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97 PORTLAND STREET BOSTON, MASS. 
Rustic Hanging 
Baskets and 
Window Boxes 
Made of Laurel and 
Varnished 
Especially Adaptable 
lor Country, Beach 
and Club Houses 
Also manufacturers of Summer Houses, Pergolas, 
Arbors, Bridges and all kinds of Rustic Work. 
Estimates furnished. Write for booklet showing 
styles, etc. 
LOVESY RUSTIC MFG. CO. 
61 FALMOUTH ST. BOSTON, MASS. 
Don't you think it would pay you to go after 
a class of people who have fine hornet .love fine 
homes—and always want the very best things 
in them? The best way to reach these people 
of expensive tastes and the means to gratify 
them is through 
An Illustrated Monthly Magazine 
Finely printed and beautifully illustrated, 
containing su gesthe articles on home and 
surroundinrs.it appeals to people who can and 
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furnished on request. 
THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO., Publishers 
1006 ARCH STREET. PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
Established 1844 
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MORTAR COLORS 
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NEW COLORS : Moss Green, 
Royal Purple, French Gray, 
Pompeian Buff, Colonial Drab. 
The original and standard colors 
for interior and exterior mortar. 
SAMUEL H. FRENCH & CO. 
PHILADELPHIA 
Water-Reducing Valve 
When the water pressure is too 
high it causes splashing at the 
spigots, hammering in the pipes 
and sometimes bursting of the 
plumbing apparatus. 
This valve will insure against 
these annoyances. 
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watson & McDaniel co. 
137 N. Seventh Street Philadelphia, Pa. 
it is by no means improbable that the 
most dangerous wall-papers are those 
containing a mere trace of arsenic, as 
when the quantity is large the moulds 
cannot exist. Traces of arsenic may 
come into wall-papers from the imper¬ 
fect washing of vessels used to contain 
the more highly arsenical colors. Now 
that boric acid is very cheap, the old and 
perhaps forgotten suggestion of Bolley 
to use a precipitated borate of copper as 
a green pigment in place of the arsenical 
green deserves attention. Bolley’s 
green is prepared by taking two parts of 
blue vitriol (crystallized cupric sulphate) 
and three parts of borax in separate 
quantities of cold water and mixing, 
after which the precipitate is washed 
and dried. Dyed and printed fabrics 
now very frequently contain traces of 
arsenic. 
THE BUILDING OF SAINT SOPHIA 
ATERIALS were brought from far 
and near, Egypt and Greece uni¬ 
ting with Asia Minor and the islands, 
each contiguous to the capital, in supply¬ 
ing their quota of marble for the col¬ 
umns and walls. For nearly six years 
the works went on with unabated energy; 
many difficulties were overcome, and 
many experiments were tried and found 
successful, and at length, on the 26th of 
December, 537, the church was dedi¬ 
cated amid the acclamations of the popu¬ 
lace, and the Emperor exclaimed in the 
fulness of his pride: “ Glory be to God, 
Who hath thought me worthy to accom¬ 
plish so great a work. I have van¬ 
quished thee, O Solomon!” The Em¬ 
peror’s joy in his church was, however, 
destined to receive a rude shock some 
twenty years later, when the apse and 
part of the dome were thrown down by 
an earthquake; but the same energy 
which was shown in the building of the 
church again asserted itself. The dam¬ 
age was repaired — the dome being 
heightened twenty feet to give it addi¬ 
tional security — and the church was 
reconsecrated on the 24th of December, 
563, five and a half years after the 
disaster. 
The Church of Saint Sophia has 
never been surpassed in the unity and 
completeness of its design, and in the 
daring nature of its construction. In 
this building the arch and dome assert 
themselves and dominate everything, 
and we have a lightness, a spaciousness 
GURNEY HEATERS 
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GURNEY HEATER MANUFACTURING CO. 
NEWYORK OFFICE 12 E 42N2 ST. 188-200 FRANKLIN ST BOSTON. v 
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