House & Garden 
DECORATIVE LIGHTING FITMENTS 
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The Riddle Outdoor Fitment 
of Cast Bronze 
T HIS new Riddle Fitment is marked by dignity of de¬ 
sign, beauty of finish and extreme durability. Cast in 
bronze, it is literally everlasting. Finished in natural dull 
polished bronze without lacquer, it has a lustrous irides¬ 
cence which with exposure to the weather becomes a beau¬ 
tiful shade of monumental bronze flecked with green. 
Dealers are now showing this latest Riddle product in both 
ceiling and sidelight styles, priced less than heretofore pos¬ 
sible for a fitment of this character. Illustrated folder and 
dealer’s name will be sent on request. 
Those interested in beautiful residential lighting fitments 
for every purpose are invited to send for free copy of The 
Riddle Fitment Book, describing various Riddle styles 
in ceiling and wall fixtures, torcheres and other portable 
lamps, illustrating in actual colors the Silver Estofado and 
Gold Estofado decoration characteristic of Riddle Fit¬ 
ments. Please address Department 282. 
THE EDWARD N. RIDDLE COMPANY 
TOLEDO, OHIO 
Makers of lighting fitments since 1892 
While one expects to find books in the living room, they can be given 
a fresh aspect by using shelves of unusual shape. Couch and chairs 
are conveniently arranged beneath. The Oriole Company, decorators 
Coming On Books Unexpectedly 
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drowned in needed poems of patience. 
As a reader who likes to carry books 
on the cars or on walks, I would sug¬ 
gest that tailors make duodecimo or 
octavo pockets to order. So in like man¬ 
ner, there are odd spaces to a house, 
which could be as definitely thought out 
and used for duodecimo or octavo books. 
But we do not consider these problems 
as of similar importance to the placing 
of the grandfather's clock. All sorts of 
books need to be scattered, as lovingly 
as you place candlesticks in rooms and 
odd corners; they should light the way 
of the mind at every step. 
Somehow a house to me is never hab¬ 
itable until a bird builds a nest in an 
unexpected place. The architect has 
nothing to do with it. The will of the 
bird is law unto itself. The eaves and 
sheaves of country life, the rafters of 
the studio, the window shutter that the 
lover of light and zephyrs keeps open 
the season through, the old well bucket, 
yes, even the cannon's mouth, we are 
told, are grounds for building. All you 
—as owner of the house—know is that 
in the garden there is the flash of the 
blue bird, the orange of the oriole, and 
the brown breast of the ubiquitous 
robin, whose young are as much at home 
in some hidden corner as you are in 
your room. 
So it is with books. Their homing in¬ 
stinct is well worth studying when you 
plan your house. There is nothing 
against the precision of formal shelves. 
Their regularity is as decorative to a 
room as a regiment of soldiers on pa¬ 
rade is to the drill-ground. But there 
are books that are shy and loving, books 
that are young and tender with the hint 
of wisdom, books that shun sets, and 
are of themselves necessary in idle mo¬ 
ments. These delight in obscure cor¬ 
ners. 
I am suspicious of a house that al¬ 
lows books only in the library. Take a 
volume from the shelves, and uncon¬ 
sciously lay it down on the hall bench— 
and some hand fetches it back to its 
proper place. To such people, children 
are to be seen and not heard; books are 
to be had but not “seen about.” Both 
ideas are wrong. I like children to be 
well heard, provided it is musical happi¬ 
ness. I like books to be well thumbed, 
as Charles Lamb did—and were it pos¬ 
sible to resort to criminal processes, each 
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There is no need for color schemes in a book room, as the books con¬ 
tribute ample color. Here they find a dignified setting in paneled walls, 
fireplace and furniture of good lines. The Oriole Company, decorators 
