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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 1906 



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This Rare Old Colonial 

 Rocker Costs You Nothing 



WE ARE making you this special offer of "ye old 

 tyme" furniture for a single reason — to secure your 

 subscription to The House Beautiful. 

 We have had a number of the old New England chairs, 

 settles and tables of our great-grandfathers' time copied, detail 

 for detail, from the few original antiques in existence and are 

 offering them for subscriptions, because we feel sure that once 

 you read The House Beautiful you will keep on taking it 

 year after year. 



It is a magazine any tasteful woman will thoroughly enjoy 

 — no less will she enjoy the possession of this rare and beau- 

 tiful old furniture. Nothingcould more surely exemplify The 

 House Beautiful atmosphere than these artistic, exclusive, 

 Colonial models. 



In The House Beautiful Magazine she'll find excellent 

 illustrations of artistic rooms, dainty boudoirs, hangings, 

 draperies and attractive interior decorations of every sort. 

 It reproduces architects' plans in detail, treats of old china, 

 shows effective arrangement of furni- 

 ture, rugs, etc. 



In short, The House Beautiful is a 

 magazine that will help you combine 

 economy with perfect taste and get 

 most gratifying results in your house, 

 grounds or garden. 



Mail us $2, the price of the maga- 



I ;j zine alone, and we will send you the 



J coming twelve issues and this chair — 

 freight prepaid in'U.S. — free of charge. 

 Or, in case the lines of thischairdo 

 not please, send for free catalogue 

 which pictures other types — either 

 Colonial or Mission models, a few of 

 which are shown in the 



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Hardwood — 

 honestly made — 

 sh — appropriate in any room. 



small illustrations above. 



Let us tell you howto get three 

 or four pieces without cost. 



Now, both magazine and the 

 chair you select must please you, 

 for if you decide that either falls 

 short of yourexpectations. simply 

 return the chair — we'll return 

 your remittance and slop the 

 subscription. 



In this way you are certain to 

 be entirely satisfied. 



Write today. Address 



Subscription Dept. N . 

 The House Beautiful Co. 



Republic Bldg., Chicago 



Sanitary Heating 



- *nd Coal Saving w 



In your home is impossible without the 



Minneapolis Heat* Regulator 



This device maintains a uniform temperature; relieves you of all care and 

 attention ; saves coal and prevents any possible accident from sudden changes 

 in the weather. Does its work automatically (which means accurately) and a 

 change of one degree in the temperature of the room operates the dampers. 

 Used with hot water or steam boilers, furnaces or natural gas. All adjust- 

 ments made instantly from the living-room. Costs no more than a good cli ids 

 and has proven its merit for a quarter of a century. Lasts a lifetime. 



SOLD ON 60 DAYS' FREE TRIAL. 



Recommended and sold by all first-class dealers in heating apparatus. Free illustrated booklet. 



WM. R. SWEATT, President, I st Avenue and G Street, Minneapolis, Minn. 



New England Office, G-l 578 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Mass. 



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affords actual ventilation. It is desirable that 

 sanitary fittings be applied to an outer wall, 

 to facilitate repairs, and in order that the 

 house-air be free from any contamination 

 with them. The floors should be of tiles or 

 other non-absorbent material. They can, if 

 desired, be sloped slightly toward the outer 

 wall, so that water falling on them, or used 

 in cleaning, may run off through a waste-pipe 

 supplied with a rain-water head. Damage 

 from overflows is avoided in this way. The 

 walls should be of glazed tiles, either carried 

 to a ceiling or in a high dado. 



The most important of all sanitary fittings is 

 the water-closet. A great variety of special 

 makes and forms are on the market, each 

 manufacturer having his own specialty for 

 which special pre-eminence is claimed. The 

 layman is apt to be phased by the various 

 claims that will be put before him, and his 

 safety will be in seeking the advice of an expert 

 sanitarian. The essential requirements of a 

 good water-closet are, however, readily stated. 

 The basin must be so shaped that no part will 

 be soiled through use; every part must be 

 thoroughly scoured by a flush of water ; it 

 should be made of glazed stone-ware, formed 

 to retain some water from the after-flush ; no 

 working part should be of a kind to get out of 

 order; the trap should be self-cleansing and 

 without angles and corners; it should have 

 an efficient seal ; and no portion should be 

 enclosed within woodwork. The old pan- 

 closet is no longer regarded as suitable for 

 use; long-hopper closets are also objection- 

 able; short-hopper closets, if supplied with 

 ample water and given a good flushing-rim 

 can be properly cleaned and are unobjection- 

 able. The wash-down and the wash-out 

 closets are the most usual form of modern 

 closets. The syphonic closet is also much used. 

 Whatever the form of closet the water for 

 flushing must not be drawn directly from the 

 house supply, but from a separate cistern 

 which is a part of the closet apparatus. Nearly 

 every part of the apparatus forming the water- 

 closet can be obtained in many forms, most of 

 which are covered by patents and each of 

 which has some real or imagined advantage 

 over every other form. All the leading manu- 

 facturers give special attention to the excel- 

 lence of their materials, the joining of parts 

 and other essential matters. 



The soil-pipe, which receives the wastes 

 from the water-closet, should be of cast iron, 

 from three to four inches in diameter. The 

 joints should be lead-calked and connection 

 with lead branch-pipes made by Y-joints and 

 brass ferrules. It should be placed vertically, 

 preferably within a special three-foot square 

 special shaft, which, when covered with 

 boards, is so concealed that the covering can 

 be readily removed. It should never be 

 placed within a wall nor outside the house, 

 and must be so situated that its entire length 

 is readily approachable. It should be carried 

 above the roof in its full diameter; if less 

 than four inches it should he extended at least 

 a foot below the roof-line. A trap is harmful 

 at its base as well as unneeded. The soil-pipe 

 should always be near the apparatus whi:h 

 feeds into it. 



While baths are made of various materials, 

 modern practice recommends only enameled 

 iron and porcelain. They should have a waste- 

 ard overflow-pipe. The modern tendency i> 

 to diminish the size of the bath as much as 

 possible, occasioned, no dovibt, by the lack of 

 rooms in flats and hotels in which many bath- 

 rooms are built. The individual house own r, 

 who can afford a large bath, will take special 

 satisfaction in it. There is scarcely a Unfit to 

 the variety of fittings of all sorts which are 

 supplied for baths. 



Special forms of bath, as foot-baths and 

 sitz-baths, are sometimes used in private bath- 



