March, rgII 
very dog, nevertheless, 
seems day by day, to be 
more drawn by me, and 
in return, to more and 
more impregnate me wita 
the odor of his friend- 
ship. 
To the companion of my 
idle hours, the soother 
of my sorrows, the con- 
fidant of my joys and 
hopes—my oldest and 
strongest pipe.” 
“A little nonsense now and 
then 
Is relished by the best of 
men.”’ 
“Tet the world slide, let 
the world go, 
A fig for care, and a fig 
for woe! 
If I can’t pay, why, I can © 
owe, 
And death makes equal 
the high and low.” 
—Heywood. 
One of the illustrations 
shows a mantelpiece in a 
den in the house of Robe- 
son Lea Perot, the archi- 
tect, which he built for 
AMERICAN HOMES 
| eat as ti 
Rulely byes fon 
A motto painted on the fireplace 
PAN Di (GARD ENS 107 
himself. The following 
quotation is cut in stone, 
and painted red :— 
“To draw good friends 
with welcome free, 
Is all you can expect of 
of me.” 
FIREPLACES 
Fireplaces lend them- 
selves remarkably well to 
motto treatment. Although 
general mottoes are often 
used, there is a charm 
about one that applies di- 
rectly to the hearth. One 
of the illustrations shows 
a mantelpiece in a Flemish 
dining-room in an old Phil- 
adelphia home, which has 
recently been remodeled by 
Wire.) Me “Burns. the 
architect. The mantel- 
piece is of butternut wood, 
copied from a house in 
Antwerp, which dates back 
to 1650. . The lower part 
of the breast of the mantel 
has carved thereon these 
French words:—‘“A vaut 
mieux pour moi de ne pas 
fumer,”’” meaning—‘I had 
ity 
arc a 
The motto carved in the face of the mantel shelf 
