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With the most 
important part 
of the furnish- 
ings planned for, 
the accessories 
may be roughly 
outlined in an 
elastic way: 
Opaque window 
shades (ordi- 
nary width and 
length) each 
seventy-five 
cents. Rugs for 
living-room and 
t wo bedrooms, 
one dollara 
square yard. For 
piazzas, fifty 
cents a square 
yard. White 
cheesecloth for 
Cad iytras ines: ‘Six 
cents. a_ yard. 
Bedsprings, 
$4.00; mattress, 
$800. |. Lamp 
and candlesticks, $10.00. 
Table china (German 
earthenware), $20.00, and 
kitchen utensils, $25.00. 
These prices would nat- 
urally be raised or lowered 
according to the specific 
needs of the family, the 
quantities called for and the 
quality selected. 
A most serviceable and 
practical kind of china to 
select for a summer home is 
the blue china of the wil- 
low pattern as shown in 
Figs. 15 and 21. ‘This is 
an open set, in that 
whenever any 
piece is broken 
it can be easily 
replaced. Sets 
of one hundred 
pieces can be 
purchased for 
$12.89. 
The old Colo- 
nial glass is also 
the most practi- 
calle kuiined “for 
service. It is of 
good style, being 
modeled after 
the antique pat- 
terns, and is in- 
expensive. The 
glasses shown in 
Figs 22) cost 
from 63 cents 
per dozen for 
thes ma llesit 
(cordial) glass 
to. “SL.49 per 
dozen for the 
tallest (ale) 
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Fig. 21—Blue china. Willow pattern 
Fig. 22—Colonial glass 
June, 1911 
glass. These 
glasses, being in 
a broken set, 
they can be 
bought in half- 
dozen lots if de- 
sired, for there 
is nO saving in 
buying fuli doz- 
ens. 
The Colonial 
glass _ candle- 
sticks illustrated 
in Fig. 20, cost 
from 15 cents 
for the smaller 
one to $1.49 for 
the largest one. 
These are very 
serviceable for 
the dining table 
and for general 
use throughout a 
summer home, 
especially if it is 
located near the 
seashore, and 
are preferable to brass, 
which requires a great deal 
of cleaning. 
Summering in a portable 
cottage makes few exac- 
tions in the way of furnish- 
ings, yet the ideals of good 
taste in each selection need 
not be lost sight of, nor 
need the artistic balance of 
color effects be forgotten. 
In fact, some attention paid 
to these points will only be 
in keeping with the trend of 
the times. 
In the living-room and 
the bedrooms, for instance, 
the plain walls 
would be reliev- 
ed by some deco- 
rative effect at 
the windows. 
W hite cheese- 
cloth has been 
suggested for its 
cheapness and 
dainty appear- 
ance, but its sat- 
isfaction would 
be considerably 
increased by the 
addition of sten- 
cl work ina 
prettycolor com- 
bination, run- 
ning the pattern 
down the sides 
and across the 
bottom. Stencil- 
ing 1s so general- 
ly understood 
now, even by 
those without 
any artistic 
