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On the Estate of Howard F. Chappel, Esq., North Cohasset, Mass. 
Garden ornaments find a place in informal as well as in 
formal gardens. Note the delightfully informal effect 
achieved in the illustration above. If you are planning to 
add to the charm of your grounds we can give your orders 
special attention during the winter months, making de¬ 
liveries any time you desire next Spring. 
Our catalogue, showing a wide range of models for repro¬ 
duction in Pompeian Stone, will help you in your selection. 
To those desiring marble ornaments, we offer special facilities, insuring reasonable prices and prompt deliveries. 
Factory 
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eral different nations. The most interest¬ 
ing and harmonious collection of prints is, 
however, that taken from one source. If 
photographs of Madonnas from Italian old 
masters are desired, then several of them 
of about the same size and tone adorn the 
walls. If German color prints are de¬ 
cided upon, it is found that a few of these, 
and these only, give a unified effect. 
Japanese color prints of birds and animals, 
combining truth to nature with beautiful 
color and line, are, it is discovered, seen 
to best advantage when not combined with 
English puppy dogs; while English color 
prints are often effective if seen alone, 
their conventionally pretty children do not 
show their charm placed on the same walls 
with Japanese or German prints. 
In the selection of prints it often hap¬ 
pens that subjects not specially designed 
and advertised for children’s delectation 
are the best to choose for them. The 
friezes or single-color prints abounding 
nowadays, of dreadfully ordinary Dutch, 
English or French children disporting in 
rather inane fashion are perhaps enjoyed 
by tiny children; they are, however, soon 
outgrown, and are unspeakably wearisome 
to either large or small persons of intel¬ 
ligence. A really good print gives a 
child lasting pleasure, becoming, perhaps, 
a life-long friend. A merchant vessel in 
full sail on mid-ocean, a certain German 
print, beautiful and inspiriting in color, 
was lately chosen for a small boy’s room, 
gladdening the heart of the boy and giving 
a pathway for his imagination to wander 
upon. Others of these sea prints, the sea¬ 
port towns with boats, the castles on crags 
above winding ribbons of rivers, look to 
the American child like fairy-tale illustra¬ 
tions, and, while they are vastly satis¬ 
factory to their small owners, are also of 
lasting value from an artistic standpoint. 
For a dado around a room at about a 
three-foot height there is nothing more 
satisfying than the Walter Crane picture 
books. The new edition in paper covers 
is to be had for twenty-five cents the copy, 
and all the old fairy-tale favorites — Cin¬ 
derella and Puss in Boots, and the 
others—may be framed or merely pasted 
on the wall and varnished, so that they are 
easily passed in review while their small 
owners are putting on shoes and stockings. 
The Boutet de Monvel picture prints make 
even more interesting color arrangements 
than the English artist’s books, though not, 
perhaps, so fascinating in subject to the 
ordinary child. Japanese prints, the an¬ 
tique ones especially, that are tall and nar¬ 
row in shape, form striking decorations, 
though not so pleasing to a child as the 
modern birds and animals. 
The house illustrated on the November 
cover of House and Garden is at Cam¬ 
den, Georgia. It was published through 
the courtesy of Hoggson Brothers, New 
York. 
In writing to advertisers pleate mention House * Garden 
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