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House & Garden 
ACCORDION PLEATED “GO-UP-OR-DOWN” 
WINDOW SHADES 
Give the “Finishing Touch” to a Modern Residence 
T HESE shades are made 
from fine, cheerily-translu- 
cent, herringbone weave 
coutil cloth, hard-calendered to 
shed dust and permit of easy 
cleaning. They give the general 
effect of Venetian blinds or cost¬ 
ly puff shades. 
Pleats close and open like a 
Japanese fan, by the pull of cords 
at either side; and pulling both 
cords bunches the closed pleats 
into a small panel in any desired 
position on the window. 
Shade is strung on tight piano 
wires, stretched musically-taut 
between sturdy forged fixtures 
at top and bottom. Practically 
everlasting. 
Truly a thing of beauty; and a 
daily delight and comfort in com¬ 
bining free access of air and 
light, with privacy. 
Send for a sample—free 
ATHEY COMPANY 
Also makers of the famous 44 Athey” Cloth lined weather strips 
6041 W. 65th STREET CHICAGO 
Interior Decorations—Furnishings 
Tapestries 
Furniture 
Fabrics 
Ob jets D’Art 
Distinctive Decorations 
The J. G. Valiant Company 
J. W. Valiant, President 
224 N. Charles Street 
Wm. J. MacMullin, Phila., Director 
1718 Chestnut Street 
I PHILADELPHIA 
Seen in the Shops 
(Continued from page 80) 
china silk shirred onto heavy cords can 
be had for $3.45. They come in old 
rose, French blue, gold and black. Also 
figured silk in oriental colorings. They 
are 22" across. 
(18) Two Italian pottery jars, repro¬ 
ductions of museum pieces that will har¬ 
monize with almost any color scheme 
are 8)4" high and have a design of ap¬ 
ples in deep blue on a gray-buff ground. 
$20 each. 
(19) A pair of twisted Italian pottery 
candlesticks in a lovely shade of old blue 
are 12" high and $18.50 a pair. 
(20) A Wedgewood salad set is charm¬ 
ingly colored with a background of soft 
cream decorated with a design of baskets 
of flowers in mauve, rose, green and 
blue. The bowl and dozen plates are 
octagonal shaped. Price $31.50. 
(21) White enamel child’s table and 
bench has blue birds painted in the cor¬ 
ners of the table which is 18" high by 
29" long and 15" wide. Price, $8. 
Bench, $5. 
(22) A delicate lantern stands 19" 
high. It comes in tan cedar or black 
lacquer and is lined with rice paper. 
Fitted for candle, $5; equipped for elec¬ 
tricity, $10. 
(23) To hide an unsightly fixture, this 
graceful wall bracket has proven most 
satisfactory. In tan cedar or black lac¬ 
quer lined with rice paper. With candle, 
$5. Equipped for electricity, $10. 
(24) An Italian rusty iron and gilt 
polychrome lighting fixture has antique 
finished crystal drops. $50. 
(25) Colonial fixture, polished brass 
and ebony finish. $50. 
(26) Georgian candle sconce in hand- 
scoured silver finish, $35. 
The Eight-Hour Kitchen 
(Continued from page 21) 
await further attention. How many 
times a day dishes should be washed, 
and after which meals is a matter for 
the house manager to decide according 
to the specific need of her own family. 
While there is no other equipment in 
the house which will go toward mak¬ 
ing entertaining popular with the kitch¬ 
en-staff, in order to complete the clean¬ 
ing equipment, the dish-washer should 
be supplemented by a buffing-wheel for 
silver cleaning and polishing. Where 
the household possesses some form of 
kitchen motor, this wUl not be a sepa¬ 
rate device, but merely one of the many 
functions of the apparatus already pro¬ 
vided for mixing, grinding, and beating. 
The test of the soundness of any fac¬ 
tory organization is not merely how it 
works when everything goes well, but 
more especially whether it continues to 
function under pressure. 
Similarly, the test of a well-equipped 
kitchen is not altogether whether, with 
the available household staff, the fam¬ 
ily’s regular three meals per diem can 
be produced without distress to all con¬ 
cerned, but rather whether the kitchen 
operations are so planned that the ar¬ 
rival of one guest or many, does not 
necessarily disrupt the home factory and 
its working staff. 
If modest entertainment is one of the 
admitted functions of the modest home, 
surely the more elaborate household 
should be equipped so that the rites of 
hospitality need not necessarily come in 
conflict with the rights of labor. 
When the household wheels groan 
and creak ominously under the weight 
of an additional mouth to feed, the 
house manager should look for the weak 
spot in her kitchen system and apply 
the remedy that fits the particular case. 
A City Garden in Southern California 
(Continued from page 55) 
The pools form the central feature of 
the main garden. One slightly above the 
other, they suggest abundance of water, 
even in a dry season, the water over¬ 
flowing the low curved curb of the up¬ 
per pool into the lower. The upper 
pool is backed by a wall of cement dec¬ 
orated with Spanish tiles from which 
bronze fountain taps throw a fine spray. 
On each side of the pools the retaining 
wall is broken by flights of steps, and 
surmounted by large vases. 
From the east porch of the house, one 
enjoys the full value of a long vista. 
The walks, the steps, the pools flanked 
by the two flights of steps, are on the 
main axis, while above and beyond the 
perspective carries the eye to the log¬ 
ical terminus of the axis, the wall foun¬ 
tain at the farthest end of the garden. 
The fountain, a beautiful bowl of classic 
form in a niche tile lined in dull blue, 
is built under a brick arch, on either 
side of which are seats of brick com¬ 
bined with carved wood, and peering 
into the water of the bowl is a bronze 
statue by Edward Berge. Over this 
lovely figure of Undine, small bronze 
fishes spout water which overflows the 
bowl into a shallow basin, and thence 
trickles down a channel in the middle 
of an inclined walk, hollowed to receive 
it, until it drips into the upper pool. 
Although the ground has been planted 
but three years, almost constant sun¬ 
shine, assisted by soil preparation, has 
developed a growth which soon will be¬ 
come luxurious; blending the planting 
and the architectural details into a con¬ 
tinuity of design. Skilful use of a min¬ 
gling of broad-leaved evergreens, both 
trees and shrubs, with delicate leafage of 
small scale, varying heights and intrigu¬ 
ing shadiness, have brought about most 
charming vistas from almost any point 
in the garden. 
More than in impressions of space and 
distance and sensations of the unex¬ 
pected, the fundamental charm of the 
garden lies in its livableness. No one 
enters without becoming conscious of 
its happy mingling of indoors and out. 
Between flowering borders, broad walks 
lead from one division to another. Rest¬ 
ing places furnished with benches or 
seats are easily accessible. Where there 
is an excess of sunshine wide awnings 
afford protection and add a suggestion 
of festivity, while stepping paths lead 
the seeker for seclusion to the cool shel¬ 
ter of greenery. In whatever part of 
the garden one may be, there is the sat¬ 
isfying sense of privacy. No reminder 
of the city streets outside destroys the 
“garden magic” and seclusion which 
lie within the walls. 
A Correction:—Through an error, the decoration of the two rooms on page 21 
of the July issue of House & Garden was credited to the Herter Looms and 
G. W. Richardson & Son, respectively. The work represented was not done by 
these firms. 
