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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



September, 1905 



This Label is 

 on Genuine 

 Pantasote 

 Furniture 



Accept no 

 Substitute 

 Insist upon 

 Pantasote 



^ FAC-SirilLK TRADE-HARK LABEL 



fPanta&ote 



Leather 



IS BEST FOR UPHOLSTERY 



YOU CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE 



between Pantasote Leather and real leather. Pantasote Leather can be used for every 

 purpose for which real leather is adapted. Pantasote is durable, bright, odorless, easily cleaned, 

 does not crack, is fireproof, waterproof, and wears and looks like leather in every respect. 



PANTASOTE Costs One-Third as much as Real Leather 



The great demand for Pantasote has led to the substitution of many inferior imitations. 

 To protect you against fraud accept no furniture as covered with Pantasote from your dealer or 

 upholsterer unless it bears our trade-mark label as shown above. Do not accept his "Just as 

 good" theory; insist upon Pantasote. 



See that the word "PANTASOTE" is embossed on selvage edge of all piece goods. 



Pantasote was awarded the Grand Prize and two Gold Medals at St. Louis. 



FOR TRIAL PURPOSES we have for sale four sizes of chair seats, which give you 

 the amount of upholstery material you want, making the cost very small for new seats for 

 chairs you may have that need reupholstering. We will send, on receipt of price and name 

 of upholsterer, chair seat size 18 x 18 inch, 25c; 25 x 25 inch, 50c; 27 x 27 inch, 70c; 

 36 x 36 inch, $1.00. 



Upon application, will send our catalogue showing 

 material in the different colors in which it is made. 



THE, PANTASOTE COMPANY 



Dept. Six, 11 Broadway, New York 



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Your New Home 



is going to be "just right" if you can make it so. Do you know that nothing adds so 

 much to the appearance of a building as artistic hardware ? You must have hardware of 

 some kind; the beautiful kind — 



Sargent's cylrtistic Hardware 



increases the attractiveness of the home and adds to its enjoyment. The difference in cost 

 between poor hardware and Sargent's best is but trifling. To help you to make a selection, 

 we will be glad to send on request a copy of Sargent's Book of Designs, which shows many- 

 pleasing patterns suited to all tastes. 



SARGENT & COMPANY, J£E*S e *& I E£ 156 Leonard Street, New York 



FIFTY SUGGESTIONS FOR 

 THE HOUSE 



9. Planning the Bedroom 



IN ARRANGING the bedroom it should 

 be remembered that the location of the 

 bed is the chief consideration. It should 

 be so placed that the air will freely circulate 

 around it without being in a draft; the door, 

 in opening, should screen the bed and not ex- 

 pose it, and sufficient window space should be 

 provided to give ample light without too much. 

 A bedroom is always a possible sickroom, and 

 the light should be adjusted to the needs of a 

 sick person. 



10. The Prevention of Drafts 



In order to prevent the production of drafts 

 in the ventilation of rooms the movement of 

 the incoming air must be slow and gentle; 

 it must be agreeable in temperature, and its 

 humidity must not be too great nor too low. 

 The conditions which cause draft are ( I ) too 

 great rapidity of current, (2) too low a tem- 

 perature, (3) excessive or (4) insufficient 

 humidity of the air. The current of air should 

 be broken up as much as possible by subdivid- 

 ing the openings of both inlets and outlets, 

 especially the inlet openings. — Dr. D. H. 

 Bergey. 



1 1 . Attics 



Although attics with sloping ceilings are 

 placed in the roof for economy, they are bad 

 from a sanitary point of view, because of being 

 extremely cold in winter and hot in summer. 

 Care must, therefore, be taken to keep an air 

 space between the ceiling of the room and the 

 outer covering of the roof, or, if the whole of 

 the room is in the roof, to fill in between the 

 rafters with slag wool and to place roofing 

 felt or building paper under the slates or tiles. 

 In all cases it is advisable to have rough board- 

 ing and not battens under the slates, the 

 continuous wood surface forming a non-con- 

 ducting material. The eaves of the roof 

 should project so as to protect the wall from 

 rain, and the latter should not be allowed to 

 run down the walls and make them damp. — 

 B. F. and H. P. Fletcher. 



NEW BOOKS 



The Art of Wood Carving 



Easy Lessons in the Art of Practical 

 Wood Carving. By Fred. T. Hodgson. 

 Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co., 

 1905. Pp. 284. Price, $1.50. 



This book has been prepared for the car- 

 penter, joiner, amateur and professional wood 

 carver. It attacks the subject from the point 

 of view of the practical wood worker. It is 

 not an art text-book, but a practical hand- 

 book that appeals to a very large class of 

 workers in wood. 



The lessons given in this book commence at 

 the very beginning of carving, and lead the 

 young workman by easy steps through the 

 mazes of the art, until he is able to turn out 

 work of a creditable character. The use and 

 care of carvers' tools are given and explained, 

 and the tools described and shown by illus- 

 trations, with methods of sharpening and hon- 

 ing the tools. All sorts of appliances are 

 shown, described and illustrated for holding 

 the work and for preparing the tools and fin- 

 ishing up the carvings. The various styles 

 of carving are fully described, such as flat 

 carving, chip carving, incised carving, scratch 

 carving, figure carving, carving in relief, 

 round carving and jewelry carving. Lessons 

 are given in each one of the styles, and also a 

 description of the tools used and methods of 

 using them. A chapter on the kinds of wood 



