HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 1910 
231 
Use the simplest curtains, if any, stenciled perhaps with some appro¬ 
priate conventional design 
Build in the sideboard, bookcases, seats and such features and the 
summer home will need little else 
A massive bed made of smoothed cedar with 
a satin finish 
A summer home furnished with 
pioneer furniture 150 years old 
A china-closet is utilized here to separate 
living-room from kitchen 
terior walls with charming effect, in connection with fireplaces 
of gray stone. Open shelves are used to hold the necessary 
dishes and camp utensils, which serve as decorations when not 
in use. Pictures of any sort seem an impertinence in a camp 
where windows may be planned to frame in bits of surrounding 
woods or lake in interesting fashion. Leave them for city 
houses. The needful window curtains and draperies are of cheap 
material in harmonious colors. If figured stuffs or plain ma¬ 
terials with decorations in embroidery or stencil are used, the 
motives employed suggest the environment of the camp; the 
pine cone is perhaps selected as motive for decoration of pillow 
covers and draperies in a woodland camp; an antique ship in 
full sail, or a wave or shell motive may be chosen for a seaside 
cottage; while whatever the design, it is conventionally drawn 
and simply executed. For sleeping-rooms, light-weight blankets 
are sometimes used as portieres, hung on bamboo rods, their 
stripes serving as borders. Old-fashioned blue bedspreads are 
found to be suitable bed coverings, and blue checked gingham 
pillow slips are easily washed, need no ironing and are distinctly 
pleasing in effect. 
Bare floors are the rule in camps far from civilization, but 
if rugs are used they are of the old-fashioned rag or braided 
variety, or the always harmonious Oriental rug is occasionally 
found. Rugs of woven prairie grass are fitting and durable. 
The chipped and superannuated china 
of a city home is not used in a carefully 
planned camp, but quaint pottery is chosen 
with a view to its decorative as well as to its wearing qualities. 
If the furniture is old Colonial, the dishes are reproductions of 
old blue, bought for five or ten cents a piece, or Canton, with 
its oyster whites and pure blues is indulged in; if massive fur¬ 
niture of modern make is used, then the pottery is Hungarian 
in vivid colors, or a cheap Japanese ware, or heavy Spanish 
ware in greens or browns. Sometimes ordinary kitchen pottery 
in browns and yellows is made to serve for the table as well as 
for cooking. 
The fittings of the fireplace that is always the chief feature 
of the camp interior are chosen for the well equipped camp 
among models of strong and sturdy appearance. A country 
blacksmith is sometimes pressed into service, turning out rude 
andirons and fire-sets on his forge. Bellows are a necessity and 
a long iron rod is easily obtained and is better than the ordinary 
poker. 
The problem of lighting and lighting fixtures, always a seri¬ 
ous one, is usually simplified for camp dwellers into a choice 
between oil lamps and candles. While oil lamps are difficult to 
keep clean, smoky and dirty, they are more frequently employed 
than candles. Burners and fonts are bought separately, and 
placed in rough earthen jars, filled in beneath the fonts with 
sand to give them stability. Either Japanese paper or raffia 
shades are used. If candles are selected, rough wooden or cop¬ 
per candlesticks are made to hold them in 
sufficient numbers to give a good light. 
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