September, 1909 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
XXxIil 
Hardware Trimmings 
That Harmonize 
If you are building a home be sure 
that you select hardware trimmings 
that will be in keeping with the 
architectural style. Your architect 
will be of assistance in determining 
the style— but you should acquaint 
yourself with the merits of 
Sargent’s 
ARTISTIC 
Hardware 
It is harmonious in its details and can 
be had in all designs de- 
manded by any particu- z= 
lar style of architecture. 
Sargent’s Hardware 
adds materially to the 
refinement of appear- / 
ance in any home 
and affords satisfac- 
tion as long as the” 
house endures. 
Sargent’s Book of 
Designs—sent free. | 
Will prove of inval- 
uable assistance in 
choosing right hard- 
ware trimmings. 
Over 70 patterns are 
illustrated. 
The Colonial Book — 
shows cut glass 
knobs, door knock- 
ers and other fit- 
tings in Colonial 
styles. This book 
also free on re- 
quest. Address 
SARGENT & COMPANY, 
156 } 
Leonaro St 
GZ : New Yoru } 
OUR own individual rug, dif- 
ferent from all other rugs, and 
in a high-class wool fabric 
adapted to your own decorations. 
If the rugs in stock colors do not 
suit your requirements we will 
make one that will, either plain, 
self-tone or contrast. All sizes up 
to twelve feet wide, any length. 
Seamless, wool weft, reversible, 
heavy and durable. Sold by best 
shops or write for color line and 
price list to ARNOLD, CONSTABLE 
& Co., NEW YORK. 
THREAD & THRUM WORKSHOP, AUBURN, N. y, 
Thread 
DAMGAA Baie iOS ths ABA 
Cattle Manure 
ein Bags tuiverized 
Best and safest manure for florists and 
greenhouse use, absolutely pure, no waste, 
no danger. Write for circular and prices. 
The Pulverized Manure Co. 
21 Union Stock Yards, Chicago. 
The most valuable crop in the world. 
Easily grown throughout the U.S. 
and Canada. Room in your garden 
to grow thousands of dollars’ worth. 
Roots and Seeds for sale. Send 4c. for postage and get our booklet A-V, 
ting all about it. McDOWELL GINSENG GARDEN, Joplin, Mo. 
for the dining-room or library, and nothing 
is prettier for the parlor than a soft, two-tone 
silk or damask effect, in light tints, framed in 
a little border or panel molding, the panels 
separated by a plain color to match. Moiré 
effects are often pleasingly used as panel fillers. 
A form of wall-paper decoration which is 
becoming more and more popular every day is 
the independent frieze—a frieze or border, 
usually of a pictorial character, which does 
not match the side wall. Such a frieze should 
always be used with a very simple pattern in 
the side wall, or a plain color, the effect of 
the decoration depending almost entirely upon 
the frieze. “The idea is artistically correct, the 
main decoration coming above the line where 
it is likely to be interfered with by pictures, 
which find a suitable background in the simple 
paper below. Many independent friezes are 
now on the market. 
NEW BOOKS 
Box Furnitures How to MAKE a HuN- 
DRED USEFUL ARTICLES FOR THE HOME. 
By Louise Brigham. New York: The 
Century «Co. § Pp 304, | Price, $1.60 
net. 
Miss Brigham’s book may rightly be 
called remarkable, since it undertakes to 
show how, in the statement issued by her 
publishers, any one can make all the furni- 
ture needed for a city flat, a country cot- 
tage, a woods camp of a social service set- 
tlement out of the ordinary boxes that can 
be obtained from a grocer. The book 
hardly goes as far as this, but it does de- 
scribe many useful articles that can be made 
from boxes, articles both useful and orna- 
mental, indeed, and articles that almost 
any one can make, especially as the way to 
do so has now been shown. 
The ordinary householder must open this 
book with astonishment, and think with 
regret of the many boxes thrown away 
when the whole house might have been fur- 
nished with them. Miss Brigham has cer- 
tainly been fortunate with the boxes she has 
been able to obtain for her work, as well as 
ingenious in the applications she has made 
of them. The book is abundantly illus- 
trated and the text, for the most part, con- 
sists of concise directions as to what to do. 
It is a book of stimulative interest, well cal- 
culated to arouse the industrious curiosity 
of the handy man and woman in the house, 
and it must prove a veritable boon for those 
who like to tinker and create. 
THE GARDEN YARD: A HANnpzBooK oF IN- 
TENSIVE FArmiInG. By Bolton Hall. 
Philadelphia: David McKay. Pp. 321. 
Irae, Kyi foloy 
Mr. Bolton Hall, who is quite militant in 
his belief that the farm is the only proper 
home, has here prepared a book that aims to 
help the man or woman who has to do the 
cultivation at odd times. It is difficult, in 
agricultural matters, to keep to a set pro- 
gram, and while this is but a small book 
it touches upon an enormous variety of sub- 
jects; so many, in fact, that it must surely 
require more than odd times at which to 
put the author’s manifold suggestions into 
practise. But the author is not writing for 
one need, but for many, and he has wisely 
chosen to offer as much advice as possible 
in order to meet the greatest number of 
needs. Mr. Hall’s practical suggestions are 
of the most practical kind; he presents a 
great array of facts in a very limited space 
and has produced a handbook of intensive 
farming of singular value and interest. It 
is a manual that one may read and profit by 
whether one is seeking support from the 
& 
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No objection to building according to your own 
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This work is in a class by itself. No increase in 
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