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House & 
The Decorative 
Val ue of French 
Prints 
OOME houses are a joy to look 
at. They are distinctive 
homes. One or two applications 
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the ordinary and into the distinc¬ 
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Queen’s modiste, the weil-known Mile. 
Bertin. 
St. Aubin and Others 
Whether we can absolutely trust 
French portrait engraving as regards ac¬ 
curacy of likeness is much doubted, 
nevertheless, as with everything else in 
that age, it was a part of decoration 
and as such, extremely pleasing. Such is 
the case with St. Aubin’s “Soyez Dis- 
cret” and “Comptez Sur Mes Sermens,” 
so delicately drawn and so French in 
feeling, that it matters little whether St. 
Aubin and his wife looked as represent¬ 
ed or not. The two engravings of “Le 
Bal Pare” and “Le Concert” prove that 
he was equally clever in handling large 
groups of people. 
A group of lovely prints could be 
made up of the works of Cochin, Eisen, 
Simonet, Lepicie, Gaillard and a num¬ 
ber of others who produced these del¬ 
icate scenes, of which Boucher’s pastoral 
is unusually delightful. That his imagi¬ 
nation was fertile and that he could de¬ 
sign almost any scene with equal charm 
is seen in “L’Amour Frivole” engraved 
by Gaillard in which the frivolous 
boudoir scene is treated with the ut¬ 
most grace. 
Moreau’s set of “Le Momument de 
Costume” would lend a strong French 
element to the decoration of a room. 
Nowhere has intimate and delightful 
French life been better and more daint¬ 
ily rendered than in his plates depicting 
the life of the jeune mariee. This with 
Freudeberg’s twelve plates complete the 
series, which have served ever since as 
authentic fashion plates of the period. 
"La Promenade du Matin” and “La 
Promenade du Soir” are characteristic 
bits of the set. 
Our interest and love for the “estampe 
galante” is doubtless accentuated by the 
short period of its production. With, the 
names of Debucourt and Boilly disap¬ 
pear the enchanting boudoir scenes, to 
make place for historical anecdotes' of 
the French Revolution. Debucourt’s 
“Les Deux Baisers” and Boilly’s “Le 
Bouquet Cheri” which Chaponnier en¬ 
graved, bring to a close all expressions 
of the frivolities and gaieties, which 
marked the time. All lovers of romance 
and old world charm will find perma¬ 
nent enjoyment in surrounding them¬ 
selves with these graceful prints which 
lend a certain note of elegance and have 
such an undefinable charm of their own 
Nowhere is the tale told so well oi 
petits apartments, where powdered wigs 
and panniers and ardent youths in 
satins and laces combine to show us the 
elegant but artificial life of the beau- ' 
monde. 
Elegance in Decoration 
A discerning age will soon discover 
that quiet walls and soft colors are of 
vital importance as backgrounds for 
French prints, and any strong color 
scheme will at once create an inharmon¬ 
ious note. Great discretion should be 
used also in the furniture arrangement 
—what to keep in the line and what to 
leave out. Forget sentiment, if a har¬ 
monious effect is desired. Avoid the so- 
called gilt-legged French chairs, and 
don t substitute a wicker chair while 
you are waiting for an empty place to 
be filled by a fauteuil. Don’t let your 
impatience prevent you from waiting 
for the proper accessories, and rather 
live with a few appropriate things than 
ugly substitutes. A few well-chosen fur¬ 
nishings lend elegance to a room, while 
over-crowding spoils the best. Treat 
your prints as offsprings of elegant days 
and don’t compel them to associate with 
massive products of less graceful periods. 
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T HE Newport Garden Association, 
organized 1909, is comprised of 
108 men and women. Miss Wet- 
more of New York is President. 
Meetings are held monthly during the 
summer and two or three times during 
the winter. At intervals there are ex¬ 
hibits of flowers, vegetables, etc., from 
members’ gardens, and teas in the “trial 
garden” of the Club. This garden is of 
special value and interest, being open 
to the public who come from even a 
distance to study the beds filled with 
the finest varieties of roses, carefully 
labelled. One member gave the grounds, 
another the plan for the garden, still 
another (Mrs. Auchincloss) the peren¬ 
nial border, and the President planted 
some formal beds. Club funds have 
secured a house, furniture, etc., for the 
garden. 
For two years of the war, vegetables 
were sold on the grounds and after¬ 
wards from a market stall. Half of the 
proceeds went to the Red Cross and 
half to the Home for the Aged. A unit 
of the Women’s Land Army was also 
financed. 
The Club has prevailed upon the 
New York, New Haven and Hartford 
R. R. to improve the approach to the 
station, the Club pledging itself to keep 
the public play-ground, opposite, in 
good order. An annual report is printed, 
with the Club’s motto “Sub Sole, Sub 
Umbra-Vivens”, on the cover, and one 
year a diagram of the trial garden was 
included. Prizes are given to the New¬ 
port Horticultural Society. 
Among the members of the Club are 
Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs. Henry 
Clews, Mrs. Elisha Dyer, T. A. Have- 
meyer. Esq., Frederick Newbold, Esq., 
Mrs. Lorillard Spencer, Frank K 
Sturges, Esq., James J. Van Alen, Esq., 
Mrs. Vanderbilt and Hon. George P. 
Wetmore. 
T HE Tri-City Garden Club, organ¬ 
ized 1919, draws its fifty women 
members from Davenport, Iowa; Rock 
Island, and Moline, Illinois. Mrs. J. G 
Crawford is President. The Club meets 
once a month, the programs including 
talks by members or by professionals, 
on subjects such as landscape architec¬ 
ture, color schemes, bees, cultivation of 
vegetables, etc. This year the most im¬ 
portant civic work of the Club is plant¬ 
ing the grounds of the Industrial Re¬ 
lief Home. 
r HE Garden Club of Santa Bar¬ 
bara and Montecito, California, or¬ 
ganized 1916, has a membership limited 
to 100 men and women. Mrs. Edwin 
H. Sawyer is President, Mr. Ralph 
Stevens, Chairman of Committee on 
New Plants, and Mrs. Ralph Isham, on 
Photography. 
The Club meets at irregular intervals 
throughout the year, sometimes at a 
ranch or in a lovely canyon. The pro¬ 
gram for the current year includes lec¬ 
tures on Private Gardens, by Ernest 
Braumton; Rare Trees and Plants, by 
Dr. Doremus, and an address by Pro¬ 
fessor E. T. Wickson, Professor Emer¬ 
itus in Horticulture in the University 
of California. Mrs. Oakleigh Thorne, 
President of the Millbrook, N. Y., Club, 
is also a member of the Santa Barbara 
Club. These clubs have helped greatly 
to stimulate interest in gardening. 
