MARY JACKSON LEE will show you on these pages each month the best of the new things found in the shops. We cannot purchase for you, hut for your convenience the address of the shop mentioned is given at the end of each item
ARTIFICIAL fruit and flowers, if they needed to justify themselves, could certainly do so on two
counts. They will withstand the dry, hot air of our houses and they are attractive in themselves. In fact, the dish of artificial fruit has come to be one of the indispensables of the dining-room, and for those who have n’t found as yet just what they want in this line, I can heartily recommend the one pic
tured in Figure 1. Four pieces of fruit and a bunch of grapes all in silvered glass are shown on a black glass plate. The plate, 10 1/2 in diameter, is $2. 00; the grapes are $1. 75, and the bananas, apples,
and pears 50 cents each; all to be
sent express collect. — Industrial Arts Shop, 65 Beacon Street, Boston.
I CAN think of no easier way, and in this case no less expensive way,
to freshen up a room than by the addition of a print or two. Of course the success of the venture will lie mainly in the print chosen,
but I can hardly predict failure if the one illustrated in Figure 2 is used. This would be delightful
in a country dining-room or guestroom, or in a library. It is called The Post Car,’ and shows a spirited horse and determined
driver in browns, with car in soft green, speeding through a town in Ireland whose yellow houses and green doors form the background. In the distance are green fields and blue hills. This print by Jack B. Yeats, of the Royal Hibernian Academy, was hand colored in
Dublin under the supervision of Miss Elizabeth Yeats. It is 9 1/2 x 12 in size and will be sent for $2. 25, postpaid. There are several other subjects equally attractive
which may be had at the same price, among them ‘An Old Woman of the Roads, ’ ‘The Fairy Hill,’ and ‘Evening.’ This last, lest you mentally call up hills and a sunset,
shows a donkey racing across the
fields for his supper. — Carol Brown, 104 Myrtle Street, Boston.
THOSE of us who have a garden pool that seems to lack the je ne sais quoi of the real thing will find that
the white stork and bullfrog in Figure 3 will turn the trick. The
stork, which stands gazing so philosophically at the fish or at its
own reflection, will make himself conspicuous with his scarlet legs, and the green bullfrog who watches so sympathetically with gorgeous glass eyes will by no means go unnoticed. They are probably just what you need to make your pool in the midst of lush meadows seem a real one. The stork is of terra cotta with lead legs, as is the frog, and both are painted with weather
proof paint. The stork is 18 high and priced at $12. 00; the frog is 6 1/2 and priced $1. 30. Both are
sent express collect. — A. Heissner s Garden Ornaments, 434 Broadway, N. Y. C.
sill or table. The white enamel sticks are to act as moral and physical support for top-heavy and delicate plants, and what plant would n’t acquire a backbone with
these harmless and amusing beetles, butterflies, and bugs in gay colors
to urge them to hold up their heads? The pots are 4 , 3 1/2 , 3 , and 2 1/2 tall, and are priced $2. 00
a set, parcel post prepaid. The sticks are 12 high and come three for $1. 00, prepaid. — F. B. Acker
mann, 50 Union Square, N. Y. C.
TILES such as those shown in Figure 5 have a multiplicity of uses. In the dining-room they may
THIS intriguing set of four flowerpots and saucers, Figure 4, is of terra cotta with baked colors in primitive designs. Just the thing to hold one’s pet seedlings or rare slips, in fact any choice plant that one wishes to keep on a window
ARTIFICIAL fruit and flowers, if they needed to justify themselves, could certainly do so on two
counts. They will withstand the dry, hot air of our houses and they are attractive in themselves. In fact, the dish of artificial fruit has come to be one of the indispensables of the dining-room, and for those who have n’t found as yet just what they want in this line, I can heartily recommend the one pic
tured in Figure 1. Four pieces of fruit and a bunch of grapes all in silvered glass are shown on a black glass plate. The plate, 10 1/2 in diameter, is $2. 00; the grapes are $1. 75, and the bananas, apples,
and pears 50 cents each; all to be
sent express collect. — Industrial Arts Shop, 65 Beacon Street, Boston.
I CAN think of no easier way, and in this case no less expensive way,
to freshen up a room than by the addition of a print or two. Of course the success of the venture will lie mainly in the print chosen,
but I can hardly predict failure if the one illustrated in Figure 2 is used. This would be delightful
in a country dining-room or guestroom, or in a library. It is called The Post Car,’ and shows a spirited horse and determined
driver in browns, with car in soft green, speeding through a town in Ireland whose yellow houses and green doors form the background. In the distance are green fields and blue hills. This print by Jack B. Yeats, of the Royal Hibernian Academy, was hand colored in
Dublin under the supervision of Miss Elizabeth Yeats. It is 9 1/2 x 12 in size and will be sent for $2. 25, postpaid. There are several other subjects equally attractive
which may be had at the same price, among them ‘An Old Woman of the Roads, ’ ‘The Fairy Hill,’ and ‘Evening.’ This last, lest you mentally call up hills and a sunset,
shows a donkey racing across the
fields for his supper. — Carol Brown, 104 Myrtle Street, Boston.
THOSE of us who have a garden pool that seems to lack the je ne sais quoi of the real thing will find that
the white stork and bullfrog in Figure 3 will turn the trick. The
stork, which stands gazing so philosophically at the fish or at its
own reflection, will make himself conspicuous with his scarlet legs, and the green bullfrog who watches so sympathetically with gorgeous glass eyes will by no means go unnoticed. They are probably just what you need to make your pool in the midst of lush meadows seem a real one. The stork is of terra cotta with lead legs, as is the frog, and both are painted with weather
proof paint. The stork is 18 high and priced at $12. 00; the frog is 6 1/2 and priced $1. 30. Both are
sent express collect. — A. Heissner s Garden Ornaments, 434 Broadway, N. Y. C.
sill or table. The white enamel sticks are to act as moral and physical support for top-heavy and delicate plants, and what plant would n’t acquire a backbone with
these harmless and amusing beetles, butterflies, and bugs in gay colors
to urge them to hold up their heads? The pots are 4 , 3 1/2 , 3 , and 2 1/2 tall, and are priced $2. 00
a set, parcel post prepaid. The sticks are 12 high and come three for $1. 00, prepaid. — F. B. Acker
mann, 50 Union Square, N. Y. C.
TILES such as those shown in Figure 5 have a multiplicity of uses. In the dining-room they may
THIS intriguing set of four flowerpots and saucers, Figure 4, is of terra cotta with baked colors in primitive designs. Just the thing to hold one’s pet seedlings or rare slips, in fact any choice plant that one wishes to keep on a window