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Air Raiders Don't Like 

 These Lights 



DLTRING their recent rr.ids on 

 Paris the German aviators 

 were greatly disconcerted by 

 rockets which the French sent 

 up and which discharged, betore 

 dropping, parachutes .vith bright- 

 ly burning fuses. These para- 

 chutes dropped slowly and their 

 fuses cast a brilliant glare upon 

 the hostile airplanes, making them 

 a good target for the anti-aircraft 

 guns. It is a safe guess that the 

 free fireworks were n t enjoyed by 

 the Germans. 



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The ground pine seems to grow naturally right 

 out of the boulder and the effect is very attractive 



Artificial Birds Give a Realistic 

 Appearance to the Flower Bed 



BIRDS are sociable creatures. If one 

 finds a pleasant spot and seems to 

 stay around it, his presence will do more 

 than anything else to attract others. For 

 this reason the use of artificial birds in 

 garden plots and as props on which to 

 train growing vines has found favor. 



The birds are pivoted on stakes of 

 varying heights so that they may be 

 used in beds of dwarf plants or tall ones. 

 The effect is very pleasing to the eye. 



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Artificial birds mounted on sticks are ornamental 

 in the garden and attract other birds to the spot 



How a Floral Urn Was Made 

 From a Boulder 



A LARGE granite boulder hollowed out 

 as a receptable for a potted plant is 

 the ornament which adorns the porch at 

 the home of Paul Brochier, on West 

 Adams Street, Los Angeles. 



The rock is practically round, except 

 that it is slightly flattened on the base 

 to give it a firm setting. With an ordinary 

 rock-drill the inside of the stone was 

 hollowed out so that a large flower pot 

 would fit in exactly. A small drainage 

 hole was drilled through to the bottom 

 and a ground pine was planted in the 

 flower pot. 



Old Tin Cans Figure in Milady's 

 Costume 



FEW women who are proud of the 

 fact that they wear hosiery, un- 

 derwear and dresses made of silk, 

 realize that old tin cans contribute 

 from twenty to three hundred per 

 cent, in weight to the glossy silks 

 worn by them. The price of silk has 

 increased enormously and to enable 

 them to sell heavy silks at a price 

 that will yield a reasonable profit 

 and yet be within the means of the 

 average purchasers, the manufac- 

 turers resort to the practice of 

 weighting the silk with tin tetra- 

 chloride, derived from old tin cans. 

 Five thousand tons of tin were used 

 for that purpose in 1917. Don't 

 throw away the empty tomato cans! 



