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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
Music 
Every piece you can think 
of—every piece you ever 
heard, and thousands that 
you never heard but would 
like to hear—are instantly 
included in your re- 
pertoire. 
They cover every class 
of music—popular, 
ance, comic-opera, 
musical comedy, grand- 
opera, classic, sacred. 
All the old familiar 
favorites as_ well 
as the very latest 
hits. 
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“ Autumn’ 
a beautiful composition by 
Chaminade is one o 
many thousand bieces that 
you can play if you own 
a Kranich & Bach Player- 
Piano—“‘ the most Auman 
of all.” 
Even though you know 
nothing about piano-play- 
ing, your performance is 
technically perfect; and, 
better still, you can play 
with true perxsona/ musical 
expression, exactly like 
the most _ experienced 
Pianist. 
You can play 
Thousands of pieces on the 
KRANICH & BACH 
PLAYER-PIANO 
The Highest Grade Player-Piano in the 
World Built Completely in one Factory 
Only the technique—the striking of the right notes at the right 
instant—is automatic. Every phase of musical expression is under 
absolute personal control of the performer. And “expression” is what 
makes music—not technique. 
The KRANICH & BACH PIANO is famous as one of the half- 
dozen really first-grade pianos. The Kranich & Bach Player Action 
is exclusively a K. & B. product—invented by us and made by us, 
in every detail, in the same factory with the piano. It is, therefore, 
equally as perfect as the piano, and is to be had only in KRANICH 
& BACH PLAYER-PIANOS, 
Among the many exclusive features of superiority, one of the 
most important is the TRIL-MELODEME or TRIPLE SOLO 
device, which enables you personally to “bring out” the melody 
whether in bass, tenor or treble, and subdue all else. 
Complete and interesting literature will be sent on request; also 
a sample copy of THE PLAYER 
MAGAZINE. 
Sold on Convenient Monthly 
Payments if Desired 
“Tri-Melodeme” (Melody-Marked) 
Music-rolls with Special Artistic Tempo 
Interpretations, make expressive play- 
ing easy and quickly acquired. These 
can be used with any player-piano. 
Kranich & Bach 
233-245 East 23rd St. 
New York City 
For OCTOBER Planting 
We catalog a collection of choice varieties, with complete descriptions, in our 
Calendar of Perennials 
SPECIAL OFFER 
TO CLEAR A BLOCK 
Four-year-old Plants, good standard sorts, 
in varieties of our selection. 
Per Dozen .. . 
$4.0¢ 
October, 1912 
THE HOME WORK SHOP 
By EDGAR MORTON 
HERE is perhaps no department of 
the house so often overlooked and yet 
which would provide such pleasure and 
practical help as a small work room which 
might be called a factory in miniature. In 
every home, in city or country, there are 
numerous small repairs to be attended to 
but which are generally left undone be- 
cause they are hardly of sufficient im- 
portance for the calling in of a carpenter 
or a plumber. Then too, one can never 
be quite sure where the hammer is or who 
has borrowed the nails or forgotten to re- 
turn the screwdriver, and to hunt up these 
missing but very necessary tools would re- 
auire considerably more time, perhaps, than 
the work would be worth. 
The revival of interest in the various 
arts and crafts has produced a great army 
of home workers in wood carving, basket 
making, various forms of metal work and 
other kinds of craftsmanship which can be 
developed only with difficulty if one must 
work in the living room or in some other 
part of the house where the necessary dis- 
order or noise made would annoy the other 
members of ,the family. Even the house- 
keeper who is most interested in the carbed 
chests or plate racks which the family 
craftsman produces will be apt to look ask- 
ance at the shavings and sawdust which 
must be made and upon the array of tools 
required even though she fully realizes 
their importance and necessity. The mem- 
bers of the family who are tired: out with 
the day’s work can hardly be expected to 
enthuse over the noise necessary in work- 
ing brass, silver or copper into form, or 
in the turning of the bathroom into a place 
for developing the pictures of the family 
photographer. 
The growth of the teaching of manual 
training has caused its introduction into 
many public schools and the courses as 
taught at present pre-suppose if they do 
not actually require a certain amount of 
home work which cannot be done to the 
ereatest advantage unless there be some 
place where the young student may be free 
to work without disturbing the other mem- 
bers,of the household. Many young people, 
boys particularly, take a keen interest 
in wireless telegraphy and its importance 
has caused it to be included in the school 
courses of one of our largest American 
cities. To obtain really successful results 
the instruments used in this form of teleg- 
raphy should be placed in permanent posi- 
tion and left untouched by anyone except- 
ing the young operator to whom they be- 
long and this cannot often be done in the 
family rooms of the home. 
Various forms of craftsmanship, such as 
book-binding and weaving require space 
where the work may remain for hours or 
days undisturbed for a heavy book press or: 
a complicated rug or tapestry loom cannot 
always be removed or hidden away the 
moment one ceases work, and yet most 
families would overlook with disfavor upon 
having these unwieldy and somewhat awk- 
ward devices permanently exhibited in the 
family living room. Almost everyone, 
pane 
young or older, has some hobby and its in- 
dulgence, besides often being extremely 
practical, gives more rest, pleasure and re- 
laxation than is understood by those whose 
hobby consists in having no hobby, and a 
little workshop is particularly necessary 
for those whose tastes are toward mechani- 
cal pursuits. s 
In one small country home there is-a 
workshop shared by three members of- the e 
family each of whom is interested in some i 
Two Dozen . . 
FGbiCy.27) teense voter 
Hundred... . 
ANDORRA NURSERIES 
Wm. Warner Harper, Proprietor 
Box N Chestnut Hill, Phila., Pa. 
Te ee Send For Fall Price List 
Partial View of Peony Exhibition at Andorra 
7.00 
13.00 
25.00 
