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Your Concrete and 
Stucco Construction 
Needs My Coating 
My Bay State Brick and 
Cement Coating is backed 
by twelve years of practical 
experience in making a ce- 
ment coating. It has been 
tried under all sorts of con- 
ditions and met all require- 
ments. 
Years before anyone else had 
put a coating on the market 
Bay State Brick and Cement 
Coating was an established 
success. It had been used 
on large and small houses, 
factory walls and_ factory 
floors, on the vats and damp 
rooms of textile mills and 
breweries. It is the only 
coating that I know of that 
wont burn when subjected 
to heat. It has a flat finish, 
doesn’t destroy the texture of 
concrete and saves it from 
cracking from moisture. 
Just write me for our Booklet No. 3. 
Give our salesman a good hearing 
when he calls. He’s got the goods. 
Wadsworth, Howland & Co. 
Incorporated 
Paint and Varnish Makers and Lead Corroders 
82-84 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. 
“Rds LOCKER 
y “ea The Only Modern, Sanitary 
. | STEEL Medicine Cabinet 
or locker finished in snow-white, baked 
everlasting enamel, inside and_ out. 
Beautiful beveled mirror door.. Nickel 
plate brass trimmings. Steel or glass 
shelves. 
Costs Less Than Wood 
Never warps, shrinks, nor swells. Dust 
aud vermin proof, easily cleaned. 
Should Be In Every Bathroom 
Four styles—four sizes. To recess in 
wall or to hang outside. Send for illus- 
trated circular. 
The rg Soe Spal HESS, 926 Tacoma Building, Chicago 
Medicine Cabinet Makers of Steel Furnaces.—Free Booklet 
SILENT WAVERLEY LIMOUSINE-FIVE 
Ample room for five adults—full view ahead for the driver. Most con- 
venient and luxurious of town and suburban cars at half the gas car's 
upkeep cost. Beautiful art catalog shows all models, 
THE WAVERLEY COMPANY 
Factory and Home Office: 212 South East Street Indianapolis, Ind. _ 
Square and built into a beautiful Geor- 
gian residence not far from upper Fifth 
Avenue, where its grace of line 
and fine workmanship are in_ thor- 
ough accord with its new surroundings. 
A great architect who planned and built 
many of the most costly residences in 
and around New York used great quan- 
tities of building material which he se- 
lected from the old lumber yards of Bos- 
ton, Philadelphia and New York, on ac- 
count of the great beauty and accurate 
proportions of its designs. Many of the 
sumptuous city residences which he so 
cleverly planned and decorated are 
adorned with pilasters and columns re- 
moved from dilapidated old houses and 
refinished, colored and gilded to fit into 
his highly decorative interiors. One 
particularly beautiful country house 
which he built is fitted with old wood- 
work in the form of mantels and _ solid 
mahogany doors, and an old entrance 
doorway of most beautiful design, with 
a fanlight of leaded glass, opens from a 
studio upon a broad walk of brick which 
leads among the old-fashioned flower 
beds of a formal garden. 
Another interesting use of old wood- 
work is in a room in the home of a New 
York physician. The mantel and win- 
dow frames are of very simple patterns 
and wainscoting has been made of old 
paneled shutters such as were used in 
very early days when New Amsterdam 
was still a copy, more or less faithful, of 
an older Amsterdam beyond the sea. 
This ancient woodwork is painted a very 
deep cream, walls are of buff and much 
old white and blue Delft is used in tiles 
about the fireplace, tobacco jars upon 
the mantel shelf and in numerous old 
plates, platters and other dishes which 
fill various corner cupboards. 
One of the most interesting structures 
at one of our great expositions was a 
State building which was a reproduction 
of an old home of some historic interest 
in a city of that State. As the original 
building had recently been dismantled, it 
was possible to use most of the fine 
woodwork in this copy, and the old 
Colonial mantels and trimmings of win- 
dows and doors had been refinished and 
placed in what was practically their old 
setting, where they had the advantage 
of being surrounded by furniture and 
household decorations of the same era, all 
arranged with infinite taste and care. It 
is said that after the close of the exposi- 
tion all of this old woodwork was pur- 
chased by an architect and placed once 
more in a new residence, where, let us 
hope, it may remain forever. 
The older cities and towns are full of 
this early American work, and as in even 
the most conservative places the old must 
give way to the new, opportunities for 
acquiring such treasures are often pre- 
sented to the home-builder who is ob- 
serving as well as discriminating. Much 
of this old work, of course, is not worth 
preserving, for then, as now, designing 
was of varying degrees of excellence, but 
many of the craftsmen of that day were 
skillful designers as well as clever work- 
men. 
GRASSHOPPERS AS FERTILIZER 
BUENOS AIRES company is about 
to install unique machinery in its fac- 
tory for producing fertilizing materials. 
The machinery is devised for the purpose of 
utilizing grasshoppers and their eggs, that 
destroy crops themselves, as fertilizing ma- 
terial. 
May, 1912 
THEP Sewage 
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Disposal 
FOR COUNTRY HOMES 
Health and self-respect demand that dangerous, repul- 
sive cesspools, etc., must go. The Ashley System will 
provide scientific and safe sewage disposal at moderate 
cost. Write for illustrated Manual on Sewage Purifica- 
tion and Disposal for Country Homes. 
We also provide Sewage Disposal for Institutions, 
Schools, etc. 
Ashley House-Sewage Disposal Co. 
115 Armida Ave., Morgan Park, IIl. 
For a Most Beautiful Lawn 
Sow KALAKA. It is specially selected, specially tested grass 
seed, and pulverized manure—the ideal combination to grow 
quick, hardy, lastin nF turf. For seeding new lawnsor putting 
new life into the old lawn nothing equals 
Packed in 5 pound boxes at 61.00 per box, express paid east, 
or 61,25 west of Omaha. Write and ask for prices ons ecial 
mixtures for special locations and purposes, Order today 
and have the best seed money can buy. Get ourfreelawn book. 
THE KALAKA CO., 25 Union Stock Yards, Chicago 
American Homes & 
Gardens & &® ®& and 
Scientific American 
sent to one address 
for one tor one year. 
REGULARLY $6 
SHEEP MANURE 
Dried and pulverized. No waste and no 
weeds. Best fertilizer for lawns—gardens— 
trees—shrubs—vegetables and fruit. 
aio, parte freight prepaid 
ae of Missouri River—Cash 
order. Write for in- 
eresting Sein wis quantity prices. 
THE PULVERIZED MANURE CO. 
21 Union Stock Yards Chicago, Ill. 
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Mara Ned 
WAGON LOADS 
STABLE. 
MANURE 
Landscape Gardening 
Everyone interested in suburban and 
country life should know about the 
home study courses in Horticulture, 
Floriculture, Landscape Gardening, etc., 
which we offer under Prof. Craig and others 
of the Department of Horticulture of Cornell 
University, 
250-page Catalogue Free 
Prof. Craig Write to-day 
THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL 
Dept. A. H. Springfield, Mass. 
Give Your Boy a Start 
Train him for Life’s Battle. Make him healthy, strong, 
durable and Self-reliant. Give him something to absor 
his time and attentionathome. Makehima present ofa 
Medart Private Playground Outfit 
f 
It is for boys and girls. It keeps, them off the streets and 
away from evil associates. his outfit, ranging in price 
from $25.00 to $100.00, contains the best that our ex- 
perience has dictated. Do not pass judgment now, but 
send for our Catalog Y, which fully illustrates and ex- 
plains the MEDART SYSTEM. SEND TO-DAY. 
FRED MEDART MANUFACTURING CO. 
3529 DeKalb Street, St. Louis, Mo. 
