House and Garden 
Free Advice on Decoration 
T he unprecedented growth of the Correspondence Depart¬ 
ment of “ House and Garden ” has necessitated the opening 
of a new Department which will be devoted to the interest 
of those who are building, decorating or furnishing their homes. 
Beginning with the new year “ House and Garden” offers its 
readers a House Finishing, Decorating, Furnishing and Purchas¬ 
ing Service which is complete in detail and thoroughly practical. 
Full color suggestions for the exterior of the house will be supplied 
with recommendations of proper materials to obtain the results. 
For the interior, the treatment of standing woodwork and floors, 
the selection of tiles, hardware and fixtures will be considered and I 
specifically recommended, with the addresses of firms from whom I 
these goods may be obtained. Samples of wall coverings and I 
drapery materials will be sent and selections of rugs and furniture 
made. When desired, the goods will be purchased and shipped 
to the inquirer; the lowest retail prices are quoted on all materials. 
This Department of Decoration is under the direction of 
MARGARET GREENLEAF, whose successful work as an inte¬ 
rior Designer and Decorator is well known. 
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CONTRASTS IN NAPLES 
/^NE of the strangest contrasts in 
Naples is to walk from the royal 
palace, with its fine marhle staircase, up 
the new Corso Re d’ltalia, and to climb 
into the steep streets around the Church 
of San Soverino e Sosio. These streets 
are the dwelling-place of the dyers, and 
one steps from regal magnificence into 
a crowd of semi-naked people, who are 
busily dipping great hanks of cotton or 
wool into seething caldrons. As else¬ 
where the work is carried on in the 
street, and little streams of water—red, 
yellow, brown and black—pour over 
the rough stones, and gather in multi¬ 
colored pools, while on low benches 
against the walls women are washing 
clothes, standing in the dirty, soapy 
water that splashes over from their tubs. 
The passers-by walk heedlessly through 
the dye and soapsuds, while the children 
find pleasant occupation in throwing 
mud of every variety of color at anybody 
who chances to he wearing light colored 
garments. It is a veritable feast of 
color from the merely spectacular point- 
of-view, but a visit to these streets leaves 
a bodily as well as a mental impression. 
Very often in the depths of these sordid 
alleys one comes across a forgotten old 
palace, built when carriages were un¬ 
known, its great court of honor crowded 
with booths, its vast halls filled with a 
heterogeneous collection of men, w omen 
and children, fowls, goats, sheep and 
occasionally a donkey, all living together 
in the happiest proximity T he massive 
old walls are hidden beneath centuries 
of dirt; the woodwork has, for the most 
part, disappeared, the rooms that once 
knew the revels of Angevin nobles now 
shelter the haphazard existence of laz- 
zaroyii. — The Ludgate. 
Kcelreiaeria pafiiculata, a Japanese 
tree, deserves to he better known than it 
is. Its compound leaves are pretty all 
summer, but its immense panicles of 
yellow flowers, which come in midsum¬ 
mer, give it its chief value. 
Crepe myrtle, Lagerstroenna Indira, 
can be increased by soft wood cuttings 
made and placed in the greenhouse in 
summer, as well as by hard wood cut¬ 
tings set out in early spring. In the 
South, where the plants seed freely, they 
are easily raised from cuttings.—T/or- 
ists’ Exchange. 
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