February, 1911 
Write for Our Free Book on 
Home Refrigeration 
It tells you how to 
select the Home Re- 
frigerator — how to 
know the good from 
the poor — how to 
keep a Refrigerator 
sweet and sanitary— 
how your food can be 
properly protected 
and preserved—how 
to keep down ice 
bills—lots of things 
u should know rr } 
perore selecting any Always sold DIRECT 
Refrigerator. and at Factory Prices. 
It also tells all about Cash or Monthly Payments 
The Lifetime Refrigerator 
with food compartments made in one piece of solid, un- 
breakable White Porcelain Ware, over an inch thick, with 
every corner rounded—no cracks or crevices anywhere, and 
as easy to keep clean as a china bowl—howit differs from 
other so-called ‘‘ porcelain ” refrigerators. The leading hos- 
pitals use the “Monroe ” exclusively and it isfound today in 
a large majority of the very best homes. 
e “Monroe”? is never sold in stores, but direct from the 
factory to you on our liberal trial offer, Freight Brepoid. 
We are making a radical departure 
Easy Payments this year from our rule of all cash 
with order and sell the “Monroe” on our liberal credit terms 
to all desiring to buy that way. Just say, “Send Monroe 
Book,” on a postal card and it will go to you by nextmail. (9) 
Monroe Refrigerator Co., Station P., Cincinnati, O. 
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how you are going to beautify the lawn. 
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goes further than other seeds. 
5 1b. box shipped express 
prepaid East of Missouri 
River on receipt of $1.00. 
; Order at once. Let us send 
instructive booklet, ‘‘How 
to Grow a Lawn.’’ 
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825 Exchange Avenue 
Chicago, III. 
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Hardy Perennials 
earefully graduated in color, bloom and height, 
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of nature, from early Spring till late in Autumn. 
Catalog Containing Landscape Plans Free 
It is the only catalog published containing lands- 
cape plans and tables telling you how and 
what to plant to obtain the best and 
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Nursery, Missouri 
, St. Louis County ff 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS xi 
(Continued from page ix) 
“IT am renewing the shades in my 
house. Can you tell me what use I can 
make of the old ones?”—Mrs. W. J. D. 
There is scarcely a household but that 
has a goodly quantity of old shades in 
its possession, seemingly there is nothing 
that can be done with them. The utili- 
tarian says that shades that have outlived 
their usefulness as protection at the win- 
dows can be used, and to good advantage, 
as ironing board covers. A shade that 
is to be used for this purpose should be 
soaked for a short time in cold water. 
When it has become softened in this 
way, put it on to boil in cold water and 
shaved-up soap. When the shade has come 
to a boil, wash it in the usual way. When 
dried, iron smooth and tack on the board. 
Shades make most durable covers, and: it 
is such a satisfaction to put to good use 
something which apparently is useless. 
A last suggestion to the above is to use 
brass-headed tacks with which to tack the 
covering on the board, they are so easily 
removed when re-covering is necessary. 
They are not apt to rust and because of 
the smooth heads of brass, tacks are not 
likely to tear dainty clothing which is put 
over the ironing board. 
One of our subscribers writes and 
asks for a recipe for something cool and 
refreshing to serve at an evening com- 
pany, when a more substantial supper is 
not desired. 
Grape fruit sherbet is delicious and 
most refreshing to serve in the evening 
when guests have become hot and flushed 
over an exciting game of “bridge.” Roll 
and press the grape fruit so as to soften 
it, then cut in half. Extract the meat and 
juice free from every bit of seed or any 
of the bitter part. Put this in a bowl and 
allow one pound of sugar to every pint 
of the grape fruit and juice. Err on the 
side of too much sugar rather than not 
enough. Stir thoroughly and pour into 
the freezer. Freeze like mousse, that is, 
“mushy,” but not firm like ice cream. A 
little rum is a great addition, and can be 
put in just before freezing. 
“T admire the beautiful candle-finished 
mahogany, but only those to whom the 
care of it falls know how difficult a mat- 
ter it is to dust and leave no lint upon 
the furniture. Can you suggest some 
method to use to eliminate this difficulty? 
—R. A. D. 
If in future the first dusting is done 
with a very slightly dampened clean 
cheese cloth duster, and then gone over 
with a duster of Turkey red, the result 
will be all that is desired, the Turkey red 
having oil in it during the process of 
manufacture, retains a portion of it, 
which is sufficient to gather up all the 
lint left by cheese cloth. But the cheese 
cloth and the Turkey red should be kept 
very clean. 
“A request for information about what 
use can be made of a discarded linen hat 
came from a reader in Vermont.’—R. 
ihe dels 
If you have an old discarded linen eye- 
let embroidery hat, don’t throw it away. 
The brim will make a bertha for a 
chemise or a yoke for a child’s dress; a 
rounding yoke, of course. To make the 
yoke fit take up the shoulder seams, open 
the round and fasten in the back. The 
crown will make cuffs. With a very lit- 
tle bit of work you can make an eyelet 
work collar. Thus your old, despised hat 
will take on a new and lovely form, and 
you will have the consciousness of havy- 
ing practiced a very nice economy. 
The F replace 
is the central feature of the 
There’s nothing more 
room. 
attractive than a fireplace framed 
in an appropriate 
Wood Mantel 
It adds far more than its cost to 
the artistic appearance of the 
room and the selling value of 
the house. If you are interested 
in house building or decorating, 
we want you to have a copy of 
our booklet 
“Why Wood Mantels?” 
Full of hints and illustrations. 
For a free copy, address 
Wood Mantel Manufacturers’ Assn. 
H. .T. BENNETT, Secretary 
Room 1218 State Life Building, Indianapolis, Ind. 
\e Bes : < 
“THE most modern, and best illuminating and 
cooking service for isolated homes and institutions, 
is furnished by the CLIMAX GAS MACHINE. 
Apparatus furnished on TRIAL under a guarantee 
to be satisfactory andin advance of all other methods. 
Cooks, heats water for bath and culinary purposes, 
heats individual rooms between seasons—drives pump- 
ing or power engine in most efficient and economical 
manner —also makes brilliant illumination. IF 
MACHINE DOES NOT MEET YOUR BXPBCTA- 
TIONS, FIRE IT BACK. 
Send for Catalogue and Proposition. 
Better than City Gas or Eleo- 
tricity and at Less Cost. 
Low Price 
Liberal Terms 
C. M. KEMP MFG. CO. 
405 to 413 E. Oliver Street, Baltimore, Md. 
