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House & Garden 
Orinoka 
Draperies & Upholsteries 
Colors Guaranteed Sun&Tubfast 
Their colors fast 
through summer sun! 
S UMMER is a trying time for draperies with its hot 
suns, long days and open windows. So trying, in fact, 
that it has sometimes been a springtime custom to take 
down the colorful over-draperies and to leave the home 
barren of their cheer. 
But with Orinoka Guaranteed Sun and Tubfast 
Draperies this procedure is unnecessary! Orinoka colors 
will not fade, let the sun pour in as it will, for they are 
hand-dyed in the yarn by our special process. And as often 
as Orinoka fabrics are soiled by summer’s dust, they may 
be washed with pure soap and water and rehung as bright 
and fresh as new. Orinoka weaves and color combinations, 
too, are admirable for use all through the year—whether 
at country home or in city apartment. 
Orinoka draperies offer the truest economy, for their 
beauty is permanent. Every yard is fully guaranteed— 
money back or new goods if color fades from sunlight or 
washing. Order your draperies by name—not “sunfast,” 
but “Orinoka—Colors Guaranteed Sun and Tubfast.” 
Look for this name on every bolt. 
THE ORINOKA MILLS 
510 Clarendon Building, New York City 
The Orinoka Guarantee 
is printed on the tag attached to every bolt of 
genuine Orinoka sunfast fabrics. Look for it when 
you buy. 
‘‘These goods are guaranteed absolutely fadeless. If 
color changes from exposure to sunlight or from 
washing, the merchant is hereby authorized to replace 
them with new goods or to refund the purchase price." 
THE ORINOKA BOOKLET 
‘‘Color Harmony in Window Draperies” was pre¬ 
pared by a New York decorator. It contains many 
illustrations in color of dainty window, door and bed 
draperies. Its suggestions for selecting materials 
and making and hanging draperies are practical and 
helpful. Send us your address and 20c. 
The Painted Glass Door 
( Continued, from page 106) 
glass doors have brought up the prob¬ 
lem of which of the two sides had the 
greater claim on the little rods and 
pleats. Should they strike you when 
you enter the hall or should they meet 
you in the living quarters? Having 
decided in favor of the latter, the strife 
between the two' rooms connected by 
the glass doors and leading into the 
same hall creates an irksome uncer¬ 
tainty. Which room was entitled to 
a greater share of tidiness? There 
seems to have been a great difference 
of opinion about the question, whether 
the living room required more atten¬ 
tion than the dining room, or vice 
versa. Truly, door curtains are trouble¬ 
some. 
Nothing can be more distasteful to 
the honest decorator than the play of 
the ostrich. Throwing a chasuble over 
a radiator does not eliminate its evil 
silhouette, but accentuates it. Stretch¬ 
ing a set of towels on door panes tempts 
one to forget all about the much 
wanted privacy and leave these doors 
Screening the 
widely ajar, with their leaves obstruct¬ 
ing the pretty things one may have 
placed on the wall spaces in their wake. 
The writer has tried to solve these 
vexing problems by devising the trans¬ 
lucent glass door painted on glass plates 
without divisions or accommodating the 
conventional mullions in design and 
scale. These doors resemble portals of 
wrought and gilded iron while the 
matted ground attracts reflections from 
the colors which pervade the room. 
They achieve the purpose of easing the 
“suffering” of the “jour de souffrance” 
by guiding it through pleasing scrolls 
and arabesques, gates, arches, and land¬ 
scapes. They achieve the purpose of 
making the closed door add to the 
completeness of the interior instead of 
injuring it when timidly furnished. 
There is, in the translucently decorat¬ 
ed glass door, a wide range of possibili¬ 
ties in achieving conformity with a 
color scheme or specific period of dec¬ 
oration, or with the general type of 
interior and mode of life. 
Objectionable 
( Continued, from page 89) 
On the right is the garage, which has 
its own little court, where also, at the 
end of the house, is the enclosed drying 
yard. The archways of ornamental iron 
in the wall mark the driveway open¬ 
ings. The street view of this wall is 
shown above, while an interior view, 
showing a somewhat narrower arrange¬ 
ment, is given below. 
The wall in the illustration may be 
built of brick or hollow tile, stuccoed 
and coped with brick or flat tiles. 
Against the wall on the street side, vines 
can be planted which will cover its 
surface with green tracery. On the 
house side of the wall the central motif 
forms an opportunity for a focal treat¬ 
ment and gives an effective outlook 
from the windows of the home, both 
in summer and winter. It can be 
treated as in the illustration, with an 
arch formation, of metal or wire lattice, 
on which can be trained creepers or 
roses to form an arch, thus providing 
a setting for a piece of statuary or a 
fountain and bowl. The planting along 
this wall should be as much as pos¬ 
sible of evergreen so as to give a green 
effect in all seasons. An iron lantern 
hangs from each ornamental arch; a 
detail often needed as a means for light¬ 
ing the roadway when its sweep is 
narrow and complicated. 
It is desirable that the wall or screen 
should show some of the architectural 
character of the house itself. For ex¬ 
ample, there is an old Colonial house 
which has been remodeled but which, 
unfortunately, is placed almost directly 
on the street. There are numerous 
beautiful examples of just such houses 
which we covet for historical associa¬ 
tions and for their true artistic and 
architectural merits. They were built 
in times when the road was not a con¬ 
stant procession of motors as it is to¬ 
day. Or it may not have been one of 
the main thoroughfares. It was not 
necessary in those days to take into 
consideration the discomfort of the noise 
and dust; in those days also the passer¬ 
by was not a menace to one’s privacy, 
but a desired relief from the monotony 
of the almost deserted highway. 
For the screen which now is needed 
to shut out the confusion and bustle, 
a simpler type of wall has been chosen. 
The design on page 88 may be made 
of wood or of stucco tile, surmounted 
by a wooden picket. From posts on 
either side of the entrance drive swings 
the painted battened wooden gate of 
green, whose upper panel is ornamented 
with a knocker. 
In the sectional drawing can be seen 
a line of planting-box, to be placed 
on the top of the wall. In these boxes 
can be planted ivy, which is trained 
through the railings and allowed to 
hang against the wall or fence on the 
street side. In summer, the boxes are 
filled with geraniums or some bright 
colored annual, or if you prefer, an all¬ 
year-round planting of evergreens. This 
type of wall is particularly happy for 
the true Colonial style of architecture. 
Still another arrangement for the 
treatment of the plain, straight stone, 
brick, concrete, or stucco wall, is the 
line of pleached trees. Behind the wall, 
on the house side is a row of linden 
trees, clipped in a square formation, yet 
in such a way as to form a series of 
arches. These arches are very decora¬ 
tive from the street side, and on the 
house side give an opportunity for an 
interesting treatment with statuary. 
This type of screening lends itself 
charmingly where a formal architec¬ 
tural type is desirable, such as the 
French or Italian style of house. 
Still another and more simple form of 
screening can be made by using iron 
piping as a support for metal lath. 
This is a basis for a concrete finish; 
making, as illustrated on page 88, a 
simple and effective wall-fence and one 
suitable for many types of architecture 
and many sizes of purse. 
Simpler yet than any other form 
mentioned is the beanpole fencing 
which can be obtained by the running 
foot. This fencing comes with the bark 
still on the poles, and is ready to be 
placed. It is irregular at the top, but 
can be cut as in the drawing at the top 
of the page, to suggest points or curves. 
Behind this screen, on the house side, 
may be planted various kinds of vines 
which in time will find their way 
through the openings between the poles. 
Such a planting, of course, gives a 
softening effect to the surface of the 
fence and a decorative relief to its ver¬ 
tical lines. 
There are two more methods which 
while not architectural, are equally 
serviceable—the shrubbery hedgerow 
and the formal evergreen hedge. For 
(Continued on page 110) 
