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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 1912 
T HE YALE DOOR CHECK is a mechanical doorman 
that never gets tired and never forgets. It closes a door 
with a hrm swing that ends in a slow, quiet push. And it 
cannot fail. There is no other door check made which gives the 
same unvarying quality of service through years of constant use, 
without repair and even without adjustment. 
Yale Door Checks are made in sizes and designs for every need, 
and in finishes harmonizing with all Yale door fittings and builders’ 
hardware. You can get them at any good hardware store. 
Yale Night-latches Yale Hardware Yale Padlocks 
The Yale Night-latch No. 44 is 
a dead-locking night-latch and 
a night-latching dead-lock, com¬ 
bining a high degree of conve¬ 
nience with absolute security. 
There are a host of new designs, 
as handsome and tasteful as the 
older ones, which may be seen 
in the salesrooms of leading 
hardware dealers. 
There is only one way to open 
a Yale Padlock—with its own 
key. The name Yale means as 
much on a padlock as it does on 
the most elaborate bank lock. 
If you haven’t seen our booklet, “The Quiet Life,” let us send you a copy 
The Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. 
Makers of YALE Products 
Local Offices I ChicaG0: 74 East Randolph St. o Mtirrav Street New York 
1 UJJlces { San Francisco: 134 Rialto Bldg. y rnurray street, i\ew tore 
Canadian Yale & Towne Limited, St. Catharines, Ont. 
No Locks are Yale Locks unless made by Yale & Towne 
HARDY PERENNIALS 
The Fall is the best season for plant¬ 
ing a very large proportion of hardy 
perennial or old fashioned garden flow¬ 
ers. Pseonies, Iris in variety, Oriental 
Poppies, etc., also Hybrid-Tea Roses — 
ever-blooming, of which I have a choice 
selection of tested hardy kinds. Send 
for my catalogue, free on application. 
WM. TRICKER, Arlington, N. J. 
, - For durable painting of all kinda use National 
Lead Company’s Pure White Lead “Dutch Boy 
/Kr§ Painter” (trade-mark). Ask for Helps No. 91 . Sent 
^ FREE on request. 
NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY, 111 Broadway, New York 
The BEAUTY OF A CEMENT HOME 
may now be enhanced by 
waterproof finish in beautiful soft tones of 
White, Buff. Green, Gray, etc., overcoming- 
all objections to the severe plainness and 
cold look of Cement. 
For old houses as well as new. 
Send 10c for book of valuable information. 
THE OHIO VARNISH CO . 8602 Kinsman Rd. Cleveland 
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as in olden times, and to prevent the thief 
from despoiling the candle. The “thief” 
is the burned out part of the wick, which, 
falling over, eats away the edge of the 
candle and allows the wax or grease to 
waste. 
The Proper Floor for the Small 
House 
(Continued from page 143) 
time. If a dull finish is desired—and 
shiny varnish is deservedly unpopular— 
this second coat is also rubbed down with 
pumice stone and oil. 
The simple treatment referred to above, 
that keeps intact the grain and texture 
of the wood, is easy to live with, and re¬ 
quires no great amount of labor, either 
to put on or to keep in order. A coat of 
stain similar to that used on the wood¬ 
work is applied to the floor. It is allow¬ 
ed to dry and is then given a coat of shel¬ 
lac, rubbed down when dry with fine sand¬ 
paper. Or a coat of paraffin oil is rub¬ 
bed on, without the shellac. The oil is 
used about once a month for cleaning and 
dressing the floor. This treatment in a 
house of informal modern style proves 
adequate and more suitable and friendly 
than an elaborate method. 
That variety of the hardwood floor, the 
inlaid or parquetry kind, is laid either with 
wood strips specially made for the pur¬ 
pose, or with the strips used for the or¬ 
dinary hardwood floor. If poorly design¬ 
ed it proves a menace to the tranquillity 
of an interior. Diamonds, stars and 
diagonals may dance a flippant rag-time 
on the floor of a dignified and lofty room; 
or inlaid Renaissance motives may at¬ 
tempt to hobnob with rugs and furnish¬ 
ings of primitive Indian design. These 
things happen when a home builder who 
would not venture to design wall paper 
or a rug, blithely undertakes to design 
an inlaid floor; or when a stock floor is 
selected from some catalogue without re¬ 
gard to the style of other woodwork or 
furnishings. Unless a home-builder has 
unerring taste and knowledge, the archi¬ 
tect or a competent decorator should be 
consulted with regard to the designs of 
floors as well as about furniture and 
furnishings. It is true that a master of 
decorative art could with a few parquetry 
strips of different woods evolve a design 
both simple and appropriate, harmonizing, 
perfectly with its surroundings. The or¬ 
dinary American is no magician, able like 
the Orientals to play wonderful juggling 
tricks with all kinds of materials. If, 
however, an amateur attempts an inlaid 
floor—and the mechanical part of the task 
is found a pleasing and not too difficult 
pastime—wide borders or strips follow¬ 
ing the sides of a room, with a center of 
boards laid in the usual manner, form a 
simple and effective treatment. Rather 
wide boards, decorated with keys of 
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