XXIV AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
April, 1909 
point. The tank receives the increase in the 
volume of water due to the expansion by heat 
and is connected with both flow and return 
pipes to enable proper circulation and hinder 
freezing, and has an overflow pipe. ‘This had 
better be carried inside the house to a sink 
than be merely allowed to drip out over one 
of the roofs. 
There are many different kinds and sizes 
of radiators made in sections and connected 
together. The standard and _ consequently 
least expensive height is thirty-eight inches. 
Each section is two and a half inches wide. 
You can procure flat ones to hang on the wall 
if your walls and bathrooms are narrow; you 
can procure corner and curved radiators. You 
can readily place one under the window sill or 
around a bay, forming your window seat, with 
a wooden front and top concealing the radi- 
ator, first lining the wood with sheets of 
asbestos and galvanized iron. ‘The registers 
should be placed at top and bottom for proper 
circulation of air. When you place the radi- 
ators by the outside walls or underneath the 
windows and bring in to them a supply of 
fresh air through openings in the wall (often 
introduced through a space under the lower 
sash of the window), you procure what is 
called ‘“‘direct-indirect heating.” It is very 
simple to introduce the fresh outside air 
through small galvanized iron ducts into a 
small box at the bottom of the radiator. The 
ducts, as well as the box, should have dampers 
so that the cold air may in the severest weather 
be shut off. An “indirect” system is simply 
one where the radiator, of special pattern, is 
placed in the cellar, instead of the room, fresh 
air is brought in and circulated around the 
radiator which is hung on the cellar ceiling in- 
side of a galvanized iron box, and then led 
through pipes to the registers of the various 
rooms. ‘This method has the advantage of 
removing the disfiguring radiators from the 
rooms, but costs also considerably more than 
a direct system. Where a direct steam plant 
for our $10,000 house will cost $1,000, and 
a hot water plant about $1,350, the “indirect”’ 
hot water will cost $1,900. Of course the 
“direct-indirect” system has the very great ad- 
vantage of providing an excellent means of 
ventilation at a very small cost. It introduces 
fresh air into the rooms and the same vitiated 
air is not heated over and over again. 
Shall one install steam or hot water in the 
proposed dwelling? If the systems are well 
laid out there is little difference in the com- 
fort procured. ‘The initial cost of hot water 
is about one-third more than steam. On the 
other hand, it is noiseless and seldom gives the 
snapping you hear in steam plants. Whatever 
coal you burn you obtain results from, owing 
to the fact that the hot water will commence 
circulating at 120 degrees, while in steam you 
get no heat until 212 degrees. With a hot 
water plant, however, it will take you eight 
hours to cool off your radiators, while in a 
steam plant only twenty minutes. You also 
need larger radiators with hot water and you 
have the danger from flooding by the bursting 
of a pipe as well as from freezing when you 
have forgotten to drain the system before the 
winter. 
The pros and cons seem to resolve them- 
selves into this: If the country house is to be 
lived in all the year around, put in hot water; 
it is easier to regulate, merely some of the 
radiators have to be used and a small amount 
of heat generated and employed in moderate 
spring and fall weather, and running expenses 
thus cut down. If the house, on the other 
hand, is meant principally for summer and for 
quixotic week-end parties during the winter, 
use steam; you can heat it quicker, it will 
cost you less, and you need have no worry as 
to accidents through your carelessness or 
neglect. 
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PROBLEMS IN HOME FURNISHING 
(Continued from page x) 
ever I go I am distracted ‘or rested by wall 
papers. How can we avoid the glaring mis- 
takes that one so often sees in wall decoration? 
In seeking simplicity I do not want uninter- 
esting interiors, you understand ?” 
The demand for a quiet, restful treatment 
for the home walls seems to be on the increase, 
as there is a greater provision this year than 
ever before to meet this need. ‘This is ap- 
parent in the many shades of gray and brown 
papers that are now on the market. Also, in 
the variety of semi-plain papers that are being 
shown. Some of the latter are in texture 
effect, which look on the wall like a piece of 
cloth—cheviot, chambray, linen, jaspe. Others 
are in unusual striped effects that, at a little 
distance, hardly show the stripe. 
Still other noteworthy contributions to sim- 
ple wall decoration are some plain papers to 
take the place of the ingrain, and new fabric 
effects instead of the older-fashioned burlap. 
With so much to draw on this correspond- 
ent can be assured of succeeding in her 
effort to make her walls restful, and a good 
plan would be to select a warm gray for the 
sunny rooms and a deep tan for the north or 
west exposures. ‘To give interest to the rooms 
some contrasting colors may be adopted in 
overcurtains, and pictures showing a good 
deal of color may be hung on the walls. The 
coverings for the furniture, door curtains and 
rugs will also contribute to the color effect. In 
the bedrooms the plain wallpapers may be 
brightened up by the cut-out borders as de- 
scribed in the answer to J. G. H. 
A CORRECTION 
Messrs. Bailey and Bassett have informed 
us that they were not the architects of Mr. 
L. W. Reid’s house at Merion, Pa., which ap- 
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HomMEs AND GARDENS, but that the plans 
were drawn by Messrs. Morris and Vaux, of 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
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