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HOUSE & GARDEN 
FALL AND WINTER SHOWING 
OF FLINT & HORNER 
FURNITURE 
The gratifying recognition of faultless con¬ 
struction everywhere accorded Flint & Horner’s 
Furniture is amply justified by our Fall and 
Winter Exposition—an exhibit of unusual in¬ 
terest because of the uniformly high character 
maintained throughout and the many new de¬ 
signs of Mahogany, Walnut and Lacquered 
Suites displayed. 
On every hand is something pre-eminently 
worth while, and the range in price is practi¬ 
cally unlimited. 
ORIENTAL AND DOMESTIC 
RUGS AND DRAPERIES 
FLINT C& HORNER CO., INC. 
20-26 WEST 36th STREET 
NEW YORK 
Farr’s Hardy Plant Specialties 
(Edition 1915-16 ) 
A 96-PAGE GUIDE-BOOK to the world of hardy 
plants. Vivid and accurate descriptions of 
Hardy Plants, Roses, Shrubs, including Lemoine’s 
new French double and single-flowered Lilacs, the 
new varieties of Philadelphus, Deutzias, etc., make 
this book a desirable acquisition to any garden 
library. 
In this book are noted the desirable varieties of 
Phlox, Delphiniums, Long-spurred Columbines, 
Peonies, and other plants always desirable in the 
hardy garden, and which should be planted in the 
fall. 
If you do not ha' c a copy of “ Farr’s Hardy 
Plant Specialties,” send for it today. 
Bertrand H. Farr—Wyomissing Nurseries Co., Inc. 
106 Garfield Avenue Wyomissing, Penna. 
The Decoration of the Morning Room 
(Continued from page 51 ) 
considerable portion of her time the way, look disorderly and get lost 
there. There are the housekeeping if left about. Another masculine de¬ 
accounts to be gone over, there is the 
household ordering to be done, there 
sideratum is a comfortable armchair 
in which to get through the morn- 
is at least some correspondence to be ing paper before setting out for the 
attended to, there is mending and the more active affairs of the day. A 
family darning bag to be looked barometer — and be it remembered 
after, there are other kinds of needle- that a barometer can be made a very 
work to be thought of, and there are decorative and interesting piece of 
the children to be welcomed and, wall furniture; witness those de- 
perhaps, amused when they come in signed by Chippendale, Hepplewhite 
from play or their lessons. and Sheraton—will probably appeal 
1 he discharge of these various particularly to at least one of the 
housewifely and maternal duties pre- men in the family with the weather 
supposes the presence among the fur- for a hobby, and will be of practical 
nishings of a good, 
big, ample secretary 
or writing table— 
not one of the little, 
attenuated, rat-ter¬ 
rier-like escritoires 
for a boudoir or 
bedroom that are 
scarcely distinguish¬ 
able from bric-a- 
brac — with enough 
pigeonholes or 
drawers to hold the 
sundry account 
books, pads, re¬ 
ceipts, papers and 
stationery in an or¬ 
derly and uncrowd¬ 
ed manner. There 
will also be a tele¬ 
phone, either on a 
table especially pro¬ 
vided for it or else 
enclosed in some 
sort of disguise, for 
telephones are not 
exactly decorative. 
Other Useful 
Items 
Then, again, there 
will be a sewing 
table or stand, and 
it may be conveni¬ 
ent, furthermore, to 
have a chest or some 
similar receptacle 
into which large 
pieces of sewing, 
clothing to be 
mended, or sewing 
baskets can be put 
when not actually 
being worked upon, 
to keep the room from looking clut 
utility to the whole 
household. 
A Place For 
Hobbies 
And speaking of 
hobbies prompts the 
suggestion that the 
morning room is 
the logical housing 
place for a good 
many of them. In¬ 
deed, it is the pres¬ 
ence of the hobby 
objects that adds no 
small degree of the 
legitimate and inti¬ 
mate interest to the 
morning room. The 
writer can see in his 
mind’s eye at the 
present minute a 
delightful morning 
room in one of our 
most famous old 
country houses 
where the trophies 
of the master’s prize 
hens are much in 
evidence. Eggs and 
blue ribbons from 
the poultry show 
are not generally 
included in lists of 
decorative a c c e s- 
sories, but in the 
instance alluded to 
they were perfectly 
permissible and in 
order. They con¬ 
tributed a portion 
to the very marked 
individuality of the 
room. Other men 
have other hobbies, to be sure, but 
tered or untidy. If embroidery is a whatever they are, provided they are 
frequent diversion, one of the stand- not too overpowering, they may time 
ing embroidery frames will be a per- and again find a suitable housing 
fectly legitimate object of furniture place in the morning room. Another 
in the room’s equipment. convenient and really decorative arti- 
Another useful article will be a cle that will appeal to many men is 
card or game table for amusement an orrery or globe of sufficient size, 
on a rainy day or when the children to use in connection with the perusal 
come in in the middle of the morning of the morning paper, 
or for a while before luncheon. Other features for the morning 
Likewise a big, comfortable sofa or room might be added indefinitely— 
lounge is a sine qua non. Every they would depend upon the personal 
member of the family, old or young, tastes of the members of each indi¬ 
will thoroughly appreciate it. Some- vidual family—but enough have been 
An excellent addition to 
the morning room loould 
he a Queen Anne secretary 
which has ample room for 
address hooks and house¬ 
hold accounts 
where, either by itself as an inde¬ 
pendent piece of furniture or as a 
drawer in a large press or cupboard, 
there ought to be a handv box or 
mentioned to make it quite plain what 
the general character of the furnish¬ 
ings of a morning room ought to be. 
It only remains to add that the in¬ 
drawer containing twine, labels, tags, elusion of all these desiderata is en- 
glue, stickers, library paste, rubber tirely compatible with the require- 
bands, clips and the thousand and ments of good taste and elegance in 
one small items of utility that a per- the ensemble. There is not one of 
son is apt to need at almost any the articles mentioned that cannot be 
moment and doesn’t wish to search 
the whole house to find. 
For the master of the house or for w _ . 
the convenience of any other male sique, their dimensions should be of 
members of the family, one of the comfortable amplitude and all up- 
most desirable pieces of furniture in holstery should be chosen with an 
the morning room is a cabinet or eye to durability under constant 
cupboard on a stand. Besides being usage. In such a room there will 
a distinctly comely and decorative ob- more than likely be a bookcase or 
made an item of positive decorative 
value. Apart from the requirements 
of good contour and staunch phy- 
ject, it affords a safe place in which 
to put all the numerous odds and 
ends one wishes to have near at 
hand, but which are sure to be in 
two. With reference to the book¬ 
cases and likewise to any other piece 
of furniture, let it be urged that the 
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