AMERTCAN QE O0 ES = AND) GARDENS May, 1905 
of W. & J. Sloane, No. 886 Broadway, New 
York. The main warrant for our recom- 
mendatory estimate of the good things and 
methods of the company is the knowledge of 
its very long and extensive connections in for- 
eign countries and ownership of factories in 
India, a combination that gives every facility 
for carrying out the desires of patrons in mat- 
ters of design and texture. It would be im- 
possible for an apartment treated by its deco- 
rators to look like a first rough sketch. All 
the refinements that prompt to take a more 
heightened or subdued tone where effects 
would be monotonous or excessive are obtain- 
able at this first-class establishment. The pref- 
erence shown for carpets made by hand will 
be met by its splendid stock at all times and 
in large quantities especially woven in styles 
of the periods. 
FIFTY SUGGESTIONS FOR 
TIE “HOUSE 
36 Heating a Village House 
N STOVE-HEATED houses the halls are 
always cold, and, in addition, even in the 
rooms containing stoves, the floors are from 
6 to 8 degrees colder than the temperature 4 or 
5 feet above, a fact easily proved by experiment. 
As a consequence one’s feet are just so much 
colder than head and shoulders. ‘These two de- 
fects, cold halls and floors, are certainly fac- 
tors in producing catarrhal inflammation of 
the throat and nose, if nothing worse. To re- 
duce these defects to a minimum, it is necessary 
to alter somewhat the construction of the 
rooms. Every one knows the value of the 
open grate, not so much as a heater, but as an 
equalizer of room temperature, and herein 
lies our remedy. Every room should have such 
a grate, or its equivalent, simply an airshaft 
connected with the chimney, and opening into 
the room at the floor level. An airshaft so 
arranged, and of suitable dimensions, answers 
almost as well as an open grate, and furnishes 
the means whereby rooms may be heated very 
well with ordinary stoves. 
When a room which has no fireplace is 
heated the heated air rises and spreads along 
the ceiling in a thick cloud, and if a window 
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is opened the warm air rushes out before it has 
done much good; if, on the other hand, there 
ch good ; if, ; 
A R C H I T FE C T is an open grate, some of the hot air, escaping 
up the chimney, creates a partial vacuum; this, 
consequently, creates in the room a movement 
toward the opening, and the upper heated air 
is more diffused about the room, making the 
temperature more uniform. 
The halls, whether they contain a stove or 
not, should have an airshaft, for it will assist 
somewhat in “sucking out” the heated air of 
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THE FarMer’s GARDEN. Edited by Herbert 
W. Collingwood. New York: The Rural 
New Yorker. Pp. 128. Price, 75 ¢., 
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paper. 
The farmer’s garden, as understood in this 
little book, is a vegetable garden. It is in- 
tended as a plea for a home garden for the 
busy farmer, most of whose time is taken up 
with the large affairs of his farm. It is a gar- 
den, therefore, which can only be cultivated in 
spare moments and perhaps only by the women 
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tical experience for his material, and has pro- 
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