September, 1909 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
windows peep so enticingly that she tries not 
to see how the front porch sags under the feet 
of the young man, whose key refuses to fit 
the lock. ‘Around back’ her escort props 
broken steps against a doorsill, and holds 
aside rampant rose vines that she may enter. 
Her heart, resolutely hopeful, chills at the 
comfortless aspect of the bare rooms. Scraps 
of frayed linoleum cling to the floor of the 
passage; soot has fallen from the stovepipe 
FOR STANCH HOSE— 
See the RED Trade-mark! 
Every section of Electric Garden Hose (made in Wil- 
mington, Delaware) is stamped with a red trade-mark. Be 
sure to look for it. 
Twist Electric Hose. 
tie it into a knot. 
Pull it around sharp corners. 
Even 
hole in the kitchen, where worn stove brushes, You simply can’t make it kink. In any 
rags, black and stiff, lie beside a broken plate, 
thick with murky paste, in the open pot closet. 
In the dining-room only sunrays from shutter 
chinks reveal shreds of excelsior and paper 
position or any shape you get full pressure at the nozzle. 
ELECTRIC GARDEN HOSE 
(made in Wilmington, Delaware) 
on the floor. In the front rooms, however, aes twice Es jong ae ordinary Loe: It is pun a gers of BoNen hee 
iL: = in one piece) of high test cotton alternating with layers of fine grade rubber 
while low er shutters are closed, upper ones / vulcanized into a solid seamless piece. (Comaon hose is wrapped with canvas 
hang wide open. The glare shows every nail- = —like a rag around a sore finger. It has no body. It won’t wear.) 
hole in the walls, every blemish and scratch | | oS Electric will stand a higher water pressure than any cther hose. 
pl 400 pounds won’t burst it. Any length up to 500 feet. 
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marring woodwork and paper. It seems Aithough Electric is the finest hose ever made it only costs a 
and cheerless as any deserted photograph gal- 
lery, spite of the roomy bay windows, “built- 
in” bookshelves, and broad, hospitable stair- 
way. 
Feeling the fatigue born of disappointment, 
she follows her guide up the street again, see- 
ing now hints of local neglect; a loose board 
on the street crossing; rusty tin cans in the 
long grass beyond the broken fence of an 
empty lot; letters missing from the sign above 
the post office; a lamp post, storm bent, lean- 
ing against a tree; a deep washout, bridged 
by a plank, in the sidewalk. 
Though paint be peeling from the door of 
House Number Three, our home-seeker would 
gladly find it her goal. Alas, though un- 
swept, it is well garnished. No closet, win- 
dowsill or mantelpiece lacks bottles—patent 
medicine bottles, empty or leaking repellant 
liquids over the white-painted shelves. A 
cent or two more than common. 
Get your seedsman or 
hardware dealer to show you the hose and the trade-mark. 
Electric Hose & Rubber Company 
Wilmington, Delaware 
DON'T BE KNOCKED OVER 
By Stenches from Backyard Debris 
Why not look up the Stephenson Method, seven years 
on the market, and if satisfied protect the health of 
your family by installing The Stephenson 
Underground Garbage Receiver 
which removes all objections of the old swill-tub? 
The Stephenson Underground Refuse Receiver for Ashes. 
The Stephenson Underground Earth Closets for Camps. 
The Stephenson Portable Metal House for Above. 
The Stephenson Spiral Ribbed Ash Barrel, outwears two. 
hasty glimpse of that forgotten crypt, the cel- 
lar, caught as a match flickers up, is not allur- 
ing. Ash barrels, more bottles (broken), 
dusty boards, thick with cobwebs—here the 
match goes out, and in darkness she feels her 
way up the steep, unrailed stair. Seeing the 
two last houses, with half their shutters gone, 
train time becomes her excuse for not looking 
further. Hurrying toward the station, numb, 
chilled and homesick for well-warmed, famil- 
iar rooms, is it matter for wonder that the 
fresh plaster and spandy-new environs of Chip- 
pendale-on-the-River, where lath-ends and 
shavings are the only rubbish, seem admirable. 
The home town has lost her. 
Through trifles? No. The most desirable 
tenant or purchaser will turn doubtfully from 
property obviously uncared for, though half 
a day’s work would remedy the causes. Who 
buys ill-fitting clothes, dusty, wrinkled and 
shop-worn, though of good material, when 
fresh garments cost no more? Would you? 
This can be set right. Where in a town 
young and old have strong personal interest 
in local conditions and improvements, such 
things right themselves; but such tides are 
slow in rising. ‘ 
Conversion into law of the understanding 
SOLD DIRECT 
Cc. H. STEPHENSON, Manufacturer 
21 Farrar Street Lynn, Mass. 
WE MAKE THE PERMANENT KIND OF 
RUSTIC WORK 
that is thoroughly distinctive and which gives that artistic 
finish to the country place. 
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Tennis Courts; Rustic Bridges for Ravines, Entrance Gates, Chairs, Tables, 
Flower Stands, etc., in fact, Rustic Work of every description. 
Catalog and Sketches Sent upon Application 
RUSTIC CONSTRUCTION WORKS, 33 Fulton Street, New York City 
This Tea House on exhibition in our warerooms ready for immediate shipment 
We Put 
Every Cent 
of the Dealers 
Want To Tell You How 
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would do much. 
It would pay property owners to co-operate 
with real-estate agents in employing as “work- 
ing inspector,” a practical, energetic girl or 
woman, who could put herself, mentally, in 
the place of a prospective tenant, and see what 
needs attention—one able to drive a nail, put 
in a screw or use a paint-brush. Given a small 
sum to expend at discretion for scrub-woman, 
repairs, or the aid of a stout boy, vines would 
be fastened up or trimmed, gates hung, paint 
cleaned from floors, bricks replaced in walks, 
and airing freshen interiors. Bottles could 
be carted away and sold by the boy, who 
could sweep and pile neatly all lumber. Miss- 
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Twenty-five designs, ranging in cost 
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Upward of twenty-five designs, costing 
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