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House & Garden 
The New Premier 
Pathescope 
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Motion Picture Projector 
Embodies seven years of successful experience 
gained in the world-wide sale and use of over 
10,000 former models in exclusive City and 
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The New Premier is as great an improvement over the former 
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superior to the auto of ten years ago. So simple that anybody 
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delight the expert critics. So safe with its narrow-width, slow- 
burning film that it is labeled by the Underwriters, “Enclosing 
booth not required.” 
Can be used anywhere without a licensed operator or insurance 
and restrictions. 
The operation of any portable projector using celluloid films, 
without a fire-proof enclosing booth is prohibited by State, 
Municipal and Insurance restrictions, and the violator is 
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Weighs only 23 pounds with universal motor. Fits in a small 
suitcase for the traveler or can be mounted on a handsome 
cabinet. 
Through the Pathescope Film Exchanges already established in 
principal cities the Pathescope owner may rent or exchange reels 
as often as desired. 
Nearly i ,600 reels of the world's best Dramas, Comedies, Ani¬ 
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are doing, and preserve a priceless record 
of loved ones in living, fascinating action on 
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Old Lustre and the Collector 
(1 Continued from page 64) 
is not to be confused with silver lustre, as 
it is only an inferior glaze, often present¬ 
ing blemishes. Nevertheless, there are 
many lovely pieces of it, and it should be 
included in every collection. 
Silver lustre was produced by applying 
a second glazing of good quality of the 
platinum solution to which I have already 
referred. It presents an almost mirror¬ 
like surface and it is extremely beauti¬ 
ful indeed. 
Ground Decorations 
As to the ground decorations, we find 
lustre ware patterns produced by the 
well-understood process of stenciling. The 
resist decoration is described by Blacker 
as follows: “The pattern for resist silver 
lustres was ‘printed’ on blue underglaze— 
that after the pattern had been blocked 
out with a preparation of treacle or gly¬ 
cerine the ware was dipped in the lustrous 
bath. It was then washed in water and 
fired.” There were, of course, variants of 
this procedure. Finally, self-ground deco¬ 
ration consisted in just an unpatterned 
body lustre of a color covering the entire 
piece. Such pieces, when fine and perfect, 
are true rarities and eagerly sought for, 
although I prefer certain other styles of 
decoration, a disclosure that greatly dis¬ 
gusted Ceramicos when he heard of it! 
There is a lot of comfort to be found in 
old lustre, and volumes that might be said 
of it were I starting out with the intention 
of preparing them. That, however, is not 
my purpose. I am only hoping that per¬ 
haps you, who may have been so gracious 
as to have read thus far, will turn to your 
family cupboards and perchance find 
therein some bits of old lustre ware that 
you will now think it worth while rehab¬ 
ilitating on your own account. There is a 
little handbook on “Collecting Old Lustre 
Ware,” by W. Bosanko, which is published 
in this country by the George H. Doran 
Company. It is valuable and reliable and 
has the added virtue of being so inexpens¬ 
ive that no one need go without it. To 
such works on keramics I advise the 
reader to turn, and may others find within 
their pages the helpful suggestions that 
have enlightened, entertained and led me 
to independent investigations of my own. 
Kitchens That Will Save Labor 
(1 Continued, from page 42) 
the plumbing—such as pipes on the 
outside walls, with consequent danger of 
freezing in many climates. A poor 
arrangement, very frequent too, was that 
of the hoileron one side of the kitchen, the 
sink on another and laundry tubs some¬ 
where else. As each of these fitments re¬ 
quires cold water pipes, it is obvious that 
in order to eliminate unnecessary cost the 
piping should be so grouped that there is 
the shortest space possible between the 
cold water feed pipe and the pipes that 
branch from it to supply boiler, sink and 
tubs. A closer arrangement of piping means 
an economy in outlet plumbing as well. 
The Second Prize 
The design to which the Second Prize 
was awarded was really very meritorious, 
and as it gives a different arrangement of 
kitchen equipment, I think it will give 
additional ideas and prove interesting for 
purposes of comparison. It will be noticed, 
however, that the second kitchen would 
not be so well ventilated as the first one. 
Design No. 2 suggests a hinged drain¬ 
ing board, attached to the wall on cne 
side of the sink, which affords a good space 
for a fireless cooker, allowing the cooker 
to be used without inconvenience. 
The Contest Committee members noted 
with approval certain other ideas in de¬ 
sign No. 2—the finished pantry showing 
ice-box .and sink, for example. As some 
foods can be placed directly from the din¬ 
ing room into the ice-box, this is a great 
convenience when putting things away, 
also, the finer dishes, glass and silver¬ 
ware are better if washed by themselves 
than when included with the heavier 
kitchen ware. However, the ice-box 
was very well located in the First Prize 
design. 
While both of these plans conveyed an 
impression that the kitchen must be 
rather small, yet, as regards the one repro¬ 
duced exactly at the Exposition, visitors 
were surprised to see what ample working 
space was afforded. As someone said, 
“two people can work comfortably in this 
kitchen and not be in one another’s way,” 
and, at that, the working space in the 
First Prize design is less than in the 
second one, a point worthy of attention, 
as many steps are saved thereby. 
Nearly all of the competitors laid great 
stress upon agreeable tinting and color¬ 
ing, many of them in fact mentioning their 
pet color schemes, yellow tone^" predom¬ 
inating, and while many suggested built-in 
closets, the general fault of such closets 
was that the upper shelves would be in¬ 
accessible, requiring the use of chair or 
stepladder. 
Speaking of the decorations, some sug¬ 
gested wall papers, but it is advisable to 
have walls that can be washed, which 
means walls either tiled or painted; and, 
if painted, a final enameled coating is de¬ 
sirable, as it furnishes a smooth and very 
durable finish. And as for the floors, if a 
tiled flooring is established, it should have 
its drain into the waste pipe so that the 
floor can be flushed frequently. A tiled 
floor is hard on the feet however and tires 
one, as is the case with walking on street 
pavements, but this objection can be 
overcome in a measure by using a rug. 
Period Styles in Table Silver 
( Continued, from page 40) 
extent prevailed; that is, the affinities of 
both contour and decoration were of the 
William and Mary, Queen Anne, Early 
Georgian type. In this era, also, the items 
of silver table furniture were far more 
numerous and varied than they had been 
heretofore. 
In spoons the bowl was more egg- 
shaped and tapered more toward the 
end. The stem or handle, instead of 
having a notched or trifid end, was 
rounded and more conspicuously turned 
up. Likewise, the stem was no longer flat 
but rounded, at least in front near the 
bowl, and the rounded, turned-up end 
was marked by a prominent mid-rib. 
Toward the end of the period this frontal 
mid-rib became less conspicuous and 
often disappeared altogether. Frequently 
a decorative device, such, for example, 
as a cockle-shell, was added on the bottom 
of the bowl at the base of the stem. The 
lines of the stem, furthermore, tapered 
out gradually to the perceptible round¬ 
ing at the end, and the whole structure 
was generally lighter. 
In all kinds of hollow ware we find the 
rotund, swelling curves and much-shaped 
contours of contemporary architectural 
and furniture detail strongly echoed in 
the globular, the bell- or pear-shaped and 
the domed teapots, in the rotund and 
flaring bowls, in the bellied porringers 
(Continued on page 68) 
