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The Garden and the Still Room 
(i Continued, from page 66) 
leaves, which should form the accom¬ 
paniment, as it were, to the melody of 
the flower petals. The sweetest leaves 
are sweet briar, balm, thyme, sweet bay, 
verbena, sweet marjoram, and young 
walnut leaves. The rinds of tangerines 
cut in strips and dried are excellent. Or¬ 
ris root, coriander seed, grated nutmegs, 
and cloves may be added at discretion. 
At the end of the summer a mixture 
should be prepared of one pound of 
kitchen salt, half a pound of rock salt 
(well pounded), a grated nutmeg, half 
Book Rooms of B 
(Continued fr 
greater rate and in larger quantities 
than anything else in the world. 
Glass-fronted bookshelves mean a 
great saving of labor to those whose 
business it is to keep the house and its 
contents clean. Unfortunately it is not 
always at all easy to give one’s book¬ 
shelves the protection of a glass door. 
The niche and the narrow cupboard can 
easily be fitted with doors. But when 
we come to glazing shelves of any size 
the doors become so large and often so 
ugly, they take away so much from the 
( beauty of the books, that we generally 
prefer to give the dust free play. Dust 
is, happily, not among the worst ene¬ 
mies of literature. A book may have 
slept under the accumulated dust of two 
or three centuries and still be very little 
the worse. From the point of view of 
the books, therefore, glazing is not im¬ 
perative. The problem must be left to 
each book lover to solve as he thinks fit. 
Some will prefer to sacrifice the full 
beauty of their books to the goddess of 
cleanliness. Others will swallow ihe 
an ounce of storax, six drams of orris 
root, half a teaspoonful of ground 
cloves, and half a teaspoonful of all¬ 
spice. When all these dry ingredients 
have been thoroughly mixed one ounce 
of oil of bergamot should be added to 
them. A layer of this mixture should 
then be put at the bottom of the jar, 
and covered with alternate layers of 
petals and leaves; the jar must be kept 
closed, and though it should be turned 
over fairly frequently at first, it must 
not be opened on a damp day. 
eauty and Charm 
om page S3) 
dust for the sake of the decoration. It 
is all a matter of taste, to be decided 
as such. 
The form of the shelves is another 
point to be considered. Perfectly plain 
deal shelves are always adequate and 
inoffensive. Where greater elaboration 
is desired the beauty or ugliness of the 
shelves will depend entirely on the qual¬ 
ity of the moldings employed. Where 
the room has a cornice care must be 
taken to see that the cornice of the 
bookshelves shall be in harmony with 
it, and that the two cornices coming 
together shall not produce too heavy 
an effect. 
The most satisfactory treatment for 
the lower part of the shelves up to dado 
height is, generally speaking, to close 
them in with paneled doors so as to 
form cupboards. If the books arc 
brought right down to the ground the 
volumes in the lower shelves should be 
the portentous folios of earlier days, 
rising through quartos to the octavos 
of ordinary life. 
If You Are Going to Build 
(Continued from page 61) 
Of course, as with any other roof, the tiles cannot be secured. Roofing tile is 
life is increased by having it preserved usually made of clay or terra-cotta, 
with a stain. The wood preferred for although some notably interesting tiles 
the shingle thatch is usually red or have been made of glass of the same 
white cedar, cypress being a little stiff, pattern as the clay. They are laid on 
If you want to get the best results felt over wood sheathing and those 
and artistic effects you must study the with interlocking devices may be laid 
relation of roof to material, texture, and 0 n wooden or steel purlins. When so 
color of walls, and, of course, to the laid, to prevent the entrance of dirt 
type of house. For concrete or stone or dry snow, the joins should be pointed 
walls, or Italian stucco, nothing is more on the under side after laying. For- 
suitable and picturesque than hand- merly tiles, particularly the old. hand¬ 
made tiles modeled closely after the made designs, were nailed to the sheath- 
old ‘‘pipe roofing” of Spain and Italy, ing; this method, however, is rapidly 
Good imitations of these old tiles can being superseded by the modern prac- 
be found here and there in California, tice of fastening with copper wires from 
and I understand that there is a hand a pierced lug from the lower end of 
tile factory also in Florida. If these the tile. 
tiles follow the old model they will Roofing tiles are also stamped from 
be roughly fashioned, molded over the sheet steel, as well as from sheet copper 
thigh or knee, colored dull rose and and from tin and galvanized iron, and 
splashed with gray-blue and blue- these are used very widely for roof 
green. The splashing must be extreme- covering for factories, etc., but seem 
ly well done to give an effect in the undesirable for the picturesque type of 
finished tile of rain shadows or moss a home roof so loved in America, 
stains. Some architects, who seek es- Slate as a roofing is not more ex- 
pecially fine effects in roofs, import the pensive today than machine-made tile, 
old Moravian or the antique Spanish and when cut in irregular sizes and out- 
tiles, or those extraordinarily beautiful line, made fairly thick, and colored in 
ones from China which are finished the beautiful shades now employed, 
with an exquisite green glaze, especially it becomes a most appropriate and 
suited to heavy concrete construction, ofter beautiful roof for certain types of 
on plain or sea-coast. houses,^for brick, smooth stucco in the 
Of course, there are also on the mar- English Cottage style, and for the low 
ket many excellent and practical ma- bungalow with hip roof. It is also em- 
chine-made tiles, suited to large public ployed on the Georgian house. Today a 
buildings or desirable where community substantial slate is produced by various 
building is being done and where one manufacturers in quite thrilling colors, 
type of roof is desired. They are usu- rose, green, purple, red-purple, yellow 
ally made from clay or terra-cotta, in and blue. Sometimes a slate roof is 
rose tones after the old hand-made de- laid in one tone. This is especially 
signs, and are very much in vogue for suitable for brick, and purple, red-pur- 
the Italian stucco when the hand-made (Continued on page 70) 
