HOUSE AND GARDEN 
254 
October, 1913 
The Famous 
Martha ^Washington 
Sewing Table 
FIFTEEN DOLLARS 
From the world’s finest furniture shops. Made and 
offered at this price for the sole purpose of further 
introducing to the American people 
Cowan 
Cabinet Work 
The World’s Standard in 
Mahogany Period 
Furniture. 
The “Martha Washington” is 
considered the most artistic 
of all sewing tables, and this 
Cowan piece has all the grace 
and charm of the original 
now at Mount Vernon. 
It is made of selected solid mahogany, perfectly 
constructed and finished, has three drawers, oom- 
partment tray, spool racks and two side pockets. 
Heretofore the retail price has been $30. This spe¬ 
cial price, $15 f. o. b. Chicago, has been made pos¬ 
sible only by the co-operation of our dealers and 
the volume of their combined orders in our factory. 
You can obtain this “Cowan” bargain only from one 
dealer in your city. (See his newspaper advertise¬ 
ments.) If there is no dealer in your locality carry¬ 
ing the Cowan lines, we will have our nearest 
dealer supply you. Write our “Special” Department A. 
W. K. COWAN & COMPANY 
Lake Shore Drive, Chicago 
You can grow Phloxes like 
this from Farr’s Plants 
Next to my Peonies and 
Irises I think the Phloxes are 
the finest flowers at Wyomis- 
sing. For late summer and 
autumn they are far ahead of 
other flowers and the range 
of color is wonderful—from 
the purest white to the deep¬ 
est purples. Phloxes are 
effective in small groups, or 
as single specimens, but are 
most beautiful when massed 
in front of a planting of 
shrubs. I wish you could 
come to Wyomissing and see 
my plants and flowers, but 
you can grow just as fine 
specimens in your own gar¬ 
den if you get my plants this 
fall. 
My Book 
on Hardy Plants 
tells all about Phloxes, Peonies, Irises and other hardy 
perennials for fall planting. Send for a copy, but 
please tell me what kinds you are thinking of plant¬ 
ing. I can help you to make a good selection. 
Bertrand H. Farr 
106 Garfield Avenue, Wyomissing, Pa. 
It is not too late to plant Peonies if you act quick, 
but don’t delay if you want flowers next spring. 
Residence of Joseph M. Dale, 
Asbury Park, N. J. 
W. C. & A. F. Cottrell, Archts. 
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Liquid Combination that creates an impervious waterproof coating 
to shingles, preventing rotting and decay of shingles. Cost no more than 
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Weatherproof Coating, Waterproof Flat Brick Stains. 
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BRANCH, 501 FIFTH AVENllE.NEW YORK 
A General Purpose Fence 
W E consider this the best all around gen 
eral purpose fence money can buy. It: 
cost is moderate. It is difficult to 
climb, effectually keeps out even the smallest 
animals and chickens, and is pleasing in ap¬ 
pearance. Posts can be driven without dig¬ 
ging holes. Every part heavily galvanized. 
Let us know your fence needs and we will 
send a catalog, showing the right designs for 
your requirements. 
American Fence 
Construction Co. 
100 Church Street, New York City 
What We Will Send You 
for 25 Cents — 
1. Our new book. “Craftsman Houses,** 
by Gustav Stickley, giving selected model 
plans, sketches, interiors and details of 
real Craftsman homes—-122 illustrations 
in all. 
2. The 192-page Annual Home Decora¬ 
tion Number of THE CRAFTSMAN 
— a golden treasury of the newest things 
for the homelover. 
3. A Coupon entitling you to Craftsman 
Service (by experts) on any two home¬ 
making problems. 
4. A blank worth 25 cents in cash on an¬ 
other attractive offer. 
To make sure of getting i and 2 (the supply 
is necessarily limited), send us your quarter with¬ 
out delay. 
THE CRAFTSMAN 
Room 816 Craftsman Building New York 
may be placed one or two reading lamps 
that will shed a light directly on the pages 
of anyone writing at the table or reading 
on the sofa. 
If a piano is to go in the living-room, 
two points must be especially considered 
before anything else. The light must be 
good and should fall over the left shoul¬ 
der of anyone sitting at the piano, and, 
secondly, the instrument should not be put 
where it will be subjected to too sudden 
changes of temperature—preferably not 
near the fireplace. If the piano is an up¬ 
right and it is convenient to have it stand¬ 
ing out into the room for any of the above 
considerations, the necessity may be em¬ 
braced as an opportunity and it can form a 
kind of alcove. By draping a hanging 
over its back and putting a table or sofa 
against it this arrangement often acquires 
a really decorative value. 
Corners are sometimes awkward to deal 
with, but a good expedient in such a case 
is a screen which destroys the bareness 
and angularity and may have some other 
article set in front of it for which it forms 
a pleasing background. Corner cupboards 
are also a great help in this way. The 
space between the two windows, particu¬ 
larly if it is not very wide, sometimes 
causes perplexity, for a person with ordi¬ 
narily good taste does not wish to fall into 
the banality of putting a foolish and mean¬ 
ingless little table there. Instead, why not 
let a lowboy, standing against the wall, oc¬ 
cupy the space? On it can be placed a 
Chinese bowl for flowers, flanked by can¬ 
dlesticks or else a lacquer box, and above 
it can be hung a mirror of Queen Anne 
or late Georgian design. If a lowboy is 
not obtainable, fill the space with a chest, 
perhaps putting another smaller chest on 
top of it. 
The one long wall space now left un¬ 
broken by door, windows or fireplace af¬ 
fords an excellent opportunity for book¬ 
cases which are a desideratum in a living- 
room. Besides, the backs of books, no 
matter what may be inside them, have a 
decidedly decorative value. The number 
and arrangement of chairs must be deter¬ 
mined by individual preference and con¬ 
venience. As to the pictures, the subject 
must depend wholly on the taste of the oc¬ 
cupants, but let a word be said about their 
number and hanging. In the first place, 
do not have too many. If the wall spaces 
are completely cut up by small scattered 
pictures, there will be lack of repose and 
the room will always have a restless at¬ 
mosphere. If there is a number of small 
pictures to be hung they should be clus¬ 
tered. 
The fireplace, in many ways the most 
important feature of the room, we have 
left to be considered last. The andirons, 
shovels, tongues and other paraphernalia 
may be of either brass or iron. Both are 
suitable and may he obtained in good de¬ 
signs. The mantel shelf, which of right 
belongs with the fireplace, should not be 
made an “omnium gatherum” of all sorts 
of odds and ends. Let its appointments be 
simple and dignified. In the center may 
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