AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
When love languishes 
Love chained to a coal-hod is a 
sorry spectacle. 
Men chafe at 
the burden of climbing stairs 
with a coal-scuttle—once in a 
while they do it with an “Oh- 
let-me-help-you-dear”’ expres- 
sion, but the moment it becomes 
a daily duty, the joy is fled. 
AMON | 
DEAL 
BOILERS 
do away with coal-hod slavery for men and women. 
Then, too, the coal-hod kind of heating means ash-dust, embers and soot spread 
through the living rooms, which in turn means incessant toil to make the rooms 
clean. 
ness and if this is impossible then the house is not a home. 
facturer would think of heating a factory by grates, stoves or hot-air furnace. 
should men expect their wives to put up with such old-style methods? 
In an IDEAL Boiler the fire will not need rekindling in the whole 
heating season—will run 8 to 16 hours or longer without recoaling— 
depending of course upon the severity of the weather. 
: & A 
A No. 22 IDEAL Boiler and A No.C-241IT DEAL Boiler and 
240 ft. of 38-in. AMERICAN 555 ft. of 38-in. AMERICAN 
Radiators, costing the owner Radiators, costing the owner 
$115, were used to heat this $250, were used to heat this 
cottage. cottage. 
At these prices the goods can be bought of any reputable, 
competent Fitter. This did not include cost of labor, pipe, 
valves, freight, etc., which installation is extra and varies 
according to climatic and other conditions. 
Showrooms in all 
large cities 
CYPRIPEDIUM FAIRIANUM 
A child can 
run the outfit. 
Ask your architect to specify 
and insist on IDEAL Boilers 
and AMERICAN Radiators. 
Fully guaranteed. 
take any other. 
Do not 
Every owner or tenant—small or 
large—in town or country—ought 
to have our catalogue (free). If 
the care of old fashioned heating 
is robbing you of two hours a 
day which could be devoted to 
better purposes, don’t delay 
longer. All inquiries cordially 
welcomed. 
AMERICAN RADIATOR (OMPANY 
Dept. A, 
RUTHERFORD, N. J. 
No woman is ever happy to see her efforts wasted. Women love cleanli- 
No architect or manu- 
Why 
IDEAL Boilers 
and AMER- 
ICAN Radi- 
ators keep a 
new house new 
and cause an 
old house to 
have its life 
and value pro- 
longed. 
Write to Dept. 6 
Chicago 
Do You Grow Orchids 
In Your Conservatories? 
@ They are easily grown with other plants, and 
are a continuous joy to the amateur. 
@ They are ever increasing in popularity. 
@ White for our illustrated Orchid Book 
which will be sent you free upon request. 
@ It contains full information on the care of 
these wonderful plants. 
@ We will supply collections for beginners, 
12 plants for $25.00. 
@ Visitors are always welcome at our nur- 
series. 
JULIUS ROEHRS CO., 
January, 1911 
SARDINE BAIT 
RENCH sardine fishers use, as bait, 
the roes and other waste products 
of the Norwegian cod fisheries. This 
bait is expensive and its price is continually 
rising, Owing to the increasing demand. 
An artificial bait, which is much cheaper, 
has recently been employed, but with only 
partial success, as it sinks too quickly and 
often lures the sardines downward, instead 
of drawing them up into the nets. At- 
tempts are now being made to remedy this 
defect. The success of these attempts 
would bring joy to the fishermen, but not 
to the dealers in Norwegian bait who enjoy 
a very lucrative monopoly. The question 
is one of burning interest and has nearly 
led to open war between fishermen and bait 
dealers on the French coasts.—Cosmos. 
clined to consider it incongruous to 
use an electrical vehicle as a hearse, 
but as a matter of fact the electrical hearse, 
moving with stately silence, is really more 
dignified than one drawn by horses. Such 
a hearse was recently constructed for .a 
Chicago firm, and has been in continuous 
service ever since. Power is communicated 
from the motor to the rear wheels by means 
of silent chain drive. The battery is sup- 
ported under the main body of the vehicle 
in a compariment between the front and 
rear wheels, and is adapted to furnish suffi- 
cient current to propel the hearse for a dis- 
tance of fifty miles. 
HAT a beautiful tone that bell has!” 
WV is often heard. There are few, 
however, who know how a bell re- 
ceives its joyful or solemn tones. All bells 
after they are cast and finished must go 
through a process of tuning the same as 
any other musical instrument before they 
respond with a clear, true tone. Every bell 
sounds five notes, which must blend to- 
gether in order to produce perfect harmony. 
The tuning of a bell is done by means of 
shaving thin bits from various parts of the 
metal. It is as easy for an expert bell tuner 
to put a bell in tune as it is for a piano 
tuner to adjust his instrument to perfect 
chords. At first thought it would seem 
that a bell would be ruined should the tuner 
shave off too much at the last tuning, or the 
fifth sound, but such is not the case. He 
would, however, be obliged to begin over, 
starting again with the first tone, and shav- 
ing the bell till it gave forth its harmonious 
sound at the fifth tone. 
A T first thought, one might be in- 
of economical habits have been com- 
plaining because they are obliged to 
light their streets all night for the benefit 
of a few belated citizens, and have been 
trying to discover a method whereby the 
citizen who needs to have his pathway 
lighted in the small hours of the night shall 
pay the costs himself. On one of the streets 
of a small German town, such a system 
has actually been put into operation. The 
street is a little over half a mile long, and 
is provided with nine lamps. At each end 
of the street is a penny-in-the-slot machine, 
and whenever anyone wishes to light up 
the street, he has merely to drop in a ten- 
pfennig piece, which turns on the current 
for twelve minutes. This allows him ample 
time to walk the length of the street. The 
street is normally lighted until 10 o’clock. 
Thereafter the prepayment meter must be 
resorted to. 
Seer of the smaller European towns 
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