July, 1923 
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THE TECHNIQUE 
of THE PRIMITIVE 
In this log-cabin fireplace a difficult feat has 
been accomplished with unusual success. It 
is rough and rugged; it exhibits the true tech¬ 
nique of the primitive in stone masonry; it 
is a fireplace in which to build real fires. To 
build in this manner is to create the pictur¬ 
esque by direct and honest means, in the same 
way that it was created in former generations 
by unskilled pioneer hands, when results were 
more important than effects. .Although it sug¬ 
gests a far frontier, it is the fireplace in the cab¬ 
in camp of Mrs. J. H. Peterson, Stamford, Ct. 
