July, 1905 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



37 



duplicating the effects without the expense of having anything 

 made to order. Just go uptown ! most any of the modern 

 furniture emporiums could fix you out in no time. But you 



Did you notice that combination fixture over the dining 

 table, arranged for both gas and electricity? Turned on full 

 force it would put your eyes out. Think what a disastrous 

 effect the powerful overhead glare is 

 going to have on delicate digestions! 

 Could you not furnish three dining- 

 rooms infinitely better for the same 

 money? Next, let us turn our atten- 

 ^| ^^^ ^^^m tion to the fireplace. As you under- 



fill fl fill — Is! stand the province and usefulness of 



p* ™ in - flrviwrr nil tnc fi re pl ace i which do you find is 



9 l_ I! II 'i £ *jmBmBHXBBB^^Bm better exemplification of one — the 



fireplace in this highly varnished 

 apartment from one of our Western 

 cities, or the fireplace in the illustra- 

 tion from English " Country Life "? 

 Even our remotest ancestors of 

 whom we have definite information I 

 do not believe ever resided in the land 

 r I . '. ■^•■-•^JRF of the Alhambra, making that 



Mosque motive a distinctly false note 

 in the home of an American as a gen- 

 eral rule. Then the glazed-tile hearth 

 will cause you a fit of the blues, re- 

 minding one of apartment houses, gas 

 logs and other artificial contrivances. 

 Yet, I am informed that this is the 

 very line of goods that is selling like 

 hot cakes right here in New York 

 City. What shall we do to correct 

 the alarming murrain which threatens 

 can hardly call this sort of thing " homelike." What con- among educated Americans, who ought to know better? 

 trast in the absence of simplicity we find by the English How shall we get them to recognize that noblesse oblige 

 fireside! demands better taste of them? 



Example of Money and Good Taste Bestowed Upon Conservative Development 



Even Severity is Often the Charm of a Thing 



