June, ro1r 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
There is Quite a Difference 
in Willow Ware 
We invite compa‘ison as to quality and workmanship 
Established 1893 
THE NORFOLK SETTEE $10,090 
Width of Seat 2 feet 1linches. Depth of Seat 1 foot 8 
inches. Height of Back 3 feet. 
Shipped on receipt of Money Order or N.Y. Draft (F.0.B.N.Y.) 
MINNET & CO., Manufacturers of Willow Furniture 
RETAIL SALESROOMS: 
365 Lexington Ave. (bet. 40th and 41st Sts.) 
NEW YORK 
Richard M. Archer, Mer. Factory, Carlstadt, N. J. 
Illustrated Catalogue Sent on Request 
Just Published 
Garages and Motor 
Boat Houses 
Compiled by 
WM. PHILLIPS COMSTOCK 
@ This work contains a collection of selected designs for 
both private and commercial buildings, showing the very 
latest ideas in their planning and construction. 
@ There are 136 illustrations of garages and motor boat 
houses, consisting of plans and exterior views reproduced 
from photographs. 
@ These designs have been contributed by twenty-four 
well known architects from different sections of the United 
States. 
@ The book is divided into five sections as follows: 
I. Private Country and Suburban Garages. 
Il. Private City Garages. 
Ill. Suburban and City Public Garages. 
IV. Motor Boat Garages. 
V. Garage Equipment and Accessories. 
@ Neatly bound in board and cloth. Size 7% x 10% 
inches. 119 pages. 
Price $2.00, Postpaid 
MUNN & COMPANY, Inc. 
361 Broadway, New York 
Three Things You Need 
FIRST: The only Sanitary method of 
caring for garbage, deep in the ground in 
heavy galvanized bucket with bail. No 
odors, etc. Away from dogs and cats. 
The typhoid fly cannot get at it and 
distribute poisonous germs. Health de- 
mands it. 
(Underground Garbage Receiver 
Underfloor Refuse Receiver 
Wadergsosnd Earth Closet 
Opens vith the Foot 
SZ 
(TTS 
Fence are 
SECOND: Thisclean, convenient way 
of disposing of kitchen ashes, cellar 
and yard refuse. Doing away with 
the ash or dirt barrel nuisance, also 
stores your oily wasteand sweepings. 
Fireproof, fush with garage floor. 
THIRD: Is intended to 
supply a safe and san- 
_. itary method for not 
"4 polluting the water 
{typhoid fly around the camp or farm, disseminating 
4 poison to its owner. 
} Sold Direct. Send for Circulars on each. 
Nine years in practical use. 
It pays to look us up. 
C. H. STEPHENSON, Mfr. 
21 Farrar Street, Lynn, Mass. 
A Camp Necessity 
THE RESURRECTION PLANT 
HE Resurrection Plant, whose bo- 
tanical name is the Anastatica, is 
sometimes called “The Rose of 
Jericho.” No other plant has been cred- 
ited with so many extraordinary qualities, 
and none has been of greater service to 
quacks and charlatans ever since its pecu- 
liarities were discovered. 
It has been called “the resurrection 
plant” by reason of the fact that, when 
apparently dead and dry, it often assumes 
again the color of life as soon as its root is 
plunged into water. Its buds swell with 
new life, the leaves of its calyx open, the 
petals unfold, the flower stalk grows, and 
the full-blown flowers appear as if by 
magic. It is not, strictly speaking, a rose 
at all; the stem divides at the base and 
bears spikes of pretty white flowers, which 
change into round fruits. When ripe the 
leaves fall, the branches grow hard and 
dry, and fold inward so as to form a ball. 
In autumn the plant is uprooted by the 
storms and carried toward the sea. There 
it is gathered and exported to Europe, 
where it is highly prized for its hydro- 
metric qualities. 
All that is necessary is to place the end 
of its root in water, and soon the plant is 
seen to begin a new life, develop its parts 
and unfold new roses. When the water 
is removed, the spectator sees the magical 
plant grow weak; its petals close and the 
leaves pass through the last agonies of 
vegetable life and die. 
The resurrection plant grows in the 
sandy regions of Egypt, Syria and Arabia, 
and has long been connected in popular 
superstition with the Holy Land and the 
life of Jesus. In certain countries it is 
still believed that this remarkable flower 
blooms every year on the day and at the 
hour of the birth of Christ, and pious pil- 
grims still report finding it at every spot 
where Mary and Joseph rested on their 
flight into Egypt. 
EFFECT OF RADIUM EMANATION 
ON PLANTS 
ADIUM produces by its spontan- 
eous disintegration a gas which is 
usually called radium emanation, 
but for which Sir William Ramsay sug- 
gests the name wmition, derived from a 
Greek word which signifies brightness. 
Nition or radium emanation is a_ radio- 
active chemical element which disinte- 
grates rapidly and has a very brief exis- 
tence. 
Fabre has communicated to the French 
Biological Society the results of his ex- 
periments on the effect which the radia- 
tions of the emanation produce on germi- 
nation and growth in various vegetable 
organisms. One of the organisms se- 
lected was black mold (Stengmatocystis 
nigra.) The “optimum” or most favor- 
able dose of radiation, which developed 
the mold in four days, was found to be 4% 
microcurie per cubic centimeter of air. 
(The curie is the unit of radio-activity 
and the microcurie is one millionth of that 
unit.) The “abiotic” dose, which kills 
the black mold, is 1 microcurie or more 
per cubic centimeter. 
For the common white mold (Mucor 
mucedo) the optimum dose is 1 micro- 
curie per liter of air. In the case of 
Lilium catharticum the dose most favor- 
able for germination and growth is 34 
microcurie per liter of air, while this 
species of lily is killed by 40 microcuries 
per liter of air. 
Write for our Free Book on 
Home Refrigeration 
This book tells 
how to select the 
Home Refrigerator, 
how to know the 
poor from the good, 
how to keep down 
ice bills, how to keer 
a Refrigerator sani- 
tary and sweet—lots 
of things you should 
know before buying 
any Refrigerator. 
It also tells allabout 
the “Monroe” with 
food compartments 
made in one piece of and at Factory Prices. 
solid unbreakable 
WhitePorcelain Ware Cash or Monthly Payments 
over an inch thick, with every corner rounded—no cracks or 
crevices anywhere, and as easy to keep clean as achina bowl. 
Always sold DIRECT 
The leading hospitals use the ‘‘Mon- 
roe” exclusively, and itis found in a 
+3 large majority of the best homes. 
| vac "4 The* “Monroe” is never sold in stores, 
thy Compartment | a but direct from the factory to you on 
i pone He our liberal trial offer, Freight Prepaid. 
Easy Payments. We are makinga 
2 m tadical departure 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”’ ona 
postal card and it will go to you by 
next mail. 
Monroe Refrigerator Co., Station P., Lockland, O. 
Just Published 
Motion Study 
A Method for Increasing the 
Efficiency of the Workman 
By FRANK B. GILBRETH 
Q This is a scientific investigation of the conditions govern- 
ing the number of motions made by workers, and the 
methods of reducing this number. The author has dis- 
covered that many factors, such as physique, race, 
nationality, early training, nutrition, tools and appliances, 
have a bearing on the subject, and these various influences 
are discussed in the order of their importance. He shows 
} that the manner of supplying the workman with his raw 
material has an important bearing on the number of mo- 
tions made. Since fatigue will influence greatly the 
methods of doing work, it is important that the raw ma- 
terial be placed in a position which will require the least 
number of motions to transport it to its final position, thus 
producing the least fatigue which is proportionate to the 
number of motions made. 
@ The book is concisely written and should be studied 
by every manager and employer of labor who is interested 
in reducing labor cost. 
@ 12 mo, 5% x 734 inches, 135 pages, 44 illustrations. 
Price $2.00, Postpaid 
MUNN & COMPANY, Inc. 
361 Broadway, New York 
PROTECT Your floors 
and floor 
coverings from injury. Also beautify 
your furniture by using Glass Onward 
Sliding Furniture and Piano Shoes in 
place of casters. Made in 110 styles 
and sizes, If your dealer will not ery 
supply you Gas De 
Write us—Onward ete: Co., 
Menasha, Wisconsin, U. S, A. 
Canadian Factory, Bae ‘Ont. 
THREAD =re a ae 
and ooos ess In any 
THRUM width up to 
RUGS 16 FEET 
and any length; in any color or 
colorcombination. 65 regular 
shades—any othershading made 
to match. Send for color card. 
“Yon choose the Arnold, Constable & Co., Selling Agts., NewYork 
colors, we'll Thread & Thrum Work Shop, Auburn, N.Y. 
Make the rug.’’ 
