HOUSE & GARDEN 
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You can have just as beautiful a 
KING GREENHOUSE 
as this one we built at Como Park, St. Paul, Minnesota, or any other style that 
appeals to you down to a hot frame. 
Tell us what you have in mind. Send today for Bulletin No. 47 and let our experts 
prepare a sketch incorporating your ideas. 
KING CONSTRUCTION CO., 296 Kings Road, North Tonawanda, N. Y. 
Residence of H. S. Walker, 
Denver, Colorado, 
Biscoe and Hewitt, Architects 
The HOUSE 
THAT STAYS BEAUTIFUL 
P ERMANENCE and beauty—these are the 
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THE COLLECTORS’ MART 
Brief descriptions of antiques and curios wanted and offered by subscribers 
of record to House & Garden will be inserted in this column, without charge, 
until further notice. As the service of The Collectors’ Mart is intended for 
private individuals, articles in the possession of dealers will not be offered 
herein. Photographs for forwarding should be carefully protected and 
packed flat and should have postage prepaid. The Collectors’ Mart can¬ 
not undertake to forward communications if postage is omitted. House 
& Garden accepts no responsibility with any of the wants or offerings 
submitted or published. All replies to wants and offerings should be 
enclosed in stamped blank envelopes, bearing the identification numbers in 
the lower left-hand corners, and enclosed for forwarding in an envelope 
directed to The Collectors’ Mart, House & Garden, 440 Fourth Avenue, 
New York City. 
Offered—12267. Incomplete set old 
blue English China, with pictures of 
Cambridge and Oxford College, I. & 
W. Ridgeway, makers. Forty pieces, 
twenty-seven plates, six platters, larg¬ 
est soup tureen, etc. Also very old 
set ivory chessmen, large pieces, 6" 
high. 
Offered —12268. Antique mahogany 
sofa (Colonial, $125) ; also post 
colonial bureau with large mirror, 
brass handles and knobs, $75. Both 
in excellent condition. 
Offered—12269. Large cherry chest 
of four drawers 3' 10 /Y' high; three 
beautiful old sewing tables—two wal¬ 
nut, one has front sides veneered with 
burled walnut, both have two leaves 
and two drawers; cherry one has two 
leaves and one drawer, octagon shape 
legs. 
Offered —12270. One 5' walnut 
sofa; two rush bottom chairs; one 
crotch mahogany sewing table; one 
9' crotch mahogany davenport, hexa¬ 
gon posts, upholstered in green silk 
velour, a very elegant piece; one rose¬ 
wood rocker, upholstered in green 
silk velour; one crotch mahogany 
bureau secretary, brass ornaments, 
claw feet and broken arch top; one 
Willard hall clock in walnut, 8' high, 
brass works and ornamental, 135 
years old; one crotch mahogany 
highboy; eleven pieces old china; 
Wedgwood pink lustre, etc.; several 
hundred old stamps. All the furni¬ 
ture named is an unusual find and is 
in perfect condition. 
Offered—12271. Six window chairs, 
delicate, round top (one arm chair), 
$50; other window chairs of unusual 
design duplicate of well known collec¬ 
tion, $10. Paisley shawls; few other 
antiques. 
Offered—12272. Two tall clocks, 
one mahogany, brass works, bonnet 
topped, in running order, $80. Other 
is English clock, flat top, English wal¬ 
nut, has not been running lately, $60. 
Colonial antiques, window chairs, set¬ 
tees ; six delicate design chairs; one 
arm chair, unusual design. 
The Book’s the Thing 
{Continued from page 32) 
quate writing accommodations. A 
writing table will be more commodi¬ 
ous than a secretary, and there are 
many available, either with or with¬ 
out drawers at the sides. Remember, 
too, the writing chairs of various 
kinds. For appearance and solid 
comfort none can surpass the old 
Windsor type, with a broad, flaring 
right arm to hold paper or books. 
At the same time, by way of sugges¬ 
tion, might be mentioned easy chairs 
with adjustable book-rests attached 
and also the small reading tables 
with a ratcheted book-rest that may 
be set at any desired angle. 
The portable book rack, meant to 
hold a few of the latest books, and 
intended to stand at a sofa end or be¬ 
side a table or easy chair, is a small 
library accessory worth considering. 
Magazine racks, of one sort or an¬ 
other, are a desideratum. Racks like 
those on the backs of church pews, 
only deeper, fastened to the wall be¬ 
neath windows, answer the purpose 
admirably. 
In front of the fireplace, and fac¬ 
ing it, it is well to place a comfort¬ 
able sofa. Close against the back of 
the sofa may be placed a long library 
table, perhaps of the Spanish or 
Italian Renaissance type, or else a 
writing table with its side drawers. 
On it should be set a well shaded 
lamp or lamps so that the light will 
fall both on the table and over the 
shoulder of anyone reading on the 
sofa. All lights should be well 
shaded and placed fairly low, so that 
there is no unpleasant glare in the 
upper part of the room. At the ends 
of the sofa, if there is room, may be 
set small tables for flowers, lamps, 
books or smokers’ articles. 
If chairs are placed at either side 
of the fireplace, be sure that they 
are comfortable and inviting. Noth¬ 
ing is more tantalizing than to find 
stiff, uncomfortable chairs in the po¬ 
sitions naturally most attractive and 
toward which one instinctively gravi¬ 
tates. The note of comfort should 
be emphasized in the library in every 
possible way, especially if, as is so 
often the case, it does duty as a liv¬ 
ing-room. 
Wall Treatment 
Avoid patterned paper for the 
walls. They should be kept quiet 
and restful. That is one advantage 
in panelling for library walls, either 
painted or in natural finish. Pictures 
should be chosen with the utmost 
care, kept few in number and their 
subjects obviously in accord with the 
purpose of the room. Old prints in 
unobtrusive frames are especially ap¬ 
propriate. If paintings other than 
portraits are used, let them be in 
quiet tones, unless they are inten¬ 
tionally of a striking, decorative 
character and intended for some spe¬ 
cial point of emphasis. Eschew glit¬ 
tering landscapes in garish, gilded 
frames, hung conspicuously in spaces 
that had better be left free. A bit 
of tapestry or of old Oriental bro¬ 
cade or embroidery is always well 
placed on a library wall. 
If the bookcases are low, be vigi¬ 
lant to keep off their tops an excess 
of disquieting and meaningless bric- 
a-brac. Stick rigidly to the resolu¬ 
tion to have but few things, and those 
good. All hangings should be digni¬ 
fied and quiet in tone, and strong, 
blatant colors in any part of the 
room are to be shunned. 
