March, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
159 
THE HOUSE FURNISHER’S 
BULLETIN 
New York is the market place of the world 
and into its shops, great and small, pour all the 
best products of the artisan, the decorator, and 
the furniture maker. All that goes toivard mak¬ 
ing the home of good taste, may be purchased in 
this city. To give the readers advantage of the 
city’s shops, the sharp eyes of experts are to be 
constantly employed in ferreting out for this col¬ 
umn all that goes to make the house distinctive. 
O NE of the standard pieces of Shef¬ 
field plate that has been brought 
thoroughly up to date is the Guernsey hot 
milk pitcher, to which has been added a 
Sheffield stand with a small alcohol lamp 
for keeping the contents hot. The quaint- 
looking, squat-shaped pitcher with its 
wicker handle, well-shaped spout and 
clumsy-looking top, like that of a milk can, 
is useful in various ways and need not be 
limited to service on the breakfast table. 
With the lamp it makes a good receptacle 
for hot water on the tea table, or without 
the lamp it will take the place of the ordi¬ 
nary small pitched that has so many uses. 
Another little Sheffield pitcher of about the 
same capacity is a perfectly plain model 
with a hinged top that is weighted with a 
silver ball attached to the under side, so 
that the top is raised and lowered auto¬ 
matically as the pitcher is turned up. 
A SMALL size book case that is inex¬ 
pensive, but most convenient as to 
shape and capacity, is one of the new pieces 
of furniture, the idea of which was bor¬ 
rowed from the magazine stand that has 
proved itself so useful. Like the magazine 
stand, it is primarily intended to hold the 
current books or those that happen to be 
in use at the moment, thus preventing them 
from piling up in a heap on the library 
table, and tending most decidedly to neat¬ 
ness in that particular apartment. It 
stands about four feet in height and is 
quite narrow, with four shelves and a 
small half width shelf at the top, and is 
quite large and substantial enough to form 
a permanent case for a limited number of 
books if so desired. 
O LTENTIMES, in a room where 
space is valuable, it is not always 
possible to have a music cabinet. This 
problem has been well met by the new 
piano seats, which provide at the same 
time ample room for sheet-music in the 
compartment underneath the hinged lid. 
These seats are made in a variety of 
woods to match the piano case, and, with 
their long, low, graceful lines, add great¬ 
ly to the attractiveness of the room. 
They are much more adaptable than the 
old revolving piano stools, and will allow 
two persons to sit comfortably at the key¬ 
board for the playing of duets. When 
not in use they may be pushed in under¬ 
neath out of the way. 
suppose you tried to hire a 
laborer to do daily—for one 
week—what you have been 
doing every day for years,— 
do you think he would take the 
job? Not much—eight hours 
a day is good enough for him. 
Then you wonder why you 
are so easily irritated, why you 
can’t digest the food you used 
to get away with, why you’re 
generally “out of sorts”so often. 
The real trouble is you’ve 
been doing more than a “man’s 
work,” you’ve been burning 
the candle at both ends. 
Nature never intended you 
to be out of sorts in this way. 
You Were created to be well, you Were born to be strong and vigorous. 
Better stop a while, right now, and get yourself in shape. 
It isn’t such a difficult matter if you go about it the right way. The best way 
is told by word and pictures in a most interesting book, just off the press, called, 
“The Way to Get Well” 
It explains in detail Treatments that will just fit your needs, that have 
in them just enough play to make your dinner welcome, just enough “stir” to 
make you “sleep like a log” and all obtainable under ideal conditions of 
accessibility, climate, surroundings and accommodations. 
Send today for your copy, it’s waiting here on my desk for you. 
address 
GEO. F. ADAMS, Box 1305, FORTRESS MONROE, VA. 
Illustrated with photographs, dia¬ 
grams, and Frontispiece in color. 
32 00 net. Postage 14 cents. 
The Craft of HanchMade Rugs 
By AMY MALI HICKS 
The general interest in the arts and crafts movement has revived certain old- 
time industries and small crafts. These crafts should appeal to the amateur 
because they require such simple materials and equipment. It is the basis of this 
book to take these old-time methods of handicraft to revise and refreshen them 
by careful planning in color and design, and to add to them the art feeling of our 
own times. 
McBRIDE, NAST & CO., Publishers NEW YORK 
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