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August, 1912 
introducing a tiled partition, as shown in the illustra¬ 
tion, a built-in bath can be installed in conjunction with 
the needle and shower bath. This arrangement gives a 
full recessed bath, tiled in at the base, back and both ends. 
The needle and shower bath is distinctive. Instead of 
the usual curtain, it is provided with a plate-glass door, 
adding greatly to its attractiveness and convenience. The 
large receptor, of Imperial (Solid) Porcelain, gives the 
bather the ample room required fora vigorous shower bath. 
The tiled walls and glass door are water tight. 
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are not an ugly black, but white-tiled with 
steel trimmings. It is curious how we take 
even such a thing as an unsightly black 
stove for granted until a visit to a differ¬ 
ent land shows us such beautiful white 
kitchen stoves. The kitchen floors in 
many of these artistic homes are of tile 
with tile wainscotings and always with 
some individuality in the treatment. Some¬ 
times the tiles are especially designed by 
the architect. Even where they are all 
white with white woodwork and white 
walls, the kitchen dishes may decide a 
color scheme of blue and white, or certain 
parts of the woodwork, like the chair rail 
or the door and window frames, may be 
painted a different color. In one home, it 
was painted a grass green and in another 
a regular wash blue. This may seem start¬ 
ling, but in purely white interiors the 
green especially is very fresh. Of course, 
the success of such color depends largely 
upon the nice spacing of windows. and 
doors and should never be used where 
these are not well arranged. In another 
house where there was a broad wooden 
floor, the walls were painted a smoke 
gray and the woodwork, the old cupboard 
and the frame for the deep-hooded fire¬ 
place were painted an old rose red, a kind 
of indescribable shade that is one of the 
characteristic colors of old Laren. 
The value of visiting foreign homes 
such as these is not only that it takes us 
out of the rut of our professional prac¬ 
tice or out of an unthinking acceptance of 
the environment in which we live by show¬ 
ing us different customs and different tra¬ 
ditions, but in the inspiration and direct 
help that comes from an international 
good fellowship. For with all superficial 
differences of expression, this home build¬ 
ing is akin to ours in its aims and ideals 
of making our modern homes lovely 
through the reverence and high spirit 
with which we are again treating the 
humblest materials and are bringing beau¬ 
ty into our daily home life and to the use¬ 
ful things of the household. 
A Little Suburban Garden 
(Continued from page 86) 
Seating yourself in an “Old Hickory” 
chair, partaking of tea or a light luncheon 
served from the old table, speaking of the 
charm of the long path with its border 
of delicate pink, white and lavender Can¬ 
terbury bells, your eyes will wander to a 
miniature lake where the birds are bath¬ 
ing. This little body of water is confined 
in an old arch kettle whose black and 
ugly exterior is banked with moss cov¬ 
ered stones from which tiny ferns peep 
out. The bed of Japanese iris with a 
background of sweet peas climbing white 
birch branches will arouse exclamations 
of delight and admiration. 
You will not ask “What are the compen¬ 
sations for all this labor and patience?” 
You will remind yourself that you are in 
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