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House & Garden 
CHENEY TALKING MACHINE COMPANY, CHICAGO 
Dealers Everywhere 
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The Cheney 
Acoustic Throat 
fathers tones 
and releases 
them under per¬ 
fect and calcu¬ 
lated control. 
llTl, exquisite 
with its first rich tone, and 
day by day becoming seasoned 
and mellowed by the throb¬ 
bing melodies it helps to 
create, so with The Cheney— 
‘The Longer You Play It, 
The Sweeter It Grows.” 
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Dulcetly appealing with the 
first record you play upon it, 
it enhances in sweetness and 
quality of tone with use. It 
is the gift of original acoustic 
principles, evolved and per¬ 
fected in The Cheney. 
As a final touch of craftsman¬ 
like appreciation. The Cheney 
is given the form it deserves— 
cabinets which are faithfully 
accurate period studies. 
Inside the Children’s Room 
{Continued from page 64) 
be dull and soft, the popular rubbed 
“esg-shell” tone, which can be applied 
in a double coat of dull enamel or paint, 
will not wear as well under frequent 
washings as the genuine “rubbed” fin¬ 
ish. Where plastering has been properly 
attended to a soft flat-coat paint can 
be used. 
Covered with fabric and bordered 
with a decorated frieze, what room 
could be more cozy? If the frieze is 
merely a matter of color and decora¬ 
tion along the upper part of the room, 
it is sufficient, for it would seem useless 
to place pictures which are intended 
for the child’s amusement so far above 
the range of his observation. It must 
be remembered that the upper third 
of a wall looks very different to us 
grown people than to a tot. Whimsical 
pictorial decorations in the dado treat¬ 
ment applied to the lower third of the 
wall never fail to fascinate the children. 
Should the fastidious young mother 
not care for painted walls, there are 
lovely papers designed expressly for 
children, with pictures in all-over pat¬ 
terns or of cut-outs to be pasted on a 
plain ground, as the fancy dictates. 
These latter put around the wall above 
the baseboard at about the level of the 
child’s eyes are a constant source of 
amusement as well as decoratively at¬ 
tractive. When selecting the all-over 
design, be careful that not only the 
individual pictures which compose it 
are quaint and well drawn but that the 
design as a whole is artistic, that the 
paper does not simply consist of Mother 
Goose pictures endlessly repeated. 
Doubtless a young child would not find 
in such a paper a serious cause of an¬ 
noyance, but it is, nevertheless, better 
that he be surrounded by things that 
are esthetically correct and receive what 
influence from them he may. A child’s 
mind is like a bit of clay that is molded 
and impressed by its surroundings, as 
surely as if mortal fingers themselves 
had modeled it. 
The floor is one of the most impor¬ 
tant factors as it must, above every¬ 
thing else, be sanitary A hardwood 
floor with closely fitted boards and 
treated with a hard finish or stained, is 
both hygienic and attractive. If bare 
floors are not within your means, 
paint with enamel or lay down oil cloth, 
which can be decorated with a border, 
perhaps of animals or familiar Mother 
Goose characters. An old floor is apt 
to have wide cracks and should be well 
filled in, possibly with newspapers 
soaked in water and puttied over and 
then sandpapered down before painting. 
This can be easily cleaned. Use a few 
washable rugs. 
Save the baby from slipping on the 
rugs by fastening them down with 
small thumb tacks. An art square, say, 
9' by 12', of moss green is satisfactory 
and can be rolled up and taken out in 
case of illness. Over it may be laid 
inexpensive little green and white wash¬ 
able cotton rugs for the king of the 
household to play on or stand while he 
has his morning tub. 
Indirect electric lighting, carefully 
shaded, has the preference for a child’s 
chamber, as gas consumes oxygen. 
Never should the light be left burning 
all night; a night candle glowing 
through the darkness is better for this 
purpose. 
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A characleristk pose which shows well 
the cocker’s docile nature 
A Splendid Dog from Spain 
(Continued from page 65) 
on changes took place in the particular 
sort of work they were called upon to 
do. The larger ones came to be the 
setters of today; others evolved into 
retrievers of waterfowl, such as the 
Irish water spaniel; still others were 
turned from the hunting field and bred 
down until they became the modern toy 
spaniels. And lastly, there came about 
the subject of this sketch, the cocker 
spaniel, a merry small fellow whose 
name is derived from his adaptability 
for cock hunting—whether cock pheas¬ 
ants or woodcock we are not sure, al¬ 
though he is good at finding both these 
species of birds. 
In America today the cocker is far 
better known as a house dog than as 
an ally in the hunting field. He has 
not lost his usefulness in the latter 
role, as a few enthusiastic sportsmen 
can ably testify; but most of us never 
think of him in that connection. 
The plain facts of the case are that 
he is, such a lovable little pal that we 
don’t need to look any farther than our 
own thresholds to find abundant justi¬ 
fication for inviting him to become a 
member of the family. He is true and 
affectionate with that boundless devo¬ 
tion so marked in all the hunting 
spaniels and their cousins the setters. 
Rough-and-tumble boisterousness is ut¬ 
terly foreign to his nature, though he is 
bright, robust and full of the joy of 
active life. In general intelligence I 
think he is second to none, and docility 
is one of his outstanding traits. No 
lack of courage is his, notwithstanding 
his amenability to control. He is a 
gentleman by birth and breeding, and 
that connotes a heart for war as well 
as peace, though he much prefers the 
latter and does not’ willingly seek a 
fight. 
Hs is not a big dog, this worthy 
member of the spaniel tribe—from 
eighteen to twenty-four pounds is the 
weight for him. As to conformation 
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