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A residence needs heavy, 
substantial radiator valves 
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account of the lack of “skilled” attention bestowed 
upon it when in service. It must be built for wear 
and usage. 
Jenkins Valves give service without “attention”. 
They open easily and close tightly; do not leak and 
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and radiator valves. 
House & Garden 
The Indispensable Kitchen Cabinet 
(Continued from page 84) 
or steel, is more convenient than any 
other closet, as no builder has given 
sufficient thought to maximum utilities. 
We have seen architects send their 
‘'handy man” to install closets who 
seemed to be absolutely unlearned in the 
necessities of the problems. Therefore, 
before and after building, the kitchen 
cabinet or the kitchen cabinet unit sys¬ 
tem is by far the best policy to pursue. 
The Essentials of the Cabinet 
The cabinet must be able to fulfill 
these conditions: It must be easily 
moved if on castors, it must be easily 
taken apart, drawers must run smoothly, 
racks to hold things must hold things, 
they must hold enough things, too, to 
prevent relay kitchen races. 
The wood cabinets are excellent, the 
steel we think a degree more self-pro¬ 
tecting because they cannot absorb 
odors, or get vermin investitures. How¬ 
ever, the best grades of wood cabinets 
are so perfect that we can endorse them 
with real joy. 
The cabinet must have: Supply closets, 
china (nearly every case), moulding 
boards, work table, cutting board, linen 
receptacle, pot, pan and lid holders, 
bread, cake, spice, sugar containers and 
flour and bin sifter devices. 
All other departures are specialties and 
are more or less inviting according to 
the buyer. 
There is a cabinet, remember, for any 
space as well as purse. Get the best of 
the best dealer and make yourself sure 
that the one you are getting is the least 
complicated and the easiest to keep 
clean. They range in price from around 
?50 up to the thousands. But no mat¬ 
ter what they contain, or how thrilling 
they look, unless the cabinet itself is the 
acme of fine workmanship, you will be 
in constant irritation over warping parts, 
dust and uncleanable surfaces. 
Walnut Furniture in the Days of Queen Anne 
(Continued from page 47) 
especially well adapted to marquetry. 
Queen Mary had no little influence on 
the movement; her taste was admirable; 
she had a passion for china, and her 
collection of Delft and Oriental set a 
fashion which all the fine ladies of the 
day imitated till it became a perfect 
mania. To accommodate these collec¬ 
tions cabinets with glazed and mullioned 
doors were devised, and their develop¬ 
ment in the following reign was very 
interesting. “Imbroidery” was another 
of Queen Mary’s gifts, and the covers 
which she made for chairs at Hampton 
Court were miracles of her skill and 
patience. 
The craze for Chinese lacquer, which 
began in Charles I’s time and lasted till 
the time of Anne, had an influence on 
the walnut furniture of the period, 
which was sometimes painted black and 
gilded in order to harmonize with the 
Oriental lacquer work. The famous 
claw and ball foot was directly imitated 
from the Oriental device of a dragon’s 
claw holding a pearl; this was intro¬ 
duced on the feet of walnut furniture 
early in the reign of Queen Anne. The 
fashion had a great vogue, and lasted 
in some form or other down to the days 
of Queen Victoria. 
Probably the idea of inlaid floral 
marquetry came first from Italy, but 
the arabesques and acanthus-leaved fo¬ 
liage of the Italian mode soon de¬ 
veloped, in Dutch hands, into natural¬ 
istic flowers and leaves and parrot-like 
birds in the gay colors of “outlandish” 
woods, with ivory and bone dyed green 
to give still more brilliancy. In con¬ 
junction with vivid fabrics and lacquer, 
the whole effect must have been gay 
and charming, if a trifle exotic. 
As the Dutch workmen began to 
adapt themselves to English standards 
of taste, however, this floral marquetry 
began to take on a more subdued as¬ 
pect. The bright flowers and birds 
gradually gave way to scrolls and curves 
cut from pale woods, such as pear, 
sycamore, or holly, inlaid on the wal¬ 
nut ; and by the time of Queen Anne 
this development had crystallized into 
the minute and delicate work which is 
called endive’ or more popularly 
“seaweed” pattern. 
The generic term “Queen Anne” is 
made to cover a great variety of furni¬ 
ture. All pieces which are bandy-legged, 
nearly all walnut and so forth are given 
that name, whether they fit precisely 
into the dozen of years between 1702 
and 1714 or no. The reason of this 
would seem to be that certain forms 
which had been passing through tenta¬ 
tive or transition stages arrived at a 
culmination—came to be standardized, 
as it were—during that reign. Foreign 
tendencies had been toned down; or¬ 
nateness and display had been modified 
without loss of dignity; and comfort 
was gained, while superb workmanship 
was the rule. The result is an example 
of the method of assimilation and elimi¬ 
nation that goes to produce a thor¬ 
oughly English style. 
The development of the cabriole leg, 
which is the salient feature of Queen 
Anne walnut, can only be touched on 
here. The pattern was first used in 
William and Mary’s time, and its ear¬ 
liest form was a conventionalized goat’s 
leg ending in the hoof. With the curved 
chair leg came the shortened and hooped 
back. The stretcher, which had been 
an integral part of the old high-back, 
straight-leg chair, became unnecessary, 
and by the time of Anne had disap¬ 
peared altogether. The “hoof” was 
soon modified, and settled into one or 
other variety of the club-foot. 
By this time household effects had 
greatly increased. The inconvenient 
chest was replaced by the chest of 
drawers; the Carolean day-bed was 
being superseded by the “sopha”, and 
numbers of beautiful card-tables were 
produced. Half way through Queen 
Anne’s reign a new type of settee was 
originated, with a back like two chairs 
joined, the splats and decoration being 
formed from a single piece of wood; 
the idea was well received, and the 
fashion lasted nearly a century. The 
long-case clock and grandfather chair 
were both made in quantities during 
this reign. 
For all this furniture walnut was by 
far the most popular wood, and all was 
dominated by the cabriole spirit; that is 
to say, the curved leg or the curved 
surface and shape had replaced the 
straight line, but with such consummate 
skill that the resultant style was one 
of the utmost dignity and restraint. 
The wood was used solid, or veneered 
on the solid walnut, pine, oak, or deal. 
Highly-figured wood was used for the 
veneer and applied with matchless skill. 
The famous oyster-shell veneer was cut 
from branches and symmetrically inlaid, 
and a favorite finish for simple pieces 
was a border of cross-cut bands or 
herring-boning. 
The charm of the old walnut lies 
partly in its lovely color and luster. This 
was not attained by French polishing, 
but by a peculiar clear and enduring var¬ 
nish, the secret of which has been lost 
