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The War Garden Department 
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through several thicknesses of cheese¬ 
cloth. Test for pectin. Measure the 
juice and bring it to the boiling point. 
Add to this boiling juice an equal 
amount of heated sugar, cup for cup. 
Boil this sugar mixture rapidly until the 
jelly point is reached. All fruits ex¬ 
cept currants and green grapes require 
about twenty to thirty minutes of boil¬ 
ing. Currants will reach the jelly stage 
in ten minutes. When mixture jellies, 
pour it into sterilized jelly glasses and 
cool quickly. Over the top of the jelly 
spread a layer of melted paraffine and 
then cover the glass with a fitted tin 
cover or a piece of paper dipped in 
alcohol. Label the glasses and keep 
them in a dry, cool place where there is 
no chance of mildew. 
Raspberries, blackberries, crab-apples 
require about three-fourths cup of sugar 
to one cup of juice. Currants and 
underripe grapes require one cup of 
sugar to one cup of juice. 
Details That Make or Mar a House 
(Continued from page 31) 
entrances and windows whose purple- 
shadowed depths were found to supply 
the desired relief and contrast to the 
flat, neutral-tinted walls. 
For the Cement House 
The cement house, beyond most other 
types, offers a premium to originality 
by reason of the ease with which it 
lends itself to the production of decora¬ 
tive forms, and the varied means which 
it places at the designer’s disposal. 
Tinting the cement itself with a color 
in harmony with the environment gives 
immediate distinctiveness, and the use 
of colored dash makes possible an al¬ 
most limitless number of variations in 
hue and texture. An artist who de¬ 
signed a country home for his own oc¬ 
cupancy, created a striking and beauti¬ 
ful effect by imbedding turquoise blue 
tiles at intervals in a surface of cement 
stucco tinted a soft orange yellow. In 
another house of marked originality, a 
series of shallow niches relieved the 
bareness of the wall on the side that 
faced the garden. Each niche was 
framed with ornamental lattice-work 
and contained a cement pot filled with 
growing plants whose vivid colors 
formed an effective contrast with their 
cool gray background. In still another 
instance, niches were simulated by 
white-painted arches of lattice over 
which vines were trained. 
Vegetation, indeed, is as rich in deco¬ 
rative potentialities as the clay of a 
sculptor or the pigments of a painter. 
Vines draped over porches or windows, 
or permitted to wander at will over the 
face of a building, mold harsh contours 
into gracious curves and sketch ex¬ 
quisite, lacy patterns, while their flut¬ 
tering leaves and swaying tendrils pro¬ 
duce a ceaseless shadow play. Close 
plantings of flowers or shrubbery hide 
the foundation of a building and give it 
the effect of having sprung spontaneous¬ 
ly from the earth: and nearly any sort 
of house assumes an air of quaintness 
when plunged knee deep in a tangle of 
old-fashioned posies. Window boxes 
may be as varied in detail as the plants 
they contain, and the periodical changes 
from the bright blossoms of summer to 
the rich evergreens which enliven the 
bleak days of winter, afford ample op¬ 
portunity for devising original combina¬ 
tions. 
Truly, no detail is so insignificant 
that the alert mind cannot find means 
to make it a vehicle of individual ex¬ 
pression. Even so small a factor as the 
pattern of the blinds or of a balustrade, 
or the design of a pair of porch lanterns 
may reveal the touch of novelty that re¬ 
deems the entire structure. In the effort 
to be original, however, there is one 
great danger to guard against; namely, 
that absorption in details will cause 
forgetfulness of the essential relation of 
the parts to the whole. 
Collecting the Netsuke of Nippon 
(Continued from pagef 19) 
from the Demon King, and how they 
made the Demon King prisoner and ap¬ 
propriated his treasure, was also told 
us by our entertaining host. But I 
must forbear giving the whole story 
here. Lately the legends of Japan have 
been gathered and published in several 
collections, and to these the reader is 
directed. One of the best works being 
F. Hadland Davis’s “Myths & Legends 
of Japan,” published by Frederick A. 
Stokes Company, New York. 
Netsuke Designs 
We shall never forget that delightful 
evening, our introduction to the fascina¬ 
tion of netsuke, and the reader will not 
wonder, perhaps, that we became col¬ 
lectors ourselves when the first oppor¬ 
tunity presented itself. Dr. William 
Anderson says of the netsuke of Japan 
—the word netsuke is both singular and 
plural, as the Japanese do not employ 
a differentiating suffix for the plural 
form of a noun—“The designs of the 
netsuke-carvers embrace the whole range 
of Japanese motives, and the artist tells 
his story with the utmost lucidity. 
Nothing is safe from his humor, except, 
perhaps, the official powers that be, of 
whom the Japanese citizen has a salu¬ 
tary dread. Religion, history, folk-lore, 
novels, incidents of daily life, all pro¬ 
vide material and tools, and his subjects 
are mostly treated in a comic or flip¬ 
pant vein. The pius Dharma, aroused 
from his nine year’s motionless contem¬ 
plation by the attention of an obtru¬ 
sive rat who ventures to nibble the 
saintly ear, is made to assume an ex¬ 
pression suggestive of the strongest equiv¬ 
alent for swearing, of which we may as¬ 
sume a good Buddhist to be capable. 
The Thunder God is seen extracting the 
stormcloud from the basket that gives 
it stowage-room in idle days of sun¬ 
shine. An inquisitive bird has unwarily 
inserted his long beak between the valves 
of a giant clam whose gaping shell had 
invited the incautious search after the 
unknown, and now, with straining 
thighs and flapping wings, , struggles 
vainly to regain his liberty. An ex¬ 
pectant domestic party surround a fish- 
kettle, while the head of the family 
triumphantly extracts a carp of tempt¬ 
ing proportions, but the averted heads, 
disgusted faces, and finger-tweaked 
noses of the hungry group eloquently 
proclaim the central idea of Buddhism— 
the impermanency of all things and the 
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