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House & Garden 
Sargent Door 
Closer No. 520 
This screen door closed— 
without a slaml 
T O have the screen door close every time it is opened 
and to have it close in absolute silence —what a 
comfort that would be, what freedom from annoyance! 
But you have only to apply Sargent Door Closer 520! 
This closer is small in size—exactly suited for use on 
the screen door and doors inside the house. It is rea¬ 
sonable in price. Yet it works as silently and surely as 
the larger Sargent Closers you have often seen on com¬ 
mercial buildings. It may be used on the outside of 
the screen door, or between the screen door and the 
house door. It is quickly put up. A diagram with 
every closer explains its easy application to any door. 
Use Sargent Door Closer 520, also, on the back-stairs 
door, the refrigerator room and lavatory doors and on 
the storm door in winter. It will add much to the 
safety, convenience and silence of your heme. 
“520” is for sale by hardware dealers everywhere. 
SARGENT & COMPANY 
Hardware Manufacturers 
The design of the Chintz above is in blue 
and maize and the cordings and binding 
of the ruffle are blue taffeta. From Fakes, 
Bisbee, Robertson, Inc. 
Well-Dressed Furniture 
(Continued from page 122) 
man’s room. The covers here will be Taffeta is another fabric that makes 
smarter and more masculine if they are effective slip covers. Often one hesi- 
strictly tailored and made to extend to tates to upholster a chair in a taffeta in 
the top of the chair leg and then bound some delicate color that will soon soil, 
with some contrasting color. In this case a slip cover should be made 
If one is using a flowered chintz, it that can be removed and cleaned. A 
is attractive to cord the seams and bind little knife pleated ruffle around the 
the edges of the ruffle in a plain chintz bottom makes an attractive finish, 
to match one of the colors in the It used to be customary in the case 
design. If a box pleated valance is of a wooden chair with an upholstered 
used it does not need any trimming as seat to cover the entire chair with a 
it is decorative enough in itself. Nar- slip cover. This is both ugly and 
row fringes of wool or silk can be used unnecessary. Covers can be made just 
in the seams and often give a pleasing, to fit the seats, snapping together in 
gay effect. If the cover is made with the back, as shown in the sketch on 
a plain piece at the bottom instead of page 59. These can be made in three 
one pleated or gathered, this might be ways, the piece around the bottom cut 
bound with a half-inch binding of perfectly straight, and bound, scalloped 
either taffeta or glazed chintz in a con- and bound or box pleated, 
trasting color. This flounce can be Unusually effective fabrics have been 
cut straight or scalloped. used for the slip covers on the chairs 
Slip covers are made of a variety of on page 59. One is a glazed chintz 
materials. Chintz is the natural selec- with a white ground and a delicate 
tion on account of the variety and design of deep pink ivy leaves. This 
beauty of its designs, its fresh, gay is bound with plain pink glazed chintz 
appearance and low price as compared and made with a box pleated ruffle, 
to silks. Linen has a more pleasing The other, also of glazed chintz 
texture, wears better but is also more has a cool green lattice pattern on 
expensive. It is more formal in char- white. This cover is laced together at 
acter and has not the cool, crisp the corners with green cords ending in 
appearance of glazed chintz. little wooden balls painted green. The 
Toile de Jouv makes charming slip attractive and unusual covers on the 
covers and there is an amusing pattern chairs of page 58 are of violet linen 
of shepherdesses in cherry red on a with a sun-proof green fringe used in 
white ground that might be u:ed with the seams. A Directoire chintz motif has 
plain cherry red taffeta or linen. An- been appliqued on the backs and seats, 
other design has a graceful pergola in On page 59 is an exceptionally well 
green on a gray ground that would be made slip cover of glazed chintz in a 
immensely cool' in a hot room and one cool water lily design, piped and bound 
might use with it green taffeta. with green taffeta. 
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