HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 1911 
Y^OUR house is not a home 
unless your furniture 
fits. Harmony gives beauty, 
dignity, restfulness—all that 
a home should mean; what¬ 
ever quarrels or crowds robs your room 
of character and charm. The perfect bed 
for one chamber may spoi l another one 
How solve this problem of beauty plus 
service. For a good bed should last a 
life-time. Steam heat should not make 
it rickety. Against dampness, climate 
and city grime, it should be proof. In 
design, it should harmonize with your 
other furnishings. In height and size, 
it should fit your room. 
Kimball & Chappell solid brass beds 
satisfy all these conditions. No others 
can. Ninety-six styles, in three widths, 
several heights, and two finishes give you 
choice of correct and charming designs 
in Louis XVI, Colonial, Flanders and 
other “periods”, Bungalow beds—like 
that above — for small homes and 
apartments; statelier models for larger 
chambers. But all supreme quality — solid 
brass with satin-gold surfaces sealed 
under twelve coats of imported Rylamder 
lacquer, hand applied and baked on. 
Beds that fit and last. 
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of tubing also showing the difference 
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charming and appropriate in a modern 
Mission room. Arras cloth with an ap¬ 
plique design of linen couched on it makes 
beautiful curtains and portieres to go with 
the Mission or Craftsman furniture that 
is popular for simple country houses. For 
Colonial or Georgian rooms that one sees 
so often, or with the simpler style of 
French furniture, there are beautiful 
chintzes and cretonnes and silks that har¬ 
monize perfectly. 
There is an old farmhouse on Long 
Island that has been made over into a most 
delightful country house, and the furnish¬ 
ing throughout is consistent and charming. 
The curtains are reproductions of old de¬ 
signs in chintz and cretonne. The living- 
room, with its white panelling to the ceil¬ 
ing, its wide fireplace, old mahogany fur¬ 
niture, and curtains gay with parrots and 
flowers, hanging over cool white muslin, 
is a room to conjure with. 
If the walls of a room are plain in color 
one may have either plain or figured hang¬ 
ings, but if the wall covering is figured it 
gives a feeling of unrest if the curtains are 
figured, too. Sometimes one sees bed¬ 
rooms and small boudoirs where the walls 
and curtains show the same design, but it 
must be done with skill, or disaster is sure 
to follow. 
If one has to live in the town house 
through the summer do not make the fatal 
mistake of taking down the curtains and 
living in bare discomfort during the hot 
season. If the curtains are too handsome 
to be kept up, buy a second set of inex¬ 
pensive ones that can be washed without 
injury. It is better that they should stop 
the dust, and then go into the tub, than 
that one’s lungs should collect it all. Cur¬ 
tains are useful as well as ornamental, and 
a house without them is as dreary as break¬ 
fast without coffee. 
Old Glassware—American 
T T is, of course, with our own product 
that the American collector has most 
to do, since old glass is rare in this country, 
and there are comparatvely few imported 
specimens to be had outside of the private 
collections which have been treasured and 
passed down the years as heirlooms. Of 
the glass to be found here, there are sev¬ 
eral very broad classifications; table ware, 
comprising goblets, wine-glasses, and de¬ 
canters ; flat ware, such as butter-plates, 
sauce dishes, and salt-holders; and lastly, 
flasks and bottles. With this third class 
collectors of purely American products 
have most to do. 
While it is true that the American bot¬ 
tles are not so beautiful as the English, 
still they are quaint and interesting, and 
the average collector seems to treasure the 
home specimens as enthusiastically as the 
foreign ones. Many were manufactured 
to commemorate some event of national 
importance. Judging from the number of 
the commemorative pieces, we may infer 
that the glass-makers at that time were 
particularly enterprising. Certain it is that 
(Continued on page 480) 
Wilson’s Outside Venetians 
Blind and Awning Combined 
For town and country houses. Very durable and artistic. 
Easily operated from inside Admit air: exclude sun rays. 
Special Outside Venetians 
for porches and piazzas, 
exclude the sun; admit 
the breeze. Virtually make 
an outdoor room. 
Orders should be placed 
now for early summer. 
Write for Catalogue 
“Venetian No. 3.“ 
Also Inside Venetians, 
Rolling Partitions, Rolling 
Steel Shutters, Burglar 
and Fireproof Steel Cur¬ 
tains, Wood Block Floors. 
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MFG. CO. 
1, 3 & 5 West 29th St. 
Wilson’s Porch and Piazza Blinds New York 
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