xviii AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS December, 1912 
A A KINEMATOGRAPHIC STUDY OF 
Complete Your Heating System STREET CONDITIONS 
With a MARVEL THERMOSTAT T the Cities’ Exposition held recently 
in Duesseldorf, Germany, the perils 
‘Marvel”’ trols the heati tem as th : 5 
The ‘‘Marvel’’ controls the heating sys' as the governor controls an engine. It of street traffic were illustrate damsel me 
automatically controls the drafts so the heater gives the desired temperature regardless of 
changing conditions out doors. By constantly having the fire under perfect control there vincing manner by means of kinemato- 
is no waste fuel—no fire caeet noe pve heated apparatus— the drafts require no attention graphic pictures made by the Dusseldorf 
)) whatever from any person—and the life of the heater is greatly increased. Your coal lasts Str Dae > i 
co Street Railway Company. Everybod 
longer and the ash pileis smaller. The ‘‘Marvel’’ also opens the drafts of the heater be- 2 pen By y 
fore you arise in the morning and warms up the home while you sleep. The ‘ ‘Marvel " knows that it is dangerous to board or to 
is a necessary part of any heating system and ‘‘ Makes Any Heater A Better Heater.” An alight from a moving Car. Statistics show 
annual dividend of 30 to 40°¢ is received on the investment with unknown comforts and that nearly fifty per cent of all street rail- 
conveniences included, You owe it to yourself to send for more information—information way casualties are due to this foolish 
why you need the “‘ Marvel” and why it is dedfer than similar appliances. : 
practice. One film showed a woman 
AMERICAN THERMOSTAT COMPANY, Dept. A, Elmira, New York alighting from a slowly-moving car in the 
usual careless manner and coming to 
grief in consequence. In contrast was ex- 
’ No. 1. COTTAGE DESIGNS hibited a film bearing the device, “The 
offane Desiqns piven, ie Signe ranging in cost Left Hand on the Left Handle” and 
iin 3 showing a woman alighting properly and 
orgs aa ;COST HOUSES safely. A third film illustrates the dan- 
z pward of twenty-five designs, costing 7 . mabe 
By far the most complete collection of plans from $1,000 to $3,000. ger which a person walking, driving or 
ever brought out. Illustrated with full-page No. 3. MODERN DWELLINGS cycling behind a car incurs by shifting to 
enty d t cost f 5 i sSuri i 
plates. Oneralar each Soi separately. Bane caer costs ranging from the other track without assuring himself 
No. 4. SUBURBAN HOMES that his new course is clear. The film 
MUNN & CO. I Twenty. selected designs, costing from shows a bicyclist turning to the left from 
a es got BROADWAY) NEW YORK abot 2 CoO apa: behind a car and colliding with an auto- 
mobile moving in the opposite direction. 
Another film illustrates the notorious bad 
habit of truckmen and hackmen, who per- 
THE Study sist in obstructing the tracks in defiance 
of the warning gongs and whistles of 
RITTENHOUSE HOTEL it it overtaking trolley cars. This obstructive 
policy of drivers should be combated by 
Chestnut and Twenty-Second Sts. rc ( e ure energetic measures. It is intolerable and 
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Philadelphia absurd that thousands of persons should 
be delayed daily in this age of haste by 
EAS Y LESSONS the selfish obstinacy of a few drivers. The 
A Refined, Homelike Hotel, OR, STEPPING STONE TO time-saving and other advantages of the 
Catering to Discriminating, new type of street car, in which the exit 
Transient and Permanent ARGH ITECTURE is separate from the entrance, are also 
Guests. shown by comparative kinematographic 
Located in the very heart of By THOMAS MITCHELL studies. 
Philadelphia’s most select resi- 
dential section, yet within five A SIMPLE TEXT-BOOK telling in a SEAWEED FOR TRIMMING HATS 
series of plain and simple answers to CCORDING to a recent number of 
questions al] about the various orders as the Daily Consular and Trade Re- 
well as the general principles of construction. Bis i 
tree alee ama ch ree The. back eoutanig 92 paren, anole neat ports a rather unusual industry along the 
Kentish Coast has come to public atten- 
service of the highest standard. cream plate paper and illustrated by 150 engrav- : 2 : 
ings, amongst which are illustrations of various tion through a complaint lodged with the 
European Plan, $1.50 per day and historic buildings. The book is 12mo in size, Kent Fisheries Committee. The inhabit- 
American Plan, $4.00 per day and and is attractively bound in cloth. ants of the Isle of Grain and the adjoining 
z ; Fee a ee a ee ee districts on the east coast of Kent, have 
PRICE FIFTY CENTS, POSTPAID for many years been collecting a white 
seaweed that is washed up along the 
shore, which seaweed has been used by 
London and provincial milliners as a trim- 
ming for women’s hats. ‘This, it seems, 
has grown into a profitable industry dur- 
9 ° ing the Winter months, when farm work 
Lane S Ball Bearing Parlor Door Hangers is not to be had. Its continuance is threat- 
ened by the practice of trawlers who at- 
; . tach barbed wire to their trawls and 
Are the easiest running, gather the white seaweed before it is ripe, 
selling the alge thus collected at a very 
low figure. In the ordinary way, the sea- 
t t I h weed falls off from the roots and is washed 
strongest, as well as the ashore, but the trawls pull it up by the 
most durable hanger on roots and thus destroy the source of sup- 
g ply, besides leaving nothing for the is- 
the market to-day. For landers to collect but the refuse that has 
‘ been thrown back into the sea by the 
twenty-five years univer- || | trawlers. 
minutes’ walk of the railroad 
sections. 
R. VAN GILDER, Manager Munn & Co., Inc., 361 Broadway, New York 
most nearly noiseless, 
A 
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ii sally recognized in the SLEEPING COMPASSES IN JAPAN 
Building Trade as the N Japan, says Harper's Weekly, no nat- 
ive ever sleeps with his head to. the 
very best Hanger made. north, for the reason that the dead there 
are always interred with their heads in 
Get our catalog of other that direction. One result of this custom 
Al is that in the sleeping-rooms of many of 
goods. the private houses of Japan, to say noth- 
ing of the hotels in the cities, there is con- 
LANE BROS. oie Prospect Street, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. spicuously: posted ome oa 
information of guests, a diagram of the 
points of the compass, 
