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House Garden 
—for every room in the home I 
KATCHALL, the most efficient household recep¬ 
tacle ever made—and a thing of real beauty! .... A 
compact hamper for soiled linens; a wastebasket that 
will not allow dust to sift through to the floor; a 
trash box for the kitchen that fits into any corner 
or under the table; a basket for office waste. 
Colors: 
White 
Gray 
Buff 
Blue, Olive 
Light green 
Dark green 
Si:?€S ; 
Heights: 
14'inch 
20'inch 
26'inch 
Diameters: 
lO'inch 
12'inch 
Prices: 
lOx 14. . . 
$3.00 
12x14... 
3.25 
lOx 20. .. 
3.50 
12x20... 
3.75 
10x26. . . 
5.00 
(with cover) 
12x26_ 5.50 
fWlTH cover) 
The above prices 
are for Katchall 
in colors. For 
white, add $1.00 
to list price. 
kakhall 
Reg. Applied for U. S. Pat. Off. 
A seamless receptacle of highest grade vulcanized fibre—sizes 
to meet every requirement; colors that harmonize with every 
scheme of interior decoration. Reinforced with steel bands. 
Finished in fine hard-surface enamels that do not scratch. 
Katchall is not a new product. For years it has been used by 
great industrial corporations the world over. But it is only 
now that the manufacturers have reached a point in their pro¬ 
duction where they can offer Katchall de luxe, specially designed 
for use throughout the home. 
If the best store in your city cannot show you Katchall, fill 
in and mail the coupon, marking sizes and colors desired, and 
Katchall will be delivered to you parcel post collect. Name the 
store where you inquired for Katchall and earn a discount of 
25 cents. If you inquired of two stores, name them ‘and earn a 
discount of 50 cents. 
Fibre Specialty Manufacturing Company 
KATCHALL DIVISION Kennett Square, Pa. 
I KATCHALL DIVISION, Fibre Specialty Manufacturing Company, 
. Kennett Square, Pa. Gentlemen : 1 do not find Katchall at the best storeis) 
I in this city. Please deliver to me, parcel post collect, the following: 
Knrrhnll 
N 
Color 
Price 
1 have written below the name(s) of-store(s) where I inquired for 
Katchall, which entitles me to a discount of (one name, 25 cents) (two 
names, 50 cents) on the above order. 
Your name_ 
Your address _. 
Name of store _____ 
Name of store __ 
FURNISHING A COLONIAL HOME 
{Continued from page 118 ) 
rect for a house that has been planned 
with careful regard for tradition, first 
state clearly and definitely to the sales¬ 
man the style and period of the room in 
question. Then ask him, “What furni¬ 
ture have you that is authentic in the de¬ 
tails of its design that is appropriate for 
such a room? ” When you are shown the 
furniture, ask the salesman to point out 
specifically the details of moldings, pro¬ 
portion, construction, etc., that are 
authentic. Ask him from what documents 
in early furniture the pieces before you 
were designed. If he does not know, ask 
to see the buyer and make it clear to the 
buyer that if his establishment is to con¬ 
tribute the furniture for your home you 
will require pieces the design and con¬ 
struction of which are definitely traceable 
to some choice model that is correct for 
such a room. 
By no other means than the cultivation 
of knowledge and judgment on the part 
of the average purchaser of this country 
and by demanding correct things, can 
standards in home furnishing be really 
raised along the lines that the dignity of 
our own civilization demands. The fine 
books that deal with this subject are too 
numerous and the choice examples of 
good furniture in our museums and pri¬ 
vate collections are entirely too conven¬ 
ient to permit of a compromise when it 
comes to furniture, especially after the 
architect, the fabric-maker and the rug- 
weaver have done their part with such 
sincerity as exists today. 
Note. This is the sixth of a series of 
articles by prominent decorators on the 
various rooms in the house. Each decora¬ 
tor has selected the furniture and color 
scheme for a special room. In Februar)" 
Mrs. Emott Buel wrote on Living Rooms; 
in March, Diane Tate & Marian Hall 
described a Morning Room; in April, 
Gertrude Gheen wrote on Dining Rooms; 
May contained John G. Hamilton’s de¬ 
scription of a Man’s Room and in June 
Margaret McElroy described Libraries. 
In August the furnishing of Children’s 
Rooms was described. The next article, 
in the October number, will consider 
the Bedroom. 
THE STORY of REGENCY FURNITURE 
{Continued from, page 53 ) 
Charles Percier, one of the mainsprings 
of Napoleonic “Empire”, came over from 
France in order to bring his architectural 
knowledge of ancient Greece and Rome 
to bear upon Mr. Hope’s designs for fur¬ 
niture; carvers came from Holland, 
bronzists and ciseleurs from Paris and 
Versailles. It was all very consistent and 
grand, but a little too cold and formal to 
be popular. 
The greater part of Regency furniture 
was developed on less rigid lines. It is 
easy now to criticize its shortcomings, but 
unquestionably the English and .American 
workmen of that day had a hard row to 
hoe. They were expected to produce 
furniture of French Empire style, in its 
majesty of marble, ormolu, crystal, gild¬ 
ing, and chasing, with insufficient techni¬ 
cal skill in some of the branches; they 
were, moreover, often obliged to work 
with a very definite limit to the expendi¬ 
ture. There was no general demand for 
costly fine pieces; the connoisseur did not 
then exist among the great middle class 
or the wealthy tradesfolk; people wanted 
good commodious furniture at a moderate 
price, but they naturally preferred to 
have it elegant. Makers, then, were con¬ 
fronted with the problem of uniting the 
imperial Napoleonic style with the break¬ 
fast table and the armchair of the English 
and .American home. Small wonder that 
the effort sometimes proved too much 
for them. Beautiful as was the cabinet 
work, we could not hope to rival the 
famous French ebenistes, fondeiirs, or the 
ciseleurs, with their jeweler’s skill. Our 
attempts were often clumsy, rather 
than massive; pretentious, rather than 
grand. The large palatial pieces were 
reproduced in homely sizes with the 
oddest effect—the vast carved and gilded 
legs of a twelve-foot side table on a modest 
little buffet; a long window settee 
squeezed to a quarter its length, these 
and their like ore quite characteristic of 
the Regency. 
At the same time, there is, to modern 
eyes, something captivating about this 
very clumsiness and homely dignity; and 
it is interesting to note how well some of 
the pieces with their gilding, rosewood, 
redundancy, and brass, all mellowed and 
glazed over by the hand of time, blend 
into modern interiors. 
The simplicity 
and dignity of 
this Regeney table 
would recommend 
it for use to-day 
A mahogany din¬ 
ing table inlaid 
with a black line. 
T he legs have 
mounts of metal 
