September, 1907 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XIX 



STRICTLY PURE ALL 



WHITE LEAD PAINT 



MADE FRESH TO ORDER 



Two Full Gallons Free to Try. Sold on r/me. 

 Purity Guaranteed. Freight Pre/taidm 



I am the Paintman. 



I make Paint to order — for the individual user. 

 I sell it direct from factory — at factory prices. 



I ship it in special extra size cans — guaranteed to contain 

 full measure of paint. 



These cans are dated the day the paint is m3.de— your 

 guarantee that it is absolutely fresh when you get it. 



Out of any six-gallon order or over you may use two gal- 

 lons on your buildings. 



Then stand off and look at it — test it in any way you like. 



If it is satisfactory — use the bal- 



ance. 



If it is not satisfactory— return the 

 balance — I'll refund all of your 

 money — pay the transoortation 

 charges both ways— and the test 

 shan't cost you a penny. 



That's my way of selling my 

 Made-to-Order Paint. 



I'm the only paintmaker in the 

 United States selling it that way. I'm the only paint- 

 maker in the United States making paint to order. 



My Paint will please you— it's got to please you. You 

 are the judge— and if it doesn't it shan't cost you anything. 



There's no question about the purity of my Paint — no 

 question about it's hisjh quality. Tliere can't be — because 

 it's made from the pure materials— the best it is possible 

 to buy. 



My O. L. Chase Strictly Pure White Lead Paint— The 

 Roll of Honor Brand— an «// ]V/ii/e Lead pa.iiH— is made 

 from strictly pure Old Dutch Process White Lead— strictly 

 pure, well settled, aged, raw Linseed Oil made from North- 



I Challenge the World 

 on my Strictly Pure 

 All White Lead Paint 



ern grown selected flax seed — pure Spirits of Turpentine 

 and pure Turpentine Drier, and the necessary tinting 

 colors and nothing else. 



This paint stands the tests of any chemist — this I guaran- 

 tee under $100.00 cash forfeit. 



I will give that sum of money to any chemist who will 

 find any adulteration in this paint. 



It's just wliat it's name implies — the Roll of Honor Brand. 



It meets all of the requirements of the State Pure Psiint 

 Laws and more. 



I challenge the world on this Roll 

 of Honor Brand — and as I make it to 

 order for each individual user — ship 

 it fresh as soon as made that you 

 may get all of its life right on your 

 buildings— it is assuredly the best 

 paint in the world to buy. 



I want to tell you more about 

 my Made-to-Order paint proposi- 

 tion — want to send you my 

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 choose from — and tell you all about my 



Three Great Chase 

 Made-tO'Crder Paints 



My Roll of Honor Brand, my 40 - BO 

 Lead and Zinc Paint,^and my O. L. Chase 

 Durability Paint. 



When you've read these books i'm sure you will be con- 

 vinced that it will be more economy — and more satisfaction 

 — for you to let me make your paint to order, than to buy 

 paint of any other kind —made in any other way. 



Write for these Books at once — today. 



O. Lm chase. The Paintman, Dept. 126, St. Louis, IVIo. 



DO YOU WANT A HOME LIKE THIS? 



or one equally pleasing. Then buy My Books or write me 

 about special plans. My designs are all artistic, but home, 

 like and comfortable, my plans complete, and estimates 

 careful and honest. Individual Designing A Specialty. 



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AND 



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and 



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weather is threatened each petal folds into a 

 little twist by itself, so that four small spiral 

 pyramids stand up on each flower stalk, to face 

 the downpour in perfect assurance. 



Even the familiar daisy is a well known 

 "barometer-plant." Does not its yellow eye 

 open out to sunny days and close to duller 

 ones? And its big coarse brother, the dande- 

 lion, seems to be just as sensitive. In the case 

 of the daisy, however, each head is made up of 

 many flowers, and it is the petal rays of the 

 strap-like florets that wrap over and protect 

 the inner tubular stationary ones. 



As to the dwarf or carline thistle, so no- 

 torious are its faculties for indicating the 

 weather that its dry flower heads are actually 

 used in certain rural districts as weather 

 gauges. When the sky is cloudless and the air 

 dry and clear, the flower-heads open out bold- 

 ly, with the dry scaly leaves surrounding the 

 inner flowers radiating all round with perfect 

 confidence. But let the air grow humid, in- 

 dicating that rain is not far off, and the radi- 

 ating ring rises to close domelike in protec- 

 tion over the flower's heart. I have often 

 watched the water running off this "dome," 

 just as quickly as it does off any sloping roof 

 built with human hands. 



In England the well-known little scarlet 

 pimpernel is called the "poor man's weather 

 glass," so quickly do its little blossoms follow 

 changes in the weather by opening and clos- 

 ing. The pimpernel is quite wonderfully re- 

 liable as a weather prophet — far more so than 

 many an expensive barometer hanging in a 

 rich man's house. 



This flower finds a living on the dryest and 

 poorest waysides, and is perhaps the best 

 known of all the barometer plants. Such com- 

 posite flowers as the chicory, nipple-wort and 

 marigold are also sensitive in the matter of 

 weather, as also are such bell flowers as the 

 clustered and nettle-leaved campanulas. 



Opuntias, flaxes, white magnolias, crocuses 

 and stately water lilies are all infallible indi- 

 cations of weather to come. I am often asked 

 what actuates plants and flowers in this way. 

 The fact is, their object is to safeguard their 

 greatest treasure. For in the flower's heart 

 are placed the tiny seeds in a case, and round 

 ther .v^ually valuable stamens carrying the 

 precious pollen-dust fully exposed to the air. 



Thus if cuplike flowers such as the 

 Eschscholtzias remained open in wet weather, 

 a miniature rain pool would form and fill each 

 blossom to the brim from one end of its life to 

 the other, washing away and spoiling the sod- 

 den pollen dust. Moreover, no insect would care 

 to dive through the pool in search of honey! 

 And there would be no messengers to carry 

 out the marvelous acts of fertilization from 

 one flower to another. 



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