House and ^Garden 
GURNEY HEATERS 
For Heating any Description of Building by Steam or Hot Water 
THEY GIVE ENTIRE SATISFACTION • SEND FOR CATALOGUE. 
GURNEY HEATER MANUFACTURING CO. 
NEW YORK OFFICE 12 E 42!2S ST. 188-200 FRANKLIN ST BOSTON. V 
Out of Sight after the Wash 
Fold it up; put it away. No dis¬ 
figuring clothes-posts to mar the 
lawn. Holds 150 feet of line. The 
sensible clothes dryers for par¬ 
ticular people —at prices within 
reach of all. 
Write for Catalog 72. Do it now. 
HILL DRYER COMPANY 
398 Park Ave., Worcester, Mass. i 
Aho Balcony Dryers 
-! UatmiH bu— 
1908 
Model G—$2,1 
Ready for Delivery 
The Contagious Enthusiasm 
of the growing army of owners of 
this thoroughbred 
Four-Cylinder 
20-Horse Power 
is the best proof of its extraordinary effi¬ 
ciency, its power, its high-grade mechanical 
construction—its right to class in all respects 
with many foreign and American cars of twice 
the price. Perfect in balance, minimized fric¬ 
tion, simple, easy to handle and control, most 
economical upkeep of any four-cylinder car 
ever built. 
The Model G is rapidly gaining the position 
among large cars that the single cylinder 
Cadillac has always held among small cars- 
that of pre-eminence. Ask for Catalog G 
CADILLAC MOTOR CAR CO.,Detroit, 
Members Asso. Licensed Auto. Mfrs. 
Perfect Details Make 
Perfect Doors 
Just as harmonious and perfect 
details make the complete success 
and beauty of any chosen archi¬ 
tectural style. 
Morgan Doors 
are examples of perfect design, 
construction and finish. 1 hey 
will outlast the building its -If. 
and are made in a large variety 
of designs for use with any style 
of architecture —Mission, Colo¬ 
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stamped “Morgan” as a guarantee 
of absolute satisfaction. 
Write to-day for our handsome 
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Beautiful, showing some of the 
details of the beauty of design of 
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Sixth Street 
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 
Distributed by: —Morgan Sash and 
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OPEN AIR MUSEUMS 
A N open air museum is planned 
^ for Bremen, of the type already 
in many Scandinavian towns, writes H. 
W. S. in the “Burlington Magazine.” 
An epitome of the local culture and art 
from the earliest days down to the 
present is to be offered in a park dotted 
with old pleasant houses. Why isn’t 
this a good idea for America ? We 
have open air gymnasiums in several 
cities. Why not open air museums ? 
Why not for instance let the Van Cort- 
landt Mansion in Van Cortlandt Park, 
New York City, be a center around 
which shall be grouped the various 
styles of residence that have been built 
in the city from Dutch times on ? Given 
a well-known center for local antiquities 
to be brought to, and the rapidity of 
collection will be surprising. And it 
should be remembered that the first 
duty of a local museum is to identify 
and classify and preserve local antiqui¬ 
ties. 
A QUESTION OF RESPONSIBILITY 
A PERSIAN carpet containing five 
^ million stitches, and described by 
the keeper of the Indian Section of the 
South Kensington Museum as the most 
beautiful of the many thousands of car¬ 
pets which he had seen during his East¬ 
ern travels, has been the subject-matter 
of an action in the Queen’s Bench Divi¬ 
sion. Mrs. Brunton, the plaintiff, paid 
/A,ooo for it, and gave it to be cleaned 
by the defendants, Messrs. Maple, the 
well-known firm in Tottenham Court 
Road. 
According to her evidence, she told 
a member of the firm of the great 
value of the article, but of this circum¬ 
stance, he deposed, he had no recollec¬ 
tion, otherwise the defendants’ counsel 
said they would have taken care to in¬ 
sure it. Ultimately, the carpet was in¬ 
trusted, through them, to a man who 
lived in two rooms with his wife and four 
children. He cleaned it at home with 
benzoline, and hung it up to dry. It 
gave off fumes, and, on one of the child¬ 
ren striking a match to light the fire, an 
explosion took place, which irretrievably 
damaged the carpet, and a far more dis¬ 
astrous result of which was that two of 
the cleaner’s children were burned to 
death. 1 he plaintiff claimed damages 
from Messrs. Maple on the ground of 
negligence. In summing up, Mr. Jus- 
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