House and Garden 
AN EARLY VICTORIAN ROOM WHICH IS RICH IN COLOR AND CORRECTLY FURNISHED 
and harmonious decorations and furnishings. The 
hospital is the best of its kind, and there is a 
perfectly equipped nursery and play-room for the 
children where the Lilliputian furniture proclaims it 
their own domain. 
Each of these rooms could safely be taken as a 
model, as the best artistic taste and practical knowl¬ 
edge has been expended in their htting. 
It is of the house furnishing and decorating depart¬ 
ment of this store that this article will chiefly treat 
and while these departments are only a part of the 
vast whole, they All a most important place and mean 
perhaps more to the home-making woman than do 
even the several acres devoted to exquisite French 
millinery and gowns. 
Set high at the northeastern corner of one of the 
buildings is the atelier, where beautiful and spe¬ 
cial designs for wall treatment and decoration are 
worked out. 
Here, as in the drafting-room of the architec¬ 
tural department, and indeed all along the line, the 
best talent only is employed. One feature which is 
particularly helpful and practical in this house fur¬ 
nishing department is a number of rooms arranged 
to suit the requirements, if not in detail, in a general 
way, of every type of house. Here the worried 
woman whose head is filled with conflicting ideas of 
Renaissance, Early English, Louis XIV. and Colonial 
furnishings, and, withal, a real longing for a comfort¬ 
able, beautiful and harmonious home, may have 
her vague ideas made clear and what she recognizes 
at once as her own chosen schemes embodied and 
set before her in reality. 
When the house plans are completed and only 
the decoration and furnishing is to be added, a day 
spent here exclusively devoted to choosing these will 
go far toward completing the selection. A full 
set of plans should be taken when one desires 
to facilitate this business of decorating and furnish¬ 
ing the house. 
It should be borne in mind that the architectural 
detail as shown in the standing woodwork of the 
various rooms is an important factor in these selec¬ 
tions. Courteous and thoroughly well-informed men 
of experience as well as excellent taste will take 
charge of purchasers and lead the way from 
wall covering to draperies, tiles and fixtures so 
easily and confidently that the furniture and rugs 
are found and decided upon before one realizes the 
dreaded work of choosing the wall-papers is well 
under way. The supreme convenience and help 
of seeing the various fabrics and wall coverings 
together with the assembled furniture cannot be too 
highly commended. 
When the house is only planned and no specifica¬ 
tions prepared, leaving undecided such detail as the 
character of wood for standing woodwork and finish 
of the same, excellent service is supplied. Frequently 
it is the architect who brings his client, and under 
his suggestion the full scheme is composed, but to 
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