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on2 DECORATIVE TILES Tne Tiles Which Make a Modern Patio, Kitchen, or Bathroom a Thing of Beavty Have a History Which Links Them With the Vanished Gleries of Bavylon and the Days of Artaxerxes "King of Kings." By Heler >ishop. Tiles, "The word brings up pictures of srowy bathrooms, modern kitchens, cool wWios in covniry houses--deautiful rooms which we Americans, so easily accustumed to luruvy, ta...
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on2 DECORATIVE TILES Tne Tiles Which Make a Modern Patio, Kitchen, or Bathroom a Thing of Beavty Have a History Which Links Them With the Vanished Gleries of Bavylon and the Days of Artaxerxes "King of Kings." By Heler >ishop. Tiles, "The word brings up pictures of srowy bathrooms, modern kitchens, cool wWios in covniry houses--deautiful rooms which we Americans, so easily accustumed to luruvy, tare för granted, The increasing use of Spanish architectare in this ar the present day demand that every bedroom shall havs its bath has country 8 turns resmnited 13 + larger interest in ani use of tiles. Then, too, the modern up her nosa AG anvthing but a tiled kitchen, And in the most elegant houses är well €9, tiles are boing used more and more for entrance hills, where as putli marvle was once the eccuptet material. We are becoming incrsasingly aware of tne practical value und decorutive bewty of Ceramics. A&al in the whole history of men's dnstinctive gropinr toward bearty and cxlture there is no chapter more aveorbing vhan the störy of the äcvolopment of tiles su the uses to which they have beer put through succveding civil. A poet has sung dream." Tnaey tru but a and the walls 2 still, the hanging garden re of Bribylon are dust, but tie vilcs which besutificd them still rer - to tell = mite tale of the glories of n variskod ampire. Tiles o iont teypt. The desert sands had drifted for centurios ovor the Egyptien City of Tell.el- » in 1891, Dr. W,M, Flinders Potrie, the fumoua Eeyptologist, v.iccver- ed the anrciost ruins of the place of Ameniotep IV, he founi tia becutiful tiles which had ornamentad the walls. "All aloug the vest side of ta. grent hall of columns" he seys, "fragments of green tiles with daisies and thistles wore found scattered, Probably, thorefore, there were more than 20 fect of this tilo ärdo, with inlaic white daisies ond violet thistlos. Prom the number of picess of tile with wnter
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