September, 19 13 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



LEAVENS MADE 

 FURNITURE 



t| Makes its strongest appeal 

 to people of taste and refine- 

 ment. A large business of sup- 

 plying the purchaser direct has 

 been built upon the simple, ar- 

 tistic lines of our designs, solid 

 construction, and a variety of 

 custom finishes, meeting every 

 possible requirement of dis- 

 criminating people. 

 ^f A large assortment of Furniture 

 in the natural wood or stained to 

 suit the individual taste. Your 

 choice of any of several finishes to 

 harmonize with the color scheme of 

 your rooms. 



•I Send for set of illustrations and color 

 chart, mailed upon request. 



William Leavens & Co. 



Manufacturers 



32 CANAL STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 



JUST PUBLISHED 



TWO FAMILY ®> 

 TWIN HOUSES 



CONSISTING of a variety of 

 designs contributed by leading ar- 

 chitects in all parts of the country, 

 showing the latest ideas in planning this 

 class of dwellings in city, village and sub' 

 urbs, together with very complete de^ 

 scriptions covering all the latest improve' 

 ments in sanitation, heating, lighting, etc. 

 In presenting this collection of designs the 

 editor has had in mind the large demand 

 for improved house accommodations 

 on comparatively small lot areas, and 

 has endeavored to collate designs from 

 all parts of the country, representing 

 the handling of the subject by practis' 

 ing architects in their efforts to meet 

 the needs of their clients in this respect. 



Two Detailed Specifications and 

 Sixty Designs 



Elaborately illustrated and accompanied by full 

 descriptive text. Size, 8x10^ inches, bound in 

 illustrated board. Price, $2.00, Postpaid. 



MUNN & CO., Inc., 361 Broadway, New York 



that the ample space under the tall "hip" 

 roof of a country home would offer untold 

 opportunity for additional bed-rooms or 

 for servants' quarters, and very often the 

 transformation of one such garret has 

 meant the downfall of many of its neigh- 

 bors. Not many years ago there existed a 

 most wonderful garret in an old plantation 

 house in one of the gulf states where for 

 more than a century had been placed the 

 discarded furniture and other domestic 

 fitments of a large family. Here was a rich 

 array of treasures to delight the heart of an 

 antiquarian, for two spinets of different de- 

 grees of quaintness were piled high with 

 bandboxes covered with gorgeous papers or 

 with poster pictures showing the fashions 

 about 1850 in New Orleans or Baltimore ; 

 whole boxes were filled with newspapers 

 printed during the latter days of the Con- 

 federacy when wall-paper was used for the 

 purpose and one side of a sheet might show 

 a pattern of poppies or morning glories and 

 the printing upon the other side contain the 

 news of the stirring days of the exciting 

 60's. From the rafters of this old garret 

 were hung long strings of onions or red 

 peppers, the smell of which was thought 

 to be destructive to moths. The downfall 

 of this wonderful garret was possibly sug- 

 gested when some one read in American 

 Homes and Gardens of the wonderful 

 living rooms made from a garret space. 

 The pictures which aided and abetted the 

 text were overwhelmingly convincing and 

 all this resulted in a swift disposal and a 

 rapid clearing away of all these household 

 relics to make room for a study and two 

 large bedrooms for the bachelor sons of the 

 family. What is even more tragic is that 

 this innovation was so successful that it re- 

 sulted in the speedy demolition of several 

 neighboring garrets fully as alluring. 



American housekeepers are now fully 

 aware of the necessity of sanitation, and it 

 was doubtless inevitable that this form of 

 domestic progress should work much havoc 

 with the old-time garret with its dust, moths 

 and worm-eaten wood, for it was a relic 

 of the times where sanitation had either not 

 been invented or was at best not fully un- 

 derstood. What really progressive house- 

 keeper could be expected to tolerate this 

 useless aggregation of household trash 

 when the space which it occupied offered 

 such boundless possibilities for the making 

 of more bedrooms, a nursery, or even a 

 ballroom ? 



But in the final analysis it generally turns 

 out for the best for by all means let us 

 make our homes as spacious and as com- 

 fortable as possible, and if one be so for- 

 tunate as to possess a large garret space 

 there is every reason that it should be 

 utilized to the greatest possible advantage. 

 We do not now require garrets to protect 

 household treasures which are beautiful but 

 temporarily out of fashion for beauty has 

 a permanence, as we now realize, and our 

 belongings which have a sentimental value 

 are not sent to the garret but are more 

 likely placed upon the drawing room mantel. 

 There too, such things as we really discard 

 are apt to be so worthless that they should 

 be quickly destroyed lest their preservation 

 should corrupt the good taste and deprave 

 the artistic sensibility of a generation yet 

 to come. 



BANKING BY MAIL 



THE Postmaster General of the United 

 States has announced an interesting 

 feature in connection with the Parcel 

 Post, that of "Banking by Mail," an inno- 

 vation which will enable depositors liv- 

 ing in remote districts to avail themselves 

 of the Postal Savings system. 



UNFILLED 



Window Shades 



— are made to save you money 



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 and smooth and really shades. 



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 any ordinary kind at another. Long after the ordinary 

 shade has been replaced, the Brenlin Unfilled Shade 

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For windows 1 yard wide by 2 yardslong, 75c (except 

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Write tor the Brenlin Book today 



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For temporary uses and for windows of little importance, 

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Designers and 

 Engravers for 

 all Artistic, 

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