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building which will be suitable to the needs of the society. 
I believe that the plans for the proposed building are 
adrirable and that they should be adopted as a working 
basis, subject, however, to minor alterations, if the com- 
mittee having the building in charge should so decide. 
1 also believe that if all the members of the society take 
hold with a will the necessary funds can be quickly raised. 
“The building will fill a long-felt want, not alone of 
the Society, but of the Town in general, because it will 
provide a semi-public hall for gatherings of various sorts 
NORTH SHORE.BREEZE and Reminder a 
for pleasure and, what is perhaps more important, for 
instruction. Therefore let us all put our shoulder to the 
wheel and do what we each can by way of contribution 
of funds and of our time and labor to bring about the 
desired results. Our firm of Samuel Knight Sons Com- 
pany will be very glad to contribute the sum of five hun- 
dred dollars ($500). ‘FRANK P. KNICcHT. 
The building is practically an assured thing. Sub- 
scriptions will be called for from the townspeople later 
on and it is expected work will be started this fall. 
Hand-printed Wall Paper 
From Salem House Sold 
to New York Museum 
J. FRANK REYNOLDS 
VISITORS to the Metropolitan Mu- 
seum of Art in New York will 
have an opportunity to see a wonder- 
ful hand-printed wall paper from the 
famous Cook-Oliver house in Salem, 
Massachusetts, just sold to the mu- 
seum. It was carefully stripped from 
the ‘walls of ‘“Salem’s American 
castle,” insured for $150 and shipped 
to New York to remain on exhibition. 
Visitors to historic Salem, hun- 
dreds of whom in a season journey to 
the many old mansions, have always 
admired the quaint, flower-designed 
wall paper in the hall of the Cook- 
Oliver house. It was made in Alsace, 
France, and has been on the wall in 
the hallway of the Salem mansion 
since the house was erected in 1802. 
It was brought home to Salem by 
Captain Samuel Coook, one of Sal- 
em’s old shipmasters, whose vessel 
plied the ocean when the historic city 
was the leader in the cities which sent 
fleets to foreign ports. 
The paper in its detail was of 
pink-hued wild roses, with a soft-toned background of 
gieen. It was hand-printed in Alsace on blocks 15 by 18 in. 
SECLUDED and restful, like a little room in which to 
withdraw when tired of the great expanse of sea- 
view or of the handsome grounds with their sweeping 
lawns and graceful trees, is the garden on the Beverly 
Cove home of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley L. Pickman. A vine- 
covered brick wall encloses it, through which on one side 
a little gate opens onto the lawn facing the sea. Marble 
steps lead down into the garden from the house or 
terrace around it. Gravel walks run through the little 
place and lead to a lower terrace, which is entered by a 
vine-covered, arched entrance over the steps. This is 
a little conservatory, seemingly, of potted plants, includ- 
ing fuchsias, palms and box trees. Fuchsias seem to 
predominate throughout the garden and elsewhere. The 
garden proper is best seen from the balcony-like arrange- 
ment at one side, where a little tea house is made on a 
high terrace overlooking the garden. The cosy tea room 
is sheltered by an expansive maple tree, and all around 
it are pots of blooming fuchsias and rose vines, the latter 
thickly covering the wall of the terrace and spreading over 
the ledge, under which is the fountain and lily pool, an 
Workman Removing Paper 
_ Considerable skill was necessary 
In removing the paper. Several days 
were consumed in removing the paper. 
The same hanger who took the paper 
from the Cook-Oliver mansion will 
undoubtedly place the paper when it 
is put into the new Colonial suite in 
the Metropolitan museum within a 
short time. The officials of the mu- 
seum could have obtained reproduc- 
tions of the French paper, but pre- 
ferred to go to the trouble of remov- 
ing the original in the old Salem 
house and shipping it to New York. 
The illustration shows the paper 
being removed inch by inch. In its 
present condition it is much like mod- 
ern paper, in that when it was put on 
the 15 by 18-inch strips were pasted 
into long strips as the paper of today. 
The picture also shows the beautifully 
carved hall doorway, with Colonial 
staircase and the carved detail of the 
spotless white ceiling. 
The Cook-Oliver mansion is the 
work of Samuel McIntire, the fore- 
most architect and wood carver. The staircases, doors 
and posts in the house were all hand tooled by him. 
unusually pretty feature in this garden. Four bay trees 
stand in the center of the garden and give it a touch 
of formality. The usual phlox and old-fashioned flowers 
are found here. _ But the prevalence of the fuchsia, and 
the snug little terraced tea room and conservatory feature 
of the garden lend it a peculiar and distinctive charm. 
Upon leaving this, the last of the North Shore gar- 
dens which will be described in the BREEzE this season, 
one cannot help but think that their owners have, indeed, 
learned the sentiment of flowers. Each garden has seemed 
distinctive and seemed to express the individuality of its 
builder. In many the selected flowers are as friends in 
whom great joy is derived by visiting them and working 
among them. And the gardeners of the Shore are amaz- 
ing for their love and pride in their work! There is no 
hour too early nor one too late to hoe and rake and dig 
among their beloved plants. Flower lovers have, as much as 
anyone, gained inspiration from Rudyard Kipling’s lines: 
“And no one shall work for money, and no one shall 
work for fame, 
But each one for the joy of working.” 
