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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 1910 



Ask the agent: "How heated?" 



People are fast learning the differ- 

 ence between a house equipped 

 with old fashioned heating methods 

 or inferior apparatus and the home- 

 making qualities of a house fitted 

 with ideal heating. They shun 

 one and seek the other. The 

 living, renting and sales value of 

 any building, large or small, is 

 vastly increased by 



Look into the Heatinj^' Question before you rent or buy. 



M «■ r"T\Y/^ J \T ¥\ ¥" Jl ¥ T^iis several hundred thousands of these outfits 



/I lYl r l/ll l\ |\l v-7 I I r /a I installed all over America and Europe are so 



/ ij l_Ll\l\Jl\l 1 /V My M^ImM.^ comfortably, economically, cleanly and health- 



1 1 / Y fully warming the occupants of all classes of 



1 II Radiators ^"^^. Boilers bmldings that buyers and renters are now insist- 

 ently demanding them. These outfits of IDEAL 

 Boilers and AMERICAN Radiators save so much in coal and cleaning, in time and temper, in 

 health and happiness, and without rusting or repairs, that they quickly repay their cost. In all the 

 world they have no equal — hence the wide us-e by and high endorsement of all eminent engineers 

 and architects in every civilized country where heating is needed. 



ADVANTAGE 16: The phenomenal success of IDEAL Boilers is also largely due to the fact that they 

 are made in sections so that even their largest parts can be carried through an ordinary size doorway. 

 For this reason they can be quickly put in old buildings without disturbing the occupants. In fact. 



in unmodernized or old types of houses they can be erected, including the necessary 

 piping and radiators, without the necessity of removing the stoves or hot-air furnace 

 until the new heating outfit is ready to fire up. They can be quickly erected in 

 wintry weather when the old, crude heaters get badly worn or collapse. Ask for 

 catalog "Ideal Heating" which tells all the advantages. 



Prices are jicnv so attractive that 

 no one can longer afford to put 

 up with the nuisance or run the 

 risks of old-fashioned heating 

 methods. Tell us kind of building 

 you wish to heat — old or new — 

 farm or city — inquiries cordially 

 welcomed — and put you under no 

 obligation to buy. Every promi- 

 nent architect and every heating 

 engineer "recommend exclusively 

 the IDEAL Boiler and AMERI- 

 CAN Radiator. They cost no 

 more than inferior apparatus. 

 Accept no substitute. 



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A No. 22 IDEAL Boiler and 240 ft. 

 of 33-in. AMERICAN Radiators, 

 costinij the owner $1 15, were used 

 to Hot-Water heat tliis cottage. 



A Vo r -^,1 inr \T, B 11 1 



ft t , n \MLK1(.A\ K i hit rs. 

 costinK the owner $250, were used 

 to Hot- Water he.it this cottage. 



At these prices the ffoods can be bought of any reputable, competent fitter. 

 This did not include cost of labor, pipe, valves, frei^^ht, etc., which installa- 

 tion is extra and varies according to clhnatic and otlier conditions. 



IDEAL Boilers 

 and AMERICAN 

 Radiators keep a 

 new house new and 

 cause an old house 

 to have its life and 

 value prolonged. 



Showrrooms in all 

 large cities 



A MERICAN R ADIATOR f OMPANY 



Write to Dept. 6 

 CHICAGO 



NOW READY 



The Scientific American 

 Handbook of Travel 



With Hints for the Ocean Voyage for European 

 Tours :-: A Practical Guide to London and Paris 



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By ALBERT A. HOPKINS 



Editor of Scientific American Reference Book. 500 Pages. 500 Illus- 

 trations. Flexible cover, $2.00, net. Full leather, $2.50, net, postpaid. 



At last the ideal guide, the result of twenty years of study and 

 travel, is completed. It is endorsed by every steamship and rail- 

 road company in Europe. To those who are not planning a trip it is 

 equally informing. Send for illustrated circular containing 1 00 questions 

 out of 2,500 this book will answer. Itis mailed free and will give some kind of idea of the contents of 

 this unique book, which should be in the hands of all readers of the Jlmerican Homes and Gardens, 

 as it tells you exactly what you have wanted to know about a trip abroad and the ocean voyage. 



WHAT THE BOOK CONTAINS— 500 Illustrations, 6 Color Plates, 9 Maps in Pocket, 

 Names 2,000 Hotels, with price; All About Ships, "A Safer Sea," Automobiling in Europe, 

 The Sea and its Navigation, Statistical Information, Ocean Records, 400 Tours With 

 Prices, The Passion Plays, Practical Guide to London, Practical Guide to Paris. 



MUNN & CO., Inc., Publishers, 361 Broadway, New York 



is the largest sale on record for any such 

 book. The most notable of the new feat- 

 ures in this new edition is a series of articles 

 on concrete, plain, reinforced, natural ce- 

 ment, sand and water. Practically all this 

 matter, occupying about 200 pages, is en- 

 tirely new as far as its publication is con- 

 cerned. For the convenience of many en- 

 gineers the section on concrete has been 

 reprinted in the form of a handy volume 

 which should be in the hands of all en- 

 gineers. Typographically, the book is per- 

 fect for an engineer's pocketbook. The 

 high professional standing of the engineers 

 who have compiled the book is sufficient 

 guarantee of its accuracy. 



The Design and Equipment of Small 

 Cpiemical Laboratories. By Richard 

 K. Meade, B.S. Chicago: The Chemi- 

 cal Engineer Publishing Company, 

 1908. i2mo. ; 136 pp. Price, $2. 

 It very often happens that the young 

 chemist, perhaps fresh from college, is 

 called upon to design and equip a laboratory 

 when his knowledge of how it is to be done 

 is rather meager. The experienced chemist 

 confronted with the task can usually bring 

 to bear upon the subject sufficient practical 

 knowledge gained from other laboratories 

 in which he has worked to arrange and 

 equip a laboratory which will meet fully his 

 requirements, and can do so in many in- 

 stances better than anybody else can do it 

 for him. Many things which are done in 

 the college laboratory are impossible in 

 the private laboratory, where means are lim- 

 ited ; for instance, ventilation of the hoods, 

 gas supply may be non-existent, etc. To 

 these young chemists the suggestions in this 

 book on the design and equipment of small 

 laboratories are made. But even experi- 

 enced chemists may gain valuable points 

 from it. There is an extremely small 

 amount of literature on this subject, so that 

 a thoroughly practical book like this should 

 be warmly welcomed. 



Radford's Combined House and Barn 

 Plan Book. Edited by William A. 

 Radford. New York and Chicago : 

 The Radford Architectural Company, 

 igo8. 4to. ; 287 pp. Price, $1. 

 The volume before us is a most practical 

 one, giving designs for barns, livery stables, 

 grain barns, dairies, cow barns, feed lofts, 

 cattle sheds, poultry houses, implement 

 sheds, vehicle sheds, hog houses, corn cribs, 

 smoke-houses, granaries, tank houses, etc. 

 The illustrations serve the purpose, al- 

 though they are rather coarse. Prices for 

 blue prints, which would enable any one to 

 build these barns, are listed. 



Handbuch fur Heer und Flotte. Enzy- 

 klopadie der Kriegswissenschaften und 

 verwandter Gebiete, herausgegeben von 

 Georg von Alten, General-leutnant z. 

 D., unter Mitwirkung von mehr als 

 200 der bedeutendsten Fachautoritaten. 

 Complete in 108 instalments. Price per 

 instalment, 50 cents. Berlin, Leipzig, 

 Vienna and Stuttgart : Deutsches Ver- 

 lagshaus Bong & Co. 

 The first three instalments of the second 

 volume of this remarkable military and 

 naval encyclopedia lie before us. The in- 

 stalments extend from "Bayreuth" to 

 "Beurkundung." In the care which has 

 been taken in the individual articles, these 

 new instalments are well up to the standard 

 of those which we have previously re- 

 viewed. Of particular interest are the arti- 

 cles on benzine and benzol. The essay on 

 Belgium may well be regarded as a model 

 of good military writing, for it discusses 

 clearly and masterfully the military geo- 

 graphy, history and military system of a 

 small but important European body politic. 



