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HO USE & GARDEN 
CHILD 
is ASLEEP 
Just on the 
side of that 
other 
wall! 
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into the lamp—flares 
up like lightning—and 
in five minutes the 
whole room is ablaze, 
with the flames licking greedily at the walls. 
There they STOP. The fire cannot go beyond 
that one room. The house is built throughout of 
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Box H 
Small Clubs in Town and Country 
(Continued from page 31) 
The Franklin Inn, another of Philadelphia's small clubs, is a 
remodeled Colonial dwelling on a sequestered street 
Robeson Lea Perat, architect 
The Porch Club at Riverton, New Jersey, 
chose a bungalow type for their house 
does the log cabin 
merit consideration; 
its interior walls like¬ 
wise warrant c o m - 
mendation, for, if left 
unplastered, they cre¬ 
ate a wonderfully ef¬ 
fective background 
for decorative treat¬ 
ments thoroughly in 
accord with club tra¬ 
ditions. Unfortunate¬ 
ly, as a type, the log 
cabin is not adapted 
to general employ¬ 
ment, owing to its en¬ 
tire lack of harmony 
with the structural 
forms in use today; 
but, for a site at all 
suggestive of the 
primitive conditions which originally 
produced it, the log cabin is a re¬ 
freshing alternative to other more 
conventional types of architecture. 
The Chance for Color 
In this country we cannot be ac¬ 
cused of prodigality of color, and 
this rather to our shame, too; for, 
judiciously administered, color is per¬ 
haps the most effective medium by 
which originality can be gained, ir¬ 
respective altogether of the possible 
mediocrity that it may veil. Think 
of the beautiful hues which rarely 
appear in American architectural 
work—the soft pinks, rich oranges, 
glowing purples, rich blues! Then 
to see that, in a land made colorful 
by Nature, our architectural endeav¬ 
ors continue to be expressed in quiet 
monotone, in retiring greens, in 
chilling whites, pale yellows, dingy 
drabs and self-effacing grays! 
Where, more appropriately than in 
the small clubhouse, can the achieve¬ 
ment of really distinctive color 
schemes put to rout the inanimate 
effects that now predominate? Cer¬ 
tainly not in the very large club¬ 
house, where the greater expanses of 
wall might prove disquieting if even 
a trifle too brilliant or too daring, 
and assuredly not in the average 
home, where, alas! there is, as a 
rule, the necessity for somewhat re¬ 
strained effects, that 
prolonged appeal and 
long-continued service 
may be assured. To 
the small clubhouse, 
however, color is a 
rightful heritage, as 
we shall see for rea¬ 
sons quite obvious. 
The small club¬ 
house is not in contin¬ 
uous use, nor is it 
even occupied every 
day by the same 
group of people. It 
is distinctly a place of 
occasional occupa¬ 
tion ; hence, in its ex¬ 
terior development as 
in its interior treat¬ 
ment, colorings and 
(Continued on page 
J. Fletcher Street, architect 
The Colonial style, as shown in the New 
Century Club, at Middletown, Bel., is gen¬ 
erally a favorite because of its roominess 
