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House & Garden 
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Does Your Refrigerator Shame You? 
Some representa¬ 
tive homes where 
Jewett Refrigera¬ 
tors are used: 
Arthur Curtiss James 
Newport, R. I. 
Vincent Astor 
Rhinebeck, N. Y. 
L. C. Tiffany 
Cold Spring Harbor 
B. J. Marshall 
Pasadena, Calif. 
S. Reading Bertron 
New York 
Guernsey Curran 
East Norwich, L. I. 
Cornelius Vanderbilt 
New York 
Mrs. L. Z. Leiter 
Beverly Farms. Mass. 
Wm. Fahnestock 
Katonah, N. Y. 
Mrs. W. L. McKee 
Bristol, R. I. 
Samuel Mather 
Cleveland, O. 
, Mrs. R. H. Townsend 
Washington 
George Eastman 
Rochester, N. Y. 
John D. Rockefeller 
Pocantico Hills, N.Y. 
William R. Coe 
Oyster Bay, L. I. 
Sir Mortimer B. Davis 
Montreal 
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 
New York 
Sen. W. A. Clark 
, New York 
i Joseph Leiter 
Washington 
Charles M. Schwab 
New York 
J. Ogden Armour, 
Lake Forest, Ill. 
A. J. Lichtstern 
Glencoe, Ill. 
Mrs. John Hay 
Cleveland, 0. 
John Borden 
Lake Geneva, Wis. 
Payne Whitney 
ManhaBset, L. I. 
Wm. V. Kelley 
Lake Forest, Ill. 
P EOPLE of breeding are concerned with 
more than externals. The things the 
world sees are no more important than 
matters of which only you are conscious. 
That is why you devote as much attention 
to intimate apparel as to your outer gar¬ 
ments. For your own satisfaction, you de¬ 
sire your own personal belongings to be as 
worthy as more visible things. 
There is one object in 
your home that guests sel¬ 
dom see but is yet truly 
vital for their well-being 
and yours. Would you be 
willing to let visitors see 
the place in which your 
food is stored? 
Perhaps careless ser¬ 
vants have found the re¬ 
frigerator too difficult to 
clean properly. Perhaps its 
variable temperature has 
permitted the first slight 
suspicion of decay. 
But if the Jewett guards 
the food, its solid imper¬ 
meable walls of purest por¬ 
celain are immaculate, its 
unvarying frigid grasp defies the outer air. 
When America’s finest mansions have found the 
Jewett indispensable, don’t you owe it to yourself 
to secure similar food insurance? 
Write for this book 
Owing to the present shortage of skilled 
domestics, many households of necessity em¬ 
ploy untrained assistants who have no idea 
of the proper use of a refrigerator. We will 
gladly send without charge our illustrated 
booklet which gives detailed instructions 
on this matter. 
THE JEWETT REFRIGERATOR CO. 
Established 1849 
123 Chandler Street Buffalo N. Y. 
The Jewett is lined through¬ 
out—including the ice com¬ 
partment—with a solid, one- 
piece, seamles china crock 
1!4" thick. The so-called 
porcelain linings of other re¬ 
frigerators are merely enam¬ 
eled on thin sheet metal. 
Early American Household Pottery 
(Continued from, page 74) 
South Danvers. The two specimens 
illustrated have a deep black glaze on 
red earth and were made at South Dan¬ 
vers. With the pottery of Danvers is 
associated the story of Jothan Webb, 
the local potter, who was married on 
the eve of the Battle of Lexington. Near 
the end of the wedding feast, when 
called to join his company, he declared 
he would go and fight in his wedding 
suit and the next day he was among the 
first of his comrades to fall on the 
battlefield. 
The Massachusetts earthenware made 
since 1800 at Somerset, Whateley, West 
Amesbury and South Danvers is very 
beautiful, and one may find many tav¬ 
ern, buckwheat-batter and cider pitch¬ 
ers, glazed in single colors of red, brown, 
yellow, olive and tan of this pottery. 
These tavern pitchers are reminders of 
the old stage coach days and of cross¬ 
road inns, while no New England farm¬ 
house kitchen of those days was com¬ 
plete without its buckwheat-batter and 
cider pitchers. The bean-pots went so 
often to the oven that no good speci¬ 
mens of those made in early days re¬ 
main. 
The early potters of Maine, New 
Hampshire and Vermont have given to 
America some very beautiful household 
earthenware. In a land of so much 
scenic beauty, a countryside of valleys, 
mountains, forests, lakes, rivers and 
streams, it seems natural that art should 
vie with nature, even the potter’s art. 
The Bennington Factory 
At Bennington, Vermont, scene of the 
famous battle, William and John Nor¬ 
ton commenced making earthenware in 
1792. After 1800 they made stone¬ 
ware, then in 1849 one of their descend¬ 
ants, along with Lyman Fenton, pro¬ 
duced the famous Bennington Ware. 
This ware has a flint enameled glaze, 
which for depth of richness of glazing 
and the glory of its color, has never 
been excelled in any household pottery. 
In some pieces the browns, yellows, 
greens, orange and blue are beautifully 
combined, the rocks and autumn col¬ 
ors of the Vermont forests. This Flint 
enameled ware is dated 1849 and is 
eagerly sought by collectors. The Ben¬ 
nington factory also produced Rocking¬ 
ham Ware with ordinary glaze, and was 
the first factory in America to produce 
Parian ware. This Bennington Parian 
ware was of excellent texture. As a 
rule, the design was marked “U.S.P.Co.” 
On a ribbon scroll—United States Pot¬ 
tery Company. 
Some lovely pottery was made near 
Portland, Maine, around 1820. It is of 
mottled greens and yellows with smoke 
balls floating around them in varying 
hues of brown and orange. 
About 182S a potter named Jeremiah 
Burpee made a trip through the Merri- 
mac River valley, New Hampshire, seek¬ 
ing a bank of suitable clay for making 
earthenware. Finally his search was 
rewarded by the discovery of one near 
Pennacook in Boscawen Township. 
There he established a pottery, calling it 
“The Valley of Industry Pottery”. Like 
a prophet of old, he saw in a vision the 
future of the Merrimac River valley, 
how it would come to be a great valley 
of industry, from the White Mountains ' 
to the sea. At that time there were 
only the virgin forests, the distant 
mountains and the Indians in their 
canoes passing down the river to Con¬ 
cord to trade. For thirty years Burpee 
made an excellent red earthenware 
glazed with an iridescent slip ware 
glazed of green, yellow, brown and 
black that now, after use and age, 
shows in the sunlight all the colors of 
the rainbow with an iridescence as 
beautiful in sheen as a humming bird’s 
wing. Burpee’s product consisted of 
large deep milk bowls, pitchers, shaving 
and drinking mugs and other household 
utensils. After making up a wagon load 
of these he would then hitch one horse 
to the wagon and go peddling his wares 
to the settlers of the surrounding coun¬ 
try, taking farm produce or wool in ex¬ 
change. No doubt he also gave pot¬ 
tery money banks and miniature pot¬ 
tery pieces to the children as toys, as 
other pottery peddlers did in the early 
days in lieu of meals or lodging, which 
the settlers gave gladly, refusing to ac¬ 
cept payment. Jeremiah Burpee is a 
type of the early potters of America, 
who tried and succeeded in giving ex¬ 
pression to the beauty of their sur¬ 
roundings to the common clay in which 
they worked. 
Rockingham IVare 
Another interesting American -earthen¬ 
ware is Rockingham pottery. This re¬ 
sembles the ware made in Rockingham, 
England. American Rockingham was 
first .manufactured in Jersey City in 
1845, and later in Bennington, South 
Amboy, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Potts- 
ville, Pa., East Liverpool, Ohio, and in 
several other localities. The pitchers 
have over twenty different raised de¬ 
signs of American scenes and person¬ 
ages upon their sides, and for their his¬ 
toric illustration they will be collected 
and preserved. The first “Rebecca at 
the Well” teapot in Rockingham ware 
was made at Baltimore in 1852. The 
subject has been a favorite one ever 
since, and is still produced by the hun¬ 
dreds of thousands. As some may wish 
to know where the Rockingham ware 
spaniels were made, I have been in- 1 
formed that nearly all of them were 
made at East Liverpool, Ohio. Ben¬ 
nington made French Poodle dogs with 
baskets of flowers in their mouths, and 
one small spaniel as a paper weight. 
Pennsylvania ware has been so learn¬ 
edly written about by the late Dr. At- 
lee E. Barber and other writers, that it j 
is unnecessary to say more about it 
here than that it adds great lustre and 
fame to our early American products 
in earthenware. Some of the mottoes 
on the Pennsylvania pie-plates read like 
the maxims of Benjamin Franklin, while 
others are philosophical or religious. 
Here are a few translations: 
“Out of the earth with understanding 
the potter makes everything.” 
“To paint the flowers is common but 
God above is able to give fragrance.” 
Sing, pray, go on your way, perform 
what thou hast to do faithfully.” 
“I like fine things even when they are 
not mine and cannot become mine, I 
still may enjoy them.” 
Gardening Lectures 
SOLID PORCELAIN REFRIGERATORS 
To garden clubs or individuals desiring to secure lectures 
on flower or landscape gardening topics we will be glad to 
make suggestions as to competent speakers. There is no fee 
attached to this service—all we ask is that postage for our 
retolv be enclosed. 
