XXIV 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
April, 1914 
Your Home 
Is No Better Than Its Plumbing 
N othing looks better than a pedestal lavatory in fair-sized bath- 
room. There should be as few places as possible where dust or 
water may lodge. In fact, the same care should be used in selecting 
fixtures for the bathroom as is used in selecting the furniture for the home. 
Wolff Plumbing 
costs only a trifle more than the cheaf 
The cost of installation, that is, labor t 
to the installing, is the same for cheap 
Wolff Quality 
SenJ for Bath Booklet 
L. Wolff Manufacturing 
Manufacturer* of 
Plumbing Goods Exclusively 
General Office* 
601*627 W. Lake Street, 
Showroom* : 
1 1 1 N. Dearborn Street, 
Denver Trenton 
Chicago 
A Hinadale, HI., homeatead equipped with 
Wolff plumbing 
SOME or THE SUBJECTS TREATED 
Modern Plumbing 
Illustrated 
Byli.M. STAR BUCK 
400 (10?4x7>^) Pages 
55 Full Pages of 
Engravings 
pRic/:. s-t.OQ 
A comprehensive 
and up-to-date work 
illustrating and de- 
scribing the Drain- 
age and Ventilation 
olDwellings, Apart- 
ments and Public 
Buildings, etc. The 
very latest and most 
approved methods in 
all branches of 
Sanitary Installation 
arc given. 
Many of the subjects treated in the text and 
illustrated follow in the next column. 
MUNN & CO., Inc., Publishers 
361 Broadway New York City 
Connections, sizes and all working data for Plumb- 
ing Fixtures and Groups of E ixlures 
Traps — Venting 
Connecting and Supporting of Soil Pipe 
House Trap and Fresh-Air Inlet. 
Floor and Yard Oraiiis, etc. 
Rain Leader.s 
Sub-soil Drainage 
Floor Connections 
Roof Connections 
Local Venting , 
Bath Room Conneclion.s Idc. 
Automatic Flushing for Factories, School Houses, 
Use of Flushing Valves 
Modern Fixtures for Public Toilet Rooms 
Durham System 
Plumbing Conslniclion without use of Lead 
Automatic Sewage Lifl“Snnip Tank 
Disposal of Sewage «>f Underground 1 lours of 
High Buildings 
Country Plumbing 
Cesspools 
The Electrolysis of Undergrouud Pipes 
Septic Tanks and Sewage Siphons 
Pneumatic Water Supply. Rams. etc. 
Kxamplcs of Poor Piactice 
Roughing— Testing 
Continuous Venting for all classes, of Work 
Circuit and Loop Veuling 
Use of Special Waste and Vent Fittings 
Cellar Work 
House Drain— House Sewer — .Sewer Connections 
Plumbing for Cottage House 
Plumbing for Residence 
Plumbing for Two-Flat House 
Plumbing for Apartment Houses 
plumbing for Office Building 
Plumbing for Public Toilet Rooms 
Plumbing for Bath Esiablishment 
Plumbing for Engine Houses 
Plumbing for Stables 
Plumbing for Factories 
Plumbing for School Houses, elc. [by Eteclncity 
Thawing of Underground Mains aud Service Pipes 
Dandies and Men of LErrps. By Leon 
H Vincent. Boston and New York. 
Houghton Mifflin Company. 1913. 
Cloth. 8vo. 313 pages. Illustrated. 
Price, $3.00. 
Thackeray dearly loved a dandy. We 
should know that for a fact even if we 
had not his daughter’s word for it He 
would have enjoyed Leon H. Vincents 
“Dandies and Men of Letters” had he lived 
in this day to read it. Beginning with the 
celebrated Mr. Brummell. Mr. Vincent has 
given us delightful characterizations of 
some of the world’s most famous dandies 
and men of letters, Count Alfred D’Orsay, 
Lord Byron, Samuel Rogers, Thomas 
Moore, Thomas Hope, Fonthill, Thomas 
Love Peacock, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharp, 
Benjamin Disraeli, Bulwer Lytton and 
Henry Crabb Robinson — these are the 
names about which Mr. Vincent gossips so 
delightfully. 
WHAT POULTRY SHOWS DO FOR 
THE AMATEUR 
T hat poultry and pigeon raising as an 
industry has advanced with enormous 
strides within the past ten years is evidenced 
in the keen competition that exists in our 
leading shows. But what is more gratify- 
ing from our standpoint is the fact that year 
by year the gentleman farmer, the country 
resident and suburbanite are becoming more 
aware of the fact that they can raise and 
maintain on a very limited space enough 
hens to supply the table with fresh eggs 
and hens not of the common types but such 
as will make an additional adornment to the 
estate or residence and that if he is further 
inclined toward the decorative he can have 
in the back yard an aviary of choice fancy 
pigeons, which will bring him much pleas- 
ure and some squabs. To the prospective 
fancier these annual exhibitions are of the 
greatest value. They give an opportunity 
for him to see under one roof every variety 
and breed of poultry and pigeons and 
thereby enable him to select the particular 
specimen which best pleases the eye or is 
best suited to the particular condition of his 
home surroundings. New York has. for 
various reasons, become the Mecca of large 
exhibitions and this year the specimens were 
exhibited from more sections of the country 
than ever before. Breeders were represented 
from the states of New York, New Jer- 
sey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, 
Ohio. Massachusetts, Maryland, Connecti- 
cut, Georgia, Tennessee, Vermont, Michi- 
gan, Indiana, Iowa. Kentucky, West Vir- 
ginia, Florida, California and Canada. In 
addition some of the most prominent breed- 
ers of England sent across between eighty 
and ninety specimens. 
It was interesting to note that many of the 
birds had traveled over three thousand miles 
to reach the exhibition. Fifty odd of them 
came across the country from California, 
and over eighty across the Atlantic Ocean 
from England. An innovation this year 
was a series of illustrated lectures by well- 
known authorities. 
Among the strongest features in the poul- 
try department was a very large number of 
exhibition pens of four hens and a male. 
Many of these pens were listed at reason- 
able figures for high quality birds and the 
beginner was given a chance to see what he 
was buying and to set himself up in the 
fancy with matured birds ready for every 
purpose during the coming season. In the 
pigeon section the Oriental varieties and 
tlie German Toys were unusually strong in 
quality and number. No variety of pigeons 
are more picturesque or are suited to the 
suburban home than are these. 
