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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 1905 



GRILLES "DIRECT FROM FACTORY" MANTELS 



No. 225— 48x12 inches. $3.60. Retail value. S7.00 

 No. 230— 48x14 inches, with Curtain Pole. $4.50. 



Retail value. S9.00 

 Others from $2. 50 up. Largest assortment. Division 

 Screens and special Grilles to order 



TILES 



of Every Description for Walls, Floors, Etc 



buys this solid oak Mantel. 80 in. high. 54 or 60 in. wide 

 28 x 16 Mirror. Heavy columns and elaborate capitals. 

 Tile facing and hearth. Club house grate. S10.00, 



W'ite for catalog of Mantels. Grates, Tiles for floors 

 and baths. Slate Laundry Tubs. Grilles, etc. It is free. 

 Or send 10 cents to pay postage on our Art Mantel Cat- 

 alog. Mantel Outfits from $12 to $200. 

 W. F. 0STEND0RF, 2417 W. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Uniform Temperature 



It makes no difference whether you have furnace, steam or hot water apparatus; 

 or whether it is new or old. All you need is the 



MINNEAPOLIS HEAT REGULATOR. 



It automatically controls the drafts. A change of one degree at the thermostat is 

 sufficient to operate the dampers. This device is as simple and no more expensive than a 

 good clock. It embodies economy, comfort and health. Has proven its merit for 22 years. 



Berwick, Pa., Jan. 17. 1902. 

 Find enclosed cheek for regulator. I have given it a 

 thorough trial, and lind it all yon claim for it and a very 

 useful device. Thanking you for your courtesy for the 

 period of trial. FRANK FAUST. 



Cedar Falls, Iowa. 

 Enclosed And draft for the amount due for regulator. 

 I am very much pleased with the regulator, and would 

 not part with it for five times what I paid for it, if I 

 could not get it otherwise. F. E. MILLER, 



Ass't Cashier, Cedar Falls National Bank. 



Six years ago I installed one of your regulators in my house, and I cannot praise it sufficiently. I can safely say 

 it has saved me two tons of coal each season, and I have always retained an even temperature throughout the 

 house. FRANK S. SMITH, Secretary Board of Health Warwick, N. T. 



SENT ON 30 DAYS ABSOLUTELY FREE TRIAL. 



W. R. SWEATT, Secretary, 

 Ave. and G St. Minneapolis, Minn. 



Adjust 

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USE JOIST HANGERS 



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19. Colors for Mantel Drapery 



In choosing a color for mantel drapery, that 

 of the wall and of the hangings must be taken 

 into consideration. If with dark walls and a 

 black marble fireplace a light color is intro- 

 duced, the effect is that of a light streak break- 

 ing the line of the wall. Then the decoration 

 becomes too obvious, and loses such little qual- 

 ity as it might have been made to possess. It 

 is better to build up from the lower or the floor 

 color, making the covering as inconspicuous as 

 possible. — Lillie Hamilton French. 



20. The Shingle Roof 



Shingles are not disposed to break by shak- 

 ing in the wind, or by being nailed too tightly, 

 and form, so long as they last, a much better 

 roof than slates ; but they soon rot in the "val- 

 leys," or angles between intersecting portions 

 of the roof, and inferior shingles may split or 

 curl in the sun, also causing leaks. — T. M. 

 Clarke. 



21. Water Marks on Tables 



The best way to remove marks made by hot 

 water jugs on polished trays or tables is to 

 make a thin paste of salad oil and salt, leave it 

 on the mark or ring for half an hour, then 

 polish with a dry cloth and the mark will have 

 disappeared. 



NEW BOOKS 



English Table Glass 



English Table Glass. By Percy Bate. 

 London : George Newnes, Limited ; New 

 York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1905. 

 Pp. 130. Price, $2.50 net. 



The series of books now being brought out 

 under the general title of " Library of Applied 

 Arts " by George Newnes, Limited, of Lon- 

 don, and published in this country by Charles 

 Scribner's Sons, fill a vacancy in artistic litera- 

 ture that has long needed filling. Dealing with 

 specific topics of somewhat limited range, they 

 constitute, in most cases, convenient text-books 

 which, if not the only ones on their subjects, are 

 certainly the most useful and the most acces- 

 sible. The scheme is the very admirable one 

 of condensed text and abundant illustration. 

 That the text is somewhat elemental in scope 

 necessarily follows, but the illustrations are 

 much more numerous than are usually found 

 in books of this description, and the volumes as 

 a whole are very welcome aids in disseminating 

 information on topics of which comparatively 

 little has been written. 



This discloses the second point of value to 

 be noted in this series, for the subjects thus far 

 treated are unique in books of this kind. They 

 are subjects which, if not new, are new in 

 books of this size and cost, and the collector 

 and student of the minor arts will here find 

 the present knowledge of his subject presented 

 by specialists in a sufficiently complete way to 

 satisfy all but the most exacting. 



Mr. Bate's book is not only a very good type 

 of the series, but a very good book in itself. 

 He frankly admits his obligations to Mr. Al- 

 bert Hartshorne, whose monumental work on 

 " Old English Glasses " was published in 

 1897, but his book is an original survey of the 

 subject, and is illustrated most abundantly 

 with glasses from the author's collection, and 

 from that of Mrs. Rees Price. Some few 

 glasses are illustrated from other sources, but 

 most of them are from the collections named. 

 The illustrations number, all told, 254, and 

 are sufficiently numerous to very fairly illus- 

 trate the whole subject of English table glass 

 in its best period. All these glasses are re- 



