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House & Garden 
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New Fabrics for the 
Spring and Summer Wardrobe 
O NLY when you choose your own dress- 
fabrics are you sure of securing individu¬ 
ality of dress. 
S ou will find that McCutcheon’s latest importa¬ 
tions of French, Swiss, and English dress fabrics 
—a number of which are exclusive with “The 
Linen Store”—suggest a delightful variety of 
smart new styles for spring and summer frocks. 
Uniquely interesting patterns and new unusual 
textures, make their particular appeal for the 
costume of distinction. 
ENGLISH PRINTS offer dots, scrolls, figures 
and the quaintest of color designs in as many 
as fifty various patterns that are delightfully 
smart. 
ENGLISH SATEEN —Plain shades as well as 
figured color designs, make this soft, rich fabric 
particularly suitable for street or afternoon wear. 
TROPICAL PRINTS in Batiste weight are en- 
joying much popularity as a dainty and practical 
fabric for the warmer days. 
FRENCH SATEEN comes in small geometrical 
and novelty printings and chic color-effects that 
are distinctly of French origin. 
IMPORTED ORGANDIES— Crisp Swiss and 
French Organdies in a host of plain shades and 
in the stamped and floral printings now so popu¬ 
lar in Paris. 
GINGHAMS continue to be the smart fabric 
for Spring wear. McCutcheon’s Ginghams, in 
checks, plaids, stripes, and plain colors, have 
established a reputation for quality and beauty. 
VOILES —This summery material, in many new 
printed, woven and embroidered color-effects, 
makes its special appeal for the dainty frock. 
HANDKERCHIEF LINEN —A complete range 
of the newest plain shades of “McCutcheon 
Quality” Pure Linen. 
DRESS LINENS —Linens always lend enviable 
elegance to the simplest made frock. “Non- 
Krush,” French Linen, and Linen Crash, in 
White, Cream, and all the prevailing Spring 
shades, can be had at McCutcheon’s. 
Samples of any of the above fabrics mailed on request. 
Established 
1855 
James McCutcheon & Co. 
Fifth Avenue, 34th and 33d Sts., N. Y. 
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A Detail Worthy of Enrichment 
(Continued from page 27 ) 
Special heads and gutters for roofs 
with other than overhanging eaves may¬ 
be classed in interest with those de¬ 
signed for use around curved or angular 
bays, to which they impart an amazing 
sense of structural fitness. Finally, if 
the house warrants its use, a whole 
network of interlacing pieces of decora¬ 
tive lead work may be employed to 
make up a system in infinite beauty 
and grace. 
In so far as symbolism is concerned, 
there is nothing in antiquity to show 
that water forms were ever made use 
of as decorations for rain-water sys¬ 
tems, unless we except the cockle-shell. 
It is quite probable then that the great¬ 
est opportunity for our modern de¬ 
signers lies in the use of conventional 
waves, fishes, shells, ship panels and 
ship details. 
For suburban homes and smaller 
country houses simply designed heads, 
with or without decorations, will be 
found amply interesting, even when 
used with the conventional round or 
rectangular (but never corrugated) 
piping. 
When equipping a small house, if lead 
is felt to be too expensive a medium, 
very satisfactory results may be ren¬ 
dered in cast iron, always remembering 
that cast iron has an individuality of 
its own and should never be used to 
imitate leadwork. There are a good 
many examples extant of Colonial and 
post-Colonial cast iron heads, some of 
them of excellent design, but they ac¬ 
cumulate within a deposit of rust that 
must ultimately cause their disintegra¬ 
tion. Copper and zinc also can be made 
use of and even wooden heads fitted 
with metal containers are perfectly 
adaptable. 
In studying photographs of newly 
erected houses we are often struck by 
the way the ordinary down pipes pro¬ 
trude their ugliness upon the fagade. 
Little or no effort seems to be made 
to enrich their stark utilitarianism. 
They are boldly pipes—and nothing 
more, and they contribute nothing to 
the beauty of the house. Often they 
detract from it. The simplest solution 
is to make those necessary and useful 
adjuncts things of real beauty. 
It is probable that more people are 
today interested in home building than 
ever before, and they are certainly 
spending more time in decision than 
they were ever wont to do before build¬ 
ing prices rose to the present rates. 
The wise buyer must exercise the great¬ 
est care, if he is to realize on his invest¬ 
ment in years to come. It is, then, 
practically certain that many details 
such as the rain-water drainage system 
will receive far more attention than they 
have heretofore. This prediction is 
especially applicable to the many super¬ 
fine small houses which present-day 
conditions have made desirable. 
Curtains That One Remembers 
(Continued from page 29 ) 
cotton fringe makes charming curtains 
and bedspreads. A shaped valance of 
yellow and blue striped gingham, wick- 
.er or painted furniture done in bright 
yellow, cushions covered in the striped 
material and a two-toned tan rug would 
make an attractive ensemble. Jade 
green pottery lamps with yellow parch¬ 
ment shades are the interesting color 
contrast the room needs. 
In a living room that gets plenty of 
sun, the walls and woodwork are 
painted a pale gray-green and the furni¬ 
ture is done in a deeper shade of this 
same restful color. Here the hangings 
are of orange and gray striped gingham 
with tie-backs of plain gray gingham. 
The chair seats are covered in a heavy 
linen a deeper shade of gray-green than 
the furniture and the cushions are cov¬ 
ered with the striped material. Chinese 
red jars with gray silk shades lined with 
orange make the lamps and a black 
and white rug complete a striking and 
interesting room. 
Lavender is a charming color for a 
summer bedroom and a welcome change 
from the stereotyped blue and pink 
combinations we have grown used to. 
Against a plain, pale lavender wall, yel¬ 
low checked gingham curtains make an 
effective spot of color. Paint the furni¬ 
ture lavender, decorate it with sprays 
of yellow and blue flowers or simply a 
fine line of yellow and cover the cush¬ 
ions with the gingham. Fill a powder 
blue pottery vase with daisies and put a 
yellow, black and lavender rag rug on 
the floor and you will be surprised and 
content with the effect of the room. 
A room that I remember well de¬ 
pended chiefly for its interest on the 
blue-green gingham hangings at the win¬ 
dows. This was a peculiar, vivid shade 
and was excellent in the room which 
was filled with sunlight most of the 
time. These curtains were finished with 
buff colored tassels sewed at intervals 
to the edges. The walls were buff col¬ 
ored and the slip covers of black and 
buff striped linen with the cushions and 
rug of the same lovely blue-green color. 
For a young girl’s room, nothing 
could be more attractive than pink and 
white pin-check gingham hangings over 
ruffled dotted Swiss glass curtains and 
against a white wall. Plain pink linen 
should be used to make the bedspreads 
and chair covers, with cushions of the 
gingham. The furniture should be 
painted ivory color and decorated with 
baskets of old-fashioned nosegays; the 
rug, pale gray. Forget-me-not blue 
lamps with rose shades and a yellow 
bowl filled with flowers would make an 
effective room and one easy to live in. 
In a little kitchen that had pale green 
walls, a deeper shade of green was in 
the checked gingham curtains. The 
linoleum was black and white, the cook¬ 
ing utensils aluminum, all combining to 
make a cool and attractive interior in 
which to work. 
Gingham has solved the problem for 
many of the summer hangings. Interest¬ 
ing color effects can be obtained through 
its use at a comparatively small outlay 
and its durability and laundering qual¬ 
ity make it a welcome addition to the 
list of summer fabrics for the household. 
For more striking effects, silk offers 
the largest choice of colors. Here the 
field is limitless, but care must be taken 
not to decrease the apparent size of a 
small room by the use of the wrong 
colors. Dark, sombre tones in uphol¬ 
stery and hangings should be used only 
in spacious rooms, while light, more 
delicate colors will increase the apparent 
size of a small interior. 
In the room pictured on page 29 the 
hangings at the casement windows are 
a warm, reddish-orange silk, making a 
brilliant spot of color against the neutral 
walls. Here the interest is centered in 
the color effect while in the other room 
shown at the bottom of the page, de¬ 
sign added to color has been relied on 
for interest in the curtains. These show 
the possibility of two designs being 
used together. In the over-curtains the 
figure is bold and striking which in no 
way interferes with the effect of the 
( Continued, on page 56 ) 
