House & Garden 
I T matters not whether the 
bathroom be adjoining the 
bedroom, the library or any 
room in the house—the oper¬ 
ation of flushing the Silent 
Si-wel-clo Closet is not heard 
outside the bathroom. A noisy 
closet, on the other hand, is 
an annoyance to you, an em¬ 
barrassment to your guests. 
The Silent Si-wel-clo Closet 
special features 
to make its operation 
quiet and thorough. Its 
sanitary features over¬ 
come the danger of clog¬ 
ging and subsequent 
damage. No effort has been 
spared to make the Si-wel-clo 
and its component parts the 
very best. 
The 
Trenton Potteries Company 
“Tepeco” All-Clay Plumbing 
is most sanitary, beautiful, practi¬ 
cal and permanent. Permanency 
is not denoted by a white surface, 
but by what material is beneath 
that surface. With time, inferior 
materials will lose their sani¬ 
tary value, dirt will adhere, the 
appearance become uninviting— 
the piece lose its usefulness. 
“Tepeco” Plumbing is china or 
porcelain, solid and substantial. 
Dirt does not readily cling to its 
glistening white surface, nor will 
that surface be worn away by 
scouring. A wise investment—a 
beautiful one. 
If you intend to build or renovate 
your bathroom write for our instruct 
tive book,“Bathrooms of Character.” 
The 
Trenton. Potteries Company 
Trenton, New Jersey 
'World's largest makers of AU-Clay Plumbing 
COSTEN FITZ-GIBBON 
Illustrations 
by Courtesy of Caroalho Brothers 
A PERSON without any small talk 
at all, without any aptitude for 
the lighter side of conversational 
intercourse about things of the passing 
moment, can scarcely be companionable. 
He may be endowed with the most 
sterling qualities of mind and character, 
and be able to discourse sagely of great 
and serious matters, but if he cannot or 
will not descend now and again to chit¬ 
chat his company soon grows burden¬ 
some. In the same way, a room devoid 
of all homely pleasantry of pattern or 
color soon oppresses by its unrelieved 
austerity. It is one of the special offices 
of fabrics to supply this necessary tinc¬ 
ture of playfulness. 
For wholesome jollity nothing can ex¬ 
ceed the printed fabrics so commonly 
used in furnishings during the reigns of 
William and Mary and Queen Anne. 
Many reproductions of these, some 
of them even printed from the 
same old hand-blocks, are available 
today. However, one does not 
wish to be restricted always to the 
same resources and it is worth 
while to point out the possibility 
of employing for the same purpose 
the Portuguese prints, wrought 
from the late 16th Century to the 
early part of the 19th. 
These printed fabrics were orig¬ 
inally used for bedspreads, bed- 
curtains, valances, curtains and the 
valances above windows, hangings, 
and table spreads. The material 
was a creamy cotton cloth, often¬ 
times thin, sheer and of fine qual¬ 
ity but very strong. In the older prints 
the cloth, woven on hand looms, was 
frequently of great width— (s’ or more— 
so that even a wide bedspread was with¬ 
out seam. Portugal both wove this 
cotton cloth and also imported much of 
it from the East Indies. In the late 
period some of these fabrics were glazed. 
In the older prints the colors used 
were comparatively few and were strong 
and durable but soft and mellow in tone. 
They were so ingeniously combined that 
the effects, though brilliant and always 
striking, were never inharmonious nor 
bizarre. The early reds are to be de¬ 
scribed rather as a warm rose; the blues 
were either a pale azure or else of vigor¬ 
ous depth and intensity; the yellows 
were unobtrusive but of sufficient ac¬ 
cent; an exceptionally satisfying light 
{Continued on page 78) 
{Below) An l&th Century 
bedspread, woolen, hand - 
blocks printed in vigorous 
characters 
