Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1927, Page 21

REAT ESTATE. FURNISHING THE HOME Conducted for The Star BY ELIZABETH STETSON AND GENEVIEVE HENDRICKS English Tudor Sun Porch. c very quaint may be had for mall sum. The windows are not very long and | et in =o that the sliils are about BY ELIZABETH STETSON. Our most popular type of ho &till that of the Colonial or ea eral (1750-1840). We sce t whether of frame. brick, more often or countryside than any But we find also houses of i design, with peaked roofs, half t ing and casement windows Where. These we call “early houses, by which we mean r: tions in general effect of the hot ol 1ain t and 6 inches ahove the floors. A sories of these casements stretel is of the room. tyle of room are %o that the sill on which plants 7 Winter to give a | more cheerful effect ‘ The ceiling may he heamed or of | built in England from 1500 to 1700, and the floor dark in | These houses are marked on the ou would be | sh i 1 ed. 3 use the | sh pieces, rather | iling wicker sets. e windows in t deep in the w dows. On the inside these houses are | heavier, cruder cusjomarily finished in rough plaster | than the all-pre and wood paneling. | Th> walls of a sun porch in such a house should be finished in rouzh | plaster, the color being a light tone tan, yellow or gray. - Medallions in Windows. The windows are caseme: either diamond or square pa pane being over 6 inche: wishes to give the true effect an occasional pane of gl be treated with a medallion are usually crests, coats of arms or | all sometimes small fi; different | glow. n I In one corner is a small gate-legged Room Furnishings. In the sketch shown above a long | acobean stool has been placed under he windows. The seat is covered with a cushion of bright red linen, | which echoes the red tn the printed | h | linen of Jacobean design hanging at no | the casement—eastern birds perched mong the flowers and leaves of a ree which curves gracefully over the may [ whole ground. No net curtains are hese | used here, as the sunlight is needed in its strength to make the room ANNOUNCING The Combining of the Offices of :C. BUSHMAN SMITH Formerly Located at 1703 Connecticut Avenue Northwest With 3. €. Douglass Co. HE specialized Chevy Chase real estate brokerage business heretofore conducted by C. Bushman Smith is now being conducted under his personal supervision through the office of J. E. Douglass Co. in their own building, 1621 K St. NW. The former personnel of C. Bushman Smith, Inc., now associated with J. E. Douglass Co., is as follows:— C. Bushman Smith 3 Aubrey Powell J. Arthur Barker George A. Smoot Myr. Smith invites his friends and clients to call upom him in his new business location, where the larger facilities will enable him to give a greater degree and wider range of service. J. €. Douglass Co. Realtors—Builders Successors to Douglass & Phillips, Inc. K St. N.W. Frank. 5678 | RAEYR 1509 Irving Street N.E. Brookland Modern Bungalow Located in a Fully Developed Square, Just Two Blocks North of Rhode Island Avenue. Tt is in perfect condition, having been newly papered and painted_throughout. You will find on the first floor a large living room, dining room, complete kitchen, builtin refrigerator, two big bedrooms, tile bath and screened sleeping porch. The second floor is completely finished with three large, heated rooms. Situated on a lot 50x135, with beautiful lawns, shrubbery and tile garage. To inspect, drive out Rhode Island Avenue to 16th Street, then turn north two squares to Irving Street. Priced Surprisingly Low for Immediate Sale Open Sunday Until 6 P.M. Hedges & Middleton, ine. Realtors 1412 Eye Street Franklin 9503 THE EVENING table, and close to it a comfortable wing chair, the principal anachronism of the room, as the wing chair came in a decade or so later than the time in which this type of window and fur- niture were used. Comfortable chairs | as we know them were not in exist- | ence in Tudor England. | their chairs w of plain wood and they padded them with heavy cush- | ions in order to soften them. But as time went on and furniture was evolved along lines of beauty and | comfort the upholstered chairs came into being. We first find them in ! Bngland in the re of Charles 1L His early life in nad given him a taste for luxury whicih was not com- | | mon in rhis type of cha is called ¢ a frame wh the, William nd Mary period the 1 holstered chair improves, so that | Queen Anne’s reign we have the wi The seats of | f Iman appeared for Mrs. Chapman, comfortable and fine looking plece of furniture. As this type of porch is usually quite small, there is no room for much IMPORTANCE OF WILLS STRESSED BY REGISTER furniture, just a few chairs, seat and 2 table or {wo. Lamps in here should | Cogswell Urges Legal Advice in have plain or painted parchment | % It painted ones are chosen, Devising Estates, at Round of a crude design with bright S ures should be used. . A gay-colored Turkish rug with lots of red or a plain one of a bright hue which harmonizes with the hangings i : { may be used on the floor, legal advice in doing so, was stressed _ by Theodore Cogswell, District regis- » " y ter of wills, in an address at a Wife Wins Maintenance. [ 1incheon of the Washington Round Julia A. Chapman. 17 D street | Table In the University Club yester: led a decree | ity Court for | day. The speaker described many of tha “pitfalls” encountered throuph wills not made out properly. Further tentative for international convention of the the city the latter part of September or early part of Octoher, 1928, were dis The importance of persons making | out wills and, if possible, to secure | Knights of the Round Table in this | STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1927. cussed dt the luncheon. John J. Tigert, United States commissioner of education, was elected a member of the Washington Round Table. Dr. E M. Ellison, president, presided. Asks $25,006 Damages. Suit to recover $25,000 damages was filed yesterday in the District Supreme | 5 Thir- | Court by Robert F. Walker, 2: teenth street, against Zarin & Korman and Nicholas Mazzanotte, confractors for alleged personal injuries. Walker was employed April 23, 1926, at prem- ises 2617-Georgia avenue, when a part of a brick wall fell upon him. He.is resented by Attorney Thomas M Baker. Such a Ridiculous Notion. Fram tha Rostan Herald But who supposes that navy y are REALE ESTATE. ACCUSED OF OWNING RUM. New Jersey Man Held After $100,- 000 Cargo Reaches Norfolk. MOUNT HOLLY, N. J.,, November 12 (®).—Accused of owning a $100,000 cargo of liquor smuggled into Nor- folk, Va., Harry Henderson, Camden, N. J., was held here yesterday in $10,- 000 bail for a further hearing, No- vember 23, hefore a Federal commis- sioner. hat time the question of his rem ‘irginia to face the | charge wi Henderson was arrested at his home in Camden by detectives on a Federal warrant, charging him with conspir- ing with “Fred Knight, and uth in a smuggling scheme. ' He denied he was the owner of the liquor boat, which was seized by Federal agents when it docked. He admitted hav 21 ment, but sald he had sold it a month ago to a man named Peter White of Florida. DATA FOR THOMPSON. | Comunisston Also Brings Pictures of Lord Mayor’s Parade. SOUTHAMPTON, England, Novem ber 12 (#).—In addition to a mass of data relating to London's under- | ground railway system which will be { shown Mayor Thompson of Chicagn, the Chicago commission, headed by | Michacl Faherty, which sailed on the | Rere today, has a complete | photographic record of the London | Lora Mayor's procession Wednesday. The film was snapped by Roger Faherty and other memhers of the ommission - as the parade passed {along the Strand with the Lerd { chair (as shown in the sketeh), a very naintained merely for the ing | Mavor's gres ol Bt purchased the hoat from the .| peayor'a great coach bringing up the 62 Built— 48 Already Sold Big 6-Room Homes—Built-in Garage 3 Large Bedrooms Built-in Brick Garage 3 Covered Porches Built-in Tub and Shower Ample Closet Space Concrete Cellar Hardwood Floors Artistic Decoration Paved Alley Only 7,950 $500 Cash NOTHING LIKE THEM EVER BUILT IN '5th and 38 Built—All Sold But 3 Homes of Quaint Design In the Exclusive 16th Street Residential Section Parkwood St. N.W., ‘West of 14th Convenient to the Shopping Facilities at Park Road Only 6 and 7 large rooms 1 and 2 tiled baths with built-in tub and shower Large porches 1 and 2 car built-in garages Exquisite dccoration Bright hitchens, com- pletely equipped; large pantry 10,950 and up Convenient Terms N.W l i T EXHIBIT HOME 4408 Chesapeake St. Drive out Wisconsin Avenue to Chesapeake Street, I west to Exhibit Home; or our representative will gladly call for you and show you these homes. 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