5k AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
May, gr! 
= 
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(Based on 40 years’ experience) 
The place for the Tank is on a tower, not in the 
house, where it must be lead li d, AND LEAD 
CONTAMINATES THE WATER. 
SIX REASONS 
(1) Fire protection without fail from 
the tank placed high on a tower. 
(2) No chance of flooding the whole 
house in case of accident. 
(3) Two tanks on one tower (see il- 
lustration). Upper for the house, low- 
er for the garden. 
CORCORAN 
WATERTOWER 
ROSLYN, L,I. 
(4) Any size tank possible on a tower 
CORCORAN and the water supply can never fail. 
WINDMILL 
SEA BRIGHT, N, J 
(5) No extra foundations and beam- 
ing necessary, as for a housetank. 
(6) Both tank and tower built to har- 
monize 
with the su-rounding archi- 
tecture. 
OR IF YOU PREFER 
A NEVER FAILING WINDMILL 
one that requires no care, no attention and no 
repairs, install a 
CORCORAN 
It is a silent, automatic pumping 
equipment that costs nothing to oper- 
ate, is never out of order and your 
water supply is as abundant as that 
of any city home. 
The housing for the windmill can 
be built as a house annex or as 
CORCORAN WINDMILT, 
part of the garage. 
SHREWSBURY RIVER, 
NEW JERSEY 
Send for our 
‘“Tank Tower and Windmill Book’’ 
A. J. CORCORAN, Inc. 
15 John St., N. Y. City 
Factory: Jersey City, N. J. 
CORCORAN WINDMILL 
POINT JUDITH, 
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_ Problems in Home Furnishing 
(Continued from page xix) 
post mahogany bedstead. In her letter she 
says: 
“T wish to put the handsome old four- 
poster bedstead that has just been given to 
me in my guest room in place of the brass 
one now in use. This bed has always been 
draped with white dimity and ball fringe 
with a spread of knitted cotton. My guest 
room is papered in gray with a border of 
pink roses. There is a good deal of white 
woodwork in the room and I would like to 
introduce some color on the bed. What 
would you suggest?” 
Your guest room will certainly be more 
attractive with a colored material on the 
four-post bedstead. There are some gray 
materials called “jaspé,” printed in lattice 
patterns with pink roses that would be suit- 
able. While these seem expensive at two 
dollars a yard they are in the fifty-inch 
width. The valance around the tester and 
bed-spread may be made of the flowered 
material edged with chintz braid, and the 
lower valance around the foot of the bed 
may be of plain gray “jaspé.” 
DOOR HARDWARE FOR A COLONIAL 
HOUSE 
“We are building a small house in the 
suburbs, following the simple lines of the 
New England houses of the early nine- 
teenth century. Outside, the house will be 
painted white with green blinds; all of the 
woodwork inside will be painted white ex- 
cept in the kitchen and the pantries; as 
we use gas the lighting fixtures will be at 
the side in the shape of candles, with lamps 
for extra lighting. The point now to be 
decided is the hardware for the doors. 
Should these match the dull brass on the 
lighting fixtures?—P. W. T.” 
On the first floor in the hall and living- 
rooms the old brass would be most ap- 
propriate. There are simple, good patterns 
to be had that will correspond with Colonial 
feeling in the architecture. Upstairs in 
the bedrooms and bathrooms the glass 
knobs could be used to advantage. In se-. 
lecting these the smooth surfaces that fit 
the hand comfortably should be given the 
preference. 
SUMMER PILLOW COVERS 
A request comes from a southern reader, 
Miss L. M. J., Charleston, S. C., for ideas 
about covering the sofa pillows in the par- 
lor, den and piazza; whether these should 
be of plain gray linen or of colored ma- 
terials. 
There are so many beautiful and inex- 
pensive wash materials to be had this sea- 
son that it would not be difficult to select 
really attractive pillow covers for warm 
weather. In the cretonnes there are lovely 
combinations of colors from _ thirty-five 
cents upwards. The newest patterns are 
a mixture of birds and flowers. Then 
there are the English chintzes at seventy- 
five cents a yard that look almost like 
paintings so carefully are they printed. 
In the wide width linen taffetas, fifty 
inches wide, there are tapestry designs that 
will stand longer wear than the cretonnes. 
Among such a variety it would not be 
difficult to choose something tasteful for 
the parlor, den and piazza of a southern 
home. These figured materials would cer- 
tainly be more pleasing than the plain gray 
linen. 
