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Show ' Garden Tea Houses. A HARDEN tea house makes a dclight-lul dclight-lul afternoon retreut for the young hostess wh.. prefers not to entertain her girl friends Iu the Kener.il Ihing r..oiu or on tlie vi-ruiidus ot th summer hom.. Any good u a lured eau'ener cnn Le in-duc.sj in-duc.sj to build near a clump of tall trees a flunk with a projef ti,c hip roof to form Tops fr side porches and hoix's for the partially open ends which are to serve ns entrances, but' do uot eneournee him to train vinr over the Mructurn, as they breed curwigs nd other disagreeable insects. I If the roof Ih ..tinted iuosj green nnd tthe walls gray or hrowu the house will .harmonize pcrf.-cily with the garden, and ' vvi tli the pulley and cord cqulpj-ed screens 'of natural bamboo which in lieu of win-dows win-dows and doors protect the side and end apertures. The inside wall and PKif should first bo celled with building pauer and thou painted dark green or brown, and the Mm-llarly Mm-llarly treated jihiuk lloor covered with rugs of uu Inr xpviisi tf order, since tho roof of the ahu K luay not be absolutely Water llht. , While rus or Wood fihr ruga are substantial and not easily injured in-jured by rain, they ur uot of such vivid hues os ure rag rugs, which onie In every liuusinahle shade of yellow, green, brown, vloh-t, blue and pink, with white or (and-tolly (and-tolly iclor.-d strijie I. orders. Like the wall and lloor coverings, th furniture of the teu house should be of the simplest order. There may l-e lounging, loung-ing, rocking and arm chairs of bbkorv. rattan or sj.llnt; a two or three story t?i table with sweet grass mats, a iuiiIHd stand and a catch-Hll basket of willow; ( In.livi.liiHl tea stools of bamboo snd rosf- j ting .nd tall vases of cosrse pottery for holding long stemmed flowers and ferns- From four to six girls may comfort- 1 ably be entertained in n fourteen foot square teu house, but if platforms built all around the outer side are protected by screens suspended from the islges of the projecting roof dn or more g iPHta can easily be cared for. . In case the tea house in located t seme distance from the main bas of toppll r-tbe r-tbe rear veranda should be teniporarilj screened and equipped with an oil tnle ; snd whatnver el.., in necessary for the, ; rnsld who U to prepare aud serf the after-. noon collation. ' I j |