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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, 1912 
[ost Delightful and Healthy 
OF HOBBIES IS ONE OF OUF^j> 
Glass - enclosed Garden^ 
T seems mere is a subtle something about this growing of 
plants and flowers in a greenhouse that is so diverting, so 
stimulating, that your bothers and cares are forgotten. There 
is something so akin to getting back to nature in it, that your 
physical nature promptly responds by starting to build you up. 
This is the experience of greenhouse enthusiasts over and over 
again. 
Another strong argument in a greenhouse’s favor is the pleas¬ 
ure it makes possible for all those around you. 
Wouldn't you like to know the approximate cost of just such 
a house as the one below? 
In answer to your request for it, we will include one of our 
catalogs showing several other houses, some one of which may 
be even more to your liking. 
Write direct to our main office 
500 Spring Street, Elizabeth, N. J. 
Janitor for Thirty Days; 
Pay us if it Makes Good 
H ERE is the opportunity to end your heating troubles without risking 
a cent until you are satisfied they actually are ended. If you are tired 
of under-heated or over-heated rooms, prove to your own satisfaction that 
you can have uniform heat—just as you want it—all the time. 
‘The Janitor that 
never Sleeps. ” 
randan 
Automatic Thermostat 
Jr Heat Regulator 
will end your daily grind of trips up and down stairs to change drafts and dampers in an effort to keep the 
furnace regulated. The “Crandon'’ consists of a small mechanical thermometer, which is placed in the living 
room and connected by wire with a simple device over the furnace, which automatically regulates the draft and 
check dampers if the heat in the living room varies one degree from the desired temperature. Regulates hot¬ 
air, hot-water and steam-heating systems. Pays for itself in coal saved. So simple that anyone can install it. 
Write for full details of trial offer, and copy of our booklet “Automatic 
Comfort.” Name your heater-man or plumber, if possible. 
CRANDON MANUFACTURING CO., 11 Bridge St., Bellows Falls, Vt. 
flaunts its red blossoms in direct juxta¬ 
position to every other color and success¬ 
fully carries off combinations that sound 
impossible. 
The designs for this nasturtium room 
were made after careful study of a nas¬ 
turtium patch in an out-of-the-way corner 
of the vegetable garden. The flrst room 
decorated was a small workroom or stu¬ 
dio. The woodwork was painted green, 
the slightly bluish green of the nasturtium 
leaf, though rather grayer than the leaf 
in nature. The walls, deep cream in tone, 
were then stenciled with the garlands of 
the flowers, yellow, tawny and red in all 
the variations of those colors, but so skill¬ 
fully mingled that the glowing reds had 
due prominence. The snuff-colored hang¬ 
ings for the cupboard and the couch cover 
were stenciled with a more conventional¬ 
ized flower in the same colors, while the 
window hangings of the same snuff color 
were of plain material deeply ribbed in. 
Weave chairs of tawny brown willow 
completed the furnishings. 
The bedroom in white woodwork and 
faint yellow walls, also carries out the 
red and yellow nasturtium idea, which is 
again stenciled on the heavy dimity 
counterpane and bolster cover of the ma¬ 
hogany four-poster. 
A good deal else than the red enters 
into these two color schemes, but while 
the yellows and tawny browns make a 
proper background for the red-haired girl, 
who. by the way, usually wears some 
shade of brown or tan. still the soul satis- 
fying glowing spots of red fill and please 
the expectant eye. Isabel Shepherd 
A Decorators Own TT is in their own 
Living-room I homes that dec¬ 
orators work with 
freest hand, and consequently with most 
satisfying results. This is well illustrated 
in the living-room of one of the foremost 
decorators. 
The ceiling of this spacious room is 12 
feet in height and its floor dimensions 
are 13 feet by 25 feet. The room has an 
entrance door and a doorway into the 
dining-room, which is an important dec¬ 
orative feature of the room. It was taken 
from a very old church near Florence, its 
beautiful carvings almost hidden under 
repeated coats of crudely colored paint in 
combinations with streaks of vivid gilt. 
Properly restored and traced with dim 
antique gold the full beauty of the door¬ 
way was revealed. When in place this 
gave the keynote for the scheme of treat¬ 
ment of this room. 
“We found the place that seemed ap¬ 
pointed for it,” the decorator said, “and 
built the partition about it.” 
There were originally two commonplace 
bay windows across the front of the room, 
which with the entrance door seemed out 
of touch with the golden doorway. As 
the furniture to be used in the studio was 
chiefly of old oak and Italian walnut it 
was decided to make the trim of the room 
show the same richly dark tone. 
A sort of box frame with a cornice made 
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