HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 
1915 
the doors for your building— 
they deserve as much thought 
as fine furniture. 
are the highest grade doors made. Have 
your architect and contractor specify 
and furnish them. Every genuine 
Morgan Door is stamped "MORGAN” 
on the top rail as a guarantee of a 
perfect door and for identification at 
the building. 
Send for our handsome Suggestion Book of 
Interiors, “The Door Beautiful,” full of artistic 
ideas for decorating, furnishing, woodwork 
and doors—a help in building or remodeling. 
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Building Exhibit, Ins. Ex., Chicago 
The Wild Birds Are Our Good Friends 
and Neighbors; Be Good To Them . 
A few bird houses erected on your place 
will invite the birds to stop on your 
premises. Proper food will keep them 
there ail the year 'round to please you with sonar 
and beautifully influence the children for good. 
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White’s Suet Basket, 75c. By mail postpaid, 90c. 
5 db suet accessible to birds all year round. Howe s 
Suet Grain’ ’Cake,per cake 26c. Order with basket. 
ROBIN OR PHOEBE SHELF 
by mail postpaid 66c Made In 2 sizes. Large 
for Robins, small for Phoebes. Can be hung 
anywhere. Order direct from adv. Money 
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Who believes in befriending the Wild Birds 
—our friends and neighbors. 
Box 45-A Kenilworth. III. 
The Use of Woodwork in Interior 
Decoration 
(Continued from page 349) 
four-panel pine .of the old type. 
The reproduction of antiques is making 
great headway. Replicas of the old. 
carved, wooden candelabra are made in a 
cast fibre composition, the moulds taken 
directly from the old examples. Beautiful 
chandeliers and sidelights made of this 
material can be bought for the price of the 
usual stock brass ones. They make cast¬ 
ings, too, from old carved panels or beam 
ends or brackets and grain them so per¬ 
fectly that one- has to touch them to tell 
they are not the original wood. Some of 
the cruder carvings could be used with 
advantage in such a room as we illustrated 
in the October number, and would accord 
perfectly with its rough stone chimney- 
breast and battened wainscoting. The 
candelabra we show in our Italian room 
each side the fireplace might well be such 
reproductions; wired ready for use, they 
would cost from $30 to $75 each, depend¬ 
ing on their elaboration. 
Let ns suppose that you were about to 
finish a room; that you had decided on this 
Italian style, but that the cost must be 
kept as low as possible. The mantel of 
concrete stone you must retain. You 
would buy a stock casting directly from 
one of the mantel manufacturers. You 
would tell them, of course, that you in¬ 
tended to use the entire opening, that your 
flue was big enough; they would bevel 
back the lintel for you, as our section 
shows. The back, jambs and hearth you 
would lay in gray-brown or yellow brick, 
rough or smooth, laying them flat for the 
hearth and on edge for the back and 
jambs as tiles would be laid, perhaps in 
a herring-bone pattern somewhat as we 
showed in last October issue, or perhaps 
in alternating bands, first a flat, then a 
row on end. You would omit the costly 
iron fireback. 
The wainscoting you would leave out 
altogether. The walls would be plastered, 
of course, with perhaps a small plaster 
cornice next the plastered ceiling. The 
single-panel stock veneered door is as 
cheap as any, and the only other wood¬ 
work would be in the “trim” around it 
and at the windows and in the base around 
the floor, unless there were no plaster 
cornice and a picture rail were set close to 
the ceiling to crown and terminate the 
color treatment of the walls; but perhaps 
von might choose to retain the beamed 
ceiling. 
Now a beamed ceiling is more expensive 
than plaster, unless the real beams are 
planed and exposed their whole depth, 
with only the double wood floor and the 
felt between, to deaden the sounds of 
walking in the room above; but modern 
beams are so deep in proportion to their 
thickness that the recesses left between 
seem disagreeably narrow. In former 
days, when beamed ceilings were well nigh 
universal, floor beams were hardly square, 
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the fences are made the right way to last. 
No skimping. No cutting of corners. 
No low-grade materials. 
In spite of their high grade—the prices 
are moderate. 
Send for the catalogue and see. 
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The old-style Dodson Trap has been successful for two years — 
thousands in use. This trap is notably better. 
Banish sparrows and native birds will return to your garden. 
The sparrow is a quarrelsome pest. U. S. Dept, of Agriculture Bulle¬ 
tin advocates destruction of English Sparrows. 
Sparrows are good for one thing only — they’re good to eat. Often 
served as Reed Birds. 
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which tells how to win native birds to live in your garden — 
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