House and Garden 
was not until the next century that it achieved 
popularity in France. Furniture-makers under 
Louis XIV worked on massive lines, giving prom¬ 
inence to a different mode of construction and 
ornament. 
It was not until the Louis XV style was well 
established that the possibilities of cane were recog¬ 
nized nor until the late Louis XV period that the 
best furniture of this type was produced. At that 
time occurred a reaction in France in favor of 
simpler designs. 
Genuine pieces of old French cane are scarce and 
now almost priceless, but correct reproductions are 
within the reach of home-makers of moderate 
means and it is to their ears that we would now 
speak. 
For bedrooms this type of furniture is particu¬ 
larly adapted, as it was for rooms of this character 
that the old French designers made their most 
attractive patterns. Pieces, such as are shown 
herewith, combine the charm and the durability of 
the old designs with the highest modern skill. The 
caning is done by hand and every detail conforms 
to a high standard of excellence. 
A cane bed of Louis XV design may be pur¬ 
chased in either Circassian walnut or enamel with 
a full bedroom set to match. French gray is an 
attractive tone combining well with cane and 
affording scope for a fine decorative treatment. 
Illustration furnished by the Berkey & Gay Furniture Company, 
Grand Rapids, Michigan. 
To those who prefer an “all wood” effect the 
same designs may be found without the cane, in 
white enamel, gray enamel, and Circassian walnut. 
There is no style that is copied so generally by 
furniture manufacturers as the Louis XV, and it 
requires care and discernment to be certain that 
the furniture offered as pure and correct is really 
so in fact. 
Note: Other Louis XVI pieces and Period reproductions are 
shown in the handsome brochure entitled “Furniture of Character," 
issued by Berkey & Gay Furniture Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan. 
It is well worth the 15 cents in stamps that this company asks be sent 
them Dept. B to partly cover expense. 
PLANTS DAMAGED BY SMELTERS 
REAT damage to plant life in 
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, 
is threatened by the proposed construc¬ 
tion of one of the largest copper smelters 
in the world, now in progress at San 
Bruno. Though the smelter will be 
located some miles from the park, it is 
greatly feared that the noxious fumes 
will be wafted by the sea winds over the 
grounds, and the result, in time, will be 
the destruction of the plant life there. 
1 he board of park commissioners con¬ 
sider the danger imminent, and are very 
iusical taste is 
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hesitation, for 
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