October, 1923 
161 
Mantles of Color 
for the 
Spring Garden 
Each year Peonies and Iris 
give the garden a gay mantle 
of color and fragrance. Truly 
they are the aristocrats of spring 
flowers — dependable and im¬ 
measurably delightful. 
Five Superb Peonies 
Albert Crousse. Large, flat, com¬ 
pact bomb-shaped flowers; rose- 
white, flecked crimson; fragrant. 
$1.50 each. 
Berlioz. Light carmine rose, 
tipped silver; large compact 
flower. $i each. 
Fcliz Crousse. Brilliant red; 
large, fragrant; one of the best 
reds. Si each. 
Fesliva Maxima. White, flecked 
crimson in center; most popular 
white. Si. each. 
Mans. Jules Elie. Very large, 
rather compact flowers; pale 
lilac-rose. $i each. 
Extra Choice Iris 
A urea (German). Standards 
and falls clear deep golden yel¬ 
low; the best solid yellow. $2.20 
per 10. 
Pallida Dalmatic a (German). 
Standards clear lavender blue; 
falls deep lavender. $3 per 10. 
Rhein Nixe (German). Stand¬ 
ards pure white; falls deep 
violet blue with violet edge; 
strong and robust grower. $4.50 
per 10. 
Japanese Iris. Embrace many 
wonderful combinations of color. 
The great size of the bloom is 
noteworthy. S3.50 per 10 in six 
distinct varieties. 
You may order directly from 
this advertisement; or if you 
wish for further details write for 
our complete catalogue of peren¬ 
nials, evergreens, and shade 
trees. 
Outp®^^ 
JVwseries 
Danbury Road 
And This is 
What They Did! 
Aurora stands 17 ins. 
high, with sliade 11H 
ins. in diameter. Base 
and cap cast in sohti 
Mcdailium and 
sliaft of seamless 
brass, finished in 
antique gold 
bronze with ad¬ 
justable parcli- 
mcnt shade in 
tones of rich 
brown and 
gold over 
ivory; inside 
(f shade old 
rrse to give 
meilowlight. 
E q u i p p ed SsS' 
with push¬ 
button sock¬ 
et. 2-piece 
plug, six feet 
of cord. 
A masterpiece of Greek 
simplicity and bal¬ 
ance. Not a thing 
could be added or 
taken away with¬ 
out marling the 
general effect. Not 
the sixty-fourth 
of an inch dif¬ 
ference could be 
made i n the 
dimension of 
any moulding 
without 
hurt. 
W EARIED with the everlasting 
procession of “popular sellers,” 
as the lamp salesmen call them-^ 
lamps designed in the drafting depart¬ 
ments of large factories with no other 
idea than to make enough different 
styles to fill out a line”—nearlv 
always poorly proportioned, anil 
often with colors so predominating 
that all the other furnishings of a 
room are thrown out of harmony by 
them—out of patience with all this, 
the Decorative Arts League pursuad- 
ed a group of three talented artists to 
lay aside their other work for a time 
and try what could be done in design¬ 
ing a lamp that would be useful and 
at the same time a work of real art. 
One was a famous architect, 
John Muller, versed in the 
practical requirements and 
limitations of interior deco¬ 
rating; one a painter and 
genius in color effects, 
Andrew Popoff and one, 
Olga Popoff-Muller, a bril- ' ‘.’ 
liant sculptress of interna- ATTr./->Tv 
tional reputation. AURORA 
They started out one Satur¬ 
day to make a day's light work of it, but 
ended by spending more than two full 
weeks before they had what they wanted. 
For the task proved not so easy, and the 
more perplexing it became, the more these 
three put their hearts into it. 
It was no trick at all to make a design 
that was beautiful—but the first beautiful 
designs did not work out as practicable. 
useful lamps. When a design both 
beautiful and practicable was created 
it was found to fit in harmoniously 
with only a certain style of room 
furnishings—and one of the League’s 
aims was to have a lamp that would 
harmonize with all styles. 
So drawing after drawing and model 
after model of each different part was 
made, studied, criticized and done 
over again. One style of ornamenta¬ 
tion after another was tried, modified 
and abandoned. Complete lamps, 
equipped even to cord and electric 
bulb, were made after the different 
variations in design, and set lighted 
in tvpical home surroundings, to be 
studied. 
At last one day a model 
embodying the latest varia¬ 
tions was completed and 
lighted. There was no 
studying, no pause—each 
of the three knew instantly 
that at last their ambition 
had borne fruit. Its per¬ 
fectness could be felt. 
(Ij'l QC Every dimension, every 
7D contour, every line, every 
value, at last harmonized in 
one perfect whole. The slender shaft, after 
having been changed a score of times, 
sometimes less than the sixty-fourth of an 
inch, now at last seemed to have grown out 
of the base instead of having been put there, 
and the shade to have opened out of the 
shaft some dewy summer morning, like a 
bit of luxuriant foliage on a slender stalk. 
And that is Aurora. 
Why Only $3.95 ? 
In the e.xclusive shops along Fifth Avenue 
in New York, or Michigan Boulevard in 
Chicago, lamps nearly as artistic as 
Aurora may often be found—but priced 
at Sio, S15, S20, according to the policy 
of the shop or whim of the artist-designer. 
In ordinary stores lamps may be found as 
low in price as Aurora—but their designs 
will be seen to have been “turned out” at 
wholesale instead of having been individu¬ 
ally created by an artist. 
The League Idea 
The Decorative Arts League is able to 
offer its members, and a few times a year 
to new friends through public advertising, 
the finest of art at the lowest of prices 
because of its simpler, less extravagant 
methods. 
With a corresponding membership em¬ 
bracing a few discriminating lovers of 
beautiful things in each community it can 
learn quickly how many of a given article 
will certainly be taken. Compensation 
for the artists who create the designs and 
the craftsmen who execute them, and 
the League's cost of handling, is then 
divided among that number of sales to 
determine the original selling price to 
niembers. Sometimes this price proves, 
in actual practice, to have been too low, 
and then the offer is withdrawn. But if 
satisfactory, it is extended lor a time to 
outsiders, to bring more discerning buyers 
into acquaintanceship with the League 
and its methods. 
Strictly On Approval 
But always the League’s offerings are 
strictly subject to the buyer’s satisfac¬ 
tion. Any article ordered, if not perfectly 
in accord with the buyer's individual 
taste when received, may be returned 
and all money will be refunded. 
So it is with Aurora. You pay the post¬ 
man upon its receipt Ss-QS plus the post¬ 
age, but the full amount will be refunded 
if in five days you are not satisfied. 
Sign and mail the coupon and let this be 
a demonstration of all that the League 
and its methods may be made to mean to 
you. Perhaps you may never get another 
opportunity to accept this offer, so act 
now. 
DECORATIVE ARTS LEAGUE 
You may enter my name as a “Corresponding Member” of the Decorative Arts League, 
it being distinctly understood that such membership is to cost me nothing, either now 
or later, and it is’to entail no obligation-of any kind. It simply registers me as one 
interested in hearing of really artistic new things for home decoration and use. 
You may send me, at the members' special price, an Aurora Lamp, and I will pay 
postman S3.9S plus postage, when delivered. If not satisfactory I can return lamp 
within five days of receipt and you are to refund my money in full. 
Signed.H. G. i 
Address. 
City.State. 
J ^ 
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