August, 1912 
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overflowing. That craft work can be left 
in the playroom at any point in its progress 
to be taken up later at the same point, is 
one advantage of a place belonging exclu¬ 
sively to a family, yet undisturbed by its 
daily life. 
Every modern house has a big living- 
room, but the cottage that faces the apple 
trees has an unusually delightful one, giv¬ 
ing a sense of quietness and peace, with 
its low ceiling, and big spaces not too 
much filled with furniture. The walls be¬ 
low the molding are covered with dull 
blue paper. The fireplace brick is dark 
rose red. A motto stenciled on either side 
of the mantelpiece clock has a background 
of pale gold and the lettering is done in 
gray, rose red and pale green. The only 
pictures are color prints of Jules Guerin’s 
French chateaux framed in oak that 
matches the woodwork. Leather coverings 
upon chairs and settle are stained a dull 
red. Rugs woven on a village loom are in 
grayish green. In the dining-room the 
walls are papered in dull orange, and 
otherwise the scheme is the same as in the 
living room. In the child’s room the walls 
are covered a pale gray, and Japanese 
prints of birds and animals decorate the 
walls. 
The kitchen is a pleasant room, with 
walls painted a soft yellow in oil colors, 
with unstained pine woodwork and grass 
matting rugs. Shelves and cupboards 
make work easy for a kitchen operator, 
and there is a window looking out on the 
garden and a door that opens on the porch. 
The big porch faces the garden and the 
hills, secluded from the village street, and 
thus belonging solely to the family. In sum¬ 
mer it is screened and is used as a dining- 
and sitting-room. An old-fashioned table, 
with legs painted white, and with top of 
unstained oak, and antique kitchen chairs, 
white painted and with backs stenciled in 
gay colors, make a pretty luncheon outfit. 
German peasant ware in dull yellow with 
decorations in blue, scarlet and green will 
be brought some day from Germany for 
outdoor use. Meanwhile the service is 
Copenhagen blue, a Chinese set decorated 
with silver dragons on a red ground being 
reserved for state occasions. 
The garden, a place as yet chiefly full 
of hopes and dreams, is the summer work¬ 
room and playroom. The ancient handi¬ 
craft of gardening, carried on since Adam 
was a gardener and Eve his helpmate, is 
in summer the most engrossing pastime of 
two craftsmen who are not merely playing 
at leading the simple life, but with keen 
enjoyment are traveling in pursuit of the 
beauty that can be found in everyday 
things. 
Salad Plants the Year Round 
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