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House & Garden. 
Heart of the Home 
D o you erect a splendid home, have its inte¬ 
rior handsomely decorated and then install 
an ordinary range in the kitchen? If you do, you 
neglect the most vital part of your home, because 
on the range depend the appetizing qualities of 
the foods that sustain life. 
Deane'S ‘^ren.cIiL„Ilan.^e 
Solves the perplexing kitchen problem because 
it is built to order to fit special needs. The one 
shown burns coal and electricity singly or in com¬ 
bination. It has four large ovens, two heated by 
coal and two by electricity, with a large electric 
broiler and electric breakfast oven. The special 
French hood disposes of food odors. Trimmings 
of both range and hood are black nickel plate. 
This range is only one of the many designed 
and built by us for discriminating people. Deane’s 
French Ranges are designed to burn coal, wood, 
gas or electricity, singly or in any combination. 
Several as installed in the more exclusive homes 
of America are shown in our portfolio. May we 
send you a copy? 
BHMiiHAiLL, Deane Co. 
263-5 West36*''St.NewYorh.N.Y 
BANNER 
This Sprayt. _ _ _ . _ 
cannot be excelled for Spraying garden vegetables, plants, 
shrubbery, trees, flower beds, whitewashing and disinfect¬ 
ing poultry houses, stables, cellars. Washing ' ' 
buggies, etc., in fact, will spray anythi"" 
and is easily operated by ‘ 
windows, 
--- -.,_id form, 
_ _ . boy. Full directions and 
ng calendar with each Sprayer. 
Kitchenette Claims in the League of Rations ■ 
{Continued from page 76) 
dining table with these new ranges, 
even if one has no kitchenette! 
The terror of dishwashing has evapo¬ 
rated ! The electric dishwasher has been 
born and now our Ladies Eggleston and 
Reardon can, without loss of epithelial 
beauty, dash into their kitchenette for 
their matinal refreshment—sans sacri¬ 
fice, sans anything but appetite and 
culinary ardor. 
In the model Edison kitchenette, in 
the photograph, the utensils are hung up 
to avoid unnecessary spinal calisthenics. 
The sink is near the stove and is high 
enough to save the back from contor- 
tionate bends. All surfaces in the kit¬ 
chenette should be an inch or so higher 
than that which the palm of the hand 
can reach without bending the back. 
The floors should be cement or hard 
wood with or without linoleum, either 
cork inlay, tile or brick; the ceiling of a 
light color paint or tile or brick; the 
walls the same and all joinings rounded 
to avoid the cracks at the base of wall 
joining the floor, or where the wall and 
ceiling join. 
The best kitchenettes are tiled or 
bricked with generous water vent so 
that a light hose played on them flushes 
and cleans them in no time. 
One of the best arrangements is to 
have the kitchenette apparatus follow 
this succession: (See Plan I) drop table, 
closet, sink, worktable, refrigerator be¬ 
neath, shelves above, utensils hung un¬ 
derneath, stove, on either side of the 
sink drain boards of hardwood tilted 
toward sink or copper or composition 
slightly tilted; and a garbage chute on 
right side of worktable near the sink. 
However excellent or concentrated the 
arrangement, there can be no success, 
however, with any machinery unless one 
knows how to use it advantageously; so 
the engineer in the electric kitchenette 
ought to know a few things about the 
mysterious current over which she pre¬ 
sides; how to use it economically, how 
to use it to its full capacity minus dis¬ 
aster and how to have the same mental 
attitude toward her kitchenette equip¬ 
ment as the workman has to his tools. 
In the Edison kitchenette is a little sign 
with the following legend: 
“Turn off the current when the range 
is not in use. 
Real Half¬ 
1. Start the oven on high, then turn 
it to medium or low. 
2. Turn oven off completely and fin- ' 
ish baking and roasting on re¬ 
tained heat. 
3. When contents of pot are boiling 
fast, turn the plate to medium or 
low for long cooking. 
Turn off current when nearly done. 
Complete the cooking by retained 
heat in the plate.” 
In a little booklet is found this advice: 
Fires caused by the use of electric 
stoves are mostly caused by care¬ 
lessness. 
I. Detach the plug as well as turn 
off current at the socket. 
•II. When you are not using any de¬ 
vice continuously shut off cur¬ 
rent. 
III. Grasp the plug at the spring not 
by the cord. 
IV. Blow-outs are caused by too 
many devices all attached to one 
cluster plug. Reduce the number. 
The utensils for these electric kitchen¬ 
ettes are without end; some of them 
are: Tables, ranges—afore mentioned; 
oven and grill combinations; griddles; 
toaster; percolators of all kinds; large 
and small ranges; ice cream freezers; 
combination meat grinders, ice cream, 
whipped cream and dough mixing units; 
electric ice makers; automatic time 
ovens, with clock attached so that you 
can put something in to cook and at a 
designated time the‘current turns itself 
off; immersion heaters, coffee mUls; 
samovars; egg boilers; buffer, etc. for 
sharpening and polishing silver and 
knives; and countless other things. 
But the latest of all is the electric 
kitchen cabinet or “Movie” of small 
price and great compactness; gas or 
electrically ranged and arranged, con¬ 
taining in its simple confines, pots, pans, 
ice box, folding table, flour bins, stove, 
shelves for dishes and all the comforts 
of home. Just the thing for one night 
stands or bachelor’s retreats! 
And jot this down—that if you have 
a good refrigerator, electric or plain, you 
can have all the onions inside of it that 
you want without affecting other foods, 
and if you have an electric ozonator you 
can cook onions in the smallest kitchen¬ 
ettes without damage!—so they say! 
imber Work 
{Continued from page S4) 
single dead color, killing entirely all the 
natural grain and texture of the wood 
itself. This method is defended as be¬ 
ing practical, but there is only one step 
further forward in the effort to be-prac¬ 
tical which would be to paint the boards 
on the stucco itself and then we avoid 
all joints or tendency to rot or warp! 
As camouflage it is the best of examples, 
but as architecture it is abomination it¬ 
self. If for practical reasons of cost 
or possible durability the true method 
cannot be used, we had better choose 
another style that does not pretend to 
be what it is not. 
But if we want to build a true and 
honest timbered house, then, the con¬ 
struction must be apparent, the corners 
must show that they are of one solid 
piece and not two thin pieces nailed 
together. We must be able to see enough 
of the construction to recognize its in¬ 
separable importance to the building 
construction and to know that truth 
and strength stand back of what we 
see. We must see that the brackets that 
extend from the walls are supported by 
heavy diagonals tennoned in to give a 
solid support on which to rest the sill, 
and that the horizontals are heavy and 
continuous with full strength to hold the 
weight of the verticals. The braces must 
show their function in the design and the 
pins left projecting to demonstrate that ^ 
the mortice and tennon have been used 
in putting the work together. The tim¬ 
bers must be left with the axe marks 
on them and if checks come, so much 
the better. 
The principles of true half-timber 
construction may be summed up as fol¬ 
lows: 
No. 1. The timbers must be solid and 
of sufficient strength to carry the loads. , 
No. 2. They must “build”; in other 
words, it must be apparent how each 
piece functions and how it fits into and 
forms an integral part of the building. 
No. 3. The means by which it per¬ 
forms this function should be apparent 
by showing the heads of the pins and , 
by giving due allowance for the pro- ■ 
jections of various members where such . 
projections will add to the strength of ■ 
the building. 
Half-timbering lends itself to much 
elaborative detail. Members may be 
molded as carved and a certain amount 
of ornament enlivens the design. Too 
much, however, palls and tends to de¬ 
stroy simplicity and dignity of design. 
In conclusion let me say that the sim¬ 
pler type of timber work can be built 
at a surprisingly reasonable price allow¬ 
ing an individual expression in each 
building. 
