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AME R PCAN SEO MiGE;S 
AND GARDENS 
January, 1906 
Boston, J. W. Maguire Co., 745 Boylston St.; Chicago, 
H. Paulman & Co., 1321 Michigan Ave.; New York, Har- 
rolds Motor Car Co., B’way, s8th-s9th Sts.; Pittsburg, 
Banker Bros. Co., Baum and Beatty Sts.; Baltimore, 
Southern Auto Co., 2021 Maryland Ave.; Buffalo, The 
George N. Pierce Co., 752 Main St. (Retail); Detroit, J. P. 
Schneider, 189 Jefferson Ave.; Denver, The George N. 
Pierce Co., 1643 California St.; Hartford, The Miner 
Garage Co., 120 Allyn st.; Houston, Tex., Hawkins Auto 
& Gas Engine Co.; Kansas City, Mo., E. P. Moriarty & 
enclosed top. 
extra, $200. 
| 
This is the Great Arrow Victoria Tonneau 40-45 H. P. with semi- 
Cape top, 
Price, $5,000. Semi-enclosed top, extra, $350. 
you as good an impression of the car as any picture can. 
PLE GE eG EN is (hOmR> 1906 
Co., 1612 Grand Ave.; Los Angeles, Bush & Burge, Cor. 
7th and Main Sts.; Louisville, The Zorn-Strauss Co., Inc.; 
Milwaukee, Hibbard Automobile Co.; 
We have made the cut as large as the page so as to give 
Montreal and Ot- Springfield, Mass., E. 
The Pierce Arrow is an American car 
—the best American car that has been 
made — better in proportion to its cost 
than any imported French car —better for Amer- 
ican use, American roads and the American 
Motorist. It offers satisfaction, minimum of ex- 
pense in running, perfect service, and can be 
operated by the owner. 
Catalogue and descriptive literature on request. 
THe Georce N. Pierce Company 
BUFF Ao. Neo 
Members Ascociation Licensed Automobile Manufacturers 
The Pierce Arrow”? exhibited in Mad. Sq. Garden only 
Ave. and Gough St.; Saratoga Springs, W. L. Hodges, 16 
Woodlawn Ave.; Scranton, Pa., Standard Motor Car Co.; 
R. Clark Auto Co., 117 Lyman St; 
tawa, Wilson & Co., 142 Bank St.; Oakland, Cal., The | Syracuse, Amos-Pierce Auto Co., 109 S. State St.; St. 
George N. Pierce Co., 1013 Clay St. (Wholesale); Phila- 
delphia, Foss-Hughes Motor Car Co., 201 N. Broad St.; 
Portland, Me., J. A. Dowling; Protvdence, The Shepard 
Company; Rochester, U. S. Automobile Co., 21 Plymouth 
Ave.; San Francisco, Mobile Carriage Co., Golden Gate 
Louis, Western Auto Co., 4701 Washington Boulevard; 
St. Paul, C. P. Joy Auto Co., 368 Minnesota St.; Toronto, 
\\uto & Supply Co., Ltd., 24 Temperance St.; Troy, N. Y., 
Troy Auto Exchange, 22 4th St.; Utica, N. Y., Utica 
Motor Car Co, 
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A Self-Supporting Home 
A SeEvr-SupportTiING Home. By Kate V. 
Saint Maur. New York: The Macmil- 
lan Co., 1905. Pp. 344. 
‘This is a remarkable book, and one likely to 
fill with envy less industrious suburbanites 
who have essayed the same task and have met 
with less success than has fallen to the lot of 
Mrs. Saint Maur. For Mrs. Saint Maur is 
a suburbanite of suburbanites. She left her 
little flat in town and settled herself in the 
country to make her fortune on following in- 
dustrial pursuits. Her book is a record of her 
achievements, and a very stimulating, delight- 
ful record it is. 
She loses no time in introductory matter, 
but after the briefest statement of the circum- 
stances that turned her to country life pro- 
ceeds to tell her story. “The work of each 
month in the year is given a separate chapter, 
thus presenting the whole history of the yearly 
work. She had scarcely settled before she be- 
gan keeping chickens. This was but the be- 
ginning of a remarkable animal activity. 
Ducks and guinea fowl, turkeys and other 
poultry were raised with tireless activity. 
Pigeons, bees, rabbits, cows, calves, cats—the 
list is harrowing to those who have tried with 
one and failed, for success attended every 
venture. Mrs. Saint Maur, however, is no 
vain boaster. “Che purpose of her book—and 
it is a very earnest one—is to tell others how 
to raise these animals, what to do for them, 
how to take care of them, how to feed them, 
how to help them in sickness, and, most im- 
portant of all, to add profits each particular 
venture yields. Her own part in this work is 
but the vehicle on which the results are made 
known. Her experience has been so ample, 
her success so brilliant, that she is completely 
justified in inviting attention to her own 
achievements. 
But her book is incomplete. It deals not 
with home life, but with life without the home. 
It is a book of home animals, vegetables and 
fruits. She tells with great clearness what to 
do each month and what results may be ex- 
pected each month; but she does not tell us 
how her home affairs, her domestic life, is con- 
ducted. “This is a most important matter. No 
one can have a country home without being 
confronted with the problems of domesticity. 
Mrs. Saint Maur’s agricultural ventures were 
so extensive, and were so completely in her own 
care, that one naturally wonders how her 
household duties were attended to. The 
outdoor work must have taken so much time, 
and was so varied and so laborious, that it is 
dificult to understand how the indoor work 
was done. The point is of importance, be- 
cause the book is obviously intended to inspire 
other women with the desire to follow in 
similar footsteps. To most women the indoor 
work is so taxing and so exhausting that there 
is little time or energy left over for outdoor 
labor. It is a fair question to ask Mrs. Saint 
Maur how she did it. 
But this matter aside the book is a wonder- 
fully helpful one. It is brimful with sugges- 
tions. It abounds with practical knowledge. 
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