
RECREATION. XXxV 
sf ¢ ARCHITECT RB UitDep 
I build Rustic Work of all kinds from the best seasoned red cedar, treaties 


Automobile Houses Well Houses Fences Wineroom Furniture 
(20 designs) Porches Bridges Vases 
Log Cabins Bird Houses Gateways Flower Stands and 
Boat Houses Horse Blocks Chairs and Settles Lawn Furniture 
Bath Houses Roof Gardens Tree Seats of all kinds 
TL Ly PES Summer Houses Beer Gardens 
The larger work is built in sections for convenient 
shipment, and may be quickly set up by any one 
handy with tools. 
I build from plans furnished, or will furnish plans 
with estimates. You will find my prices right, and the 
work of the very best. Representatives will call 
_ upon request. Mention RECREATION. 
SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 
MY WORK SPEAKS FOR ITSELF 
D. P. VAN GORDEN 
No. 9.—RUSTIC SUMMERHOUSE (9 feet). Con- O ra n ge, N © J s 
structed of best red cedar, with or without seats; 
table built in center if desired; will stand the P. O, Box, 971. Opposite D. &L. R. R. depot 
weather and last for years. 
A prominent educator in Philadelphia When you move take 
tells the following story on himself; In his 
early teaching days he had a position in a i 
country schoolhouse in New England. The your house with you 
people in the neighborhood worked out their 
taxes by giving him board, and when there 
was no vacancy in the farmhouse he took 
a small room, while the neighbors supplied 
him with food. One day a young boy came 
running breathlessly toward him. “Say, 
teacher,” he gasped, “my pa wants to know 
if you like pork?” “Indeed, I do like 
pork,” the teacher replied, concluding that 
the very stingy father of this boy had de- 
termined to donate some pork to him. 
“You tell your father if there is anything 
in this world that I do like, it is pork.” 
Some time transpired, and there was no 
pork forthcoming. One day he met the boy 
alone in the school yard. “Look here, This is dead easy in these days of portable 
John,” he said, “how about that pork?” houses. You can spend this summer on the sea 
“Oh,” replied the boy, “the pig got well.” shore, next summer in the mountains, the fol- 
Boston Beacon. lowing summer in the Wilderness of Maine, and 
always have a good, substantial, portable house 
tolivein. Easily taken down, cheaply trans- 
Black Squirrels:—Will send a pair of] ported, easily erected, Neat, cozy and inex- 
these rare and beautiful pets to any one] pensive. Two men with a wrench, a few bolts 
who will send me 12 new yearly sub-| and screws can take down or put up one of 




scriptions to RECREATION. Will send a] _ these houses in two hours. 
pair of Fox Squirrels for 6 new  sub- Send for {llustrated circular which tells the whole story, 
scriptions, or a pair of Flying Squirrels and mention RECREATION. 
for only 2 new subscriptions. Safe de- ) ; 
livery of squirrels guaranteed to any part Spr tield Moulding Works 
of U. S. or Canada. E, F. Pope, Colmes- , 
neil, Tex, SPRINGFIELD, MASS, 
