XxiVv AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
October, 1909 
FIFTY-FOUR YEARS OF QUALITY 
GUARANTEE LABELS 
Guarantee labels on enameled ironware are various and are variously 
translated in practice. 
Careful architects have come to understand that it is the spirit 
behind the guarantee that counts for most after all. The liberal, 
unquestioning, make-good policy behind every Wolff guarantee is 
responsible for unvarying Wolff specification as often as is the 
leadership of Wolff design. 
L. WOLFF MANUFACTURING CO. 
Established 1855—§ ————_— 
MANUFACTURERS OF PLUMBING GOODS EXCLUSIVELY 
The only complete line made by any one firm 
GENERAL OFFICES: 601 LAKE STREET 
| | SHOWROOMS: 91 DEARBORN STREET | CHICAGO 
ea TRENTON 
BRANCH OFFICES 
Minneapolis, Minn.: 615 Northwestern Building Cleveland, Ohio: Builders’ Exchange 
Kansas City, Mo.: 1209 Scarrett Building Washington, D. C.: 327-328 Bond Building 
San Francisco, Cal.: Monadnock Building Buffalo, N. Y.: 77 Richmond Avenue 
Omaha, Neb.: 1108-12 Nicholas Street 
SOME OF THE SUBJECTS TREATED 
Connections, sizes and all working data for 
Plumbing Fixtures and Groups of Fixtures 
Traps — Venting 
Connecting and Supporting of Soil Pipe 
House Trap and Fresh-Air Inlet 
Floor and Yard Drains, etc. 
Rain Leaders 
Sub-soil Drainage 
Floor Connections 
Roof Connections 
Local Venting 
Bath Room Connections [ete. 
Automatic Flushing for Factories, School Houses, 
Use of Flushing Valves 
Modern Fixtures for Public Toilet Rooms 
Durham System 
Plumbing Construction without use of Lead 
Automatic Sewage Lift Sump Tank 
Disposal of Sewage of Underground Floors of 
High Buildings 
Country Plumbing 
Cesspools 
The Electrolysis of Underground Pipes 
Septic Tanks and Sewage Siphons 
Pneumatic Water Supply, Rams, etc. 
Examples of Poor Practice 
Roughing — Testing 
Continuous Venting for all classes of Work 
Circuit and Loop Venting 
Use of Special Waste and Vent Fittings 
Cellar Work 
House Drain— House Sewer — Sewer Connections 
Plumbing for Cottage House 
Plumbing for Residence 
Plumbing for Two-Flat House 
Plumbing for Apartment Houses 
Plumbing for Office Buildin 
Plumbing for Public Toilet Rooms 
Plumbing for Bath Establishment 
Plumbing for Engine Houses 
Plumbing for Stables 
Plumbing for Factories 
Plumbing for School Houses, etc. [by Electricity 
Thawing of Underground Mains and Service Pipes 
Modern Plumbing 
Illustrated 
By R. M. STARBUCK 
400 (1014x734) Paces 
55 FuLL PaGEs OF 
ENGRAVINGS 
PRICE, $4.00 
q A comprehensive and 
up-to-date work illus- 
trating and describing 
the Drainage and Ven- 
tilation of Dwellings, 
Apartments and Public 
Buildings, etc. The 
very latest and most ap- 
proved methods in all 
branches of Sanitary In- 
stallation are given. 
@ Many of the subjects treated in the text and illus- 
trated follow in the next column. 
MUNN & CO., Inc., Publishers 
Scientific American Office, 363 Broadway, New York 
When a perfectly plain floor-covering is re- 
quired, no border is woven across the short 
ends, but a seamless rug in one tone is made 
up to a 12 x 12 foot size. (This large rug in 
any of the deeper tones gives a particularly 
handsome appearance in a commodious-sized 
room. ) 
If such a coloring is too plain, a border of 
contrasting colors is woven near the ends in 
“wide and narrow stripes. 
When a set of small rugs is required to fit 
unequal spaces, a group of these rugs woven 
alike gives unusual charm to a room, whether 
it be in a country-home that is used all the 
year round, or a simple bungalow that is occu- 
pied only for vacation days and week-ends. 
Besides the attractive colorings that form a 
large measure of the merit of these American 
rugs, there is a special kind made of camel’s- 
hair in the natural color that is designed for 
outdoor wear in the country. Such a rug as 
this made a comfortable foothold in a garden- 
house where it was exposed to the weather, 
without showing the dust and dirt that was 
naturally brought into such a place. 
This latest type of American rug has, in 
fact, so many advantages for real use and at- 
tractive quality that one needs not now de- 
‘pend on our foreign importations. 
NEW BOOKS 
Witp FLowers Every CHILD SHOULD 
Know. By Frederic William Stack. 
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. 
Pp. 15+411. Price, $1.20. 
A thoroughly useful book. The author 
rightly states that it dose not require a pre- 
paratory course nor any special instruction to 
become acquainted with the more common 
wild flowers and their individual traits, and 
then proceeds to show how this knowledge 
may be acquired in a very direct and simple 
manner. ‘The book is not a “child’s book” 
in the common acceptation of the word, but is 
an elementary treatise on plants, very care- 
fully prepared, admirably condensed and emi- 
nently useful in its plan and arrangement. 
‘The key to the subject, as Mr. Stack presents 
it, is the color of the flower, all the plants 
described being grouped under their own col- 
ors. Identification is thus reduced to the 
simplest method, and the whole kingdom of 
wild flowers is easily opened to the beginner. 
It is a book some older folk will like, too, and 
find exceedingly useful. 
‘THe StTupio YEAR-BOOK OF DECORATIVE 
Art, 1909. New York: John Lane 
Company. Pp. 163 . Price, $3.00; post- 
age, 35 cents. 
A new system of presentation has been 
chosen in the preparation of this annual vol- 
ume. Descriptions of the objects illustrated 
are omitted, and instead there are given brief 
biographical notices of the various artists 
whose craft work has been chosen for publi- 
cation. It is interesting to know who these 
people are, where they live and what have 
been their most notable achievements; yet, in 
a work of this sort there is ample room for 
descriptive notes, information as to color and 
material and the like that is missing from the 
present volume. 
But the creative value of this annual review 
is still at the high-water mark set by earlier 
issues. “The illustrations are most abundant, 
and cover many forms of decorative art. It 
is, in short, a most impressive survey of the 
progress of modern art, and designers and art 
lovers may well regard it as indispensable. 
The volume is beautifully printed, and the 
illustrations include many exquisite plates in 
color. It is a book that cannot well be too 
highly commended. 
