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House & Garden 
ANCHORPOST 
FENCES 
In buying an Anchor Post 
Fence or Gate you are assured 
of superior workmanship, be¬ 
cause each new installation is 
designed to maintain the repu¬ 
tation for quality that we have 
earned during the past twenty- 
five years. 
CATALOGS. Write for any of the 
following Catalogs: 
Wrought Iron Entrance Gates and 
Railings. Lawn, Garden and Ten¬ 
nis Fences. Country Estate and 
Farm Fences. Special Enclosures 
for Poultry, Dogs, Etc. Garden 
Arches, Arbors and Trellises. 
ANCHOR POST IRON WORKS 
11 Cortlandt Street (13th floor) 
New York 
Russian Antique Shop 
ONE EAST TWENTY-EIGHTH STREET 
WORKS OF ART IN METALS 
Unique and useful things of Brass, 
Copper, and Bronze wrought and beaten 
into artistic designs by the hands of 
Russian peasants. 
EXHIBIT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. 
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For authoritative lighting 
information send to-day 
for free catalog E. 
SHAPIRO & ARONSON 
111 
20 Warren St. New York (ily. 
Send for Free Bird Book 
and Dodson Catalog tYe'sciewiflc 
houses made by the man the birds love. Full 
line illustrated, including famous sparrow trap 
to rid your ground of these bird enemies. 
Sent free with bird picture. Address 
JOSEPH H. DODSON. Vice Pres. & Director 
American Audubon Assn. 
731 Harrison Avenue Kankakee, III. 
SUNDIALS 
real bronze Colonial 
designs from $3.50 up; 
also Bird Baths, Gar¬ 
den Benches, Fountain 
Sprays and other gar¬ 
den requisites, manu¬ 
factured by THE M. D. 
JONES CO., 71 Port¬ 
land St.. Boston, Mass. 
Illustrated catalogue 
sent upon request. 
Smoky 
Fireplaces 
No payment accepted 
unless successful . 
Made to 
Draw 
Also expert services 
on general chimney 
work 
FREDERIC N.WHITLEY 
Engineer and Contractor 
219 Fulton St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Successful S m a 1 
( Continued, 
monious proportions in a room that 
in reality is badly proportioned or 
“out of scale.” As we have seen, this 
may be accomplished by means of 
artfully chosen color schemes, a 
different distribution of lighting 
fixtures, or such expedients as a 
change of floor level in part of the 
room. 
The second method of application 
consists in the selection of furnish¬ 
ings correctly proportioned to the 
room as a whole, and to the wall 
spaces which form backgrounds for 
individual objects. Glaring discrep¬ 
ancies between the scale of a room 
and that of its contents are unfortu¬ 
nately only too common. Every 
reader doubtless is familiar with at 
least one small room crowded to 
suffocation with bulky furniture, 
where in rising from a swollen, over¬ 
staffed easy chair, one caroms against 
the massive center table, and stag¬ 
gering back, collides with a huge sofa 
that looms threateningly behind the 
door and prevents it from being fully 
opened. One involuntarily draws a 
deep breath of relief on escaping 
from such a room, and vows never, 
never to be misled into committing 
similar atrocities. 
Hand in hand with the error of 
furniture that is out of scale, goes 
the allied one of overcrowding the 
room with meaningless and superflu¬ 
ous ornaments. In a very large room, 
a certain amount of “clutter” may 
not prove seriously damaging; but in 
a small one a single object may ruin 
the entire scheme. 
In this connection, a harrowing ex¬ 
perience is related by a well known 
professional decorator. He had 
"done over” in a scheme of ivory and 
subdued gray-greens the living room 
in the home of a wealthy patron. On 
the occasion of his final visit of in- 
1 Living Rooms 
from page 66) 
spection, he was horrified to discover 
amid the mantel ornaments—which 
had been prayerfully chosen and ar¬ 
ranged with the nicest regard for 
balance and proportion—a rowdy lit¬ 
tle vase of screaming vermilion 
whose incongruity in that low-toned 
room of ultra refinement equaled that 
of a gaudy lithograph in a carved 
Florentine frame. When he had ral¬ 
lied from the shock, the decorator 
ventured a pained protest, but without 
avail. The vase, it appeared, was a 
Bridge prize; the winner was proud 
of it, and resented the implication of 
its unfitness. 
“Looks all right to me,” he declared 
aggrievedly. “Livens up the room. I 
like bright colors, myself.” And ar¬ 
gument and persuasion alike were 
powerless to modify his conviction. 
When the room has been painted, 
papered and curtained, there remains 
the placing of the furniture. Its ar¬ 
rangement is to some extent arbitrary, 
for though esthetic considerations 
should not be overlooked, its position 
in the room is determined first of all 
by function. In the average small 
living room, there must be provision 
for reading, sewing, for writing and 
for receiving callers. With these spe¬ 
cific purposes in mind, the furniture 
is readily assembled in groups or units 
which suggest their own proper lo¬ 
cation. If there is a fireplace—and 
what living room is complete without 
one—it is here that hospitality will 
center in all but the warmest weather. 
Hence the deepest, most inviting 
chairs will be clustered about it, or 
high-backed settles built to flank it, 
or a roomy davenport drawn up be¬ 
fore it. In the hottest months this 
group perhaps will be moved near a 
window, with a low table on which 
to serve iced beverages as the central 
feature. 
Your Patriotic Patch 
(Contained from page 50) 
recognized almost at once, for the re¬ 
sult of their work is immediately no¬ 
ticeable, and with quick action they 
may usually be checked before much 
damage is done. 
The borers are more insidious than 
either of the classes mentioned, and 
the plant may be injured almost be¬ 
yond saving before the danger is even 
suspected. Where a borer of any 
kind may be expected in trees or 
shrubs or cane fruits, it is well to 
make frequent and careful examina¬ 
tions. With vegetables, such as 
squash, the wilting of the vine during 
the middle of hot days or after rainy 
weather is the first indication, and 
immediate search should be made for 
the tell-tale “sawdust” at the base of 
the plant. Borers cannot very well 
be either poisoned or asphyxiated; 
they must be killed in their tracks by 
digging them out or probing thern 
with a wire. The infested part 
should be cut out and burned. 
Hardest of all to combat are the in¬ 
sects which attack the roots, the 
white grub, the onion and cabbage 
maggots and the root aphides. For¬ 
tunately they are not as common as 
the others. Prevention may in some 
cases be accomplished by proper crop 
rotations and by mechanical protec¬ 
tion. When prevention is impossible, 
there is little to do but to destroy 
promptly the infested plants, and to 
strengthen and stimulate those re¬ 
maining by means of top-dressing 
with nitrate of soda, cultivating or 
hilling, and irrigating. By this means 
they will be given some chance 
of surviving, for the attack ceases 
when the maggots reach full size. 
While to the energetic gardener 
these classifications may at first seem 
a waste of time, he will soon find 
that the most important part of the 
fight is to learn how to look for 
the first signs of invasion, and from 
them ascertain the exact nature of 
the enemy. Then, and not till then, 
is he prepared to fight back efficiently. 
For the protection of every garden, 
there should, first of all, be a sprayer 
and dust gun. The size and type will 
depend on the size of the garden. No 
matter how small implements you get, 
be sure that they are capable of 
reaching the under-sides of the leaves 
and that they are substantially made 
of good material. 
Often the simplest and quickest 
way, especially in the small garden, 
is to get rid of the insects by remov¬ 
ing them bodily. Make a paddle with 
one end flat and the other curved to 
meet it at a sharp point. With this 
and a small can secured to a short 
handle and half filled with kerosene 
and water, you can very quickly dis¬ 
pose o£ an army of such hardened and 
matured sinners as aster beetles, rose 
bugs, squash bugs, cucumber beetles 
and potato bugs. 
For sucking insects the most effec¬ 
tive ammunition consists of nicotine, 
kerosene and oils. These may be 
bought in their original form, and 
concocted into sprays at home, but 
probably preferable for the small 
gardener are the commercial prepara¬ 
tions which have the advantage of 
convenience, uniform strength and 
preservability. D. R. Epson. 
If they are wood columns 
they are absolutely certain to 
mar because of checking, 
splitting, rotting which sooner 
or later occurs. 
“The Ones That Last A Lifetime” 
will last as long as the house it¬ 
self and remain as stately and 
beautiful as when first erected. 
The shafts are open hearth steel 
coated with spelter and protected 
with a priming coat of special 
Sherwin-Williams’ Paint. 
Write for Booklet No. 85. 
The Union Metal Mfg. Co. 
CANTON, OHIO 
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Galleries; 
707 FIFTH AVENUE, at 55th St. 
‘Dealers in 
OLD MASTERS 
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Beautify Furniture 
PROTECT FLOORS and 
Floor Coverings from injury 
by using 
Glass Onward Sliding 
Furniture Shoe 
In place of Castors. 
If your dealer will not sup¬ 
ply you write us 
ONWARD MFG. CO. 
Menasha, Wis. 
Kitchener, Ont. 
CHOICE ANTIQUES 
Fine old colored glass, Sheraton wing chair, 
curly maple highboy, comer cupboard, Field 
bed, one pair glass chandeliers, Hepplewhite 
chairs, Lowestoft, dark blue, pink and copper 
lustre. Hepplewhite sideboard, pewter, Ben¬ 
nington. English pottery, mahogany shelf clock, 
Terry clock, serpentine desk, 35 panels old 
scenic wall paper. Send for list. 
MRS. CHARLOTTE E. PAGE 
66 Atwater Terrace Springfield, Mass. 
BOWDOIN & MANLEY 
18 West 45th St. New York City 
formerly at 546 5th Ave, 
Furnishing and Decorating in Con¬ 
ventional or Original Styles. 
Write for information concerning 
furnishings and materials yon seek 
to carry out your decoracive scheme. 
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