May, 1915 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
359 
about fifteen or sixteen inches in diam¬ 
eter. 
Shown with the oblong tray is a square 
waste-paper basket, flaring at the top like 
the petals of a flower. The decorations 
are in yellow and green with a touch of 
blue. In another group is a flower box 
for window or porch, painted green with 
vivid contrast only in the oval on the sides. 
The artistic feeling and thought which are 
given to this work are evidenced in the 
flower-box development, where the colors 
are subdued because of the nearness to 
Nature’s own paint brush. The long, 
slender spout of the watering pot will in¬ 
sure against splashing surrounding ob¬ 
jects, as it will nose deftly among the 
shoots and branches and send the water 
only where it should go. It has yellow 
cowslips on a background. There are 
large watering pots for the garden and 
small ones for the little child’s special 
flower bed. 
As if they might have stepped out of 
an i860 daguerreotype are the hair-pow¬ 
dered, hoop - skirted, painted wooden 
ladies whose name is Door Stop. A lace- 
trimmed breakfast cap adorns the chignon 
of one, another stands demurely still, 
although her frock is flower-bedecked as 
if for a ball, and a third wears dignified 
stripes garlanded with posies. They are 
like human women, inasmuch as they 
are after one pattern, and like woman 
again, in that they are all different. 
Here is an instance where a bit of the 
design of painted furniture, of window 
hangings or of wallpaper may be repeated 
in the door stop’s dress. Such a little 
thing that it is, but it does give so large 
a feeling of unity as if there were a mind 
that planned and a current of sympathy 
through all the things of the home. 
The simplest electric light stand and the 
plainest shade, say one of paper, becomes 
a thing of exquisite beauty thoroughly at 
home with its surroundings when its color 
and style are related to its associates. In 
this studio was a noteworthy lamp striped 
with pale blue and white, with pink roses 
scattered over the shade and the lamp. 
This was a bedroom lamp to be used 
where the hangings were of blue and 
white striped linen dotted with pink 
roses. 
Where is the telephone book? Most 
everybody has sometimes found it out of 
place and put it away to have ready for 
next time. To help obviate this trouble 
there is the lacquered telephone box, which 
may be screwed to the side of the desk near 
This decorated box for the telephone book can be fastened 
to the side of the desk. It is large enough to contain 
two books 
the telephone. It has a roomy space for 
the thick city directory and a thinner divi¬ 
sion for the suburban directory. Flying 
white cranes and a group of marsh flowers 
decorate the front of the box. 
The group of small boxes are for 
various purposes; some are for candy for 
special occasions, such as Christmas, birth¬ 
days and anniversaries. There are twine 
boxes so pretty that one will always be 
kept in sight, so the hide-and-seek ball of 
twine will have no chance to go free. 
Trinket boxes there are, such as the lovely 
one with the white cameo-like head on the 
top. The inveterate wielder of the crochet 
needle will find an ally in the little holder 
for the ball of crochet cotton which will 
keep it from roving into far away corners. 
The same originality of ornamentation 
may be seen in the decoration of every 
object, and with due regard for its pur¬ 
pose. 
Quaint and unusual are the two figures 
of the man and woman, done in black and 
white cross-stitch and framed in a narrow 
black oval. Those are very interesting in 
a room with black and white wallpaper 
or hangings. 
Novel Use for Garden Hose 
GARDEN hose used to rinse heavy 
articles is very useful. Blankets 
rinsed in this way are saved from wring¬ 
ing and dry without wrinkles. The nap 
is uncrushed, too, as no ironing is required. 
Rugs, scrubbed with a stiff brush moist¬ 
ened in diluted ammonia, when rinsed in 
this way, look like new. 
The Back of the House 
HERE is no place where a house¬ 
keeper has a better opportunity to 
show her good housekeeping than in the 
appearance of the rear of the house. An 
unsightly collection of pails and baskets, 
and, above all, an untidy garbage recep¬ 
tacle, will spoil the appearance of any 
back-yard, no matter how attractive it may 
be otherwise. 
A good plan is to have a box made large 
enough to hold the garbage can and any 
other pails or receptacles it has been found 
necessary to keep about. The box should 
have a good hinged cover, but needs no 
bottom, and should stand directly on the 
ground. Have some holes bored in each 
side for ventilation, and over these on the 
inside tack some wire fly netting. Paint 
the box the color of the house, and it will 
be quite unnoticeable and serve to keep 
the rear of the house neat. If the garbage 
receptacle is kept clean and covered there 
can be no odor, and there will be no op¬ 
portunity for the breeding of the much- 
detested fly. 
They might have stepped out of an 1860 daguerreotype, these hair-powdered, hoop- 
skirted, painted wooden ladies, whose purpose is to serve as door stops 
Quaint and unusual are the pictures done in black and white cross stitch. They are 
especially fitting for a room with black and white paper or hangings 
