AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



December, 1910 



BURLINGTON '"&"' BLINDS 



Venetian Blind for 



inside window and 



outdoor veranda. 



Any wood , any 



finish to match trim 



SCREENS 



AND 



SCREEN 

 DOORS 



^ Equal 500 milea 

 nortnwara. Perfect 

 privacy ■witn doors 

 and vv^mdo-w^s open. 

 Darkness and breezes 

 in sleeping rooms. 



WRITE FOR OUR CATALOGUE, PRICE-LIST AND PROPOSITION TO YOU 

 BURLINGTON VENETIAN BLIND CO.. 339 Lake St., Burlington. Vermont 



.BROOKSeCo.(U^Et^'0- 



Sfrucfural& Ornamental steel Work 



Floor&Sidewalk Lights. 



SENDf^pCATALOGUE*. 



No Delay to Get the Clothes Dry On Wash Day 



When using the "CHICAGG-FRANCIS" Combined Clothes Dryer and Laundry Stove 



Clothes are dried without extra expense as the waste heat 

 from laundry stove dries the clothes. Can furnish stove 

 suitable for burning wood, coal or gas. Dries the clothes as 

 perfectly as sunshine. Especially adapted for use in Resi- 

 dences, Apartment Buildings and Institutions. All Dryers 

 are built to order in various sizes and can be made to fit 

 almost any laundry room. Write today for descriptive 

 circular and our handsomely illustrated No. E. 12 catalog. 

 Address nearest office. 



A Modern Residence Laundry Room showing: installation 

 of "Chicago-Fkancis" Dryer and Laundry Stove 



CHICAGO DRY[R CO. 



DEPT. E. 

 385 Wabash Ave., Chicago, I 



DRYER M'f'G. CO. 



or DEPT. E. 



204 E. 26th St., New York City 



Wie y ear-Round Resof I 



Easim Reached From Aniiwhei 



LOOK at the map. Here is the most accessible of 

 all the Atlantic coast resorts. It isn't necessary to 

 spend half your time going and coming if you take a 

 vacation here. Quickest to reach by rail or water, and no other 

 resort is so uniquely situated; right at Fortress Monroe, the largest 

 military post on the Atlantic Coast, and at Hampton Roads, the rendezvous 

 of the nation's warships. The constantly changing scenes of military 

 and naval life furnish the "something different" about this resort. 



Spend Your Vacations at 



HOTBL^ (J1AMBBRL.IN 



.^t Old Pot fir Comfort, Virginia 



It's warm there now, the skies are clear, the air balmy and invigorating. 

 The Chamberlin is most luxuriously appointed, yet homelike, famous 

 for its cuisine — real Southern cooking — its magnificent sea-pool and 

 its completely appointed medicinal baths. Here you may just rest 

 and recuperate or enjoy your favorite recreation — golf, tennis, etc. 



For further information and interesting illustrated booklets, apply at 

 all tourist bureaus or transportation offices, or address me personally. 



GEORGE F. ADAMS, Manager, Fortress Monroe, Va. 

 New York Office, 1122 Broadway 



JL£ 



when one has tliem. One can never have 

 enough good lal)els of painted wood, ready 

 to write on, or of zinc with the proper acid 

 and a quill pen. Spades are not always 

 what they seem and long bladed light ones 

 which are strong enough to use in the light 

 soil of the flower garden, but which can be 

 wielded with one hand if one likes are 

 rare and choice. 



Baskets and vases for flowers ; work bas- 

 kets with tools and raffia and twine and 

 other useful things ; camp chairs and wa- 

 tering pots are all satisfaction to the true 

 gardener. 



{Continued from page ix.) 

 LINEN FOR LUNCHEON USE 



"On a visit this summer I saw a very 

 pretty linen table cover and napkins to 

 match in a buff and white damask. I have 

 not been able to find any like it in Bos- 

 ton. Can you tell me where it could be 

 had ? The top of my dining-table is not 

 in condition to use doilies, and I would 

 like to make some change in my table linen 

 at one meal. This colored linen appealed 

 to me very strongly as the right thing for 

 this need." — A New England Reader of 

 Problems in Home Furnishing. 



The buff-colored damask for table use 

 is rather an expensive set for every-day 

 luncheons, but it can be had in New York 

 city at one of the large department stores. 

 It comes hemstitched with cover and nap- 

 kins to match, and is especially attractive 

 for summer use. 



SCAMLESS RLGS 



A correspondent in the South (Mrs. R. 

 D. E.), writes: "Are there such things as 

 seamless rugs that are made in this country, 

 and of good enough quality for a dining- 

 room? I have heretofore had the regular 

 carpet with a border made into a rug for 

 this room, but some one tells me I can get 

 a rug made in one piece. Kindly let me 

 know if there is something of this kind, and 

 the price." 



A few patterns in Wilton have, for some 

 time, been made in one piece (or width) 

 without any seam, and this fall a larger 

 variety has been put on the market in wide 

 widths in the same way. A still newer rug 

 has been devised this fall in good combina- 

 tions of color for the dining-room, in a size 

 nine feet by twelve at fifty dollars. In 

 brown and dark blue in an all-over pattern 

 this rug is very desirable. 



A NOVEL method of cutting down 

 trees has been devised by a Berlin 

 inventor. It consists in the use of 

 a fine steel wire, which is looped about the 

 tree and sawed back and forth by an elec- 

 tric motor. The heat generated is sufficient 

 to burn a thin kerf through the wood. A 

 tree 20 inches in diameter can be felled in 

 six minutes. -The charred butt of the tree 

 may easily be marked with chalk, and the 

 charcoal layer is so thin that it does not 

 hide any decay or other defects in the 

 wood. 



HUNDREDS of carats of diamonds 

 have been registered from a 

 property in the Pretoria district, 

 ten miles from the Premier Diamond 

 Mine, and it is generally believed 

 that a very large mine has been discovered. 

 A great deal of prospecting .is being done 

 north of Pretoria, and several interests 

 have been acquired in the neighborhood by 

 an important firm of Johannesburg specula- 

 tors. The immediate outlook for the 

 Transvaal mining industry is stated to be 

 decidedly promising. 



