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Among the properties the old-time stagecoach with its 
queer, narrow windows, its swinging middle seat and drop 
steps was prominent and there were other queerly fashioned 
old vehicles and sledges, some laden with the furniture and 
utensils of the earliest settlers. 
Hard and earnest work as well as study is involved in 
the production of a real pageant, and it should not be lightly 
undertaken. A master mind must direct, one in which is 
combined with executive ability a knowledge and feeling of 
what is required of a pageant and what its strong points 
should be, also a discriminating judgment in selecting the 
subject. But the often splendid results justify all the labor 
and time expended, and the undeniably powerful effect, edu- 
cational and moral, on the minds of the people is not to be 
left out of the reckoning. Great national lessons may be 
taught and uplifting schemes forwarded by the pageant that 
are quite beyond the reach of other means. 
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A COLONIAL HOUSE IN NEW JERSEY 
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Dr. Marvin’s house includes unusually complete service 
quarters, for there are two pantries—one placed between 
the dining-room and the kitchen and filled with a steel safe 
for silver in addition to the devices usually placed in pan- 
tries, and just outside the kitchen door there is another 
pantry where the refrigerator is placed. ‘The kitchen is 
equipped with two ranges, one for coal and another for 
gas, and the laundry has the usual built-in tubs. The 
kitchen is separated so completely from the rest of the house 
that cooking odors cannot possibly penetrate through the 
pantry or small hallways with which it is surrounded. 
The broad stairway with its paneled wainscot and ma- 
hogany rail leads to the second floor, where five family bed- 
rooms have been arranged. Between two of these rooms 
is placed a bath and another bathroom upon the opposite 
side of the house is planned for the other three rooms. 
Windows upon two sides of these bedrooms provide cross- 
current ventilation, which is necessary for well-designed 
sleeping-rooms, and two of the rooms open upon a flat deck 
which could very easily be adapted for out-of-door sleeping 
purposes. ‘The roof space of the house is so ample that it 
has given sufficient space for a large garret, useful for stor- 
age, and three bedrooms and a bathroom for the maids, 
and the rooms upon this attic floor are ventilated and 
lighted by a wide dormer window which also greatly in- 
creases their apparent size and height. 
This country home, during the months when trees and 
flowers are in their Summer or Autumn glory, seems to be 
set in a space literally hewn out of the woods which sur- 
round it upon three sides. This nearness to nature is also 
suggested by the huge stones which are so numerous that 
they often appear above the surface of the ground. The 
grounds about the house have been arranged in the best of 
taste and by planting shrubbery closely around the building 
and at angles near the sidewalk the lawn about the house 
appears vastly larger than it would were it cut up by numer- 
ous walks, flower beds and clumps of foliage, all beautiful 
and well enough in themselves. The designing of a coun- 
try home should be so done that the beauty which nature 
has bestowed upon the spot may be retained and empha- 
sized, and the degree in which this is done will be the degree 
of success which belongs to the place as a whole. It is 
often said that the country about our American cities is 
beautiful until it is “ruined by improvement,” in the form 
of hideous suburban houses which are designed and built in 
utter defiance of every law of judgment or rule of good 
taste. While the beauty of a settled suburb cannot be the 
same as that of a virgin forest it can be a beauty of sim- 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
PE NOSLE 
July, 1912 
plicity, of careful arrangement and designing, and these 
are just the points the observance of which have made this 
little ee” home so complete a success. 
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dry. Clean brass with oil and rotten stone. Aine a 
naphtha reduce its rich color and give it a whiter tone. 
Solarine and German putz pommade are also employed. 
The strainers, waste-valves and overflows of the tubs, sinks, 
and lavatories should be regularly cleaned. A disinfecting 
solution may be occasionally employed about the fixtures 
such as permanganate of potassium or diluted carbolic acid, 
but always follow their use with an abundance of water to 
prevent injury to pipes and traps and cleanouts on bath 
branch and main lines should be regularly opened and 
cleaned. 
The sink should be free from grease as much as possible, 
putting it rather in the garbage, and the sink strainers should 
be firmly fastened in place; if loose there will be a tempta- 
tion for careless servants to lift it and sweep crumbs and 
scraps into the pipe. A corner strainer should be employed 
in the sink. 
One of the elemental axioms of plumbing is that light and 
air are absolutely indispensable about fixtures. Law de- 
mands this but intelligence and decency will naturally desire 
it. A fixture in some dark corner with all its suggestion of 
hidden dirt and clamminess should be repugnant to every- 
one. 
It is an old lesson, but one often disastrously forgotten, 
that in a freezing climate no pipes should be run in exterior 
walls or exposed places and when they leave the basement 
in a chase its bottom should be sealed with some material 
like plaster of paris to prevent the passage of cold currents 
of air. On very cold nights the water can be shut off in 
the basement and the pipes drained. The method of letting 
a small stream flow in a fixture, besides being wasteful, does 
not always prevent pecoeal 
THE LIVING ; ROOM 
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ena by the cabinet- lakers of the late Georgian vere 
The furniture was not purchased until the room was ready 
to receive it and then only a few necessary pieces were 
acquired, as it was deemed best to obtain the furniture by 
degrees to avoid overcrowding. By the fireside was placed 
a winged chair, upholstered in cretonne to give a note of 
gaiety, and in addition a slant-top desk, a long table, some 
Chippendale chairs and settee, and two small tables. 
No central chandelier was used, the illumination being 
from brass electric sidelights, having dangling prisms and 
glass shades, and two electric lamps made from yellow matt 
glaze pottery vases, having yellow China silk shades. 
The usual small decorative objects and pictures were 
conspicuous by their absence. There was only one picture 
in the room—a large photographic brown-print of a portrait 
after an original by Van Dyke—which was hung low over 
the mantel, and a pair of blue Hawthorne temple jars were 
placed at either end. The brass fittings for the fireplace, 
the leather desk set, the mahogany bookstacks, and the 
lamps were both ornamental and useful, and took the place 
of accessories that were purely decorative. 
The brown, yellow and old-ivory color scheme made a 
beautiful setting for the mahogany furniture, and the painted 
walls suggested a paneled room, although not nearly as 
costly. 
