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Lighting Fixtures 
No line of Fixtures ever offered surpass them for ex- 
quisiteness of design, combined with such high quality. 
Nor do any meet with greater acceptance from the most 
fastidiously inclined. 
Artistic, adequate lighting effects, and at a truly reason¬ 
able price, characterize all Miller Lighting Fxtures. 
West of Rockies 
Old Brass and Black, $26.25 $28.75 
Silver and Black, 31.50 34.00 
Old Brass and Black, 5.35 6.35 
Silver and Black, 6.45 7.45 
Old Brass and Black, 7.85 8.85 
Silver and Black, 9.45 10.45 
The Old Brass and Black is particularly suitable for the living 
No. 76, 5-light Fixture, 
No. 716, 1-light Bracket, 
No. 717, 2-light Bracket, 
Room, while the Silver and Black is most effective in the Dining 
Room. 
(Prices do not include bulbs or installation) 
Write for Booklet showing all the newest designs, and the name of 
the nearest Miller Distributor carrying these designs on display. 
EDWARD MILLER & CO., Meriden, Conn. 
Established 1844 
68 &70 Park PL, New York 125 Pearl St., Boston 
116 Charing Cross Rd., London, W. C. 2 
House & Garden 
A Review of Paints and Varnish Catalogs 
(Continued from page 100) 
no phase of woodwork and its finish 
that is not intelligently handled in this 
book. 
“The Inviting Home,” published by 
the Boston Varnish Co., Boston, Mass. 
The purpose in presenting this booklet, 
which is well illustrated in color, is to 
demonstrate the simple manner in which 
a woman who is her own homemaker 
may transform a sombre, gloomy house 
into a cheerful, gay home. Suggestions 
are offered for the accomplishment of 
this based upon the wide experience of 
this concern. The object being not 
merely to beautify the home, but to 
bring light, health and happiness to it. 
The Boston Varnish Company also has 
a Home Service Department which 
gladly helps take up problems pertaining 
to paint and enamel. 
“Exinolite Waterproof Varnish,” pub¬ 
lished by the Thibaut & Walker Co., 
Long Island City. This pamphlet tells 
the story of a long oil varnish which is 
mar-proof and waterproof. The pam¬ 
phlet promises that this varnish will not 
blister, crack or turn white in salt or 
fresh water and, that it will not be 
affected by changes of temperature. It 
is considered a good finish for hardwood 
or painted floors. It is equally useful 
for exterior or interior purposes. It is 
also considered practicable for the finish 
of radiators. 
The Outdoor Room of a Town House 
(Continued from page 69) 
are also excellent shrubs for this purpose. 
Some of the small, flowering ever¬ 
green shrubs may be used to advantage 
in the city backyard garden as a part 
of the perennial borders—such things as 
the dwarf rhododendron (boule de neige 
is a beautiful one with white flowers), 
azalea amoena, azalea japonica and lily- 
of-the-valley-bush (Andromeda flori- 
bunda). The conifers should be used 
sparingly, and of these only the posi¬ 
tively dwarf varieties, for nothing can 
be more ungainly than overgrown ever¬ 
greens and nothing more pathetic than 
ones that must be sheared and clipped 
violently and often to keep them in their 
place. 
In the accompanying photographs a 
city backyard garden of a slightly dif¬ 
ferent type is shown ; one that is reached 
from a living floor only slightly above 
the ground level and that reaches to 
the extreme rear of the property with¬ 
out the necessity for a laundry yard and 
the intervening screen. The terrace has 
been treated as a pergola and steps 
down onto the central plot of the gar¬ 
den paved with rectangular flags and 
edged with dwarf box. 
The borders in this case have been 
planted more formally than in the pre¬ 
vious example; fewer herbaceous plants 
have been used and more evergreens, 
making it an especially desirable type of 
garden for the household that leaves the 
city in the spring and returns late in 
the autumn. 
In both instances the gardens have 
been made intensely usable by making 
them accessible and by making them 
places in which one may actually sit 
and read and entertain in hours of ease 
and fair weather; enlarging the house 
by bringing into play a space that really 
functions as an outdoor room in every 
sense of the word. 
A Restored Quaker Farmhouse 
(Continued from page 57) 
employed for different purposes at dif¬ 
ferent times as the house experienced one 
or another addition. Part of what is 
now the living room, that is the ground 
floor room of the low western wing, 
seems to have been the earliest kitchen, 
a use to which the primitive stone sink 
in one corner, still carefully preserved, 
bears witness. 
Fifty years later, when the first addi¬ 
tion was made on the north, the kitchen 
was apparently transferred thither, for 
there is another stone sink, as the illus¬ 
tration shows, beneath a window in 
what is now the gun room. When the 
last addition or “high part” was built 
an hundred years or more ago, what is 
now the dining room was evidently the 
“best room” of the house, reserved for 
weddings, funerals, and other state occa¬ 
sions. 
In the process of rehabilitation it 
was, of course, out of the question to 
hold to anything like the previous sys¬ 
tem of using the rooms. Furthermore, 
there was insufficient space without 
making additions and it was necessary 
to build on an eastern wing for the 
kitchens, laundry, and servants’ quar¬ 
ters. This addition, however, was 
carried out wholly in the spirit of the 
original building, and in the ancient 
structure every usable feature, even to 
the smallest bit of hardware, was re¬ 
tained with meticulous care. 
The two magnificent box bushes, 
flanking the south door, may be said to 
have given the keynote and inspiration 
for all garden undertakings. In a line 
with them, old and well grown box 
bushes have been set to border the grass 
walk leading down to the hardy garden. 
This garden, laid out on the warm 
southern slope that stretches down to 
the meadow, is enclosed with a white¬ 
washed picket fence, quite according to 
Pennsylvania farmhouse useage in cen¬ 
turies past. 
The rough stone wall retaining the 
terrace on which the south front of the 
house opens is shrouded with old-fash¬ 
ioned climbing roses. The. dry stone 
wall, bordering the driveway to the 
north of the house and forming a facing 
to the bottom of the slope that extends 
on upward to the woods above, is the 
only place where anything approaching 
modern gardening has been attempted. 
This wall, in its season, is a solid mass 
of gorgeous blooming rock plants. All 
else is kept punctiliously in accord with 
the simple garden practice of bygone 
days and any plant or flower not cher¬ 
ished in old Quaker gardens is purposely 
excluded. 
The result achieved in this rejuvena¬ 
tion of a forlorn, neglected old farm¬ 
stead may best be judged from the 
illustrations. How well worth while 
was such an effort, prompted by loving 
reverence, can be fully understood only 
by those who have engaged in a like 
undertaking and tasted the pleasure of 
living amidst the fruits of their labors. 
