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House & Garden 
Running Water 
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PORCH FLOORS 
Success With Heliotrope 
(Continued from 
gradually withold water. Place in a 
cellar or room which is not too light, 
where they will not freeze. Taken out in 
the spring, and watered in a shady place 
until growth starts, they may be set out. 
and will go on as if nothing had hap¬ 
pened. Verbena and geranium plants 
may also be uprooted and hung head 
downward in such a place as that de¬ 
scribed. In the spring, plant first in 
boxes and then in the garden. In both 
cases the plants must be sharply cut back 
when started into growth. 
Even should none of these plans be 
possible, the heliotrope - geranium - ver- 
page 84) 
bena bed has its last gifts for you before 
the frost claims it. Y ou may already 
have used the rose geranium leaves to 
give an odd, delicious flavor to jelly: but 
have you used its leaves in scent bags, 
or mixed them with rose leaves and 
lemon verbena leaves in the filling of 
small pillows? Last but not least have 
you gathered the verbena leaves, dried 
"them, and kept them in a box on your 
tea table? If not try it. and when you 
make Russian tea, drop in two or three 
leaves along with the tea. 
Anna Sawyer. 
A Row of House 
H AVE you, who are so fortunate as 
to own a rare old Chippendale 
desk, a graceful chair by Hepple- 
white or a table signed by Sheraton, 
ever realized how much of their own 
personalities the creators of these styles 
put into their work? 
Walter A. Dyer has written a book, 
“Creators of the Decorative Styles,” 
(Doubleday, Page & Company), in 
which this connoisseur of the antique 
treats of the works of these English 
masters and the resultant effects of the 
splendid workmanship upon their re¬ 
spective periods that came from their 
hands. 
“The Georgian period, as it has been 
called, was a golden age in the develop¬ 
ment of English style,” says Mr. Dyer, 
“and the names of the masters are many. 
But since of all the applied arts of the 
time furniture-making seems to have left 
the most lasting impression, it may be 
most logical to give primary considera¬ 
tion to Thomas Chippendale, the first 
and most famous of the Georgian cab¬ 
inet-makers, and the first English crafts¬ 
man to rob the reigning sovereign of 
the prerogative of giving his name to a 
period. 
“It is too much to say that Chippen¬ 
dale made mahogany popular; perhaps 
it was the mahogany that made Chip¬ 
pendale popular. At any rate, the new 
taste found its highest expression at his 
hands in the new wood. 
“The date of Thomas Chippendale’s 
birth is not known. He is said to have 
been born in Worcestershire about 1710. 
and to have been a descendant of a 
father who was cabinet-maker, wood- 
carver, and maker of mirror frames.” 
Mr. Dyer recounts that in 1753 Chip¬ 
pendale moved to London, where he took 
three houses adjacent to his own and 
established a large cabinet-making and 
upholstery business. According to Mr. 
Dyer, this master craftsman was no 
aspirant for social distinction, though 
in the course of his life he mingled with 
the nobility and with families of wealth. 
He was, first of all, a born and trained 
artisan, and, second, a progressive busi¬ 
ness man, capable of managing affairs 
on a large scale. 
There may be something very near a 
myth in George Hepplewhite, accord¬ 
ing to Mr. Dyer, who declares that his 
personality is elusive; the very proof of 
his existence depends largely on circum¬ 
stantial evidence. “George Hepplewhite 
was born — no one knows just where— 
at some time during the first half of the 
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eighteendi century. Xo record has been 
left as to the sort of man he was. We 
can only argue from his work and suc¬ 
cess that he was a man of taste and skill, 
educated at least in his art, and pos¬ 
sessed of business ability second only to 
that of Chippendale. The only visible 
evidence we have of his work is in his 
posthumous book. It is known that he 
made furniture after his own designs, 
but many others made use of them also, 
so that today we have but slight means 
of identification. The first edition of 
his book was published in 1788, and in 
the preface Hepplewhite states his creed 
as follows: ‘To unite elegance and 
utility, and blend the useful with the 
agreeable, has ever been considered a 
difficult but an honourable task.' It is 
the simple statement of a true craftsman, 
and might have come from the pen of 
John Ruskin or William Morris. 
“Hepplewhite was, first of all, an ex¬ 
ponent of elegance. That was the key¬ 
note of his style. He pared away all 
clumsiness from his designs. Their ex¬ 
treme fineness, in some cases, produces 
the effect of weakness, but he was a 
thorough enough craftsman to offset this 
with excellence of construction in the 
work which he actually executed him¬ 
self. 
“Modern designers of chairs probably 
owe more to Hepplewhite than to any 
other. 
“Personally, I have always felt that 
Hepplewhite, if he deserves credit for all 
that bears his name, was a greater de¬ 
signer than Chippendale, a man with 
a better balanced mind and a truer sense 
of line and proportion.” 
Mr. Dyer, in his chapter on Thomas 
Sheraton, declares that of all of the En¬ 
glish craftsmen and masters of design 
and applied art Sheraton was one of 
the most interesting in point of char¬ 
acter. 
“Little is known of his work,” says 
Mr. Dyer, “until he went to London 
about 1790, when he was nearly forty 
years old. He was just a poor journey¬ 
man cabinet-maker and Baptist preacher. 
All his life religion played an important 
part in his affairs. He was, in short, 
a strange blend of mechanic, inventor, 
artist, mystic and religious controversial¬ 
ist His parents had been Church of 
England people, but he became a zealous 
Baptist, preaching occasionally in Bap¬ 
tist chapels, and issuing pamphlets on 
religious topics. 
"As a man, Sheraton possessed many 
(Continued on page S8) 
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