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H 0 ti s e Garden 
CARING FOR OLD WALL PAPERS 
Paper in the upper hall of Harington House, Bourton- 
on-the-Water, Gloucestershire. The arabesques are in a 
light brown and the scene in shades of green 
Hang All Doors 
Properly 
S HALL your doors hang properly, fit 
properly, be true and stay so? You 
can be sure of those things if you will be 
sure to use the right type and the right 
make of hinges. A good man to see is 
the local hardware merchant who sells 
He knows the proper sizes to use for 
any given kind of doors. Get acquainted 
with him. And think of hinges and 
other hardware when you start think¬ 
ing of building or repairing. Most people 
think of hardware last and seldom allow 
enough money for proper equipment. 
McKinney Manufacturing Company 
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 
{Continuedfrom page 75) 
the old wall papers are still in existence— 
more, perhaps, than one would at first be 
inclined to imagine. Some of them are 
still in their original position where they 
were first applied. Not a few, that were 
never hung, have been found put away 
in the rolls or sections—they were made 
in both forms—just as they came from 
the makers, and can now be put on the 
walls for the first time by those fortunate 
enough to acquire them. Still others, as 
precious antiques—and they are precious 
antiques—have been removed from the 
walls on which they were first hung and 
transported to new environments. In 
short, they constitute just as distinct and 
just as highly organized a branch of his¬ 
torical furnishing and decoration as do 
chairs, tables or cupboards, old silver, old 
glass, old china, or old tapestries. 
A great deal has been written about the 
care and restoration of antique furniture. 
The other classes of cherished antiques, 
too, have come in for their share of the 
same sort of attention. All the lore con¬ 
nected with the intelligent preservation 
of these objects has become indispensable 
to their possessors. And their possessors, 
to whom this knowledge is of genuine 
value, are not only the professed con¬ 
noisseurs and collectors, who specialize 
upon one or two hobbies, but also the 
great and ever-increasing number of peo¬ 
ple who employ antiques as a part of 
their daily surroundings to be lived with 
and enjoyed for their mellow beauty. 
Every bit of care bestowed on antiques 
is fully justified. There is, to be sure, the 
natural desire to preserve uninjured any¬ 
thing of worth or beauty, for the sake of 
the lasting pleasure it gives. 
There was a time, not so many years 
ago, when the majority of people regarded 
nearly all wall paper in the same casual 
way they would look upon personal linen. 
It was to be removed when it showed signs 
of soil and replaced with fresh paper, 
with as little compunction as the chang¬ 
ing of a shirt or collar would occasion. If 
they particularly liked a paper and 
could get more of the same sort, well and 
good. If not, no matter-—there were 
plenty of others that would do just as well. 
Scraping the walls and repapering were 
almost periodical incidents to spring 
house-cleaning, incidents fairly compara¬ 
ble to whitewashing the cellar in the 
annual tidying up. But much water has 
flowed under the bridge since then. Our 
minds are again open to the claims of wall 
paper and we understand that old wall 
paper, designed frankly as a decoration 
in itself, is a work of art to be jealously 
preserved. 
Unfortunately, at the time when so 
many of these landscape and other par¬ 
ticularly engaging papers were being 
made, there were plenty of people who did 
not think about their permanent value 
{Continued on page 152) 
Old French wall paper on the walls of the hall in the Martin Van 
Buren house at Kinderhook, printed by Dufour and entitled 
“Chasse au Canard’’' 
