New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

There was big brick chimney on the house
wall with wide fireplace. The floor was Of
brick, with braided rugs Of rush in the natural
color At one end stood round breakfast
table Of the same Swiss reed, with four reed
chairs.
Here breakfast is served all the year round;
in the winter with the French windows closed
and the open fire blazing Ito say nothing Of
steam radiator which is added for winter SER
vice. it makes a cheerful morning room, and
in summer, with the windows thrown wide
open it is a charming veranda.
And now we go on further down the island
to say How do you do?' to another old friend"
said Letitia. My letter this morning was
from Helen Poore, asking advice about her
porch, with which you will remember we did
very little at the time't tina. we did the house
and garden"
When we we're in the train she read an ex-
tract from Mrs. PORES letter.
I'VE adore our house, Letitia dear" she
wrote, land we have quite lost our taste for
caviar since we have become acquainted with
YOUR particular brand of good red herring.
There Is one more herring needed, however.
Will you supply It? We find that we have
money enough to do up the porch, my work
room you know, in the way that it should be
DONE so won't you please come and help US
out? You remember paid little attention TO
it when we did the house, but now that warm
weather has come we it more than any
other room in the house.
THE PORCH OF THE LITTLE HOUSE
Mrs. Poore met US with open arms and led
the way to the porch. 1t had brick floor and
the walls were in the natural cement color. A
series Of French windows, separated by little
spaces of cement, extended around three sides
of the room. These windows had wooden
panels three feet high with easement windows
over them.
Letitia studied it all carefully for few
minutes and then her edct went forth.
an the first place this room must grow
naturally out of the living room and be part
Of the house. So we will curtain the windows
with the same material that we used inside the
house-cream pongee but without trimming.
"For furniture we must have first Of all
long, narrow table on which Mrs. Poore can
work. a rush-seated settee and plenty of COM
Portable chairs all in a simple design, not so
heavy as those which Pamela used, but Of a
lighter, more graceful nature And painted
in-aye. there's the rub'l-let's see, inside
there is mauve, French green and cream This
must tie in with that. How would you like
nice soft gray lined off with cream
Sounds cool and, refined" said Mrs. Poore
And so we settled on gray, not battleship
gray, but pinkish, soft gray docs any one
realize, wonder, how absolutely impossible il
is TO describe color?) and a bit of deep cream
color introduced sparingly here and there.
Braided rush rugs in the natural color, with
speckles Of black in the border, were TO be
laid on the brick floor. There were to be pill
low, Of gray and white linen, with one or two
Of the plum color used inside the house and, on
every possible spot on the walls, brackets and
baskets filled with green foliage.
"a long gray fower-box on legs would stand
between two of the windows, filled with ivy
which would climb over the green treis above
1t. With the door wide open TO the orchard,
the gray and cream of the furniture would
blend on the one side with the green Of the
leaves and on the other with the plum color
and green of the living room.
INTERESTING PORCH FURNITURE
There are so many charming articles for
porch USE" said Letita, as we wended our way
TO the railroad station. Take the furniture,
every season brings new and interesting varie-
ties. This year it seems to be nip and tuck
between the wooden painted peasant furniture
and the plain Swiss reed The Herter Looms
carry unique type of porch furniture which
they import from the Philippines, black and
white rush or grass in interesting shapes
at seems strange that one rarely sees
hammock nowadays, when back in our young
days they were the one necessity for porch.
They belong TO the period Of the eighties. The
sweet young heroine Of the Duchess's novel.
was always discovered by the handsome hero
reclining in a hammock and reading Tennyson.
But the sweet young thing Of these modern
days is not the lo!ling kind; she much prefers
the straight-backed chair and a volume of
Wells
"As the porch is almost universally used as
a breakfast room, it is quite important that
there should be an electric outlet conveniently
arranged to attach the coffee percolator, the
toaster or the tea kettle There are all sorts
Of interesting dishes and glassware for the
porch table, and, Of course, service or tea
wagon is necessity for serving. These
made in painted wood or wicker to match the
rest of the furniture.
There is an infinite variety of wall brack-
cts. Of wrought iron, carved wood and of pot
terry or stone The Chinese pottery wall peck
ct, with its soft colorings in ware resembling
majolica, makes lovely bit Of color on