Home of a Noted Author in California 
sunshine. The walls are tinted on the rough plaster, 
a warm chocolate tone, while the ceiling is an amber 
shade. This color harmonizes readily with the golden 
brown of the upholstered cushions of the window seat. 
In charming contrast with this soft brown, yellow and 
amber, is the dull blue prevailing tone of the Orien¬ 
tal rugs which cover the white matting on the floor, 
and in the brocades of the coverings of the old rose¬ 
wood chairs, which were inherited from ancestors 
of Mrs. Holder, who is a lineal descendant of the 
famous Huguenot, 
Wm. Provost (Paris, 
1516). The woodwork 
of the room is painted 
a chocolate brown, 
many shades deeper 
than the wall tint. 
Under the stairway in 
a recess is a wide low 
fireplace faced with 
fire-flashed pressed 
brick, which tone 
with the ceiling shade. 
The hardware trim, 
the electric fixtures 
and the andirons are 
all of dull brass, per¬ 
fectly completing a 
color scheme at once 
striking yet harmoni¬ 
ous, and restful. 
A wall-paper of 
cream background 
with springlike yellow 
flowers over it covers 
the walls of the din¬ 
ing-room, the ceiling 
being tinted a pale 
yellow. Here the fur- 
niture is mahogany 
and the windows, 
facing east and south, 
are hung with sheer 
muslin curtains, 
daintily embroidered. 
The kitchen depart¬ 
ment, butler’s pantry 
and store-room are complete and furnished with the 
necessary modern conveniences and sanitary devices. 
At the west end of the house, opening from the 
living-room, is the sanctum of the owner. This is 
his workshop, his den, his library. The dull blue 
of the walls, the crimson, black, white and green of 
the Navajo blankets, the cafe au Jait of the ceiling, 
are all reproduced in the covers of the books on the 
shelves. 
At the writing desk which Mr. Holder now uses 
here, four generations of writers have sat and worked. 
Christopher Holder, 1690, author. Rachel Holder, 
1790, poet. Joseph Holder, 1820, author, and 
Charles Frederick Holder, 1851, author. At this 
desk he has produced “The Life of Charles Dar¬ 
win,” “The Life of Louis Agassiz,” “The Hold¬ 
ers of Holderness,” etc. 
Here we find Mr. Holder’s collection of fishing 
rods, from the lightest of “fly rods” to the sturdy 
tuna and tarpon tackle. On the wall hangs a tuna 
which weighed over one hundred pounds when 
landed and which, 
before giving up the 
fight, upset the boat 
and made the enthu¬ 
siastic fisherman take 
a long swim for it. 
This was ta ken off 
Seal Rocks at Cata¬ 
lina Island. 
Here also is a well 
mounted tarpon taken 
by Mr. Holder in the 
Gulf of Mexico at 
Aransas Pass. It, too, 
weighed a hundred 
pounds and almost 
wrecked the boat be¬ 
fore it was brought to 
gaff. 
A beautiful and 
unusual specimen is 
a rainbow trout from 
Klamath Lake which 
weighed nine and 
three quarter pounds 
and which measures 
almost three feet in 
length. Mr. Holder 
landed this fish on an 
eight ounce rod in a 
brief half-hour from 
t h e t i m e he was 
hooked. All the 
above illustrate his 
hobby of fair play to 
fishes and the putting 
into practice of his 
preaching “big fish on light tackle.” 
The Tuna Club of Avalon, Catalina Island, owes 
its inception and organization to him. 1 he Valley 
Hunt Club of Pasadena was also the outgrowth 
of his love for “following the hounds,” and when at 
early dawn the winding horn and the baying dogs 
were heard, it was safe to assume that a “brush” 
was about to adorn the headgear of some devotee 
of the chase, and Mr. Holder was usually in at the 
death. He was the originator in California of the 
“Tournament of Roses,” a festival of flowers which 
THE ROSE LANE 
A Bower of Roses in April—one hundred and fifty feet long 
