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House & Garden 
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Projecting timbers support the roof and afford a relief of shadow and 
line to the flat surfaces of the adobe walls 
Some Modern California Architecture 
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may sit and which forms a wind shield wild, with a touch of the desert in the 
when the roof is used for sleeping, as cacti. Poppies and sand verbenas, white 
is often the case. There are supports sage, yellow flowering palo verde, blue 
for the orange and blue umbrellas, raised dalea and beautiful buckwheat will be 
when the sun is warm, and on one corner planted among the chamiso, encelias and 
of the roof is an Indian jar. Such jars, eucalyptus which the birds have already 
placed in this way, are always to be seen planted. The architect, William C. 
on Hopi Indian house-tops and contain Tanner, as well as the owner, knows 
an offering of food to the Great Spirit, through travel and study the lives of 
Some people think the jars, with the the Indians and the country in which 
bottoms knocked out, are set over the they live. They sympathize with the 
chimney to give better draft, but the Indian ideals and love of protective 
truer, and more poetical, interpretation coloring, and have made the house 
is that they hold sacrificial food. beautiful to modern Californians, a 
The garden about Dos Cumbres, of pleasant memory of the first men who 
course, will be, as it should be, natural, roamed its wild mesas and deserts. 
Adventures I 
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Canton dishes echoed this same color. 
The living room, which seemed to be 
built around its cosy center table, en¬ 
veloped in a cretonne cover of gold, 
upholding a practical lamp that invited 
real reading, laden with books,—this 
living room was an adorable place. Low 
bookshelves were fitted below the 
deeply recessed windows, more flanked 
the one end of the fireplace, which was 
breasted into the room at one corner; 
in between the windows and doors the 
walls were wainscoted in delightfully 
paneled ivory wood; above, the wall 
was a soft yellow, and at the mull cur¬ 
tained windows there were side drapes 
of old yellow chintz patterned closely 
with freesias in cream. On the walls 
there were a few original pictures signed 
by artists of note; through the windows 
there were, I think, the most beautiful 
views I have ever seen. I have stood 
n Quaintness 
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at one of these windows at evening, 
with the room black behind me except 
for the fire on the hearth, with the 
moon high in the sky shedding magic 
on the length and the breadth of the 
marvelous marshes that had, before the 
full moon, been threaded by silver loops 
of broad tidal rivers, but which had 
now become one broad sheet of lu¬ 
minous silver, all the rivers in one, tiny 
hayricks caught and mirrored in the 
glory as they seemed to bob on the 
breadth of the waters. It was here that 
I read the “Marshes” of Sidney Lanier. 
It was here that I vowed to wait for 
my Innisfree. 
However, while waiting, one can have 
the most joyfully quaint adventures. So 
for five years I daily threaded my way 
through the most wonderful shop in 
the world, filled with hand-made silver, 
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Outside stairs give access to the roof. The windows on this side are 
filled with a simple wooden grill. The rounding of the wall corners is 
an Indian style. William C. Tanner, architect 
