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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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PORCELAIN
STOVES.
When
the
Colony
Club
was
at
last
finished
we
discovered
that
the
furnace
heat
did
not
go
up
to
the
roof-garden,
and
immediately
we
had
to
find
some
way
of
heating
this
very
attractive
and
very
necessary
space.
Even
from
the
beginning
we
were
sadly
crowded
for
room,
so
popular
was
the
club-house,
and
the
roof-garden
was
much
needed
for
the
overflow.
We
conferred
with
architects,
builders
and
plumbers,
and
found
it
would
be
necessary
to
spend
about
seven
thousand
dollars
and
to
close
the
club
for
about
two
months
in
order
to
carry
the
heating
arrangements
up
to
the
roof.
This
was
disastrous
for
a
new
club,
already
heavily
in
arrears
and
running
under
heavy
expenses.
I
worried
and
worried
over
the
situation,
and
suddenly
one
night
an
idea
came
to
me:
I
remembered
some
great
porcelain
stoves
I
had
seen
in
Germany.
I
felt
that
these
stoves
were
exactly
what
we
needed,
and
that
we
should
be
rescued
from
an
embarrassing
situation
without
much
trouble
or
expense.
I
was
just
leaving
for
Europe,
so
I
hurried
on
to
the
manufacturers
of
these
wonderful
stoves
and
found,
after
much
difficulty,
a
model
that
seemed
practicable,
and
not
too
huge
in
proportion.
The
model,
unfortunately,
was
white
with
gilded
garlands,
far
too
French
and
magnificent
for
our
sun-room.
I
persuaded
them
to
make
two
of
the
stoves
for
me
in
green
Majolica,
with
garlands
of
soft-toned
flowers,
and
finally
we
achieved
just
the
stoves
for
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.
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