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House & Garden 
THE WILLS SAINTE CLAIRE 
The more experienced and critical you are in 
your judgments of motor cars, the more 
enthusiastic you will be as an owner and driver 
of the Wills Sainte Claire. This car is designed 
and built for those men and women who are 
accustomed to and insist upon the finest and 
the best. 
You will find that no other car rides so easily, 
drives so easily, clings to the road so tenaciously 
as the Wills Sainte Claire. Because no other 
motor car has the spring suspension, the per¬ 
fect balance, the even weight-distribution of 
the Wills Sainte Claire. 
C. H. Wills & Company, Marysville, Michigan 
WILLS SAINTE CLAIRE 
The Tale of The Tassel 
(Continued from page 108) 
and these shades have a high decorative 
value by day as well as by night. The 
plain inverted bowls of alabaster that 
are used for electric light fittings are at 
their best when suspended by silk cords, 
each of which ends in a tassel. The 
fringed and tasseled pelmet over curtains 
is to some extent a survival of the Vic¬ 
torian mode, but has in these days a 
distinctly modern interpretation. Heavy 
tassels may be used at the corners of 
silken bedspreads or to weight and em¬ 
broidered bell-pull, while in certain 
rooms pictures look well hung by 
lengths of silk braid, each of which ends 
in a tassel at the frieze or picture rail. 
Here, as elsewhere, everything depends 
on the room, and tasseling should never 
be overdone. It can be so delightful, 
this ornament, and has such an imme¬ 
diate effect that it easily becomes a 
temptation and must always be used 
with restraint. 
A tassel should be an adjunct, nothing 
more, and should be placed so as to 
decorate and accentuate construction, or 
to give a semblance of utility. It must, 
in short, have point and interest. Dotted 
about here, there and everywhere, tas¬ 
sels look merely stupid and vulgar, and 
become an irritation rather than a joy 
to the eye. 
When You Plan Your Garden 
(Continued from page 34) 
play spaces. In this stage the various 
locations may be shifted about, fitted 
and refitted, adjusted and re-adjusted, 
until an arrangement is secured that 
gives to each part of the scheme its 
most appropriate and convenient loca¬ 
tion, both in regard to the particular 
nature of the site and the relation of the 
parts to each other. 
The third sketch shows in phantom 
the house, gardens, lawns, and the en¬ 
closing hedges. At this point in the de¬ 
sign it is possible to get a pretty clear 
idea of what the final appearance of the 
plot is going to be, at least in mass. 
The next step is the decorating of these 
various masses, choosing the materials 
for their construction, placing the gate¬ 
ways, steps, shelters, and so on. 
It is all very much like building and 
fixing up a house; like deciding upon 
the outside walls—whether they shall be 
of stone, brick, frame or stucco; wheth¬ 
er the inside walls and partitions shall 
be painted or papered, and in what color 
or pattern; where and what pictures 
shall be hung, and what kind of furniture 
shall be used, and where it shall be 
placed. And just as in the house we 
have given up the idea of the gloomy, 
unused horse-hair parlor, we should give 
up outside the idea of the just as use¬ 
less and just as depressing “pretty”, 
museum-like grounds. 
The house, as the most important part 
of the establishment, should be located 
first, but with all the other things in 
mind at the same time, so as to avoid 
awkward situations later on. Here it is 
located rather close to the street, so that 
the private, and hence more valuable 
area in the rear may be as large as pos¬ 
sible. Also, the space between the house 
and the highway, being more or less pub¬ 
lic, and, therefore, not especially livable, 
need be only great enough to insure pro¬ 
tection from dust and noise and serve 
as a place in which to create a setting 
for the house as seen from the road. 
And further, short approaches are less 
expensive—naturally—and are generally 
more simple to arrange. 
The approaches should be as direct as 
possible; and as a straight line is the 
most direct communication between two 
points, the path to the entrance door¬ 
way, the drive to the garage, and the 
connecting path, have been made just so. 
This is a rule, it will be seen, that should 
be followed in making paths on any part 
of the place. 
The entrance lawn has been left open, 
as all lawns should, to make it rest¬ 
ful and roomy; and the planting, aside 
from the existing trees, consists merely 
of that which softens the angle where 
the house walls rise from the ground, 
tieing the two together, and that which 
fills the sharp corners of the hedges and 
guards the entrances. All this planting 
should be made of evergreen and decidu¬ 
ous shrubs, and small trees, which pro¬ 
vide color throughout the year by means 
of their flowers, foliage, bark and berries. 
Before continuing with the discussion 
of the arrangement of the place illus¬ 
trated here the various uses to which the 
private area of the plot may be put will 
be considered. 
There are three general types of spaces 
that are a part of the layout of the 
grounds of a small place. There is the 
playing space, which may be anything 
from a tiny area devoted to a child’s 
sand-box, to a tennis court with its di¬ 
mensions of 60' by 120'. Among the 
other playing spaces there are the cro¬ 
quet lawn, which should be approxi¬ 
mately 30' by 60', and the bowling 
green, which may be quite narrow but 
which should be at least 100' long. The 
thing is to decide upon the particular 
game wanted that will fit into the size 
of the lot without usurping too much 
room. A tennis court is usually out of 
the question on the small place because 
of its size; croquet may be played on 
almost any bit of open, level lawn, but 
a bowling green, besides providing very 
interesting sport, can generally be man¬ 
aged. It can be laid lengthwise across 
the slope of a hill with very little grad¬ 
ing or made a part of the boundary of 
the property. Enclosed within its long, 
clipped hedges it becomes one of the 
most decorative things in garden archi¬ 
tecture. 
The next type of space includes all the 
various sorts of gardens: flower, cutting, 
fruit and vegetable. These may be of 
almost any size or shape and arranged 
in almost any manner as long as that 
size, shape and arrangement are orderly 
and logically composed and propor¬ 
tioned, and as long as those two most 
important factors—soil and sunlight—. 
are taken care of. 
On the small place the only service 
area—the third type of space in the lay¬ 
out—is the laundry yard. This may be 
quite small and should be located near 
the laundry end of the house and in a 
position where it can be screened easily. 
To proceed with the small place un¬ 
der consideration — the flower garden 
was given the central location next to 
the house so that it would be very ac¬ 
cessible. In effect it is an outdoor room 
to be stepped into from the house ter¬ 
race. Also, in this position it can easily 
be seen from within the house. It is a 
good rule to remember that the more 
conveniently the garden may be reached 
from the house the more it will be used 
and the more keenly it will be enjoyed. 
(Continued on page 126) 
