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Years of Distinctive Service A softergrace and charm distinguish Dean interiors. their Detroit comm1ss1ons. The same fine artistry It is that quality in decorative motif which reflects which foreight decades has sustained Dean's leader- the individuality of each home-a harmony affording ship among Michigan's decorative furnishers is today permanent satisfaction. To gen- !?2lze improved through years of ac- erations of appreciative clients �«--.. J. cumulative experience. this organization has rendered :·�£Ei..sB Dean is equipped to serve not such service. Our counsel is ?-::."�lrA only architect and estate owner, sought in the decoration of Flor- llfj,:l}J, but also those interested in Spring ida and California homes, just as ijf redecorating or furnishings for those same clients entrust us with .a single room.
1227 GRISWOLD STREET, DETROIT " SUNSET HOUSE 0 ···*··· On Orcl:ard Lake ESTIMATES WITHOUT OBLIGATION A �ERING to the discriminating public, who appreciate fine food and quiet, dignified en C vironment. m�� Prepared for parties, receptions, luncheons, afternoon teas, etc. Capacity: Main dinina room, .-1,1. � -=· 100, and four private rooms, 10 each. This lovely old place has 600 feet of sandy beach. "' Phone Pontiac 1975 W. L. VAN ZANDT, Manager MICHIGAN'S LEADING DECORATOR,S AND FURNISHERS FOR EIGHTY "YEARS Country Life Country Houses Around Detroit Society , :, Sports Do You Enjoy the Out of Doors? I F you enjoy the Out-of-Doors, if yo� appreciate the. charm. of rugged hills, shady woodland and p1ctt:resque, ever-interesting VoL. II No. V shore line, Indianwood colony, with its pnvate lake and carefully Content§ for May 9 1926 planned development, will appeal to you. Cover Design...... by Gladys Caswell Fortunate Children Who Live in the Country (photographs).... 12 ' The Story of Stoney Creek...... by Marion Holden 5 Society ...... by Ka.thcrine Atkinson 13 Photographs of the Blair Estate at Indianwood...... 8 A Very Small House in the Suburbs...... by M. H. 15 Reproductions of Peasant Furniture for Country Cottages.... Club Activities...... by Harold George 16 ...... by Dav-id A. B1irgess and Newton Merrill 9 And Ladies Prefer ...... by Gem/dine Caldwell 18 Gardener, Spare That Swamp !...... by E. Genevieve Gillette 10 Country Comment ...... 23 The Preschool Project in Birmingham...... by Cora H. Farrar 11 Garden Hints for May and June...... by Fred C. Roth 29
PU BLISH ER'S STATEMENT Home of Harry Slater at Indianwoocl · HE AFTERGLOW ls published on the 15th of every month Articles, stories and photographs pertaining to any phase or T at Detroit, Michigan, by the Afterglow Publishing Company, country life around Detroit are sollclted. [nc. Theodore H. Millington, President; Marlon Holden. Editor; W. J. Murphy, Business Manager; J. C. Rodgers, Advertising Subscription price, ;2.50 a year; 25 cents the single copy. Manager. You are Invited to Visit and Inspect lndianwood Editorial and executive offices, 4866 Woodward Avenue. Tele Address all communications to The Afterglow Publishing Com phones: Glendale 5837 and 2751. pany, 4850' Woodward Avenue, Detroit. E hope that you may become a member of Indian W wood community, yet, whether you do or :iot, we wish you to see and enjoy the many advantages 1t possesses. Golf on our eighteen hole course, boating, bathing, fishing and riding offer exceptional recreational environment. We, extend to you an invitation to visit and inspect this select suburban community. We believe you will enjoy your visit.
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/ The Story of Stoney Creek
SALLY TAYLOR /t/lLLERD NATHANIEL MILLERD By MARION HOLDEN I, Wife of the gentleman opposite A son-i11-law of Le111u.el Taylor a11d danghter of Lem11el Ta.ylor, who migrated with him and his who fo1111ded the village of fmnily from New York to Michi- Stoney Creek gan in 1823.
ROM the sudden and infectious enthusiasm with sons as well as for its admirable water supply. F which people began buying up farms along Stoney For a time the Taylors were the only inhabitants of Creek last summer, it is interesting to look back a Stoney Creek-they and their Indian neighbors. Grad hundred years or so to the first white people who ually other settlers came, until the little village ri cleared these hills and built their homes among them. valled Rochester, with its church and postoffice and The next time you bump down the south hill into its Ma onic temple on Mount Moriah-the first tem Rochester-avoiding the worst ruts which are partic ple to be built 1n Michigan. And it was Daniel Tay ularly vicious just now after the spring thaw-give lor, who, all by himself, kept the light burning in that a thought to Lemuel and Sally Taylor, for it was just temple every lodge night during the Morgan raids one hundred and four No. 5 being the only years ago that this lodge in Michigan valiant couple plodded where this sacred down that very hill in duty was performed the ox carts which in spite of hell and J had brought them and high water. their six sons an::! Can you p i ctu r e three daughters ( with that quiet wooded their wives, husban:ls country with only the and children), all the rattle of a passing way from ew York wagon and the ubiqu l state. \,\Then they got itous cow bell to to the top of that hill, break the stillness, overlooking the fer and ·at sunset the Tay tile valley which was lor wives looking o_g1t to become the home of the windows' of of their children and their log cabins to their children's chil watch a silent file of This lovely lillle strca111 looks 110w j11st as. it did a lrnndred 3•ears a.go whe11 Indians - aborigines, dren, the women folk, Le11111e/ a11d Sally Taylor, ,i•ith all their- children, built their homes alo11g fatigued almost be its banks. they called them - yond e n d u r a n c e , weaving over the hill screamed at the steep descent and begged the men to into the dusk? Often the Indians came into the go no further that day. They were told, however, to house to get warm, walked straight up to the fire and! keep their places, which they did, then and thereafter. lay there until they were quite comfortable, when' It was Lemuel Taylor and his sons who cut the road they walked straight out again. No settler, of course. from Rochester to Stoney Creek in 1823 and estab ever urged an exit before it was volunteered, and lished the village there. The old man bought five there was no trouble with the tribes who had their parcels of land from the government (at about $1.50 winter encampments nearby. an acre), with eighty acres in each parcel. To each Lemuel Taylor was a Baptist minister-"exhorter." The great hall a11d librar3, ·in the ho1ne of Mrs. Alice Van · There is a balco11y with an ·iron raili,,g at the other e11d of son and daughter he gave forty acres, and here they I believe he was called-and he must have had a bent Hoosen ]011es. on the old Va11. Hoosen farm, which was the first the room, a11d many books, which conldn't be shown in this p-ict11re. laud to be cleared and settled on Stonev Creek. The lovelv old A partirnlarly st11n11ing color note is introdnced· in the East Jndwn. lived and built their log houses, their grist mill and for poetry. The names of his sons show his inclina beams came from Josh11.a Van Hoosen'/ barn and the stone ·from ha11gi11gs at the windows, which are en·!broidered in yar11s of their woolen mill-in fact, the swift running little tioris very strongly: Lemuel, Jr., Elisha, Orestes, his fields. greens and bhtes and reds on heavy m11slm. stream must have appealed to them for milling rea- Henry, Joshua and Daniel. Harry, being something • Pa.ge Six THE AFTERGLOW MAY, 1926 MAY, 1926 THE AFTERGLOW Page Seven Pontiac were near enough to be good courting cen His conclusion is interesting, after a life of the most ters and the Masonic Temple was another magnet that intense toil and anxiety and hardships: "In conclu drew young men fr
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CT,,/IQ pliotographs talun at. "Ferrie:·," Peasant Furniture 1 .011 the estate of Frank W. Blair, Esq., at lndianwood, Lake Orion The pict11re below shows part of the for Country garden, which was made by draiwi.ng a swamp. The 11.at-11ral basin, fo1"med by low hills topped by trees, is typ·ical of Cottages this bea.titifnl region. By Beyond the hills lies lndianwood La he DAYID A. BURGESS and NEWTON MERRILL where a com11·1.mi·ity develop,nent and golf Reprod11etion of an Italian Reprod1tction of a Brittan)• club were started last smn-mer and are chair. arm chair. 110w flourishing. The stables of ceme11t block painted white, briilt on long lorn 1 l THY did Marie Antoinette, surrounded by ·all the on the part of the rough country builders. Upon lines, are being remodeled into cl11./J roo111s, VV sumptuous luxury with which fabulous wealth closer inspection it will be found that the interiors locker rooms, showers, and so on. Ji.,far. and creative genius had endowed the palace of Ver correspond to the exteriors, inasmuch as the rooms rns Bw·roughs is the architect for tlie sailles, command her architects to build a thatched harbor no useless pieces of furniture or multiplicity new club home, as well a.s for Mr. farm house under the trees in the Trianon Park? of ornaments that serve no purpose beyond that of col Blair's honse, of which the entra.nce ·is Vvhy also did she want a dairy, a stable for her pet lecting dust. Every piece of furniture is there to be pict11red· here. horses and buildings for all the animals that belong used daily, but at the same time it has been decorated on a model farm? Answer this question and you in a plain straightforward fashion that reflects the come upon that fundamental human impulse which crude artistic instincts of the peasant mind. Repro continuously urges one to turn his back on the arti ductions of these Norman farmhouse pieces have ficial and the sophisticated and seek tranquility of found their way into America, for in an unusually spirit by living in the shadows of great trees or beside quaint and pleasing way they seem to fit into the green fields and pastures. 1 plain interiors of our newer types of country cottages. Thus it comes about that in our country those who What, for instance, could be more appropriate than are building homes are falling in with a marked ten this reproduction of a Norman cabinet, shown in our dency towards smaller houses and extreme simplicity illustration? Fashioned out of walnut, with its grace in furnishings. This impulse may be but a natural ful curved and quaint carvings, instinct with the grace reaction, following life in homes perhaps over-ornate of the original model, it possesses unusual decorative and over-decorated, or it may be merely an "Athenian charm, and when used with chairs and tables of the thirst" for contrast and novelty. Whatever the cause same period would make a dining room quite out of the situation presents to the decorator a very inter the ordinary. Windows in a room where this type of esting opportunity to use types of furniture and fab- furniture is to be used should be curtained in Nor rics that _heretofore have only been seen by tireless mandy chintz-a pattern of tiny roses scattered on a travelers in country districts of France, Italy and background of bright yellow or black. Spain. From this same country comes some delightful arm Those, for instance, who have traversed that pic chairs, so light in weight as to be easily moved from turesque section of France known as Normandy and one room to another and yet quite as comfortable as studied those tiny cottage dwellings nestling so the heavi·er and more solid looking Colonial arm quaintly into the landscape must have been struck by chairs of our ancestors. These go splendidly in bed- their irregular. r o o f rooms, living rooms or lines and oddly placed sun parlors and may windows. F i r s t and easily be mixed with foremost the observer other periods of furni feels that these houses ture to introduce a note have been honestly of variety without any built out of materials sacrifice of simplicity. clo eat hand to suit the Fresh notes for cot requirements of those tage furnishing come who lived in them. from the sunny coun If to us they appear too try districts of Italy. romantically pict u r - But in connection with esque it is due to the an Italian setting there accidents of time and is one point that should always be held in mind. weather, and not to any after old Spanish models. please tlie eye and Tables S11ch as this. designed . and that is that floors sophisticated intention can be nsed i11 living or dining rooms very sitccessfully. (Continued on Page 25) i Page. Tm MAY, 1926 THE AFTERGL OW MAY, 1926 THE AFTERGLOW Page Eleven
Gardener, Spare That Swamp! And Don't Pull Out the Old Cherry Tree, Nor Uproot the Sumac e The Preschool They're All in the Picture. By E. GENEVIEVEGILLETTE Project RATHER interesting thing happened last week. tures you were going to/ make in the meadow and A A loyal Philadelphian recently sent down to do you ask me how shall you do it, since the soil is business in dynamic Detroit took a day off to inspect so very sour. \Vell, I answer that you do have to the Bloomfield Hills. He thinks he might move the study dietetics, and some chemistry and plant psy In family out next spring, where the children can keep chology-if there really is such a thing. You have to out of the way of dashing automobiles and smell the know plant likes and dislikes, and the best way to "holy earth." All of which interests us! He is get know them is to observe them in Nature. And that ting the Detroit viewpoint. But we don't need to takes years and years. Sometimes you see red dog flatter ourselves into thinking that it will be all get wood on clay banks when you know it prefers the low . Birmingham and no give with him. One of his Philadelphia ideas lands. So sometimes alfalfa will grow luxuriantly has gotten over all ready. in almost sand. But there are the books! It may It came about with his inspecting a wild cherry seem long and tedious, but it really is a shorter way. By CORA H. FARRAR tree. On a place where I have charge of the land Find out what kind of soil you have and then what kind of things you might expect to grow on it. If scaping is a very old cherry, much the worse for the Photograph by Edith K1ern rigors of many Michigan winters. It is an old snag you insist on going counter-clockwise you will know Mrs. John B. Williams of Yorkshire Road is an enth11.siastic leader -that's just what it is. At least a third of the bark that you must pay the piper with money and brains of one of _the Preschool gronps. These a1·e her twin daughters is gone on the windward side and the exposed heart and hard labor. Then, too, don't be disappointed if Catherine Sn/Ion vVillia1ns and Susan Dayton /,Vi/hams.· wood is rotten as rotten can be. Still it is most you fail in your egotism. It really would be better to do the things you discover you can do and learn to NY af er essential in the picture from the house. You remem � !1001�, upon entering the Baldwin Public Sex, and Affection and Jealousy. The Birmingham appreciate the things ature allows. L1bra1y 1t1 B1rmmgham, ber in February we talked about looking out the win A one may see a group of Branch of the A. A. U. VI/. gave the money to purchase dows instead of in the seed catalogs? Well! Out of Y ung matrons intently studying at a HIS idea of ripping out everything just so that ? large table, with the reference books necessary for the study classes six important windows at this house there is the old you can plant something else is one of the worst piles of the latest psychologies and tomes on here T dity and and placed the books in the library. Each member cherry snag doing the best it can to help frame up the habits we ever did get into. Destructiveness is un environment stacked at their elbows. This changing group is, according of the group in turn takes charge of the lesson discus- vistas. Beside, it rather gives an atmosphere to an economic, unsocial and unmoral. We are in the way to the librarian the otherwise commonplace hillside, and I presume if you 1 ost interested and faithful study group sion and thus rotates the responsibility. of always looking over the fence rather than enjoy � usin�· the (Co11ti11ucd 011 {>age 30) listened closely, or were inclined that way, you could library, and, most remarkable of the pasture on this.side. If the grass or the trees hear some pretty fair stories-or sermons maybe ing all, it is composed of mothers of should you chance under its meagre shade some look better there we open the gate and bring them young. children whose leisure is breathless morning in June. over-whether they fit or belong making ever so lit greatly limited and to whom sys Still, this old tree hasn't looked well for more than tle difference. Just how long it will take to make tematic and faithful study is a two or three years. That is-it hasn't to me. So I us appreciate what we have at hand no one can tell, matter of real effort. These in asked the Philadelphian, whose business in life is trees, but it seems reasonable to suppose that we never shall terested students are members of to see the cherry tree and decide its fate. Now, he have a real style of American gardening until we learn the ei?ht preschool study groups, says, says he-that my cherry snag needs food! That to do it. Just so long as we go "a-borrowing" from orga111zed last fall under the aus if it gets the proper calories and vitamines for a year Japan and where-not, so long will we delay American pices of the Birmingham Associa or two it will last a hundred years. He says it doesn't gardening art, and just so long will we smack of the tion of University Women, which s met each week during the need any operation on its heart or any splints or ban dilettante. h� wmter to study the vital question daging. It just needs roast beef and potatoes and Now, besides. I cannot see why we long for a bit of of how to be the intelligent, as gravy. the country and then as soon as we get it we destroy well as the devoted mothers to I expect if you have lived anywhere where you have all its beatity. I know a man right here in our very this puzzling new generation. seen a garden you understand that the soil is the din midst who bought two or three barren hilltops with These classes use an excellent ing room in the house where plants live. Here I might a bit of marvelous swamp land between. The swamp outline, "How Children Build have ordered a glorious tree cut contained golden-rod and Joe pye Habits," ·prepared by Miss Lois down just because I was too blind weed. It had marsh marigolds and Hayden Meek, the Educational to see an empty pantry shelf. And blue iris. In the late days of the Secretary of the American Asso the worst is that I am not alone in autumn it was a blaze of sumac an:l ciation of University Women, at my blindness. We are all more or osier dogwood. It was the only the National Headquarters in less in the same boat. thing about the whole place to have Washington, D. C. The subjects But you ask me how shall you recommended its purchase, and the taken up in this comprehensive feed your cherry tree and lilac only view was the one which swept outline are Heredity, Environ bushes. You ask how can you plant over the brook to the cat-tails. But men�, Bases of Action, Learning rhododendrons and m a k e them what did the man do? Just what Habit, Sleep, Enuresis, Food, Photo by O'l.:onnorStudios Mrs. F. Farrington, Holt of Linden Road is another interested flourish. You remember the pie- Wood-cut by Sherwood Blackbum you might have expected. He turned Basis of Emotions, Fear, Anger, student of the preschool project ·in Birmingham. (Continited 011 page 28) r Page Twelve THE AFTERGLOW MAY, 1926 MAY, 1926 THE AFTERGLOW Page Thirteen These Fortunate Children c(fve tn the Country
By KATHERINE ATKINSON
" PLA IDS," U the attractive country home of the given by Miss Grace Williamson; a luncheon on Tues ...... Frank Latham Bromleys, will be the scene of day, May 11th, at th� home of Miss Katherine Kay, the wedding of Miss Frances Latham Bromley to and a shower and bndge tea, given at the Parkstone by Miss Eleanor Benjamin Hall Micou, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benja Malow, on Saturday last, completed a busy week for the bride-elect. min Micou of Washington, D. C. The ceremony will Mr. and Mrs. \,Villiam Tefft Barbour have opened be performed by the their home, "Briar Rev. Dr. S. S. Mar b a n k , ' ' Bloomfield quis, of Christ church, Hills, for the summer. Bachrach Redman Bloomfield Hills, at Mr. Barbour and Dr. Shirley Ann, daughter of Mr. and Frances Ann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lindsay Wallace of four o'clock on the Robert W. Gilman are Mrs. Bert Morley of "High Hollow," Redman "D1111sta11," Lone Pine Road. afternoon of May 22d. in Jacksonville, Flor Lone Pine Road John C. and William Minton, so11s of Mr. a11d Mrs. Mrs. Donald Sander ida, where they went William Mi11to11 Donnelly of "Rathmore," Bloomfield son will attend her Hills. last week to bring the sister as matron of Barbours' new yacht honor, and Miss Kath back to New York. erine Kay will act as bridesmaid. The ush A lovely luncheon ers will be Donald was given on Thurs Sanderson, Cresswell day afternoon, May Micou of New York. 6th, at the Detroit \,Valter Bromley, F. T. Club by Mrs. Arthur Tower, Jr., and Hilery C. Dunton in honor of Herbert Micou. two recent brides, The bride-to-be has Mrs. V\T. Dean Robin been extensively en son (Grace Briggs), tertained by her many and Mrs. Sherman J. friends. Miss Jose FitzSimons, Jr. (Mary phine McDonell gave "Jo" Collins). a bridge tea on Tues day, May 4th; Mrs. M i s s Harger of Don a Id Sanderson's Pontiac was the hos shower and bridge tess at a delightful tea in honor of her bridge luncheon on sister were given at May 15th, given at the Briumley home in the Sunset Hills Club. Birmingham, on May 7th; on Monday, May Many of the Hills 10th, Mrs. Alger Shel people who spent the winter in. warmer den of Grosse Pointe D. D. Spellman gave a lovely lunch MISS MARY !SABEL DAVIS climes are back in Redman ,·Bachrach eon; a dinner at the Miss Davis is the da.1tghter of Mr. and Mrs. Manly D. Davis their homes again. Walter Richard and Harriet Roger, children of Mr. and Mrs. Mary Eli:oabeth and George Dalla/, children of Mr. a.nd Mrs. Detroit Golf Club was of Bloomfield Mr. and Mrs. Freder- Walter Flannery of Bloomfield Hills. ]a.mes A. Camieron of Pilgrim Road, Birmingham. Paye Fo11rleen THE AFTERGLOW MAY, 1926 MAY, 1926 THE AFTERGLOW Page Fiftew O'Dell have leased M1·s. Depew's farm house for the summer. Mr. \!\falter Thompson, who has sold his home, "'vVhinstone House," on Long Lake Road, has taken an apartment in the Indian Village M�nor. Miss Jane Thompson will be the guest of her sister, Mrs. Spen cer \Vithee, in Birmingham for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. George E. Edmunds have returned from California and will open their home on Lone Pine Road early in June. Others who are opening their homes this week are Mr. and Mrs. Farrington Holt, who have returned from Ashville, N. C., and Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Campbell, who have returned from California, where they spent the winter. Mrs. Arthur Neff entertained at a breakfast party on Thursday, May 6th, in honor of her sister, Miss Dorothy Wagner, of New York, and Miss Naida Loef fler, who were feature dancers at the Capitol Theatre last week. "The Village Players" will give a public perfor mance in the Baldwin Auditorium on the evening of May 15th, their main object being to raise funds for Ellison the remodeling of the "old town hall" for a playhouse. Henry YJil\cr News Picture St>n·1ce, Inc. Four one-act plays will be given and there will also A Very Small House 1n the Suburbs Here we have Miss Adriene Riehl, Mrs. Edward . Asher mid be a splendid orchestra to entertain the audience. Edward Fisher, all of Detroit, watching. the ten11:1s at W!nte The Home of the Cecil F. Charltons, in Birmingham, is a Delightful Combination of the Sulp/11,r Springs, W. Va. Th.c Fishers _took a ho11.se there for Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Smith, who have been living Urbane and the Practical in Small House Design. the mouth of April. in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold George on Hen D. ALLEN WRIGHT, Architect ick Robinson and Miss Edith Robinson are back from rietta street, have taken the Anderson home on the By M. H. Miami, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Walter Yeats of same street for the summer. NTIL quite recently the. plan of the very small the dining alcove--or the breakfast nook-and it Cranbrook Road have returned from Florida. Mrs. Francis Lovely of Muskegon returned to her house has received scant attention from either is usually a horror. Tucked up and too intimately The Misses Marjorie and Sarah Hendrie of Grosse home last week, after having been the guest of Mrs. U architect or layman. The builder has had it all his related to the kitchen, it has proved no solution Pointe and Bloomfield, who have spent the winter in Julian H. Case of Merrill Avenue. own way, which has been the way of the incoming to those who look upon dining as a rite and not South America, Africa and on the Continent, will sail ( Co11ti1111ed 011 page 26) dollar and the stereotype design. While one must ad as an obligation that must be dispatched as for home on May 14th. Mr. William Hendrie, who mit that the necessity for conserving space and ex quickly and with as little inconvenience as possi attended the races in Aintree, England, in March, re pense and energy was never so paramount as it has turned home early in the month. ble. The dining alcove in the Charlton house is suffi become in the last eight years, it is also true that ciently removed from the kitchen, and at the same Mr. and Mrs. Walter 0. Briggs and family are in these problems have been adequately solved only in time may be screened from the living room if there France at present, having sailed on the Aquatania the apartment. are guests. Between meal times this added space is from New York, May 5th. Mr. and Mrs. Briggs will But since how not to live in an apartment, is the a charming addition to the living room, lending a spa be at their country home, "'vValbri Hall," later in the first big question that confronts John and Mary after season. ciousness that the room could no.t otherwise have. the honeymoon-if they want to live like human be The pantry was originally designed for a breakfast Many from the Hills and Grosse Pointe will go to ings and not like white the R. 0. T. C. Horse Show, to be held in Lansing, room, but it has been more mice-perhaps a study of May 28th and 29th. Among them will be Mrs. Do-ris convenient to use it as a the plan of this very small Chapman Blackwood of Rochester, Miss Mary Talia pantry for china and for house may provoke ideas ferro, Mr. and Mrs. George T. Hendrie, Mr. and Mrs. service. It makes a cun T. R. Donovan, Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Slocum Nichols as well as a further in ning little nook in itself, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hammond. quiry into the expense of painted apple green, with Mr. and Mrs. William Robinson of Pasadena, Mr. building and maintenance white shelves rounded in Landseer Jones of London, England, and Mr. Charles of such a house. Certain each corner, hung with Raybold of New York, who have been the guests of ly if Mary has deter gay cups and holding Mr. and Mrs. Frank Klingensmith at the Bloomfield mined to do he1· own glass and china. The Club, have returned home. work for a time, a ·plan kitchen is tiny, but com Mrs. Sherman L. Depew was hostess at a dinner of this type will recom pact, quite large enough party on Friday evening, May 7th, in honor of her mend itself to her as a when suppleni.'tl'ttted by daughters, Valerie and Frances, later on taking her labor saver as well as a the laundry'and fruit cel guests to the May party given by Miss Foster's danc delightful place to live l�� the basement whose ing class. Mrs. Depew and her daughters are at the �Miss Mary Tal-iaferro on Woodpecker, the glorious linnter whom and to work. Ellison "'stairs open conveniently d d 1 Grosse Pointe Club, where they will be until June 1st, she will ri e ·iii the Lansing horse show the en of May. M ss The most popular and The dining alcove opens onto the terrace a11d into the pantry. from the back door. Taliaferro has entered in the lightweight hunter classes and will d 11 d when they open their summer home, "Hickory Grove r The gla:;e chi t.z sha es under 1·nffled marqnisette. wrta·i11s give also ride in the pa:i s with Mrs. T. R. Donovan on "Freckle's overdone labor saver is a. light, cheerful a-ir lo the 1·oom. Please note particularly Farm," Bloomfield Hills. Colonel and Mrs. H. Q. Sister." ( C 011ti1111ed 011 page 22) 1'I
Page Sixteen THE AFTERGLOW MAY, 1926 MAY, 1926 THE AFTERGLOW Pa.ge Seve11tee11 THE spring· golf season has been a frost, li�eral�y and figuratively. There wasn't any spnng 111 north and south, up and down going of the present which to half a golf season. It was winter and now layout. it's summer. There was practically no golf at all in The first important event for the men will be the April. May brought warm weather and with warm qualifying round for the president's trophy, which is weather came record-smashing attendance at every scheduled for June 5, the final match coming on July course. More golfers played on the first two week Club �ctivities 10. The club championship will take place early, be ends in May than on any mid-season week-end in the ginning on July 31 and ending August 29. In the history of the Detroit district. On May 9, for in meantime, competition will be held every week-end. stance, it was estimated that 15,000 players jammed By The women started their season May 14. The the fairways. , HAROLD GEORGE spring tournament will be held June 3 and 4 and on July 2 they will qualify for the vice-president's trophy, The country clpb social season also was lax in April. with the final match slated for not later than July 28. Bloomfield Hills and Oakland Hills are year 'round R. O. Six and Thomas Pendleton, Like the men, they will play the club championship rendezvous, but few events of importance took place talking ·it over al, the ninth green, earlier than before. The qualifying round will take at any of the other clubs. Golfing weather, however, Oa/zla11d Hills. place August 6 and the final match on August 27. also is luncheon weather, and tea weather and bridge Mrs. Manly D. Davis and. Mrs. weather. May, consequently, will be a big month The most notable event R. C. Jamieson (club champion) in the clubhouse as well as on the golf courses. on the links was Louis J. on the Bloomfield course. OAKLAND HILLS Lepper's recovery of his · Play at Oakland Hills always has been heavy. The * of the limited room. The rules, as a result, are ex * * game. He played for a month consistently in the 90's Photographs extent of it, however, is better realized when it is and had nearly resigned himself to a season of set pected to be less rigid in the future. Competition of minor sorts for the men has by pointed out that 370 caddies were used on one mid backs. But with the first warm day his score fell begun at several clubs, but this month will re D. D. Sjell111a11 AVIATION May Sunday. Starting times have been established down to 81 and now Mr. Lepper is shooting regularly main more a tuning up month and June will see the The addition of Robert Emerson's stable to the in championship form. on both the North and South courses in order to send first real tests of strength. The women as a general club's facilities has added considerably to the prestige out the great throngs who wish to play. The club Among the regular players in early May were Mrs. rule a wait June' before beginning their tournaments. . of Aviation, and today it is hard to say where a coun has perhaps the largest membership in the District, R. C. Jamieson and Mrs. try club could be found and most of them are golfers. Manly D. Davis, finalists with such varied and in BLOOMFIELD HILLS The season schedule of competition has not been last autumn in the · club teresting activities for its announced, but events are arranged for every week The golf and social season both got an earlier start championship. Both are membership. end. Among the men, R. 0. Six, T. L. Denk, Olin at Bloomfield than perhaps any other club in the dis in top form this year and Nearly 12 miles of bri trict. The regular greens have been in use since early Finney, R. VI/. Bonds and Francis Ryan, the cham if no reversals take place dle paths wind through in April. By the first of May, the Hills contingent pion,' have been scoring particularly well. Paul Munn, they will be contenders in the estate and a cross that had gone to town or South for the winter had (Continued on Page 21) District and State tourna country ride of 25 miles returned and the club now forsees its most" active ments. Mrs. H. A. O'Dell season. awaits the more spirited and Mrs. Frank L. Klin horseman. Eme rs o n' s gensmith also have been horse, Fremont, a 5-foot consistent low scorers jumper, is the show ani this spring. mal of the stable, al though Dr. Meade's Ara PINE LAKE bian might be put at the A. J. Prentice, presi top by those who prefer dent, and Mrs. Prentice, that breed. Two Ken-· club chamJ)ion, have re tucky horses, a.sorrel and turned to their house on a bay, also enhance the the course after a winter string of 32 now in tht> in California. Pine Lake, barn. consequently, has opened Go! f has forged ahead with the coming of bal the season and the indica C. E. Ric/1<,rd1, R. A. tions are that it will be the biggest and most suc, Ra,,dall,//. M. Davi1, mi<;r days. Mrs. A. E. Shiell, woman's club cham cessful season the club ever had. C. Arnold, and L. P. pion, has been one of the most frequent players, and Dodd, allfeeling very Mrs. Robert K. Greaves also has been practicing with Pine Lake has had its difficulties this spring. Five jollyover theopmi11g of results more than favorable. The Women's District holes of the course were under water when Mr. Pren the Birmingham cour;e Golf Association will play a tournament at Aviation tice returned and it will be mid-May or later before this summer for the first time. they can be used. The 13 holes in use, however, are in admirable condition and play has been heavier than BIRMINGHAM in other springs. The clubhouse this year presents facilities many o[ The course is in the throes of reconstruction, but it the members have long desired. The dining room is will not interfere with play until September. The considerably larger, which provides more space for second nine will be entirely changed about. Players Mr. a11d Mrs. A. J. Prentice (center), and. Mr. a11d Mrs. W. !f. SI/I.ii.Ji (outside) after the first game of the season at the Pi!,e · dancing. In the past it was necessary to greatly re next year will not have the fatiguing hills to climb Mrs. R. K. Greaves and Mrs. A. E. Shiel/ on the beautiful coiwse Lake Cli,b. M;. Prrntice is presidrnt of the club and occupies at the Aviation Country Clt1b. Mrs. Shiell is clitb champioti. strict or bar altogether the bringing of guests because and will get away from the more or less monotonous a cottage on the grounds during the summer. Page Eighlew THE AFTERGLOW MAY, 1926 MAY, 1926 THE AFTERGLOW Page Nineteen FRANKLIN VILLAGE
Sketches by Gladys Caswell By GERALDINE CALDWELL
ELL, as Loralie herself might remark, est thing we were going to wear ... and The Beauty Spot of the Hills W if a girl lives in a city like Detroit, and what do you think he produced? The dearest has to go shopping all alone, why do the shops sandal slipper, made in Paris, with a white kid back and a most delightful woven strap in a on the Boulevard have such perfectly gor geous, breath-takingly beautiful things? really new design and a toe of woven raffia! Raffia ... natural color ... if Raffia is a Things that every girl needs, I mean ... if the Gentlemen are to be kept interested. palish tan naturally ...with a dear little splash of bright raffia embroidery pertly point Now, the day we did the shops was just a ing each toe! Smart? And think how cool typical Detroit April day ...windy and ...and how intrigant worn with an after coolish with a sun that merely wore a sad, noon-club dress of Rajah or linen. Clever Mr. sweet smile. First we flounced into Irving's Lubin preaching the gospel of interesting ... and wearing our winsomest assured him shoes always to Detroit women, how much we that we were only in the market for something have to be grateful for in thy name! ultra chic, a hat so very different ...and of Mrs.Sax produced le dernier cri in bags for that smartness that might be illustrated over the caption, "Seen on Duchess Dorothy at our delectation ...and if New York, Bond Cannes." He grasped our point at once and Street or Paris has anything smarter ... -:. showed us a hat and matching scarf that would well, we are deceived, that's all ... just de stop the show at even a Paquin opening! ceived. Two bags· she showed us ... one Chic . scrumptious-a squarish high made from the crown of a panama hat with a crowned hat with only a promise of a brim frame of lovely blue shell ...lapis lazuli blue ... severely plain, but so built that nothing ....natural panama, of course. If you have extraneous could have been tolerated ... one hated leather in summer for its general inhar of those hats that is breathed into being from· mony with fluttery summer frocks, and have the soul of an artist de chapeaux and is forever found all substitutes fickle ...beads, fabric after the despair of would-be copyists. and their ilk ...here is your soul-satisfying joy. Large enough to hold things ... vani The scarf was just tie width at the center of ties, check books, shopping lists, car keys, just the back and was beautifully modelled out to the things one must have summer as well as AN ARTISTIC MODERN DEVELOPMENT IN THE MOS1:':'RUGGED reach a full eighteen inches, the ends. tapering winter, and smart enough for luncheon at SECTION OF OAKLAND HILLS, BLENDED WITH TFIIf ·cHARM off again. And note in the little sketch that Pierre's. The other bag was just as surprisey AND UNSPOILED BEAUTY OF OLD FRANKLIN. even after it is tied it reaches right to the very ...a treat. Black and white ... a white bottom of the skirt hem. Material? Oh, yes, background with the most unusual black spots that is 'the high point isn't it? Scotch plaid that trailed through the back of our memory silk if 'you please ...either MacDougal or with a tantalizing familiarity. Finally, the MacGregor, I couldn't just remember which obliging lady explained that it was natural ... red-apple red, and white and black. Stun cow ...just a piece of nice old black and ning? Ah, oui, oui, oui! white cow taken from where her most inter SAUNDERS-COLGROVE Well, next we paid Mr. Lubin our regular esting hide-al area had been. Now wasn't bi-monthly call. Can anyone remember when that an idea? And we couldn't begin to de 'R.§ALTORS shoes weren't interesting? Just plain old scribe how truly enchanting the effect was black leathers ... patent, vici, calfskin? ...... perhaps the birth of our enthusiasm came J.B.SAUNDERS L.E. COLGROVE And today what have we? ...cobra, lizard, with the realization that at last we were near FIRST STATE BANK BLDG., WOODWAUD AND JIIA.PLE sharkskin, elkskin ... why, a girl's feet tell enough to pet and pat a cow's sleekness. PHONE BIRMINGHAM 830 OR 1185 the story! We asked him what we were go We've always been such an ardent admirer ing to wear this summer ...the very smart- from train windows. ( C ontin,ued on page 30) Page Twenty THE AFTERGLOW MAY, 1926 MAY, 1926 THE AFTERGLOW Page Twenty-one The Story of Stoney Creek LO Club Activities BL (Continned from Page 7) (Continued from Pa.ge 17) Hoosen lived for many years. Beams from the old former champion, has been ill, but he is fast recover barn have been beautifully used in the hall and in the ing both his health and his game. great gallery which is the libr�r�. The kitchen is Oakland Hills can boast a group of women players the same, and the little front s1ttmg room, papered that would· be difficult for any club in the country to in old-fashioned design, is now the farm office. In defeat. Mrs. Stewart Hanley, District champion, is remodeling the house the old cellar s.tairs with their playing better golf than ever this spring. Time and little crooked lintel were unearthed and are now de again she has been on the border of 80. Miss Madge mandino- that the women stoop to enter just as they Miller, Mrs. S. M. Newton, Mrs. Olin Finney (Elsie did a h:ndred years ago. From this kitchen and from Krug McEvoy), and Mrs. Charles H. Booth also ap one of the living rooms the windows look out over pear to be at the peak of their game. the creek and onto a grove of maples and walnut that BROOKLANDS Five years operati.ng 111 this section gives Lemuel Taylor planted there, with Mount Moriah me a thorough knowledge of all High Class looming against the western sky beyond. New furnishings in the lounge, new rugs, new dra Homes and well restricted Vacant Property It is an interesting and perhaps a salutary thing to pery and new decorations greeted the members at the stop now and then and try to realize what this land formal opening on May 1. Many improvements that -the J:yre of _ _ meant to the men who first cleared 1t and made 1t can't be seen have been installed also, such as service yield a living. The land t)1 t they, nd their hard machinery in the basement and kitchen. �loomfield Hills! BIRMINGHAM BUSINESS FRONTAGE � � working, God-fearing families reclaimed from the The Fisher cup tournament, one of the club's fa wilderness, is now being bought up by the hundreds of vorite events, will begin on June 26 this year, with 6+ There's something alluring about all of the acres for the pleasure and recreation of people who to qualify for match play. It will run through to Bloomfield Hills_-the rolling contour of the realize that a town of Detroit's overwhelming size is Before that, on June 12 and 13, the annual land, its forest trees, picturesque estates, and August 8. beautifulho mes 1 L. E. HOLTON no place to live through the whole year. They come Pontiac-Detroit team matches will take place. The 213 N, WOODWARD AVE. seeking the country for other reasons than the first club championship qualifying rounds are scheduled for But there is a ·two,fold attraction at Wing Lake. Here, just be yond the Oakland Hills BIRMINGHAM men and women who sought it hereabouts a hundred September 4, 5 and 6, the final coming on October 3 or Phone 958 years ago, but after all it is the same love! countr , Country Club, are two select residential com, )'. � before, if possible. Dan F. Hulgrave is chairman of munities for year-round homes. Wing Lake and it will yield beauty and refreshment, JUSt as 1t the tournament committee. Shores and Wing Lake Estates provide, too, still offers fields to gallop over and rail fences to jump. Brooklands women began their season with a bridge all the summertime advantages of a location The waters of Stoney Creek no longer turn the mill breakfast on May 5 and the season schedule calls for overlooking the crystal depths of a lake that's wheel, but they do fill a mill pond, where happy pe ALL restricted! ? an event every Wednesday. Qualifying round for the ple swim in summer and skate in winter, and they �till Send for illustrated folder, or phone for an gurgle over the stones, singing to those who take time spring tournament is set for June 9, for the Fisher cup on July 14, and the club championship on August appoint ment to visit the prop erty. Prices as to listen. low as $1,350. 18. Mrs. Martin J. Doyle is general chairman; Mrs. It is rather nice to think that the country life de· E. Glenn Simpson, chairman of the social committee; velopment around Stoney Creek so far lies entirely in Branch Office on the Property is Open _ _ Mrs. R. W. Hollister, of the golf committee, and Mrs. countrv life for its own sake. There 1s nothmg here Every Afternoon H. A. Benjamin and Mrs. H. W. Sheriff compose the of a d� luxe order yet. Those who came fi_rst bought tournament committee. old houses because they loved them and could have a Wormer & Mooi;e o-reat deal of fun restoring them, and because they RED RUN :vanted to get into the real country. It is possible, ot 2231 Park Ave, a Randolph 4886 course, that in ten years this section may �ave MAY, 1926 MAY, 1926 Page Ti1·ent3·-fo11r THE AFTERGLOW THE AFTERGLOW Pa.ge Twenty-five ed Country Comment-Continu Reproductions of Peasant Furniture ( C 9) of Portland, Oregon, has recently onti11ned from page Mr. Arthur Crafts d be where he will be asso shoul of brick or tile or even stone. The whole come to Birmingham to live, in the real estate busi atmosphere of a room is changed should this point be ciated with Loren G. Stauch of Mrs. John T. Shaw ove looked, for, somehow, the carved and painted ness. Mr. Crafts is a brother : chairs and tables of the Italians seem to fit of "Whysall." best and * * * become more decorative when _ standing upon faded about three miles tiles or uneven old bricks · The old Fosdick homestead, Then, too , 1 't i· s best to was sold recently leave the walls in a north of Rochester toward Orion, rough plaster finish. Against W. Mason. The to vVilliam C. Devereaux and George such a wall bits of Ma- fertile, comprises 130 farm which is very high and jolica or Florentine fai Miss Lois Dever- acre;. The deal was transacted by ence show to best ad eaux. vantage. For curtaining * * * an Italian interior inter Another Fosdick farm, adjoining the homestead, esting effects may be ob was sold last summer to Mr. Farrand Williams, presi tained by using plain col A Home in �orion Lake.s dent of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, who ored materials, such a expects to make extensive improvements there. Reside11ce of Mr. A. C. Marshall yellow, for instance, bor Over twenty com mun ity * * * Ba/moral Drive, Detroit developments to choose from dered with narrow bands D. Allen Wright, Architect "I tell you," said the man on the bus, "that while a of magenta or a faded If it's Birmingham lot of people are running around like mad, trying to red touched up with or Bloomfield Hills sell city property, there are everlasting fortunes to be bands of gold or emerald made in outlying acreage. Take New York and Walsh,James &WaseyCo. Philly-$6,000 an acre thirty miles out! And this lit green. Bear 111 mind BUILT BY I le city is just getting to the point where people not that very little furniture 1530 Penobscot Bldg. only crave and must have a retreat in the country. is required in making an PACKARD-CHARLTON Offices also in Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills Italian room which de Jay A, Walsh Donald O. James "Listen-I've got the prettiest little piece of acre BUILDING CO. Albert W, Wasey Carl L. Bradt age you ever laid eyes on-a thousand acres-right on pends for its best effect W. Whiting Raymond \i\loodward avenue-." upon plenty of wall Levinson Bldg. Birmingham, Mich. space, light and bold contrasts of color. Nornia11 chairs /rm·e certai11 Color again, and plenty touc/res of rnstic beaut;, not of it, is the keynote of fo1111d i11 tire ordi11ar,, kitc/re11 f11mit11re of ot/rer co1111tries. an interior to be carried out in the style of old Spain. Let the floors be made The Detroit Aviation of tiles, preferably in colorings of old blue or yellow. LAND Leave the walls in the Riding and Hunt rough plaster and paint the window frames and Club the doors in a yellow or INVESTMENTS blue to match. As the Have taken over the stables kitchen in a Spanish of the Aviation Country Club The architect's sketclz for tlze ,-esidence of Mr. Art/111r C. Boni, cottage, is a living room wlzich has recmtly bew completed in Trowbridge Fa.rms, a Brad as well as a dining room. Memberships open at As your confidential real estate broker, let way develop111e11t in the Bloomfield Hills dist,·ict. The ho11se was twenty-five dollars the season designed b)' ]. l'-va-11 Dise, Detroit architect. the walls will be gay me eliminate the annoyances of your land with gleaming copper INSIDE RING BRIDLE PATHS utensils, and the plate transactions, giving a maximum satisfac- HORSES BOARDED RIDING I rack will be filled with LESSONS Telephone 56 U11der Co111,pete11/ Instructor I: tion with the least concern to you. plates and patterns vi brant with color. Sur $15.00 for ten lessons rnund a walnut table Saddle Horse Rates: $1.50 first hour· $1.00 for \\'ith chairs having rush subsequent hours. Gerard Putters seats,not forgetting sev LOREN G. ST AUCH eral small ones for the FOR FULL PARTICULARS ADDRESS: I: LANDSCAPE CONTRACTOR children, and a stool for ARTHUR CRAFTS, Associate 1� years exclusively landscaping Bloomfield HIiis! the dog, and the result 302 Detroit DAVIDSavings BankH. APPELHOFBldg. Randolph 6570 will be an interior dis -or- LE:VI=' - ).J.\y, 192( THE MAY, 1926 AFTERGLOW Page Twe11ty-11ine AFTERGLOW Page Twenty-eight THE A R E DIF FE RE NT Garden Hints .. KUNIB1LT 0 HOUSES for May and June By FRED C. ROTH TO MOVE INTO STILL WE ARE AGAIN FORCED ORCHARD Set out some . annual plant among the perennials in LARGER OFFICES Spray fruit trees and berry bushes to cont ro 1 msects . . . the border to give co 1 or 111 i5ate summer. an d d iseases. Lune sulphur solt1t·o1 ns ( summer . .. Plant dahli a gladiolus the last of this month. strengt 1 1 ) and Bordeaux mixture ar e f ung1c1 d es and . . . Stake tall !o:i�1 g perenmals and train them from on 1Y control plant diseases while lead arsenate 1s used . ' . the beginnin:. to contro1 l eaf-eatmg insects and nicot·me su 1p h ate 1s After . For best Peony bl ooms, remove side buds d to control plant lice and water use Never spray f ru1t trees with liquid manure. Our Enlarged May 15th while they are in bloom. · Pinch back chrysanthemums to make them b C.ultivate frequently to c on t ro1 weeds and -:on- us hy. Organization 701-2 STEPHENSON serve moisture. . ROSES BUILDING, Dust foliage wi th su Iphu r IS IN BETTER There is still time to plant nursery stock. . to keep it healthy. W. GRAND BLVD. S SHAPE THAN EVER pray with Melrosine for rose b eetles or l AT CASS . e se pick BEFORE to DESIGN, them by hand and drop 111 k SHRUBS . . erosene. BUILD AND NORTHWAY 6155 R emove Prune shrubs after they have finished bl oommg, side bui:ls' lea · ving 1 on Y the terminal bud for DECORATE e. g., G o Id . en Be 11 (F' orsythia) and Spirea. The best fine blooms. YOUR NEW HOME blooms are produced on the two and three- Cut out all suckers from . . year-o Id below the ground having �ood . e Th o b1ect 111 pruning flowering shrubs ' th en, seven to nine leaflets. ts to renew the top to maintain the Y O unger and more VEGETABLES vigorous· branches. Remove the older woo d b y cut- Cultivate. frequently. . Make . BLVD. t mg b ac k to the crown. Any weak sho ot s may a1 so further sowings of ar 1 y matu ng cr RESIDENCE ON BOSTON / n ops as DR. FRANK J. MacDONELL d · ly. Never clip the ends of th adishes, lettuce ro [ )e remove entire e r ' car ts , be ts an d peas branches unless they tend to become stra gg I y. p re- Ma 1 h l e o r l or eWhico e , trans at d f r tia a- oving L alie and me, b c m s- If I'm designed this Fashion's slave and to its beauties so en th t thralled, 111 see eREFRIGERATORSl o l n bo whi e How can I ... and ever save ... I WANT 'EM, YES, I name and p rce ai. 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Drive out the way, it is hard to realize that this magnificent thorough highway at your first opportunity. Then, indeed, you fare was once· a narrow and dangerous strip of concrete will realize that no roadway ever built by man can -harder yet to realize that this roadway is laid over an compare with your Greater Woodward Avenue-two Indian trail that wound through the depths broad 44-foot strips of smooth concrete The Largest and Most Expensive Cemetery Gates in the Country of an almost impassable forest. that will extend from the city limits clear to And this highway that has marked a new Pontiac. epoch in the history and science of road S It is a real pleasure today to drive TWO HIGHLY RESTRICTED SECTION building is now nearing comp,l-etiol\. Beaver like construction activity prev"ails all along through beautifully wooded and gently roll ARD A VENUE the right-of-way. ing country, out Greater Woodward Ave NEAR vVOODW nue. 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