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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 1910 



Reversible, Seamless, 

 Artistic Wool Rugs 



made to order in any color, 

 or combination of colors, to 

 match your color scheme 

 and in any width or length. 

 Not a pattern rug made by 

 the bale for all alike, but 

 individual rugs for each in 

 soft and restful plain color, 

 self tone or harmonious 

 contrast, forming a delight- 

 ful chromatic blending with 

 the surrounding decorations 

 of your room. ' 



THREAD 



AND 



THRUM 

 RUGS 



"YOU CHOOSE THE COLORS, 

 WE'LL MAKE THE RUG." 



$3.00 per square yard 



and upwards 

 and worth the money 



From coast to coast — in 

 country club, bungalow, den 

 and home — everywhere in 

 fact where good taste pre- 

 vails. Thread and Thrum 

 Rugs are without a peer. 

 We copy none but originate 

 in weave, design and color- 

 ing ; our designers are gra- 

 duates of foreign art schools 

 and skilled in color harmony. 



The Thread and Thrum name is copy- 

 righted. Anyone selling or representing 

 other rugs as Thread and Thrum Rugs 

 will be prosecuted. 



Sold by Best Shops 



Arnold, Constable & Co. 



NEW YORK 



Wholesale Selling Agents 



WRITE FOR COLOR CARD 



The Thread and Thrum Workshop 



AUBURN, N. Y. 



and ginger, we have all the materials that 

 a small laboratory requires for making a 

 dozen kinds of popular sachets. Lavender 

 seeds raised and cured at home make a 

 sachet suitable for those who like this odor. 

 Another is manufactured by mixing iris 

 root and ground cloves with a little musk 

 and attar of roses, the whole moistened 

 with a little alcohol, and then rolled and 

 kneaded into a paste, which in time grows 

 cjuite stiff. A few pieces of this distributed 

 around in the clothes press will add a de- 

 licious odor to garments. For gifts, appro- 

 priate bottles and ribbons or boxes may be 

 purchased cheaply at the stores, or silk and 

 damask can be obtained for concealing 

 sachet or perfumed pastes, and pin cushions 

 may be made and scented indefinitely by in- 

 closing a good piece of the perfumed paste 

 in the center. 



GRAVITY-QUARRYING operations 

 to secure material for filling low 

 ground are conducted in an un- 

 usual manner by the San Francisco Quar- 

 ries Company, near Richmond, Cal. This 

 company operates a large quarry near that 

 town, and adjacent to it is one that was 

 abandoned some years ago because the earth 

 cover over the rock became too deep to per- 

 mit to be stripped economically. Some time 

 afterward, when a demand arose for mate- 

 rial for filling, the old quarry was partially 

 reopened to secure it. According to the En- 

 gineering Record, a tunnel, 80 feet long, 

 was run in from the bottom of the face of 

 the (juarry to the foot of a shaft sunk to a 

 depth of 100 feet through the rock ledge 

 above it. By blasting at the top of this 

 shaft, a large amount of material is de- 

 livered into the tunnel, where it is loaded 

 by gravity into cars. The cars are then 

 hauled out to the edge of a fill on the steep 

 slope of the hill, and the material dumped 

 fi-om them through traps into cars in a 

 lower tunnel. 



ELASTIC VARNISH that will not chip 

 off ; to produce copal varnish for cab- 

 inet-makers, instrument makers, etc., 

 dissolve 8 parts of camphor in 36 parts of 

 sulphuric ether, add the mixture to -12 parts 

 of finely pulverized copal. This mixture 

 must be frequently shaken. Add 32 parts 

 of alcohol (0.9G specific gravity) and 20 

 parts of rectified oil of turpentine and again 

 shake all up together thoroughly. If this 

 varnish be allowed to stand quietly for sev- 

 eral days, two strata will be visible in the 

 bottle, the lower of which contains no dis- 

 solved copal, whereas the upper stratum, 

 which is clear as water, is an excellent 

 varnish. The lower stratum, in which a 

 considerable quantity of copal is contained 

 in the form of jelly, after the upper, clear 

 stratum has been all taken off, can be again 

 treated with ether and camphor and thinned 

 to the desired consistency, by the addition 

 of alcohol. The addition of Venice turpen- 

 tine makes this varnish dry less quickly. 



UNLESS remedial measures are taken, 

 it is possible that the famous leaning 

 tower of Pisa may ultimately col- 

 lapse as did the Campanile at Venice a few 

 years ago. Measurements taken by an Eng- 

 lish engineer in 1829 showed the tower to be 

 15^ feet out of the perpendicular. Measure- 

 ments taken recently show that the diverg- 

 ence has increased to IQYi feet. It should 

 be within the resources of modern engineer- 

 ing to excavate below the tower, bring it 

 gradually back to the vertical, and place 

 beneath it an absolutely secure foundation. 



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Plants Growing Under Sunlight Sash, 

 Snow ALL AROUND— Glass NOT Covered. 



The Invention that has made 



winter gardening simple 



and really economical 



The invention of Sunlight Double Glass 

 Sash has done away with all the hard work 

 of covering and uncovering hot-beds and 

 coldframes — has made it possible for ama- 

 teurs to get bigger, better vegetables and 

 flowers than they can buy on the average 

 market — and get them earlier. 



Why you never have to cover Sunlight 

 Double Glass Sash 



Sunlight sash have two layers of glass instead 

 of one (see diagram). Between the two layers is a 

 % inch blanket of dry still air — a perfect non-con- 

 ductor — keeping in the heat — keeping out the cold. 

 We have instances where plants under Sunlight 

 Double Glass Sash went through 15 degrees be- 

 low zero uninjured, though the beds were not 

 covered with mats or boards or any other kind 

 of covering. 



The glass is held in place without putty. 

 Can't work loose. Easily replaced. 



What you can do 



Under Sunlight Sash you can have lettuce and rad- 

 ishes to eat all winter, violets in bloom in the cold 

 months, pansies in March or February. 



Plants ready to set out weeks ahead. Tomatoes, 

 peppers, sweet-potatoes, cauliflower, cabbage and beets 

 can all be forwarded to the field earlier from Sunlight 

 Sash than they can from the single layer sash. 

 AflFNT^ WANTFn * splendid opportunity for responsible 

 nULIilij liHIllLU perilous in localities where wc are not 

 now represented. Write for details. 



Send for these two books 



1 — Our FREE cataloir with net 

 prices, prepaid freigiitand guaranteed 

 delivery proposition. It jrivcs de- 

 tails, testimonials and full informa- 

 tion of this wonderful in\crition. 



2 — A most interesting and instruc- 

 tive booklet by Prof. W. !•'. Massey. 

 the well-known authority on Market 

 Gardening, in i^hich he tells how to 

 make and care fur hot-beds and cold 

 frames, and when and what to grow 

 in them. 



Price of Prof. Massey's booklet, 4 

 cents in postage stamps Catalog free. 



Sunlight Double Glass Sash Co., 



943 £. Broadway (incorporated) Louisville, Ky. 



^I A very interesting pamphlet just issued by us on the Pergola, can 

 be had free on request. Ask tor Caialogue A-27. 



Hartmann-Sanders Co. 



Exclusive Manufacturers of 



Koll's Patent 



Lock Joint 



Columns 



Suitable for Pergolas. 

 Porches or Interior Use. 



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