AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
Modern Sleeping Porch fitted with Wilson’s Blinds 
Practically makes an Outdoor room of the ordi- 
nary porch; aroom at night, a porch by day. 
WILSON’S VENETIANS 
for outside and inside of town and country 
houses; very durable, convenient and artistic. 
Special Outside Venetians 
most practical and useful form of 
Venetian yet devised for porches 
and windows; excludes the sun, 
admits the breeze. 
Write for Venetian Catalogue No. 5 
Orders should be placed now for 
summer delivery. 
Jas. G. Wilson Mfg. Co. 
5 West 29th St. New York 
Also Inside Venetians; Rolling 
Partitions, Rolling Steel Shutters, 
Burglar and Fireproof Steel Cur- 
tains, Wood Block Floors. 
Made to order—to exactly match 
the color scheme of any room 
“You select the color—we’ll make 
the rug.’”’ Any width—seamless up 
to 16 feet. Any length. Any color 
tone—soft and subdued, or bright 
and striking. Original, individual, 
artistic, dignified. Pure wool or 
camel’s hair, expertly woven at 
oe 4 short notice. Write for color card. 
oe Order through your furnisher. 
Thread & Thrum Workshop 
Auburn, New York 
Grows a Fine 
LAWN 
It is specially selected, spe- 
Clally tested grass seed, and pulverized manure-—the ideal 
Combination! to grow quick, hardy, lasting turf. For seeding 
new lawns or putting new life into the old one nothing equals 
KALAKA, Packed in 65 lb, boxes, express prepaid, at 81.00 per 
box, east, or 81,25 west of Omaha, Write for prices on special 
mixtures for special locationsand purposes. Order today and 
have the best seed that money can buy. Get our free lawn book, 
THE KALAKA COMPANY, “5 Union Stock Yds. Chicago 
RUSTIC HICKORY FURNITURE 
The mostartistic and durable for Country Homes, Porches, Parks, 
Lawns, etc. Ask your dealer for it. Catalogue free on request to 
RUSTIC HICKORY FURNITURE CO., La Porte, Ind. 
MORGAN “A282 DOORS 
are used in the best homes, specified by architects who 
take pride intheir work, and sold by responsible dealers 
everywhere—dealers who do not substitute. 
ite today for copy of ‘‘Door Beautiful.’’ 
MORGAN Se MORGAN CO., "3 Oshkosh, Wis. 
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REAL HELP FOR HOME-BUILDERS 
Nothing helps the home-builder to secure just the 
features wanted as much as a big variety of designs 
and floor-plans showing the best types of homes. 
“DISTINCTIVE HOMES AND GARDENS” 
give endless suggestions, show scores of different 
arrangements of characteristic homes—covering 
| every phase of building. No. 1—35 designs, $1000 to 
$6000, $1.00; No.2—35 designs, $6000 to $15000, $1.00; 
No. 3—Combining No.1 and 2 $1.50. Stock plans 
priced in each book. Ask for special offer on origi- 
nalplans—descriptive circular sent upon request. 
-The Kauffman Company- 
620 ROSE BUILDING CLEVELAND, OHIO 
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SELECTING A COUNTRY HOME 
WRITER in the Sun gives the follow- 
ing suggestions to the urban dweller 
who, listening to the call of life away from 
the oppression of bricks, mortar and pave- 
ments ungraced by Nature’s own adorn- 
ments, seeks a country home. “Before you 
start out,’ says he, “on a tour of the sub- 
urbs to select a home for the Summer, 
spend at least one evening in drawing up a 
summary of what you will need. 
“How far is the house from the station? 
How many minutes is the station from the 
office? What is the commutation rate? Is 
there a good train service? These are the 
first questions to be considered. 
“The inspection of the house may be de- 
ferred until after the town has qualified. 
The next questions are how many rooms 
has the house and what is the rent? The 
arrangement of the rooms, the condition of 
the mechanical equipment, including plumb- 
ing, water pipes, gas pipes or electrical wir- 
ing and heating apparatus, the dryness of 
the cellar, the state of the wall coverings— 
all these factors and more of the same sort 
should receive careful attention. But there 
are other points hardly less important to 
the health and happiness of the family that 
you might overlook through inexperience 
or because in previous Summer quarters 
everything was perfect. 
“Then consider these things: Which 
point of the compass does the house face? 
Does the sun get directly into the rooms 
where it is wanted, or does it pour too free- 
ly into those where it is not wanted in the 
Summer time? What is the direction of the 
prevailing winds, do they reach the front 
porch, the living quarters and the bed cham- 
bers, or do they waste themselves on the 
rear? 
“Where are the shade trees with rela- 
tion to the sun and the breezes? Do they 
properly protect the sunny side? What is 
the general lay of the land? Is the house 
on a hilltop, on a slope, on a broad level 
stretch or in a valley? If on a hilltop you 
are sure of the breeze, but not so on a slope, 
on a plateau or in a valley. 
“Because of the slope of the ground, the 
direction and directness of the sun’s rays or 
the thickness of the woods on the windy 
side you might find yourself in an oven all 
the beautiful adjectives in the real estate 
prospectuses to the contrary notwithstand- 
ing. 
Poe there breeding places for mosqui- 
toes near by, any stagnant pools or places 
where water may settle after heavy rains? 
“These will answer the mosquito ques- 
tion more decisively than screens on the 
neighbors’ porches. If the house is in a 
valley has it a good drainage system all 
about? Are there provisions to make the 
water run away from the house and out- 
buildings rather than toward them? 
“Then once more as to the house itself. 
Are its windows broad, high and airy; have 
they shutters or blinds which can be used 
or not as you please, and are they well 
ecuipped with screens in a good state of re- 
pair? If there is an attic is it well venti- 
lated? Attics are often storage chambers 
for air heated by the roof that may make 
an otherwise cool house insufferably hot day 
and night. Do the porches unduly darken 
the best rooms of the house or are there 
overhanging roofs to shut out the light and 
the breeze? 
“Tn short, consider not only the mechani- 
cal perfections and imperfections of the 
house itself, but also the topography of the 
neighborhood, and take nothing on hear- 
say, but see it all for yourself before sign- 
ing the lease.” 
"THE most modern, and best illuminating and 
_, cooking service for isolated homes and institutions, 
is furnished by the CLIMAX GAS MACHINE. 
Apparatus furnished on TRIAL under a guarantee 
to be satisfactory andin advance of all other methods. 
Cooks, heats water for bath and culinary purposes, 
heats individual rooms between seasons—drives pump- 
ing or power engine in most efficient and economical 
manner —also makes brilliant illumination. IF 
MACHINE DOES NOT MEET YOUR EXPECTA- 
TIONS, FIRE IT BACK. 
Send for Catalogue and Proposition. 
Low Price 
Liberal Terms 
Better than City Gas or Eleo- 
tricity and at Less Cost. 
C. M. KEMP MFG. CO. 
405 to 413 E. Oliver Street, Baltimore, Md. 
BRISTOL’S 
Recording Thermometers 
Continuously and automatically record indoor and 
outdoor temperatures. Useful and ornamental for 
country homes. 
Furnished, if desired, with sensitive bulb in weather 
protecting lattice box and flexible connecting tube so 
that Recording Instrument may be installed indoors 
to continously record outdoor temperatures. 
Write for descriptive printed matter. 
THE BRISTOL CO., Waterbury, Conn. 
National Photo- 
Engraving 
Company 
@ Designers and 
Engravers for all 
Artistic, Scientific 
and Illustrative 
Purposes :-: 3: 
Engravers of "American Homes and Gardens" 
14-16-18 Reade St., New York 
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