the room.

But my troubles were not over: When the stoves reached New York, we
tried to take them up to the roof, and found them too large for the
stairs. We couldn't have them lifted up by pulleys, because the glass
walls of the roof garden and the fretwork at the top of the roof made it
impossible for the men to get "purchase" for their pulleys. Finally we
persuaded a gentleman who lived next door to let us take them over the
roof of his house, and the deed was accomplished. The stoves were equal
to the occasion. They heated the roof garden perfectly, and were of
great decorative value.

Encouraged by this success I purchased another porcelain stove, this
time a cream-colored porcelain one, and used it in a hallway in an
uptown house. It was the one thing needed to give the hall great
distinction. Since then I have used a number of these stoves, and I
wonder why our American manufacturers do not make them. They are
admirable for heating difficult rooms--outdoor porches, and draughty
halls, and rooms not heated by furnaces. The stoves are becoming harder
and harder to find, though I was fortunate enough to purchase one last
year from the Marchioness of Anglesey, who was giving up her home at
Versailles. This stove was of white Majolica with little Loves in terra
cotta adorning it. The new ones are less attractive, but it would be
perfectly simple to have any tile manufacturer copy an old one, given
the design.

THE CHARM OF INDOOR FOUNTAINS.

Wall fountains as we know them are introduced into our modern houses for
their decorative interest and for the joy they give us, the joyous sound
and color of falling water. We use them because they are beautiful and
cheerful, but originally they had a most definite purpose. They were
built into the walls of the dining-halls in medieval times, and used for
washing the precious plate.

If you look into the history of any _objet d'art_ you will find that it
was first used for a purpose. All the superb masterly things that have
come to us had logical beginnings. It has remained for the thoughtless
designer of our times to produce things of no use and no meaning. The
old designers decorated the small objects of daily use as faithfully as
they decorated the greater things, the wall spaces and ceilings and
great pieces of furniture, and so this little wall basin which began in
such a homely way soon became a beautiful thing.

Europe has countless small fountains built for inte