House and Garden 
green curtain of raw silk. This wide door 
opened hospitably into a living-hall, in dimen¬ 
sions 12x18 feet; the standing woodwork, 
including wainscot and beams, was entirely 
simple in form and treatment. The wainscot 
showed Hat panels with unmoulded stiles and 
rails. The wood was selected ash, the beauti¬ 
ful grain well brought out by the greenish- 
brown stain known as Bog Oak,—this was 
given a perfectly flat finish. The three feet 
of wall above the wainscot to the heavy 
molding at the ceiling line was covered in 
tapestry paper showing the soft greens of 
foliage, picked out with some yellow and the 
dull brown of tree boles melting into a smoky 
blue background. This paper cost hut sixty 
cents a roll of eight yards, and made a most 
acceptable wall covering used above the 
brown green of the wainscot. The yellow 
tones shown in some of the foliage was re¬ 
peated in the ceiling tints. This room opened 
into the dining-room. The wide fireplace 
here was flanked on either side by built-in 
seats or ingle-nooks, above which shelves 
were set. The woodwork in this room was 
more decidedly brown, showing no green, but 
harmonized perfectly with that of the hall. 
The dining-room furniture had been pur¬ 
chased in an unfinished state, was also of ash, 
and stained and finished to match the brown 
woodwork. The rough plaster between the 
beams of the ceiling and showing above the 
wainscot, was stained a deep pumpkin-yel¬ 
low,—a color which was a stronger shade of 
that used on the ceiling in the hall. The 
casement windows showed small square 
panes. At the western end of the room 
these were set high above the wainscot. The 
wide shelf which formed the sill, held a 
row of blue and white pots, in which sym¬ 
metrical dwarf pine trees were planted. Run 
on slender brass rods, placed close against 
the glass, were yellow, soft linen curtains,— 
these had been made from old linen sheets, 
dyed to exactly match the tint of the plaster. 
When the room was completed it was dis¬ 
covered that the Milwaukee brick, of which 
the fireplace and mantel were made, showed 
an irregularity of color that in some places 
was not in harmony with the color of side 
walls and curtains; it was therefore deter¬ 
mined to stain these. The mortar was care¬ 
fully scraped out and the bricks given a coat 
of Pollard Oak Wood Tint; this brought 
them to a more even tone, and showed a tint 
of brown harmonizing with, though much 
lighter, than the color of the woodwork. The 
mortar was stained in mixing and showed 
almost black when the bricks were re¬ 
pointed. The fixtures and hardware in this 
room were of wrought iron, simple almost to 
crudeness in design and make. Over the 
centre of the dining-table, suspended from 
the beam above by iron chains, was a spread¬ 
ing shade of porcelain; over this was placed 
a flounce of fluted silk, in a much deeper, 
browner shade of yellow than that used on the 
plaster; this was trimmed about with heavy 
silk fringe in the same color. The effect was 
extremely decorative and rich in appearance, 
the cost, however, was but little. Clustered 
under this porcelain shade was a group of 
electric light bulbs. 
Much blue and white china was used in this 
dining-room. Some especially good pieces 
selected for decorative use were set upon the 
plate rail, which finished the wainscot, where 
they showed well against the yellow back¬ 
ground. On a small teak-wood stand on the 
dining-table was a wide-lipped brass basin. 
From the centre of this, apparently unsup¬ 
ported, sprung straight stalks of blue flags, 
the sword like leaves and conventional blos¬ 
soms making a most decorative effect. This 
brass bowl had been picked up in Chinatown 
and was a barber’s bowl. The joined sec¬ 
tions of metal set in the bottom of it were also 
Chinese in construction and was known as a 
turtle, the stems of the flowers were intro¬ 
duced into each section and thus held firmly 
in place, the bowl being half filled with water. 
A blue, white and gray Japanese rug was 
used under the table, the floor of maple hav¬ 
ing been treated to a coat of golden-yellow 
stain was finished with a soft polish. The 
same stain and finish were used on the floors 
throughout the house, all those on the first 
floor being of maple. 
The living-hall, which, perhaps, by right 
of precedence, should have been described 
first, had curtains in its doorway of a domestic 
tapestry which repeated the color and design 
of the tapestry paper used above the wain¬ 
scot,—this tapestry is fifty inches in width 
and sells for $2.75 a yard. On the dining¬ 
room side of the door a dull blue cotton velvet 
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