HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1910 
Decalcomania Transfers 
HE old-fashioned process of transfer 
pictures (decalcomania) has survived 
to an excellent present day use, as evolved 
by certain ingenious designers of artistic 
furniture. White enamel bedroom sets, and 
painted furniture of almost every sort, can 
often be made more beautiful by the ap- 
A decalcomania pattern measuring 8 x 8 in. 
showing blue flowers with green leaves. 
The patterns cost $3 a dozen 
plication of small Dresden flower-pattern 
decalcomania transfers to the chair-backs, 
and other furniture parts. Care should be 
taken in decoration of this sort not to 
overdo it in any way. For country homes 
there are many other uses to which care¬ 
fully chosen decalcomania patterns can be 
put, decorating white enameled trays, 
wooden candlesticks, cupboard doors, and 
especially in playroom decorations. These 
transfers are easily procured and are 
very inexpensive. 
The materials needed are the decalco- 
manias, a transfer cement and a rubber 
roller such as is used for rolling down 
photographs. The varnish-like transfer 
This pattern in violets would make an at¬ 
tractive one for white enameled furniture 
in a bedroom. $1.50 a dozen 
cement is applied thinly to the tranfer 
pattern, being allowed to dry for ten or 
fifteen minutes, or until it becomes tacky. 
Then the transfer is placed in the position 
desired on a smoothly finished surface and 
rolled down. After rolling, wet the pa¬ 
per and roll again. After removing the 
paper the surplus varnish around the 
transferred pattern and the gum deposits 
from the paper should be cleaned away 
with a sponge saturated with benzine. 
Then go over the transfer again with a 
soft dry cloth to take off any surplus ben¬ 
zine from the pattern. Allow the piece to 
stand for at least two or three hours be¬ 
fore coating finally with varnish. 
T. S. 
The Pantry Draining Board 
TF possible specify your butler's pantry 
sink board to be made in one piece. 
I know it is difficult to get material wide 
enough, but where two boards are joined 
in places where water is sure to wet them 
they are almost certain to spread apart, 
and then dirt, etc., gets into the crack, 
and is very difficult to get out. The ordi¬ 
nary maid simply will not take the trouble 
to do so, so an eye-sore is the result. It 
is an excellent plan not to finish this board 
with varnish, but simply to leave it bare, 
so that it can be carefully washed at fre¬ 
quent intervals. Where the sink fits un¬ 
derneath it there should be plenty of putty 
along the joints to prevent the water from 
slopping out between board and sink when 
the dishes are being washed. C. Iv. F. 
A design of poppies in natural colors meas¬ 
ures 2 % x i2 /4 * n - an< f costs $1.50 a dozen 
To Save Radiator Space 
VERY inch of floor space is required 
as a rule in halls, and especially in 
bathrooms, and a great help towards mak¬ 
ing this possible is to be found in the “wall 
radiators,” which can be purchased these 
days and which are suspended from the 
wall instead of on the floor as is usual 
with one of the ordinary kind. Of course 
they are of a different shape, but they are 
symmetrical and should have an extensive 
use in places where floor space is at a 
premium. C. Iv. F. 
For Hanging Burlap 
NT excellent paste for hanging burlap, 
which of course has enough weight 
to need a strong adhesive, should consist 
of 1 lb. of good glue dissolved in 2 gals, 
of water, into which put enough paste 
powder to make it stiff. Then add to the 
still warm paste 2 tablespoonfuls of tur¬ 
pentine or Canada balsam, and stir well. 
The paste powder consists of 84 parts of 
wheat flour or starch, 8 parts of caustic 
soda and 8 parts of sulphate of ammonia. 
All parts must be weighed. P. T. B. 
German Plant Baskets 
HE flower and fruit baskets, shown in 
the illustrations, are the latest things 
of the sort from Europe, and may now be 
procured in this country. They are of 
4 i 
These white enameled metal flower-holders 
are the latest thing from Munich 
light metal, enameled in white and come 
in many sizes and patterns. They are very 
lovely for holding potted plants, for fruit, 
as jardiniere covers, etc., and lend a crisp 
note to a room's decoration. The square 
forms (about the size of a strawberry- 
box), are especially attractive when sev¬ 
eral are placed on a window-sill and filled 
with English Daisies, ferns or other plants. 
K. G. C. 
Cleaning Japanese Doilies 
HE delicate white painted Japanese 
fibre table doilies, which have be¬ 
come one of the novelties of the year, con¬ 
front the housewife with the problem of 
cleaning them, as they cannot be washed 
and ironed. However, they may he drv 
cleaned, as the pigment used in their deco¬ 
ration permits this process. 
There are many shapes, among which is this 
ten-sided one to hold potted plants 
