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HOUSE & GARDEN 
H Li£ht your 
Windows 
Christmas Eve 
W ILL you help revive the quaint old 
Yule-tide custom of placing lighted 
candles in the windows Christmas 
Eve? Y’ou can do so now without the 
danger or inconvenience of open-flame 
candles — these new Electric Candles 
are just the thing. Charming colonial 
design; dull gray silver finish; spheri¬ 
cal frosted Mazda lamps; may be con¬ 
nected to any convenient electric light 
socket; complete with long silk-cov¬ 
ered cord and attachment plug. 
$' 
the pair 
express 
collect; or 
with dain¬ 
ty pink or 
blue silk 
shades as 
here pic¬ 
tured 
$5^0 
They make verv pretty lamps for the 
boudoir throughout the rest of the 
year; ideal for gifts. 
Our beautiful display rooms are re¬ 
plete with distinctive Electrical Gifts 
Exclusive designs in shades of silk for 
Floor Lamps and Table Lamps. Many 
new ideas in Electric Lamps from the 
finest that money can buy to the very 
moderately priced. 
Our beautiful new Christmas Book 
will be gladly sent if you write to 
Dept. 122. 
Electric Shop 
72 West Adams Street 
CHICAGO 
One may live as long without Pictures 
as with them but—not so well. 
“Sweethearts Still” 
Just published—(11 $4 x 16 inches) 
Remarque Artist Proof 
Etching 
After a recent painting by 
w. DENDY SADLER 
$27.50 
In our very large stock you will always 
find the best examples of the works of 
Brangwyn, Zorn, Buhot, Fitton, Haig, 
Howarth, Sadler, Dicksee, Fonce, 
Brewer, Affleck, MacLaughlan, Trow¬ 
bridge, Webster and other modern 
masters. 
Also 
Mezzotints in Color 
by Edwards, Wilson, Gulland, James, 
Smythe, Milner, Henderson and others. 
Correct Framing 
in all its branches 
Paintings and Engravings skillfully 
cleaned and restored 
Correspondence invited 
Purnell Art Company 
Importers and Publishers 
BALTIMORE, U. S. A. 
Furnishing the Hospitable Hall 
(Continued from page 66) 
phone. Unless we want our guests 
to know tlie price of their roast, or 
the family to listen aghast while we 
tell a white lie for society’s sake, or 
the cook to hear ns asking for a new 
one’s reference, don't put your tele¬ 
phone in the hall. Closet it, or keep 
it upstairs where the family alone 
are the bored “listeners in.” 
The architectural detail of many 
halls—the door and window trim, 
stair spindles, and newel posts— 
serve as sufficient decoration for 
halls built in the Georgian and Colo¬ 
nial manner. The same is true of 
the wrought iron grill work intro¬ 
duced in Italian and French halls. In 
like manner the hall of English spirit 
needs hut few accessories. 
What About Pictures? 
The question of pictures in the hall 
can be solved readily. If the space 
permits, put a truly decorative pic¬ 
ture in the hall, one from which 
colors can be picked to repeat in the 
hangings, or one that gives a pleasing 
impression as one passes. I have 
seen in several halls, perhaps by ac¬ 
cident, perhaps because the practice 
of its use is more prevalent than one 
would imagine—the engraving of the 
Centennial in Philadelphia, in which 
the great had their numbers under 
them and in the margin were the 
numbers checked up by their names. 
Intimate, purely pictorial pictures 
should not be hung in the hall nor on 
the stairs. Imagine dinner waiting 
while a guest looks to see if Grant— 
was surely at the Centennial! No, 
stairs are made to walk up and down 
and not to stand on while we look 
at pictures. Try the restful and dig¬ 
nified effect without them, and you'll 
never hang another picture there. 
Lighting Fixtures 
The lighting fixtures of a hall 
should harmonize with the archi¬ 
tectural background. Side lights are 
best where there is no stairway to 
be considered, but a ceiling drop 
light is the only adequate fixture for 
a stair well. I find that many halls, 
otherwise suitably furnished, stiff 
have wretched Mission hall lanterns. 
A center drop light of the same de¬ 
sign as the side lights is by all means 
the correct arrangement, but the 
greatest care should be taken that the 
light is sufficiently strong to light 
the stair well. 
In apartment houses we are apt to 
find cheap brass side fixtures. These 
may be painted the color of the side 
wall, making them inconspicuous. A 
rather formal parchment shield, cov¬ 
ering both lights, may be used with 
these. The shield can repeat some 
colors chosen from the hangings or 
portiers. In a hall where the fix¬ 
tures are inadequate or badly placed, 
a pair of candlesticks placed on the 
table will add sufficient light. More¬ 
over candles give a hall a quaint, 
homey look, and the late guests can 
take them to light the way upstairs. 
A hall into which adjoining rooms 
open by large doorways or arches, 
needs a neutral color on the waffs. 
The distinguishing note may be had 
in the curtains, portiers and uphol¬ 
stery. For hallway upholstery the 
finest fabric to use is tapestry. One 
old walnut chair with a petit-point 
seat would strike a note well worth 
living up to in the remainder of the 
house. The upholstery should, in 
the main, match the general tone 
carried out in the portiers. 
Hall portiers play the most dif¬ 
ficult part in connecting up a color 
scheme which has not been careful¬ 
ly considered as a whole. One bit of 
advice: all portiers in the hall should 
match on the hall side. They may 
be faced according to the color 
schemes of the various rooms; in 
fact, they should be so faced, but 
there the question of expense enters 
as double portiers are not to be had 
for a trifle. If a general running 
undertone of tan is found in all the 
rooms, use a portier of tan to har¬ 
monize with all. Rep silk, double- 
faced damask or velour might be used 
with economy. While the living- 
room might be mulberry and the 
dining - room blue, each might 
carry a tan. Striped silk, thin sun- 
fast or a stiff glazed chintz all make 
good hall window hangings. They 
should be made up in simple rather 
than formal designs, with straight 
fitted valances to give the dignity 
requisite in a hall. 
Four Color Schemes 
I know of one successfully planned 
hall that has broad striped putty 
colored paper, cream enameled wood¬ 
work, a very dark blue-green carpet 
and an old oak dresser on which 
stands a warm, rich orange bowl. 
Another has a Japanese gold tea 
paper; on either side is a Chinese 
screen set as a series of panels in 
the waff. A Chinese Chippendale 
table is faced on the opposite side by 
a yellow lacquered cabinet. The 
electric fixtures are Chinese Bud¬ 
dhas in gold, black and maroon. 
The color scheme in another hall 
strikes the keynote that is carried 
throughout the house. It is an ar¬ 
rangement of grey, orange and 
black. No one period is adhered to. 
The walls are rough cast plaster, the 
carpet back, acting as a foil for the 
orange painted furniture that is 
striped with thin lines of black. The 
grey walls are paneled with mould¬ 
ings of black and orange. The 
shields of the fixtures bear little 
designs of orange and black. 
A fourth hall, where one forgets 
the background, has for its glorifica¬ 
tion a console of wrought iron 
rubbed with gold. Topping it is an 
inch thick black glass. Above hangs 
a marvelous mirror of wrought iron 
with a frame of black glass around 
the mirror. The hall is square and 
of good size, but the only other 
groups in it consist of a tapestry 
below which was an oak chest, dark 
with age. 
The Garden in the House 
(Continued from page 39) 
worth choosing. And the flowering ered it literally is, for when it is in 
plant par excellence is probably the bloom its leaves hardly show at all, 
begonia that rejoices in the name of so abundant are the flowers. 
Gloire de Lorraine, a sort familiar Begonias are curious plants inas- 
now to everyone who knows any- much as they are detached from all 
thing at all about house plants, al- the rest of the plant creation now 
though it is a hybrid of comparative growing on this small planet. They 
botanical youth. have actually no relations, no family 
It is not unusual for this plant to ties. They stand apart, as the gypsies 
remain covered with its lovely pink stand apart among the races of men. 
blossoms for three months; and cov- They are native to widely separated 
The above spirited and beautiful picture 
is the Diana of the Uplands, by Furse, 
in the Tate Gallery, London. The Medici 
Print of it, in the colors of the original. 
23 x 18 inches, is $12.00; suitably framed, 
$20.00. General range of prices $1.50 to 
$20.00. Also Medici Miniatures. Careful 
attention to appropriate framing. 
For Gifts 
and for decoration in one’s own home both 
THE COPLEY PRINTS and MEDICI 
PRINTS are of the highest distinction. 
The Medici Prints 
"are the finest of all reproductions in col¬ 
or; their perfection is little short of amaz¬ 
ing," says The London Times. 
The Copley Prints 
are masterpieces of American art. repro¬ 
duced in rich sepia tone, some in color. 
For 21 years a hall-mark of good taste in 
pictures. Of our Copley Prints of the Holy 
Grail, Abbey himself said, "I could not 
wish better." Winslow Homer’s great work. 
The Gale, is one of our latest subjects. 
Your Old Family Portraits 
reproduced privately in the COPLEY 
PRINTS. — heirloom daguerreotypes, old 
faded photographs, tintypes, etc.,—make 
unique gifts to your relatives for Christ¬ 
mas, birthdays, weddings. 
How Obtained 
At art stores or sent direct. Illustrated 
Catalogues—Copley Prints and Medici 
Prints—practically handbooks of art, are 
25 cents each, 50 cents for both; send 
stamps. From them select prints to be 
sent to you prepaid on approval. 
Address 
For both series address either 
Curtis & Cameron 
or the new American Branch of 
The Medici Society, 5 boston L 
Salesroom: Pierce Bldg., opp. Public Library 
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