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HOUSE & GARDEN 
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Beautifying 
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Contains practical 
__ suggestions on how 
to make your home artistic, cheery 
and inviting. Explains how you can easily 
and economically keep the woodwork, piano 
and furniture in perfect condition. 
The Decorative Fireplace 
(Continued from page 23) 
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of intimate association and should be 
kept in the more private quarters of 
the house rather than emblazoned 
across the most prominent spaces of 
the more public rooms of the house. A 
good motto suggests the old-time 
family motto that almost always ac¬ 
companied the coat-of-arms and so 
belonged above the hearthstone. For 
the bedroom there are two appropriate 
Latin mottoes: Non dormit qui cus- 
todiat, he that guards sleeps not, and 
In portu quies, in harbor peace. 
The brick fireplace has attained 
in recent years a wide and growing 
popularity. This fact is largely due 
to the growth of the face-brick in¬ 
dustry, which makes possible a choice 
from a great variety of beautiful 
shades and textures. Some of the 
most pleasing of these modern bricks 
are made of fire-clay. They include 
the red paving brick, “stiff-mud” 
process bricks, and these vary in 
color from delicate cream to deep 
bronze, from light stone color to 
coppery brown and olive. These may 
be used for both backs and hearths, 
without much danger to themselves 
or to the woodwork adjoining, for 
their resistance to heat is quite equal 
to that of the old-fashioned fire- 
backs. A brick surface should have 
a brick hearth; but in the case of 
those too rough to give a good sur¬ 
face, plain, dull tiles of the same 
color are best. 
It is important that there should 
be much variety of tint in the brick 
which we choose for a fireplace. The 
coarse, rough paving-bricks owe their 
popularity to their variations of tone. 
For Elaborate Interiors 
For the very elaborate interior, a 
better effect will be obtained by us¬ 
ing the smoother “stiff-mud” bricks. 
These are soft in texture and varied 
in color, with a slightly speckled or 
mottled surface. Even more deli¬ 
cacy will result from the use of the 
so-called Roman shape, instead of 
bricks of standard dimensions. Tile, 
marble, and mosaic may be employed 
for hearths and fire-facings, but with 
any material, except brick, fire-backs 
of iron or of fire-brick must be pro¬ 
vided for the sake of safety. 
In using tiles, the unglazed sorts, 
of American manufacture, will be 
found both durable and satisfactory 
for fireplace work. The more high¬ 
ly glazed tiles seldom give artistic 
results, as they are very difficult to 
handle. The velvety surfaces of the 
softer semi-glazes are much to be 
preferred. They have great variety, 
good designs, fine texture,’ pleasing 
colors; but their selection requires 
skill. New tile effects are now ob¬ 
tained by the use of inlay of glass 
or ceramic mosaic. 
The day of draped mantels has 
happily gone by. No drapery, no 
textile, of any sort, should be put 
near a fireplace. They look out of 
place because they are out of place. 
We instinctively feel the danger of 
close proximity between an open fire¬ 
place and inflammable material. 
Fireplace Accessories 
There are certain accessories to 
every fireplace : andirons and fender ; 
shovel, poker and tongs; coal-scuttle 
or wood basket; perhaps bellows, fire 
basket, or fire screen. All of these 
should be carefully chosen as to 
size, design and material. Straight 
andirons answer their purpose in a 
small space, while the curved and¬ 
irons of wrought iron accomodate 
larger logs of wood. Wherever we 
have light-colored walls, white wood¬ 
work, and Colonial furniture, the 
brass sets are more suitable, even 
though this means labor spent in pol¬ 
ishing. With Mission and weathered 
oak woodwork, there can be no mis¬ 
take in choosing bronze or wrought 
iron, which require but scanty care 
to keep them looking decent. 
The usual place for the fire-irons 
is hanging on little hooks beneath the 
shelf, or standing in metal racks at 
one side. Either is good. 
The fire-screen may be a thing of 
beauty, if treated simply as an article 
of furniture, and made from decora¬ 
ted wood or iron. Some of the 
carved screens are very beautiful. 
There is real, as well as apparent, 
danger in treating screens as fancy- 
work, for all textile fabrics are far 
more inflammable than wood. They 
should be covered with grass at 
least. The best kind is the trim, 
folding fire-screen made of brass or 
copper, which is at once practical 
and serviceable. 
Making The Farming Business Pay 
(Continued from page 44) 
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University, which is a survey of 
several townships in New York 
State, says, “Most farmers raise their 
own cows. Cows live an average of 
nine years. The average cow is 
milked about seven years. The av¬ 
erage production of milk is between 
4,100 and 5,100 pounds.” 
Speaking of barns, Cornell Cir¬ 
cular No. 24 says: “The average 
cost of barns per cow was $70 in 
Livingston County. One set of 
model barns was built not long ago 
that cost $6,500. They were for 
sixty-five cows, making the rent per 
cow per year $100. It takes a good 
cow to give $100 worth of milk at 
wholesale prices. Nearly all the so- 
called model barns are so expensive 
as to be impossible on a business 
farm.” And we digested that. 
The University of Minnesota Bul¬ 
letin No. 124 makes this statement: 
“The data accumulated shows very 
clearly that under average farm con¬ 
ditions the cost of milk or butter fat 
production is high and that, based 
upon cost alone, the income from 
products sold is not sufficiently high 
to cover cost of production. It 
should be remembered, however, that 
this investigation is concerned with 
the cost, or income, as obtained from 
a group of farms. Some attain high 
profits, others invariably operate at 
a loss, depending upon managerial 
skill and the productivity of their 
herds. The average reflects the 
practice, usage, and returns from the 
group, but does not reflect the cost 
of production that may be attained 
by the skilful individual manager.” 
Here we are at the kernel of the 
matter, the real answer. 
Management the Secret 
To be successful, a dairy business 
must be skilfully worked out in 
every detail. It takes large invest¬ 
ment, endless care and ability. A 
wise man must be on the job every 
minute. An apple tree can be left 
alone a few days now and then, a 
cow can never care for herself 
twenty-four hours at a stretch. 
We ended our investigation with 
a high respect for the man who can 
run a successful, money-making 
dairy. We know now the size of 
the undertaking. If we kept a dairy 
to produce manure for our orchard, 
as the old saying is, “the tail would 
wag the dog.” 
So we ended our dairy business, 
as it had begun, with talk and on 
paper, and turned our attention to 
other ways to fertilize the orchard. 
(To be continued) 
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