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low chair, with a comparatively 
straight. back, at which one may sit 
to pour tea or write. Of course this 
must not be of the ordinary type of 
straight back chair used inside the 
house, but of a specially contrived 
veranda variety easily obtainable at 
any furniture establishment. 
The selection of a table for the 
outdoor living-room is an important 
poill but one quite easily decided at 
the present time with the wealth of 
desigus tuat are today on the mar- 
ket. A tavorite type of table is of 
medium size, constructed of un- 
stained wicker. lt has two rectangu- 
lar sheives with smaller square shelf 
on two of the sides between larger 
ones. It proves an ideal receptacle 
for books and magazines and also 
furnishes space for the display of 
cut flowers. The wicker capstan 
stool is much used and is handy to 
hold jardinieres filled with palms 
or plants and then when turned up- 
side down it serves the purpose of 
a scrap basket. 
The tea-wagon is a useful bit of 
furniture to install in the porch par- 
lor and has been much improved of 
late. An attractive model, much in 
demand, is in reality a wicker table 
with the top sunk in to hold cups 
and saucers, and fitted at one side 
with a handle and mounted on two 
wheels. It is pretty in its natural 
coloring, but is seemingly preferable 
when stained a dark green or deep 
red. Then there is a wicker stand 
which has come to be considered an 
important accessory to the _ tea- 
wagon. It contains three shelves, 
placed one below the other, and is 
convenient to hold plates of cake or 
other dainties generally served with 
afternoon tea. 
Flowers have come to play a 
prominent part in the decoraton of 
the outdoor living-room; it has be- 
come quite a fad to employ florists 
to give fragrant finishing touches 
to furnished porch parlors. 
The stone rail lends itself admir- 
ably to the effective display of boxes 
filled with blossoming plants, and 
some of these rails resemble a bit of 
an old-time garden, lined as they are 
with boxes planted with mignonette, 
heliotrope, and other old-fashioned 
favorites. The geranium, too, is a 
favorite plant much used in filling 
these boxes, and is always pretty, 
whether employed in a combination 
of tints, or used in one solid tone. 
Nasturtiums are particularly well 
suited for hanging baskets, which 
are most attractive when covered 
with natural-colored rattan. All of 
these baskets are made with a 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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Our Weekly Letter From ‘: f 
Washington E 
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OPPOSED 
By F. J. Dyrr 
(Special 10 the North Shore Breeze) 
Washington, July 1—wWithin two 
days the busy nation’s capital has 
been trausformed into a deserted 
village. Not only has Congress 
closed its doors until the short ses- 
sion shall open in December, but 
the President has transferred. his 
office to the North Shore of Massa- 
chusetts, and many of the diplomats 
have followed him there; others go- 
ing to Atlantic City, some to other 
resorts, and a few going to their na- 
tive lands on leaves of absence. 
Everybody else in Washington who 
is not tied down here by business, 
family affairs, or just pure poverty, 
has also shaken the dust from his 
feet, and is doing the best he car to 
enjoy life under more benign skies 
and amid more enticing surround-~ 
ings. 
During the next few months Wash- 
ington will be one of the dullest 
places within the confines of the 
United States. The only thing which 
will redeem it from entire oblivion 
as far as the news columns of the 
press are concerned is the fact that 
the various departments of the Gov- 
ernment will continue to do business 
ye 
at the old stand it matters not thaga 
summer has been ushered in with a_ 
temperature of 103 degrees and more 
in the shade, according to one of the 
Weather Bureau’s thermometérs 
conveniently located at a street in-- 
tersection where the passing popu-— 
lace may stop a moment just to learn 
how much it is really suffering; i 
matters not that with an unusually 
cool and rainy spring the weather 
man is disposed to believe that we 
shall sufier more in proportion dur- 
ing the months to come; it matters 
not that the army of government 
employees with only one month’s” 
leave of ubsence coming to them are 
trying to the best of their ability to 
distribute that leave of absence over 
as much of the heated spell as pos- 
sible—the fact remains that the ma- 
chinery oi the government continues 
to go on and the press bureaus of 
various departments will continue to — 
grind on ready-made news which oe — 
_casionally. has a flavor greatly re- 
semb!ing that made by the vulgar 
press agent of commerce. It there 
fore foliows that the hundreds of — 
newspapers throughout the country — 
maintaining special correspondents _ 
in Washington: and whose readers 
are accustomed. to daily installments _ 
of news and comment from capital — 
must keep their offices open and the 
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drainage; so that flowers thrive well 
in them. Among the larger flower- 
ing plants, which are suited to decor- 
ate the porch steps, is the hydrangea, 
which is a free bloomer, and is most: 
attractive when plantedinasoft blue 
Japanese crock. These plants are 
also pretty to place about the inte- 
rior of the porch parlor. 
Vines are useful as screens, and at 
the same time possess decorative 
qualities. The crimson rambler rose 
is most attractive and easily grown, 
and the Virgin’s Bower vine is par- 
ticularly well adapted to the out- 
door living-room, its thick growth 
serving admirably as a _ screening, 
and then, too, it has a long season of fi 
bloom during which time it presents — 
a snowy bank of star-shaped flowers — 
of delightful fragrance. The clei 
atis is one of the best of vines, and | 
when in flower displays a mass of — 
downy, white blossoms. It is partie: 
ularly effective when used in co 
junction with the coccinea, whost ? 
rose-colored blooms resemble half- | 
closed rosebuds at a distance. Then } 
there are the wistaria, honeysuckle, 
Virginia creeper, and numerous — 
other vines, all finely suited to orn 
ment the outline rail and roof sup=* 
ports of the outdoor living-room. ~~ 
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