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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



March, 1910 



Keeping 

 things warm 



AMERICAN;? Ideal 



rt Radiators ^Iboilers 



If some one is late to the meal, you can keep the food 

 warm, or you can keep nice and hot those plates and dishes 

 that must be served so, to be tasteful and relishable, by 

 placing in your dining-room one of our oven -radiators. 



are the highest achievement in house warming 

 and domestic economy. IDEAL Boilers save 

 the cost of the entire outfit in a few years and 

 AMERICAN Radiators distribute Florida 

 weather throughout the house. Anyone can 

 care for an IDEAL Boiler. It is automatic and absolutely safe. AMERICAN 

 Radiators supply a gentle warmth without the dust and dirt of hot-air furnace, 

 stove or open fire. They are designed as a part of the general scheme of home 

 comfort, economy, and beauty and so made as to collect no 

 dust. The oven-radiator is but one of many kinds designed 

 to add comfort to the home and decrease labor. 



ADVANTAGE 16: Air must be supplied under the grate to the fuel in 

 the fire-pot, in addition to a proper amount through the fire-door slide 

 over the top or face of the fire to mix with the flame and free fuel-gases, 

 and thus to cause good, sharp, complete combustion. In proportion as 

 the right amount of air is supplied, at right points, the right economy in 

 fuel is secured. The air-burning features of IDEAL Boilers are as fully 

 developed as in the highest forms of modern gas and oil burners. Ask for 

 our free catalog, "Ideal Heating," which tells all the advantages. 

 Do not wait to build a new home, but enjoy comfort and content in the 

 present one. No tearing up nor disturbing occupants or old heating equip- 

 ment. Sizes for all classes of buildings — smallest to largest — in town or 

 country. Our free book, " Ideal Heating Investments," tells much that it 

 will pay you well to know. Write us today kind and size of building you 

 wish to heat. Prices are now most fai'orable. 



A No. W-2-25 IDEAL Boiler and 500 

 ft. of ^8-in. AMERICAN Radiators, 

 resting the owner $245, were used 

 to Hot-VVater heat this cottage. 



At these prices the goods can be 

 bouglit of any reputable, competent 

 Fitter. This did not include cost of 

 labor, pipe, valves, freight, etc., which 

 installation is extra and varies accord- 

 ing to climatic and other conditions. 



Showrooms in all 

 large cities 



A merican R adiator C ompany 



Write to Dept. 6 

 Chicago 



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expected. The getting together of artists 

 and non-artists has not always proved a 

 success in New York, but better counsels 

 may prevail in the national organization, 

 and all friends of art must hail this new 

 organization with a greeting and wish it 

 success. The record shows that the con- 

 vention was a most interesting and ani- 

 mated one, and a permanent statement of 

 its doings was well worth making. 



The Studio Year-Book of Decorative 

 Art, 1909. New York: John Lane 

 Co. Pp. 163. Price, $3.00; postage, 

 35 cents. 

 A new system of presentation has been 

 chosen in the preparation of this annual 

 volume. Descriptions of the objects illus- 

 trated are omitted, and instead there are 

 given brief biographical notices of the var- 

 ious artists whose craft work has been 

 chosen for publication It is interesting to 

 know who these people are, where they 

 live and what have been their most notable 

 achievements ; yet in a work of this sort 

 there is ample room for descriptive notes, 

 information as to color and material and 

 the like that is missing from the present 

 volume. 



But the creative value of this annual 

 review is still at the high water mark set 

 by earlier issues. The illustrations are 

 most abundant, and cover many forms of 

 decorative art. It is, in short, a most im- 

 pressive survey of the progress of modern 

 art, and designers and art lovers may well 

 regard it as indespensable The volume is 

 beautifully printed, and the illustrations 

 include many exquisite plates in color. It 

 is a book that cannot well be too highly 

 commended. 



Stained Glass Windows in England, 

 By Charles Hitchcock Shirrel. New 

 York, 1909: J. Lane & Company. 

 i2mo. Pp. 254. Price $2.50, net. 

 This admirable book is a rational guide 

 to the study of stained glass in England. 

 It is accompanied by maps which show 

 how the cities may be visited in their 

 proper sequence with as little fatigue and 

 crossing one's path as possible. Not only 

 are the many noble cathedrals visited but 

 smaller religious edifices and secular build- 

 ings of many types ar-; treated. In this 

 latter category are treated the Universities 

 of Oxford and Cambridge and one of the 

 finest of the stately homes of England, the 

 Knole. Any cultivated person who com- 

 pletes the tours as outlined will have ob- 

 tained a well rounded impression not only 

 of glass but also of history as well as 

 intelligent accounts of customs of Eng- 

 land. Unfortunately no form of illustra- 

 tion can hope to reproduce the combination 

 of light and color which makes up the 

 beauty of stained glass. Those selected by 

 this book are the best obtainable, but are 

 chiefly useful in showing how the windows 

 are set. It is not a technical book so that 

 scale drawings are not required. It is a 

 beautifully printed and bound book. 



A RUST PREVENTING COATING 

 FOR IRON 



A RUST-PREVENTING coating for 

 iron, used by a German manufac- 

 turing company, consists in coating 

 iron and steelware first with lead, then 

 electrolytically with zinc, and finally heat- 

 ing this coating, so as to obtain an alloy 

 of the two metals which has the same 

 potential as zinc. 



