HOUSE AN]) GARDEN 
October, 
1914 
241 
Distinction in Windows 
(Continued from page 217) 
old-fashioned panes and the relieving 
cross lines of the muntins. 
Then again, while speaking of glazing, 
the charm of the casement window with 
its small leaded panes must not be for¬ 
gotten. Besides the glazing, there is al¬ 
ways the possibility of adding a relieving 
note of color to a window. The sunlight 
filtering in through a patch of colored 
glass wonderfully enriches the whole in¬ 
terior. In the leaded casement choice 
pieces, medallions or roundels of painted 
glass, old or new, with suitable devices, 
may be inserted. The cost of such in¬ 
sertions of painted or “stained” glass is 
by no means prohibitive and a very small 
quantity produces good results quite out 
of proportion to the actual size. By way 
of a concrete example, one might suggest 
for the leaded windows of a library rep¬ 
resentations of the famous old European 
printers’ marks done in one color. The 
devices used by the Caxton or the Aldine 
presses, or any of a dozen others that 
might readily be named, possess a decora¬ 
tive quality and refinement that invests 
them with a special charm and lends in¬ 
terest to any window that they adorn. 
For sash windows, where there are the 
usual small Danes and inserted cartoons 
of painted glass would be manifestly in¬ 
congruous, one might use small painted 
subjects edged with lead and hung against 
the panes in the manner of a transparency. 
In lieu of such colored glass it is often an 
excellent thing to frame a Japanese stencil 
and hang it in the same way. 
Where casement windows are separated 
by mullions, the mullions themselves add 
a note of embellishment and such windows 
need very little additional treatment of 
curtains or draperies. If curtains are 
used at all they may well be of the Eng¬ 
lish draw type, made of casement cloth, 
and then at the sides there may be narrow 
hangings and a shallow valance at the top, 
although the valance is by no means a 
necessity. 
Flower lovers will always be glad to en¬ 
rich any window, with the proper expos¬ 
ure, by a tasteful arrangement of growing 
plants. There is really nothing that will 
add more to the interest and homelike 
quality of a room than a screen of plants 
with the perpetual greenery between the 
room and the glass of the window. Of 
course, many people will make the objec¬ 
tion that plants in a window will ruin the 
paint and obstruct the view. As to the 
latter objection, unless the plants are very 
large, it is too groundless to require any 
serious answer. The first objection is 
readily met either by having a properly 
made zinc window sill lining or else by 
having the sill made of quarry tiles, which 
the water cannot hurt. Instead of setting 
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