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The treatment of room and general scheme of color is 
unusual. [he wainscot is stained blue over the knots and 
irregularities of the hemlock boards, while the windows and 
door-trims and wainscot molding is stained a crisp Veronese 
green. [here is a frieze of orange trees, with distant glimpses 
of marsh and water, while the low-beamed ceiling is of dull 
orange crossed by green beams. ‘The big solid ten-inch gir- 
der crossing these, and forming the backbone of the house, 
is upheld by two crouching grotesque figures in compo and 
painted in semi-conventiona] color. ‘The beams are stenciled 
in blue in a design suggested by an old German calendar, 
while the floor is covered with a Chinese rug with a yellow 
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tunately, he never does, so you need never fear missing 
a train! 
One of the interesting features of the cottage, we think, 
are the window-curtains. These are stenciled on batiste of 
a warm, unbleached color, in oil, and are hung at the many 
windows under a vallance. The curtains reach just to the 
sill, and the vallance is hung from under a cornice of plain 
wood about four inches wide, along which is stenciled, also 
in oil, a conventionalized berry-and-leaf design, like border 
of curtains. ‘The effect of the cornice is very charming in 
its simplicity, because it hides hooks or rings, and the 
usually unpleasant things that happen at the top of curtains. 
The wainscot is stained blue over the knots and over the hemlock boards, while the window- andjdoor-trim are stained a crisp Veronese green 
field, upon which is an imperial dragon in blue, sprawling 
magnificently. 
The whole effect of the room is very simple but complete, 
and though the color is high, it is made soft by all being 
done in stains over natural wood, the frieze being worked on 
coarse canvas in washes, in the stitchery effect' often called 
tapestry. We regard it as immensely effective and successful. 
Convenient bookcases are built into spaces wherever feas- 
ible, and on top of one (instead of their inevitable place on 
the mantel) is a clock of curious design. It is in the shape 
of a box, higher than wide, with a good molding top and 
bottom. A large sea monster is grotesquely writhing round 
and round, till suddenly you come to his widespread jaws, 
which seem to open just in time for you to see a clock (of 
the plain alarm variety) before he swallows it. This, for- 
Two long French windows, which open on to the broad 
veranda, proved to look too high, so the top panels were 
painted to look like stained glass. This was done by draw- 
ing the design on the glass with thick blackish-brown paint 
with plenty of Japan dryer in it. After this was dry, the 
color was flowed on yery thinly over the parts designed to 
be colored. ‘These particular ones represent the arms of the 
cottage. A pointed shield, the crest of the Bush on top, 
and the charges on the shields were what the Indians charged 
for the property when it passed into the hands of the first 
white settlers: i. e., ‘4 Shirts, 4 pairs stockings, 11 bars of 
lead and 3 Pickel Kettle.”” These, with a few other useful 
commodities, made up the sale. A very reasonable price 
when we compare it with some of the present values of Long 
Island real estate. 
