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House & Garden 
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\TO illustration can truly show 
' you why Smith & Wesson 
revolvers are actually “Superior.” 
Any dealer will let you examine 
one, inside and out. Only then 
will the dependability and accu¬ 
racy of the arm be apparent. You 
will realize also, by comparison 
why its slightly higher price is 
justified. 
Smiths Wesson 
GJHanujac tur er s of Superior ffevolvers 
SPRINGFIELD 
MASSACHUSETTS 
Catalogue sent on request 
Address Department F 
No arms are genuine Smith & 
Wesson Arms unless they bear, 
plainly marked on the barrel, 
the name 
SMITH & WESSON. SPRINGFIELD. MASS. 
Furnishing in Relays 
(Continued from page 96) 
mirror, the William and Mary fireside 
chair done in black ground petit-point. 
Thus the room was finished, thus it 
was given charm, and beautifully fitted 
into a house that was entirely fur¬ 
nished by the relay method. 
But now let us study a house that 
was furnished “all-of-a-sudden”. For 
this house the owner had considerably 
more to spend than had my other 
friend. But, feeling that furnishing 
must be done completely when people 
are to live in the house and entertain 
their friends in it, she did a rather 
thorough job. You know the sort of 
thing,—a tapestry living room suite, a 
heavy oblong table with book racks 
at the ends, sectional bookcases, green 
Wilton rug, tan walls, silky green ma¬ 
terial for window hangings, lace trim¬ 
med net for glass curtains, an upright 
piano, a cabinet for music, two floor 
lamps with huge shades, a table lamp 
with a shade of art glass. In the din¬ 
ing room a rather puny Flemish oak 
suite was used, in the bedrooms un¬ 
imaginative ivory enamel furniture, 
and angular mahogany suites of name¬ 
less style. All proper, solid furniture, 
utilitarian, useful, but without the 
slightest claim to beauty. Even to cut 
glass and silver, even to embroidered 
white bureau scarves, was this house 
completely furnished. 
“But I always intended to refurnish 
completely in five years, at the latest, 
even when I was buying the things!” 
this woman said. “And when we 
moved into our next house, I was defi¬ 
nitely dissatisfied with my furniture. 
I would have given anything for some 
new things, but we simply could not 
afford them then. Each year passed 
with a fresh realization that we couldn’t 
consider refurnishing. There was so 
much to be done, everything would 
have to go, as I had begun to realize 
in two or three years how uninterest¬ 
ing my things were. 
“After five years I gave up hope; 
the undertaking seemed too big. I 
had repainted my bedroom furniture, 
I had nice plain walls, I had replaced 
my lamps, and given away my cut 
glass. I had sold my china closet, and 
had used dark cretonnes and casement 
cloths at all my windows, but as far 
as changing the furniture there seemed 
no prospect of this in sight. 
“Then I read an article on making a 
beginning. It told how a woman 
could often make an expenditure of 
one or two hundred dollars at a time 
when she would be appalled and fairly 
paralyzed at the thought of ever being 
able to spend thousands. And by buy¬ 
ing one thing one year, two another, 
one the next, and so on, and avoiding 
sets of anything, so long as the furni¬ 
ture conformed to the same general 
spirit and was really beautiful in line, 
an effective room was bound to result. 
“Well, I’ve made my beginning. I 
have a beautiful velvety brown side¬ 
board for my dining room, and even if 
ten years have passed, I’m seeing my 
home with fresh eyes. Two hundred 
and fifty dollars for this piece, and 
next year a hundred and eighty for the 
draw table to match. In another six 
months I’m going to get quaint Wind¬ 
sor chairs with the wooden peg con¬ 
struction. Everything will be good this 
time. I have only to shut my eyes to 
see this dining room as it will be:— 
the walnut brown of the furniture, the 
ivory walls and woodwork, the recessed 
cupboard with porcelain of old ivory, 
decorated in flowers in old red, blue, 
green and black; the mauve, green and 
black of the printed silk curtains, with 
their plain mauve velveteen valances. 
And on my brown floor, an oval rug 
of black and ecru grass, until I can 
afford a wool rug.” 
If all this had only been done in the 
beginning—how much simpler and less 
expensive it all would have been! 
Pruning Shrubbery To Ob tain Effects 
(Continued from page 82) 
in that way, taking care, however, not 
to get too much of a contrast in height 
between any two adjacent plants, be¬ 
cause of the striking feeling of unrest 
and lack of proportion which such an 
effect is sure to cause. In this case the 
hydrangea, now 12' tall, was trimmed 
back very little, but the shrubs sur¬ 
rounding it were all cut back far enough 
to allow it to tower 2' above its tall¬ 
est neighbors. 
The final step consisted in trimming 
and “smoothing up” any protruding 
branches that were overlooked at first. 
To be successful at pruning (and 
pruning is a very important task) we 
must observe the following points: 
Effect: 
Study the intended effect. Why was 
that particular shrub placed as it was? 
Can you improve on the intended effect ? 
Naturalness: 
Strive to prune so that the shrub 
will have a natural effect after the work 
is completed. Allow one side to stay 
a bit taller than the other, or leave a 
few branches more on one side than on 
the other—some little point to keep the 
whole from looking artificial. 
Leave as few stubby, “sore-thumb” 
ends as possible. If you are working on 
very old shrubs, however, do not feel 
discouraged if you cannot cut them all 
so that the cut remains hidden, for that 
would be well-nigh impossible. Be 
careful that you do not cut away so 
much of the growth in front that the 
untidy stumps in the center will show. 
Always remember to cut out the old¬ 
est wood first. Do this continually sea¬ 
son after season, and your shrubs will 
be young and thrifty. 
Mark two separate weeks on your 
calendar as “pruning weeks”. The 
first will be sometime along the last of 
June or the first of July, according to 
whether you are situated north or south 
of New York City; at this time all 
shrubs which have borne flowers during 
the spring and summer should receive 
their trimming. The second week may 
either be in the late fall or early spring, 
at which time the late summer and fall¬ 
flowering shrubs are pruned. 
