October, 1912 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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from this wood was set over the original 
frame of the door and ornamented with 
dim antique fold, as the photograph shows. 
The window-frames were fitted in the 
same way, except that each bay was di¬ 
vided into three sections, giving the effect 
of a triple window. As the walls and ceil¬ 
ing had been covered in a heavy canvas 
painted stone color, the effect of windows 
deep set in a stone wall was secured. 
The monk’s table which holds the cen¬ 
ter of the room, the carved trousseau 
chest, the high-backed oaken seats, the 
quaintly interesting lighting fixtures are 
all Italian, while the terra cotta pedestal 
is French, and the seats came from a 16th 
century church near Paris. It is a su¬ 
preme charm of this room, fitted as it is 
with rare antiques, that it speaks clearly 
of comfort and invites one to lounge and 
rest in it even after its interesting fea¬ 
tures have been studied and enjoyed. In 
its colorful beauty it is restful, though 
as exquisitely varied as a fine stained- 
glass cathedral window. The dull, soft 
blues and greens, dim reds and ivory of 
the Oriental rugs are subtly complemented 
by the green damask couch. In old red 
hangings the tarnished gold and softly 
glowing tints of draperies and cushions 
fashioned from ecclesiastical vestments 
and embroideries. No single color note of 
the room is sharp or accentuated — all is 
toned and mellowed. Every piece of Pa¬ 
rian marble, terra cotta, bronze or silver 
is intrinsically beautiful and much of it is 
turned to some practical service as well. 
As flower holders, light supports, shades, 
and book rests, they play their part. 
Margaret Greenleaf 
The Kitchen TT OUSEKEEPERS 
Complete A X generally like 
to know about other 
people’s kitchens. The kitchens here de¬ 
scribed suggest many features of prac¬ 
tical utility to lighten labor and increase 
the efficiency of the culinary realm. One, 
the kitchen of a large city house, is in the 
basement owing to the exigency of limited 
ground space. The light, however, is 
good. 
Where it is possible — and it can nearly 
always be made so—ample light should 
fall on the range from a window at the 
left-hand side and on the sink from a win¬ 
dow at the left or else directly back of it. 
It is well, as in the illustration, to have 
gas or electric fixtures over range and 
sink so that the cook may not stand in her 
own light, as she is apt to do when the fix¬ 
tures are some distance away and back 
of her. 
, It will also be seen in the kitchen of 
one illustration that there are two sinks, 
one beside the coal range and the other 
just beyond the gas stove. For obvious 
reasons the sink should always be as near 
the range as possible; it improves neither 
the cook’s temper nor cookery to be trudg¬ 
ing back and forth the width of the 
kitchen in constant procession between 
sink and range carrying heavy pots full 
of water or vegetables. Where large and 
U. S. Government Report 
(Dept, of Agriculture, Forest Service, Bulletin 95,) 
issued June 30, 1911, says of 
CYPRESS: 
mm 
SIDING IT 
PRACTICALLY 
WEARS OUT 
BEFORE 
D E CAYS.” ( 
From page 44 . 
U. S. Government 
Bulletin 95 . 
I T 
) 
Same report says “CYPRESS shows paint well and holds it for many years, but lasts a long time without it.' 
{You /enow the conservatism of Government Reports .) 
Here’s a photograph (straight from 
the wood) of a piece of Cypress Siding 
taken from St. Charles College, La., 
duly attested in writing by the presi¬ 
dent, Father Mating. Built 1819 — 
Torn down 1910. NOT A TRACE OF 
ROT. Note that the lower or exposed 
edge, originally the thicker, has be¬ 
come the thinner by the simple 
erosion of nearly a century of rains. 
CYPRESS SIDING SOUND AS 
A. DOLLAR after withstanding 
the tempests of a century and willing 
to start again ! 91 YEARS “ON"THE 
JOB. "WITHOUT EVEN PAINTING. 
on a church in use till the day it was 
razed to make room for a larger 
building,and the CYPRESS LUMBER 
COMPOSING IT THEN USED AT 
ONCE to erect a new gymnasium ! 
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