xvi AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
| WOLFF PLUMBING GOODS 
FIFTY-SIX YEARS OF QUALITY 
ST. LOUIS, Mo., 2210-2212 PINE STREET 
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., 615 NORTHWESTERN BUILDING 
CLEVELAND, OnI0, BUILDERS EXCHANGE 
KANSAS CITY, Mo., 1204 SCARRETT BUILDING 
of grass, use an ““Anyweight. 
money—save your lawn, 
WILDER-STRONG IMPLEMENT CO., Box 9, Monroe, Mich. ; 
BRANCH OFFICES: 
CINCINNATI, On10, 505 Lyric BUILDING 
CHICAGO-SU 
Eliminates clothes posts. Is portable and can be removed when not in us: 
Holds 165 feet of line. Excels all others in strength, durability and conveniencu 
in handling. Each arm operates independently. When opened, arms lock in 
position and stretch lines. When closed, arms lock automatically. Send fcr one 
today. Price $10 complete, including steel post and metal-lined socket. If not 
satisfactory return and we will refund money. Write for descriptive and 
illustrated free folder No. EK. Do it now. 
THE CHICAGO DRYER CO., 383 E£. Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. 
achine for e hard, summer lawn. 
The “‘Anyweight’’ Water Ballast Roller is built in 3 sizes, all of 24 inch diameter and of 
24, 27 and 32 inch widths. The machine shown here (our smallest) weighs but 115 Ibs. 
empty, 470 Ibs. when completely filled with water, and 737 lbs. with sand. The other sizes j 
weigh 124 and 132 lbs. empty and from that ‘‘anyweight”” up to half a ton. Filled in 30, 
seconds—emptied in a jiffy, Fully protected by our patents. Runs easy—lasts a lifetime. 
H + We will mail you, postpaid, our valuable and 
This book sent free : interesting book on The Care of the Lawn,” 
together with folder about the ““Anyweight."’ Write us to-day. Save 
The renting agent calls atten- 
tion to the WOLFF PLUMBING 
FIXTURES as his best guarantee to 
the prospective tenant of the high 
grade of the plumbing system—in- 
deed, the type of the whole build- 
ings is many times inferred from 
the use of WOLFF material 
throughout. When renters be- 
come builders, the worries from 
‘‘assembled’’ plumbing, con- 
trasted with the perfect service 
of the all- built - by - one- house 
WOLFF plumbing, makes it easy 
for the architect to use WOLFF 
specifications. 
ESTABLISHED 1855 
L. Wolff Manu- 
facturing Co. 
MANUFACTURERS OF 
Plumbing Goods Exclusively 
The Only Complete Line Made By Any One Firm 
GENERAL OFFICES: 
601 to 627 W. Lake St., Chicago 
DENVER TRENTON 
Showrooms: 91 Dearborn Street, Chicago 
SAN FRANCISCO, CaL., MONADNOCK BUILDING 
OMAHA, NEB., 1116-1118 DOUGLAS STREET 
WASHINGTON, D. C., 327 BOND BUILDING 
BUFFALO, N. Y., 61 MANCHE° TER PLACE 
CLOTHES DRYER 
c FOR LAWN USE, 
Weighted with Water. Fes) 
A lawn roller whose weight can be adjusted to the conditions 
of your lawn, garden or tennis court 
: { A light Machine for the soft, wet spring lawn. 
All in one + A heavy Machi 
( A heavier Machine for the driveway or tennis court. 
Why buy one of the old style iron or cement fixed-weight rollers that is generally too heavy 
or too light to do your lawn the most good, paying for two or three hundred pounds of useless 
metal—and freight on it as well—when less money will buy the better, more efficient. 
“Anyweight” Water Ballast Lawn Roller. 
Remember that a difference of 50 pounds may mean success or ruin to your lawn—a half ton 
machine will spoil itin early spring, while a 200 Ib. roller is absolutely useless later in the season. 
If you desire a fine, soft, springy turf of deep green, instead of a coarse, dead looking patch 
March, 1911 
Problem in Home Furnishing 
(Continued from page xiii) 
FWO GUEST-ROOMS WITH SLOPING CEILINGS 
“Tn remodeling an old farm house we 
have added windows to the guest rooms 
on the third floor, but have not been able to 
do away with the sloping lines of the ceil- 
ing,” writes Mrs. M. McC. “Now, we are 
puzzled as to the wall treatment, curtains, 
etc. One is a single, one a double room.” 
The two rooms may be made distinctly 
different yet equally attractive by using a 
flowered paper in one,—a pink rose on a 
trellis costs thirty-six cents a roll—and a 
canary-colored lattice paper at fifty cents 
a roll in the other. The patterns should be 
such as may be run from the floor over the 
ceiling and down on the opposite wall. 
This does away with the uneven ceiling 
lines and impossible picture moldings. 
Starting with these color notes, the rose 
room may have curtains of white nain- 
sook edged with lace looped back against the 
casement, with straight over-curtains of 
pink Japanese cotton crépe; rugs made of 
cretonne strips woven in a hand-loom,—col- 
ors, pink and green on a white ground; 
white enamelled furniture with two willow 
chairs stained green and cushioned with 
rose cretonne. 
The larger guest room with pale yellow 
wall-paper may combine blue and green in 
some of the furnishings, a Scotch rug with 
a green mixed in the border may be chosen 
for the floor covering. An English chintz 
with a bird design may be made into covers 
for the twin beds, and also for over-curtains 
at the windows. Mahogany furniture in good 
reproductions from the old styles may in- 
clude a fireside chair, rush-seated rocker, 
candle-stand and sewing table. A small 
top table for holding a breakfast tray may 
also be remembered. (See answer to ques- 
tion on breakfast trays.) A screen is a 
necessary article of furnishing in a double 
guest room, and covered with cretonne like 
the bed-spread, helps to unify the decora- 
tive features. ; 
COVERING FOR A FIRESIDE CHAIR 
A Richmond (Va.) correspondent has — 
just bought a wing or fireside chair, and 
asks what kind of material would be the 
most suitable for a cover. “The library,” 
she writes, “where this chair is to be used 
has Oriental rugs in which tans, blues and 
greens predominate. The furniture already 
in the room is upholstered in olive-green 
linen velour. The wall space above the 
bookcases is gold and green Japanese 
leather paper resembling burlap. As this 
one large chair will be rather prominent 
in the room I would like its covering to be 
a pleasing note.” 
There are numberless good patterns in 
the wool tapestries from which to choose 
a covering for this chair, and the verdure 
designs combine the colors that would suit 
this room,—tans, browns and greens. While 
the cost of the wool tapestries seem high in 
comparison with the cotton ones, the for- 
mer are more durable, both in color and 
texture. 
FERN DISH FOR DINING TABLE 
A request comes to suggest some kind 
of receptacle for ferns suitable for standing 
in the center of a dining table. 
Either metal or pottery can be used for 
holding potted ferns. Usually a tin lining 
is fitted inside the holder. A silver fern- 
dish accords with fine table linen and china, 
and copper or brass are appropriate for - 
simpler conditions. A plain green bowl is 
always in good taste, and this is not difficult 
to find in the Japanese stores. 
