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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



December, 1906 



Sun-Dials with Pedestals, Complete 



By utilizing our Koll's Patent Lock Joint in the con- 

 struction of the wooden pedestals furnished by us, we 

 are enabled to offer this most attractive feature of the 

 formal garden at a price that places them within the 

 reach of all. 



A special booklet showing a number of designs of 

 pedestals, pergolas, etc., with prices, will be sent free 

 upon request. Ask for Circular "A-26." 



HARTMANN BROS. MFG. CO. 



MOUNT VERNON, N. Y„ U. S. A. 



New York Office : 1123 Broadway 

 ^/estern Factory: Henry Sanders Co., Chicago, 111. 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



KOLL'S PATENT LOCK JOINT COLUMNS 



For Pergolas, Porches, or Interior Use 



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= Complete Outfit 



I HAND AND FOOT- POWER 



1 Machinery 



AUR No. 7 SCROLL SAW 



V^ is warranted to be well made, of 

 ^5 good material and workmanship, and to 



— saw pine three inches thick at the rate 



— of one foot a minute 



= * SEND FOR CATALOGUE 



1 W. F.&John Barnes Co 



= 567 Ruby Street Rockford, III 



Price 

 $15.00 





Do You Want a House Like This? 



Comfortable. Well Planned, and Well Built as can be had for 

 tbe money ( Such Houses I make in my Books of Designs, or make 

 specially to your order and satisfaction. 



Book of Bungalows, 1906— A unique and artistic book, 

 containing designs for one and one and a half story Bungalows in va- 

 rious styles, SI, 000 up. Printed in Sepia tones. Price, by mail, $2.00. 



New Picturesque Cottages— Containing Original and 

 Beautiful Designs for Suburban Homes from $2,800 to $6,000. 

 Price, by mail, $1.00. 



Picturesque Summer Cottages, Vol. Ill, New and Revised 

 1906 edition. Old Favorites and New Designs for Stone, Shingle and 

 Rustic Summer Cottages. Price, by mail. $1.00. 



For Complete, Clear Drawings and Definite Speci= 

 fications, original and artistic interior and exterior effects. Buy 

 My Plans. 



E. E. HOLMAN, Architect, Room 14, 1020 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



t Plant for Immediate Effect I 



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%&i grow such tries and shrubs as we otfcr. 4B 



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Andorra Nurseries, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. at, 



NOT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS 



Start with the largest stock that can be secured! It takes over twenty years to 



grow such trees and shrubs as we orft-r. 

 We do the long waiting- thus enabling you to secure trees and shrubs that give an 



immediate effect. Send for descriptive and price lists. 



WM. WARNER HARPER, PROPRIETOR 



HELPS TO HOME BUILDING 



The Value of Architectural Study- 

 to the Woman 



A WOMAN needs to know enough of 

 architecture to intelligently criticize 

 her own home. She should know that 

 her house is good, not because her architects 

 tell her so, but because from her own knowl- 

 edge she is aware of it. She should not only 

 know her house is good, but she should know 

 why it is good. She should know enough of 

 related subjects to discuss styles of furniture 

 intelligently; she should know how to arrange 

 her furniture, know how to bring articles of 

 one style together — if she affects historical 

 styles in furnishings — know enough to avoid 

 errors, know enough to discern whether the 

 statements made by the furniture-man are cor- 

 rect or not. She should know, really know, 

 something about colors and their combinations. 

 She should be able to choose wall-papers and 

 have them in harmony with her furnishings 

 and in harmony with adjoining apartments. 



None of these things are matters of intui- 

 tion as is commonly supposed. Intuition will 

 help, and help amazingly, any one who sets 

 out to learn architectural and artistic facts 

 by process of study and under competent 

 guidance. But intuition goes only a small 

 way; about as far, to borrow a comparison 

 from another art, as ability to improvise makes 

 one a consummate pianist. Natural gifts of 

 any sort are always to be highly prized, but 

 most of them require cultivation and training 

 to produce practical results. Some women, 

 perhaps many women, take naturally to the 

 work of household decoration, and can arrange 

 a charming room without the slightest knowl- 

 edge of architectural history or of artistic laws. 

 If such results are satisfactory they are brought 

 about by pure luck, and by no means repre- 

 sent the rewards of genius. Knowledge is 

 quite as necessary in the arrangement of the 

 house as in the cultivation of the garden or the 

 carrying on of the farm. If one gets good 

 results without trained knowledge it is safe 

 to say that better results would have followed 

 had this knowledge been availed of in the be- 

 ginning. 



The esthetic aspect of the house is more 

 interesting than any other. It is the aspect 

 that shows results and which gives the great- 

 est charm. It represents the personal equa- 

 tion, the personal appreciation of one's own 

 home, and depicts the personality of the occu- 

 pant in true and unmistakable colors. It is 

 because the woman's house is her home that 

 she concerns herself with its decoration and 

 adornment, applies her taste to it, arranges it 

 as suits her best, makes it, as far as possible, 

 her own work. 



A good many circumstances and conditions 

 will make this work more difficult than it 

 should be. Her means may be limited, and 

 she will not have sufficient materials in the 

 way of furniture, curtains, hangings and the 

 like, to obtain the result she wishes. Her 

 means may be too ample and she will be over- 

 burdened with a wealth of costly furnishings 

 that she is quite unable to handle herself, and 

 the professional furnisher is called in. A very 

 excellent procedure, no doubt, but such a 

 house simply reflects the owner's ability to 

 buy, and is very apt to be wanting in any note 

 of personal individual interest. She may have 

 things she does not want- — -wedding gifts and 

 other articles that can not be disposed of while 

 they remain intact, and which she is too con- 

 scientious to break or otherwise dispose of. 

 The furniture at hand may have been 

 intended for other houses and other rooms; 

 and be quite unsuited to different places. 

 Obviously, therefore, any knowledge which 

 will help in bettering such conditions is a 

 welcome boon. 



