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House & Garden 
Only two years after build¬ 
ing this home, the owner 
had to tear out his wooden 
porch columns because of 
splitting and rotting and 
replace them with 
illOI MET1L 
The Ones That Last A Lifetime” 
Why make yourself this trouble 
and expense which is absolute¬ 
ly unpreventable with wood 
columns. 
Union Metal Columns with 
their shafts of heavy steel can¬ 
not crack or rot, they are gal¬ 
vanized to prevent rust and 
fashioned in correct architec¬ 
tural proportions. 
Write for booklet No. 93 , 
showing 10 designs and 
hundreds of installations 
The Union Metal Mfg. Co. 
Canton, Ohio 
QHje Galleries! 
707 FIFTH AVENUE.at 55th St. 
‘Dealers in 
OLD MASTERS 
La PLACE 
THE ANTIQUE SHOP 
Objects of Art, Curios, Rare Old Crystal and 
Sheffield Plate, Period Furniture ar.d Replicas 
11 East 48th Street 242 Fifth Avenue 
near 6th Avenue, N. Y. near W. 28th St.. N. Y. 
R. H. KINGSBURY.Mgr. DANIEL ADAMS,Mgr. 
HOWARD 
Francis Howard, Pres. 
7 W. 47th St.,NewYork City 
Benches, Pedestals, Fonts, Vases 
EXPERTS 
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MARBLE STONE TERRA COTTA 
Tlie Oriental Sfore . 
Importers of oriental objects of art and utility, 
for the bouse and garden, personal use and 
presentation purposes. 
Write for catalog No 700. 
A. A. VANTINE & Co., Inc. 
Fifth Avenue & 39th St., New York 
Russian Antique Shop 
ONE EAST TWENTY-EIGHTH STREET 
WORKS OF ART IN METALS 
Unique and useful tilings of Brass, 
Copper, and Bronze wrought and beaten 
into artistic designs by the hands of 
Russian peasants. 
EXHIBIT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. 
H ow to Buy Rugs and Carpets 
(Continued from page 17) 
The surface of Brussels carpet is of 
uncut loops that form ridges. In good 
grades there is nothing like it for wear. 
The texture is springy and resistant. 
Before buying Brussels see that the sur¬ 
face of the under-weave is well covered 
and the loops so close together that one 
gets the feeling of a flat, unbroken sur¬ 
face. A poor Brussels, particularly the 
quality found in common rugs, is a veri¬ 
table dust grate, besides having a board¬ 
ing house hall-bedroom appearance. 
Buying Suggestions 
Always take a carpet sample in your 
hand and see that the furrows are hidden 
by a thick, wooly nap. Also see that 
there is a certain amount of elasticity to 
it. A paste-boardy carpet looks skimpy 
and ungracious on the floor and does not 
give to the feet, no matter how many 
months’ accumulation of newspapers are 
spread underneath. The fortification of 
a good carpet is a thick pile. In select¬ 
ing a carpet or rug with a nap, one 
should look for the number of knots on 
the back. Rug buyers always count 
these to test the value of the merchan¬ 
dise. If the rug has many knots it 
has a fineness of texture which is just 
as valuable as good coloring or good 
design. 
There are long pile carpets and short 
pile of countless trade names, and it is 
generally a matter of taste that decides 
the selection. A short, soft fine velvet 
carpet does not retain the footprint and 
has a smooth silkiness of texture which 
is attractive. On the other hand a deep 
pile rug—as Chenille, for example— 
shows and retains the footprints, but 
there is a luscious depth and richness to 
it. To my mind a Chenille rug, which 
can be woven in any width with a plain 
center and a dark tone border, is the 
rug par excellence. Little color tufts 
should be submitted to the dealer to show 
just the color you desire. This color, of 
course, should first be tried out at home. 
Chenille carpeting is also to be had. If 
the seams are carefully sewn and the 
pile brushed, the seaming scarcely shows. 
Such carpeting is relatively expensive, 
but the excellent value received justifies 
the initial outlay. 
A Wilton carpet is not as fine as a 
Wilton velvet, but gives as good service. 
There are so many trade names for these 
that the wisest thing to do, as I have 
said before, is to go to a reliable carpet 
house and judge by handling and com¬ 
paring the carpets themselves. 
Sizes and Uses 
As a rule carpeting comes 27" wide 
and stair carpeting 36". Axminster, 
Saxony, Wilton, Wilton velvet and 
Aberdeen, all have a cut pile like velvet. 
Smyrnas are reversible with a high pile. 
They give good service, are inexpensive, 
and come in excellent colors. They will 
be found an especially good buy for a 
bedroom. 
A cotton rug with a pile is suited for 
Tick To 
(Continued j 
hands of a clock are elaborated into 
curly patterns cribbed from wrought 
iron. Very pretty they look. Very dec¬ 
orative. But if they fail to point une¬ 
quivocally to the hour and minute, so that 
you have to puzzle out the time, you will 
hate that clock with deadly hatred before 
a year is ended. Trifles count, even the 
apparently trivial detail of the dial’s 
color. Hands show best against white. 
Granted. Yet they show as far off as 
need be against silver and even against 
convex silver, which has a beauty of its 
own. The day may arrive when a white 
dial—meaningless, uninteresting, uncom¬ 
promising, and hopelessly unsympathetic 
—will obtrude upon its surroundings a 
jarring note you detest. 
And what, meanwhile, of the note not 
seen but heard? Think twice about that. 
bed and bathrooms, although it must be 
remembered that cotton pile gives no 
resistance to the foot and crushes and 
soils readily. 
An interesting type of Chinese rug is 
the carved design. The pattern is out¬ 
lined by a grooving, which makes the 
pattern stand out distinctly and enhances 
the value of the rug. 
There is a tradition that Oriental rugs 
a re suitable for all rooms, the mere fact 
of their being oriental making them satis 
reproche. Never did more fallacious tra¬ 
dition exist. They are often of a char¬ 
acter totally unsuited to modern decora¬ 
tion work. 
Modern oriental rugs are often garish 
and crude in color and will quickly 
destroy an otherwise good interior 
scheme. It is just as impossible to buy 
and use orientals indiscriminately, irre¬ 
spective of adjacent furnishings, as it is 
to use a figured wall paper in every 
room of the house. True, there is noth¬ 
ing more lovely than an antique oriental 
of beautiful design and splendid color, 
but such a rug, if brilliant of color, 
should be used as the main factor in the 
room. Other furnishings should be sub¬ 
ordinated to it, built around it. 
The Choice and Fitting 
For most purposes plain tone rugs 
and carpets are advisable. Carpets with 
designs of cabbage roses tied with tur¬ 
quoise blue bow-knots have had their 
day of glory and passed into “scarp- 
woven” rugs of ordinary service. Banded 
borders in deeper tones give the rug 
more character and set it off better on 
the floor. 
In fitting a carpet to a floor a 15" or 
18" border should be left. This will ac¬ 
commodate the legs of most furniture, 
permitting them to stand level. With a 
parquet floor the lines of the boards 
should be followed. 
Both in selecting and placing rugs care 
should be taken to see that the sizes 
bear the same relation to one another. 
Do not place a large rug beside a tiny 
one; the proportions should be har¬ 
monious. Rugs should also conform to 
the proportions of the room and lie par¬ 
allel with the edges of the floor. In a 
large room a great variety of small rugs 
makes the floor appear spotty, unrestful 
and undignified. 
The dominating field color of a rug 
should match the dominating color of 
the room, to produce a quiet, harmonious 
effect. A rug with a color complemen¬ 
tary to the color of the room and a light 
neutral background is more enlivening 
and sometimes forms a cheerier room. 
If we start with a light floor covering 
and keep to the rule of walls being 
lighter, we will have a delicate, light tone 
room on completion. 
Finally a general rule: Keep the 
floors, rugs and carpets unobtrusive ex¬ 
cept where they serve as a rich, harmon¬ 
izing foil for furniture and hangings 
and other dominant features. 
c k Taste 
Worn page 42) 
Then think again, and keep on thinking. 
Some comfort there would be in “a clock¬ 
less, timeless world,” no doubt. Some 
discomfort there is, in a world over¬ 
punctuated with “cathedral chimes,” 
ship’s bells, and cuckoo chirps. Espe¬ 
cially at night. And while it may be 
delightful at first to recall the Canterbury 
toll or the cuckoo’s cry or to countenance 
an apparatus that rings eight bells for 
twelve, though it knows in its heart that 
it lies, one may end by invoking the 
vengeance of heaven. 
Cherishing the hope of remaining upon 
earth some years, I am particularly wary 
of Yo-ho clocks. Something tells me 
that, ere many moons, I should rise up 
against the Yo-ho, and consign it to its 
predestined grave—namely, Davy Jones’s 
Locker. 
VOU will value Hicks Evergreens 
now because they make your place 
quiet and secluded and lessen the 
noise and dust of the street. A wall 
of green will help you to live in the 
country all winter and save the ex¬ 
pense of a city residence. Evergreens 
15 feet high shipped safely 1000 miles. 
Order now Hicks big 20 -year-old 
shade trees for October planting. 
Satisfactory growth guaranteed. Plant 
now flowering shrubs and berry-bear¬ 
ing shrubs to attract winter birds. 
Hardy flowers in pots for immediate 
planting. Send today for catalog. 
Hicks Nurseries 
Dox Q. Phone 68. Westbury, L. I. 
™ e Glen 
Watkins, N. Y. On Seneca Lake 
Open All Year Wm. E. Lcffingmell, Pres. 
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The Only Place in America Where the Nau- 
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DISEASE, Circulatory, Kidney, Nutritional 
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Well kept and attractive Golf Course 
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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 you seek 
to carry out your decorative scheme. 
JVlany of the 
Most Famous Lawns 
have been produced by the Lenox 
Formula—a high quality recleaned 
seed mixture of fine-leaved, dwarf- 
growing grasses. We recommend 
sowing from August 15 th to Sep¬ 
tember 15 th, five bushels to the 
acre, or for renovating old lawns, 
one to two bushels. Per bushel of 
K 20 lbs., $ 5 . 50 ; per single lb., 35 c. 
■ We shall be glad to make up special 
■ mixtures if desired and invite con- 
{■ sultation regarding any difficulties 
JH you may experience in getting the 
H right turf for any purpose or place. 
j Arthur T. IBoddmgton Co., Inc. 
J Dept. H. 128 Chambers St., New York 
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