AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
December, 1911 
Half the irritability in domestic pets can be 
traced directly to a lack of pure drinking water 
when they are thirsty. Your pets will appre- 
iate pure water to drink just as keenly as you 
do—why not see that they have a plentiful 
supply, free from contamination in a 
Moe’s Top Fill 
Drinking Fountain 
For Domestic Animals 
It always supplies just enough pure water 
in the trough—will never slop over—dog can’t 
up-setit. Dead air space keeps water Cool in 
Summer, Warm in Winter. Simple in con- 
struction—just remove cover and fill from 
top—water ceases to flow when top is re- 
moved—no valves to get out of order. Nickel 
plated, holds quart and a pint. If not at deal- 
k ers, will be sent on receipt of price, $3.50. Silver 
plated, $5.00. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
OTIS & MOE, 544 S. Dearborn St., 
Chicago 
HESS sy‘ LOCKER 
Speedy, TheOnly Modern,Sanitary 
i) a) STEEL Medicine Cabinet 
or locker finished in snow-white, baked 
everlasting enamel, inside and out. 
Beautiful beveled mirror door. Nicke) 
plate brass trimmings. Steel or glass 
shelves. 
Costs Less Than Wood 
Never warps. shrinks, nor swells 
Dust and vermin proof, easily cleaned 
Should Be In Every Bath Room 
ee Four styles—four sizes. 
deal wall or to hang outside. 
silt waame trated circular. 
The Recessed Stee! HESS, 926 Tacoma Building, Chicago 
Medicine Cabinet A/akers of Steel Furnaces.—Free Booklet 
To recess in 
Send for illus 
Two Things You Need 
FIRST: The only Sanitary method of 
caring for garbage, deep in the ground in 
metal receiver holding heavy galvanized 
bucket with bail. No freezing. No odors, 
Avoid the battered can and scattered refuse 
resulting from removal of frozen contents. 
Health demands it. 
Opens with the Foot 
AME 
pesreeretsondl Underground Garbage Receiver 
aS {Underfloor Refuse Receiver 
Vrace wane 
SECOND: This clean, convenient 
way .of disposing of ashes from furnace 
or hot water heater, cellar and yard 
refuse, Fireproof, flush with floor. 
Abolish the old ash-barrel. 
Nine Years in practical use. 
IT PAYS TO LOOK US UP. 
Sold direct. Send for Circulars on each, 
Cc. H. STEPHENSON, Mtge. 
21 Farrar Street, Lynn, Mass. 
Easy to sweep into 
SS) TU ta 2 
CHRISTMAS DINNERS 
FOR = ; a 
300,000 | : 
POOR 
PEOPLE 
Will be 
supplied by 
The 
Salvation Army 
Throughout the 
United States 
Will you help by 
sending a donation 
no matter how simul! 
TO COMMANDER 
MISS BOOTH |. | 
118 W. 14th Street, New York City 
Western States, Commissioner Estill, 669 S. State St., Chicago 
blow to and fro or be in the way when the 
casement windows are open. The materials 
should be ecru Himalaya or Egyptian cloth 
hung to drop in straight folds that come 
just to the sill. They will be all the draperies 
that the room will require. These inside 
curtains can of course be all the same color 
as the wall above the wainscoting, which 
will be the best plan. Inasmuch as the 
wainscoting gives to the room a finished 
appearance and helps to furnish it, one will 
find when the furniture is placed in such a 
room very few ornaments will be required 
to complete the decoration. A few well- 
chosen prints after old masters framed in 
narrow brown molding will look well on the 
walls, preferably photographic prints that 
are brown in tone. The yellow of brass is 
also attractive against brown woodwork 
and it should be introduced into the living- 
room; a pair of Russian brass-branched 
candlesticks could be placed on the mantel- 
piece, brass andirons on the hearth, and a 
good lamp with a brass or opalescent shade 
for the table. Inasmuch as the reader 
desires a yellow room this color can be used 
to some extent in the dining-room in addi- 
tion to the tinting of the walls. If the yel- 
low chosen is a deep one running to the 
orange, care must be taken in selecting the 
tint to have it equivalent in value to the 
brown of the woodwork. The wainscoting 
should stop at the height of the fireplace to 
give an unbroken line around the room. 
Any really good old china should be placed 
on the plate-shelf, but just here one feels 
bound to protest against the introduction 
of plate shelves to contain ordinary and 
unattractive pieces of porcelain or pottery, 
which not only detract from the room but 
have no reason for so conspicuous a place. 
One sees no reason for introducing a win- 
dow-seat into the bay of a dining-room, as 
there 1s not any too much wall space in an 
average room of this sort; it would be far 
better to have the bay reconstructed to 
accommodate a_ built-in sideboard with 
high windows overhead. 
WHAT TO FEED DOGS IN WINTER 
By T. C. TURNER 
HEN dogs are kept around the house, 
as is often the case, the greatest harm 
results, not so much from the quality of the 
food they get, but from their being fed 
too frequently. Scraps of food are given 
them at all times, with no thought as to 
its being the proper meal time or not, and 
this unfits a dog to receive a really good 
feeding at regular intervals. As a rule 
twice in twenty-four hours will be plenty 
to feed, that is to say, a light breakfast, 
and a good meal towards evening; a con- 
venient hour (say 5 P. M., or at whatever 
regular time can be established) should be 
set. However, once the hour is set, great 
care must be taken to follow it with 
promptness. Table scraps make excellent 
dog food, but care must be taken to avoid 
anything approaching rich gravies, too much 
fat, or pastry. Of course, as with human 
beings, the dog requires more food in 
winter than in summer; more fatty sub- 
stances, too, can be taken during the cold 
months, but in all matters of feeding the 
circumstances under which the dog lives, 
and its own peculiarities, should be 
watched and taken into consideration. 
A variety of food is of the utmost im- 
portance. The less exercise a dog gets the 
greater the need of care with regard to his 
feeding. Meat should be regularly fed in 
moderation, and never entirely withheld.. 
Vegetables also should be given, but can- 
» The 
benefits 
of 
outdoor 
life 
but none of its discomforts, are realized in 4 
The Burlington 
Venetian Blind 
In your windows it makes your room delight- 
fully cool. Enclose your porch with the 
Burlington Venetian Blind and you have 
added a healthful out-of-door room to 
your home. 
/ The Burlington Venetian Blind can 
be raised or lowered at will, and can be 
adjusted to any angle to suit the height of 
the sun. 
The Burlington Venetian Blind is made to order only. 
\Our illustrated catalog, telling about the various styles, 
will be mailed to you on request. 
Burlington 
Venetian 
Blind Co. 
339 Lake St. 
Burlington, Vt. 
Bristol’s Recording Thermometers 
Continuously and automatically 
record indoor and outdoor atmos- 
pheric temperatures. Useful and 
‘ornamental for country homes. 
Write for illustrated Bulletin No. 
124 and No. 125. 
THE BRISTOL CO. 
Waterbury, Connecticut 
PROTEC 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 
supply you 
Write us—Onward Mfg. Co., 
Menasha, Wisconsin, U. S, A. 
Canadian Factory, Berlin, Ont. 
HIS beautiful fireside 
basket, 24 inches, in 
forest colors, gray, green 
and brown, $5.00 prepaid. 
A most substantial and wel- 
come Christmas gift. 
Pohlson’s Gift Shop 
Pawtucket, R. I. 
ALL 
Pumps xis 
CYLINDERS, ETC. 
Hay Unloading Tools 
Barn Door Hangers 
~ 
Tale off gour Hat toThe Myers” 
BEST PUMP ON EARTH. = 
Write for Circulars and Prices 
FE: MYERS & BRO., Ashland, O. 
Ashland Pump and Hay Tool Works 
ae, - 
Che Bayberry Bip 
A suggestion for Xmas gifts from Old New 
England—qguaint old-fashioned pair of 
seven-inch Bayberry Candles, dipped 
of pure Bayberry wax, with interesting illumi- 
nated card and motto of the “Legend of the 
Bayberry Dip.”” 50 cents postpaid. 
POHLSON’S GIFT SHOP 
Pawtucket, R. I. 
