ACCESSORIES 
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a hot day forty winks on a cool swinging rush 
couch. Magazines and books do not find their 
way to the uncomfortable-looking table tops — 
and in short there is no reason for idling or 
resting because there is nothing really to idle 
with or actually to rest on. All these things 
are on the front porch — or indoors, out of 
wind and weather. And because there is no 
such rendezvous in the garden or at the end of 
the garden walk, the garden itself lies alone in 
sunlight and in moonlight, under the dew and 
under the pale mists and the sweet, cool rain — 
and not one thousandth part of what a garden 
really is ever comes home to one of us. 
Casinos and summer houses let us have 
therefore, by all means; but of the pergola, be- 
ware! For pergolas, as they are so often seen 
and made, are perhaps the latest instance of 
our tendency indiscriminately to seize upon and 
use — and abuse — a novelty. The pergola in 
itself is not objectionable, but ignorant use has 
made it so, and worse — made it ridiculous. 
Which is always an unfortunate state for even 
the most admirable thing to reach. 
Properly speaking the architectural pergola 
or vine arbor is a transition from the house, 
out into the pergola or vine arbor that is not 
architectural, or out into less architectural re- 
