House and Garden 
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SPRINGFIELD: MASSACHUSETTS 
Works at Brightwood 
GOICTON 
Side=Feed 
BOILERS 
For 
STEAM 
and 
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HEATING 
Insure a 
WARM 
BUILDING 
day and night 
in 
COLDEST 
WEATHER 
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Catalogue 
GORTON & LIDGERWOOD CO. 
96 Liberty Street, New York 
Old Colony Bldg., Chicago 77 Oliver Street, Boston 
U-Bar Greenhouses 
Designed and Bui It by 
Pierson U-Bar Company 
Metropolitan Building 
Fourth Avenue and 23rd Street - New York 
If you are, the two important 
points to consider are comfort 
and economy. 
NEPONSET 
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Keeps Houses Warm 
because it acts as a blanket on the 
house. It insulates against cold in 
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house free from drafts. It saves you 
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East Walpole, Mass. 
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tar, is highly fire resisting. 
Send for Paroid Proofs showing where it 
has been jtsed and ho7o to use it. 
It’s easy digging 
POST HOLES 
with the 
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We will send you sample 
one, express paid, and if 
satisfactory you can remit 
us $2 for it. 
LARAMY-HOWLETT CO. 
Standish Street 
CAMBRIDGE 
P. 0. Box 42 Mass. 
the woodwork is white and red, that is the 
window casings are white and the floor 
is painted red, art-square green, furni¬ 
ture reed or willow and mahogany. 
This room has two French windows, and 
a bay-window with four tiny windows, 
around these are little panels of green, 
yellow and white glass. What kind of 
curtains for this room ? 
My bedroom, which is papered in blue 
stripes with overhead white, has the 
same octagon with three windows. I 
want this room to be all blue and white. 
What kind of curtains for these win¬ 
dows Also, what kind of scarfs shall 
I use for my dresser, wash-stand and 
dressing table. I thought of using plain 
or dotted lawn or muslin, with tiny 
ruffles around edges and these put over 
plain blue cambric. Would that do ? 
Also thought of dressing my bed, which 
is plain white iron, the same way. 
I have another room just like the one 
described only everything in it is in pink 
and white. Could this be treated as the 
blue room ? 
Answer: At your reception-room 
windows we suggest that you use a bro¬ 
cade of silk and wool for the draperies; 
since this room has plain red walls 
figured hangings are quite permissible, 
the ground work should be of yellow tan 
showing a design of delicate blossoms 
and green leaves and a floating ribbon 
effect in soft blue. The green in this 
figure should harmonize with the uphols¬ 
tery of your furniture and the tiles, and 
the red should look well with your wall 
covering. I send you samples that you 
may try this. Next the glass it is sug¬ 
gested that you use figured ecru net, we 
send you sample of this also. Both 
samples are marked with the price. 
I note that your parlor walls are 
covered in delicate green, and in this 
room the floor covering is also green, 
your furniture being of willow and ma¬ 
hogany. 
You do not state whether the willow 
furniture has cushions, if not, I would 
suggest that you use a linen taffeta like 
the sample I send you for over-dra¬ 
peries at your two French windows, and 
also for cushions in the willow chairs to 
be fastened in the back and seat and be 
caught in with buttons. The selection 
I have made shows a softly mingled 
pattern of green leaves over a white 
ground, with yellow brown stems of the 
vine; this latter will harmonize with the 
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