House and Garden 
THE DINING-ROOM, SHOWING THE OLD ENGLISH WINDOW 
soft yellow, old gold and purple as well as the tapes¬ 
try back and seat of an odd chair add a pleasing note 
of color, but perhaps the key-note of the room, is a 
small glazed vase of bright lemon color. 
In strong and yet harmonious contrast to the 
living-room, is the deeper and richer coloring of the 
dining-room. Here the woodwork is stained a 
weathered oak and given a dead-lac finish. Between 
the open paneled wainscoting to the height of the 
plate rack, the plaster is tinted a maroon to corre¬ 
spond with the brick of the fireplace. The rough¬ 
cast plaster in the intermediate panels is a light terra¬ 
cotta and above the narrow panels of the frieze and 
the spaces between the false beaming, a pale warm 
yellow. The fireplace built in a recess or ingle- 
nook to the left of the entrance, is ceiled over some¬ 
what lower than the rest of the room, and has an 
arched lintel of wood. High backed settles are 
built in and with the brick hearth extend out to the 
dining-room wall. A Delft tile above the fireplace 
mantel, a representation of historic old New York, 
set in a two by six foot panel, lends a bright note in 
the color harmony, and, combined with the Dutch 
stems and candlesticks on the mantel,' a long rifle 
underneath, as well as a quaint iron fluid lamp sus¬ 
pended from the ceiling, gives this corner a comfort¬ 
able suggestion of bygone times. 
The dining-room set is of heavy English oak, 
somewhat darker in tone than the woodwork, each 
chair having seats and back of dull red leather 
studded with brass headed nails. The other 
pieces, a San Domingo mahogany sideboard, Shera¬ 
ton serving table and cabinet for china, most useful 
articles in themselves, while not of the same character 
as the rest of the room, are rich in color and do not 
openly conflict. On the plate rack and sideboard 
are displayed our New England heirlooms — odd 
plates of Staffordshire and English pastoral scenes, 
teapots and bowls of flowing blue, pewter platters 
and dishes of copper. A thick Afghanistan rug of 
deep maroon and dark blue covers the floor leaving 
a narrow margin only of the stained flooring. 
Beyond doubt, however, the greatest delight of the 
dining-room is the English window through which 
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