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House & Garden 
Patterson King Corp 
Architects 
Let Winter 
Come! 
Announcing the Big Step 
Forward in Heating 
T HE most startling inven¬ 
tion in home heating ever 
placed before the American 
people is announced herewith. 
For small or moderate sized 
houses, especially those with¬ 
out cellars, whether new or 
old, for bungalows, farm 
houses, stores, garages, etc., the 
‘RadiO’ Hot Water Radiator 
is:— 
1. The most economical in fuel con¬ 
sumption. (Smoke and gases are 
drawn into the fire and consumed.) 
2. The most effective generator and 
distributor of uniform heat. (Sup¬ 
plies all the rooms with steady, 
healthful, hot water heat.) 
3. The simplest to operate and at- 
tend to. (Automatic fuel-feed 
relieves housewife of necessity of 
frequent firing. Burns hard coal, 
soft coal, coke—even wood.) 
4. The most attractive and the most 
adaptable to the furnishing 
scheme of the modern home. 
(The open grate gives to the mod¬ 
est home the luxurious appear¬ 
ance of an open fireplace.) 
This Marvelous Heater 
a. Gives to every room in the house 
its full share of hot water heat— 
at less cost than heating one room 
with a stove. 
b. Is a hot-water radiator, and open 
fire combined, easily installed (in 
any room having a chimney), and 
connected by small piping to ordi¬ 
nary hot water radiators in ad¬ 
joining rooms. 
c. Has a fuel reservoir which holds 
the fuel for long periods, burns 
hard or soft coal, coke or wood, 
and feeds the fuel downward auto¬ 
matically into the fire, insuring a 
steady temperature of 70 degrees 
in all the rooms and relieving the 
housewife from the drudgery of 
frequent firing. 
d. Is constructed on the downward 
draft principle of combustion, 
which means that all the smoke 
and the gases from the combustion 
chamber are consumed, thus assur¬ 
ing the greatest possible fuel-econ¬ 
omy and absorption of heat units 
as well as the elimination of all 
smoke and coal gas nuisance. 
e. Has an open hearth effect—a fea¬ 
ture possessed by no other heater 
of its kind. Installed between 
bookcases or in an open fireplace, 
the ‘RadiO’ is as ornamental as it 
is practical. 
/. Is priced within the means of all. 
CENTRAL RADIATOR COMPANY 
41 East 42nd Street, New York City 
Subsidiary of 
IRON PRODUCTS CORPORATION 
A ‘RadiO ’ Booklet Free 
An illustrated booklet telling im¬ 
portant facts about ‘RadiO’ Radia¬ 
tors, and the five sizes in which 
they come, will be sent you free of 
charge upon receipt of the attached 
coupon. Ask us any questions 
you wish about the necessary in¬ 
stallation for your house, and send 
in the coupon at once! It is im¬ 
portant ! 
To purchase a heater now with¬ 
out knowing the ‘RadiO’ would be 
to ignore the newest, most practical 
and most improved heater for the 
bungalow, farm or cottage home. 
■ _ ^ 
Fuel feeds automatically into fire. 
“Downdraft" prevents escape of heat 
units in smoke and gases. 
H.G. 
MAIL THIS COUPON 
CENTRAL RADIATOR COMPANY, 
4 1 East 42nd Street, New York City 
Please send me a free copy of your 
‘RadiO’ booklet. 
NAME . 
STREET . 
CITY . STATE 
Collecting Engraved Gems 
{Continued from page 104) 
ger in the hope that the token would 
lead Elizabeth to commute his sentence. 
The terrible Countess of Nott.ngham, 
who had no liking for Essex, overheard 
the Earl’s instructions to the messenger 
and intercepted this ring and Essex was 
led to the scaffold. On her deathbed 
the Countess confessed her act to the 
Queen and Elizabeth, disregarding the 
presence of the Angel of Death, slapped 
the face of the Countess and cried 
“May God forgive you, I never can.” 
The 17th Century found fewer en¬ 
graved gems produced, but the 18th 
Century Italian gem cutters produced 
a quantity of work of high merit. 
Flavio Sirletti, for instance, cut some of 
the finest gems to be found among 
modern specimens, nearly approaching 
the ancient. German glyptic artists 
also produced some exceptionally fine 
work,—Natter of Nuremburg, Sirieas 
and Pichler of Vienna and others. 
Some very fine gem engraving has 
been done in the 19th Century by such 
artists as Bernardo Pistrucci, and later 
gem engravers, but the old “spirit” had 
departed with the passing of the best 
of the 18th Century gem engravers. 
Fortunately for lovers of engraved 
gems, it is possible to acquire interest¬ 
ing specimens for collections in the 
reputable shops of Europe and Amer¬ 
ica. Some very fine engraved gems, an¬ 
tique and modern, have been offered 
from time to time at various public art 
sales. Exceptionally fine pieces have 
brought adequate prices, but many de¬ 
sirable pieces have often gone for what 
has seemed a very small price indeed, 
and a little browsing in New York, 
London or Paris would be sure to dis¬ 
cover to the collector things worthwhile 
within reasonable expenditure. 
In passing it will, I think, prove in¬ 
teresting to the reader to quote Vasari’s 
description of the cutting of intaglios 
and cameos, found in the introduction 
to the 1550 edition of his “Lives,” 
which runs as follows: “Those oriental 
stones . . . are cut in intaglio with 
wheels by means of emery, which with 
the wheel cuts its way through any 
sort of hardness of any stone whatever. 
And as the craftsman proceeds, he is 
always testing by wax impression the 
intaglio which he is fashioning; and in 
this manner he goes on removing ma¬ 
terial where he deems it necessary, till 
the final touches are given to the work. 
Cameos, however, are worked in relief, 
and because this stone (sardonyx) is in 
layers, that is white above and dark 
underneath, the worker removes just 
so much of the white ground as will 
leave the head or figure white on a dark 
ground. And sometimes, in order to 
secure that the whole head or figure 
should appear white on a dark ground, 
he dyes the ground when it is not so 
dark as it should be. In this art we 
have seen wonders and divine works 
both ancient and modern.” 
And indeed we have! Fortunately 
our American museums such as the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New 
York, and the Boston Museum of Art 
are rich in antique and Renaissance en¬ 
graved gems, which will prove absorb¬ 
ingly fascinating to those interested. 
Color Schemes for Men’s Rooms 
■ (Continued from page 47) 
of pewter lamps with parchment shades 
incorporating old sporting prints. 
Or he may be interested in old French 
objets d’art which require an entirely 
different setting. Here a French atmos¬ 
phere can be created successfully with¬ 
out being in the least effeminate. The 
walls can be paneled with wood mold¬ 
ings, and painted a gray green. The 
simple French mantel should be mar- 
bleized in black and gold over which 
may be hung a fine old mirror. Let the 
window draperies to the floor be of yel¬ 
low, green and apricot striped damask 
over plain apricot silk gauze draw cur¬ 
tains. In one corner stand a small flat 
top rosewood and ormulu desk, with a 
bronze and ormulu figure lamp and 
striped taffeta shade. On either side of 
the mantel two low black and gold 
bookcases, the colored bindings showing 
through the antiqued gold wire doors, 
would be an effective note. Beside the 
simply carved old walnut arm chair, 
covered in dull prune uncut velvet, 
stand a small blue and gold painted 
magazine table. One high-back walnut 
arm chair in black ground needlepoint 
would tend to balance the big uphol¬ 
stered arm chair done in striped silk 
damask. All of these colors show to 
advantage on the dark blue carpet. Red 
chalk drawings, and a few good paint¬ 
ings with some old lustre on the mantel 
bring color to the gray green walls. 
There are so many ways in which 
color can be brought out. The draper¬ 
ies, carpets, furniture covering, pictures 
and lamp shades all stand ready to ac¬ 
cent the desired note. The room may 
be monastic in its simplicity or may 
have the richness and elegance of a 
Louis XV bedroom. In either case, col¬ 
or can be its dominant note, expressed 
in great masses or by a few deft touches. 
One of the bedrooms illustrated shows 
a putty wall, a good background for the 
fine old etchings over the bed. The in¬ 
laid walnut bed is a good foil for the 
dull red damask spread and the green 
ground lacquered screen. The vealnut 
chairs have plain red seats, which note 
is repeated in the octagonal frame of the 
old French print. This room has a great 
deal of quiet charm and just enough 
color to warm the large expanse of cold 
wall. The curtains are gay colored 
glazed chintz in bright greens and pinks. 
The study shown here is also unusual 
in its color scheme. Walls of greenish 
blue, a carpet in Venetian red, and over¬ 
hangings of dull gold rough taffeta, 
heavy fringed at the top, are exactly 
right in tone value. Over the sofa hangs 
an interesting old map, its faded coun¬ 
tries pictured in mellow shades. In one 
corner stands an antique ivory arm 
chair covered in multi-colored old 
striped damask. At the side of the 
black marbleized mantel are a pair of 
soft old mythological paintings in warm 
reds and yellows. Over the mantel 
hangs an ancient Italian banner in red 
and gold. The carved Spanish desk and 
the big sofa in damask tend to pull to¬ 
gether these numerous colors. On the 
mantel stands three cream white Bas- 
sano figures, an arresting spot against 
the green blue walls. Finally a chintz 
covered chair beside the fireplace adds 
its note of welcome, in which are the 
combined colors of the room. 
The bedroom shows the touch of a 
collector, for on the walls over the black 
and gold mantel are hanging a series 
of interesting old Godey prints framed 
in many colors. The draperies are of 
multi-colored Directoire glazed chintz 
with double sash curtains in soft blue 
green. Between the windows stands a 
fine old Italian commode on which 
stands a pair of tole vases. A lovely 
antique Italian mirror is hung above. 
The chairs are Directoire, covered in 
old blues with a touch of apricot. The 
carpet is plain taupe. 
DEALER 
