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House & Garden 
To open, turn lock 
up. To lock, turn 
lock down. One 
turn unlocks or locks 
every catch. 
Greatest 
Enjoyment of Vacation 
W ITH vacation time drawing 
near, a wardrobe trunk is prac¬ 
tically a necessity. And once you 
see the new Belber Safe-Lock Ward¬ 
robe Trunk, no other will satisfy 
you. Every convenience that will 
add to your comfort or to the safe 
carrying of your clothes, is in¬ 
cluded in this handsome trunk. 
First of all, it has the new pat¬ 
ented Safe-lock, which with one 
turn, unlocks or locks the trunk in 
all four places. No need of stoop¬ 
ing over to open the lower catches; 
no digging your linger nails in to pry 
them apart. 
And what a fascinating array of 
drawers and pockets inside! There’s 
a big drawer for hats; a place for 
shoes; a laundry bag; ironing- 
board with iron-holder; and thought¬ 
fully designed hangers for gowns as 
well as business suits. 
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CURIOS in PROVINCIAL ENGLAND 
( Continued, from page 92) 
in, and it is, as a rule, in the humbler 
establishments that you get the most 
exciting hunts and finds. In a couple 
of hours an automobile will bring you 
from the heart of London to Hitchin 
and to St. Neots, quite fertile places 
for our purpose; Kingston, St. Alban’s, 
and ring of old towns just outside 
Greater London are nearer still. 
England in the 18th Century was the 
wealthiest of countries; the workman¬ 
ship then was both exquisite and dur¬ 
able; and there has always been conser¬ 
vative care. Both quality and quantity 
in the home products, and much bring- 
T H E CHINA 
(Continued 
ing of treasure from abroad by people 
who made the Grand Tour, or returned 
from long sojourns in the East, filled 
England with the kind of thing now 
desired by collectors. And deaths, the 
division of estates, the ending of fam¬ 
ilies and the dispersal of heirlooms, 
have diffused the ownership of antiques. 
In a Richmond shop-window I saw, 
and I bought for two dollars a biscuit- 
porcelain flower-placque with the arms 
of a Duke on it, made for a Ducal 
House, at Bristol in 1768; its West-end 
value is over a hundred. You, too, may 
have the same luck! 
on the SHELF 
rom page 77) 
for instance, a shiny black set off with 
an apricot lining. Extra china and 
linen could be stored in the large com¬ 
partment underneath the shelves, as 
shown in the illustration accompanying 
this article. 
Frequently the architectural scheme 
of the dining room or breakfast room 
demands a closed china closet. The 
cupboard illustrated is built into the 
corner, but would also be attractive 
set into a straight wall. A charming 
glimpse may be had, when the door is 
ajar, of an interesting grouping of china. 
The studied decorative arrangement of 
the dishes on the open shelves need not 
be adhered to here as the quaint mis¬ 
cellaneous arrangement is in harmony 
with the Colonial lines of this feature. 
The china of every day use, which 
is generally kept in cupboards in either 
the pantry or kitchen, may be inter¬ 
estingly arranged behind glass doors. 
WALLPAPERS for 
The latter are advised because one can 
easily see the china that is needed, and 
they serve to protect it from dust. 
Closed compartments at either side will 
be found useful in taking care of the 
odd pieces of china, and small drawers 
immediately under the shelves may be 
used for keeping table silver. 
For the pieces of china which are 
merely ornamental there are many 
places where they may be placed to 
good advantage. Plates of peasant or 
primitive design, for example, are effec¬ 
tively used on the shelves over doors 
of the Dutch type. In an old-fashioned 
room plates and jugs may be effec¬ 
tively arranged on the mantel and on 
the wooden panel over the Colonial 
mantel a few large plates, providing 
they are of the corresponding period 
and hung in a dignified pattern will 
make a striking and appropriate deco¬ 
ration for a dining room. 
DINING ROOMS 
(Continued, from page 65) 
important even if more difficult to un¬ 
derstand and use. These are the ele¬ 
ments of Pattern and Form. 
The latter we use in the themes of 
our furniture. The delicate propor¬ 
tions and quiet restraint of line in 
the pieces of Sheraton inspiration es¬ 
tablish an atmosphere just as distinctive 
and marked as the gray green of the 
walls. The larger, rounder, more ro¬ 
bust and florid fancies of Chippendale 
give a totally different aspect to the 
room, one of solidity and dignity, with 
a just amount of rather austere play¬ 
fulness. Or to go back still further to 
the rich heavy ornateness of the earlier 
Jacobean furniture, this at once creates 
an effect of sumptuousness owing to its 
richness of tone and color and the 
depth and beauty of its carving and 
modeling. Furniture of a simpler line 
and direct color appeal typified by 
our modern painted pieces with their 
straight silhouettes and easy propor¬ 
tions is more suited to the average 
American home. 
Quite as important as the style of the 
furniture is the style of all the pattern 
used in the room. Pattern is but flat¬ 
tened form seen in two dimensions in¬ 
stead of three. Have you ever noted 
how differently the large, flowing 
Renaissance scroll on the Chesterfield 
sofa makes you feel as compared with 
the neat, compact, conventional little 
figure on the Sheraton chair? Or the 
wall paper in an open spaced landscape 
design as against the one in a small 
conventional pattern? 
Wall paper is essentially a pattern 
product. For every type and kind of 
furniture, for every sort and shape of 
interior, there is a paper that tells the 
same story that the furniture is telling, 
that decorates enough and not too 
much, that suits the character, size, 
and shape of the room. 
Picture to yourself a modern house 
with a deep reception hall, stairs lead¬ 
ing up from the back, a small front re¬ 
ception room and a big dining room 
with an arched opening out into the 
hall. The wall spaces in this room 
are much broken and cut up by a fire¬ 
place, doors to pantry, bay window and 
cupboards. The furniture is good ma¬ 
hogany on simple lines. What do the 
walls need? A plain paper? No, for 
then the few remaining wall spots will 
be lost and the woodwork in the room 
will stand out with annoying plainness. 
A small figured paper? No, for the 
sweep of line in the architectural fin¬ 
ish and the weight of the furniture 
would both make it look insignificant. 
A flowered pattern would be also out 
of place with the severity of the fur¬ 
niture and the strictly formal character 
of the trim. There are but two things 
left, the formal leather pattern and the 
landscape. And of these two, the 
latter is by far the better. The remain¬ 
ing wall spaces are long and narrow 
vertically, and the sweep of tree trunks 
and foliage lend themselves admirably 
to them. So it becomes a landscape 
with tall tree trunks and nodding 
(Continued on page 96) 
