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House Garden 
Joints sealed 
with molten lead 
Allowing molten lead 
to run in joints of 
SPE4KMAN built- 
in fixtures, Rirerview 
H^orks plant Speak- 
man Company, Wil- 
mington, Delaware* 
HELPFUL HANDBOOKS 
{Conlinued from page 142 ) 
The Vendor slate booklet is made es- 
[)ecially interesting by including several 
plates of detailed working drawings 
showing the actual construction of slate 
roofs. There are also a number of ex¬ 
cellent photographic illustrations. 
CONCERNING OAK FLOORS 
The Pf.rfect Floor; How It Should 
Be Laid, Finished and Cared For. 
(The Long-Bell Lumber Co., Kansas 
City, Mo.) 
Modern O.ak Floors, Good for a 
Hundred Years. (Oak Flooring Bu¬ 
reau, 1014 Ashland Block, Chicago, Ill.) 
Design Oak Flooring. (E. L. 
Bruce Co., Memphis, Tenn.) 
Here are three booklets which pro¬ 
vide complete and well-arranged facts 
on oak as a flooring material, and which 
will prove valuable to all who are con¬ 
sidering the use of oak, whether for 
floors in a new house, or for re-flooring 
over old floors. 
painting, staining .ANT) WAXING 
The Proper Tre.atment for Floors, 
Woodwork and Furniture. (S. C. 
Johnson & Son, Racine, Wis. 25c). 
Modern Wood Finishing. (E. I. 
DuPont de Nemours & Co., Inc., Paint 
& Varnish Section, Wilmington, Del.) 
The first of these is a comprehensive 
treatise, covering in a practical way the 
finishing of old and new woodwork, 
old and new floors, old furniture, the 
use of wax, enamels, wood dye, fillers, 
varnishes and other preparations. 
A valuable feature of the second of 
these booklets is a discussion of the 
finishing of various frequently used 
woods, written in each case by a repre¬ 
sentative of the different wood organi¬ 
zations. V’oods discussed and illus¬ 
trated in facsimile color panels are 
birch, cypress, fir, red gum, oak, northern 
and southern pine, redwood, chestnut, 
ash and many others. The preparations 
discussed in their uses and effects are 
fillers, stains and varnishes. 
Gr.aulite, The Master Finish for 
Wood. (W. F. Graul Co., Northamp¬ 
ton, Mass.) 
A booklet introducing and describing 
a new wood finish which is neither a 
stain nor a varnish, but which effects 
a complete and impervious wood finish at 
one operation, filling and staining at once, 
and drjdng with a hard glossy surface. 
W HEN fixtures are hidden 
from view your first 
knowledge of a leaking joint 
comes usually after damage has 
been done to ceilings, walls, or 
parts of both. 
There is a sense of security in 
knowing that leaking joints just 
“can’t happen” when Speakman 
built-in fixtures are used. This 
applies to bath as well as 
shower fixtures. 
Molten lead is rtin into the joints 
of these after assembling and 
welds valves and pipes into one 
solid unit—proof against leak. 
The installation shown is the ideal 
arrangement of shower and bath 
fixture in connection with a built- 
in tub. Shower is the H-952V2 
with concealed Mixometer; bath 
fixture (the three handles) is the 
Deshler. 
This installation is fully described, 
together with several others, in our 
booklet, “Once-Used Water.” In 
sending for a copy if you have a 
regular plumber please mention 
his name. 
The ideal installation of 
shower o'ver the tub — 
H-952V2 Mixometer 
Shower and Deshler Bath 
Fixture, 
SPEAKMAN COMPANY 
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE 
HOW TO KNOW THE COLORS 
This is the Second of a Series of Simple 
Definitions of the Names of Colors Used in 
Decoration. In the August Issue the Colors 
Chosen Were Red and Yellou\ Green is the 
Subject of This Article. 
G reen is one of the colors most used 
in decoration. It has a cool, restful 
quality; it combines well with manycolors, 
and rooms in which green has been used 
intelligently not only have an air of dis¬ 
tinction but are extremely livable. It is a 
color that one does not tire of easily. 
Great care must be used, however, if 
one desires green os the leading motif in a 
room. An interior done entirely in green 
would be overpowering and dull. Nature 
varied her green effectively with sprink 
lings of brilliantly colored flowers and the 
blues, grays and pinks of a summer sky. 
In the same manner the wise decorator 
introduces other colors to counteract as 
well as to accent the greens in a room. 
Green is an ideal color for a room that 
gets plenty of sunshine. Llere the walls 
can be apple green, turquoise or that 
lovel}^ blue-green color one sees so much 
of in Italy. The hangings should strike a 
contrasting note and another color may 
be brought in in the chair coverings. The 
green may be introduced again in acces¬ 
sories or in an occasional chair covering or 
cushion. 
Green also can be brought into the dec¬ 
oration of north rooms. With yellow or 
cream colored walls and glass curtains of 
yellow or gold gauze to create the effect 
of sunlight, there is no reason why bright 
flowered chintz in which green is the main 
color should not be used. A chair covered 
in green and gold striped silk might be 
balanced by one done in old gold colored 
damask. This amount of green can be 
used in a north or east room as it is more 
than offset by the surrounding walls and 
woodwork in warm, light giving yellow. 
Adam —a pale light green—taking its 
name from the shade of green much used 
by Robert Adam for his furniture and 
decorations. 
Almond —A lovely soft gray green, 
more blue than reseda. This is a charm¬ 
ing color combined with lacquer red, 
corn color or lilac 
.\PPLE—a pale, light green with a tinge 
of yellow' in it. An excellent color for sun- 
rooms or for a country house morning 
room. It combines well with mulberry, 
certain shades of yellow and orange, blue, 
cream, mauve, sealing w'ax red and pink. 
Bottle —a dark, dull green, the color 
of common bottle glass. 
Emerald— a brilliant, clear, deep 
green, the color of the precious stone. 
Grass —the name explains itself. 
Hunter’s —a bright, dark, warm green, 
the color of Robin Hood’s doublet. A 
good color for the furniture coverings in a 
small study w'ith curtains of gray and 
white toile de Jouy bound in red. 
Jade —the precious stone ranges in 
tone from pale to dark green. The term 
jade green in decoration refers to a bright, 
hard, blui;h green, brighter than the tone 
of the mineral. 
Jasper —a medium dark, dull, soft, 
rather bluish green, called after the pre¬ 
cious stone. 
Laurel —a dark, brownish green, the 
color of laurel leaves. 
Lettuce— a light, y'ellow'ish green, the 
tone of crisp, ymung lettuce leaves. 
Malachite —the color of the mineral. 
A very bright, pure clear green, not so blue 
as jade. 
^Iignonette —a delicate light, gray 
green, the color of the greenish white 
flowers of the mignonette plant. 
IMoss—soft, graydsh green, the color 
of rock moss. 
AIyrtle— the dark green of myrtle 
leaves. 
Nile— a very light, y'ellow'ish green. 
Olive —dark, lirownish green, the 
color of the unripe olive. 
Paris —the color of the bright green 
powder made of white arsenic and acetate 
of copper. 
PiSTACHE —a very light, bluish green, 
the color of the flavoring made from the 
seed of the pistachio tree. 
Reseda —the French for mignonette. 
A soft, dull gray green. 
Sage —the color of the gray green aro¬ 
matic leaves of the sage brush. 
Sea Green— a light, bluish green, an 
excellent color for w'alls and w'oodw'ork. 
Verdigris —a dark, bluish green, the 
hue of the rust on copper, bronze or 
brass surfaces. 
