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HO USE & GARDEN 
NAT CO 
HOLLOW 
TILE 
Probably you didn’t suppose you 
could get a real Greenhouse, with its 
own heater, for less than fifty dollars, 
or for twice fifty dollars, for that 
matter. 
And it isn’t a toy, either. It gives forty 
square feet of growing space below Duo- 
Glazed Sash—(perfected double light sash 
with air space between, insulating against 
cold). 
The heater and hot water coil is par¬ 
ticularly designed for this greenhouse. No 
matter what the thermometer may say out¬ 
side. the proper temperature can be main¬ 
tained within. 
The Dream of the Amateur Gardener or Florist 
If you love to raise fragrant flowers or succulent vegetables, which are doubly a joy 
because you nurture them — if you have longed for an opportunity to “grow things’’ in a 
greenhouse in the winter — the “Little Gem’’ gives you this opportunity at small cost. 
The “Little Gem’’ is comuact — practical — efficient. You can’t get inside and walk around, 
but you can grow' as much as can be grown in any forty feet of greenhouse soil anywhere. 
Realize your dreams of winter blooming flowers and hot-house vegetables—a source of 
great pleasure and satisfaction, or even of profit. 
Our catalog upon request about Duo-Glazed Sash. Garden Frames, 
large and small Greenhouses, and Greenhouse Equipment. 
CALLAHAN DUO-GLAZED SASH CO. 
141 Wyandot Street Dayton, Ohio 
Almost Everybody Will Want This 
c f c \ ° ‘‘Little Gem” 
GREENHOUSE 
Complete with Heater for 
$49.50 
Yes, it is a beautiful home, 
but better than that, it cant burn down! 
'THE last decorator has left, the finishing touches 
A are done. There before you is the home for 
which you spent so many happy hours in planning. 
The suffering that will be yours should it be destroyed 
by fire cannot be softened by the heaviest insurance. 
Nothing can replace a real home—its tender associations 
— its lingering memories—its sacred surroundings. 
Will you expose your new home to such an end or will 
you protect it by building of 
NATCO 
HOLLOW Til 
To build of Natco throughout is to erase fire from your 
list of worries. Your home has the safety and stability 
of the modern skyscrapers, which are fireproof with Natco. 
It will keep you warmer in Winter, cooler in Summer, be¬ 
cause of its Natco air blanket. 
Is anything too good for YOUR Home? For the higher cost of 
Natco Construction throughout at the start, you are ever after repaid 
in insurance and upkeep saving. Natco Construction also pays you 
every day in ease of mind, and perhaps some day in saving your 
home from destruction. 
Whenever and whatever you do build, re¬ 
member Natco not only as the material to use, 
but as a free Service at your command. The 
Service of the experienced Natco Engineers 
working with you, your Architect and Con¬ 
tractor from the first plans to the finished 
building. Natco Service is one of the factors 
that make Natco construction so uniformly 
satisfactory and economical. It prevents mistakes and 
waste in building. 
Now, while you are thinking about Natco, find out more 
about Natco. Send for our 32-page hand-book, “Fireproof 
Houses,’’ with photographs and descriptions of Natco resi¬ 
dences. Mailed anywhere for 10c (stamps or coin). Ad¬ 
dress Dept. “Y.” 
NATIONAL FIRE • PROOFING 
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Offices in All Principal Cities PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 
Natco Hollow Tile'and 
its in-built air blank¬ 
ets provide protection 
against heat, cold, 
dampness, sound 
THE COLLECTORS’ MART 
Brief descriptions of antiques and curios wanted and ottered by readers 
of House & Garden will be inserted in this column, without charge, until 
further notice. As the service of The Collectors’ Mart is intended for 
private individuals, articles in the possession of dealers zvill not be offered 
herein. Photographs for forwarding should be carefully protected and 
packed flat and should have postage prepaid. The Collectors’ Mart can¬ 
not undertake to forward communications if postage is omitted. House 
& Garden accepts no responsibility with any of the wants or offerings 
submitted or published. All replies to wants and offerings should be 
enclosed in stamped blank envelopes, bearing the identification numbers in 
the lower left-hand corners, and enclosed for forwarding in an envelope 
directed to The Collectors’ Mart, House & Garden, 440 Fourth Avenue, 
New York City. 
Offered: Set of old Girandoles; 
also, two separate end pieces; gen¬ 
uine old Chippendale mirror, carved 
mahogany frame, 17" x 29", three 
antique mirrors with old pictures 
painted on glass in the tops; 
genuine old Sheffield plate, teapot, 
platter, and cake-basket with large 
solid silver mounts; guaranteed 
pair of old Staffordshire cottage 
ornaments. Old brass andirons and 
fire set with fender; old blue and 
white spread, dated 1816, especially 
handsome design for portieres and 
cushions; mahogany table with 
handsomely carved legs, also small 
divan and mahogany sewing-table 
with particularly handsome stand¬ 
ard; also, a number of hand-made 
old-time braided rugs; all these 
are old family pieces belonging to 
an old Long Island family. 12215 
Offered: Mahogany and oak inlaid 
with white holly, an antique Eng¬ 
lish grandfather’s clock, Rocky 
Mountain sheep’s head, beauti¬ 
fully mounted, a large specimen; 
also 14 antique pistols. 12216 
Wanted: Old postage stamp collec¬ 
tion. 12217 
Offered: Octagonal, brass-bound 
cellarette; claw-foot console table, 
$40: corner cupboard, $10; Shera¬ 
ton fluted-leg card-table, $35; six- 
foot sideboard (mahogany), $125; 
old Sheffield teapot, belonged to 
signer of Declaration, $12; 30-inch 
tilt-top table, $18; inlaid Hepple- 
white bureau desk, $50; claw-foot 
library table, $50; heavy pedestal 
dining table, $40; fluted-leg, oval, 
drop-leaf Sheraton dining-table, 
$30; six inlaid Sheraton chairs; 
rock crystal candle chandelier, $25; 
45-inch Chippendale mirror, $20; 
claw-foot card table, $30; pair old 
lace bed hangings (four-poster); 
old lace bedspread. 12218 
Wanted: Old candlesticks, brass, 
pewter or Sheffield; mirror with 
painted glass picture; old Giran¬ 
doles, highboy, gate-legged table, 
old Lowestoft or other china; 
must he genuine old pieces and 
reasonable. 12219 
Offered: Two old Liverpool pitch¬ 
ers, one with design of the “Farm¬ 
er’s Arms,” the other with “Lib- 
erty-America” design. 12220 
Offered: Two columns, works of 
Horace. 1783. One heavy old plate, 
time French Revolution, with 
crossed flags, sword and shovel, 
and words “La Toi.” One old blue 
platter marked “Wedgwood” and 
“California”—scene, with scenes 
and rose medallions around border. 
One old blue soup plate with bor¬ 
der of pointed leaves and scene of 
temple and urn. 12211 
The Question of Frieze 
(Continued from page 31) 
arranged that the section may often 
be interchangeable and considerable 
latitude is therefore possible in adapt¬ 
ing them to the individual construct¬ 
ion of any room. With a little in¬ 
genuity in the placing, original and 
pleasing effects can be attained. 
Although the artist and the deco¬ 
rator will generally express aversion 
to these friezes by the yard, the 
designs for some of them have been 
made by well-known designers and 
mural painters and are thoroughly 
delightful in both line and color. 
A few of the higher priced ones 
have the elusive charm of hand-color¬ 
ing; from England and France come 
papers which are entirely hand work. 
But the printer’s art has produced 
some which are almost as effective 
and sometimes better in drawing. 
A frieze must not be too assertive 
nor too insignificant; it must keep its 
place as a decoration of the top of the 
walls, and be equally interesting from 
the height of a chair. It should be 
quiet and restful in effect, and yet 
clear and easily discernible. 
Many of them, however, are very 
disappointing. When seen in the 
sample-books of the shops they are 
wonderfully attractive and when 
pasted up on the wall, a distance from 
the eyes, they are distressing. They 
are out of scale with the surround¬ 
ings; the pattern may be too big for 
that particular place and seem to 
jump from the walls, leaving the 
room no background of quiet and 
substantial woodwork or masonry. 
It may be too minute and give one 
constantly the desire to go close and 
examine the details. 
Variety in Color and Design 
There are a number of foliage 
patterns which are especially attract¬ 
ive. A design of flat convention¬ 
alized branches in two tones of cool 
green with a darker green outline 
gives one the impression of wander¬ 
ing in a dim woodland where brooks 
are rippling and a soft light filtering 
through the trees. It is lovely in a 
summer home in combination with 
white paint. 
Some of the friezes show splendid¬ 
ly composed landscapes. In one of 
these there is a silhouette of trees 
in exquisite gradations of color, 
irridescent greys and greens flashing 
into sapphire blues and flecks of 
yellow against an opalescent horizon. 
It has so much suggestion of atmos¬ 
phere that it seems to bring the 
veritable outdoors into the room. 
But this very quality may prove a 
disastrous pitfall for the unwary who 
is lured by the fascination of his 
material into a disregard for the 
structural purpose of walls as sup¬ 
ports for the ceiling. Such a paper 
should only be used in a room where 
there are no great stretches of un¬ 
broken wall surface but the frequent 
interruptions of door and window 
frames, alcoves or fireplace. The 
woodwork of these will seem to bear 
