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The Lunken Window is the ideal 
window. All parts are made from 
the best material that can be pro¬ 
cured. All parts of the window are 
assembled at one time at the factory. 
It reaches the new house as a com¬ 
plete unit. Every part is matched 
and the weather-stripping, fasteners, 
pulleys, cords and weights are ad¬ 
justed so that all parts of the window 
always work together perfectly. 
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The pair of copper-cloth fly screens come 
as a part of the unit-window. In bad 
weather the fly screens are housed against 
all damage in the box-head in the upper 
part of the window frame. Whenever you 
wish to use the fly screens they are instantly 
available. 
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It is the only window that can be opened 
from top to bottom and screened at the 
same time. 
The upper and lower sash may be pushed 
up out of the way into the box-head, or 
either or both of the sash may be locked 
part way up or down. 
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Both upper and lower windows may be 
cleaned from a standing position on the 
floor, inside the room. 
Interesting literature on windows 
for you or your architect will 
be sent upon request 
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THE LUNKEN WINDOW CO. 
4016 Cherry Street, Cincmnati, Ohio 
An Important Announcement 
Concernhig House ^ Garden s Information Service 
{Continued from page 82) 
person answering the letter what infor¬ 
mation is required and greatly facili¬ 
tates the reading and answering of the 
same. 
A letter we received the other day 
gives a good idea of two questions. 
questions and the charge for answering 
them was fifty cents. 
Forms to Be Followed When Asking 
For Information 
“Gentlemen:— 
“Will you advise me on an edging for 
two flower borders thirty feet long and 
four feet wide? A grass walk separates 
them, and leads down to a small con¬ 
crete pool. 
“Also will you kindly tell me of some 
method of waterproofing a damp wall? 
I will greatly appreciate any informa¬ 
tion you can give me.” 
Here are two distinct and separate 
If more than one question is asked, 
kindly number and paragraph them. 
Kindly send a stamped, self-addressed 
envelope. 
Twenty-five cents will be charged for 
each question. 
Addresses of where to purchase arti¬ 
cles illustrated in the magazine, also ad¬ 
dresses of architects will be sent free of 
charge. 
_ Addresses of manufacturers of articles 
listed on the Information Coupon will 
be sent free of charge. 
Draped Windows That Give 
Character to a Room 
{Continued from page 46) 
common sense freely to such situations. 
Casement windows generally come in 
groups. In that case they are decorated 
as a group, with a valance over all, 
draperies, and, when necessary, glass 
curtains fastened to the top and bottom 
of the casement sash. In many cases 
the casement sashes have some deco¬ 
rative element in their mullions. These 
should not be covered. This applies 
especially to leaded casements. 
The third general group are those 
windows which are intimately con¬ 
nected with architectural lines of the 
house. Casement windows often come 
in this class and French and English 
windows always. French windows gen¬ 
erally require nothing more than glass 
curtains of some sheer fabric, such as 
scrim, net or gauze, with variations of 
lace inserts, fringes, ruffles, tucks, etc. 
The rounded window so often found in 
Italian houses should be draped in con¬ 
formity with the shape of the window. 
The illustrations here show some in¬ 
teresting and varied types which, in the 
main, cover the average curtaining prob¬ 
lems that confront the amateur deco¬ 
rator. 
The first is from an old Boston resi¬ 
dence, a house designed by the archi¬ 
tect Bullfinch and preserved today in 
much of the old-time style. In one of 
the drawing rooms the walls are plain 
gray, finished with an interesting shell 
design cornice. Here the hangings are 
Chinese yellow lined with mauve. 
Looped up valances cover them, and 
each window is topped with an old dull 
cornice, giving the windows a dignified 
finish and the room a quaint air that is 
quite fascinating. 
A problem of how to handle three 
windows in a group—one large and two 
small—is worked out in the second 
The Art of Breakfasting Well 
{Continued from page 49) 
boilers and percolators, the American 
country house hostess can really man¬ 
age her breakfasts without the service 
of the maid, except for clearing off. In 
fact, the guest can get her own break¬ 
fast—boil her eggs to the exact second, 
toast her bread to the desired brown¬ 
ness and have a fine lark at the same 
time. 
And so it has come about that the 
breakfast of self-service finds the hostess 
facing less of a problem than house¬ 
wives did a generation ago. The buffet 
breakfast is a totally informal meal and 
that is precisely the way breakfast 
should be eaten. Formality is absurd 
in the cold gray dawn. 
Of the dishes the hostess should pro¬ 
vide for breakfast—ah, that is a dif¬ 
ferent story! Perhaps it is a good rule 
to have simple dishes — plain, honest 
food. Even the most practiced guest 
balks at tricky dishes early in the 
morning. 
room. The over-curtains are heavy 
Copenhagen blue taffeta with decorative 
double, box-plated rouching and quaint 
old gold wrought iron tie-backs. Above 
the group is a cornice, painted to har¬ 
monize with the color of the woodwork. 
The glass curtains are silk gauze of a 
soft, tannish gold, to match the boughs 
of the trees in the wall paper. They are 
trimmed with one-inch ruffles of the 
gauze picoted on both edges. 
Architectural curtaining is seen in the 
third illustration. In the absence of a 
more definite name this loggia could be 
called Italian Louis XVI. The walls are 
marbleized, an effective piece of work. 
One side of the room is dominated by an 
arched window and its accompanying 
smaller windows. The valances have 
been made to fit these windows—taffeta 
edged with a decorative fringe and a 
narrow band of embroidery culminating 
in a feather design. The windows them¬ 
selves are French and are curtained 
against the glass with a sheer fabric. 
Another example of French door cur¬ 
taining is found in the doorway leading 
from a library into a dining room. 
Heavy ecru colored casement cloth has 
been used, edged with a wide, coarse 
cotton fringe, secured at top and bot¬ 
tom by invisible rods. On the dining¬ 
room side, rose-colored chiffon crepe is 
used, finished with graduated tucks. 
The last illustration shows the cur¬ 
taining in the living room of a New 
York apartment. The walls are jade 
green glazed and paneled. Contrasting 
with them, the over-curtains are unlined 
violet taffeta with a scalloped picoted 
edge. The tie-backs are blue, terminat¬ 
ing in a rosette. The valances are looped 
and draped. Here the glass curtains are 
of the sheerest French net, ruffled and 
bound in blue taffeta. 
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