House and Garden 
THK RJiSIDKNCE 
which IS engendered by the art ot that country. 
I'his henehcent influence is felt more distinctly vet 
in the interior of this most fascinating house, for here 
are (juiet, cool spaces of color which rest the eye and 
the nerves. The narrow line wliich lies between 
restf'ulness and barrenness or severity in decoration 
and furnishing is never overstepped, nor is it 
stretched to its utmost limit as we often feel to he the 
case in an actual Japanese interior. With the unfail¬ 
ing instinct of an American woman for that which is 
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comfortable and convenient, Mrs. Minor has adapted 
to her uses those things which give an almost start¬ 
lingly artistic efl-'ect at first glance, and yet which 
resolve themselves into some pretty convenience 
upon further acquaintance. In a corner of the 
living-room the broad expanse of a gold screen 
glimmers dully with a low pot of yellow daffodils in 
front of it. d'here is no interruption to this golden 
surface except when at its foot the carved and gro- 
tescjue lines of the teak-wood stool are etched against 
it, and the upstanding spears (supported on a 
shallow dish in that magical way known to the 
THE MIMIC LAKE SURROUNDED BY WHITE AND PURPLE IRIS 
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