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HOUSE & GARDEN 
and inviting. Explains how you can easily 
and economically keep the woodwork, piano 
and furniture in perfect condition. 
Building? 
This book will tell you of newest, most at¬ 
tractive color combinations for interior dec¬ 
orating. It gives complete specifications for 
finishing inexpensive soft woods so they are 
as beautiful as expensive hard woods. We 
will send you this book free and postpaid. 
S. C. JOHNSON & SON. Dept. HG, Racine. Wis. 
“The Wood Finishing Authorities” 
A SHARONWARE 
BIRD- 
BATH 
is ornamental in itself 
and adds new charm to 
any lawn because of the 
birds it attracts. 
A Most Appropriate Gift for 
the Friend Who Loves Birds 
Endorsed by the 
National Audubon Society 
Crystal Spring Bird 
Bath. Height, 39 inch¬ 
es ; bowl, 17 inches 
across. Made of frost- 
proof artificial stone. 
Price (F. 0. 
15. N. Y.). 
Send for descriptive prica 
list of Sliaronware Garden 
Furniture. 
$10.00 
SHARONWARE WORKSHOP 
86 Lexington Ave., N. Y. 
City Water Service 
in the Country 
A NY one having an available source of 
supply—from well, spring or lake—can 
have a water supply system offering to 
the suburbanite all of the opportunities 
and advantages which the city family now 
enjoys. From the big line of 
Water Supply 
Systems 
may be selected an outfit 
which may be operated by 
electricity, gasoline engine, 
kerosene engine, water pres¬ 
sure or by hand, to supply an 
adequate volume of water, 
and at the desired pressure, 
to meet all requirements. 
If you are not enjoying the 
m any advan¬ 
tages of a good 
water supply 
system fill in 
and mail to 
us the coupon 
below, for cata¬ 
log. and sug¬ 
gestions as to 
the proper kind 
of system to 
meet your 
needs. 
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Manufacturers—General Offices, CLEVELAND, 0. 
Branches in Larger Cities 
Fill In, Detach and Mail This Coupon, Now! 
The B. B. B. Co., Cleveland—Please 
mail complete catalog of “Eureka" Water 
Pumps and Systems. 1 am interested in a 
( ) pump. ( ) system to be operated by 
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Our daily water consumption is about 
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A Young Girl’s Room 
(Continued from page 51) 
Courtesy Marshall Field & Co. 
tion that they make of it 
to their own families, think 
not so much of the re¬ 
quirements of the room, 
but of the requirements of 
the child. Is she fair, of 
exquisite, delicate color¬ 
ing? Then, let the color 
scheme be high in scale, 
none the less pure for 
being light. Is she a bru¬ 
nette, of the rather Orient¬ 
al type? Then let us sur¬ 
round her with deep, rich 
tones. This, I know, is 
living in the face of set 
formulas; but, from the 
mother’s point of view, it 
is the right order of pro¬ 
cedure. The girl must be 
the primary consideration. 
The room is successful 
only according to the con¬ 
tributory part it plays as 
her own fine background. 
Often it happens that a 
very pretty room can be 
made out of a seemingly 
hopeless lot of tilings that 
happen to be on hand. 
Such a room is shown in 
two views. Very 
few new things 
were bought for its 
redecoration, b u t 
all of the old ones 
were completely 
transformed. The 
material that had 
to be worked witli 
was a heterogene¬ 
ous jumble. There 
were twin beds, a 
mahogany chest of 
drawers, a corner 
book-shelf of 
quarter-sawed oak, 
a white enameled 
dresser, a small 
settle and table of 
fumed oak, a cheap 
oak desk, an out¬ 
grown, small, nar¬ 
row bed of oak, 
a n d four black 
wooden chairs, it 
hardly seems pos¬ 
sible that this is an accurate inventory 
of my girl’s room, but it really is, and, 
moreover, it is fairly descriptive of 
the miscellaneous lot of odds and 
ends that almost any household can 
match, by assembling pieces that may 
be dispensed witli from the various 
other rooms, cellar and attic in the 
house. That these ill-assorted things 
can be unified into a charming en¬ 
semble is proven by the pictures. 
The first thought was, of course, to 
make all of that outrageous furni¬ 
ture match. We decided to paint it 
—no difficult process of fine enamel¬ 
ing, but just plain, ordinary paint— 
and chose blue for the color. But we 
found that the ready mixed blue was 
rather crude, so we added a tiny hit 
An interesting group of 
simple, straight-line fur¬ 
niture suitable for the 
girl's room 
of yellow to it and a little 
black, and this gave a fine 
shade of dull turquoise. It 
was a matter of but little 
trouble to prepare the sur- 
faces for painting. We 
sandpapered it lightly all 
over—not enough to remove 
all old paint and varnish, 
but enough to roughen the 
surface and give it “tooth” 
to hold the new paint. When 
the pieces were painted and 
the windows left open, they 
dried over night, and they 
looked horrible enough un¬ 
til after they had had an¬ 
other coat. Then they were 
all right. The walls and 
ceiling were in good condition. The 
ceiling was calcimined and wall cov¬ 
ered with white paper printed with a 
little fabric design of leaf and flower. 
The tiles in the mantel were yellow 
and the woodwork yellow oak. We 
decided to paint the floor dark blue, 
and this was done last, so that the 
paint that dripped while our amateurs 
were doing the furniture did not 
matter one way or the other. 
We bought new rugs—-very plain 
ones, made of narrow, folded strips 
of blue and white felt, woven into a 
plaid over and under like kinder¬ 
garten mat work. The largest of 
these rugs, which by the way were 
made in Japan, was 6' x 9', and cost 
(Continued on page 70) 
A smart little lac¬ 
quer tip table will 
fit the scheme 
If order is to be maintained she should 
have a good-sized box to hold banners 
and souvenirs 
A comfortable 
chair of sturdy 
lines is needed 
Bulb Catalogue 
CEND for your 
^ copy. Ourbulbs are full 
size, true to name and very 
beautiful. 
We have a really wonderful 
assortment of 60 of our choicest 
bulbs for $1.00. You may send 
a dollar pinned to your order at 
our risk. 
To those who love flowers and 
“growing things,” our Bulb Cat¬ 
alogue will be a revelation. 
Send for it today. 
J. M. THORBURN & CO. 
53 D Barclay Street, through to 45 Park Place 
New York 
Double Means Double 
Glass protection 
- The non-eonductive air 
/ chamber between the two layers of 
' glass protects from frost. No extra 
covering needed. You get all the sun¬ 
light, thus producing healthy plants 
when you use 
CALLAHAN 
DUO-GLAZED SASH 
Frames of red cypress with rot-proof creo- 
soted tenons. Special loekstrip makes glaz¬ 
ing easy without danger of splintering. It’s 
the sash without a drawback. Complete 
catalog of sash, sectional greenhouses and 
greenhouse equipment sent on request. 
Callahan 
Duo-Glazed 
Sash Co. 
1444 Wyandot St 
Dayton Ohio 
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