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GEST PUMP OW EARTH. 
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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS February, 1912 
HESS seh LOCKER ‘< PHILADELPHIA” 
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A STEEL Medicine Cabinet Are to-day the Standard, as they were in 1869 
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Beautiful beveled mirror door. Nicke) 
=| plate brass trimmings. Steel or glass 
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Costs Less Than Wood 
Never warps. shrinks, nor swells. 
Dust and vermin proof, easily cleaned. 
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Four styles—four sizes. To recess in 
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Hay Unloading Tools 
Barn Door Hangers 
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Strictly High Grade in every respect. All knives of Vanadium 
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Mowers. Buy the ‘‘Philadelphia’’ and you will use no other. 
The Philadelphia Lawn Mower Company 
Over 42 years Makers of High Grade Goods Only 
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Clinton Wire Lath is Preis 
for use in exterior as well as interior plaster work. A wire mesh made up of 
drawn steel wire of high quality, galvanized after weaving, and provided with 
our famous V-stiffeners affords the ideal material for supporting stucco. 
Its unusual strength and rigidity prevents buldging or sagging. Smooth 
even surfaces are readily obtained while its stiffness and perfect key for the 
plaster eliminates all danger of cracking. 
In use for more than fifty years Clinton Wire Lath has proved its 
durability. It is everlasting and absolutely will not rust away. 
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Crucible Steel. Workmanship the finest. Makers of the only @ ! 
every opportunity for the display of taste in 
considering form, color, size and appropri- 
ateness to the plant and place in the group. 
Hints for this use may be had from look- 
ing over the garden pottery intended for 
outside uses but intended for plant use. The 
flower pots, if wisely chosen, can do much 
to set off the beauty of the plants, to 
emphasize a portion of the window, and 
to influence the effect of it in relation to the 
room. Very attractive garden or window 
pots can be found by means of a little 
search and there are often attractive ones 
among the newer hand-made pottery. 
COMPARATIVE SHRINKAGE OF 
MEAT IN COOKING 
RECENT consular report calls atten- 
tion to the tests at the London Elec- 
trical Exposition which demonstrated that 
the shrinkage of meat when cooked in a 
coal range is somewhat greater than that of 
the same meat cooked in a gas range, and 
considerably more than when cooked in an 
electric range. A leg of mutton weighing 
8 pounds and 8 ounces showed a shrinkage 
of 2 pounds and 11 ounces when cooked in 
the coal range, whereas a leg of mutton 
weighing 9 pounds showed a loss of 1 pound 
and 4 ounces when cooked in an electric 
oven. The shrinkage for the gas oven was 
2 pounds and 4 ounces on an 8-pound leg 
of mutton. 
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tet] : 
HistortcAL ATLAS, by William Shepherd. 
New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1911. 8vo. 
216 maps, 94 pages of text. Price, $2.50. 
This is one of the most valuable atlases 
that has come to the reviewer’s table in a 
very long time. In the first place, the data 
for the maps have been compiled in a most 
scholarly way by an expert, also with the 
advice and assistance of a valuable list of 
geographers and historians. In the second 
place, the maps, which, by the way, were 
printed in Germany, are magnificent ex- 
amples of the cartographer’s art. The com- 
bination of colors, which are apt to be so 
very crude in atlases of American origin, 
are toned down and admirably contrasted. 
It is very difficult to call attention to any 
salient feature of this book, as it 1s of unti- 
form excellence. Among the very interest- 
ing maps, however, are those showing the 
various Routes of the Crusaders; the Ec- 
clesiastical Maps of Europe; the very inter- 
esting map showing the routes of the 
Medieval Commerce; the Seats of the 
Medizval universities; the Medieval Com- 
merce of Asia; Plan of a Medizval manor; 
the Age of Discovery; the Principal Seats 
of War in Europe in all Centuries; the 
Growth of Russia; Napoleon’s Campaigns ; 
the Unification of Germany; the Balkan 
Peninsula; the Commonwealth of Austra- 
lia; the Partition of Africa; the Distribu- 
tion of the Principal European Languages ; 
the Colonies, Dependencies, and Trade 
Routes ; Localities in Western Europe Con- 
nected with American History; Localities 
in England Connected with American His- 
tory; the Indians in the United States; the 
New England Colonies; Campaigns in the 
American Revolution; Territorial Expan- 
sion of the United States; Organization of 
Territories; Slavery and Emancipation in 
the United States; Westward Development 
of the United States, and lastly, the Panama 
Canal. It would almost be ungracious to 
offer any criticism of this splendid work, 
