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HUMMING BIRDS 
Hannah Overbeck. 
'T'lLES; ground; light olive brown: lilies and throat of 
* humming birds, dull red; leaves, stems and birds, olive 
green; eyes of birds, white. For the washing set, body of 
design, light olive brown; background of border, a lighter 
shade of same; lilies and throat of birds, dull red; birds and 
leaves and stems, olive green. A cream margin around 
design with black outlines 
RARE PLAQUES FOR BARE WALLS 
For years, or ever since the emancipation of the artis- 
tic mind from oldtime hideousness in house-furnishing, 
women with charming homes have struggled with the mural 
decorations of their dining rooms. From the chromo 
nightmares which pictured impossible fruits and vegetables, 
down through assassinated game and mounted fish, the 
ENLARGED SECTION OF 
DESIGN FOR FIRE-PLACE 
-HANNAH OVERBECK 
gamut has been run by the housewife with sublime satis- 
faction at the beginning of each period, and distress of 
mind at the end. Now she bids fair to have struck the 
artistic thing at last. This is no more or less than the 
decorative wall plaque. 
These plaques are, in the main, of china, which estab- 
lishes their claim to the dining room at once. Always the 
thing that was needed for the dining room was a dis- 
tinctive something which exactly fitted. Of course these 
plaques are seen upon the walls of country homes in the 
main halls or living room, when the dining room is but a 
corner, and particularly is this effective when the furniture 
is the dark mission wood. In these cases the plaques are 
not confined to the plate rail, but fill in empty spaces be- 
tween bookcase and window, or above or below the rail. 
They are suspended invisibly by wire running around the 
under rim. — (Chicago Chronicle.) 
