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House & Carden 
I F a roomier, stronger, more convenient wardrobe trunk than 
the Hartmann could be made, Hartmann would be the first 
to make it. Write today for the Hartmann Trunk catalog 
and the name and address of the nearest Hartmann dealer. 
Be sure the Hartmann Red is on the trunk you buy 
HARTMANN TRUNK COMPANY, Racine, Wis. 
Interior Decorations and Furnishings 
An attractive new davenport, luxuriantly com¬ 
fortable, with character in every line. $245.00 
in Denim. 
One of the many pieces forming a collection 
worthy the attention of all those interested 
in beautifying their home. 
Visitors and correspondence always given 
courteous and prompt attention. 
THE J. G. VALIANT COMPANY 
J. W. Valiant, President Wm. J. MacMullin, Phila. Dir. 
224 N. Charles Street 1718 Chestnut Street 
PHILADELPHIA 
BALTIMORE. 
Hand-blocked toile in red and while upholsters the daybed and arm¬ 
chairs. .4 flat apple-green tone is used on the woodwork, china 
cabinet, buffet and floor, the last with an 18" border of cobalt blue 
A North Shore Idyll 
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Morris. Their theories are not akin 
to those of the modern realistic school; 
they believe in an art that is always 
decorative, always beautiful, always 
symbolic of nature though it does not 
always adhere in line to nature. 
The room is a melody of Morris pat¬ 
terns : the side walls are covered with 
the daisy pattern paper—conventional¬ 
ized red columbines and primroses, 
golden daisies, and green' leaves on a 
white background; the ceiling is simi¬ 
larly treated with a block pattern in 
yellow and white; toile, hand-blocked in 
red and white, upholsters the daybed 
and the armchairs that flank the red 
brick fireplace and hearth. The fresh 
and aspiring influence of the Pre- 
Raphaelites is dominant in the flat apple- 
green tone that masks woodwork, 
chimney, china cabinet, buffet, and even 
the floor, which, however, has an 18" 
border of cobalt blue. 
There are many evidences of the ad¬ 
venturous and roving spirit that stimu¬ 
lated the explorers in that pulsing period 
of expansion which ushered in the 
Renaissance—that selfsame period when 
Pre-Raphaelitism as a philosophy of 
art was first being spread abroad. 
From the shelves of the cabinet earthen 
ware bowls, collected by Mr. Rosse in 
Java, and Chinese plates repeat the 
color pattern of the room, while brass 
trays, hammered in fantastic Chinese 
characters, copper Japanese kettles, and 
pewter jugs from Singapore gleam on 
the buffet and highboy. 
The quaintness and charm of the 
room have endeared it to many of 
Chicago’s literati who gather there on 
Sunday evenings to discuss art, religion, 
and politics over a cup of tea., just as 
the world of letters was wont to meet 
in Mid-Victorian drawing rooms and 
salons. The radical and the conserva¬ 
tive, the struggling student and the 
master and patron, the materialist and 
the idealist, youth and experience, all 
come together on common ground. 
The living room is markedly after the designs of William Morris. 
On the walls is a daisy pattern paper with a white ground; the ceiling 
is a block pattern in yellow and white 
