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House 0° Garden 
COMFORT in BEDS and BEDDING 
2w rooms 
for old 
Merely changing the 
lighting arrangements 
often alters the entire as¬ 
pect of a room. And it 
is not difficult to change 
from old-stvle fi.xtures to 
n e vv Riddle Fitments, 
which express the modern 
ideas of interior design 
and decoration. Any 
Riddle dealer will he glad 
to outline an installation, 
and give you an estimate 
of the moderate expense 
involved. If building a 
new home, or re-model¬ 
ing, you will find our 
Planning Service helpful 
in offering suggestions for 
an entire Riddle installa¬ 
tion. This service is 
available either direct or 
through the Riddle dealer, 
whose name, with copy of 
The Riddle Fitment Book¬ 
let, we shall gladly send 
on request. 
The Edward N. Riddle Co. 
293 Riddle Building 
Toledo, Ohio 
{Continued fro7n page 90 ) 
The parts of the feather that are used are 
the down, the split feather with the quill 
extracted and the whole feather. The 
down will pack and look shrunken and is 
expensive; the split feather pillow will 
give excellent service. Feathers are best 
taken from the goose in the spring of the 
year. They are taken (woe, oh, woe!) 
from the bird while it is alive, and about 
six birds will contribute one pound of 
feathers, which are sold by the pound. 
Pillows are pretty regular in size from 
18" by 30" to 30" by' 30", weighing from 
two and one-half pounds to five pounds. 
The ordinary pillow doesn’t weigh more 
than three pounds to its size, 22" by 
30". We hesitate to give the prices of 
pillows, because by the time this article 
is printed they may have aeroplaned or 
dropped! Which, we wonder? 
It is wise to have a mattress pad on the 
bed, for then the expensive mattress is 
protected and will need cleaning less 
often. The quilted pads are comfortable 
and well worth the buying. Yet there are 
folk who get along very well with a 
folded layer of old blanket or cotton 
quilt. 
Some folk like the dust covers for 
mattresses. These can be made at home 
or by your upholsterer. However, a well! 
taken care of mattress doesn’t need the 
dust cover. It depends entirely where 
and how the mattress is used. Airing 
and tapping and turning the mattress] 
daily will do more for it than anything; 
we can tell you. 
The care of beds is a story in itself for 
which we have no room in this article. 
But we will say that all that is needed to 
take care of beds is the usual cleanly 
habits of brushing, surming, airing, dust¬ 
ing, and so on. 
There are certain simple ways of clean¬ 
ing metal beds and simple ways of clean¬ 
ing wooden beds. None of this is com¬ 
plicated as the bed is not complex, but 
being in daily intimate use it does need 
daily mindful attention. 
We have gone into a lot of detail in 
this story but. due to a large experience, 
we find that the points which we have 
covered are the ones on which we have 
been mostly consulted. 
In conclusion, then, we hope that a few 
things have been elucidated and that at 
least the bed has been taken out of Bed¬ 
lam. 
SAPPHIRE 
BLUE for ITALIAN ROOMS 
{Conlinucd from page 59 ) 
peacock blue bowl holding flowers of 
orange and yellow. 
In this room is a chair upholstered in 
dark gray velours trimmed with tarnished 
gold braid, and of the typically square 
Italian shape; there is a chair upholstered 
in gray, sapphire blue and black striped 
linen, cross-stitched in fine blue wool and 
with a blue woolen fringe, and there is a 
walnut armchair with a sapphire blue 
seat. The lampshades are of dull gold 
cloth moss-edged in blue; the pillows are 
of gray and sapphire, and a rich tawny 
gold; the candles in the wall sconces are 
of a creamy buff; and there is a bookcase 
filled with books bound in tooled blue 
leather. Given only a piece or so of Ital¬ 
ian furniture, if the rest is in keeping, 
and of walnut, with the richness of this 
modern color scheme, and these walls of 
wood, any room would have the distinct 
Italian flavor. 
Quite different, but still Italian in feel¬ 
ing, would be a living room with rough, 
sanded cream-colored walls and wood¬ 
work of dull blue, even to the raftered 
ceiling, with each rafter of blue showing a 
small space of painted decoration in 
other colors and gold; a hearth breast and 
mantel of pale gray stone carved ever 
so slightly. -All the furniture in this 
room would be of Italian design with 
the strong classic feeling, and painted an 
invisible stipple that results in a conven¬ 
ient putty color almost the color of flat 
gold. This furniture has gold rubbed 
into the ribs and flutings, and on the 
chairs and settees there are loose cush¬ 
ions of sapphire blue velveteen that are 
tied on. There would be a draw table 
in one end of the room which could be 
u.sed for the serving of meals, for this 
house would sacrifice the dining room in 
order to have an extraordinarily large 
living room. Bookcases of blue built 
into the walls, and dressers and chests 
used for detached pieces, are of putt}'- 
color decorated in rose and blue and 
gold. The windows, the small panes of 
which are made to look leaded by paint¬ 
ing the wooden strips lead gray instead 
of blue to match the rest of the room 
woodwork, are hung with simple draw 
curtains of old yellow velveteen. The 
rug is taupe, laid on a gray-brown floor. 
The lamps have sapphire blue glazed pot¬ 
tery bases and putty colored silk shades. 
If your house lends itself to the Italian 
feeling, or if you are building it so that it 
will welcome some of these same modern 
ideas, or if you feel moved merely to 
experiment in Italian furnishings before 
committing yourself to a whole houseful, 
there is no place like the hall in which to 
begin operations in a small way, no matter 
how elaborate these may be in themselves. 
For at the most, halls require little fur¬ 
niture, even in the midst of the utmost 
formality. Given a floor of tiles—either 
pottery or linoleum—which are gaining 
increasing favor for hallway floors, you 
have a fine start toward making your 
hall effectively Italian by adding a few 
of the proper fixtures—a mirror, wall 
sconces, and a table, bench or chair. 
The hall with the tiled floor that is shown 
here is satisfactorily beautiful in sapphire 
blue and cream. The walls are cream, 
the woodwork painted in putty color, 
the baseboard in midnight blue; the 
floor is tiled in sapphire and black, ce¬ 
mented in cream. The hangings at the 
doorways are sapphire blue, the carved 
Italian table is in walnut, the electric 
wall fixtures are in wrought iron, the 
mirror is of gilded carved wood, dulled 
with polychrome. Two blue pottery jars 
and an alabaster urn adorn the table. 
Large city houses of no particular 
architecture may veiy' frequently be re¬ 
modeled in an Italian spirit, and recently 
one in particular presented most suc¬ 
cessful interiors done in this manner. I 
was particularly interested in the hall, 
since it further proved the desirability 
of combining Italian and sapphire blue. 
The walls were sanded in pale gray, the 
floor was brown, with a narrow rug of 
blue velvet, and blue carpet on the stairs. 
There were wrought iron doors into the 
drawing room, and a wrought iron balus¬ 
trade for the stairs; there was a gorgeous 
wall tapestry in blues and greens and 
grays, and a mirror in carved and gilded 
wood; the torcheres were in gilded iron; 
there was a marble bench, and a carv'ed 
walnut chair pointed with gold, and 
upholstered in sapphire blue and gold. 
The beamed ceiling was in gray and blue, 
decorated in gold and black. The hall 
was somewhat dark, and very rich look¬ 
ing indeed. 
