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The-HOME and its ENVIRONMENT "COLONIAL".HOUSES COVER MANY STYLES Firat Homes ia America Were Bailt After Styles of Old Countries !IJ Elizabeth Stutaon "Colonial" houses to most of us is a term made to cover approxtmately three .5tyles. of early architecture: the New . England Colonial. the Dutch Coloma}, a~d the Southern Colonial. qne authonty on Colonial architecture gtves us nine sub-divisions of the term : the Dutc!t Colonial; th( Colonial architecture m New En~land: Pre-Georgian architecture in the Middle Colonies; the Georgian mode in New England; the Southern Colonial · Georgian arc~itecture in New York! Pennsvlvama, New Jeney and Delaware Georgian; Georgian architecture in the South; and the pos!-Colonial peri::>d and the classic revival. Colonial architecture covers all the early efforts of the American designers. As such. it is a valuable index to the styles of living. thinking, and to .some ~xtent, th~ prosperity of the country~ _fhe Colontal house, properly speaking, 1s more what we call "Early American" and the more luxurious style of building, usually called "Colonial" is really Georgian. These Georgian hou.;es were built after the early settlers were enabled to think of something other than whether the corn meal would last through the winter or not. It was a style which was an expression of elegance and eas~. Dutch House Deceptive I wumE LIBRARY ----------~--------~ nu~n~ Garden Is Mq,ss of Blooms Foar New Publicati.a Are Of. ferecl u Fireside c.n,.Dioaa for Wmter By Aaae L Wlaitmark, (Librarian) The Wilmette Public Library has ac- . quired a number of new books on architecture, interior decoration, flow- . en and gardens, all of them are interesting, and all of them contribute something to making our surroundings more pleasing to us. Patterson's "American home of todav" considers the different types of architectural styles-the Colonial, the English manner, the Italian, the French, the Elizabethan picturesque and the modern picturesque. It is beautifully illustrated with photographs of the work of our foremost architects. These together with the delightfully lucid text make an unforgettable book. Most of the house3 were built for men of great wealth. but the. underlying beauty of them all could be brought into houses of a smaller scale. Bernard C. Jakway, extension lecturer for the University of California This picture of the garden of Paul L. Battey, 453 Skokie road, Glencoe has publhhed a book called "The Prinshows but a .small part of the large garden. This pool . and rockery is one ciples of Interior Decoration." It is a of the attractive corners of the garden which· is laid out in a naturalistic style. very good textbook on the subject Beginning in early 3pring with over a thousand varieties of Iris, the entire considering all the things that an amaestate is a mass of color, until the autumn frosts leave only the hardy teur wants to know-color, line, fitness of purpose, texture, etc. It is practical chrysanthemums. · and worthwhile. 'Colour in My Garden" by Louise Beebe Wilder is a charming book. The man.r lovely colored plates of her garden at different times of the year is enough to make the most unenthusiastic gardner turn over a new leaf. Paint-brush, turpentine, a can of The series of art lectures being giv- It is an excellent book for winter repaint are sure lures for the ambitious en under the auspice3 of the North flection, full of suggestions both pracwho want their furniture to be "just Shore Art league by Dudley Crafts tical and artistic. "The Gladiolus Book" by McLean a little different." The easiest way to Watson bring to mind his rules for start painting is to buy the unfinished hanging pictures. They are not diffi- is best characterized by this paragraph from its preface. "It is for the lover furniture. It is not always possible to cult. of flowers . . . . Among the thousands start from scratch, however. for there "Hang the pictures ·so that either the are sometimes old pieces of furniture bases or the tops of the frames are on of people who admire Gladiolu5 and a straight line. The day of the ladder grow them in their gardens there are that must be done over. probably many who ~uld like to Either sandpaper or clean off with effe~ts and zigzag has passed. "Group pictures so that the wall Is know more about them: their beginvarnish remover the old coat of paint marked by a few large masses. Let or varnish. It must be removed ample free space separate the groups. nings, present day traits, and their "Hang pictures low. The horizon or po3sibilities for the future . . . . We before painting as the slick surface of center of interest in the picture should have kept in the main to the facts old paint will cause the new paint to be on a line with a man's vision, unless of proven value." In addition to the scale or chip. Now either .t he old or it is hung over a piece of furniture. unpainted furniture is ready to re"Do not clutter walls with too many usual discussion on growth there ts .a ceive the first coat of flat paint. A pictures, rest spaces are as essential to chapter on culture under glass and one on autumn and winter care. paint which contains but the fiat and walls as to music. "Use cords only when a nail would the enamel gives too soft a coating for il!lsecure. Let them be inconspicufurniture and will not wear as well aJ seem ous and always parallel with the sides Interior Decorators Find a treatment of fiat and hard-surfaced of the frame. Use two picture hooks, .Color Note in Bird Cage enamel. After the first coat of fiat is never one, which makes a triangular space above the pictures." The interior decorating preoccupadry, apply the second. . These two apMr. Watson has also expres3ed the tion of the American woman has plications should be made with a thin belief that many homes have too many br(lught into being a new type of bird paint. The first coat of enamel should be pictures, and that the meaningless ones ca~e. It is found principally in two applied after the fiat is thoroughly should be removed from the walls. If, types, one made of brass and finished dried. It is important to remember in following this suggestion, there are in a ~reat variety of colors and color that ·all stroke must go in the same di- too many pictures to be hung in the blends, applied by' the duco process, rection, the paint should not be heavy, home at one time, the pictures should just as cars are finished. The other and the painter should start at the top be changed occasionally. If one set is not of brass at all, but of pyralin, -lnd work to the bottom. One last cau- of pictures is left on the walls too long, the light substance often called imitation is in order. If the paint is not people no longer see them. Small sub- tion ivory. The advantage of these cages is applied evenly and the painter wants jects should be kept on the table in a their usefulness as aids in any room's to go over it again, he must do it the portfolio. color scheme. They can be found in minute it is applied or allow the paint to dry · thoroughly and go over it with PEONIES GROWN FROM SEED literally hundreds of colors-green, blue, red, old rose, Persian silver and another coat. The paint surface, if Growing peonies from seed is a long charming combinations of these same touched when partly dry will be picked up and form balls on the surface. Three task. It takc5 the ripened seed three colors. With the seed cups colored to However, the match, with graceful tassels and with or four hours more than the time per- years to germinate. scribed for drying on the can is not tim~ may be shortened if the seeds are their artistically worked stands, they too little to allow. If the paint is al- taken from the pod just as it ripens are bird "residences" rather than lowed to set for some days before ap- and is put into the ground before the cages. You can find them to fit irito plying the next ~oat, it should be wiped coating has time to harden, the seeds whatever scheme of decoration your · .may shorten .the time of germination. room has. ·off with a damp cloth. The Dutch colonial, one of the earliest types of houses, was the most sur· prising }louse built. From the out side it looked small; the inside was a different matter. The house was square or oblong in shape, the most economical stvle of house that can be built. For example. the houses along the north shore that are built in this 5tyle are as deceptive in appearance as these early ones. The inside of the house reveals a surprising amount of room with it.s center hall and endless places to store household goods, its wall space. and general convenience. Solid comfort is the keynote of one of these houses. Of course, like all solidlv comfortable thing5, the houses do nof present the variety of arra.ugement and the beauty of more intricate and expensive constructions. The old Dutch colonists used the garrets of their houses for the storage of vegetable3 and winter supplies. The vegetables were grown in the Dutch gardens which presented a quaint mixture of cabbages and roses grown side by each. Their gardens were a matter of usefulness, and their arti3tic sense was not in the least disturbed by the mixture of vegetable and floral offerings. Being an extremely practical-minded people, they built their homes from whatever material offered. Then too, if they ran out of one kind of material, they took up the good work of building with another. Thus, in the territory that was the New Netherlands, the houses are built of stone and shingled with handhewn slab3. When wings added to the original house were sometimes made of wood or other materials. The origin of the gabrel or curb roof line is an interesting incident. A tax was laid on all house3 of more than one story . in height, so the ingeniou:; Dutch builder brought his roof line down to the . top of the first story. Then to give the needed head-room, (Continued on page 55) Dudley C. Watson Paint BrushJ New, Names Regulations Old Furniture Are on Picture Hanging Lures for Unwary