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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



D 



ecember, 1910 



Balanced 

 heating . 



Unless you continually watch the 

 drafts and dampers of your 

 heater, the building is liable to 

 be overheated in mild weather 

 or underheated on zero days. 

 This means the patience-trying 

 labor of running up and down 

 stairs, to regulate the fire to suit 

 weather changes. The 



IDEAL 

 SYLPHON 



Regitherm 



is a compact little device which holds an ex- 

 panding-contracting, "can't-wear-out" liquid 

 as sensitive to temperature changes as a ther- 

 mometer. It is directly connected to the boiler 

 or furnace draft and check dampers. There 

 are no springs, clock-work or batteries to run 

 down or wear out. 



The Regitherm is easily put in place — lasts as 

 long as the 

 house — and its 

 cost is quickly re- 

 paid by the fuel- 

 saving it effects. 

 It keeps the 

 whole house at 

 70 degrees or at 

 any other tem- 

 perature at 

 which you wish 

 to set the pointer. 



Ask for book, "New Aids to Ideal Heating." 



AMER IGANpIATQR r OMPANY 



Write Dept. 6 CHICAGO. 



Makers of IDE.4I, Boilers and AMERICAN Radiators 



New aids to 

 ideal heating 



The remark- 

 able growth 

 in popular 

 favor of low- 

 pressure 

 Steam and 

 Hot-\Vater 

 heating has 

 recentl y 

 brought out 

 greatly improved little adjuncts to the 

 heating outfit, such as Radiator Valves 

 and Air Valves, Temperature Regu- 

 lators, etc. 



Many a good heating outfit now giving 

 good service can be made to do much 

 better. These new devices bring 

 about better heat control, fuel economy 

 and long life of the outfit. 



NORWALL ?^??s" 



are about the cleverest devices, as they not 

 only automatically vent the radiators of air, 

 but when steam pressure ceases the air is 

 automatically prevented from re-entering the 

 radiators and piping. 



Air is, of course, the enemy of heat — it must 

 be expelled from the radiators before steam 

 can circulate. The NORWALL lets out the 

 air and keeps it out, and does 

 this work steadily day and 

 night like an automatic 

 mechanical servant. Their 

 use usually effects a fuel sav- 

 ing of 20 per cent or more. 



Norwall Vacuum Air 

 Valves on a heatinc 

 outfit — either old or 

 new — in conjunction 

 with Norw^all Packless 

 Radiator Valves give 

 the user a warming 

 system which reaches 

 the highest ideal of 

 heating comfort. 



Send for free booklet, 

 "New Aids to Ideal 

 Heating." 



/^MERicANK ADiAToi^ C ompany 



W^rite Dept. 6 Chicago 



MakL-rs of IDEAL Boilers and AMERICAN Radiators 





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SHOULD 

 USE 



Home Owners 



NO FREEZING ^^^^j^a^. "nder 



ground 

 Garbage Receiver 



The only practical sani- 

 tary way of disposing of 

 garbage; sets deep in the 

 ground and the buckets 

 last for years. 



Opens with the foot 



fcJii^aFizfi^ ftl Spiral T 

 ^^^5s!F*^ Rib Ash 



outwears a 

 lighter. 



FIRE PROOF 



russed 



Barrel 

 others and is ten lbs. 



"^»j^j^. ; i^^'^' 



Underfloor Refuse 

 Receiver 



Stores your ashes 

 Our Way out of sight and 



makes the work of attending the furnace easy. 

 Sold Direct send forcircular on each. 

 C. H. STEPHENSON 



Manufacturer 

 21 Farrar Street Lynn, Mass. 



