HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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The newel posts are capped by little carved and painted wooden figures of saints, probably from a 
long-forgotten piece of church furniture 
being dotted over with timid flower beds or lonely 
little trees, each carefully insulated by a bit of 
turf from contact with the other. These pitiful 
affairs, placed with the idea that they take care 
of the decoration of a certain number of square 
feet, are evidently used with the feeling that there 
is something shameful or bold in a plain surface 
of honest grass. We will avoid any such lifeless 
mixture by keeping our flowers together, and in 
this case use them in a general way as a wall or 
boundary about our level lawn in the center. 
Now, if our garden is to be the great outdoor 
living-room that we desire, where we can take off 
our coats and romp with the children without hurt¬ 
ing its rugs or scratching its furniture, where we 
may have tea and gossip with our friends, we 
shall want walls or high hedges to make it cosy 
and shut us in from the world. This was the aim 
of the place we are considering. The lawn has 
the unbroken center, the flowers, vines and shrubs 
making a border all around, backed on the east by 
a high-clipped hedge of Siberian maple, and on 
the south and west by a high wall. The house 
forms the fourth side of the quadrangle to the 
north. 
So much for the layout in a general way of the 
small estate. 
The interior arrangement of the house was ar¬ 
rived at by following the direction pointed out by 
common sense, a path in this instance unusually 
To give the subtle charm that permeates an old house, Mr. Jackson built in the 
antique architectural features he had collected. This is an Italian carved door¬ 
way of Sixteenth Century workmanship 
The craving for the dignity and atmosphere that clings to old furniture led to the use of 
several pieces. They are of different styles, but each piece is intrinsically beautiful and 
harmonizes with the color scheme 
