84 
House & Garden 
Exceptional Reductions 
Sale List on Request 
No. S. S. 
WHITE CRINKLE BED SPREAD 
with Art Knot Monogram, embroid¬ 
ered in color desired, boxed and 
laundered. 
Single Bed Size Sale Price $4.50 each 
Double Bed Size ” ” $ 0 each 
Othe 
J Table Cloths at 25% reduction off 
regular prices 
J122 E? 
Pure Linen Hand Hemstitched Filet 
Lace edge Luncheon Set, 7 pieces, 
comprising one 18x54 in- Runner and 
six 12x18 in. Mats Sale Price. Slfl.Sn set 
J127—Pure Linen Sheets and Pillow 
match, beautifully embroidered 
Sheets, 72x108 ins. Sale Price 
Sheets, 90x108 ins. ” ” 
Pillow Cases, 22x36 ins.” 
$20.00 each 
25.00 each 
5.25 each 
J132—Five-piece 
Bath Set, com¬ 
prising one All 
White Bath 
Mat, 2 Towels, 
and 2 Wash 
Cloths, mono- 
grantmed in any 
color desired 
Sale Price $9.00 
set 
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The Roof of the Room 
(Continued from page 82 ) 
nial days of mighty iron hinges on the with rosettes of carved oak at the 
doors and great oak beams from joining. These panels extend down 
frame to frame, when windows were over the cove. 
high in the walls that stern Puritans The use of ornamental plaster walls 
might dine without losing any member has been widespread through all types 
of the family (for the Indians were of architecture in all countries. You 
accurate shots) ceilings were quite un- find it done simply in houses of the 
consciously fine and artistic. Huge English cottage type and colorfully 
beams supported the roof and were and geometrically in Tudor houses It 
left exposed, unornamented, uncolored, is particularly practicable as it lends 
telling a tale of needed strength, of itself to great elaboration through the 
fine adjustment to purpose, of accept- use of swag and color detail, or it can 
ance of reality. The spaces between be made inexpensively as in some 
these beams were usually finished with of the smaller cottages and bungalows 
plaster, and the oak itself left to in this country. In the Tudor house 
weather. This is a desirable custom of Walter M. Wickes, near Baltimore 
to follow both in building new Colo- the more elaborate form of ornamental 
nial types of houses and in restoring plaster is used, suited in design to the 
ol< Lones Jacobean furnishing of the stately 
With the coming of Georgian archi- room. The contrast between the light 
tecture our houses, in the Middle ceiling and the dark oak paneled wall 
States and the South, followed the is characteristic of the finest Tudor 
English tradition. Paneled and mold- rooms. 
ed plaster ceilings were not uncommon. A delightful example of simple plas- 
The sealed-in ceiling did not come ter ornamentation on a flat ceiling is 
until much later, when both house used as one of our illustrations, '’the 
planning and building had been taken ornamentation having actually been 
out of the hands of the amateur, when molded and put on by hand. This is 
men were making a study of how to called parget. A softly modeled, nar- 
handle wood. The cabinet-makers did row “insertion” of plaster divides the 
much to help this development of fur- ceiling into a series of large squares 
niture and interiors. Employing Con- and the joining of each square de- 
tinental forms of decoration necessi- velops a smaller square, in the center 
tated the creation of ceilings in the of which is a fine bit of plaster orna- 
traditional Continental styles. An ex- ment. The plaster chimney breast of 
ample of the all-wood ceiling is shown this room is decorated in the same 
m one of the illustrations, in the home charming personal fashion, a coat-of- 
of M. A. J. Thomas, at Hartsdale, N. arms and some heraldic animals all in 
Y. It is decidedly European in influ- plaster give a delightfully individ- 
ence and this particular room is ualistic note. 
Italian in feeling, with its arched door- A second room which we are show¬ 
way and inset windows. ing from the Deering house in Florida 
Where sufficient room can be achiev- has a ceiling quite elaborately orna- 
ed in a one-story rambling house or mented yet giving the impression of in- 
in the low wing of a big dwelling, an finitely delicate grace. The ceiling is 
intimate yet inspiring ceiling effect can flat with an elaborate original plaster 
be obtained by the peaked roof, as design, inset with classic oblong panels 
shown in the house designed by Pea- of Greek figures possessing a delight- 
body, Wilson & Brown. An effect of fully gracious movement, 
space and height is here obtained by Unquestionably the use of figures as 
the use of a well-constructed, exposed ceiling ornamentation, except where the 
timber frame, reaching from the beams surface is vaulted or domed, possesses 
at the top of the wall to the peak of the disadvantage of attracting the at- 
the roof. The plaster between the tention in a more personal way than 
beams being handled in the same man- pure conventional ornamentation. A 
ner as the wall, which brings the two figure used as a decoration irnmedi- 
into a most friendly relation. A great ately awakens an impulse to examine it 
oak beam serves as the mantel and more closely. This in many instances 
rests on two well designed wooden is quite impossible and the result is 
brackets. Wood is further brought sometimes slightly irritating, 
down into the room by finishing the Unless, however, a house is of such 
corners of the walls with solid oak proportion that a great variety of wall 
pillars. The result is substantial with- and ceiling decoration is necessary to 
out being heavy and gives a fine avoid monotony, there is a growing 
structural effect to the whole room, tendency in this country to plan simple, 
An unusually beautiful all wood ceil- flat ceilings with possibly an interest¬ 
ing is developed in the Deering House ing cove from ceiling to wall or a 
in Miami, Florida. The beams are very slight plaster ornamentation which 
shallow with wood panels between, and has the effect of handwork, or a com- 
the whole surface delicately and simply bination of wooden beams and plaster, 
carved, on the sides as well as on the done without ostentation, 
face of the beam. The development of ceilings in this 
An example of modern ornamentation country would not be adequately set 
of a ceiling which joins the wall with forth without referring to the exceed- 
a deep cove is shown in the home of inglv interesting and sometimes really 
W. J. Brainard. Scarsdale, N. Y. Over artistic stock ceilings, both in plaster 
the plaster surface are criss-crossed and in metal; the latter having the 
moldings of oak forming large squares, additional value of being fireproof. 
A Review of Ceiling Catalogs 
“The Red Book” published by the gether in so small a space. It is fully 
United States Gypsum Company, Chi- illustrated with not only pictures of 
cago, Ill.: This is really a handy book ceilings, which are put up in this pre- 
for architects, contractors, plasterers pared plaster, but with charts and de- 
and dealers. It is most carefully pre- tailed drawings showing just how the 
pared and contains an amount of in- plaster is used and just how to get the 
formation that is seldom gotten to- best results from it. There is a valu- 
