iV AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
November, 1911 
Davis. McGrath & Shepard, Arch'ts, N.Y. 
Stain Your Bungalows 
Don’t paint them. Stain them all over, roofs, 
siding, and trimmings with 
Cabot’s ShingleStains 
The “‘painty"’ effect does not harmonize with bungalow 
conditions, but our stains produce the soft transparent colors 
that exactly suit. They cost only halt as much as paint, and 
can be put on at half the expense. If your bungalow is in 
the woods, away from skilled labor, you or_your man can 
apply them perfectly. They are made of Creosote, which 
thoroughly preserves the wood. 
Cabot’s Stains are sold all over the country. Send 
Sor samples Qn wood,and name of nearest agent. 
SAMUEL CABOT, Inc. 
Manufacturing Chemists 
131 Milk Street Boston, Mass. 
BRISTOL’S 
Recording Thermometers 
For recording outdoor atmospheric tempera- 
tures. 
Recording Instrument installed indoors. 
Sensitive bulb in weather protecting lattice 
bex located outdoors. 
Write for Bulletin No. 124 giving full in- 
formation, 
THE BRISTOL COMPANY 
Waterbury, Conn. 
Are Unknown 
Where Smiles and Fresh Air 
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A Family ‘‘Playground”’ in the New York Tenement District. 
"THOUSANDS of babies and nursing mothers are too sick to be taken to our fresh air homes, Sea Breeze, Junior Sea 
Breeze and Caroline Rest. We must therefore care for them at their tenement homes. 
$5.00 
will buy pure milk 
for a sick baby for 
a month. 
$10.00 
will restore a 
nursing mother 
to health. 
Hundreds 
of Babies 
have been Saved and Mothers Restored to Health by the A. I. C. P. 
Don’t ignore the generous impulse to 
HOW MANY WILL YOU HELP? give until it is too late. 
JIMMIE NEEDS NEW SHOES FOR SCHOOL 
He hasn't been wearing any during vacation because the pair he wore to school last year are now soleless. Teacher 
won't allow him inside the school barefooted. Father earns hardly enough, after paying the rent for a few rooms, to buy the 
bare necessities of life for Jimmie’s brothers and sisters. This distressing combination of circumstances threatens Jimmie’s educa- 
tion. How would you like to have your children go to school or work in Jimmie’s shoes? The A. I. C. P. knows of thou- 
sands of needy and deserving boys and girls who must have shoes for school. Last year it spent for shoes alone nearly $7,000. 
WON’T YOU HELP JIMMIE? 
A SUGGESTION: 
Have a lawn party or a children’s 
As A. 1. C. P. Visitors FIND THEM As A.I.C. P. Nurses LEAVE THEM 
fair to help these poor families. 
Write for literature. 
Send gifts to 
R. S. MINTURN, Treasurer 
105 East 22nd Street 
NEW YORK 
United Charities Building 
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The Shoes that Jimmie Left and Those He Received. 
New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor 
R. FULTON CUTTING, PRESIDENT 
noticed that was out of the usual every-day 
practice. 
One very good method of preventing the 
hearth in front of the kitchen range from 
settling was noted. Strong iron “hooks” 
had been made by a local blacksmith. One 
was used at each corner of the hearth. The 
floor beam was notched so as to allow the 
“hook” to rest upon it, and yet not to inter- 
fere with the flooring. Then, as the “hooks” 
were twisted so that the bottom ends would 
support the side beams of the hearth sup- 
ports, a very strong method of preventing 
the settling of the hearth was secured. The 
usual method is to simply mortise the side 
pieces into the floor beams, but the “hooks” 
make an additional protection. They are 
made of wide flat iron, which can easily be 
bent to shape while hot, and the cost of 
them is small. It is well to use these hooks 
in connection with every hearth. I am now 
superintending the repairs that are being 
made to the tiles of two very handsome 
mantelpieces. The tiles are loose, and many 
will have to be relaid, simply because the 
hearth under them sank. If the iron sup- 
ports mentioned had been used much trouble 
and expense would have been avoided. 
THE FIRST FLOOR. 
The vestibule was neatly tiled. This is a 
good plan, for in wet weather a large 
amount of dirt must necessarily collect in 
any vestibule, and if the floor is tiled it 
can easly be removed. The tiles are prac- 
tically indestructible, and if differently col- 
ored ones are used some very handsome 
effects can be obtained. The vestibule men- 
tioned was of the ordinary size, and the 
cost of tiling it was only $18. 
The hall electric light was fitted with a 
four-candle-power bulb, surrounded by an 
outside colored glass globe in a handsome 
fixture. This small lamp was found to be 
of sufficient power to light the hall for all 
practical purposes, and, of course, made a 
decided saving in the monthly lighting bill. 
Of course, a bulb of larger candle-power 
could be substituted at any time if more 
light were required. 
The baseboard used was higher than that 
which is customary. It looked very well, 
and should prevent injury to the plaster 
above it. The trim in the kitchen and but- 
ler’s pantry was oiled, but in the living-room 
it was stained “Mission” wood. The rest 
of the rooms upstairs and downstairs were 
enameled white, with the exception of the 
window-sashes, which were stained oak in 
order to prevent soiling when handled. The 
doors were stained mahogany where the 
white enameled trim was used, and glass 
knobs were employed. The stair-rail was 
also stained mahogany, and the balusters 
were enameled white. The general effect 
was very pleasing. 
A lavatory, containing a water-closet in 
addition to the washbasin, was placed under- 
neath the front stairs. This is a common 
arrangement, but a novel feature was the 
type of closet used. As it is always difficult 
to ventilate so small a room, a make of closet 
was selected that allowed perfect ventilation 
to be obtained. Underneath the seat air 
could pass, and a vent in the side of the 
bowl was connected by a pipe to the house. 
chimney in the attic. A constant draft was 
thus obtained at all times and good results 
followed. The cost was small. 
In the butler’s pantry was placed a small 
closet just large enough to contain the extra 
table-boards, which are always used in an 
extension dining-room table, and which are 
invariably in the way in the average home. 
The closet takes up little room, and may be 
placed in some corner of the pantry in most 
houses. 
In the dining-room the electric light fix- 
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