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House & Garden 
A summer camp music room, with high 
wainscot of rough boards and rough 
plaster above. Hayden & Co. were the 
decorators 
The terrace is a necessary ad¬ 
junct to the summer camp. 
Reed or willow jurnlture can 
be used 
In the owner’s bedroom at the Raquette Lake camp of Mrs. George 
Whalen, painted furniture has been used effectively. The colors are 
yellow and blue and match the sleeping porch beyond. Herter Looms, 
decorators 
of rush and fibre rugs that the shops 
make up into squares of any desired 
combinations of color to match a 
scheme. A very striking rug has 20" 
squares on the diagonal, alternating 
black and natural color. Then one can 
select a small center square of green 
and an outside of tan, and these can 
be alternated by the reverse colors. 
All hand-woven rugs seem adapta¬ 
ble for camp use. The weave is called 
“tapestry” as there is no pile to the 
rug. A pile carpeting should never 
be used in a camp. It is too formal. 
A splendid all-wool rug comes, made 
to any size, with a plain band border 
on the ends. 
For the bedrooms nothing could be 
better than hooked rugs to match the 
cretonne used. They should be small 
and brilliant and the very fact that 
they are made especially to match the cretonne 
gives them a quaintly attractive effect. There 
are also old-fashioned braided rugs and cro¬ 
cheted rugs that can well take the place of 
rag rugs. 
Gingham Curtains 
With such rugs the curtain material most 
suitable seems to be gingham. A blue and 
purple gingham edge on white, unbleached 
muslin is good, with gingham tie-backs and as 
color notes for the painted furniture. A little 
green, red or white striped gingham, with a tiny 
ruffle of the red, makes a fresh, simple curtain. 
Dotted grenadine for the curtains used over a 
small, bright patterned chintz, is adorable in 
a child’s room. The curtains should be looped 
back and the bed cover should be of the dotted 
grenadine. Bright pink roses with blue rib¬ 
bons—could anything be more enchanting for 
a summer camp nursery? For there are camps 
with children! 
Ultra-fashionable linens are so often used 
because the colors are crude. A particularly 
good design has a fresh green background with 
a dark blue and orange pattern. If the furni- 
The living room of the Whalen camp is 
furnished simply with mahogany and a 
few upholstered pieces. Herter Looms, 
decorators 
