February, 1915 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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jected furniture from the other rooms. 
Now a hostess plans carefully for her 
friends’ comfort, and the shops aid and 
abet this altruistic motive. She realizes 
the joy a restful room is to a visitor, and 
she plans it with the idea that after her 
guest has been dined and wined, taxied 
and tangoed, her four walls are a haven 
of peace. Thus an excellent arrangement 
for that room is to use a gray lacquer 
furniture, including a chaise longre and 
several stools. With this, a portable desk 
of black Chinese lacquer and a fetching 
little dressing-table of the same design. 
The hangings are of gray linen with a 
wonderful Chinese design in many colors. 
Underneath the dressing-table, placed in 
front of a window for good light, is a 
black rug. A piece of green pottery 
highly glazed, together with two Japanese 
bronze candlesticks above the fireplace, 
make the room an artistic success, as well 
as a room of much comfort to the guest. 
A man’s bedroom is rather less of a 
problem, since his ideas are mainly as to 
comfort, not as to decoration. He must 
have ventilation; see to it, then, that there 
is in his room a fireplace, for these are as 
valuable for their ventilation as for their 
air of coziness. A man’s grate should be 
as his shoes, polished to the point of per¬ 
fection. 
In his room, as in all bedrooms, it is 
best to have a few small rugs, rather than 
stuffy carpets, since the former are more 
easily taken up and cleaned than a single 
large, heavy rug. The furniture must be 
simple in line and construction—and mas¬ 
culine. Is anything worse than a man’s 
room filled with simpering furbelows?— 
and yet it is done. What a crime to per¬ 
petrate! A good type for his room is 
furniture of the William and Mary period 
in walnut—not the dark, heavy, over-or¬ 
namented Victorian, but the well-propor¬ 
tioned, substantial-looking kind. 
For color, green and brown, or both 
combined; perhaps a linen of Jacobean 
design at the windows; and a great, com¬ 
fortable chair by the bedside stand. This 
stand should be large enough to hold, be¬ 
side a serviceable lamp, a pile of maga¬ 
zines and best sellers, for it is thus that 
most men quiet down for the night. 
In general, avoid unnecessary details in 
bedrooms. The simpler, fresher they are, 
so much more are they the things that 
architects and decorators and hostesses in¬ 
tend they should be—rooms of re-creating 
sleep. 
If St. Patrick could see the story called 
“Real Irish” in the March House and 
Garden he would shout for joy. You 
dog lovers who have an Irish terrier will 
shout, too. 
mamma 
have become the international weap¬ 
ons against tire. Thousands of them 
have been ordered by War and Naval 
Offices abroad and by the Red Cross 
organizations and are now in service. 
The Pyrene 
Extinguisher 
convenient 
in size, sim¬ 
ple in oper¬ 
ation, and 
powerful in 
efficiency, is 
recognized 
by fire en¬ 
gineers as a 
superi or, 
scie n t i fic 
method of 
extinguish- 
ing dangerous 
incipient fires 
wherever they 
occur—in the home, 
factory or garage. 
Brass and Nickel-plated Pyrene 
Fire Extinguishers are included 
in the lists of Approved Fire Ap¬ 
pliances issued by the National 
Board of Fire Underwriters, ex¬ 
amined and labeled under the 
direction of the Underwriters’ 
Laboratories. 
.If Leading Dealers Everywhere 
Write fur Literature 
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Alton 
Anderson, S. C. 
Atlanta 
Baltimore 
Birmingham 
Boston 
Bridgeport 
Buffalo 
Butte 
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Charlotte, N. C. 
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Pacific Coast Distributors : Corbam Fire Apparatus Co., San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Distributors for Canada : Way-Oatway Fire 
Alarms, Ltd., Winnipeg, Toronto. Distributors for Great Britian and Continent: The Pyrene Co., Ltd., 19-21 Gt. Queen St., London.W.C. 
Use Creosoted Shingles That Come Already Stained « 
Save the time, cost, muss and bother of staining on the job. 
The result is artistic, permanent an 
” Stained 
Shingles 
Use one color on roof; another on side walls, 
economical. 
“Creo-Dipt 
17 Grades 16, 18, 24-inch. 30 Different Colors. 
We use only the best Cedar Shingles thoroughly seasoned and 
dried and stain them for each job with permanent colors tTiat 
thoroughly preserve them against dry rot, worms and decay by our 
exclusive process. Earth colors are ground twice in linseed oil 
and creosote. We guarantee both quality of shingles and even 
stain. 
Write for sample colors on wood and catalog that shows CREO- 
DIPT houses in all parts of the country by prominent archi¬ 
tects. Name of architect and lumber dealer appreciated. 
STANDARD STAINED SHINGLE COMPANY 
1012 Oliver Street North Tonawanda, N. Y. 
Residence of David Kahn, Beechwood Ave.. G. C- Burroughs, 
Architect, Rose Hill, Cincinnati. 
Roof, one color; Side Walls, another color of CREO-DIPT Shingle 
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