AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
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for use in exterior as well as interior plaster work. A wire mesh made up of 
drawn steel wire of high quality, galvanized after weaving, and provided with 
our famous V-stiffeners affords the ideal material for supporting stucco. 
Its unusual strength and rigidity prevents buldging or sagging. 
even surfaces are readily obtained while its stiffness and perfect key for the 
plaster eliminates all danger of cracking. 
In use for more than fifty years Clinton Wire Lath has proved its 
durability. 
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It is everlasting and absolutely will not rust away. 
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VACUUM CLEANERS ®ve 
Stationary 
We manufacture Electric Stationary Vacuum Cleaners for buildings of any size or 
kind. e make a specialty of residence work, and our machines can be installed in 
old or new houses without expert help. 
We manufacture a Stationary for use with Gasoline Engine, or other power, especially 
adapted to Country Homes. The Cleaner and Engine can be placed in an outbuilding 
and a pipe run underground to the residence, making a perfect job. 
The Victor Electric Portable is a powerful and handsome machine; in fact ‘‘ Tis the 
finest in the land.” 
Send for printed matter. Buy direct from the manufacturer and save money. 
York, Pa. 
A Winter That You Will Thoroughly ao 
A new invention that eliminates all back-breaking, discourag- 
ing drudgery of hot-bed and cold-frame gardening. 
No covering or uncovering of beds. . 
Two layers of glass instead of one with a 53-inch layer of 
dry, still air between take the place of mats and boards. You 
never have to cover Sunlight Sash. 
Flowers and vegetables when they are luxuries on the market. 
You can have violets, pansies, lettuce all winter; cauliflower, tomatoes, 
radishes, etc., ready to set out as soon as the weather 
will permit 
Get these two books. One is our free catalog; 
the other is by Professor Massey. It tells how to make 
and care for the hot-beds, what and when to plant 
4 cents in stamps will bring Professor Massey’s book 
in addition the catalog. 
Sunlight Double Glass Sash Company 
943 East Broadway, Louisville, Ky. 
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shaken and picked out, and the place re- 
newed by means of two or a dozen of the 
tiny knots, as the case may be, each having 
been patiently and carefully supplied. As 
a result there is the complete rug, magically 
made whole again, pattern and tone com- 
plete and sound—rescued from what seemed 
inevitable oblivion. 
The most-used stitch is one which passes 
down between a double thread of the warp, 
around one side of it—to the left, say— 
then across to the other side and over the 
warp thread there. It is brought up again 
through the center, joining the other end. 
These two are pulled up tight and the wool 
cut off. The harder these ends may after- 
wards be pulled the tighter is made the 
knot, and the only way to remove it would 
be to pick it out from the back of the rug, 
as we have seen done in the case of those 
being mended. There are several stitches. 
a certain kind of rug having commonly a 
certain stitch as well as being distinguished 
by a recognizable pattern. Stitches vary in 
size, due to the thickness of the wool used, 
and also in kind. From four to six kinds 
comprise all which are likely to be en- 
countered. This is a tapestry stitch and is the 
same used in tapestry making, except that 
this is larger and coarser because of the 
larger warp, which is needed for weight and 
durability, making it suited to use in a rug. 
The needle is passed over and under, back 
and forth, ina kind of darning. Each color 
space is filling in in this way, regularly and 
neatly. The parts between which there is 
too long a slit when the work is completed 
are then fastened together by means of 
stitches put in on the under side. 
The knots are not at all hard to learn 
nor difficult to make, and one thinks that 
to make a rug in this way, using all these 
soft and rich colors of the wool which hangs 
in sight, would not be without a pleasure all 
its own; and then wonders that this is not 
done here and now. The process is cer- 
tainly, one must think, vastly more pleasant 
than that of the factory where the worker 
but attends a machine; while the product is 
incomparably superior to that of rugs pro- 
duced upon factory looms. The menders 
appear intelligent and interested in their 
work, and familiar with the quality of the 
rugs handled, seemingly greatly pleased to 
recognize any that might be unusually fine, 
or with a sheen due to wear in the East, 
instead of that which has been artificially 
produced. 
The advantages of being able to have 
one’s marred but cherished treasure thus re- 
newed and made perfect, so far as can be 
discerned to any except perchance an ex- 
pert, are too patent to need any special re- 
mark. That a valuable and beautiful thing 
may thus, as it were, defy time and the in- 
roads of moth and rust and accident, can 
only delight us. It seems to make true in a 
very literal, as well as spiritual or poetic 
way, that a thing of beauty may be a joy 
forever. And the fear of peril removed to 
a great extent, the pleasure taken is pure 
and unmixed, since harms and injuries, 
should they happen, are deemed not en- 
tirely irreparable. 
HOW TO POLISH PEWTER 
HOUGH pewter ware is often left dull 
by those who think its appearance more 
artistic thus, it may be of interest to know 
how it can be kept bright, as our ancestors 
kept it. Remove finger-marks by benzoline 
and rub the surface of the ware with fine 
knife-powder. To give it a “satin” finish, 
use dentists’ pumice powder, applied with 
a flannel cloth. 
