70 
HOUSE & GARDEN 
Stained with Cabot’s Creosote Stains 
Brockie & Hastings, Architects, 
Philadelphia 
Cabots Creosote Stains 
Preserve Your Shingles 
Rich, Velvety, Lasting Colors 
You are sure of beautiful 
coloring, durable wearing 
qualities, and thorough pre¬ 
servation of the woodwork 
if you insist upon Cabot’s 
Stains. Their colors are 
the strongest and finest nat¬ 
ural pigments* ground in 
pure linseed oil and mixed 
in specially refined Creo¬ 
sote, “the best wood pre¬ 
servative known.” They 
will not wash off or blacken, 
and are the only stains that 
are not dangerously inflam¬ 
mable. 
Quality Proved by Thirty Years’ Use 
The Original Shingle-Stains 
You can get Cabot’s Stains all over 
the country. Send for stained wood 
samples and name of nearest agent. 
SAMUELCABOT,Inc., Manufacturing Chemists 
11 Oliver Street, Boston, Mass. 
CON-SER-TEX 
There is no better covering than 
CON-SER-TEX 
Canvas Roofing 
Above all things you are inter¬ 
ested in your home. You are always 
willing to add to its comfort, coziness, 
security and charm. 
Here’s an opportunity to make 
your porch floors and roofs as up- 
to-date as the interior of your home. 
Your opportunity lies in the use of 
CON - SER - TEX, a scientifically 
treated canvas roofing. 
When properly laid, it lasts longer 
than tin or shingles. It is much 
easier and cheaper to lay. It is mil- 
dewproof. It deadens the noise of 
the rain and stops the rattle of the 
wind. It lessens work and the cost 
of repairs. The cold of the blizzard 
or the heat of midsummer do not 
affect it. 
It adds charm and neatness to yottr 
home because it lies flat—clings tight 
and does the work. Generous sample, 
price-list and descriptive matter upon 
request. Write today. 
WM. L. BARRELL COMPANY 
8 Thomas Street New York City 
Chicago Distributor: 
Geo. B. Carpenter & Co., 430-40 Wells Street 
California Distributors: 
Waterhouse & Price Co., Los Angele 
The Pacific Building Material Co., San Francisco 
The Decorative Value of Wrought Iron Work and Tile 
(Continued from page 51) 
flat against the wall and tapers toward 
top and bottom. 
Small figured tiles in warm browns 
and blues make a really excellent 
flooring for a living-room. It has 
often been used successfully in hall¬ 
ways. Rugs look well on it. It has 
a surface of varied color tones and 
is not slippery. Unqestionably it is 
a good medium for first floor rooms, 
especially in the country house. 
Tiles are always attractive when 
set, in a fireplace. If it is brick, they 
break up the monotonous surface and 
give a chance for the repeat of color 
in a room. Inserted in cement, the 
same is true. If one is artistic 
enough, she can design her own tiles 
and have them fired and glazed. Thus 
one can actually create her own 
hearth stone! 
For an outdoor porch fireplace an 
interesting treatment is to build in a 
little niche with tiling. In the niche 
can be placed a jar of flowers, which 
add their spots of color. 
A novel and practical use of tiling 
is the pierced radiator grille. In¬ 
serted into a wood or iron radiator 
box, it allows the heat to circulate 
and has the added value of being 
decorative. Made in glazes to tone 
in with the woodwork or the color 
scheme of the room. 
Mitigating Concrete and Stucco Ugliness 
(Continued from page 45) 
places conditions imperatively de¬ 
mand a light or white wash. One im¬ 
portant factor of the cheerful and 
tidy appearance of New England vil¬ 
lages, no matter how heavily shaded, 
is _ the ^prevalence of clean white 
paint. 
One of the simplest ways of se¬ 
curing the interest of contrasting 
color is to use brick door and window 
trims. The red of the brick livens 
up the whole mass at once. Interest 
can be enhanced by using brick for 
the cornice or for a sort of stepped 
herringbone embellishment. If bands 
or string courses of brick are used, 
and brick quoins at the corners, re¬ 
lief of line and shadow is secured in 
addition to contrast of color. By an 
ingenious placing of bricks, and 
sometimes by using bricks with 
clipped corners, a rich, full shadow 
can be secured in cornices and the 
reveals of doorways. 
On either cement stucco or concrete 
houses, interest of color and pattern 
to any desired extent may be gained 
by embedding tiles in the surface 
coat, by employing some of the many 
available forms of glazed or unglazed 
terra-cotta or even by introducing 
simple patterns of mosaic. The 
needs of the individual case must 
determine the amount of these deco¬ 
rations used. 
In concrete and stucco construction 
we have a molded architecture but 
we too often fail to mold it and for¬ 
get to avail ourselves of its plasticity. 
Concrete and stucco lend themselves 
more readily to molding possibilities 
than does any other building material. 
How the relief of projection and 
shadow, as well as variety of color, 
may be gained by the use of brick 
has already been noted. The objec¬ 
tion to string courses, cornices, win¬ 
dow and door trims molded in a 
monolithic mass along with the fabric 
of the walls is a very practical one 
of cost. It is possible, however, to 
have these molded separately, espe¬ 
cially string courses and cornices, 
which may be made in sections of 
convenient length, and put them in 
place to be incorporated with the 
walls as the work progresses. The 
same may be done with molded 
panels and decorations for overdoor 
embellishment. 
Houses Without Pictures 
(Continued from page 31) 
and plaster have none. And this, I 
think, is the really serious con¬ 
sideration. Design satisifies the in¬ 
tellectual side of us, but never appeals 
strongly to sentiment. It is like cer¬ 
tain passages of classical music— 
flawless, yet cold. In certain moods 
they please, albeit mildly at best, and 
not reaching the deeper feelings. 
Our pictures are more than mere 
decorations. They are memories, re¬ 
calling old cathedrals visited in our 
youth, seashores where once we 
walked, the forest we fled to for soli¬ 
tude. They are legends—echoes from 
centuries long gone by. They are 
plays, too, and warm the sympathies. 
Some are heirlooms. And I may 
add that they are more beautiful, 
the good ones, than any wood or 
plaster. 
They clutter the walls. Granted. 
They don’t “belong.” Again granted. 
But I do not aspire to live in a pure 
design. This place is home. I work 
here. I frolic here. It is not only 
mine, it is my family’s—a nest, full 
of exuberant life and refusing to be 
rigidly formal—unable to, even. It 
is not got up as an exhibit of my artis¬ 
tic theories. Its artistic side (for it 
has one, I think) is a lot more human 
and the pictures are part of it. 
The choice, from now on, will not 
be a choice between the house picture- 
mobbed and the house pictureless. 
We shall compromise, hv preserving 
the design while embellishing it. For 
the rich, it will perhaps mean calling 
in a mural painter to collaborate with 
the architect. For people of moderate 
income, it will mean a collaboration 
between architect and picture-hanger. 
This is not theory. Here and there, 
excellent beginnings have been made 
already. 
It sounds a bit grandiose at first, 
the suggestion of mural paintings for 
the private house. One associates 
them with public libraries, hotel 
lobbies, churches, and the glorified 
railway station, and if the plan in¬ 
volved an attempt to domesticate these 
heroic creations it would be comical 
enough. Happily, it involves no such 
affront to propriety. Take Mr. Blash- 
field’s mural decorations for Mr. 
Everett Morse’s mansion near Boston, 
or those executed by Mr. Arthur M. 
Hazard for his own dining-room, or 
the splendid panels recently painted 
by Garrett; there is nothing “institu¬ 
tional” about any of them. 
As for collaboration between the 
architect and the picture-hanger, I 
saw a case of it only the other day. 
A man whose new house was being 
planned said to his architect, “Here 
are my pictures, now ouild the house 
around them.” The architect gasped, 
but caught on, and liked the notion, 
and, the more he thought it over, saw 
a chance for first-rate ingenuity and 
an exercise of genuine taste. If 
spacing door and windows is a digni¬ 
fied occupation, why should it require 
condescension to design spaces for 
pictures? The result was a set of 
rooms in which each picture had its 
appropriate place, and, far from dis¬ 
arranging the general compositions, 
became part of it. 
... 
I ROBIN REDBREAST 1 
| Has he a I 
| HOME IN YOUR YARD? | 
= Built for utility and comfort; rain 
= and borers will not injure it; solid 
| as a rock, yet handsome and decora- 
| tive. 40 inches high, with bark still 
| on wood. Chair No. 124, $4.00. 
= Please order these articles by number and 
= enclose check, money-order or bills. Bird- 
= house or chair sent freight collect, unless 
E otherwise ordered. 
| We ship direct to you—Only one profit! 
Here is a jolly 
little red cedar home 
for Robin. Hang it 
on your porch or in 
a tree. He will sing 
you awake these 
spring mornings. 
House No. 4, $1.00. 
_ Other houses especially designed for Blue¬ 
birds, Chick-a-dees, Wrens. Martins, Nut¬ 
hatches. Swallows. Flickers and Titmice. All 
made of sound Red Cedar, weather and insect 
proof. Prices, $1.00 up. 
THIS RED 
CEDAR 
CHAIR 
$ 4.00 
= By all means, send for our beau- = 
1 tiful illustrated catalogue of rustic I 
g furniture. Our line is absolutely § 
= complete. § 
| JerseyKeystoneWoodCo. § 
Trenton, New Jersey T 
=;iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii£ 
Tall and Narrow 
Built for Hatpins 
* I 'HIS then is the 
Tall One with her 
black bagand her 
hook curls. As you 
see her here, she looks 
a little more ornamen¬ 
tal than she does 
useful. But you are 
wrong. While she 
may not be a good 
cook, she can cer¬ 
tainly hold hat pins. 
In fact, it’s her mid¬ 
dle name. We don’t 
know how you could 
have gotten along 
without her all this 
time. We will send 
right to your 
house for $1.25 with 
our catalog of 1000 
useful gifts, book 
alone for 6c in stamps. 
You will never again 
have to worry what 
to give, when you 
see this book. 
Don’t wait. Take your 
Waterman in hand 
this minute. You will 
never regret it. 
$1.25 Each 
The Pohlson 
Gift Shop 
Pawtucket Rhode Island 
