearing down the house.

The parts must be easily cleaned.
The surfaces can be so made that soot
peels off. A quarter inch soot deposit
will require 50% more coal. Boilers
should also have conveniently placed
doors into which cleaners can have ac-
cess. If cleaning is easy, it will be done,
otherwise it will not.

All connections must be water-tight,

steam-tight and gas-tight. There should

be no packed or gasket joints made of

rubber, asbestos, paper or other washers

(Continued on page 112)

September, 1922

ill

The Secret of

Satisfactory Cooking

Never again will this woman endure the
shortcomings of an ordinary one -fuel cook
stove with its uncertain heat.

She threw out the old stove and bought
a Duplex -Alcazar — the wonderful three-fuel
range which burns gas and wood or coal,
singly or together.

The heat is always exactly right for the
food she is cooking. If she is burning wood
For districts where there li
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o gas, we furnish an Oil
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Heating the House

(Continued from page 110)

in connecting joints. This is very im-
portant. Repacking should never be
necessary with your boiler. The nipples
or valves must be easily closed and eas-
ily opened and yet everlastingly tight.

The best boiler is of cast iron. It
will outlast the building, and will not
rust or pit. It should be so built as
never to need repair.

There is no fire hazard in a boiler
where the fire chamber is entirely sur-
rounded by water and steam surfaces
and when the boiler stands low and
therefore well away from joists and
woodwork.

Boilers are generally tested for 80 Ibs.
pressure, but to operate them 2 Ibs.
ought to be enough, though one to five
is the usual bill-of-fare. Steam boilers
should have a relief valve.

It is desirable that the boiler be in-
stalled without digging a pit. This, by
the by, would be a good way of start-
ing your chat with the contractor. "I
want a simple, fine boiler, for which no
pits must be dug, or brick enclosures
built." The best boilers require only a
brick base. The installation should not
necessitate any alterations of the build-
ing, because the sectional boiler, like the
sectional bookcase, is made to fit in
anywhere. Asbestos covering on a boil-
er prevents waste of heat in the cellar.

Thermostatic valves come with some
boilers to cut off and "set on" heat
automatically. This conserves fuel.

Radiators are the translators. They
are like the English writer who trans-
lates the Russian novel. The radiator
alone tells us whether the hot water in
the boiler is being translated into heat
for our comfort. They are a series of
tubings which present a maximum of
heat radiator surface. They have
valves for controlling the heat.

If you buy the right valves your
radiators will not leak, "water-hammer'',
bang, or flood. An air valve must let
out the air to permit the steam or water
to fill the pipes. If it doesn't do this,
it is of no use. Varying steam pressure,
flooded radiators, forced firing of the
boiler are overcome with correct valves.
The right valve saves fuel, because un-

necessary amount of pressure is not
needed to force out air, the right valve
fopes with dirt and dust.

The radiator which is recessed in the
wall has the advantage of being less
visible, but unless you employ heat re-
flectors you will lose a lot of heat — and
even with them you lose some.

Some manufacturers are doing their
super-level best to build radiators which
are not unsightly. But, again like the
upright piano, they can only be made
comparatively beautiful. Gratings can
hide them.

One company is manufacturing radi-
ators consisting of a series of columns
that resist high internal pressure. The
internal area of its tubes in relation to
the heating surface has been reduced to
one quarter of that run in general use.
This not only greatly increases the pres-
sure resistance, but in reducing the in-
ternal area, the water or steam contents
are likewise reduced. There is more
heating surface in this type, too. The
water content is one-half the content of
other radiators. This means quick and
positive venting for steam, vapor, or hot
water and causes the radiator to heat
up more rapidly.

To take the heating of your home out
of the area of dreams and out of the ex-
pensive realm of "fueling", some sort of
heat regulating device is recommended.
The perfect thermostat not only tells
you the temperature in your house, not
only keeps the house evenly heated, but
in doing so saves you fuel and expense.
By simple mechanical means the ther-
mostat opens and closes the door of the
furnace as the heat needs to be lowered
or increased. If less heat is required,
the door closes and less coal is used.
The thermostat can be set to do these
things at any time you wish them to
be done. If you want the damper
opened at 7 a.m., it will be done.

There are two or three excellent ther-
mostats on the market and many not
so good. Be sure to investigate them
before buying. The best thermostats
have no corroding or wearing parts,
look well and prove themselves thor-
oughbreds. ETHEL R. PEYSER.

How to Measure for Curtains

(Continued from page 78)

14" deep, particularly if the curtains are
simple and hang only to the sill.

You may have a window which seems
too narrow. A splendid way to obvi-
ate this difficulty is to place wooden
blocks out on the wall, and fasten your
overcurtains and valance board to them.
One may gain from 4" to 8" at each
side in this manner. This also holds
true when you have a deep radiator
box underneath the window, which
would ordinarily prevent the use of cur-
tains to the floor. You can block out
your curtains far enough to escape this.

When you measure for portieres, see
that you have the heading touch the
top of the opening, so that no ugly
streak of light mars the effect. They
should be finished to hang 1" from the
floor. For glass doors take the width
and length of glass size. Allow a W
heading and a 34" casing for rod both
top and bottom in addition to this
measure. The net or gauze should be
almost double fullness. The brackets
should be placed as close to the glass
as possible, so as not to break the line
of the door.

It is often desirable to use upper and
lower sash curtains. To measure for
these, take the upper sash length from
the top of window to the bottom of
sash bar, and the lower one in just the

opposite way, — from the top of sash bar
to the sill. This over-lapping assures
you that your lower rod will be cov-
ered even when the lower curtains are
drawn apart. Place the lower rod so
that it is on a line with the sash bar,
and will be hidden from the outside.

Curtain trimmings may be a pitfall to
the amateur, as one is apt to think th's
an unimportant item, and allow almost
no material for it. For single box-
pleating allow three times the measure.
For simple ruchings, which are gathered,
twice the amount is ample. When you
use fringes or braids on the edges of
curtains, buy a little more than the ac-
tual amount needed, as it takes up in
sewing. Ruffles may be a snag also.
For ruffles of muslin curtains, sixty to
seventy-five per cent fullness is suffi-
cient, but net ruffles must be double the
amount of fullness.

Try to acquire the habit of measur-
ing in feet and inches, instead of inche:-
only. For instance, if you put down a
measure of 67", after it is cold and
you are away from the new house, it
may look like 6' 7", and you make
your curtains accordingly. Also be sure
to put down your widths first. Then
you are never in doubt afterwards as
to which measure is the width and
which the length.

September , 1922

113

Snow White

HESS
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The Rich Colors of Tulip Gardens

(Continued from page 57)

by the partly-stuccoed wall of the old
stone stable, where the color scheme
started with the pale yellow of the
pointed cottage tulips, Ellen Willmott,
and the primrose yellow of the fra-
grant Mrs. Keightleys and softened into
the clouded old gold of Jaune d'Oeuf
and the golden bronze of the Bronze
Queen. It is when you begin to select
your tones and colors as subtly as that,
that you begin to realize the possibili-
ties of the May flowering tulips and the
color enchantment they may bring into
our every-day lives. And with these
yellows of Ellen Willmott, Mrs. Keight-
ley, Jaune d'Oeuf and the Bronze
Queen, there was the flamed lilac of the
Rembrandt tulips, Undine, and the blue
amethyst of the Darwins, Valentine, and
so you see that it needed a softening
and greying of the golden tulips to
use them subtly and beautifully with
amethyst and lilac.

On the second side of the garden, the
tulips started with the rose Clara Butts,
with the amethyst of the great Viking
and the deeper amethyst of Morales
and the golden bronze of the Bronze
Queen. It speaks a world for the rose
of the Clara Butt, for the atmospheric
quality of its seeming brightness and it
can be used in this way with the Vik-
ings and Morales. And you can see,
too, how careful Mrs. Barton was to
keep the unity of her color scheme by
thus bringing the rose of her pool into
her side borders. On another side, the
pink Flamingo and the German iris
gave the major theme to the border,
while on the fourth side the dark helio-
trope and lilac mauve of the tall
Ergustes were the major color notes.
And you can see that despite this vari-
ety in the tulips, despite their varying
tones, there was a unity and continuity,
with pink and rose, lilac and amethyst
and purple and old gold repeated in
various ways.

It was the same with the edgings for
the tulips. With the pointed yellow
tulips, for instance, there was the cream
of the intermediate irises and the soft
creamy yellow of the primulas, cupped
as they are in the shelter of their long,
low, deeply-lined leaves. Then, too,
there were the light yellow pansies, and
in front of the undines and Valentines,
phlox divaricata and purple pansies.
Almost all the Wilmington gardens love
pansies with tulips. And they are not

always used as edgings. In one of the
larger gardens, I saw pansies used like
solid mats of color upon the ground
with bays of tulips or iris between them
— yellow tulips, for instance, with yel-
low pansies and purple pansies with the
iris. This is a valuable suggestion when
you need an abrupt difference in heights
in your effects. The main thing, how-
ever, if you use pansies in this way, is
not to mix the colors but to have them
very carefully matched.

At Mrs. Barton's the smaller flowers
were used only as edgings but they were
worked spontaneously into the borders
and were quite as suggestive in their
combinations as the tulips themselves.
There were, for instance, clear yellow
tulips with cream iris and blue phlox.
There were cream and yellow primulas
and blue phlox with the Bronze Queen,
blue phlox and deep blue pansies with
the rich pansy violet of the Morales.
There were lavender violas to match
the lavender tulips, lavender violas with
plum and purple tulips, and plum tulips
with purple irises. Indeed, there seemed
to be no end, no limit, to the flowers,
to the tones and colors that you could
assemble in a simple little garden such
as this — only it was no longer a simple
little garden at all but incomparably
rich, as the smallest canvas may be in-
comparably rich, with the color genius
of our time.

The garden of Mrs. F. G. Tallman
which is also at Wilmington, is an oval
garden with a pool in the centre and
with four borders about it that in May
are one lovely mass of tall-stemmed
tulips. These tulips are arranged so
simply but with such exquisite reserve
and taste that you find yourself spell-
bound. It is a very modern garden in
its color scheme. It shows the May-
flowering tulips that have again re-
turned to the splendor of their old
Dutch days, in an assembly of color that
the new color impressionism of our time
has made possible.

Beginning at the ends of each border
so that there are eight groups of them
are the deep rose Clara Butts. Next
to them are white Stanley Picotees
edged with pink and the pale rosy
Flamingoes, after which the pink blends
into the lavender blue of the Dreams-
Uterpes and the deeper richer amethyst
of the Valentines, and then back again
in the same order to the Clara Butts.

ON HOUSE 6§P GARDEN'S
BOOK SHELF

BULB GARDENING by Mary
Hampden. Charles Scribner's Sons.
Bulb gardening has been a heart-
searching experience for people of many
nations back to the Middle Ages. Poets
have written about it, getting it all
mixed up with religion, and equally im-
aginative people have actually gambled
in bulbs as we do today in stocks.

People lost fortunes over the tulip
called Viceroy. Family jewels were
sold, as well as real estate; a single bulb
was exchanged for "a thousand pounds
of cheese" or "a silver drinking cup" or
"twelve fat sheep" or "two tons of but-
ter".

Today we are more moderate in our
thirst for bulb beauty; nevertheless,
there are intervals in every garden from
May on through the summer months
when certain types of loveliness and per-
fume can only come from careful, dis-
criminating bulb planting. Miss Hamp-
den evidently knows the bulb world
quite inclusively, and in her book on
bulb gardening she goes into every detail
that could interest the bulb lover and
the bulb grower; because, of course,
you can be fond of bulbs, your heart
can stir over the first crocus on a bleak

spring day and warm to the giant nar-
cissi, without knowing one thing about
planting, cultivating and developing a
bulb garden.

Even though you are only a bulb
lover it is difficult to go through this
volume without developing incipient
stages of bulb-mania. As for the man
or woman who knows something of
bulbs and wants the correct bulb "sta-
tions" in the garden, apparently all the
information in the world is to be found
here, beginning with Hardy Bulbs, fol-
lowing with Glass House Bulbs and end-
ing with Half-Hardy Bulbs. "Tulips,"
Mary Hampden tells us happily, "will
thrive in any ordinary garden border
that has been manured months earlier".
Of course, following this information
comes pages of instruction about dif-
ferent kinds of tulip beds, the question
of surface soil, watering, sticks and ties,
how long plants must grow to produce
bulbs for another season, etc. It seems
possible to keep busy almost every
month in the year if you really appre-
ciate tulips and intend to line up with
tulip worshipers.

(Continued on page 116)

September, 1922

DELPHINIUM — Stately Stalks Of Color

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On House fe? Garden's Book Shelf

(Continued from page 114)

There are such opportunities for beauty
offered by the iris, according to Miss
Hampden, that one wonders how it is
possible (having by this time forgotten
about the tulips) to give up any space in
a garden to other loveliness than the
irises. They belong in the rock garden
and in melancholy, wet soil places, they
will flourish in the sunshine if there is
moisture enough, they will bloom under
deciduous trees or in well drained bor-
ders. They are haughty and humble,
and of every shade, and so accommodat-
ing in manner of growth and size that it
seems essential to have every variety,
and become an iris expert. For who
could do without the Japanese roof iris,
the Iris stylosa for the nooks of the stone
walls, the lovely white Iris Albiensis?

And here Miss Hampden breaks away
to talk about snowdrops and bluebells
and crocuses. And she writes so feeling-
ly about "long grass walks in early
spring", flanked by crocus gold, Chiono-
doxa blue and snowdrops, and she tells
us so enthusiastically about the English
snowdrop, the Italian snowbell and the
Russian Galanthus Plicatus which flour-
ish in those sad fields of the Crimea,
that we realize it is going to be impos-
sible to give all our garden space to the
iris; we simply must have some "winter
flowering crocuses" as well as "spring
flowering crocuses", though we can save
our garden space a little by cultivating
some of the spring flowers in moss fibre
and sea-shells.

Miss Hampden writes delightfully
about bluebells, but confuses our ama-
teur mind by the paradox that "blue-
bells are not always blue". As for the
chapter on lilies, especially Madonna
lilies, all other thoughts of gardening
were- swept out of our mind, and we
knew that no garden could satisfy or
truly intoxicate that did not show a
hedge of Madonna lilies in June, with
larkspur guarding them on either side
and pale yellow violas at their feet.

INTERESTING NEIGHBORS, by Oliver P.

Jenkins. P. Blakiston's Sons & Co.

Prof. Jenkins is a physiologist, first,
last and always. The animal kingdom
alone holds his interest. How the most
devastating little animals are propagated
and perpetuated, the detailed routine of
their evanescent little lives absorbs his
interest. The relation of the animal and
vegetable world and of their joint signi-
ficance to man does not seem to be in-
volved in his philosophy.

And just so far as he separates his in-
terest in the actual doings of the insect
world from the progress of the human
world, just as far as he tells romantic little
stories of destructive animals, his book
"Interesting Neighbors" is not good
reading for children. This does not
mean that one questions for a moment
the verity of his writing, the absolute
quality of his facts. But as Browning
once said to an unimaginative friend
who had been arguing with him, "God
knows what a fact is worth", and cer-
tainly they are not worth very much
unrelated to other facts upon which
they have direct and vital bearings. As
for instance, in one chapter Prof. Jenk-
ins tells us quite a thrilling story of a
carpenter bee, how it makes its nests
and the clever way it takes care of its
eggs; the quite unusual intelligence it
uses in arranging successfully for its
own family life. He goes into the detail
of how it bores "right into solid wood
... a fence post, a timber in the house
or barn", or for that matter "the stems
of plants that have pith in the center"
and here the eggs are laid. All of this
sounds picturesque — a fascinating little
story, but what about the posts that are
destroyed, the plants that wilt and
wither, because of the making of these
homes?

This is one instance of what occurs re-

peatedly through the little book. There
is a sentimental story about caterpillars,
how they make their nests on leaves; a
habit of the tent-caterpillar moth. It
builds a very clever, fairylike little home,
and nothing is said of the fact that the
devastation of this caterpillar moth is at
times nationwide. There is actually a
sentence like this in the story, "But sup-
pose she should make a mistake and lay
the eggs on a wrong tree, a tree that
had leaves which the little children cater-
pillars could not eat. That would be
terrible". To sentimentalize about the
tent-caterpillar moth is like showing a
tender interest in and making an effort
to safeguard a yellow-fever germ.

It is all very well for children to know
the ways of all curious animals, of all
kinds of insects, but such material
should be presented from the wider
outlook of the man who sees life as a
whole and who relates his facts to the
bigger problems of existence. Prof.
Jenkins is not helping children to see
life truly, in making them accept the
sentimental side of destructive forces.
It is not enough to weave a silvery tale
about a caterpillar, as a caterpillar does
a web about a leaf. One is no more im-
portant than the other, and both with-
out significance, except as the tale and
the web are also woven into a much
bigger fabric, namely, the truth about
life.

LUTYENS HOUSES AND GARDENS, by Sir

Lawrence Weaver. Charles Scribner's

Sons, New York.

It is not because Edwin L. Lutyens
was appointed architect for the Viceroy's
palace in Imperial Delhi that we are
profoundly interested in his life and
accomplishment. But because, probably
no one man in modern times in Eng-
land has done so much for the develop-
ment of the beautiful modern home.
Lutyens is never frightened by tradition,
and is equally fearless in the face of
a fresh, original impulse in architecture.
He has worked sincerely and quietly as
a creator, and yet earnestly as a stu-
dent, with the result that he has in-
fluenced the making of houses and
gardens in England to an extent that
would seem difficult for any one quite
unpretentious man to accomplish. The
book is profusely illustrated with fine
engravings of houses and gardens. His
three finest Surrey houses are shown,
with some of the most famous in his
Tudor manner. "Heathcote" is of course
presented, and some very modern houses
built by him from 1905 to 1907.

His method of altering houses and
restoring houses is also shown, as in
the reparation of Sussex Manor house
and Howth Castle. His knowledge of
all periods of architecture, his reverence
for them, yet his appreciation of prog-
ress and development in homemaking
render inestimable his contributions to
modern domestic architecture in Eng-
land. He is a craftsman as well as an
artist; his designs for furniture both for
the garden and the house are a delight-
ful addition to furniture making. And
interesting pictures are given of his
craft work.

This is a book of great value to the
trained architect and to the student in
architecture. Detailed plans are shown
of both houses and gardens, and much
valuable information is given for land-
scape gardening, and also for decorators
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THE PRINCIPLES OF INTERIOR DECORA-
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Macmillan Company.
In the preface to his book Mr. Jak-
way says that his object in writing this
volume is "to interest the housewife who
is concerned with the attractiveness of
(Continued on page 118)

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ill

117

Madonna Lilies

Lilium Candidum

THE favorite Lily of the old-fashioned garden produces
strong, stiff stems, studded with a mass of pure, glisten-
ing white flowers that enliven the perennial Flower
garden, or, for contrast with the beautiful green shrubs of
the June garden, are unequaled.

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and enjoy a good crop of flowers next June, or pot up, store in cold
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Our bulbs of this splendid Lily are grown in northern France, and are
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On House ©* Garden's Book Shelf

(Continued from page 116)

her home; the worker in housefurnish-
ing shops concerned with increasing the
value of his services, and the teacher
concerned with imparting compact and
workable knowledge". But in reading
the book carefully, it seems to be a
manual for the student of interior dec-
oration rather than a book that could
be casually helpful to the housewife in
making the life about her more gracious
and charming.

At the very beginning of his book, Mr.
Jakway says "that rooms do not grow
in repose or beauty or dignity. They
must be invested with these attributes
by studied, creative processes . . . which
can only be successfully employed by
one who knows precisely what he is try-
ing to do". To an extent this state-
ment of Mr. Jakway's is true, the more
you know of the decorating of a house,
the easier it is for you to achieve the
results you wish for. On the other hand,
some of the loveliest homes in the world
really have "grown in repose, beauty
and dignity". Recall, if you will, some
of the most charming English drawing-
rooms that you know, the house cen-
turies old, the fittings having grown into
a mellow, beautiful association from gen-
eration to generation. And how many
women do you know who have de-
veloped the beauty of their homes from
year to year by adding the appropriate
thing, by elimination, by an instinctive
knowledge of harmony and contrast.

One does not question the fact that a
knowledge of architecture and of period
decoration and of the development of
homemaking here and in Europe are
vitally interesting and significant to
the home lover. And there is always,
to be sure, the woman utterly devoid of
the ability to associate furniture and fit-
tings with a beautiful result. These
women need help from books, from
friends, also from decorators. Perhaps
every one who is going to furnish a
house should read one or two practical
books, such as Mr. Jakway's, before be-
ginning the work, gathering from it
what help is needed and then going
their own cheerful ways and develop-
ing homes that are the best possible ex-
pression of each particular individuality.

Mr. Jakway does not feel that "beau-
ty and comfort in the home ever result
from chance or happy accident". Here
again it would seem that he is wrong.
Some very great art and craftsmanship
has developed in all ages through
"chance and happy accident", and we
have all seen some beautiful rooms that
have grown out of a combination of
difficult surroundings, mishaps and
economy. Unquestionably, the surest
road to beauty and comfort in the home
is a cultivated standard, a developed per-
sonal taste, and a definite knowledge of
the kind of surroundings that are es-
sential for your happiness in your own
home.

GREEN MANURES

A .THOUGH green manuring is one
of the oldest methods used to
maintain or to increase the prod-
uctivity of the soil, there have been
enough new developments in the prac-
tice and in the plants used for the pur-
pose in recent years to call them to the
special attention of the small home
gardener, who does not realize the im-
portance of green manuring his land.

The term "green manuring" means
"the turning under of any crop, while
green or soon after ripening, for the
purpose of soil improvement." The use
of special green manure crops is much
more general in the South than in the
North. In the semi-arid regions under
dry farming green manures are not
used, but in irrigated areas in the West
orchardists depend upon them to a great
extent to increase the yield of fruit.

The crops that are grown primarily
as roughage for feeding the soil pro-
duce both chemical and physical ef-
fects that are of benefit to plants that
succeed them. When a green manure
crop is turned under, the various fertil-
izing elements that have gone into the
making of the crop are returned to the
soil, and a quantity of organic matter
not before in the soil is added, and in
addition to improving the beneficent
physical condition, serves as food for
bacteria. One of the most important
functions of organic matter in the soil
is to keep up the nitrogen supply.
There are three ways in which this is
done: (1) Growth of nodule bacteria on
roots of leguminous plants; (2) the
making of nitrates by soil bacteria
from organic nitrogen in the soil; and
(3) growth of bacteria and molds that
feed on plant waste in the soil and take

nitrogen directly from the air. These
processes may be stimulated by adopt-
ing the proper practices and suitable
crops.

Legumes are of course the most satis-
factory cover crops under most condi-
tions, and all legumes do not have the
same strain of nodule bacteria. For in-
stance, that of clover is different from
that of alfalfa, and that of the cowpea
is distinct from that of the soy bean.
These selective associations of plants
and bacteria make inoculation of the
soil necessary where the crop has not
been previously grown either by scat-
tering soil from a field where the crop
to be sown has been grown recently or
by using an artificial culture. A strain
of bacteria will often inoculate differ-
ent closely related legumes. Alfalfa,
bur-clover and sweet clover nodules are
produced by the same strain ; a different
strain inoculates most of the vetches, as
well as the field and garden peas; still
another strain is apparently used in
common by red, white, alsike, and crim-
son clover.

The leguminous crops grown in this
country in order of importance are: Red
clover, alfalfa, alsike clover, sweet clover,
cowpeas, peanuts, soy beans, velvet
beans, crimson clover, field peas, vetch,
Japan clover, bur clover, and white
clover. A few others, such as beggar-
weed, grass peas, fenugreek and horse
beans are grown to a small extent in
restricted localities. Non - leguminous
crops that are considered as useful green
manures are grasses, buckwheat, weeds,
and some plants of the mustard family
that are used more in Europe than in
this country.

A. I. WILDER.

September, 1922

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About This Particular Greenhouse

IT happens that only yesterday we received from
our publishers a rather delightful bit of printing
called "Glass Gardens," in which a complete descrip-
tion is given, of an exact duplicate of this particular
house.

The view point is a bit different, but the plan is the
same.

As companions, are four other houses of simpler de-
sign and lesser size.

There is one page devoted to "The Lure of the In-
side Garden" which we have a notion will especially
interest you.

Send for this new Glass Garden Circular.
Or if you prefer, send for one of us to come and talk
over greenhouse possessing with you.

Burnham(o.

Builders of Greenhouses and Conservatories

Eastern Factory:
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and K O S T E R 'S BLUE
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A pie crust tip table in
American walnut or
mahogany is 28" high,
the top measuring 36"
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Mahogany or
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A nest of tables
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This respect is based on practical experience with the sterling vir-
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October , 1 922

House & Garden

IN THE NOVEMBER NUMBER

NOVEMBER is the ideal month to begin
planning a house. By then the garden
work is well past, autumn furnishing is
completed and, if you happen to be dreaming of
a new home, November is the month in which to
crystallize those vague desires into something
tangible. Consequently the November issue is
called the House Planning Number, and much
of it is devoted to planning the new house in-
side and out.

Through the letters that come to the House &
Garden Information Service we find that the
majority of our readers are interested in build-
ing four types of houses — Dutch Colonial,
Georgian, English cottage and Spanish. What
sort of plans can be suited to these designs?
One of the articles in the November issue shows
that quite a variety can be adapted to each.

Today many architectural crimes are being
committed in the name of the Bungalow. To
help lessen this crime wave we are discussing
bungalows and the adaptability of the one-floor
plan to a good design.

The garage plays an important role in all mod-
ern house design. Sometimes it is incorporated

The French influence on Amer-
ican architecture has found ex-
pression in this Norman type
of country house, shown in the
November number

in the house itself, sometimes it is a separate
structure. Both types are shown in the next
issue.

Into the planning of a new house go such
structural and decorative elements as iron work,
shutters, inside window trim, labor-saving kitch-
ens and the proper use of stains and enamels.
These, again, are represented in November.

Then, to make the story complete, the land-
scaping article will be devoted to designs for
gardens on a variety of sites — flat land, a steep
hillside and such.

There are, in all, six complete houses in the
November issue — a New York town house with
remarkable parge decorations, a Norman type
from Pennsylvania, a Colonial bungalow, a cot-
tage type of brick, a popular Colonial design and
an English seashore home of unusual plan.

For the inside of the house there is a charm-
ing article on the use of occasional chairs. Black
and white as a color scheme is considered, and,
of course, the Little Portfolio of Good Interiors
is there. For the gardener comes a study of un-
common shrubs and, if he wants the unusual, a
roof garden in New York.

Contents for October, 1922. Volume XLII, No. Four

COVER DESIGN BY ANNA WHELAN BETTS

THE HOUSE & GARDEN BULLETIN BOARD 45

A COBBLED FORECOURT 46

Howell & Thomas, Architects
THE APPROACH TO THE HOUSE 47

Lutton Abbottswood
IN A CALIFORNIA GARDEN 50

Paul G. Thiene, Landscape Architect

THE OCTOBER RECKONING 52

A LIVING ROOM IN THE COLONIAL MANNER 53

T. H. Ellelt, Architect
WHEN You PLAN YOUR GARDEN 54

Richard H. Pratt, Landscape Architect
A RESTORED QUAKER FARMHOUSE 56

H. D. Eberlein
STUCCO, STONE AND HALF-TIMBER 58

Haas & Kleeman, Architects
A GARDEN IN THE ENGLISH SPIRIT 60

Elizabeth Leonard Strange, Landscape Architect
THE TALE OF THE TASSEL 62

A. T. Wolfe
A LITTLE PORTFOLIO OF Goon INTERIORS 63

Tate &• Hall, Inc., Decorators
THE EFFECT OF VINES ON ARCHITECTURE 66

Dwight James Baum, Architect

THE MODERN GREENHOUSE 67

William C. McCollom
AN OUTDOOR ROOM FOR THE TOWN HOUSE 68

Minga Pope Duryea
MAKING THE FLOOR COUNT "0

Margaret McElroy
IF You ARE GOING TO BUILD 72

Mary Fanton Roberts
PAINTS AND ENAMELS AS MIRACLE WORKERS 74

Henry Compton

A GROUP OF THREE HOUSES 75

FORCING BULBS FOR WINTER FLOWERING 78

E. Bade
PATHS AND PAVING IN THE GARDEN 79

C. H. Bedford

THE IMPORTANCE OF FALL PLANTING 80

HOUSE & GARDEN'S FALL PLANTING GUIDE 81

PLATE GLASS IN THE HOUSE 82

Ethel R. Peyser

FOR THE MANTEL 83

NEW GLASS FOR THE HOUSE 84

THE GARDENER'S CALENDAR 86

PAGES FROM A DECORATOR'S DIARY 88

Ruby Ross Goodnow

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HOUSE (2? GARDEN
BULLETIN BOARD

AMERICA appears to be receiving its share
of honors from across the water these days.
It is very gratifying to find England ap-
preciating and recognizing our endeavors. The
National Sweet Pea Society of England awarded
the prize for the finest new sweet pea this year
to W. Atlee Burpee Co. for an orange-cerise seed-
ling. It has been named, with the executive's
consent, The President Harding.

This year also the Royal Institute of British
Architects has awarded to Thomas Hastings the
society's Gold Medal. Commenting on the
award The Architect of London says, "Since the
deaths of Stanford White and Charles McKim
there has been no American architect who so fully
sums up in his achievements the expression of
what may be described as the architectural re-
naissance of the modern world. ... It is prob-
able that to America is chiefly due the growing
conviction that architecture is among the greatest
expressions of civilization." Further along it
makes an interesting comment. "American archi-
tecture shows in its development that it is no
transplanted growth but the outcome of sys-
tematic and scientific thought. ... In Florida
and California the indigenous architecture of old
Spanish colonies has been absorbed and devel-
oped ; w hile in New England the original Co-
lonial and Old Dutch types have enriched the
American vernacular. . . . These factors have
ended in the production of a school of archi-
tecture which is as distinctive as that of France."

IN the course of a study to ascertain the
origin of fires of proven electrical origin, the
records of several hundred such fires in one
of the Southern states were examined by the So-
ciety for Electrical Development and it was
found that the chief cause was lightning or elec-
trical burnouts due to lightning disturbances.
There is not a single record during the fifteen
years of a building which was properly rodded
being struck by lightning; all fires resulting from
a building being struck by lightning occurring in
buildings not provided with lightning rods or in
buildings where the rods were defective or not
properly grounded. It is impossible to say
whether all the buildings in which such fires oc-
curred would have escaped had they been prop-
erly rodded, but it is very certain that many of
them would not have caught fire. In equipping
a building with lightning rods it is essential that
the conductors should terminate in a sufficient
number of points above the highest parts of the
structure. These points should all be connected
and the entire system run to a permanent
"ground" in wet earth.

IN this issue start two new series of articles
which we think are going to be quite service-
able and interesting. Richard H. Pratt, land-
scape architect, who is now on the editorial staff
of HOUSE & GARDEN', begins a new series "When
You Plan Your Garden." This series will con-
sider all phases of landscaping for the home
maker. In November his article will present the
subject of fitting the garden to various types of
sites. Simultaneous with this begins u number
of diverting papers by Ruby Ross Goodnow, dec-
orator. They are entitled "Pages From a Deco-
rator's Diary," and will discuss new and interest-
ing phases of decoration as Mrs. Goodnow ob-
serves them.

LAST year a State down South erected a
statue to the boll weevil because, for all
its destruction, that pest had brought pros-
perity to the South in that it made farmers plant
a variety of crops instead of concentrating on
cotton. Today we received an invitation to at-
tend the dedication of a monument to commemo-
rate the discovery in Madison County. Iowa, of
the Delicious Apple. It appears that this apple
was originally discovered by one Jesse Hiatt in
1872 and was called by him The Hawkeye. Since
it has brought prosperity to Iowa, the citizens are
going to immortalize it in stone. But one won-
ders who was responsible for this apple before
Jesse Hiatt discovered it. Is it the product of
Johnnie Appleseed's endeavors? For that strange
traveler, who went about planting apple seeds
in the early part of the last century, must have
visited Iowa.

PORTLAND, which of all our cities seems
to be the most enthusiastic about roses, is
awarding its gold and silver medal for the
best new climbing rose and the best new rose pro-
duced by an amateur to George C. Thomas, for
his new climbing rose Mrs. George C. Thomas.
This new rose, which was shown in the 1920 Rose
Annual, is the result of ten years of effort by Cap-
tain George Thomas of Philadelphia to produce an
ever-blooming climbing rose, and its record under
the Portland test evidences his success. The new
rose, planted in the International Rose Test Gar-
dens in Portland, blossomed from May until Oc-
tober, produced during that period over 400
bloom? and scored the highest of all roses tested
in 1021.

RELATIVELY few fires are in any way at-
tributable to the use of electric service —
not more than one in forty, but all fires of
electrical origin can be classified into three gen-
eral and well-defined groups:

(1) Fires due to circumstances which at pres-
ent seem unavoidable, over which neither the
purveyor of electric service or the user of the
service has any control, such as fires due to build-
ings being struck by lightning, static disturbances
and accidents which defy ordinary preventive
measures;

(2) Fires due to installation faults for which
the distributors of electric service and others en-
gaged in providing the public with means for
utilizing electric service are responsible;

(3) Fires due to the abuse of electric service
by those who use it. Based upon such classifi-
cation, a recent investigation of several hundred
fires of proven electrical origin shows that since
the fiscal year ending June, 1017, the proportion
of fires of electrical origin attributable to causes
as yet beyond control has not varied from year
to year to any great extent. Fires due to in-
stallation faults, which can be laid to errors due
to ignorance or carelessness on the part of the
electrical industry, have shown a gratifying ten-
dency toward a consistent and marked decrease,
but the fires due to abuse of electric service have
shown an increase of W/r .

AS we promised last month, this corner will
be reserved for notes about some of the
HOUSE & GARDEN contributors.

Minga Pope Duryea, who writes on : "An Out-
door Room for the Town House," is a New York
sculptress who creates intimate gardens for the
settings of her garden figures. She has recently
returned from abroad, where she has been collect-
ing for HOUSE & GARDEN photographs of small
English and French gardens.

Mary Fanton Roberts, who has been contrib-
uting the series called "If You are Going to
Build," was, for thirteen years, editor of the
Craftsman and founded and edited the Touch-
stone. She is now on the staff of HOUSE & GAR-
DEN in charge of the Architectural and Building
Department.

Elizabeth Leonard Strang is a landscape archi-
tect whose work is well known throughout New
England.

H. D. Eberlein, who writes of the Remodeled
Quaker Farmhouse, is an architectural and deco-
ration authority. Among his books are — "Co-
lonial Homes of Philadelphia," "The Architecture
of Colonial America," "The Practical Book of
Period Furniture," "The Practical Book of Early
American Arts and Crafts" and "Fireplaces and
Furniture of the Italian Renaissance."

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House & Garden

A COBBLED FORECOURT

In those ancient and delightful days of horses it
was not uncommon for the immediate approach
to the house, or forecourt, as we now know it, to
be paved with cobbles. With the coming of the
motor, that excellent custom passed away. But
there is a charming texture, a chance for the play
of light and shade, for diverting irregularity in

the cobblestone drive which the sleekest cement
cannot have. Consequently it was quite a bril-
liant scheme when the architects of this residence
in Cleveland bought discarded paving cobblestones
from the city authorities and used them to
cover the approach driveway and forecourt of a
new house. Howell & Thomas were the architects

October, 1 922

THE APPROACH TO THE HOUSE

// the Entrance Drive Is Made Easy and Attractive the First Impression
Of a Country Place Will Be a Happy One

PLANNING the approach lo a house
is by no means a simple matter. A
host of details, practical and esthetic,
have to be considered; the advantages and
defects of many possible kinds of treatment
have to be carefully weighed and a choice
made. It would be impossible within the
limits of this article, or even within limits
of a book, to discuss all the conceivable treat-
ments of entrances and approaches. Every
individual site demands an individual treat-
ment, and all that we can do here is to make
a lew useful generalizations, and to illus-
trate some typical examples of good treat-

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ment in the various kinds of driveways.

The first question which the designer of
an approach has to decide is whether the
treatment shall be, generally speaking, for-
mal or informal. The answer to this ques-
tion depends, of course, on site and circum-
stances. Certain sites demand the informal
approach of a curving drive, such as hill-
side positions where a straight approach
would be too steeply graded to be practicable.

On the whole, however, except in the
circumstances set out above, the informal
approach is not so satisfactory as the formal
or semi-formal. This is particularly notice-

able in small properties where the distance
between road and house is short, and an
attempt has been made by a naturalistic
treatment to make it appear long. There is.
no need to dwell on the dismal impression
produced by suburban drives that twist un-
necessarily between vague masses of conifers
and shrubs to end in a curving sweep with a
central grass plot, and, perhaps (relic of
late-Hayesian taste) a formidable bed of
(annas in the middle of the plot. The defects
of this sort of approach are obvious. In a
small space a naturalistic treatment reduces
the impression of space instead of enlarging

In the approach to this English country house the entrance drive as it
skirts the lawn in front of the forecourt is flanked by a popular British
device — the post and chain fence; an arrangement at once serviceable

and attractive, and one that might be nicely adapted to small suburban
places. Used as garden enclosures they should be about 6' high. In
either situation they may be softened by climbing roses or bittersweet

House &• Garden

The "elm entrance" to a Greenwich, Ct.,
estate approaches the house at an angle
that is balanced by a drive from the op-
posite direction. Gateway and drive by
James L. Greenleaf, landscape architect

it. The short winding drive cramps the
house; the bushes and trees that surround it
darken the windows. No, there can be no
doubt that in the majority of cases a formal
treatment is the most satisfactory in a small
property.

Formality is not confined in its use to
small properties only. It can also be em-
ployed on a large scale with the most splen-
did effects. Nothing can be finer than a
long straight avenue of enormous trees run-
ning from a well-designed entrance to a noble
house, seen remotely at the other end of the
receding vista. But alas! this grandiose

One of the most delightful entrance treatments for
the large place is the lodge gate through which the
approach is made to the estate. This one, on an
English estate, was designed by Sir Edwin Liit-
yer.s for one of his best country house schemes

The approach to another of Sir
Edwin's houses terminates with
appropriate dignity upon this
paved forecourt, surrounded bv
yew hedges and set with a sundial

October, 1922

An informal variation of the forecourt
has been made on the Cleveland estate
of R. T. Meacham. Meade & Hamilton,
architects; Pitkin & Matt, landscape
architects

formality is not for most of us. To be able
to indulge in it one must be a considerable
landowner. However, even a relatively
short avenue may be extremely fine and the
approach to many an unpretentious house is
improved by a well-planned avenue of hand-
some trees.

Almost any tree can be used to make an
avenue. Your choice must depend on your
patience, your age, and your interest in pos-
terity. Those who want an effect very
rapidly should plant poplars, which are
graceful trees and grow to a respectable
(Continued, on page 106)

The perfectly direct driveway on the estate of Her-
bert L. Pratt, at Glen Cove, L. I., leads magnificently
between two rows of large maples to the house.
The entrance scheme is by James L. Greenleaf,
landscape architect. The architect was James Brite

Looking from without the gate-
ways on the Pratt place an idea
may be got of the impressiveness
of the formally designed approach
in its relation to the formal house

House & Garden

Three sides of the brick paved patio
on the estate of Mr. J. P. Jefferson, at
Montecito, are flanked by the arcaded
loggias of the house. An orange tree
springs from the pavement to furnish
shade and color

IN A CALIFORNIA
GARDEN

PAUL G. THIKNE

Landscape

The approach to the house is made
effective by its simplicity and direct-
ness. Wall ends and two stone lan-
terns guard the entrance, and the
climax of the approach is a richly de-
signed doorway

October . 1 922

From the patio
steps lead down to
a terrace which
separates the house
level from that of
the long shallow
pool. The attrac-
tiveness of the
scheme is due to
the simplicity of
its treatment

Beyond the pool
softened by clumps
of Japanese iris a
small figure of the
Venus of Milo,
backed up by the
heavy border
planting of ever-
greens, marks the
end of the formal
garden scheme

House & Garden

THE OCTOBER RECKONING

October is the Ideal Month In Which to End the Fiscal Year of the Garden
And to Count the Profit and Losses

THE other day a young woman, a beginner in business, was
bewailing to a man old in the game the fact that half her
business plans had gone awry. "Half! Count yourself
lucky," came the answer. "If fifty per cent of your business ven-
tures are consistently successful, you have no need to worn'; in
fact, you ought to congratulate yourself."

There is a direct analogy in this for gardeners, and October is
the month in which to see if you have been fifty per cent successful.

The average gardener starts in the spring with an orgy of seeds.
He's not been able to resist the lure of the catalogs. Hardened to
them as he is, he still has a notion that he can grow asters the size
of hothouse chrysanthemums and potatoes as big as footballs.
He orders the seeds, plants them with care, germinates them suc-
cessfully— and then his gardening work becomes so arduous and
diverse that he hasn't time to compare the results with what he
dreamed.

It is by the standard of the matured flower, fruit or vegetable
that we reckon success, partial success or failure. If we have been
fifty per cent successful, we ought to be satisfied. If we had a
good stand of sweet peas, husky dahlias, enormous pumpkins and
persistent luck with bush beans, then that should be enough for
one year. The salpiglossis may have been only half-successful, the
corn rather poor, the verbena a total loss and the snapdragons a
disgrace. Against these we place our successes — and are satisfied.

OCTOBER offers the best garden perspective of any month in
the year. The garden is then fresh in the mind. Successes
and failures are fresh. You have tried to raise sweet peas
for three years now, have given them every advantage — and found
them a loss. Now is the time to realize that sweet peas are out of
your realm. Make up your mind now to resist even the most tempt-
ing of next spring's sweet pea catalogs. Or you may have tried
your hand this year for the first time with such a common perennial
as phlox and lived to see it annoyed and despoiled by red spider
and mildew. It is evident that you neglected to spray at the right
time. This should be ticked off in your mind or in your garden
records, and next year there need be no excuse for only partial
success. Or it may be that last year you were successful with corn
and failed this season. The elements may have been against you.
What you lost on corn you must make up on the wonderful tomatoes
you had this year.

Taking them as a whole, most gardens that have received any
care are fifty per cent successful. There is rarely a total loss. We
should accept this percentage as ample.

ANOTHER thing to reckon up in October are your likes and
your dislikes.

The average gardener each year tries something new. His
eye falls on an unfamiliar item in the catalogs, and he is curious

to grow that flower. It may prove quite an addition to his garden,
or it may be mediocre. The so-called "novelty" often falls under
this head. If it hasn't given satisfaction, throw it out without
a qualm.

October is an ideal month for discarding undesirable plants. At
this season of the year one always makes some changes in the
borders. The iris has to be thinned out, or new phlox is 'planted
or that aconite moved from a sunny spot where it did poorly to a
shady place where it ought to thrive. While doing this, discard
those plants that you feel you have really outgrown. All garden-
ing is progressive. Your tastes and standards are stiffened from
year to year. Like the collector of pictures, who discards his
amateurish examples of bad taste, you should have no hesitation
in getting rid of some of your early mistakes. Under this head
ccme some varieties of phlox, a few of the viburnums and certainly
those garden thieves — golden glow and wild cucumber.

WHILE it may be easier just to remember successes and fail-
ures, it is wiser to set them down in a book.

Some time in October, when the frost has cleared off the
annuals, and the dahlias and gladioli have been exhumed for their
winter rest, it is our custom to cast up the book of the garden,
[•"or us October begins and ends the fiscal year. One season's work
is passed, and plans are being formulated for next spring. Then
we take the little black-bound ledger that we bought for the pur-
pose in a shop back of the Madelaine in Paris, and in which the
garden notes are written Sunday by Sunday. In this we set down
the profits and the losses. My Swede, who looks like Ben Turpin
of the movies, sits in solemnly at this directors' meeting. The con-
versation goes something like this: "What about the potatoes, Mr.
Lindeberg?" "By golly," he answers, "he ban too much rain."
So "too much rain" goes alongside the potatoes. Beside the salpi-
glossis this year I have to write "damped off," because out of two
plantings of seed brought only half a dozen plants through the
seedling stage. Against the helichrysum we'll simply have to set
what the insurance policies piously call "an act of God," because
I call on things above and things below to witness that thrice I
planted those especially chosen and high-priced seed in especially
prepared soil, and from my labors brought one lone, solitary plant
into being. And it bore — just my luck! — a shade of red that I
dislike.

Looking over that book today, I find many failures but not a
little good fortune. It averages to a desirable fifty per cent of
success. And even at that there is no record of how much better
we feel now, after a summer of gardening, or of those rapturous
moments when first the peony buds unfolded and the calendulas
dabbled the borders with sunlight. That's the only trouble with
keeping a garden record and making an October survey — you can't
set down good health and the delight of the eye!

A LIVING ROOM IN THE COLONIAL MANNER

In this house at Wilton, Ct., the liv-
ing room is finished in the Colonial
manner with paneling at each end
and the side walls plastered as a
background for pictures and a tap-

estry. French windows, opening on-
to the garden, agord light on one
side. The overmantel painting is a
Gaugin in daring colors flanked by
lustres. T. H. Ellett, architect

House & Garden

WHEN YOU PLAN YOUR GARDEN

The Grounds Must Be Considered First As a Whole
and Laid into a Livable and Appropriate Setting

NO doubt ninety per cent of all small
houses are planned' without a thought
as to their grounds. And of that col-
lossal majority many are built and continue
to exist indefinitely with their plots in the
same thought-unblemished state. Even so,
it is difficult to decide, after extensive ob-
servation among this ninety per cent, whether
it has been better completely to ignore the
grounds or to turn them over to the rubber-
stamp designing of the neighborhood's land-
scape gardening nurseryman. In either case,
by considering the grounds as nothing more
than a spot on which to place the house, or
possibly with which to give the house an
''ornamental setting", there has been an ut-
ter failure to regard them as the real asset
that they actually are, to be used and en-
joyed as an integral part of the establish-
ment. Those of the ten per cent minority,
on the other hand, who plan their grounds
thoroughly to supplement the uses and at-
tractions of the house, have arrived at the
very essence of the art of garden design.

For the substance of garden design as it
affects the small place is just this: that the
grounds be as pleasantly livable as the house
itself. To give the grounds this quality
they should be planned on very much the
same principles as those on which the house
is planned. In other words, rather than re-
garding the grounds simply as an orna-
mental setting for the house — something
merely to be looked at, with a border plant-
ing of shrubs, a foundation planting of
vari-colored conifers, a sprinkling of "speci-
men" blue spruces, Japanese maples,- and
weeping mulberries — they should be regard-
ed somewhat as a continuation outdoors of

RICHARD H. PRATT

the house plan inside; an arrangement (on
a grander scale, of course, and on a basis
which will accept the existing conditions of
the site as a sort of mold into which the
scheme will fit sympathetically and appro-
priately) of spaces that can be compared to
the rooms of the interior.

One of the objections to this method of
small place planning is that it prevents an
effect of spaciousness. This objection might
be worth considering if it were possible on a
small place to get an effect of spaciousness
which was not an utter delusion. The bluff
of sham spaciousness is so easily called that
the thing eventually becomes an annoyance.
In the end, the emptiness, the idleness, and
the foolish pretence of the specimen-dotted-
lawn idea on the small place, or anywhere,
for that matter, cannot fail to create a
healthy reaction toward the type of arrange-
ment which makes the whole place both use-
ful and beautiful.

When it is necessary to build a small
house the usual thing is to accept the chal-
lenge of its limitations in size and make the
most of them; to give it charm and useful-
ness through intimacy and ingenuity rather
than to throw the whole thing into one huge,
barnlike room impressive because of its size
but oblivious to all the amenities of comfort-
able and pleasant living. In the same way,
when we forego the questionable satisfaction
of grounds that are spacious in the sense
that the inside of a barn is spacious, for
grounds that are divided into various areas
as the interior of the house is arranged into
rooms, we find that we have achieved a
genuine effect of size by the simple expedient
of increasing the usefulness of the plot and

creating on it distinct varieties of treatment.

To illustrate this idea of small place plan-
ning the accompanying plan and sketches
have been made to show a fairly level, partly
wooded site, 100' by 200', in the process of
design, and in its completed state. As the
progressive stages of the arrangement are
explained and the various principles in-
volved are discussed, it should be kept in
mind that while this particular plot, al-
though it strikes a fair average, may be
unlike any other plot, and that while the
imaginary requirements and tastes of its
owners may be in certain respects unlike
your own, the idea which governs its plan-
ning is an extremely flexible one — in practice
if not in spirit — and should apply to your
own problem with very little difficulty.

The method of procedure is based on the
theory that the layout as a whole is the really
important thing, and that the various ele-
ments of the scheme: the house, the gardens,
the play spaces, the service areas, the ap-
proaches, and the lawns, however significant
individually, are all subordinate to that
layout.

In the first sketch the plot is shown as it
stands naturally and unadorned. In this
connection it is generally easier to formulate
a scheme if you have just such a picture of
your site in mind or just such an actual
drawing of it to refer to. For however small
the place happens to be, it is curiously dif-
ficult to get a clearly tangible grasp on its
whole appearance and significance by going
over it on the ground.

The second sketch indicates lightly and
rather tentatively the house and garden and
(Continued on page 110)

The sketch plan
illustrates the or-
derliness and the f
directness so
necessary in the
planning of the
grounds of the
small place

BOWUI/NQ G R C E.

October , 1922

(Right) When the vacant
plot is first acquired, the
character of the site will
determine to a great extent
the location of the house
and the arrangement of
the grounds. The imagin-
ary plot illustrated by these
sketches is typical of al-
most any small or medi-
um shed property, and the
impression it should give
at first glance is one of
what is known as a formal
layout. Certainly it does
not suggest a naturalistic
treatment — a type of design
in accord only with the
wildest kind of situation

(Below) In the final view
of the series the house and
grounds are shown in their
completed state; the house
dividing the lot into two
sections: that which is seen
and used more or less by
the public, and that which
is devoted exclusively to the
play, work and quiet pleas-
. use of the household. From
the emptiness of the plot in
the first sketch the ultimate
effect can be realized in the
course of probably five
years, if the hedge plants
and fruit trees are good
sized when planted and the
soil well prepared for them

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(Below center) The first
actual move in the design,
as indicated in the second
sketch, is to locate, tenta-
tively, the spaces for the
house, gardens, lawns, ap-
proaches, and play and ser-
vice areas. There will be a
greater amount of private
area on the place if the
house is located well toward
the street. Let the size,
shape and situation of the
various spaces be deter-
mined by the house and by
the character and shape o)
the plot — not by a precon-
ceived notion inappropriate
to the site and surroundings

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(Left) After the various
elements of the scheme
have been located, one
must imagine the approxi-
mate appearance of the
principal masses: the house,
arbors, hedges and trees,
and decide whether or not
these things are going to be
too large, too confining,
and so on. So often one
goes in for the details first,
such as planting flower
beds, or shrubbery clumps,
placing an arbor or a pool,
or locating an isolated gar-
den, that it becomes al-
most impossible to work
them into a well knit scheme

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House & Garden

A RESTORED
QUAKER FARMHOUSE

H. D. EBERLEIN

IX its pre-restoration state, Xetherfield,
in the Huntingdon Valley, not far
from Philadelphia, was just like
many another sadly neglected old Pennsyl-
vania stone farmhouse of the truly Colo-
nial type. This type was erected in great
numbers, and with comparatively little
variation, from the latter part of the 17th
Century to the early years of the 19th.

Years of neglect and occupancy by ten-
ants unappreciative of its sterling char-
acter had obscured much of its essential
charm. The present owner, W. W. Justice,

The west cud uf ike south front
shows the porch and gun room at
the back, with a glimpse of the ter-
race wall of native field-stones

There ts quite a contrast between the house
as found and as restored and enlarged. Old
box has been used to frame the walls lead-
ing to the hardy garden on the south slope

The service wing that was added on the
east end to the old house repeats the style
uf the original building. Walter B. Thomas
was the architect of all the restorations

What is now called the gun room must once have served for
kitchen, as there is still an old stone sink under the window.
The fireplace is practically as found, all woodwork and
hardware being retained. A tile floor has now beer added

The living room is two steps down from the level of the
hall. This room also, has a stone sink which has been re-
tained. The walls are white plaster and the ceiling has
exposed beams. The floor boards are of irregular widths

October . 1922

Jr., however, discerned the latent possi-
bilities the old house contained and de-
termined to restore it to its original comeli-
ness, making only such additions as were
necessary to render it comfortable and
sufficient for modern occupancy.

The low part, or western wing, is about
two hundred years old. Immediately back
of it, to the north, is a lower addition of
fifty years later. The higher part, that
now forms the central block of the house,
is later still, erected, as a matter of fact,
about the beginning of the 19th Century.
Besides the actual dwelling, when the pro-
perty was acquired, there was a glorious
heritage of old boxwood and a goodly
number of ancient trees.

Exactly how the downstairs rooms were
originally intended to be used, it would
be difficult to say. Apparently they were
(Continued on page 100)

The view below is jrom the gun

room into the living room. Two

steps lead up to a terrace, outside

A view jrom the southeast, near the entrance
gate, shows the exte'it of the house and its
grounds. The wing at this end was added by
the present owner, but in the original spirit

.•1 rambling plan was created by the additional
wing. However, all rooms are large and sunny
and the service is conveniently concentrated
in the recently added east wing of the house

Along the south front runs a terrace with a retaining wall.

The old box bushes were retained by the door. The oldest

portion of the house originally had a pent roof, the marks

ol which are still discernible below the windows

The drive entrance is on the north side of the house. A

simple portico marks the door. On the right is the gun

room wing. Between this road and the woods behind the

house has been developed a garden in the modern style

House & Garden

American architects do not follow traditional styles slavishly. They interpret the styles in the
American architectural dialect. This residence in Pennsylvania, for example, has many charac-
teristic English cottage elements, — the brick chimney stacks, the half-timber, the casement windows
and the general feeling of the design. On the other hand, rough stucco and the stone laid up cut
random with wide joints in the style of the early Pennsylvania farmhouse, are local expressions

STUCCO, STONE AND HALF-TIMBER

The Home of Mrs. Lilian B. Ryan, Ha-verford, Pa.
HAAS & KLKKMAN, Architects

The contour of the land had much to do with the unusual
shape of the plans. The service is placed, in a rear wing which
has ready access to the dining room and breakfast porch. The
living room and its porch occupy another wing. A feature of
thz dining room is a corner fireplace. The entrance hall and
living, room are on a level below the dining room

On the second floor a great deal of space is given to the chil-
dren: in the rear is a study and child's bedroom, and in the
front a bedroom and sleeping porch. The owner's suite in-
cludes a large bedroom with fireplace, a bath and a boudoir.
There is one guest room and bath. Servants' rooms are on the
top floor, with service stairs separate from the family hall

October , 1922

The garden is laid out in the rear of the house, on a level below the
rear terrace. Among the buildings found on the place was an l&th
Century Colonial residence. Part of its wall was retained to form a
pergola off the living room porch. The half-timbering was built with
lumber taken from dismantled barns

The garage is built in a style conforming with that of the. house, with
half-timber, stuccor occasional outcroppings of stone, and a roof of
small slates in green, black and lavender. It has accommodation for
three cars and a work room, together with living quarters for the
gardener and chauffeur

A view across the living room rear ter-
race facing the flower garden shows the
peculiar handling of the roof and of the
service stairs, which are built oulsid?
Hie uall of the kitchen. This was part
of the old house found on the property

House. & Garden

A GARDEN IN THE ENGLISH SPIRIT

Suggestive Planting Schemes and Practical Plant Lists

ELIZABETH LEONARD STRANG

HE creation of a suc-
cessful flower garden
embraces much more
than a happy choice and
clever arrangement of plants.
To one thoroughly imbued
with the creative spirit it is a
supreme joy to evolve, bit by
bit, harmonies of line and
proportion, play of light and
texture, color subtleties art-
fully arranged for succession
of bloom; to combine all the
garden's component parts in
one unit, adapted exactly to
its intended uses and fitting
perfectly into its surround-
ings. Just as a craftsman
bestows infinite pains on an
intricate bit of jewelled fili-
gree or a carved and deco-
rated chest, so the garden de-
signer, guided by experience,
visualizes on paper flashes
from his inner eye only too
often unintelligible to the
average interpreter of plans,
and expressed in terms of actuality

The chief characteristics of the English type of garden shown in the plan

above are its snugness and seclusion. Here only the trees, shrubs, vines

and roses are indicated by reference numbers

only

after months of intelligent and patient work.

In this way was the accompanying small
garden thought out. Though the house is
English in spirit, there was no attempt to
make the garden subjectively English in
type, but there was a distinct effort to make
it '"belong" in spirit. Outside, one absorbs
a general impression of dark oaken beams,
brick walls, and warm brown stucco splashed
with flickering shadows; within, a twilight
coolness, richly carved stairway and paneled
halls, glimpses in rooms beyond of creamy
white and robin's-egg blue, cretonnes and
Venetian glass. Through leaded French
windows one steps into a tiled sun room
where the senses are refreshed by the sight
of the garden, its limpid pool sunk in the
turf, its beds overflowing with brilliant
bloom in the greatest possible contrast to the
cool seclusion indoors.

Although but 37' from porch to boundary
fence, because of the background of large
trees on the adjoining lot, in effect it seems
much larger. In all probability these trees
will always remain, and the garden's owner
is not without hope of eventually buying a
part of them.

The exact location of the pool as the focal
point, or center of interest, was determined
with the utmost care by stakes on the ground
before a line was drawn on paper. This
being effected, it was a simple matter to de-
sign the margin of grass and the main walks,
4' wide, also of grass. Beyond the pool is
a shaded recess where some time there will
stand an excellent bit of garden sculpture.
At present a large glazed jar of blue does

INSIDE THE GARDEN

1. Azalea niollis: yellow and orange with

wistaria, purple iris anil lavender Dar-
wiii tulips.

2. Standard purple wistarias.

3. Standard currants.

4. Rose, Harrison's Yellow: blooming With

tile larkspur.

5. Rosa Htigunis. new drooping yellow rose.

6. Weeping standard pink cherry: seen

against large copper beech.

7. Ta.rns cnspidata var. brevifolia, dwarf

Japanese yews: as accents.

8. Roses, on thatched garden house: Tau-

sendschon. large semi -double pink:
Christine Wright, pink; Paul's Scarlet
Climber.

Cclastrus scandcus. bittersweet: for winter
effect.

9. Roses on arch. Hiawatha: vivid pink to

match opposite arch.

10. Roses on service yard fence: pale against

the dark brown. Source d'Or, yellow;
Gardenia, yellow; Snowdrift.

AGAINST THE FENCE

11. Hemlocks: kept small and dense by

clipping.

12. Ta.rus cnspidata. upright Japanese yew.

13. Tains baccata var. rcpandcns, spreading

Japanese yew.

14. I.cucothoc Catcibaci. drooping andromeda:

glossy, broad-leaved evergreen turning
purplish red in fall, white flowers.

15. Picris fionhiinda. lily-rf-the-valley shrub:

large panicles of white blossoms, ever-
green foliage.

16. Daphne otcorinn. garland flower: dwarf

evergreen shrub with intensely fragrant
pink flowers in May.

17. Eiiouynins radicals var. vcgctus, broad-

leaved climbing euonymus: broad-leaved
evergreen with scarlet fruit.

18. CotoHcastcr Simonsii, shining-leaved rose

box: a shrub with spreading branches,
shining evergreen leaves and red berries.

19. Cydonu sincnsis, dwarf pink flowering

quince.

20. Azalea I'aseyi, southern azalea: abundance

of soft pink flowers in May.

TO FRAME THE GARDEN

21. Halcsia Carolina, snowdrop tree.

22. Spiraea Van Houtteii: to enclose garden

if wall cannot be built at once.

23. Pink flowering almond.

24. Cctoneastcr dharicata: an upright form

with glossy foliage and red berries.

25. Callicarpa purpitrca: slender pendant

branches with clusters of purple fruit,
low in habit.

26. Enkianthjis canipaiinlatits, Japanese bell-

flower tree.

27. Viburnum carlesli, Korean viburnum: low

shrub with fragrant pink flowers in May.

28. Ferns, dictamnus. violets and other wild

flowers as ground cover.

very well. The position of the
side walks was determined by
an existing rose arch on one
side, which was accordingly
repeated on the other. These
two walks are at present ter-
minated by seats of dark
brown oak. The minor serv-
ice walks are of moss-grown
earth 18" wide edged by
bricks on end, almost entire-
ly concealed by overlapping
plants.

The garden \vas so planned
as to be evolved gradually
without undue expenditure at
any one time. The first year,
accordingly, the beds were ex-
cavated in the existing turf,
which was improved by a
sprinkling of loam, weeded,
seeded, and fertilized.

Next, that obvious neces-
sity, the service-yard fence,
was erected. This juts into the
garden as shown, but was
balanced by a correspond-
ing indentation on the other side, an expe-
dient which detracted nothing from the effect
within, but which appeared much better
from the lawn. This fence is of itself good
to look at. It has upright palings of dark
brown wood, overlapping precisely like the
fence around the farmyard at Hampton
Court. The posts are capped with sheet lead
studded with copper nails. Eventually a
low brick wall (2' 6"), having oaken gates
with the same lead-capped posts, will pro-
tect the entire garden from two- and four-
footed intruders. Temporarily, a drooping
hedge of Spiraea Van Houtteii makes an
informal boundary, on the outer side of
which are a number of choice flowering
shrubs and small trees. Some of these, like
the Bechtel's crab and a large copper beech,
were already established when the garden
was begun.

The first year the majority of the peren-
nials were set out, leaving the more expensive
evergreens and azaleas until later. In this
way things like iris and peonies became
established, mistakes (for there are always
some) were corrected, and a foundation laid
for the gradual addition of the other acces-
sories.

When we obtain that bit of woods at the
back (perhaps before) one of the terminal
seats will be replaced by an unobtrusively
useful thatched garden house. Inside will
be a tall cupboard for smocks, rakes, and
hoes; small lockers for seeds, labels, string
and other gardening paraphernalia; a sink
for the arranging of cut flowers, with places
for vases and baskets ; shelves for books and
(Continued on page 134)

October , 1 922

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numbers that refer to the descriptive list below. When the garden is enlarged the thatched'

shelter will end one oj the paths

PERENNIALS AND BULBS FOR ENGLISH GARDENS

10.

101
11.
12.

13.
14.

15.

Alpine iris: 6"-10" very early, March to
May. Grandee, rich purple; Obelisqut-,
deep purple; Berlioz, rich purple; Othello,
purple, brr nze and orange ; Charmer, light
cream; Delicata, white and cream; Adelaide,
bluish white.

Crocus: 3"-6", white and purple, April and
May.

Iris pitmila: 6" March to April, very dwarf.
Formosa, violet -blue and purple, white
beard ; Atroviolacea, deep purple, the
earliest; Azurea, bright blue.
Narcissus: 10"-15", mid-April to May. used
against evergreens. Poetaz hybrids," yellow-
fragrant clusters; pale trumpet varieties
like Stella, Mrs. Langtry.

Alyssitm saxatilc com pact it m, mad wort: 8"-
12", late April to May; variety Silver
Queen is a paler yellow. Used as terminal
accent against evergreens.

Early tulips: 10"-12", April to May. Joost
von Vondel, white, the showiest white;
Pink Beauty, tall, center beds; Rose Gris-
de'-line, dwarf deeper pink, near porch.
Mertensis I'irginica. Virginia cowslip: 1 l/2't
late April to early June, wild flower with
light blue pendant flowers.

Phlox divaricata, wild sweet William : 8",
April to May, lavender-blue, combined with
ferns, Mertensia, foam flower, and pink
azaleas gives woodsy effect at back of
garden.

Tiarella cordifolia, t foam flower: 6"-12".
April to May. white, bronzv leaves, creep-
ing root stock.

Arabis alpina, rock cress: 6"-9", early May.
white, effective contrast with dwarf purple
iris.
\. Diccntra spectabilis, bleeding heart: 1^',

April, May, useful for shady place.
Primula reris superba primrose: 9", April to
May, large soft yellow flowers.

Narcissus pocticus, poet's narcissus: 10"-12",
late May, familiar, white peasant's eye.
combined with primrose under standard
wistaria.

Pachysandra tcrminalis, spurge: dwarf ever-

freen edging plant, planted solely for
oltage effect in winter.

Myosctis dissiti flora, high branching forget-
me-not: 12", mid-May, June; pahtstris
semperflorens. 10", May to September.
Darwin tulips: 18", late May. Mrs. Moon,
luminous pale yellow, for accents behind
dwarf yews on corners: Orange King,
Prince of Orange, Lucifer, with purple

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iris; The Fawn, Suzun (flesh), La Tristesse
and Dream (lavender) ; Pride of Haarlem,
brilliant rose, against evergreens at back-
porch,

ins cristata, dwarf crested iris: 4"-8", late
May, light lavender-blue.

Polcnipniinn rcptans, Greek valerian: 8"-12"
April to June, light lavender-blue, effective
as ground cover for Darwin tulips.

Intermediate iris: 18", a cross between iris
pitmila and the German iris, flowering just
before the latter. Gerdu, creamy yellow;
Ingeborg, large pure white; " fvorine.
creamy; Fritjol, soft lavender and purple.

Trollins Ilurapca. globe flower: l'-2'. May to
August, large lemon yellow flowers.

Iris pallida Dalmatica: 3'-4', May. large soft

lavender-blue scented flowers, 'distinct.
Iris flarescens, iris : 2/-3', late May, distinct
sort, pure soft canary.

Iris aitrea, iris: 2'-3', late May, pure yellow,
deeper than above.

Iris Gcrinanica, German iris: 2'-3', late May.
Varieties, Australia S. deep lavender, F.
soft blue; Khedive, soft lavender with dis-
tinct orange beard: Kharput, deep violet
blue: CaKpso, S. pale lavender, h. white
veined blue; La Neige, pure white, very
choice; Junita, blue, deeper than Dal-
matica; Madame Chereau. white, frilled
azure blue; Lohengrin, violet-mauve, very
large flower, choice.

Lupin ns polypliyllus, lupine: 3' -4', May and
June, valuable accent with lemon lilies, hut
few are used as they do not last long.

Aqnilcgia hybrids. Rose Queen, rose-colnred
hybrid columbines: l'-2'. May to June.

Hcmcrocallis flora, lemon lily : 1 */< '-2', May

and June, sweet scented, evanescent.
DictanitiHS fra.riticlla, fraxinella: 2'-3'. June,
fragrant white flowers, glossy dark leaves,
very attractive but slow to establish.

Tlialictrum aq\(ilcgifol'ntm. meadow rue: 2'-
3'. May to July, creamy. Tlialictrum
snlplnirctim, 3'-4', June and July, sulphur
yellow, taller.

Iris Sibirica oricntalis. Siberian iris: 2'-3',
deep dark blue, June to July, good with
lemon lily.

Irts Sibirica, var. Snow Queen; snow white
Siberian iris: 2'-3'. June.

Cci'astiinn tomcntosHHi, smw-in-sutnmer : 3"-
6", white flowers, with gray leaves, bloom-
ing after the iris and tulips and before the
larkspur.

Polcnwnium cocrttlcuni, Jacob's ladder: \l/i' -
2' June to September, light lavender-blue.

33. I'alcrian nfficinalis, garden heliotrope: 4',

June, accents of pinkish -white.

34. Astilbc Japonica, spiraea: 2', late June to

July. Japonica, white, feathery heads,
with peonies; var. Queen Alexandra, pink.

35. Spiraea filipcnJula, white spiraea: 3', June to

July, showy white heads; background.

36. Peony, Areos: 3'., single pink, June to July.

37. Aqniicgia chrysautha, late yellow columbine:

3', June to August, tine yellow.

38. Papai'cr oricntalc, var. Mrs. Perry, Oriental

poppy: 3', July, silvery pink.

39. Heitchcra brizoidcs, coral bells: 1^', June to

August, carmine bell« on red stems.

40. Ncpeta iitnssttii,' mint : 2' June to August,

aromatic gray leaf, lavender spikes, good
with Oriental poppy, one of the best edg-
ings.

41. Delphinium, Gold Medal hybrids, larkspur:

3-6', June.

42. Altlica rosea, hollyhocks: 4'-7', July to Au-

gust, salmon, yellow and rose tints.

43. Lai'cnditla Z'cra, sweet lavender: 1 l/*', July

to August, has proved hardy in sheltered
spots.

44. Phytoftfffia virginiana var. allya, false

dragon's head: 2'-3', July to September,
white spikes, good for accents, extremely
durable, will grow in shade.

45. Osmunda regalis, royal fern: 3', distinctive

lobed leaf, very durable.

46. Dicksonia pnnctitoba, hay -scented fern: fine

texture, spreads rapidly.

47. Gypsophila panic itlata, baby's breath: 2'-3',

July and August, cloudy mass of fine
white flowers for corners and accents.
May be dried and used in winter bouquets.

48. Heliotrope.

4''. Snapdragon. Both of above to be used as
tillers after the tulips, which will bloom
continuously until frost.

50. Plilt.r panienlata, garden phUx: 2'-4', July to

August, L'Evenement, early pink with the
larkspur: Etta's Choice, very late tall
white, September.

51. Lilinni spedosuin, Japanese lilies: 2'-3',

September, fragrant spotted.

52. Aster, hardy Feltham Blue: 3'-4', September,

masses well.

53. Anemone Japonica, Japanese anemone: 3',

September to October, white, shade, shelter.

54. Button chrysanthemums: 2', November.

Brown Bessie, bronze: B'>by, golden yel-
low; Irene, pure white; Elizabeth, rose.

55. Bnddlcia I'ariabilis Vcitchiana, summer lilac:

3'-5', July to frost, long lilac tassels.

House & Garden

THE TALE OF THE TASSEL

In Addition to Providing an Effective Finish the Tassel Has Always
Given a Semblance of Utility

A. T. WOLFE

THE office filled by the tassel
is often a sinecure today.
Though its origin is of hoary
antiquity, there is little doubt that
it first came into existence as some-
thing handy to grip at the end of a
slippery rope. The strands frayed
out, to obviate this a knot large
enough to hold was tied a few
inches from the end, and the tassel
in its rudimentary form was thus
evolved.

It has journeyed west, changed
as the times changed, waxed and
waned in public favor; but the
knot, the raveled-out ends and the
pendant cord can always be traced
in some form or other.

The tassel that dangles from a
blind still preserves a semblance of

The tassel in this bell pull

is oj wool and silk cord in

tapestry colorings. From

Edward Maag

utility; usually, however, it is
among the most idle and the most
engaging of decorations. Between
the tassels that are seen everywhere
today and those which we only
know from Assyrian bas reliefs,
there have been many appearances
and reappearances, but the tassel
has never wholly disappeared from
decorative art; and something of
the prevailing taste of each epoch
has been reflected in miniature by
this small ornament.

Of ancient specimens not many
survive; they were known in Egypt
as far back as the 3rd Century;
they were used in Greece and Rome,
they appear on Japanese armour of
great antiquity, as well as on count-
(Contimit'd on page 108)

A mould covered with netted

silk floss and topped with a

plush ruche distinguishes the

tassels above

An elaborate Louis XVI tassel

of silk bullion, fine copper

spirals and gimp ornaments.

Edward Maag

Silk cords and small

tassels are topped by

a plush ball. From

Edward Maag

A tassel showing Italian influ-
ence has a mould covered with
silk threads in a herringbone
design

Here two tassels are used

to finish an ornamental bell

pull. Courtesy of Edward

Maag

The Chinese Chip-
pendale period pro-
duced such tassels as
this ornamental one

An effective Italian tassel of

gold tinsel cords looped and

twisted. Courtesy of Edward

Maag

Effective bead
tassels come in a
variety oj colors.
From Hope Ham-
mond Studios

A chair often becomes more

decorative if its cushion is tied

on with silk cords and tassel*.

From the Orsenigo Co.

These tassels can
be made in any
color. Consolidat-
ed Trimming Co.

October. 1922 63

A LITTLE PORTFOLIO OF GOOD INTERIORS

Halting

Braided and rag rugs,
a Salem rocker, Colo-
nial crystal lighting fix-
tures and lustres and
the oner-mantel paint-
ing all contribute to the
Colonial spirit in the
living room. The up-
holstered chair has a
slip cover of green, rose
and blue chintz. Diane
Ta'e and Marian Hall,
Inc., decorators

These two views of the
living loom in the home
of Rodney W. William*.
Mill Neck, L. /., show
an early American at-
mosphere created by a
few pieces of furniture
well chosen and simply
placed. The furniture
is mainly Colonial ma-
ple. The curtains are
orange silk over dotted
Swiss muslin

House & Garden

The two views on this
Page are i>f a child's
room in the home oj
Mrs. J. I. Seligmaii,
Roslyn, L. I. The walls
are neutral in tone, the
rug taupe, and the fur-
niture maple. On the
beds are covers of green
English print , made
n'ith flounces

Lively color is ]ouid in
the curtains. They are
of green chintz with
bright flowers, and are
piped in red. A corre-
spondingly bright red
chintz is used on the
armchair making a gav
room. The decorations
are by Diane Tate &
Marian Hall, Inc.

October. 1 922

A bedroom in the Wil-
liams house has pale
green walls and wood-
work, curtains and cov-
ers of green glazed
chintz with flowers in
blue and rose, some
furniture painted green
and a green rug. The
dressing table is in dot-
ted Swiss muslin

A third view of the liv-
ing room in the Wil-
liams house shows a
balanced grouping
against a long wall.
The couch is covered
li'ith a green chintz
bound in blue. One
chair is upholstered in
blue velvet and the
rocker is painted black

House & Garden

The most attractive oj brand new
houses stand naked and austere until
they have been softened by the use of
vines and merged into their surround-
ings by discreet plantings of shrubs

At the right a doorway is shown as it
stood immediately after completion, and
above as it stands now clothed in wis-
taria. Care must be taken, however,
to avoid smothering the architecture

The
EFFECT of VINES

on
ARCHITECTURE

DWIGHT JAMES BAUM,

Architect

October, 1922

tolerate a

THE

MODERN GREE

The Advantages to Be Studied Before Installing
A Glasshouse on the Country Place

N H O U S E

WILLIAM McCOLLOM

A GREENHOUSE is the mark of dis-
•* *- tinction that makes an estate of a mere
country place. In the past it was more
useful than beautiful but of late the design-
ers of greenhouses have improved them won-
derfully, and various architectural features
have been added that make it possible to
locate the greenhouse on the axis of a garden
or make it a prominent feature in the gen-
eral scheme. A few years back they were
pushed off in some obscure corner and never
looked at, in many cases not even by the
gardener, who took advantage of the owner's
apparent lack of interest.

The location of the greenhouse should be
considered carefully from every angle. It
should be convenient to the gardens, both
flower and vegetable, of which it is a very

important part; space should be left for

future additions, because

they will surely come along

when you once get a good

taste of greenhouse possibili-
ties; and space must be pro-
vided for service roads, for

the delivery of coal and the

removal of ashes. Low,

poorly drained spots are to

be avoided. Thanks to our

present day construction,

however, we need not con-
sider the compass points, as

our modern greenhouse has

so few shading members that

the only consideration is to

make sure that the service

building does not shade the

The space under the benches is used for

rhubarb, chicory or the forcing of tulips

and narcissi

Chrysanthemum
perature is kepi

s are _ grown in an Intermediate house, in which the night tem-
al 53 , Carnations, snapdragons, tomatoes and beans can be
companion crops

greenhouse. Just one more thought — the ser-
vice building, or workroom. Do not be too
economical in its construction; build it large
enough so that no changes will be necessary
in case your greenhouse is enlarged at any
future date; have it well built and properly
equipped; lockers for tools, seeds, clothes,
etc.; large spacious sink, with hot and cold
water; lavatory for the workmen; soil
bins, pot racks, potting bench and a desk
and chair. It costs very little more to do
the thing well. When building, keep in mind
that you are going to get dividends accord-
ing to your outlay. It is the old story; a
thing worth while excites interest, commands
respect, and yields results.

Say we have already let the contract for
our greenhouse. Maybe we have talked it
over seriously with the family circle and
maybe we haven't. Probably
the lady of the house thinks
of strawberries, grapes,
peaches, orchids, roses, and
everything good to look at
or to eat. These she hopes
to be hers for the asking.
Maybe the younger daughter
wants violets and sweet peas
for her corsages, while the
elder prefers lilies of the
valley, maiden hair fern or
blue lace flower. Surely,
these are possible, the family
says, for they grow in the
garden in summer and they
can be had all winter, even
(Continued on page 126)

House &• Garden

m^- ;.a&FV

,4 winding stair-
case leading from
I h e improvised
terrace connects
the living floor nf
the house with
the garden below

THE OUTDOOR ROOM OF A TOWN HOUSE

When Backyard Gardens Are Made Livable They Live
When They Are Made For Show They Merely Exist

A BACKYARD garden is apt to be like-
one of the objects in a museum. Let
us say that it has been retrieved from
the dull ugliness of bare ground and naked
board fences and dressed up like the Grand
Exalted Ruler of Something Or Other, with
a central plot of wonderfully manicured
turf, set in the center of which is a concrete
basin from which rises the figure of a pudgy
lad holding a squirting carp, and about
which plot of turf lies a mathematically
precise border of those curi-
ous plants with variegated
foliage. It is something to
view from a first floor win-
dow as though it actually
were labelled "Exhibit A."
Backyard gardens are apt
to be like this because they
are apt to lead an existence
detached, except by sight,
from the house. All they
need is some real companion-
ship— the feeling that they
can be walked in, that they
can be touched, sat upon,
dug in; that they can pro-
vide comfort and genuine
pleasure, not at a distance,
but right at hand. When
they are given this com-
panionship, and when they
are made to feel that life for
them is not just utter visual
futility set about by futile
ornaments in imitation stone
and futile plants with
flashy leaves, they will re-

M1NGA POPE DURVEA

spond with a real, companionable beauty.
Occasionally direct contact with the back-
yard garden is made difficult because the
living floor of the house is a story above the
ground, and the basement, which is given
over to the service, opens upon it. This
rather awkward situation is overcome in-
genuously and attractively in a city back-
yard illustrated in the two accompanying
sketches and plan. In this case one of the
three windows was made into a French

The terrace at the rear of the house, treated as a pergola, makes the transition

between the living room and the backyard garden which extends to the end

of the plot. To heighten the wall at the rear and make it a more elective

screen a lattice has been erected on it

window and a platform was built under it
that becomes in effect a small, tile-paved
terrace. This terrace was enclosed by a
simply designed iron railing and, leading
from this platform on the living floor level,
a winding staircase makes a graceful descent
to the garden.

On a line with the outward edge of this
platform an arbor has been built which is
intended to screen the basement kitchen
from the garden without cutting off the light
from the outside. Under
the platform this arbor has
been framed in and stuc-
coed. Beside the staircase a
door leads into the tiny
room thus formed — which
may be used for storing
garden tools and the like
and from which access is
made to the basement by
way of the kitchen door. If
one copies this arrangement,
care must be taken to pre-
vent the vines on the arbor
from becoming too luxuri-
ous and thus cutting off all
light from the kitchen.
Clematis m o n t a n a and
euonymous radicans, t h o
first a not too greedy
climber with large, ex-
quisite flowers of rose, lilac,
blue and purple, depending
upon the variety, and the
latter a hardy evergreen
vine with small oval, waxy
green leaves, might be used

October , 1922

for their winter and sum-
mer effectiveness.

The central plot of the
garden has been paved with
flagstones in the joints of
which turf is encouraged to
sprout and various kinds of
the small succulent sedums
have been planted. When
stray seeds from the border
find their way into these
crevices and manage to take
hold and come into flower it
is well to hesitate a little
before digging up the
plants, for they are apt to
result in a certain uncon-
scious beauty that helps to
soften and humanize the
garden. For the same rea-
son mosses should be en-
couraged until, finally, the
whole surface texture of the
pavement has become knit
together with living green,
delightful alike to the tread
and the sight. If nature is
thus allowed to spread itself
over a stone pavement the
floor of the garden, in addi-
tion to being more durable
and much less of a care than
so much turf, will absorb the
glare of strong sunlight and
present, at the same time, a
texture infinitely more in-
teresting than grass can ever
hope to attain.

At the end of the garden
a wall has been erected,
capped with a ridge of tiles
to repeat the color of the tile-

A close up view oj the jar end oj the garden shows the planting of dwarf

junipers, mugho pines, rhododendrons and azaleas. The paved area has been

doubly edged with box and English ivy

A flan of the backyard garden illustrated in the pencil sketches shows the

way the terrace and arbor have been handled and how entrance is made to

the basement on the garden level

paved terrace, and pierced
with two oak gates which
lead into the drying yard
and service space beyond.
Against a vine-covered lat-
tice panel on the wall a bit
of garden sculpture has been
set in a semi-circle of flower-
ing plants.

The flower borders which
surround the garden on three
sides are 5' wide. This is
sufficient space in which to
get a splendid and durable
effect throughout the year by
using perennials like peo-
nies, iris, columbine, and
platycodon, which not only
have a comparatively long
blooming period, but which
carry attractive foliage over
a still longer period. Pansies
and horned violets should
be used lavishly among the
plants near the front of the
borders to serve effectively
as a ground cover.

To strengthen the herba-
ceous planting small shrubs
should be used at intervals
in the background. The
best of deciduous shrubs for
this purpose is globe-flower
(Kerria japonica), which is
neat in habit, never out-
growing its surroundings, a
mass of living green twigs
through the winter and of
yellow flecked grey green
during its blooming season.
Snowberry and coralberry
(Continued on page 102)

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A wall oj this kind, used to separate the garden and the laundry
yard, may be made oj hollow tile and stuccoed. The coping and

the gateways should be designed to harmonize with similar features
on the house, such as doorways, sills, and exterior paving

House & Garden

(Left) In this dining
room the walls and
windows furnish the
main decorative ele-
ments of interest.
Consequently the rug
was kept plain save
for a border design

(Below) The slight
pattern on this rug
is just enough to
keep it from being
monotonous. It is
old blue with a
darker border. Bige-
low - Hartford Co.

(Below) A heavy
wool Wilton of all-
over design in shades
of old rose, buff and
black. Excellent for
adiningroom. By the
courtesy of the Bige-
hw - Hartford Co.

Among the newest de-
signs in small rugs are
amusing patterens made
of French felt in bright
colors. Courtesy of
Agnes Foster Wright

Braided rugs give color
to the simple, cottage
type of interior. Their
colors are usually quite
harmonious. Johnson &
Ford, architects

These French felt rugs
might be used as an en-
livening spot over a car-
pet in a bedroom or in
front of the hearth in
the living room

(Upper center) Repro-
ductions of old Chinese
rugs are quite faithful.
This has figures in am-
ber on a blue ground.
Bigelow-Hartford Co.

October , 1 922

MAKING THE FLOOR COUNT

A Substantial Part of a Room s Furnishing Depends Upon
Harmonious Rugs and Carpets

MARGARET McELROY

NO one article of furnish-
ing so quickly gives a
room distinction as just
the right rug, and nothing so
soon throws a whole scheme of
decorating entirely out of key
as inharmonious floor covering
In planning for this most
important article, three things
should be taken into considera-
tion— the amount and kind of
usage the rug will receive,
whether it is to serve as back-
ground, or, by its unusual color
and beauty of design, is to be-
come the main decorative ob-
ject in the room. If all the
interest lies in the design of
walls, hangings or upholstery,
then the rug should be chosen
for its color value to bring out
and complement the other fur-
nishings.

If, on the other hand, the
walls are painted or papered in
a neutral shade, devoid of any

In a hall that is enlivened
with a figured paper, rugs of
an all-over design or good
Orientals will harmonize
Clara J. Hukill, decorator

striking design, and the furni-
ture done in velour or damask
of a rather indefinite pattern, it
becomes necessary to introduce
design as well as color into the
floor covering to key up the
room and keep it from being
pitifully monotonous, lacking
in any definite interest.

In creating an entirely new
interior the problem is simple.
Walls, floors, hangings and
upholstery can be considered as
a whole and planned accord-
ingly. But where one decides
a new rug is imperative but the
curtains and furniture covering
simply must last another year,
it is not such an easy matter.
In this case the floor covering
must be considered in relation
to the other furnishings and
should not be selected in a hap-
hazard manner.

It is a healthy sign that vivid
(Continued on page 90)

The room, that has figured
hangings and furniture cov-
erings should have no other
pattern, A plain rug is am-
ple. Wm. Adams, architect

House & Garden

In the New York City home
of Thomas W. Lament, the
architects, Walker &• Gillette,
have incorporated an old door
from abroad into the interior
architectural scheme

A decorated door in the

home of Mrs. E. 0. Hotter,

Ml. Kisco, N. Y., by Barry

taulkner

The inside
door often as-
sumed mag-
nificent pro-
portions in
Georgian
houses. This
treatment i s
reproduced in
the home of
William Zieg-
ler,New York.
Albert Ster-
ner, architect

A carved door
is an essential
element in
some types
of paneled
rooms. Here
it is found in
the home of
Aaron Naum-
b er g , New
York City.
Pile her &
Tachau were
the architects

A dignified li-
brary door is
found in the home
of Edwin S..
Bayer, New York
City, in the arch
of which a rococo
gilt clock is
placed. Taylor &
Levi were the
architects

October , 1 922

IF YOU ARE GOING TO BUILD

Consider What the Interior Door Contributes to the
Comfort, Peace and Dignity of the House

MARY FANTON ROBERTS

WHAT would be left of dignity,
peace and comfort in life if some
malicious little fairy were to wave
a wand that caused all the doors in all our
homes suddenly to disappear! Can one
picture this desolate doorless world, every
sound, motion and odor shared by the en-
tire household, and all sorrows and joys
public property ! The very elements of the
most exquisite phases of modern civiliza-
tion would promptly disintegrate.

No wonder that all truly great period
architects specialized on the door, so much
so that it was frequently the very center of
ornamentation of the entire faqade of
cathedral or palace; or that it was the one
note of elaborate decoration for otherwise
plain public buildings and dwellings.

So important did doors become after we
advanced from caves and tents, both in-
doors and out, that the magnificence of
interior decoration, the most gorgeous carv-
ing and painting, the most imposing fres-
cos centered about the doorway. This is
true in the Italian palaces of the Renais-
sance, where the most elegant of classic
interiors were developed, styles that were
afterward copied in France, England and
Spain; it was true in French period archi-
tecture, especially in the time of the Louis
and the Empire. As for England, the glory
of her doors in the Elizabethan and later
in the Adam period was only equalled by
the sumptuous fireplaces that ran from
floor to ceiling, the unsurpassed decoration
of the stairways that were carved and
sculptured and painted from the great ban-
queting rooms to the roof of the house.

But with all the beauty and
splendor of stairways and fire-
places, somehow the doors of a
house seem the most fundamental
detail, the first aid, as it were, to
civilization. And because of this,
the idea of the door and what it
stands for has crept into the liter-
ature of practically all countries.
Shakespeare used it over and over
again. An idea of size he explains
as "Not so deep as a well, nor so
wide as a church door, but 'tis
enough, 'twill serve." The very in-
terior of the house from cellar to
garret we now speak of as indoors;
while all of Nature, two hemi-
spheres and both mighty oceans are
merely out-of-doors. A more wide-
spread symbol than the door has
perhaps never entered the language
of any race or people.

It is quite characteristic of our
modern architecture in America
that the interior door especially is
greatly simplified. There are so

An inside door with fanlight is an un-
usual Colonial feature found in the For-
rester Peabody house at Salem, Mass.

many of us in this country who want homes
and who think if a house "were well done,
it were well 'twere well done quickly" that
we do not stop to have great doorways with
figures of East Indian rajahs carved for
our living rooms, nor can we wait to have
beautiful doors painted with fine land-
scapes or picturesque figures. We cannot
even have elaborate panels cut and set in
carved frames, nor fluted columns as in the
Italian Renaissance — that is, in the main,
we cannot do these things.

Most of us plan our houses in February,
argue with our architects through March
and April and have spirited conferences
with our builders through the summer
months, expecting to have homes charm-
ingly furnished by October, ready for the
children to approve before they go away to
school. This does not mean that our houses
are not practical in every detail, eminently
well fitted so far as heating, lighting and
plumbing are concerned, with luxurious
details, fine open fires, sun rooms, sleeping
porches, everything that means a country
home today. But the fine arts are not al-
ways deeply involved in our. plans, and
when the architect says "we must get stan-
dard doors and window frames" and the
builder nods approvingly, we are very
likely to do it because it saves time and
money and mental energy.

Undoubtedly many of our finest archi-
tects will disagree with this and they will
show you pictures of beautiful doors in
fine American homes, brought from old
English manor houses, from French cha-
teaux, and doors designed in this country
that have dignity and magnificence.
Some of these doors illustrate this
article. There is, for instance, a
lovely inside door, shown here,
in the upper hallway of the Forres-
ter Peabody House, Salem, Mass.
Simple moldings are used to pro-
duce the effect of a fine classic
frame with a half-circular fan-
light, also framed in the simple
molding. It essentially belongs to
those beautiful early Colonial
homes of New England, with their
fine stairways and simple but
beautifully designed fireplaces.
Houses were built slowly in those
days. They were heirlooms, and
plenty of time was taken to de-
velop the gracious beauty of every
detail.

An exceptionally beautiful old
(Continued on page 124)

The Dutch door in the home of
P. B. Wyckoff, Bernardsville, N.
J. Clarence Fowler, architect

House & Garden

PAINTS AND VARNISHES AS MIRACLE WORKERS

Properly Used They Add Health, Economy, Beauty
And Comfort to the Modern Home

PAINT is an Aladdin's lamp for the
homemaker today. It can work those
mysterious miracles that convert sor-
didness into beauty, age into fresh youth,
that can, in fact, release all your suppressed
desires about a pretty home. If you are
going to build and wish your house to be
the color of moonlight in a deep grove; if
you dream of a living room that is gay, yel-
low like sunlight; if you wish a nursery that
will keep little children merry and healthy,
and a kitchen that must be very modern,
perhaps white and orange, paint will ac-
complish all these delightful things for you
— paint treated, of course, with knowledge
and respect.

Painting is not by any means a purely
materialistic performance — a pail, a brush,
a color; it is being an artist, a scientist, hav-
ing experience, wisdom, patience! If you
treat paint in a manner that is in the least
bit casual, as one might say, "Oh, I think I
can do that painting myself,'' it will be
just as fatal as though Aladdin had said
''Oh, rub any old lamp". And the result
would have been that the little genii wouldn't
lift a finger to help.

THERE is no such thing as inspira-
tional painting. To do it well in-
volves real preparation, a knowledge
of colors and their values, their harmonies,
dissonances, contrasts and discords. Think of
painting as you would of music. It has its
own scale, and major and minor variations.
If you want the best effects from paint, care-
fully relate color to form and to environ-
ment. Different types of houses inevitably
suggest different color treatment. The back-
ground of a house may entirely change a
color scheme. The seashore for instance is
most hospitable to yellow, orange, mauve,
green, grey. Blue, rose, cerise, lavender,
brown, olive all belong to the woods.

And these gay colors are in the main only
used for the various notes of house trimming,
except perhaps in the case of some exotic
little summertime house. The architect or
owner who takes house building seriously
would never think of painting a dignified
structure with brilliant colors. An Italian
villa might demand pale rose color, a Span-
ish design, delicate fawn, Colonial yellow
for the Georgian structure; this use of color
is traditional and most pleasing. But warm
reds, greens, bright orange, blues, are not
employed either singly or in groups. The
old idea of putting color on a house in dif-
ferent toned tiers is today regarded as ter-
rible, and fortunately the fashion for it is
going out. No architecture can stand being
cut up into strata. The body of a house
may be warm or cool in tone, but if it is

HENRY COMPTON

painted, it must be one tone; with color
variations only in roof, shutters, doors, trim
and lattice work.

Variety of colors in one structure fre-
quently results from the use of different
building materials — cement and wood, ce-
ment and brick, stone and brick, half-
timber and stucco, etc. But these combina-
tions of colors are fundamental and inevit-
able, and if well planned weather into rich
beauty, in no way resembling a house
painted in layers of color, as was the cus-
tom a decade ago in that awesome archi-
tectural period factitiously known as the
''Early Garfield". When there is no under-
standing or purpose in associating a variety
of colors, ugliness is bound to result, and
it is a pity ever to deliberately create it.
The western architects, the greatest among
them, are building rather severely plain
houses, trusting to flowers and vines for
color and decoration. One color dominates
a whole exterior so far as paint is concerned,
and then the beautiful forces of nature are
martialed for the final ornamentation.

THERE are so many reasons for the
use of paints and varnishes, and in
the main they are so well known that
the subject has become a little threadbare.
When you can say of a subject that it is an
economic necessity, of civic value, important
aesthetically, essential for sanitary purposes,
you are really saying that its use has become
a necessity to our particular kind of civiliza-
tion. Fancy life today without any of the
miracles worked for us by paint and var-
nish. We would confront a barren picture,
great waste would face us and sordid condi-
tions, and some serious statistics from the
health board.

The right use of paint is to an extent an
assurance of health and beauty. It also acts
as a preservative for wood, metal and con-
crete. It destroys germs, it delays decay.
And what it does for good cheer, good taste,
good health, is incalculable. Also remem-
ber that if you don't paint, you pay!

Painting has so long been of value in
renovating human environment that it has
become a symbol of cleansing and freshen-
ing life. And poets, the truest of them,
have often sought its aid in expressing a
lovely sentiment about nature. That master
realist, Shakespeare, pictured "cuckoo buds
of yellow hue, paint the meadows with de-
light,'' and Pope, the lover of metaphor,
has assured us that "If folly grow romantic,
I must paint it," while Coleridge found in
himself a mood "as idle as a painted ship
upon a painted ocean." So the poet's vision
found the significance of this humble article
called paint, accepted its symbolism; and

the manufacturer today accepts its symbol-
ism and enlarges its practical purpose.

IF you are going to build, and intend
to paint your house inside and out,
one way to gain a great deal of knowl-
edge on the subject is to get a score of cata-
logues which are at your service, and study
their contents; they will bring you all the
information you need, they will show you
every kind and variety of paint that is being
made today, and will tell you how to use it
in every possible way, whether you wish oil
paint, water color, glossy or mat finish.
There is no phase of paint decoration that
is not elucidated in these pamphlets, and
usually with samples in color. Until you
study into the paint and varnish question
in this country, you do not realize what is
being done to help the maker of homes and
the remodeler of interiors as well as the
decorator make living today comfortable,
attractive, and free from so much of the old
disorder and decay.

The converting of metallic lead into white
lead which is the body of all good paint is
a chemical process, the principle of which
has been the same back to Bible days, when,
one may remember, that "Jezebel painted
her face and tired her hair." But although
the principle has been the same through cen-
turies, the variations in the production of
paint have been numberless. Successful
painting depends not only upon white lead
and the quality of pure linseed oil in which
it is ground, but also upon the kinds of
building materials to which it is applied,
the methods of application, and numberless
outside conditions such as weather, climate,
etc. You cannot put on paint as you would
a new garment. Every state of its applica-
tion must be seriously considered; for in-
stance, it must be allowed to dry thoroughly
between coats, not merely a day or two but
in some circumstances for a couple of weeks.
\Vith green or unseasoned lumber, the prim-
ing coat of paint must be allowed several
weeks to establish itself before the second
coat is given. And the surface itself must
be cleaned and dried thoroughly before the
priming coat is put on. All exterior wood
should also be sandpapered, and all knots,
sappy or pitchy spots should be killed with
spirits of shellac at the very start. Cracks
and crevices should always be filled in with
plaster of Paris or with the original material
before painting and all nail holes filled with
putty.

In painting concrete, ample time should
be given for the concrete itself to dry before
even the priming coat is used; this some-
times takes from four to six months. After
(Continued on page 94)

'October , 1922

In designing the home of
Henry Stanton, Winnetka,
III., the architects, Clark &•
Walcott, drew on Norman
and English sources for
their inspiration. The
combination of brick,
stucco, stone and half tim-
ber makes a lively fafade

A GROUP

of
THREE HOUSES

ILLINOIS, NEW YORK
and MICHIGAN

The plans show a small
hall in the middle of the
house. Service and dining
room are on one side. The
garage is incorporated in
the house. Upstairs are
four bedrooms, four baths,
two maids' rooms and a
sleeping porch. Ample pro-
vision is made for closets.

House & Garden

The balanced Colonial type of house is suit-
able jor almost all parts of this country. It
has dignity and, when the rooms are properly
arranged, is very livable. This design was
chosen for the residence of W. J. Cameron,
Dearborn, Michigan. A library wing on one
end and a porch on the other gives the house
desirable balance. The entrance is graced
by a semi-circular portico. Cypress shingles
and clapboard are used jor roof and wall fin-
ish. Albert Wood, architect

In such a house the disposition of the rooms is
apt to be fairly simple and open. One enters
through a shallow vestibule, with coat closets on
each side, to a wide hall, which opens on the liv-
ing and dining rooms to right and left. Beyond
the living room is the porch. The library is
reached through the dining room

On the second floor are four bedrooms, a bath and
sewing room, all well lighted. On the third, are
two more rooms and bath. The house is well
equipped, having a soft water system, in addition
to the regular supply, a refrigerating plant, a gar-
bage incinerator and a complete wireless outfit
installed cs part of the equipment of the house

L1VI/16 BOOH i IIDEAUY

October . 1 922

The modified Xew England jar in-
house type is a design that seems to
fit well into the average small town
or suburban environments. This de-
sign was chosen for the home of
J. P. Dargan, Jr.. at Hartsdale, X.
Y. The walls are white clapboards
and the blinds painted blue

Instead of making the hall the en-
tire depth of the house, the architect
has kept it half the depth, thus
giving room for a large kitchen. The
enclosed porch is fitted for all year
occupancy, being equipped with
screened casement windows and heat-
ed with an open fire

''"' I, DINING BOOM

HAM ! I ic-o' x it-o"

There was no effort made to give
the house any especial ornamenta-
tion, the architect and owner de-
pending upon the discreet use of
shrubs, vines and flowers to enliven
the sparse lines of the New England
fafade and entrance. The garden is
especially we/I maintained

The second floor provides four bed
chambers and two baths, all com-
pactly arranged with ample closet
space and good light and ventilation.
It is an ideal plan for a family of three
and one servant. A servant's room
and storage are found on the third
floor. Julius Gregory, architect

House & Garden

FORCING BULBS FOR WINTER FLOWERING

By Using the Proper Methods at the Right Time Success is Assured for the
Indoor Cultivation of Hyacinths, Tulips and Narcissi

E. BADE

Plant the
Roman hy-
acinths in
October or

November

keep outside

until frost

THE forcing of various
suitable plants depends
upon a number of fac-
tors, the most important of
which is that the plant must
have had normal growth the
preceding year and have
formed well developed roots,
bulbs or tubers. Only under
such conditions will flowers
be formed. When it is de-
sired to have flowering mig-
nonette or chrysanthemum in
the winter, it is advisable 'to
plant them early. It is use-
less to force them. Hardy
plants like iris and dielytra
must not only have completed
their vegetative period, but
they also must have passed
through a period of rest. Un-
der no other condition can
they be forced. The same is
true for gladiolus. Bulbs of
these species can be taken up
as soon as the leaves have
died back to the ground.
Then they are stored in a cool
cellar, and, after remaining
quiescent for a time, they are
replanted. If they are hardy
it is best to let the plants re-
main in the soil until the
frost has nipped them, as they
are then in a state of rest.

As soon as the bulbs, tu-
bers, or root stocks have been
potted, they are stored in any
convenient spot where the
frost can not reach them.
When it is evident that they
have begun to grow, they are
to be brought into the full
light of the sun.

The cultivation of bulbous
or tuberous plants in the
window garden is simple if
two important rules are kept
in mind. First: the develop-
ing and growing plants must
be placed as near the window
as convenient. It is absolute-
ly imperative that they re-
ceive as much sunlight as
possible. Second: when the plants have
completed their growth, and the leaves be-
gin to turn, the water given them should
gradually be decreased so that the resting
stage is automatically forced upon them.

All these plants must go through a dor-
mant period, and this begins when the
leaves become yellow and die. At this timt
the water is decreased until, finally, none

Mould the
earth gently
around the
rim of the
pot into a
depression for
watering

When the first
growth appears
the plant should
be brought into
the sunlight

Water should be
poured carefully in-
to the little channel
about the pot's rim

The nearer
the plants are
kept to a
sunny win-
dow the more
they will grow

At the right
the Roman
hyacinths are
shown at the
height of
their bloom

is to be given. When the plant has died
back to the soil, the bulb or tuber remains
dry until the beginning of a renewed vigor
shows itself. It is to be remembered that
the resting stage cannot be forced upon the
plant. The leaves are to be kept green as
long as possible for it is these which now
aid in the formation of next year's flower.
It is generally such hardy bulbs as hy-

acinth, tulips, narcissus, etc.,
which are used for potted
forcing. These are planted
during the months of Octo-
ber and November and are
left in the open until the
frost. Then they are stored
in a cool, frost-free room
where they can receive the
rays of the sun. Moisture is
provided regularly, the water
being increased as the plants
develop. But care must be
taken that too much is not
given.

When correctly cultivated,
the plants invariably flower,
and the time of flowering can
be hastened or retarded as
desired. If the pots contain-
ing the bulbs with their well
developed root system are
placed in a warm situation,
the flowers quickly unfold,
but when the pot is kept cool,
the formation of the flowers
is greatly retarded.

Only the best developed
bulbs are successfully forced,
the germ of the coming flower
being then implanted. Small
hyacinth bulbs produce one
stalk with but six or seven
flowers. A tiny lily-of-the-
valley root stock forms a stalk
with a still smaller number
of flowers. Preparatory cul-
tivation in the open will in-
crease the yield, but this can-
not be accomplished in the
window garden. Results are
never satisfactory

(a) when the bulbs have
been cultivated in a poor soil,

(b) when they are too
young,

(d) when they have been
weakened through warmth,

(e) when they have been
injured during the process of
transplanting,

(f) when indications of rot are present,

(g) when they have dried up, or

(h) when they have been kept too long in
the soil.

From four to six years are absolutely
necessary for the production of a well
formed hyacinth bulb, and the circumfer-
ence of such a bulb, which of course differs
(Continued on page 116)

// the plant is kept
in a cool sunlit room
the first bloom will
appear very soon

October, 1922

PATHS AND PAVING IN THE GARDEN

The Many Varieties of Paving Materials and the Many
Possible Designs Make Paths a Fascinating Study

C. H. BEDFORD

THE first use of paving is, of
course, to provide a dry and
firm footway in the garden.
If it fails to do this at all times
within reason, the garden is better
off without it. Again, if it fails to
add to the attractiveness of the gar-
den, it is a sad superfluity. Thus,
on the one hand, it should furnish
stability and comfort, and on the
other, beauty of color and texture
and design and treatment.

Paving may also provide an in-
delible outline of the garden's in-
terior design. This it will do quite
naturally, if it follows the paths
and skirts the edges of the open
spaces. The practical advantages
that lie with this sort of a paving
scheme must be obvious to the gar-
den amateur. Such an arrangement
does away with the necessity for
trimming along the edges of the
herbaceous beds and provides a dry ap-
proach to all the perennials after showers
and on dewy mornings.

The artist in us sees in paving an op-
portunity for such added beauty in the
garden, that the difficult}' comes in not
overdoing it. "\Ye must remember that,
while the paving should have individuality,

This terminal point in a garden designed

by J. C. N. Forestier shows the interest

and beauty attained with a combination

of brick, tile and stone

it should, at the same time, harmonize with
the rest of the garden. If it is necessary
that we use materials whose coloring makes
the paving stand out too boldly in relief,
such as some of the brighter colored tiles
or bricks or flagstones, we should allow
nature to cover them with mossy growths
and not be too meticulous in our efforts to

keep them clean. We should re-
frain, also, from covering too much
of the open surface of the garden
with paving. If there are paths
that are more than, say 5' or 6' in
width, it would be better, in most
cases, to run a strip of paving
along the edges rather than attempt
to cover them completely. The
same rule should apply to any
broad open areas in the garden,
remembering that the color and
texture of well-tended turf is finer
than that of any paving, and that,
as a matter of fact, paving is not
necessary on a space so broad that
travel, so to speak, is well distrib-
uted over its surface, and on which
it is not necessary to walk when the
grass is wet. Thus, we will find
that restraint both in the treatment
and in the use of paving will make
it all the more effective in the end.
The choice of materials for paving, if
economy is an object, will be determined
for us by the sort that is the most readily
available. If we long for the green, blue
and purple slates 01 Vermont, but live in
Maryland, where the only local slate is
dull and colorless, and are unable to go to
(Continued on page 116)

When stone is obtainable in a standard

size, it may be laid in such a fashion

as this. The joints should be made tight

to strengthen the pattern

Here stone and brick are used to get
an interesting and elaborate surface
texture. The bricks are laid in herring-
bone and in ordinary bond

Bricks laid flat and
on edge are combined
with tiles to get a
pattern resembling a
woven mat

-H ''

JfH] B

When rough field-
stones are used in
paths it is necessary
to lay them in a
random pattern

(Left) This pattern
of rectangular flag-
stones in various
sizes is perhaps the
most restful and
satisfying of all

(Right) A random
arrangement of field-
stones can be en-
closed and given
formality by rect-
angular flags

House & Garden

THE IMPORTANCE OF FALL GARDENING

Autumn Work Is Essential In Any Garden
Where Perennials and Bulbs Are Used

THE true test of a gardener's enthu-
siasm is contained in his attitude
toward gardening in the fall. Any
apathetic amateur can be brought to a state
of ecstasy by the first faint breath of spring
and sustained in that condition during the
colorful garden duties of summer; but if
autumn comes to find him resting on his
laurels with the thought: Oh, let nature take
its course now! then you may know that his
enthusiasm is far from running over. For
just as religion, if it be practiced at all, is
something to be practiced seven days in the
week, gardening, if one prides oneself as a
gardener, is something to be engaged in
twelve months in the year.

AND it is not only in order to spread
garden interest over the whole year
that we urge at this time an apprecia-
tion of the value of the fall season. There
are many intensely practical reasons and
many extremely important ones why we
should get in a lot of garden work at this
time. The two principal things are plant-
ing, and preparation for winter protection.
On the positive side, as has been indicated
on the opposite page, there are quite a few-
plants, especially among the herbaceous
stock, that from which to get successful re-
sults, must be planted in the fall. On the
negative side, and a just as important fall
observation if we are to prevent failures,
there are others that must not be set out
until spring.

THE peony, as one of the most impor-
tant of the herbaceous plants, is a
splendid example of a fall planting
subject. Its heavy tuberous roots must make
some growth and become well established
long before its blooming season. If it is
not set out until spring it is futile to expect
a flowering until the following summer. As
the most general means of propagation is by
division of these large tuberous roots, care
must be taken to avoid a disastrous weaken-
ing of the strain by improper methods. For
the peony is today one of the few altogether
sturdy, disease-resisting perennials, and it
should be kept so. Before dividing them for
fall transplanting the leaves and stems
should be cut to the ground and the soil
scraped away, exposing the roots. The most
always tangled mass of tubers should be cut
with a sharp knife, avoiding unnecessary
mutilation of the fleshy roots, and divisions
should be made of from three to five eyes,
or buds, each. The private and commercial
practice that, whether for profit or economy,
goes in for one-eyed divisions, cannot be too
strongly condemned, as it is bound to result
eventually in weakling strains susceptible
to and encouraging diseases that will affect
all peonies.

IT is the deep rooting perennials that, as
a rule, prefer fall planting. The two
notable exceptions are chrysanthemums
and Japanese windflowers, which flower so
late in the fall that there is little or no
strength left in their roots to allow them to
become established before winter sets in.
Deep rooting plants, too, are not so easily
heaved from the ground by the action of the
frost; although — and it might as well be
said in this connection — this latter trouble
is not apt to occur if the beds are well
mulched down with dried leaves as soon as
heavy frosts begin.

ALL the spring flowering bulbs, from
the tiny snowdrops to the towering
tulips and narcissi, should be planted
in the fall. Any time after six weeks in
advance of the first killing frost — if it is at
all possible accurately to estimate that — is
the time to begin this delectable task. And
when we say delectable we mean delectable.
For there is no other practical garden duty
that appeals so strongly to the artist in every
one of us — that is, if we think of these
plants as early spring splashes of color to be
scattered about or naturalized in clumps over
the lawn, under trees and in odd corners,
rather than as prim subjects for stiffly proper
display. Here is a fall planting job that is
more play for the imagination than any other.

THERE is a curious notion about that
roses should be planted only in the
spring. As a matter of fact we may
expect a greater profusion of bloom if the
dormant stock is planted at any time from
October to December than if it is planted
at an}' other time of the year. Just as in
the case of most of the herbaceous peren-
nials, roses will extend the growth of their
tiny rootlets and make themselves at home
in the fall, and by doing this will be in a
position to put more strength into their
blooms and foliage the following spring.
The beds should be prepared early and al-
lowed to settle for several weeks before the
roses are planted. Then, if anything hap-
pens to delay the planting, a mulch of dried
leaves should be scattered over the ground
to prevent freezing. When the plants arrive
this litter may be removed.

ALL the lilies may be, and the Madon-
na lily should be, planted in the fall.
The Madonna, unlike many of the
varieties, is not stem-rooting, and for this
reason it needs the accustomed repose of
several months in the ground before it is
called upon to do its gorgeous share in the
decoration of the garden. It should be
planted with its splendid foil, the larkspur,
sharing the same clump in the border in well
knit confusion; and as the larkspur, with

its large, heavy roots, is a thing most adapt-
ed to fall planting, the arrangement of the
two comes conveniently together.

OUITE a number of the annuals may
be sown in the fall to splendid advan-
tage. It is much less of a task, after
all, to put these seeds directly in the border.
It saves planting them in hotbeds and in-
doors in the early spring and the results are
just as successful ; for those that do not ac-
tually germinate before frost will begin their
growth with the first sign of warmth after
winter. Among the annuals which may
safely be sown now are sweet peas, poppies,
pansies, love-in-mist, candytuft, sweet alys-
sum, snapdragons, calendula, cornflowers,
clarkia, annual larkspur and China pinks.
It is unwise, of course, to plant the seeds in
ground that is too wet or too cold. If thj
season is so far advanced that frost seems
imminent before you have had a chance to
get at this part of your garden work it would
be well to have the border spaces in which
you are going to do your planting covered
with enough litter to keep them warm. Then
when you have removed the litter and put
in the seeds cover the beds with a light
mulch of finely pulverized, well rotted ma-
nure. This will act both as a protection
and as a stimulation, unless, with a sense
of too great generosity for your seedlings, you
make your mulch too heavy; in which case
the young beginnings will inevitably be
choked and smothered before they have
gained sufficient strength to fight their way
through this rich blanket. Whole borders
of annuals may be planted in this way, ar-
ranging the groups of seeds exactly as you
would arrange the clumps of potted or field
grown plants or seedlings. In the spring it
will be necessary, of course, to do a certain
amount of thinning out.

THE whole business of fall planting
might be summed up in this way:
that (a) it relieves the congestion of
work that comes during the spring season
when every growing thing seems to shoot
forth all at once, calling for some sort of
immediate attention; that (6) with the ex-
ceptions listed on the opposite page, it offers
more favorable growing conditions; that (c)
it provides a period during which the plant
may become well established and thus keeps
the shock from coming at the critical time
immediately before it begins its foliation
and its blooming, and, finally, that it pins
the gardener's attention down on his beds
and borders and lawns at a time when he is
tempted to let things slide and thus not only
neglect vitally important duties, but, what
is even more essential to gardening as a
pleasure, to miss out on probably the most
interesting season the garden affords.

October, 1 922

HOUSE & GARDEN'S FALL PLANTING GUIDE

A list of all the bulbs, hardy herbaceous perennials,
biennials; shrubs, and trees that may be planted in the
fall would be much too long for publication in this
space. A process of elimination has seemed a much
more simple and direct method, and for that reason
all the commonly used plants for which fall planting

is definitely advisable have been arranged in one list,
and all those which are definitely unsuitable for
planting at this season have been arranged in another.
It may be taken for granted that any plant not
included in either of these lists may be as safely
planted in the fall as five months later in the spring.

TO BE PLANTED ONLY IN THE FALL

Anemone (Anemone pennsylvanica) and all spring- and early
summer-flowering varieties. In addition to A. pennsylvanica
there are several easily obtainable varieties of this delicate woods-
plant, effective in the border but particularly delightful when
naturalized in the shade of the shrubbery border and young trees.

Bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabilis). A plant of interesting habit;
flowers red and purple; 3'; in light, rich soil; shade; propagate
by division.

Columbine (Aquilegia, in variety). One of the mos', valuable
plants in the border on account of its exquisite and durable
foliage and its long spurred blossoms. The various types range
from the dainty blue and white A. coerulea to the 3' to 4' yellow
flowered A. chrysantha. In moist, well drained sandy loam;
partial shade; propagate by division.

Globe Flower (Trollius, in variety) of which T. caucasicas "Orange
Globe" is perhaps the best; 1' to 2'; in moist, heavy loam; par-
tial shade; propagate by division.

Hepatica (Hepatica triloba). One of the earliest blooming plants
in the border; flowers white, blue and rose; 4"; foliage practically
evergreen; in rich, well drained loam; shade; propagate by divi-
sion.

Iris, Fleur de lis (Iris, in variety). There are many types of this
popular perennial, ranging from the small /. pumila to the tower-
ing 7. laevigata, or Japanese Iris. Some of the best of the var-
ious species are Walhalla, Johann de Witt, Queen of May, Mme.
Chereau, Oniga-shima, Snow Queen, Perfection, and Victorine.
Plant in rich, well drained loam; sun; propagate by division,
preferably immediately after blooming.

Leopard's Bane (Doronicum plantagincum) . Large daisy-like
flowers, iy2' to 3'; yellow; in rich loam; sun; propagate by divi-
sion.

Madonna Lily (Lily candidum); in prepared beds, excavated 18"
and filled to within 6" of the top with manure, then 1" of sand,
then light rich soil to cover roots; sun; protect; propagate by
bulb scales.

Peony (Paeonia, in variety). From among the various types the
following are especially good: The Bride, George Alexander,
Jupiter, Apple Blossom, Cathedral, Crystal Queen, Dragon's
Head, Geraldine, Gypsy, Lemon Queen, The Moor. Grows most
successfully in beds prepared as for the Madonna lily above ; sun
or part shade; cover with well rotted manure through winter to
be removed in spring; propagate by division.

Phlox (Phlox, in variety). From among the various types the
following are especially good: Aurora Boreale, Bridesmaid,
Elizabeth Campbell, Gismonda, Independence, O. Wittich,
Robert Werner and R. P. Struthers. Plant in rich, rather moist
soil, although it is not particular; sun; propagate by division.

Primrose (Primula, in variety). Plant in light soil; shade; propa-
gate by division as soon as possible after flowering.

Wake Robin (Trillium grandiflorum) . Early flowering; large
white blossom; 12" to 18"; in rich soil; partial shade; propagate
by division.

SPRING FLOWERING BULBS

Glory-of-the-Snow (Chionodoxa, in variety). One of the first of
the spring flowering bulbs to appear. Flowers white, blue and
rose.

Crocus (Crocus, in variety). A small, early blooming bulb, among

the best of which are : Non plus ultra, violet tipped with white ;
Baron von Brunnow, bright blue; Mont Blanc, white; Queen of
Sheba, gold; Margot, rosy heliotrope, and Vulcan, pale blue.

Snowdrop (Galanthus, in variety).

Squill (S cilia, in variety). One of the best of the small flowering
spring bulbs for naturalizing in the woods and under the shrub-
bery borders. Among the campanulata types there are the
coerulea, blue; the rosea, pink, and the alba, white.

Daffodil, Jonquil, Narcissus (Narcissus, in variety). A list includ-
ing very good varieties of all the types is the following: Auto-
crat, C. J. Backhouse, Conspicuous, Emperor, Empress, Frank
Miles, Minnie Hume, Ornatus, Sea Gull and Sir Watkin.

Tulip (Tulipa, in variety). The three principal types are: Single
Early, of which Aurora, Pink Beauty, and Leopold 11 are par-
ticularly good ; Cottage, of which Clare of the Garden, Flava and
Quaintness are representative; and Darwin, of which Clara Butt
is a beautiful pink, La Candeur a pale rose maturing to a pure
white, and la Tuiipe Noire, the blackest of all the tulips.

NOT TO BE PLANTED IN THE FALL

Hardy Herbaceous Perennials

Wind Flower (Anemone japonica). One of the showiest of the fall
blooming perennials, of which the best varieties are: Alice, Bril-
liant, Queen Charlotte and Whirlwind; but whose late blooming
habit makes it extremely inadvisable for fall planting.

Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum, in variety). Some of the best
varieties in the various types are: Irene, Klondike, Windlass,
Globe d'Or, Nesco, Gladys, Mignon, Pink Daisy and Peter Pan.
Like the wind flower, its late blooming proclivities make it es-
sentially a spring planting perennial.

Deciduous Shrubs

Bladder Senna (Colutea arborescens).
Butterfly Bush (Buddleia, in variety).
Snowball ( Viburnum plicatum) .
Spice Bush (Benzoin odoriferum).
Stephanandra (Stephanandra flexuosa).
Sumac (Rhus, in variety).
Sweet Shrub (Calycanthus floridus).
Tamarisk (Tamarix, in variety).
Thorn (Crataegus, in variety).

Evergreen Shrubs

All the evergreen shrubs: Azalea, Laurel, Rhododendron, etc.,
should be planted in the Spring.

Deciduous Trees

Beech (Fagus, in variety).

Birch (Betula, in variety).

Dogwood (Cornus florida, and C. ftorida rubra).

Elm (Ulmus, in variety).

Maple (Acer rubrum and A. saccharinum) . All other varieties may

be planted safely in the fall.
Magnolia (Magnolia, in variety).
Poplar (Populus, in variety).
Sweet Gum (Liquidambar styraciftua).
Tulip (Liriodendron tuUpfera).

Evergreen Trees

Yew (Taxus, in variety).

House & Garden

The windows
oj a porch fac-
ing a fine view
m ay be of
plate glass,
but the vista
should be
broken by
some sort of
open lattice to
be properly
appreciated

PLATE

GLASS

I N

THE HOUSE

Not Until We Consider It Do IV e Realize How Many If ays Plate

Glass Can Be oj Service

ETHEL R. PEYSER

PLATE glass has for-
merly been looked
on with awe! You
have known of its existence
in store windows and heard
of it being smashed by re-
calcitrant autos. You have
seen it in home windows of
fine dimensions, you have
noticed it in limousines,
yet few realize that it is a
useful thing inside the
home.

Plate glass is made by
casting and rolling, not by
blowing. The materials
for its manufacture are
chosen with great care.
The better the glass, the
better the whole process, of
course. It must be so made
as to be almost free from
color. The great thickness
of this glass would make
tint undesirable. The ma-
terials are usually pure
sand, pure form of car-
bonate of lime and a sulphate of soda, with
the addition of carbon in the form of coke,
charcoal, anthracite coal and arsenic.

These ingredients are all melted in cruci-
bles and when free from bubbles and when
viscous, the mass is poured on iron casting
tables and rolled into sheets. While it is flat
it must be annealed, and it is rolled into the

Plate glass for kitch-
en table tops is use-
ful and sanitary

kilns, where it is heated
and then allowed to cool.
After the annealing the
glass is dull, so it is then
ground and polished and
smoothed. Leather and
felt are used to give the
final polish.

It is made from 3/16"
to 1 Y>" thick, and the other
dimensions vary according
to its uses.

Plate glass differs from
other glass because of its
different production proc-
esses, its freedom from
waves, blisters, streaks,
hills and dales, its uniform
flatness, brilliancy of pol-
ish, clearness, strength,
luster, and unique beauty.
Because it excels in these
qualities it is better for the
eyes than any other type.
Here there are no hills to
be hurdled by the long suf-
fering and jumping eye.
Therefore, the landscape seen through home
or motor plate glass is enriched and the car
and house beautified by the invisible sep-
arator which lays no visual barrier between
the eyes and the great outdoors.

Many beautiful homes, clubs and hostel-
ries know the value of the observation plate
(Continued on page 122)

On the dressing table
plate g!ass serves for
both top and mirror

October, 1922

Chinese crackle jars of grayish
tan with decorations in dull green
would be suitable for a Colonial
mantel. 10'/>" high. $25 the pair

(Right center) Flowers on the mantel can

be arranged in balanced vases at each end,

or in a small center vase, such as this, of

black glass. 6" high. $2

FOR THE MANTEL

These may be purchased through the
House y Garden Shopping Service

While veritable hawlhorne jars are im-
mensely expensive and in the connoisseur
class, charming reproductions can be had
for SIS a pair. 10" higk

The lines of these

blue vases are

charming

Powder blue

vases, 10" high,

$16.50 a pair

(Left) Chi-
nese porcelain
birds, 8" high,
in shades of
lavender and
are quaint-
ly decorative.
$15 a pair

Colonial brass
candlesticks,
18" high, S20
a pair; sam-
pler, S55 ; an-
tique salt
glaze jug,
$37.50

Set into the
wall above the
mantel one may
have a flower
painting. This
type, 20" x 16",
comes at S20

Mahogany can-
dlesticks with
Colonial glass
globes are suitable
above a Colonial
mantel. 17" high,
$15 a pair

Red lacquer
tray, 25" x 17",
S45~. Candle-
sticks ~ys' high,
S8.50 a pair.
W hite china
Buddha, 11"
high, S18.50.

House fy Garden

An amber glass
jam jar is dec-
orated with blue
green leaf and
stem handle S3

These Colonial
glass candle-
sticks can be
used on the
mantel or on
a, small table

Crystal with
daisy design.
Goblets $10 a
dozen, cham-
pagne SlO,sher-
berts, $10

A suitable flower vase comes

in amber or green. It stands

&Y<" high and is 7" wide at

top and is priced at $9

(Left) This glass shaker, dec-
orated with an anti-Volstead-
ean cock, has a silver plated
top and is priced at $10

A ftwt bowl, 6"
high, 8" across, in
amber with green
or blue decora •
lions. $12

^S ^

Colonial glats
candlesticks
with prisms are
reproduced i n
this design. 11"
high, $12 a pair

Spiral glass
pitcher, $4.
Goblets, $6 75 a
dozen, cock-
tails So and
cordials, $5.75

NEW GLASS FOR TMH HOUSE

These ina\ be purchased ftoth the Hcitsc & Garden
19 West 44tlt St. N '

October, 1922

These glass
c andlestlcks
come in amber,
amethyst or
royal blue

A glass fruit plale
in amber with
green blue edge
is &l/z" in diam-
eter. $36 a dozen

Black optic glass with royal blue bases come in several

shapes: Goblets S10 a dozen; wines $7.95; cocktails

:>7.50; Cordials $7.20; fingerbowls $7.95; handmade blue

plates, 6" across, $17.93

GLASS OF MANY COLORS

These may be y>n;v/j<j.?c(/ /row tlie 11< use & Garden
Shopping Sen-ice, 19 ll'cst 44tli St., N. Y. C.

(Right) Flower vase

in amber, amethyst

or green glass. 5"

high. $2.25

(Below) The flower

bowl in amethyst or

amber, 6" hi g h,

comes at $2

These glass can-
dlesticks meas-
ure \\y±" high
and are priced
at S2.95 each

Iridescent salad
plates of g re en
glass, measuring
9" across, are
$12 a dozen

House &• Garden

October

THE GARDENER'S CALENDAR

Tenth Month

Transplanting and

dividing of iris

should begin at once

after blooming

To get good results
iris should be in the
ground before
the November frost i

Very few perennials

are as effective as

iris when used singly

in the border

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

' WEDNESDAY ! THURSDAY ! FRIDAY SATURDAY

I . This is
a n excellent

2. All shal-
low rooting

3. Why not
havesome fruit

4. The
plantinps of

5. Start
mulching

6. Don't ne-
glect to get

7. Cauliflow-
er Just starting

time to put
Into execution

plants should
be afforded the

1 trees around
, your garden .

new trees may
be attended to

rhododendrons
with leaves or

hyacinths and
other early

to head up
should bellfted

any changes in

protection of
a winter mulch

preferably on
the north side?

at tuJs time
With the dry

manure. This
Is not only for

flowering types

very carefully

s u c li as sod

of manure.

Or perhaps you

summers which

the purpose of

plants boxed

frames where

borders, dwarf

This applies to

have room for

have prevailed

protecting the

up or planted

strawberries.

a small or-

for the past

roots, but it

for fruit plants,
changes In wa-

raspberries ,
blackberries,

chard. This is
the proper time

few years, fa 1
plantings huve

will also furnish

the plants with

paratory to

plants m \v also
be planted in

tering svstems.

etc. With

to set the trees

given better re-

considerable

strawberries.

out, except the

suits than

nourishment .

map of the

manure should

plums, cherries

where work of

In the spring

barn, garage or

grounds will

not touch the

and other pit

this sort was

the leaves may

help.

crown.

fruits.

done in spring.

be dug under.

tate rooting.

proof place.

s Celery

!». Dig up

10 Don't

11. A few

1?. What

14. If you

must be kept
hilled. Hold
the stalks to-
gether tightly

and store all
tender bulbous
plants such as
L'ladioli, dah-

neglect succes-
sional sowing
of the vege-
table crops

roots of pars-
ley, planted in
pots and placed
on the kitchen

about some
bulbs for house
forcing to
bloom about

beet sand other
root, crops
should be gath-

have heated
frames of any
kind, why not

with the hand

lia.", etc. These

planted in the

window - sill.

t ' h r i s t m a s

hc tnrm -irn r*»-

to prevent, dirt
from getting
down into the
heart. Keep
hilling as they

must be stored
in sand or saw
dust in boxes
and kept in a
cool cellar.

greenhouse .
Lettuce, cauli-
flower, spinach,
radishes and
beans require

will keep any
ordinary
family supplied
with an abun-
dance of this

t i in e ? Paper
whites. Pott-
baker tulips,
narcissus and
various other

moved they
can be stored
In trenches out-
of-doors or in

quick maturing
vegetables
such as rad-
ishes, spinach.

Krcw .sinceit is
contact with

Dry ness of
parking ma-

seeding about
every two or

valuable green
for garnishing

early forcing
bulbs mav be

If stored out- : They may be

the earth that

terial and sur-

three weeks In

and other kit-

grown success-

shoiilr! Iw» iir

gives celery
flavor.

rounding air is
essential.

order to insure
a supply.

c h e n uses
aUfnr inter.

fully in the
house .

tected from the
frost.

during the win-
ter months

15. This is

Ifi. Stop

17 Any

IS. Don't

19-Don'tfor- i -)n \\- i, « «

a n excellent

feeding the

changes in the

neglect to

get to plant a

huskini* corn

time to destroy
a n v aphids

eh rysan t he -
mums just as

flower borders
s h o u I d be

m u I c h with
in a n u r e or

few of the more
hardy types of

any exception-

fruit trees and

which may be
on the white

soon as the
buds show col-

made now as
the different

any loose nut- narcissus In should be "set
terlal. all ever- some secluded .^iHn.imi u.,i-,.,i

ous tree.* sui>-

pirns and other

or. It is a good

types of (low-

greens t h a t corner where

tacks of scale

evergreens. A
t h o r o u g h
spraying with
a strong tor
bacco and soap

practice to
s h a d e the
g r e e n h o u se
slightly. This
will give con-

ers may be
easily deter-
mined at this
time, even by
the beginner.

h a v e b e e n they may go
transplanted on naturalizing
during the cur- and spreading
rent year. The i by themselves,
first winter is , In a few years

year. The ears
should be hung
up in some dry
place where the

should be
sprayed with
any of the sol-
uble oil mix-

mixture will
free the trees
fro in this
pest .

s i d e r a b 1 v
longer petals
and larger
Ho WITS.

Old plants that
are not yield-
ing should be.
divided.

the critical
peri o d with
these trees, and
they need care.

enormous
masses are pos-
s i b 1 e from
small plantings

be able to reach
them. Sus-
pending b y
wire ii good.

are especially
susceptible to

attacks of the
scale pests.

22. Hydran-

2;i. Potatoes

24. Start now

25. Shut off

2(1. In case of

geas, bay trees
and other deco-
rative plants in

ami other root
crops stored in
the cellar

to collect all
the old leaves,
bringing them

and drain all

irrigating sys-
tems and other

a severe frost
being threaten-
ed, it is wise to

to make ar-
rangements to

ments should
be made t o

tubs and boxes
should be
stored away for
the winter. A
good cellar
which is not
too warm and
is fairly light
makes a good
storage place
for this class of
material.

s h o u Id be
looked over oc-
casionally to
prevent dam-
age by decay.
H e m o v e all
d e e a y e d or
soft, spongy
tubers, because
they are sure
to infect other
sound ones.

to one point.
Do n ot ever
burn them, be-
ca use w h en
rotted. they
are one of the
best of all fer-
tilizing m a -
terials. Store
them in some
obscure, shel-
tered corner.

exposed '

plumbing
pipes, an d
emptv concrete
pools, etc. All
faucets should
be left open to
assure proper
drainage of the
piping. If
they freeze
they will burst .

cover the Ilow-
TS of outdoor
e h r y s a n t ti e -
mums with
paper or other
material at
night. Th is
will prevent
their b e i n «
damaged and
add to their
life.

and store It
properly. The
best method la
to wrap each
fruit separately
in tissue paper,
storing them In
boxes in a dark
cool place. Be
careful that
they are not
bruised.

roses, the best
method being
to do them up
in straw Over-
coats. In ad-
dition to these,
earth should ne
banked around
the plants so as
to throw the
water away
from them.

29. Flower
beds composed
of tender plants
can be made to
last consider-
ably longer by
a slight cover-

30. The first
few days in the
house are the
critical period
for i n d o or
plants . Use
great care in

31 . Hay thrown
over tender
garden crops
such as egg-
plant, peppers,
lettuce, will
protect them

This calendar oj the
gardener's labors is de-
signed for the Middle
States, but it should fit

Birds and butterflies
and trees,
And the long hush of

ing to protect
them from
frost. An old

watering and
keep the foliage
s p r a y e d or

from damage
by light frosts.
It must be re-

I he whole country if,
for everv one hundred

Shimmering over the

sheet or blan-
ket of any kind
with a few sup-
ports, may be
us< d for this

moistened. If
the plant dries
up too quickly,
plunge thu en-
tire pot in a

moved during
the day and
applied onlv at
night. Do not

miles north or south,
garden operations be
retarded or advanced

silken grass,
What wouldst thou have
more than these? . . .

purpose.

pail of water.

break t tie in.

from five to seven day\

Robert Nichols.

.-is a general rule, deep-routing plants are best moved or divided in the autumn because then

their roots have time to

recover and strike acwn as soon as growth begins in the spring. Such-

plants ca

nnot usually be

mi-ved without much damage to their roots, and before their ri-ots Itai'c

recovered they are apt to suffer much from drought. If thev are moved in the spring and if a

drought

fellows upon tin

ir moving, they i/nll not recover before the summer heats, and then thev

will live

but a miserable life until ne,rt \car. Vet one finds that man v gardeners are just

as rcad\

to move Orici

ital poppies in April as pansics; and if the Poppies remain miserable

stunted,

and half withered tufts all the summer, the gardener regards it as an "act cf God "

tn.-t as a result of his o~cn stupidity

.-i. CLUTTON 'BROCK,

Dutchmen's breeches
take kindly to care-
ful collecting at this
particular season

Hepatica is one of
the easiest of the
wild flowers to move
if done in the fall

Peony plants should

be divided now.

Be sure to retain at

least three "eyes"

The freesia should be one of the most pop-
ular of winter flowering bulbs for indoors.
Pot in rich sandy soil until Januar\

The misty blooms of statice. or sea lavender,

may be dried and used indoors for winter

bouquets. It will last for months

Blood root may be collected now and trans-
planted into the border. It is effective
when naturalized in the shade of trees

October , 1 922

treet

Chocolates

Guests in " Quality Street" greet Whitman's quality group of
distinguished candy packages as welcome friends.

In any social gathering they give an added sense of sociability.
There's magic in eating together. There's conversation stimulated
whenever the hostess produces the Sampler, Salmagundi, Pleasure
Island, or any others of the favorites in "The Quality Group."

STEPHEN F. WHITMAN a: SON., Inc., Philadelphia, U. S. A.

House & Garden

PAGES from a
DECORATOR'S DIARY

RDBERT HENRI, the painter, says that once
when he was lecturing, someone in his audi-
ence made a statement that art was only for the
rich, and he told the story of a janitor he had
once had who one day asked him to look at a
picture he had done of his best girl. The moment
he saw the picture he realized the janitor was an
artist, and arranged for him to go to a free
night class, which he was instructing at the time.
Later, the janitor became a butler to a very rich
man, where he had enough leisure to paint. The
rich man paid a dealer to make a collection of
old masters for him. "Now, who," asked Mr.
Henri, "owned those pictures, —
the butler or the millionaire? .»

The butler owned them inas-
much as he could appreciate
them, just as I own a fine lot
of paintings at the Metropolitan,
because I have the ability to
receive them. I also own a
magnificent collection of Goyas
and Velasquezes in Madrid. I
own all the beautiful things in the world that I can
appreciate and I shall always own them."

Henri says that he considers the most important
thing in the world is to have toys and play with
them, and to keep collecting more toys if you can
really play with them.

Which is sound wisdom. Beauty is not alone a
thing to admire — to sit and be enraptured by; it is
a thing to frolic with. And one frolics to her
capacity for understanding beauty.

Too many of us consider beauty in the home a
subject for veneration by the family and for exhi-
bition to one's friends. Beauty would be bed-
fellow and mate at table. Many of the old
mystics made playthings of divine subjects. They
possessed them — sun and moon and stars and
Sister Wind and Brother Rain. Their relationship
to them was that of a child to its toys. So
should be our attitude toward all beauty.

ANOTHER knowledgeable butler I once en-
countered had a real flair for old silver. I
was lunching one day at Sunninghill Park, the
lovely old house of the Benjamin Guinnesses at
Ascot, when I spoke of the beauty of the old
rat tail spoons. Mr. Guinness said, "If you are
interested in old silver, come into the pantry, and
look at some extraordinary bits." We went in,
and the butler brought out the flannel bags, each
containing some rare English or Irish piece. Mr.
Guinness constantly deferred to the butler's
knowledge as to the hall marks and dates, and
histories. You could see the tremendous respect
and affection existing between master and man,
because of their mutual reverence for beautiful
things, things of romance and dignified age.

Oh, would that my tongue could
utter the thoughts that arise in me
when I meet the man who feels him-
self superior to taste, the red-blooded
American who takes his beauty, like
his meat, raw! The only kind of
silver that interests him is the trophy
variety — a lumpy silver cup, or a
silver box, or something that adver-
tises his prowess — and advertises it
in very bad lettering, usually. It is
refreshing to meet a man who admits the charm
of objects, who frequents auctions and antique
shops, who collects his own prints and books and
pictures instead of paying someone to do it for
him. We have many such men in America, but
they are in the minority. The majority are
satisfied with displaying their animals' heads and
horns and stuffed birds and fish. Such things
proclaim them conquerors. They still feel the
need of the coon-skin nailed on the cabin door.

WHEN does one's house become one's home?
George Moore reveals his feeling charmingly
in his "Salve," when he describes the trials of
moving from London to Dublin: "All the usual
inconvenience was endured, and it was not until
a fortnight later that my Aubusson carpet was
Unrolled in the drawing-room one afternoon about
two o'clock, ^E's leisure hour after dinner."

I have been wondering what my household
gods really are. I love so many of my belong-

ings, I am torn with doubt. I too have an Aubus-
son rug that must be unrolled before I shall be
chez moi, but there are other equally beloved
things that must live for awhile in unfinished
rooms. I think the real thrill of being at last at
home will come to me when all my books are
unpacked and arranged. I have moved many
times, but always I remember the arranging of the
books came first — before curtains or pictures or
flowers in the vases. I have a^system that makes
it impossible for any servant to arrange books
for me. I don't arrange them by subject at all, but
by their "backs," whether they be tall or short,
or bright or dull. I like my
.._. books to be a brilliant mosaic,

very tall ones beside tiny ones,
and then middle-sized ones, and
I mk the bright red ones and
gilt ones and white ones in after
the others are placed, as one
sticks a few last flowers into a
huge bouquet where they will
look best. When their bright
pattern satisfies me, then Home is achieved.

ONE of the most interesting houses in New
York is that of Robert W. Chandler, the
mural painter, in East Nineteenth Street. It is
really two houses in one, with interlocking floors,
and mysterious passages and two staircases, and
two front doors. It is rather overwhelming in
its wealth of decoration — a veritable musee of
decoration, for each room is a different exposition
of his marvelous imagination. The newest room
is a bedroom, done from an ancient Bokhara
robe that some one brought him from
Persia. The walls are painted in
vertical stripes, violet and yellow and
red, about six inches wide. The ceil-
ing has a fond of pale yellow, and
great flower-like circles of violet and
red and yellow cover it. These stripes
and circles are exact enlargements of
the design of the old robe, and the
texture of the woven silk is indicated
in the painting. There is no furniture
in the room except the great bed,
which is built on a dais, dais and bed being
painted light green and covered with stars and
suns and moons, marvelous constellations in many
blues. There is a red silk bedspread, and three
of Mr. Chandler's extraordinary screens in the
corners of the room — nothing more. He says
there was never a pleasanter room to wake up in,
that he is always cheerful and eager for work
after a few moments of this oriental color.

Now, I sha'n't be happy until he paints a room
from the old Spanish shawl that hangs in his
living room — an ivory colored shawl covered with
miraculous flowers of a thousand
pinks and reds, and an occasional
smaller flower of black-purple.

I sha'n't be happy until people
learn that the secrets of color schemes
are about them on all sides. Here's a
bowl of terra cotta, mauve and
white zinnias, a suggestion for a
country house living room; yonder's
a piece of Famille Verte, rich with
yellows and grass greens and auber-
gine purple.

OOMEHOW that shawl of Bob Chandler's re-
O minds me of a great glass bowl of fruit I
always enjoy at Armenonville, that charming
restaurant in the Bois de Boulogne. Fruits re-
fraichais, it is called, and it is an artist's massing
of ambrosial color and fragrance and sweetness.
Black plums and saffron nectarines, purple and
pale green grapes, red and pink peaches, pears and
pineapples, red cherries, slices of oranges and
bananas, purple figs, and finally hundreds of
little green almonds, a deli-
cious ambrosial collection,
like a bouquet where every
melting morsel tempts one by
its color and fragrance. Every
bit of fruit seems as fresh as if
it had been arranged five min-
utes before in the great clear
glass bowl.

/OCCASIONALLY we meet a gallant old lady
V-/ whose taste runs with our own, but keeps the
flavor of her own favorite period. One of the
nicest rooms I know is of the white candle and
crystal variety. It belongs to an old lady down in
Georgia who has kept her parlor and her hair
white, but whose taste is as fresh and whose
humor is as sunny as her old-fashioned room.
Everything seems to lead up to or away from
the old marble mantelpiece. (Why is a Victorian
mantel a "mantelpiece"? I don't know.) This
is a lovely, exaggerated rococo one with pltmes
and garlands of roses, just the sort we see ripped
out of old New York houses every day. On the
mantelshelf are crystal candelabra with wax can-
dles. A gay gilt mirror hangs above, reflecting
just the right white flowers in a pale green vase
beneath. When these flowers are lilies you feel
it isn't fair for one room to be so sweet. The
curtains are of white ruffled net, not lace, and
they are hung from gilt cornice boards. A white
fur hearth rug lies on the faded Victorian carpet.
There are bright fire irons and a fender of brass,
and many more candles and gilt mirror frames
against the white washed walls. A set of rose-
wood, a sofa on one side, and two chairs on the
other, invites you to the fire, and an old square
piano seems more beautiful than we remembered
square pianos could be.

DREAKFAST in an English country house is a
•D casual but traditional custom. Among the
September notes in my diary I find several pages
of my delight over my first breakfast in an old
Queen Anne house in Lincolnshire, — an English
breakfast never to be forgotten.
Many equally marvelous breakfasts
followed (before-dawn hunt break-
fasts, and mid-day after-hunt ones,)
but none so enchanting as the first
prolonged one.

It really began at eigBt, when I
was awakened from a deep sleep by
a rosy-cheeked little maid with sil-
ver-gilt hair like a Xmas tree orna-
ment, who placed a tray of tea be-
side my bed. Then she drew back
the great red damask curtains, and oh! The fra-
grant English country air blowing in, the sound
of the ancient bells brought here long ago from
Peterboro Cathedral, the far cry of hounds call-
ing!— What a heavenly place, a sort of dreams-
come-true, and surely the most perfect September
morning among all noble mornings. I wish I
could remember it all, always — the hum of bees
and the song of birds and always the hounds
calling, and the feeling of heat and fragrance. My
room was a great chamber over the dining room,
pale yellow walls, and red silk hangings, and a
great gilt bed. Dozens of mezzo-tints on the
walls, and a great chest of drawers furnished as a
wash-stand, although a perfectly good bathroom
adjoined the bedroom. In the window bay was
the usual dressing table, a long Queen Anne table
such as we would use for a desk, with a small
standing mirror, and tall silver candlesticks. From
the window I could see my host strolling in the
gardens, a tall picturesque figure in a red Indian
sprigged silk dressing gown, looking more like an
Indian Prince than an Englishman. The favorite
dogs were close at his heels.

An hour to dress, for at nine sharp the great
gong summons to breakfast. The tray is only a
cup of tea to awaken you, for breakfast is a very
serious affair. I dressed quickly, because I wanted
to see the house and the gardens before the others
were down. I had a half-hour for exploration,
but it took me days!

I wanted to re-enter the place, so I went out
the front door to the entrance path and reviewed
my vague impressions of the night before. There
were two great gates with a hedge connecting
them, a tall -hedge of ever-
greens, holly, and box, and
strange plants that made ver-
tical yellow and green stripes,
with clipped obelisks of deep-
er green punctuating it. After
the second gate, a hedge of
box and yew, a changing,
(Continued on page 114)

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Making the Floor Count

(Continued from page 71)

color and strong design are to be found
in the newest wall papers, upholstery
fabrics and rugs. We have been en-
slaved too long to plain, neutral toned
walls, floors and hangings — surroundings
lacking in interest and character of any
kind. It was rather an anaemic form
of decoration, a lazy attitude of mind,
that found it easier to furnish rooms
with plain fabrics than struggle with the
shock of some strong, compelling color
and sturdy, interesting pattern.

The rage for color in Paris and Vienna
has resulted in some delightful fabrics
unique in design as well as riotous in
hue; the revival of the William Morris
wall papers with their masculine pat-
terns and fine colors and the growing
demand for equally interesting rugs all
point to a revival of decoration from
the sturdy age before pastel shades were
born, an age when men painted their
deeds boldly in glowing color on walls,
fabrics and rugs.

Let us first take up the question of
Orientals. There was a time when this
type of floor covering was the last word

in rugging. "It's an Oriental" seemed
to signify something very near heaven,
and many a bride and groom of by-gone
days found the nucleus of a new home
in a "real Oriental."

Times have changed and there is not
quite the same respect for Oriental rugs,
as it is difficult to adapt them to much
of the modern decoration. Their definite
patterns and vivid colors preclude the
use of figured fabrics to a certain extent
and call for walls, furniture and hang-
ings more or less subdued in tone and
lacking in definite design, and we are
not quite willing to key all the decora-
tion in a room to the rug. But as the
majority of rugs of this kind go through
a process of washing to subdue their
bright tones before being subjected to
Western eyes and as there is such an in-
finite variety of good patterns and color-
ings to choose from, it is possible to
build an interesting and dignified room
around the soft tones and fine design of
a good Oriental.

For a living room on rather formal
(Continued on page 02)

4 fine Oriental rug gives character to a room, provided the design

and coloring are not too pronounced and the tones of the rest of

the furnishing more or less in key

October, 1 922

Every woman desires possessions
which will receive the approval of
her associates.

This is particularly true in the case of
her motor car. Gratifying, therefore,
is the enthusiastic sanction accorded
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Everywhere she hears that whole-
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voices the esteem with which
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Strange, indeed, would it be if the
woman who owns a Cadillac did
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But added to this tribute to her
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liOSPITALITY here begins its royal rites; it is
here we bid Welcome! and wish Godspeed ! Hither,
too, in lucky houses, scurry baby feet as the day ends
and the Best-of-Men comes happily home. So much
of Life happens in the hallway. It needs must be a
bonny place. It ought to be a pleasant place!

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From the right Wall Paper, even the littlest nar-
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Does a hallway, unpapered, seem huge and grim
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formidable angularities into graceful contours, and
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lines this type of rug brings a certain
dignity and interest possessed by no
other floor covering. For dining rooms
it is both decorative and practical and I
would especially recommend an Oriental
rug for large halls where there is much
floor space to cover and usually not a
great amount of interest in the other
furnishings. Halls, too, are apt to be
rather dark, and here the rich colors in
the rug will do much to brighten and
make inviting an interior too often drab
in tone.

Chinese rugs have become deservedly
popular of late, perhaps because they
blend so well with many forms of deco-
ration. With their soft colors, and in-
triguing designs, they make charming
backgrounds for 18th Century English
furniture and combine well with gay
flowered chintzes.

The most difficult room to choose a
rug for is the dining room, for nowhere
else does a carpet get quite as hard and
varied wear. The continual going to and
fro, the inevitable spilling that occurs
in the very best of families, the constant
cleaning and everyday usage, demand a
rug sturdy of build and sufficiently cov-
ered in design to withstand not only
wear but spots. Here an Oriental or a
good domestic rug with an all-over de-
sign is better than a plain floor covering
which shows every stain and footprint
and soon becomes shabby in appearance.
There is such a variety of good designs
among the Wiltons and Axminsters,
such a wealth of color one should have
no trouble in finding just the rug to
bring out and complement the other
furnishings in the room.

A quite charming dining room might
be made, using a rug with a small all-
over design in tan and blue on a ground
of deeper blue with hangings of chintz,
walls paneled in deep cream, and 18th
Century English furniture, the chair
seats covered in red and cream striped
moire. This type of floor covering
would successfully withstand the wear
demanded of it.

In the same manner a small breakfast
room with plain painted walls can be
made interesting and charming by the
use of a delicately figured rug. In small
interiors it is wise to keep the pattern
in rugs and fabrics more or less in key
with the size of the room, but there is
no reason why an interior should refrain
from all hope of interest just because it
is not large. It would be interesting to
experiment with a small room, using a
landscape paper of soft grays and greens.
This would serve to push out the walls,

giving a sense of space. The woodwork
should be painted one of the greens in
the paper, the hangings would be inter-
esting in peach color bound in green,
and here one might use a rug in gun-
metal gray with a slight all-over pattern.

The same principles should be fol-
lowed in the living room, where the rug
should equal in importance the rest of
the furnishings. A good Oriental, of
course, will be the dominating note. If
a striking design is to be found in either
hangings or upholstery, a chenille or
Wilton rug in a plain tone will make a
better background and be more gener-
ally effective than a figured floor cover-
ing which would only serve to distract
the eye and clash with the patterns in
the other furnishings.

Chenille rugs come in a large variety
of colors, either plain or two-tone and
can be woven any width up to 30'. The
soft, long pile renders them unusually
luxurious in appearance and the ideal
floor covering in rooms where one
wishes to have figured walls or patterned
hangings. In this case the floor simply
must be kept low in key, — a background
only.

Black rugs are very smart just now,
especially if one uses plenty of color
elsewhere. A room can be made amus-
ing and gay with walls and woodwork
done in blue-green, chintz hangings in
terracotta, orange and blue over gold
glass curtains and a black rug.

Carpeting by the yard with a thick
pile, if well sewn together, makes a very
good rug and is less expensive than a
seamless carpet woven to size.

Old-fashioned ingrain which is woven
like plain cloth, with no pile, is excellent
for bedroom rugs, and, used as carpet-
ing, it makes an effective background
for small rugs. Made into rugs, it is
light, easy to clean and moderate in cost.
Ingrain carpets look better if well pad-
ded with a layer of good quality carpet
lining or several thicknesses of news-
papers tacked to the floor.

Hooked and rag rugs are charming in
early American interiors. Very often a
good effect is obtained by using a gay
hooked rug on top of a plain rug or car-
pet, in front of the fireplace or in some
prominent place, for its interest and
color value.

Very new are the rugs of French felt
shown on page 78. They can be made
in any size and shape, and as the felt
comes in charming colors, a delightful
effect can be obtained with these rugs
used either on a bare floor or against a
neutral toned carpet.

October, 1922

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Paints and Varnishes as Miracle Workers

(Continued from page 74)

the concrete is thoroughly dried the
surface should be brushed with a stiff
broom or a fine wire brush to dislodge
all particles of sand, lime, or cement.

The season seriously affects paint as
it does the surfaces which are to be
painted. And here comes in the judg-
ment of the painter. He must under-
stand the effect of heat and cold, damp-
ness and dry weather, upon building
materials and paints. To get the best
results on either the outside or the in-
side of the house, an experienced painter
is necessary, the beat materials and
friendly weather conditions. It is hope-
less to attempt to paint in foggy or
freezing weather, or until indoor piaster
has set. Sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit is
the minimum temperature at which
painting should be done indoors.

It is also very important to con-
sider the quality of the priming coat.
Any old paint is not good enough to
start with. Mineral and non-drying oils
should not be used in the priming coat,
nor is a pigment like ochre or metallic
paints good primers. Sufficient raw
linseed oil should be added to the
initial coat of paint to satisfy the build-
ing surface and to prevent subsequent
absorbing from the second and third
coat which might result in spotting or
fading.

New Work and Old

There is some difference in the matter
of handling new work and old work.
It is well to study this thoroughly
and to accept established rules that are
bound to bring good results.

For New Work: the method is as
follows; — First or priming coat, for
close-grained, non-absorbent woods, thin
with equal parts linseed oil and turpen-
tine. For soft, open-grained woods,
like white pine and poplar, thin with
three parts oil and one part turpentine.
Hard or yellow pine, cypress, Norway
pine and other resinous woods, also all
green lumber, should be well seasoned
before painting. For such lumber, thin
with one part oil and three parts tur-
pentine. Brush this coat in thoroughly
to insure good penetration. Second
coat: Thin with two parts raw lin-
seed oil and one part turpentine. Brush
out well. Third or final coat: Apply
the paint as found in the package, ex-
cept where conditions warrant the use
of a little turpentine or linseed oil.

For Old Work:— First coat: thin with
two parts raw linseed oil and one part
turpentine. For surfaces which are very
old and spongy, more oil is required,
and for surfaces that are unusually hard
and non-absorbent, more turpentine
should be used. Second coat: apply the
paint as found in the package, except
where conditions warrant the use of a
little turpentine or linseed oil.

Calculating Paint

It is difficult to estimate the exact
quantity of paint required to cover a
given surface. A good paint will ap-
proximately cover three hundred and
fifty square feet to the gallon, two
coats. The best way to estimate the
quantity needed is to measure the dis-
tance around the building, multiply by
the average height, add about one-fifth
for trimming and cornices and divide
by three hundred and fifty. The re-
sult will approximately be the number
of gallons required.

The selection of color in planning to
paint a house is likely in the last an-
alysis to be a matter of personal pref-
erence. Yet even though you may like
blue better than any other color, or yel-
low, or red, it is very wise indeed to
study the background and surroundings
of your house as well as the houses of
your neighbors, also the type of your
house, the amount of foliage about

it, the colors you intend to use in your
garden, and to a lesser degree the
scheme of decoration you intend to
carry out in the interior. You must
ornament a dignified type of archi-
tecture with dignified colors. The Co-
lonial style of building, for instance, will
best lend itself to white, gray and Co-
lonial yellow. In half-timber construc-
tion the tone of concrete must be sub-
servient to the wood, not necessarily in
harmony, but less dominant.

And you must remember, too, that
painting a house is not entirely a dec-
orative matter; you are painting to
protect your house, to save your build-
ing material, as well as add beauty
to it. If painting is an investment,
then it stands to reason that the only
good investment is the best paint.

Interior Painting

For interior painting, especially where
water colors are used, the method of
procedure of each different manufac-
turer must be carefully studied. Walls
must be properly prepared according
to schedule and the suggestions for put-
ting on fresco colors must be followed
without the slightest deviation if inter-
esting results are to be achieved. Prac-
tically all makers of fresco colors will
send pamphlets on request and these
pamphlets invariably show a large
range of color samples. Just the right
method for ordering these paints is also
given so that the work of planning
house decoration along these lines is re-
duced to a minimum. The expense of
decorating in this fashion is light and
the effect most satisfactory if instruc-
tions are carefully followed.

There are four steps in the process of
securing brilliantly finished woodwork,
— preparing the wood, filling it, stain-
ing it, and varnishing it. Whether the
floor is new or old, it must be perfectly
clean, free from oil, grease, wax or
moisture.

Filler

Open-grained woods such as oak, ash,
mahogany and walnut, should be filled
with a good paste filler. This comes in
paste form and should be thinned to a
creamy consistency with pure turpen-
tine applied with a bristle brush. A
little should be put on at a time, al-
lowed to set and rubbed clean with bur-
lap, rag or excelsior across the grain of
the wood. Close-grained woods such as
cherry, birch, white wood or maple, need
no filler.

Stains

It is an easy, simple matter to mix
your own stain. Take a gallon of stain,
three quarts of turpentine, one pint of
raw oil, one pint of coach-Japan as a
dryer. Take one pound of color ground
in oil, if you wish a strong shade — a
little more, mix thoroughly with coach-
Japan, put it in the raw oil and turpen-
tine and stir until completely mixed.

Colors ground in oil can be found i;,
any paint store in pound cans. Always
try out a stain on a board before ap-
plying it to the floor. Keep the stair
thoroughly stirred and apply. After it
has been on half an hour, rub the floor
in the direction of the grain with a rag.
This will bring out the grain to ad-
vantage.

After it has dried over night it is
ready for a coat of varnish.

Famish

To get the best effect from varnish,
fill the brush well and allow it to flow
over the surface freely. Let it dry
twenty-four hours when it will be ready
for the second coat. Let this flow on
as freely as the first. If properly ap-
(Continued on page 9.4)

October. .1922

MASTERPIECES • OF • THE • CLASSICS
THE • TRIANON

A • HOME'S • TREASURES • AND • ITS • UTILITIES
are, too often, things apart. International Sterling
is the exception.

International Sterling is collected for its art; it is
valued for the memories which it perpetuates.

At the same time, International Sterling is a table
service of ideal utility. Generations of daily use can
not maim or mar its imperishable substance.

Trianon is a modern design inspired by the rich
simplicity of French Renaissance. Massive yet
chaste. Your jeweler has Trianon incomplete table
service. A Trianon Selection Book, showing the full
Trianon service, -will be sent on request. Address
Dept. 154, International Silver Co., Meriden, Conn.

Trianon is stambed with this mark

which identifies the genuine

INTERNATIONAL
STERLING

MASTERPIECES • OF • THE CLASSICS

International Sterling
is Wrought from Solid Silver

House & Garden

Ferrocraft Grilles

For Enclosing

Ugly Radiators

This is one of the simplest of designs,
yet how attractive it is.

F you prefer to make the wooden part yourself,
then we can furnish the Ferrocraft Metal
Grille portion.

Or we can take all the bother off your hands and
make them complete for you in any wood and
finish desired, combined with the Ferrocraft Metal
Grille part. We can make these grilles in. special
designs of your own, or from selections of a large
variety of choice ones of your own rendering.

If you will give us the height, width and depth of
your radiators and tell us the kind of wood and
finish you want, also the character of the furnish-
ings in your rooms, we will gladly suggest appro-
priate Ferrocraft Grilles.

Likewise give you the cost complete for the en-
closures. To our catalog showing numerous de-
signs of radiator enclosures, you are most welcome.

TUTTLE & BAILEY MFG Co.

Established 1846
2 West 45th Street, New York

1123-29 W. 37th Street 36 Portland Street
Chicago, 111. Boston, Mass.

A LITTLE JEWEL of a grand piano that takes up
2~\ no more space and costs but little more than an
upright piano. For all its daintiness, it is rich in tone,
with a clear, sweet treble and sonorous bass. It adds
distinction to any home and meets the requirements
of the most exacting musician. Displayed and sold
by leading merchants everywhere.

Priced at $6j $ . F. 0. B. New York

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645 West 49th St., New York City
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Address

Italian Luncheon Set

This Italian Luncheon Set is beautifully embroidered and
hemstitched by hand on ecru color hand woven linen.
The set contains one long table runner, size 18" x 54"
and six place mats, size 12" x 18". Price of set $24.
Napkins to match, 15" x 15", at $20 per dozen.

Send for catalog No. 62.
Linens Furniture Curtains

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No. 7/67

Distinctive Crucet Daven-
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Prices ranging from

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Fine Crucet Lamps in many different
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to the most beautiful room, may be had
from the leading dealer in your city.

Write for booklet "LOVELY LAMPS"

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amps

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Exquisite Crucet Bridge
Lam/? 58" high with ad-
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Gold and Black Italian
Marble effect. Complete
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Prices from

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The Art of Selecting Furniture

GOOD taste in the furnishing of the home
can be most effectively shown in the
choosing of proper and harmonious pieces
of furniture. Authorities on interior decorat-
ing find among the models of Elgin A. Si-
monds Furniture examples that splendidly
fit every requirement.

You may always feel free to write to our
Department of Interior Design which is main-
tained to give you advice and assistance.

The Simonds trade-mark will be found
on. furniture in the best establishments.

Write for Booklet "H" -

which gn'es many practical
ideas on Home Furnishing.

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House & Garden

THE WARMTH OF THE
LIVING-ROOM

"DIDDLE Fitments in the Estofado
•*-*- decoration accentuate the note of
warmth and invitingness so desired in the
living-room. Three appropriate styles are
illustrated — a ceiling piece, wall bracket
and bridge lamp — and these are but typi-
cal of various fitments admirably suited to
the living-room. As with all Riddle Fit-
ments, an entire lighting installation can
be developed in harmony, floor lamps as
well as wall and ceiling pieces, table lamps,
torcheres, luminors and other fitments all
being wrought alike of metal, designed and
decorated in the same general manner.

The Riddle Fitment Book

contains illustrations in actual colors of the pieces shown,
as well as of many other Riddle styles for all residential
lighting purposes. It is especially interesting to those
intending to build, remodel or redecorate. Copy, with
name of nearest dealer, sent on request. Please address
Department 212.

THE EDWARD N. RIDDLE COMPANY

TOLEDO, OHIO

Makers of lighting fitments since 1892

DECORATIVE LIGHTING
FITMENTS

Paints and Varnishes as Miracle Workers

(Continued from page 94)

plied, this will give a full, rich lustre.
If after twenty-four hours the lustre is
not there the indications are that too
thin a coat of varnish has been applied.
In 'this case a third coat will be neces-
sary.

When a dull finish is required, it may
be gained in the following manner. Let
the varnish dry from 48 to 72 hours,
then rub the surface with pumice stone,
water and rubbing felt. Dampen the
felt with water, dip it in the pumice
stone and rub the surface with the grain.
Possibly an easier method of getting this
flat surface is to rub the varnish 72
hours after it has been applied with
No. 1 steel wool. Rub very lightly, as
steel wool will cut through the varnish
under too much pressure. Then go over
the floor with a cloth moistened with
a mixture of half raw linseed oil and
turpentine.

Outside of the actual manufacture and
application of paint, its usefulness, its
beauty and its significance, there are so
many paint developments along an im-
mense variety of practical paths that it
is difficult to characterize them in any
one paragraph. There are paints espe-
cially for automobiles and carriages, an
unusual kind is made for the deck and
porch, impervious to sun, wind, weather
and salt water, paints especially for
floors, others for interior woodwork;
there are paints with a velvet finish, with
a coarse, almost concrete finish, with a

highly polished surface. And then, of
course, there are paints for furniture
Paints which the experienced craftsmen
only can handle, and others prepared
for the amateur. There are paints for
metal, differing from that used on con-
crete, wood or stone. There are tinted
gloss paints and a variety of white;
and blacks, too numerous to mention

In planning your house, you should
think out this question of paint as care-
fully and as philosophically as you dc
heating, plumbing and lighting. If you
decide at the start what colors you are
going to use inside and out, what finish
you prefer, you will find the decora-
tion of your house delightfully harmon-
ious. Unquestionably certain types ol
furniture demand their appropriate
woods, paints or stains. It is a question
to be studied very carefully and also to
think of in relation to your furniture
and rugs. You will, of course, decide
on the kind of wood you are going tc
use in the interior of your house before
selecting a paint, because all paints dc
not suit the texture of all woods, noi
do all colors in decoration suit all periods
of furniture.

So we see that there is very much tc
be thought of before we decide upor
the paint for our house, before we rut
the Arabian Nights lamp that will sum-
mon the genii to work miracles ol
genuine beauty on the inside and outsidi
of our home.

A REVIEW OF PAINTS AND
VARNISH CATALOGS

"Paints and Varnishes," published by
Wadsworth, Rowland & Co., Inc., Bos-
ton, Mass. This illustrated book of 140
pages covers the ground of practically
every variety of paint and varnish as
well as the implements used to get the
very best results from the paints and
varnishes. Every kind of brush is
shown, fresco stencils, graining rolls,
paint burners, tool kits, folding tables,
paint knives on through every need of
the professional and amateur painter.

"Prepared Paint," "Flat Wall Paint,"
published by E. I. du Pont de Nemours
& Co., Wilmington, Del., are two ex-
tremely satisfactory little pamphlets,
both giving illustrations in color, as well
as important advice about the preparing
and use of colors for all kinds of wood-
work, new and old. Instructions are
given on how to prepare wood in the
first place, and how to apply the paint
to get the best results. There is also a
special paragraph about the treatment of
old surfaces.

"The Farmer's Paint Guide," "A
House To Be Proud Of," "The Secret of
Rich Rooms," "Making the House a
Home," are a part of a series of most
practical little books on painting and
varnishing published by Devoe & Rey-
nolds Co., Inc., New York. These books
are all richly illustrated with color
schemes for the exterior as well as in-
terior of country and city homes, the
products presented are time-tested and
proven, backed by one of the oldest
paint concerns in the United States,
founded in 1754.

"Ce-Co Paint," published by the
Cheesman, Elliot Co., Inc., Brooklyn,
N. Y. This is a fascinating little pamph-
let because of the way color charts have
been worked out showing a delightful
variety of yellows, greens, grays and red
browns. These paints may be had ready
mixed or to mix by hand; are prepared
to beautify as well as protect, and are
adapted to both wooden and metallic
surfaces. In order to produce the best
results and the longest service, these
paints are especially prepared for var-
ious climates. There is a formula for

seashore paint and for inland paint

"For Interior Decoration," "Decora-
tive Refinement," "Restoring Losi
Beauty to the Home" are a part of £
series of pamphlets published by th<
Standard Varnish Works of New York
These pamphlets are particularly valua-
able to the housewife who is freshening
up her home. They are suited to al
kinds of woodwork as well as metal
cement and plaster. There is a delight-
ful variety of color shown in some o:
the products sent out by this company
especially their flat wall paint.

"Brown's Flat Wall Finish," "Sa-Ti
Na," "Pure Linseed Oil House Paints'
are only a small number of the verj
practical catalogues published by Chas
H. Brown Paint Co., Brooklyn, N. Y
Their color samples are of the very best
Of the brilliant finished paints thirty'
two varieties are shown and of the Sa-
Ti-Na flat effect, twenty-four. Noni
but the purest ingredients are used ii
preparing these paints, which are grounc
in pure linseed oil, assuring the maxi
mum amount of durability.

"Nature's Harmony," "Degrah" an
two practical little pamphlets publishe<
by the Keystone Varnish Company, New
York. The preparation presented in th(
former little booklet shows an oil painl
without gloss for use on plaster walls
metal ceilings, woodwork, over wall
paper, canvas, galvanized iron and ai
under coat for enamels. This paint ii
easy to apply and has no glossy spots
It also has the great advantage of being
washable. "Degrah" is a quick dryinf
varnish made in six really beautifu
colors.

"Prepared Paint" is a leaflet sent oul
by Breinig Brothers, Hoboken, N. J.
which shows a variety of most interest-
ing color samples in paints and varnisl
stains. Their varnish stains are espe-
cially prepared to develop and preservi
the hidden beauty in wood. The ricl
tones of the shades with their perfecl
cleanness causes them to harmonize wit!
the variety of walls and furnishings
Their paints are scientifically made sc
(Continued on page 100)

October, 1922

French Fine Furniture
A Permanent Investment

EVERY family may realize actual
saving and enjoy really artistic fur-
niture by selecting only hand made
pieces which will retain their charm and
sturdiness for more than a generation.
Such furniture is made by French and
at prices no higher than the common-
place. If your dealer does not handle
French Furniture, write us and \ve will
see that you are served satisfactorily.

Kranded underneath every piece, this mark
is a guaranty of quality

WM. A. FRENCH & Co.

Interior Decorators Makers of Fine Furniture
90 Eighth St. S. MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.

Typical of the furniture used in the old country manor houses of the early Jac-
obean period, hut adapted to modern requirements, u our Sherwood Suite. These
pieces are painted a deep putty ivory color, while the ornaments, so typical of the
old Jacobean crewel work and embroideries, are picked out in antique colors. The
whole is covered with a beautiful overglaze.

An important painted Cabinet on Carved and Gilt Stand.

5wcA a piece of furniture mill give dignity and atmos-

phere to almost any room.

P. JACKSON HIGGS

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11 East 54th Street

New York City

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Centering responsibility-
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The decoration or re-decoration of a home
can be either a delight or a source of
worry* and uncertainty.

By shifting both planning and perform-
ance to Rorimer-Brooks, designers and
craftsmen (subject, of course, to your
supervision and approval,) you secure a
unit-responsibility for e^ery detail of
vJall-treatment, floor cohering, furniture,
ornament and hanging. A minimum
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guarantees a charming, ^holbj) harmonious
home.

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OBJETS J'ART

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CLEVELAND. O.

A Review of Paints and Varnish Catalogs

(Continued from page 98)

that they produce a durable film.

"Color Harmony," a study in house
painting, exterior and interior, is pub-
lished by the National Lead Company,
New York. Thirty-two samples of in-
teresting colors are given, fifty per cent,
with gloss finish for exteriors and fifty
per cent, with flat finish for interiors.
An excellent little article is printed with
the samples, giving some important in-
formation about the use of paints, color
schemes and dwelling upon the fact that
in choosing color for a house, its style,
size, location and surroundings should
be carefully considered.

"Home Color Harmonies," "Floor
Varnishing," "H-S Your Protection,"
"The Happy Ending," "The House In-
side and Outside" is a series of rather
elaborately prepared pamphlets pub-
lished by the Lowe Brothers, Dayton,
Ohio. No matter what is to be painted,
from a house to an automobile, these
pamphlets will tell you how and when
to do it. There are several excellent
little essays on Spring or Fall Painting,
Painting a New House Inside and Out,
Shingle Paint or Stain— Which? Wall
Problems, Care of Brushes, Color
Schemes, The Kitchen, and so on, indefi-
nitely helpful.

"Handy Home Paint," "Jap-A-Lac,"
"Endurance White" figure in a series of
significant little catalogues published by
the Glidden Company, Cleveland, Ohio.
This concern has had nearly fifty years'
experience in the manufacture of var-
nish, enamels, stains and paint specialties
for all purposes. Their slogan is that
the best economy is to use the best
paint. Their leaflets show interesting
color samples, and there is one published
for almost every painting purpose.

"Home Helps," "Tinted Gloss Paint"
are two interesting booklets published
by John Lucas & Co., New York. The
former shows a variety of interesting
color samples of prepared paint, suitable
for furniture, woodwork and outdoor
garden furniture. Anyone can apply the
paint if directions are carefully followed.
The "Tinted Gloss Paint" may be used
to improve almost every furnishing one
can think of, from front doors to the
deck of a yacht. This is also well illus-
trated in color.

"Muralite Fresco Colors," "Muralite
Tints," published by M. Ewing'Fox Co.,
New York, are very practical little
pamphlets with good color samples ex-
plaining how to redecorate walls in at-
tractive and inexpensive fashions. These
preparations will adhere to plaster, wall
board, wood, paper, burlap, canvas, oil
paint, varnish, brick and cement. They
do not rub or chip off. They combine
into interesting color schemes, a booklet
of which will be sent on application.

"Water Colors for Walls," "The Sani-
tary Wall Covering" are both published
by the Alabastine Company, Grand
Rapids, Mich. The housewife possess-
ing skill and taste in color combinations
can plan from these pamphlets very in-
teresting house decoration. Free sugges-
tions for any work to be done in homes,
schools, churches or other buildings are
sent on application to the Art Depart-
ment of this concern.

"Profitable Painting for Building
Owners," published by Patton Com-
pany, Milwaukee, Wis., is a pamphlet
presenting a wide range of practical
paints for the outside of buildings, for
floors, for wagons, for automobiles, for
walls and woodwork. Color samples
are shown, information given for the
application of these paints and a talk
about the points of paint which come
out with good grace from a firm over
fifty years old.

"Pitcairn Sole-Proof Colored Enam-
els," "Water Spar Varnish," prepared by
the Pitcairn Varnish Co.. Milwaukee,

tical information about varnishes. Ge
eral specifications are sent out, which,
followed, will make it impossible for t
amateur to fail in getting a good surfa
from these productions. They are gu£
anteed against rain and dampness, th
have even been boiled in water withe
injury, and are particularly practical
for kitchens, bathrooms, porches; in f;
for all hard usage.

"How to Use Valspar on Floors," pu
lished by Valentine & Co., New Yoi
This is one of a series of educatioi
booklets, each one giving detailed din
tions for the use of Valspar for sol
scientific purpose and the purposes £
numberless. According to this pamph
Valspar will not turn white in hot
cold water, will not scratch white,
dries dust-free in two hours and ha
over night, being extremely elastic a
will not chip or crack.

"Master Varnish," published by I
O'Brien Varnish Co., South Bend, Ii
Master Varnish is made from specia
selected gums and oils, according to t
pamphlet, which make it tough, elas
and durable. It has a satin-like fin
and dries quickly. Children would 1:
floors finished with this varnish becau
we are told, they could romp and pi
on them without ever leaving a ma
to tell the tale.

"Hydronon," published by the Barr
Company, Ltd., Toronto, Canada, is
brief pamphlet in honor of a paint tl
is permanent, has a good covering cap!
ity, will damp-proof a wall effective
is safe and convenient. In a test
Hydronon at Pratt Institute it w
found to have a very high specific gra
ity, which makes for density and toug
ness, also it resists dampness better th
many paints.

"Household Helps," "House Pain
"Flat Wall Paint," "Varnishes," pu
lished by the Certain-Teed Produ'
Corporation, St. Louis, Mo., are a fi
of the many practical pamphlets issu
by this concern. The use of Certai
Teed house paints is considered a ki
of insurance on a building. These pau
and varnishes are made in a variety
kinds for all home purposes. They <
put up in packages of convenient si
are ready to use and easy to apply 1
cause of the high-grade ingredients us
in preparing them and because of (
care and knowledge exercised in th
manufacture they take a high rank
the paint and varnish world.

"My Home, Why Not Yours," "F
tex," "Krystolac," "Impermalin," pu
lished by the Pratt & Lambert, Ir
Buffalo, New York. These are just
few of a series of important bookl
covering the whole field of paint, v;
nish, stain, enamel and the most pr;
tical treatment of floors. This firm w
not only send out color samples but <
tually furnish small wood panels sho
ing the effects desired. It will also gi
decorative schemes on request. T
first of the pamphlets spoken of here
really a beautifully illustrated essay
homemaking, taking in turn every roc
in the house with suggestions for
most interesting treatment, and phot
graphs as well as color sketches to ill
strate the idea.

"Natural Woods — How to Fini
Them," presented by Berry Brothe
Detroit, Mich. This pamphlet is near
100 pages in length. It takes in tu
every wood used for interior decoratii
and tells an infinite variety of wa
that they may be handled to produ
most interesting colors and texturi
The right woods are suggested for t
various rooms in the house as well
for woodwork and trim. There is i
essay on wood finish and how to tre
old wood so that it will take new fini
successfully. In fact there is practical
(Continued on bapp 102)

October , 1 922

101

Make School Interesting to
Your Children

Prominent authorities on the education of children are beginning
to realize that something more than books is needed to hold the
child's interest and, in order to vitalize studies, are turning to
motion pictures.

To children who learn by means of motion pictures the Sahara
Desert ceases to be just a blank space on a map, and becomes
a thing of romance, of camel caravans, oases, sand storms and
infinite distance; little dots that stand for New York, London,
Paris burst into life as buzzing hives of industry. The straight,
black line by which the map designates a railroad, leaps forth
a beneficent monster of steel ribbons, throbbing engines and
gliding coaches, carrying millions of people and billions of tons
of freight.

But until the day comes when each class-room has its own
motion picture projector — probably far in the future — you can
do much to increase your child's interest in school by coordinat-
ing your home influence with the instruction of the teachers.

Flickerless'SAFETY STANDARD" Motion'Picture fVqjectoi-

makes it possible for you to furnish the needed interest in
History, Geography, Botany, Biology, Physics, Physiology, Art,
Literature, Industrialism, Travel and many other subjects your
children are now studying from cold dry text books. In the
Pathescope film library are thousands of reels from which, for
a small fee, you can rent selections, returning them when used,
in exchange for others, just as with books from a public library.

Suggested Historical Films

Discovery of America
Ancient Temples of Egypt
Historic New York City
Napoleon (From the Con-
sulate to St. Helena)
Siege of Calais
Washington, the Father of
His Country

Suggested Geographical Films

Mississippi River

The Rhine from Cologne

to Bingen
An Excursion Around

Naples

Grand Canyon of Colorado
The Ruins of Ancient Rome
Cliff Dwellers of Arizona

YOU can also use your New Premier Pathescope for
films of the great "movie" stars — Norma and Con-
stance Talmadge, Elaine Hammerstein, Clara Kimball
Young, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Ray, Charl'e Chap-
lin— and spend many enjoyable hours entertaining the
whole family with Dramas, Comedies, Animated Car-
toons and Pictured Stories.

Come to any Pathescope Salon and let us explain and demon-
strate this great educational feature. See our new 240-Page
Descriptive Classified Catalog of Educational Films — entirely
separate from general catalog of entertainment films.

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Everything, from the wire frame to the specially dyed thread,

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No.76

Lighting Fixtures

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A Review of Paints and Varnish Catalogs

(Continued from page 100)

no phase of woodwork and its finish
that is not intelligently handled in this
book.

"The Inviting Home," published by
the Boston Varnish Co., Boston, Mass.
The purpose in presenting this booklet,
which is well illustrated in color, is to
demonstrate the simple manner in which
a woman who is her own homemaker
may transform a sombre, gloomy house
into a cheerful, gay home. Suggestions
are offered for the accomplishment of
this based upon the wide experience of
this concern. The object being not
merely to beautify the home, but to
bring light, health and happiness to it.
The Boston Varnish Company also has

a Home Service Department which
gladly helps take up problems pertaining
to paint and enamel.

"Exinolite Waterproof Varnish," pub-
lished by the Thibaut & Walker Co.
Long Island City. This pamphlet tells
the story of a long oil varnish which is
mar-proof and waterproof. The pam-
phlet promises that this varnish will nol
blister, crack or turn white in salt 01
fresh water and, that it will not b<
affected by changes of temperature. Il
is considered a good finish for hardwood
or painted floors. It is equally useful
for exterior or interior purposes. It is
also considered practicable for the finisli
of radiators.

The Outdoor Room of a Town House

(Continued from page 69)

No. 7)7

No.716

are also excellent shrubs for this purpose.

Some of the small, flowering ever-
green shrubs may be used to advantage
in the city backyard garden as a part
of the perennial borders — such things as
the dwarf rhododendron (boule de neige
is a beautiful one with white flowers),
azalea amoena, azalea japonica and lily-
of-the-valley-bush (Andromeda flori-
bunda). The conifers should be used
sparingly, and of these only the posi-
tively dwarf varieties, for nothing can
be more ungainly than overgrown ever-
greens and nothing more pathetic than
ones that must be sheared and clipped
violently and often to keep them in their
place.

In the accompanying photographs a
city backyard garden of a slightly dif-
ferent type is shown ; one that is reached
from a living floor only slightly above
the ground level and that reaches to
the extreme rear of the property with-

out the necessity for a laundry yard anc
the intervening screen. The terrace ha;
been treated as a pergola and step:
down onto the central plot of the gar-
den paved with rectangular flags ant
edged with dwarf box.

The borders in this case have beer
planted more formally than in the pre-
vious example ; fewer herbaceous plant:
have been used and more evergreens
making it an especially desirable type o
garden for the household that leaves th<
city in the spring and returns late it
the autumn.

In both instances the gardens havi
been made intensely usable by makin;
them accessible and by making then
places in which one may actually si
and read and entertain in hours of easi
and fair weather ; enlarging the hous<
by bringing into play a space that reallj
functions as an outdoor room in everj
sense of the word.

A Restored Quaker Farmhouse

(Continued from page 57)

employed for different purposes at dif-
ferent times as the house experienced one
or another addition. Part of what is
now the living room, that is the ground
floor room of the low western wing,
seems to have been the earliest kitchen,
a use to which the primitive stone sink
in one corner, still carefully preserved,
bears witness.

Fifty years later, when the first addi-
tion was made on the north, the kitchen
was apparently transferred thither, for
there is another stone sink, as the illus-
tration shows, beneath a window in
what is now the gun room. When the
last addition or "high part" was built
an hundred years or more ago, what is
now the dining room was evidently the
"best room" of the house, reserved for
weddings, funerals, and other state occa-
sions.

In the process of rehabilitation it
was, of course, out of the question to
hold to anything like the previous sys-
tem of using the rooms. Furthermore,
there was insufficient space without
making additions and it was necessary
to build on an eastern wing for the
kitchens, laundry, and servants' quar-
ters. This addition, however, was
carried out wholly in the spirit of the
original building, and in the ancient
structure every usable feature, even to
the smallest bit of hardware, was re-
tained with meticulous care.

The two magnificent box bushes,
flanking the south door, may be said to

have given the keynote and inspiratioi
for all garden undertakings. In a lin
with them, old and well grown bo:
bushes have been set to border the gras
walk leading down to the hardy garderi
This garden, laid out on the warn
southern slope that stretches down t<
the meadow, is enclosed with a white
washed picket fence, quite according t<
Pennsylvania farmhouse useage in cen
turies past.

The rough stone wall retaining th
terrace on which the south front of th
house opens is shrouded with old-fash
ioned climbing roses. The dry ston
wall, bordering the driveway to th
north of the house and forming a facin
to the bottom of the slope that extend
on upward to the woods above, is th
only place where anything approachin
modern gardening has been attemptec
This wall, in its season, is a solid mas
of gorgeous blooming rock plants. Al
else is kept punctiliously in accord witl
the simple garden practice of bygon
days and any plant or flower not cher
ished in old Quaker gardens is purposel;
excluded.

The result ^achieved in this rejuvena
tion of a forlorn, neglected old farm
stead may best be judged from th
illustrations. How well worth whil
was such an effort, prompted by lovin:
reverence, can be fully understood onl:
by those who have engaged in a lik>
undertaking and tasted the pleasure o
living amidst the fruits of their labors

October, 1922

103

Today it's
— Candles

IN the dining-room, living-room, hall,
library, boudoir — use candles, says Fash-
ion. On table, stand, buffet, mantel, cabinet,
dresser — put candles! For all seasons and
every occasion — candles!

How pleasingly diversified are the oppor-
tunities for decorative effects afforded by
candles; how charming the lighting scheme
which includes candle-light!

Good candles, — that is the important
thing. Choose Atlantic Candles. They are
quality-made, authoritative in shapes, deep-
set in colorings. Hand-dipped or moulded,
Atlantic Candles burn down evenly in
"cup" form, with a delightfully steady
flame and without drip, smoke or odor.

Atlantic Candles, or their boxes, are
labeled for easy identification. At your
dealer's.

"CANDLE GLOW," prepared by us, is an inter-
estingly written and charmingly illustrated book-
let on candle lighting and decoration. A copy
is for you. Tell us where to send it.

THE ATLANTIC REFINING COMPANY
PHILADELPHIA

ATLANTIC

CANDLES

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'Discrimination

rHE successful hostess is most dis-
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and even the slightest mistake in
placing them may mar a carefully plan-
ned dinner. So also great consideration
is given to her table appointments and by
her selection of Fleur-de-lis Hand-woven
IRISH LINEN damask table cloths and nap-
kins,she adds another tangible reason for
her success, which her excellent taste
probably makes superfluous.

Shown at the better stores in the United States
and Canada. A catalogue will be sent on request.

There are also Fleur-de-lis linen
towels, linen sheets and pillow
cases of such general excellence
as to justify them for finer use
or for bard wear.

IRELAND BROS.

INCORPORATED

102 Franklin St. New York

Identified by the Fleur-de-lis and the
words, 'IRISH HAND-WOVEN
LINEN DAMASK,' woven on the
end of table cloths and napkins.

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House & Garden

THe Insignia of the
World's largest
maker of All'Clay
Plumbing Fixtures

QUIET

SIWEICLO

Price as shown

$108.35

Or with Mahogany
Seat

$99.60

TEPBCO" Water Closets

for Every Place and Purse

YOU will never be proud of a bathroom that
contains an inferior water closet. It will too
quickly become foul and subject to repairs
through faulty operation. If you are building a
home or remodeling, give this subject your first
attention.

The Quiet Si-wel-clo is the leader of a group of
Water Closets which The Trenton Potteries Com-
pany has developed to meet all types of building
construction from the big hotel to the modest
bungalow.

We, of course, consider the Quiet Si-wel-clo the
most desirable. It suppresses a noise you do not
want heard and do not want to hear. For those
who cannot afford it, we make other good closets.
Into our "Welling," "Merit" and "Saxon" we have
merged as many of the excellencies of the Quiet
Closet as was possible. Each in its class and at its
price is the best the market affords. Each is equipped
with a tank of glistening white china, with surface
unaffected by stain, acid or soil, and trouble-proof
working parts.

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THE TRENTON POTTERIES COMPANY

TRENTON, NEW JERSEY, U.S. A.

NEW YORK

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A Floor of
Captive Sunlight

What can you find more appropriate for a sun parlor
than a flooring which holds in itself the airy, golden
spirit of sunlight? Maple, varnished, gives you such
color. For cheerful lightness, it is ideal whether used in a
home, hotel, apartment, or luxuriously appointed club
house. And yet, this is only one of Maple's virtues.

It is the wood which outwears stone. Tough of fibre, tight
of grain, it leads the list in resisting the rigorous service
in hallways and servants' quarters, kitchens, schools,
offices, churches, industrial and public buildings.

For Color — BEECH AND BIRCH

Add the ruddy tinge of sunset to Maple's sunlit color,
and you have the richer tone of Beech and Birch. Be-
sides their natural beauty, these floorings will also take
and retain a variety of stains, and meet any need of
color harmony or service.

Maple, Beech and Birch floorings — all three — are manu-
factured from the slow-growth, climate-hardened timber
of Michigan and Wisconsin, and guaranteed in grade
and quality by the trademark MFMA.

"Color Harmony in Floors"

— is the title of a book, just off the press, which will
open delightful new decorative possibilities to you. Ask
your lumber dealer for a copy, or let us send you one
with our compliments.

MAPLE FLOORING MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION

1047 Stock Exchange Building, Chicago

The letters M FM A on Maple.
Beech or Bircti flooring sig-
nify that the flooring Is
standardized a n d guaran-
teed by the Maple Flooring
Manufacturers Association,
whose members must attain
and maintain the highest
standards of manufacture,
and adhere to manufactur-

ing and grading rules which
economically conserveevery
particle of these remarkable
woods. This trademark Is for
your protection. Look for it
on the flooring you use.

MFMA

ELoor with Maple

Beech or Birch L

October, 1922

10S

No Matter What Roofing You
Use, You Need TARGET AND
ARROW to Keep It Weathertight

Slate, tile, asbestos, asphalt
or wood shingles — no matter
what your building is roofed
with, it depends on the ma-
terial that is used for gutters,
valleys and flashings for real
lasting weathertightness, and
the material best suited for
these purposes is

TARGET AND ARROW

/?ook for this Trade ™~* ®,Mark on every Sheet

ROOFING TIN

Target and Arrow is differ-
ent and better than any other
roofing tin on the market to-
day. In fact, it has always
had an enviable reputation
with Architects and Builders
—the men whose professional
and business reputation de-
pends on specifying and using
materials that give lasting and
satisfying service to home
owners and occupants at a rea-
sonable cost.

No matter what roofing you
intend to use, you would do
well to write us asking for
"THE ACHILLES HEELS
OF A BUILDING" -a
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other vital spots occur in the
roof of a building, and ex-
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Running Water Means
Health and Happiness

Health in the home demands sanitary
conditions and modern comforts. And
one important feature is running
water, under pressure. When you
have running water you have a modern
sink. Water, hot or cold, or hard or
soft, is always available.

No More Pumping

You simply turn the faucet. You have a
modern bathroom in the house. You have
running water in the basement, in the garage
or barn. You have water under pressure
for sprinkling lawn, flowers, garden truck,
and for fire protection. These things are
necessary to healthful and happy surround-
ings.

Whether your house is a summer place
on the lake, a suburban home or on :\ farm,
you can have these health promoting con-
veniences by installing this home pumping
station on your premises.

It's Automatic
FAIRBANKS -MORSE
HOME WATER PLANT

Operates from any electric light
socket or home lighting plant circuit.
Pumps water from cistern, shallow
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Noiseless and automatic. No switch
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Has galvanized steel tank. This is
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Capacity
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The Canadian Fairbanks-Morse Co., Ltd., Montreal

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106

House & Garden

The

Richmond

Pattern

STERLING SILVER

As Graceful

as a Minuet

THE courtly grace of old Virginia
is reflected in the Richmond Pat-
tern— that rare charm which comes
from the happy union of dignity
and daintiness.

Here is a design one will never
tire of — a gift worthy of the solid
silver of which it is made.

There is an assortment of silver-
ware in the Richmond Pattern on
sale at leading jewelers throughout
the country.

Will you not send for our little
booklet that pictures other articles
in this exquisite design?

Also makers oj Al-vm Long-Lije Plate
ALVIN SILVER COMPANY

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One of the delightful qualities of
the curved approach is that it
opens fresh vistas at every turn

The approach on this country
place illustrates a good informal
treatment oj a wooded drive

The Approach to the House

(Continued from page 49)

Cold Meat Fork

SO LID SILVER

(STERLING)

height in a very few years. Pretty and
elegant in their youth, poplars become,
in course of time, magnificent trees.
What is finer than those long, straight
roads in France or Belgium running
through unhedged fields and planted on
either side with a double line of enor-
mous centenarian poplars, tall as a
church spire, and at the same time mas-
sive enough to have a fine air of sta-
bility?

Of the big trees elms are, perhaps, the
most satisfactory for avenues. The fact
that they can be transplanted large
makes it possible to obtain a decent ef-
fect with elms in a comparatively short
time. When full-grown they are the
most stately of trees, being admirably
fitted for formal planting on a grand
scale.

For those who feel a real concern for
the welfare of posterity elms have this
d;sadvantage: that they begin to grow
very shaky on their roots at the age of
two hundred or thereabouts. The oak,
of course, is much more abiding. But
an oak avenue is in many ways not so
fine as an avenue of elms. The trees
tend to be much less uniform in shape
and run to width rather than height.

In certain soils beeches may be rec-
ommended. With their pillar - like
trunks and tufts of enduring foliage,
they are among the most beautiful of
trees. Lindens can be used in short
walks, pleached or pollarded. Very
beautiful effects may, however, be ob-
tained by planting them on either side
of a narrow walk and allowing them to
grow uninterrupted, when they will run
up to an enormous height in their race
for the sunlight.

An excellent thing, which ought to be
seen more frequently, is an avenue of
fruit trees. Apples and cherries are not
grand or dignified trees, and would not
be suitable if planted as an approach to
a great and stately house. But for an
ordinary, middle-sized, snug country
house nothing can be prettier than a
drive lined by fruit trees. They grow
moderately quickly, their blossom is a
delight in the spring, and their fruit in
the autumn. In certain towns of Ger-
many whole streets are planted with
cherry trees, and the effect is delightful.

The horse chestnut is another favorite
avenue tree. Its shape is elegant though
not grand; its foliage is particularly
handsome, and, like the fruit trees, it is
rich in exquisite blossom. The Spanish
chestnut is less frequently planted,

though it is a fine tree, which bears
edible fruits and has a reasonably quick
rate of growth.

The nature of the sweep in front of
the house, into which the drive leads,
must depend, of course, on many things,
including the shape and position of the
house and the character of the approach.
The round sweep with its central plot
of grass has its points; but there can be
little doubt that it is more satisfactory,
where possible, to bring the house into
architectural relation with its approach
by means of a forecourt. In front of
an L-shaped house a forecourt will be
almost a necessity, for two sides of a
rectangle will be provided by the house
itself. In the case of a plain rectagonal
house, the house itself will form only one
side of the forecourt; the other three
will have to be surrounded by walls or
hedges. Whether these shall be low or
high and whether the forecourt is itself
approached by a formal gateway are-
matters which depend entirely on the
character of the house and the lay-out
of the surrounding grounds. The theme
of the forecourt is one that can be al-
most endlessly varied.

The two principal types of construc-
tion for drives — serviceable under pres-
ent-day automobile traffic — are concrete
and macadam. The former is the more
durable and the latter, when it is well
maintained, is the more attractive. Con-
crete should be covered with a layer of
stone chips bonded to the surface of the
concrete by a coating of a tar prepara-
tion. This layer of stone gives color
and a softness of texture to an otherwise
glaring surface, but it must be re-cov-
ered at certain periods, depending upon
the wear. Otherwise the drive will take
on an unpleasant shiny black appearance.
Macadam, on the other hand, will never
lose the natural beauty inherent in the
stone of which it is built, but it will
need fairly constant attention to keep it
in good condition.

To keep down the dust on macadam
drives, as well as on concrete drives that
are covered liberally with stone chips,
there are several excellent preparations,
one of calcium chloride, which should
be sprinkled over the surface during dry
weather. Such a treatment, in addition
to making driving pleasant, is a splendid
road-preservative in that it prevents the
loosening of the fine particles of stone
which would gradually result in the
complete disintegration of the drive
surface.

October, 1922

107

DIRECTORY0/DECORATION 8 FINE ARTS

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The Tale of the Tassel

(Continued from page 62)

less Chinese works of art.
Tassels resembling those of
ancient Egypt were made
by the Peruvians; of these
some specimens are pre-
served in New York in the
Natural History Museum.
Judging by ancient paint-
ings, sculptures, and mss.,
it would seem that the tas-
sel was associated from
early times with a certain
rank and splendor, and by
the time the 15th Century
was reached, this tendency
was pronounced. In these
mediaeval times before the
Renaissance, golden tassels
of straight and slender
shape were hung from
adornments on royal tents,
and on the canopies over
thrones and beds. The
loose cushion of velvet had
in its most imposing form a heavy tas-

A very beautiful
Venetian tassel suit-
able for heavy bro-
cade hangings. From
Edward Maag

ecessors. Sheraton and
Hepplewhite both designed
many arrangements on the
cord and tassel scheme.

In Queen Victoria's reign
the fashion for tassels flared
up again amid the reps and
plaids, the rosewood, cross-
stitch and ottoman of that
era. It says a good deal
for the adaptability of the
ornament that it managed
not to look incongruous in
such surroundings. These
tassels were modeled upon
those of the Baroque 17th
Century, that is to say,
they were built-up and or-
nate affairs; but while they
reproduced the exaggera-
tion, they lost a certain
stiff dignity and solid rich-
ness which the old patterns
always possessed.
The Chinese tassel is a thing apart.

sel at each corner, and fluffy ones were Intricate and elaborate beyond anything
used in the same manner on the embroi- of Western origin, it never fails in its
dered linen cushion covers of the period, perfection of balance and proportion,
During the 17th Century the reaction and the invention that distinguishes it.
of taste that had recently set in was It is often flat and thin, but always of
echoed in the redundant trimmings and amazing delicacy and fine workmanship,
tassels of the period. The classic per- In many examples the knot has been
pendicular line, with its precision of bal- elaborated into a beautiful and involved
ance and poise, had lasted from the end decoration without ever letting the es-
of the 15th Century, and people had at sential knot-character escape,
last wearied of the style, and new ideas The modern tassel, except when it is
were abroad in the land. Tassels at this a distinct reproduction, is of no style in
time epitomized the passion for sweep- particular, but an assimilation of all,
ing curves and decorations in high relief, and its application is wider and more
for the sculptured effects and richness varied than ever. All manner of cush-
that dominated all the art of this period, ions are once more tasselled, sometimes
which is known as Baroque. at one corner with a single large tassel,
With the dawn of the 18th Century a sometimes at all four. Tassels termi-
new era began. The draperies, the nate the bolsters which fashion has re-
canopy, the curves and splendors with stored to our sofas, and are found in the
their attendant cords and tassels and centre of round cushions. The floor
fringes did not indeed vanish. All these cushion is tasseled like the rest, though
were still features of the period, but with there the appropriateness is question-
a difference. Heavy formalism with able. Gold and silver silks of every
sculptured effects in high relief was pass- color, wool, thread, and beads go to the
ing out of favor; people were talking making.

about a return to nature, and the "Chi- For lampshades the tassel is charming
nese taste" had begun to exer- and appropriate. In many of
cise its influence on the West- the best shades the Chinese fljin
ern World. Chippendale lantern has been developed on ' VXX
introduced fat tassels of silk, western lines with excellent rr
and used gilt on tassels on results. Squares, ovals, octa-
mirrors. The tassels that Rob- ?ons, spheres and so on, of
ert Adam used in the late 18th tightly stretched silk, are dec-
Century were light and deli- orated with tassels. They are
cate compared with their pred- arranged with endless variety,

(Left to right) Silk bell pull with large flat tassel.
Rosette and tassel for mirror or picture. Uncut ends and
mold covered in silk made like a fish net make a tassel
suitable for heavy hangings. Double tassels for a picture
cord. Two tones of silk make a tassel for bolster or
pillow. Consolidated Trimming Co. Delicate silk bell
pull with four tassels. Edward Maag

October , I 922

109

DIRECTORY OF DECORATION AND FINE ARTS

The Pleasures
of Smoking

find their most artistic expression in
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without a
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Perhaps your rooms are done in a certain period
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House & Garden will be glad to make suggestions
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dealers who specialize in the different schools
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THE WILLS SAINTE CLAIRE

The more experienced and critical you are in
your judgments of motor cars, the more
enthusiastic you will be as an owner and driver
of the Wills Sainte Claire. This car is designed
and built for those men and women who are
accustomed to and insist upon the finest and
the best.

You will find that no other car rides so easily,
drives so easily, clings to the road so tenaciously
as the Wills Sainte Claire. Because no other
motor car has the spring suspension, the per-
fect balance, the even weight-distribution of
the Wills Sainte Claire.

C. H. Wills & Company, Marysville, Michigan

WILLS SAINTE CLAIRE

Gars

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House &• Garden

The Tale of The Tassel

(Continued from page 108)

and these shades have a high decorative
value by day as well as by night. The
plain inverted bowls of alabaster that
are used for electric light fittings are at
their best when suspended by silk cords,
ach of which ends in a tassel. The
fringed and tasseled pelmet over curtains
is to some extent a survival of the Vic-
torian mode, but has in these days a
distinctly modern interpretation. Heavy
tassels may be used at the corners of
silken bedspreads or to weight and em-
broidered bell-pull, while in certain
rooms pictures look well hung by
lengths of silk braid, each of which ends
in a tassel at the frieze or picture rail.

Here, as elsewhere, everything depends
on the room, and tasseling should never
be overdone. It can be so delightful,
this ornament, and has such an imme-
diate effect that it easily becomes a
temptation and must always be used
with restraint.

A tassel should be an adjunct, nothing
more, and should be placed so as to
decorate and accentuate construction, or
to give a semblance of utility. It must,
in short, have point and interest. Dotted
about here, there and everywhere, tas-
sels look merely stupid and vulgar, and
become an irritation rather than a joy
to the eye.

When You Plan Your Garden

(Continued jrom page 54)

play spaces. In this stage the various
locations may be shifted about, fitted
and refitted, adjusted and re-adjusted,
until an arrangement is secured that
gives to each part of the scheme its
most appropriate and convenient loca-
tion, both in regard to the particular
nature of the site and the relation of the
parts to each other.

The third sketch shows in phantom
the house, gardens, lawns, and the en-
closing hedges. At this point in the de-
sign it is possible to get a pretty clear
idea of what the final appearance of the
plot is going to be, at least in mass.
The next step is the decorating of These
various masses, choosing the materials
for their construction, placing the gate-
ways, steps, shelters, and so on.

It is all very much like building and
fixing up a house; like deciding upon
the outside walls — whether they shall be
of stone, brick, frame or stucco; wheth-
er the inside walls and partitions shall
be painted or papered, and in what color
or pattern; where and what pictures
shall be hung, and what kind of furniture
shall be used, and where it shall ba
placed. And just as in the house we
have given up the idea of the gloomy,
unused horse-hair parlor, we should give
up outside the idea of the just as use-
less and just as depressing "pretty",
museum-like grounds.

The house, as the most important part
of the establishment, should be located
first, but with all the other things in
mind at the same time, so as to avoid
awkward situations later on. Here it is
located rather close to the street, so that
the private, and hence more valuable
area in the rear may be as large as pos-
sible. Also, the space between the house
and the highway, being more or less pub-
lic, and, therefore, not especially livable,
need be only great enough to insure pro-
tection from dust and noise and serve
as a place in which to create a setting
for the house as seen from the road.
And further, short approaches are less
expensive — naturally — and are generally
more simple to arrange.

The approaches should be as direct as
possible; and as a straight line is the
most direct communication between two
points, the path to the entrance door-
way, the drive to the garage, and the
connecting path, have been made just so.
This is a rule, it will be seen, that should
be followed in making paths on any part
of the place.

The entrance lawn has been left open,
as all lawns should, to make it rest-
ful and roomy; and the planting, aside
from the existing trees, consists merely
of that which softens the angle where
the house walls rise from the ground,
tieing the two together, and that which

fills the sharp corners of the hedges and
guards the entrances. All this planting
should be made of evergreen and decidu-
ous shrubs, and small trees, which pro-
vide color throughout the year by means
of their flowers, foliage, bark and berries.

Before continuing with the discussion
of the arrangement of the place illus-
trated here the various uses to which the
private area of the plot may be put will
be considered.

There are three general types of spaces
that are a part of the layout of the
grounds of a small place. There is the
playing space, which may be anything
from a tiny area devoted to a child's
sand-box, to a tennis court with its di-
mensions of 60' by 120'. Among the
other playing spaces there are the cro-
quet lawn, which should be approxi-
mately 30' by 60', and the bowling
green, which may be quite narrow but
wh-ich should be at least 100' long. The
thing is to decide upon the particular
game wanted that will fit into the size
of the lot without usurping too much
room. A tennis court is usually out of
the question on the small place because
of its size ; croquet may be played on
almost any bit of open, level lawn, but
a bowling green, besides providing very
interesting sport, can generally be man-
aged. It can be laid lengthwise across
the slope of a hill with very little grad-
ing or made a part of the boundary of
the property. Enclosed within its long,
clipped hedges it becomes one of the
most decorative things in garden archi-
tecture.

The next type of space includes all the
various sorts of gardens: flower, cutting,
fruit and vegetable. These may be of
almost any size or shape and arranged
in almost any manner as long as that
size, shape and arrangement are orderly
and logically composed and propor-
tioned, and as long as those two most
important factors — soil and sunlight — •
are taken care of.

On the small place the only service
area — the third type of space in the lay-
out— is the laundry yard. This may be
quite small and should be located near
the laundry end of the house and in a
position where it can be screened easily.

To proceed with the small place un-
der consideration — the flower garden
was given the central location next to
the house so that it would be very ac-
cessible. In effect it is an outdoor room
to be stepped into from the house ter-
race. Also, in this position it can easily
be seen from within the house. It is a
good rule to remember that the more
conveniently the garden may be reached
from the house the more it will be used
and the more keenly it will be enjoyed.
(Continued on page 126)

October, 1922

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Why Fiske Fences
Outlast All Others

The enduring qualities of Fiske Chain Link
Climb Proof Fences lie in part in the fact that
Fiske Fences of this type are galvanized after,
not before, the wire fabric is woven. Only too
often in weaving the wire fabric of galvanized
wire, the rust proofing is cracked leaving bare
wire exposed.

More than that, Fiske's
sixty-odd years' experi-
ence in the manufacture
of fencing has taught
Fiske the ways and means
of making fences stronger
and more rigid than other
makes.

Weather
Vanes

Fiske weather vanes of
every description, simple
t:r elaborate. Also spe-
cial designs. Made of
copper. Send
r for catalog.

Andiron
Sets

Exquisitely ornamental
pieces for the open fire-
place, special design,
wrought in iron, brass or
bronze.

Fiske fence posts, set deep
in concrete, cannot rust at
the ground.

The mesh and top con-
struction prevent anyone
climbing over the fence.
We contract to do the in-
stallation work, or we
will furnish plans and
blueprints with full erect-
ing instructions.

Send for Catalog 110.

J.WFiske

ORNAMENTAL IRON 'WORK

8O Park Place ~ New York

ESTABLISHED 1858

Residence in Country Clvb District,

KnnaasCity, Mo.
R'dit'ood Siding, painted white.
Built by the J. C. Nichole Investment Co
Edward W. Tanner, Architect.

Residence at Highland

Park, III.
Redwood Special Savm

Shingle*, vaintud whit?.
Robert Siufarth, Architect.

Homes of Redwood —

from Missouri to Massachusetts

Redwood should
be specified for

Exterior Construction

including — Colonial
Biding, clapboards,
shingles, door and
window frames — gut-
ters, eaves, water
tables and mudsills —
porch rail, balusters
and columns — mould-
jnprs and lattice — pick-
ets and fencing — per-
golas and greenhouses.

Interior F niih

Natural, stained or
painted. Wood block

Farm and Dairy Uses

Such as — Silos, tanks
andt oughs— Hogleed-
ers and implement
sheds —Wood block
floors, etc.

THESE attractive, modern American homes of the
Middle West and the East have an inviting, com-
fortable, well-bred look that suggests the kind of people
one enjoys as friends. They have the further advantage
of costing little for painting and repairs. Their ex-
teriors are Redwood — siding, shingles, porch-posts,
mouldings, gutters and trim, window frames and
balusters.

Redwood is permeated during the tree's growth with
a natural, odorless preservative which protects Red-
wood lumber against all forms of rot and decay.
Weather won't rot Redwood. Boring worms and
insects leave it alone. Climbing vines that hold
moisture do not lead to the quick decay of Redwood
siding.

The uniform cell structure and even texture of Red-
wood provide surfaces that take and hold paint well.
The bother and expense of frequent repainting is
avoided. Absence of pitch or inflammable resinous
compounds makes Redwood slow burning. Redwood
reduces the fire hazard wherever used.
The price of Redwood compares favorably with what
you pay for wood that cannot compare with Redwood
in rot resistance, percentage of clear lumber and free-
dom from warping, shrinking and swelling.

CHICAGO
2081 McCurmkk Bid*.

NKW YORK

823 No. 40 Rector tit. Blda.
THE PACIFIC LUMBER CO. at Illinois

SAN FKANCISCO

311 California St.

LOS ANGELES

Central Bldg. 6th and Main cts.

THE PACIFIC LUMBER CO.

CJhe Pacific Lumber Co.

TheLarsest Manufacturers and Distributors of California Redwood

ffl/ou are planning to
build, send for our "Red-
wood Homes Booklet"
before you approve the
lumber specifications. To
architects and building
contractors we will olaa-
Ijf tend our "Construc-
tion Digest " and our
"Engineering Digest".
Please address inquiries
to our New York or
Chicago office.

.1 Siding, painted white.

'The Western wood for Eastern homes'

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House &• Garden

Hardware that Combines
the Practical and Artistic

DOOR KNOBS must turn without
sticking, locks must work smoothly
and give never-failing protection. But
when so much is accomplished, the func-
tion of Sargent Hardware is not done.

Sargent Hardware possesses unusual
artistic merit. Its many designs may be
selected to harmonize with the various
types of architecture. It adds grace and
refinement to exterior or interior doors.
It accords with the decorative spirit of
the home.

Write for the Sargent Book of De-
signs. It shows hardware that will help
you to realize a home that is satisfying
and complete in every detail. Select
Sargent Hardware with your architect.

SARGENT & COMPANY

Hardware Manufacturers
31 Water Street New Haven, Conn.

SARGENT DAY and NIGHT LATCHES

reinforce and provide the needed security on
entrance doors of dwellings, apartment houses,
stores and offices, where present locks do not
afford adequate protection. The handy push-
button stop, to dead-lock the latch bolt or
hold it back as desired, is an exclusive feature.

& Hardware

Water a Plenty
[fader Ffassune

-tts Fresh
and Cool as

Befo

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and Service of the Ci

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Annoyance
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Discover — how you can have in your own home-
Water — direct from well or

spring — no storage tank.
Water — a plenty under suffi-
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and washing your car.
Water — fresh and cool as the

spring.

Water — at a turn of the faucet
— convenient as city service.

Water — from a pump with but
one moving part — no belts,
no valves, no gears — • all
bronze — least maintenance.

fA utomaticj

the highest priced shallow well water
system on the market — if you con-
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Here's a quality water system for
which a quality price is asked and
which has justly earned the repu-
tation of producing- quality results.
A pump made of all bronze, with

two outboard ball bearings, carefully
machined, expertly built, only one
moving part. The most reliable switch
made. Repulsion-induction motor.
The smallest Westco has an average
capacity of 350 gallons per hour.
Like good plumbing, the Westco is
the most economical.

Thousands of families now enjoy
the convenience and advantages of
the Westco. Why not you?

Westco Pumping Units for use with pneumatic or open tanks, for booster ser-
vice, for circulating ice water, brine and general commercial purposes.
Westcos are endorsed and handled by leading jobbers in every territory as follows.
Ask your dealer, write your nearest jobber, or write us for catalog C. Insist on a Westco.

Allen Engineering Company. Boston, Mass.
The Hunting Company, Watertown, N. Y.
The Hunting Company, Rochester N. Y.
Woods & Company, New York City
Keystone Supply & Mfg. Co.. Philadelphia, Pa,
Southern Supply Company. Baltimore. Md.
Bailey-Farrell Mfg. Company. Pittsburgh, Pa.
Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co.. Yuungstown. Ohio.
W. M. Pattison Supply Co.. Cleveland. Ohio.
Ascher Supply Company. Columbus. Ohio
American Plumbers Supply Co.. Toledo, Ohio,
wm. T. Johnston Company. Cincinnati. Ohio.
P. A. Vogel & Sons Company. Louisville. Ky.
P. & H. Supply Company. Fort Wayne, Ind.
Murray W. Sales & Co.. Detroit, Mich.
Crane Company. Grand Rapids. Mich.
N. O. Nelson Mfg. Company. Little Rock. Ark.
N. O. Nelson Mfg. Company, St. Louis, Mo.
Keiser-Van Leer Co., Bloomington, 111.
E. Beet Plumbing & Heating Co., Quincy, 111.

DEALERS: — Attractive territory is still open for live wire dealers. Write lor dealer

co-operative plan.

Western Pump Company

General Offices: Front Street, DAVENPORT, IOWA

National Plumbing & Heating Co., Chicago, 111.

Murphy Supply Company, Green Hay, Wise.

Crane Co., Muskogee. Okla.

Crane Co., Oklahoma City. Okla..

Crane Co., Wichita, Kan.

Crane Co., Kansas City, Mo.

Omaha Sanitary Supply Company. Omaha, Nebr.

Crane & Ordway Co., St. Paiul, Minn.

Crane & Ordway Co., Duluth, Minn.

Crane & Ordway Co., Aberdeen. S. D.

Crane & Ordway Co., Fargo. N. D.

Crane & Ordway Co., Great Falls, Mont.

P. H. Bradford. Conway Bldg.. Chicago, 111.

Hawkeye Supply Co., Mason City, la.

Globe Machinery & Supply Co., De3 Moities, la,

LelffatOD Supply Co., Fort Dodge, la,

Utah Plumbing & Heating Co., Salt Lake City, Utah

California Pump Co., San Francisco. Calif.

Hall-Webb Co.. Los Angeles. Calif.

Western Pump Company, Portland, Oregon

October, 1922

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A PROMINENT doctor (name and address on request)
-iX writes : "During all my 42 years of practice, sunshine
and fresh air have been my best prescription. However,
the majority of patients cannot afford a sun room or
sleeping porch, or because of domestic conditions cannot
arrange it.

"But some time ago I discovered your AiR- Way Multi-
fold Window Hardware and saw at once that it solves
the problem. A sun room or sleeping porch within reach
of all. Good for you!"

AiR-Way Multifold Window Hardware makes a sun
room or sleeping porch of any outside room. When closed,
the windows fit the opening snugly and are absolutely
weathertight. It takes but an instant to throw them open
— they may be operated from the inside without interference
from either screens or draperies.

If you intend to build a new home or remodel the old
one, you should make it a point to investigate the advantages
of AiR-Way Multfold Window Hardware.

Most reliable hard-
ware and lumber deal-
ers can supply yonwith
AiR-Way 'Multifold
Window Hardware.
If not, it may be quick-
ly secured from any
one of our many
branches. Write today
for a copy of Catalog
M-4.

AURORA, ILLINOIS, U.S.A.

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Philadelphia Boston St. Louis Indianapolis

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Winnipeg LONDON. ONT. Montreal

Los Angel**
San Francisco

Manufacturers of "Slidelite" — the last word in garage door Itardware

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C. C. & S. f. Chapman
Architects and Builders

Weatherproof Your
Home With Beauty

BAY STATE is the master coating for
homes of stucco and cement. It is the
most beautiful finish. And in beautifying
a home, it waterproofs it.

For Bay State is more than a surface fin-
ish. It seeks out every pore and crevice.
It sinks into and becomes a part of the wall
it covers — and seals it permanently against
dampness. The hardest rain cannot beat
through a Bay State coated house.

In color, cement and stucco are drab, life-
less, uneven. In texture, they are distinc-
tive. Bay State Brick and Cement Coating
does not change the texture. But it gives
a soft, beautiful color to a house — uniform
in shade, and so lasting that your home is
protected for years to come. Always ask
for Bay State by name.

Bay State Brick and Cement Coating
comes in a pure, rich white, and in a com-
plete range of colors. Let us send you
samples of your favorite tint. Booklet No.
2 shows many homes made beautiful with
Bay State. Write for both today.

WADSWORTH, HOWLAND & CO., Inc.

Paint and Varnish Makers BOSTON, MASS.

Branch Stores in all Principal Cities

Neta York Office

211-219 Forty-Seventh Street

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THE BAY STATES

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House & Garden

New Free Book on Home Wiring

The "R" panel board makes
possible some refinements
in electric wiring in the
home not available with
the old dangerous fuse
box. In preparing this
book we have given typi-
cal wiring plans for a
modern installation and
suggestions that will
help you make your
home easier to care
for and more com-
fortable to live in.
Write Dept. G and
a copy will be sup-
plied free.

Send for
it today !

"Quality

Assured"

Safe!

ff^hen the Fuse Blows—

When the Lights Go Out-

You may be heating the baby's milk, or ironing,
or serving coffee, via your electric percolator, to
your guests — when the fuse blows.

If you have a Triumph "R" Residence Safety
Type Panel Board in your home you safely and
quickly take out the blown or dead fuse and screw
in a new one, exactly as you would replace a
burned out lamp globe. Fuses are protective safe-
ty catches and should blow out in time of trouble.

The Triumph "R" simply makes it safe for a
woman or child to replace them.

Because it is absolutely safe, the Triumph "R"
is not put in the hardest-to-get-at place in the
cellar, but is located conveniently
on either the first or second floors.
As it is installed flush with the
wall and finely finished, it can
be made to match any interior
decoration harmoniously. The
Triumph "R" costs very little
more than the ordinary kind.

Do not decide definitely on your
wiring plans until you have the
"R" Bulletin of Better Home
Wiring. A copy will be gladly
sent free — write Department G.

Architect* and Contrac-
tors prefer to specify
and install Type "R"
Residence Panel Boards
because the one type
fits every requirement
and is an indication of
quality for the entire
electric installation.
Type "R" Panel Boards
cost very little more than
the ordinary.

ELECTRIC COMPANY

ST. LOUIS

"The Triumph Line of Standardized Safety Type Panel Boards"

Pages From A Decorator's Diary

(Continued from page 88)

many-colored mass of green. Then the
courtyard.

Then the vestibule. After such mag-
nificence, an astounding entrance. A
square box of a place, with shelves three
feet wide and breast high on two sides,
the third leading to the great Hall.
These shelves held a miscellany — tennis
rackets, and croquet mallets, and golf
sticks, and canes and umbrellas, whips
and crops, coats and caps and rugs in-
numerable. Nothing is ever concealed
in an English house — everything is ex-
posed, and one does not wonder that
dozens of servants are always busy.

From the vestibule — which gives one
the impression of entering the house
through a very personal closet — one en-
ters the hall, a huge room as large as a
New York apartment, where many
groups of people may find sofas and
chairs. Here are family portraits and
quaint hunt portraits of the Eighteenth
century — groups of the many sportsmen
of their day on their favorite hunters.
A grand piano seems a small affair in
this spacious room, where the rugs may
be rolled away for a country dance.

Running parallel with the hall is the
drawing room as delicate and white as
the hall is sturdy and oaken. There are
two great portraits by Angelica Kauf-
man, one of the white satin Lady of her
day and her beautiful daughters, and the
other of the red-coated Lord, and his
beautiful sons. There are six sofas in
this room, and delicious soft chairs,
huge consoles crowded with pots of
exaggerated maidenhair ferns, a beguil-
ing spinet, and a collection of shining
furniture that makes one long to stroke
it. Of course there is a fireplace at each
end, and just opposite the door to the
hall there are French windows opening
into the gardens.

To the right, as you enter the hall, is
the onetime library, now the chamber of
the Master. That may not be seen till
later, when its Elizabethan bed is made
and it becomes again a book-walled
room, full of lovely oak and walnut
furniture — a great arm chair and a sofa,
three big bookcases, a table with an
orderly array of dozens and dozens of
cigarette cases, match boxes, etc., and
a huge jar of tobacco in the middle, all
the personal things that never seem to
be hidden. The Master brought his bed
down because the doors open into the
garden, and his dogs can come and go'
in the night.

On the left of the hall there is a door
leading into another passage way, from
which open many mysterious rooms, the
gun-room and the morning room were
the ones that were open to me. The
morning room was a small, painted
room with corner cupboards full of old
glass and china and an octagonal Chip-
pendale desk in the middle of the room.
The gun-room was lengthy and enor-
mous, with two deep bays looking over
the garden. A high oak paneling had
an old print of a bird in each topmost
panel, and on the heavy rail at the top
of the wall were ranged a collection of
porcelain generals of the Waterloo
period. Gun cabinets, and heavy tables
piled with mannish things. On the
mantel two glass cases of stuffed squir-
rels boxing. Dozens of tables for games,
a roulette table, and the only skittle

table I ever saw in the deep bay. Horses'
hoofs set in silver. Air maps of the late
war. Estate maps. A thousand cher-
ished things, all exposed, all requiring
daily care. From the gun room I again
entered the long corridor, hung with
hundreds of prints of guardsmen, which
my host has willed to his regiment.

At last the dining room, a great Adam
room of white painted wood and pale
green walls hung with family portraits.
A carpet as green as turf covers it, and
great yellow damask curtains frame
serene landscapes. One end is an alcove,
as big as an ordinary room, and here is
the lovely oval Chippendale table at
which we breakfast. The state dining
table is in the major part of the room,
covered with a green baize cloth that
hangs to the floor, but less than twenty-
four people would be lonely there, so
the nine of us used the smaller table
near the fire. There are three great
buffets and three smaller ones ranged
around the room in addition to the old
port table — a horse-shoe shaped affair,
on which dozens of decanters and
siphons are crowded. This rare old
table was built to fit around the fire-
place in the days when port was the un-
rivaled drink. One of the large side-
boards is covered with a white cloth
with many silver dishes of hot food on
the long hot metal plate — eggs and
sausage and kippers and such. Another
holds a collection of cold meats, cheeses,
bread, etc. Two smaller ones hold
grapes, and figs and peaches from the
hot houses, in a beautiful old Worcester
server. Another holds hot drinks. The
last one and the most beautiful of all is
left undisturbed with its noble array of
old silver.

Under each buffet a favorite dog lies.
No dog would think of taking the place
of another dog. Alsatian police dogs,
beagles, Sealyhams, and fox-hounds are
here on condition of perfect behaviour,
and they never forget their manners.

Breakfast is a lengthy and movable
feast. Every-one walks around and
serves everyone else, for no servants are
in evidence. Somehow you eat an in-
credible amount. The table is so tempt-
ing, with its array of old silver bowls of
roses and boxes of cigarettes, and jugs
of barley water. There are no napkins
— one never sees napkins except at din-
ner. Each of these seemingly casual
delights is a fixed law which no one
would dream of changing.

There have been interruptions, short
visits to the kennels or the stables, and
returns for more coffee, more food, but
once breakfast is over the real business
of the morning is begun. Our host, by
the way, has reappeared in white flan-
nels and pale blue shirt, socks, and neck-
tie. He is again a picturesque person,
and one looks forward to dinner when
he will wear his olive green velvet hunt
coat with brass buttons copied from his
father's or his Guardsman's coat equally
elaborate. First we must visit the ken-
nels, attended by all the favorite dogs,
who have kept so beautifully quiet dur-
ing our leisurely breakfast. Mad yelp-
ing, as we approach the kennels, and the
one-handed keeper (he has an iron hook
on the other) shows us the various lit-
ters of beagles, each with its own ken-
nel and run. Several times the alphabet

October, 1922

115

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IN the world's largest greenhouse — at North Wales,
Pennsylvania — eighteen miles of Reading Genuine
Wrought Iron Pipe distributes the heat which
makes 80,000 rose plants bloom as well in January as
in June, and throughout the metal framework which
supports this enormous glass structure Reading Gen-
uine Wrought Iron Pipe is used wherever the danger
of corrosion is greatest and the bearing strain is
most severe.

Twenty years ago the owners built other greenhouses
in which both steel and Reading Genuine Wrought
Iron Pipe were used. The steel pipe quickly corroded,
causing costly replacements. The Reading Genuine
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well that its rate of depreciation proved less than one
per cent per year — and the original pipe appears as
good as new.

This experience prompted the specification of Read-
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drawn for this 700-foot greenhouse. And despite the
great amount of moisture, this Reading Pipe — which
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corrosion.

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Protection was the first requisite of the medieval habi-
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the encompassing wall — all symbolized the desire for com-
plete protection within the knightly domain.

Today Pacje Protection fence

The need for protection and seclusion
persists in our own day. The modern
home-owner demands that the vagrant
and the prowler be directed elsewhere,
and that the beauty of the property be
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House &• Garden

Just as in showers, there
are definite advantages in

SPEAKMAN

Lavatory Fixtures

— And even to escutcheons, Speakman
Showers and Lavatory Fixtures har-
monize perfectly. On the lavatory
shown is the Unit Acto Fixture. The
one nozzle enables washing in running
water at just the desired temperature.

The shower shown is the H 95 2 '/2
Mixometer over a built-in corner tub.
The three handles which you see are
part of the Deshler Bath Fixture which
also connects to the shower.

Ask your plumber or architect about
these Speakman Fixtures. Your
plumber has folders. If he happens
to be out of them, we'll have one in
your hands within a couple of days,
that is, if you send us word — now.

SPEAKMAN SHOWERS

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE

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(Continued from page 114)

has been exhausted and begun over
again, for the newest litter is named B.
Bashful and Bachelor and Baffling, and
so on. After the kennels come the
stables, where each proud creature must
be stroked and inspected. Eventually
we go to look at the young horses, but
they are miles away across the fields.
Now we have still to do the many
flower gardens, and the fruit gardens,
where apples and pears and peaches and
quinces grow against pink-red walls of
old brick. The vegetable gardens are
all mixed with flowers, and berries and
fruit trees. Through a rose garden
planned like the British flag, with the
segments of red and pink and white and
yellow roses, we reach the glass houses
— one for figs alone, another for cucum-
bers, others for tomatoes and grapes.

There are literally dozens of places
to visit. The tennis courts, with a little

revolving house in which we can sit anc
watch the games; the dog's ceme-
tery; the cricket field and cricket house;
the modern laundry, covered with
ancient ivy; the irregular swimminp
pool; the precious hot houses of Mal-
maisons, those extravagant carnations
peculiar to England; the squash courts
where mad battles are always going on
and the Chapel, a small and serene lit-
tle building. There is an ancient church
also, half Norman and half Gothic
where the tenants go, that still boasts a
good lot of glass that was there before
William, the Conqueror.

And so the morning is gone, and
breakfast is an accomplished thing, and
when we return to the terrace it is to
find the decanters of port are waiting,
and the English day is on !

RUBY ROSS GOODNOW.

Forcing Bulbs for Winter Flowering

(Continued from page 78)

with the variety, varies from 8" to 9J/>".
A good crocus has a circumference of
4" to 5", the bulb of the white Roman
hyacinth is b" to 6',j" in circumference
and develops four or five flower
stalks. But such bulbs are selected
plants and therefore much more expen-
sive, producing, as they do, exceptional
results.

Hardy bulbs and tubers are potted in
the fall so that a well developed root
system will quickly form. When one
of these plants begins to grow under
adverse conditions, the shoots are pro-
duced before the roots are developed.
Only when the surface of the soil is
cooler than the interior is root forma-
tion favored. Therefore it is best to
leave potted bulbs and tubers in the
open as long as possible, preferably sink-
ing the pot into the soil of the garden.
If this rule is not followed, the result,
in the majority of cases, will be a dis-
tinct failure, as flowers will not be de-
veloped. A good root system must be
formed before the pot is placed in a
warm spot in the window garden. Only
then will the flowering shaft attain its
full beauty.

Just before the bulb is planted, the
pot must receive a good foundation of
potsherds. A good garden soil, slightly
clayed in texture, is then added. Under
no condition is a fertilizer to be added.
One that has not fully decayed is in-

jurious. It causes rot. When the pot
is one-third full, it is lightly tapped
down so that the soil will settle. It
should not be too tightly pressed. Then
the bulb, shoot-tip upward, is placed
on the soil. More soil is sifted over it
until the flower pot is practically filled
a comparatively high rim being left
which will later hold a sufficient quan-
tity of water. The soil should be added
until the tip of the bulb is just covered,
Water is provided only when absolutely
necessary.

If it is undersirable to sink the potted
plants in the soil, they can be kept in
a cool, frost free cellar. Light is not,
as yet, essential, since the shoots have
not made their appearance. The tem-
perature of the store room should not
exceed 50°. Then the bulb will not
only develop a vigorous floral shaft, but
the foliage will be healthy. Then, too,
this temperature will prevent the open-
ing of the flowers before the shaft ha;
attained its correct height.

The most favorable condition for root
formation is a temperature of 40°,
Leaves and floral shafts are most luxu-
riant at a temperature of 50°. While the
flowers develop to their best advantage
at 60°. When the temperature of the
flowering plant is increased, it quickly
fades and dies, as it is just as sensitive to
too much heat as it is to a temperature
too low.

Paths and Paving In The Garden

(Continued from page 79)

the expense of importing the New
England variety, we may find some
comfort in the fact that there is a
great deal more art and ingenuity in
making use of a material at hand than
in going outside our locality for one
that is frankly foreign, however lovely
it may be. Nor should we let the style
of the garden or the dominating archi-
tecture determine to too great an ex-
tent our paving material. Any mate-
rial, whether it is stone, brick, tile or
concrete, can be made to fit any given
situation, if it is in the hands of some
one who is able to handle it sympa-
thetically and intelligently. However,
stone is generally the most preferable
material, as it harmonizes more readily
than any other, both in color and tex-
ture, with the bloom and foliage of the
garden. Where a suitable stone is not
obtainable or where the preference lies
with brick, the latter will be found to
be susceptible to various interesting

and delightful treatments. The same
may be said of tiles, of which there is
a great variety both in size and color.

There are shown here some sugges-
tions for two plain stone paths, also
one which is a combination of brick
and stone, and in which the brick pan-
els can be varied in length to suit the
way the path goes. The center of a
panel should always be made to come
opposite steps or a path leading off
at right angles. The pieces of stone
between the brick panels should be
considerably larger than the edge but
all this is, of course, a matter of taste
and situation. All edges of these form-
al paths should be even.

As soon as we reach the garden prop-
er, away from buildings and the house,
much more latitude can be allowed, a
perfectly plain path of "random" stone
can be made, as illustrated. Great
care must be taken not to make a path
(Continued on page 118)

October, 1 922

117

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House & Garden

The G-E Twin Con-
venience Outlet it a
G-E Wiring Device
•which is considered
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•work.

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Must You Move the Chair?

— Or Just the Lamp?

YOU may be living in a 'wired house"- but
is it completely wired — are you enjoying real
electrical convenience? Do you always con-
nect a portable lamp just where you want it? In
any part of a room; in any room in your house?

You can, if you have real electrical convenience
— and you may have many other comforts, too.
You may use several electrical appliances at the
same time if you have a sufficient number of out-
lets— a fan with your electric iron ; a toaster while
the coffee-percolator is "perking"; a massage
vibrator and a portable heater.

AND your convenience requires switches, as well;
one at the door of every room, two in larger
rooms, one for the front porch, for the back porch,
for the garage, for the cellar lights.

IT is these little touches of electrical convenience
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Random or
"crazy" stone
paving is suit-
able for a city
backyard gar-
den. Here it is
used for both
paths and pool

When random
stone paths are
made , the
cracks can be
filled with moss
or edged with
small alpines

Paths and Paving for the Garden

(Continued from page 79)

of this sort with single large stones far
apart, like stepping stones across a
brook. The spaces between are diffi-
cult to cope with. If grass is used
between them, it cannot be cut with a
machine and must be snipped with snip-
pers or left in untidy fringes. If plants
are used, they grow to a certain height
and the whole course of the path he-
comes an absolute obstacle race. Even
grandmothers nowadays hop lightly from
stone to stone, doing no more damage
than knocking off a few shoots en
passant. Small children, too, love this
sort of path and jump along it, gen-
erally managing to land on a plant.
No, the average garden path must be
one along which one can walk with
ease and comfort and at least two
abreast. There are, of course, many
other forms of brick and stone paths
but the simpler ones almost invariably
look best. An excellent one is illus-
trated for wherever you want a path
on a flat place with many at right angles.

We will now leave these lordly efforts
and think of the paths in the more
out-of-the-way and wilder parts of the
garden and the parts that are given to
herbaceous plants. Nothing is better
for herbaceous borders than wide plain
grass paths. By wide I mean 8' or
10' at least. Grass paths are mosc
beautiful, but they are not good nar-
row and they are no good as a right of
way. They wear out at once and must
only be used for the garden and not as
a regular route from one place to an-
other. Wheelbarrows also spoil them,
if much used on them.

I have in my old kitchen garden
stone paving 3' wide and on each side
of it flat grass edges 2' wide. One

can wheel anything on these paths, and
walk on them in wet weather, and they
are very effective and always greatly ad-
mired. Of course, the drawback is that
the grass has to be mown with a ma-
chine at least once a week and also
edged with clippers and there are four
edges to each path !

For the more sequestered parts of the
garden plain brick paths are very effec-
tive, but these must be made with an
edge of bricks, and in seme parts they
suffer rather with the frost as they
are almost always wet when it freezes
and it splits them. I have added one
or two ways in which to set bricks.

Gravel can always be used with good
effect in kitchen gardens and the out-
side paths of any part of the garden
and makes very good winding paths
through trees.

Cinders, too, make excellent paths in
the rougher parts of the kitchen gar-
den and under trees. They are beauti-
ful for paths, if well made and kept,
and last for years; and the dark blue
gray is most effective in some places,
especially with white flowers as an edg-
ing. I always put little narrow brick
paths in my herbaceous borders about 3'
from the back. These paths do not
show after early spring, when they
look rather nice and they enable one
to get at the border in all parts without
treading in the soil, where the flowers
are growing. It is really largely a
matter of common sense. If you have
in your garden a little secret place,
where you can sit on lonely nights in
peace under the moon, carpet that
place with something soft like noiseless
mossy grass, and see that there is no
resounding paving within earshot.

October. 1922

119

Ask your archi-
tect to provide
for Magicoal in
your new house
or in altering
the old. Send
for booklet.

mdight Happiness

— at the turn of a switch

THE charm and cheer of a fireplace, Magicoal
brings to any room. A turn of a switch and the
coals appear to burn with flickering flames that can
scarcely be distinguished from real ones.
Without the dirt or fumes of real coal, you may
have its cheer — -and heat if you wish. But it is the
appearance rather than the heat that makes an open
fire cheerful.

Magicoal can be installed in any fireplace, dummy
or real, that you now have, without alteration. No
flue is needed. It attaches to any lighting circuit
and the cast of operation is negligible.

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House & Garden

Japanese Weave
Honeysuckle Vine

into lovely fabric for your walls

IT is an enchanting thought that honeysuckle vine
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exerted a tremendous and dominating influence. From
the windowless South Sea Island hut — relic of prehis-
toric habitations — to the broadly windowed modern house
is a mighty stride for civilization.

Sun parlors, conservatories, French windows and glass
roofs are but reflections of mankind's love for air and sun-
shine. Don't resist this great life-giving impulse. When
you build or remodel, think in terms of windows and yet
more windows.

Insist on clearness, strength and beauty. Specify
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Conserving Next Winter's Coal Bill

FUEL economy is more than a consideration, —
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And yet, a healthfully heated
home is more important, — a
home with uniform temperature
in all rooms ; an equalization of
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October, 1922

121

add individual pieces of furniture
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House & Garden

Plate Glass in the House

(Continued from page 82)

glass window Some homes have one without a plate glass mirror!
omplete end of a room glassed in order The office desk glass is known by
o incorporate the landscape into the every office worker, yet you rarely see
lome life more completely. This glass it in the home. It is useful, however, to
really adds a sense of mysterious con- have the desk at home covered by glass
nection and sympathy with the user and —the ink can spill with impunity, you
he world without, which is incredibly can keep memos under the glass, you
ovely. However, it is desirable that can put your cigarette down without
hese views and vistas be broken. To fear of conflagration and you can pro-
sit in front of a huge plate glass window tect the desk top.

gives one the sense of being overawed The dressing table covered with plate

W the scenery. To prevent this sen- glass is a thing of duty and of use for-

sation a lattice with wide openings may ever. Think of being able to spill pow-

be built close to the glass. Parts of it der, pomades and hair tonic on the table

can be hung on hinges and opened when without ever soiling the lace or silk cov-

desired. er anfi without spoiling the handsome

"The reason why there has been a wood ! Think, too, of being able to put

demand for better glass," says a scien- the hot hair waver down and know that

ific journal, "is because our eyes have it is safe so to do!

rebelled against trying to focus images The dresser with a plate glass sheath
of objects that, when looked at through is well preserved and the handsome cover
glass full of imperfections, have been needs no washings. Another saving,
distorted." The dining room table covered with

You know how often you have had plate glass saves the table against the
to look into mirrors which have made ravages of heat and the purse from the
you seem dizzy and faint? This is due ravages of the laundry. Although you
to the strain on the eye in meeting the may think it too cool for whiter use,
waves and unevenness of cheap glass, as a summer idea it is unmatched.

Another authority, showing that plate The serving table, upon which is
Olass is the only kind of glass that will placed hot dishes of every kind, will not
really give full measure of service, says, only last longer coated with handsome
"A glass should be a clear, white glass, glass but will mean less work for the
having no striations, bubbles or strain cabinet maker, maid and cook.
in its makeup. It should have perfectly Mirrors of common glass have no
parallel surfaces and they must be decorative value, but mirrors of plate
ground and polished perfectly so that glass beveled are not only true photo-
each ray of light will pass through with- graphs but handsome adjuncts to the
out being deflected from its course, ex- room in which they happen to be placed.
actly as if no glass were placed between Mirrors of plate glass can be put in all
the eye and object. In no possible way types of frames.

can the cheaper flowed glass, known as The cheval or full length mirror in
window glass, wire glass, etc., fulfill plate glass is almost a noble bit of dec-
these conditions, as it is only by optic- oration, to say nothing of its usefulness
ally working the glass as perfect lenses in affording a full-length, view,
are made, by grinding and polishing the Plate glass is true, and, being true, is
surfaces, that this condition can be ap- rather flattering. Cheap glass in mirrors
preached. distorts the inlooker and makes for men-

"All glass has generally been consid- tal instability.

ered the same as far as any effect upon Have you ever noticed a house where
the eyes is concerned. plate glass is used in its doors and win-

"It might just as well be said that all dows? It has a richness and brilliancy
camera lenses and other lenses are alike, of color and finish that nothing else can
and yet hundreds of dollars are paid for give. In fact, poor glass makes the finest
some lenses in order to get the required home look "cheap",
definition, and the user could not be in-
duced to waste time considering an im- Kitchen Uses
perfect lens. As the manufacture and

fitting of lenses for the correction of the There is no doubt, of course, that plate
eyes has progressed, so the plate glass giass, because of its beauty and texture,
maker has progressed in his line. makes a beautiful kitchen furnishing.

"No one would consider wearing AS a pastry top for a table, it is with-
glasses of a type made fifty years ago, out a peer. If you are doing your own
knowing that by so doing the eyes work, the plate glass top is idyllic, but
would be injured. The same careful the cook often misuses a table top and
consideration should be given to the so the material ought to be chosen
glass in the windows through which we primarily for durability and cleanability.
look, and which permit the passage of Plate glass is not a top liner for dura-
light into the rooms in which we live bility in a kitchen. Yet it is durable, if
and work, so as to insure the best re- Care is given it. Shelves of plate glass
suits for both clear vision and the pro- are a delight and can be well employed
tection of the eyes." jn kitchens and pantries.

As a protective measure for furniture

Uses for Plate Glass covering plate glass may seem expensive

at first, but in the last analysis it is home

Although many people prefer sheet- insurance with ample premiums in pre-
ing, plate glass has a real vogue in the served furniture and savings in laundry,
shower bath cabinet door. It looks It lessens eye strain, nerve wear; it adds
regal and is so annealed as to be strong beauty within the home and outside the
enough to stand up against steam and home. It is an essential as well as a
banging. trimming — in short, it pays a beautiful

Plate glass, of course, can be used en- interest on the investment — a threefold
tirely for the shower bath cabinet or one: beauty, protectiveness and health,
can be used for a folding set of leaves, It is very simple to keep the glassed
which, after the bath, can be folded top of anything clean. A damp cloth is
against the wall and be out of the way. all that is required. No varnishes, oils
Furthermore, in the bathroom, glass or waxes are needed ; a few rubs, and all
shelves and mirrors of good quality and is well. This appeals to the servants,
thickness add to the beauty and com- and also saves your furniture from un-
fort of the room. Fancy a bathroom expected scraping and scratching.

October, 1922

123

The SCIENTIFIC DRYOLETTE

Dries Clothes the Natural Way,
as Fast as they are Washed

RAIN or shine, every day in the year is a perfect drying day
with the Scientific Dryolette. Installed in your laundry or
basement, within arm's reach of your washer, it dries your clothes,
ready for ironing, as fast as your washer can wash them.

Dries the clothes naturally and thoroughly by a constant flow-
ing stream of warm, dry, clean air — just like out-door drying on
an ideal summer day.

Gives privacy to your washing and does away with clothes lines, clothes
pins, soot spots and dirt streaks. Xo heavy lifting or extra steps. Dries
all your clothes in a neat, sanitary steel cabinet, made to last forever.
Costs little to operate with either electricity or gas. Write for dealer's
name and our new booklet "Scientific Clothes Drying".

THE SCIENTIFIC HEATER COMPANY

2102 Superior Viaduct Cleveland, Ohio

be sent you free
upon request.

A Book
You Should Read

OF the $20,000,000 spent in this country
annually on insect screen cloth for
windows, doors and porches, a large propor-
tion is wasted. H you want to know how to
spend your share more efficiently, read "A
Matter of Health and Comfort".

Our space is too limited to tell you here the
importance of using discretion in selecting
the material for your screens. That is why
we have published this book. It explains in
detail the advantages of using pure copper
(such as the copper 99.8% pure, used only in
Jersey Copper Screen Cloth) for screens
where permanent protection at low cost per
year is desired.

Screen Cloth ^ vou cannot get Jersey Copper Screen Cloth
from your own dealer, write our main office
(given below). Stores and agencies in many
cities.

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624 South Broad Street
TRENTON NEW JERSEY

JERSEY

means

WlTHOUT it this world would still
be "without form and void." — But
what does it mean in our daily health?

Whether in the emergency, with the tiny
form torn by convulsions; or in eliminating
nightly for the older generation the slight
chill that saps vitality — warmth means life.

Precious moments, lost in heating the old
fashioned hot water bag, are now saved by
the "Standard" Electric Heating Pad. To
relieve even temporary discomfort there is
no tedious waiting in the night hours.

Covered with soft, fleecy eiderdown, light in weight, flex-
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is the last word in bedroom and sickroom comfort. Three
heat "Standard" Pad, size 12 inches by 15 inches, is priced
at $8.00 and a smaller single heat "Standard" Pad is $5.50.
All "Standard" Pads are guaranteed for two years. If your
dealer cannot supply you, write us.

THE STANDARD ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE COMPANY
BEVERLY, NEW JERSEY

Standard

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Warm sheets may
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Prompt relief of
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Easy to warm the
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The Hot Water Radiator
With the Open Fireplace

CAN be installed in any room having a
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to hot water radiators in other rooms. Rea-
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attractive. Especially for bungalows and
farm homes. Evenly heats all rooms at less
expense than one is heated with a stove.
Burns hard or soft coal, coke or wood.
Down draft, smokeless, no heat waste.
Automatic fuel-feed does away with frequent
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41 E. 42nd Street, New York City

Subsidiary of
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124

House & Garden

Hot Water Instantly!

fimJnyfiot Water Faucet

YOU need not occupy a large and expensive home to enjoy
the convenience and comfort of instantaneous hot water.
Hoffman has perfected an entirely new series of instantaneous
automatic water heaters for small homes, consisting of four high-
efficiency, low-expense models — and the prices are the lowest
ever set.

These models are easily installed, using your present gas and
water connections. They require no attention — you simply turn
any hot water faucet and steaming water flows. There is no
limit on quantity and there's neither waiting nor waste. Gas
burns only while water flows. Faucet open, gas automatically
turned on. Faucet closed, gas shut off. And this great conven-
ience may be had, remember, at a modest cost!

We urge you to send for further information, including name
of nearest dealer.

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Be sure to send for these
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information which you will
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Please send me information on your new gas fired water heaters and

data concerning the right Hoffman for my home, containing

rooms. There are people in the family.

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Rarely beau-
tiful detail is
found in this
Colonial door
in the Fierce-
Nichols house
at Salem,
Mass.

If You Are Going to Build

(Continued from page 73)

Italian door graces the home of Thomas
Lament, New York City. It was
brought from Europe and fitted to the
scheme of architecture by Walker &
Gillette. The design is rich without be-
ing ornate, very graceful, with a hint
of the Italian Gothic in the side carv-
ings. And this door was unquestionably
made when there was great love of
beauty, and time to incorporate it into
architectural perfection. Another carved
oak doorway, beautifully set in a pan-
eled oak room, is in a house designed
for Aaron Naumberg. It seems so essen-
tially a part of the noble walls and the
rich tapestry above that it is hard to
imagine that it was made centuries ago
for another race and another environ-
ment.

Possibly no doors are so widely in
favor in this country as the classic design,
the door influenced by the Adam Broth-
ers and the Greek door with its Corin-
thian or Ionic columns, its broken pedi-
ment and molded panels. The former is
especially typical of the finest of the
New England houses that bore the
Adam influence in the architectural treat-
ment of their rooms, and the latter, the

more ornate and elaborate type of door
seems to belong equally to Massachu-
setts and Virginia.

The architects, as we have already
remarked, insist that the modern house
frequently carries the beautiful modern
door. Perhaps they are right, certainly
there are some fine examples of the indi-
vidually beautiful door in some of our
newest houses both east and west. We
are showing an especially beautiful one
from the home of Mrs. E. O. Holler,
Mount Kisco, N. Y., a high, narrow
door with six painted panels on each
side, designed and executed by Barry
Faulkner. This door, rich in color and
curiously beautiful in effect, opens into
the library.

Another door in a modern library was
designed by Taylor & Levi for Edwin S.
Bayer, New York City. The room is
made up of book shelves and solid
panels interestingly bordered with mold-
ing. The doorway is an integral part of
the entire scheme of the wall finish and
in a half-circle over the door is a very
gorgeous sunburst gilt clock that fills the
space in a most distinguished way.
(Continued on page 126)

In developing the open first floor plan, which is found
in many sections, the arch supplants the door. It is
effectively employed here to give access to the stairs
and to repeat the arch motif over the adjoining window

October , 1 922

125

nfi Cconomy)

Meet >4// These Tests

Can the new floors you have in mind answer these
questions in the affirmative?

Will they always be beautiful? Satisfying to the eye?
In style? Will they:

Increase selling and renting values 25% or more?
Cost less than ordinary floors, plus carpets?
Be durable? Sanitary? Dustless? Easy to clean?
Take any stain or finish desired? Any number of times?
Last out the century? Improve with age and use?
If so, they will be Oak Floors.

Ask any Oak Flooring dealer for prices, giving, your
room measurements.

New Floors Over Old

A special thickness (*/$ of an inch) is made to lay
over old, worn floors, at still smaller cost than the stand-
ard thicknesses.

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The Decorative Effect of an Appropriate Roof

HERETOFORE roofs have been considered for the most part,
as a covering for the home only, a necessary part of the
whole and selected with one thought in mind — utility.
Now however, people of taste and discrimination are seeking to
combine the qualities of service and distinctive appearance.
You can obtain both at a cost within trie reach of all when you
roof your home with shingles of

Flint-Arrow BLUE

the newest and most artistic slate surfacing material for
ASPHALT SHINGLES

With its deep lustrous blue-black tone a Flint-Arrow BLUE roof
brings out the beautiful points of the Architecture. Such a roof
is an investment in complete and lasting satisfaction.

Ask your local dealer for
sample or write to us.

BLUE RIDGE SLATE CORPORATION
Esmont, Virginia

Making Merion the Best

Lighted Community

In Its Vicinity

"/""") N'E hundred and fifty new electric light posts special-
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and practical road lamps ever introduced into any com-
munity, were erected, making Merion the best lighted
community in its vicinity."

Page 362 "Americanization of Edward Bok"
You, too, can beautify your community with exterior fix-
tures which represent the utmost in iron craftsmanship.
The Smyser-Royer line ranges from a quaint and modest
porch lantern to the most elaborate lighting effects for the
extensive estate or public institution.
We will gladly furnish you with complete facts concerning
community lighting, or the further beautifying of your
own home and grounds.

SMYSER-ROYER COMPANY

Main Office and Works

YORK, PA.

Philadelphia Office

1609 SANSOM STREET

SMYSER-ROYER

EXTERIOR LIGHTING FIXTURES

ations on walls over radiators
and protect interior decora-
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Give refinement and tone to
unsightly radiators.
Three styles of tops:

GLASS

MARBLE

METAL

Illustration shows Marble Top Type with PATENTED
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Consult your healing contractor or interior decorator about in-
stallation; or u-rite us for full information and name of nearest
dealer.

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23OO-23O8 Morgan St.,

Perfect ProtecSM

WALLS

DECORATIONS,^
and DRAPERIES

A necessity in every

modern home

Prevent smudges and discolor-

126

More Smiles Now

For women have prettier teeth

A new way of teeth cleaning
has multiplied smiles. Millions of
women now use it. It has changed
dingy teeth to whiter teeth.
Wherever you look now you see
pretty teeth which other people
envy.

This new method is at your
command. A free test will be
sent for the asking. For the sake
of whiter, safer teeth we urge
you to accept it.

Combats the film

This new way combats film —
that viscous coat you feel. The
old ways of brushing never did
that effectively.

Film clings to teeth, gets be-
tween the teeth and stays. It
absorbs stains and, if you leave it,
forms the basis of cloudy coats,
including tartar. That's why
most teeth look dingy.

Film also holds the acid in con-
tact with the teeth to cause de-
cay. Germs breed by millions in
it. They, with tartar, are the
chief cause of pyorrhea.

Most tooth troubles, which few
escape, are now traced to that
film.

Two methods found

Dental science, after long re-
search has found two ways to
fight that film. Years of tests
have amply proved their efficien-
cy. Now leading dentists every-
where are advising their daily use.

A new-type tooth paste has
been created, modern, scientific
and correct. The name is
Pepsodent. These two film com-
batants are now embodied in it.
It is bringing to countless homes
a new dental era.

Two other enemies

Teeth have two other great
enemies. One is starch, which
gums the teeth, and which may
ferment and form acid. The other
is mouth acids.

Pepsodent multiplies the starch
digestant in the saliva, to better
combat those starch deposits. It
multiplies the alkalinity of the
saliva, to better neutralize mouth
acids. Thus it gives manifold
power to Nature's great tooth
protecting agents. That's an-
other result of modern dental
research.

45 nations use it

Pepsodent now has world-wide
use, largely through dental advice.
Careful people of some forty-five
countries see its benefits today.

Send the coupon for a 10-Day
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One week will convince you that
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The New-Day Dentifrice

Endorsed by modern author-
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the large tube.

House & Garden

If You Are Going to Build

(Continued from page 124)

In some of our loveliest country
houses we revert to the old Dutch door,
so popular in New Amsterdam. This is
a very practical type of door, as it lets
in light and sunlight, gives lovely vistas
of gardens and hilltops, keeps babies in-
doors and pet animals out. The one
shown in our illustration was designed
by Clarence Fowler for Peter B. Wyckoff,
at Bernardsville, N. J.

Beginning in California we find, espe-
cially in the concrete houses, the arched
doorway gaining an ever-increasing pop-
ularity. The doing away with the multi-
plicity of doors, which at one time over-
whelmed our domestic architecture, is a
very genuine gain. It is an economy,
it adds beauty and dignity to the in-
terior of a house and it enables an archi-
tect to plan pleasant vistas in even small
homes. Of course the arched doorway
cannot take the place of that inestima-
ble detail, the door. There are rooms
and halls and spaces that must be shut
away from contact with other parts of
the house, but there was a tendency,
especially in our pioneer days, to close
every room in, to make our halls little
dark entrances and not so much to think
of a house as one connected pleasing
whole, but rather a series of little rooms
completely isolated. The wise architect
will strike a happy medium, he will
have plenty of doors where they are es-
sential and archways where they add
artistic delight.

In fact the building of a small house
today is no mere merry pastime for the
architect; for usually we want our

houses without delay and want them
comfortable and permanent and satisfac-
tory for generations to come; we want
also, as a rule, for a minimum charge,
as much luxury and beauty as we have
seen in palaces, cathedrals and we might
add ocean steamers.

It may be a joy to feel that every de-
tail of your house has been designed
especially for you; that your fireplace,
although modeled from the Rumford
idea, is nevertheless elaborated into your
own dream of a perfect fireplace, that
your doors have been planned so that
every time you come in and go out, you
feel that there are no other such welcom-
ing doors in the world, that your sleep-
ing porch is the most unique, your
porches the most personal in all the
world; still, nowadays when people do
not wish to delay in becoming the happy
owners of their own homes, and when
we all want the utmost comfort and con-
venience for the least money, we are
turning more and more for help to the
manufacturers of architectural detail.

And before we begin to build we send
to the makers of beautiful windows, and
there are a variety of them, and to the
makers of doors, inner doors and ex-
terior doors, and to the makers of floors
and window trim to get their catalogues,
illustrated. And nine times out of ten,
well-designed, well-made stock details
go into our homes. So wide is the de-
mand for this help for the homemaker
that special woodwork today is being
manufactured appropriate for almost all
period architecture and furniture.

When You Plan Your Garden

(Continued from page 110)

Also, the nearer the garden is put to
the center of the plot the more secluded
it can be made ; and when one has grown
to love a garden for itself and for the
peace and quiet it can give this seclusion
will be appreciated. Here its seclusion is
complete, as it is protected on all sides,
either by the house or by further garden-
like spaces.

To make the enclosure at the end of
the plot all the more effective, the fruit
garden has been placed there. Between
it and the flower garden, and conven-
iently joined to the latter, a space was
left for the little cutting garden. On
the service side of the house the com-
paratively long, narrow strip seemed a
suitable situation for the vegetable gar-
den. Running out from the living room
porch on the opposite side, a similar
strip became very readily the bowling
green. Behind the garage wing and im-

mediately accessible to the laundry was
obviously the placu for the drying yard.

Thus the place was shaped up, and
thus any place may be shaped up by
observing the principles of this method
of design. The particular elements that
went into its makeup may not be needed
or desired on some other small place,
but that fact should not affect the means
of arranging in an orderly fashion what-
ever is wanted on your own grounds,
so that each space, whether it be for
work or play or quiet pleasure, may be
used to the best advantage and may be
in a position to co-operate with every
other space in making the whole scheme
convenient and attractive.

EDITORS NOTE — This is the first of a
series of articles on the simple principles
of landscaping. In November Mr. Pratt
will discuss the various types of gardens
for various situations.

The Modern Greenhouse

(Continued from page 67)

in the little tiny flower shop at the
corner, — and Jenkins is a wonderful
gardener and he surely knows how to
grow everything we need ! This is the
average family attitude before the green-
house is installed. At that point the
family should consider just what a
greenhouse can and cannot do.

The hardest factor to overcome is to
make folks understand that in cultivat-
ing flowers and fruits under unnatural
conditions you are up against the laws
of Nature. Roses and sweet peas grow
side by side in your garden but they will
not in your greenhouse. If you run the
night temperature at 50° the roses will

sulk and go on a strike, but the sweet
peas will smile their handsomest. If
you jump the temperature up to 60°,
the roses will smile, but the sweet peas
will balk and stop flowering. There-
fore, we must consider several compart-
ments to our greenhouse if we are to
have all the good things we want. Then
Jenkins can produce! He needs a cool
house for his violets, sweet peas, primula,
calendula, etc.; an intermediate house
for his carnations, snapdragons, bulbous
stock, daises, stock, etc.; and a warm
house for his roses, lilies, gardenias, or-
chids, etc.

(Continued on page 130)

October , 1 922

127

A typical bed room suite in eight
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1. Ask if it is real walnut— If all exposed
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2. Walnut has characteristic pores which
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4. Furniture made principally of various
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, is commonly called "Combination walnut."
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Modern pieces must be light and compact, as
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House & Garden

Original in plan and finished
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Any lumber merchant who sells Curtis
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distance, the sash and frame between
them, the six-panel Colonial door on the
left, the mirror door on the right, all the
moldings and trim were selected from
standard sizes and designs.

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Regardless of the article, its style or size,
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The Modern Greenhouse

(Continued from page 126)

We are not trying to discourage the
building of small greenhouses, but we
are trying to look the facts in the face
so that we will all have a better under-
standing of what we might expect. It is
folly to expect a seven-passenger limou-
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as one often hears on a country place —

THE SMALL GREENHOUSE

"Jenkins, Mrs. Watson has sweet peas
in her garden now, and ours won't be
ready for cutting for several weeks yet.
What is the trouble?"

"Edwards, their gardener, started them
in pots in the greenhouse in February,
Madam, and yours were sown outside
in March."

"My! Such wonderful heads of let-
tuce Mrs. Watson has, and we haven't
anything from our garden yet."

"They were sown in the greenhouse
in March and planted out in April."

"But where does he get the room to
start all these things in that one little
greenhouse? It is tiny and yet his gar-
den is full of all kinds of vegetables that
were started indoors, such as lettuce,
parsley, tomatoes, cabbage, eggplant
and peppers. He has flowers for his
gardens, such as heliotrope, geraniums,
stocks, salpiglosis, petunias, salvia and
cannas."

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They are small, take up but very little
space, and they give your garden from
three to four weeks' start over the gar-
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possible many of our very best flowering
plants that without a greenhouse must
be passed up. This does not in any way
limit the uses of the house during win-
ter. For the benefit of the beginner we
will divide the small house into three
divisions — winter, spring, and summer,
showing but a few of its many possi-
bilities.

THE COOL HOUSE

Summer in the greenhouse is just as
important or even more so than winter.
Numerous crops are possible, but more
important than this is the preparatory
work for winter. Chrysanthemums are
one of our best summer crops, coming in
flower just as the outside flowers have
passed by. So we plant the middle
bench in chrysanthemums, for our fall
flowers. The side benches we will re-
serve for calendulas, violets and mig-
nonette, or we will grow a few potted
plants, such as primula, cineraria, or
for our bulbous stock of narcissi, tulips,
hyacinths and freesias. Have young
plants of these various crops started to
fill the benches immediately the chrysan-
themums are passed. For this reason it
it is better if the chrysanthemums are
grown in pots, as they can then be
shifted to the garage or some cool place
when they are in full flower. On the
center bench we can have some vege-
tables, such as lettuce, radish, or spin-
ach. In each case select those that do
well in a cool greenhouse. Or we can
have sweet peas in the center bench.

What about the space under the
bench? Is that of any value? Of
course, it is. Mushrooms, rhubarb, or
endive (chicory) may be grown there.

Thus we have gathered together a
(Continued on page 132)

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Forcing lilies-of-the-valley is a simple process. The pips are
heeled in sand in outdoor frames and brought into the green-
house as wanted. Water carefully lest the flowers be spoiled

The Modern Greenhouse

(Continued from page 130)

grouping of plants that are all possible
under similar conditions. In this case
a night temperature of around 50°
would be desirable. Then when Spring
rolls around we start our seedlings for
the garden, which do not take up a
great deal of space and can easily be
accommodated by the finishing of some
crop, or the partial removal of some
crop that has done good service during
the winter.

Bulbous plants are the easiest of all
flowers to force in generous quantities,
as they take up very little space. A few
days on the bench will finish the color,
and most of their period in the green-
house is spent under the benches. This
applies to tulips, hyacinths, and narcissi,
as they are buried in trenches outside
and only brought in as required.

It is also possible to make a selection
of vegetables that will do well with a
night temperature of SO0. This selec-
tion includes cauliflower, lettuce, rad-
ishes, spinach, and cress.

THE INTERMEDIATE HOUSE

The only way to keep peace in the
family is to grow carnations. At the
same time we can have chrysanthemums
because the carnations can be accommo-
dated on the side benches. Various
other combinations are possible, using
the carnation as the principal crop. This
requires a temperature around 55° at
nights. The bulbs previously mentioned
for the Cool House can be grown in the

intermediate house, as bulbs are not ex-
acting, especially if they are kept well
watered.

A bench of stocks or snapdragons will
fit in well with carnations, or, if vege-
tables are to be grown, beans and toma-
toes will be possible. These crops will
form the basis for a selection of winter
crops for the Intermediate House.

In summer this house can be made
useful by growing melons or various
potted plants for the decoration of the
home. These can be so arranged so as
not to interfere with the benching of the
carnations, which can be deferred until
la,te in August.

If I had but one compartment to my
greenhouse, I would maintain a night
temperature of about 55°. This offers
the biggest selection in the way of va-
riety and a great many of the plants
listed under the Cool House, to be
grown at 50°, can be safely grown at
this temperature if watered carefully.

THE WARM HOUSE

But suppose we want roses. Then we
will run the temperature at 60° nightly.
Besides our roses there are many selec-
tions in flowers that are possible — calla
lilies, Japanese lilies, poinsettas, for the
holidays, cyclamen, for cutting or pot-
ting subjects.

Here, again, tomatoes or beans may
be grown as a vegetable crop, as they
are quite flexible and a few degrees
either way will not do any harm.

Parsley is a crop that may be grown in the greenhouse although it is
advisable to use one of the frames near the greenhouse for this purpose

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A Garden in the English Spirit

(Continued from page 60)

tea things, and a window seat overlook-
ing the garden. Being dark brown, inside
and out, it will fit quite naturally into
the background of foliage. When this
is built the seat will be removed to the
other sjde. There it will face its twin
under a thatched roof. Beyond them,
a gate lures one to investigate the wood-
land walk which leads around to the
garden house on the other side of the
property.

The planting is arranged for a cli-
max of effect in spring, sinking to a
minor note in midsummer when the
family is away, but rising to greater
brilliancy in the autumn.

In mid-winter the beds are outlined
by the evergreen pachysandra, accented
by globe Japanese yews. Climbing
euonymus with its glossy foliage and
orange fruit makes the rear fence seem
like a green hedge ; leaving room in
front for a variety of evergreens; —
hemlocks kept small in scale by frequent
clipping, dark Japanese yews both
spreading and upright, bronzy Leu-
cothoe, glossy cotoneaster with its bright
red fruit, fine-textured heather and
(contributing spring flowers as well)
the aristrocratic Pieris floribunda and
daphne.

To depict in brief the succession of
bloom: In March and April the little
beds around the pool are gay with
masses of purple and gold crocus; pale
daffodils set with intention against the
evergreens; dwarf iris of lavender and
purple contrasting with broad patches of
white arabis and silvery alyssum; and
early tulips of flashing white and vivid
pink. Against the evergreens at the
back is a woodsy effect of nodding blue
mertensia, foam flower, wild blue phlox,
tender pink southern azalea, and dwarf
pink Japanese quince, with budding
maples and cherries overhead.

In May come tall globes of yellow
trollius, the golden tulip Moonlight,
forget-me-nots, primulas, poet's narcis-
sus and columbines; Darwin tulips of
fawn and violet and vivid rose rising
above bleeding heart and lavender
polemonium reptans; lacy things like
astilbe, spiraea filipendula and meadow
rue ; all subsidiary to the iris. Because
of its permanence, ease of culture, and
infinite variety, many irises were used:
the early dwarf pumila and alpine hy-
brids (see planting list for colors) ; in-
termediate iris — a cross as its name
indicates, coming both in season and
height between the pumila and the Ger-
man; the tiny lavender I. cristata in
late May; the imperial porcelain-blue
I. pallida; and German varieties of
every color from pure white, palest
straw, light blue to lavender and deep-
est purple. As a climax there blooms
a royal combination of purple wistarias

in tree form, with orange and yellow
azalea mollis, Darwin tulips of lavender
and orange, and iris of deepest violet.

There are a few effective though
short-lived spikes of blue lupine; lemon
lilies with the Yale blue Iris sibirica
orientalis; and Iris Snow Queen rising
from a background of ferns.

In June come silvery pink oriental
poppies under the double flowering crab
with the taller polemonium and white
heads of valerian; single pink peonies
and sulphur-yellow meadow rue, Har-
rison's yellow rose and the newer rosa
Hugonis; climbing roses of pure white,
yellow, blush and vivid carmine. All
of these are accessory to the larkspur
whose stately stalks bear every con-
ceivable scintillation of blue. Against
the brown fence hollyhocks of pink and
salmon and lemon yellow vie with the
early pink phlox.

Midsummer is more subdued, with
gypsophila, a little phlox, and some
second bloom from the larkspur. If
for some reason more flowers are
wanted at uiis season it is a simple
matter to put in some carefully chosen
annuals over the bulbs — like verbenas,
snapdragon Mexican tuberoses or helio-
trope. In an extreme emergency, such
as a wedding, I have seen them sink
bottles in the ground, deceitfully in-
serting therein speciosum lilies and
gladioli, but a little forethought in June
makes this unnecessary.

In early fall the garden becomes gay
again with sky blue asters, pink spe-
ciosum lilies, pale pink gladioli, myrtle
planted in July, lilac tassels of the bud-
dleia, late white phlox and Japanese
anemones with their golden hearts.
Later, arrive many button chrysanthe-
mums, like cheery winter birds, gold
and bronze, white and rose.

Each plant has a part to play. It
must contribute something or it can-
not stay. Some are chosen for the
leading roles like iris or larkspur;
some for the understudies, like forget-
me-nots with the tulips; some for spe-
cial situations, like meadow rue and
lemon lilies for shade; some to bridge
a gap of a few days in the pageant of
color, like the Cerastium tomentosum
after the iris ; some must be watched lest
they overcrowd, like asters or phy-
sostegia; some must be coddled until
well established like daphne or dic-
tamnus. A few must be eventually re-
placed, like the tulips, but most of them
are especially selected for their endur-
ing qualities.

Altogether it is a fascinating game,
this making of a garden by degrees, all
the more so because never finished.
When these ideas have been worked out
new ones will develop, but is not that
the lure of every garden?

House ^Garden

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House £f Garden

THE GIFTS OF DECEMBER

LJAVE you ever noticed the way the Christmas
editions of English magazines are edited? Some-
one, many years ago, created a formula for them
— and they've never changed. Of course, there
are a lot of pages in color — girls in ballet skirts
being kissed under the mistletoe and obstreperous
children dancing around a tree and the usual
church and snow scene. These are perfectly
harmless and sometimes pleasing. But the text !
"Christmas Bells in Kamchatka," "Watching the
Old Year Out In Beluchistan," "Plum Pudding
In Pretoria," "The Wessex Wassail Bowl." The
idea seems to be to represent the entire empire in
these issues.

Were American Christmas editions edited in
this fashion our readers would have to wade
through such pabulum as the following — "Mak-
ing Merry in New Mexico." "Holly and Holly-
wood," "Minnesota Hangs The Mistletoe," "Santa
Claus Caught Sleeping in Philadelphia."

Fortunately for American readers, we have not
adopted that British formula. We've taken an
entirely new viewpoint on how readers can be
best served by Christmas issues. The Nast
Group of which House & Garden is a humble
part, is edited to help its readers select Christmas
gifts; its Shopping Service helps facilitate their
purchases.

Long before the average reader thinks of
Christmas, when summer is still on the land, be-
fore the trees turn, our shoppers have started

This immaculate kitchen
corner, with its shelf over
the door, and its valance.
is one of a number shown
in the December issue
of House & Garden

to work on these issues. For Vogue there must
be over four hundred gifts, for Vanity Fair over
a hundred and for House & Garden over two hun-
dred. They must be photographed or sketched.
An endless amount of bookkeeping is done about
the prices and the available stocks. When the
last page of gifts has been released to the printer,
a motor takes these shoppers off to a sanitarium
where they recuperate the rest of the winter.

The word "Service" has been very much over-
worked, but that is the principle of these three
magazines in their holiday issues. Not that we
aren't interested in how they celebrate the day in
Kamchatka, but really, we are more interested
in helping the worn in in Kalamazoo arid the
man in Dallas do their Christmas shopping. And
because there are all lengths and breadths of
pocketbooks, and all manner of people to give
to, the gifts in these issues are vastly varied in
price and kind.

There will be over twelve pages of Christmas
gifts in the December House & Garden. Each
gift is numbered, so that their ordering through
the Shopping Service is made a simple matter.
Of course, there are other things in the issue —
forty or more pages of other things. These you
can turn to when the shopping is done.

As there will be quite a demand for this issue
it might be wise to order your copy from the
news agent now.

Contents for November, 1922. Volume XLII, No. Five

COVER DESIGN BY BRADLEY WALKER TOMLIN

THE HOUSE & GARDEN BULLETIN BOARD 41

THE SILHOUETTE VALUE OF WROUGHT IRON 42

Lutton Abbotswood
DECORATIVE WROUGHT IRON

Giles Edgerton
"PARCE HOUSE," NEW YORK CITY

Frederick Sterner, Architect

How TO BE HOMELY THOUGH HANDSOME

THE MANOR HALL

C. M. Hart, Architect
EVOLVING A HOUSE PLAN

Lutton Abbotswood
OCCASIONAL CHAIRS

A. T. Wolfe
THE GALLIC TREND IN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE

H. D. Eberlein
COLLECTING MEXICAN MAIOLICA

Gardner Teall

A LITTLE PORTFOLIO OF GOOD INTERIORS -J/

THE BUNGALOW PROBLEM

C. A. Ziegler
USING RED IN DECORATION °^

YOUR SHUTTERS AND YOUR HOME

Amelia Leavitt Hill

SOLVING THE GARAGE PROBLEM 64

IF You ARE GOING TO BUILD 66

Mary Fanton Roberts
STAINS AND ENAMELS 68

Henry Compton

A GROUP OF THREE HOUSES 69

A GARDEN IN THE AIR 72

Minga Pope Duryea
THE LINEN ON THE LINE 73

Verna Cook Salomonsky
UNCOMMON SHRUBS 74

H. Stuart Ortloff
PLANNING THE KITCHEN 76

Nina Wilson Badenoch
HOUSEHOLD WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 77

Ethel R. Peyser
WHEN You PLAN YOUR GARDEN 78

Richard H. Pratt

FOR EARLY CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS 80

THE GARDENER'S CALENDAR 82

PAGES FROM A DECORATOR'S DIARY 84

Ruby Ross Goodnow

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A particularly successful combination of distinctive Schumacher fabrics

Rare old fabrics suggest designs

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OLD documents treasured in the Musee des
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the figured fabrics in this group.

The originals were created during the reign
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producing symmetrical forms of unrivalled
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The exquisite lampas in the center with the
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The
HOUSE & GARDEN

BULLETIN BOARD

DURING the past year Pittsburgh, "The
Mother of Millionaires", permitted to be
razed one of the finest examples of early
American architecture to be found in Western
Pennsylvania. "Homewood", the famous old
Wilkins mansion, was a distinctive landmark of
that city. Erected in 1832, it expressed the high-
est attainment of the Neo-Greek style in domestic
architecture. As he city grew, it encroached on
the lands of this great estate. Finally even the
house itself was threatened. Opportunity was
given, it is said, for public spirited citizens to
save this structure, but it was evidently not the
will of the people. Parts of the magnificent
portico are being preserved for exhibition in the
large museum of the Carnegie Institute.

Thus passes one of our fine old country homes,
a house worthy of preservation and restora-
tion. Thus also are passing equally fine and his-
toric homes and buildings in various parts of the
country.

Isn't it about time that Americans look to the
preservation of these landmarks? Or has our
foreign population so overwhelmed us that we
cannot rouse enough interest and support for
such a worthy object?

The mere fact that a building is old should
not be the sole guiding reason for saving it. If
it has historic associations, then patriotic organi-
zations can strive to save it. But when a house
is lacking in these associations but is a fine ex-
ample of the architecture of its period, that merit
alone should justify its preservation. We should
keep our old examples, cherish them, restore
them to their erstwhile grandeur, for the inspira-
tion and instruction of future generations.

House & Garden is seriously devoted to better-
ing architecture in America. It believes that,
unless these old examples of fine architecture are
saved, we will lose our standards. Will the
readers of House & Garden support it in this ef-
fort to preserve these buildings?

LAST spring several of our magazines print-
ed a strange appeal. It was made in the
name of one Charles Chapin, an inmate of
Sing Sing, for bulbs and perennials for a garden
he was putting in there. Some thirty of more
gardeners contributed seeds and bulbs that ranged
into the thousands. One garden enthusiast in
Massachusetts sent a hundred plants of hardy-
phlox, a hundred choice iris, thirty-six peonies
and several dozen lily bulbs. Never before has
there been a peony grown in the Sing Sing prison
grounds; next year there will be more than a
hundred, and at least a thousand iris plants. Sev-
eral new flower beds have been put in, one of
them 469 feet long. An amazing achievement un-
der such limitations.

A parallel story to this is the report of the
San Francisco Dahlia show, held in San Francis-
co August 31st to September 2nd. The prize
for the best display by a public institution was
awarded to dahlias from The Garden Beautiful,
the development at San Quentin penitentiary.
Three fiousand blooms, representing two hun-
dred varieties of dahlias grown in the prison
yard by the convicts, were exhibited. As any
gardener can realize, this dahlia development
must be quite extensive — and yet it is the out-
growth of a single tuber mailed to one of the
prisoners several years ago.

Thus in two great prisons at least, men come
forth from their cells to grow flowers. A strange,
albeit ironic, fullfillment of Abraham Cowley's
wish for a small house and a large garden !

TO the casual reader of this issue it may
seem absurd for us to publish an article on
weights and measures as applied to the
kitchen; but the careful householder will think
quite the opposite. Human nature being as it
is, our communities are obliged to maintain spec-
ial departments whose duty it is to see that the
citizens are not short-weighted.

At present there is quite a lively crusade on
against short measures at gasoline filling stations.
While the majority of men in business are rea-
sonably honest, and know that petty disonesty,
such as short measuring, never pays, there are
numbers who are careless in these matters.
Counter scales an ounce or two off may eventu-
ally be apprehended by the municipal inspectors,
but the housewife can help a lot by checking up
such possible shortages with the intelligent use
of scales and measures in the home.

IT was a wise vision that first conceived the
idea of laying memorial roads to our sol-
diers, instead of spending the public contri-
butions on statues that are artistically questioned
able. The memorials that were erected after the
Civil War — and what town and hamlet isn't dis-
figured by them? — stand to-day as constant re-
minders of an era of bad taste. We couldn't
possibly repeat these mistakes. Instead, we have
laid out good roads, roads which make easy the
transportation between town and country,

France, it seems, has fallen into our old post-
Civil War bad habit. Pass through France to-
day; each city and litte town has its statue — and
each is worse than the one before. The same
money would have built a section of good road
and planted trees along its sides.

In Utica, Ohio, a citizen, who recently died,
left a sum of money to be expended on a four
mile section of permanent brick road. It is a
unique memorial and wor.hy of emulation.

AC.

INTERIOR Decoration is the handmaid of
Architecture. And the handmaid has now
grown Ip to an amazing stature. Hereto-
fore decoration and the decorative arts were al-
ways included among the exhibits at the annual
show of the New York Architectural League. Of
hte years there has been almost as much decora-
tion as architecture. It was a wise and natural
progression, then, for the Arts-In-Trades Club of
New York to initiate its own salon. This was
opened in late September and the exhibition
continued through October. It is, in a
manner of speaking, purely a male exhibit, as
the Arts-In-Trades does not include among its
members any of the women decorators. Con-
sequently there was a decided air of masculinity
and formality about the show. In another year,
when the movement shall have gotten into
stride, these annual exhibits should be of primary
artistic importance. It has made a brilliant
and courageous start. It may be expected to do
some really important things in the years to come,
least of all of them being that such a series of an-
nual exhibits must certainly emphasize the impor-
tance of this popular phase of architecture and
show by means of actual examples the means and
methods of properly decorating our houses.

THE old-fashioned autumn flower show,
which was not unlike the country fair,
with its exhibits of huge pumpkins and
autumn chrysanthemums, has, of late years, been
supplanted by exhibitions of dahlias. In this
country dahlia enthusiasm almost threatens to
rival in fervor and popularity the tulip craze of
old Holland. Consequently, the American Dahlia
Society finds the culmination of its efforts each
year in an annual exhibit in New York.

The exhibition held in the latter p^rt of
September quite outran previous shows in the
quality and quantity of bloom and in the atten-
dance of dahlia fans. More than half a million
blooms were exhibited. These came from over
a hundred piofessional growers and amateurs, and
ranged in size from the huge blooms to the •
tiniest mignons. Among the exhibits were three
hundred new seedlings, showing some variation
from parent plants.

Of course, professional growers of dahlias find
this one of the best opportunities to show their
new creations and achievements, but it is a good
sign that each year at these shows more and
more amateurs are exhibiting. The average
amateur gardener may be inordinately proud of
his floral achievements when he compares them
with a neighbor's; comparing them with the
work of a professional, however, is a prospect
that is apt to dampen his ardor. This modesty
is natural, but it ought not to deter amateurs
from venturing into these annual shows. And to
this end we feel it would be doing a great service
to floriculture if more estate owners would plan
to exhibit at these annual shows. It would not
only awaken more public interest in flowers,
but would give both the owner and his gardener
a justifiable reason for pride.

FREDERICK Sterner, whose "Parge House"
is shown in this number, might be called the
father of town house remodeling. It was Mr.
Sterner who first transformed a row of brick houses
on East l°th Street, New York City, into an un-
usual architectural group that has added to the
picturesqueness of the Gramercy Park section of
the metropolis. From that beginning has grown
a lively movement to remodel old brick and
brownstone town houses, not only in New York
but in other cities.

Nina Wilson Badenoch, author of "Planning
The Kitchen", is in the House Service Depart-
ment of the People's Gas Light & Coke Company
of Chicago and is an authority on the planning
of new kitchens and the rearranging of old ones.

H. Stuart Ortloff, who contributes the article
on Uncommon Shrubs, is a landscape architect
located in New York and is editor of the bulle-
tin issued by the New York City Garden Club.

G. A. Ziegler, whose Colonial bungalow is
shown further on, is an architect practicing in
Philadelphia.

A. T. Wolfe, who writes on "Occasional
Chairs'', an absorbing subject both for the col-
lector and the decorator, is an English authority
on furniture and decoration.

Verna Cook Salomonsky, whose "Linen on the
Line" should help solve the Monday laundry
problem, is an architect practicing in New York
and a lecturer on architecture.

House &t Garden

Arnold Genthe

THE SILHOUETTE VALUE OF WROUGHT IRON

When it serves as grille to a doorway or
window, wrought iron has two-fold
beauty: outside, its design and texture are
contrasted with the wall surface; inside,
it is silhouetted against the light. On the
inside it also serves to break the view 'into
irregular panels that are easily grasped by
the eye. An example of this inside beauty

is found in the entrance doors of the home
of John D. Rockefeller at Pocantico Hills,
N. Y. The door is of simple, bold design.
Through lit one catches glimpses of the
gardens, with the reproduction of Gio-
vanni da Bologna's heroic statue at Flor-
ence and the terrace balustrade in the fore-
ground. Welles Bosworth was the architect

November. 1922

DECORATIVE WROUGHT

An Appreciation of Some of the Modern Work Designed by
American Architects and Executed by American Craftsmen

IRON

JUST a little way beyond Heidelberg you
come to that famous and absurd little
rivulet called the Tauber, a narrow stream
meandering with gentle dignity through
primitive Bavarian villages. And on the
banks of this stream, every few
miles, a little group of crouching
gray houses with their gay
flowering roofs circle about a
tiny church with a tall severe
steeple.

But in these old and somber
lonely churches are many things
besides fervid preachers and
devout worshippers. In the
windows, for instance, are often
the finest bits of old stained
glass, deep wine red and sap-
phire blue and clear rose, as
beautifully patterned and col-
ored as the Rose Window in the
great Strassburg Cathedral. And
often, too, the light from the
glowing glass streams down over
altars of startling beauty, carved
in the glory of Bavarian mediae-
val art — as for instance the
altar of the great Reimen-
schneider at Detwang in that
forlorn,, tiny church of the
neglected little village, to reach
which you cross the splendid
1 2th Century bridge over which
crusading knights passed out of
view, wearing the colors of the
sad ladies left behind.

There are twelve gates to this
ancient city of Rothenburg, and
by every gate is a special tower
and up the old stone stairways
of each tower you pass from
time to time the most wonderful
wrought iron grilles of the most
famous Bavarian craftsmen.
And also in this i2th Century
city every house of any preten-
sion has the most delicate, lace-
like grilles of iron that make us
think of Maurice Hewlett's

GILES EDGERTON

ladies with their eyes like doves, and their
fragile bodies like old Nuremburg Madon-
nas. There are also oriel windows on the
corners of some of the oldest houses in
Rothenburg, and there are rich and ornate

An unusual effect^ almost the effect of stained glass, is given this entrance
door by the bird in wrought and repousse iron. H. T. Lindeberg was
the architect and Samuel Yellin, of Philadelphia, was the craftsman

wrought iron grilles in these projecting
windows. There is a delightful story about
these oriels which invariably are the homes
of the bakers, or have been inherited from
baker ancestors.

It seems that many years ago
when the French were trying to
invade Rothenburg the bakers
at night, preparing the morning
loaves and rolls, heard the
shoveling and pounding of the
invading army in their effort
to dig an underground passage.
And because the bakers saved
their town, the greatest honor
was given them — that of the
use of the oriel window with a
wrought iron grille.

Since then the history of
wrought iron has kept pace with
every famous development in
architecture; magnificently in
Italy, with quaint picturesque-
ness in Spain, with lace-like
beauty in France, more robustly
in England; and now its Western
course has brought it to
America, first of all to the
Southeast down in Matanzas
in Cuba. This, of course, is a
direct inheritance from Spain.
One would know that, without
tracing the history, because the
designs, simple and exquisitely
fine, are the traceries one re-
members in the stone carving
of Arabia, India and Algiers. In
these wonderful old plaster
houses at Matanzas windows
are completely hidden under
the frosty, fine grilles. Even
the great half circle windows
under the plaster arches carry
their web-like drawn wire
grilles, and the railings down
the tattered old stairways and
in front of the narrow porches
are magnificent specimens of
old iron work. And all the

House &° Garden

Flat iron strips U'cre used in
creating the garden grille of this
gateway at Qiianabacoa, Cuba

An overdoor in lite
Carr residence, Lake
Forestall. H.T.Linde-
berg, architect; Oscar
BachStudios, craftsmen

The overdoor in the residence of Frederick
Hump/tries, Morristown, A". /., is an intricate
design of birds, flowers and scrolls. H. T. Linde-
bcrg, architect; Oscar Bach Studios, craftsmen

most splendid gateways have their outer
iron doorway finely wrought in simple
but exquisite pattern. America has seen no
finer ironwork than that on the facade of
the Quinta de Cardenal at Matanzas.

Of course, many of the early settlers
brought in turn examples of ironwork
peculiar to their own country, or at least
they brought the memory of it and the
craftsmen. Consequently fine examples of
English ironwork are to be seen in Charles-
ton, also something of the French work;
and further down, in Louisiana, we find the
iron craftswork almost wholly
French, and frequently cast
iron, rather than wrought, but
this exceedingly good of its
kind.

In St. Augustine the Spanish
influence is again noticeable in
the iron grilles and railings and
balustrades, but here it is
more of the north of Spain,
more removed from the Moor-
ish influence.

For a time all quality and
beauty seemed to disappear
from iron making in this
country, and cast iron, along
with every sort of other fac-
tory product, had its day in
the Victorian era. When we
first began to manufacture in
America we were very proud
of it and quite excited about
it and the machine-made pro-
duct affected all craftsman-
ship. Our industrial arts lost
personality and beauty, and
we seemed only to want what
was turned out of the factory,

Detail of gale at work-
shop of Samuel Ycllin,
craftsman; designed by
Mellor, Mcigs & Howe,
architects, Philadelphia

November, 1922

Elaborate strap hinges on a door of plain wood is
the effective treatment used in this residence at
Minne/onka, Minn. H. T. Lindebcrg, architect;
executed in the shop of Samuel Yell in, craftsman

characterless and without individuality. This
dismal state of affairs lasted until travelers to
Europe began to realize that we were doing
something very clumsy indeed wherever we
were using iron, just as we were doing clumsy
things with our architecture, with our clothes;
and though our manners were not clumsy,
they were so unreal that it didn't much mat-
ter about them.

The next stage was the bringing over of
beautiful examples of iron of the finest wrought
variety, to be used in this country. We brought
gateways from Spain and grilles from Bavaria
and fine old balustrades from England; we
brought them from churches
and palaces and little houses.
In the main they did not suit
our lives or our architecture,
•except where they were in the
hands of artists who built up
about them, and developed
more beautiful architecture be-
cause of the inspiration of some
little bit of wrought iron or fine
•old carving.

It is really only within the
last few years in this country
that we have begun to create a
type of wrought iron that essen-
tially belongs to our American
•country houses, that is designed
for them and wrought for them,
done by modern craftsmen with
feeling and imagination. We
are showing in the illustrations
of this article some of the
wrought iron influenced by tra-
dition, as the beautiful gates and
arches on the estate of John D.
.Rockefeller, which are typically
(Continued on page 100)

Drawn wire grilles and wrought
iron balustrades are combined in
this house at Matanzas, Cuba

The peacock window
grille designed by H.
T. Lindeberg, architect;
Oscar Bach Sliidios,
were the craftsmen

Wrought iron frame of
terrace arbor on the
Rockefeller estate, Po-
cantico Hills. Welles
Bosworth, architect

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Gillies

Old English oak used in Tudor paneling
establishes an atmosphere of dignity in
the drawing room. An interesting feature
in the farther corner is the stairs, with an
elaborately carved antique post of old oak

(Below) In Mr. Sterner's library the main
points of interest are the oak ceiling
beams, which form the construction of
the floor above, the 15th Century English
glass and the old French mantelpiece

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The Tudor oak paneling and the tray
of the drawing room have been re-
peated in the dining room, giving a
sense of continuity to these adjoining
rooms. Wide oak floor boarding used

"PARGE HOUSE"

The Residence of

Frederick Sterner, Architect

New York City

November,

The other end of the drawing ro?m finds its
interest in a beautiful old Tudor fireplace, above
which hangs a tapestry of the period. Thr
hardware for this room and the rest of the house
was made in England by specialists in this style

A combination of red
brick, white stucco and
pargetry are used in the
finish of the walls.
Wrought iron grills and
balconies and window
wood trim in green make
this a colorful exterior

''Purge House" was so
named because of the
English purge work used
on the extension. Leaders
and gutters ore of decora-
tive cast lead. Variegated
colored slate was chosen
for the steep, effective roofs

House & Garden

HOW TO BE HOMELY THOUGH HANDSOME

The Problem Which the 2Oth Century Architect is Gradually Solving is to Design
Houses that are Both Livable and Distinguished

THE passion for display, the desire to make a splash, to im-
press and astound the common herd, are habits of mind
which seems to have gone out of fashion in these democra-
tic days. Aristocrats who, in the past, would have rolled about
in huge gilded coaches attended by troops of retainers in livery,
prefer nowadays to glide along unobserved in the comparative ob-
scurity of a closed limousine: Two hundred years ago the great
Lady Mary Montagu found it impossible to settle in Naples on
the grounds of expense; a lady of her rank could not have held
up her head in Naples without a glass coach, two gentlemen ushers,
four running footmen to go before her carriage when she rode
abroad, and eight other servants for the house. One could not be
a person of distinction in Naples on less. True, the Neapolitan
nobility never entertained and lived principally on dry bread and
olives. But that did. not matter so long as the appearance of
grandeur was kept up before the public.

IT was only natural that this passion for display and exterior
grandiosity should have had its effect upon architecture. The
houses of the 17th and 18th Century showed traces of the
dominating fashion at every turn. Long vistas'led up to imposing
facades; long suites of reception rooms, all carved and painted and
gilt, receded majestically away as one entered the house. Ceilings
were raised to preposterous heights, the lofty doorways seemed
built for giants, the great staircases were wide enough for two
coaches to pass one another with a foot or two to spare. The
effect was overwhelming; and if, as was often the case, the bed-
rooms were dark and low and uncomfortable, if the servants had
to sleep in pigeon-lofts and dog-holes, what did that matter?
These little inconveniences were not noticed by any one outside
the family. The public saw the facade, the reception rooms, the
great staircase — and was duly impressed. The rest was of no
importance.

But display, as we have sa'd, has gone out of fashion. We
now reserve the best of our houses for ourselves and not for others ;
we arrange our architecture, not for display, but for modest retire-
ment. Houses that in the past would have turned their best face
to the road, inviting attention and admiration from the passers-by,
now lavish their beauties on the garden. Indoors, their reception
rooms are no longer designed to impress and overwhelm; they are
designed to be comfortably lived in, and the rest of the house, so
often sacrificed to the past, is planned with the same loving care
as the more public rooms.

There can be no doubt that the waning of the fashion for
grandiosity and display has been, on the whole, extremely salu-
tary for all forms of architecture. The effects obtained by the old
architects were, no doubt, aesthetically splendid; but after all, a

house has to be lived in as well as looked at, and comfort was too
ruthlessly sacrificed to the grand fashion. Our retiring, inward-
turning way of life has led architects to study comfort and practi-
cal efficiency with a commendable earnestness. Even in buildings
where grandiosity and display are still important — in hotels, and
offices, and public buildings of all sorts — the splendor is always
combined with convenience in a way unknown in the past.

ALL reactions from an excess are liable to run, in the opposite
direction, into another excess as bad, very often, as the first.
This reaction from architectural display is no exception to the rule;
and though the excess of retiring modesty into which it has run
is not so bad as the excess of grandiosity from which it started,
though it has produced, as we have seen, useful fruits in the shape
of greater comfort and convenience, an excess it still is, an excess
that should be corrected. Fleeing from the grandiose and gaudy,
we too often find ourselves plunged into the merely pretty and
quaint.

What we need, here as in everything else, is a compromise be-
tween the two extremes — between uncomfortable pretentiousness
on the one side and convenient meanness on the other. We want
houses which, though they may be built primarily for the comfort
and aesthetic satisfaction of those who live in them, shall yet hold
up their heads before the outer world in a noble and dignified
manner.

There is evidence in much recent work that this necessity for
finding a compromise between the grandiose and the petty. is being
appreciated by contemporary architects. Symmetry, the digni-
fied facade, the plain room of classical proportions — these good
things are being rediscovered. It is being found that a house
may be comfortable, convenient, and thoroughly homely without
being made to look like a glorified cottage. The quaintnesses
and arty "features" of ten and twenty years ago are being relegated
to the limbo of dead fashions and we seem to be reaching out for
a grand style that shall also be homely and convenient.

IN the gradual evolution of this new style there can be no doubt
that business architecture has led the way. It is difficult
to make an office building look like a cottage, and what is more,
the business man who knows the commercial value of display does
not want it to look like a cottage. He wants it to be grand, and
at the same time he wants it to be convenient. Domestic archi-
tects are following suit, and the new houses that are now being
built show, more and more, a tendency to conform to the dignified
plan. One of these days, it may be, we shall find that we have
inaugurated a new and interesting phase in the history of our do-
mestic architecture.

November, 1922

THE MANOR HALL

The large manor hall is a feature of windows. In such a room the walls may

houses that follow the manor house type of be hung with tapestries, paintings of big

English architecture. It is a room of noble proportions and heads of game. Such ts the

proportions, paneled, with ceiling beams hall in the home of E. F. Hutton, Roslyn,

exposed, and lighted by large multiple L. I., of which C. M. Hart was the architect

House & Garden

The Geor-
gian is a
formal
type re-
quiring a
dignified
setting

EVOLVING A HOUSE PLAN

Some Suggestions on What To Do Before You Consult An Architect

LUTTON ABBOTTSWOOD

JUST as certain types of women
affect the floppy, Dolly Var-
den kind of hats because thry be-
lieve themselves to be Dolly
Varden types, so do certain kinds of
people prefer to live in Dutch Colo-
nial types of houses, or Georgian
Colonial, or English cottage or
Spanish. In fact, without drawing
too much on the imagination, in-
telligent and appreciating pros-
pective home builders might be
divided into these four groups,
with a minor group that sees it-
self living happily ever afterward
in a house of Italian precedents.
We hear a lot of talk about a
house expressing the personality of
the owner. This is a pretty phrase
which doesn't mean much. Houses
are typical of certain kinds of
people, and these kinds fall under
the heads noted above. The house
that expresses an owner's person-
ality is usually a nightmare of
architectural mistakes. Nothing
against the owner's personality,
you understand, only it simply
doesn't seem possible to crystalize
an individual personality into
brick, stone and timber.

Consequently, the first thing to
do when you have determined to

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14 » IB

Two plans are suggested for
the Georgian design. The
first places the kitchen in a
wing that balances the living
room porch. In the second
this extension becomes a
breakfast porch and the
kitchen is housed in the rear

build a house is to find into what
group you fall. Are you farm-
housey and Dutch Colonial? Or
formal and Georgian ? Or roman-
tic and Spanish? Or do you vis-
ualize your life and habits rather
steadily picturesque in the manner
of the English cottage ?

Frankly, such talk is anathema
to architects. Architects will say
that there are two ways of arriving
at a design for a house, and one is
right and the other is wrong. The
ideal way is to draw up rough
floor plans according to the re-
quirements and desires of one's
family, and then fit these plans to
an exterior design. You start with
the inside first and the outside of
the house comes last. According
to the wrong, but nevertheless more
popular method, you choose the
sort of house you want, and then
work the plans around until they
fit that design. With this method
looks come first. You proclaim
yourself as Dutch Colonial and
aren't ashamed.

Of course, all this is in the early
stages before you have discovered
the price of brick F. O. B. Haver-
straw. When you come to place
(Continued on page 122)

N ove mbe r , 1922

The Spanish type, suitable for the
South, Southwest, and southern Cali-
fornia, is built around three sides of a
patio, with the fourth side enclosed by
a pergola. Stucco walls and red tile
roof would be used. All the rooms,
of course", are on the one and only floor

The second plan for the Dutch Colonial house shows the
extension of the first plan repeated on the other end and
housing a library or sunroom. With slight alterations the
first of the Georgian plans could be used here very nicely

Dutch Colonial is a deservedly popular type. It has long,
low picturesque lines, rests comfortably on the ground
and can be erected in a number of materials — shingle,
whitewashed brick, clapboard, stone and hollow tile

House c° Garden

OCCASIONAL
CHAIRS

A. T. WOLFE

AN occasional chair is the rather
clumsy designation commonly ap-
plied to those chairs which are not part
of a set. The little pull-about living
room chairs, in odd shapes and sizes, are
"occasional," and the phrase also includes
detached easy chairs and may be even
extended to a small settee or love seat.
These chairs steadily increase in num-
ber and variety with the increase of
domestic comfort and luxury. Except

To right oj
table, a James
I oak chair, to
left a diaries
II. From P.

(Left) An Italian
1 6th Century chair
with tooled leather
back. Courtesy of
W. & J. Shane

(Right) An
English fire-
side chair of
the Georgian
period. Mon-
tague Flagg

A Qiieen Anne walnut occasional
chair with a back panel of gill gesso
on class. From II". fr /. Sloane

Charles II walnut chair

richly carved and gilded

'Hamp'.on Shops

Even the rocker can be an occasional chair. This
reproduction oj a. Revolutionary piece is covered with a
•water lily pattern of glazed chintz. Erskine-Danforlh

This mahogany Chinese Chippendale settee, which
could be classed with occasional chairs, has a covering
(f black but gay wool tapestry. Barton, Price &° Wilson

For occasional purposes one might
use this upholstered chair of
Chippendale lines. Erskine-Danforlh

November, 1922

in the sense of rarity, they cannot be said
to have existed in England at least much
before the Restoration. In mediaeval
times chairs of any kind were exalted
splendors, symbolizing rank and position,
a tradition which may be traced today in
the ceremony of taking "the chair."
The few Elizabethan chairs were straight-
backed and hard-seated, and must have
been uneasy enough even when miti-
gated by "quysshons"; the early Jacobean
chair had a certain charm but the chair
which was at once comfortable, conven-
ient, and decorative, had not yet been
evolved. In France and Italy, the
standard of domestic amenities was far
higher; all through the i6th Century the
light "conversation chair" ("Pour cacque-
ter et pour causer") was quite common in
France; the Prie Dieu was well known;
(Continued on puge g/f)

(Right) A Gothic
chair once owned
by Horace Wal-
polc. From Mon-
tague Flagg

An aged oak Jacobean chair, with
strap motif and patina finish.
Courtesy of the .Yea1 York Galleries

The William
and Mary love
seat above, is
in rose broca-
telle. Hamp-
ton Shops

The arms of
this old Eng-
lish chair have
carved eagle
heads. Mon-
tague Flagg

A Charles II occasional

chair Barton, Price &•

Wilson

A distinguished design for an occasional chair is found
in this reproduction of a 171/1 Century walnut piece
covered in gros point. 'Courtesy of the Hampton Shops

A Henry VIII corner chair of
interesting pattern in dark, turned
oak. Courtesy of P. Jackson Higgs

An i8th Century bergere, by Pergolesj, showing French
and Italian influence. It is enameled in cream with
red lined upholstery. Courtesy of P. Jackson Higgs

House & G ar den

THE GALLIC TREND IN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE

The Norman Manner has been Adapted for this Home at
St. Martins, near Philadelphia

HAROLD DONALDSON EBERLEIN

A HOUSE of pronounced character
is very like a person of pro-
nounced character. At first sight
it almost inevitably either excites
admiration or else arouses antipathy.
The only people who do not react, in one
way or another, to such an house or to
such a personality are very apt to be
"jelly-fish" themselves.

The house of Norman inspiration at
St. Martins, shown in the accompanying
illustrations, is no exception to the fore-
going generalisation. It has character,
very pronounced character, in abun-
dance. And it has stirred up a diversity
of comment, some of it intelligent, some
of it decidedly the reverse. Some hasty
folk have unsparingly condemned it as
a "terrible-looking thing;" others have
straightway praised it with an enthu-
siasm no less in degree than the vehe-
mence displayed by its detractors. It
is scarcely necessary to add, in passing,
that the house would not have been
published in these pages unless it had
been worthy of mention.
In forming our judg-
ment of a house there
are two determining fac-
tors— the style or man-
ner of its design, and
the plan which supplies
the skeleton that the
architectural style is
destined to clothe. The
first makes its appeal to
the aesthetic faculties ;
the second affects the
work-a-day, practical re-
quirements of the house-
holder. When the style
and the plan unite to
produce satisfaction, it
is safe to assume that
the final result will be
acceptable. When style
and plan do not hang
together, the result is
bound to be unfortunate.
There ought to be no
such thing as sacrificing
either style or plan, the
one to the other. Both
of them matter very
much indeed; both of
them are equally impor-
tant.

Now the plan of the
house at St. Martins is
thoroughly livable and
practical, as an exami-
nation will show. Everv

The entrance door is painted a luminous green
and is surmounted by a wrought iron grille
painted the same color. The arch is of stone

An agreeable texture is given the walls by the plaster being roughly
floated over rubble. The shutters are painted a light green The cor-
beled chimney base in this end indicates the position of a bedroom fireplace

convenience has been provided for, and
the disposition of all the rooms is such
that they are pleasant to be in and the
mechanics of housekeeping are assured
of orderly and easy working. Evidently,
then, style is the only point open to
discussion.

If there be any one thing more than
another that grievously disquiets certain
types of mind, it is the imputation of
admiring, or even approving, something
exotic. To them "exotic" is simply
"outlandish." "Exotic" is "outlandish,"
but in modern usage "outlandish" has
acquired a somewhat sinister and de-
rogatory sense, and it is in this modern
sense that they choose to apply it.

The first type of mind disquieted by
the exotic is a timid type of mind. It
isn't sure of its ground. Anything it
isn't used to arouses a sense of apprehen-
sion. It doesn't like to commit itself.
French frocks, French hats, French
pastry, French perfumes — yes, of course,
they are all right. The mind is quite
used to them. But as
for using French archi-
tecture for the dwelling
house? No. Why? They
aren't quite used to it!

On first seeing the
house at St. Martins, or
some other equally in-
teresting house of dis-
tinctly Gallic inspira-
tion, the person of
apprehensive mentality
is prompted to query
''Curious looking thing,
isn't it?" This is a
blind to avoid a direct
expression of opinion.
Once let a person of this
sort see that the house
at St. Martins is direct
and straightforward in
its simplicity, that its
proportions are just and
graceful, that its texture
and color are agreeable,
that its details are pleas-
ing— in other words,
that its style is good —
and they will get quite
ready to accept it, or
even to admire it. They
are open to conviction
and may be dealt with
gently.

It is easy to under-
stand what a shock to
(Cont'd on page 102)

November, 1922

The home o)
C. L. Ritchie, St.
Martins, Pa., is
an attempt to
express in local
terms the Nor-
man style. This
view shows the
east front and
north end. Will-
ing, Sims & Tal-
butt, architects

In the plan are found some uncommon features — the garage attached
to tht house by a porch, thr stair tower and circular stairs and the ar-
rangement of the service, which latter is especially convenient and workable

Along the garden
side of the house
between the two
flanking pavilions,
extends a paved
terrace covered with
iron treillage. This
is painted a cream

The garden front
faces a flat lawn
and an open space
still to be develop-
ed. The curved
wall at the farther
end is to begin
the garden wall

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• •

T H
O F

An albarello or drug
jar in Mexican maio-
'ica, with blue decora-
tion,1:. IKth Century

THE ancient Saracenic art of
glazing earthenware with ox-
ide of tin had a long journey
through history till it crossed the At-
lantic and was fostered in old Mex-
ico. Egypt and Persia had this art
of making maiolica ware from the
Saracens, whence it was carried into
Moorish Spain. From the Spanish
fabriques maiolica making was car-
ried into Italy, while from the Ital-
ian craftsmen the potters of
France received their inspiration for
their faience — just another word for
maiolica — and glazed earthenware
was then taken up by the potters of
Germany and of Holland. These few
facts will be interesting to note when
turning our attention to the little
known subject of the maiolica wares
of old Mexico.

Sometime in the 16th Century
Spanish potters were sent to the New
World and in Mexico successfully
applied their craft to native eaiths
lending themselves to maiolica manu-
facture. There they established, pot-
teries and before long transmitted the
secrets of their craft to the native
Mexican workmen. La Puebla de los
Angeles was, at this time, the town in
which the early Mexican and Spanish
maiolica-makers had set up their
ateliers, and for over three hundred
years this ancient city remained the
center of the Mexican maiolica in-
dustry. Barber tells us that native
workmen had long before produced
an unglazed ware in Mexico and had

A Mexican maio-
lica jar with poly-
chrome decorations
of the Pueblan style
oj 1840— 1860

E M A I O L I C A
OLD MEXICO

Our Neighbor to the South Furnishes This
Field for the Collectors of Keramics

GARDNER TEALL

Dat ing
1650 is
Itiver
strap —
loopn'ork
signs in

from
this
with
and
de-
blue

(Left) A

spherical jar
in red, yel-
low, green and
black dating
from I860

This lover or wash bowl in dark blue
decorations characteristic of the period
1660-1680. This and the other illus-
strations are shown by courtesy of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Silhouette style" de-
corations are found on
this mid-iS.th Century
specimen of albarello

continued its manufacture from the
time of the Spanish Conquest, so the
early Spanish potters merely trans-
mitted certain composition secrets to
native craftsmen already versed in
the principles of the oldest of the arts.

Dr. Edwin Atlee Barber's intro-
duction to the catalogue of the Emily
Johnston De Forest Collection of
Mexican Maiolica now in the Metro-
politan Museum of Art quotes the
following from Counsul-General
A. M. Gottschalk's report to the
State Department: "In the early
days of Puebla's history the Domi-
nican friars, struck by the aptitude
of their Aztec parishioners at making
crude native pottery, and desirous
also of obtaining tiles for the monas-
tery and church which they were
building, sent word to the Dominican
establishment at Talavera de la
Reina, in the province of Toledo,
Spain, that they could make good use
of five or six of the brotherhood who
were acquainted with the Spanish
process of pottery-making, if such
could be sent to them. Accordingly,
a number of Dominican friars,
familiar with the clay-working pro-
cess in use at Talavera, were assigned
to the Puebla house of their order,
and under them were trained a gen-
eration of workmen who for the first
few succeeding years produced some
excellent pieces."

Only within the last few years have
collectors and students of keramics
(Continued on page 114)

An example of the
"tattooed style" is
this vase with ani-
mal, bird and fern
decorations in blue

November, 1922 57

A LITTLE PORTFOLIO OF GOOD INTERIORS

The living room in
the home of William
H. Orchard, Rye, N. Y.,
of which exterior views
are shown on page 69,
is a comfortable and
livable mixture of
period pieces — an Ital-
ian refectory table and
wrought iron chair and
in the background a
Queen Anne chair and
a Welsh Dresser well
used for a bookcase

The dining room is
directly of the living
room. It also contains
a harmonious combina-
tion of styles, including
Queen Anne rush
bottom chairs, a Stuart
gate-leg table, and an
Italian credenza used
for serving table. The
valance over the re-
cessed wall is part of
a beautiful 18th Cent-
ury Portugese bedspread

House & Garden

Adjoining the,
dining r oom
in the apartment
of Mrs. Hill is
the living room.
Its furniture is
painted and
decorated with
a few pieces in
French Walnut.
Hangings and
furniture covers
are plum and
blue damask silk.

Delicate coloHng
characterizes the
sitting room in
the home of
Mrs. Edwafd
Roberts, Paoli,
Pa, Beige walls,
rose Direct oire
chintz and a
taupe rug accent
the garnet lac-
quer bookstands
Miss Gheen, Inc.,
•was thedecorator

November, 1922

The dining room
in the New
York apartment
of Mrs. Lucie C.
Hill is furnished
with French
Wa,tnu,t. Its
background is
old ivory on the
wolfs. Hangings
are of blue. Bar-
ton, Price &
Willson were
the decorators

In a room with
plain walls and
a plain carpet-
ing, color and
liveliness of pat-
tern can be
found, as here,
in such acces-
sories as lamps
and shades, chair
coverings and a
decorated screen.
Addis on Mizner
was the architect

House & Garden

THE BUNGALOW PROBLEM

Some Suggestions for the Prospective Builder

of the One-Story Type of House

CARL A. ZIEGLER

THE word "bungalow" con-
veys about as many dif-
ferent meanings as any other word
in the English language and
whether or not it originated in
India, as is commonly supposed,
it has come to be the shorter and
uglier word for a country house of
moderate size and usually means a
house not over one and one half
storeys in height.

The temperature of an archi-
tect's office usually drops several
degrees when a client announces
that he has come to have plans
made for a long cherished and
much studied bungalow.

Nevertheless, in these days of
high building costs, the bungalow,
or one of its derivatives, is perhaps
the only solution of the problem
for the prospective home builder
with a limited amount to expend,
and there is no reason why the re-
sult should not be successful from
both the artistic and utilitarian
standpoint.

It is one of the most difficult
types of houses to design success-
fully and there are certain general
principles that must be followed.
As most bungalows violate these
principles, the rules may be stated
in a purely negative fashion.

By the introduction of a second storey the first storey gable
is repeated above in this bungalow type of home, the resi-
dence of Clarence M. Brown at German! own, Pa.

1. Never plan the building with
two storeys and then attempt to
make it look like a one storey build-
ing. This is usually done by the
use of a gambrel roof with long
dormer windows that are nothing
more or less than second floor
walls, masquerading as dormers.
This is a much overdone stunt
and few have handled it success-
fully. It was done much better by
the early Dutch settlers in our Col-
onial days who treated the problem
frankly and did not try to make
two full storeys out of a one and a
half storey building.

In planning a bungalow it must
be rememtered that all the main
rooms shall be on the first floor;
such space as is used upstairs shall
be of minor importance. The rooms
on this first floor should be so
placed as to afford ease of com-
munication, which makes for ease
of living and an economy of space.

It is this economy and conveni-
ence that "bungaleers" want most
of all, and when they begin to
worry about stairs and upstairs
rooms they must make up their
minds to forsake much of each.
The hall should be reduced to a

In a bungalow the mam rooms should be on one floor. Here

a large hall serves as for living room. The dining room and

service are on one side.

Upstairs there was space for two bedrooms, a bath, large

closet and storage tucked away under the eaves. All of these

rooms are amply lighted.

November, 1922

The design and construc-
tion of the bungalow fol-
lows the Colonial stone-
work of eastern Pennsyl-
vania. Carl A. Ziegler, the
author, was the architect.

necessary minimum,
or an enlarged hall
may also serve as liv-
ing room. This can
extend through the
middle of the house
from front to rear.
Opening on one side
will be the dining
room, with kitchen and pantry extending
behind; opening on the other side will be
the bedrooms.

Although the location and use of the-
bungalow may not necessitate a cellar, the
foundations, however, have to be ample.
Walls of concrete, stone or brick wrll re-
quire a foundation of concrete or stone laid
to a solid footing below the frost line.
Bungalows of wooden construction would
be sufficiently supported by masonry piers
or posts set on stone footings.

As we have indicated, there are an in-
finite number of designs of bungalows. In
selecting a design, see that it is suitable
for the site. The seashore type will rarely
fit a forest setting, and the kinds that are
found in southern California, designed
along adobe and Spanish lines, would be
incongruous in suburbs of the Atlantic
seaboard.

2. Never try to get into the bungalow
the great multiplicity of conveniences that

are usually expected in a pretentious man-
sion. The result will undoubtedly be a
monstrosity. Simplicity is a sine Qua non
for a successful bungalow.

3. Never use elaborate architectural de-
tail for a house of this type. Ornamental
features of the "Classical Period'' are ludi-
crous when applied to a bungalow.

4. Don't think that 6' or 8' added to the
floor height can be concealed on the exter-
ior. Remember that if this building is to
merit the name of bungalow, it must set
low on the ground. Also keep the ceilings
low in small houses, if you would have a
pleasant external appearance.

5. Don't compete with "Joseph's Coat"
and try to use a dozen different materials
for the construction of your house. Use
one material and try to bring out the
natural beauty of that material. Stone,
shingles, clapboards, etc. are all capable
of splendid texture, if properly handled.

6- Don't expect your architect to include
in your bungalow all the fine things you see

The simplest sort of en-
trance portico and trim
carries on the Colonial
traditions. The walls are
whitewashed stone and
the roof is cedar shingled

in large houses.

Reducing the plan
of a large house to a
small compass always
leads t o disappoint-
ment. Decide upon
your minimum require-
ments and then permit
your architect to meet
these requirements in a rational manner,
having in mind the amount to be expended,
and you will probably avoid the common
type of bungalow that defies all known laws
of God and man.

The accompanying illustrations are of a
bungalow built of stone roughly laid and
whitewashed on completion. It is located in
that part of Pennsylvania where the Col-
onial style and the use of native stone made
these logical selections. Physical condi-
tions made it necessary for the owner to
live on one floor, which is perhaps one of
the best reasons for building a bungalow. It
entirely eliminates discussion of that much
mooted question of whether it costs less to
build up into the air or to spread out the
building on one floor. The living room,
dining room, bedrooms, bath, kitchen, etc.
are all on the first floor with only a ser-
vants' room, bathroom and a large storage
room on the second floor.

The house is designed after the early
(Continued on page 102)

House & Garden

USING RED IN DECORATION

The Conservative Use of This Color May Eventually
Justify Eugene Field's Famous Quip

EUGENE Field is reputed to have
said that he liked any color so long
as it was red. This quip generally
expresses the proverbial male opinion of
color. All men are supposed to like red.
That is why so many hotels and men's
clubs at one time were furnished in red.
Then for a while red as a color to be used
in furnishing passed under a cloud of dis-
favor— it was considered a vulgar taste.
Now the pendulum is swinging back and
the conservative use of red is being ap-
preciated— by both women and men.

Before one attempts to use red in deco-
ration she should understand the relation
of red to the other primary colors and the
variations of red which are available.

RED is the most intense of the three
primary colors, yellow, red, and blue,
and its place, midway between the
other two, is established by its progress
from white to black.

White, through its nearest equivalent
yellow, leads through orange up to red;
red passes down through the violets to that
blue which is nearest to black.

Generally speaking, the blue-reds which
shade to purple are softer than the yellow-
reds which turn towards orange.

Red includes all shades of purple and
pink, which is merely white tinted with
any bright red.

The reds may be said to fall into two
categories — the Iron (or earth) colors, and
the Crimsons, chemical derivatives. Vene-
tian, Indian, and Tuscan red, the ochres
(red ochre and light red) and the umbers
derive their color from iron and belong to
the first category.

The crimsons begin with carmine (made
from cochineal) and crimson lake, which
is a derivative of carmine. Alizarin crim-
son, a product of coal-tar, is useful, though
less vivid than the Madders which are
made from the madder root.

The iron colors have more body and a
greater covering capacity than the crimsons.
They are also cheaper and more generally
useful to the house painter for ordinary
purposes. Cinnabar, which is a mercuric
sulphide, provides vermilion, the brightest
red of all. The note of this red is too em-
phatic for general use; house decorators,
therefore employ it sparingly, and use it
chiefly to give accent and emphasis.

A touch of vermilion or bright scarlet
in a room tells instantly; it is more asser-
tive than any color, and this fact must be
borne in mind, if it is to be dealt with
successfully. If, for example, a cabinet of
red lacquer were to be placed in a room

BARRY KENNEDY

with parchment-colored walls, it would set
the key. Even in a large room this note
of color would remain dominant, though it
might have no stronger repetition than may
be afforded by one small piece of china
or embroidery.

ALTHOUGH there are difficulties
about using this glorious color in the
mass, they are not insurmountable.
Ceilings of vermilion can be extremely deco-
rative in lofty rooms, and the reflections
cast are distinctly good. For this purpose
a plain tempera paper will be found to be
more intensely red than one with a shiny
surface. When introduced in this way
vermilion will not be found exacting, nor
will it contract the apparent size of the
room. Scarlet walls, on the other hand,
would be likely to have that effect, since
red is an advancing color, and the brighter
the red the more it advances. If a room
of moderate proportions with hangings and
carpet of grey or of some quiet neutral
shade were to have the surrounding floor
painted in vermilion, it would look well
and yet not be obtrusive. But if a ver-
milion floor were to be introduced in juxta-
position to a black carpet, or in very pale
surroundings, it would be conspicuous,
though a room deliberately planned on
such a decorative scheme might evolve
charmingly.

Vermilion is a permanent color, but not
one of the cheapest, and substitutes known
as vermilionettes are often used for paint
work. There are others to be had ready-
mixed under various names, such as signal-
red, fire-red, which is similar to deep
vermilion, and so on.

If vermilion is to be lightened, pale
chrome yellow must be used, and not white
lead, as the latter simply turns the vermil-
ion to pink. Orange-vermilion is a pale
shade, 'but the color does not admit of much
variation. It cannot be darkened; when it
is mixed with Alizarin crimson it is called
scarlet-lake, and is still a vivid hue, but it
is no longer vermilion.

WHILE red has not the ' restful
qualities desirable in a bedroom, it
is counted suitable for dining rooms.
A full deep crimson paper makes a fine
background for old portraits and pictures
in gilt frames, and is highly appropriate
to solid, "handsome"' surroundings. Most
of the reds can also be trusted to light up
beautifully, though the shades with a
purplish cast are less reliable in this
respect.

Royal purple often looks gloomy at night,
and the reddish purples, such as maroon,

etc., are apt to turn an ugly vague brown.

Maroon is associated with the reds of
the middle 19th Century; terra-cotta was
the red for cultured folk in the eighteen
'eighties.

The trouble with all indeterminate "Art"
colors is that they are not improved by
time, and they look shabby when colors
of original strength and purity are only
growing mellow. This particularly applies
to curtains and brocades for upholstering,
and the more or less permanent and costly
things; wall coverings are, of course, easily
renewable. The old crimson brocades that
have come down to us from Carolean times
have scarcely suffered by the passage of
centuries.

Terra-cotta is a good and useful color
when properly understood. It should ap-
proximate to one or other of the beautiful
tones in old red-brick. A fine rosy terra-
cotta may be produced with Venetian red
for base brightened up with yellow ochre
and a little crimson lake. The color
known by artists as light red is made from
burnt yellow ochre, and is most valuable
for tempera work, as it is quite permanent.

The pink shades divide into the rose-
pinks and the yellow or salmon-pinks, and
with nearly all the pinks there is a ten-
dency to the insipid.

NO one color which is intelligently
handled can be earmarked as
"wrong" or "bad" more than an-
other, if the proportions in which it is
used have all been well considered, and
the effect of surrounding colors taken into
account. The style or period of the fur-
niture must also be considered. It must
be taken as a guarded statement that the
rose (or violet) pinks are less liable to-
insipidity than the yellow or salmons.
Certain of the violet-pinks which are in
high favor today err on the other side.
The red lampshade has many adherents,
and a certain decorative value cannot be
denied it, but for practical purposes it is
a wrong choice. A red light is bad for
the eyes and unsatisfactory for general
illumination. Red window blinds are an-
other matter; seen from the outside on a
winter night there is something cheerful
about the red light of the windows. When
drawn as a protection against the sun they
tend to look hot, though in reality they
keep the room cool by absorbing the sun's
rays. The old-fashioned Turkey red is
still unrivalled for country casements; for
little low windows the curtain should run
on a bright brass rod with rings, and these
dyed red will add to the effect.

November, i g 2 2

YOUR SHUTTERS AND YOUR HOME

These Decorative Adjuncts Have A Great Deal To Do
With The Appearance And Style Of A House

AMELIA LEAVITT HILL

IT is an axiom so old as to be hardly worth
the repeating that the home reflects the
personality of its owner. But this saying,
as generally considered, applies to the in-
terior of the home rather than to its external
appearance. Nor is there any reason why
this should be the case, for even the dweller
in one of the uniform types of houses which
usually compose a city street may, if he
will, impose his own taste and originality
upon as much of his house as is within the
ken of the passerby to an extent which may
seem at first glance hardly believable.
Conventional hangings of scrim with inset?
of filet or Renaissance lace, striking batik, a
gleam of bright silk, snowy or gay chintz
shades, window boxes with a touch of green,
all tell their own story. To be sure, in the
summer, or in the country home, it may be
told more openly; but even the city house,
or the country or suburban house in winter,
may give a hint as to the taste and person-
ality of the presiding genius within.

One of the most decorative adjuncts to
the house, of recent days, has become the
shutter. To be sure, this has not yet become
as universally recognized as it should be, as
is evident by the number of "blinds" very
evidently constructed with use alone, and
beauty not at all, in mind. Yet these aids
to decoration are coming into their own,
and a certain street which is famed for its

In Colonial houses full length shutters were often

used on the entrance. A 1753 example is found

in the Walcol House, Lilchjleld, Cl.

artistic atmosphere, owes its quaint and
delightful appearance largely to the thought
which has there been expended upon these
useful and decorative appliances.

What a variety of shutters is to be seen
of recent years! The choice of them is
legion for him who seeks more than a mere
protection from weather or mischance.
Here, indeed, originality may run riot with-
out fear of being conspicuous or in bad taste.
The old-time shutters, consisting of a mass
of slats, though less popular than they were
— owing, perhaps, to their lack of decorative
quality — are still preferred by some house-
holders, because of the free passage of the
air, grateful in the heat of summer, which
the slats permit. A room may be shadowed
by the closing of such "blinds" without the
shutting off of outside air, which at certain
seasons is an advantage not to be despised.
Also, shutters of this kind are sometimes
divided and hinged horizontally, so that
while the upper part remains close to the
window, the lower projects after the man-
ner of an awning, thus making further pro-
vision against the sun unnecessary.

A variant of this form of shutter is that
which has the old-fashioned slats at either
top or bottom, with the solid portion, in-
versely, above or below. They are made in
both ways, but the more satisfactory
(Continued on page 86)

The Georgian pa-
neled shutter gave
a dignified finish
to the old-time
window. This
type is found on
the Morris House
in Philadelphia,
dating from 1790

Shutters pierced
with amusing de-
signs can be used
effectively on Co-
lonial and English
cottage types of
houses. This de-
sign is by Dwight
James Baum

Inside shutters are found in two types of houses— the Colonial, where they
were folded back into the window casing, and in old English houses^ where
they were used, as here, to cover a range of casement windows. This is from
the home of Alan Lehman, Tarrytown, N. Y. John Russell Pope, architect

House & Garden

SOLVING THE
GARAGE PROBLEM

The garage is beneath this home
in the Country Club District oj
Kansas City, E. K. Delk, architect

In order to camou-
flage the doors of
this garage and to
break the effect of
the solid wall, the
doors and the frame
were covered with
decorative lattice.
Dwight James Baum
the architect

When located as a
separate building,
the garage should
harmonize with the
house. This was
done on the proper-
ty of H. L. Fox,
Kansas City. Shep-
crd, Farrar & Wis-
er were the architects

November, 1922

INSIDE AND WITHOUT
THE HOUSE

On the place of J. P. Caliill, Green-
wich, Ct., the garage is an extension
F. P. Whiting, was the architect

'Where the house is
built on a hillside it
.is a simple matter
to place the garage
on a level below
the first floor. This
is the treatment in
the residence above.
Stepping stones
.up to the porch

•On a fairly level
plot the garage en-
trance may be ex-
cavated to the cel-
lar floor level, and
supported by walls,
as in the home of J.
C. Shapiro, Kansas
•City. Van Brunt &
Hertz, architects

House & Garden

IF YOU ARE GOING TO BUILD

The Windows Should Be Considered From Their Most

Important Angle — the Inside of the House

MARY FANTON ROBERTS

AS windows belong primarily to
the inside of the house, it is
from there they should first be
considered. Anything they may have
done to influence the exterior architec-
ture of the house — and no other one
thing has done more, has been because
somebody, forgotten ages ago, wanted
for his room some daylight, air, and a
view. Ever since, they have been as-
suming greater importance as part of
the decoration of the outside walls, until
now their first excuse for existence
seems in some slight danger of neglect.
To reiterate, — daylight, air, and a view
are good things to keep in mind when-
ever the subject of windows comes up.
Art and ingenuity may be depended
upon to make the most of the holes
windows pierce in the walls of the
house. A house without windows, un-
less another means of decoration were

Window openings that fit in groined
arches and show a wide stucco reveal
can only be filled by leaded case-
ments, as in this example oj which
Johnson & Ford were the architects.

substituted on the walls, would be apt
to rise from the ground a somewhat dis-
mal structure. Yet, from the outside,
these openings serve no practical pur-
pose. They are extremely awkward en-
trances, and the last thing we would
want them to do is to destroy the
privacy of the home. But because they
are so important a part of the exterior
design we should pay some attention
to the effect their size and spacing will
have upon the house from without when
we are determining their proportions
and positions within.

There is a temptation to have too
many windows and to have them too
large. We try to get more sunlight, air,
and view than we can actually use, and
we spend the rest of our indoor days
behind h&lf-drawn shades and half-
closed windows. Look at the houses in

(Continued on Page 110)

French windows and casements, curt-
ained in flowered chintz, flood with
light this colorful living room that
is used as a dining room as well. Rich-
ard H. Dana, Jr., was the architect.

November, 1922

II ill

ii mi iii

in iy iir
Hi m *•'

A bow-window composed of
fourteen casement sash swung
from various angles. From
International Casement Co.

(Bottom) A row of case-
ments nicely proportioned to
the wall space. Trowbridge
& Ackerman are the architects

(Below) A richly designed
Paladian window in the Kitt-
ridge house at Andover,
Mass. Built in the year 1784

Irregularly shaped leaded
panels are used very effective-
ly in these casements designed
by C. M. Hart, architect.

(Bottom) French windows
that hardly pause between
dining room and lawn.
Charles A. Platt, architect.

(Below) An arched window
in the Burden house; refined,
and well curtained. Delano
&• Aldrich were the architects.

There is a singularly effective association between the
casement window and such English period settings as
in this case, the Jacobean. Alfred Hopkins, architect

House & Garden

STAINS

AND

ENAMELS

Which Make Possible the Home Builder s Desire for Color,
Charm and Health Inside the House

AN appreciation of the natural surface
of wood is again gaining way in this
country. In the centuries of domestic
architecture that swung through England,
France, Italy, Spain, and even occasionally
the Orient, there was a recurring fashion
for the natural surface of wood in furniture
and house decoration. There seem to have
been real lovers of wood in almost every
period of home ornamentation from the
very earliest days. And then there has
nearly always been the more florid spirit
of decoration, the mind that feels that
every process of construction must be con-
cealed, that only painting and carving and
inlay are fine and elaborate enough for
what has been so much admired in so
many worlds by aristocrat society.
Sometimes one phase of this decoration en-
tirely overlays and obliterates the other, and
sometimes they move side by side, as in
some of the famous English periods, in
France in Louis Seize and Empire, in Spain
in those splendid days of the Moorish in-
vasion.

The hiding of wood under paint, varnish,
lacquer, enamel and inlay came about for
two reasons, one the unquenchable love of
color that has prevailed from the very be-
ginning of time in the hearts of men where-
ever homes were planned or decorated. And
the other, the curious idea that a shining,
perfect surface is more interesting and
elegant than the natural wood grain with
all its intricacy, half revealed beauty and
appeal to the imagination. Also, the use
of paints, lacquers, etc. enabled the cabinet-
makers to use less expensive woods, and
apparently this sort of economy was just
as necessary for Sheraton and Chippendale,
for the craftsmen in the courts of Louis XV,
as it is today in our great factories in
America.

AS a rule, whenever the really signifi-
cant woods were employed, the sur-
face was treated by hand with wax
after oil had been applied for days at a
time, to bring out the utmost beauty and
color of which the wood was capable. This
was the case with oak and walnut in 1650,
with cedar in 1660, cherry in the Carolean
epoch, but not so of beech and birch, ex-
cept in the Colonial times, when beech and
birch as well as pine were treated by hand,
and the most beautiful results gained, which
has put a value on these particular pieces of
furniture that is almost limitless.

When pine was used, carved and waxed
after being first stained with oil, in the 17th
Century in England, it was called deal and
a beautiful example of it was shown in

HENRY COMPTON

New York last season, the woodwork of
the Hogarth house, fascinating in its color
and carved, and even painted white. It
learned quickly to be perfectly unnatural.
When wood was most elaborately painted in
England and France by Hepplewhite,
Sheraton and the Louis Seize designers,
pine, pear, holly, baywood and lime wood
were used, both for gilding and white
painting.

IN India, the finest woods, teak, mahog-
any and ebony, were never painted,
but treated for durability and to
achieve a very dull finish. For the
finest inlay of the greatest furniture crafts-
men, mahogany was the favorite — San
Domingo, Honduras and Cuban and the
clouded grained mahogany from Spain.
Chippendale preferred especially the Span-
ish mahogany to any other wood. The
first mahogany was brought to England
by Sir Walter Raleigh and was widely
used after 1720. At first it was treated
with oil, waxed by hand, but eventually
it was varnished and inlaid and lacquered
Although craftsmen of all times really
have loved the natural surface of wood,
often the world at large has craved color to
the extinction of wood surface. This was
true back in the days of the Persians; the
finest of the Greek architecture and sculp-
ture was painted; as was, to an extent, the
most brilliant of Roman achievement in
decoration. From the llth Century through
the Renaissance an almost violent craving
for color brought painted decoration into
architecture and house decoration at every
turn, from the altar in the cathedrals to the
beams and timbers of the houses, color
blazed forth. In many English cathedrals
and smaller churches the removal of plaster
discloses a wealth of color on the inner
stone.

FURNITURE, as is always the case,
took its tone from contemporary archi-
tecture. In the early European days
both furniture and decorations were archi-
tectural in form and often brilliantly
colored. Especially among the Dutch and
Bavarian and Italian peasantry was color
used, sometimes merely to bring out the
tracery of finely carved woods, sometimes
to entirely hide the woodwork in rich tones
and gay ornamentation. We find it
especially noticeable in England in the
Middle Ages, a very passion for gorgeous
colors, with ornately carved armoires, over-
laid with gilding and rich diaper work, and
scarlet and blue, chocolate and green,
heraldic devices blazened in rich tones.

IN the 18th Century Adam, Hepple-
white and Sheraton, at times resorted
to paints and lacquers and inlay to
please their royal customers. Even in the
Tudor days, old cupboards were vividly
painted with vermillion and green ; and the
polychrome treatment appeared upon the
chests and coffers. All through the
Jacobean times carved ornament was en-
hanced with color, and in the later days of
this period marqueterie also appeared.

Of course, when Cromwell came to the
throne, with his meagre, stern spirit, color
again vanished from the land. Form in
furniture was much simplified and made to
suit the spirit of this man who feared all
beauty. But after his day, during the
Carolean spirit, through, the reign of Queen
Anne, through the bright days of William
and Mar}-, paints and gilt and lacquer
dominated again, and then on at intervals
through many periods down to the late
Queen Victoria.

Early in the 18th Century, just when
there was less painted furniture in Eng-
land, it was rapidly increasing in France
through the influence of Vernis Martin, who
early in life was a decorator of coach doors,
but who became, in time, the vogue
throughout France. About this time An-
gelica Kauffmann and Cipriani were doing
work exquisite in color and finish, and
Biedemeyer was painting interesting deco-
rations in fascinating form.

IT was the French really who first
brought our painted furniture to a
high degree of brilliance, with their
lacquers and shellacs and varnishes, and
the fancy for this glittering surface rapidly
spread over the world, so varied were its
advantages. For with all the beauty
attached to the natural surface of wood,
either stained or waxed, there is a certain
fascination in the highly finished surface,
not to mention the ease of caring for it, and
its sanitary quality, which have brought it
a popularity.

TODAY there are probably no more
varying finishes for woodwork in our
houses than stains and enamels, and
yet this is scarcely a complete characteri-
zation, because there are also stains that
carry their own varnish, so that it is possible
at one and the same time to get a stain and
yet have a highly polished surface. Ap-
parently the makers of the stains today are
studying every phase of the question of
decoration, and homemakers stains appro-
priate for the lovers of natural wood sur-
(Continued on page 130)

November, 1922

Gillies

The home of William H. Orchard, architect, at Rye, N. Y., shows in its
design the influence of the English cottage. The first floor and entrance
extension are of old brick with broken headers, not laid in any partic-
ular bond, but set more or less at random, to give a rough texture. Above
this is stucco in natural color vjith its surfaces occasionally made irregular

A GROUP OF THREE HOUSES

Two American Suburban Homes and the Third An
English Seashore Place

Porch, living and
dining room occupy
the front of the
first floor. Service
is in an extension,
with a library placed
in an inside corner.

Instead of using the
usual shrubbery, the
front lawn is
planted to berry
bushes and fruit
trees with an
occasional birch

The owner's suite
consists of bath-
room, bedroom and
sleeping porch. Two
other large bed-
rooms and a bath
complete this floor

House & Garden

The residence of Charles E.
Dancey, Lynbrook, L. I., re-
calls in its lines both Long
Island and Pennsylvania
Dutch proto-types. Their
severity is relieved by the
bay windows and batten
treatment of the first floor

The first floor plan shows a
simple arrangement, with the
added feature of a complete
service stairs, giving privacy
to the rest of the house. The
porch has three areas — a
breakfast porch, an open
veranda and a sun parlor

A hooded canopy over the
main entrance, with fanlight
and paneled door below, is
reminiscent of Pennsylvania
Dutch Colonial design. It
makes a dignified portico for
a small house of this type.
Dwight '. Baitm, architect

On the second floor a large
master's bedroom occupies
the depth of the house. There
are two other bedchambers
and a bath, with an abund-
ance of closet room which is
created by the pitch of the
roof as well as by the alcoves

November, 1922

"Lower Scene",
Hythe, near Do-
ver in England,
shows the pic-
turesque thatch
roof, pleasant
casement win-
dows and big
chimney stacks
found in the
English cottage

(Below) Prac-
tically all the
bedrooms are
arranged so as to
face the south
and the sea
view; only the
corridor, stairs,
bath and dress-
ing room are on
the north side

. : ...,.,_

(Above) The
first floor rooms
also face the
view and the
drawing room
opens onto the
western loggia.
The din i n g
room serves as
a corridor bet-
ween the service
and balance
oj th& house

The south front
looks out onto
the garden,
which is laid out
in terraces built
of local stone,
and slopes gent-
ly down toivard
the sea. The
architects were
Oswald P.
Milne * Paul
Phipps, London

Garden

One of the highest points oj
domesticity in New York City
is this house and garden on
top of a twenty story building.

THERE are two ways to fool the
city: you may run away from it,
or you may perch on top of it.
From either point of vantage: from
the country or the air, you are
actor turned spectator, and the city is
only a symbol. And when you find
some way to detach yourself the city-
is not a symbol of hectic hurry, crush
and smother, strangely enough, but only
one of glamor. From the country this
glamorous spectacle cannot be seen, but
from the house and garden shown above,
which, by the way, sits several stories above
another House & Garden, on the roof of
the twenty story building, in which are the
magazine's offices, New York lies spread
out on every side below with the sting re-
moved. To live there is to achieve a sort
of Olympian existence.

The idea of this particular house and
garden is an extremely practical one. There
has been no attempt to make it sensational.
From the windows of the attractive stucco
and tile bungalow there is no suggestion of
the surrounding city. The breeze that comes
through is fresh from the sea and the
country. It is only when one walks about
the tiled "lawn" and approaches the enclos-
ing balustrade that there is any hint of New
York. Until then clumps of evergreens,

A GARDEN

IN THE AIR

MINGA POPE DURYEA

flower borders, shrubs and vines form the
greater part of the background of this small
super-urban place. From the house itself
the neighboring high buildings are masked
ingeniously by massed evergreens.

Plenty of soil has very thoughtfully been
provided for all the plants. The "beds",
which are contained within decorative boxes
of concrete, are 17" deep. A lesser
depth would prove discouraging to root
growth and the soil would soon lose all of
its nourishment. Even so, it is necessary to
fertilize well and often when growing so
many plants in such a compact space.

ll'ere it not Jor the view beyond
the balustrade tins bungalow,
designed by Arthur C. Jackson,
might be on a California terrace

An almost ideal condition pre-
vails for growing all the plants,
from the small evergreens to the
annuals, as the high coping
around the roof breaks the force of
the heavy winds and as there is noth-
ing to obstruct the full sunlight.
Spring flowering bulbs are used plenti-
fully and there is a succession ot
bloom from late winter, when the crocus
and snowdrops appear, until the chrysan-
themums fade away in the fall.

The house is far from being a mere roof-
garden-house. It is just the sort of one
storey house that might be found anywhere
along the southern California coast, and it
graces this eastern city altitude charmingly.
Of course the possibilities of such an airy
establishment as this are many and varied.
In fact, from this particular roof one may
see plenty of somewhat similar "sites" that
might be handled quite as delightfully as
this one. But the lesson of the house and
garden on House & Garden's roof is a splen-
did one for all adventuresome architects.
It is to avoid the sensation of peering over
into a dizzy abyss by placing the house in
the center of the roof and banking the
boundary so completely with plants and
wall that there will be only the view of a
distant and pleasantly detached city below.

November, 1922

THE LINEN ON THE LINE

Here Are Practical Aids to the Solution of
the Weekly Clothes Drying Problem

VERNA COOK SALOMONS KY

MONDAY as a universally
designated wash-day is
becoming somewhat leg-
endary, in fact, 'wash-day' new
applies to any day of the week,
largely dependent upon the capri-
ces and bookings of the wash-
woman. But to those who can still
perform Monday's operations on
Monday, and to the rest of us
alike, it is essential to good house
management that at the usual time
the clothes be dried and prepared
for ironing.

Weather conditions, however,
not always being favorable to out-
door drying, which is preferred on
account of its benefits to the color
of white linen, adequate arrange-
ments should be made for occa-
sional drying indoors.

Certain clothes, depending on
their color and materials, such as
colored fabrics, crepes and voiles,
should be dried in a shady place
or in the house. It is well to have
a temporary line in the attic or in
a dry room in the basement — where
the least discomfiture will be
caused and where there is least
danger of chill through moist
heat — to accommodate these odd
garments. Frequently such lines
will prove sufficient for the wash
of small proportions.

These lines should be stretched
to take the greatest advantage of
a cross draught of air, as air is
the real medium for drying.

There is on the market a patent-
ed clothes line reel, very simple
and inexpensive, and which con-
tains 40' of strong line; a small
ball, nickelplated, makes it rust
proof. It is an ideal arrangement
for either indoor or outdoor use.
The reel is hung on a nail and the
line extended to two hooks at con-
venient locations on adjacent or
opposite walls, secured by metal
rings, thus forming a triangle of
line. Indoors, especially, where
there is little if no breeze, two con-
verging lines, such as would be the
case with the patent reel, are ex-
tremely capacious, if the method
of the Chinese laundrymen is
adopted.

These experts in the art of
clothes drying begin at the point
of divergence to hang the smallest
clothes fastening one pin on one

1 he whirligig
type of dryer
folds up like an
umbrella when
not being used

Tli" Chinese
method of dry-
ing is to pin
clothes between
converging lines

Gas or electri-
cally heated
cabinets are
quite necessary
in big households

line and the other pin on the other
line and graduating the garments
according to the increasing span
between the lines, always hanging
the clothes parallel and a very
few inches apart. Thus a great
quantity of clothes may be hung
in a limited space.

A gas, steam or electrically
heated drying cabinet means econo-
my of labor in households where
the laundry work is of consider-
able size. The principle govern-
ing the best of these machines is
the absorbing of moisture by in-
tense heat, and at the same time
circulating through the clothes a
constant stream of dry, warm air.
rendering them sweet and fresh.
Care should be taken in hanging
garments in these dryers as the
motion of the frames in opening
and closing is apt to cause the
smaller pieces to fall to the bottom
of the compartment and become
soiled or scorched.

The means of out-of-door dry-
ing is generally an eye-sore; other-
wise delightful backyards are often
mutilated by unsightly clothes
poles, which, after serving duty
on Mondays are throughout the
remainder of the week ever pre-
sent reminders of the wash days to
come. Depending on the size and
character of available space in the
yard there are two types of poles
which may be used and removed
after the wash is dry.

The 'whirligig' type is a rotary
clothes line with parallel lines
strung upon ribs with a top or reel
turning around so that the whole
wash can be hung without moving
a step. It is recommended that
the larger pieces be hung on
the highest lines with the smaller
ones on the inside, lower lines,
thereby preventing any of the
clothes from dragging on the
ground. After use the top part of
the dryer folds up like an
umbrella and is lifted off.
The standard of either pain-
ted wood or galvanized steel tub-
ing, fits into a socket set in the
lawn and is removed, a metal cap
closing down over the hole- All
the unsightliness of wash day has
disappeared!

The single 'clothes poles are a
similar arrangement minus the reel.
(Continued on page 126)

House & G ar den

UNCOMMON HARDY SHRUBS FOR THE BORDER

Twenty-Five Different Types That Lend Color
To The Garden In Various Seasons

STUART ORTLOFF

The

EFFECTIVE planting
in and around Ameri-
can gardens has come
to depend a great deal upon
flowering shrubs and small
trees. We realize how im-
portant they are in filling the
gap which exists between
our flowering plants and
the trees; how effective they
are as screens; how efficient
they are as wind-breaks, and
how beautiful they are as
specimens. But man}- times
we are criticized for using
such material too lavishly.
There are several reasons
why this may be a just
criticism.

One of these is that we

are apt to forget that a mass (Above)

of shrubbery should depend »••*£

largely on the relationship of bell-like flowers,

the individuals which make is aPl to outgrow

,, • j i the shrub class.

up the group, in order that ,tis suited toback-

it may have a place of in- ground planting
terest and value in the land-
scape composition. We too often consider
a shrub just a shrub and nothing more.
We do not concern ourselves with the color
of its foliage or blossom, the time of bloom,
or the ultimate height.

Another trouble with shrub planting is
that we strive to gather together a hetero-
geneous collection of plants with little re-
gard to harmony or unity in their various
characteristics. We do not plant in broad
masses, but select one or two of this, several
of that, and a few of the other, and plant
them all in together with not enough under-
standing of the individualities of each
variety.

Still another trouble is the fact that
many people are familiar with only a
limited number of shrubs, the forsylhia, the

the blossoms of

the Chinese Fringe
tree of which a
very

bloom at the top of
the opposite page

best as specimens to be used among other
material, and so lend themselves as points
of especial interest.

It would not be possible to enumerate
all the various kinds of shrubs which
might fill such requirements, but the fol-

deutzia, the weigelia, and other old 'and lowing are representative, and attention has

tried garden favorites. We will have to
admit that these are all admirable things,
but there are so many others which have
as interesting characteristics, and which

been given to their outstanding points of
value, their time of bloom, height, and the
regions in which they will prove most
effective.

have not been so overworked, that they do Lead1 Plant (Amorpha canescens):

not demand sufficient interest to make them
valuable in our planting schemes.

Therefore, it is the intention of this
article to present a number of flowering
shrubs, which have several characteristics
which are interesting, and which do not
enjoy sufficient use to make them popular
in all gardens. Many of them have the
right qualities to make them valuable in
hold masses, while others have such strik-
ing individualities that they will serve

Deciduous shrub, three to four feet high.
A dense habit and many flowers in laven-
der and light blue in early July.
Suitable for the foreground of shrub masses,
and very good for Rock gardens. Sunny
and somewhat dry situations are most favor-
able. Native of the west, and is hardy as
far north as Massachusetts.
Bastard Indigo (Amorpha fruiticosa ) :

Another deciduous shrub of the same
family, but growing to fifteen feet in
height. Should be transplanted in the

spring. It has a very spread-
ing habit. Is valuable for the
middle ground of shrub mass-
es, or as an edging plant in
the foreground. Has unusual
deep purple flowers with
yellow anthers in late June.
Resembles Indigo. Arrange-
ment and size of leaves gives
the plant a feathery texture
from a distance. Prune in
early spring or late winter.
Prefers sunny and somewhat
moist situations. Hardy as
far north as New York City,
but is most effective south
from Philadelphia.
Red Chokecherry (Aronia
arbutifolia) :

A native deciduous shrub
£e*;wl*e± "'ft 2 "-8 ft- high. In late May
has many white flowers
which are followed by at-
tractive red fruit in Septem-
ber. It is valuable for its
autumn foliage and serves
admirably as a filler for
shrub borders. Native from Massachusetts
south to Florida and westward. Prefers
moist situations, but will thrive in any
good soil.

Groundsel Bush (Baccharis haltnifolia) :

Another native shrub of exceptional value
as material for seaside plantings because
it will stand the rigorous exposure. Grows
four to eight feet high and in September
is covered with masses of white fluffy
haired fruit which resembles flowers.
Sunny situations in well drained soil pre-
ferred. Found from Massachusetts to
Georgia, near the ocean.

Spice Bush (Benzoin odoriferum):

Native from Ontario through New Eng-
land and southward, this shrub delights
with its masses of bright yellow bloom in
April and May before the leaves are out,
and later in the autumn its bright red
fruits and clear yellow foliage make it very
desirable. It grows from four to eight feet
in height, and is very spreading in habit.
It will endure partial shade and prefers
moist situations, but will grow in any good
soil. Should be transplanted in the spring
and only pruned, if necessary, after
blooming.

Siberian Pea Tree (Caragana arborescf.ns) :

A deciduous shrub or small tree which
will attain a height of eighteen feet. It
has been considered the best yellow blos-
(Continued on page 116)

November, 1922

(Below) The Oregon Grape,

a distant cousin of the common
barberry, is one oj the most
interesting of the broad leaved
evergreens, with its yellow flowers

Late in May the fragrant, pan-
nicle white flowers of the Chi-
nese Fringe Tree completely cover
the branches of this very distinc-
tive and far from ordinary shrub

(Below) Not many shrubs are
blooming in August when Shrubby
Si. John's Wort puts out its
large yellow blossoms against the
dark glossy green oj its leaves

Both the flowers
and foliage of the
Siberian Pea Tree
are delightfully
decorative in a deli-
cate sort oj way.

One of the charac-
teristics oj spice
bush is the aromatic
bark that makes the
spring woods inter-
esting to children.

One needs patience after planting the
Chinese flowering chestnut as it is one
of the slowest growing of shrubs, but
a gorgeous thing when it finally
reaches its beautiful blooming period

House & Garden

PLANNING THE KITCHEN

By Using the 'Step and Touch' System in Kitchen

Arrangement Time and Energy Are Saved

NINA WILSON BADENOCH

BEST of all is my
kitchen,'' is the in-
variable remark of the
hostess as she conclude?
the tour of her new home,
''I am proud of it.

Whether she works in
it herself or employs an
assistant, she takes keen
delight in the flood of
sunshine which bright-
ens every corner and
glints back from all the
polished surfaces, in the
fresh attractive color-
ing of the walls and
woodwork, in the order-
ly arrangement of its
equipment which makes
it a joy and the simplest
of processes to step right
in and prepare delicious
appetizing foods in no
time. That is just what
can be done when the
step and touch system
are installed in any
kitchen.

As a typist with the
touch system, learns to
follow her notes without
so much as a glance at
her flying fingers, so the
worker in a well plan-
ned kitchen can go rap-
idly through a meal's
preparation, moving
from one surface to an-
other, sure of the loca-
tion of supplies and
utensils. She can fol-
low a recipe with her
eyes and mind, while
her hands automatically
set forth the supplies
and tools needed from
their particular spots.
It is all a matter of
arrangement, sunlight
and color.

\\//

//\\

Behind III? break-
fast settle in the
smaller kitchen is a
sink flanked by
cupboards. .J
clothes chute to the

cellar is shown

In the khchen

above the sink and
drain boards are in
the middle of the
room, ivith cabinets
and work surface!
around the. wall

In this smaller kitchen the built-in ice box, supplies cabinet and
stove are in close proximity. The breakfast nook and sink are
two steps across the room attractively and conveniently located

In the first kitchen
illustrated, one can im-
agine the ease of gather-
ing the necessary foods
such as butter, milk or
eggs from the refrigera-
tor (built in and iced
from outside), placing
them on the surface
of the preparing cabi-
net, opening the low-
er cabinet for pans, the
partitioned drawer for
spoons, beaters or other
tools, and the upper cab-
inet for sugar, flour and
dry supplies.

A reach of the arm
and the food is cooking
over the open burners;
a step to the oven, a
twist of the regulator to
the proper temperature
and the baking is as-
sured of success by the
measured heat control of
this devise. With the
alarm clock set for the
proper time of removing
the cake, pie or roast, it
may be dismissed from
the mind while other
work progresses.

The built-in break-
fast nook glimpsed in
the illustration, looks
through casement win-
dows onto the garden,
and makes an inviting
spot for the simple
breakfast or the hurried
lunch. It greatly sim-
plifies the service in the
maidless household, a
problem confronting
about 98% of the Ameri-
can homes to-day, and.
becomes at once a snug
and sensible solution.

The labor-saving
arrangement of the
fixtures in the
larger size kitchen
is seen on this plan

As the smaller
kitchen is narrow,
the middle is left
open, the fixtures
being along the walls

November, 1922

HOUSEHOLD WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

Using These, Kitchen Mathematics Loses Some of Its Terrors
and the Family Purse Is Safeguarded

ETHEL R. PEYSER

»TF the American public is gulli-
A ble, the American housewife
is still more so. She accepts a
basket or a crate with the ut-
most faith; she lets the grocer
"heap" his container according
to his temperament; she is quite
willing to let her purveyor of
anything use any old scale or
measure !

Why? No doubt because she
has no way of combating him,
and more likely because she
doesn't really realize that there
is good measure and bad meas-
ure.

"A pint's a pound the year
round" is too glib a statement,
as a man found out to his dis-
gust when he bought shot and
feathers from the same shop!

In the home we have about
twelve kinds of measuring to do:

1. Length, the measuring of
dimensions, for which we
use a yard stick or tape

2. Weight — foods and prod-
ucts— scales

3. Volume— liquids— graduate

Nursery scales, which weigh up to twenty-five

pounds, are essential for the accurate care of

babies. This type is equipped •with a comfortable

basket. Courtesy of John Chatillon &• Sons

4. Density — syrups

5. Pressure — atmosphere —
barometer

6. Rhythm — music — metro-
nome

7. Time — clock

8. Temperature — thermome-
ter

9. Electricity — meter

10. Gas — meter

11. Water — meter

While all of these play some
part in the management of the
home, not all of them does the
housewife actually handle. For
example, the metronome is a
little out of our reckoning here
unless there is musical work in
the home.

The gas, electric and water
meters, though closely related
to us, are not handled by us.
We should know how to read
them, however, and understand
the rates we are being charged
for this kind of service.

The barometer is only of
(Continued on page go)

Spring scales of this type are in-
expensive and amply accurate for
household use. The pan is of white
enamel. Prom John Chatillon &Sons

Accurate bathroom scales are
part of the equipment of every
well furnished house, since
one's weight is an indication
of the state of one's health.
John Chatillon &• Sons

Among the measures used in
the kitchen are standard
spoons, glass and aluminum
liquid measures with fractional
graduations. Courtesy of the
U. S. Bureau of Standards

House & Garden

JwiJ flj j( is possible on a hillside garden to use either retaining walls or
steep slopes to take care of the differences in level, it is possible to use
either steps or grass ramps to provide means of ascent and descent. Both
methods in each case are used in the interesting hillside garden shown above

WHEN YOU PLAN YOUR GARDEN

Let the Garden Fit the Site Rather than Force the Site to Fit the Garden

A GARDEN is something like tin-
horse that won't drink if he isn't
thirsty, no matter how nicely he is
led to water. In fact, there are gardens that
stand stubbornly for years without taking
a sip of their sites, just because they are
unable to overcome the strangeness of their
predicament. If you want a horse to drink
you must use tact, and if you want a gar-
den to "belong" you must use taste. After
that, in both cases, it is largely a matter of
keeping up the water supply.

You should get the feeling from a garden
that it has grown rather naturally out of
its situation, or, at least, that it has been
able to effect a suitable compromise.
Perhaps it is too much to ask that every
garden should be an expression of its
site. There are sites for which the garden
must act as a mask. But even a mask
should fit the face it covers, regardless
of how much it changes its appearance.

As the garden should be near the house
— attached to it if possible — so that it can
be seen from within doors and easily
reached, the exterior materials and the
architectural manner of the building should
figure in the garden's design even though
they are only suggested in the way a wall
is built, or the way some paving is laid,

RICHARD H. PRATT

or in the color and style of an arbor or
pergola. In addition to this common under-
standing in spirit between the house and
garden, a relationship that may be either
subtle or obvious, depending upon the
taste of the designer, the two should be
actually connected, so that they will seem
to be part of the same establishment. A
garden that lies at a distance from the
house is a thing to be visited on increasing-
ly rare occasions rather than to be lived
in all hours of fair weather, and a garden
close to the house that lies askew or dis-
connected is apt to be a restless haphazard
sight and a jar to sensitive nerves.

In a general way the above constitute
the mutual responsibilities of the house and
garden. The house can rarely be accused
of being too conscientious about the com-
fort and convenience of the garden. And
it is probably better that way. The garden
that has to make the most of a bad location
is bound to be more interesting — if it is
only because it has to fight for its place
and struggle for its beauty — than the
garden that is born with a perfect site in
its mouth.

When it comes actually to considering the
kind of gardens best suited to the various
kinds of sites it is time to do a little con-

servative classifying. No two gardens are
alike, of course, but, cautiously speaking,
all can be put into four general groups
something like this:

(a) The steep hillside garden

(b) The long narrow garden

(d) The small intimate garden

Rock gardens, wild-, bog-, water-, and
Japanese gardens are intentionally exclu-
ded from this list because they are excep-
tions to the general rules of design which
are being discussed here, and they will be
considered later on in the series. It is
possible under certain circumstances to
combine in one garden any or all of the
four types listed above, just as it is possible
to make endless variations on each type
illustrated. On the small place, however,
some treatment of a single type will gen-
erally suffice. The particular type will be
determined by the size, shape, and nature
of the available space.

The first and most difficult type to handle
is that which must fit a fairly steep hill-
side. The problems on a slope of any
sharpness are to create one or more levels
that can be treated in a comfortable and
decorative manner; to find some way to

November, 1922

The long narrow herbaceous border garden
should end on something worthy of its
length, both in size and design, such as an
arbor, loggia, or, as here, a Colonial gazebo

hold the ground displaced in making these
different levels, and to provide some means
of getting from one level to the other. The
hillside garden shown at the top of the
first page contains solutions for all these
problems.

At the point on the slope marked by the
top of the nearest long wall, the ground was
cut straight down for 5' (the height of the
wall) and the earth thus obtained was
spread on the slope below, making the level
space shown in the foreground. As such
a perpendicular cut as this on any slope
would cave in or crumble away, it must be
supported by a retaining wall. Any num-
ber of levels like this can be made on a
slope providing the hill is long enough. In
this garden, however, attention was cen-
tered on one fairly broad level space at the
bottom. The level of the ground on this
lower space is about 20' below the ground
in front of the house, but instead of cut-
ting straight down for 20', which would
have been a terrific piece of work and
would have meant a retaining wall 20'
high, the slope itself was used to make up
the difference in grade. This great height
would have made it necessary also to have
from forty to sixty steps, depending upon
the risers, which would have made a task
out of going to the garden when it should
(Continued on page 134 )

The great effectiveness of the broad open
type of garden is sustained only when the
central space is kept flat and severely sim-
ple reserving all decoration for ike borders

House & Carder.

Very smart in its
simplicity is this
silver tea set, Col-
onial in design with
a thread border.

2001 tea pot, $63

2002 sugar, $42

2003 cream, $28

2004 waste, $14

2005 blue and
yellow pottery vase
f high and is $8

FOR THE EARLY CHRISTMAS SHOPPER

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Kindly Order by Number

2006. In soft beaver
calf is this bag,
which has a change
purse and mirror.
It is 6" x4.y4",$6.50

2007. Coffee
colored suede
bag 6" x 4"
has four com-
part ments.
Lined with
matching
moire, $29.50

2008. Fine cowhide suit case
22" long with compartment
containing composition shell
toilet articles which can be
removed and the1 whole bag
used as a dressing case, $33.50

2009. A very
convenient
writing case in
blue, green, heli-
otrope or rose
Leather contains
paper, envelopes,
address book,
pencil and paper
cutter at $4.96

2010. A decora-
tive scrap basket
11" high comes
in parrhnient
color with band
ctt top painted
any shade and
an old Godey
fashion print on
the front $12

2011. Excellent for a man's room is this eight-piece desk set of fine black cobra grained cowhide

which comes for $25. 2012. The mahogany clock 10" high has a Waltham movement, $30. With

radium hands and hour marks at the numerals, it may be had for $35.

November, 1922

2013. Charming for a
bedroom are these col-
ored prints attractively
framed which may be
had for $13.50. The
mat measures 19" x 16"

2013. Unusually decor-
ative are these colored
English prints. They
•would be effective hung
in pairs against a neu-
tral toned background

'2014. Green Vpne-tian
glass candlesticks in
twisted design. 10",
$850. 2015. Vase 9"
high $12. 2016 Com-
poste 6", $10. 2017.
Candv jar, 4", $4.50

2018. A charmine re-
production of an old
chair comes in maple
with a rush seat and
decoration on the back
in color of grapes and
gray-green leaves, $36

2019. A sterling salt
cellar copied from the
famous Paul Revere
bowl is $4.50 2020
The pepper pot, so at-
tractive in design is
4W high and $13.50

2021. Delight ful both as
to shape and design is
this square fluted sil-
ver bowl which can be
u-sed on so many oc-
casions. It is 8" across
and 2" high, price $27

2022. This attractive
leather cigarette box
comes in green, blue,
rose and brown with
hand tooling in gold,
$7.50. 5" in length

2025. Soft ecrase leath-
er in gray, brown,
blue, green, tan or pur-
ple with tooled gold
edge is this address-
book y-A" x 4", $7

2023. A canvas screen painted in shades of blue with silver leaf design
is $75. The panels are 6' x 2'. 2024. The graceful arm chair has a sep-
arate down cushion. It is $60 in muslin. Covered in any color satin, $90

House & Garde:

October

THE GARDENER'S CALENDAR

Tenth Month

Mulch the perenni-
als now for nourish-
ment and protection

If you are lucky you
are husking corn be-
hind the barn now

Forking in manure
is one of the Novem-
ber garden tasks

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

This Calendar of the gardener's labors is

1. One of

the hardest
plants to pro-

2. Most

smooth-barked
trees and prac-

3. Celery
must be kept
banked proper-

4. Tender

roses and all
tea roses should

tasks in season. It is designed for an aver-

tect during cold
weather is the

tically all fruit
trees are sub-

ly to protect
the hearts of

be strawed up
now to protect

age season in the Middle States, but its

French Globe
artichoke. If

ject to the at-
tacks of San

the plants from
damage by se-

them. Putting
earth around

suggestions should fit the whole country if

covered too

Jose scale.

vere frost. In

the bases of the

it be remembered that for every one

much it decays,
so use a frame

These trees
should be

fact. It can be
stored In

plants helps
shed water and

hundred miles north or south, garden oper-
ations will be retarded or advanced from

to prevent the
covering ma-
terial from ac-

sprayed with
one of the sol-
uble oil mix-

trenches any
time now for
use during the

will serve to
protect the
lower part of

five to seven days.

tually resting
on the plants.

tures which can
be purchased.

late fall and
winter months.

the plant from
damage.

5. Goose-

6. Boxwood

7. Standard

8. Primula,

9. House

10. All orna-

11. Rhodo-

berries, cur-

and other ten-

roses areamong

cyclamen, cin-

plants f all

mental garden

dendrons

rants, raspber-

der evergreens

the hardest

eraria and

kinds should bv

furniture, set-

should have

ries and black-

should have

garden subjects

other potted

given a little

tees, etc., and

their roots pro-

berries are sur-

their winter

to pro ect. If

plants that are

extra care at

all melon

tected by a

face rooters. A

protections a -

str wed in they

customarily

this time.

frames, bean

heavy mulch of

heavy winter
mulch of ma-

plied now. Hur-
lap covers that

must have
he vyst kesor

grown In frames

may be brought

Spo .ge the fo-
liage with soap

poles, tomato
trellises and

leaves or litter.
Some branches

nure will build
up the fertility

are supported
so as not to

they will be-

inside now.

solution, scrub

such planting

of pines or

of the soil and

come In actual

heavy. Laying

Ing with liquid

off the pots and

should now be

greens thrust

help to protect

contact with

the stem down

manures is very

top-dress the

stored away for

into the ground

the roots from

the plants are

and covering

helpful to their

soil in them

winter. Paint

between the

damage by the

the best ma-

with earth is

continued suc-

with sheep

those that re-

plants will pre-

frost

terial for thi .

the best.

cess indoors.

manure.

quire It.

vent sun-scald.

12. It is per-

13. Poin-

14. The

15. Itisnot

16. It is now

17. Garden

18. Do not

fectly safe to

settia, limes

strawberry bed

too late to start

time for all fall

changes should

neglect to make

plant aspara-

and other heat-

^hould be

seeds of some

bulb plantings

be made now

successional

gus in the fall

loving crops in-

mulched with

of the more

to be com-

before the

sowings in the

provided you

tended for

well-rotted

rapid-growing

pleted. Always

ground Is froz-

greenhouse of

make some ef-

Christ mas

manure: this

annuals in the

plant four

en, to prevent

v ege ta b le crops

fort to protect

bloom must be

not only pro-

greenhouse for

times as deep

settling and

such us beans.

it during the

forced rapidly.

tects the plants

winter (lowers.

as the diameter

other irregular-

cauliflower.

winter. Pull

A temperature

but prevents

Of these may

of the bulb.

ities In the

beets , carrots ,

plenty of earth

of 7;>o or even

the deteriora-

be mentioned

mound the

spring. Plants

lettuce, etc.

up over the

SOowhen plenty

tion of the soil.

c a 1 1 1 o p s i s ,

earth p so as

disturbed now

The secret of

plants and

of moisture is

Straw to pro-

candytuft , rag-

to shed water.

are more likely

succes is sow-

cover them we'l

available, will

tect them from

get sailor and

and mulch the

to live than

ing in small

with decayed

be beneficial to

the sun should

the ever popu-

surface well

those moved in

quantities and

manure.

them.

be added.

lar mignonette.

with manure.

midwinter.

frequently.

19. Ill-kept

20. Carna-

21. Apples,

22. Freesias,

23. If you

24. Sweet

25. There are

gardens breed
diseases and in-
sects. Clean up
all refuse and

tion plants
should be kept
supported and
properly dis-

pears and other
stored fruit
should be
looked over oc-

French grown
narcissus, early
Miles and all
bulbs of this

have not al-
ready stored
your root crops
for the winter.

peas sown now
and properly
nrotectcd over
the winter will

a number of
popular peren-
nials which
force well.

burn the stalks
and other ma-

budded. Never
allow the

casionally for
any decayed

type can be
brought into a

they should be
attended to at

give quality
flowers next

Clumpsot core-
opsis, bleeding

terial likely to
decay. Thor-

benches to ac-
cumulate green

ones which
would soon de-

higher temper-
ature now.

once. Burying
them in

year. A frame
made of boards

heart, Shasta
daisy, dlcentra.

oughly sterilize

mould The

stroy others.

After the buds

trenches out-

and covered

etc . , may be

the ground by
the application
of lime or deep,
consistent

surface of the
ground should
be kept stirred.
Top-dress with

When the fruit
Is wrapped sep-
arately in soft
paper this dan-

show, free aj)-
plications of
liquid manure
will benefit the

doors with the
proper kind of
protecting ma-
terial is the

with manure
after it is put
in place will be
an excellent

lifted, potted,
and then stored
outside to ripen
properly before

trenching.

sheep manure.

ger is lessened.

roots.

ideal storage.

protection.

forcing.

26. Young

27. Manure

28. Sweet

29. At this

30. Low spots

fruit trees had

for the garden

peas in the

time all hard-

in the lawn or

better be pro-
tected now
from the at-
tacks of field-

should be pur-
chased now.
For garden
purposes it im-

green house
should be fed
freely with li-
quid manures.

wooded forcing
plants such as
lilacs, cherries,
deu tzia , wis-

Irregularities in
thesurfacemay
be top-dressed
now to over-

What wondrous life is this I lead!
Rich apples drop about my head;
Tlie luscious clusters of the vine

mice rabbits.

proves greatly

The first flow-

taria , et c . .

come t hese

Upon my mouth do crush tlieir wine,'

and other ro-
dents which
girdle the
trunks. Tarred
burlap or paper

with age and
handling, and
it Is always
possible to get
manure in the

ers to appear
should be
pinched off to
conserve the
plants'

should be lifted
from their
places about
the grounds
and placed in

troubles. Use
good soil, and
when not more
than 2 inches
of it is applied

Tfie nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on

collars placed

fall, while next

strength. Keep

tubs or boxes

the grass will

grass. — ANDREW MARVELL

above ground

spring is un-

the atmosphere

for winter forc-

come through

will help.

certain.

dry at night.

ing.

all right.

In the country the quality of November is controlled largely by the size and manner of the fireplace and woodpile. God forbid that
either one should be over small! Yet, at that, the most comforting fireplace we remember was tfie smallest, and the woodpile was
a little heap of furniture tragedies and kindling in the corner where the ceiling met the floor. But in the country the hearth must

be all embracing and the logs must have a certain bulk. Tltere should be polished brass in the andirons to cast reflections in the
half-dark. All exterior faces of the fireplace and mantle should be su'-h as to act as a supplementary frame to the glowing cavern.
As to the sort of firewood, there are kinds to fit all tastes and moods. N<,,"adays chestnut is being burned morethan any other because
the blight has given us no alternative; but it is a miserable, snarling fuel that disappears with fury and no finesse. Oak is not so
antagonistic and is more lasting. Pine is a roaring whirlwind. New-cut birch burns as though its sap -were the finest gasoline.
Hickory is the well-mannered aristocrat of the ftearth, sparklcss and durable. But applewood is the king of them all, silent, smooth
and sensitive, carrying along with undiminished brilliance until it is nothing but a white hot bed of ashes and its victims are in a

state of delicious stupor.

Grape pruning be-
gins at the drop of
the leaf in the fall

Dig deep and wide
when trenching for
large perennial roots

When perennial roots
get too large divide
them with a spade

The Piazetta, a little parklet in the Country
Club District of Kansas City, is an attractive
and well designed inter sction arrangement

Another delightful feature of this Kansas City
development is this sunken, semi-circular
resting place of masonry backed up by shrubs

One service court here does for two residences;
the garage and service entrance of each house
being screened by poplars and bridal wreath

November, 1922

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which can also be purchased separately.
It appeals to the taste for quaint, dainty
things.

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House & Garden

PAGES from a
DECORATOR'S DIARY

THE romances of furniture and with the playful creatures. Renee Prahar has done a conception of decoration that reads like one of Amy

objects of art are as en- series of small stone monkeys for Mrs. Charles Lowell's exotic pages of vers libre, and yet is so

thralling as the romances of hu- Dillingham's lovely blue-washed courtyard in her beautifully painted as to suggest the precisely

man beings. The adventures of New York house, as well as for Mrs. Vanderbilt's crowded surface of a Persian or a Chinese panel,

that precious pair of Chinese terrace. The young French artists have made some

pagodas which now adorns the hall- gay wall papers, one of which Mrs. Archibald Me- ^ O fresh, so free is the idea of this little room that

way of Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt's Laren has used in her boudoir in her Setauket, Long the result is very near perfection. The technique

lovely Georgian house, 1 Sutton Island, house. This paper is pale green in tone, of the painting takes on the quality of the old

Place, New York City, would patterned with yellow monkeys holding white ban- papier peint, although the arrangements and the

make a long and beguiling tale. ners, surrounded by tendrilly branches and flowers of lorms are modern.

I first saw those pagodas in a a purplish-pink. Mrs. McLaren also has a set of The walls are divided into panels by slender

Madison Avenue antique shop, and the famous monkey band, in porcelain figurines de- pilasters painted in an old tone of chartreuse. These

fell madly in love with them, but signed by Teniers, on her desk. panels are framed in borders of lace paper, dull gray

could not find them a home in any Another monkey-lover is Robert W. Chandler, in tone and covered with a pattern of red. Centered

of the houses with which I had to whose amazing hallway is painted like a jungle, with

do. I used to pay them visits of dozens of life-size monkeys and gorillas climbing

ceremony, and sigh that I could among tropic flowering trees

not possess them. They are ex- Addison Mizner, in his beautiful

traordinary affairs of delicately Spanish house in Palm Beach,

carved wood, exquisitely painted has two real monkeys — small,

in powdery soft pomegranate reds rare, ring-tailed ones — who live

and jade greens and sky blues, in a great cage in his loggia,

standing fully 8' high, and as fra- and rejoice in the modern names

gile-seeming as cardboard edifices, of Frankie and Johnny.

Once, before they found their

present home, a certain rich man (~)NE of my dearest possessions

and his wife wandered into the is an old cook book which

shop and the man fell in love with began as a ledger and ended as

things and wanted to purchase my great-grandmother's cook-

the curious old

them But it seems that he not only had to have book. She lived on a South Caro-

enough money and enough appreciation to acquire lina rice plantation, and there are

them, he had to have his wife's approval. And to hundreds of delectable recipes for

his wife these things were emphatically Heathen cooking rice, as well as all other

Chinee! She refused, flatly, to have them in her delicious things, in this old book,

house. I never felt so sorry for a man. Not only her own recipes but

those of all her friends and

TT HEN Mrs. Yanderbilt discovered them, and cousins are carefuly copied in the

bought them for her new house, which o\& ledger, and when I look at
planning. It

in each of these nicely proportioned panels is
mounted an additional panel of old paper, faded
into old ivory tones, on which is
painted clusters of fruit, vege-
tables, and flowers arranged in
urns, vases and baskets and some-
times growing in the foreground
of landscapes. A large duck-
like bird appears in each panel.
Some vases are overturned, scat-
tering leaves and blossoms
through the air. A picnic is
interrupted, an apple left half
pared, a melon unseeded, a bee
is tempted. Near a light-house,
with a distant view of the pro-
vincial yacht club, a schooner
and many small sail boats. A
large slice of chocolate layer
cake speared with a kitchen
fork; an emptied wine glass on
the grass; a snail crawling from
its ponderous shell, contemplating
a waxen camellia. A butterfly
and a caterpillar are rivals for
a luscious peach cut in twain

Mott Schmidt was then planning. It seems my ridiculously small pantry and

that the pagodas were originally in the Royal think of my great-grandmother's

Pavilion at Brighton, England, so Mrs. Vanderbilt i fee] as if I Vvere playing at doll's housekeeping and seeded for the delectation of the insects,
went there to find whatever history there might be agajn Here is the most stupendous recipe of Tulips have been placed in a pink glass vase, to
of their original background, and employed Allyn an: — of a]| cake recipes in the world. make breakfast on the grass more gay, but the soft
Cox to paint her hallway in the same manner. The "Cousin Eugenia's Plum Cake for Weddings and boiled egg in its stand remains untouched, — two gray-
result was shown in a photograph in the August Occasions — Take twenty pounds of butter, twenty of hounds sport by the fountain on a neglected lawn
number of this magazine. sugar, twenty of flour, twenty of raisins, forty of
The hall has a floor of small hexagonal tiles, of currants, twelve of citron, twenty nutmegs, five

of a bleak country place — Pheasant quills, a red
banana, a lighted cigar, a Charlotte-Russe, some

brick red. The curving stairway ascends through ounces of mace, four of cinnamon, twenty glasses peppers and a cordial, for the sake of composition,
a painted hanging garden, in the Chinese taste, of wine, twenty glasses of brandy, ten eggs to the have taken together a downward path through the
a ground of greenish-yellow on which are painted pound. Add cloves to your taste. If you wish it air. A cucumber, a compote of petite-fours, an

fantastic trees and flowers. In two painted niches richer.
are painted figures of jade. In
the original Pavilion decoration
these figures were in grisaille
but Mr. Cox has painted them
brilliantly in imitation jade
and semi-precious stones. The
two pagodas stand at the outer
curves of the hallway, senti-
nels of oriental calm.

I was amused to see a large
and cheerful monkey swinging
in one of the Chinese trees, a
merry creature among the se-
rene Chinoiserie pageant.
Mrs. Vanderbilt evidently has a
great affection for monkeys,
for two stone ones are placed
on the garden terrace of her
house, under the overhanging
garden door. These quaint
creatures have their arms fold-
ed, and look out over the
changing river with faint
amusement. They are the
work of the sculptor, Renee
Prahar, of Vienna.

two pounds of currants and one of
raisins to each pound of flour."
I like to reread that old rec-
ipe, because it makes me feel
economical and modest when I
go around the corner and pay
several dollars for a diminutive

elaborate box of glace fruit and a blue glass pitcher
of lemonade are companions, near the sea shore
where we see oysters, celery and shrimps.

THE white towering bulk of the Woolworth Build-
ing is seen over the top of the spout of
an old silver teapot. A cold meat pie, with salt

Thanksgiving fruit cake. Times and pepper, looms large. A riding whip, an arm
in this direction at least, have band from the steeplechase, and a red and white
changed. Nowhere, unless it camellia for the victor, are another group.

A glove, a rosary, a volume of Madame Bovary
with a daisy marking a place, a fruit jelly, a dish
of chocolates and nuts are neglected for a better
view of a nearby regatta. A sailor lies prone on the
ground gazing at some kites, high in the air above

rapidly becoming the fash- the church steeple. A carrier bird, speeds on with a
ion in New York, which means special delivery letter,
in America. Every architect stamped and addressed to
one meets is enthusiastic about the author, and passes in
some room that some young his flight a delicious lady-
lock.

I know this sounds like

were for a state fair exhibit,
would a cake of such gargan-
tuan dimensions be baked.

£) ECORATIVE painting

painter has done for him. The

older and more academic mural

painters have been so expensive a hopeless mixture, but

that the decorative painting of these thousand every-day

a room has long been a luxury, things find themselves so

but now the young painters beautifully disposed on

have attacked the problem with the long panels, so hum-

Monkeys were enormously fashionable in the 18th such enthusiasm of idea, such gayety of method, orously drawn, so ex-
Century. In the Louis XIV period John Berain and such modesty of price that nearly every quisitely colored, that one
constantly employed monkeys in his decorations, new house one goes into has some delightfully sighs with content at a

"Le Salon des Singes", of a later period at Chantilly,
is one of the most amazing rooms in existence. So
popular were monkeys at this period that "Singerie''
was as much a recognised style as "Chinoiserie".
Jean-Baptiste Oudry employed monkeys constantly
in his cartoons for the Beauvais tapestries in the
early 18th Century. Of late there has been a revival
of interest in the monkey as a basis of design, and

purely American thing well
done. This little room

original room to exhibit. Victor White, Joseph B.
Platt, Robert Locher, Louis Bouche, Allyn Cox,

Mark Tobey, Florine Stettheimer, James Reynolds, is as frankly a product of

Barry Faulkner, and of course Robert W. our times and our life as

Chandler, have executed infinitely engaging rooms John Alden Carpenter's

in New York houses within the past year. modern music, "Krazy

One of the most original and most finished rooms Kat", which has just been

I have seen is Bobby Locher's little dining room in produced in the Greenwich

many sculptors and painters are amusing themselves his house on Emerson Hill, Staten Island. Here is a Village Follies.

RUBY ROSS GOODNOW

November, 1922

KHORASSAN

The above is one of the most frequent motifs found
in Oriental Rugs. The four designs are taken from
rugs found in various parts of Persia and each
shows a different translation. This motif is known
by many names, such as the Palm, the Pear, the
River Loop and the Seal, but is most commonly
called the Serebend.

ORIENTAL RUGS AND
THEIR INDIVIDUALITY

Oriental Rugs are not mere floor cov-
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idea translated into an actual article by
the deft fingers of those to whom rug-
making is a traditional art.

There are many interesting features in
each rug that provide a source of con-
stant pleasure. The results of the prim-
itive methods still used in dyeing,
spinning and weaving, and the tradi-
tion of designs are the interesting
points which add so greatly to the
artistic charm of Eastern productions.

All who come in touch with Oriental
Rugs become enthusiasts and we are
no exceptions. We enjoy these points
of interest and would appreciate show-
ing you how really personal are
Oriental Rugs.

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Shutters filling the side lights of the Palladian window over

this Colonial entrance in Salem, Mass., are in pleasing

harmony with those on the windows

Your Shutters and Your Home

(Continued from page 63 )

variety has the solid portion at the bot-
tom with the slats at the top. By this
means, both the fastenings of the shutter
are more safely guarded from possible
marauders, and the free circulation of air
keeps in constant movement the heated
air which has risen to the ceiling of the
room within.

The solid shutter, which is exceedingly
popular just now, is exceptionally pretty
and artistic, but does not, of course, ad-
mit the air to any appreciable extent. An
awning may serve the purpose of half-
open blinds, however, and by this means
both the quaint form of shutters may be
utilized and the house further beautified
by gay awnings, which add so materially
to its attractions from without. If the
house is to be left vacant for any consid-

erable portion of the year, as in the case
of the summer home, this shutter, if
firmly fastened on the inside, offers a pro-
tection of a very real kind which can be
afforded by no other form of window cov-
ering, unless it be the unwieldy and un-
sightly batten.

The all-too-common method of admit-
ting air and light by the simple boring of
three holes in the shutter is unnecessarily
inartistic, when so many good designs,
which make the shutters a real feature of
the house instead of only a useful part of
its equipment, lie ready to hand. The
crescent moon is so frequently used that
we lose sight of its beauty in its common-
placeness; but numberless other figures
may be cut out in silhouette, on any part
(Continued on page 88)

Finish is given the little windows on each side this entrance
by the small pierced shutters. From the home of P. J.
Gassier, New Canaan, Ct., Frederick Sterner, architect

November, 1922

The New Cadillac Victoria

The new Cadillac Victoria, we
believe, embodies refinements
which will induce even wider
and warmer favor for this
popular Cadillac model.

A well' considered change in
dimensions causes the car to
appear lower and longer and
greatly accentuates the atmos'
phere of distinction always
associated with the Victoria.

The enlarged interior, with the
driver's seat placed directly
behind the steering wheel, and
all seats lengthened, provides
increased spaciousness and com'
fort for four passengers.

The new model Victoria shares
the advanced engineering and
careful craftsmanship of Type
61, admittedly the greatest
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Its owner will discover a degree
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smoothness that is generally
considered unequalled in cur'
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Cadillac has developed a finer
Victoria, one more artistic,
more roomy and more comfort'
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prospective buyers with full
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On Tudor houses shutters are out of place. Protection is

given the windows by Venetian blinds or folding shutters

placed inside the window casing

Your Shutters and Your Home

(Continued from page 86)

of the shutter, which will add to its
ieauty. The maple leaf is a pleasant
variation, as is the tiny evergreen;
while a three or four leaved clover is
unusual, especially if a wee flowerpot be
outlined below it. A bird may be used
effectively, or if your home has a
name, this may suggest an appropriate
design. Some mascot, some favorite
lower, some odd
igure, may be em-
bodied upon your
shutters; let it but
ntroduce a per-
sonal note, let it
3ut speak of your
interest and your
:hought, and a sur-
prising difference
will be made in the
appearance of your
borne.

The construction
of Colonial shut-
ters is shown in
this example from
from Hope Lodge,
Whitemarsh, Pa.,
built 1723

And, by the way, over each of these
outlines let a piece of coarse wire netting,
painted the color of the shutter, be fas-
tened. It will not show while the shutters
are in use, and it will prove useful in pre-
venting some home-seeking bird from
entering at the little openings, beneath
which you will find him lying when you
return from your vacation — as a memo-
rial of your sum-
mer's holiday.

What color
should blinds be
painted? That de-
pends upon your
taste — whether it
run to the conven-
tional, the striking
or the bizarre.
Green is, of course,
most usual, and
(Can't, on page go)

On French doors
and low-set win-
dows full-length
slatted shutters can
be advantageously
used for protection
and finish

November, 1922

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exposure is facilitated: at any speed from i/io to i/iooo of a second the focal plane shutter admits an extraordinary
amountof light. And the Kodak Anastigmat lens/.4-5 assures sharp definition, another characteristic of Graflex prints.

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House & Garden

A LIGHTED lamp is the most con-
spicuous object in a room. To justify
its prominence, it should be a thing
of beauty in complete harmony with
its surroundings.

The Farmer collection of modern
porcelain lamps is the greatest ever
assembled. Their finely wrought bases
and exquisitely made shades, always
in faultless taste, make their posses-
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beautiful lamps is now lower than in
several seasons.

The Farmer collection of Antique
Chinese Art Objects contains many
splendid examples suitable for the en-
richment of your furnishings. Farmer
conversionsof these treasures into util-
itarian elegancies bring to the home
that note of distinction so much de-
sired and so difficult of attainment.

Chinese Antiques and Arts
Lamps and Shades

Your Shutters and Your Home

(Continued from page 88)

with green it is practically impossible to
go wrong. Moreover, green fades, and in
its last state is better than its first. There
is an old house in Massachusetts the
shutters of which, once dark green, have
faded today to the most delicate of moss-
green tones, over which artists rave.
Newly painted or after many years — that
is a good point with green — the color .is
equally satisfactory.

With other colors it is possible to obtain
an effect striking or artistic, but it is also
possible to secure the former quality
without the latter. With a modern house
more liberties may be taken than with a
"period" one. Bright shutters on old
houses are like the bright coloring on old
furniture, now in vogue; bright and
pleasing while the fashion lasts, but then
out of date and in bad taste, as some simi-
lar experiments of the nineties are today.
It wears best to keep old houses and fur-
niture strictly of the period, in spite of

temptations to the contrary. Yet, in
spite of all, among hundreds of old
houses long forgotten, one stands out in
my memory, also Colonial, also in Massa-
chusetts, white with shutters of bright
electric blue. Such an innovation would
have caused our grandfathers to hold up
their hands in horror; yet this house was
one of the quaintest and most charming
imaginable in decoration and surround-
ings. To be sure, this instance was one
which was handled in the right way, as
against the hundreds which are not, and
the precedent is a dangerous one, for ef-
fects have a way at times of failing to
work out as they should, even when the
conception is good in itself. Still, it is at
the risk of failures that successes are
made; and it is taste and ingenuity, ap-
plied to just such small details as these
that charming and artistic houses owe, in
great part, their elusive and unusual
charm.

Household Weights and Measures

(Continued from page 77)

secondary concern to the housewife. The
clock, of course, is all important.

In this article we are most concerned
about weights, volumes and dimensions.

In the kitchen we have to measure food
stuffs; in the laundry starches, cleaning
powders, etc. But the most vital thing
for us to know is how not to be cheated
in the bulk of our buying.

For example, what should we expect
to get in a basket, in a crate, in a cord,
in a box and in a barrel? How many of us
know these common measures?

Furthermore, what is a heaping meas-
ure— and who determines on the heaping?
What is a tablespoonful? What is a dry
quart in comparison to a liquid quart?

District Standards

In nearly every part of the country
there are Weights and Measure Bureaus
whose standards are set. The first thing
we should know is what are the standards
and insist upon our dealers living up to
them.

In order to hold dealers to these rules,
ever)' household should possess a proper
length measure, yard stick and tape; a
weighing scale, liquid measures and grad-
uate, and dry measures.

The length measures should be a tape
from 3' to 6' long or a yard stick of wood
with metal ends to insure its steadfastness.
The tape should be of steel or wire woven
cloth for endurance. At least one yard
should be subdivided, as should the yard
stick, into inches, fractions of inches, sub-
divisions of yards: %", yi", \^' . For if
over a series of years you are getting
cheated on your dress goods, table-cloths,
etc., you can see, by adding up your pur-
chases and your expenditures, that you
are actually losing money, if you get
short "cuts"!

The weighing scale's importance to the
home is really "without measure." The
kinds are legion, the right kind few and
far between.

The hanging spring scale that auto-
matically registers the weight is good if
bought with care at the best place. It
should weigh from ten to twenty pounds.
Here there are no loose weights to get
lost and mislaid, it can be hung up out of
the way, and if necessary can be on a
folding bracket. These scales are not
expensive, are very useful and are fairly
accurate.

The beam scale is also very good for
the home and is accurate. The weight
is gauged by the moving of a sliding poise.

But above all do not get the "family
scale" which has the pan setting on the

spring with the weights stored below the
pan. Unless very exceptional in build,
these are often inaccurate.

Baby scales are an important thing to
have in the home. They come in varying
delightful forms, so that Baby is com-
fortable while being weighed. The little
basket scale certainly is the easiest to
use, though other types which are accu-
rate do the trick even though Babe isn't
so luxurious. Of course, for teeny babes
the basket is delightful and easier all the
way round.

The value of bathroom scales cannot be
overestimated, for an ideal way of keep-
ing well is keeping your weight to a
healthy standard.

Of the liquid measures in the house
there should be on hand: a 4 oz. glass
graduate subdivided to i dram or less to
measure small quantities, and one i qt.,
one i pt. and a y? pt. A measuring cup is
useful, if you know what it measures, and
it should be carefully subdivided. The
graduate should be cylindrical or conical;
the former is better, the latter is cheaper,
more easily cleaned and easier procured.
The markings must be clear and easy to
read.

Dry Measures

For dry measuring you should have a
nest of measures, ranging from l/t bushel
to a quart, made of metal or well and hard
varnished wood, bound in metal at top.
Cylindrical is the preferred style. If
conical, the top diameter should not be
more than 10% of the lower diameter.

For l/i bushel the minimum diameter
should be 13^".

For i peck the minimum diameter
should be io>£".

For yi peck the minimum diameter
should be 8#".

For 2 quarts the minimum diameter
should be 6f£''.

For i quart the minimum diameter
should be 5^''.

Checking up Frauds

The butcher tells you that he gave you
full weight, but the trimmings were
heavy. So insist upon having all the
trimmings sent to you. You can use
them. You have paid for them.

With poultry or fish you can't as easily
apprehend bad weight, yet you can tell,
after some experience, whether or not the
"cleaning" is too costly. If it is costly,
go elsewhere and have a fish uncleaned
sent home for a few times to weigh it on
your own scale.

(Continued on page 92)

November, 1922

There is nothing in all the gener-
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compare or measure the Twin-Six
quality of motoring.

It is apart and above — and it is
distinct and individual to the
Packard Twin-Six.

Here are provided superlative
degrees of ease and well-being,
which in turn induce superlative
degrees of contentment and
satisfaction.

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Here is embodied a mechanical
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as nearly effortless as such means
can be made in the present day.

These things belong especially to
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the special prerogative of the
Twin-Six owner.

There is no substitute for them,
once they have been experienced;
and they are not to be duplicated
outside of the Twin-Six itself.

The price of the Twin-Six touring is $3850 at Detroit
The price of the Single-Six five passenger touring is $2485 at Detroit

The Single-Six conveys an immediate conviction of very great, and very unusual,
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Household Weights and Measures

(Continued from page po)

Read the labels on packages and con-
tainers. Test out the contents on your
own scales. There is often a shortage in-
side the can or container. If you think
it is too much, notify the maker; he is
always glad to learn of deteriorations from
evaporation, leakage or bad packing.
Weigh container and contents, then sepa-
rate and weigh container, then subtract
this figure from the gross and this will
equal — if legal — the contents on the label.

Liquids, too, can be tested in your
graduate or measures. If a bottle is
marked one gallon the quart measure
must be filled four times. If this is not
so, you are getting short measure.

To avoid mistakes in reading the glass
graduate: The tpp is 'of ten more finely
subdivided — a 4<oz. may be subdivided to
l/i dram for the first 2 drams, to i dram
for the next 6 drams, to 2 drams for the
necessary capacity up to 2 oz. to 4 drams,
or % oz. for the interval between 2 and
4 oz. Read the graduate from the main
surface of the liquid — not by that part
which creeps up glass.

Dry commodities give a big chance of
going wrong. You can buy dry groceries
by weight, by measure, by count. The
things that count are safe enough — for
you know twelve oranges without weigh-
ing them, but on the weights and measure
end you should take stock.

Often liquid measures are used to
weigh dry things. An avoirdupois pound
is larger than a dry pound, the dry quart
is 1 6% larger than the liquid; so find out
how your fresh peas are being measured!

The dry quart measure should weigh 2
Ibs., 6$4 oz.; the liquid 2 Ibs., i^ oz. of
water.

The barrel measure is somewhat uncer-
tain. It is best to find out your state
regulations. The barrel differs according
to state law and commodities sometimes.
In March, 1915, a law was passed by
Congress applying to all dry commodities
except such as have been sold by weight
or numerical count (Hour, sugar and
cement). The standard barrel has a
capacity of 105 dry quarts. The liquid
barrel's capacity is generally marked on
its side.

There are usually ninety-four pounds of
cement to the sack and 100 pounds of
sugar. In the case of flour the weights are
usually in multiples of a barrel y£, %,
y&, etc., expressed in pounds, but the cus-
tom is growing to drop the J^ lb., ^ lb.
and yi lb. from the weight of fi, Vfe and
]^2 barrel size and make their weights 24,
12 and 6 pounds. A barrel of flour has
196 Ibs.

In different states the heaped measure
is heaped differently; in some the measure
is heapable to the point where the com-
modity falls down and out, in others the
cone above the measure has certain law-
ful dimensions. So find out before you
are fooled.

In buying peas, dried beans, etc., be
sure they are measuring your purchase
by dry and not liquid measures — or you
will lose 15% of your purchase!

Basket sizes are just about standardized
to 2 quart, 4 quart and 1 2 quart baskets.

A national law says that the standard
basket and boxes or containers for small
fruits, berries and vegetables shall be
of the following capacities: dry % pint,
dry pint, dry quart or multiples of the
dry quart.

In measuring cord wood practice dif-
fers. Purchasers must find out the local
laws. In most states a cord of wood is
128 cubic feet — in piles 4'x8'x4'
lengths. The length, however, of wood
that is cut in some places is 3', 2' or i^4'\
Measurements are sometimes made be-
fore or sometimes after splitting. The
basket in some states measures fractions
of cords, occasionally it is equal to a
heaped bushel, in other states it is more
specifically designated. Look up your
laws; here all your safety lies.

The states that require all dry com-

modities sold by weight are: Idaho, Iowa,
Kansas, Massachusetts, Nevada, Ohio,
Oregon, Utah and Wisconsin. Other
states have definite measurements for the
weights of a bushel, and pecks, etc. They
are: Arizona, California, Delaware, Illi-
nois, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, New
York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South
Dakota, Vermont, Washington, Alabama,
Arkansas, Colorado, North Carolina,
North Dakota, Rhode Island, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Vir-
ginia.

States requiring definite weights for
sales by weight are: District of Columbia
(only the weight per bushel of potatoes is
established here), Indiana, Mississippi,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, Virginia.

The expressions: The "pinch of salt,"
the "speck of pepper," "handful of rice,"
"sweeten to taste," "basket," "a can," "a
pail," "ten cents' worth," etc., should all
be relegated to limbo.

Learn your troy, avoirdupois, length
and liquid measures and also absorb the
following little tables for your conven-
ience:

4 saltspoonfuls equal i teaspoonful

3 teaspoonfuls equal i tablespocnful
16 tablespoonfuls equal i cupful

2 gills equal i cupful
2 cupfuls equal i pint
31 cup equals 8 fluid ounces
2 tablespoonfuls equal i pound of

butter
2 cups of • butter equal i pound of

butter

4 cups of flour equal i pound of flour
2 cups of sugar equal i pound of sugar

5 cups of coffee equal i pound of coffee
i l/i cups of rice equal i pound of rice
2^ cups of oatmeal equal i pound of

oatmeal
2^ cups of cornmeal equal i pound cf

cornmeal
i cup of liquid to 3 cups of flour equal

a dough
i cup of Liquid to 2 cups of flour equal

a thick batter
i cup of liquid to i cup of flour equal

a thin batter

LINEAR MEASURE

12 inches equal i foot

3 feet equal i yard

5K yards equal i rod

320 rods equal i mile

1760 yards equal i mile

5280 feet equal i mile

SQUARE MEASURE

144 sq. inches equal i sq. foot
9 sq. feet equal i sq. yard

sq. yards equal i sq. rod
1 60 sq. rods equal i sq. acre

AVOIRDUPOIS

27.3 grains equal i gram (dr.)
16 drams equal i ounce (oz.)
16 ounces equal i pound (lb.)

100 pounds equal i hundred weight (cwt.)

DRY MEASURE

2 pints equal i quart (qt.)
8 quarts equal i peck (pk.)
4 pecks equal i bushel (bl.)
105 dry qts. equal i bbl. — vegetables, etc.

LIQUID MEASURE

4 gills equal i pint
2 pints equal i quart
31^4 gallons equal i barrel
4 quarts equal i gallon

November, 1922

-utmitee

transcending the
commonplace, well
within moderate cost

PREDILECTION for harmonious surroundings
quite often finds its truest expression in the
appointments chosen for the most informal of rooms.

{JI Thus, a charming Sleeping Room or Boudoir,
•" drawing its inspiration from Marie Antoinette's
day, may reflect the owner's personality in such
appointments as the graceful chaise longue in a subdued
glaze, the softly draped bed in antique gold, and their
companion pieces in the glowing woods of that Period
— each detail imparting to this daintily arranged
apartment a pleasing touch of individuality. There is
a wealth of such suggestion for the formal as well as
informal rooms, however simple or elaborate the
requirements, in the Furniture and kindred objects
on view here.

JTJ Withal, the policy of moderate prices always
•" maintained by this establishment was never more
strongly in evidence than it is today.

De luxe prints of attractive interiors, simple or
elaborate as desired, gratis upon request.

Grand Rapids fiuruture Company

INCORPORATED

417-421 MADISON AVENUE

48'-!! -49* Streets -<• Formerly of West 31^ St.
NEW YORK

Utoratiu? (Sbjf cts

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House & Garden

The

reborn

romance

of
Candles

ETTLE did our forebears dream of the beauties of
candles and candle-light that to-day are yours.
Modern opportunities for pleasing decorative and illu-
minating effects and modern methods of candle manu-
facture have made possible their greatly heightened
charm.

Atlantic Candles, hand-dipped and moulded, are the
highest achievements of the candle-maker's skill, the
latest conception of the decorative designer's art.

They contain the purest materials, and are so made
that they burn down evenly in "cup" form, with a de-
lightfully steady flame and without drip, smoke or odor.
Colors are deep-set. Atlantic quality is distinctly notice-
able. To help you get it, Atlantic Candles are banded
or their boxes labeled.

There is a size, shape and shade for every use, for
every room and to harmonize \vith every furnishing or
lighting scheme.

"CANDLE GLOW," an interesting and authoritative booklet
prepared by us, offers many suggestions on candle styles,
lighting and decoration. We will gladly mail you a copy.

THE ATLANTIC REFINING CO., Philadelphia

ATLANTIC

CANDLES

A Plymouth chair in
antique maple, deco-
rated with a packet
ship design. Courtesy
of Erskine-Danforth

Occasional Chairs

(Continued from page 53)

and by the end of the century the
revolving chair had been established.

Cromwell, who had a decided taste for
comfort and pomp, imported from
Holland quantities of single oak chairs,
turned and knobbed, and chairs up-
holstered and velvet covered were not
uncommon. These were, however, ex-
ceedingly heavy, and in consequence
more or less static; something more
nearly approximate to the pull-about
"occasional" chairs of the modern living
room came in with the Restoration.

The light-hearted gaiety and the
luxury of Charles II's court was reflected
in the furniture. The characteristic chair
of the period is still turned, but the
turning is much lighter, and the carving
less massive, and exquisitely fine caning
replaced the solid wood back and seat of
the Commonwealth.

Outside court circles a plainer style, a
more old-fashioned tradition lingered; the
high solid backs were preferred by
yeomen in their draughty halls and
kitchens. The craze for all things French
that swayed the court was, as yet, hardly
felt outside it. The oak of this period is
not dark, but of a clear brownish shade;
later it was darkened artificially, but only
oil was used to polish the Restoration oak,
and genuine pieces are never black.
Walnut, too, was in high favour, and
quantities of single walnut chairs are still
extant; these may be c assified as "occa-
sional," but it is probable that originally
they formed part of a set.

Upholstered chairs had been made in
the time of James I, but the fashion had
waned, and was not revived till the

Commonwealth. From that time on the
upholstered chair in some form has always
been popular. Marot, in whom Dutch
and French taste were mingled, was an
apostle of the upholstered style, and
during the reign of William and Mary the
single upholstered chair was prominent.
The high backs, arms, and seats of the
chairs were often covered with the
beautiful embroidery which Queen Mary
had made fash enable, and all the fine
ladies of that time, and long after,
followed her example of industry and
skill. Velvets and large patterned
damasks were used with the embroideries
or alone. Taffeta, painted, was greatly
admired, -and leather for the backs and
seats of chairs was painted, too, and
sometimes gilt. Gorgeoueness charac-
terized this period of upholstery.

In the reign of Queen Anne a simple]
style prevailed; walnut was by far the
most popular wood, and the typical chaii
of her time was of walnut. The "grand-
father," as it is now called, or winged eas>
chair was a favorite model. This chaii
is one of the oldest patterns; k was made
in the time of Henry VIII, a somewhat
crude thing, all of wood, but with the
characteristic wings, or ears, which the
big draughty halls of the period had made
necessary, and it was known as the
"draught chair."

The William and Mary "grandfather'
is somewhat small, stuffed all over, and
built up on beautiful lines, and this,
combined with comfort, brought it intc
high favor. The Queen Anne "grand-
father" was sometimes fitted with loose
(Continued on page 98)

This original American mahogany
armchair shows decided Chippen-
dale influence in its design. Cour-
tesy of Barton, Price & Willson

An antique Italian armchair of
Louis XV influence, in walnut
with silver gilt carvings and old
brocade, Barton, Price & Willson

November, 1922

International Sterling
is Wrought from Solid Silver

PANTHEON • AFTER • DINNER • COFFEE

rom

<$otid

ONE • OF • THE • FIRST • OF • THE • FINE • ARTS
with which a household indulges itself is Interna-
tional Sterling; because it borders closest on the
practical arts.

Silver of purity is wrought by artist-artisans into
objects of utility.

The result is not only treasures in precious metal;
not only memorials for perpetuating family history;
but also table appointments imperishable both in
substance and in beauty.

The Pantheon design is Grecian decorative art in-
terpreted for modern America. Massive in appear-
ance. Rich grey in finish.

Your jeweler has Pantheon in complete table ser-
vice. A Pantheon Selection Book, showing the full Pan-
theon service, will be sent on request. Address Dept.
154 International Silver Co., Meriden, Conn.

Pantheon is stamped with this mark

•which identifies the genuine

INTERNATIONAL
STERLING

MASTERPIECES • OF • THE • CLASSICS

House & Garden

Heirloom Furniture at
Moderate Prices

BESIDES greater enjoyment, there is
economy in purchasing artistic,
sturdy furniture such as the hand made
pieces from French. A little furniture
of the authentic type is a more satisfac-
tory purchase than a house full of imi-
tations. From Maine to California the
handiwork of skilled cabinet makers at
the French factory is found in artistic
though not necessarily expensive homes.
If your dealer does not carry it, write us
and we will see that you are served sat-
isfactorily.

Branded underneath e'cfry piece, this mark
;.'" a guarantv of quality

WM. A. FRENCH & CO.

Interior Decorators Makers of Fine Furniture
90 Eighth St. S. MINNEAPOLIS. MINX.

The splendid simplicity of the pieces of the Cellini DinmgRoom Suite is representative
<>\ the late special Eighteenth Century Italian style which had jelt the influence of
the prevailing classicism of western Europe. The wood is a rich, warm colored
walnut -li'ith a suggestion oj age. in the softened edges and distinctive hand polish.

BED CRAFT

There is just one
"Reedcraft." I lean

be obtained only
from the following dealers.

Ask your archi-
tect about Ma-
Ricoal. We will
send name of
nearest dealer
when you write
for booklet.

What Magicoal will do
for your fireplace

In place of cold, cheerless logs, Magicoal will make
your fireplace radiate cheer and happiness-true
"firelight happiness". At the turn of a switch, the
coals glow and flicker like a real fire; and you can
have its heat, too, if you wish.

In any room, in any fireplace-real or dummy-you
can have Magicoal, for no flue is needed. It at-
taches to any lighting circuit and thecost of opera-
tion is negligible.

J. & C. Fischer, 417 W. 28th St., New York

SoU Distributor, for U. S. ^., H. H. Blrry World Paunli

ELECTRIC FIRE

John Wanamaker New York
John \Vaimmaker

Philadelphia
Fame Furniture Company

Boston
The Halle Bros. Co.

Cleveland, Ohio
Trorlicht-Duncker Carpet

Co. St. Louia

Robert Keith Furniture
4 Carpet Co.

Kansas City, Mo.
James McCreery Co.

New York
The Tobey Furniture Co.

Chicago
W. & 3. Sloane

San Francisco
Woodward & Lothrop

Washington, D. C.
The J. J-. Hudson Co.

Detroit

The C. W. Fischer Fur-
niture Co. Milwaukee
Tfce M. O'Neal Co.

Akron. Ohio

I>auler-CIo8e Furniture

Co. Pittsburgh

Frederick Loeser A Co.

Brooklyn

McCreery & Co. Pittsburgh
Duff & Repp Furniture Co.
Kansas City, Mo;
Frederick & Nelson

Seattle
LoYeman, Joseph & Loeb

Birmingham, Alabama
MacDougall & Southwick

Seattle
The H. & S. Pogue Co.

Cincinnati

Ganger Broa Dallas

Orchard & Wilhclm Omaha
Jennings Furniture Co.

Memphis
Howe & Rogers Company

Rochester. N. Y.

The F. G. & A. Howald Cn.

Columbus, Ohio

The Van Heusen Charles

Co. Albany, N. Y.

Sydnor & Hundley

Richmond, Va.
Harbour-Ijongmire Co.

Oklahoma City
Williams & Morgan

Utica, N. Y.
The Flint-Bruce Company
Hartford, Conn.

Lord & Taylor

New York
Lindsay & Morgan

Savannah, Georgia
Pirson & Pohle

Buffalo, N. Y.
Boggs & Buhl

Allegheny, Pa.

Baas Furniture Co.

Oklahoma City
Parker-Gardner Co.

Charlotte. N. C.
Burgeas-Nash Co. Omaha

IHEREEDCRAF-T

COMPANY

LOS ANGKLES
827 West Seienth

November, 1922

MPOLLO

J\IME. STURKOW RYDER,
noted pianists, giving concerts in connection
with the Apollo, occasioned the following
comment in the Music News,
a leading musical paper .

" She played the Rachmaninoff 'Prelude*
with the Apollo so skillfully that, although
the two were never playing simultane-
ously, no one could ascertain which was
playing and which was silent unless
the eyes were used as well as the ears."

Music critics ot many metropolitan newspapers have
commented in a manner similar to the above
extract on the baffling art of the Apollo which re-

'HEN the Apollo comes
into the home, an intimate
companionship with the
world's great pianists comes with it.
For, as you sit in your chair, Hof-
mann, Bauer, Paderewski play for you,
through the Apollo, precisely as you
hear them in concert. Their tone, their
touch, their very soul is reproduced.

Or if your mood calls for the lighter
airs, the greatest artists play for you
in their own inimitable style. The
world of pianistic genius is at your
command.

We shall gladly send you the Apollo book-
lets upon request and tell you where you
may most conveniently hear the Apollo.

THE APOLLO PIANO COMPANY, DE KALB, ILL.

120 W 42nd St.. New York
250 Stockton St., San Francisco

329 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago
607 W. Seventh St., Los Angeles

House & Garden

DECORATIVE LIGHTING FITMENTS

For the Dining-Room

RDDLE Fitments seem especially suited to the
dining-room, the rich tones of the Silver Esto-
fado Decoration adding to the spirit of warmth and
good cheer. The illustrations suggest a ceiling fitment
and buffet set that are appropriate for this purpose.
As all are decorated in the typical Riddle Silver Esto-
fado, a harmonious effect is secured.

The Riddle Fitment Book

illustrates in full color various Riddle Fitments for dining-
room and other major rooms of residence or apartment. It
contains suggestions regarding interior decorative lighting
that are especially interesting to those planning to build, re-
model or re-decorate. Lamps, torcheres and other smaller
fitments suitable for Christmas giving are also shown. Copy,
with name of nearest dealer, sent on request to Dept. 202.

Riddle Fitments are wrought of metal
and are therefore literally everlasting.
The decoration is permanent in all
climates, including salt-water atmos-
phere. Re-finishing is never needed.
The colors seem rather to improve and
blend more richly with age.

THE EDWARD N. RIDDLE COMPANY
Toledo, Ohio

Makers of lighting fitments since 189?

The fireside chair
usually has the pro-
tective wings on each
side, such as this
example from Tobey

Occasional Chairs

(Continued from page 94)

down cushions, and often the whole chair
would be covered with embroidery in
petit-point worked in designs rather
smaller and neater than those of the
preceding reign; a device of little knots
of cut flowers powdered all over was most
admired.

When enormous hooped skirts became
fashionable, the occasional chair with
arms had to be discarded in favor of one
with no arms and a broad seat — the arm-
less armchair, in fact. The pattern which
came from Spain appeared in England in
the reign of Queen Mary, and the vogue
continued all through the i8th Century;
it was called the Farthingdale chair.

Another occasional chair for which
fashion in dress was directly responsible
was known as the "Voyeuse" or conversa-
tion chair. This chair was made extra
long between back and front, with the
top rail accentuated and padded , and just
high enough for the Georgian dandy to
lean his arms on when he sat astride it
with the glories of his embroidered coat-
tails handsomely displayed on the seat
behind and conversed with or ogled the
belles through his quizzing glass. Admi-
rably adapted to this purpose, the chair,
minus the occupant, was not particularly
pleasing in design. The Louis Seize
"Voyeuse" was more graceful and had
usually a lyre-shaped back; a pattern
somewhat similar was used in England
for a harpist's chair and appeared in Shera-
ton's book illustrating his later style.

The writing (or corner) armchair
became popular in the early i8th Cen-
tury, and has remained so; a modern
corner chair which follows the original
outline and proportion very closely, is
familiar to every one.

The "barber's chair" was developed
from this model by adding an extra splat
to the back, at a convenient height, for a
head-rest; this pattern was in great
demand and — proof of this sturdy work-
manship—a good many "barber's chairs"
are extant today.

Chippendale did not so much originate
new chairs as play, with consummate
skill, new variations on the old themes.
He had a flair for the niode that amounted,
in itself, to genius; Gothic, Chinese, and
Rococo, each of these he adapted,
blent and bent to the requirements of
his taste, and the result was always Eng-
lish to the very core. Chippendale
started the fashion for mahogany, which
finally ousted walnut from its long run of
popular favor, because he was the first to
realize its limitations; he saw that it
could not be treated like the highly
figured and lustrous walnut with any
success. For seats and backs he con-
sidered red leather had a "fine effect";
needlework was used, too, panels in
French tapestry, and Chinese designs,
silk damask and velvet, and ir.any other
materials.

The classic formalism which marks all
Robert Adam's decorated work was
echoed in the furniture. Chairs were
placed stiffly; they stood at regular
intervals round the walls, each in its
appointed position. To preserve balance,
the chairs were usually ir ade in sets — two,
four, a dozen, and so on. The little pull-
about occasional chair was rather out of it.
The single chair — when it was made —
was a fine thing; almost too fine for every-
day use, with painted panels, pale tints,
and delicate inlay on rare woods; but it
was rr ade to feel a little bit lonesome.

A black lac-
quer billiard
armchair with
cushion in
peacock blue.
Courtesy of
Barton, Price
Sf Wilson

November, 1922

No. 1761

Distinctive Crucet Daven-
fyort Lamfy. 54" high in
Roman. Gold and Black
Italian Mart-le Affect com-
plete, with 22" Roman
Cold Cabinet made Shade.
Prices ranging from

$45. to $150.

Fine Crucet Lamps in many different
styles and sires, which add distinction
to the most beautiful room, may be had
from the leading dealer in your city.

Write for booklet "LOVELY LAMPS"

Crucet Jlanufactunng Co,

292 Fifth Avenue New York City

amp.

^ Jff

\o, 1772,

Exquisite Crucet Bridge
Lamp 58" high with ad-
justable arm in Roman
Gold and Black Italian
Mar He effect. Complete
with 14" Brocade and
Silk Shade.

Prices from

$35. to $110.

Making a Home Comfortable

T? URNITURE is the factor that contrib-
.T utes most toward the comfort of a
home, and nothing so adds to the attrac-
tiveness of a room as well chosen furniture.

Elgin A. Simonds Company Furniture is made tc
give a maximum amount of comfort as well as
beauty and durability. The designs and the work-
manship are difficult to surpas.s.

A thoroughly competent Department of Interior
Design is maintained to assist home owners with
theil furnishing problems.

You will find the Simonds trade-mark on

furniture in the leading establishments.

Write for illustrated Booklet "H"

on Home Furnishing.

100

House & G ar den

DIRECTORYo/DECORATION 8_

DARN LEY

397 Madison Ave.
New York

WROUGHT

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Old French
Scenic Wall Papers

Until you have at least seen pictures
of these unusual and distinctive wall
coverings you can have no idea of their
beauty. Imagine a room j>aper?d with
what are, in effect, actual mural paintings
by French artists of the Napoleonic era.
How far superior they are to the weari-
some repetition of the formal designs
ordinarily used in wall paper.

You can now obtain papers by such
famous creators and manufacturers as J.
Zuber et Cie, Desfosse et Karth, and
Isadore Leroy et Cie — depicting such sub-
jects as E!l)orado, Decor Chinois, Classic
Landscape, Scenic America, Chinese Chip-
pendale, Isola Bella, Fetes of Louis XIII.
In the .Chateau Country, Horse Racing,
Italian Landscape, Psyche and Cupid, etc.

If your Decorator cannot supply
you write for illustrated booklet.

A. L. Diament & Co.
101 Park Ave., New York.

Sole American Agents

431 MADISON AVENUE at 49* ST.
NEW YORK

Ckta^es

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H $

Samples Submitted^

'OOOOOOOOOOOO

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1711 WALNUT STREET

PHILADELPHIA
Interior Decorations

Antique & Modern Furniture
Spanish Linens & Laces
Stuffs - Lamps - Etc.

AN effective dish shaped like
an old Roman lamp comes
in hammered copper or brass.
It is 10" long and 3" high. The
price is $4. It may be purchased
through the

Shopping Service

House £§f Garden

19 West 44th Street, New York

who will gladly help you secure
any article necessary to your
decorating scheme.

This garden gate by James R. Marsh is a com-
bination of a simple design of flat bars surmounted
by delicate floral tracery

Decorative Wrought Iron

(Continued from page 43)

Italian, and the beauty of which in arrange-
ment and placing we owe to Mr. Welles
Bosworth, architect. The center opening
of the arbor on the upper terrace on John
D. Rockefeller's estate at Pocantico Hills
is one of the finest examples of this type
of wrought iron. And how beautifully
it is placed, looking out over those fine
hills through such a gorgeous frame!
The elaborate iron gateway between the
heavy stone pillars is another example of
Mr. Bosworth's work in the relating of
materials and the producing of vistas.

A famous architect in New York, one
who studies every detail of the construc-
tional beauty of the house, who considers
iron grilles and doorways and balustrades
as important as the stone foundation,
who understands the inherent beauty in
every kind of building material and
knows all the ornamental possibilities
of brick, or the beauty that can be de-
veloped from wood, said recently that he
felt, in America, we were just beginning
to realize the possibilities of decorative
beauty in wrought iron and to create, as
it were, a new period in this ornamental
material, making wrought iron that has
gaiety and humour, as well as ornamen-
tal design.

Unquestionably each architect should,
with this point of view, design the iron
necessary and fitting for the house he is
developing. It should have a personality,

a quality that has nothing whatever to
do with old traditional beauty, but which
may be incorporated in his scheme of
architecture, and, when the house is
finished, seem to have been created with
the very plan of the structure.

We are showing some beautiful designs
of ultra modem iron work along these
wise lines. These iron doors and grilles
were created for the exact house, doorway,
and window in which they were placed.
They show an entirely new feeling in
wrought iron, a return to Nature for
design, but Nature seen with a humorous
feeling, — bird feathers that trail off into
quaint and curious scrolls, and little
birds that look about with curiosity and
amazed delight to find they have con-
tributed so much to the return of fine
craftsmanship in this country.

One doorway, designed by H. T. Linde-
berg, presents a combination of building
materials handled with imagination and
executed with rare technical skill. The
brickwork of this house is finely de-
veloped, just a hint of a pattern with
header brick cutting through in the form
of a diamond. The door and the door
frame are of rich weathered oak, as is the
half circle about the wrought iron pedi-
ment, securely and firmly placed on the
lintel. Here again we find birds lending
themselves to humorously conventional
(Continued on page 102)

Designed to serve as
a decorative hinge,
this example by
James R. Marsh is
in the modern style
of wrought iron
technique

November, 1 022

101

DIRECTORY0/DECORATION & FINE ARTS

EHRICH

GALLERIES

707 FIFTH AVE., at 45th St.

NEW YORK

ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY
OLD AND MODERN MASTERS

Special Exhibition
during November

Modern

French and English
Paintings

MRS. EHRICH
707 FIFTH AYE.

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POTTERY-ITALIAN LINENS

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thing else that goes into it . The man who "knows nothing

about art but knows what he likes," need not hesitate to
go to a responsible dealer who can give him a good se-
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Chicago

The Highest Achievements 01
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Are represented in an extraordinary
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Amazing Antique
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Such rarities are seldom
seen; thick, sparkling, vel-
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now in museums, many were
pictured in leading rug books.
Volume of supply is off 90%
since 1914, and will fall more.
Persia is bare of antiques to-
day. Each rug is a collector's
dream, the best of over
10,000. That is why I have
sold rugs in all of our large
cities. Descriptive list on
request; then, if you like, I
will prepay an assortment
on approval.

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Perhaps your rooms are done in a certain period
or style. Sometimes it is hard to choose a picture
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Only damper made that provides for
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THE COMBINATION STUDIOS

504-G Cunard Bldg.. Chicago. III.

Decorative Wrought Iron

(Continued from Page 100)

treatment and oak leaves and cones
woven into a rich garland. In the two
panels of the door frame which extend
put into the brick, delightful wood carv-
ing appears, squirrels forming a ^conven-
tional half circle which finishes in a tiny
branch, producing the nut which the
squirrel is so cheerfully devouring.

A delicate iron grille covers the window
in the oak door, shown on page 43, and
the hinges and ring latch are of a very
simple design of wrought iron, so well
executed, so appropriately placed that
you are scarcely conscious of it until you
investigate the detail of the supreme
beauty of the doorway as a whole.

There are numberless places in and
about the house where wrought iron may
be used. Stairways within and without
may very appropriately be made of this
material, for it is one that yields easily
to a graceful turn on a rounded flight or
to a sudden twirl at the bottom of a
straight one. Balcony rai s, window or
doorway grilles, gates, fences, lamp
standards, and all manner of hardware for
hinges, escutcheons, and clasps are suit-
able subjects for wrought iron. And the
curious thing is that if we should look

around the neighborhood, the chances
are we would find some iron worker — a
German most likely — who can work
from our designs or, in the true crafts-
man spirit, from his own.

As for the manner, style and spirit of
our Wrought iron, let it be whatever we
happen to like best. If we are fond of the
gracefully dignified English^and Colonial
work, let us have that; if we lean toward
the floresence of the middle French, let
us use that, by all means; and in the same
way, if we like the delicate tracer)' of the
Spanish or the richness of the Italian or
the sturdy beauty of the south German,
let us, for goodness' sake, make our
choice according to our own impulses.
For right now we Americans are in a
pretty lucky predicament. Having noth-
ing in wrought iron definitely our own,
we have everything in the world to choose
from. Least of all should we try self-
consciously to establish something with
"true American significance." When we
have something to say in our wrought
iron we will say it; but until then, we
might as well enjoy letting those who
have been saying it so beautifully for so
long, say it for us

The Bungalow Problem

(Continued from Page 61)

American style of architecture, which
style conveys a great sense of refine-
ment and good taste for the least ex-
penditure of money than any other
style that has been attempted in this
country. On this building there was
no necessity for decorative trim. The
entrance portico is of the simplest
character. On one end, off the dining
room, the roof is carried down to
create a porch. A simple lattice around
the corner posts will afford a base for
vin_s. Although the front elevation
shows a fairly plain expanse of roof,
the rear is broken into a pleasing re-

petition of gables by the introduction
of the second storey.

This type of Colonial design was the
logical expression . of a sturdy, well-
bred race of people who were forced
by circumstances to build their houses
as simply as possible, but, straight
thinkers that they were, they put to-
gether the materials that were at hand
in a perfectly logical manner so that
even their most unpretentious houses
challenge our admiration today. The
average "bungaleer" may safely study
the work of this early period in his
quest of material for his bungalow.

The Gallic Trend in Domestic Architecture

(Continued jrom page 54)

some minds is a house of Norman in-
spiration. People with restricted archi-
tectural outlook would naturally pre-
iei a Victorian house with 1876 jig-saw
fretwork or so-called "Colonial" mon-
strosity, loaded with a surfeit of out-of-
scale architectural "features" illogically
applied, beacuse they are familiar with
them. When pinned down to give a
reason for their preference, they take
refuge in the shibboleth of sticking to
national tradition!

Now the writer flatters himself that
he has always staunchly stood up for
national tradition in architecture, and
Anglo-Saxon traditions of all sorts. In
these pages he has urged a closer study
of earlier American architectural tra-
dition and its adaption to modern
needs. But adherence to tradition is one
thing, and falling into a rut is another.
When a well known writer in an archi-
tectural magazine, in his fervid pro-
fessions of loyalty to national tradi-
tion, decries the influx of French, Italian
and Spanish styles in American domestic
architecture, he needs to be reminded
that national tradition has always grown
and profited by the infusion of foreign
elements, exotic elements, if you choose
so to call them. Foreign infusion, in-
deed, is its very life. National tradi-
tion in architecture can no more stand
still than can anything else in nature.
It must either go forward or backward.

Furthermore, it should be remember-

can architectural tradition is of defin-
itely exotic origin. That phase is the
Georgian style — which so many per-
sistently miscall "Colonial" — a style that
we have so commmonly used that we are
sometimes tempted to forget that we
did not originate it. It was brought into
England from Italy and developed and
modified under the aegis of Inigo Jones,
Sir Christopher Wren, and their success-
ors until it became a national institu-
tion. Thence, in the natural order of
events, it was transplanted to the Amer-
ican Colonies.

The illustration and plans of the
house at St. Martins sufficiently tell its
story. Apart from noting that the
ramped wall at the northwest corner is
intended to connect wlih the flower
garden wall, when it shd'.l be built and
all the planting completed, it is unnec-
essary to make any detailed comment.
What is necessary, is that people should
understand the value of fresh motifs
in our domestic architecture and appre-
ciate the value and meaning of just
such instances as that before us. The
house at St. Martins is not a reproduc-
tion of any one Norman prototype. It
is an adaptation of the manner. And
it is just through such well-considered
adaption that our national tradition in
architecture has achieved its rich, ro-
bust growth. It is just by such assim-
ilation of exotic elements and properly
digested adaptation of them that its vital -

November, 1922

DIRECTORY

OF DECORATION AND FINE ARTS

103

This Philip-
pine basket,
colored in the
brilliant white
0, n d w a r m
brown of au-
tumn, is marie
of nita. It
measures 10 ins.
deep aii'l 9 Ins.
wide.

With, its pot-
ted plant or
ut flowers it
i a note of
heerful color
n your sun-
notn.

Price prepaid

$7.50

36 East 48th Street New York City

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Wall

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The

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Have your evening clothes
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A Christmas present with life-
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Price
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Our Choice Selection in Imported Decorative Fabrics offers
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This cagf is made in OUT

Edgebrook Studios

for our Indoor Gardens

Sells for $10.00

BEATTY AND BEATTY

Architects Building
101 Park Avenue New York

The Florentine Craftsmen

MASTERS OF THE METAL ARTS

253 Church St. New York
Phone Franklin 4304

No. 1 1 o Hand wrought
iron lantern with wall
bracket.

Size of fantern 4 in. x
4 in. x ioH in. ex-
treme projection 7 in.
-wi red, black, with
yellow or white ca-
theJral glass,
tor inside $11.50

for outside $13.25
with bottom extra

$1.50

Wrough t
iron candle-
stick 5^ in'

We are the makers high black-
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hardware, furniture, with can-
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etc.

Prices on special de-
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F1KEPLACE FITTINGS

Fireia B-433
43' higk

Andirons with log roller B-701
27" hiih

Above is one of our interesting
hearth groups desirable not only
for their utility but also for their
decorative qualities. This group is
wrought by hand in antique finish.

Catalogue H sent on request

THE H. W. COVERT COMPANY

137 East 46th Street, New York.

104

House & Garden

Hardware Serves more
than Practical Purposes

OF course a lock and a knob must per-
form their duties uncomplainingly
at all times. But the worth of Sargent
Hardware does not end with performance.

Besides giving service that is depend-
able and uniform, Sargent Hardware pos-
sesses unusual refinement of design. In
variety of styles it harmonizes with the
many types of architecture. Its grace-
fulness adds beauty to every doorway.
Though a small element in the whole of a
house, it is, nevertheless, noticeable — a
finishing touch to the work of architect
and builder.

The Sargent Book of Designs contains
illustrations of hardware suitable for
your home. Write for your copy, and
select Sargent Hardware with your archi-
tect.

SARGENT & COMPANY

Hardware Manufacturers
31 Water Street New Haven, Conn.

SARGENT DAY and
NIGHT LATCHES

&> ^Hardware

The cellar stairs teach a lesson

for the whole house

IF you have had, in your home, a
measure of electrical convenience,
you have known how handy it is to
control your cellar light from upstairs.
A little planning will make the whole
house iust as convenient. You should

The G-E Tumbltr -11 1

switch workt -with have switches where you want them;

a touch of the tlbo'w i • 1 r If

or a flip of the to control your lights from the front
door, or the back or from your bedroom.

ELECTRICAL devices are willing ser-
vants, but you must be sure that ihey
can be put to work when and where
you want them.

YOUR home, no matter how small,
should have several convenience out-
lets in every room so that your fan,
your lamps, or your other electrical
servants may be used at any point, sev-
eral at the same time, if need be.

A New Booklet for Home Lovers

How to secure this electrical conve-
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in detail in a booklet prepared for you.
This booklet will be sent you free, to-
gether with the name of a nearby elec-
trical contractor qualified to assist you in
planning adequate electrical convenience
for your home. And if you now own
your home you can have the work done
on an easy payment plan, just as you buy
a piano or phonograph.

If you own or rent a home, or ever ex-
pect to, you will find this booklet well
worth reading. Address Section J, Mer-
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Company, Bridgeport, Conn.

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November, 1922

105

/CAREFUL men agree on
v_^ the necessity of owning
a thoroughly dependable re-
volver for protection in emer-
gency. Smith & Wesson
SUPERIOR Revolvers have
been the choice of this type
of men for more than a half
a century.

SMITH ^WESSON

^Manufacturers of Superior T^volvers

SPRINGFIELD
MASSACHUSETTS

No arms are genu-
ine Smith & Wesson
Arms unless they
bear plainly marked
on the barrel, the
name SMITH a WESSON,

SPRINGFIELD. MASS.

Catalogue sent on request
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THERE is an irresistible charm about all
MILLER Lamps — an indefinable "some-
thing" that wins for them instant appeal.

We here illustrate the newest designs:
Table Lamp, L-2629 In either Antique $11.00

Bronze, Florentine Reliefer Dark French Brown.

Boudoir Lamp, L-2G53 In Patina $7.00

Brass, Old Ivory or Florentine Relief

Utility Lamp, L-354 In Dark

French Brown, Antique Bronze,
Old Ivory or Florentine Relief.

Floor Lamp, L-46 inoid Brass, $6

Colonial Mahogany, Statuary Bronze,
Grecian Antique or Florentine Relief
W rite for name of nearest M tiler Dealer.

Edward Miller & Co., Meriden, Conn.

Established 1844
New York: 68 and 70 Park Place

Boston: 125 Pearl Street
London: 116 Charing Cross
Road, W. C. 2

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House & G arden

Department No. 44

Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, New York

Christmas
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All Pure Linen

No gift more acceptable !

Since 1855 McCutcheon's has been recognized as
headquarters for Pure Linen Handkerchiefs of the
finest quality.

All Christmas Handkerchiefs are attractively
packed in McCutcheon Gift Boxes.

29. Men's, Pure Linen, generous size, $4.00 dozen

30. Men's, Pure Linen, Initialed, - .50 each

31. Men's, Pure Linen, Corded effect, .50 each

32. Men's, Pure Linen, Corded effect, 1.00 each

21. Ladies', Pure Linen, Initialed, 25c each

22. Ladies', Pure Linen, Lace-trimmed, 25c each

23. Ladies', Pure Linen, Revere-stitched, 50c each

24. Ladies', Pure Linen, Hemstitched, $2.00 dozen

Immediate and painstaking attention is given
to all orders by mail. Free delivery in U. S. A.

The barn and the cottage, after sliding on skids for a quarter
mile and a half mile respectively, met happily on the foundations
of the house destroyed three or jour years previously by fire.

AN ARCHITECTURAL WEDDING

AS a rule houses rise fresh from
the ground with a no more
tangible guide than a set of
plans and specifications. But the ex-
ception to this rule is becoming more
and more popular. Houses are being
made from barns, from cottages too
small, and from old foundations; still
under the guidance of plans and speci-
fications, to be sure, but with the fine
flavor of something that has lived
and been lived with before.

The example shown here is unique
in that it is a growth from the three
usual types of beginnings. The original
dwelling burned to the ground several
years ago and left a set of perfectly usable
foundations. A barn of just the right
size to serve as the main section of the
house was found half a mile away and
was dragged on skids to its new rest-
ing place. (This dragging of a build-
ing bodily, by the way, is not a thing
(Continued on page 108)

Window openings were pierced in

the barn walls, an east wing begun.

and the cottage secured

A year after its completion the

house was on intimate and friendly

terms with its surroundings

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November, 1922

107

"Wills Sainte Claire

Qray Qoose leads the way. At the apex of his
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invincible.

Nothing surpasses the Wills Sainte Claire.
Whatever your motoring experience, owner-
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C. H. Wills & Company

Marysville, Michigan

WILLS

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In the great Pathescope Film Library are thousands of reels
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The Pathescope is so exquisitely built that its large bril-
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the finest feeling that comes with owning a Pathescope is
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of any projector capable of using ordinary inflammable film
is dangerous and violates State. Municipal and Insurance re-
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But all Pathescope Pictures are printed on "Safety Standard"
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House & Garden

litish HAndWoven Linens

'Discrimination

rHE successful hostess is most dis-
criminating in choosing her guests
and even the slightest mistake in
placing them may mar a carefully plan-
ned dinner. So also great consideration
is given to her table appointmen ts and by
her selection of Fleur-de-lis Hand-woven
IRISH LINEN damask table cloths and nap-
kins,she adds another tangible reason for
her success, which her excellent taste
probably makes superfluous.

Shown at the better stores in the United States
and Canada. A catalogue will be sent on request.

Then are also Fleur-de-lis linen
towels, linen sheets and pillow
cases of such general excellence i

as to justify them for finer use
or for hard wear

IRELAND BROS.

INCORPORATED

102 Franklin St. New York

Identified by the Fleur-de-lis and the
words, 'IRISH HAND-WOVEN
LINEN DAMASK,' woven on the
end of table cloths and napkins.

One of the reasons for building from o barn is a living room whose
essential decoration is based upon the honest structural note of
ancient and powerful limbers in walls, ceilings and floors.

An Architectural Wedding

(Continued from page 106)

to present too serious difficulties un-
less the route over which it is to be
taken is extremely rough and hilly.)
A small farm cottage, more nearly at
hand, seemed exactly the sort of thing
to be used as a wing — and a wing it
became. Unfortunately there was no
other available cottage in the neigh-
borhood which might have served as
a balancing wing, so it became neces-

sary to build one in the usual manner
the only altogether modern section ol
the house. The skeleton of such a struc-
ture— timbers almost unobtainable now
adays in a well seasoned state — beside
performing its very essential task, will
if left exposed, as in the living roon
of this particular house, form ai
unequalled background for the interio
decoration.

Hiss &• Weekes
were the architects
of this unique and
very successful bit
of restoration and
Clarence Fowler,
the landscape archi-
tect of the grounds

Lilacs help t
blend the hous
and its surround
ings and aid in th
pleasant deceptio
of a well earnei
feeling of mellow
and authentic ag

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An Architect, A Painter and A Sculptress
Joined in Designing This Exquisite Lamp

The lines, proportions and color-
ing of most of the lamps you see
in these days of commercialism are
the work of designing departments
of large factories. They are the
fruits of a deep knowledge of what
makes a "popular seller." Put
some people, the Decorative Arts
League committee felt sure, would
like a lamp designed purely with
an eye to good taste, a lamp of
artistic proportions and harmonious
tones, a lamp embodying grace,
symmetry and beauty rather than
the long experience of the "sales-
man-designer" of what seems most
in demand in retail stores. Hence
this exquisite little lamp you see
pictured. "Aurora" as it has been
named by an artist, because of the
purity of its Greek lines and tones.

A Labor of Love

In the exclusive Fifth Avenue type
of shops, where lamps that are also
works of art are shown, the equal of
this fascinating little "Aurora,'' if
found, would cost you from $15 to $20
—perhaps more. Yet the price of this
lamp is but

$3.50

Think of it !

Fur the delicate work of
ing a lamp that should be

design -

. - real

work of art instead of a mere unit
in a factory's production, and yet
should be a practical and useful
article of home-furnishing, the
League enlisted the enthusiastic
cooperation of a
group of talented
artists— one a fa-
mous architect skill-
ed in the practical
requirements of in-
terior decorating,
one a painter and
genius in color-
effects, and one a
brilliant sculptress,
a student of the great Rodin
in Paris.

They caught the spirit ot
the League's idea and the de-

,, '

sign
the

signing "of a lamp that would raise me
artistic standards of home-lighting be-
came to them a true labor of love
Model after model was made, studied
and abandoned, until at last a desig
emerged with « hi<-h not one of
three could find fault.

Every Detail Perfect

One style of ornamentation after an-
other was tried cut, only to yield in the
end to the perfect simplicity of the classic
Greek lines. Even such a small detail as
the exact contour of the base was worked
over and over again until it should blend
in one continuous "stream" with the
lines of the slender shaft. The graceful
curves of the shaft itself, simple as
they seem in the finished model, were
the results of dozens of trials. The
shape, the exact size, and the soft color-
ing of the shade were the product of
many experiments.

The result is a masterpiece of Greek
simnlicity and balance. Not a thing
could be added or taken away without
marring the general effect — not the
sixty-fourth of an inch difference in
any moulding or curve but would be
harmful. And yet with all the atten-
tion to artistic effect the practical
knowledge of an experienced interior
decorator has kept "Aurora" in perfect
harmony with the actual requirements
of the home. It blends with any style
of furnishing, tt adapts itself to boudoir
or foyer-hall, to library or living room.
And wherever you place it "Aurora"
will add taste and refinement besides
furnishing, with its tillable shade, a
thoroughly practical and mellow light
wherever required.

'AURORA
$3.50

the

On'./ the Decorative Arts League
could bring out such a lamp at such
a pr.ce. And only as a means of
widening its circle of usefulness could
even the league make such an offer.
Hut with each purchase of this beau-
tiful little lamp goes a Corresponding
Membership in the League. This
costs you nothing and entails no
obligations of any kind. It simply
means that your name is registered
on the League's books as one in-
terested :n things of real beauty and
:irt for home decoration, so that as
artists who work with the League
create new ideas they can be offered
to you direct without dependence on
dealers.

Send No Money

No matter how many
other lamps you have
in your house, you
will always find a place
just suited for this
dainty, charming little
"Aurora" 16 inches
high, shade 10^4 inches
in diameter; base and
cap cast in solid Medallium,
shaft of seamless brass, choice
of two color schemes — rich
statuary bronze with brass-
hound parchment shade of a neutral
brown tone; or ivory white with golden
yellow shade. Inside of shades is tinted
(Id rose to give a mellow light. Shade
holder permits adjustment to any angle;
push-button socket, six feet of lamp
cord and 2-piece attachment plug.
You will rarely, if ever, get such a
value again. Send no money — simply
sign and mail the coupon, then pay the
postman $3.50 plus the amount of parcel-
post stamps on the package. Shipping
weight only 5 Ibs., so postage even to
furthest point is insignificant. If you
should not find the lamp all we say of
it, or all you expected of it, send it back
in five days and your money will be re-
funded in full. Clip the coupon now
and mail to

Decorative Arts League

175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.

IWnrativp Arts I panne

uecoranve AFIS League

l75 Fifth Avenue. \

,New York N Y. )
B. o.

You may send me. at the member's special
price an "Aurora" Lamp, and I will pay the
postman $3.50 plus the postage, when delivered
If not satisfactory I can return the lamp within
five days of receipt and you are to refund my
money in full.

You may enter my name as a Corresponding
Member of the Decorative Arts League, it
being distinctly understood that such membership
is to cost me nothing, either now or later, and
is to entail no obligation of any kind. It simply
registers me as one interested in hearing of
really artistic new things for home decoration.

Check finish desired —

Statuary Bronze fj Ivory White fj

Signed ..........................................

Address .......................................

City ........................... St»t« ...........

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The

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Pattern

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As Graceful

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House & Garden

If You Are Going To Build

(Continued from page 66J

Cold Meat Fork

SOLID SILVER

(STERLING)

the neighborhood that have more win-
dow space than walls, and see how much
less interesting and attractive they
are than those which are fenestrated
with greater discretion. Then see the
difference on the inside and judge the
comparative lightness and airiness.
The chances are that you will find the
house with fewer and smaller windows,
if window shades are used intelli-
gently, to be just as pleasant in every
way as the one with the greater ex-
panse of glass.

Generally speaking, there is very
little choice between the double-hung-
sash and the casement types in matters
of comparative beauty and convenience,
granting that both are well made and
properly installed. It is more a
question of taste. The double-hung-
sash has a certain dignity, the casement
a certain picturesqueness. For ex-
ample, there is stateliness about a
house or room done in the Georgian
manner, or in any classic derivative,
which suggests the use of a flat, sliding
window, just as there is a liveliness in
the English vernacular styles, a roman-
tic aspect to Tudor rooms, and a
quaintness about our own farmhouse
types of interiors and exteriors, for
which the flare and variety of the case-
ment seem best suited.

There are certain things which are
perhaps more easily handled in con-
nection with double-hung-sash windows,
than with casements. There are out-
side shutters, for instance. They cannot
be combined well with casements, es-
pecially if the casements open out; nor
are shutters, as a matter of fact, a tradi-
tional or conventional accompaniment
to architectural styles that suggest the
use of these hinged windows. On the
other hand they can be used conve-
niently with double-hung windows.
Screens have been heretofore a somewhat
annoying factor when used with case-
ments, especially when the casements
open out — and casements, for many
reasons, should open cut; but the
difficulties in this direction have been
eliminated to a great extent by the use
of screens that roll down from the top
of the window frame, by casement ad-
justing arms that work through the
sill, and by screen sash that are
hinged to the inside frame.

When you come to examine the
various sorts of windows made in
stock sizes and patterns, many of
which are beautifully designed and ex-
ecuted as well as reasonably priced,
you will find a bewildering array.
There are casement windows that open
out and open in; that swing from the
top or from the side; ores with sash
and frame of steel or of wood; win-
dows with a single sash or with as
many as eight or more; with rectangu-
lar, diamond-shaped, or irregular,
leaded panes, or 'with the familiar
wooden mullions. In short, there is
a kind to suit almost any taste or
purse. In double-hung windows there
is the ordinary type in moit general
use on which have been worked a
number of interesting variations tend-
ing toward greater efficiency in clean-
ing (a sometimes provoking feature
of the double-hung sash) and venti-
lating. Certain sashes of this type are
designed to slide completely into an
added upper part of the window frame,
thus making it possible to get a full
opening, instead of a half opening,
and the subsequent 100% ventilation.
Others are designed to swing in at
certain positions on taking off a re-
movable guide strip, thus giving access
to the outside of the sash on cleaning
i days and avoiding an extremely awk-

ward and, at times, hair-raising
operation.

In considering the window's first
task: that of letting in daylight, there
is a chance to use some discretion.
The thought of a room flooded with
sunlight is a pleasant one, but the
actuality is apt to seem a little glaring
at times; for too much direct light,
especially from above the level of the
eye, can be very trying. That is why
comparatively low windows in rooms
with a sunny exposure are a wise pre-
caution. Large high windows should
be teft for rooms that face the north,
or for rooms that are shaded from
without.

The color and intensity of the light
that comes through the window is con-
trolled by curtains and hangings. In
other words, the side draperies are used
primarily ta frame and soften the
light, and the sash curtains to diffuse
and color it. But, where a window
has been given a pleasing architectur-
al trim, or where this trim is an es-
sential part of the architecture of the
room, it is wrong to swathe the win-
dows in draperies that hide the trim.
When it comes to the part windows
play in ventilating the room we can-
not be too exacting in our requirements.
During the warmest weather when we
want all the air we can possibly get,
those windows which open completely
will be a great comfort. Casement
windows do this, as do the type of
double-hung window whose sashes dis-
appear altogether when desired into a
compartment above the frame itself.
A direct draft is an almost impossible
thing to avoid unless some sort of
patent deflector is used on the sill, or
unless multiple casement is used, with
an upper row of small sash swinging
in on a bottom hinge or out from a
top hinge, through which the air
blowing in will be spread at the source.
A lot can be said for the quality of
the view seen through a window that
is in itself an attractive and appropri-
ate frame. When the sight from a hill-
top window takes in a vast expanse of
valley we will want the window with
this overlook to be broad and long,
rather than tall and narrow; just as
we should want a small window when
it is desired to pin the attention on
some particularly attractive object near
at hand. And we must feel no hesita-
tion about using small panes in our
window sash for fear of destroying
the view, because this is precisely what
mullioned and leaded panes do not do.
On the contrary they add interest and
beauty to the extent that they are in-
teresting and beautiful themselves.
The treatment of the inside trim
about the window is something to be
considered with fine regard for the
character of the roof and for the type
of sash. The length to which this
part of window decoration may go is
illustrated in the absolute lack of any
trim whatsoever in the interesting
small casement shown on the first page
of this article, as contrasted with the
rich elaborateness of the pilasters, arch,
and cornice of the Colonial example
opposite.

This difference in trim treatment is
due to the totally different mechanism
in the two types. The frame of the
double-hung window must enclose
sash weights, rope, and pulleys; while
that of the casement need carry only
the hinges on which its sash are hung.
Thus the trim of the former must
necessarily assume some importance,
while that of the latter may be as in-
conspicuous as the designer cares to
make it.

November, 1922

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Oriental influ-
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The Maiolica of old Mexico

(Continued from page 56)

come to know of the existence of a
native Mexican maiolica ware. Pre-
vious to this discovery it had been
assumed that the pieces of tin-glazed
pottery found in Mexico were all of
Spanish origin and from the potteries
of Talavera. Through the researches
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produced in old Mexico throughout a
long period. Indeed, by the middle of
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was actually organized in Puebla to
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potters. Regulations were adopted by
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maiolica manufacture, the grading of
the wares, styles of decoration, sizes
of such utensils as the albarelli (drug-
pots) etc., as well as the prices to be
asked by manufacturer and dealer.
Other matters also came within the
things its members were required to
mark their wares with a distinctive
trademark consisting of an initial or
monogram device of the potter and
heavy were the penalties imposed on
those members of the Guild who trans-

gressed its regulations, and on tho
who falsified the mark of any potte

After 1676 the Guild of Potters a|
parently fell upon lean years and I
record appears to suggest that its pre
tige was later revived. Research ma
however, disclose the cause of this sui
den inactivity ; importations of Eur
pean maiolica may have had somethii
to do with it, or political disturbanc<

The Mexican maiolica antedatii
the year 1700 is strongly influenced I
the Moresque style, as evidenced I
the scroll and strapwork decoration <
these early pieces. There is a very ic
portant example of this genre to 1
found in the blue and white tiled da(
of the Chapel of the Rosary in tl
Church of Santo Domingo in Puebl
which edifice dates from 1690. Tl
other 16th century influence was,
course, purely Spanish, marked I
decoration of birds, animals, and fi|
ures, of saints, with, of course, tl
particular "turn" given such decoratic
by the native Mexican potters.

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to import Oriental keramic wares e:
tensively, as her own products may ni

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(Above) Oriental
ornament appeared
in the native Mexi-
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influence in the de-
sign of the blue
decorations.

The 'silhouette
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Eighteenth Century

N ove mbe r , 1922

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FOR EVERY PLACE AND PURSE

DISEASE Germs, Foul Air and
Defective Plumbing Systems
are very closely associated. Poor
quality plumbing' fixtures no more
pay than poor quality clothes.
Sooner or later they will have to be
replaced.

The Trenton Potteries Company
has developed a water closet of the
four recognized types — each in its
class the best that can be made. The
Quiet Si-wel-clo is the leader of this
group but for those who cannot af-
ford it we make other closets with
all its sanitary qualifications except-
ing the extremely quiet operation.

When you buy these "Tepeco" Outfits you
will know you are getting Tepeco China
Tanks which have no linings to ever wear
out. They are made of glistening white
china, with surface unaffected by stain, acid
or soil and with trouble-proof working parts.
You will know that every measure has been
taken to make the water-seals stronger, the
surfaces larger and the passage-ways ample.
Si-wel-clo, Welling, Merit or Saxon — be
sure your plumber supplies one of these
outfits.

Our tint' booklets tell how to distinguish
between the different t\/>cs and why some
arc better than others. Write for Edition H.

THE

TRENTON POTTERIES CO.

TRENTON, NEW JERSEY, U.S.A.

Boston New York San Francisco

World', Large,! makers of All-Clay Plambinf Flllara

Welling'1

Price
$65.65

yesteryear

the Moated Will

Protection was the first requisite of the medieval habi-
tation. The flanking tows, the drawbridge, the moat and
the encompassing wall — all symbolized the desire for com-
plete protection within the knightly domain.

Today Pacje Protection Fence

The massive battlements of the medi-
eval day have given way to the simplicity
and effectiveness of the Page Protection
Fence. The sturdy, non-climbable wire-
link enclosure assures complete protec-
tion—and the simple attractiveness of
the design gives an added touch of
beauty and seclusion to the property.

An illustrated booklet, " FENCES— for Protection
and Beauty," will be sent on request. Write to

PAGE FENCE & WIRE PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION

219 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago

PAGE

PROTECTION FENCE

116

House & Garden

Fascinating Pastime
Charming Results

All in an Envelope

ART
LAMP SHADES

Your own Achievement

— at home

AL the materials with full instructions
— "All in an Envelope'" for making
a beautiful lamp shade at home. Materials
cut to exact size, ready to assemble and
sew together. Wire frame attached.

Fascinating work — an exquisite shade,
professionally correct — your own achieve-
ment— at about half the cost.

Exclusive period designs in boudoir, table
and floor lamp shades, candle shades,
domes, shields, bed lights, night light dolls,
and art novelties.

A Newco Art Envelope is a Christmas
present that will delight any woman on
your list. Giving it, you give much great-
er value than the money would buy in a
ready made article.

"All in an Envelope"

At department stores, art shops and electrical stores.

The above illustration
shows " The Recamier"
(Envelope No. 14005)
an exquisite boudoir
shade made in four col-
ors and three sizes. Send
for catalog. Over JO
designs to select from.
Any Neivco Art En-
velope ivill be sent direct
by Parcel Post if your
dealer can't supply you.
Full satisfaction guaran-
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BERNARD W. COWEN CORPN., NEW YORK

Maker of Decorative Novelties to America's Best Stores

The Maiolica of old Mexico

(Continued from page 114)

have proved sufficient for an increasing
demand. For some time after this
oriental influence held sway with the
Mexican maiolica decorators. This is
particularly true of Chinese motifs. Just
as pseudo-Chinese decoration was being
developed by European keramic art-
ists, so too did such an oriental in-
fluence display itself in Mexican maio-
lica, with which it held popularity till
the close of the 18th Century. After
that it disappeared in Mexican wares,
except in occasional examples.

The Mexican maiolica of the early
19th Century followed the later Span-
ish Talavera style of polychrome orna-
ment, debased, it is true, but highly
decorative. Nearly the whole period
covered by the first three quarters of
the 19th Century of Mexican maiolica
found its keynote in gaudy decoration,
though none the less interesting.

As might be expected, the Mexican
potters employed their greatest skill in
the service of the church and produced
an extensive series of tiles for the deco-
ration of the facades of ecclesiastical
edifices. Fonts, holy-water stoups, al-
tars, shrines, figurines, etc. were in
great demand by the Mexican church-
builders. For the rest, innumerable
articles of domestic utility were pro-
duced by the potters of old Mexico.
Not the least interesting of the maiolica
pieces were those made for the flower-
loving people of this foster-child of
Spain, — jardinieres, flower-pots, bowls,
urns and vases, including those in the
form of the albarelli already referred
to. The maiolica-makers also turned
heraldic art to good account and inset
in the walls of many of their houses
maiolica panels ornamented with the
bearings of their owners.

As to the varieties of old Mexican
maiolica, Barber classed them as fol-
lows:

1: Those produced before the year
1800 in (a) the Moresque style, (b) the
Spanish or Talavera style and (c) the
Chinese style;

2: Those produced in the 19th Cen-
tury in the Mexican or Pueblan style.
These were decorated in polychrome.

It will be noticed that the dis-
tinguishing characteristic of the Mexi-
can blue monochrome maiolica is tbat
of the blue in relief, whereas the blues
of the maiolica wares of Spain were
thinly applied with no perceptible rais-

ed portions on their surfaces.

The metallic lustres found in the
Spanish maiolica of Malaga and of
Valencia, and the Italian lustred maioli-
cas of Gubbio and Deruta have no
counterpart in the maiolica wares of
Mexico, whose fabriques appear never
to have attemped this genre of enam-
elled earthenware.

Apropos the blue monochrome relief
decoration of Mexican maiolica, it is
of interest to point out that through
the last four decades of the 17th Cen-
tury the Mexican keramic decorators
employed, as one of the several Tala-
vera styles of decoration, the "Tatoo"
patterns, which consist of placing in-
numerable monochrome dark blue dots
and dashes on an enamelled white
ground between the main motifs of the
decoration.

Birds, flowers and animals appear in
silhouette form in the decoration of
many of the Mexican maiolica pieces
made during the first half of the 18th
Century. When the Chinese influence
came in, the earliest of the pseudo-ori-
ental pieces employed grounds of dari:
blue with the decorative motifs worked
out in white reserve. This order, ;?.
little later, came to be reversed. Next
oriental figures, and still later came
the Mexican maiolica pieces decorated
with irregular medallions of alternating
blue on the white medallions or in
white on the blue ones.

Both white and red clays were em-
ployed by the Mexican potters in mix-
tures throughout some three centuries
of this craft, the white clays being
softer in body. As the different de-
grees of heat to which the various
pieces of the same clays were subject-
ed simultaneously produced a decided
difference in the tints of the glazed
wares, one cannot go by the tint when
determining the antiquity or the bbtega
of the piece or of the natural locus of
the clay.

Dr. Barber has pointed out that all
the dark blue potters' marks appearing
on Mexican maiolica pieces occur on
those which were produced in the 17th
Century, while black marks and brown
marks fall within the period of the
first half of the 19th.

Unfortunately, perhaps, from the
collector's point of view, the old Mexi-
can maiolica pieces have been imitated
by modern Mexican potters ever since.

Uncommon Hardy Shrubs For The Border

(Continued from page 74)

somed shrub of its season, for in late
May it has many pea-like blooms.
It is excellent as a specimen or it may
serve as an accent in the border. Should
be pruned only in the summer, when
all the old wood should be removed.
Will thrive in any good soil but prefers
a light sandy one.

Chinese fringe tree (Chionanthus retu-
sd) :

This variety is not as well known as
its relative C. virginiana, but it has the
admirable quality of blooming a week
or two earlier. It has a spreading habit,
dark green foliage, which is rather
coarse, and white flowers in panicles
two to five inches long. These are
fragrant and appear in late May. This

shrub may be used as a specimen or an
accent plant. Prefers sandy loam in a
sunny position.
Russian Olive (Eleagnus angustifolia) :

A deciduous shrub or small tree
which will grow to twenty feet in
height. Has handsome silvery foliage
and many inconspicuous flowers, which
are very fragrant, in June. In the fall
it has yellow fruit which is attractive
and very decorative. It will thrive in
any well drained soil, including lime-
stone.
Goumi (Eleagnus longipes):

Is another member of the same family
which may be grown for its fruit alone,
which is scarlet and exceptionally dec-
(Continued on page 124)

November, 1922

117

MOTT

Where Space is Limited

It will help you in your planning to know
that you can have a complete Mott Bath-
room in a space 5 ft. 6 in. square.

This includes a full sized Mott "Eclipso"
Enameled Iron Bath — famous for its beauty
and permanency of finish and admirably
suited for a shower.

A "Villard" Vitreous China Lavatory and
"Silentum" Closet — all fixtures of quality
and backed by the name of Mott which is
your guarantee.

Let us help you to plan your Bath-
room. Send for the Mott Bathroom
Book — it is illustrated in color and
will give you many interesting and
helpful suggestions. Address Dept. A

We've Cut the Cost!

HOFFMAN, always a step ahead, offers the small home
owner equal hot water comfort and convenience with
those who live in large residences— and at a remarkably
low cost! Four new models at the lowest prices ever set
are now included among the Hoffman Instantaneous Au-
tomatic Water Heaters. The Mo. 80, illustrated above,
delivers three gallons of piping hot water per minute.

Opening the faucet automatically starts the heater.
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turns off the gas. You need not wait. You pay for no
waste. It's ready in any amount at any time.

Send the coupon now and get
these two splendid books with
full information on Hoffman
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Automatic Water
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For AH Homes Using Gas

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i City

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House & Garden

Silky Sunfast Fabrics

for your draperies, furniture, walls

Whatever the motif, there is a beau-
tiful KAPOCK fabric to harmonize—
a fabric exquisite in its wondrous color-
ings, and artistic designs — a fabric of
true economy, for neither sun nor tub
will dim the beautiful colorings, and
the double width for splitting cuts the
cost m two.

For the utmost in beauty, refinement,
durability, economy, insist upon
KAPOCK, the ideal silky sunfast
fabric for all decorative purposes.

Send 6'c in stamps for window drapery
"KAPOCK SKETCH BOOK"
beautifully illustrated in colors.

A. THEO. ABBOTT & CO.

DEPT. C PHILADELPHIA

Be sure it's KAPOCK. Genuine
has name on setoage.

An interesting jug
made in Czecho-
slovakia is gray with
a deep blue decora-
tion, 10" high, $2.50

SEVEN DECORATIVE JUG

Which May Be Purchased Through the House &• Garden
Shopping Service, ig West 44th Street, New York City

Quaint and charming in shape is this cream
colored Italian pottery jug with a green
line decoration around the top and with
interesting corrugated sides 7" high, $3.50

A faithful reproduction of an
old lustre pitcher is silver with
the decoration in white. It
is 6" in height and costs $12.50

Decorated milt both the thistle
and shamrock is this black
Wedgwood pitcher, 5" high, that
goes with any color china, $4

An Italian pottery jug,
pulty colored, has an
amusing decoration in
Hue and green, 6%", $2

Italian also is thi
cream colored pitche
with a flower decoration
in soft colors, 6}{", $

Stone ware in b!i/t
green or brown make
this sturdy, primiliv

iita AH lii all *7C rent.

November, 1922

119

A Wall Sconce

of Delicate Beauty

THIS SCONCE
may be placed in
a room of Mid-
Georgian character
or in other rooms
which demand deli-
cacy of line and re-
finement of detail.

Appropriate finishes
are Silver with Gold
relief; all Silver; or all
Gold.

Visit our Studios where you
may view a comprehensive
collection of artistic fitments
covering every lighting
requirement.

Write for our small port-
folio showing a few authen-
tic pieces. Prices on request.

No.

Height i- inches

Robert Phillips Company, Inc.
Artisans in all metals

Office and Studios, 101 Park Avenue, 40th Street., New York City

P. JACKSON HIGGS

Four Original Superb Georgian Stone Vases and ped-
estals which until this year stood in the grounds of the
historic Devonshire House — the London home of the
Duke of Devonshire on Piccadilly. Height 9 ft. Note-
There are also three magnificent old lead figures avail-
able from the same residence.

Ua.ne.licd <J\aamA, Jutmtui.e, etc.

11 East 54th Street New York City

rODHUNTER

CHOICE REPRODUCTIONS OF

WOOD &> MARBLE MANTELS

OF THE EARLY ENGLISH &? COLONIAL PERIODS

FIREPLACE EQUIPMENT

ANDIRONS, GRATES, FENDERS, FIRETOOLS, SCREENS,
FIREBACKS, TRIVETS, BELLOWS, COAL SCUTTLES, LOG
HOLDERS, TOOL RESTS, JAMB HOOKS, CRANES, ETC.

GIFTS: Something for the house is always welcome, and particularly at
this season, nothing can be more appropriate than a present
which will help furnish that most important feature of the home,
the fireplace.

Illustrations upon request.
ARTHUR TODHUNTER 414 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK

Strand

1 \ esigned to gratify the desire of those who want a
-• — grand piano but think that their home is not large
enough. The Brambach Baby Grand takes up no more
space and costs but little more than a high grade upright
piano.

It is classic in its beauty and exquisite in tone. Musicians
marvel at the wonderfully responsive touch of this little
instrument. Sold by leading merchants everywhere. A
catalog together with a paper pattern showing exactly
the floor space requirments of the Brambach Baby Grand
will be sent upon request.

4.- FILL IN AISID .M.AJL.L. 1 ME COUPON -J,

Brambach Piano Company

Mark P. Campbell, Prcs.

645 West 49th St., New York City

Please send me paper pattern showing size of the Brambach Baby Grand.
Name .............................................................

Address .

120

House & G ar den

PERSONAL

CHRISTMAS GREETING
CARDS

ENGRAVED FROM HAND-WROUGHT PLATES

THOSE who would express the sentiment of the sea-
son with cards of especial quality and distinction, are
invited to select from the productions of this house.

A COMPLETE CATALOGUE IN COLORS

with necessary information for ordering, will en-
able purchasers to quickly and conveniently dispose
of this pleasant social obligation, and will be

MAILED PROMPTLY UPON REQUEST

Speaal Personal Cards Designed to Order

A SPECIAL CATALOGUE OF
COMMERCIAL CHRISTMAS CARDS

illustrating nine designs in actual size and full colors is
also available upon request.

The Mail Order Department is equipped
to render efficient service at all times,
notably during stress of the holiday season.

DEPARTMENT OF STATIONERY

J. E. CALDWELL & CO.

JEWELRY SILVER WATCHES

PHILADELPHIA

STATIONERY

Good Housekeepers Should Know—

MILLIONS of our Protectors are used in American homes.
No bed can be considered sanitary without a Protector, as
the sheet is not sufficient to protect the mattress.

These Protectors are made of the best quality of material, and
their elasticity produces a soothing and restful feeling.

Wash them as often as you wish, they remain smooth and soft.
Made in all sizes to fit any bed or crib.

We were the originators
of MATTRESS PRO-
TECTORS. Bark of

them stands the repu-
tation of thiity-one
years continued manu-
facturing.

The EXCELSIOR

15 LAIGHT STREET

When purchasing, ask
for the EXCELSIOR
QUILTING CO.'S
MATTBESS PKOTEC-
TORS. Our trade-mark
is sewed in the corner
of each PROTECTOR.

QUILTING Co.

NEW YORK CITY

A book to help you get

the most distinctive gifts

A detail from the gorgeously
colored cover in the Russian style.

The edition is rather limited, so
we suggest that you write now
for your copy of this Book of
Christmas Gifts.

THE OVINGTON
BOOK of Christmas
Gifts is ready for you now.

It is probably the most
famous book of its kind in
the world, for it comes to
you filled with pictures of
the choicest things that
Ovington's have been able to
gather from over the seven
seas.

This year's book surpasses any
we have ever compiled — over two
hundred pictures of new and orig-
inal things enliven its pages. It
will be a silent but powerful help
if you will not be able to come
to town to do your Christmas
shopping.

It is true that the most out-
standing point about Ovington
Gifts is their high distinction, but
it should not be forgotten that
the success of the Gift Shop of
Fifth Avenue is based almost as
much upon reasonable price.

OVINGTON'S

"The gift Shop of Fifth aAvenue"
FIFTH AVENUE AT 39TH STREET

November, 1 922

121

In America's Finest Homes
THE VOSE GRAND

_ In harmony with luxurious surroundings.
Its incomparable Tone distinguishes it from
all other pianos, ami yet its price is moderate.

We Challenge Comparisons

Write for our beautifully illustrated catalog
and floor pattern ol the Vose Grand, also our
easy payment plan.

VOSE & SONS PIANO COMPANY
152 Boylston Street. Boston, Mass.

ii» TC irvtog ForMe. in™

The nailheads at the
corners are really
screws made to repro-
duce old hand-forged
nails. They come with
every W. Irving fix-
ture or may be bought
separately.

hand forced

^Colonial

hardware.

1-RAJDE MARK

The

IV. Irving
Candle-
stick
.Vo. 1521

"/CHRISTMAS a century ago and Christmas
\^4 now, ah! what a difference", you sigh. And
yet — if you could give or receive a gift that bridg-
ed this gap — that brought back those elder days
at flash, would it not delight
you? W. Irving HARDWARE
makes just such a gift. Each
piece — and there is a wide
variety — is of true Colonial
design. Each is HAND-FORGED
on an old time an-
vil by an unhur-
ried smith whose
task is a labor of
love.Howcould (
it be otherwise '
than perfect ?

LightingFixtures,
Belli, Lanterns,
Shoe-scrapers,
Toasting Forks,
Fireplace Sets.

The IV. Irving | g
W 'cathervanc
No. 1301

us or visit our shop

326-328 east38ft5t HewTorfc Gib:

telephone rtur ray Hill 8536 .

QUAINTLY alluring, attrac-
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delight every lover of the
beautiful. Thoroughly practic;
too because the soft, luxurious
crinkle cloth retains its newness
i n d e fi n i t e 1 y — may be easily
washed and requires no ironing
at all. Made in patterns and
colors to harmonize with the
color scheme of any room.

Remem her to ask for Dot ly
Madison Spreads, or write
us for name of nearest dealer
and booklet describing other
uses of Dolly Madison Crin-
kle Cloth.

George Royle & Co.

Frankford, Philadelphia

Manufacturers

A rt production of a JPkalf ot/ waft
sconcft suitable for a Colonial Rfsiden.cc.

CASSIDY COMPANY

INCORPORATED

Designers and Manufacturers of Lighting Fixtures
Since 1867

101 PARK AVENUE AT FORTIETH STREET
NEW YORK CITY

122

House & Garden

HATHAWAY
BOOKVCOLONIAL
FURNITURE

IT has just been finished — a book to
delight the admirer of Early Ameri-
can Furniture.

Every page is full of interest, full of the
quaintness, the dignity, the richness,
the sentiment to which Colonial Fur-
niture owes its undying charm.

More than 200>pieces are illustrated and
described — Highboys, Lowboys, Chests,
Secretaries, Desks, Tables, Chairs, Din-
ing and Bedroom- Suites and many
more.

We know you will enjoy this book; we
want you to have a copy. It will be
sent you on request.

* +

The. Four-Post Bed illustrated is of the
New England Colonial style. The 4-inch
twisted frosts have acanthus leaf decora-
tions and {>ineaj>ple-ty£e tofts. Available
for immediate delivery in three widths —
54, 48 or 39 inches between rails.

* +
Department C-ll

WA-HATHAWAY
COMPANY •

62 'WEST

NEW

STREET
YORK

The English cottage type has no particular locality. It lends
itself to stucco over hollow tile, expanded metal or wood
lath. The interesting roof can be of shingle, tile or slate

Evolving a House Plan

(Continued from page SO)

your imaginary Dutch Colonial on the
actual site, you may be forced to re-
cant and go over to the camp of the
English cottagers. The site has a great
deal to do with the kind of house you
ultimately build.

For example: the truly Italian type
of house is rarely at home in the
average American suburb. It has to be
so adapted and changed that, by the
time the building is actually erected,
there is little left of the original Italian
purity. On the other hand, the Dutch
and Georgian Colonial and English
cottage types are all amenable to the
average suburb or small town. The
Spanish type, such as pictured here
is more at home in the South, South-
west and in California.

Since most people select the design
first and arrive at the plans afterward,
it is well to understand the general
layout of each of the four groups
pictured here.

The Dutch Colonial and the Geor-
gian are usually planned with balance
in mind. The hall extends from the
front door to the back. On one side
is the living room, which may open on-
to a living porch; on the other is the
dining room with pantry and kitchen
behind ; or the kitchen may be in a wing

that balances the porch on the other
end. In each of these cases the hall
may be reduced and an extra roon
placed at the rear of the first floor.

Something of the same regularity
characterizes the plan of the English
cottage design. In the Spanish, how-
ever, the house is built around a patio,
a characteristic Spanish feature. It is a
one-story house and, in small designs,
not so much leeway is possible in the
arrangement of the rooms.

For three of these designs we are
suggesting two plans; there are numer-
ous other possible variations. Find the
variation that seems to meet your re-
quirements.

This, in simple terms, is the most
pleasant way to arrive at the plans of
a prospective house. Having crystal-
ized your ideas that much, you can
then consult an architect. Do not turn
your rough sketches over to the local
builder. This would be as fatal as
sending a Rolls Royce to be repaired
to a garage that specializes only on
Fords. It is conceivably possible to
build a good house without the aid
of an architect, but it is highly improb-
able. For an architect is an economy
in the long run; he knows how to con-
serve space and how to create it; he

Two variations for the first floor of the English
cottage show a rearrangement of the service de-
partment. Ample living room space is provided.
The windows would be wood or metal casements.

November, 1922

123

; I

O F especial
ijite r es t to
seekers of the
unusual in
home embel-
lishment are
the display
rooms of this
o r g a n i z ation

Entrance
Gallery
shown
herew i t h

larttrn frto & Wtltenn

Incorporated

5 East 54th St. New York, N. Y.

INTERIOR DECORATORS

ANTIQUES

REPRODUCTIONS

WOODWORK

Turn Your Window Seats

Into Ferrocraft Enclosures

For The Radiators.

C^)R put it the other way around, and turn your
radiators into window seats by enclosing
them in our combination wood and Ferrocraft
Metal grilles.

We will make them complete, or you can have
the wood work done and we will furnish the Ferro-
craft grilles. Prices vary widely to fit various
pocketbooks,

Send for Radiator Enclosure booklet.

TUTTLE & BAILEY MFG Co.

2 West 45th St., New York.
Boston Chicago

36 Portland St 1 113-19 West 37th St.

ETMEIL A. RKETVE,

QNE'S home reflects one's personality. It is
our aim to maintain this personality, retain-
ing present pieces, adding others only where
necessary to secure the desired effect. We will
be glad to cooperate with you in carrying out
your plans within your appropriation. You will
be interested in our booklet.

<Stlicl d~>. t&ecve, INC.

INTERIOR FURNISHING
17 EAST 49:h STREET PLAZA 0440 NEW YORK CITY

OLD-FASHIONED CANDLEW1CK BEDSPREADS

The mere name conjures up the charminc oM pieces. These unique
spreads are made entirely by hand by the mountaineers much as in
the olden days. Can be had in all White TuftlnK; also colors to
match any color scheme. Curtains. Drapes, Valances. Scarfs or
Tidies to match

These spreads are of superior workmanship and made extra lonR and
edged with hca'.v hand- made frince.

Size 72 x ins $18.00 each

90 x 10S $20.00 "

Tlaln hem without fringe

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90 x IDS $11.50 "

Si-mi for catalog No. 62.
Furniture Linens Curtains

land 3 West 37th Street Nevftork

Me Gibbon

Satisfaction

124

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Sent postpaid for 20c I ,

How do you
curtain your windows?

This booklet is full of valuable information
on decorative matters

"COLOR HARMONY IN WINDOW DRAPERIES,"
prepared by a New York decorator, tells you the
latest and most attractive way to decorate win-
dows of different types. It deals authoritatively
with color schemes, modes of decoration and the
selection of materials. Clearly and completely
it covers the subject of draping windows. Many
of its illustrations of charming window, door
and bed treatments are in full color. It shows
reproductions of the suitable fabrics, also in color.

Before you decide upon a decorative scheme,
send for this valuable booklet.

And before you buy fabrics for your new
draperies, do not fail to see the Orinoka Guaran-
teed Sun and Tubfast Draperies at the shops
you visit. They come in the widest variety—
from sheer, soft-toned nets and gauzes for use
against the glass to richly hued over-draperies.
Orinoka colors are guaranteed not to change
from sunlight or washing. Look for the Orinoka
name and guarantee tag on every bolt.

THE ORINOKA MILLS

510 Clarendon Building New York City

Evolving A House Plan

(Continued from page 122)

knows how to overcome structural dif-
ficulties, and, if he is a good architect,
he can create, from your rough ideas,
a house you will be proud to live in.

The four houses illustrated here rep-
resent four distinct and popular types,
each of them good architecturally and
suitable to the needs of the American
family.

Red brick, stone or wood trim and
shingle or slate roofing would be requis-
ite for the Georgian design. The ele-
vation shows a balanced grouping of
windows with an ornamental doorway.
A wrought iron railing each side of the
entrance steps adds to the dignity of
the portico. On one side is a porch,
and on the other an extension. This
extension may serve for kitchen, or for
a breakfast porch when the kitchen
is housed in a rear wing. The two
chimney stacks surmounted by pictur-
esque chimney pots carry out the bal-
ance of the design. A string course,
or line of projecting bricks, between the
first and second floor, affords a reliev-
ing shadow to the facade. Shadows are
also supplied by the detail of the en-
trance, the depth of the eaves, and the
coigning of the corners and by the
dormers.

For the Spanish type stucco is the
accepted material in wall finish — stucco
over hollow tile, or over frame bonded
by lath or expanded metal lath. This
can be finished any color desired. The
roof would preferably be of red tile.
The pergola, which forms one side of
the patio and runs along the full front
of the house, may be roofed with rough
cedar poles lashed together, making a
picturesque foundation for vines. The
windows of the two wings are quite
simple in outline, although they may
be given a protecting grille of wrought
iron. The architectural feature is found
in the treatment of the living room
wall that faces the patio. Here the
wall is broken by a simple door on

each side and between them the space
is divided into three arches in relief,
in the middle of each arch a French
door is placed. At regular intervals
along this wall the ceiling beams are
extended in the style of the adobe
house, and form little catches for
vines. Above the living room there are
two decorative ventilators and further
ventilation is afforded by openings up
in the wall directly beneath the eaves.

Shingle, clapboard, red or white-
washed brick and stone can all be used
for the Dutch Colonial house. One
might even consider stucco over the
bases suggested for the Spanish house.
The roof would be slate or shingle. In
this design it will be noticed that the
main body of the house is repeated in
a smaller and modified form as a
kitchen extension. If one desired a
larger house, perfect balance could be
obtained by erecting a similar extension
on the other end. This would serve
for library or sun room. While there
are many variations of the angle of the
Dutch Colonial roof, this design, which
affords for a slight flare at the eaves,
is the most pleasing.

The Dutch Colonial is a deservedly
popular type of house. It rests com-
fortably on the ground. It has long
low lines. Although the second story
is necessarily cut into by the slope of
the roof, the dormers compensate for
this reduction in bedroom space.

For the fourth type the English cot-
tage is chosen. It can be built of brick
with a slate roof and stucco with
shingle. It offers a variety of roof
lines which are not possible in the three
other types. This irregularity in plan
does not affect the windows, however;
they are casements arranged in groups.
The entrance is placed in the corner
at the meeting of the living and dining
room extensions. Two variations of
the plan are suggested; both are livable
and both show an economy of space.

Uncommon Hardy Shrubs For The Border

(Continued jrom page 116)

DRAPERIES & UPHOLSTERIES
COLORS GUARANTEED SUN &TUBFAST

orative as it is displayed on long droop-
ing stems. The flowers are fragrant al-
though inconspicuous, and appear in
May. This is a very hardy shrub, and
is native from Canada through New
England, and southwards. Any well
drained soil.
Snowdrop Tree (Halesia tetraptera) :

A small flowering tree which has a
graceful spreading habit, and abundant
white flowers in late May before the
leaves appear. It is the most conspicu-
ous tree of this season. Its texture is
coarse, but it is excellent in the shrub
border. It has a twiggy and pendu-
lous growth. Should be pruned in sum-
mer when only the old wood should be
removed. Thrives in any soil as far
north as Massachusetts.
Salt Tree (Halimodendron aregntium)

A deciduous shrub which grows from
six to ten feet high. It is of great value
in seaside planting or any white alka-
line soil, where it seems to thrive. It
has a graceful habit, is fine textured,
and in late June has attractive rose col-
ored flowers among its silvery foliage.
Japanese Witch Hazel (Hamamelis jap-
onica) :

An extremely hardy shrub which
grows from ten to fifteen feet high,
and has a compact and bushy habit.
It has interesting orange and red flowers
in February, even while there is snow
on the ground. Later it has a hand-
some foliage which makes it very de-

sirable in the border plantings where it
serves as a good filler and a background
for other flowering shrubs. In the
autumn it has a brilliant foliage of yel-
low, orange and purple. It prefers a
moist, peaty and sandy soil, but will
thrive in any well drained and rather
moist place.

Golden St. Johnswort (Hypericum au-
reum) :

A shrub with a compact and stiff
dense habit which grows from two to
five feet in height. It has an effective
gray-green foliage and in late July and
early August it has large terminal clus-
ters of yellow flowers which bloom
late in September. It serves admir-
ably in the foreground of shrub masses
or as spots of bright color in partially
shaded places. It is native to the Caro-
linas but is hardly as far north as
Massachusetts in any good loamy soil
Buckley's St. Johnswort (Hypericum
buckleyii) :

This is another variety which is more
dwarf, growing in thick mats about a
foot high. But it has an attractive foli-
age in the fall of bright scarlet, and is
excellent for the edges of the border or
for rock gardens.

Shrubby St. Johnswort (Hypericum
prolificum) :

Is still another of this interesting
family. It grows to six feet in height
and makes a dense graceful mass of
(Continued on page 126)

November, 1922

125

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House & Garden

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After Ike wash
is dried, these
poles can be re-
moved and the
lawn no longer
thus obstructed.

The Linen on the Line

(Continued from page 73)

They are likewise fitted into sockets
recessed in the ground and fur-
nished with galvanized iron cap and
hinued cover. These poles should be
spaced a convenient distance apart,
preventing too great a slack in line,
and made with a type of head which
allows for firmly securing the line. A
pole of steel is light enough for a woman
to carry easily and should be taken up
immediately after the wash is dry.

With these types of poles the lines
are kept clean with little exertion, the
lawns remain unobstructed, and the
backyard is given other functions be-
sides being a place for the drying of

clothes, which is a welcome relief.
Such a convenience, of course, is nec-
essary on small properties where the
backyard must also serve for lawn or
recreation space with flower borders.
On larger places a sepaarte yard
should be given to drying. It should
be located close and easily accessible
to the kitchen and laundry doors, but
not so shadowed by the house as to
lack abundance of sunlight It can be
screened from the other parts of the
property by a shrubbery hedge. In
such a drying yard the poles and
whirligigs can be kept permanently in
position without being noticeable.

Uncommon Hardy Shrubs for the Border

(Continued from page 124)

THE MflRK OF Q101UTY

glossy green leaves It has long terminal
| clusters of yellow flowers in late July
and early August. It grows rapidly
and profusely in any good garden soil,
and as it is a native northern shrub it
is hardy as far north as Canada.

Oregon Grape (Mahonia aquijolia):
An evergreen shrub which grows from
two to three feet in height. Has a
coarse texture and dark green glossy
leaves. In early May it has clusters of
yellow flowers which later turn into
bluish gray fruit. The old wood should
be pruned out in summer. This shrub
needs protection in winter for the sun is
liable to burn the leaves. In this respect
it may be treated like rhododendrons
and planted with a northern exposure.
Prefers light sandy soil.

Shrubby cinquefoil (Potentilla jruti-
cosa) :

Deciduous shrub growing from one
to five feet high. Begins to bloom in
early June and has yellow flowers
throughout the rest of the summer. It
is suitable for the front edge of the bor-
der or for rock work. By pruning in
the spring it is possible to keep it dwarf.
Thrives in moist rocky places.

Native Azaleas (Rhododendron):

The colors of many of the imported
Japanese azaleas are difficult to handle
in the shrub border, and they are not
all easy to acclimate, but we have sev-
eral native varieties which are worthy of
greater use. R. arborescens, or the
Smooth Azalea, grows from four to six
feet high and has very attractive white
flowers with red stamens in early June.
This shrub will thrive in full sun or
partial shade. R. calendulaceum, or the
Flame Azalea, is a native of the south-
ern mountains but is hardy as far north

is Massachusetts. The flowers, which
are not fragrant, are very abundant in
early June and are a gorgeous orange
color. This shrub grows about three
feet high and will thrive in any soil,
and even in partial shade. R. nudiflora,
or the Purple Azalea, K native 9$ far
north as Canada, and grows from V < to
eight feet in height. It has attut'ctive
variable flowers from white, through
pink, to purple in April and May. Any
good soil, preferably moist. R. cana-
dense, or the Rhodora, is also native
from Canada southward. It blossoms
before the leaves are out, and its pur-
plish rose flowers are most attractive in
April and early May. It grows four to
five feet high, and prefers moist places,
although it is adapted to good soil. R.
viscosa, or the Swamp Azalea, grows
from four to seven feet high and has an
abundance of pink and white flowers in
May and June. It forms a dense and
beautiful shrub. It is wide spread, being
native from Canada south to Florida
and westward. Prefers moist places,
and will thrive in partial shade.

Bush Roses

There are aJso a number of shrubby
coses which prove very effective in the
shrubbery border. Rose cinnamonea,
the Cinnamon Rose, grows from five to
six feet high and forms a graceful bush
which has a great many rosy-lavender
in late May. Rosa Harrison, Harrison's
Yellow Rose, is another excellent one.
This grows to eight feet and in early
June is covered with multitudes of
small yellow roses in clusters. It is
very hardy and makes effective masses.
Rosa spinosisstima, the Siberian form of
the Scotch Rose, grows from three to
four feet high and is low and spreading
in habit. In early June it has many
white flowers with yellow stamens.

November, 1922

127

Rev.W.T.EUing's
Residence, Lake-
wood, N. J. In-
sulated with
"Quilt," as per
letter below:

"I built a house
last summer in which
I used your Sheath-
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shingles and also be-
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rooms with half-inch
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boards, and decor-
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sanitary and Japan-
ese crepes. The result
is, I have a cheaper,
warmer ami more
beautiful house than
I could possibly get
by using laths and
plaster."

W. T. Elsfntt.

Make Your Houses Frostproof by
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Quilt is not a mere -building paper, but a thick, matted lining of
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130

Here Comes
the Plumber!

Your water pipes are causing trouble.
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House &• Garden

Stains and Enamels

(Continued from Page 68)

faces, and also for those who, while they
like the grain of the wood, much
prefer the effect of shellac or varnish.
In order to use these modern stains
successfully the wood must be properly
prepared, and many manufacturers in-
sist that the pores should be filled,
which, they contend, gives a surface
smooth, transparent and elastic. Also
that it tends to bring out and empha-
size the natural life and beauty of
wood and that it is the only way to
insure best results from the use of
shellac, wax, varnish and other finish-
ing materials.

The stains that are used over these
fillers are supposed never to obscure
or cloud the wood grain, but to give
a variety of soft, rich, artistic colors
in various shades of brown, green,
weathered and Flemish oak. If de-
sired, the stains may be finished with
varnish, shellac or wax, and used on
a rich variety of woods; or to give the
effect of the more durable woods to
the cheaper qualities. For instance,
birch may be stained to get the effect
of mahogany, or fir to have the style
of Flemish oak, or cypress to look like
brown oak, or red wood like English
oak, and so on, or their own qualities
and characteristics may be brought out.
Of course, the close-grained woods
require no filling. They may be
treated first with a white shellac, sand-
papered to a smooth finish, followed
by two or three coats of wood finish.
The first two coats, rubbed with hair
cloth or curled hair, and the last with
pulverized pumice stone or crude oil. A
dull finish would be followed by a
treatment with polish applied with
soft felt or flannel. We are warned
that the first coat of shellac should
never be omitted on pine, as it serves
to kill the sap or pitch which might
otherwise, in the course of time, ooze
out and mar the finish. If the clear
bright color of pine is desired, never
apply a first coat of linseed oil as
this tends to turn the wood dark.

The use of enamels is so widespread
in this country for furniture, wood-
work, kitchen equipment, bathrooms,
and cellars, that it seems superfluous

to dwell upon it. The home builder
today does not consider that a sani-
tary house has been produced unless
certain details of the decoration are
done with enamel. This may be white
or ivory, or various tints. It may be
highly glossed, half polished or flat.
To obtain a tint a pure tone color is
ground in Japan and thinned down
with a small quantity of turpentine,
slowly added to the enamel until the
desired color is obtained. When the
outer coat of enamel is in color the
under tint should be the same. These
enamels may be used over iron, plaster,
and almost every variety of wood, if
the surface is properly prepared. Over-
emphasis cannot be laid on the im-
portance of the under coat, and the
master painters affirm that the priming
coat is the most important of all, not
only the perfect laying of the coat, but
the rubbing down between layers.
On some of the extra fine enameling
which is done in this country, even
eight or nine coats, each one carefully
prepared and laid on, are employed.
In cold weather the room should be
heated. If not, then the enamel should
be warmed by placing it in a pail of
hot water. The best work is done in
a room having a temperature of not
less than 75°. The use of thinners or
the promiscuous use of turpentine
should be avoided. If turpentine must
be used, expose it half an hour before
use in an open vessel to allow the most
active of the gases to evaporate and
then thin sparingly. There are an
endless variety of colors to be had in
enamels, just as there are for paints
and stains, and also there are number-
less varnishes and shellacs which carry
colors inherent in their manufacture.

The way in which to secure the full-
est knowledge of stains, with or with-
out varnish, of enamels, high gloss or
flat finish, is to get the manufacturer's
booklets, which show you every variety
of stain, varnish, enamel, in the exact
colors which are sent out. Also the
most minute information is given for
the use of these materials for every
purpose for which they might be
desired.

A REVIEW OF STAINS AND
ENAMELS CATALOGS

R A S S PIPE

"Common Sense About Interiors"
published by the Lowe Brothers Co.,
Dayton, Ohio, is a helpful little book-
let of thirty-odd pages devoted to the
treatment of floors, walls, woodwork
and furniture. Directions are given
that will make it a very simple matter
for the householder to select the colors
he wants to use, to prepare the sur-
face he is going to stain or enamel, and
to apply the various finishes. It is
illustrated in color. It lays stress upon
the importance of first getting the wood
or the walls ready; for without this
preparation no staining or enameling
can be satisfactory in the end.

"That Magic Thing Called Color"
by Sylvester Earle, "Descriptive List
of Architectural Finishes" "Liquid
Velvet" published by the O'Brien Var-
nish Company, South Bend, Ind. The
first of these booklets, splendidly
illustrated, is devoted to a discussion
of the etementals of color harmony in
the house. It has chapters on the
harmony of color, the magic of color,
the functions of color, and the home
harmonious. In this latter chapter the

various rooms are taken up in detail,
and appropriate color schemes are
suggested for each. It is chiefly con-
cerned with the coloring of the walls
by means of a flat wall enamel. The
second booklet contains a very com-
plete list of most of the various enamels
and stains as well as varnishes and
paints which are apt to be used in the
house. "Liquid Velvet" shows samples
of the various colors and tints obtain-
able in this very attractive finish.

"Do You Admire White Enamel"
"Your Front Door — Is it Inviting"
"Does Your Home Need Renovating"
"The Luxury of Fine Floors" "Your
Front Door" "Beautiful Floors" pub-
lished by the Murphy Varnish Com-
pany, Newark, N. J. Each of these
single leaflets emphasizes the attractive-
ness of various parts of the house being
treated with what is one of the best
grades of enamel on the market. They
bring up the point that a good white
enamel is not only a permanent and
durable finish for interior woodwork
but that its use brings a light and airy
cheerfulness into the house.

November, 1922

131

The Charm of
Colonial Furniture

The interior furnished in
Leavens Colonial Furniture
is pleasing to the most dis-
criminating. Or, for a piece
here and there, in nook or
corner, you will search far
before you will find any-
thing more satisfactory than
these true examples of the
furniture of early America.

Leavens
Furniture

Personal preference may be
exercised in the matter of
finish. Unfinished pieces
will be supplied if desired.
Hand decorated work of un-
usual beauty executed ---
either on colonial or modern
furniture.

Write for Set No. 5 of illus-
trations and Leavens stains.

WILLIAM LEAVENS £f CO.

32 CANAJU STFLEE.T,

BOSTON.MASS.

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Kewanee Plants are
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They are an unusual
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yet operation and
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You can have a Ke-
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or one combined with a
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Through five generations — from the days of the spinet
and minuet — Pinkham rugs have lent charming atmosphere
to the tasteful home. Hand-braided by skilled Maine
weavers, to harmonize with furnishings antique or modern,
Pinkha-n rugs combine quaint art with sturdy usefulness.

Made in rounds and ovals — endless color combinations.
On view at the leading stores. Send
samples of your wall coverings and chint-
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submit color-sketches.

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refinement indicates the appro-
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Old Hampshire Stationery is
made in a paper-mill where
skilled craftsmen have old-fash-
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could hardly fall short of being
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No. 529. The box illustrated con-
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The moderate cost makes this one
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Old Hampshire Stationery is offered
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and women, at 11.50 to $8.50 the box.

Sold wherever fine stationery is
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FREE: — A jacket of Specimen Sheets
and Envelopes will be sent on request,

Hampshire Paper Company

Fine Stationery Department Q
South Hadley Falls, Mass.

132

House & Garden

A Review of Stains and Enamels Catalogs

A Furnace That Breathes

A peculiar statement perhaps, but strangely true. One man said,
— "It's the most remarkable heating equipment I've ever seen".
Thousands have marvelled at the wonderful operation of the Auto-
matic control of

(Continued from page 130)

HEATING AND "^S- VENTILATING
SYSTEM

A simple device which completely controls the drafts, doors and
dampers, even if left wide open, successfully preventing overheat
and its consequent dangers, independent of human aid, electric
batteries or auxiliary power; insures uniform temperature with
utmost economy of fuel ; makes one firing every twenty-four hours
sufficient.

Other Distinctive Features

A one-piece, electrically welded fire-box which positively prevents escape
of fire poisons ; large grate area insuring slow combustion and fuel efficiency ;
the FarQuar Vent and Return System which provides a large volume of
warm fresh air to replace the contaminated air, while also insuring the uniform
distribution of heat in all kinds of weather.

Our new booklet, "The Science of Healthful House
Heating" sheds a new and interesting light on
this vitally important subject. Write today for a
copy and learn "Why" the difference.

The Farquhar Furnace Co,

711 Farquar Bldg.,
Wilmington, Ohio.

"Shingle Stain" "Flowkote Enamel"
"Tufcote Varnish Stain" published by
E. I. duPont De Nemours & Co., Inc.
Wlmington, Del. These comprise
another set of informative leaflets; the
first of which is concerned with the
outside of the house. The colors given
for coating shingles of the roof, as well
as the walls, are said to be altogether
weatherproof and to have a quality,
even when they are freshly applied,
of having have been exposed to the
weather for quite a while. It is said
of "Flow Kote Enamel" that it pro-
duces a finish like liquid porcelain on
both exterior and interior work.
"Tufcote" seems to be a splendid re-
viver for furniture, floors and wood-
work which have become old and
dingy. It combines the color of the
various natural wood stains with the
finish of a good varnish.

"Quality and Beauty" "Stains Made
With Brains" published by the Mari-
etta Paint & Color Co., Marietta,
Ohio. The first of these attractive little
booklets is concerned chiefly with an
enamel called "Spartanite" which will
not turn yellow as so many enamels
have a habit of doing. The illustrations
show where an enamel of this kind
can be used to very good advantage,
and there are directions which make it
possible to apply the enamel without
engaging outside assistance. The book
on stains is an interesting resume of
the history and development of stains.

"Symphonies in Stain" published by
Dexter Brothers Co., Boston, Mass., is
an attractive little booklet devoted to
the use of stains on outside shingles.
Several types of country houses are
illustrated, as well as interesting photo-
graphs of the Paul Revere house, and
the House of Seven Gables, which show
the effect and long lived quality of
shingles treated with a weather-resist-
ing stain. The reasons for staining
and the advantages which come from
stains are carefully and clearly pointed
out.

"The Inviting Home" published by
Ihe Boston Varnish Company , Boston,
Mass., is a sixteen page booklet illus-
trated in colors showing the different
surfaces inside and outside the house
which require individual treatment.
Color schemes that extend not only to
the floors, walls and woodwork, but
to the hangings and rugs, are for the
most part suggestive and in splendid
taste. The pictures show that there
are certain advantages in the use of an
enamel finish on walls over the cus-
tomary paper, chief among which is the
fact that walls so finished may be
cleaned with soap and water.

"Fire Resisting Shingle Stain" pub-
lished by Pyro-Non Paint Co., SOS
Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., is a
tiny leaflet as reassuring as it is
small, for it suggests a means to pre-
pare shingles with a liquid that will
absolutely prevent sparks and flaming
brands from igniting the roof. It is
only necessary, it seems, to soak the
shingle in .the specified liquid for
several hours and then allow it to dry
before applying the stain. Samples of
shingles so treated and stained are a
part of the leaflet and we are en-
couraged to test the fire resisting
qualities by attempting to light one.

"My Home, Why Not Yours" pub-
lished by Pratt & Lambert, Buffalo,
N. Y., is not only one of the most at-

tractive of the commercial booklets but
one of the most informative as well.
There are many splendid suggestions
under the heading of Interior Decora-
tion which are extremely helpful be-
cause they are so sensibly presented.
The colored illustrations are decorative
and the photographs of interiors are
from well-chosen examples. A valu-
able section of the book is its key to
table of color effects in which all the
various wood finishes are listed with
the accompanying stain with which to
achieve them.

"Beautiful Homes" "Natural Woods
and How to Finish Them" published by
Berry Brothers, Detroit, Mich. The
first of these booklets presents color
treatments, by means of enamels and
wall finishes, for every part of the
house from basement to bedrooms.
While the introduction makes a state-
ment open to dispute, that the really
beautiful home depends less upon ex-
terior design than on a pleasing in-
terior, it does right to emphasize the
importance of making the inside of
the house as lovely as possible. And
its suggestions are all directed nicely
toward that desirable end. The other
of the two booklets tells very clearly
how to attain the various natural wood
finishes, with a note on the problem of
varnish removing.

"Old Virginia White and Tints"
"Cresote Shingle Stains" "Waterproof
Brick Stains" published by Samuel
Cabot, Inc., Boston, Mass. One of
the most effective finishes for clap-
board and for shingles laid in clap-
board effect is a dull white stain. Old
Virginia white is one of the best of
these. It is a splendid substitute for
paint and for many tastes it is prefer-
able. This booklet shows a great many
houses on which it has been used and
gives directions for its application.
The same thing is done for shingle
stains in the second booklet and for
brick stains in the third.

"The Immaculate Finish of Refine-
ment" "Architectural Varnishes, Stains,
Fillers & Enamels" published by the
Standard Varnish Works, New York.
The use of a good white enamel is
certainly a good way to achieve the
end described by the title of the first
booklet. In it the various preparatory
treatments are described, as well as
the final finishes, which may be either
gloss white, a white rubbed effect or
flat white. The second booklet is de-
signed primarily for professional use,
containing as it does the specifications
for the various finishes.

"Portfolio of White Enamel In-
teriors" published by Patton Pitcairn
Division of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Co., Milwaukee, Wis. This booklet
printed on intense black paper is one
of the most effective of all the cata-
logs. The admirably shown in-
teriors are examples of fine architec-
ture and attractive interior decoration.
They range through all parts of the
private house to the rooms of hotels,
restaurants and hospitals and show the
adaptabiltiy of Banzai enamel to all
the various kinds of wood work and
furniture. It is said of this particular
enamel that it is so elastic that one may
dent the finished wood with a hammer
without fracturing the enamel or
freeze the finished wood in a solid cake
of ice and melt it out again without
harming this durable surface.

Correction

Through an error, the house shown on bnted to Dwight James Baum. The
page 66 of the October issue was attri- architect was Frank P. Whiting.

November, 1922

133

No Bathroom is complete
Without a

Hess White Steel
Medicine Cabinet
or Lavatory Mirror

Coated inside and out with the best
grade of SNOW WHITE baked
enamel.

This mark

guarantees it everlastingly against
cracking', blistering or flaking.
Your money
back if you
are not
pleased. Five
sizes — three
styles. If
your dealer
is not yet
supplied,
write us
direct.

HESS WARMING & VENTI-
LATING CO.

1223 Taconia Bldg. Chicago

Makers of HESS WELDED STEKf
FURXACES.

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THAT CUT COSTS

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COLONIAL HOUSES (135" x 19") contains
floor plans, descriptions, and estimates of
26 two-story, true colonial dwellings cost-
Ing from $15,000 to $300.000 to erect

Erallan casts in that btolfs raised to this month

HENRY T. CHILD
Architect

Address

Room 1212, 280 Madison Ave.,
at 40th St.
NEW YORK

Planning Supercision Alterations
Fireproof Dwellings a Specially

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The Easiest Way!

How to cook better, more
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134

House & Garden

More Fresh Water
is needed for Health

HEALTH demands, plenty of
.fresh, running water in the
home. Any physician will tell you
that.

Have you running water in the
kitchen? Have you a bathtub — a
wash bowl — a toilet of modern com-
fort and convenience? Running
water brings these health necessities.

Do you carry water on wash day?
Running water brings sanitary tubs
into the cellar. You just turn a faucet.

Running water means plenty of
water, for every need, UNDER
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The small intimate garden should have something of the quality of the out-
door room; somewhat architecturally enclosed, well paved, and, most of all,
•very accessible to the house

When You Plan Your Garden

(Continued from page 79)

be a pleasure. So steps were done
away with in part and a grass path,
or ramp, on a slight slope was sub-
stituted. In this way the trip to and
from the garden is made comparatively
easy and certainly more interesting
than it would have been otherwise.
That part of the hillside slope which
was left undisturbed was planted with
low-growing shrubs and creeping vines
which keep the earth from washing
away and create an easily maintained
attractiveness.

In making your own hillside garden
you are apt to find in this example all
the actual suggestions you will need to
solve your particular problem. It is
so simple architecturally that it should
fit any kind of a house. In this con-
nection it might be well also to say
that a detailed discussion of retaining
walls and steps will form a part of the
present series of articles in the near
future.

On many small places a garden that
is consciously a garden is the last thing
for which the owner cares to assume
responsibility. His is an attitude that
is rapidly disappearing, and it is one
that usually vanishes altogether very
soon after the disapprover weakens
ever so slightly. But even at first he
will not object to a path bordered on
each side by flower beds. And here
enters as a wedge the long narrow
garden — one of the most useful garden
types. A path that leads from the
house to any part of the grounds may
serve as the basis for such a garden.
It makes only two requests, but these
should be granted: it should have a
beginning and an end.

The beds of the long narrow garden
should be at least 5' wide, and the path
should never be less than y/J ' . A good
rule to follow is to make the width of
the path one third the total width of
the two side beds. Thus, where the
side beds are each 6' wide, the width
of the path would be 4'. Such a gar-
den as this depends a great deal for its
effectiveness upon its length, and it
cannot be very effective unless it is at
least three times as long as it is wide.
The longer it is the larger should be
the object upon which it ends, for noth-
ing can seem more absurd than a tiny
sun dial, for instance, at the end of a
long walk. It should have a background

of some kind behind each border — a
hedge, lattice, wall, or a post and chain
device as shown in the sketch.

The broad open garden is the type
best suited to the level or nearly level
site on which there is a fairly moderate
expanse of unshaded area. It is one
of the most satisfying kinds of gardens
because it combines the openness of the
lawn with the seclusion and decorative
qualities of the small garden. It may
be enclosed by a hedge, fence, lattice,
or wall — but it must be enclosed.
At the end opposite the house there
should be an arbor, as shown in the
sketch, or a shelter of some sort, from
which you may get a view of the house,
and from where you may sit and enjoy
the garden from a different angle.
There should be water in some form.
If it can be managed in the shape of
a broad flat pool, carrying out the spirit
of the garden's design, and located in
front of the garden house so as to
catch its reflection, it will be found to
be especially delightful. It must be kept
in mind, above almost any other thing
in connection with the garden, that at
some spot, preferably at the pool and
the arbor, there should be shade, so
that hot weather will not lessen the
pleasure of garden idleness.

The small intimate garden is less
particular about its site than any other
for the simple reason that it covers very
little area, and smuggles against the
house or into an angle made by a
projecting wing. It should be treated
as a very close adjunct to the house,
and its manners should respect those
of the house. That is, any woodwork
in fence, lattice, or post enclosures, or
in arbors, gateways and furniture
should be finished in the same color and
spirit of design as the trim on the
house. Its paving and its planting
should be neat without being meticulous.

These points are illustrated in the
garden shown above, which is a verit-
able outdoor room. It occupies a space
30' by 40'; less than half the area
covered by an average sized house.
The simply constructed but graceful
lattice enclosure corresponds in color
and design to the wood trim of the
house. The brick-on-edge paving re-
peats the material and color of the
porch floor but asserts a pleasant inde-
pendence by striking a different pattern.

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December, 1922

TJP in the quaint old town of Quebec u-here
the French Voyageurs first settled in 1608,
there are standing to-day — intact — stucco
houses that have seen the passing of many
generations.

The elements have imparted to them a soft-
ness of tone and texture, and the hand of time
has but enriched their charms.

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upon the wall construction of your
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It is wrought from a metal which is both precious
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wealth; it represents established family traditions;
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Pantheon is a design as eternal as the metal from
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$2650

The Big -Six Sedan is the finest motor car
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In every point that decides closed car satis-
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Its nickel-plated radiator shell adds a new
touch of distinction to its recognized beauty
of line, finish and fittings. The mohair velvet
plush upholstery and soft carpeting are rich
and durable.

The dependability of the Big- Six is common
knowledge. Its 60 -horsepower mot or is ready
for every need. It is fleet enough to demand
right-of-way in the open stretches and is
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The equipment is complete— there is nothing
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is easy and convenient because the two extra

wheels (complete with tires and tubes) are
mounted in the front fenders.

Other items of equipment either unusual or
exclusive at the Big-Six price include: hand-
some nickel-plated bumpers, front and rear;
automatic windshield wiper; ornamental
radiator cap and motometer ; rear- view mirror
and the courtesy light on the driver's side.

Expense of manufacturing and marketing
Studebaker cars is shared by three distincc
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Touring $1275

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Roadster (3-Pass.) 975

Roadster (2-Pass.) 1250

Speedster (4-Pass.) 1785
Coupe (4-Pass.) . 2275

Coupe-Roadster

Coupe (5-Pass.)- - 2375

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Coupe (4-Pass.) 1875

Sedan 2475

Sedan 1550

Sedan 2050

Sedan (Special) 2650

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and memories into the hearts of your old ones, which gives your chil'
dren an unconscious education in the greatest thing in the world —
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THE ESTEY RESIDENCE PIPE ORGAN

December, 1922

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FILET GRANDEE

The Aristocrat o/ Filets

as used in the New York home of Mrs. F. A. De Peyster. As
this photograph suggests, this curtaining lends itself best to a
distinguished setting.

Booklets That Will Interest You

Mills: Philadelphia, Pa.

Booklets "Concerning Window Draperies" and "Twelve New
Ideas for Decoration" will be sent free if you mention the
name of the best retailer handling window draperies in your
city or shopping center. Otherwise, enclose 10 cents in stamps.

Quaker Lace Company

Wholesale Salesrooms: 890 Broadway, N.Y.

December , 1922

MME STURKOW RYDER

the noted pianist, playing in con-
junction with the Apollo, occasioned
the following newspaper comment
after one of her recint recitals:

"The recital * * * was a striking
demonstration that a mechanical
device may be as satisfactory as a
living pianist. * * * Mme. Sturkow
Ryder was able to play accompanied
by or alternately with the Apollo
in such a way that the ear could
not detect when one ceased and
the other began

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ome or JJistindion

because it is endowed through the
Apollo with the spirit of musical genius.

Here is a home in which Hofmann, Pader-
ewski, Bauer, Zeisler or any of the world's
eminent pianists may be called upon at
will to play your favorite selections.

The APOLLO reproduces the playing of
master pianists with all their individuality
of tone, touch and expression — just as they
play in concert — and without manipulation
by the listener.

The musician's inspiring personality lives
in the home where his art is thus recreated
by the APOLLO. The APOLLO today
gives to the best homes the final touch of
distinction.

We shall gladly send you the Apollo book'
lets upon request and tell you where you
may most conveniently hear tlie APOLLO.

APOLLO

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FOR GIRL STUDENTS IN NEW YORK
MRS HENRY HARRISON BOSWELL
344 West 84th St.. at Riverside Drive

Telephone Selinler 3106
Catalogue on request Chaperonage

Cannes,
France

The Fontaine School

Dean, Prof. C. Fontaine, formerly of Columbia
Univ. Study and travel. Cultural and College
Prep, courses. Trips. Sports. Resident and
Day students. Address Director. Mile M-L.
Fontaine. Women's City Club. 22 Park Ave.,
N. Y. C.. or Cannes. A.M., France.

MRS.

MERRILL'S

SCHOOL

ior GIRLS

Under personal supervision of Mrs. Merrill
Orienta Point, Box G, Mamaroneck, N. Y.

New York, Long Island, Garden City.

Cathedral School of Saint Mary

School for Girls. College preparatory and gen-
eral courses. Music, Art and Domestic Science.
Box G Miss Miriam A. Bytel, Principal

NEW jEnsEr, ORANGE

Miss Beard's School for Girls

A country school, 13 miles from New York. College
preparatory, special courses. Music, Art, Domestic
Science. Supervised physical work In gymnasium
and field. Catalog on request.

Lnnig c BBARD. Headmistress.

CO-EDUCATIONAL

"A CHILD'S DAY"

A school for children 4 to 12 years of age

Winter Summer

34 E. 62d St . NT Y. HouUate, France.

Miss Wilhelm, Principal

Columbia Preparatory School

301 West 88th St. at West End Ave., N. Y.

Resident and Day Boys and Girls

Kindergarten — Grammar — College Preparatory

For Catalog Address
DR. A. V. CLAWSON, Principal

ST. ELIZABETH-OF-THE-ROSES

A Mother School

Episcopal. Open all year. Children 3 to 12. One
hour from New York. Usual studies. Outdoor
sports. The School that develops initiative.

Mrs. W. B. Stoddard, Directress
Caldwell. N. J. Tel. 604

EVERY CHILD HAS SPECIAL NEEDS

in care, companionship or training.
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BOYS' SCHOOLS

NEW YORK

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Ossining-on-Hudson, N. Y.

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college and business. Military training. High
standard academic work. Individual instruc-
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ming Pool. Separate school for boys under 13.
William Addison Ranney. A.M., Principal

EASTERN ATLANTIC

TOME SCHOOL

Midway between Philadelphia and Baltimore

Individual supervision of every boy
Rate $1000 Port Deposit, Md.

NEW ENGLAND

HOWARD SEMINARY FOR GIRLS

23 miles from Boston. Preparatory and General Courses. One-year Intensive

course for college entrance examinations. Household Economics. Strong

courses in instrumental and vocal music. Horseback riding. All sports. 50 pupils.

MR. AND MRS. C. P. KENDALL, Principals. 46 Howard St., West Bridgewater, Mass.

LASELL SEMINARY

A school that develops well -trained, healthful and
resourceful womanhood. Home Economics, Music,
Art, College Preparatory and Secretarial Courses.
149 Woodland Road. Auburndale, Mass.

Washington, Conn.
Litchfield County

Box 210

Rock Gate

Country Home and School for Children

Summer and winter sessions.
CHARLOTTE O'GIRR CLARKE

SOUTHERN

THE ROUTH PINES SCHOOL

Day and boarding school for children six to
fourteen. Tennis. Golf, Biding.

Out-door games.
Address Box 214 Plnehurst, N. C.

CENTRAL STATES

Fond du Lac,

Wisconsin

Pre-Academic. College Preparatory, Secretarial
Home Economics leading to teacher's certificate.
Junior College accredited at leading universities
Music Department leading to teacher's diploma
«nd degree. Catalogue.

EASTERN ATLANTIC, GIRLS

A graduate school offering two
years of highest quality
academic work. Splendid
courses in Home - making
Science, Music, Language,
Secretarial Training and
Art. Equals two college
years. Ideal home
surroundings and In-
fluences. Catalog.
Mr. and Mrs. H. M.
Crist, Principals,

Box 1562-G

Swarthmore, Pa.

The Graduate School of
rhe Mar; Lyon School

buntainT(jttt Kethltti? m ."^pe

Aesthetic and folk dancing. Address
CLAUDE N. WYANT. Principal. Box

285

Bordentown Military Institute

Thorough preparation for college or business. Ef-
ficient faculty, small classes, individual attention.
Boys taught how to study. Military training.
Supervised athletics. 38th year. Col. T. O.
Landon, Principal. C-37. Bordentown, N. J.

Bethlehem Preparatory School

Bethlehem, Pa.

1800 boys prepared for leading universities In 44
years. Extensive grounds. Gymnasium, swimming
pool, athletic fields. Summer session. Separate
Junior School new building.

JOHN M. TUGGEY. M.A., Headmaster

5YVEREUX SCHOOLS

Three distinct schools to meet special needs Of
children who require Individual instruction.

Box G. DEVEREUX SCHOOLS, Berwyn, Pa.

SPECIAL SCHOOLS

C H AL I F

Russian School

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Art

DANCING

"/ admire your en-
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ANNA PAVLOVA

Catalog on Meanest
163-165 West 57th Street, New York

Rocky Mountain Dancing

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Steamboat Springs. Colo.
Junior and Senior Camps. Horse-
back riding, camping trips* swim-
ming, basketball, tennis.
Normal and Professional Classic,
Dancing Depts. winter Session:
PORTIA MANSFIELD SCHOOL.Car-
mel-by-the-Sea. California. Booklet.

NED WAYBURN

Producer of "ZIEGFELD FOLLIES"
offers instruction in

STAGE DANCING

Society Patronage for
Private Theatricals
NED WAYBURN STUDIOS

219 West 45th. Street, New York

SOUTHERN PINES SCHOOL OF SONG

Thorough instruction In the art of singing.
Beautiful home for limited number. For in-
formation address:

MRS. WANDEEN WEBBER
Box 416 Southern Pine*. N. C.

Expression Public Speaking

Culture of the speaking voice — Diction — Poise—
Self -Confidence — Relaxation — Personality.

Gertrude Walsh, Louise Clifford— Instructors.
Write for circulars 117 West 58th St.

Telephone 5590 Circle New York City

MISS TOWNSENDS STUDIO

of Expression and Dramatic An

individual Instruction — .\ot a school

13 ORAMERCY PARK NEW YORK C1T'

STUDY INTERIOR DECORATION

A home study course in making your
horn: beautiful or preparing tor an
agreeable and lucrative profession.

Send {or Catalogue H2
N. T. School of Interior Decoration
101 Park Avenue New York Cily

THE FLOWRENCE WILDE
SCHOOL OF ILLUSTRATION

63 W. 9th St., New York, N. Y.

(lira. Wilde, formerly of Pralt Institute)
Short practical evening and day courses in all
branches of commercial and costume illustration —
Beginners or advanced students — Can work whll»
Studying,

THK CANDY Resident and Correspondence
irVSTITTJI'K Courses in Candy-Making.
ELINOR G. HANNA, Principal
(Formerly with Page & Shaw)

Send for Booklet G
60 West 50th Street New York, N. T.

The Iridor School rroSon.1

CANDY MAKING Doris K. Weigert. Director

French and Spanish Instructor Y. W. C. A.

spoken

25 East 62nd Street, New York City

School of Horticulture for Women

Gardening, Fruit Growing, Bees. Poultry. Two
year diploma course. Practice work with theory.
Good paying positions open. 18 miles from
Philadelphia. New class entering January 16th.

ELIZABETH LEIGHTON LEE, Director.
Box G. Ambler, Pa.

International Professional Art Training

New York Paris London

SCHOOL of FINE and APPLIED ART

Frank Alvah Parsons, President Circulars
Register now New York School January
15th, Paris March 1st.

Address Sec., 2239 Broadway, New York

NATIONAL SCHOOL OF FINE
AND APPLIED ART

Felix Mahony, Pros.

Interior Decoration: Costume, Commercial Poster A
Textile Design. Illustration and Life. etc. Catalog.
Connecticut Ave. and M. St., Washington, 0. C.

Master School of United Arts

Music — Painting — Sculpture
Architecture — Opera Class
Ballet — Drama — Lectures

An Endowed Institution Devoted to the Highest

Ideals of Art.

For Detailed Information Address

Frances R. Grant Executive Director
312 West 54th Street New York City

.Distinctive Millinery is the Mark of a
Well Dressed Woman

Learn to create your own exclusive styles in »
thoroughly practical and well-equipped school,
under the personal direction of an expert.

Completion of course permits fulfilling respon-
sible, lucrative positions. Day and Evening Clai

Booklet upon request.

ADELAIDE MILLER STUDIO

20 WEST FORTY-NINTH STREET
NEW YORK CITY (Just off Fifth Ave.)

fork

&thaal of

Canadian Pacific Building

Madison Avenue & 44th Street

New York, N. Y.

Write for Prospectus C Vanderbitt 4039

Exceptional Children

Individual training will develop the child who does
not progress satisfactorily. Miss Woods' School,
Box 169, Langhorne, Pa. 24 miles from Phila-
delphia ; 9 miles from Trenton. Booklet.
Mollie Woods Hare. Principal

December , 1922

VOGUE'S

THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY
NUMBER

JANUARY 1, 1923

VOGUE was founded in late December, 1892. In the thirty years of its
existence, the magazine has attained a position and prosperity unique among
periodicals. Its name has become a household word among American
women, and through its widely circulated editions, printed in several lan-
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its influence is unrivalled. In these past thirty years, its forecasts have
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We are planning to recognize this extraordinary achievement by publishing
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Vogue for January i, 1923, will be the most striking issue of a fashion
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300 rooms, each with bath. Absolutely
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HOTEL SCHUYLER

59 W.It 45lh Street New York Cil,

A refined residential hotel where the com-
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Transients accommodated.
Pates on application.
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Formerly of Hotel Wolcott

American Plan Hotel. Open all year.

15 mins. from Peon. Sta. Accommodations for 400.

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President

ELMER DYER
Manager

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Turkish Baths
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Barber Shop
Radio Service

Tea Shop
Domestic and

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A step from the Executive Center, a rendezvous

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House &• Garden

Chow PuppieM Ape Six Weeks

Highest quality Chow Puppies
offered for sale.

Colors

BLl E

RED

BLACK

CLIFF EYRIE KENNELS

125 Boston Post Road
Lurchmont, N. Y. Tel. Larrhmont, 139

Greyhound Puppies

BEAUTIES FROM
Champion A. K. C. Stock

Spring Brook Farm

Littleton, Mass.

MRS. OLIVIA CEDAR

PELHAM, N. Y.

has a large se-
lection of
BRUSSEL
GRIFFON
PUPPIES
from $35 up,
several imported
full-grown, win-
ners at leading
shows, at reason-
able prices.

Tel. Perham 2109

Teaneck Police Dog
•~T1 Kennels

American bred
Shepherd Uugs
Tuppit's from
prize winning
stork for sale.

WHEN people talk of
Police Dogs, whether
the tense they use is
future, present, or past,
the name of PALISADE is
sure to come into the con-
versation sooner or later.

Christmas Puppies

PALISADE KENNELS

Merrick Road, Rosedale, L. I.

Telephone Laurelton 2138
Just 40 minutes from Manhattan

AIREDALE
TERRIERS

WIRE HAIRED
FOX TERRIERS

CHAMPION STOCK

Imported Brayvent Banker at Stud.

Fee $25.o<>

Pedigreed Puppies
and Grown Dogs

We Ship on Approval

BRAYVENT KENNELS

Thomas K. Bray
232 Clark St., Westfleld, N. J. Kennels on North Ave.

'Phone 424 M Westfleld

BOSTON TERRIER
PUPPIES

Toy Bostons — the sportiest dogs in
the world. Perfectly marked seal
or mahogany brindles from cham-
pion stock always on hand.
Also some choice Pekingese

MINERVA KENNELS

161 Franklin Street, Astoria, L. I.

'Phone Astoria 0122

Doberman Pinscher

(German police), male puppies for
sale, pedigreed, finest blood lines.

G. W. BEHRMAN

366 Washington St. New York City

WIRE-HAIRED FOX TERRIERS

Ide%l clog for motor car
and home. A few of our
own, bred farm raised
puppies for disposal.

Alvin Farm reg'd.
American Rennet Club

Wiiliamstown, N. J.

Address communication

Mrs. Emma G. Hunter,

1660 N. Robinson St..

Philadelphia. Pa.

Belmont 3440.J.

Imported Doberman P insider.

"The dog with the human brain" as
expressed by dog fanciers, and the
original police dog of Europe.
Also imported police shepherd dogs of
the best pedigree stock and guaranteed
fully trained for police service and
field work. Information may be ob-
tained from.

DR. CHR. ROTHAUG
Sea Cliff Long Island

Phone 701 Glen Core.

December, 1922

THE DOG MART

THE HOME OF CHAMPION MEDOR DREADNOUGHT

The sensational Scottish terrier of New York, Champion Medor Dread-
nought has had a remarkable career and has always been a ringside
favorite. He has taken the special for best of his breed fourteen
times, and amongst his winnings has won two years in succession at
the following places: New Haven, Conn., Danbury, Conn., Tuxedo Park,
N. Y.

PUPPIES ALWAYS ON HAND BY DREADNOUGHT OUT OF
OUR MANY SELECTED FEMALES.

MRS. VOGEL OFFERS FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS A

VARIETY SELECTION OF EXCELLENT PUPPIES AND

GROWN DOGS FROM BLUE RIBBON STOCK.

MEDOR KENNELS

70 West 47th Street
Near Sixth Avenue

ALL BREEDS. MANY BLUE RIBBON WINNERS
Mrs. E. VOGEL, Prop.

New York City, N. Y.
Phone — Bryant 6340

IDEAL CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

DOREDA AIREDALES

Exceptionally high quality puppies sired by our Internationally famous
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Imp. Champion Doreda Cragsman Kingsway and Imp. Cragsman Dictator.
Prices $35 and up. Please state ex:

DOREDA KENNELS,

- np. Champion Doreda Cragsman Kings.. .., — ...

Price_s_J3£_and up. Please state exact requirements.

Moline, Illinois

GIVE THEM A COLLIE
FOR XMAS

The safest pet in the world for
kiddies. Wehave all colors, but
specialize in white. All import-
ed and prize winning stocks.
Send for lists for shipment to
arrive Christmas.

THE JEFFERSON
WHITE COLLIE KENNELS

(REGISTERED)

F. W. Avery, Prop.

Avery Inn, Wauseon, Ohio

A" JEFFERSON WHITE IS A

COLLIE OF TYPE"

N. B. Read "Further Adventures of Lad"

by Albert Payson Terhune

Waving Willows Chows

Why not solve YOUR Christ-
mas problem with a dear little

Chow Puppy ?
An All Year Delight

MAUDE M. THOMPSON

Grand Ave., South Englewood, N. J.

Telephone, Englewood 1350

Champion Flock V Bern P. H.

Also

FiM Trial L-hamp

THE IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFT !

A pure bred, well raised Shepherd Dog (Police Dog) puppy of high quality
from our noted breeding stock. Show ring records prove that we have
exercised good judgment in the selection of blood lines. Many highly sat-
isfied customers attest our earnest efforts to please.

We offer an attractive selection of line bred pups and imported, broken
young dogs.

AT STUD

Champion Flock v Bern P H — Also Field Trial Champion 1922.
Champion Ali-AItwurttemberg — Sire of many prize winning pups.

Rexden-Belcarza Kennels

17 East 42nd Street New York, N. Y.

Phonr — Murray Hill 1,013

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Information
Equipment
Remedies
Foods

'DOG
MARK'

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Fittings forH. M. The Dog

Enamel show colors from England,
braided choke collars from Germany
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as original novelties such as our 15
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If you are at a loss to find the right
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for your pal, just drop us a line, telling
the breed and let us make a
suggestion.

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Write Department H
Phone Back Bay 8156 Room 521

CHOW CHOW

Wondrous Red Kennels.
B. Leonard Widman.

Have several excellent,
good type, deep dark red
puppUs of the best breed-
ing obtainable for dis-
posal by Mun-Sin Sirer
of champion Chee-Si San.
245 Hancock Ave., Jersey City, N. J.

The Blue Grass Farm Kennels, of Berry, Ky

offer for sale Setters and Pointers, Fox and
Cat Hounds, Wolf and Deer Hounds. Coon and
Opossum Hounds. Varmint and Rabbit Hounds,
Bear and Lion Hounds, also Airedale Terriers.
All dogs shipped on trial, purchaser alone to
judge the quality, satisfaction guaranteed or
money refunded. 100 page, highly illustrated.
Instructive, and Interesting catalogue for ten
cents.

RUSSIAN

WOLFHOUND

PUPPIES

bred from the very
best Imported
strains. Puppies
ready for shipment.
Prices reasonable
Arkansas Valley Kennel
D.C.Davis, Prop.
Cimarron, Kan.

PRIVATE SALE

BOSTON TERRIER

First Class Male Boston Terrier.

Prize Winner
Private buyer only $350.00

POLICE DOGS

2 Thoroughly Trained Male
Police Dogs. Wolf Gray. Guar-
anteed house broken. Sweet
Disposition. $300.00 each or
Jsoo.oo for both.

Tlr»v 1 ft HOUSE &. GARDEN

DUX. 1U 19 w. 44th St.

THE DOG MART

IN ACTION

Police Dogs

As a guardian for your family — as a friend and
boon companion for the children, no dog can
match the mild-tempered Shepherd Police Dog.

The present stock of dogs and puppies is from the
original strain, personally selected from the best
Kriminal Poliezei of Europe.

Whether you wish to buy a dog from us, fully or
partly trained, or a puppy for Christmas, you
may be assured that you will get one of the best
specimens that America can afford. Our proof
of this is that many of the leading kennels of the
country use our breeding, so you surely cannot
go wrong.

Buy and know for yourself the delight and pride
in the possession of one of our sturdy, active and
intelligent puppies.

SPECIAL CHRISTMAS OFFERINGS

Shepherd Police Puppies $100. up

According to age, sex and quality
Also some excellent

Wire Haired Fox Terrier Puppies $50. up

According to age, sex and quality

Full information sent on request

Pioob
n n e I

BERGENFIELD NEW JERSEY

Telephone Dumont 55

MRS. A. RUBINO

OWNER

FOR SALE

The Prize-Winning.
Scottish Terrier Dog

Mine Brook Sensation

i year and 7 months old

Sired by
The Famous

Rosemere Sensation

and out of

Ornsay Doris

This young dog is an almost exact dup-
licate of his sire, whose picture appears
above. Won 2nd puppy and ist novice
at the All Terrier Specialty Show in Feb.
1922, and the same classes at the West-
minister Kennel Club Show in Feb.
1922, defeating dogs costing $500.00 to
$1,000.00. Will always be in the money
in the fastest company. He is black with
coal-black eyes, full of pep, and in splen-
did condition.

Has been raised with children — is house-
broken, has fine disposition.

Ideal Xmas Gift
Price $400.00

Address F. MILLER

19 West 44th St. N. Y. City
15th floor

ENGLISH BULL DOGS

For 15 years I have made
B study of proper breeding.
This picture shows the re-
sult. I am offering come
exceptional puppies now.
State your wants. Males
S60.00 up. Femalea $36.00

UI" My own breeding
Correspondence a pleasure
FERN LEA KENNELS

P. O. Box, 1568
Bay ville, Long Island. N.Y

FOR SALE

A few choicely bred Airedales, for
show or companions.

MARATHON KENNELS
Wausua Wisconsin

St. Bernards

and NEWFOUNDLANDS

Best possible pets for
children. Companions,
also guards for the home.
Faithful and affectionate.
From best prize pedi-
greed strains.

WHITESTAR KENNELS
Long Branch, N. J.

•Phone 855J

SHEPHERD
(POLICE DOGS)

Strong, healthy,
farm raised puppies,
four and six months
old, just the age for
a Xmas gift. Reg-
istered in purchas-
Prices reasonable.
old male, registered,
champion bred, blue ribbon win-
ner, wolf sable, dark back, won-
derful companion and watch dog.
House and auto broken. Pictures
and price on request. Also a few
choice females.

PINE TREE KENNELS,
OXFORD. MAINE.

er s name.
Two year

December, 1922

" CHAMPION GREENACRE LI PING TOW '

GREENACRE KENNELS, Fairfield,

Conn.
BREEDERS OF CHAMPION CHOWS

ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO

110 West 40th Street, New York City,

Phone Pennsylvania 3649

House 6* Garden

THE DOG MART

THE LARGEST CHOICE OF HIGHEST
QUALITY IMPORTED SHEPHERD DOGS
IN THE WORLD IS TO BE FOUND AT

R. F. D. No. I, Mamaroneck Ave.

PROTECTION
KENNELS

ESPECIALLY LOW PRICES FOR DECEMBER

SEVERAL PUPPIES SIRED BY

"STRONGHEART"

WILL BE READY FOR DELIVERY AT
CHRISTMAS

White Plains, N. Y.

Phone Mamaroneck 2J2-J

FOR SALE

SHEPHERD

(POLICE DOG)

PUPPIES

Whelped July i}th

Sire—Dunbar Kennels—Zepplin A. K.
G. No. 281050

Prices $75.00 and upwards

J. BROOKS B. PARKER

STRAFFORD, PA.

Police Puppies

that are not simply
"different," but better.
Best of blood at reason-
able prices.

ST. CROIX
KENNELS

Stillwater, Minn.

"Strong Heart" Police Dogs

"Character plus Appearance"
You can pay more — but you can't
get- a better dog.

'O 1 1 N BEAM FARM
OTRONG HEART KENNELS

Easton Ave. , New Brunswick, N. J*

Ch. Geelong Cadet

HOW KOLA

Airedales of the
Tanglewold strain
are among the win-
ners at almost every
large Eastern Show
Puppies occasionally
for sale

A. G. BAKER

105 W. 40th St. N.Y.

Springfield Chow Chow Kennels

MR. THEO. \\. DOWNS, Proprietor

RARE QUALITY CHOW PUPPIES

Reds and Blues

Puppies $75 Up
On Merrick Road. Springfield, L. I.

Half Hour by Motor from N. Y.
PHONE LAURELTON 19M

PEKINGESE

LARGEST KENNEL IN AMERICA

Most Beautiful and Best Equipped
All ages and colors Chiefly "Sleeve Dogs" and Puppies Champion Bred

SOME AS LOW AS $25
Satisfaction guaranteed Send for photographs and descriptions

MRS. H. A. BAXTER

GREAT NECK, L. I. Telephone Great Neck, 418

489 FIFTH AVENUE, New York Telephone Vanderbilt 126

International Champion

GERRI VON OBERKLAMM, P. H

This great dog, which has defeated the best that Europe has to offer, including the 1019.

1920 and 1921 German Grand Champions, won the Stud Dog Trophy for the best stud dog
and two of his get at the 1022 Specialty Show, Shepherd Dog Club of America. He is the sire
of the 1922 German Grand Champion. He is offered at stud to bitches of high quality only,
by his owners, Hoheluft Kennels and Rexden-Belcarza, at a fee of

$150

Puppies by Gerri and other famous imported sires usually available.
Address all communications to

HOHELUFT KENNELS

800 Richmond Turnpike,

si at, -it Island, N. Y.

REXDEN-BELCARZA KENNELS

17 East 42d Street,
Tel. Murray Hill 4013

Scottish Terriers

The most fashionable dog today

Typical puppies for sale, reasonable,
sired by my dog, Bruce Mac Gregor
(336692) a son of Champion Walescott
Wag & Champion Rebecca Whisky; he
is a facsimile of his grandsire, Ch. Maister
Wullie.

J. ABERCROMBIE,
225 N. 3pth Street, Camden, N. J.

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'i Collies For Sale

Bred from Champion

and Blue Ribbon Stock

— Puppies and Crown

Dog.

Miss May Thomson

The Arcadia ColUe

Kennels
3805 Lindell Ave.

St. Louis, Mo.

POLICE DOGS

75 Champion Bred Puppies Ready for Deliv-
ery. Free Pedigree.
U. S. Champion.
(Brushwood Boy) at Stud fee $50.00.

WOLFSBURG KENNELS

AQUEDUCT, L. I.

10 miles from Times Square.

YOUR COLLIE PUPPY IS HERE

i Bred from the most
noted Champions of the
Show Ring. Healthy,
farm raised pups and
Brown stock. Beautiful
and intelligent. Ad-
mitted the best pal-
dog or child's play-
mate. Belmont 86-9OR

W. R. VAN DYCK

5114 Parriah St., Philadelphia, Pa.

December, 1922

Shomont Kennels Box IN Monlieello. Iowa

FOR SALE

SCOTTISH TERRIER PUPPIES

Sired by the famous British sire and
Winner Rothesay Irresistible. Dams:
sired by Nosegay Hemlock. Noted
especially for companions and Auto
guards.

PIPE-CREEK KENNELS
Sweetser, Indiana.

IMPORTED POLICE DOG For four Protection

Carefully selected, large boned male of refined
type. Excellent conformation, sound, true to
type. Breeding representation of Germany, Hol-
land and Austrian champion Police dogs show-
ing beauty, strength and character.

Ideal companion and protector for Country
Estate, City Residence or Car. Must be seen
to be appreciated. Special price $300. Pull
particulars and breeding upon request.
"BRAEHEAD KENNELS" Lorin Gourlay

McLaren
Boston Post Road, Westerly, R. I.

POLICE and SAMOYED DOGS

Puppies and Grown stock of the finest
blood lines for sale at reasonable prices.

DOGS

BOARDED

DONERNA KENNELS

Phone Closter 1O4 Demarest. New Jersey

America's

Pioneer

DogMedicines

BOOK ON

DOG DISEASES

And How to Feed

Mailed free to any address by
the Author

H. CLAY GLOVER CO.; Inc.
129West24thSlreet,NewYork

Puppy Dogs Tails

FREE BOOK on treatment and Cafe
of Dogs (Including Puppies) Address:
Humphreys' Veterinary Remedies,
156 William Street, New York.

POLICE DOGS

High class imported and domestic stock.
Trained and untrained. Puppies inter-
national grand championship strain.

DR. E. T. DAVISON

Athenla New Jersey

\Ve'll Kelp .you find the dog you
want if ^you will just write to the

Dog Mart

House & Garden
19 West 44th St., New York City

KILLS FLEAS

Sergeant's Skip Flea Soap positively kills
fleas, lice, etc. Won't irritate skin or eyes
nor mat hair but leaves it clean, soft and
fluffy. ZBc cake lasts longtime. At dealers
or from us. 1 A Medicine

Fn r r .^m for Every

REE ^ Dog Ailment

DOG BOOK

Polk Miller's f amoos
Dog Hook, 64 pages,
on care, feeding and
training, also pedi-
gree blank, ailment
chart snd Sen, Vest's
celebrated "Tribute
to a Dog." Write.
today for free copy.

POLKMILLERQRUGCQ.

THE DOG MART

CHAMPION FREIA VON DER MAINKUR.

rT HIS bitch has been shown extensively and has defeated many of

the best known bitches in America. She was winners at the 1921

Shepherd Dog Club Specialty Show. She is the dam of a litter of puppies

now offered for sale. The sire is the sensational ETZEL VON DER ETTERS-

BURG. Puppies sired by this dog out of other winning bitches also available.

Write for information

JUBILEE FARM KENNELS

PEORIA, ILLINOIS

CHOW-CHOWS

REDS ONLY

8 MALES AT STUD PUPPIES ALWAYS FOR SALE
SERVICE GUARANTEED REASONABLE and RELIABLE

EL-CHER

RIDGEWOOD, N. J.

KENNELS

TEL. 1458- J

Cairn Puppies

Waiting for YOU.

THE IDEAL CHRIST'
MAS PRESENT!

CAIRN or SEALYHAM
TERRIER!

Small enouKh for tmvn.
large enough for country 1
30 to choose from! Trices
rrom $301 Write early
MTiS. BYEON ROGERS,
Valley Road, Tel. 151.
Manhasset, I*. I.

Scalyham Puppies

waiting for YOU.

Free Dog Book

>y noted »pc< ialist. Tells how to
FEED AND TRAIN

KEEP HIM HEALTHY

CURE DOG DISEASES.

low to put d<>n in condition, kill
fltas. cure icratchinR, mange, dis-
temper. Gives twenty-five famous

1-W DOG REMEDIES

ISO illuilrafion* of Jot leads, {raining rollars,
stripping combs. Jog houses, etc. MaileJ free,

Q-W LABORATORIES!

IjDept. 3 Bound Brook, New Jersey |

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OORANG
AIREDALES

The 20th Century
All-Round Dogs

Choice Puppy Stock for Sale

Twelve Famous Oorang at Stud

Also

Oorang Dog Remedies
Oorang Dog Biscuits
Oorang Dog Supplies

Write for Catalog

Oorang Kennels

World's Largest Airedale Breeders
Dept. X LA RUE, OHIO

AT WOODSIDE, LONG ISLAND

]0 mill, from 1'enn. sta.. 7th Ave. 4
33d St. Conducted exclusively for
boarders. Est. 20 years. Unsur-
passed for pet and sporting dogs.
Acres of exercising grounds with
secure fencing. Health. Happiness
assured. No sick clogs or young pup-
pies taken. Inspection invited.
Highest references. ^^

Tho Kennels, Woodside. Long Island

(near Woodside Station)

Phone 93 Newton

BORZOIS

(Russian Wolfhounds)

The dog of kings and emperors.
The aristocrat of the canine family.
The most beautiful of all breeds.

Puppies for sale. Very reasonable. Exception-
ally beautiful. Come from some of the great-
est Champions in the country. No better blood
to be had for any price. Address

OR. S. De SAYDA, College President
Lakewood, N. J.

The Dog Lovers Library

is a new and special selec-
tion of twenty of the test
Dog Stories ever written.
You surely will want to
read our offer. Big descrip-
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_-..... the BLACK FLAG tradem.n.
At all dru j. grocery, department and hard-
ware store*. Three sizes: I Jc. 40c and 75c.

Except west of Denver; Colorado and
foreign countries.

Or direct by mail on reciept of Price.
BUCK FLAG, Baltimore. Md.

House &* Garden

THE DOG MART AND POULTRY YARD

RUSSIAN WOLFHOUNDS

Beautiful puppies sired by the famous Champion Duke Boris of Cliffview Manor.
Gold Medal Winner, last Chicago Kennel Club Show.

Best dog or bitch, any breed, bred in America.
Also some puppies by the Canadian Champion "Krilenko."

THE GLENWILD BORZOI KENNELS

7450 Greenview Avenue Chicago, Illinois

Does a Rhode Island Red
lay more eggs than a Buff Orpington ?

House & Garden can answer that and any other
question about your proposed flock of poultry

Write House & Garden Poultry Yard, 19 W. 44th St., New York

SQUAB BOOK FREE

Squabs are sellinc at highest prices ever known.
1 Greatest market for 20 years. Make money
breeding them. Raised In one month. We
Ship everywhere our famous breeding stock
and supplies. Established 21 years. For
prices and full particulars si><? our big
illustrated free book. Write today.

PLYMOUTH ROCKSQUABCO.
602 H ST., MELROSE HIGH-
LANDS. MASS.

Brooder for 50 to 100 chicks

BEST FOR PROFITABLE EGG PRODUCTION.
Much of the risk is taken out of poultry
raising if your chickens are kept in Hodg-
son Poultry Houses. They guarantee
comfortable, healthful, sanitary living

Setting Coop

conditions for your stock and less work
and trouble for you. Hodgson Poultry
Houses are weather-proof and vermin-
proof. Shipped in sections that you can
erect quickly and easily. Send for catalog.

HODGSON

Portable
HOUSES

E. F. Hodgson Co.. Room 326, 71-73 Federal St.
Boston, Mass. 6 E. 39th St., New York City

Planning to Build?

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People do not think of them simply as "fair
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There is a Hodgson House to suit every emer-
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Room 226, 71-73 Federal St., Boston, Mass.
6 E. 39th St., New York City

HODGSONSSS&

HODGSON HOUSES are
used for seaside and
mountain cottages, bun-
galows, garages, play'
houses, poultry and Pet
houses, offices, schools,
gymnasiums and innu-
merable other purposes.

HAVE BIRDS

THIS WINTER

Put up our winter feeding de-
vices near your house, $1.00,
$7.00, etc. Resident birds will
stay with you. Write for free
circular.

Jacobs Bird-House and Mfg. Co.

200 W. Third Avenue, Waynesburg, Penna.

Pulverized Sheep Manure

Best for Lawns and Gardens

Nature's Own Plant Food

Great for Lawns, Grass Plots, etc.

Especially good for gardens, etc., where
quick and certain results are necessary.
Used extensively for small fruits, shrub-
* bery, etc.

Sheep's Head Brand is rich in nitro-
gen, phosphoric acid and potash, also
adds humus. Guaranteed absolutely clean
— nothing but sheep manure — free from
weed seeds which are killed by heat. Dried
and pulverized for easy application. Circular and prices on request.

Natural Guano Company, 804A^rra,mreet

December, 1922

THE REAL

ESTATE MART

SSS

This is but one of a dozen buildings on the Lake
Winnepesaukee estate of the Hon. Henry Hurlburt
of Boston which has been given me to sell. The
property consists of a modern farm, several most
attractive lake shore summer cottages and a mile
of beach and shoreland with wonderful lake and
mountain views. The estate as a whole is one of
the finest in New England.
For details address's. Hayward, Jr., Meredith. N.H.

Mrs. Edmund W. Bodine

Westchester County Realtor

470 Main St., New Rochelle, N. Y.

Telephone 848 New Rochelle

Great Neck to Huntington

BAKER CROWELL, Inc.
47 W. 34th St. N.Y. City
Telephone, Fitzroy 0038 -Great Neck 39S

Let Us Show You Greenwich

Greenwich has Two Country Gluts,

Two Tennis Clubs, Two Yacht Clubs,

Riding and Polo Club,

E. P. HATCH, INC.

Greenwich, Conn. Tel. ]%%%

LADD & NICHOLS, inc.

Real Estate Brokers
9 East 46th St.. N.Y. Murray Hill 1392

SOUTH ORANGE, N. J.

An artistic, modern home; built by days
work. Exceptionally attractive in arrange-
ment and appearance. 8 rooms and 3 baths.
Corner plot 100 x 160. Extended view.
122,500. Reasonable terms.

MAPLEWOOD, N, J.

Half brick house of 1 1 rooms and 3 baths.
Hardwood trim. Hot water heat. Beautiful
mountainside location. Plot 145 x 164 with
many fine trees. $24,500.

MAPLEWOOD, N. J.

A substantial home within 5 minutes
walk of markets, school and depot and in
established neighborhood. Eight unusually
large bright rooms. House in A-i condi-
tion. Lot 60x200, with frontage on two
streets. 10 minutes walk to 18 hole golf
course. — $13,500,

The
J. Charles O'Brien Co.

South Orange, N. J.

Established 1890

Is any member of your family suffering with Asthma, Bronchitis, or any Catarrhal condition
of the respiratory tract, or Rheumatism? If so bring them to the health giving climate of
the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where numbers suffering with these conditions
have regained their health.

Circumstances compel me to sell one of the most exclusive residences in the valley,
surrounded by a beautiful five acre citrus orchard coming into bearing 1923 and adjoining
the City limits of a most progressive little city of beautiful homes, paved streets, white way,
and the center of the Grapefruit and Orange section of the valley.

This home is built of thirteen inch brick walls, stuccoed in white, contains fourteen
rooms; First floor, — main hall, lavatory and toilet, living room, (with artistic fireplace),
sun parlor (with artistic fireplace), dining room, conservatory, breakfast room, kitchen,
enclosed porch, pantries, etc.; on second floor, — four master bedrooms, hall and sitting
room, bath, toilet and lavatory — hot and cold water. Double Garage with servant quarters
and store room attached. Private water system with splendid water.

My price is $40,000.00 if you are financially able. I would be glad to hear from you

J.M.DOSS,M.D.

26th Avenue - McAllen, Tex.

inPitttWr Winter Homes
uuoi for Sale and for Rent

NORTH CAROLINA A. S. NEWCOMB & COMPANY

In Beautiful
Coconut Grove

near

Miami, Florida

The town of Coconut Grove,
located on the shore of beautiful
Biscayne Bay and just south of
Miami, is probably the finest
residential town in the state of
Florida.

This house is wonderfully well ar-
ranged with fine large rooms (living room 24x24), five bed rooms, three baths, tile
floors and roof, electric light, telephone, city water, garage with servants' quarters,
etc., etc.

The grounds, 110x700, contain an excellent variety of tropical and semi-tropical
trees, including orange, grapefruit, lime, Haden mango, banana, etc. Also an im-
mense Erthryna Ambrosia, one of the most magnificent flowering trees grown any-
where. This is probably the only grown tree of this specie on the mainland of the
United States. There is also a beautiful lawn, rose garden and large variety of shrubs
and other plants.
This is an ideal home in an ideal town.

Price

$55,000

IRVING J. THOMAS

Realtor

COCONUT GROVE, FLORIDA

GREENWICH and Jforeabouts

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Acreage an) Farms

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GREENWICH.CS3S

SUMMIT, N. J.

And the Hill Country Nearby
Exceptional Homes — Farms and
Country Estates.

Eugene Jobs H. F. Beck Co.

Real Estate Brokers
Lackawanna Station Summit, N. J.

BOONTON and MOUNTAIN LAKES

Homes — Country Estates and Farms

MORRIS COUNTY PROPERTIES

HEMPSTEAD, L. I.

Recently remodeled, charming old fashioned
home, 4 master rooms and 2 baths. 2 ser-
vants' rooms. Beautiful grounds, flower and
vegetable gardens. About 2 acres. Garage.
Price, attractive. For Inspection, apply

CLARK. CHRIST & McKELLAR. Inc.
I W. 34th St.. N.Y.C. and Mineola. L.I.
Fitzroy 0162 Garden City 1259

— WESTCHESTER HILLS —

145 Acres

Very attractive grounds, picturesque 12 acre
lake, shade trees, flower, fruit and vegetable
gardens. Stone and stucco residence, n rooms,
3 baths, sleeping porches. Garage with quar-
ters; outbuildings. Tennis court. Apply 0-434.

527 Fiflb AT*.
New York

For Country ettatei, shore property,
cottages, acreage property in and around
Greenwich, Co onecttcut. consult me.

Write, eaJJ or telephone 456 (freenwich

LAURENCE TIMMONS

Greenwich, Conn.

R. R. Station

SHORT HILLS

In the New Jersey hills where the delights
of the country are combined with the
conveniences of the city.

Homes

and

Building Plot*

FREDERICK P. CRAIG

Real Estate Broker Short Hills. N. J.

NEW ROCHELLE

Country Homes — Shore Residence*

choicest offerings

O'CONNOR

521 Huguenot St. New Rochelle, N. Y

Telephones 594 fit 133
X ^

opportunity to

purchase or lease special and pre-
ferred shore fronts and country
estates.

Exclusive Listings
RAYMOND B. THOMPSON

Smith Building Tel. 866 Greenwich

GREENWICH, CONN.

House & Garden

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Antiques

BLENNERHASSET HOOKED RUGS

in beautiful floral designs. Unusual Antiques.

The Blue Door Gift Shop

219 Putnam Street Marietta, Oh

ANTIQUES. Reproductions — Candlesticks. Can-
delabra, Sconces, Wrought Iron Table Lamps, Floor
Lamps. Knockers, Andirons, Samovars. Call .
write. Russian Antique Co. 1 E. 28th St.. N. V.

ANTIQUES BY MAIL

Send for my new list of specials in Furniture.

Glass, Fabrics, Brass, Pewter, China, Etc.

Wm. C. Waldron Cherry Valley. N. V.

THE QUAINTEST ANTIQUE SHOP
in N. Y. City. Coloured Glast*— Colonial Furniture
— Mirrors — China — Jewelry— ^Silver and Victorian
pieces. Sidney K. Powell. 17 East Sth St., N. V.
EARLY AMERICAN FURNITURE. Clocks. Mir-
rors. Steigel and Sandwich Glass English China.
An unusual collection of rare historical flasks.
Ethel Halsey Kaufmann, Nutley. New Jersey.
EARLY AMERICANA: Sandwich glass a FIM-C-
ialty; also furniture, silver and china. Special price*
to the trade. Martha deHaas Reeves, 1807 Ran-
stead Street (bet. Market & Chestnut) Philadelphia.
A. K. DRE-3SER— 11 E. Sth St.. N. Y. C.
Early. — Rare — Authentic — American

Furniture — Glass- — China — Rugs — Pewter
Open afternoons onlv. Stuyvesant 1610.

SCRAP BAG RUGS Hooked in the patterns
of a century ago. Reproductions & Antiques.
Jio.oo up. Mrs. E. E. Morso — Bon Air Park.

New Rochelle. N. Y. Tel. N. R. 4073 W.

AUTHENTIC • ANTIQUES
furniture, hooked rugs, glass, china flasks.

Out of town orders promptly attended to.

Nayan Shops. 13 East Sth St.. New Vr.rk City.

ANTIQUES FOR CHRISTMAS

Send for List.

The Packet. West Brewster,
Cane Cod, Mass.

Honey or Jam Jar. Pottery in solid
colours — black, orange, ivory and cela-
don. (Best colours are ivory and orange.)
Price $1.50. May be purchased through
House 9t Garden Shopping Service.

Antiques (Con't)

ITALIAN ANTIQUITIES

Furniture, Wrought irons, Floral & Architectural

paintings and brocades. Luigi G. Pacciarella.

54 West 13th St. (bet, sth & 6th Aves.) N. V. C.

EARLY AMERICAN FURNITURE

that speaks

for itself
J. Henry Schottler. 105 Lexington Ave.. N. V.

Arts and Crafts

CANADIAN HOMESPUNS, direct from looms of
trench habitants. Samples, state colors. Murray
Bay Blankets, tufted bedspreads, table covers, etc
Canadian Homespuns Ltd.. 347 Craig W. Montreal.

HAND FORGED WROUGHT IRON
A century-old shop making early American repro-
ductions and modern designs. Send for circular

Half Moon Forge. Ruby. N. Y. '

CANADIAN Handwoven Homespuns, Blankets
Spreads. Headquarters for this work among French
Canadian Peasantry. Samples. Canadian Handi-
craft Guild. 598 St. Catherine St.. W. Montreal.
BRASSWARE — Beautiful reproductions of Colon-
ial candlesticks, sconces, candelabra, door knockers
coffee and tea sets, trays, etc. Send for portfolio A

Vera Scott. 16 Bank St., New York.
MINIATURESONIVORY painted from life. Faded
or defaced miniatures copied or restored. Miniatures
made from daguerreotypes or photographs. N E
Cummmgi. Blooimvond Road. Columbus. S. C.
THESE SHOPS ALL GIVE

excellent services,
excellent values.
Patronize them.

A classified hst of business concerns 'which we
recommend to the patronage of our readers

Shoppers' & Buyers' Guide, House & Garden, 19 West Forty-Fourth Street,
New York

Advertising rates given upon request

Cleaning and Dyeing

KNICKERBOCKER CLEANING DYEING CO.

High class cleaners and dyers. Main office 402
E. 3ist St., N. Y. C. Branch offices in N. Y. City;
also White Plains, New Rochelle. Newport & Paris

French Dry Cleaners. Expert Dyers, Launderere
Prompt, Reliable service.
Park Ave. at RsnH. St.. N. Y. Lenox 3147

You think there are no New Gifts
but there are

The novel and useful Christmas present
—where can you find it ?

You'll find the buying suggestions on
this page offer a wide variety of choice.

And the numerous services listed in the
Shoppers' and Buyers' Guide are more
than ever useful at this active season.

Corsets & Brassieres

FEN-LIN BRASSIERE

"No Straps"
Evening, Sport and Day wear
At leading New York Stores

Damages on Clothing Made
Invisible

MOTH HOLES, Tears, Burns on garments made
invisible by re-weaving. Shine on clothing per-
manently removed. Guarantee Damage Weaving
Co., 146 sth Ave., bet. igth & 2Oth Sts.. N. Y.

Dancing

SHELTON DEWEY

Modern dance specialist and authority
Private or class Lessons
22 W. 47th St., New York City. Bryant 4562

Delicacies

MING CHA — The most expensive tea grown —
A Connoisseur's tea endorsed by Chinese gov't as
the "highest grade of tea obtainable." Pkg. $1.25.
Eliz. Lee, Oriental Delicacies, 2 W. 28th St., N. Y.

White jade pendant on black cord
2 inches across. Price $2.00. May be
purchased through House & Garden
Shopping Service.

Art Needlework

Books

SWISS HAND EMBROIDERED infants' dresses,
caps.^hibs, handkerchiefs, linens, nursery & bou-
doir pillows. Laces, Monograms. Reasonable prices
F.& M. Trachsel. Importers. =;si Madison Ave.,N.Y.

A FRENCH CHEF in your own family. Send
$5.00 for a copy of Xavier Raskin's wonderful new-
cook book — 700 pages, hundreds of recipes, clear
instructions. Rand McNally & Co., Chicago, 111.

EXCLUSIVE ITALIAN LINENS. Rrticello Cut-
work copied from classic antic] ue designs, adapted to
modern uses. Dinner, Lunch, Tea, Bridge Tray sets.
All'^rtedel Lino. 177 McDougal St.nr. Waahn.Sq.

CHILDREN'S BOOKSHOP 5 West 47th St., N Y.
Books! Books!! Books!!!
The old and the new that children love best
Catalogue thirty-five cents

Auction Bridge and Cards

Boxed Hosiery

YOUR OWN NAME ON BRIDGE SCORES

250 officially ruled sheets. 6 x o in. Your name on
each sheet. Postpaid anywhere, $2. Agents wanted.
Beach Company, 904 Sycamore, Cincinnati, Ohio

STURDY. GUARANTEED PURE SILK

Stockings. Full length silk, mercerized top.
Box of three pairs — $3.50 postpaid.
My Ladys Hosiery Co . Inc. 12 E. 48th St., N.Y. C.

WHITEHEAD Art of BIDDING & PLAY

Beginners or advanced players. Class or private.
Mrs. Bertha D. Wright
Hotel St. George. Brooklyn. N.Y. 1YI. Main 10,000

Candles

HAND DIPPED CANDLES, smokeless, odorless &
dripless. 26 colors, your selection. 6-10" or 4-15"
candles in a box, $1.50 a box, postpaid.
W. T. Usinger, Century Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa.

LILLIAN SHERMAN RICE, 231 W. 96th St.,

N. Y. Author of Bridge in a nutshell. Game taught
in 6 lessons, also by mail. Concentration a specialty.

PERSONAL BRIDGE SCORES— Your own name
on each sheet. Latest vogue. Splendid Xmas gifts.
4 pads, 25 sheets, Ji. 10 for $2. pr»d.
Wm. Popper & Co., 114 Worth Street, New York.

Catering

CARDANI 6TH AVE. at 53RD ST.

For luncheon or special dinner
we recommend our
Italian Spumoni or

6 BRIDGE SCORE PADS, bound in attractive
covers shipped parcel post prepaid upon receipt of
Ji.oo. Send check, money order, stamps or cash.
Muslin Bridge Pad Co. ,Dfpt.D. 2 14 Fulton St.. N.Y.

Delicacies (Con't)

Biscuit Praline
moulded in melon form
Delightful — dainty — desserts
Tel. 1 571" Circle New York

The TEAS That Carry Their Own Message

To get the bouquet and flavor it's essential to taste.
Hotels Ambassador, Chatham, Vanderbilt, Bellevue-
Stratford, and many others serve Exclusively.

VIRGINIA M. MEYER'S Booklets. "Auction
Bridge Quiz" & "Sure Winners at Auction Bridge."
Best on Market, soc each. Bookdealers everywhere
or write 91 Cass Ave.,Dept. H.T Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Children's Things

Special Blends — Orange Pekoe — Ceylon — English
Breakfast — Oolong. Grades $4-$3.$o-$3-$2.50.
Cartons — 100 Individual Portions, Xmas Pkg. Js.oo
Gertrude H. Ford Tea Co.. 245 W. I25th St , N Y

Automobile Renting Service

Children's Clothes
for every occasion, including dainty
hand-made underwear

Paulais' Delicious California Glace Fruits

The Gift Remembered. In Enameled 1-2-3 Ib. Tins
ti-SO, $3.00, $4-50 Del. post prepaid with Money
Order. Paulais, 741 S. B'way, Los Angeles. Cal.

CADILLAC PRIVATE CARS for shopping, thea-
tre or out-of-town. Distinguished cars and proven
chauffeurs. Basic rates. A. G. Kraft,
IS4 West 54th St. N.Y. Tel. Circle 2809; night, 7325

The LILIPUTIAN BAZAAR BOOK of Fashions

Fall & Winter — 1922-23 is ready. A copy will be
mailed to you upon receipt of your name & address.
WriteShoppingBureau. Best &Co.,372-5th Ave.. N.Y.

THE WIDE VARIETY

of goods advertised on
these pages is amazing,
Read the announcements

Beauty Culture

Chintzes

Dress Forms

MME. MAYS. Face Specialist, Est. 1891. Per-
manently removes wrinkles, freckles, scars, etc.
Muscles tightened; endorsed by physicians. Booklet
one address:?5o W. ^pth St., N. Y. Bryant 9426

THE CHINTZ SHOP
431 Madison Ave., at 49th St., New York
Everything in Chintz, Linen and Cretonne
Imported and Domestic Samples Submitted .

PNEUFORM— The Pneumatic Dress Form. Gowns
fitted without personal try-on. Inflated in fitted

MME. JULIAN'S HAIR DESTROYER perman-
ent y eradicates all superfluous hair. No electricity
or poisonous ingredients. Stood test 50 years.
Mme. Julian. 14 West 47th Street, N. Y. C.

form. 6 West 46th St.. N. Y. Bryant, 5338.

Christmas Cards

Flesh Reduction

MADAME BERTHE'S ZIP positively destroys
Hair with root. No electricity or caustics. Free
demonstration at office. Write for booklet. Mme.
Berthe. Specialist. Dept.SC. 562 Fifth Ave., N. Y.

PERSONAL GREETING CARDS for,Christmas
and the New Year. Samples and prices on request.
Peter Paul & Son, Inc., 256 Delaware Ave.,
Buffalo, New York.

Superfluous Flesh Reduced by modern scientific
method. No dieting or exercising required. Dr. R.
Newman, Licensed Physician. 286 Fifth Avenue
(near soth St.), N. Y. C. Phone Longacre 4989

healthy skin conditions, eradicates pimples and
blackheads. Free sample upon application.
Halsey Bros. Co.. in N Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111.

HAND PAINTED AND ENGRAVED CARDS

Excellent quality, unusual and attractive. Request
samples on approval. Make selection at home.
Lydia M. Reeder, 412 W. gth Ave., Columbus. O.

BATTLE CREEK SANITARIUM METHOD

Ring Roller — BergonieChair — Electric Light Baths.
Dr. Joseph R. Ross, Physio-Thermist, 300 Madison
Ave., cor. 4ist St., N. Y. Tel. Vanderbilt 8658.

OLIVE ROBART. Back from Paris — Invites Cor-
respondence — Creme Pat Pat for restoring Color &
Contour ($9.00 les deux) Light Pat PatforMons'eur
& Younger set. $3.00 — 36 Union Sq. East. N.Y.

Have a PORTAL GREETING

for your doorway this Holiday Season
(old English custom)
A charming Christmas remembrance for
your friends
Attractively designed
Soc draft or money order.
HedwiB Weiss, Monroe, Mich.

NEW

idea-3, things and methods
keep the world young;
these columns overflow with new things.

FOR GIFTS OR FOR YOUR OWN NEEDS

There is a wide selection
of the best articles
in these pages

DURING THESE DAYS

Let House & Garden solve your shopping
problems. We personally recommend this "Blue
List" of quality shops. Write to them.

December, 1922

.25

Furniture & Furnishings for the
Home

The Interesting Piece in the right place. Paintec
table; comfortable chair. Bedrooms. Help witl
the problem of the difficult room. Tel. M. Sq. 7762
Mary^Allen Distinctive Furniture, 8 W. 28th St

HAND QUILTED COMFORTERS, padded with
pure lamb's wool. Charming designs, straight 01
scalloped edges. Exquisite materials. Write for
saniplesand booklet. KU-anor Beard. Hardinsbury.K

p. CHARLES MEYER. House Comfortable, In-
dividual pieces. Wonderful Secty. Desks, Highboys
Wing Chairs. Drop Leaf Tables & Tabourettes
Polishing Oil Si large bottle, ppd 30 W. 8th St.. N V

McHLJGH Incorporated — 15 W. sist. Circle 1551
James Slater McHugh — formerly 42nd St.

McHugh-willow Furniture — Fabrics —
Interiors — Wood and Upholstered Furniture.

HEARTHSTONE FURNITURE COMPANY

Unfinished furniture decorated to order
186 Lexington Avenue
New York City

FABRICS OF DECORATIVE IMPORTANCE

Cretonnes, Chintzes Linens & Guaranteed Sunfa;-

Materials — Exquisite Colorings — Special attentio

ni ail inquiries. Archer- Biadshaxv. 4 2 E . 40 St . . N . \

COMPLETE LINE of New Distinctive Furniti
Everything for the home. On sale in our stora
warehouse — Eliminate the middleman — Catalog
request. H. Chessler. 101 Ea=t 32nd St. New Yor

Furs

FINE FURS

Selected assortment. Reasonably priced

Repairing Remodeling

K^ Shiftman (Est. 1800^ 557-5th A \ •<•

Gardening and
Landscape Architecture

BRING YOUR GARDEN INDOORS

in a painting of beauty

Commissions taken for painting gardens

Hlondflle Mulone, 27BeekrnanPl.. N. Y. Plaza 1585

EVERGREENS, PERFECT SPECIMENS

4 f. Ji.oo Pines, and many other kinds, 6 f. y
Laurel, flow. Evergreeji, 6oc. Ferns. 4 f. soc

le, N "

Lakewood Nursery Co , Farmingdale.

JAPANESE GARDENS

Laid out in Southern States

T. R. Otsuka. 216 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago
Winter address — Vamato. Florida

Two oblong lattice almond dishes of
Italian pottery. 5 inches high. Price
$3.00 each. May be purchased through
House & Garden Shopping Service.

Gowns Bought

MME NAFTAL, Tel. Bryant 670 pays highest
cash value for fine misfit; or slightly used evening
& street frocks, furs, diamonds, jewelry, silverware.
69 West 45th Street. New York

Hair Dressing

FRANCES— The FIFTH AVE. liEAUTY SHOP

A distinctive little shop of the better class serving
discriminating women. Afternoon tea served.
500 Fifth Ave. Suite 523. at Jznd St.. New York.

Interior Decorations

CHAPIN, HARPER & DUTEL

Removed to 597 Fifth Avenue, Scribner Bldg.,N.Y.

Interior Decorators — Estimates

and suggestions for town and country work.

LAURA WAND, CONSULTING DECORATOR

Helps express your ideas

in Home Decorating.
I^ong experience in Shopping and

many wholesale accounts enables her

to shop for you with striking economy.

Correspondence i nvi ted .

49 West 44th St., New York. Vandcrbilt 0616

HENRIETTA SHONTS
ill East s6th St., N. Y. C.
Consulting Decorator — Resident Buyer
No Charge for shopping counsel

FIRM OF HEED 131 Waverly PI., N. Y. Pur-
veyors to decorators, gift shops. Productions de-
signed by artists. Complete interiois, furniture,
frames, lamps, scieens.wrot iron. Numbers limited.

W. J. NEWMAN

Special pieces of
upholstered furniture to order
924 Madison Ave., N. Y. C. Tel. Rhine. 9845

Jewelry and Precious Stones

TRAUERT and PLIMPTON, formerly with Black
Starr & Frost, Tiffany & Co. Jewels purchased, au-
thorized appraisers. 522 Fifth Ave.. Guaranty Trust
Co. Bldg.. Room 506. Tel. Murray H'll 1192.
FRANK C. HUTCHLNSON HI YS DIAMONDS
precious stones and individual pieces of jewelry or
jewelry estates to be settled. Expert appraising.
344 Madison Ave., N. Y. C. Opp. Hotel Biltmore.

Jewelry and Precious Stones(Conft

ESTATES AND RESPONSIBLE PERSONS

wishing to dispose of jewels can do so privately am
to the best advantage at 542-5th Avenue.
Rooms 50-51. sth Floor. Bechet & Barclay

SEND TO A. S. BORG by mail or express an>
diamonds, old gold, silver, platinum, antiques
Paiv«, tickets- artificial teeth. Cash at once
146 West 23rd Street, New York. Bank references

Lingerie & Laces

LINGERIE, MONOGRAMS, LINEN SETS

made to order

Mrs.NicholasBiddle.E. A. Millar, Mrs.Clinton Work
644 Madison Ave., N. V. C. Plaza 1996

Memorials

Monograms and Woven Names

Cash s Woven Names for marking clothing, house-
hold & hotel linens, etc. Write for styles & pricts
J. « J. Cash. Inc., 822 Chestnut St., So. Norwalk,
Conn., England — France — Australia — Canada.

INDIVIDUAL WOVEN NAME TAPES. Best way
to mark wearing apparel. Only positive means oi
identification. Ideal Xmas gift. One gross name*
?3- U. S. Woven Label Co., 36 W. 34th St . N Y

Permanent Hair Wave

NESTLE 'S

Originators of LanoU Waving. World
Famous Experts. 12 and 14 East 49th St.
N. Y. Phone Vandcrbilt 2670-2671.

CALL AT SCHAEFKER'S if you want expert
personal attention for ^ permanent wave. Posi-
tively no frizz or kink. J. Schaeffer.
590-592 Fifth Avenue Phone: Bryant 7615

CLUZELLE BROS

Specialists in the new ''Eugene" Permanent Wav-
ing Transformations
45-47 West Fifty-seventh St.. N. Y. C.

Rugs

ORIENTAL RUGS

Direct from Persia and China

Oriental Rug Exchange
i_73_ Madison Ave. near 34th St. Ne

Shopping Commissions

MRS. HAZEL M. CHILDS shops in San Fran-
cisco's Chinatown. Japanese, Chinese Linens, silks,
vories, brasses, jades, kimonos, antiques. Lists.
Wit-sale, red. 204 Hobart Bldg.. San Francisco. Oil.

Social Etiquette

HARM, POISE & PERSONALITY— Overcome

self-consciousness — Personality analyzed, correct! so-
.•ial procedure authoritatively taught personally &
jy mail. Mile. Louise. Marie AntoinetteHoU-l,N. Y.C.

MISS WOODWARD. Chaperonage exclusive hotel,
Assistance to ladies in New York — Music. Lectures,
Uridge, Mah Jongg, Shopping, 14 East 6oth Street,
N. V. Tel. Plaza 3 500 .

Unusual Gifts

FRENCHIVORY&TORTOISESHELL'Ioiletsets,

anicure sets, clocks, indestructible pearls. Quality
erchandise at wnolesale prices. Write fm catalog,
uperior Products Co., Dept.V. 3 Park Row. N.Y.

MEGILL'S PORTO RICAN GIFT SHOP, 38 E.

.8th St., N. Y. Ladies' initial handkerchiefs in .Filet
i'ire Ji.25 ea. I.inenguest towels with drawn initials,
Cahulo work 33-^5 ca. Order early for Christmas.

,ES LIVRES CACHES (hidden books) a Liter-
ary game. An interesting story containing over 100
»ook titles, 10 leaflets, directions & key. Postpaid
ir.oo. J. C. Heminway, 50 Vanderbilt Ave., N. Y.

UZZLE BLOCKS— Fairy Tales. Peter Rabbit
ind his friends. Four wooden puzzles to box; scpa-
•ate colored picture of each. Postpaid $1.00.
rairyland, ' 409 Race Street, Cincinnati. Ohio.

vt-l XMAS Evergreens, Galax, Leu cot hoe &
Salsam. Ideal decorations. Unique gifts. (Enclose
cards. ) I ,arge Boxal 1 you can use, i ,000 assorted , $5.00
vlaiy A.Sweeney. 2 i6E. Market. JohnBonCity.Tenn.

PRESIDE COLORED FLAME POWDER. Colors

ireplace, flames beautifully. Original Xmas gift 75c
>ox, three for $2.00. Tree Stump container filled
"1.50. Fireside Powder Co. Port Richmond N. Y.

beautifully DECORATED hand made Chinese
•ed or black lacquer box containing i Ib. of Hu-Kwa
Pea. Exclusivedelicacy forconnoisseurs. Price Js.oo
Mark T.Wendell. Imp.. 156 State St.. Boston. Mass.

•SIEMPRE VIVE" Everlasting plant fmtn Old
vlexico; a beautiful green when in water; keeps
ndefinitely when dry. Ppd. 25c.
. O. B. 113. El Paso, Texas. Border Novelty Co.

PORTAL GREETING for yourdoorway this Holi-
day Season (oldEnglishcustom.) Charming Xmas re-
membrance for your friends. Attractively designed
Soc draft or M. O. Hedwig Weiss. Monroe. Mich.

CHINESE GARDEN & AQUARIUM 12 in. sq.,
i in. high. Miniature growing trees & ferns. An
ndividual work of art. Price 525- Picture on request
hu S.h Sen Milford. Penna.

The Woman Jeweler

THE WOMAN JEWELER has just brought with
ler Europe's finest ideas in jewelry for your
election. Pearl necklaces- Earrings- Pearl Brace-
cts-Cigan-ttr ('ascs, Wrist Watches and the

EARL TASSEL, the latest creation of Paris,
jifts $10 and up. Genuine Pearl Matching, Rose
Olga Tritt's — The Personality "

/ Jewelry Shop,
Opp. Altman's

YOU CAN DO A MONTH'S Shopping in the
shops of these columns in less time than it
takes to make a half day's shopping tour.
Inspect them all before you buy.

TRULY UNUSUAL

Yes indeed ! Out-of-the-ordinariness
is the chief charm to be had from
the advertisers in these columns.

MM
PIPES

Their quality cannot be questioned

'T'HE sort of Christmas pres-
-*- flit that a man will appre-
ciate and treasure, not lor a
moment but for all the year.

Tito finishes - Natural & Bruyere, $6 and ST
Send for folder illustrating the various shapes.

MM No. 1 CIGARETTES

$3.25 per 100. Handmade and blended from the
yoniifi leaves of exceptional Turkish tobaccos.

MM IMPORTING CO.

6 East 45 St. New York

I/O Agents for BRIGG (London) Canes& Umbrellas

GINGER ALE,

UTTT

< GINGER'ALE

DOWN to the
last golden
bubble Clicquot
Club's a jolly
drink.

THE CLICQUOT CLUB CO.

Millis, Mass., U.S.A.

Bottlers of Clicquot Club Ginger

Ale, Sarsaparilla, Root Beer

and Birch Beer

House &• Garden

Your good taste is reflected by Mahogany

T^HE visitor to your home cannot see that the walls
-^- are weather-proof, that the roof is well supported,
that the cellar is well drained. He does, however, pay
immediate attention to the interior woodwork and
not infrequently judges the coziness and good taste of
your home by the character of the trim.

Of all cabinet woods Mahogany pre-eminently pos-
sesses charm and effectiveness. Mahogany is easy to
•obtain, easy to work, easy to finish and improves with
age. The color grows deeper and richer under the
influence of light and air and the longer it stands,
the more beautiful it becomes.

And its cost is astonishingly low! Very little more
than the more common cabinet woods. Careful figures
kept in building the model "Bungalow Beautiful" in
Atlantic City demonstrated that the cost of figured
mahogany interior trim in dining room, living room
and den, in which were included mantels, bookcases,
doors, window-trim, base-boards and mouldings was
$880. The cost of the cheapest cabinet wood in the
same three rooms would have been :

Let us demonstrate to you that Genuine Mahogany
can be used for the interior woodwork of your home
at a surprisingly low 'cost.

We shall be glad to send you, without cost, our period furniture and "Bungalow
Beautiful" folders. They are filled with useful hints on making the home more attractive.

after all — there's nothing like

MAHOGANY

MAHOGANY ASSOCIATION, Inc.

St. James Building

1133 BROADWAY, NEW YORK

December, 1922

NEW SUPER-SIX SEDAN $2295

Freight and Tax Extra

The De Luxe Car of the Year

No Hudson of any type or period so completely sums the body
builders' art. It blends richness and luxury with charming sim-
plicity. And the promise of its beauty is borne out in unusual
personal comfort and serviceability. The Sedan is produced in
the shops of one of America's longest established body builders,
where work is never hurried and where the workmen have always
specialized on the finest closed cars. Their entire effort is devot-
ed exclusively to building this one Hudson body. It seats seven.

On the Famous Super-Six Chassis

With the New Improved Motor

All Hudsons are mounted on the same chassis. More
than 120,000 Super-Sixes are in service. It has been
developed and refined through seven years' experience.

Official tests mark it one of the truly great automobiles.

The new and improved Super-Six motor has a smooth-
ness unknown to earlier models. Its reliability and
endurance excels even those Hudsons that have
registered more than 100,000 miles of service.

The other three Hudson models, are familiarly known
all over the world.

The Coach gives closed car comforts at from $500 to
$1,000 below any with which its car performance
and reliability are comparable.

All essential comforts are provided. It is built to
stand the hardest service, including cross country
work. Doors and windows stay snug fitting. Rum-
bling noises are absent. Seats are comfortable and
cozily arranged. Ample space is provided in rear for
luggage and tools.

You will be proud to own a Coach.

Speedster - *1525

Freight from Detroit and Tax Extra on All Models
7-Passenger Phaeton - *1575 The Coach - *1625

Sedan - «2295

(5162)

H o u s.e 6° Garden

C7/I&

CHALMERS

SIX

The

Coach

(A coach which seats five full-grown passengers in
\ ease and 'without crowding.

(A motor coach which, by reason of its wider doors
< and more practical seating arrangement, provides the
( rich comfort of the old-time coach.

(A coach of distinction, in the beauty of its design and
{the characteristic Chalmers grace of its proportions.

(A price so attractive that it re-emphasizes the luxuries,
* the conveniences, the generous size and all the other
j elements of greater car-value so readily apparent in
\ this new vehicle.

These are some of the outstanding features of the
new Chalmers Six Coach. The body design which
provides real roominess for all the occupants, is
perhaps its most notable improvement as a type.

The 32-inch doors, and the fact that bath front
seats fold forward all the way, make it easy to
enter and leave the car from either side.

The wider side and rear windows afford an unusu-
ally open view, from both the front and rear seats.

All of these advantages are enhanced and empha-
sized by the wonderful Chalmers Six engine,
whose sturdiness and economy Chalmers owners
know so well.

Chalmers Six dealers are now displaying and
demonstrating this new coach.

Its price is so attractive, its value so much greater,
and its utility so pronounced, that it is well worth
your time to go and see it.

Details of the Coach — Broadcloth upholstery. Satin finish hardware. Door-windows and quarter windows adjustable.
Wide passageway between front seats. Double-ventilating windshield, hinged at top and bottom, rattle-proof and
water-tight. Very large trunk, with water-proof cover; trunk bars. Yale locks for doors. Heater. Windshield visor.
Windshield wiper, rear vision mirror. Disc steel wheels and cord tires. Price F. O. B. Detroit; revenue tax to be added.

Chalmers Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan
Chalmers Motor Company of Canada, Limited, Windsor, Ontario

1585

December, 1922

.T'

House 5? Garden

BEGINNING AGAIN IN JANUARY

THE wheel is back again at January — that
wheel of issues which turns inexorably with
thepassingof eachmonth. Scarcelyis Decem-
ber done when January follows it. Scarcely Janu-
ary, when February comes in view.

It would be a deadly dull and tiresome task to
turn this wheel did not each twist give us a fresher
view of life, a fresh and encouraging response from
those for whom the work is done — House & Gar-
den's increasing body of readers. And here's the
way the picture changes from month to month.
Remembering these subjects, you can know what
good things lie ahead in 1923.

January is devoted to Building; February to
Furniture, which follows logically after building,
March, the Gardening Guide, for having built a
house and furnished it, one begins to develop the
lawns and flower borders and set out shrubbery;
April, Interior Decorations — a report of what is
being done by the decorators; May, Spring Fuinish-
ing, when the house puts on its summer raiment;
June, Garden Furnishing, when we prepare for
living out of doors; July, Small Houses, for most
of us wish a small house however large our purse;
August, Household Equipment, which helps to

-**..,.

Antony the houses shown in
January will be this one, built
an a difficult and rockv site

make the conduct of both large and small houses
run smoothly; September, Autumn Furnishing,
when the house prepares for winter; October, Fall
Planting, when we arrange the garden for next
year's burgeoning; November, House Planning,
because November is an indoors month when we
can study such problems as that prospective house;
and finally December with its Christmas Gifts.
These are the spokes of the editorial wheel as it
turns from month to month.

In the world of machinery a wheel does not
generate power itself; it is part of the mechanism
that conveys power. So is this editorial wheel.
The power it conveys is vastly greater than any-
thing it could generate. It bears the power, the
means, whereby men and women can transform
vague hopes into living and livable actualities. It
helps turn the machinery whereby the house that
one has dreamed of becomes the house one lives in,
the garden one has longed to own becomes the
actual and living border of rich and fragrant blos-
soms. Because of this we enter upon the work of
1923 with renewed hope. Because of this also more
than a hundred thousand readers await each
monthly turning of the wheel.

Contents for December, 1922

COVER DESIGN BY BRADLEY WALKER TOMLIN

HOUSE & GARDEN'S BULLETIN BOARD 31

TRANSFORMING THE PIANO 32

THE APPOINTMENTS OF A Music ROOM 33

Alma Cluck
THE HOME OF ARCHIBALD BROWN, STONY BROOK, L. I 36

Peabody, Wilson &• Brown, Architects

THE CANDLE IN THE WINDOW 38

THE WINDOW AS A BACKGROUND 39

T. H. ElleU, Architect,

BUILDING IN BERMUDA 40

G. R. Lomer

GARDENS THAT RISE AND FALL 42

H. Stuart OrtlojJ

IF You ARE GOING TO BUILD 44

Mary Fanton Roberts

FIGURES OF ROMANCE . . 46

THE PAINTED HALLWAY 47

Caroline Duer
BATTERSEA ENAMELS

Gardner Teall
A LITTLE PORTFOLIO OF GOOD INTERIORS 49

. Volume XLH, No. Six

QUAINT KITCHEN COLOR SCHEMES 52

Ethel Davis Seal
" HILLWOOD," THE HOME OF EDWARD F. HUTTON, WHEATLEY

HILLS, L. 1 54

Charles M. Hart, Architect

WHEN You PLAN YOUR GARDEN 56

Richard H. Pratt

A GROUP OF THREE HOUSES 57

IN THE REGENCY or KING COAL 60

Ethel R. Peyser

WRAPPING CHRISTMAS PARCELS 62

GIFTS FOR CHILDREN COME FIRST 63

GIFTS FOR A LITTLE GIRL 64

PRESENTS TO PLEASE A BOY 65

FOR THE LIVING ROOM : 66

IN THE DINING ROOM 67

FOR A WOMAN'S ROOM 68

GIFTS FOR MEN 69

GIFTS IN BRASS 70

FOR THE GARDEN LOVER 71

THE GARDENER'S CALENDAR 72

PAI-.ES FROM A DECORATOR'S DIARY 74

Ruby Ross Goodnow

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House &• Garden

Soho tapestry reproduced for F. Schumacher & Co.

An achievement in tapestry reproduction

A room in Lady Sack-ville's London
house. Here hangs the original Soho
tapestry of -which the one illustrated
aoove is a reproduction by Schumacher.

Early in the 18th century the original of this tapestry was
woven in Soho. It was one of a group of eight done under
the direction of John Vanderbank, the Flemish artist whose
contributions to tapestry weaving have made the name Soho
synonymous with tapestries of rare beauty.

Six of these tapestries are in existence today. At one time
they were in possession of Elihu Yale, founder of Yale Col-
lege. Now they form important historical groups in Lady
Sackville's London house and in the South Kensington
Museum.

Each one ot them has been reproduced in France for
F. Schumacher & Co. Hand made by the most skilled weavers
these reproductions preserve the unique charm and unusual
color variations which distinguish the originals.

Many other beautiful tapestries of different periods and in
various sizes have been reproduced for Schumacher. These may
be seen and purchased through your own decorator or
upholsterer.

F. Schumacher & Co., Importers, Manufacturers and Distri-
butors to the trade only of Decorative Drapery and Upholstery
Fabrics. 60 West 40th Street, New York. Offices in Boston,
Chicago and Philadelphia.

V-SGHUMAGH8R, & GO.

December , 1922

The

HOUSE & GARDEN
BULLETIN BOARD

THE etiquette books would doubtless say that
it is very impolite to play ring-toss with one's
mother's head. But there is perhaps an excep-
tion, especially when one's mother is Vogue and the
rings are wreaths of flowers. With this undignified
but joyous pastime we are now engrossed. For at
its January 1st issue Vogue attains the sublime and
beautiful age of thirty!

Thirty! Ah, what an age! Before that women are
mere amateurs at life. By thirty they have attained
the practised hand. They know the world and are
known of it. They have acquired sophistication and
discernment. They have something to look back
upon but a great deal more to look forward to.

Vogue is very much a woman of the world. She
speaks, and those who know wisdom when they hear
it, listen attentively. Others copy her style, but
none can copy the things that give her individuality
and undisputed leadership — the authentic touch
which comes from years of contact with the best
taste of the world, the gracefulness and beauty of
her presentation.

Though you may not suspect it, Vanity Fair and
House & Garden are, in a manner of speaking, the
children of this wonderful woman. Vanity Fair re-
sembles its mother, but House & Garden takes after
its father, and as father passed away when we were
young we aren't quite sure what he die' look like.
Nevertheless, both of us have had the good fortune
to be schooled under the direction of Vogue, and
that is why this son feels it a privilege to pen these
words.

Long years to you! May you live to become a
dowager!

AMERICAN rose culture suffered three serious
losses in the past few years in the deaths of
Dr. Van Fleet of Washington, M. H. Walsh
of Woods Hole, Mass., and J. T. Lovett of Little
Silver, N. J. Dr. Van Fleet was world famous as the
hybridizer of "Dr. Van Fleet," "Silver Moon" and
"American Pillar"; Mr. Walsh gave us "Excelsa"
and, among others, that lovely rose to spill over
walls, "Mrs. M. H. Walsh." Mr. Lovett is repre-
sented by a number bearing his family name. All
three of these were leaders in the development and
hybridization of climbing roses. Although there
may be many others at work on this variety none,
as yet, have advanced their products to the high
degree these leaders attained. The workers in
standard types are legion; we can only hope that
there will be raised up some one who will specialize
on the climbing types.

To help encourage those who are working along
these lines, House & Garden is offering an American
Rose Society gold medal to be awarded by the
society's executive committee for the best new and
undisseminated hardy climbing rose originated in
America and found to be distinct and worthy accord-
ing to the rules of the society. Information regard-
ing the rules of this contest and the rules for the
award may be obtained from the secretary of the
American Rose Society, John C. Wister, 606 Finance
Building, Philadelphia, Pa.

SOME years ago House & Garden advocated the
formation of a general horticultural society
which would serve in this country the same pur-
pose that the Royal Horticultural Society does in
England. At present we have quite a number of
horticultural and floricultural groups, each devoted
to the propagation and popularizing of a single
flower or class of flowers. Although the identity and
individuality of each is quite pronounced, and it is
desirable to preserve that individuality, yet it seems
that it would be advantageous if these groups should
join hands under one head. While it is still too early
to say what may happen, there is the germ of an
idea along these lines in the recent formation in
Washington of the American Horticultural Society.
It starts mainly under the auspices of gentlemen in
the Department of Agriculture.

ACCORDING to advance notices of this society,
several classes of membership are available,
including the ubiquitous and necessary ama-
teur gardener and lover of plants. It is encouraging
to find that this society has a proper appreciation of
the value, work and service of the average amateur.
We are still -rankling under the statement regard-
ing amateurs made by Dr. C. L. Marlatt, Chairman
of the Federal Horticultural Board at the Plant
Quarantine Conference held in Washington last
May. In his opening address he said, "The ordi-
nary plant lover is not, as a rule, doing any public
service." Which, of course, is rather an amazing
attitude for a government official to take, consider-
ing the fact that, without the average plant lover
and amateur gardener, floriculture and horticulture
in America would be rather a dull business. With-
out them, the Government might not have to bother
with a plant quarantine!

NEWS dispatches from London recently re-
ported that Mr. Thomas Hardy, the novelist,
has accepted the presidency of the newly-
formed Architecture Club in London. Even though
he is now an aged gentleman it is refreshing to know
that he can find time for such an interest. He is, as
it were, returning to his first endeavors, for among
the earliest things he wrote was an article entitled
"How I Built A House." Architectural descriptions
are found running through many of his novels.
This report has especial interest for House &
Garden readers because it was at the suggestion of
the editor of the British House & Garden that this
club was formed. The history of it is quite inter-
esting.

A some of our readers may know, there is pub-
lished in England a British House & Garden
which is fast acquiring the architectural pres-
tige in that country which the American edition has
here. Although architectural and building problems
differ somewhat in England from those encountered
in America, there is one lamentable condition which
they share in common, namely a lack of public
appreciation of architecture and the fact that many
people building houses do not avail themselves of the
services of an architect because they are not ac-
quainted with the profession. This condition was
outlined in an editorial that appeared in the July
British edition of House & Garden, in which the
editor expressed the hope that eventually a popular
architectural club could be formed in England.
The editorial attracted the attention of J. C. Squire,
editor of The London Mercury, and a movement was
set on foot which has resulted in the forming of this
club with Mr. Hardy as president.

In his letter to the editor Mr. Squire outlined the
purpose of the club as follows: "It is to arouse in-
terest in all matters of architecture and building
that the Architectural Club has been formed. Its
members consist of persons who are desirous of
furthering good modern architecture. Architects,
writers and laymen are admitted to its ranks. . . .
One of its activities will be to hold an exhibition
annually in the West End of London, where the
best that is being done in modern work can be seen,
both in model and photograph. ... It is hoped that
its activities may make it easier for the man about
to build to find out the architects who are really up-
holding the traditions of fine building."

A -MA Gluck, who writes on "Appointments For
Music Rooms" in this issue, is too much of a
favorite for us to give her pedigree. We have
chosen her to write this article because, in addition
to being a superb musician herself and the wife of
another superb musician, Efrem Zimbalist, she
entertains delightfully with music in her home.

G. R. Lomer, whose "Building In Bermuda"
appears on pages 40-41, is the librarian of McGill
University, Montreal.

Alfred Geiffert, to whom we are indebted for
sketches of the patios shown on page 45, is a member
of the well-known firm of landscape architects,
Vitale, Brinckerhoff & Geiffert.

Allyn Cox, whose brush is responsible for the
delightful murals in the Tiffany house on page 47,
is the son of the late Kenyon Cox. Mr. Cox is a
graduate of the American Academy at Rome.

Dwight Franklin, whose "Figures of Romance"
are found on page 46, is a scientist who has strayed
into art. He first found popular appreciation for his
scientific groups of prehistoric man executed for
museums in Cleveland and Brooklyn. From this
he went on to molding figures of pirates, villanous
poets and such. There is doubtless some scientific
connection between the Plithdown Man and Billy
Bones.

Peabody, Wilson & Brown, T. H. Ellett, Patter-
son & King, Charles M. Hart, Delano & Aldrich and
Charles A. Platt, examples of whose work are found
in this number, are all architects practising in New
York. Elmer Gray and Henry H. Gutterson are
well known California architects.

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•••HBB

TRANSFORMING THE PIANO

The piano is a difficult object to place properly
in a room. For acoustic reasons it should be
close to a wall. Further than this, beauty must be
found in the case and in the surroundings. In
the London dramng room of Mrs. Somerset
Maugham the problem is particularly well

sohed. The long perpendicular lines of the
Chinese painting correct the horizontal squatti-
ness of the piano. Another intercsth" feature is
the treatment of the piano itself. The case is
lacquered black with gilded decorations and the
interior of the lid is scarlet, the trest'es gold.

December, 1922

THE APPOINTMENTS OF A MUSIC ROOM

Walls, Hangings and Furniture Should Be Kept Simple Because Everything
Else of Beauty Will Be Found in the Music

I" SHALL never forget the horror of a
-•• literary friend of mine who had just
come from seeing a new house on which had
been lavished the combined skill of both a
famous architect and decorator. No expense
had been spared and there were rumors of
priceless tapestries, of porcelains brought
from the heart of China, of furniture and
fabrics culled from far corners of the globe.
But my literary friend was strangely silent.
In place of the abounding enthusiasm I had
expected was a reluctance to talk about it
at all. When pressed he made
only one statement.

"The house is dead."

I instantly understood.
Books played no part in the
life of the house and to him it
was a dead thing.

Everyone for his own
calling.

For myself I think there is
nothing more depressing than
to go into a house and find in
it no evidence of music. In
spite of the beauty of the
room there is a lack of some-
thing vital, the same quality
one feels in a bookless house.
But in the case of music the
feeling is even stronger, for
more than books can music
make a house alive. And as I
always think of rooms in
terms of music, a stately in-
terior done in the Elizabethan
manner at once suggests the
sturdy quality of the Ring —
and its paneled walls acquire
life and personality when one
knows their oaken depths
have resounded to the ringing
tones of piano, violin or the
human voice. In the same
manner a little French morn-
ing room done in serene grays
and greens at once brings to
mind the delicate, precise
rhythms of Mozart.

When one is so fortunate as
to possess a house large
enough to provide space for a
special music room, the prob-

ALMA GLUCK

lem of its decoration is comparatively
simple. As music is the reason for such an
interior, the surroundings should be chosen
with this in mind. Walls, hangings and
furniture should strike the keynote of sim-
plicity for everything else will be found in
the music. Avoid unnecessary furniture. It
is good to enter a room of this kind and feel
a sense of freedom and space. Music should
not have to force its way through a lot of
meaningless bric-a-brac, voluminous hang-
ings and assertively distracting decorations.

An interesting feature of Madame Cluck's own music room is the

built-in music cabinet on either side of the fireplace, arched to

correspond with the window. Ornamental iron grilles contrast

pleasingly with the neutral toned plaster walls

Paneled walls have a vibrant resonant
quality that make them the ideal wall finish
for the music room. Also the dark richness
of oak or walnut is an excellent color for the
background. A room of this kind is espe-
cially successful when dark in tone. Music,
so full of vibrant color, should not be sur-
rounded by glaring tones or hangings in
which there is a too insistent pattern.

One of the most successful rooms I know
has oak paneled walls and wide casement
windows at the farther end through which
the sun is allowed to pour
through thin, dull gold gauze
glass curtains. No other
hangings of any description
are used. On the floor is one
rug, a fine Oriental, its warm
colors subdued and dulled by
time. The grand piano at the
farther end, set well out from
the wall, has its graceful
curved side towards the room
and its keyboard in line with
the window. The only pieces
placed anywhere near it are a
carved music rack and sturdy
wrought iron adj us table lamp .
The rug does not extend
under the piano and there is
nothing in the room that in
any way serves to deaden the
sound. Well away from this
group is a long comfortable
sofa upholstered hi warm tete
de negre velqur undershot
with gold. Near it is a low
Tudor table holding smoking
things. A comfortable chair
done in old needlepoint is
nearby while across the room
is a group consisting of a
wonderful carved oak chest
used to hold music, two
sturdy low oak chairs for the
men of the family and again a
comfortable overstuffed
couch. Here a vivid note is
introduced by two Persian oil
jars, blue-green in color
placed at either end of the
chest and used to hold flowers.
Old portraits, dull and beauti-

House £r Garden

"Locke
_ ' the

W estchester
home of Ar-
thur Hudson
Marks, a spa-
cious music
room has been
provided for
the pipe organ.
Courtesy of the
Skinner Organ
Company

An interior cannot be too simple when the instrument is a pipe

organ. Here the console and stone work over the pipes are Gothic

in feeling. Courtesy of the Estey Organ Company

If possible let the piano stand near a window as nothing makes a

more charming background for player or singer than rich colorful

hangings or picturesque windows

ful in tone, fit into the panels and provide
the only other spots of color in the room.

This room because of the dignity of its
appointments, its warm coloring and gen-
eral air of restfulness seems to me the ideal
setting for music. There is nothing austere
about its simplicity. It is a room warmly
alive, dignified and beautiful, with nothing
in it to distract attention from the main
object. Two groups of people can listen
comfortably to the musician and there is
plenty of space for additional chairs should
the occasion require. In this case the rug is
taken up for many people in a room help to
absorb the sound.

As a general rule the fewer hangings and
sound deadening rugs in a room of this sort

the better. Windows swathed in draperies
have no place in a music room, where there
must be an abundance of air, and then only
such hangings as are necessary to frame the
window and temper the light. Taffeta or satin
is preferable to the heavy damasks and ve-
lours, and only one set of thin silk or gauze
glass curtains should be used. A bare floor
except in the case of a large gathering of
people is apt to be rather forlorn, but beware
of too many rugs. One good-sized rug is
better than several small ones and the piano
should always stand on the bare floor.

I think it is wise to avoid strong color.
Green, gray, mauve, blue, dull gold, brown
and deep wine color are all excellent in the
music room. Almost as effective as paneling

are rough plaster walls tinted a gray or
putty tone. Here mulberry or blue-green
silk hangings would provide an interesting
contrast without being too glaring in color.
A very lovely music room in Santa Barbara,
separated from the main house by a colon-
nade of trees, has plaster walls, grayish-green
in tone, and wide leaded windows of amber
colored glass. There were no hangings of
any kind. The chairs extremely simple in
design, of dark walnut, were upholstered in
gray-green damask almost the same shade
as the walls. A long sofa had a covering of
green and taupe striped satin and the large
rug was grayish taupe in tone. Silhouetted
against the window was a walnut grand
piano with its top open and a gilded harp

December, 1922

brought in the one vivid note of color.

Unusually interesting was the introduc-
tion of graceful wrought iron torcheres on
either side of the piano, and music cabinets
sunken in the wall with ornamental iron
grille doors contrasted pleasingly with the
pale plaster walls. It was a room quite as
restful and effective in its way as the more
somber Tudor interior, darker in coloring.

As the piano is the instrument most
commonly played and the one used to
accompany all others, its placing is the
first thing to be considered when arranging
a music room. The grand piano, infinitely
more graceful than the upright, is now
made on a small enough scale to fit into
even the tiny apartment. It should have
plenty of room and never be
cramped against the wall and
will be more effective if
placed at an angle so that a
person entering the room can
see the keyboard. There is
an inviting and hospitable
quality about an open piano,
its rack heaped with music,
that adds immensely to the
livable aspect of an interior.
Nothing is more forlorn than
a piano closed. Even if the
one who uses it is away, it
should be kept open with
music on the rack for
this at once gives life to the
room.

If possible let the piano
stand near a window. Apart
from the necessary light noth-
ing makes a more charming
background for either singer
or player than a wide span of
windows, especially if they be
of the picturesque casement
type. The most satisfactory
piano lamp is the standing
one with a powerful adjusta-
ble light. The rest of the light

Generally the house does not
provide space for a music room.
In this case a corner of the living
room can be used for this purpose

in the room should be subdued and evenly
distributed by means of lamps rather than
by either center or side fixtures. If an up-
right is used it will be most effectively placed
in the center of a side wall.

In my own music room there is a space-
giving height of ceiling and restful plaster
walls stippled in shades of putty. The grand
piano stands by an arched window hun^
with thin green silk curtains over sheer net
ones. The comfortable chairs, early English
in feeling, are done in faded crimson damask

Paneled walls have a vibrant 'resonant quality
that make them the ideal wall finish for a
music room. In the paneled room below no
curtains ham been used at the amber glass
windows

and old needlepoint. One large Oriental rug
tones in with the other furnishings.

I think the most decorative features of
the room are the music cabinets sunken in
the wall on either side of the fireplace. One
contains my musical library and the other a
phonograph and records. Wrought iron
grille doors extremely decorative in design
effectively conceal these cabinets and com-
bine charmingly with the plaster walls.
It is a simple room but one easy to work in.
When planning a room for that king
of all instruments, the pipe organ, the
problem is not so simple. Here space is
an essential, although the pipes are now
concealed in all manner of out-of-the-way
places and it is no longer necessary to
build a house around an
organ. Sound floats up
through a decorative grille
in the floor or from pipes
concealed in the cellar; an-
other set of notes may be
in the attic while the echo
can be wherever in the house
one pleases. The pipes are
made to fit into any desired
space and can be designed
to blend with the spirit of
the room. Or they may be
concealed behind an orna-
mental iron grille placed high
upon the wall or in one
corner of the floor.

In rooms containing a pipe
organ the same rules of deco-
ration apply. Everything
should be low in key and sub-
servient to the music. If the
pipes are concealed behind
iron grilles, plaster walls will
make a happy combination,
while dark paneling has much
the sturdy effect of rich organ
tones. Either treatment is
appropriate to the use and
spirit of the room.

The grand piano should be given
plenty of room and placed at an
angle so that a person entering
the room can see the keyboard

House &° Garden

In addition to its delightful proportions and excellently chosen furniture, the
feature of the dining room is found in the three large openings facing^ the
garden. In summer these are left open, forming a loggia effect; in winter
or in inclement weather they can be closed. The windows drop into a slot in
the jloor and are entirely out of sight

When the old ceiling was removed the ancient, hand-adzed beams were ex-
posed. These form a feature of the room. The fireplace is restored to its origi-
nal state. It had a Dutch oven in the rear, which was filled in and made into
a small modern fireplace. These questionable improvements were removed
and its first generous capacity and shape restored

December, 1922

THE HOME OF

ARCHIBALD BROWN

Stony Brook, L. I.

PEABODY, WILSON & BROWN

Architects

The original house was probably
erected about if 80. In altering and
remodeling it the architects carefully
preserved the spirit and style of the
original structure. Extensions added
to the old house create a courtyard.
A view of the southeast corner is
shown to the right

Quite a picturesque treatment has
been given the entrance. Instead of
an open portico, a vestibule is en-
closed and the door is so placed as to
repeat the lines of the columns and
arch. This extension is continued on
one side, the wall being filled with an
expanse of small panes

One of the additions consisted of a
service wing, the entrance of which is
shown to the right. The exterior of
the house is of shingles painted
white and the roof of shingles left to
weather. The shutters are green and
the chimneys are of while brick with
black tops

THE

H o ii s e &• Garden

CANDLE IN THE WINDOW

Some Reasons Why the Police of Boston and Other
Candle-Lighting Cities Never Sleep on Christmas Eve

FOR the past few years now Boston has turned Christmas Eve
into a Feast of Lights. It has become a custom, municipal wide,
to place a candle or candles in the windows of one's home. You
find it done elaborately with golden candelabra along Common-
wealth Avenue, you find it done no less beautifully and joyously in
the slattern tenements of the North End with its penny candles
stuck in bottles. So widespread has become this display that the
local fire department passes a sleepless night on Christmas Eve.
Nevertheless, it is a goodly custom, cheerful, symbolic of the season
and delightfully romantic (quite in the mode, in fact) because it
originated in Russia.

It is said that in old Russia both peasants and lords alike used to
place lights in their windows on Christmas Eve. Being orthodox
folk, they thought that perhaps the Virgin and Joseph, again search-
ing for the inn, might pass that way. The candle would light their
passing and give them good cheer. That much of the custom has
Boston adopted.

But the Russians went further. Perchance, they said, this holy
pair will not find the inn, consequently let us leave the front door
unlocked. Seeing the light in the window, they may try the door.
Finding the door unlatched, they may come in. Thereafter this
house and all who dwell in it will be blessed!

Of course it would be expecting too much of Boston, or any
modern city for that matter, to go totally unlocked on Christmas
Eve. Not only would the fire department have a sleepless night,
but the police department as well. It is sufficiently beautiful and
significant for a city with a Puritan heritage so to forget its ancestry
as, on one night of the year at least, to expose its heart boldly and
unashamed.

IN doing this, Boston has contributed generously to the right atti-
tude toward Christmas. For celebrating Christmas, in addition
to doing a number of other things, affords an opportunity to expose
one's heart with impunity. Even the most conservative and
straight-laced must break bonds that day; even the most self-
centered must leap out of one's self. The practise of exchanging
gifts, the business of hanging a holly wreath on the front door and
placing a candle in the window, the custom of sitting down to feast
expansively, are all phases of exposing that tender side which
modern commerce, modern society and the general hectic manner
in which we work, play and have our being, declare shall not be
brought forth either for common exercise or public gaze.

Any goodly custom, even that of placing a Christmas candle in
the window, is a symbol in which some past spiritual experience of
the race is crystallized and by which it is handed down. These
experiences may run counter to the life of the day, and yet, when
they are recalled and symbolized by the custom, contemporary life
accepts them without question. What manifestation of a Great
Heart this candle-lighting symbolizes need not be discussed here,

but the manner of its acceptance makes an illuminating commentary
on the life of today. It bites deep into our everyday world.

For three hundred and sixty-four days of the year Business says,
"Be critical — -accept nothing!" Society says, "Be fastidious — -accept
no one!" These are the counsels of its perfection, the traditional
formulae for its success. On the three hundred and sixty-fifth, the
world abruptly turns about face, defies its own traditions, rejects
its own counsels. It discovers that what it has called success is not
genuine reality, that the road to attainment lies not along a fas-
tidiously critical and guarded path but through the rough and
common heart of the world. It acknowledges, on one day at least,
that the things of the heart are things of authentic and abundant
consequence.

THE most permanent and active manifestation of the heart is
the home. In his slow and arduous climb up from the primi-
tive, man has gradually evolved this idea of having a place where
the young are protected and trained, where the weak are guarded,
where the old and weary may rest. He has fashioned a habitation
where he can practise his ideals unmolested. And so we have the
amazing spectacle of men coming home from business — which has
naught to do with the heart — and forthwith slipping into the
things of the heart the way they slip into an old and easy coat.
Let defeat arrest their progress, and they flee to the home for
courage. Let worry assail them, and they lock the front door
against it. Let disillusionment come, and they go back home to
start all over again.

These two forces are arrayed against each other — on one side
the world, on the other the home and the things of the heart for
which the home stands. The front door, the porch, the curtained
window, the busy kitchen, the nursery upstairs, the hearth down-
stairs, the rose in the garden, the vine on the arch, the flowering
bush beside the gate — all champion the things of the heart. These
persist when others falter and fail utterly. The quality of the
eternal is in them. They bear the heritage of the undefeated.

Like a beleaguered city the home watches its gates, scrutinizes
those who pass them. Its enemy, the vast world, lies outside. Days
come, days go. The truce seems never ending. Then, on one night
of the year, the forces of the home make a sudden sally into the
world. Frorn every point are debouched these strange and potent
warriors of the heart. They swarm over the plains of the world —
and the world succumbs!

The signal for the beginning of this great fight is a candle set in a
window — here a candle in a candlestick of gold, there a penny
candle stuck in a bottle. Seeing it, the world knows that the in-
exorable warfare has commenced.

And that, if you must know, is the real reason why the police of
Boston and other candle-lighting cities never dare sleep on Christ-
mas Eve. That is why the firemen stand by their engines.

December, 1922

THE WINDOW AS A BACKGROUND

Admitting light and air to a room is the obvious
function of a window. Its trim and panes also
serve to frame tlte view. But there is still a third
use, and in this it proves to be a decorative factor
in any room — by day it serves as a background.
The light coming through a window throws into

silhouette those objects placed on the sill — a piece
of pottery, a bowl of flowers, a pewter jug. In this
room, in a remodeled Connecticut farmhouse, a
range of casements stands above a series of
built-in drawers and cupboards. The sill is
covered with blue tiles. T. H. Ellell, architect

House & Garden

There is often an
interesting con-
trast between the
walls and roofs of
the houses, which
are whitewashed,
and the stone gar-
den walls, which
are left to weather

BUILDING IN BERMUDA

On This Delectable Island the Architecture of the Houses Is a Natural Product

of Environment and Local Materials

G. R. LOMER

BERMUDA affords an
excellent example of
the influence of environ-
ment upon building. The
absence of historical or
stylistic influence may be
due in part to its isolated
geographic position and in
part to its history.

The Bermudas — for there
are said to be 365 of them
in the group — lie in the
Atlantic, 300 miles beyond
the Gulf Stream, nearly 700
miles southeast of New
York, and about 600 miles
east of Charleston, S. C.
Their length is twenty-five
miles, and the total area
amounts to only twenty
square miles.

The islands were known
to the Spaniards early in
the 1 6th Century, and it is
from a Spaniard, Juan de
Bermudez, that they get
their name. Subsequently
the English came to know
them through Henry May,
who was wrecked there in
1593, and Sir George Som-
ers of Virginia fame, who
had a similar experience in
1609 and died on the island
in 1610. For some time the
islands were known as the
"Summer Islands," though
they were also called "Isle
of Devils" from strange
sounds which the early

"Par la Ville," (me of the old buildings of Hamilton, now used as a public li-
brary, has wide verandahs running around three sides

Many Bermuda houses built on a slope have the entrance on the upper story,
the living quarters facing the water. These houses are of native stone

mariners are said to have
heard near shore.

Whether these matters
of geography or history
have had an influence or
not, the fact remains that
most of the architecture
in Bermuda, and the con-
struction of the older build-
ings in particular, may be
said to have been strongly
influenced, if not in certain
respects entirely deter-
mined, by three important
factors — the climatic needs,
the local materials, and the
nature of the land.

There are four principal
needs in Bermuda houses
which depend upon the
geographical position and
climate of the island: shade,
coolness, airiness, and wa-
ter. The facts lying behind
these needs are these: there
are a large number of sunny
days every year; the tem-
perature varies between 80°
and 49° Fahr.; and the
annual rainfall amounts to
approximately 54 inches.

What is the effect of these
natural phenomena upon
the buildings that the in-
habitants are now accus-
tomed to build? The earli-
est habitations have long
since disappeared from
view. Shipwrecked sailors
erected what shelters they

December, 1922

Much of the piclurcsqitencss of Bermuda
houses depends upon their setting. Ancient
trees, a profusion of flowers and moss cov-
ered walls add to the effect of beauty

Throughout the island are found modern
pretentious houses, built, however, of the
same local materials and preserving the
same general character as the smaller ones

could. The first permanent dwellers in
the island brought with them habits of
building from their homes and types of
houses to which they were accustomed.
With the exception, however, of some
of the larger and more recent houses, it
is difficult to find definite examples of
survival or imitation. Here and there
one sees in a stray architectural detail
a reminiscence of i8th Century Eng-
land, and more noticeably vestiges of
Spanish or Portuguese influence in the
gables of a roof or a tower. The major-
ity of houses scattered over the island,
however, have definitely recognizable
characteristics in common.

And from the prevailing simplicity
and uniformity of construction one
comes to the conclusion that it is not
racial or national taste nor the conser-
vation of an imported model which lies
(Continued on page 78)

A typical house of moderate size, showing
the gateway, use of blinds and second slory
entrance, with wooden balcony above. The
impression is one of comfort and quiet peace

The Bermuda chimney of the older sort is
not unlike the chimney of the Southern
log cabin, except that ii is made of stone.
The hearth is usually raised from the floor

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In the Long Is-
land garden of
W. R. Coe walls
of brick and
stone separate
three distinct
levels

The steps in Hie
Coe garden,
coped u'ith the
slate of the paved
paths, arc broad
and easv

GARDENS THAT
RISE AND FALL

Showing the Charm
of Varying Levels

H. STUART ORTLOFF

THERE should be a greater apprecia-
tion of the interest and charm which
varying levels give to a garden. A greater
use of the existing topography would not
only impart more individuality, but would
secure these qualities which we are always
trying to achieve in our garden designs. Too
many times we find people destroying the
pleasant rolling nature of their grounds in
order to secure a flat area upon which they
may lay out a garden. They do not seem
to realize that they are destroying one of
their chief assets, or that without it they
can only attain a garden which, like the site,
is flat and uninteresting, a type too common,
and one which depends on plant material
or intricate design to give it character.

For a precedent in the use of existing sur-
faces we have only to consider the gardens
which were produced in Italy during the
Renaissance. Climatic conditions in the
lowlands caused the wealthy tc select the
hillsides as the best sites for their villas.
Here gardens were laid out according to the
natural lay of the land. We find a series of
successive levels or terraces retained by
walls surmounted with pleasing balustrades
or hedges, and connected by stairways of
interesting detail. Many times each terrace
or level was considered a separate garden
planted with flowers, decorated with bits
of worthy sculpture, or embellished with a
pool or fountain.

Or again, we find the whole series treated
as a single composition leading towards a
terminal motive which was in correct pro-
portion to the entire scheme.

One will admit that these gardens have
great charm and have been able to secure
and maintain interest for hundreds of years.
Each was individual, and reflected the per-
sonality of its designers in so far as they
felt and expressed the existing topography.

The character and condition of the topog-
raphy in our country in many places, nota-
bly along the Pacific coast and in the New
England states, is similar to the Italian con-
ditions, and can, therefore, be treated in a
similar manner with very interesting results.

So many attractive house sites in these
localities are overlooked, for the untrained
observer would never for a moment con-
sider them. They appear much too rugged
to be utilized. Yet we do find homes in just
such charming spots, but without the added

In that superb garien of Weld, at BrookKne,
Mass., designed by Charles A. Platt, archi-
tectural motifs have been stressed and, with
them, those other signs of Italian inspira-
tion, steps, walls, terraces, and stalely
raised platforms

December, 1922

beauty which a garden always imparts to a
house, for its owner has not seen the possi-
bilities of utilizing the ground as it stands
and has considered that the expense of
leveling or building retaining walls too
great for the return that a small garden
area would give. Yet in other instances we
find places where no expense has been
spared to obtain flat areas for gardens; but
the results are not in keeping with the en-
vironments, and so they appear as affecta-
tions.

We can, however, with study and care,
reach a successful solution. There are
places where terraces may be used as transi-
tions from the architectural lines of the
house to the more natural characteristics
of the garden site; others where the garden
may take the form of a series of terraces,
in the conventional Italian method; others
where vantage points for vistas may be
secured by the introduction of raised areas
above the garden level; and places in which
the slight variations in contour may be
made accessible by the use of a system of
paths with short flights of steps or sloping
ramps.

If we provide a terrace at the house level
we have at once achieved a desirable feeling
of intimacy between the house and the
garden, and also gained a point from which
we may overlook and appreciate the entire
scheme. This terrace will be formal enough
to be in keeping with the architectural lines
of the house, but this feeling of formality
may be softened by the introduction of
turf, vines, and flowers either in pots or in
beds. These bits of greenery and color will
form a gentle approach to the gaiety and
verdure of the garden beyond.

One should be careful in designing such
a point of overlook, for this introductory
view should not be too complete or search-
ing; a large part of the charm of any garden
scheme lies in its unexpectedness. Hidden
nooks and half revealed by-ways should be
devised in order that one may be made
eager to descend and explore the charms
which lie just around the corner. Easy
flights of steps or graceful ramps make
progress a pleasure, and, looking back,
interesting retaining walls in brick, stone,
or cement, make pleasing pictures when
shrubs or tall perennials with their graceful
blooms are planted at their base.

In locations where there is sufficient
change in grade more than one terrace may
be constructed. If the grade is not too
abrupt they can be made wide and planted
with flower borders about a central grass
panel. If it is steep the terraces should be
narrow and, of course, there should be
more of them. Such a series of terraces
may be treated in one of two ways. Each
terrace may be considered as a separate
unit in the garden scheme when such
(Continued on page 90)

The house terrace of George D. Pralt's
garden at Glen Cove, Long Island, ends up-
on a Tudor loggia and is separated from
the lawn below by a high bahtstrated retain-
ing wall banked with shrubs and flanked
with steps

At Weld the first
approach to the
lower level of the
garden is made
by two opposing
series of steps

Broad steps de-
scending to a
paved plal/orm
from three sides
join two levels
delightfully in
the Coe garden

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A garden loggia of distinguished architectural lines de-
serves a wide approach of easily ascended stairs and a
heavy background of well-planted trees. This desirable
treatment is found at Welton House, Wilts, England,
the seat of the Earl of Pembroke

An excellent example of the Italian courtyard or patio,
as it would be called in S panish architecture, is found
in tlte Villa Dante Alighieri, near Florence. It is
entirely surrounded by an open loggia on the second
floor

The lines and spirit of an
Italian loggia have been
reproduced in this house on
Lake Michigan. The hand-
ling of the awnings is espe-
cially interesting. Charles
A. Plait, architect

The patio of a house lo-
cated in the north must de-
pend upon sturdy vines
and potted plants for its
effectiveness. The latter, of
course, are taken indoors in
winter

Tlie openings of the loggia
should command some gar-
den or countryside vista,
the arches and pillars
framing the view beyond.
Charles A. Plait, architect

True Italian construction
is found in this loggia sur-
rounding the courtyard at
the home of Francis L.
Sleeken, St. James, L. I.
Henry Corse, Jr., architect

December, 1922

IF YOU ARE GOING TO

Remember that Patios and Loggias Will Bring the Garden
Indoors and Extend the House into the Garden

BUILD

MARY FANTON ROBERTS

PIONEER days, long ex-
tended in America, when
garden parties would have
been a perilous pastime,
seem to have engendered in
our consciousness a settled
determination to live in-
doors regardless of environ-
ment. Particularly in- the-
country does youth as well
as age sit in sad dim rooms
during lovely twilight hours.
In the city, we prefer to
shut ourselves up in the
theatre or in dancing res-
taurants. But as a nation
we certainly do not flock to
the country on every occa-
sion as do Paris and Lon-
don, on the Seine, on the
Thames, filling up every
grass plot in every di-
rection for miles.

Of course we remember
that in our early adventur-
ous days here, a man's home
was his barricade, and even
fifty years ago an evening
stroll over the Montana
prairies was taken with a
cartridge belt and a knife.
The American porch was
the opening wedge to out-
door life. In Colonial days
it was just an elaborate

In a formal garden, to
create the background for a
pool and the end of a view,
one might erect this type of
loggia, by Alfred Geijferl

An air of ruined cloister pervades this design for a

Gothic loggia by Alfred Geiffert. The house, of course,

would have the same kind of architecture

approach to the front en-
trance, a classic hood that
gave an air, with a seat on
either side of the last wide
stone step. One of the very
first porches running across
the entire front of the house
was built in an old Dedham
place in 1782. But not so
much earlier, in 1676, the
doorway of the Paul Revere
house bears as little rela-
tion to the outside world as
would a stockade. The
fronts of those old iyth
Century houses were built
for protection, and carry
no engaging social atmos-
phere.

But with the greater
safety of living in more
established conditions, came
the freedom of the porch.
On the Colonial plantation
dwellings it was wide and
deep and high, with fine
Greek pillars for the sup-
port. On the New England
Colonial house it was shal-
low, often inset into the
house, with Doric columns
and pilasters. Then it
slipped away to the back of
the house and became al-

(Continued on page 76)

A simple Italian loggia of
stucco or stone would
enhance both formal and
informal gardens, by A If red
Geiffert

The spirit of old Spanish architecture i.s found in this

patio, in the home of Henry W. Schultz, Pasadena, Cal.

Elmer Gray, architect

These figures by Dwighl
Franklin are vividly
modeled and highly
colored. They are then
set in shadow boxes
•with concealed lighting.
The " Viking Ship"
might be recessed into
the wall of a man's
study, close to the chim-
ney breast

House 6° Garden

FIGURES

°f
ROMAN C E

Some Suggestions for Using the
Pirates of Dwight Franklin

For over-mantel decora-
tions, set in a panel
between windows and
even in the bottom of a
large clock, these figures
would be quite effective
and certainly novel. A
figure of Stevenson is
suggested for the clock.
Courtesy of V. R.
Chappell

Billy Bones, the pirate
of "Treasure Island" is
pictured in his best
mood — indisputably
drunk

"Under the Black Flag,"
from the collection of
Booth Tarkington in
his home at Kenne-
bunkport, Me,

The illustration below
shows how these figures
may be set over a fire-
place. Courtesy of Wm.
Langley

"Off the Spanish Main"
is a colorful figure that
could act as a decora-
tion set between two
windows

December, 1922

THE PAINTED HALLWAY

Murals In The ijth Century Italian Style
Have Been Used In This Remodeled New York Home

CAROLINE DUER

DECORATION of the
entrance hall seems
to be taking more pro-
nounced turn of late,
and recalls in some in-
stances the picturesque
quaintness of the Italian
outside-inside walls. A wel-
coming atmosphere it
creates, and a widening ef-
fect in narrow places.

Now that many people
are altering "high stooped"
houses into those which are
entered from the street
level or even popped into
down a few steps, as a rab-
bit pops into his burrow,
the hall once intended for
servants and tradespeople,
(painted more for cleanli-
ness than charm), has sud-
denly become an important
feature of the house. It is,
from its situation, generally
darker than the hall of a
story higher, and its em-
bellishment is a problem
with which each house-
holder has to cope as seems
best to him, or rather her,
for the woman rather than
the man decides such ques-
tions.

Some women trust to
mirrors, with convenient
consoles below, for bright-
ening and lightening the
hall; some to scenic wall
papers; some to the French
effect of panels, which may
be made by mouldings of
wood or architectural pa-
per. In the hall of our il-
lustration Mrs. Charles L.
Tiffany has chosen panelled
landscapes to beautify her
walls.

This short passage, lead-
ing from the front door to
the Jiving quarters, imitates
a sort of loggia, or gallery
open on both sides. Through
the arches one gets views
of distinct landscape treat-
ed in the classic Italian
manner. On the left is the
Roman Campagna, with
ruins in the foreground, and
the Tiber winding away
through the hills. On the
right is the mountainous
part of the Province of

The entrance hall in the New York home of Mrs. Charles Tiffany was
originally a dark service entrance. In remodeling the house this was made
tlie main passage on the ground floor. The walls were painted in tempera,
in lite Italian baroque style. The paintings are by Allyn Cox. Delano £>•
Aldrich. architects

The background of the walls is yellow with ornamental balustrades and
fountain painted in grisaille. The landscape of the Roman Campagna
and the mountains of the Province of Venice are in greenish gray, brown
and blue. The passage leading to the service door and the niche behind the
fountain are in red

Venice with the Alps in
the distance. These were
done for her by Mr. Allyn
Cox, in tempera, Italian
baroque in style. The col-
ors are soft greenish gray,
brown, and delicious blue,
— at least these predom-
inate. The surrounding col-
or is yellow, and all the
ornamental forms are in
grisaille. The niche, and
passage-way leading to the
service door-hall, are red.
It is difficult to believe that
the fountain and the shields
between the two back arch-
es, and over the middle
side ones, are painted and
not in relief as they appear.

Many such painted in-
teriors were done in Italy in
the i yth and i8th Cen-
turies, often much more
elaborate in style than
could be adapted for our
houses. But there is one
characteristic that might
be valuable in this country;
the ease with which, in
painting, the character of a
room may be changed, and
one may be reminded of
distant, pleasant things.
The motto of the period
seems to have been "Do it
with paint." As in this
case a small dark entrance
to a town house has out-of-
doors brought into it. A
room not sufficiently formal
will be decorated with cost-
ly marbles — at the cost of
painting them. The prince-
ly palaces of Genoa are
decorated with pastoral
scenes, and a modest coun-
try house with Greek gods
and goddesses.

The effect of architec-
tural unity, however, is
always preserved. Land-
scapes are represented as
seen through the openings
of an ornamental frame-
work, so that the real fea-
tures of the room, doors,
windows, cornice — if there
are any — take their places
naturally as part of a defin-
ite architectural scheme,
rather than as incongruous
elements in a picture.

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A characteristic design of

variety box in Battersea

enamel, made in the i8th

Century

BATTERSEA

ENAMELS

Here Is An Easily Collectable Subject For
Those Who Are Attracted By Small Objects

GARDNER TEALL

ENICE has given the
world much in art
throughout the centuries of
her history, and to her, per-
haps, painted enamel work
is to be credited for its ori-
gin. It seems reasonable to
assume that this ancient
Adriatic city cradled this
branch of art-craftsman-
ship, since the Venetians
produced the first European
work of the sort.

I fancy that the old lady
of Putney who set such
store by her "bricky-
bracky" and grouped her
"heavy things" on the
mantel shelf and the " light-weight ones" on
the corner whatnot, must have counted
among these less weighty possessions a bit
of old Battersea enamel in the form of a
pounce-box, a bonbonniere, an etui or some
other object such as the enamelers of Bat-
tersea delighted in producing for the i8th
Century boudoir. In that century the
painted enamel wares of Battersea were pro-
digiously popular. I am not sure but that
they were even more popular in the igth.
if one may judge by the vogue of the old
pieces and the innumerable products of the
imitators.

Painted enamels may be placed in a dis-
tinct class by themselves. Applique enamels

An 1 8th Cen-
tury Battersea
etui

are simply metal ornaments (usually gold)
decorated with bits of enamel in relief;
Cloisonne enamels are those whose patterns
have been outlined on a metal ground by
raised metal partitions or cloisons, between
which the enamel has been applied, the
cloisons in the finished product forming
metal outlines flush with the enamel surface
after firing, grinding and polishing; Cham-
pleve enamels are those
having enamel decoration
imbedded in a cut metal
ground; Plique a jour enam-
els are those enameled pieces
having the pattern cut quite
through the ground and the
interstices filled in with

Snuff boxes were favorite objects

for decoration with ' Battersea

enamel in the iStli Century

enamel giving somewhat the effect in minia-
ture of a stained glass window; finally there
are the Basse-taille enamels or translucid
enamels applied over decoration in bas-
relief, the metal relief designs below the
enamel application being cast, stamped,
engraved, or in repousse, these designs on
the metal showing through the enamel, the
varying degrees of the thickness of which
gives variety to color effect.
It will thus be seen that
painted enamels occupy a
distinct position.

A Venetian glass-worker
of Murano, Angelo Bro-
viero, invented a process of
enameling on glass and from
(Continued on page 84)

An 1 8th Century variety

box opened, showing its

contents

(Below) A little Battersea
enamel writing case, as filled
and made in the i8th Century

These enamel puff boxes, a favour-
ite subject, are usually Jilted with a
mirror inside the lid

An opera telescope, with
Battersea enamel panels.
Courtesy of E. P. Dili-
ton & Co.

Scent bottle of Battersea
with decorations and met-
al stopper

Variety box with colored

decorations and quaint

metal trim

December, 1922

A LITTLE PORTFOLIO OF GOOD INTERIORS

The difference be-
tween masculine and
feminine taste in din-
ing rooms is amusing-
ly portrayed by these
two rooms in tlie New
York home of Jerome
Lewine, of which Mrs.
Stembridge Smith was
decorator. In the up-
per room the walls are
soft antique green
with gold mouldings

In the grill room
rough plastered walls,
casement windows, a
stone mantel, a long
refectory table and
Windsor^ chairs pro-
claim it a man's
room. These may be
contrasted with the
crystal appliques,
biscuit colored rug
and walnut furniture
in the room above

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The entrance hall in the Xew York Iwme of Jerome
Lcwinc is furnished with dignity suitable for such a
room. The vails are paneled and painted a soft stone
color. A baseboard in black and gold marble en-
circles the bottom of the room and is continued up
the stairs. A console of marble and wrought iron,
iron chairs and a mirror framed in wrought iron are
decorative notes in this end of the hall which find
repetition in the wrought balustrade of the stairs

Very dark Oriental rugs cover the floor in this hallway.
At the windows and on the door has been used an
Italian red damask. This rich color is repeated in
the Italian red velvet of the stair rail. A carved stone
mantel lends dignity to one side of the room. An old
Spanish desk and chairs in gros-point are other
features that help^ create the air of dignified hospitality
which is a, desirable expression for an entrance
hallway. Mrs. Stembridge Smith was the decorator

December, 1922

Another, quite different hallway problem is found in
"Grey Hampton," the residence of H. IF. Croft, at
Greenwich, Conn., of which Chamberlin Dodds was
decorator. Four large arches open from the living
room onto the hall. The walls are chrome yellow and
the woodwork dull green lined with rusty black. The
black and white marble floor is covered with rugs in
dull black edged with green fringe. The sofa is in
dull green mohair and the chairs in needlepoint

The hallway itself is quite imposing with its black and
gold iron balustrade, the broad stretch of stairs, the
consoles of black iron and the lantern and other
fixtures of black and gold. The hangings are of antique
damask edged with fringe. Watt pockets of wrought
iron for ivy break the wall spaces between the arches.
Here the walls are Caen stone. The loggia on the
second floor repeals the loggia effect on the first and
the balustrade is carried along this upper hallway

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A black floor and an oval ray, rug form the foundation for this kitchen. The walls are iwry

and the woodwork old Jlal blue. Ecru gingham curtains with hems and Dutch valances of

chintz or calico hang at the windows

QUAINT KITCHEN COLOR SCHEMES

The Kitchen Becomes a Pleasant Place to
Work in When It Is Enlivened with Color

ETHEL DAVIS SEAL

THE earliest recollection of the universal
kitchen brings to mind sad walls and
dingy woodwork, flaring gas jets, cross-
barred muslin, cut sash length at chilly and
unfriendly windows, wooden doors shut
tightly at cupboards fairly bulging with
little boxes, cans, bags and jars, and with
every other hidden shelf or cranny crammed
likewise with things, rarely used from one
Thanksgiving Day until the next.

Small wonder that the ultra-modern reac-
tion against such a kitchen has resulted in
an efficiency almost as alarming as it is
blissful: everything may be operated by
magic in the barest minimum of time. Dove-
tailing is the byword, from utensils to duties.
Hours of labor are saved against a back-
ground white and bare and spacious, even
if it is not quite as friendly and informal as
one would wish. But this is the final step
beyond invention, and toward beauty, that
every artistically-minded woman must take
for herself.

To realize my utmost dream of what a
kitchen should be, I would achieve modern

A quaint valance of cretonne below the shelf

over the service door is a feature of this kitchen

in a German cottage

efficiency to the nth degree, but I would
surely camouflage it with quaintness and
color. I should hate to be overpowered by a
quintessence of mechanism every time I
went kitchen adventuring, producing de-
lectable salads and fluffy-topped miracle
pies, when with the barest increase in trou-
ble, I could feed my soul on pots of hyacinth
at my casement, neighboring the fresh
golden loaves of bread cooling in a row.
I should prefer to consider, with never-
failing delight, the posies I had painted on
my table, the while I adjusted my electric
meat grinder, rather than to give my undi-
vided attention to the sharply efficient
blades and the nutritious mounds of meat
heaping in a bowl. I should rejoice in my
contrivances and mechanisms, but my back-
ground must not be any more bare than is
required by the god Sanitas, and certainly
as far from the appearance of a hospital as
I am clever enough to coax my kitchen
to go.

There is no reason why a kitchen should
not be considered as eligible for decoration

December, 1922

Built-in dressers either side the casement
windows afford shelves for the display of blue
and white china in this kitchen of an English
cottage. Copper and aluminum utensils and
sunfast curtains furnish color

as the other rooms in the house. I have a
notion that more delightful meals could be
prepared, whether by mistress or maid, in a
kitchen that inspired by reason of its burn-
ished coppers hung against pale gray walls,
its decorative side drapes of striped black,
henna, blue and cream at sunny windows,
than in a kitchen coldly bleak or darkly
stuffy.
The beautifying of any kitchen may be

Over-door shelves to hold decorative china is a
German style thai might be adopted in some
American kitchens. On one side arc built-in
cupboards, and on the other a grandfather
clock set into the paneling

accomplished by color primarily. One has
small worry in choosing between varying
styles of kitchen tables and chairs: the chief
consideration here is suitability, a simplicity
of design and line, and a certain flavor of
quaintness which adapts itself well to paint-
ed surfaces and vivid spots of decoration.
Furniture of this sort may be antique,
especially chairs or cupboards, or the pieces
(Continued on page 86)

Misty gray walls, a deep lilac floor, furniture painted gray green,

woodwork of ivory, and colorfid cretonne curtains are features of

this fascinating little kitchen

Richly contrasting colors are suggested for this little kitchen — gray

walls, black and white linoleums, ivory woodwork, furniture painted

butter yellow ana cream curtains

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mom is

reproduction of an old
English taproom,
rough hewn wood paneled
ceiling and •wainscoting,
rough plaster timbered
walls. The fireplace is of
brick, stone and stucco
and the floor of random
•width oak boards and
stone flagging

The only formal touch
in the dining room are
the linen fold panels at
the right of the fireplace.
These and the rough tim-
bered wall form the sur-
roundings of the door.
The coats of arms worked
into the plaster make un-
usual ovcrdoor decora-
tions

"HILLWOOD;

THE HOME

•f

EDWARD
F. HUTTON

Wheatley Hills,
Long Island

CHARLES M. HART

Architect

ARDEN STUDIOS
Decorators

December, 1922

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In the rear the terrace is enclosed by

two wings, that to the right being

devoted to service, and that to the

left for guests

(Left) On the front is a terrace en-
closed by a low wall, and accessible
from the hall. It is pleasantly
furnished for outdoor living

(Right) The entrance portico is half

timbered to harmonize with the style

of the house. Its piers arc of brick,

stucco and rough stone.

As this was an alteration, a desir-
able rambling effect was obtained by
adding wings to and raising the roof
'ines of the original house

House &* Garden

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A splendid example of a Colonial fence to be used in
connection with a house of i8th Century New England
or Ckarlestonian tendencies; both sturdy and graceful

This fence from Longfellow's house in Cambridge,
Mass., shows an interesting diagonal design, with a
nicely made rail, and a panel below of solid planking

WHEN YOU PLAN YOUR GARDEN

Fences of One Type or Another Will Be Found To Be Both
Attractive and Durable as Enclosures

RICHARD H. PRATT

IT is a curious notion that fences are
unsociable. Yet it is becoming more and
more obvious that this type of barrier, by
far the most democratic and decorative of
enclosures, is gradually disappearing from
our gardens and small suburban place?.

It is a funny notion. And it seems all
the funnier when it is held by the same folks
who plant their privet sprouts and fledgling
poplars around their gardens and along
their property lines. Of course, there is
nothing unneighborly about putting in
rows of plants when they are tiny and
ineffectual. You can't help it if they grow
up into impenetrable hedges. But all at
once to build a fence, that is different.

Perhaps, after all, it is a mistake to say

that fences are not being built as they
once were simply because they are coming
to be regarded as unsociable. Maybe they
are going out of fashion. Maybe the picture
they made along the elm-arched streets of
old New England, and in Colonial Charles-
ton, and the grace and variety with which
they surrounded the gardens of the Eastern
Shore of Maryland, at Washington's Mt.
Vernon, and in Virginia, are things which
people are unattracted to nowadays.

In either case fences are the victims of
false prejudice. As a matter of fact, they
can be beautiful, efficient, and inexpensive.
In the matter of appearance there is no
end to the attractive designs to which
(Continued on page 94)

An effective solution of the hillside

fence whose stepped sections are

joined by a bit of curved rail

Showing that something at once interesting and artistic can be
done with that sometimes deservedly despised type of construction
known as "rustic" work

When a fence need not be a complete barrier against small

animals more latitude may be allowed, as here, in the decorative

arrangement of the braces

December, 1922

The adapted form of Italian architecture seems
to be quite at home in California. Thus, the
residence of J. H. Leighton, in San Francisco,
successfully interprets the Italian spirit with its
graceful loggia, wide eaves and plastered walls

Loggia, hall and stairs occupy the middle of the
frst floor, with the lining room on one side and
the dining room and service on the other.
Servants' rooms and a bath are conveniently
located- in an extension close to the kitchen

A balanced arrangement is found upstairs,
affording space for a huge master's chamber and
three other commodious bedrooms. A sleeping
porch serves two of these chambers. The baths
are economically placed. Henry H. Gutterson
was the architect

A GROUP OF
THREE HOUSES

House cr Garden

The home of B. B. Bryan, Great
Keck, L. I., is a type of Colonial
cottage reminiscent of some
found on Cape Cod. It is exe-
cuted in gray shingles with while
trim. An interesting feature is
the u:ay the dcnryard terrace is
fenced

The second floor arrangement
is typical of most modern
American country houses in
that the baths and chambers
are grouped en suite. Hall
space is conserved, making
larger bedrooms. Patterson &
King, architects

Ott the first floor the maids
rooms are located behind the
kitchen. The dining room is
lighted by French doors and a
range of windows in opposite
walls. T/ie living room also
is generously proportioned
and veil lighted

December, 1922

English collage architecture was
adapted for the home of Spencer
Hess, at Great Neck, L. I., its
structural elements being cream
stucco, variegated brown shingles,
red brick chimneys and apple
green shutters. Patterson If
King, architects

One end of the second story is
occupied by the master's
suite, consisting of bed-
chamber, dressing room and
bath. There are two bed-
rooms, a bath, closets in each
room, and a storage space
under the eaves of the wing

The principal feature on
the first floor is a large living
room with a book alcove and,
beside it, an inglenook with
seats on either side the fire-
place. The maid's room is on
this floor. Below the kitchen
wing is the garage

House (f Garden

IN THE REGENCY OF KING COAL

Oil, Gas Steam and Gas Offer Three Excellent
Substitutes for Coal Heating

ETHEL R. PEYSER

THE coal shortage is
here, and, as usual, the
cloud has shown its silver
lining. There are other
things to burn than coal.
But this article is not going
to consider other combusti-
ble or warming substances,
rather coal substitutes, and
for this reason we will
stress:

1. Oil burning heaters
(a) The kind that

atomizes oil un-
der the boiler
(6) Portable oil
heaters or stoves

2. Gas steam

3. Gas

We will not touch the
convenient radiant electric
heater because it is only
good for small spaces and
the bathroom, and it is not
really a coal substitute.

Furthermore at present
the electric house heating
plant is too costly, even
where electricity is cheap-
est, to recommend it as a
dwelling house fuel. But
there is a " gude time commin'" when
electricity will make a magnificent debut as
a house warming party.

If you have a boiler, keep it, take off its
door, divest it of its grate, and slip into that
emptiness the oil burning apparatus, and
from that time on your home will be heated
by oil, not coal. Whether it be a steam,
vacuum, or hot water furnace, this change
can be made, and ever after you will be
spared the ashes curse, coal dust, the furnace
man, the excessive cost of coal and the cum-
bersome coal bin.

Have you used a perfume atomizer? You
know how the particles are sprayed through
the nozzle. The same is done to oil so that
each particle of oil can be entirely burned
up with no residues, odors, dangers and
waste.

To do this in the home
formerly presented a great
problem. To do it in ships
and factories was easy, a
heavy oil rich in fuel value
could be used, as it could be
preheated and then forced
through the burner under
pressure. But preheating oil
in the home necessitated the
constant valeting of the ma-
chinery, so finally the domes-
tic oil heater was evolved and

This type of oil burner runs independent of
electricity and other mechanical aids.
From the Petroleum Heat 6° Pou'er Co.

Gas created heat is radiated
from this t\-pe of burner. The
'Ohio Slate '&• Stove Mfg. Co.

An electrically driven pump

sprays the oil in this type of

heater. Courtesy of the Cornell

Utilities Co.

is among us now in a few re-
liable and tested types.

Most domestic oil heaters
use kerosene oil, or an oil
not heavy enough to require
preheating is forced through
to the atomizing burner.

In the main the equip-
ment is: a buried storage
oil tank, pipe lines to and
from tank in cellar which
feeds the heater by gravity,
an electric motor, a pump,
fan, electric or gas pilot
light for igniting oil and a
thermostat near the operat-
ing motor and also located
in convenient part of house
to regulate the heat auto-
matically. The thermostatic
control keeps the house
evenly, turns off the "fire"
when the house is warm
and starts it when the
rooms get cold.

In another type of oil
heater, instead of a motor
is used hydraulic, or water,
pressure to force oil and air
through the burner. This
obviates the rare contin-
gency of electric disability for any cause
whatever, though remote in non-electrical
storm seasons.

If the machinery is kept in condition the
oil that is burned should depart from the
chimney in a simple haze and not as smoke.
Oil steadily flows from the wells to the
consumer by the most highly developed
and powerful organizations known in mod-
ern commerce. The tank wagon is your
benefactor. It is best to use kerosene burn-
ers as kerosene has greater delivering fleets.
Costs depend on your vicinity, but it will,
in every case, be cheaper than coal.

Anthracite coal usually gives off about
11,000 heat units per pound; one gallon of
kerosene 136,000 units per gallon. Thus 162
gallons will be equivalent to 2,000 pounds
or a ton of coal. Of course,
these things vary according
to oil quality, coal quality
and boiler efficiency.

The cost of oil burned
under the usual and same
conditions as coal shows that
the amount of oil required
to produce the same heat
effect as a ton of coal, costs
from seven to ten dollars.

Also the coal industry is
constantly in throes of con-
flict. Uncertainty of quality,

December, 1922

The portable oil heater has been
perfected so that it is_ now odorless,
safe and light of weight. Courtesy
of the Central Oil &• Gas Stove Co.

supply and price are a perpetual menace to
winter security, comfort,health and financial
resources. On the other hand, there is
plenty of oil on the market.

Hand-controlled fires are more extrava-
gant than thermostatically-controlled fires.
Thermostats may cost a bit more at first
but will be a saving ultimately. Anyhow, all
these oil heaters are equipped with them!

A thermostat is placed in a convenient
part of the house. It is set for a desired
temperature and the operation is then con-
trolled automatically by the termostat. For
example, if the thermostat is set for 70° and
the temperature in the home is 69°, the
thermostat will start the motor, furnishing
sufficient air to form a suction which lifts the
oil and carries it into the combustion cham-
ber, where the ignition takes place. The
burner will then operate until the tempera-
ture of the home reaches 70°, at which point
the thermostat will automatically stop the
motor and therefore the flow of oil. There
will be no more fuel used until the tempera-
ture of the home again drops below the
point for which the thermostat is set.
Therefore, with the exception of providing
a supply of oil, there is no attention neces-
sary to the heating system after the equip-
ment is once put in operation.

The following precautions are taken from
the magazine "Lubrication" published by
the Texas Company. Heed these:

" i. Be sure that the apparatus is in-
stalled in accordance with the regula-
tions of the Board of
Fire Underwriters,
and your local munic-
ipal authorities.

2. Inspect the system
daily to see that
everything is operat-
ing properly, and
that the pilot light
tip (where used) is
free from carbon.
Never hunt for leaks
with a candle or any
naked light.

3. In installing a new
system be sure that
all flues have been
cleaned out and
dampers are open
wide before starting
up.

4. Keep all papers, rags
or other rubbish out
of the furnace room.

5. Do not allow un-
ignited oil to spray
or drip from the
burner into the fur-
nace at any time.
This oil may collect
on the furnace floor

and result in the accumulation of
combustible gases which may cause
an explosion when the burner is
lighted."

Allow no one to experiment with the
apparatus.

Wherever a motor is installed, in-
spect the bearings for proper lubri-
cation twice a week. These are usu-
ally ring oiled and will require addi-
tion of new oil about once a week,
and cleaning out of the oil wells
about once every three months. A
light motor or engine oil is suitable
for such lubrication. This oil may
also be used on other wearing parts
of the system.

It is advisable thoroughly to over-
haul the equipment at the beginning
of each heating season. This should
preferably be done by the company
that installed the burner, which usu-
ally maintains a service department
for this purpose."

There are safety devices on the best
heaters to ensure against all danger of
overflow of oil, too rapid, too slow flow,
dripping, etc.

Portable oil heaters really heat, are safe,
sound and odorless if kept in clean and or-
derly fashion. The oil range companies
make these heaters with skill and efficiency.
They should burn without odor, (2) be well
constructed, the wick in constant touch
with the oil, (3) rust proof, (4) convenient
to handle, (5) so geared as to make "smok-
ing" practically impossible, and, (6) have a
quick detachable drip pan.

Gas steam is a method of producing
steam by gas. It has been used in the East,
West, North and South and has been found
of immense comfort and
help, utility and service.

It requires a unit system
of cast iron boiler radiators,
using gas for fuel, with au-
tomatic regulation. There
is no central heating plant.
You have the advantage of
a small stove with the com-
forts of a heating plant. It
is used in huge structures
and in small residences as
well.

Briefly, you have a radi-
ator with a Bunsen burn-
er, filled with water to
the depth of i". With a
match the gas is lighted
when turned on and five
pounds pressure is exerted
in about thirty minutes,
and as this pressure is cre-
ated the gas flow is auto-
matically reduced. Every
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By heating a large thickness
of iron and throwing out the
heat indirectly this gas stove
•warms a large area. From
the Sanitary Healing Co.

House &• Garden

Silver paper makes a charming package
especially if tied with a cluster of green
ribbons and ornamented with a bunch of mis-
tletoe. Courtesy of the Dcnnhnn Mfe. Co.

WRAPPING CHRISTMAS PARCELS

HOUSE & Garden will buy for
you, without charge for its ser-
vices, any article shown in the follow-
ing Christmas gift section. Order
your gifts at the earliest possible date.
Every day you put off your ordering
lessens your chance of obtaining what
you want and having it delivered in
time. Order by number. Gifts are
numbered. When writing give the
number of the article the number of
the page and, when necessary, the size
and color desired. It is also advisa-
ble to indicate a second choice. The
first choice will be purchased except
where special popularity has exhausted
the stock of the articleatanearlydate.
All orders must be accompanied by
a check or money order made out to
the House & Garden Shopping Ser-
vice.

To make one's gift doubly delightful, it may

be enclosed in a tiny tin trunk on which has

been pasted or lied some decorative paper

bound with colored ribbons

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Colorful Italian and Japanese papers suggest
the gaiety of Christmas. Above is a design of
ships and cannons. On the right shamrocks ami
mistletoe berries printed on a buff ground. All
papers from the Japan Paper Company

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Many silver stars and
bright colored ribbon or-
nament a package wrap-
ped in paper the color oj
a midnight sky. From
the Demiison Mfg. Co.

In place of ribbon one
might decorate a parcel
with many Christmas
seals, delightfully gay in
color and design. From
the Dennison Mfg. Co.

December, 1922

CHILDREN'S

GIFTS
COME FIRST

2026. \\~IKH put logetlicr
this automobile is 16" long,
has single unit engine with
start and slop control, $6.50

These may be purchased through the
House £? Garden Shopping Service

2031. Many attractive designs may be transferred to
these clay vases and plates by means of decalcomania.
The box measures 9" by 13" and contains full instruc-
tions and many effective patterns, priced at $4.50

2027. A child's golf bag
18" high contains a driver,
two iron clubs and two
balls J>riieconipleli'is$5.50

2028. Heavy galvanized tin makes
this complete steam shovel. It is paint-
ed black with a red top, has iron wheels
and turns on a phot, 12" high .%

2029. The durable dull
above says "Mama" dis-
tinctly. 16" high, $3

2030. The monkey jumps
whfii pulled along, S2

2032. 1-elix the cat is

black velvet with a while

face, 12" high, 82

2033. This charming French paint box
measuring 12" by 8K" contains paints,
brushes, crayons, an easel and pictures to
color. The price with instructions is $3

2034. Mali Jongg, the greatest of Chinese games is now popular in this
country. It is played by four people. The set consists of 136 cards re-
sembling dominoes made of bamboo and bone, beautifully caned and
colored. In addition are decorative bone counters or chips and a box of
dice. The whole is enclosed in a picturesque brass bound red chest, $25

2035. The garage shown above might be used next to a doll house. It is
of heavy tin, attractively painted with hinged doors and compartments
for two cars. It measures 8" long by 5" high. The limousine and
roadster painted to match are about 5" long and 3}4" high. They will
both run when wound up.. The price complete including cars is $1.25

2036. This liny furniture is
cut out of heavy paper and
put together. The beds meas-
ure 6" long, 25c. a room.
Colored, 60c. a room

2038. .1 music box
containing full di-
rections for playing,
with thirteen selec-
tions, «$1.25

House 6* Garden

GIFTS FOR A
LITTLE GIRL

These may be purchased from the

Htruie cr Garden Shopping Service,

19 Weil 44/A SI., N. Y. C.

2037. Five bright cook-
ing utensils come with
this stove which really
cooks. It measures 12"
long and 6" high, $6.50

2040. For making doll's clothes
one should have such a machine
as the one above which really
stitches. Is only 5" by 6", $2

2041. The doll's wardrobe is usually washed on rainy days. Complete enough to
satisfy every need is (lie laundry set above consisting of a metal tub, glass wash
board, clothes basket, wringer, dryer and clothes pins. It comes for SI. 98

2039. Baskets of many
shapes may be made
with the gaily colored
beads and material con-
tained in this box, $2.50

2042. Six sticks of sealing wax, a
spirit lamp and tools for making
wax pendants and novelties come
packed in an attractive box, $1.50

2043. This quaint
stujfcd doll will
withstand many
knocks. Her face is
hand painted and
her hair of wool, 16"
high, priced at $3

2044. A unique toy has Jive metal animal forms, a roller and

large piece of red, green, blue and yellow modeling clay.

The cut-outs may also be used for cookies. $1

2045. The attractive box above contains a doll 10"
high, patterns, materials, lace, trimmings, buttons and all
the sewing articles for making an entire wardrobe, $4

December, 1922

2046. This track makes an oi
60 " long and 30 " wide, oti which
runs a miniature Pullman train.
Complete with electric connec-
tion, $21

PRESENTS

TO PLEASE

A BOY

These may be purchased
through the House & Gar-
den Shopping Service

2047. A gift sure to appeal to
any boy is this boxing set con-
sisting of a punching bag, leather
ball and four boxing gloves, $7.50

2048. A building set con-
taining all the pieces that go
to the making of a motor bus
and truck, to be had for $3.50

2049. In the box below are ma-
terials, tools and instructions for
drawing, making and painting
many wooden toys. Priced at $1

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2050. Ready to fight any battle are these knights on
horseback, 2 ^ inches high of gaily painted lead. They
may be removed from t/ie horses. Six for $1

2051. Twelve knights in armor, 2 inches high are $.95

2052.. The set above con-
sists of a cloth parachute,
metal bow 27^" long and
two wooden arrows, $1.39

2053. A box containing the complete finished parts of a model

airplane that a boy can assemble and fly in an afternoon is $6.

From tip to tip the wing spread is 3K'

2054. This pocket tele-
scope only 4" long mag-
nifies W times. $2

2055. A tool chest quite complete enough to satisfy the most

ambitious builders may be purchased for $4.50. The chest

measures 14^" long byl" high

Garden

2062. Unusual
and highly decora-
tive is this three
fold canvas screen
with painted
flower panels.
Tlie stencil design
and frame are red-
dish-orange, $75

2063. A magazine
or book stand of
mahogany with
fine line of inlay
has the added ad-
vantage of a draw-
er and two shelves,
29" high, $15

2064. This gold tooled
brown leather cigar-
ette box ejects the cig-
arette when the cover

is raised, $6.50

2065. Alabaster lamp
with parchment shade.
18" high, $33. 2066.
Tooled leather book
ends in brown, red or

blue, $10 a pair

2056. An
Italian jar
deep cream
in color is
9" 'high and
costs $4

2057. This
quaint
Brittany
ash tray
4" across
is 75c

2058. Owls painted dull gold
and red make delightful book
ends. 8" high, $6.50 a pair

2059.. (Left) Iridescent blue
glass flower bowl 11" across
on black stand, $3. 50. 2060.
Wrought iron lamp 16" high
U'ithpleatedcalicoshadeindif-
ferent color combinations, $23

FOR THE
LIVING ROOM

These may be purchased from the

Home cj* Garden Shopping Service,

19 West 441k St., N. ¥. C.

2061. Tooled leather desk set
in blue, rose, heliotrope or
tan. Pad $18, pa per rack $30,
inkstand $10, pen tray $8,
engagement pad $12, address
book $12, calendar $7.50

December , 1922

2067. A flexible
metal table mat ef-
fective in design has
a green felt-covered
back. SyZ", costs &2

IN THE DINING
ROOM

These may be purchased from the

House &• Garden Stopping Service

19 West 44/AS*.,-V. F. C.

2068. This decora-
tive 8" plate has
a basket edge and
landscape in gray-
blue, $7.50 for six

2069. The Italian cream colored pot-
tery bou'l in the group above is 7"
across and 5" high, $4. 2070.
Charming pottery figures of the sea-
sons, 8" high, are $6 each

2071. (Left) Six cocktail glasses in
hammered effect with blue foot, $4.

2072. Inlay malwgany tray 15" long,
$9. 2073. Commodious silver plated

cocktail shaker, $8.66

2074. (Below)
These quaint little
peppers and salts
are $5 for a half
dozen. They are
of sterling silver in
hammered effect
and only 2" high

2075. An amber
glass jam jar
shaped like a
beehive has an
amethyst bee on
the top, $2.75

2076. Unusually effective is this

cream colored china bowl with plate

to match. Bowl measures 9", $5

2077. This French filet lace center-
piece is made of heavy linen thread.
It measures 22" across and costs $4

2078, Charming in design is this Brittany tea set in rose, yellow and

blue on a cream ground. A tea pot, sugar, creamer and six cups and

saucers come for $15

2079. The graceful cream colored Italian pottery bowl with the

scalloped edge is $5. 9" wide and 6" high. 2080. Pottery birds, 8"

high, cream colored, are $10 a pair

House & Garden

FOR A WOMAN'S ROOM

These may be purchased from the House & Garden
Shopping Service, 19 West 44/A St., N. Y. C.

2082. A breakfast tray is
never quite complete li'ilh-
out a Guernsey jug. The
one above is of hammered
plated silver. 7" high,
$7.09 including 34c lax

2085. Pale green glass ash
tray in shell design,$2.3Q.

2086. Match box cover
decorated with French

print, $1

2081. Pottery lamp in
heliotrope, yellow ce-
leste blue or green U'ith
parchment shade in
harmony is $9 com-
plete, 16" Mgh

2083. A gift at once prac-
tical and decorative is this
indexed telephone pad
which com-es in fine blue,
pink, purple, green or
gray leather, priced at $9

2084. Effective Colonial
glass candlesticks with
pendant prisms are 14"
high and are priced at
$12 the pair

2087. (Above) Linen tea napkins 14"

square, wilfi Madeira work, $8.50 a doz.

2088. 6" doilie $2.80 a doz.

2089. (Right) A mahogany • sewing table,
delicate in design has two drawers and half
rounded ends with lift-up tops, $16.50

2090. Hooks, needles, pins, buttons, I ape,
thread, silk and a thimble are contained
in this charming old-fashioned bouquet, $1

2091. (Left) Very smart is this
breakfast tray set of Italian linen
and cut work. A tray cloth and
two napkins come for $6.25

2093. The brilliant
pheasant design of this
•vhina makes it a most
attractive breakfast set.
It may be purchased
complete for $9

2092. The scalloped
guest towel above is of
fine huckaback, one end
beautifully embroidered.
It measures 24" x!5",
$2.75 each

December, 1922

2094. Heavy striped silk
lined with oilskin makes
this effective foldover pouch,
$4. 2095. The mahogany
tobacco jar is $2.75. 2096.
Natural bruyere root pipe
in hard lea/ her case, $8.50

GIFTS FOR MEN

These may be purchased from Ike House Sr Garden
Shopping Senice, 19 West 44(A St., N. Y. C.

2098. Golfer's cigarette
Box, cedar covered in
pigskin, $6. 2099. Bni-
yere ejector cigarette
holder, S3

2097. The pipe at the
right is made of the
finest French briar with
a hand cut vulcanized
stem, 12" long, $15

2100. (Left) Excellent
for a man's room is this
book stand that comes
in cither mahogany or
walnut for $12. It is
24" high, 20" long and
10" wide

2102. A brown leather
silk lined traveling case
holds handkerchiefs,
ties, soft collars, but-
tons, stickpins, etc. $13

2104. This tobacco
pouch 6" long may be
had in either gray suede
or pigskin with a gold
mount, $6

2101. This gay litt'e
figure of composition
bronze 8" high would
make a charming paper
weight, $6.50

3. Fine seal bill fold
with gold corners has
five compartments in-
cluding places for auto-
mobile driver's license
and photograph, $13

2105. This comfortable
chair is made with the finest
filling and a down cushion
seat. In blue, fawn or mul-
berry figured denim, $48.

2106. The sturdy walnut
Tudor table is $17.50.

House

Garden

GIFTS in BRASS

These may be purchased from

the House & Garden Shoppin

Service, 19 West 44<A St.,

N. Y. C.

2107. Sturdy'brass can-
dlesticks, reproductions
of ones usedon theAIay-
flower are $3.50 a pair
with candles. T/iev are
high

2108. The cigar-
ette box above 6^"
long x 2}4" high
is $5. 2109. 4"
bruyere cigarette
/wider in soft lea-
ther case, $5

2110. A reproduction of an

antique brass call bell 3"

high, $2.50

2111. (Below) A ship's candlestick
may be hung on the wall or placed on a
table. It is ball bearing. 6^2" Ing';
$7.50. 2112. Amethyst glass bowl,
W high, $2.50'

2113. The bowl above may be
used for fruit or nuts, 5" high,
1" wide, $4. 2114. Tlte
candlesticks are 8*4" high and
$6.50 a pair

2115. One finds stich graceful
sconces as this in old Colonial
houses. It has three lights and
Hie back measures 9" high
$5.50

2116. Tlte three light candelabra above
u'ith a design of lions is 12" high, 6"
wide, $5. 2117. Brass ash tray 3^* in
diameter, 50c. 2118. Amethyst glass
vase 7" high, $3

2119. At the left 2120. Delightful

is an amusing in design is this

brass nut cracker Colonial door

in chanticleer de- knocker 71.^" long

sign. It may be and lyi' wide,

purchased for $2 The price is $3

December, 1922

2121. Plans, planting lists and
all types of gardens are shown in
House & Garden's Book of Car-
dens, priced at $5

FOR THE
GARDEN LOVER

These may be purchased from the House 6* Garden
Shopping Service, 19 West 44/A St., N Y. C.

2122. An annual membership
to the American Rose Society
includes tickets to its exhibi-
tions and this book, $3

2129. A blue, pink or green bowl

with three narcissi bulbs and fibre

comes for $1.50

2123. Annuals, $1.10.

2124. Landscape Gar-
dening, $2.65. 2125.
Fruit Grower, $1.65.
2126. House Plants,
$1.10. 2127. Garden

Guide, $1.65

2128. A garden apron of
rubberized flowered cre-
tonne slips easily oner the
head and is 33 inches
long, $1.85

2130. A silver fir, thrice trans-
planted, 3^' high is $5, 18" to 24*
twice transplanted, $1.25

2131. Pan-
danus Veitchii
makes a deco-
rative house
plant. Three
sizes, $5,
$7.50,a«<?$10

2132. For
Christmas dec-
orating comes
a large box of
greens — ga-
lax, Leiicolhoe,
ferns, balsam
branches and
holly, $5.50

2133. (Above)
Twenty peren-
nial or annual
seed packs, $3.

2134. Thirty
for $5

2135. One
dozen roses
and small
flowers in sea-
son can be sent
anywhere in
the United
Stales for $5.
No orders re-
ceived after
December 1 5th

House

Garden

December

THE GARDENER'S CALENDAR

Twelfth Month

A compact and free-
flowering head of
Michae'mas ' Daisies

If there is boggy land
nearby plan to use
some Marshmallows

Through the Winter,
English Ivy and the
Sedums remain green

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

/jS in January continue yt
ft Preserve from too much /
-^-*- Carnations, etc.
Be careful now to keep the D
and guarded from the piercing
Temper the cold with a few C
accustom your Plants to it, unle

ur hostility against
ain and Frost, yout

oors and Windows
Air: for your Orar
Charcoals govern' d a
s the utmost severit
will even then hara
ripe,
and cover them with
frosts crack them; re
i Charge.
^ENDARIUM HC

vermine.
choicest Anemones, Ranunculus's,

of your Conservatories it-ell matted,
ges, etc., are now put to the Test:
s directed in November: but never

i. Frames

in which semi-
hardy plants
are being win-
t e r e d , or
f rames that
are used as
growing me-
diums should
have some
kind of cover-
i ng . Loose
hay may be
used, but the
best covering
is jute mats.

2. Look over
the tender
bulbs that are
stored for the
winter, such as
dahlias, can-
nas, gladioli,
etc. Frost will
surely destroy
them, while
too much heat
or moist ure
will start them
into growth be-
fore planting
time returns.

Set Bay-berries, etc., dropping
Look to your Fountain-pipes
Stable, a good thickness, lest the
will save you both Trouble an
KAi

fresh, and warm Littler out of the
member it in time, and the Advice,

RTENSE, by JOHN EVELYN

3. Do not
scrape the
bark on trees
to destroy in-
sect pests — it is
impossible to
get into the
crevices where
insects hiber-
nate, and in
many cases the
tree is injured
by removing
the green
outer bark.
Use stiff brush.

4. N ec ta-
rines, peaches
and grapes
which are
forced under
glass should be
pruned and
cleaned by
washing them

5. Asbestos
torches, or
torches made
of burlap and
soaked in
kerosene to
make them in-
f 1 a in in able,
should be used

6. Rhubarb
may be forced
in the cellar
or attic of the
dwelling by
planting good-
sized clumps
in barrels or
boxes and

7. Succes-
sional sowings
of those crops
in the green-
house that re-
quire it, such
as lettuce,
beans, cauli-
flower, spin-

8. All new
plantings
should beheav-
ily mulched
with manuie.
This not only
serves to pro-
tect the plants
by reducing

o. Do not
neglect to pro-
vide for those
friends of the
garden, our
birds. Feeding
boxes may be
placed where
the birds will

i nsecticidcs.
Remove some

the trees and
destroy win-

beside the fur-
nace or chim-

ishes, should
be made. Rhu-

t i on of the
frost, but in-

reach of cats.
Suet tied to
the branches
is attractive to
several spe-
cies.

afterward and
replace it with
fresh earth.

nests of cater-
pillars and
other pests.

should be kept
moderately
moist.

dive may be
started under
the benches.

tility and pro-
ductiveness of
the soil as well.

10. Low spots
in walks and

ii. If cold
weather pre-

iz.Treesthat
are subject to

13. Grape-
canes can be

14. All the
garden tools

15. H y a -

cinths, Chinese

1 6. All ten-
der evergreens

invariably wet
should be
raised to shed
water; or if
the earth is
taken out and
t he road bed
filled with cin-
ders it will
help to make
them dry and
passable in
bad weather.

to look over
the vegetable
trenches to
make sure that
the frost is not
getting in and
injuring the
roots. Plenty
of leaves piled
on top is the
best protec-
tion for the
winter.

various kinds
should be
sprayed with
one of the sol-
uble oil mix-
tures. Fi uit
trees of all
kinds. roses,
evonymus, and
all smooth-
barked trees
are s u scep-
tible.

pruned at any
time now. It is
a good practice
to remove all
the loose bark
and wash the
canes with a
good strong
soap insecti-
cide or spray
them with an
oil spray to de-

ments should
be thoroughly
cleaned, coated
with a cheap
oil an d put
away for the
winter. Those
that are in
need of repair
should be at-
tended to now
while outdoor

pap erw h i t e
narcissus Soleil
d'Or, etc., may
now be forced
i n bowls of
water for the

protecting
should be at-
tended to at
once. Pine
boughs, corn-
stalks and

the bulbs in
the cellar for
about two
weeks after
planting so as

material can
be used to pre-
vent sun scald.
Manuremulch-
es are best for
the soil.

to form roots.

17. This is
the time to
plan and even
1 nstal some
sort of irriga-
ting system in
your garden.
Don't wait un-
til summer for
dry weather is
just as sure as
taxes and you
had best be
ready for it
well in advance
of its arrival.

18 Fruit
trees, and ex-
pecially small
ones, should be
protected from
rats, rabbits
and other ro-
dents. Ordin-
ary tar paper
wrapped
around the
stem from the
ground to a
height of 15
inches is suffi-
cient.

19. The plant-
ing of decidu-
ous trees and
shrubs may be
continued just
as long as the
weather per-
mits. Mulch-
ing heavily
i mmediately
after planting

20. The value
of the land-
scaping de-
partments
maintained by
the big nur-
s e r y m e n
should not be
overlooked.
They are pre-
pared to plan

21. Poor

lawns should
be top-dressed,
using a com-
post made of
screened top
soil with about
20 per cent
bone meal and
wood ashes
added. This

22. Mush-
rooms may be
grown in any
ordinary cel-
lar"; the im-
portant point
is fresh stable
droppings for
the bed. Don t
let them ever
get really dry.
Use new cul-
ture spawn,
as it is more
certain than
the old kind.

23- Vegeta-
bles of all
kinds that are
stored in cel-
lars should be
looked over
with the pur-
pose of remov-
ing any de-
cayed tubers
there may be.
A few bad ones
will soon cause
considerable
damage to the
rest.

the penetra-
tion of frost if
it should come
soon.

plantings for
you and sub-
mit figures of
costs, etc.

to the lawn
liberally now.
with some
grass seed.

24. Plants
that are grow-
ing in benches,
such as carna-
tions, roses,
antirrhinum,
etc., should be
mulched with
cow manure
or soil made of
equal parts of
top soil and
well- rotted
manure with a
little bone
meal added.

25. Boxwood
must be pro-
tected, else it
is very apt to
winter-kill .
Burlap covers,
cornstalks,
pine boughs or
any material
that will keep
out the sun
but admit air
may be used
for this pur-
pose. Apply it
now.

26. At this
season of the
year it is nec-
essary to fer-
tilize indpor
cucumbers and
tomatoes to
assure fruit.
Collect the
pollen in a
spoon and dis-
tribute it to
the other blos-
soms with a
camel' s-hair
brush.

27. Chicory
is one of the
best winter
salad plants.
1 t can be forced
in any ordi-
nary cellar by
planting the
roots in boxes
and keeping
them dark.
They can also
be grown out-
side in trenches
filled with hot
manure.

28. Melon
frames, tomato
trellises. gar-
den seats and
other wooden
garden mate-
rial should be
painted. Use
good paint,
and where nec-
essary apply
two coats. This
is considerably
cheaper than
constant re-
newals.

29. The foli-
age of house
plants must be
kept free of in-
sects. Spong-
ing the leaves
with a soap
solution to
which a good
tobacco ex-
tract has been
added will de-
stroy white
scale, red spi-
der, mealy bug
and green fly.

30. Ferns,
palms and
other house
plants should
be top-dressed
occasionally
with some of
the concen-
trated plant
foods sold for
the purpose.
Keep the sur-
face of the soil
loosened so
that no green
scum forms.

31. All the
various types
of bulbs for
winter bloom
may be forced
in the green-
house now. It
is best to bring
the bulbs into
the heat in
small quanti-
ties so as to
keep a contin-
uous supply
of blossoms
coming along.

This calendar of the gardener's labors is aimed Lest then the frost, or barb'rous North
as a reminder for under taking all his tasks in should blast
season. It is fitted to the latitude of the Mid- ¥our ^owers- u'hile al1 tne Sky » overcast
die States, but its suggestions should be avail- Wlth dusktsh ^uds, sheds set apart prepare,
able for the whole country if it be remembered ™f!?^f?l*Tll*' ""'"'""* P^ng """''
that for every one hundred miles north or Blithe kind Sun these tempest* do disperse.
south there is a difference of from five to seven *"d "."* *" ^^TS,*^! Untvfrse;
days later or earlier in performing garden T^b^,^^
„,. , e And vour fresh Groves shall sweet Perfumes

operations. The dates given are, of course, for exhale.
an average season. from the Latin of REN AT I RAP IN I

Include among plants
for next year's garden
Kansas Gay Feather

Order enough Phlox
to use it effectively in
broad, colorful masses

Ivy and Sedums com-
bine gratefully in the
urns of city gardens

A path in the Kansas City Country Club Dis-
trict crosses a small stream by an* arched bridge
and ends there upon an elm-shaded stone seat

Something fine has been done in this city garden
by using Laurel, Box, Periwinkle, and ferns
to soften the marble of the fountain and basin

Michaelmas Daisies are delightful above this
low brick wall, the end of which is marked by a.
pottery urn. Plan now for similar effects

December, 1922

.'• « •

For each name on your list there's
just the right package of

THE SAMPLER: Judging from its enormous popularity, the
Sampler is the most famous as well as the most beautiful gift
package of sweets in America. The box has the quaint, unusual
appearance so desirable in a gift. The chocolates and confections,
culled from ten other leading Whitman's packages, are "candy
just as good as it can be made" — candy famous since 1842.

SALMAGUNDI CHOCOLATES: In their art box of exqui-
sitely lacquered metal, these sweets have won a high place among
critical candy lovers. The name means — "A medley of good
things" and you will agree that it is a happy title.

PLEASURE ISLAND CHOCOLATES: Here is a gaily
colored sea-chest with scenes from Stevenson's "Treasure Island"
to charm the eye. Inside are precious bags of "bullion" and
"pieces" in gold and silver. Whitman's delicious chocolates in
a most picturesque and romantic setting.

A FUSSY PACKAGE FOR FASTIDIOUS FOLKS: A

luxury in chocolates. The box is in dark rich green proclaiming
the distinction of its contents. Selected chocolates with nut, and
nut combination centers.

LIBRARY PACKAGE: Still another striking conception which
is "exactly right" to give to your friends who like to enjoy their
candy as they read. The Library Package is made to resemble a
leather-bound book in hand-buffed green and gold.

SUPER EXTRA CHOCOLATES (or Confections) as far back
as 1842 were the standard of Whitman excellence. You'll want
to write "Super Extra" opposite several names on your list.

Hand painted round boxes and fancy bags, boxes and cases in
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House

Garden

PAGES from
DECORATOR'S D

RUBY ROSS GOODNOW

a
I ARY

HOW charming it would be to receive hundreds
of gay packages at Christmas, packages
labeled "Not To Be Opened At All," instead of
"Not To Be Opened Before Christmas." If you
love decoration for its own sake, you will have a
greater thrill at receiving a gay and spectacular
package than at opening it and finding some what-
on-earth-shall-I-do-with-this present. None of us
is really greedy for gifts at Christmas, but all of us
hunger for Surprise, and Festival, and Remem-
brance. Christmas cards get more and more per-
sonal, more and more interesting, but they do not
satisfy the eye as does a pile of vari-colored, tinseled
packages.

Most of us adore Christmas, and thrill at the
mysterious packages and the gay envelopes that
pile up for our delight, but we dread and deplore
the obligation of giving. We would like to give
spontaneously, or not at all, but we find ourselves
victims of habit, of sentiment, and we go on bestow-
ing and receiving meaningless gifts. I certainly do
not purpose to advise against giving or receiving,
because the Christmas thrill is too precious an
experience to forego.

Once I wanted to give a Christmas present to a
man who had everything, and I at last found a book
of a translation of Chinese verses which I hoped he
hadn't seen, and tied it up with silver paper and
silver cord. Where the cords made a bow I tied a
dozen or more silver baubles, of many sizes, a
glittering bouquet of bubbles larger than the book
itself. Months later that man told me he had
never opened the package. It had so beguiled
him that he had kept it unopened. What more
could one ask of a gift than to have it give con-
tinued interest and delight?

THERE are so many fascinating papers and
ribbons and tinsels, so many boxes of so many
contours — why not vary the Christmas tree idea
and make a quantity of these charming things to
hang on it, to pile under it?

We can give children things that will delight
them, but it is a privilege to give things to a grown-
up. We can't possibly know many people well
enough to know exactly what they want. When
we do, it is a joy to give it. I know that Rosy
Playfair collects old ribbons, and when I find a
length of ribbon embroidered with portraits and
motifs commemorating Queen Victoria's marriage,
I am giving myself a thrill in giving that bit of old
ribbon to Rosy. But I don't know whether Mary
Manners would really appreciate a Battersea
enamel box, and the gift has as much right to
appreciation as the person who receives it has to
surprise and pleasure. I'd rather give my bit
of Battersea to someone who will adore it, although
I know her very slightly, than to some old friend
who will not love it enough. But why shouldn't
I give Mary Manners, whom I like, a thrill by
sending her a mysterious glittering box of nothing-
at-all?

/CHRISTMAS trees are like Christmas stockings
Vj and Christmas turkeys, where children are
concerned. To deviate from the custom is to dis-
appoint their exact wishes. Children are not inter-
ested in clever ideas, in amusing variations of rare
customs. They prefer their Christmas trees and
stockings and turkeys just so. They are jealous
of any changed word in their pet fairy stories, and
they want their same ornaments hung on the
Christmas tree year after year.

But grown-ups welcome a change. The con-
ventional tree is not a bore, but it is a sadness, if
there are no children. And yet the habit of our
hearts says there must be a tree.

The idea for the prettiest Christmas tree I ever
had came from a Charles II tree of silver gilt
threads. I suppose it was just a tree, not a Christ-
mas tree, and I haven't any idea why such a lovely
playful thing was done, in that long ago time.
But having seen it, we had an idea. We bought
one of those funny little German trees made of
wires folded against a wooden stem, painted a
poisonous green, and having spread the branches
covered them with silver foil. When the little tree
was all silver, we twisted the branches, and tied
strange tinsel flowers— all shades of metallic cerise,
and absinthe, and lemon, and emerald. It was a
delicate and lovely thing, and now that it has

grown very shabby, it has something of the quality
of the old silver-gilt Charles II one. We always
bring it out and sit it on the piano at Christmas
time, although it is too shabby to sit on the dinner
table, where this year the exquisite mondaine in
her sleigh and her swan will command our appetites.

VTESTERDAY I had luncheon with an old lady,
1 the most beautiful creature you can imagine.
She wore the stiffest, heaviest, black silk dress,
Quakerish of cut, with a precise row of rhinestone
buttons down the front, and a regal lace fichu
crossing precisely over her bosom. She had a most
extraordinary way of dressing her hair, copied
exactly from an old Greek statue. Dozens of neat
little white curls carefully disposed upon dozens
more covered her whole beautiful head, suggesting
days of labor of faithful handmaidens. And I
thought, what a beautiful thing is order! Nothing
is so satisfying to the eye as repetition of agree-
able forms. The Greeks realized this. They re-
peated the same simplicities over and over, until
they ceased to be simplicities. The disposal of
ornament on their vases, the regular arrangement
of their colonnades, all these orderly repetitions of
beautiful units make the serenity that charms us.

Order is to the decorator what rhythm is to the
musician, and metre to the poet. Symmetry is like
rhyme added to metre. A repetition of form is
satisfying to a \vistfulness within us, as a childlike
eagerness for sureness.

I have always had a strong sense of affection for
the English gardener who locked his own lad in one
summerhouse because the master's son was locked
in the twin summerhouse across the garden.

Nothing is more discouraging to the woman of
the Elephant's Child genus — The Tidy Pachyderm
— than the caller who comes into a calm room and
throws his belongings everywhere, a hat on the
piano, a coat on a lovely small chair, gloves on the
tea table, newspapers on the sofa — something on
everything! A cyclone could be no more devastat-
ing to the tranquil mood of the room.

DISORDER is more unpleasing to me than
dust. Indeed, an arranged room only reveals
its dust to its housekeeper. A clutter of clean things
is more unpleasing than an orderly arrangement of
dusty things. I do not enjoy the "pizen-neat"
rooms of New England, where if you pick up a
book, someone straightens it when you put it down,
but I do believe that a fundamental sense of order-
liness makes any room agreeable.

I was once called to Washington to see the draw-
ing room in the house of a great lady. It was a
chaos of furniture. You couldn't walk without a
definite steering of your feet among the crowded
chairs and sofas. I was asked to eliminate as many
things as necessary, but by a complete rearrange-
ment it was not necessary to eliminate anything.
The chairs and sofas were arranged in precise
groups, and gradually the room became clarified.
When the master of the house came in he was
extremely puzzled, because he missed nothing, and
yet the whole feeling of the room was changed.

THE world is not only very full of a number
of things, but there are always so many new
uses for old things, and old ways of doing new
things, that the Decorator's daily gossip is enchant-
ing. One sees and hears, constantly, such things as
that . . . Mrs. Leland Ross , who has a beautiful
English-park sort of place called Parland House,
near Madison, New Jersey, has a painted silk
dressing table inspired by a crumbling old Louis
Seize gown. The gown was pale yellow-pink, em-
broidered with sprays of wheat in many pale greens,
and further embellished with rufflings of thread
lace over yellow-green silk ribbons. The dressing
table is draped like the original petticoat, but the
sprays of wheat are painted. The top of the table,
which is covered with glass, is copied from the
elaborate front panel of the old gown . . . Mr. Mor-
gan Goetchius, in his fresh and charming farmhouse
at Smithtown, L. I. , has found a way of making
reproduction English sporting prints look like old
ones. He uses an amber colored glass, instead of
an ordinary one, and you'd swear the mellow look-
ing color print beneath was as old as the real ones
in the same room . . . Mrs. Samuel Barlow bought
(Continued on page 92)

December, 1922

Her Christmas Kodak

Out of the holiday package into the spirit of
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most a loggia, where one lived all summer
long, practically under the shadow of the
garden. And for years the porch, essen-
tially an American institution, seemed to
be our only adventure toward a greater
intimacy with Nature.

In those early days, though we planted
quaint and lovely gardens, they knew us
not, except as gardeners. New England
flower borders shyly brightened the land-
scape for eyes a little fearsome of such
sweet beauty. But who of our great-great
aunts ever thought of asking a guest to
rest by the lilac hedge for an hour of
peace and fragrant enjoyment, or to sit
near the pink and lavender phlox plot
dreaming in its midsummer fragrance, lis-
tening to the faint flow of water from the
little lead fountain? A friend occasion-
ally was escorted with stately ceremony
through the formal box-hedged paths,
sniffing a leaf of lemon verbena or berga-
mot but never loitering, never making
free with nature.

Not until the era of the porch did these
pleasant social opportunities come about,
and then not too swiftly or imprudently.
Indeed, porch life is just beginning to see
the light. Today we are building for it,
even remodeling our houses for it. Gar-
den life is getting into our consciousness.
Pergolas, the loggia of the garden, are
being considered architecturally, not al-
ways wisely, not often very well; but find-
ing favor with us and sometimes adding a
rich grace to our landscape architecture.

And at last from the Spanish southwest,
the patio and the loggia have success-
fully invaded the sensibilities of our
finer architects — still a trifle exotic, a part
of the magnificence of the Long Island
hilltops, very stately and splendid detail.

It is a rather startling fact that here in
America, where we have so much nature,
we use so little of it. Many of us are curi-
ously self-conscious out-of-doors. Unless
we are driving a ball over a net or into a
hole or are nervously exceeding the speed
limit, we are still shy a bit of nature.

If we think back centuries, ten or
more, we find outdoor living very popular
indeed. Patios and loggias were an in-
trinsic part of the home life in Arabia.
Practically all the life that women had
was lived close to those inner courts,
reached by corridors protected by great
wrought iron doors and grilles. Veiled
women sat on the little balconies that ran
round these courts, and magnificently
carved stone grilles protected them from
too close a glimpse of the men who
thronged in and out of the space below.

In Greece, the patio was in the very
center of the house as it is today in
Mexico. Even in Rome in the magnificent
days, domestic life drifted in and out of
the patio. It was the Arabs who, carrying
their civilization into Spain at the point
of the bayonet, built houses there with
open courts. One of the greatest legacies
which they left Spain was their magnifi-
cent Saracenic architecture, their great
palaces and homes in Castile, Aragon,
Andalusia and Valenca! The Spaniards
in their subsequent building, succumbed
to this influence. The humble as well as
stately Spanish feminine existence was
lived in these patios, sometimes most
beautifully planted and gorgeously orna-
mented. So wide-spread was the develop-
ment of the patio in Spain and Portugal
that its origin was almost forgotten, and
today we think of this indoor court as
Spanish rather than Arabian, Greek or
Roman. It was, of course, through Spain
that the patio found its way into Ameri-
can architecture, with the help of the
Conquestidorps and the Padres, who
brought architecture as well as religion
with the sword to the Pacific coast.

Always the Spanish patio is set like a
jewel in the heart of a house, usually
running up through the roof with an
entrance leading directly from the road.
The balcony gracefully circling the second
story and the patio itself are usually sup-
ported with the old curved Moorish arch,
sometimes beautifully carved, sometimes
of simple plaster instead of marble. In
the center of the patio is often a foun-
tain or at least a little pool, and the
planting is rich and tropical. In the
southwest, eucalyptus trees, orange hedges
and vining roses, in Andalusia, carnations,
heliotrope and mammoth palms.

Today both the patio and the loggia are
rather magnificently incorporated into our
finest architectural schemes. In the East,
at least, the loggia is more often used as a
sun porch or a hallway for a great stair-
case. It has become a splendid architec-
tural detail rather than a living spot in
the house, and furnishes an opportunity
for beautiful arches, for fine planting,
rather than a place where afternoon tea is
served or the family gathers with guests to
enjoy outdoor life. This is not true in the
more beautiful of the Pacific coast houses.
The architects there seem to think of the
loggia in relation to daily life, as in medi-
aeval days the cloister opened the house
to the garden, a living place hi which
people thought and remembered, and
often conversed or rested.

December , 1922

C/Tn G/Ippreciation of a World Tribute

It would be ungrateful indeed if the builders
of the Cadillac did not pause at this time
to express appreciation for the tribute
accorded by the public to the Type 61
Cadillac.

This improved Cadillac has received a de'
gree of enthusiastic approval unique even
in Cadillac's long-triumphant history.

The results logically accruing from such
approval are evident. This has been
Cadillac's most successful year. The
greatest of past sales records have been
exceeded by thousands of cars.

But more gratifying by far to Cadillac
builders than an unprecedented sales record
is the unbounded admiration evoked by
the new high level of mechanical success
that the Type 61 Cadillac has attained.

The new Cadillac has demonstrated, so
convincingly as to leave literally no room
for argument, that it possesses a degree

of power and dependability unequalled
by even the finest preceding Cadillac.

Is it surprising, then, that the allegiance
of the vast body of Cadillac owners and
friends has grown deeper and deeper —
that all who appreciate the finer points
of automobile performance have joined
with the leading automotive critics of
Europe and America in paying unqualified
tribute to the Type 61 Cadillac?

This tribute, manifest in the spoken word,
in the written word, and in the greatly
augmented sales volume, constitutes, we
believe, the highest token of esteem that
the world has ever shown a fine motor car.

Cadillac builders have known twenty
years of acknowledged leadership. Yet at
such tribute they experience renewed en'
thusiasm for the accomplishment of their
ideal — the production of the finest automo'
bile that human ingenuity can conceive.

CADILLAC

MOTOR CAR COMPANY, DETROIT, MICHIGAN

Division of General Motors Corporation

A D

Stan

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House &° Garden

DECORATIVE LIGHTING FITMENTS

For Christinas

Riddle Fitments offer many
opportunities for the selection
of Christmas gifts of unusual
beauty and character — gifts,
too, that have the added ad-
vantage of enduring worth
and charm.

The Riddle Fitment Book

illustrates in full color and describes many
Riddle wall and ceiling fitments, as well as
lamps, torcheres, luminors, book-ends and
other novelties especially suited to Christ-
mas giving. You will find this unusual
booklet of value in aiding you to make a
satisfactory gift selection. Copy sent on
request to Department 222.

The Edward N. Riddle Co.
Toledo, Ohio

Makers of lighting fitments since 1802

There is a certain severity about the lines of these Bermuda, houses, and a

simplicity of construction that is pleasing. The straight lines are usually

relieved by irregular masses of shrubs

Building In Bermuda

(Continued from page 41)

at the basis of this island type of con-
struction, but the needs of the inhabitants
influenced by and dependent upon certain
geographical facts and climatic conditions.

In a countrv blessed with abundant
sunlight, shade outdoors and comparative
darkness indoors become at certain times
of the day not only desirable but neces-
sary. Hence the houses have been usually
constructed with wide and deep veran-
dahs and with blinds and shutters fitted
to all the windows. These shutters are
either hinged at the top and swing out-
ward and up from the bottom, or else are
in the form of double doors to French
windows. One rarely sees movable slats
to the shutters, as the purpose is to keep
out light and admit air.

Closely related to the desire for shade is
the effort to preserve coolness during the
hot weather. For this purpose the walls
are of thick stone, the walls of the rooms
are finished white, and furniture and car-
pets are more sparingly used than they
are in a colder climate. Visitors from
the North, however, find that on the
contrary little attention is paid to making
the houses comfortably warm and dry
during the spells of cool and wet weather.
The sensation of dampness is particularly
noticeable in an island only a mile or so

wide, set in the midst of the sea where
moisture-laden winds continually sweep
across it. During most of the year, how-
ever, every advantage is taken of the
breezes and the houses are constructed
with many and large openings to assure
that airiness that seems so necessary in-
doors to people accustomed to spend
most of their time in the open.

Perhaps more important than shade,
coolness, and airiness as factors having a
decided influence upon the buildings of
the Bermudians is the fact that there is no
fresh water on the island and the inhab-
itants are forced to take advantage of
rainfalls and preserve the water thus col-
lected in tanks. As a result, houses are
constructed with sloping roofs and guid-
ing channels to pipes which lead the rain
into large stone cisterns half sunk in the
ground. These frequently have semi-
circular tops like a barret-vault and are a
characteristic adjunct to the houses.

Another result of this means of secur-
ing the necessary water supply is a law
which compels the inhabitants to white-
wash their roofs twice a year as a precau-
tionary sanitary measure. Most of the
houses throughout the island are therefore
white, though occasionally one sees pale
(Continued on page 82)

The native stone is found in large

quantities, thick, of even texture and

easy to cut. It soon weathers to a

cool gray

The large cistern, half sunk in the
ground, is a prominent feature of most
gardens. Many of them have barrel-
shaped roofs

December. 1922

THE GIFT TABLE

Gift-memories outlive the fleeting pleasure of
mere giving and accepting.

Gifts that endure and evoke pleasant memories
of the giver fulfil their purpose.

The ideal gift, however, is in addition both
beautiful and ever useful.

PRINTS
MIRRORS

FOOT RESTS
SMALL TABLES
ORIENTAL RUGS
'OCCASIONAL CHAIRS

LAMPS

DESK SETS

BOOK ENDS

PORCELAINS

SHEFFIELD SILVER

SMOKING STANDS

ORIENTAL AND DOMESTIC FLOOR COVERINGS
FURNITURE ** DECORATIONS

W. & J. SLOANE

FIFTH AVENUE AND 47™ STREET, NEW YORK

WASHINGTON SAN FRANCISCO

House fir Garden

Tn Ia\fl — in engineering — in
medicine — ana in interior
decoration a little learning
is a dangerous tning.

It is usually wiser to give a quali-
fied specialist a fixed and limited
budget for the furnishing and
decorating of a home than to
spend twice the amount without
trained artistic counsel.

2151. The shade pulls shown above might be used in a nursery.

They are of gaily painted wood. One may have a dog, cat, duck

or bunny, 6Sc. each

GIFTS FOR A CHILD'S ROOM

Check Must Accompany Order
Kindly Order by Number

2152. Amusing while glass de-
canters 11" high are $2 each.
Black, $2.50

2153. This bunny

brushholder of painted

wood, SyZ", 50c.

2154. Either a black

or white pussy holds a

toothbrush, 50c.

2155. (Be-
low) The
duck napkin
ring of
painted
wood is 50c.

2156. A baby laundry

bag comes in pink or blue

with an attractively

painted head $4

2157. Porcelain lamp in

blue, orchid, yellow or

rose with shade to match

is $5.75, 10" high

2158 Scenes from Mother Goose decorate each piece of this child s
cereal set. It is of durable china and the set of four pieces may be pur-
chased for $2

December, 1922

REPUTATION

The man who builds and the man who buys are both beneficiaries
of a good reputation. To the one it is a continuous spur and an
incentive — to the other the strongest of all guarantees that what
he buys is worthy. !=> We sometimes speak of winning a reputation
as though that were the final goal. The truth is contrary to this.
Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning,
not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let 'down,
but, rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition
can never again be lowered. From him who gives much — much is
forever after expected. /=> Reputation is never completely earned—
it is always being earned. It is a reward— but in a much more
profound sense it is a continuing responsibility. /=> That which
is mediocre may deteriorate and no great harm be done. That
which has been accorded a good reputation is forever forbidden to
drop below its own best. It must ceaselessly strive for higher
standards. If your name means much to your public — you are
doubly bound to keep faith. You have formed a habit of high as-
piration which you cannot abandon — and out of that habit created
a reputation which you dare not disown without drawing down
disaster. f=t There is an iron tyranny which compels men who do
good work to go on doing good work. The name of that beneficent
tyranny is reputation. There is an inflexible law which binds men
who build well, to go on building well. The name of that benevo-
lent law is reputation. There is an insurance which infallibly pro-
tects those whose reason for buying is that they believe in a thing
and in its maker. The name of that kindly insurance is reputa-
tion. (=> Choose without fear that which the generality of men
join you in approving. There is no higher incentive in human en-
deavor than the reward of reputation — and no greater responsibility
than the responsibility which reputation compels all of us to as-
sume. Out of that reward and out of that responsibility come the
very best of which the heart and mind and soul of man are capable.

President, Packard Motor Car Company

House & Garden

For Christmas —

THESE are special Christmas suggestions for gifts
of McCutcheon's Handkerchiefs — all Pure Linen.
They are, however, merely repre-
sentative of our vast and compre-
hensive assortment.

Ladies'

By way of variation from conven-
tional hemstitched handkerchiefs,
there's the attractive new style with
double rows of Revere stitching.
Block-work models are new, too,
and very decorative. Both priced
at 50c. The dainty Madeira Hand-
kerchief with eyelet-embroidery and

scalloped edge shown at top, is only one of a large collec-
tion of lovely designs for 75c each. And at $1.00 there are
models of exquisite texture and workmanship with Irish
Embroidery in a myriad of attractive designs. These

Handkerchiefs are absolutely pure

linen,

Men's

These are the big generous size
Handkerchiefs that men like. And
the styles are very attractively
varied with Woven Cords and
Tapes in stripes and squares. Some
of them are quite plain with the
new wide border and Revere stitch-
ing. All pure linen, at $1.00 each.

Order by Mail

We recommend to your special attention our
mail order department which gives prompt and
painstaking attention to all Mail Orders. Many
patrons leave the choice of designs entirely to us,
knowing from experience that they will be quite
satisfactory.

Children's

Delightful little squares of pure
linen, machine-embroidered with
quaint animals and birds. 25c each
or 3 in a McCutcheon Christmas
Box for 75c.

James McCutcheon & Co.

Dept. No. 44
Reg. Trade Mark Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, New York

Building In Bermuda

(Continued from page 78)

pink or a tawny buff used for the walls.
There is, however, none of the indiscrim-
inate and picturesque variety of colora-
tion which meets the eye along the shores
of the Mediterranean. One or two of the
larger houses, which require water for
cattle, and the barracks have portions of a
convenient hillside covered with cement
as rain-catches which collect the water in
large tanks situated below the slope. In
the case of private houses this additional
provision is not necessary: the houses af-
ford a sufficient roof-area, through their
low and flat construction, to supply the
average householder.

The Available Material
So much for the general influence of
climatic conditions upon the buildings of
Bermuda. The available local materials
have also had an effect upon details of
construction. The distance of the islands
from the American coast makes importa-
tion of building materials both incon-
venient and expensive. Fortunately the
island is provided with native stone which
is abundant, easily quarried and cut to
practical size, light and easy to transport
or lift, and of such a nature (aeolian lime-
stone) that it becomes hard when exposed
to the action of the moisture-laden atmos-
phere. This alteration changes it from a
light yellow to a pale blue-grey — a color
rarely seen in the inhabited houses, how-
ever, owing to the use of whitewash.
One rarely sees brick, its only apparent
use being for the steps leading to the main
doorway of the houses. Ironwork is al-
most non-existent and is not practical
owing to the prevalent moisture of the
air: balustrades and gates are made of
wood or, in the newer houses, concrete.
The only wood on the island is the Ber-
muda cedar — really a kind of juniper. As
old Silvester Jourdain said as early as
1610: "There is an infinite number of
cedar trees, the fairest I think in the
world," and the most recent visitor is in-
clined to echo the words of the early
traveler. The trees, however, are not
large and are knotty and branched, so
that big beams are rare. The wood is
nevertheless used for all practical pur-
poses of domestic construction: indoors
it is oiled or finished to show the grain;
outdoors it is painted to preserve it from
the weather.

A General Impression
The general impression that one gets of
a typical Bermudian house is this: a low
white building, in shape a rectangle, an
L, H, or [, with a stepped roof made of
inch-thick stone laid like slates, good
fenestration, large external chimneys, out-
side staircases, wide verandahs, and a
number of outhouses for various purposes
' — the whole group picturesquely related
to trees and groups of shrubs, and gleam-
ing white in a setting of dark green
studded with brilliant flowers, in

"this eternal spring
Which here enamels everything."
We have now seen how the needs of the
climate and the possibilities of available
materials conditioned the builder in
Bermuda. There remains the question of
fitting his house into the landscape.

Though the island is only twenty-five
miles long and its area no more than
twenty square miles for a population of
18,000, one gets an impression that there
is plenty of room. Apart from the inevit-
able crowding of structures in the com-
mercial and hotel section of Hamilton,

houses are for the most part independent
and provided with gardens and grounds.
In the country, the estates in many cases
are quite extensive, and by no means all
the land is continuously cultivated. As a
result houses can grow sidewise instead of
upward, and the addition of a new room is
an easy matter. Some of the one-story
houses have increased by this process of
accretion until they present anomalous
plans and very interesting details of
roofing. Each additional wing provides
automatically an increase in the water
supply.

As the soi! of the island is merely a sur-
face covering, ranging from 2" to 20*
thick, all the houses are upon a solid rock
foundation. In some cases building mate-
rial will be quarried from a hillside and the
house will be constructed partly in the
space thus excavated, thus blending with
the landscape and, by this close relation-
ship, avoiding the impression of a man-
made excrescence, so common in modern
development schemes.

The island, though it never rises to a
greater height than 250', offers a variety
of slopes on its numerous ridges and
small hills. Many houses are built on
the sides and tops of these elevations and
thereby enjoy the double advantage of
having an excellent view of the land and
sea and of catching the breezes.

Bermuda's Garden Soil

Bermuda, in spite of its scant soil, is
extremely fertile and affords the builder a
considerable range of decorative shrubs
and plants to draw upon as an aid to
making his house a part of the landscape
as well as an individual possession of
beauty. Among the trees and shrubs
which grow abundantly are the cedar,
poinsettia, loquat, citron, orange, lime,
lemon, banana, screw pine, royal palm,
palmetto, prickly pear and sea grape.
Hibiscus, oleanders and honeysuckle
grow in clumps and in hedges and flower
abundantly. It is by no means unusual
to see hibiscus hedges 14' high and cov-
ered with flaming red or salmon-colored
flowers; and the oleanders frequently
reach a height of 20'. The rich red soil
found in parts of the island is excellent for
growing potatoes, strawberries, beets,
onions, lima beans, carrots and parsley,
and in different parts of the island are to
be found tobacco, cotton, indigo, aloes,
the castor-oil plant and coffee, though
none of these in large quantities.

This list is sufficient, however, to show
that the householder has an abundance
and variety of growing things to draw
upon for landscape gardening or house-
hold use. As few of the trees suffer a sea-
sonal loss of leaves, and as there are
three crops of vegetables in a year, the
island offers distinct advantages over our
Northern climate, where the work of the
landscape gardener is evident for only
half the year and the kitchen-garden lies
for months under a deep covering of snow.

Bermuda, therefore, provides an inter-
esting and comparatively simple study of
the development of a type of building
well-suited to the needs of her people.
The frank recognition of necessities as the
primary condition of a dwelling gives an
impression of honesty to the building
which is reenforced by the avoidance of
all unnecessary and purely artificial dec-
oration. The comparative restriction in
the range of materials emphasizes this
simplicity and preserves the unity of the
houses.

December, 1922

Christmas gifts for the home

IF YOU can be in town during the period of Christmas
shopping, you will indeed be fortunate, for never, in
our three-quarters of a century, have we had gifts so
many and so fine. But if you cannot come in person,
let this page act as our ambassador, and select your
gifts from it. The promptest service will be rendered.

1134-— Four nested tables, brown ma
hogany finish. The top table is 30 in
high. The set complete. $30.

1195 — Wrought iron foot scraper, meas-
uring 12 in. long and 6 in. high— $5.

1825-Chalr lamp, 56 In. high: black
marble finish standard, antique gold
fixtures and base. Octagon shade in
brocade lined with mica. Complete, $55.

1272 — Desk set of sterling silver on bronze, 7
pieces. The pad measures 16 x 21 inches. The
complete set, $22.50.

1186— The reproduc-
tion of Rodin's famous
"Thinker" makes a
pair of hand some book-
ends,? inches high and
in a metalized brown
finish. The pair, $8.

1209— Mitre cut mirror, with frame
done in Roman gold color with bur-
nished gold ornaments. Length, 3lJ£
in. Price, $25.

1076— Silver plated
Guernsey Jug, with
band decorations
chased in old Dutch
silver design. Pint ca-
pacity, $7.50; 1,'ii pint
capacity, $10,

1082— Silent gravity
clock 10 in high, fin-
ished in polished or
antique brass or in gun
metal, 30 hour move-
ment. Price $20

1095— China Salad set decorated
with birds and flowers in natural
colors. Platter, bowl, 6 plates,
wooden fork and spoon Complete,
$15.

1243— Mirrorblack porcelain lamp,
18 in. high, one light, $7.50. Gold
lined rose shade of silk, black and
gold fringe, $10. Lamp and shade
complete, $17.50.

OUR NEW BOOK of Christmas Gifts, the cover
of which is done in the Russian manner, illustrates
and describes over two hundred gifts of more than
ordinary distinction. The edition is limited, so we
suggest that you send an early request.

OVINGTON'S

"The Gift Shop of Fifth Avenue"

FIFTH AVENUE AT39TH STREET

1172— Andirons of heavy metal in a
hammered design, 15 in. high. Black
or brown finish. The pair, $12.

1112— Fire set, all of antique brass.
From the waves beneath the ship's
keel hang tongs, hearth brush, shovel,
poker and quaint toaster. Complete
set, $50.

A bayberry can-
dle, to work its
legendary charm,
must "burn to the
socket." Atlantic
Bayberry Candles
— hand-dipped and
having the real
bayberry color and
scent — burn to the
very wick's end.
Packed, two in a
box, in special
Christmas pack-
age, as illustrated.

Burn
Bayberry

"A Bayberry Candle,
Burned to the Socket,
Brings Luck to the House,
Food to the Larder
And Gold to the Pocket,"

Candles at Christmas

TITHAT could be more expressive of the Christ-
'* mas spirit than the lighted bayberry candle
in the window? Not only is this charming custom
more widely observed than ever, but throughout
the year Fashion has decreed candles a decorative
and illuminating necessity.

For beauty and soft, changing radiance — for
making everything and every one appear to the
best advantage — for dignity, refinement, elegance
— no light can compare with that from good candles.

Good candles! Yes, that is important. Ask
definitely for ATLANTIC Candles. They are
masterpieces of the craftsman's art and the candle-
maker's skill. Pure in materials, deep-set in color-
ings, correct in design; free-burning, flickerless,
dripless, smokeless and odorless.

There are Atlantic Candles in sizes, shapes and
shades for every use, room and decorative scheme.
To assure you the genuine, Atlantic Candles, or
their boxes, are labeled. Sold wherever decorative
furnishings, gifts and art wares are purchasable.

"CANDLE GLOW," a most useful illustrated booklet on candle

styles and their decorative and illuminating possibilities,

is available and ivill be mailed free for the asking.

ATLANTIC

CANDLES

THE ATLANTIC REFINING COMPANY, Philadelphia

House 6* Garden

Battersea Enamels

(Continued from page 48)

this it was an easy step to the suggestion Lambeth. Cunynghame says of the
of Basse-taille enamels. These early many pieces here fabricated: "All were
jnamel-workers were long balked in their pretty, but hardly one possessed real ar-
attempts to find a method of making tistic merit." This is, I think an exagger-
enamel adhere to thin plates of metal, ation, for many of the Battersea products
•\t first they found that only thick metal are very lovely indeed. Horace Walpole
objects would hold the fired enamel for was an admirer of the Battersea enamels,
any length of time; invariably it dropped and there is a letter from him extant,
off the thin plates. Then came the dis- written in 1755 to accompany the gift of a
covery that if the metal object was coated Battersea enamel snuffbox sent to his
at the back as well as on the front, and friend, Richard Bently.
,vith enamel of the same composition, it The Battersea enamels were laid on a
would adhere all round on the thin as well copper base and had a soft white enamel
as oh the thick metal objects. Nearly all ground to receive the painted decoration.
;he 1 6th Century enamelers, like the There is a high glaze on these old Batter-
:amous Limoges workers in painted sea pieces, an indication that lead played
enamels, employed this counter-enamel an important part in their composition.
process. Its seems strange that although The range of objects was large, including,
the glass-producing state of Venice in- in addition to those already mentioned,
vented painted enameling, the Italians card-cases, toilette boxes, trays, candle-
did not produce much painted enamel sticks, buttons, knobs, handles, bottle
,'ork or appear to be greatly interested in labels, mustard boxes, salt cellars, jewel-
it; instead they left the process to the ry medallions, cane heads, nutmeg
French enamelers to perfect. graters, stoppers, etc.

French enamel-workers covered the Many of these old Battersea enamels
thin metal plates of the objects to be were decorated by the transfer printing
enameled with a coating of white enamel process which Dr. Wall had employed in
for the front, the back coating being of the decoration of the old Worcester ware
the same quality so both would cool of his period. In this the design, usually
evenly and at the same time when re- pictorial and copied from some print, was
moved from the oven. In the early French engraved on a metal plate and transferred
work various designs, many of them to the white enameled surface of the ob-
after engravings by Albrecht Diirer and ject to be decorated by contact printing.
other graphic artists of the time, were These designs were usually printed in
copied by the enamel artists on the white black or in sepia. Mottoes, sentiments
surfaces in outline, the highlights being and verses often accompanied them.
left open and the shadows filled in by Indeed, the Battersea souvenirs ap-
lining and the whole touched up with pear to have been precursors of the candy
color and fired in. This sort of decoration hearts of the igth Century!
greatly resembled the manner of the Battersea enamels fall into three gen-
miniatures in the illuminated manu- eral groups: (i) Those decorated after
scripts of the period, though the color in the manner of the china-painters and hav-
the work was more limited in range. ing designs inspired by the keramic deco-

When the French painted enamels of rators of Dresden and of Sevres; (2) Pieces
Limoges began to deteriorate, the grow- with printed decoration, as described
ing French love for jewelry turned to the above; (3) Pieces whose decoration sug-
employment of tinted enamels, and the gests the colored engravings of the late
jeweler Toutin of Chateaudun and his i8th Century.

followers developed the art of painting In color the snuffboxes and the toil-
miniature portraits in enamel for various ette boxes of Battersea enamel generally
settings. This soon became popular had grounds of pink or blue, laid on the
throughout Europe and the ateliers of the white base enamel. Nearly always these
miniature enamel-workers in Paris, Lon- were finished with gilt or gold scrollwork
don, Dresden and Geneva were soon and foliate ornament. Cunynghame says
working to capacity. Jean Petitot, an of the majority of the Battersea imita-
enamel-worker of Geneva who had been tions of French enameled objects (and of
forced to flee from Geneva to escape perse- course these were naturally greatly in
cution, and who had made his way to vogue): "The execution is bad, the
Paris, soon took place at the head of the knowledge inferior to the French, and yet
workers in enamel in the French capitol. somehow, in spite of rude drawing and
Later Charles I invited him to visit Eng- bad color, one feels in presence of a better
land. There, with the help of Van Dyck art than the French,— more original and
and of Turquet de Mayenne, who was more independent." I think this is true,
the King's chemist and physician, Petitot and that it is one of the things that lends
advanced his art. Another continental charm to old Battersea enamels. Though
enamel-worker was also invited to Lon- often copyists, the old Battersea enamel
don, — Jacques Bordier, who remained in decorators were not slavish in their copy-
England for some time after the execution ing and they employed a freedom hi their
of Charles, though his compatriot Petitot method that deserves far more praise than
fled to Paris. From this tune onward the writers on English enamels have gener-
line of English and of Irish miniature ally seemed willing to concede,
painters in enamel was long and dis- The Dresden bonbonnieres in animal
tinguished. forms were popular with the Battersea

Throughout the latter half of the i8th enamelers who were continually seeking
Century the French enamel- workers for novelties, and they adapted Dresden
turned out great quantities of small ob- ideas to their own service in turning put
jects such as snuffboxes, etuis, carnets du the quaint boxes in the forms of birds
bal, bonbonnieres, etc., and the fashion for and beasts. In old Battersea pieces of all
these objects was carried to England sorts, one often meets with a shade of
where it took firm root, really maintaining pink that is peculiar to the i8th Century
beyond the French period, since the Battersea pieces, although the color has
Revolution in France had driven put of been imitated by igth Century enamelers
that country those products tending to with almost complete success,
suggest luxury. With the French Empire It is, of course, the dainty charm and
snuff-taking went out of fashion and quaintness of the old Battersea enamels
decorative art busied itself with other which appeals to the taste of to-day,
things to the neglect of the art of painted They have a naive quality all_ their own
enamel. Dresden and Geneva, on the which compensates for their missing
other hand, clung to painted enamels that perfection found in the French i8th
and kept the art living to the present day. Century enamels, that supreme elegance
In England Stephen Janssen estab- and external grace. To place the painted
lished an atelier for the production of enamel of old Battersea beside the
painted enamel work at York House, in painted enamel of old France is like
Battersea, a borough in the southwest of placing the rustic beside the exquisite; but
London, bounded on the north by the the rustic is as interesting as the other,
River Thames and on the northeast by only in his own manner.

December, 1922

In Your Home

OHAKESPEARE'S home at Stratford-on-Avon
" contained the original of this late Sheraton
model side chair. The illustration shows a faith-
ful reproduction. The original mirror is an old
Colonial in the Metropolitan Museum oi Art.
Picture how these reproductions would appear iri
your home.

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Quaint Kitchen Color Schemes

(Continued from page 53)

may well be some of the extremely inex-
pensive designs to be found in the un-
varnished state, and planned for kitchen
use, are charming when painted properly,
and kitchen dropleaf tables are every
whit as effective as are those designed for
living rooms. It is in the color that is
chosen for this furniture, seen in relation
to the pale and neutral background of the
walls and the more positive treatment of
the floor, in the vivid gayety of the cur-
tains, and the spots of brilliant color sing-
ing out of the scheme here and there,
that the decorative success of the kitchen
may be achieved.

Walls and Woodwork
In the kitchen, as well as any other
room, the tone chosen for the walls should
be quite pale and neutral, verging on the
creams and ivories and never darker than
pale tan, or one of the many tones of
light gray. Painted walls are ideal for a
kitchen, and even if it costs more in the
beginning, a paint that is washable is
greatly to be preferred over one that is
not; but if a water tint is desired, it can
be very cheaply renewed every year. Of
course stenciled or painted borders on the
walls are as little to be advised in the
kitchen as in any other room, as they are
never very effective at best, and use up
the thrills that otherwise should be re-
served for the furniture, curtains, and
accessories.

For the kitchen woodwork one may
have a choice of three alternatives: it
may be enameled white or ivory, it may
match or tone in with the colored painted
furniture, or, in itself, it may be the most
vividly colored note apparent in the
kitchen that is otherwise furnished rather
palely.

Likewise, there are several choices for
the kitchen floor, depending on the effect
desired: the floor may be quite neutral,—
untoned wood that has been waxed; it
may be painted a vivid color and shel-
lacked; it may be covered with a decora-
tive linoleum or tiling designed in a severe
two-tone block effect of contrasting col-
ors; or it may be cemented, a treatment
that is becoming increasingly popular for
kitchen floors, and one which has a great
deal of character and beauty, as well as
durability. The cement may be natural
color, or it may be colored in the mixing;
and even the amateur may learn from an
adept in cementing how to lay it in
blocks of contrasting color, or in the tile
effect. When rugs are desired for the
kitchen floor, the choice should be con-
fined to rag rugs in some form, either the
oval hand braided ones, or those larger
and machine-woven, for they launder
perfectly.

Kitchen Windows

The windows in the kitchen are often
sadly neglected, since we have hardly left
the era of the muslin sash curtain behind
us, but if brilliant curtain materials are
chosen we soon realize that the kitchen
windows are the chief asset in decoration.
Inexpensive chintz, with a clear design
and vivid color, and often with a pale
background, is eminently suitable as well
as extremely effective, and lasts well onto
a year or two, if it has been proven to
launder satisfactorily while in the sample
stage. The more simple the window
treatment the better, however; the drapes
hanging inside the window trim straight
from tie top to the sill; and the only
excuse for a valance is the informal
Dutch type shown in two of these kitch-
ens. When the curtains are used instead
of roller shades, and they very well can be,
they should be attached to their thin
brass rods by the means of rings, so that
they may slide easily back and forth.
Other maferials that are eligible for cur-

taining the kitchen are ginghams, certain
figured voiles, unbleached muslin appli-
qued with color, the same material dyed
strong decorative tones, embroidered lin-
ens, and even calico.

Another point that should be made the
most of is the cupboard. If you have
colorful or decorative china, and the
supply is kept in the kitchen, small paned
glass doors allow delectable glimpses of
plates and bowls and cups in piles and
rows. If you are not sure your china
helps the scheme, hang a curtain that
will do so, on the inner side of the glass-
paned door, thus hiding the interior from
sight. Either method may also be em-
ployed at the upper part of the kitchen
cupboard, and it is well to remember that
it is quite possible to find jars and boxes
for spice and everything nice that will
honestly improve the kitchen shelves
from the decorative standpoint. The
cheapest sort of tin cans and wooden
boxes may be painted a fine strong color,
and decorated, thus taking advantage of
one of the very best ways of achieving the
spots of bright color that are so valuable
in kitchen color schemes.

Three Color Schemes

If you wish to know how charming
kitchens really may be, study these draw-
ings for a few moments while I tell you
how effectively vivid the originals are.
. . . Perhaps the most unusual scheme is
that of the kitchen showing the small
casement windows under the bracket
shelf, for it is worked out principally in
mauve and green. The woodwork is
ivory, the walls the palest of mist gray,
the floor deep lilac, painted this color then
shellacked. The furniture is painted a
gray-green of medium tone, about the
color of the green leaves of a lilac bush;
it is decorated with darker green and
black, and the flower motifs used on the
green furniture and on the ivory doors are
done in mauve, jade green, yellow and
black. On the h'lac floor is laid a rag rug
woven in mauve, green, ivory and black,
and at the windows are hung colorful cre-
tonne curtains showing ivory, green and
black on a rich wistaria ground. Where
possible, the bowls and dishes used in
this kitchen are ivory or yellow, the
set used in the dining room is the Caul- !
dron design which is banded in old yellow
on ivory; the kitchen cans and boxes are
painted lilac, and decorated with jade
green, cream and black, and the kitchen
utensils are of silvery aluminum.

Next comes the kitchen with the oval
rag rug and black floor. In this room the
walls are ivory, the woodwork a flat old
blue; the rug is scarlet, blue and tan.
At the windows are hung plain ecru ging-
ham curtains with hems and Dutch
valance of chintz or calico in red, blue
and black. The- furniture may be of deep
ivory or old blue, and it may be decorated
in ivory, Chinese red and black, — with the
addition of blue if the ground is ivory.
The dishes used in this kitchen are blue
and white, the jars black and white, and
where possible, spots of Chinese red and
orange are chosen for small decorative
objects.

For a Little Kitchen
The third kitchen achieves a neutral
background with gray walls, and black
and white linoleum for the floor; the
woodwork is ivory, the furniture a soft
butter-yellow. At the windows are cur-
tains of cream, embroidered in coarse
orange thread; and at the cupboard doors
are curtains of cretonne showing brilliant
yellow flowers against a dark background.
There is an orange woven rag rug on the
floor, and on the ivory cupboard there are
black basket decorations filled with flow-
ers of yellow, orange and blue.

December, 1922

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Can You Light Your House
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IT'S easy to do if you have complete electrical con-
venience. And what a convenience it is to control
the upstairs lights from downstairs, or vice
versa; to control the garage or cellar lights from the
kitchen; and to have other step-saving features.

1 oo few home-owners realize that such convenient
control is possible. Nor do they appreciate the gen-
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ience— plenty of convenience outlets so that lamps
may be placed at any point where they will be most
attractive, a toaster may be used at the same time
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2184. Stiff brush for
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2195. Leather toy
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Enameled leather
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Braided leather
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end, $1.25

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For a police dog
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$2.25

December, 1922

—and now I like my Kitchen Work

I AM not distressed — there are no greasy fumes or
cooking odors. The air is clean, fresh and invigorating, and my
menu is always a secret whether I am cooking corned beef and
cabbage, fish, fried cakes or onions, because there is not the slight-
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Gardens That Rise And Fall

(Continued from page 43)

elements of design as unity, balance, and
emphasis are fully considered. Or they
may be a part of an entire garden project,
where the individuality of each terrace
is subordinated to the climactic motive
of the whole, which may take the form
of a fountain, a pool, or some other archi-
tectural feature. This motive must,
however, be sufficiently large in scale to
balance the whole composition. And
details of planting and construction must
receive ample consideration in order that
the interest of the observer may be
maintained throughout.

The third possibility of varying levels
may be in the introduction of raised areas
above the level of the main garden which
will serve as overlooks, where perhaps a
seat or a shelter may be provided in order
that one may leisurely contemplate the
view. By such means we may also fre-
quently introduce into our gardens vis-
tas of the surrounding landscape which
would detract from the interest of the
garden itself if seen from within its com-
pass. Such overlooks, or gazebos, as they
are frequently called, usually are placed
at the termination of some minor path,
or set in the corners of more formal de-
signs. They are set aside from the rest of
the garden by being slightly raised and
enclosed, perhaps with a vine covered
wall, a trellis, or picturesque trees, like
the white pine, whose horizontal branches
frame the view back into the garden itself,
or beyond over the hills and sea. We need
not hesitate about the extent or scope of
such views, for although it is true that
they would dwarf and make puny our
garden efforts by their vastness if they
were easily seen from the main level of
the garden, they are added attractions
when viewed trom an overlook and do
not obtrude themselves into our designs.

The importance of the terminal fea-
tures in our gardens, usually the highest
point of accent, whether pergola, pool, or
tea house, may be greatly enhanced if we
place it on a higher level than that of the
main garden. Here again architectural
detail in steps, walls, and balustrades
may be introduced, and about the ter-
minal feature on this elevated plane we
may develop paths or flagstone walks,
nice in proportion in order that they may
be appropriate to accompany it.

Many gardens rely chiefly on inti-
macy for their charm. If we were to
analyze this charm we would frequently
find that the clever designer had attained
it by lowering certain areas in his garden
scheme. The quietness and seclusion of a
design may be made more certain by
lowering the central area. In this way,
too, the apparent height of the foliage
boundary or architectural screen may be
increased. Our whole plan builds up
about the lower panel to the highest foli-
age at the outer edge. This gradual
building up of heights, through cleverly
arranged planting in keeping with the
changes in grade, affords wonderful op-
portunities for secluded walks passing
close to our boundary plantings, yet hid-
den from the rest of the area by the in-
tervening foliage.

How often we feel on entering some
portion of a garden that it reaches out
and encloses us, shelters us, and forms a
setting for some exquisite piece of sculp-
ture. Subtly the effect of this detail is
enhanced by lowering the level about it a
step or two.

Another possibility in making use of
existing varying levels in the ground we
wish to use for a garden is shown in the
development of the so-called naturalistic
style, in which the designer attempts to
catch and portray some mood of the na-
tive landscape. This type of garden has
found favor in this country, and although
it has charming possibilities it should
never take the place of the more formal
flower garden, or be considered in close
proximity to the house, for it does not lend
itself well to architectural lines. How-
ever, it proves a delightful treatment in
some uneven and secluded spot, and is a
satisfactory solution for such a problem.

Rambling paths and by-paths, planted
with shrubs high enough to shut out views
into the surrounding scene, may by this
means concentrate the attention of the
observer on the immediate detail, or that
which is just beyond. In most instances
this detail will be groups of shrubs or
unusual flowers or worthy specimens
used as accents among the more abundant
or common plant material, or masses of
gay color in perennials or bulbs planted
at the base of the shrubs.

(Continued on page 92)

Garden roses edge the lower level of this retaining wall

and creeping roses fall over from above. The step risers

are of brick on edge to match the watt, and the treads

are of slate

December, 1922

A'o. 1761

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Prices ranging from

$45. to $150.

Fine Crucet Lamps in many different
styles and sizes, which add distinction
to the most beautiful room, may be had
from the leading dealer in your city.

Write for booklet "LOVELY LAMPS"

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Lamp 58" high with ad-
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Prices from

$35. to $110.

FLAT-Extending CURTAIN RODS

TJEAUTIFUL, durable, simple, economical!
so easy to put up — you just hook them

Ornamental stiffening ribs prevent curtain-sag
and make "Bluebird" Rods the strongest. Single,
double and triple rods in Satin, Gold and White
Enamel for any style windows and curtains.

Get "Bluebirds" — they're the choice for well-
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Ask Your Dealer

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Makers of home accessories for over 50 years.

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REEDCRAFT

H o u s e & Garden

TRADE
MARK

Gardens That Rise And Fall

(Continued from page 90)

A Beautiful Finish

for this Beautiful Home

ABOVE is shown the new home
owned and designed by Victor
H. Wigglesworth, of Belmont, Mass.

At first glance there is nothing un-
usual about this house. But closer
inspection shows that the walls are
not clap-board as they seem, but are
made from solid concrete.

For the surface finish Mr. Wiggles-
worth specified Bay State Brick and
Cement Coating, and Bay State in
adding the final touch of beauty to
the house weather-proofed it as well.

For Bay State creeps into every
pore and crevice. It permanently
seals the walls it covers from all
dampness. The hardest rain cannot
beat through, nor the heaviest mist
seep through Bay State Brick and
Cement Coating.

This master finish comes in a range
of beautiful tints and in pure rich
white. Let us send you samples.

Write for booklet No. 2. It shows
many Bay State Coated homes and
buildings.

Send for it to-day.

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Where there is a change in grade too
steep to be easily passed over, stones
may be set into the ground in the sem-
blance of rough steps, and planted with
overhanging or creeping things much in
the manner which Nature uses in wild
settings.

The charm of such a scheme will de-
pend upon the unexpected in the twists
and turnings of the path and the ups and
downs. That which is just around the
corner, over the next hill, or just out of
sight tends to lure the walker on.

These paths may skirt lawns, being
hidden from the eye by tall shrubs;
cross miniature brooks by rustic bridges
or stepping stones; follow the edges of
little pools and ponds; come into open
glades where tall trees over-arch, and the
sunlight niters through to dance among
the ferns and pale woodland flowers that
lift their graceful heads in such quiet

spots; then out again into clearings, whose
flat open areas may be treated as indi-
vidual gardens, and planted with more
gardenesque material, such as magnolias,
azaleas, and other flowering things such
as perennials, or bulbs, can be made ef-
fective by arranging them in different
opens according to color or season of
bloom. In this manner a series of little
gardens may be secured, each of which
has its own individual character, and
while it is a unit in itself, it is a part of
the whole garden scheme.

These are a few of the methods of
utilizing uneven topography, and they
may serve as types of gardens which will
cover the average existing conditions.
Their application will do much to make
the country a garden spot, and each
garden in it an individual point, express-
ing the spirit of the ground upon which it
is built, and its environment.

Pages from a Decorator's Diary

o j

(Continued from page 74)

one of those dignified old houses on
Gramercy Park last spring and while
she was abroad John Oakman, the archi-
tect, rebuilt it for her. He built in a
marvelous old French room, among other
things, and had Ralph Flint, who is both
painter and critic, restore the room.
While working in the house Mr. Flint
conceived the happy idea of making a
balustrade of heavy black cords strung
in a classic design, with the effect of the
most delicate old ironwork. When I
saw the hall my eye leapt at once to the
extraordinary fine ironwork, and I was
astonished to discover its artifice. Of
course there will eventually be a real
iron balustrade, but this makeshift is
extremely effective . . . Mrs. Chauncey Ol-
cott has one of those sweet houses on
Sutton Place that look out over that tran-
quil community garden and the moving
pageant of the East River. Mrs. Olcott
has made a guest fiat of her top floor,
consisting of bedroom, drawing room,

bath, and kitchenette. The kitchenette
with its equipment for afternoon tea, or
morning coffee, makes the guest com-
pletely happy, because she doesn't have
to ask for anything. Also when the house
is closed during the summer, Mrs. Olcott
can use the guest floor as a place to live
when she comes to town for a few days ...
Miss Anne Morgan, who has built a
brand new Georgian house of red brick
on the site of two of the old Sutton Place
houses, is planning an early American
drawing room 40' wide, and 30' deep,
across the front of her house. There
are hundreds of beautiful drawing rooms
in New York, but I know of no one but
Miss Morgan who has determined to
make the largest and most important
room in her house an early American
one. She is using an old pine paneled
room, such as were often seen in old
Southern houses. The New England pine
rooms were usually much smaller and
the paneling was generally more severe.

In the Regency of King Coal

(Continued from page 61)

two weeks more water must be added to
the radiator — and this is all the effort
attached to it.

This obviates "piping'' a house. The
air is not dry but healthfully moist. In
fact, the humidifying aspect of this heat-
ing agent is a large factor in its favor with
us; for more and more are heating experts
realizing the necessity of the humidifying
element in health protection.

Here there is no fuel storage necessary,
no oil tanks, no coal bins, and pretty
nearly 100% of the heat is delivered in the
cold room without "byway" waste.

The only thing against it is having to
get up in the morning and light it! But,
of course, you do away with the janitor,
an item these days! However, there is no
more effort in lighting this radiator than
turning on the radiator of the usual type.

Then there are the old familiar radiant
gas heaters, which adorn our "bogus" fire-
places. Some are constructed of polished
sheet brass and use clay mantel burners.

These heaters should be attached to flues
wherever possible. The minute the gas is
lighted the plastic clay mantel becomes
luminous and heat is radiated throughout
the room.

Another and excellent type of gas radi-
ating heat is one which forces up air and
gas from beneath (through a screen). This,
is ignited and heats by indirect heat,
through pounds and pounds of iron! Di-
rect heat is odorful and often gas laden,
indirect heat is odorless and safe. Carbon
monoxide is often given off in gas heaters
where the burning of gas is imperfect.
In one of the very best ones, tests have
been made and the quantity of this gas
is nil, also the carbon dioxide was in
very little evidence after many hours of
burning with people in the room!

Such a fireplace burner or space burner
is of real value. In a small apartment one
can heat pretty nearly the whole area, as
the hot air is projected with sufficient
force to produce an intense heat.

December, 1922

cftjng

GREENHOUSES

•itli? happiness and cheer to your home e^ery day for years

will be pleased to send suggestions and data about King greenhouses or to have
our* representative call at your request

The greenhouse shown above is on the estate oj Eugene duPont. GreencHle. Delaware.

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VoYour Children Play in SAFETY?

IN the interest of safety for your
children your grounds must be
ENCLOSED.

And a makeshift fence that can read-
ily be climbed will not answer. Your
fence must give positive protection —
keeping the children at home, and the
malicious intruder away.
The close weave of the Page wire-link
fence makes an insurmountable bar-

rier, the sharp-pronged upper selvage
giving added security. And the sim-
ple, attractive design lends an added
touch of beauty and seclusion to your
property.

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PAGE

PROTECTION FENCE

The Answer

to the

Coal Question

THE fuel question is of
secondary importance when
compared with the subject of
healthful heat.

Thousands of homes are
made oppressive with heat
when, instead, they should be made comfortable and healthfully
warm without waste of fuel or loss of physical vitality.

accomplishes this double result in a distinctive manner. The FarQuar one-piece
copper-bearing steel firebox prevents the escape of gas and fire poison; the automatic
control prevents over-heat and waste of fuel; the large grate area insures slow com-
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perfect distribution of heat to all rooms with pure, fresh air gently warmed to a
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Wlien the garden adjoins the street, or where semi-privacy is

wanted, a fence paneled solidly below, U'i/li pickets above, is a

very desirable type

When You Plan Your Garden

(Continued from page 56)

they are susceptible. On the small place,
where space is limited, they take up less
room than any other kind of enclosure.
And when it comes to cost they will be
found to be surprisingly low.

Just here it might be well to speak a
word for the wire fence. It should not be
banished without trial, for it has its
place in the scheme of the gardens and
grounds along with its other more
decorative relatives. When it is well made
of a strong, galvanized mesh, and sup-
ported between stout posts of wood or
steel and, last but not least, covered with
such a variety of vines that at no season
of the year will it stand forth in all its
stark efficiency, it can be used to mark
and protect the less important sections of
the site not only appropriately but with
decided effectiveness.

There are practical reasons for almost
all fence designs. In some fences the
lower palings are spaced more closely
together than the upper ones. That is
to keep out marauding small animals
that are unable to climb to the wider

spaces above. In others the diagonal
members of the fence are made prominent
in the design. This is to provide addi-
tional strength in cases where the railings,
or horizontal members, are not of a size
to insure the utmost stability. Just so
the occasional necessity for solid panels
below or the use of wide, closely spaced
palings above is obviously done to some
definite purpose. The thing is to let your
fence meet its practical requirements
first, and then from its essential character
and construction to work it into a design
that is both attractive and serviceable.

\Yhat is extremely important is that
any part of the fence which touches the
ground should be thoroughly coated with
creosote. It is a good plan, if it is not
too expensive, to imbed the upright posts
in concrete. Another method of support
is to run two or more firmly attached iron
rods down from the sides of the post into
a concrete foundation. This avoids the
possibility of the wood of the post rotting
away in the concrete and, in certain
localities, effects a saving in lumber.

With English collage types of houses fences

may be left unpainted or stained with

creosote, and the palings, rails, and posts

may be perfectly simple

December, 1922

Do Not Affront Your Fireplace with Unsentimental Obtrusive Radiators

Strange, isn't it, how we put such
stress on the joys of having a
fireplace, of its friendliness, its
comfort, its sentiment side, and
then consent to having radia-
tors obtrusively setting about
in all their abject utilitarian
emphasis.

How it does distract — yes af-
front, if not cheapen the fireplace

effect.

Happily foryou, there is away out.
Obscure your radiators with en-
closures made with our Ferro-
craft grilles.

Then your radiators become an
article of furniture- — pleasing, yet
in no way affecting the efficiency
of your heating.

Drop in at any of our offices —
and let us talk it over.
Or write us for any further in-
formation you may wish.

36 Portland Street, Boston

TUTTLE & BAILEY MFC Co.

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allows for splitting.

Send 6c in stamps for window drapery
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A Wall

Girandole

THIS SCONCE in com-
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Rococo style, possesses a
distinctive Chippendale
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It is correctly finished in
Cinnabar Enamel and An-
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House & Garden

KENSINGTON FURNITURE

Lacquer Cabinet in the Queen A nne style, by Kensington

ECQUER furniture was first introduced
into England in Charles Second's reign
and was still in favor in the time of Sheraton
over one hundred years later. Save for the
brief period of the Chinese craze about the
middle of the 18th Century, this lacquer
furniture had little direct relation with con-
temporary styles. Yet for all its brilliant color
and exotic character it seemed always to
sound an harmonious if contrasting note.

To-day in almost any interior where a
strong point of interest is desired to raise the
decorative scheme above the commonplace a
piece of lacquer work may be introduced in
the same way most successfully.

Kensington craftsmanship and fidelity in
design give to Kensington reproductions of
this furniture the character and the decorative
quality which are the charm of the antique.

Kensington furniture is made in all the deco-
rative styles appropriate for American homes.

The purchase of Ken-
sington Furniture
may be arranged
through your deco-
rator or furniture
dealer.

Write for Illustrated
booklet H and
pamphlet, "How
Kensington Furni-
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IN A SHOP devoted exclusively to home necessities
you naturally expect to find gifts that are essen-
tially useful. But a glance at these selections shows
that gifts from this shop are not alone useful but
decidedly unique.

Write for free booklet on Home Equipment.

Peter Putter Pipe Rack

Made of wood and handsomely hand painted,
will caddy the corn cob and other favorite
pipes of a regular man's den. 12 inches high,
firmly poised on broad green and whether or
not his bag is full of pipes, smiles pleasantly as
though tickled to a tee. $3.

Phone Index

Telephone numbers — quick as a wink
by spinning the knob of this phone
index. Eliminates hunting a book or
thumbing pages. Lists 478 numbers.
Beautifully finished in full tan moroc-
co, $7.50. In nickel plate with black
sides, $5.

Juvenile Cereal Set

Made of china, artistically decorated
in color with gentle friends from
Nurseryland to keep a child company
during meal time. Humpty Dumpty
shown. Other patterns are Old King
Cole. Mother Goose and Little Boy
Blue $4.50.

Molly Stark Tray

Surpasses the usual domesticated
tray by the daintiness of its colors
and the gracefulness of its designs.
In the center is a basket of color-
ful fruit painted on a background
of either cream or lavender 2oJ4
inches long, $5.75.

Tobacco Smoke Consumer

For those who love tobacco — and those who
don't — this compromising tobacco smoke
consumer will clear the atmosphere. Espec-
ially acceptable in homes where there are
little children and much smoke. Finished in
dull brass or bronze. 4^ inches high, $5.

MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION

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45th St. and Sixth Avenue, New York City

Nine floors of household equipment

Introducing
THE LEON RUBAY Voitures de Ville

Brougham Coupe Cabriolet
Sedan Berline

1 HE Voiture de Ville is a familiar sight in the capitals of Europe. It is the
approved conveyance for the man of affairs and for the woman of fashion. It is
designed for city streets, for dense traffic, for personal convenience, for economy
of operation. It is appropriate, distinctive, ideally suited to its purpose.

It is to meet the demand in American cities for an appropriate town conveyance
that The Rubay Company has designed and produced its Voitures de Ville along
European lines. The Le'on Rubay is entirely French designed and built with the
exact craftsmanship for which that nation is noted. The best of American engineer-
ing skill has adapted the design to American standards.

The Rubay motor is the high speed type, with long stroke and small bore,
developing a wide range of power. It is extremely flexible, getting away and
picking up speed immediately. It develops only such power as is needed; from
ten or twelve horse for city use, to thirty-eight or forty for fast suburban
driving or climbing hills. The four wheel brakes add a tremendous factor of
safety in congested traffic.

The Leon ftubay Voitures de Ville will be exhibited for the
first lime at the New York Salon, December third to ninth.

All that cities give

Brilliant, unwavering light; vacuum
cleaner; percolator, grill, and toaster; mod-
ern water system; washing machine and
iron; dishwasher; sewing machine — «//the
conveniences that cities give are at the
service of the ruralist when the Kohler
Automatic comes to solve the servant-in-
the-country problem.

The current it generates is 110 volt, the
city standard. It flows, full-powered, direct
from the generator to the point of use —
not through wasteful storage batteries.

Its 1500 watt capacity is more than ample
for the average country estate.
A quiet, economical four-cylinder engine;
automatic operation, responsive to the
turn of any switch; a unit approved by the
National Board of Fire Underwriters, Inc.
— thatsumsuponlypartially the plant that
should receive first consideration if you
wish every convenience of city electricity
for your country home.
We have a very interesting illustrated
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Today

AMBER

G\ TO wonder that Pyralin toiletware
•L \ is such a favorite gift. Its dainty
beauty seems to express the very spirit
of Christmas; its useful and lasting
qualities make it doubly welcome.
The gift may be a complete set of
twenty-five pieces or it may be just a
few articles, for all designs are standard,
easy to match at the leading stores
any time, anywhere.

E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO., INC.

Pyralin Department
ARLINGTON, NEW JERSEY

Look for the Name "Pyralin"

on Every Article for dressing

table and travelling bag — your

assurance of life-long service.

CLEAR and golden as a topaz, are these
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December, 1922

LET US ANSWER YOUR QUERY

WE would welcome the opportunity of showing
you how one of our Glass Gardens can be
placed within a stone's throw of your residence and
fit harmoniously into the picture.
Always when the owner grants us the privilege, we
take pleasure in suggesting locations for the green
house.

Locations where the conditions will be best for the

production of blooms, and at the same time fit in

attractively with your general layout scheme.

For half a century and more, we have been locating,

designing and building the finest of the country's

greenhouses.

Printed matter if you wish it.

Builders of Greenhouses and Conservatories

Irving ton
New York

Cleveland
407 Ulmer Bldg.

Eastern Factory:
Irvington, N. Y.

New York
30 E. • 2d St.

Western Factory:
DCS Plaints. 111.

Philadelphia"
Land Title Bldg.

Atlanta
Atlanta Trust Co. Bldg

Denver

Canadian Factory:
St. Catherines, Ont.
Chicago
Cont. Bk. Bldg.

Kansas City

Boston 11
Little Bldg.
Toronto

1247 So. Emerson St. Commerce Bldg. Harbor Commission Bldg

Living Trees for
Christmas Gifts

A real live Christmas
Tree will add to the joy—
and decorations — of the hol-
iday time. After the festive
season is over the tree can
be planted outdoors, to re-
main for years to come a
living memorial of the holi-
days.

A live Christmas Tree
makes an unusual and ap-
preciated gift to a friend—
a daily reminder of the donor, growing in value each
season. We can send the live Christmas tree to any
point (express charges collect) at these prices:

3-ft. tree $3.75 6-ft. tree Ju.oo

4-ft. tree 5.75 7-ft. tree 15.00

5-ft. tree 7.75 8-ft. tree 18.00
Orders should reach US' before December fjth.

Decide now where you will plant the tree after the holidays;
mulch the spot 6 inches deep and 4 feet across to keep out frost.
Soak the ball of roots when planting, but do not remove the burlap.

BoxH,

HICKS NURSERIES

Westbury, L. I., New York

Kunderd

New Tear Thrills!

When I looked on the wonderful new
Gladioli in my fields the past summer I
realized the powerlessness of printed
words to tell the story that my eyes
feasted upon! How can I express to you
the "Joys of the Glads" that have been
my life's hand-work — the children that
have outdone my dreams?

Can you sense your emotions
when you see in your own gar-
den the unfoldin" blooms of
these glory-creations? Never
has nature done more marvel-
ous coloring, more sublime
type-perfecting! And, remem-
ber my Gladioli are unfailing —
they're so easy to grow!

Free Catalog by Return Mail

The best color-printing money can buy has
been put into my 1023 catalog to give you a
hint of the new Kunderd-created ruffled and
plain petaled varieties. .SVnJ for it Quickly!
The alluring pleasures the catalog provides
old and new friends; the cultural help it
offers and its encyclopaedic data make it on
immediate necessity to every flcwer grower.
Write to-day— NOW!

A. E. KUNDERD, Box 2, GOSHI

The Originator of the Ruffled

IN, INDIANA, U. S. A.

Gladiolus

House &f Garden

Clear Vision

XACTLY three by the tower clock. It is a full half
mile away but there's no mistaking the time.

Yet there were times when they found it necessary to
raise the window to secure clear vision. Then they re-
placed tne ordinary glass with American Window Glass,
superior in clearness, strength and beauty. It was a matter
of common sense and the advantages far outweighed the
small cost.

AMERICAN Window
Glass, identified by
the above mark which ap-
pears on every case, is dis-
tinctly a quality product
made and graded according
to fixed standards. In both
single and double strength
it meets themostparticular
requirements. For every
glazing purpose you will in-
sist that the best be used.
It cost no more.

AMERICAN WINDOW GLASS CO.

GENERAL OFFICES: PITTSBURGH. PA.

BRANCHES IN PRINCIPAL CITIES

Where there are Smokers

• — there are ashes and often untidj ash-trays. But they don't remain
untidy in the home that's Kerne rat or -equipped. For the Kernerator
thrives on cigar ashes, broken crockery, wilted flowers, tin cans, gar-
bage and other household refuse. Dropped into the hopper door in
the chimney flue, they fall into the brick incinerator below. Non-
combustibles are removed with the ashes. No operating cost, for the
refuse, itself, is the only fuel required. The Kernerator saves time
and steps, .eliminates the insanitary garbage can, prevents the collec-
tion of inflammable refuse. What other household convenience serves
so well?

Ask your architect or write for the inter-
esting, illustrated Kernerator booklet.

Kerner Incinerator Company

1025 Chestnut Street Milwaukee, Wis.

ERNERATOR

WATTC

WALLS

DECORATIONS

and DRAPERIE

A necessity in every

modern home

Prevent smudges and discolor-
ations on walls over radiators
and protect interior decora-
tions.

Give refinement and tone to
unsightly radiators.
Three styles of tops:

GLASS

MARBLE

METAL

Illustration shows Marble T.ip Type with PATENTED
DUST TRAP lowered fur cleaning. Whjn re-
leased it automatically closes out of sight under too.
Cwsiilt vouf heating contractor or interior decorator about in-
stallation; or mite us tor lull inlarmation and name ol nearest
dealer.

SODEMANN HEAT fir POWER Co.

2300-23O8 Morgan St., ST.LOUIS,MO.

Residence of S. D. WEIL, Cleveland, Mead & Hamilton, Architects

CRITTALL

Steel
Casements

for artistic residences and
other substantial buildings

Made in varied designs
to meet all conditions

CRIITALL CASEMENT WINDOW Co., DETROIT

Manufacturers

December, 1922

The

Richmond

Pattern

STERLING SILVER

'"pHE charm of Old Virginia's
JL aristocracy is in this Richmond
pattern of solid silver. Colonial
simplicity is relieved by gracious
decoration.

If you would like to see what
other articles in this complete line
look like, send to us for a leaflet
which pictures some of the most
popular pieces of the Richmond de-
sign. Your jeweler will have them or
can easily get them.

ALVIN SILVER COMPANY

20 MAIDEN LANE, NEW YORK
Also Makers of Long-Life flats

SOLID SILVER

(STERLING)

A Refinement of the Barnyard Lantern— that can be
hung when ceilings are low

CASSIDY COMPANY

INCORPORATED

Designers and Manufacturers of Lighting Fixtures
Since 1867

101 PARK AVENUE AT FORTIETH STREET
NEW YORK CITY

ITODHUNTER.

FIREPLACE
EQUIPMENT,

^ANDIRONS
FIRE-TOOLS

FUELHOJ-DER5,
FIRE-BACKS

LANTERNS
FEEDERS
TRIVET3

NV2

ETC.

HAND

FORGED

IM OUR
f-OWN SHOPS

I^^MJ-. P H
GJ TstpPTtl fit T *f ^

Uv3Cl U.1 VJ^ 11 tw>

ARTHUK.TODHHNTER

4I4MADISON AVENUE

V. NEWTORK

The Finer Jewels
and Precious
Merchandise

JEWELRY

SILVER

WATCHES

STATIONERY

For nearly a century it has
been the privilege of this
house to serve patrons seek'
ing Christmas Gifts of rare
excellence. If you have failed
to find the exact pearl neck-
lace, the jewel, the watch,
the article of silver or other
artistic object desired, you are
invited to write to this store.

Information, illustrations or
approval selections willingly
and promptly forwarded.

J. E.GALDWELL & Co.

PHILADELPHIA

100

House &• Garden

IN design, this charming little Grand
Piano presents an appealing combination
of dignity and daintiness. Its pleasing
proportion and architecture lend refinement
to any home. Its tone is delightfully amaz-
ing, rich and sparkling clear in the treble ;
full and sonorous in the bass. Its amaz-
ingly responsive touch is a constant delight
to both student and master.

The One Beautiful And
Everlasting Christmas Gift

The Brambach Baby Grand answers the
wish of every woman who has a home; it is
the dream of every girl who hopes to have
a home. It is the Christmas Gift Supreme.
The Brambach Baby Grand occupies only
the space and costs only the price of a High
Grade Upright Piano.

The Brambach Baby Grand is displayed
and sold by leading Piano Merchants
everywhere. If you do not know your
dealer, let us send you a Brambach
Catalog, and a paper pattern, which
shows exactly the small space require-
ment of this charming little instrument.
Both are free at vour request.

FILL IE* A.TSTP MAIL THE COTJPQlsr

Brambach Piano Company

Mark P. Campbell, Pres.
645 West 49th St., New York City

Kindly send me the Brambach Catalog and Paper Pattern

Name . . .
Address.

2136. An excellent high power long distance

radio receiving set is $100 exclusive of head

phone, tubes and batteries

GIFTS FOR THE SMALL BOY

Kindly Order by Number
Check should accompany order

2137. This
stamp album
provides space
for stamps of
'the 19th and
20th Cen-
turies, $3

2138. This
sound cabinet,
if used with
the radio se<
secures perfect
reproduction
of the voice and
music, $40

2139. A box

containing
euchre, lotto,
dominoes,
backgammon,
puff, the mill
and draughts
is $3

2142. A picture may
be drawn three, times
its size with this pan-
tograph which comes
with drawing paper,
and crayons for 39c.

2140. These paper
cut-out animals will
stand alone. Eight
for 2Sc. 2141. Tar-
get, two bows and four
arrows are SI. 4°

2143. No nursery is quite complete without this amusing Xoal,'s

Ark painted yellow with a red roof and green wheels and its

collection of realistic animals. It is 13" long and 7" high. The

price is $1

December, 1922

101

Tleal bathroom Luxury

T7AIRFACTS China Accessories
r built in the walls complete
the luxury of the bath. They
create a note of refinement that
will be a perennial satisfaction
to you. Plan to have Fairfacts
Fixtures installed when your
house is built. They will last
as long as the house itself and

being made of china will not
crack or stain.

Fairfacts Accessories include
soap dishes, tumbler and tooth
brush holders, towel racks,
shelves, paper holders, sponge
holders and safety grips. We
shall be pleased to send you
our booklet, "The Perfect
Bathroom."

THE FAIRFACTS COMPANY, INC., Manufacturers
234 West 14th St., New York City

jair&ctsjixtures

BUILT IN YOUR BATHROOM WALLS

I'M

A gift admired on Christmas day and
appreciated every day of the year-
Dolly Madison Bed Spreads and Sets.
Beautiful, quaint, unusual in their crinkle
finish, they give a hint of the old-fashion-
ed to the bedroom. Truly practical too
because they wear well, wash easily and
require no ironing. In sizes for every bed
— in colors for every scheme of decoration.
Aik at the leading stores for Dolly Madison Spreads
or write us for name of nearest dealer and booklet
describing other uses of Dolly Madison Crinkle Cloth.

George Royle & Co.,

Manufacturers
Frankford. : : Philadelphia

16 inches high. Made of brass
,nd medallium. 10% inch
>archment shade, brass -
ound. Fitted for electric- A
ly. Complete, ready for A
ulb. Wiring is inside ffi\
he seamless brass
haft. Push button
ocket. Six feet of
ord. Two-piece at-
achment plug.
ipecial shade-
older, tillable
o various
a n g 1 e s.
(Weight,
>acked,is
5 pounds'

Collectors, experts, owners of
sumptuously furnished homes, —
men and women of recognized
taste and discrimination, — have
doubted — (just as you perhaps
may doubt) — the possibility of
getting a really good lamp at a
price so unbelievably low as $3.50.
We have submitted this lamp
to them, on approval. They have
had the privilege of returning it.

They have not done so. On the
contrary, they have ordered more,
and have expressed amazement at
the values the League can offer.

Finished in Ivory While wilh
shade Golden Yellow; or in
Sialuary Bronze with shade
toned in neutral Brown.
Inner reflecting surface
Old Rose. Inter-
nationally known ar-
tists, a sculplor and
painter, created
the design and a
recognized au-
thority onarch-
itecture and
decoration
approved it.
The design
harmon-
izes in
almost
any
s u r-
' roun-
dings

MONEY-BACK APPROVAL

DECORATIVE ARTS LEAGUE
175 Kifth Avenue, New York City
You may send me an "Aurora" lamp and
I will pay the postman 33.50 plus the
postage, when delivered. If not satis-
factory I can return the lamp within five
days of receipt and
are to refund my money ?
in full.

State finish desired.
(/i-ory or Bronze)

3-50,

Signed —
Address-

City and Style — |

We will also regisler you as a Corre- .
spending Member of the League (without I
cost or obligation either now or later) —
to receive news of really arlislic Ihingsfor
Home Decoration.

(CW)

// you prefer, you
may cover the shade
n'ith silk to match
its surroundings ex-
actly.

DECORATIVE ARTS LEAGUE; 175 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY

We invite you to
compare this lamp
u'ith others costing
from $7 to $20.

A charming bedroom suite of seven pieces, Louis XVI .in chocok

Courtesy of Young s, Cleveland, Ohio.

M- *"<"""« <" *«*

PERMANENT BEAUTY

if it is real walnut

Rea

l walnut is alwavs a life-time purchase,
an heirloom for the family. Well-made
walnut furniture never becomes rickety, for
it is the most stable of woods. And as the
characteristic rich color of walnut is in the
wood, it does not show dents, scratches,
worn or dull spots, as artificially-colored
woods are prone to do. Its lustrous surface
never loses that limpid depth so delifc'htful
to the eye.

Let us send you free copies of "The Story
of American 'Walnut" and "Real Walnut
Furniture." They are interesting and in-
structive — the latter a valuable guide for
furniture buyers. This memorandum coupon
is to help you select the best real American
Walnut Furniture. Use it.

AMERICAN WALNUT MANUFACTURERS' ASSN.
Room 715 616 South Michigan Blvd. Chicago, 111.

^AMERICAN

fALWUT

How to Identify Real
American Walnut

Three things to remember in
buying walnut furniture:

1. Ask if it is real walnut — if all
exposed surfaces are real walnut.

2. Walnut has characteristic
pores which appear on the sur-
face as fine pen lines, dots or
dashes, easily visible to the naked
eye. Substitute woods do not
show these lines, dots or dashes
distinctly.

3. Make sure that legs, rails and
mouldings are of the same wood
as tops, fronts and sides— real
walnut.

Cut out this memorandum
for future reference

102

House &° Garden

MADISON AVENUE and 7 /J.TH STREET

m c^ - '\
->'\,,,X ;

HERE is pictured the new building of the
Madison Avenue Branch of the Com-
pany—not really a branch office but the head-
quartersof the Company in the district adjacent.

The Directors determined to house in this
building a complete banking unit. Their pur-
pose has been accomplished and comprehen-
sive banking, trust and safe deposit facilities
and the services of an enlarged staff are now
placed at the disposal of residents and business
interests of the neighbornood.

A handsomely appointed Women's Depart-
ment, with reception room, and separate tel-
lers' windows provide every comfort and con-
venience for women patrons.

You are cordially invited to inspect the new offices.

UNITED STATES
MORTGAGE & TRUST COMPANY

Capital, Surplus and Undivided
'Profits Over $J,OOO,OOO

Main Office: FIFTY-FIVE CEDAR STREET
Branches: BWAY. AT 730 ST. 1 25™ ST. AT 8™ AVE.

NEW YORK

2144. ^4 JOT of colored
wooden beads, square,
round and oblong,
with colored cord to
string them on comes
Jor 50c.

MORE GOOD TOYS

Check should be made out to the House Sr Garden Shopping Service

2145. The
doll's kit-
chen set
above is
painted blue
$1.25

2146. For
pressing
dolls' clothes
comes a very
small electric
iron. Jt is
priced at $2

2147. The
rubber seal
above makes
the most
amusing of
bathtub toys.
8" long, $1

2148. A doll 7" high and
her wardrobe stamped to
be cross-stitched comes
for $2.50

2149. This white woolly

cat when •wound up

meows as he goes along,

$1.25

2150. Most complete is this paper doll mil/it which contains

jointed dolls, patterns, crepe and tissue paper of different colors,

pas'.c a nd a variety of trimming.';. The price is $1

December , 1922

103

Tobey-

made

Furniture

TENDER and soft places in fine woods
demand hand surfacing to prevent goug-
ing, hard streaks require extra scraping; no
machine can here take the place of skilled
hand workmen. Such treatment gives
Tobeymade furniture its lustrous finish — a
natural blending of primal beauty and culti-
vated charm. Send for Brochure 4.

The Tobey Furniture Company

Wabash Avenue Fifth Avenue

CHICAGO NEW YORK

5*^Vr"*5t£i^Ek.H^Kl=?

•>.--': <"•'

A particularly rare type of Chippendale arm chair. One

or a pair of chairs such as this are almost a necessity

in a well furnished English room.

P. JACKSON HIGGS

Works of Art

Panelled Rooms
11 East 54th Street

Furniture, etc.
New York City

O O K W O O D

Solves the problem of the selection of
acceptable HOLIDAY GIFTS whicn
reflect good taste. Call upon our agent
in your city or write to us direct.

THE ROOKWOOD POTTERY COMPANY
Rookwood Place, Cincinnati, Ohio

You will want to see the new Apartment Sectional — a low,
graceful bookcase proportioned to the modern home. Its
decorative possibilities are unusual, Globe-Wernicke
planned it so. In all the period designs you find it equally
attractive — skillfully made, its dust-proof doors the silent
guardians of your book treasures. See it almost everywhere!

Now at the holiday season— hooka and bookcases are
in mind. Every fortunate American family enjoys
books now-a-days and a good bookcase is rapidly
filled! Globe-Wernicke Sectional Bookcases are
"built to endure" and designed1 to grow.

Cincinnati
New York Chicago

_ ^ .
Boston Philadelphia

Washington New Orlean*
Detroic Cleveland

St. Louis

. The Globes
/ Wermeke Co;

Dcpt. K 3
Cincinnati, Ohio

Please send me with-
out charge samples of
Book-plates I may order,.
and your Booklet of Unu-
sual Decorative Effects.-

Name_

1 2 Address

104

UNDYIN G
CHARMytOLONIAL
FURNITURE

vogue of the moment ever
can rival the lasting appeal of
Early American Furniture.
Its dignity and richness, its simple
beauty and sincerity set it apart
from any other style.

All the sentiment which surrounds
this Furniture of our forefathers is
reflected in our new book on Ameri-
can Colonial Furniture. Its illus-
trations and descriptions — more
than 200 in all — are full of interest.
A request will bring you a copy.

K M

The *Desk illustrated above Js the famous
Governor "Winthroft Model, 38 inches wide.
In the background is an exceptionally
handsome and roomy chest of drawers.

K K

Department C-I2

WA-HATHAWffif
•COMPANY •

62 'WEST -4r«vTH STREET
NEW ^J YORK

House & Garden

ON HOUSE & GARDEN'S BOOK SHELF

"Furniture Masterpieces of Duncan
Phyfe" by Charles Over Cornelius. Dou-
bleday, Page & Co.

Duncan Phyfe is being honored with the
first one-man show ever given an Ameri-
can craftsman. Being our greatest crafts-
man, he profoundly deserves the honor
extended to him by the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York. How much
he would have enjoyed such an exhibition
when he was making fine mahogany fur-
niture down in his little shop on Fulton
Street in 1817. Even in those days he was
quite an important person. He knew
Sheraton from Empire — partly by imi-
tating them both so assiduously. And the
lumber trade respected him; down in the
West Indies, Cuba, Santo Domingo, the
finest trees felled were promptly labeled
"Phyfe," and held to the order of the New
York furniture maker, and that was fame
indeed a century ago.

The revival of interest in American
furniture of the early part of the igth
Century has not only brought about this
remarkable exhibition at the Museum (of
somewhat over one hundred pieces) but
it has given us a very complete and beau-
tifully put together book on the "Furni-
ture Masterpieces of Duncan Phyfe" by
Charles Over Cornelius, the assistant
curator of the Museum's Department of
Decorative Arts. This book gives a fine
review of Phyfe's best work and has a de-
lightful opening chapter devoted to the
early history- of New York City, sketching
with a light touch the social and political
conditions of Knickerbocker New York,
in the midst of which Duncan Phyfe pro-
duced the best furniture of his age; so far
as craftsmanship is concerned, the best
furniture ever made in America. Though
for sheer beauty and originality, it does
not really compare with the early Colonial
furniture, those simple, dignified, reticent
achievements of the cabinet-makers of
New England and the South.

It is curious how Duncan Phyfe man-
aged to achieve a certain style that is
recognized as his accomplishment, for it
is difficult to think of a single piece of his
craftsmanship that is wholly original. He
always brings to mind Hepplewhite or
Sheraton, whose books had just been pub-
lished in England when Phyfe began to
work in a large way. Chippendale influ-
enced some of his designs, and then later
the French cabinet workers completely
controlled his mind, though in every in-
stance you feel that the French cabinet-
makers would have done something quite
different. Until the very end of his work,
Duncan Phyfe preserved a lightness of
feeling, a genuine desire to suit his furni-
ture to American decoration and a great
respect for his occupation. It is interest-
ing to trace the change of his best work
from Hepplewhite and Sheraton to what
is now called the American Empire. Mr.
Cornelius wisely avoids showing Duncan
Phyfe's Black Walnut Period which
lacked taste, beauty, everything, except
good craftsmanship. It is greatly to his
credit that even the most hideous of the
models that came from his shop were exe-
cuted with integrity, ingenuity and good
workmanship. One notes with interest
Duncan Phyfe's appreciation of his own
excellent work. There were no sales in his
shop, no making of inexpensive pieces to
keep his workmen busy.

Mr. Cornelius presents several charts
showing the detail which characterizes
Duncan Phyfe's furniture and which ena-
bles the connoisseur to establish the iden-
tity of the work of this craftsman, who
did not often sign his pieces. Fortunately,
certain details of his work were very inti-
mate to him and these details were re-
peated so often in his various models that
they really established a style which is
known as the Duncan Phyfe period. It is
impossible to go into a description of
what constitutes this style, but we heart-
ily recommend to every lover of Ameri-
can furniture and every appreciator of
Duncan Phyfe, Mr. Cornelius' book, not
merely to read, but to study, and to memo-

rize if one intends to become an authority,
as a writer, a decorator or a craftsman.

"Truly Rural," by Richardson Wright.
Houghton, Mifflin Company.

It seems very mete and right that the
editor of House & Garden should also
have a house and garden "in the flesh,"
as it were. For how could a man tell
eager readers the best way to build and
furnish a house, just how to plan and
plant a garden with authority unless these
words were born of actual experience, of
heartbreak and ecstacy?

In a fascinating book bound in apple
green, Mr. Wright sets forth in humorous,
yet serious vein, the fashioning of his own
home. The house itself he did not build.
A Connecticut carpenter, eighty years
ago, "built it out of a book to please his
wife." And his wife should indeed have
been pleased, for he copied exceedingly
well the quaintest, possible presentation
of a little pure Greek temple, and set it
on a hillside with tall green trees about it,
across the road from a beautiful New
England evergreen pasture. Of the buy-
ing of this house Mr. Wright tells in his
opening chapter.

He had been told that the Farr place
near New Caanan was for sale. "As he
began to climb that steep hill" he says,
" I was conscious of exploring an unknown
land — the road was very muddy and the
rain dripped off the rim of my hat. Had
it been winter, I thought, the water would
have frozen into icicles, which would have
made a pretty design for a hat such as she
could wear to advantage. Warm eyes
shining behind crystal icicles dangling
from a wide brim. Charming! — At the
hill we stood solitary and enraptured."

It was in this mood that the house was
bought and furnished and the garden en-
larged and planted and the lovely home
achieved. Although at intervals the new
homemaker would stop in the plowing of
a field or the building of a pergola or the
planting of a rose garden, questioning
"just why do people want to live in the
country." A question which he answers
in the last paragraph of his book delight-
fully when he decides "that the mansion
of Heaven will be not unlike this Greek
temple with a bay window, those gar-
dens not unlike these seven acres, more or
less. For, we shall make our Heaven
where we have sown our purple longings."

The various chapter headings of Mr.
Wright's "story" humorously set forth
the pleasures and the difficulties that were
encountered along the happy way of a
very personal and artistic kind of home-
making. One chapter is called "The Age
of Miracles" — that of course, has to do
with carpenters and plumbers and the
fact that some work was actually accom-
plished by them. There is another called
"The Tyranny of Closets and Books."
Every homemaker will read this chapter
with joy, for there never was a house,
except perhaps Mr. Wright's, that did
not have more books than closets. A de-
lightful heading is "The Spring and Fall
of Man" — spring of course, being hope,
and fall, disillusionment — though there is
never much disillusionment in this book
of cheerful philosophy. For failure to
this writer is a means of clearing the air,
seeing things in their true light, just a
chance to start over again, hurrying along
to a new springtime. The last chapter is
on Heaven, and that we have already
quoted, but by no means adequately.

There is much quaint wisdom in the
book, the presentation of many practical
experiments. Lovely memories of old
happinesses press into the most practical
paragraphs, just as memories do in life.

Every one who thinks of making a
home in the country and those who have
accomplished their homemaking will read
this book with alternate smiles and misty
eyes; and also with the feeling that here
are real lessons in homemaking and gar-
den planting, easier to understand and
more fruitful of results than dozens of
technical books could furnish.

In fine modern houses, service pipes lor
the water, steam and sanitation systems are
usually buried, above the basement level,
in walls and beneath floors.

To make this practice safe and guard
against failures and stoppages which
might involve costly removals, these con-
cealed fittings must be of a design and

quality to insure continuous, smooth and
dependable operation at all times.

Crane valves, connections and piping ful-
fil the most exacting of these require-
ments. In bathroom, kitchen and laundry,
Crane visible beauty, comfort and con-
venience are coupled with Crane unfailing
quality in all hidden parts.

CRAN E

GENERAL OFFICES: CRANE BUILDING. 836 S.MICHIGAN AVE., CHICAGO

Branchei and Salct Office! in One Hundred and Thirty-fee Gtiei

National Exhibit Roomt: Chicago, New York, Atlantic City

Works: Chicago and Bridgeport

CRANE, LIMITED, MONTREAL. CRANE-BENNETT, LTD., LONDON
CRANE EXPORT CORPORATION: NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO
C!? CRANE, PARIS

\\v

those separated
by distance, no mat-
ter how great, is the won-
derfully efficient Florists*
Telegraph Delivery Ser-
vice which makes it pos-
sible for flowers to be
sent anywhere and de-
livered fresh and fragrant
within a few hours after
order is placed with your
local florist.

More than a Gift— a To\en of Love

Best loved are flowers among all Christmas Gifts,
for they bring this message which flowers alone can
impart— "You are held best loved."

For flowers are universal messengers from heart
to heart — an appeal that is spiritual rather than
material. And this year you will be delighted to
find at your nearest florist shop, that a more glori-
ous profusion than ever awaits you.

For your Christmas words of Love—

December, 1922

105

The Scientific Dryolette

Every Day a Perfect Drying Day

THERE'S no delay in drying, no extra steps, no carrying of heavy
baskets of clothes, no unsightly clothes lines or clothes pins with
the Scientific Dryolette. Installed in your laundry or basement, within
arm's reach of your washer, it dries your clothes ready for ironing as
fast as your washer can wash them.

Enthusiastic users say it's just like out-door drying on an ideal summer
day, because the Dryolette supplies a constant flowing stream of warm,
dry, clean air which dries the clothes naturally and thoroughly.

The neat steel cabinet gives privacy to your washing and protection against flying
soot, dust and dirt.

Durable, sanitary, convenient and economical. Operates with either gas or electricity
atatrifling cost. Write for dealer's name and our new booklet, "Scientific Clothes Drying."

THE SCIENTIFIC HEATER COMPANY

2102 Superior Viaduct Cleveland, Ohio

Your Casements to be
Satisfactory Must Not
Rattle This Winter

MONARCH

CASEMENT STAY

«3>.-~

makes your casement "stay put" at any angle, prevents slamming, holds

securely without rattle even in the face of a strong wind. Can be applied

to any casement, right or left, top or bottom, concealed or exposed.

Satisfactory friction assured by a slight hand-turn of outer tube

Send for "Casement Windows." a book that

points the way to casement satisfaction

MONARCH METAL PRODUCTS CO.

Makers of Monarch Metal Weather Strips
4920 PENROSE STREET ST. LOUIS, MO.

Quaint New England charm is woven into sturdy Pinkham
Rugs, home-braided by the fifth generation of Maine weavers.
Stretched on the floor of living-room, dining-room or hallway,
these works of homely art give your furnishings inimitable
atmosphere.

Artistic color combinations — braided in rounds and ovals,
are on view at leading stores. Send samples of your wall-cover-
ings and chintzes for color sketches of special patterns to har-
monize. No charge for this service.

PINKHAM ASSOCIATES, Inc.

3 Marginal Road, Portland, Maine

You can see
Magicoal at a
dealer's near
you. We'll
send his name
when you
write for
booklet.

Will Christinas Bring You

"Firelight Happiness?"

WILL the coals burn and glow in the grate, sending their
flickering shadows over the hearth as the kiddies watch
for Santa?

Replace the three cold logs now in your fireplace with the warm
glow from a Magicoal Electric Fire. It so closely resembles real
fire that you can scarcely tell the difference. If you have only
a dummy fireplace, Magicoal will bring to it the happiness of
a real one, for no flue is needed. Just a turn of a switch and
"firelight happiness" is yours.

Magicoal attaches to any lighting circuit and the operating cost
is negligible. It will give you heat also, if you wish.

Mayer Brothers & Bramley, Inc.

417 West 28th Street, New York City

Sole distributors for the U. S.A., H. H. Berry World Patents

The nailhcads at the cor-
ners are really screws
made to reproduce old
hand-forged nails. They
come with every W. Irv-
ing -fixture or may be
bought separately.

hand forced

^Gokmial

hardware.

TRADE MARK

arUXOUIXCeS

tKe opening of its uptown. sKowroom

425 Madison Avenue, NewVork

Hand Forged Wrought Iron

| Hardware

JrQ Fireplace Fittings S^t\.

Electric Lighting Fixtures

Lamps and Candlesticks

Christmas Novelties

W. Irving Forge

Keene Kindlet Firelighter, No. 1060

•write us or visit our sfcop

326*328 ea5t38«>St. flew York Gift

•Telephone rturray .mil 8536.

1C6

House &• Garde

paDIRECTORYo/DECORATIQN.8FINEAR13

This Cage

j . O

i* made in our

Edgdbrook Studios

ror our Indoor Gar Jens

SdbfirtlO

BEATTY&BEATTY

Architects BuitdiixJ

101 Parh Avenue, New York-

We design GarJen&Sun Rooms £-Gar Jen frtjtriors

•Che NEW YORK SCHOOL of
INTERIOR DECORATION ^

[01 PARK. AVE • NEW YORK CITY

Correspondence Courses

Complete instruction by cor-
respondence in the use of
period styles, color harmony,
composition, etc. Course in
Home Decoration lor ama-
teurs. Course for profes-
sionals. An agreeable and
lucrative profession. Start
any time.

Send for Catalogue H.

43t MADISON AVENUE at 49* ST.
NHW YORK

VANDERBILT- 56GO

ing in Qriiztjes
Linens and Cretonnes'.

Imported and Domestic
Christmas ^Specialties

MATERIAL REDUCTIONS

on my entire collection of

Hand Painted Original Paintings

Wall Panels and Leather Screens

from now until January ist
Making an unusual Xmas opportunity

STUDIO-219 E. 60th St.-NEW YORK

Old French
Scenic Wall Papers

"Until you have at least seen pictures
of these unusual and distinctive wall
coverings you can have no idea of their
beauty. Imagine a room papered with
what are. In effect, actual mural paintings
by French artists of the Napoleonic era,
How far superior they are to the weari-
some repetition of tlie formal designs
ordinarily used in wall paper.

You can now obtain papers by such
famous creators anil manufacturers as J.
Zuber et CMe, Desfosse et Karth, and
Isadore Leroy et Cie— depicting such sub-
jects as ElDorado, Decor Chinois, Classic
Landscape, Scenic America, Chinese Chip-
pendale, Isola Ilella, Fetes of Louis XIII.
In the Chateau Country, Horse Racing,
Italian Landscape, Psyche and Cupid, etc.

If your Decorator cannot supply
you write for illustrated booklet.

A. L. Diament & Co.
101 Park Ave.,New York.

Sole American Agents

2159. Green, purple, blue or tan

leather makes this writing case,

attractively Jilted inside, $5

GIFTS FOR THE TRAVELLER

Kindly Order by Number

Tliese may be purchased from the Jloitse &• Garden
Stopping Service, 19 West 44/A Si. X. I'. C.

2160. Pullman slippers in soft
brmi'ii si/cde fit into a case 7"
long. Kindly slate size, $7.50

2161. For motoring, a leather
clean-up kit contains towel, soap-
dish and li'liisk broom, $2.75

2162. Very smart
is this unfitted
dressing case for a
man, of black or
brown cou'Lide,

2163. For travel-
ing comes a small
electric iron in a
leatherette case,
5" high, 6" wide,
priced at $5.25

2164. The practical leather case above

holds a man's soft collars. It is silk

lined, $4.95

2165. For the motorist comes a comfortable automobile

robe in attractive dark plaids. It is all wool and measures

60" x 80". The price is only $7.50

December, 1922

107

DIRECTORYo/DECORATION 8 FINE ARTS

45 West 44th St., New York

"The Afterglow" Ralph Blakelock

Exhibition of

PAINTINGS

Ralph Blakelock

DURING DECEMBER
Catalog on Request

EHRICH

GALLERIES

707 FIFTH AVE.. at 55th St.

NEW YORK

ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY
OLD AND MODERN MASTERS

During December
Special Exhibition

of
Old Masters

MRS. EHRICH

707 FIFTH AVE.

METAL WORK— VENETIAN GLASS

POTTERY— ITALIAN LINENS

ANTIQUE FURNITURE

" Unusual Gifts
for Unusual People"

GLASNERJI

BROTHERS

Old Painted Furniture

Brings Its 18th Century

Grace into the Modern Home

AS" unusual collection
has justarrived from
England — commodes,
secretaries, tables,chairs,
all of that lightness and
delicacy of design which
is so much appreciated
today.

Illustrated — one of a pair of
commodes, exquisitely painted
in old blue with decorations
in inlay.
Photographs sent on request

554 Madison Ave.

Pe\vter Reproductions

Brasses *J« Furniture

Decorative Ironwork

SendjorJoUer

19 East 48th Street
New York City

INTIMATE PAINTINGS

so called because they are capable of the in-
timate acquaintance of home surroundings, are
now on exhibition at this gallery.

This is the exhibition of the year for the home
owner who takes the same care in the selection
of his pictures as in his other decorations and
furnishings.

An attractive illustrated catalogue with prices
will be mailed on request.

WILLIAM MACBETH

(Incorporated)

450 Fifth Avenue at fortieth street New York City

You'll Find

Them
At Barto's

The table which you
need for the niche in
your wall, the mirror
which would so effec-
tively complete your
foyer group — these
you will find in their most
beautiful and practical
forms at Barto's.

Italian Mirrors, $30. ;o each.
Crystal Candelabra, £95 a pair.
Walnut Commode with sliding tray!, $210.
Lamp with vase base and 22 inch silk shade. Complete, $36.50.
High back tapestry arm chair with arms ami legs ojf walnut. $105.
Elaborate Needlepoint Chair u'ilh legs of carved walnut. Specially priced at $270.
Painted and Decorated Bedroom Sets Day Beds

Edward R. Barto &. Co.

S [>t\ ialist in Interior Furnishings
775 Lexington Avenue : : :

New York

WE BUY

AND SELL

PAINTINGS

BY THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS

IXXESS

WYAXT

HOMER

MARTIN*

BLAKELOCK

FULLER

TWACHTMAX

WEIR

DUVENECK

REMINGTOX

RYDER

MURPHY

AINSLIE

GALLERIES

ESTABLISHED 1885

677 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK

Tel. Plaza 6886

Neptune and Venus Book Ends

By GLEB DERUJINSKY

$225 bronze, marble base

The MILCH
GALLERIES

Dealers in

AMERICAN PAINTINGS
AND SCULPTURE

EXHIBITIONS:

'Water Colors" by Frank W. Benson

and Paintings by Sigurd Schon

November 27 to December 9

Paintings

by James Montgomery Flagg
December 11 to 23

Milch Gallery "Art Notes" sent on request.

108 West 57th Street, New York City

108

House &• Garden

DlRECTORYo/DECORATION 8 FINE ARTS

iROtX et

2.53 CHURCH ST.-

Cobb«v ov j-ujrv boti -

'iV'tUrn. _8"hi^ $• 5.5

OtKcv bisians in. Stcu\cU~LfiwP!>-
-

Wall

Fountains

Are not confined to outdoors. \Vhile
they have an important place in the
garden wall, they also can be used to
excellent advantage in the conserva-
tory or sun parlor. Included in our
collection of garden orna-
ments, we have a number
of very attractive wall
fountains at unusually
reasonable prices.

Our illustrated catalogue
sent on request.

The

ERKINS

STUDIOS

[Established 1900

140 Lexington Ave.

at 34th Street

New York

NIGHTRACK

A MODERN device for holding clothing in form for ventilation
purposes. An easy, practical and efficient method for sanitary
care of wearing apparel. Requires minimum of space. Holds clothing

^^^^^ in shape by window or radiator

^^•1^^^^^^ over night, wherever require-

\ J ments demand. High swung

Nfl< shoetrees preserve sole leather.

Have your evening clothes
pressed and waiting on Night-
rack.

A Christmas present with life-
long service. Finished in red
or brown mahogany, walnut
and ivory, for wiomen and men.

Price
$10.00

Express Prepaid

Ropennmmono
STUDIOS

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Colonial

Fireplace

Furnishings

They Gladden
the Hearth

Andirons, Grates,
Fire Sets, etc., in a
wide range of Co-
lonial and other
period designs in
hand-wrought iron,

— polished or hammered brass, or any de-
sire:! finish. Special designs to order.
Much of your pleasure in your fireplace comes
fiom the beauty and usefulness of the acces-
sjries which adorn the hearth. You have our
record of thirty years in building and equipping
fireplaces to assure artistic effect with satis-
factory service and economy either in complete
fireplaces or in fireplace furnishings.

Write today for newly issued booklet, "Modern
Fireplaces of Colonial Charm."
Sent FREE.

COLONIAL FIRE-
PLACE CO.

30 Years Building
Fireplaces

4613Roosevelt Rd.
Chicago, III.

Amazing Antique
Oriental Rugs

Such rarities are seldom
seen; thick, sparkling, vel-
vety. Some of my rugs are
now in museums, many were
pictured in leading rug books.
Volume of supply is off 90%
since 1914, and will fall more.
Persia is bare of antiques to-
day. Each rug is a collector's
dream, the best of over
10,000. That is why I have
sold rugs in all of our large
cities. Descriptive list on
request; then, if you like, I
will prepay an assortment
on approval.

Write for descriptive list.

L. B. Lawton, Skaneateles, N. Y.

2166. Monogram
playingcards, green,
red, blue and yellow,
Two packs, $4.50.
No orders received
after Dec. i$lh

FOR THE SMOKER AND CARD PLAYER

Kindly Order By Number

These may be purchased from the House &• Garden
Shopping Service, 19 West 44th St., N. Y. C.

2167. This brown

leather cigarelte

case is tooled in

gold, $5.50

2168. Above is a

carved ivory cigarette

holder 5" long, priced

at $2.50

2169. This attractive
leather bridge set eon-
tains lu'o packs of cards,
score pad, place mark-
ers and pencil, complete
jar $9.50

2170. Two excel-
lent pipes come in
an attractive
leather case f or $\2

2171. For a man is

this smoker's stand

of wrought iron,

$16.50

2172. This smoker's set
of pigskin or black seal
contains a cigar, cigar-
ette and match case with
gold and black enamel
shields. The holders are
banded in gold, $35

2173. 5a'»»-
top mahog-
any card
tableopensby
merely press-
ing a rod,
$10. 2174.
}\'r o u g ht
iron lamp
•with parch-
ment shade,
$5. 2175.
Mahogany
cigarette

December, 1922

109

DIRECTORY OF DECORATION AND FINE ARTS

= Hi'

Finds =

the |

Light 5

Button =

in the £

Dark E

S This attractive hand painted wall ~

— plate fits over the light button. A =

— "radium" circle, shining through the '

• dark shows you just where it is. !Z

S In ordering state which color com- —

S bination you desire. Ivory plate with -

~ gray and pink parrot, pi-nk border. |

S Ivory plate with brightly colored I

« parrot, blue border. Black plate ••

S with green parrot. Black plate with •

! white parrot. Size 2-yt x. 4-'/2 •

! inches. Sent prepaid for $1.60. ;

NATURE STUDIO

E 243 W. Biddle St, Baltimore, Md. =
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DARN LEY

Inc.

WROUGHT

IRON

WALL

BRACKET

FOR IVY OR

FLOWERS
14 in OVERALL

COMPLETE

WITH METAL

BOWL

$18.00

397 Madison Ave. 14 Bellevue Ave.
New York Newport, R. 1.

SERVICE TABLE WAGON

Saves Thousands of Steps

(1) Ha. larje broad Table Top (20x30 in.)
(J) TWO Under»helve. (to tran.port

ALL the table dishes inONE TRIP.)

(3) Large center pull-out Drawer.

(4) Double End Guiding Handles.

(f> Equipped with four (4) Rubber Tired

" Scientifically Silent" Swivel Wheel..

(6) A beautiful extra glass ScrvinJ Tray.

Write for descriptive pamphlet and dealer's name.

THE COMBINATION STUDIOS

504-G Cunard Bldj.. Chicago. 111.

An unusual decorative treatment for small wall spare in a breakfast room is
shown in the glass mirrors painted with gay bird and flower Chinese design.

444 Park Avenue
New York

MISS GHEEN, Inc.

Decoration of Houses

103 East Ontario Street
Chicago

Are You Redecorating ?

Perhaps your rooms are done in a certain period
or style. Sometimes it is hard to choose a picture
or an etching which will harmonize and be in
keeping with its surroundings.

House & Garden will be glad to make suggestions
and furnish you with the names of galleries and
dealers who specialize in the different schools
of art.

Write to the

Information Service

HOUSE & GARDEN

19 W. 44th St. New York

Qenume
ffieecffiurwture

Reed Shop Creations are
noted for Durability, Luxurious
Comfort, and their Artistic
Decorative Charm.

Our Personal Service in
aiding patrons to secure just
the particular Design and Col-
oring that appeal to the indi-
vidual taste is an advantage
not found in the average store
where selection is usually
confined to the stock on hand.

Our Ensemble of Imported Novelty Decorative Fabrics offers
every advantage to those desiring to avoid the commonplace.

HIGHEST QUALITY BUT NOT HIGHEST PRICED

REED SHOP. INC.

9 EAST 57th STREET, NEW YORK

Suggestions in Reed Furniture" forwarded on receipt of 250 postage

WOODVILLE & CO.

1711 WALNUT STREET
PHILADELPHIA

Interior Decorations

Antique & Modern Furniture
Spanish Linens &l Laces
Stuffs - Lamps - Etc.

This wicker doll set $8.50.
Similar sets are priced at $5.
Smaller sets at $3.50.
Household linens for Xmas
gifts.

36 East 48th St. 540 Madison Ave.

New York City

FIPvEPLACE FITTINGS

Firtllt B-*3i

43' high

Andirons toti/i log roller
27" high

Above is one of our interesting
hearth groups desirable not only
for their utility but also for their
decorative qualities. This group is
wrought by hanH in antique finish.

Catalogue H sent on request

THEH.W COVERT COMPANY

137 East 46th Street, New York.

lie

House & Garden

2 1 76. Four cookie cut-
ters, two birds and
two people, are of tin ,
measuring 3" over all,
75c

ANAMMDA

Your Bathroom—

Glittering tile and resplendent
porcelain prove a sad disappoint-
ment when the water dribbles
from rust-clogged pipes or your
bathtub fills with rusty water.

Complete comfort in your
bathroom requires brass pipe.
Any other pipe will rust — and
that is not all, inferior pipe will
clog, leak or split.

Anaconda brass pipe resists
corrosion. It insures you
against torn-out walls, falling
or unsightly ceilings, and the
annoyance and expense of the
repairman's visits.

The added cost is only about
$75. for a $15,000. house. By
adding a fraction of a cent to
each dollar to be spent for
plumbing, you can have Ana-
conda brass pipe in your home.
Remember the cost of installa-
tion is the same.

Write for our new booklet, "Ten "Years
Hence," which tells how you can save
on your plumbing. It is free.

THE AMERICAN BRASS COMPANY

GENERA! OFFICES. WATERBURY, CONN.

MILLS AND FACTORIES
Ansoma.Conn Torrington. Conn. Waterbury. Conn Buffalo.N.Y Kenosha. Wis.

OFFICES AND AGENCIES

NirwYork Philadelphia Boston Providence Pmsburph
Clcvd.nd Cincinnati Detroit Chicago St. Loiiis SSn Francisco

ANACONDA AMERICAN BRASS LIMITED. NEW TORONTO. ONTARIO CANADA

BRASS PIPE

SEVEN PRACTICAL GIFTS

These may be purchased from tiie House & Garden
Mopping Service, 19 Weil 44lh SI., N. Y. C.

2177. This
table stove
contains an
alii mi mum
toaster,
boiling pan,
griddle, four
egg cups and
nick, $12.50.
1 1 'afflc iron
!U extra

2180. A'fic' England
recipes and an oven in-
dicator are contained in
Iliis oal: box measuring
(>'.,"x4K", S4.50

2178. Thir-
teen piece
Madeira
luncheon set,

S8.50

2179. (Be-

loiv) Yellow
pottery jam
jar with
bri'liant de-
sign, $3.50

2181. This portable
typewriter has a stand-
ard keyboard and comes
in a leatherette case, 10"
long x 4" high, $50

2182. Eighteen individual tea balls come in a U'liite
pottery dish tied in French paper and ribbon to match, $6

December, 1922

In America's Finest Homes

The Vose Grand Piano

is in harmony with luxurious surroundings.

Its incomparable Tone distinguishes it from

all other Pianos, and yet its price is moderate

We challenge comparisons. Write for

beautifully illustrated catalog and floor

pattern, also easy payment plan.

VOSE & SONS PIANO COMPANY

152 Bo vision Street, Boston, Mass.

For Gifts or Prizes

^pHE Seven Establishments of Chas.
MJ/ W. Wolf present helpfully large
and varied collections of exceptionally
choice Leather articles. Distinctive
travel pieces. Chic stay-at-home refine-
ments. Things at once practical and
exquisite; designed for the actual daily
use of active men and discriminating
women. Service of the highest order.
Prices of marked restraint.

Illustrated: Women's ecrase Vanity
Purse with cloisonne fittings, 817.50.
Taupe ecrase Travel Clock, $26.25.
Grained calf Bridge Score, $5.00.

10 WALL ST.

5O BROADWAY

58 CORTLANDT ST.

Esla hit shed
22 CORTLANDT ST.

New York

I/ DEY ST.

I O2 NASSAU ST.

225 BROADWAY

New York representative of Hartmann Trunks

Folks:

My publishers have given me
this space to tell you of my new
book and I'm mighty pleased
that you may have it to give to
yourself and to your friends for
Christmas! You see I've saved
you the agony of thinking out a
unique gift!

We are both interested in
what we put into our homes, and
there are so many useless tools
from which this book can save
you, that I know you will be
glad at last to have our past
adventurings under two covers —
indexed and compiled for rapid
reference.

You know pretty well what is
in my book, but even you will
find surprises!

Cheating
the Junk Pile

A book which explains the
choice and the upkeep of
household equipment which
is labor-saving if rightly
handled and junk if not.
Fully illustrated. $2.50

At all book stores. Published by

E.P.DUTTON&CO.

681 Fifth Avenue, New York

Do Away with the Unsightly Garbage Can

Medical men, and experts on the subject
of sanitation, long ago condemned the
unsightly garbage can — with its disagree-
able odors, swarms of insects and the
added menace of being an ideal place for
the breeding of dangerous disease germs.
There is every argument against this
form of garbage disposal — none in favor
of it.

But now there is a definite solution
for the garbage problem. The installa-
tion of a

RANZ GARBAGE
DESTROYER

Provides a centralized place for the
disposing of all waste and trash with-
out muss or odor. All combustibles
are reduced to sterile ashes and non-
combustibles are dried and sterilized
and later dropped into the ashes.
Nothing can clog the Ranz and it
sterilizes itself with each burning. . ;
This scientific method of garbage dis-
posal enables you to keep the entire
place sightly and sanitary. Makes
you independent of the costly and
unreliable method of letting garbage
accumulate until it is hauled away.

ENDORSED BY USERS

The Ranz Garbage Destroyer is a time tested and
proven success. It is used in the best homes and
country estates. Owners enthusiastically endorse
it. Satisfaction guaranteed or money back.
Mail the coupon today for prices and literature.

NEENAH BRASS WORKS

Dept. 212

ah, Wis.

Neenah Brass Works,
Dept. 212, Neenah, Wis.

Please mail me your booklet on
garbage disposal for homes, apts.,
hospitals, picnic grounds (check).

Name.
Addresi

At this the HOLIDAY
SEASON we suggest as
GIFTS a choice from our
comprehensive Collection of

OLD AND RARE BOOKS
SETS AND SINGLE VOLUMES

FIRST EDITIONS

BOOKS WITH COLORED PLATES

SPORTING BOOKS

Desk Sets Stationery

Book Ends Novelties

Prints Brass Goods

BRENTANO'S

Booksellers to the World

Fifth Ave., New York

112

House

Garden

Make Your Coal Pile
Last Longer

Let the Most Efficient Gas Heating
Device in the World Work for You

When you know that Radianttire can send
its stream of warmth through the thickest
block of clear ice, you immediately appre-
ciate the revolutionary nature of this new
type of fireplace equipment.

And the practical result? Ninety per cent
of your heat projected straight out into your
room, instead of up your chimney, where it
has always gone before.

Also, because it generates its heat from gas
—natural or manufactured — Radiantfire is
smokeless, sootless, ashless, safe, and always
under perfect control. It gives off no odor
and improves ventilation.

Modernize your fireplace with Radiantfire.
The installation will cost no more than the
renewal of your old fixtures. And Radiant-
fire will burn for hours at the price of a
shovelful of coal.

Your Gas Company or local dealer will tell
you all about Radiantfire and will show you
the wide variety of models.

HUMPHREY

GENERAL GAS LIGHT COMPANY

Kalamazoo, Mich.
New York, 44 W. Broadway San Francisco, 768 Mission Street

PITTSBURGH BUFFALO CINCINNATI ATLANTIC CITY

While Planning
Your New
Home
Make It
Electrically
Comfortable, Convenient
and Safe!

With the New Triumph Type "R" Safety Type
Residence Panel Board you can locate the
fuses at the "center of distribution" so that
when a fuse "blows" or burns out you, with-
out the delay of waiting for help, can replace

it safely. This is of vast
importance to your peace
of mind, and comfort.
It gives other advan-
tages which we more ful-
ly explain in our new
book, which should be in
every home builder's
hands— sent free upon
request.

THIS NEW BOOK

can help to make that new home a
better place to live in. "Wiring the
Home for Comfort and Con-
venience," far from beinga mere cat-
alogue, is a text booklet on correct
home wiring and a safeguard against
the disappointments that many
home-builders encounter. It directs
to house-wiring the attention it
should have and points the way to
the utmost in convenience, utility
and safety available with electricity
in the home.

Architects and Contractors prefer to spec-
ify and install Type "M-R" Residence
Panel Boards because the one type fits
every requirement and is an indication of
quality for the entire electric installation.
Type "M-R" Panel Boards cost very little
more than the ordinary.

ELECTRIC COMPANY

ST. LOUIS

Detroit Dallas Minneapolis Kansas City

Cincinnati Cleveland New Orleans

Chicago San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle

December, 1922

113

THE FLOOR MAKES
THE ROOM

Oak Floors give a room more distinction and char-
acter than many times their cost spent on decorative
features.

They can be stained and re-stained in a wide range
of tones from the usual golden brown to a beautiful
silver gray, to suit your color schemes.

Oak Floors always improve with age and use. They
are good for a century. They save time and work by
being so easy to keep bright, clean and dustless. No
one who has had Oak Floors ever wants any other
type.

New Floors Over the Old

If you are going to remodel, there is a special thick-
ness Oak Flooring (}/s of an inch) which goes right on
top of your old floors. It costs less than the other
thicknesses.

You Can Afford Them Now

Any one who can afford to build or remodel can have
fine, dustless Oak Floors. You will be surprised to
know, perhaps, that they cost less than ordinary floors,
plus unwieldy, unsanitary carpets. With lowered
prices and freight rates Oak Floors now cost you 75%
less than a year and a half ago.

Increase Your Real Estate Values

Buildings of any kind with Oak Floors invariably
sell and rent for 25% more, at the least. They are both
a luxury and an economy, giving you many advantages
at a lower price.

Ask any architect, contractor or lumber dealer, for
the cost, giving room measurements, if you want the
exact figures.

Two interesting booklets, in colors, on the
uses of Oak Floors, mailed free on request

OAK FLOORING ADVERTISING BUREAU

1047 Ashland Block, Chicago, 111.

This Free Test

Has brought prettier teeth to millions

The prettier teeth you see every-
where now probably came in this
way.

The owners accepted this ten-day
test. They found a way to combat
film on teeth. Now, as long as they
live, they may enjoy whiter, cleaner,
safer teeth.

The same way is open to you, and
your dentist will urge you to take it.

The war on film

Dentists, the world over, have de-
clared a war on film. That is the
cause of dingy teeth — the cause of
most tooth troubles.

A viscous film clings to the teeth,
gets between the teeth and stays.
Old brushing methods left much of
it intact. Then it formed the basis
of thin cloudy coats, including tartar.
Most people's teeth lost luster in that
way.

Film also holds food substance
which ferments and forms acid. It
holds the acid in contact with the
teeth to cause decay. Germs breed
by millions in it. They, with tartar,
are the chief cause of pyorrhea. ,

Very few people have escaped
these troubles caused by film.

Ways to combat it

Dental science, after long research,
has found two ways to combat that
film. Able authorities have amply
proved their efficiency. So leading

dentists the world over now advise
their daily use.

A new-type tooth paste has been
created, avoiding old mistakes. The
name is Pepsodent. It does what
modern science seeks. These two
great film combatants are embodied
in it.

Aids Nature's Fight

Pepsodent also multiplies Nature's
great tooth-protecting agents in the
mouth. One is the starch digestant in
saliva. That is there to digest starch
deposits which cling to teeth. In fer-
menting they form acid.

It also multiplies the alkalinity of
saliva. That is there to neutralize
mouth acids — the cause of tooth
decay.

Thus Pepsodent gives to both these
factors a manifold effect.

Show them the way

Send the coupon for a 10-Day
Tube. Note how clean the teeth feel
after using. Mark the absence of the
viscous film. See how teeth whiten
as the film-coats disappear.

One week will convince you that
Pepsodent brings a new era in tooth
protection. Then show the results
to your children. Teach them this
way. Modern dentists advise that
children use Pepsodent from the time
the first tooth appears.

This is important to you and yours.
Cut out the coupon now.

REG- U.S.

The New-Day Dentifrice

Endorsed by modern authorities
and advised by leading dentists
nearly all the world over now. All
druggists supply the large tubes.

10-Day Tube Free

The Pepsodent Company,

Dept. 479, 1104 S. Wabash Are.,

i I,,, ,,.,., m.

Mail lo-Day Tube of Pepeodent to

Only one tube to a family.

114

House &° Garden

Running
Water6

for every
need '

Have a Private
Pumping Station

The Fairbanks-Morse Home Water
Plant brings all the convenience and de-
pendability of city water to country
homes and cottages. Simple, easy to
install, economical to operate, it com-
pletely modernizes the isolated dwelling.

It brings running water, under pressure,
to bathrooms, kitchen, basement, garage
and to any part of the grounds auto-
matically. Operates from any electric
light socket or home lighting plant circuit.

It's Automatic

FAIRBANKS -MORSE
HOME WATER PLANT

Pumps water from cistern , shallow
well, spring or lake, under pressure. Noise-
less and automatic. No switch to turn.
No adjustments to make. Has galvanized
steel tank to prevent rust.

Now selling at a low price. Costs only
a few cents a week to operate. If you do
not know our local dealer, write us for
complete information and literature.

This is the
only Water
Plant hav-
ing the
famous
Fair ban ks-
Morae
pump

FAIRBANKS, MORSE & CO.

Manufacturers Chicago

The Canadian Fairbanks-Morse Co., Ltd., Montreal

35C

R. C. Hunter & Bro., Archts.. N.Y. City,
used "CREO-DIPT" Stained Shingles in
24-inch "Dixie White"
wide exposure for side
walls and 16-inch Moss
Green Roof.

the small house, "CREODIPT" Stained
Shingles on side walls and roof establish a true
" home atmosphere."

Their adaptability to varied architectural detail; their ex-
ceptional qualities of durability and economy ; the artistic
satisfaction secured by their use make "CREO-DIPT" Stained
Shingles the favored material of discerning architects and
builders.

The open market does not afford such quality in shingles or
stains.

If >ou are going to build or remodel, send 6 cents to cover
postage-for -iVirtfoHo of Fifty Photographs of Homes by Prom-
inent Architects as well as color samples. Ask abnut 24-inch
"Dixie White" Side Walls for the true Colonial White effect.

if. Snc.
1012 Oliver St. North Tonawanda, N. Y.

Sales Offices in Principal Cities. Many Lumber Dealers Carry Standard Colors in Stock.

Vortfolio
of Homes

'CREO-DIPT"

Stained Shingles

Away With The Cesspool !

Secure all the sanitary comforts of a city building by installing an

Aten Sewage Disposal System

For Homes, Schools, Clubs, Hospitals, Factories

Allows free and continuous use of wash stands, sinks, toilets,
bath tubs, laundry tubs, showers, etc.

The septic tanks are made of concrete reinforced wire-forms,
not wooden-forms. Adapts itself to future extensions to single
buildings or grounds. Can be installed Dy unskilled labor
without expert engineering service or experienced supervision
in the field. Has nothing to
get out of order.

Our booklet No. 7 tells how

and why. Sent free upon re-
quest.

ATEN SEWAGE
DISPOSAL CO.

286 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.

California Bungalow Books

"Home Kraft" and "Draughtsman" each contain Bungalows and
Two Stories. "Plan Kraft" Two Stories. "Kozy Homes" Bunga-
lows. $1.00 each— all four for $3.00. De Luxe Flats $1.00

DE LUXE
521 UNION LEAGUE BLDG.

BUILDING CO.

LOS ANGELES. CALIF.

FIRE PLACE
FIXTURES

Beautify your fireplace with fix-
tures really worthy of it. Stover
Andirons, Fire Baskets and Fire
Sets are created to meet the ap-
proval of the more discriminating.

Distinctive Designs
Attractive Finishes

Stover Fixtures can be supplied in
special bronze and plated finishes that
are particularly beautiful and cost but
little more than the ordinary black
finishes. Also in solid brass, brush-
brass finish.

A Stover Damper

Will Improve
Your Fireplace

Fireplaces equipped with
Stover Dampers throw
more heat, save fuel and
add greatly to the own-
er's comfort. Insist
that your contractor
install Stover Fire-
place Fixtures.

Bmklel FKEE1

Improved Dome
Fireplace Damper

STOVER MFG. & ENGINE CO.

Freeport, 111.

1401 East Street

No Overheating —
NoUnderheating!

In homes where the temperature is hand-regu-
lated, the rooms are generally too hot or too
cold, seldom comfortable. This variation in
temperature is unnecessary. The "Minneapo-
lis" automatically maintains
normal, healthy temperature.
Lowers the temperature at night,
raises it in the morning while
you sleep. Cuts fuel bills. Saves
steps. Quickly and easily in-
stalled in old or new homes on
any type of heating system burn-
ing any kind of fuel. Half a
million in use. Write for free
booklet.

THE MINNEAPOLIS
HEAT REGULATOR CO.

2790 Fourth Avenue, So.
MINNEArOLIS, MINN.

December, 1922

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rt the Home of

"THE LITTLE
DRESSMAKER"

as illustrated 4
Others $1.50 to $5

TOY STEAM ENGINE
as illustrated $7-50
Others $3.00 to $150

Special for Xmas
Doll's Dressmaking Outfits

that delight the heart of the little dressmaker.
Contain a variety of dainty sewing materials
that teach her to sew and make pretty things
tor her dollies.

Practical Toy Engines

Fascinating and instructive. Operate me-
chanical toys; sturdily made and sale.

A most complete selection of Holiday Toys
from the world's foremost toy makers — all
reasonably priced.

Dolls, Games, Mechanical and Con-
struction outfits, Electrical and
Mechanical Trains, Steam Engines,
Boats, Bicycles, Airplanes, Kites;
also Novelties, Books and Sporting
Goods.

Illustrated catalog upon request

F.A.O.SCHWARZ

Only Place of Business

5th Ave. & 31st St., New York

Established 1862

CAPE COD

FIRE LIGHTERS

The comfort of a log fire may be had quickly and
without the trouble of kindling. The torch, an absorb-
ent material, is kept
immersed in kerosene
in the tankard. To
kindle a fire the
torch is lighted with
a match and placed
under the logs.

Postage extra or sent
express collect

MISSION STYLE

Complete with tray.

Wrought Iron $8.00 320 Fifth AV6.

Hammered Brass 10.00 ^T

Hammered Copper. . . 10.00 New York City

CAPE COD SHOP

Dept. K. ORIGINAL STYLE

Polished Brass

With tray $5.00

Without tray 4.00

Healthful Heat

There are no dry throats or lungs— :np parchment-like
skins where the Minnehaha Humidifier is used. It
creates a comfortable and hygienic atmosphere which
prevents much winter sickness.

SAVES FUEL AND FURNITURE

a lower and healthier temperature can lx- maintained
when the air contains the right degree of moisture —
which means a saving in fuel. Minnehaha Humidifiers
also prevent the drying out and checking of valuable
pianos and furniture. The special construction cairics
most of the heat through the Humidifier and retains
the dust. The Minnehaha makes
an attractive shelf and is easily
filled. See your dealer or ivrite for

descriptive folder
Manufactured by The Specialty

Mfg. Co.
St. Paul, Minn.

<rt SPECIALTY MFG.C?

SAINT PAUL, MINN.

ampmre

MORE expressive than words—
and more subtle — is a box of
Old Hampshire Stationery. Its
refinement indicates the appro-
priateness.

OLD HAMPSHIRE BOND

" The Stationery of a Gentleman11
No. 529. Tile box illustrated con-
tains one quire. Twenty-four sheets
and envelopes of Royal Club size.
The moderate cost makes this one
of our most popular numbers. Price,
the box.jSl.jo.

OLD HAMPSHIRE VELLUM

" A stationery oj distinction"
No. 626. The kind a lady likes to
use. Contains four quires, 24 sheets
and envelopes each of P. F. Royal
Club, Regent S. F., Duchess Gold
Edge Cards with S. F. envelopes,
Princess Correspondence Note with
P. F. envelopes. Price, the box,
#4-5°.

Old Hampshire Stationery is offered
in numerous other boxes, for both men
and women, at $1.50 to $8.50 the box.
Sold wherever fine stationery is
found. If your stationer cannot supply
you, we shal 1 be glad to oblige you on
receipt of remittance.

FREE: — d packet of Specimen Sheet*
and Envelopes Kill it sent on request.

Hampshire Paper Company

Fine Stationery Department c

South Hadley Falls, Ma*,.

116

House

Garden

December Doings
In Your Garden

DECEMBER— the month when a
out-doors seems drab and dull
when color and warmth are welcome
when the garden story seems ended
for the shrubs and trees and plant
have gone to sleep, and the garden
looks dead and bare.

But wait! December is the month in
which, if we will, we can plan for newe
and better gardens; the month in
which we can begin active operations
for December is a good planting month
on Long Island, and in other sections
where the ground is protected by
evergreens and shrubs, or by a mulch
of leaves and litter.

A Food Station
For Winter Birds

Right now — this winter, you can
have a bird sanctuary garden if you
plant shrubs that provide berries for
food. Here are half a score of the best
shrubs for this purpose:
HERBERIS heteropoda. A new Barberry.

2ft. $1.

DOGWOOD — Cornus Dunbari. New, white

flowers in July; red branches. 5-6 ft.

$3.50.
DOGWOOD — C. paucinervis. From China;

white flowers, black berries. $i.
COTONEASTER divaricata. Evergreen foli-
age; red berries. 2-3 ft. Si.
CRAB APPLE — Malus Arnoldiana. White

flowers in June; red fruits in winter. 4-5

ft. $1.50.
MULBERRY — Morus acldosa. Sweet fruits

that just suit the birds. 3-4 ft. $i.
TURQUOISE BERRY— Symplocus pani-

culata. A rare shrub with blue berries.

3 ft. »$3.
VIBURNUM venosum Canbyi. White

flowers in June, black fruit in autumn.

2 ft. 6oc.
V. dllstatum. Japanese Bush Cranberry.

Bright red berries. 2 ft. Jr.
V. Wrlghtii. Brilliant crimson berries. 2 ft.

$2.

One Plant of each for $12

Rare Shrubs for Summer
Flowers and Foliage

Among these are some of the new plants from
Arnold Arboretum and from Highland Park,
Rochester, N. Y.
HAWTHORN^Crataegus Dunbari. A small

tree useful in the shrubbery border or as

specimens. 2 ft. Ji.
HEATHER MINT— Elscholtzia Stauntoni.

Lavender flowers in September. 2 ft. $i.
EVODIA hupehense. From China; resembles

a Linden. 3-4 ft. $1.50.
FORSYTHIA intermedia spectabilis. Early

spring bloomer. 3-4 ft. $i.
SILVER BELL— Halesla Carolina monti-

cola. Grows straight — not in bush form.

3-4/t. J3-
JUNIPERUS llttoralls. A dwarf variety of

Juniper from Japan. $i each.
MOCK ORANGE— Philadelphia magda-

lenae. White, sweet scented bloom. 3-4 ft.
S3 |i.
ROSA HUGONIS— Father Hugo's Rose.

Bright yellow blooms; extra fine shrub.

2</, ft. J2.SO.

SORBARIA arborea glabrata. White flowers

in large panicles. 3-4 ft. $1.50.
STYRAX obassia. Extremely rare; flowers in
May, followed by brownish fruits. 2ft. li.

One Plant of each $14

These Two Collections of Shrubs it-Ill be
sent to one address for an even $25

December for Evergreens
and Shade Trees

You can plant trees this month as
well as at any other time. The ground
isn't likely to be frozen more than 2 or 3
inches, and an early mulching with leaves
or hay will stop this. We can ship car-
loads of evergreens in all sizes and at
prices from $i to f 150 each; all with big
balls of earth. Shade trees, like the oak,
birch, maple and linden, can be handled
now even better than in spring. Remem-
ber that Hicks Nurseries guarantees all
trees and shrubs — we run the risk — not
you.

Come to the Nursery
this Month

See what we have here. Take home a
Christmas tree or some of the shrubs you
will need for the garden plan. Come
anytime; you will enjoy the color and
pungent odor of the evergreens; the crisp
air, the good roads, and the fun of a day
outside.

Drop us a line if you want a copy of
our Fall Pricelist or other booklets on
trees, shrubs and perennials.

HICKS NURSERIES

Ho. II,

Westbury, L. I., New York

Live
Christmas Tree

for Christmas

American Forestry Company — Owners
419 Boylston St. Back Bay J

Boston, Mass.

Beauty
for the Home

SAVO

Health
for the Home

FLOWER
AND PLANT BOX

Self-Watering and Sub-Irrigating

The SAVO Steel Flower and Plant Box makes
possible an all-year around garden. It assures
thriving, beautiful flowers and plants for
windows, porch, sun parlor, etc. Move it in-
doors or out. Six sizes. Two finishes. Write
for free catalog No. 10.

AIR MOISTENER

The SAVO Air Moistener is the
most efficient humidifier made —
a health necessity for every
home. Also preserves furniture,
pianos, books, paintings, plants,
etc.

Fill with water and
hang on back of
anj radiator out of
sight; also made for hot
air registers.

Tens of thousands now in
satisfactory use. Send for
Free Booklet No. 8.

Savo Manufacturing Co.

Dept. "Co"
111 W. Monroe St., Chicago, Illinois

Our Evergreens Are Right
Our Prices Are Right

Here in the bracing salt air of the Maryland
coast are growing the very trees you want for
foundation, lawn or windbreak. Lovely, dart
green Canadian Hemlock; sentinel -like Juni-
pers ; graceful Retinosporas ; stutoly Pines — we
have them all — healthy, shapely specimens that
delight the eye. Every Evergreen is packed with
a liberal "root ball" of earth.

Send us a list of the trees you want, and
we'll quote you special prices. Or write for
our Price List of Evergreens, Shade Trees.
Fruit Trees, Bush Fruits, etc.

• .HARRISON.* 6QN3

"Largest Growers of Fruit Trees in the World
Box 51 Berlin, Maryland

Fire r
Screens

for Christmas

Nothing can lend true Christmas atmosphere
of hospitality to the home like a cheery, open
fire guarded by a charming "BUFFALO" Fire-
place Screen. And "BUFFALO" Fire Screens
make most acceptable, useful, different Christ-
mas Gifts, too.

"BUFFALO" FIRE FENDERS, SPARK
GUARDS and FIREPLACE SCREENS are
decidedly distinctive in appearance. Their
good and correct designs, their well-placed
ornamentation, and their attractive finish lend
charm to the moat perfectly furnished room.
They insure perfect safety from flying sparks
and absolute protection to children and older
members of the household.

"BUFFALO" FIRE FENDERS, SPARK
GUARDS and FIREPLACE SCREENS

cannot be compared with flimsy, cheap onea.
They are strong and durable, and made by the
most skillful workmen from the best "BUF-
FALO" quality of fine mesh wire cloth. We
make them to fit any size fireplace opening
and in any desired ornamentation or finish.

WRITE for complete catalogue No. 8-BD
Mailed upon receipt of loc postage

BUFFALO WIRE WORKS CO., Inc.

(Formerly Scheeler's Sons)
475 TERRACE BUFFALO, N. Y.

Snow White

HESS
STEEL MEDICINE CABINETS

and
LAVATORY MIRRORS

Sanitary Beautiful

Better than wood — never sag,
shrink, warp or stain. Easily
cleaned with soap and water.
The enamel is guaranteed never
to crack, blister nor peel.
Low in price, but fine enough
for any bathroom.

This Mark

Guarantees Best Quality

Ask any dealer, or
write us for illustrated
booklet and prices

HESS WARMING & VENTI-
LATING CO.

1223 Tacoma Bldg. Chicago

Makers of HESS WELDED STEEL
FURNACES

December, 1922

I^unningWater

Constant Service

Estates and farms,
large and small,
have enjoyed the
uninterrupted ser-
vice of Kewanee
Water Systems for
a quarter of a cen-
tury. Kewanee
plants are extraor-
dinary pieces of en-
gineering, yet so
simple that anyone
can operate them.

They are built in
1 50 different sizes
and models. What-
ever your demands,
our engineers can
suit your individual
needs.

Write for bulletins
on Running Water,
Electric Light and
Sewage Disposal.

KEWANEE PRIVATE
UTILITIES CO.

401 S. Franklin Street
Kewanee, Illinois

Water Supply
Jectric Light-Sewage Disposal

Be \burOwn

^feath?rProphet

tftf ^mff—

Own one of these reliable
Barometers and know each day
any change in the weather from
8 to 24 hours in advance. Sci-
entifically constructed, attrac-
tive in appearance. Mounted in
a wooden case, finished in Ma-
hogany, Oak or Flemish; enamel
dial protected by a heavy
bevel glass front. Size sJi"
in diameter.

AN IDEAL GIFT

This Barometei makes a highl y
prized and lasting remembrance.
Very useful and interesting.

Fully guaran-
teed; postpaid to
any address on
receipt of
State finish desired.

$5.00

Send in your order today

DAVID WHITE

Dept. H, 419 East Water St.

Milwaukee, Wis.

SAGER

METAL WEATHERSTRIPS

Stop Cold Air on the OUTSIDE of the Window and Door

That's why architects and engineers are specifying Sager Weatherstrips for modern
buildings and residences every day.

THEY INSURE FUEL ECONOMY

They stop "cold air leaks" — save you up to 40% of fuel costs.

PROTECTION

They keep dust, dirt, soot and smoke fiom drifting in on your floors, walls, hangings
and furniture, thus saving delicate color tints in fabrics and lightening house work.

EASE OF WINDOW OPERATION

No window equipped with Sager Weatherstrips ever binds or sticks. The sash moves
easily and noiselessly on account of the zinc track.

HEALTHIER HOMES

There are no cold air currents or cold spots in rooms where the windows are equipped
with Sager Metal Weatherstrips. This means a uniform distribution of heat throughout
the whole room.

You do not need to wait until you get into that new home in order to have the com-
forts and benefits afforded by the use of Sager Weatherstrips. They can be easily and
quickly installed in your present windows.

There is probably a Sager dealer near you. If not, we will be glad to furnish you with
an estimate if you will tell us what type of building you are interested in and the num-
ber of outside windows in the building.

The Sager Metal
Weatherstrip Company

166 West Austin Avenue
Chicago, 111.

A few users:

New Elks Club, Chicago
Chateau Theatre Bldg., Chicago
Jackson Shore Apartments, Chicago
Woodrow Wilson School. Chicago

This is Togan Garage
No. 104

Many other models
to select from

The
Economic*! 100

=500=

FIG1

J20

FIG 2

Extravagant
Way

Before you build—Be sure you read

The Most House for the Least Money

By N. Montgomery Woods (Architectural Editor of Pictorial Review)

Refer to the above diagrams and see what useless waste may easily occur
In construction. If 10,000 square feet of ground Is to he enclosed one man
may do the job with 400 feet of fence (Fig. 1) — while another may foolishly
consume 1040 feet (Fig. 2). The same principle applies to house design.

This is only one of 16 radical Ideas on small house planning, described in
Pictorial Review f ;r 4 years. Thirty-five thousand Builders have pronounced
them the most sensible, artistic and practical house designs yet offered.

These and many new ones, npver be-
fore published (over 200 in a'l) have
been eomp'led Jn an a'tractive cluth .^

bound volume, now ready. '._.

Send $3.00 for your copy to

N. Montgomery Woods

Camp Ave., ASBURY PARK, N. J.

Send for Catalog
of Togan Buildings

See for yourself how attractive
Togan buildings are. How little
they cost. How you save time
and money when you buy them.

Bungalows, summer cottages,
garages in many styles and sizes.

TOGAN STILES

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

IDEAL FOR

FURNITURE,

FLOORS, DOORS,

INTERIOR TRIM

and all •woodwork
for which a hard-
wood is desirable.

JQoautiful

birch

That is its first
qualification. It's
beautiful.

And it is hard. That's
why it is so supremely
durable and so success-
fully resists the heavy
wear that furniture and
all interior woodwork
is called upon to with-
stand.

It takes and holds all
kinds and shades of
finish in a very supe-
rior way and for white
enamel work it is by
all odds, the first choice
by those who know the
qualities of woods.

We publish a very
beautiful book that
shows in a &reat ran&e
of pictured examples the
uses of birch and ex-
plains why it is best
for these uses.

If you are feoinfc to
build a home or buy
furniture, you certainly
should have a copy of
this book. We will
gladly send you one —
free, on your request.

THE BIRCH
MANUFACTURERS

219F.R.A. Bldg., Othkoih, Wit.

e.u-

birch

120

House &• Garden

This house may be built of Indiana Limestone for $25,000

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

The prospective home builder will be par-
ticularly interested in the practical features
of the first floor: the convenient center hall,
the den which may be used as a breakfast
room, and the well -arranged service wing
isolated from main part of house.

For the Home of ^Moderate Cost

Random Indiana Limestone Ashlar gives the home builder natural
stone in a new form and affords a most economical material for
walling purposes.

The stone is furnished from the Indiana Limestone quarries in
random length strips, rough sawed on four sides. These strips are
split up to lengths desired and the ends jointed at the building site.
The end joints may be dressed square or broken irregularly.

This form of construction is decidedly economical and may be
used effectively in houses of Gothic design. Above is shown its
development in a design derived from the English Gothic. Atten-
tion is called to the artistic effect obtained by the variation in color
tone shown in detail illustrated.

Home builders would do well to investigate the unlimited
possibilities of Indiana Limestone construction. Our booklet,
"Designs of Houses Built of Indiana Limestone," sent free on
request. Address Indiana Limestone Quarrymen's Association,
Box 782, Bedford, Indiana*

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STONE

CAREY PRINTING CO., BETHLEHEM, PA.

7100

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