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House & Garden 
The Only Weather Strip with 
a Constant Floating Contact 
Keeps Out 40 % More Cold Air 
Than Any Other Weather Strip 
The service you want is the service you get when 
you close the cracks around windows, doors and 
transoms with Monarch Metal Weather Strips. 
Test after test by foremost building engineers has 
proved the fact that Monarch Metal Weather 
Strips are 40% extra efficient. The reasons why 
are easy to explain. 
First: The floating contact provides a constant 
weather-proof fit of windows, doors and transoms, 
regardless of any swelling, shrinking or warping 
of the wood to which the strips are attached. Every 
one knows that wood expands and contracts with 
changes in the weather. No other strip follows 
the wood and keeps the contact over the crack con¬ 
stant and even. 
Second: Windows, doors and transoms are made 
to open and close without the slightest sticking 
or binding. The metal tube within a metal tube— 
a further distinction from strip which fits in a 
wooden groove—makes double-hung windows slide 
like they had ball bearings. 
Monarch Metal Weather Strips soon pay for themselves 
in comfort, health and saving in 
fuel. They make a house weather¬ 
proof against wind, rain and dust. 
Any Monarch dealer can prove to 
you that they keep out 40% more 
cold air than any other weather 
strip, no matter what its cost. They 
are easily, quickly and economical¬ 
ly installed, because they are fitted 
in the factory ready for attach¬ 
ment. 
I. 
An illustration of the ex¬ 
clusive Monarch tube with¬ 
in a tube. The metal 
tube on the frame fits over 
the metal tube on the 
sash. Frictionless and 
weather-proof contact be¬ 
tween them floats and is 
kept constant, regardless 
of any swelling or shrink¬ 
ing of wood parts of the 
window, because of the 
flexible construction of 
the strip on the frame. 
Look up Monarch in the telephone 
book. If you shouldn’t find it, 
write direct to the factory, and 
we’ll mail you full information. 
MONARCH METAL PRODUCTS CO. 
5030 Penrose St., St. Louis, U. S. A. 
Canadian Branch: Canadian Metal Window 
Co., Toronto, Canada. 
MONARCH 
METAL WEATHER STRIPS 
Secret Furniture From France 
(Continued from page 31) 
tension screens to shade the eyes from for the ingenuities in furniture-making 
sunlight or fire heat, and sets of library that were to culminate in the work of 
steps that fold into a table, such as David Rontgen and his contemporaries 
the set which Sheraton devised for of Louis XVI’s reign. 
George III. Rontgen was born in Herrenhag and 
Ingenious as are the pieces designed later went with his family to the town 
by Sheraton, the French “trick” furni- of Neuwied near Coblenz, where he 
ture is unrivalled, and Sheraton and his probably made all his French furniture, 
contemporaries did, as we know, receive Although a German, he had his ware- 
inspiration from Louis XVI furniture house in Paris and was a member in 
and undoubtedly their own mechanical high standing of the maitre-ebenists 
ingenuity received impetus from the of Paris. In the year 1772 he took 
ebenists working in France. Of these Kinzing, a celebrated clockmaker, as his 
“trick” furniture makers David Rontgen associate and two years later we find 
stands at the top. * him in Paris, being introduced by Wille. 
At this time he traveled about with a 
Lighter Pieces van > peddling his furniture. His fame 
° became fairly established in consequence 
Goethe's “Wilhelm Meister” gives us of his journey to St. Petersburg in 177b. 
the pretty story of the fairy lady who Rontgen had made up a van-load of 
journeyed whither her mortal lover be- fine furniture which he felt sure would 
took himself, safely restive in a little attract the attention of the Empress, 
box which Goethe compared to a desk but to his chagrin he found the great 
constructed by Rontgen in which “at a Catherine feeling very poor in conse- 
pull, a multitude of springs and latches quence of supporting the Russian cam- 
are set in motion”. Under Louis XV paign against the Turks. However, the 
the heavy furniture of the Louis XIV Empress consented to visit Rontgen's 
period was giving way to smaller, exhibition and set a day for it. On the 
lighter pieces. The great uncomfortable very eve of the projected visit, news 
rooms of the Grand Monarque’s reign reached St. Petersburg of the Russian 
were being replaced by apartments of victory at Tschesme and Rontgen, a 
small rooms of intimate character and, in natural-born salesman, bethought him- 
consequence, the style of furniture was self of carving the date of this naval 
altered to conform to these new condi- engagement on a clock which orna- 
tions. Little tables for boudoir and mented the top of a secretaire, and to 
bedroom came into fashion and were which date on the marble a bronze 
really indispensable. There was the genius pointed! The next day the Em- 
Poudreuse, or toilet-table, the bed-table press arrived to inspect the furniture 
for the early breakfast, the vide-poche and was so flattered by Rontgen's 
(a “catch-all” table), and other like agility that she felt an acknowledgment 
pieces. The reign of Louis XV has been of the compliment he had paid Russia 
called the epistolary age par excellence, could only be made adequate by the 
and naturally writing tables of all sorts purchase of the whole collection! 
and descriptions came into vogue. All 
these pieces of furniture lent themselves Rontgen’s Royal Recognition 
to secret-drawers, hidden flaps, etc. 
Some of the writing tables appeared at Rontgen became “ibenist-mecanicien 
first glance to be ordinary tables, but de la Reine Marie-Antoinette”. He had a 
their tops slid round on pivots, or back passion for making trick-furniture and his 
on grooves, revealing writing accessories little cubinels, etc., became veritable boites 
and desk arrangements. There were d surprises. In the Museum of the Acad- 
game tables of like construction. Then emy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Cath- 
there were the desk-tables, the upper or erine II presented a remarkable reading- 
desk-part of which could be lifted off, desk made by Rontgen, every feature of 
inclined, or thrown back. The variety which could be transformed, we are 
of these little “tables tres compose” told, into some other. Rontgen hid his 
was infinite. The Sieur Loriot set his ingenuities beneath inconspicuous exte- 
| wits to work to devise a flying-table for riors of simple design. Few of his 
Louis XV, and this the King exhibited pieces were signed, and these few have 
at the Louvre to the admiration of the his initials stamped in such a place as a 
Court. A contemporary account in the middle drawer. Fortunate is the pos- 
Mercurie de France reads as follows: sessor of a piece of Louis XVI furniture 
“M. Loriot has devised a sort of magic who comes upon these initials honestly 
table. When the company enters the inscribed! Rontgen was assisted in his 
dining-salon not the slightest appear- marqueterie work by Cretien Krause, 
ance of a table is visible; one sees only and it is by this marqueterie furniture 
a smooth floor (parqueterie), in the that his fame is most firmly established, 
centre of which there is a rose (pat- Wille writes of him in 1787 as “le plus 
tern). At a signal the leaves (of the celebre ebenist de l’Europe”. At least 
rose) sink below the floor and a table, he was the most ingenious. But there 
bearing a meal, rises up in the place’’, are other great ebenists to reckon with 
In his Journal, Barbier tells us of the in this period,—Leleu, Saumier, Carlin, 
clandestine visits of the Marechal de Levasseur, Avril Paprat, Philippe-Claude 
Richelieu to the sprightly Madame de Montigny, Beuman, Stockel, Weisweiler, 
! la Popeliniere by the route of a se- Schwerdfenger and Reissner among 
cret passage which opened into what others. AH of them knew the “trick’’ 
was apparently an armoire with of planning for hiding-places in furni- 
mirror-doors. This age of gallan- ture and of devising surprises, the utility 
try certainly encouraged ingenious fur- of which so fits in with the modern con- 
niture makers to exert their skiU to ditions of the life of our own time that 
provide hiding-places for the epistolary the Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture 
treasures of the love-lorn, and so the of this sort is greatly in demand and 
Louis XV ebenists laid the foundation is perennially in fashion. 
The Garden and the Still Room 
(Continued from page 35) 
flowers from blowing about a piece of prevails; if possible some blue flowers 
cheese-cloth may be spread over the should be added, especially anchusa, for 
tray. Flowers vary extraordinarily in blue flowers, though not so fragrant, 
the time they take to dry, but if any make the pot-pourri look much more 
particle of moisture is left the whole attractive. Pot-pourri is often spoilt by 
mixture will be spoilt. the lack of sufficient fragrant dried 
In most pot-pourri a reddish tone (Continued on page 68) 
