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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



January, 1913 



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SILENT WAVERLEY LIMOUSINE-FIVE 



Ample room for five adults — full view ahead for the driver. Most con- 

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"You select the color— we'll make 

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 to 16 feet. Any length. Any color 

 tone— soft and subdued, or bright 

 and striking. Original, individual, 

 artistic, dignified. Pure wool or 

 camel's hair, expertly woven at 

 short notice. Write for color card. 

 Order through your furnisher. 



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assuring you of fresh air and pro- 

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A DINING-ROOM COLOR SCHEME 



"\V7ILL you kindly suggest a color 

 W scheme for my dining-room?" asks 

 a reader. "It faces north, has two windows 

 and is a large room. The woodwork is 

 varnished pine, and matches in color the 

 golden oak furniture. There is a chair rail 

 that must not be removed. The carpet is 

 dark blue and terra cotta." 



Your carpet ties you to blue or terra 

 cotta for your color scheme, but as a large 

 mass of terra cotta is not pleasing with 

 varnished pine, it would be best to have a 

 blue, or blue and green scheme. Fortu- 

 nately there are so many beautiful wall- 

 papers in these two colorings especially 

 among the imported ones that there will 

 be little difficulty in choosing something 

 artistic. The wall below the chair rail 

 should have a plain surface burlap, book- 

 cloth, or silk-fiber, stronger in general tone 

 than the figured paper above. A well de- 

 signed paper that will not weary the eye in 

 the blue and soft green may be chosen. A 

 second choice may be considered for the 

 upper walls among the tapestries, many of 

 these have a good deal of wood color that 

 makes them harmonious with golden oak ; 

 they also come with touches of terra cotta 

 in the fruit; a tapestry paper is often the 

 most successful choice owing to what is 

 already in the room being a little shabby. 

 The medley of soft neutral shades blends 

 with an old carpet when a most beautiful 

 paper chosen only for its color and design 

 would make the old things look dreary. In 

 your case the tapestry paper must lean to 

 bluish foliage rather than to green. 



STREET ADVERTISING IN FRANCE 



OWING to the frequency of so-called 

 sandwich men and advertising carts 

 drawn by men in the streets of Lyons, 

 traffic has often become impeded. For the 

 purpose of regulating all perambulating 

 street advertising the mayor of Lyons, 

 France, has just issued, says Mr. Carl 

 Bailey Hurst, American Consul, an order 

 the salient points of which prohibit portable 

 advertisements on days when there is a 

 high wind. Such advertisements may be 

 carried on other days on the condition that 

 they are not more than 1 meter 50 centi- 

 meters (4.92 feet) wide and 1 meter 40 

 centimeters (4.59 feet) high. 



Advertisements carried at the top of a 

 pole must not be higher than 1 meter (3.28 

 feet) above the head of the carrier. Those 

 large enough to require several carriers are 

 forbidden altogether. The sign carriers 

 are forbidden to halt on the streets or to 

 deposit signs thereon, and are required to 

 keep at a distance of 15 meters (49.21 

 feet) at least from each other. 



Wagons drawn by horses, motors, and 

 the like will not be allowed in the streets. 

 Signs on wagons drawn or pushed by hand 

 will be allowed, except on days when there 

 is a high wind, provided that wagon and 

 sign together are not more than 2 meters 50 

 centimeters (8.20 feet) above the ground 

 and that the wagon is not more than 2 

 meters (6.56 feet) long or 1 meter 50 centi- 

 meters (4.92 feet) wide. There must be 

 an interval of at least 30 meters (98.42 

 feet) between such wagons when there are 

 several of them. Transparencies, whether 

 carried by person or on wagon will be 

 barred access to the streets. 



An order of the mayor that went into 

 effect at the beginning of this year prohibit- 

 ing the throwing of handbills on sidewalks 

 and streets has had a highly salutary effect. 

 The main thoroughfares that were formerly 

 littered with advertisements of all descrip- 



tions handed out to passers-by and which 

 were soon dropped after reading or before, 

 now present an entirely different aspect. 

 Persons still have the right to offer such 

 handbills and passers-by may accept them, 

 but the penalty for dropping such adver- 

 tisements is sufficiently severe to stop the 

 practice effectually. 



MADE-OVER BEDROOMS 

 "\y/F are remodeling an old and simple 



W farmhouse. The woodwork will all 

 be white paint, the ceilings are low and the 

 windows small although there are at least 

 two to each room. How shall we go about 

 it?" asks a correspondent. 



There are so many charming wall-papers 

 today for such rooms as you describe that 

 you will have no difficulty in finding a good 

 supply to choose from. Papers that have 

 a quaint appearance, dainty and unobtru- 

 sive should be selected. There are many 

 floral stripes that are admirably suited to 

 farmhouse furnishing, then a plain ground 

 in yellow, rose, or blue gives opportunity 

 for an all over garden effect in the furni- 

 ture covering and hangings. There are sev- 

 eral chintzes with small patterns and yet 

 strong in coloring that lend themselves to a 

 quaint pretty treatment. Small cushions 

 on the larger chairs, curtains of unlined 

 chintz, and perhaps a bedspread would in- 

 troduce enough pattern into a room with a 

 plain wall surface. The cotton woven rugs 

 must not be overlooked when planning for 

 farmhouse furnishing, also the braided rugs 

 that can now be found in the shops, they 

 seem so appropriate for a simple style of 

 treatment. Even the furniture manufac- 

 turers have fallen into line to give us some- 

 thing dainty and inexpensive for there are 

 the sweetest little white painted beds with 

 floral touches that look as if they were 

 made to go with the old-fashioned painted 

 bedroom chair that all who contemplate 

 buying an old farm manage to pick up in 

 out of the way places. An old time spin- 

 ning wheel placed near an open fireplace 

 will add charm to the largest bedroom and 

 even a milking stool with a wee cushion 

 on the top will lend an air of simplicity 

 to the bedrooms. Old mahogany for the 

 best rooms wdth a four post bed and suit- 

 able hangings should be hunted for, but no 

 one need be discouraged by not possessing 

 the genuine old as several of the old pat- 

 terned bedroom chairs are reproduced to- 

 day as well as beds in single width. Old 

 patchwork quilts are brought from obliv- 

 ion, and also the blue and white woven 

 coverlets are brought into service. A study 

 of old Colonial interiors will give many 

 suggestions to those who wish to furnish 

 simply and yet correctly. 



A TELEPHONE TIME-SAVER 



THE Electrical Review describes a new 

 device that will be welcomed by many 

 persons who make frequent use of the tele- 

 phone; it is intended to save the time 

 usually wasted in "holding the line." The 

 apparatus consists of a small trumpet that 

 magnifies sound, and a platform behind the 

 trumpet to hold the telephone receiver. 

 When the person at the telephone is asked 

 to "hold the line a moment,'' he places the 

 receiver on this platform in such a way that 

 it slides into position with the ear-piece 

 against the small end of the magnifying 

 horn. He can then continue whatever 

 work he was doing until he hears the voice 

 from the horn; after that he can use the 

 telephone in the ordinary way, or, if he 

 wishes to make notes or to take a message 

 from dictation he can carry on the whole 

 conversation by means of the trumpet. 



