HOUSE AND GARDEN 
December, 1911 
THE MARK OF QUALITY 
HE DANCERS OF THE ORIENT INVARIABLY 
chose a soft rug upon which to display the intricate steps and 
lithe motions of the Eastern dances. 
Y, too, need rugs — rugs of artistic Oriental designs and soft Oriental 
ings — rugs that will sink harmoniously into the color scheme of 
ooms—rugs that we can live with contentedly. 
you have a rug of wonderful texture, the soft, 
high, resilient pile sinking luxuriously under the 
foot. In design we offer you close imitations of 
beautiful old Oriental masterpieces worked out 
in their rich, mellow colorings. I he length of 
pile and the use of splendid material insures you 
great resistance to wear, while our dyes are sub¬ 
jected to rigid tests in our laboratory before use. 
<1 1 hese rugs were primarily made to fill the 
need of those in search of the artistic and beau¬ 
tiful as well as durable, who can not afford a 
high-priced Oriental. The Whittall method of 
manufacture, taking advantage of each and 
every mechanical improvement, is able to produce 
a splendid rug at a moderate price. 
<J The name “Whittall’s” woven into the back 
of every rug and yard of carpet is your guaran¬ 
tee of the manufacturer’s high standard of per¬ 
fection. 
or our booklet 
Oriental Art in American Rugs” . j 
with its splendid descriptions of Oriental design Vjb 
and its beautiful plates of Whittall reproductions. 
Y 1 '" IVc will send it free. 
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its appeal to us (or does not) in very cold 
weather through a sixth sense of its friend¬ 
ly warmth. Of course nothing in the way 
of artificial warming approaches the open 
wood fire in its appeal to that sense. This 
luxury in our climate contributes its 
warmth by about 90 per cent, of radiant 
heat. The radiator produces a genial 45 
per cent, of radiant heat and the register 
gives no radiant heat at all but just hot air. 
The radiator is a useful friend in taking 
up and warming the cold currents of air 
in the bay windows, under the stair wells 
and near the outer doors. 
“A radiator seems to me 
The kindest reptile that can be. 
Its cobra coils of golden art 
Entwine the cockles of my heart. 
I do not blame poor Eve at all; 
For it was very cold—that Fall; 
Of course, she took the serpent’s hiss 
For Steam heat’s everlasting bliss.” 
—Southern Architect and Building News. 
Feeding the Birds in Winter 
(Continued from page 387) 
explanation, then sped within the back 
door to her crying children. 
Spilly sat on the balcony stem outside, 
his vigil, his labor, his heartaches sudden¬ 
ly relieved; his little head drooped and 
nodded in the exhaustion of sleep. 
As the children grew older they would 
hang out the front and back doors squawk¬ 
ing for food and almost tumble out before 
their parents could bring it. This nearly 
frightened Tildy to death but I really be¬ 
lieve Spilly Willy took pride in it, for one 
day while Tildy was off foraging he de¬ 
liberately sat on the balcony and dared lit¬ 
tle Billee to come clean out. Billee did and 
so did Sally and Tildy, Jr., and Beatrice 
and Harold and little Pearl — all six just 
fluttered, fell and spilled out front and 
back doors and made off for inaccessible 
foreign parts. 
Then Tildy returned and was flabber¬ 
gasted ; she accused Spilly Willy, he de¬ 
nied it and I didn’t tell on him. There 
was pandemonium, wifely shrieks and 
flutterings, then all of a sudden both 
laid all the blame on me, and I was made 
to understand that as long as I was re¬ 
sponsible for the breaking up of their 
home it was up to me to search for the 
children. 
Of course, they had gotten under our 
porch and neighboring porches, down 
cellar and in every other difficult place, 
where I bumped my head and skinned 
my back nearly reaching them, only to 
have the wretched little things flutter 
farther away. After an hour’s ceaseless 
pursuit I eventually landed the entire six 
babies, placed them unhurt on the boughs 
of a sumach and delivered myself of an 
oration to the parents, with which I forth¬ 
with washed my hands of the entire 
business. 
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