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House & Garden 
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What Would Guests Think? 
Some repreeenta- 
tive hornet where 
Jewett Refrigera¬ 
tor* are uted : 
Arthur Curttaa James 
Newport, R. I. 
Vincent Aetor 
Rhinebeck, N. Y. 
L. C. Tiffany 
Cold Spring Harbor 
E. 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. Maas. 
Wm. Fahnestock 
Katonah, N. Y. 
Mrs. W. L. McKee 
Bristol, R. I. 
Samuel Mather 
Cleveland, 0. 
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 
JohnD. Rockefeller, Jr. 
New York 
Sen. W. A. Clark 
New York 
Joseph Leiter 
Washington 
Charles M. Schwab 
New York 
J. Ogden Armour, 
Lake Forest, Ill. 
A. J. Lichtstern 
Glencoe, Ill. 
Mrs. John Hay 
Cleveland, O. 
John Borden 
Lake Geneva, Wis. 
Payne Whitney 
Manhasset, L. I. 
Wm. V. Kelley 
Lake Forest, Ill. 
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B ACK from the country club—appetites 
keen. An impromptu meal—a midnight 
raid on the kitchen sector. If guests should 
see the refrigerator, would they be favorably 
impressed—or otherwise? 
Perhaps careless servants have found it 
too difficult to keep immaculate. A faint but 
tell-tale odor betrays the fact. Perhaps in¬ 
sulation against the outer air has been im¬ 
perfect—the delicate 
savor of foods has 
been impaired. 
No such contin¬ 
gencies are possible 
when the Jewett 
guards the food. It is 
no trouble to keep its 
solid porcelain walls 
unsullied. Its massive 
construction main¬ 
tains its contents in 
cold, clean preserva¬ 
tion always. Wherever 
gourmets gather, wher¬ 
ever food is looked 
upon as something more than sustenance, 
there you will find the Jewett preserving 
nature’s inimitable flavors. The Jewett is 
almost a standard fixture in notable man¬ 
sions and really good hotels and clubs. 
Write for this book 
What size refrigerator; why over 75% 
of ice used is ordinarily wasted; why the 
ice should never be covered; these and 
many other questions are answered in the 
above booklet. May we send you a copy ? 
THE JEWETT REFRIGERATOR CO. 
Established 1849 
123 Chandler Street Buffalo, N. Y. 
Associated with The Canadian Jewett Itefrigerator Co., Brldgeburg, Canada. 
The Jewett—in addition to 
its one piece, inch thick, 
seamless china crock lining 
in both the ice and food 
compartments — has walls 
over 5 inches thick, insulated 
with pure cork, which most 
effectively lock out the heat. 
JEWETT 
SOLID PORCELAIN REFRIGERATORS 
Reviving the Wilted Flower 
(Continued from page 62) 
it lay in the hot sun for a full hour. 
Then it was carried to the studio and 
placed in a dish of water. This was in 
the forenoon. At three o’clock a photo¬ 
graph was made. So far as I could see 
no change had taken place in the petals 
since the flower had been picked up 
from the lawn and first photographed. 
The stem was cut and two hours later 
the camera recorded the flower’s re¬ 
markable rejuvenation. 
The rose is another flower which soon 
becomes limp unless considerately 
treated. Once it shows signs of wilt, 
merely putting the stem in water is of 
slight use. Wilting may be checked, but 
there are seldom any signs of recovery. 
Given the simple first-aid treatment I 
have described, however, recovery will 
be made from any stage of wilting 
short of actual breaking down of tissue. 
For instance, one of the photographs 
shows a rose after standing several hours 
in water, having previously become 
somewhat wilted. Its companion shows 
the same flower a half hour after its 
stem was cut and the water could enter 
the so-called veins. 
Roses or any flower to be worn as 
corsage decoration should be prepared 
by first having the stems cut under wa¬ 
ter and being left in water several hours. 
They will stand up much better after 
this treatment. 
The lead photograph is of two sun¬ 
flowers, put in water in equally wilted 
condition. It is perfectly obvious which 
stem was cut under water. 
In the great majority of cases this 
treatment will prove effective. I have 
not, however, experimented with woody 
stemmed plants. I have been told that 
in the case of lilacs, at least, cutting the 
stems in hot water brings quicker re¬ 
sults. 
A Parlor 
Owing to some peculiarity of struc¬ 
ture certain flowers have markedly su¬ 
perior powers of recuperation. The 
pansy is one which merely put in water 
will freshen up from an apparently 
hopeless condition. Cutting the stems 
while not necessary in this case would 
doubtless cause quicker reaction under i 
the action of the water. 
Other experiments were made. The j 
limp tip of a stalk of delphinium bloom 
straightened almost at once. Colum- I 
bines, perennial phloxes, etc., showed 
the same characteristic. 
One day pot marigolds and zinnias 
were the subject of experiment. They 
were allowed to wilt and then an at¬ 
tempt was made to revive them. The 
marigolds promptly responded. But 
while the zinnias freshened, they some- I 
how drew too much water. The flow- 
ers became so saturated with it that 
the drops falling from the petals formed . 
puddles on the table. 
In many cases if flowers are very 
promptly placed in water upon being 
cut, no further attention is needed. 
With varieties that wilt quickly, how¬ 
ever, like Shirley poppies, the cutting 
under water is quite necessary. Fu'ly 
opened blooms may be handled in this 
way. 
A bouquet of flowers that has stood 
for a day or two in water will occa¬ 
sionally show symptoms of wilting; in 
many cases they will recover their first 
freshness upon being treated. 
Flowers shipped by mail or express 
very often fail to arrive in good condi¬ 
tion. How often have we seen them 
standing around for a day or two, only 
to be thrown into the waste basket, when 
this simple treatment would have kept 
them in perfection condition a week or ; 
more. 
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Remade 
(Continued from page 32) 
in front of the kitchen door. Such a 
screen is necessary since the house has 
no pantry. 
All the gas fixtures were removed. An 
old brass ship lantern electrified replaces 
the hall fixture. In the dining room side 
wall candle fixtures with plain gray 
parchment shades succeeded a hideous 
center gas chandelier. The living room 
has low lighting, two double light lamps 
being adequate for most occasions. The 
pair of silver three-light candelabra on 
the mantel gives an extra festiveness. 
The lamp shades in the living room are 
of putty color taffeta on the outside 
lined with corn silk to give a warmer 
glow. 
In such a neutral background almost 
any well-designed furniture would look 
attractive. In the room of the little 
house here pictured the furniture is all 
antique except two easy chairs, one up¬ 
holstered in old-blue velour and the 
other with a slip cover of the glazed 
chintz, piped in blue silk, which latter 
combination is also used on the Chip¬ 
pendale sofa. This chintz binds together 
the colors used in the room—brownish 
peacocks with blue necks on a putty- 
colored and tannish background. The 
brown and blue foliage in the chintz is 
particularly attractive and the colors are 
very soft and lovely. The arrangement 1 
of the furniture in this former parlor 
must be practical and comfortable, for 
it is now the only living room in the 
house. A Sheraton secretary desk placed 
on the window side of the mantel bal¬ 
ances a William and Mary highboy on 
the other side. One of the lamps stands 
on a gate leg table placed between the 
highboy and the mantel, while the other 
one stands on a table back of the sofa 
placed at right angles to the mantel be¬ 
tween it and the secretary. Two easy 
chairs, four side chairs and two smail 
tables complete the furniture. 
Several accessories in the room give 
it distinction—the Georgian silver box 
on the mantel, the needlework screen, 
the old brigantine model with blue hull 
on the highboy, two attractive minia¬ 
tures hung beside the secretary, the por¬ 
trait over the mantel and several old 
prints, the antique chasuble in old-blue,! 
brown and silver on the gate leg table 
and a very lovely Hepplewhite tea-box 
now devoted to cards on the secretary.! 
The parlor has given way to a very in¬ 
viting and attractive living room. 
The Gardens of the Jungle 
{Continued from page 28) 
the occasional tins of cigarettes in which 
Degas indulged, and always the flame- 
colored little buck-peppers lightened up 
the shadows of the benab, as hot to the 
palate as their color to the eye. 
One day just as I was leaving, Grand¬ 
mother led me to a palm nearby, and 
to one of its ancient frond-sheaths was 
fastened a small brown branch to which 
a few blue-green leaves were attached. 
I had never seen anything like it. She 
mumbled and touched it with her 
shrivelled, bent fingers. I could under¬ 
stand nothing, and sent for Degas, who 
came and explained grudgingly, “Me no 
know what for— toko-nook just name— 
have got smell when yellow.” And so 
{Continued on page 66) 
