April, 
19 21 
61 , 
COUNTRY HOUSE NOTE PAPER 
Some Unusual Designs for Correspondence That Lighten the Task of Letter 
Writing In the Informal Time of the Year 
S UMMER is primarily the season of 
gaiety, a time to break away from many 
staid habits and conventions and revel 
in a certain amount of delightful informality. 
A country house reflects this spirit in its 
furnishings, its cuisine and even in the many 
charming designs made for note paper. The 
variety and originality of these surely must go 
far toward lightening the task of letter writing. 
A design that tells all the story and is de¬ 
servedly popular with dwellers off the beaten 
paths who welcome visits from their friends, is 
illustrated here. It consists of a funny, old 
fashioned engine attached to a train of cars, 
express wagon, envelope and telephone with 
the respective address after each. This design 
is engraved in the same manner as a mono¬ 
gram or crest and can be developed in a varied 
color scheme, in one tone, or in black. It is 
the best solution for a country place with a 
different railroad, post office and telephone 
address. Owners of private cars can use an¬ 
other form of the same idea by having a tiny 
replica of the car engraved on their paper. 
Of course no address is 
used here and a letter 
written on this kind of 
stationery has invariably 
an element of interest 
apart from its contents. 
One immediately starts ’to 
wonder — then imagine! 
All dull letter writers 
should use this type of 
paper. 
Probably the most indi¬ 
vidual form is a photo- 
Above is shown a photograph printed 
on the letter paper. From Black , Starr 
& Frost. To the right is paper the 
color and texture of birch bark, and the 
crouching panther silhouetted in the 
corner is taken from the name of the 
place. From Dempsey & Carroll 
graph of one’s country house or some cher¬ 
ished corner of the grounds at the head of the 
letter paper. This can be reduced to the prop¬ 
er size and pasted on, which is not very satis¬ 
factory from point of appearance, or it can be 
printed directly on the paper. The picture at 
the head of the group on this page shows a view 
of a house with sweeping lawn and trees in 
front. On one side is the telephone number, 
on the other, the railroad address. Sometimes 
only the name of the place is used, or if no 
name and address are desired, just the picture 
alone. This form is the most satisfactory for any 
one desiring something peculiarly one’s own. 
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Photographs are not the only medium for 
picturing a country house on paper. After the 
photographer, the artist comes into his own 
and often a little sketch, by its very simplicity, 
will go far toward suggesting the charm of 
some wooded spot or garden close that would 
mean nothing in a photograph. Every large 
stationery firm has an artist on its staff able 
to carry out any idea brought him or to submit 
original designs. At the bottom of this page 
is shown a sketch of a tiny cottage, the pine 
trees in the distance immediately suggesting 
the type of surrounding country. The paper 
just above this is interesting from the fact that 
in color and texture, it is a faithful reproduc¬ 
tion of birch bark. For a camp in the Maine 
woods, nothing could be more attractive or ap¬ 
propriate than this paper, ornamented with a 
little sketch of a log cabin in among the trees, 
or a strip of lake seen through some pines. Or 
the design may be taken from the name of the 
place, as the black panther shown here. Or 
again, if you are featuring a certain flower in 
your garden, why not incorporate it in your 
note paper? Here many 
' charming color schemes 
might be worked out suc¬ 
cessfully to add variety. 
There are countless pos¬ 
sibilities for attractive and 
unusual' designs- -'in note 
LAKE l_ O OG e 
CHATEAU GAY. NEW YORK 
paper for the country 
house. It is a matter of 
artistic ingenuity and al¬ 
though a little thing, one 
which adds immensely to 
the gaiety of life. 
{Left) A sketch can suggest charmingly 
some cherished spot. (Above) Most 
useful is the design showing the rail¬ 
road, post office and telephone address. 
From Gilbert T. Washburn. Owners of 
private cars can have delightful note 
paper. The design above from Cartier 
