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HOUSE & GARDEN 
ALFRED VILLORESJ 
A ccepts commissions for 
Interior Decorating of every 
period. He specializes in 
the Italian Renaissance — 
and for this work com¬ 
mands the talent of a num¬ 
ber of Italian Artists, expert 
in the execution of Early 
Renaissance mural and 
ceiling decorations. 
In ike Galleries 
No. 15 East 47th Street may 
be seen a comprehensive as¬ 
sortment of unusual antique 
Italian Furniture I 7th century 
velvets in a variety of colors 
also Venetian Brocades, Em¬ 
broideries and Tapestries.The 
collection of Brocades 
is one of the largest ever 
exhibited,—they comprise the 
choicest examples, large and 
small, ranging from $50.00 
to $2000.00. 
Estimates and suggestions 
for decoration furnished. 
Your inspection is invited. 
* ALFRED -VILLORESI * 
- -ITALIAN ARJ-GALLERY • 
- ANTIQUES ^DECORATIONS- 
15 East 4 7th Street, New York 
Telephone 6698'Murray Hill 
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IDarwin Tulips! 
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(Daffodils 
1 Selected by our Traveler 
| Now in Holland 
1 GOLDEN DAFFO- 
| DILS in April fol- 
| lowed by the glorious 
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1 COTTAGE TU- 
| LIPS in May, will 
| make your garden 
| look its gayest dur- 
| ing these spring 
! months. 
| Plant from now until November | 
| 1st in beds, or in clumps of ten or 1 
| more, among hardy plants, or bor- 1 
| dering low-growing shrubs and | 
| hedgerows. | 
- Because of English embargo , our = 
E traveler has secured bulbs of highest = 
= quality , usually sold in England, which = 
E we offer = 
1 AT BARGAIN PRICES I 
| DARWIN TULIPS 1 
| Special Offer A, 100 Bulbs. Mixed colors I 
| from 10 distinct kinds <£-1 CA § 
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| Special Offer C, 100 Bulbs. Mixed kinds, | 
= enough for a 6-foot circu- <t1 EA I 
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| Special Offer D, 100 Bulbs. Eight named | 
= kinds, all separate, our se- (to AA | 
= lection. Prepaid for. | 
1 Big Fall Catalog (56pp.),Bulbs, PDCCT s 
= Plants, Trees. | 
I VAUGHAN’S SEED STORE I 
= CHICAGO - - 31-33 W. Randolph St. E 
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The Role of White Paint in the Room of Effects 
(Continued from page 62) 
Therefore the head and foot have 
charming little envelopes which slip 
on and off at will, fitting the width 
and height, repeating the material, 
color and decoration of the bed¬ 
cover. Thus the bed becomes a 
couch, or day-bed or chaise-longue, 
as one wishes to designate it. 
Over-curtains and valance at the 
window, the chiffoniere cover, the 
pillow cases and chair cushion cov¬ 
ers, carry the same drapery; and 
over the transoms and down the 
door-frames the silky unfadeable 
fabric glitters and sparkles. 
The color is a wonderful apricot 
with decoration dashingly rendered 
in black. The black in turn is re¬ 
peated in silk valance for the bed, 
velvet curtain at the book-case, vel¬ 
vet blotter-sides and lamp shade and 
indirect lighting fixture hanging 
from the ceiling center. 
The luxury most commented upon 
is the descent-de-lit, a big cushion 
of black velvet stuffed with feathers 
soft and warm to step out on. Those 
who like it, love it. Those who pre¬ 
fer stiff-backed chairs and abhor 
luxury, or fear it, dislike its soft 
pliability and comfort. 
The effect of the room is curious. 
Opening out of it is a charming 
room with old mahogany furniture 
and tender gray silk drapery with 
pink decorations: Pictures hang on 
the walls and a gray rug lies on the 
floor. In here, voices are lowered 
and hushed, while in the white and 
apricot and black room, gaiety and 
cheerfulness seem to he called forth. 
“Here,” said one, ‘‘I shall stay the 
rest of my life,” and she settled her¬ 
self in the rocking-chair in the cen- 
A Plea for Personality in 
ter of the room as one who would 
bear out the words. With her 
agreed in varying degree and man¬ 
ner the approximate seventy who 
saw the room, all but one, all but 
one. And she, well— 
She hated it with a poisonous 
hatred. She abhorred the color, de¬ 
tested the whiteness, the contrasts, 
but most bitterly of all she abomi¬ 
nated the efficiency of it. She had 
no patience with the rolling box 
which fitted so neatly under the bed 
and held its contents in orderly 
rows. She raged against the chif¬ 
fonier drawers, always in show 
condition with their neat piles of 
all one kind, held together by fast¬ 
ening bands of embroidered linen. 
She stormed against the desk with 
its fresh stationery piled in order in 
the one drawer, its folding type¬ 
writer in its tiny case standing at 
one side, the desk-stool that slipped 
under the desk when not in use. It 
was all impossible, horrible, positively 
insane. 
She withdrew, loudly complaining, 
returning to rage again, and a day 
or so later telephoned to emphasize 
the fact that of all the rooms on 
the face of the earth, the one she 
hated most was that one and to say 
that her room was in quiet brown 
colors and that things were put just 
where she wanted to fling them at 
the moment, and again she hated 
that awful room! But we consoled 
ourselves with the thought that if 
we saw hers, we could suggest some 
kind of curtains, as hers were un¬ 
satisfactory, and then her rug wasn’t 
good in color, and the furniture cov¬ 
ering was not at all pleasing, etc. 
the Decoration of Rooms 
(Continued from page 14) 
a gold Japanese gauze, while on the 
window seats there is a figured linen, 
copied in the shade of the reading 
lamp, and used again in an arm¬ 
chair that does not appear. 
The little day room or card room 
suitable for the reception of a single 
guest in cases of emergency pos¬ 
sesses merely the dull orange carpet 
rug and the dull orange walls, 
against which have been hung the 
black and white modern German 
silhouettes. The ground color for 
the furniture is white, and in this 
case too a thoroughly modern ex¬ 
pression has been 1 sought, for the 
decoration consists of tiny triangles 
of black and orange, together with 
flower decoration of the same colors. 
The couch is covered in a modern 
linen, which has been used at the 
window. It will readily be seen that 
all the furniture shown is of very 
simple and easily procurable design, 
and its originality consists entirely 
in the painted decoration applied to 
it, and not in any attempt at unusual 
cabinet work. There is no carving 
whatever applied to anything, with 
the result that a room of this type 
can be obtained at almost a minimum 
of expenditure. Pieces that would 
he entirely undistinguished in oak or 
mahogany become at once interest¬ 
ing and striking when decorated in 
the manner described. They are 
given new character and a certain 
personality that is unmistakable. 
In this wide range of expression, 
we have everything from the most 
conservative to the most radical, and 
yet it is altogether conceivable that 
the extremes may have been brought 
together for the same individual, 
for what a man or a woman require 
in their own sleeping room is not 
necessarily the same as what they 
may desire in a little frequented 
extra chamber. It is all very well 
for folk to have entire houses in the 
Colonial style or in any other his¬ 
toric period, hut it is equally well 
for them, if they wish, to have one 
room in Colonial and another in the 
wildest thing they can conceive, so 
long as the result is interesting. 
The Little Tree of the Big Returns 
(Continued from page 24) 
sorts, but in growth they rank with 
the sweet varieties such as Rockport 
and Black Tartarian. All of these 
cherries need a good deal of room, 
and only one or two can be accom¬ 
modated on a small lawn; but what 
a lot of comfort and delight a single 
Governor Wood yields! A half dozen 
dwarfs will do just as well and be 
more easily managed. These small 
trees can he readily covered with mos¬ 
quito netting, put on just as the fruit 
begins to color; and in this way you 
not only save the fruit from the birds, 
but you can let it hang on the tree 
until dead ripe in July or August. 
Many people never tasted a thor¬ 
oughly ripe Morello or Richmond 
cherry. 
While creating a small country 
home, forget the notion that fruit 
trees are not suitable for lawns. 
There is hardly anything more com¬ 
pletely beautiful in flower, in foliage 
and in fruit than an apple tree. An 
ideal life consists of a country place 
made up of orchards and gardens, 
supplied with abundant water for ir¬ 
rigation, and where the owner may 
walk with his or her friends, dis¬ 
cussing pomological progress and en¬ 
joying th.e literal fruit of his labors. 
A Bit of Wedgwood 
P hotographs 
of any of my 
old pieces sent on 
request 
SUSAN WESTROPE 
694 Main Street 
Buffalo, New Yt 
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390 East Main St., Meriden, Conn. 
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Everything for 
Yard and Orchard 
R IPE, delicious fruit in 
season! What gives 
more pleasure than an or¬ 
chard of your own? Our 
sure-bearing fruit trees em¬ 
brace many varieties and 
every one of them is guar¬ 
anteed good! 
Our plan for improving lawns 
and landscapes is both unique and 
effective: With absolutely no ex¬ 
pense to you, we will make, upon 
request, a complete design for 
your home grounds. In case you 
approve, we will immediately send 
highest grade shrubbery and 
flowers in time for fall plant¬ 
ing. For sixty years our house 
lias stood for quality in yard and 
orchard trees and flowers. Send 
for 191G catalog and see why. 
HOOPES’ BRO. & THOMAS CO. 
West Chester, Pa. 
