House and Garden 
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES 
Quincy 
Mansion School 
FOR GIRLS 
Wollaston, Quincy, Mass. 
Beautiful location, six miles south of Boston. 
Eight acres of grounds with fine old trees. 
Athletic fields, artificial lake. Three handsome 
buildings, large library. Assembly Hall, seating 
250. Art room, laboratory, gymnasium, ten 
music rooms. Large corps of teachers. Excel¬ 
lent courses for graduation. Advanced work in 
Music, Language and Art. Numerous electives. 
Certificates for college. Address 
HORACE M. WILLARD, A.M., ScD., Principal. 
HOWARD SEMINARY 
For Girls and Young Ladies West Bridgewater, Mass. 
MISS BAIRD’S 
Home School for Girls 
NORWALK, CONN. 
One hour from New York city and 
five hours from Boston, via N. Y., N. 
II. and Hartford It. R. Country air. 
Ideal environment for study 
and recreation. Broad cul¬ 
ture. Real training of body, 
mind and manners. The 
homelife is replete with inspi¬ 
ration. tending to develop each 
girl into a useful and attractive 
member of the family and of so¬ 
ciety. Separate house for girls un¬ 
der 15. Intermediate, Academic 
and College-Preparatory classes. Su¬ 
perior advantages in Music, Art and 
the Languages. 
MISS CORNELIA F. BAIRD, Principal 
The Stearns School 
FOR SMALL BOYS 
A sub-fitting school, preparing boys for Phil¬ 
lips Academy and other leading schools. Course 
of study includes the first two years’ work of 
the usual high school. The home life is cheer¬ 
ful and sympathetic, boys living in cottages 
with tlie principal and masters, and constantly 
under their watchful care and supervision. The 
school is beautifully located in a small country 
town, where the climate is delightful and bene¬ 
ficial to health. All outdoor sports—golf 
course, tennis court and baseball field. Gym¬ 
nasium. For further information, address 
ARTHUR F. STEARNS, A.B., 
Mount Vernon, New Hampshire. 
Hummer 
Arahrmg 
SOUTH BYFIELD, MASS. 
(Near Newburyport) 
One of the most beautifully located schools in 
New England. 330 acres. Fine opportunity for 
physical training, horseback riding, golf, boat¬ 
ing and swimming. Prepares hoys for any col¬ 
lege, scientific school or business. Individual 
attention is provided for by an able corps of 
teachers. The aim of the school is to develop 
in each boy a high moral standard, a healthy 
body and a well-balanced mind. For illustrated 
catalogue, address Head Master. 
Wellesley School for Boys 
Wellesley, Massachusetts. 
A unique school. Catalogue and illustrated 
books sent on request. 
In a healthy and beautiful location, 25 miles 
from Boston. Home building remodeled in sum¬ 
mer of 1905, at a large expense. Academic, Col¬ 
lege Preparatory and Special Courses. Two 
years’ course for High School graduates. Art 
and Music studios. For catalogue, address 
Miss Sarah E. Laughton, A.M., Principal. 
The Commonwealth Avenue School for Girls 
(THE MISSES GILMAN’S SCHOOL) 
General and College-Preparatory Courses. Resident 
and day pupils. 
Miss Gilman, Miss Guild, Principals, 
324 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. 
The Laurens School 
FOR GIRLS 
107 Audubon Road, Boston, Mass. 
Beautifully located, overlooking the Fen¬ 
way Park. New building specially designed 
for the purpose. Rooms large and cheerful, 
open fireplaces, and at least two windows in 
each. Outdoor sports, under trained di¬ 
rector, on private playground. Best of in¬ 
struction. College preparatory and finish¬ 
ing courses. 
Miss Elisabeth Bailey Hardee, B.S. 
Miss Sarah Chamberlin Weed, B.A. 
Concord, Mass. 
Concord School for Boys 
Prepares boys not only to enter but to go through 
college. Special preparation for scientific schools. Ex¬ 
cellent business course. 
Athletic field, golf, canoeing, and all sports. 
Address, Leon Edwin Ryther, Prin. 
Lawrence 
Gr r, Academy 
Founded 1793 . Prepares boys for universities, col¬ 
leges and scientific schools; also a thorough 
academic course for those not going to college. 
Unusually efficient corps of teachers enables the 
school to give each boy careful and individual 
attention. Beautifully located in an attractive 
New England village, widely known for its 
healthful climate. Splendid opportunities for 
outdoor sports—football, baseball and track 
work, hare and hound chases, cross-country run¬ 
ning, skating, coasting, etc. 
Year opens Sept. 19, 1907. For catalogue, address 
WILLIAM STEEN GAUD, Head Master. 
New York, New York, 6-8 East 46th St. 
S. Mary’s School (Episcopal). Founded 1869 
Boarding and day school for girls. Two courses or- 
fered—College Preparatory and Higher English. Spe¬ 
cial attention given to individual pupils. Address 
Sister Superior. 
gives a beautiful iridescence. Either 
black or white paper may be employed, 
the former giving greater brilliancy, and 
the latter greater softness. While the 
liquid solution is spreading over the 
paper, the colors may be artificially 
modified, by blowing on the film, or by 
whistling near it, or in other ways, and 
these variations will be perpetuated in 
the finished work. It will occur to the 
scientific man that there might be a 
possibility of producing such variations 
by the action of colored light, as is done 
by the Lippmann process on a film of 
bromide of silver and gelatine, and 
experiments are likely to take that direc¬ 
tion .—American Architect and Building 
News. 
BULLET HOLES IN CHURCH DOORS 
HpHE removal of thick incrustations of 
dirt and varnish from the old wood¬ 
work above the outer central doors of the 
northern porch of Westminster Abbey, 
prior to polishing up for Easter, shows 
that the wood is thickly penetrated with 
a great quantity of small shot, and bears 
bullet marks. The old doors beneath 
were removed about three years ago to 
admit of a freer method of egress and 
they were riddled in a similar manner. 
The Abbey workmen engaged in clean¬ 
ing the woodwork say it is four or 
five hundred years old. It is very thick 
oak and is studded with large iron bolt¬ 
headed nails, and it and the old doors 
have filled a space about fifteen feet in 
height by seven feet in width. The 
oaken doors of the Church of St. 
Clement Danes in the Strand have been 
riddled in much the same manner. 
Surmise can only be ventured upon to 
account for these strange marks on the 
doors of ecclesiastical edifices, many 
of which were sanctuaries. From the 
earliest Saxon times the sanctuary of 
Westminster—or, as Stowe calls it, 
“The Abbey Church Sanctuary,” 
which he specified as “the church, 
churchyard, close, etc.” —formed a 
place of refuge for offenders of all kinds, 
until it was suppressed, with all other 
sanctuaries, in the reign of James I. 
“But the right of asylum,” says Dean 
Stanley, “rendered the whole precinct a 
vast ‘Cave of Adullam’ for all the dis¬ 
tressed and discontented of the metropo¬ 
lis who desired, according to the phrase 
of the time, ‘to take Westminster.’ 
Sometimes, if they were of higher rank, 
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