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House cf Garden 
The useful gift 
is always •welcome 
C HRISTMAS is the time when useless little pretty 
things are given till it hurts — the recipient. 
How welcome among a collection of gifts are 
the few that have a real purpose in life! How 
lucky is the person who receives gifts — large or 
small — from Lewis 6C Conger’s, gifts that will serve 
faithfully from one year’s end to another! 
This year decide on useful gifts. And when you 
are selecting them, come to the corner of 45 th Street 
and Sixth Avenue, where usefulness, beauty and 
honest price find a happy combination. 
Just spin the knob and your number will 
appear. The ruled spaces on this tele¬ 
phone index will accommodate the names 
and numbers of more than 350 friends, 
foes and acquaintances. Bronze finish, 
^2.50; silver finish, ^3.50; gold finish, ^5. 
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For the fortunate possessors of fireplaces 
there is no better gift than attractive fire¬ 
place fittings, and here are two specific 
suggestions. A Cape Cod firelighter 
with a large tray costs only ^5.25; or a 
graceful, hand-painted bellows at ^12. 
That smokers may smoke while abstainers ab¬ 
stain, this amazing smoke consumer rids the 
air of any room of the narcotic haze so un¬ 
pleasant to non-smokers. It stands inches 
high and costs ^5, in either dull brass or cop¬ 
per finish. 
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Not because the average child needs in¬ 
ducement to eat, but because all chil¬ 
dren love picture dishes, this porridge 
set of Humpty Dumpty, Old King 
Cole, Mother Goose, or Old Woman 
in Shoe pattern will be the perfect gift 
for children. ^4.50 for a set. 
The luxury of having breakfast in bed 
is made practical and convenient 
by this attractive tray. It comes in 
solid mahogany or white enamel, 
is24"long, i4J4'’wide,and7"high, I f 
and costs ^9. / 
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A corner chair of Aincr- A comb-hack round- A ^^roundahouV^ chair 
lean maplCy with rush ahoiiV^ chair of Ameri- of American cherry 
seat, and Spanish foot. can maple, with Queen with Queen Anne hac'n 
Dating prior to 1730 Anne kg and duck foot splats and cabriole leg 
FURNITURE for CORNERS 
GARDNER TEALL 
C ORNER furniture 
appears to have had 
no great antiquity. 
Greek vase-paintings, 
for instance, which de¬ 
pict Greek furniture in a 
multitude of forms, do 
not suggest a single 
piece designed for a cor¬ 
ner, nor do the early 
Italian painters of cen¬ 
turies later disclose, in 
their pictures of interi¬ 
ors, corner stools, chairs, 
tables or shelves. This is 
not to suggest that cor¬ 
ner furniture was un¬ 
known to the Europe of 
the Renaissance, but if 
it was, little if any at¬ 
tention was given to it 
by artists and it could 
not have held such a 
place in popular af¬ 
fection as did the corner 
furniture pieces of Eng¬ 
lish and French historic 
furniture periods. 
Up to the period of 
Eouis XV, the corner 
does not seem to have 
invited more than an oc¬ 
casional mediaeval fire¬ 
place, or an article of fur- 
niture placed across it or 
squarely against one or 
both its walls, with no 
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A corner was list and in the 
American Sheraton style, made 
of maple, with mahogany and 
bird's-eye maple veneer 
The characteristic American 
corner cupboard of painted pine, 
with carved shell, found in many 
of the oldest houses 
