278 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS April, 1906 
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When you clean house this spring, and want every room bright, fresh and clean, 
decorate the walls with dainty Alabastine tints, in harmony with your furnishings. 
Alabastine is an absolutely sanitary wall coating, more hygienic and more 
economical than kalsomine, wall-paper or other materials. It is a pure mineral 
product that hardens on the wall after application, and makes a lasting and artistic 
finish, offering no possible lodgment for insects or disease germs. 
Your wall once finished with Alabastine, can be redecorated without scraping 
or washing. This saving of labor enables you to decorate your entire home twice 
for practically what it now costs you to decorate it once. 
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stine 
The Sanitary Wall Coating 
is sold by hardware, paint, drug and general stores, in properly labeled 5-Ib. 
packages, at 50c for white and 55c the package for tints. Simply mix the 
Alabastine powder with clear, cold water, as directed, and apply with a brush. 
Ask your dealer to show you the Alabastine Prize Designs 
showing exactly how the different rooms in your home will look 
when decorated with Alabastine, and giving many practical sug- 
gestions for furnishing each room artistically. If your dealer does 
not sell Alabastine, send us his name and we will supply your 
needs ourselves. 
Let us prove to you how little it costs to make your home more cheer- 
ful and more healthful with Alabastine. Our elaborate Book of Color 
Plans tells all about Alabastine and its cost, shows scores of color 
schemes and many beautiful interiors finished in Alabastine tints. It 
will be mailed you for 10¢c coin or stamps. Tint cards free. 
The Alabastine Company 
909 Grandville Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich., or 109 Water St., New York City. 
“Otd Hickory” 15 
Andrew Jackson Chair 
Comfortable, service- 
able and stylish. Fine 
for Porch, Lawn and 
Out-door use, weather 
cannot affect it. Made 
entirely of genuine white 
hickory with beautiful 
natural bark finish. Ex- 
act duplicate of old 
Andrew Jackson Chair. 
Seat 17 in. wide, 15 in. 
deep; height over all, 36 
in. Price $2.75. Ty.> 
for$5. Freight prepaid 
east of Miss. River. 
120 other pieces of 
furniture from $1.50 up. 
The Life Saving 
Fire Escape 
q A Collapsible Steel Ladder tested to 
sustain a weight of 1,500 pounds. Packed 
compactly inside a handsome window 
seat out of the way and out of sight. Can 
be brought into z#zstant use. Extremely 
Simple, wonderfully Convenient, abso- 
lutely Safe. Enables the strong to rescue 
the weak. It is just what its name signi- 
fies—a reliable Life Saving Fire Escape 
for Homes, Dormitories, Apartment 
Houses, Hotels, Factories, etc. We 
want to tell you more about it. 
Style No 32 
Be sure to get “Old Hickory” Furniture. If your dealer will not 
supply you, remit to us. Write for new 48-page Illustrated Catalogue 
and Special Introductory Offer—FREE. 
THE OLD HICKORY CHAIR COMPANY 
154 Cherry Street “t- MARTINSVILLE, IND. 
Write for our free booklet. 
“The Original ‘OLD Hickory’ Furniture Manufacturers” 
Life Saving Fire Escape Co., '2,¥grzen Street 
PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT 
Window Ventilating Lock 
VERY simple contrivance for ventilating 
ye rooms is manufactured by the H. B. 
Ives Co., New Haven, Conn. It re- 
quires neither mortising nor hole boring to ap- 
ply, being in the ordinary way fastened by 
screws. ‘The application and operation are 
easy and rapid, and the protection afforded 
against all kinds of intruders is absolutely sure. 
It is designed for 
use in all win- 
dows in flats and § 
sleeping - apart- } 
ments. We believe | 
this article one of | 
the best little de- 
vices made for | 
the accomplish- 
ment of a service 
so large as the 
ventilation and VENTILATING LOCK. 
safeguarding o f 
property. ‘lhe ventilating lock is made in gen- 
uine bronze, brass or antique copper finish, 
and shown in parts and in adjustment in the 
accompanying wood engravings. It is bright, 
neat, compact and ornamental in appearance, 
and being a permanent fixture, should com- 
mend itself to public appreciation. “—The com- 
pany issues and sends on application a 40-page 
catalogue on its window hardware specialties, 
and will fully reply to carpenters who ask for 
information on the working model of the ven- 
tilating lock. 
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Paint 
markable means for showing its quali- 
ties has been adopted by a Western 
manufacturer, and it proves that it would be 
uncharacteristic of the age not to find innova- 
tions in the observance of the common stan- 
dards of doing business. A notable book on 
paint has appeared which is just as different 
from other issues on this compound as the 
method of making it avoids other paintmakers’ 
methods, and its publisher, O. L. Chase, of 
St. Louis, Mo., is distributing thousands of 
gallons of paint daily on his new selling plan. 
‘The paint is made fresh to order in his factory 
for every one that uses it. Not only this, but 
he makes it fresh after the order is received, 
dating each can separately the day put up, so 
that it is absolutely new when shipped. By 
furnishing customers with paint produced 
under this plan, they may boast the possession 
of a material that is full of life and will stay 
placed on a building at least eight years. Mr. 
Chase guarantees this length of time under pen 
signature. Such is his known confidence in 
the pigments, when used according to the con- 
A NEW way to turn out a product and re- 
ditions of the order, that he sells it on six 
months’ time where time is convenient to pur- 
chasers. Generally paint manufacturers neither 
publish information about paints nor give any- 
thing more than a very small color sample to 
select from. The St. Louis book is just off 
the press, and those interested in this matter 
will receive one free of expense on request. It 
is a very large, handsome, beautifully printed 
and well illustrated publication. Printed on 
heavy fine paper, the center contains, we be- 
lieve, the biggest assortment of large color 
samples ever put out. ‘The samples are of such 
large dimensions that they give the selector a 
chance not only to choose the color desired, 
but to tell just how it will look on a building, 
as they are at least four times greater in size 
than any ever distributed. Ask for this issue 
immediately. It is a fitting and enduring 
reference book for the home of every property 
owner, and it is simply to court failure to post- 
pone sending for this ample and bright col- 
