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House & Garden 
H ow a Decorator Works 
neon. 
To Insure Christmas Delivery 
dMonogrammed Handkerchiefs 
Should be ordered nouv 
r T" , HE variety of smart new sport 
styles and our ever large assort¬ 
ment of hand-embroidered, lace-edged 
and hemstitched handkerchiefs afford 
a wide selection to the early shopper. 
But the ever welcome gift of hand¬ 
kerchiefs acquires a truly personal 
charm only when it bears a distinc¬ 
tive monogram. 
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added features accord well with them. 
The client may be a very exquisite 
type of woman, fragile, beautiful, a bit 
artificial in a fastidious fashion, that 
immediately suggests powder and patch. 
Le Petit Trianon and visions of a Louis 
XVI interior come instantly to mind. 
But you go with her to the home of 
her choice and you find it is a Colonial 
American farmhouse, or a Frank Lloyd 
Wright bungalow, or goodness knows 
what. 
You ponder inwardly that, while she 
herself is a dainty beauty who might 
have graced the court of Marie An¬ 
toinette, she has a husband and several 
other male members of her family who 
are of the most material, modern types. 
You suppress a smile at the thought 
of these successful packers or smug 
bankers, gingerly poised on little gilded 
chairs! No, no, that would never do! 
The mantelpiece and the husband are 
settled features of the establishment. 
The mobiliary selection must be brought 
into harmony with them. 
Let us illustrate with concrete ex¬ 
amples of a variety of permanent parts 
used as starting points—going on from 
these points to descriptions of the fin¬ 
ished rooms and supplementing with 
photographs. The examples show the 
work of Miss Gheen. 
A Balanced Living Room 
In the home of Mrs. Frank Hibbard, 
in i^ake Forest, Ill., the permanent fix¬ 
tures were side walls in dull blue in the 
Italian style, a marble mantel, case¬ 
ment windows and a floor in squares of 
blue and gray marble. Now then, to 
furnish it. 
First a plum colored tufted rug was 
laid on the floor, and at the windows 
and on the French doors silk gauze in 
neutralized butter color. At one side 
of the fireplace is a davenport uphol¬ 
stered in blue and gray figured linen, 
and an arm chair across from it is cov¬ 
ered in the same. Two comfortable 
gray wicker arm chairs are cushioned 
to match. A little wrought iron table 
holding a lamp of jade green pottepr 
stands beside the arm chair, while its 
counterpart is at the side of the daven¬ 
port. The bi-symmetrical arrangement 
is repeated in two spindle standards 
holding pots of ivy that flank the fire¬ 
place. Over the mantel, reaching to 
the ceiling, is a colorful panel of batik 
and at either side of this on the mantel- 
top is a delicately carved alabaster vase 
holding flowers. Still another bowl of 
flowers is on a low occasional table. 
At the other end of the room the 
photograph shows a triple landscape 
window with curtains well drawn back 
and a pair of lovely consoles holding 
ferns and ivy. The little card table 
group is made up of four painted chairs 
covered in butter colored gaspe silk and 
a card table with its padded top up¬ 
holstered in satin. 
The sun porch is in the home of Mrs. 
Edward Hasler, in Lake Forest, Ill. The 
fixed features of this room were the ex¬ 
posed brick side walls, sand-plastered 
ceiling, and tiled floor. 
The textural quality of this room 
seemed to call for simple, hardy fur¬ 
nishings. The material selected for cur¬ 
tains was plain green calico. Braided 
rugs are on the floor and the furniture 
is a mixture of painted Windsor and 
wicker. Pots of flowers on the window¬ 
sill seem to make the garden overflow 
into the room. A quaint lantern hangs 
from the ceiling, and ivy is trained 
against the brick over the mantel. 
A Hotel Apartment 
There is probably no more difficult 
combination of fixed features to deal 
with than those found in the general 
ugliness of the ordinary hotel room. 
Just to what extent native hideousness 
may be baffled is shown in the ra- 
maining two photographs of Miss 
Gheen’s own living quarters in a Chicago 
hotel. The floor covering is gun-metal 
colored, the draperies blue and the wall 
blue-gray. The furniture is Italian 
walnut, and the upholstered pieces are 
in satin damask, blue and gray. The 
brightest color note in the room is in 
a chest of drawers lacquered red. 
The remarkable feature of the room 
is the writing desk. Notice it well. 
The lower part of the desk pulls out, 
transforming it into a full-sized bed 
which, during the daytime, slides in 
under the false floor of the adjoining 
bathroom, through a hole cut away in 
the lower part of the wall. The little 
bathroom, by the way, is very at¬ 
tractive. It is used as a dressing room 
as well. The upper wall is “papered” 
with glazed chintz. A kidney table 
holds the convenient toilet articles. No 
one would ever suspect that a bed was 
concealed beneath its innocent looking 
white tiling. 
Grates and Railings of Spanish Iron 
To insure delivery for the holidays, 
orders for monogrammmg should be 
placed not later than November 
fifteenth. 
Orders by mail receive 
prompt and careful attention 
Registered 
'Trade Mark. 
James McCutcheon & Co. | 
Fifth Avenue, 34th and 33d Sts., N. Y. 
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chapels of the churches and form gates 
for the parks. 
Naturally an industry which could be 
utilized in so many different ways and 
was in such great demand, should and 
did develop and flourish most brilliantly. 
Especially the cities of such artistic 
lineage as Salamanca, Leon, Toledo, and 
of such industrial importance as Bar¬ 
celona and others on the Mediterranean 
coast offer interesting examples. 
In Latin America 
In Latin America, especially in the 
historical cities of South America, such 
as those of Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Co¬ 
lombia where the residences of ancient 
civilization still remain, v/e find inter¬ 
esting examples of grates and railings. 
In Buenos Aires, Montevideo, etc., mod¬ 
ern civilization has attired the cities in 
cosmopolitan apparel which is the inter¬ 
national uniform of this century, and is 
gradually casting into oblivion that 
which is characteristic and exclusive of 
each and every nation and populace. In 
Mexico there are many valuable exterior 
railings surrounding the gardens and 
parks. 
Sometimes these railings rest on a 
stone or rubblework base and are not 
very high. Others emerge from the 
ground, and are extremely tall, and, 
again, they are small, about a yard 
and a half in height. Nearly always the 
railings surrounding a garden or park 
are simple. Frequently, however, the 
entrance boasts of an elegant door of 
iron richly embellished, which reminds us 
of the classical railings of Spain. More¬ 
over, as happens with the majority of 
Spanish railings, the main object in 
placing the pinnacle of the rods is the 
terminal lance which opens up in the 
leaf ornaments that turn downward, of 
the flower-deluce, which is a decora¬ 
tive phase of Spanish art and the pre¬ 
ferred one ever since the times of Phillip 
the Fifth, the first Bourbon who carried 
it to Spain. There are older railings, 
the pinnacle of which can be easily 
taken for a‘flower-deluce, which is sim¬ 
ply the heraldic fleuron that has played 
such an important part in Spanish decor¬ 
ative art, the ornamental motives of the 
national and provincial coat-of-arms 
having frequently influenced it. 
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