HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, igi2 
5 
FILMWOOD 
Oak, Mahogany, Walnut 
A Real Wood Veneer. 
Mounted on Paper. 
UJ NABLES paperhanger to make 
^ panel work, wainscots, dadoes, 
entire walls. No need to call in 
carpenter. Finer grain effects than 
thick lumber. Good for fire proof 
construction. Stained, filled or pol¬ 
ished same as thick wood. Send 
for Circular H. 
We also make the well-known '"Cott¬ 
a-lap" sunproof •wall burlaps in 
about forty beautiful sunproof color¬ 
ings. Protects walls, gives artistic ef¬ 
fects, reasonable cost. 
The Cott-a-lap Co. 
Chicago Office 
108 W. LAKE ST. 
Main Office and Mill 
SOMERVILLE, N, J. 
PUT IN YOUR HOME 
How nice—dust not settling in hair, lips, nostrils; 
still worse, tasting, breathing it; nor on lace 
curtains, furniture, ornaments. LIKE MAGIC, 
dust, dirt, germs disappear in the Home Vac¬ 
uum Cleaner. Cleans carpets, rugs, mattings, 
etc., on floor. DOES NOT LOOK LIKE A 
BROOM, though it does the work a broom can¬ 
not do. Ornamental. 60,000 sent to families. 
■HOUSE SMELLS MUCH SWEETER,’ 
no dust to fly around room.” Mrs. David 
Bricker, Pa. “Dust came out of carpet like 
magic; I did not have to breathe any of it.” 
Miss Isabella Beaton, O. “Never used a 
broom on my carpets since receiving 
Cleaner; I will have no more taking 
up of rugs and carpets.” Miss Lulu 
Reinisch, Kans. “WORTH ITS 
WEIGHT IN GOLD to the woman 
who does her own work.” Emily F. 
Smith, Kansas. Easily carried — g lbs. 
$8.50. Not sold in stores. Sent anywhere. Write for de¬ 
scription. AGENTS — go into any home; sprinkle fine 
chalk; take it up like magic. Let lady try it; she will 
keep it. Sell 8 out of lo. “Sold 15 in 4 hours,” F. A. 
White, Ill. “Sold 5 Saturday, my first attempt.” C. E. 
Goff, Mo. ^“Was out one evening, sold 6 .” Geo. A. 
Smith, O. F. S. Hoppes. La., ordered 50 and says: “More 
orders coming.” A woman made $1500 selling Cleaners. 
Be a money maker. FREE SAMPLE offer. Write today. 
R. ARMSTRONG MFQ. CO., 189 Alms Bldg., Cincinnati, O. 
LILY of 
VALLEY 
m in bloom in ourpre- 
pared Mossfiber. 
You can have them 
every day just as 
fine. 
We send pips 
which will bloom 
in 3-4 weeks. 
You can SEE 
them grow day 
by day. 
We send 6 pips, and fiber to grow in . $*3S 
12 pips, and fiber to grow in . 60 
25 pips, and fiber to grow in . I.OO 
DEIJVERY INCLUDED 
Full Directions How to Succeed with Kvery Order. 
H. H. BERGER & CO.. 70 WARREN ST, 
NEW YORK 
tween indirect steam heating, indirect hot 
water heating and a furnace heating and 
ventilating system, is a matter to be de¬ 
cided by the individual. 
If he can afford to pay double the cost 
of a furnace heating and ventilating sys¬ 
tem and can afford to buy 50 to 100 ])er 
cent, more coal per year to heat his house, 
with no difference in healthfulness and 
durability and with cumbersomeness and 
bulk added to the increased cost, a man 
should buy an indirect steam or an indi¬ 
rect hot water system of heating. 
If he wishes to secure a heating and 
ventilating system which will provide 
healthful ventilation, with a moderate 
first cost, moderate fuel consumption, 
which is durable, compact and easy to 
operate, he should choose the ideal sys¬ 
tem for heating and ventilating residences 
—THE WARM-AIR FURNACE SYS¬ 
TEM. 
Remodel an Old House 
{Continued from page 15) 
low the little white gate, lies a garden, 
reached through an arched opening in a 
low stone wall. Its prim little paths mark 
off four rectangles, each bordered with 
box and filled with a medley of things — 
zinnias and the fading stalks of German 
iris, tiny yellow button chysanthemums, a 
screen of tall dahlias along the side 
towards the road, a clump of Madonna 
lilies, long since ripening their seed pods, 
mignonette and mourning bride, pansies 
and ageratum. With what yearning des¬ 
pair the last owner of that garden must 
have left it! It calls mutely to us for aid 
in freeing itself from the weeds that are 
daily growing more arrogant. It begs for 
a master who will understand it and its 
past, who will nurture it back to its for¬ 
mer glory. 
And the house — it sounds no note of 
vainglorious pride like its nouveau riche 
upstart relative back on that sun-parched 
suburban boulevard. It looks down upon 
us with some misgivings, some feeling of 
dread lest we in our ignorance play havoc 
with its body and soul. It pleads with us 
to try to understand it, to try to realize 
that while a ruthless contractor can only 
too easily make of it a crippled hybrid and 
a nightmare to the passerby, one with re¬ 
spect for its mature dignity and a sympa¬ 
thetic appreciation of its shortcomings 
may adapt it readily to the changed life 
of to-day. 
The reclamation will offer no great diffi¬ 
culties — only a deep creative joy to him 
who will really strive to know the person¬ 
ality of the old house. It is not hard to 
find carpenters and masons who will re¬ 
spect the craftsmanship of the earlv 
builders and strive to make their own 
work as good. The desirable combination 
of many small rooms into fewer large 
ones presents no structural difficulties that 
cannot be readily overcome. A little 
mason work on the old fireplaces, a little 
plastering, a lot of good white paint, a 
thorough disinfecting that will leave be- 
A healthful 
wholesome laundry 
A floor of wood or any other 
material that absorbs damp¬ 
ness or grease is not merely 
unsightly, it is unwholesome. 
A laundry, where your clothes 
are washed, should be clean 
beyond suspicion. 
Nothing will give the kind 
of cleanliness that can be con¬ 
stantly re-cleaned like tile. 
Don't plan your house, let alone building it, 
before you have read our booklet, “Tiles for 
the Kitchen and Laundry," and our other 
booklets; “Tile for the Bathroom,” “Tiles 
for Fireplaces,” “Tiles on the Porch Floor,” 
which we send free to home builders. 
The Associated Tile Manufacturers 
Room 2, Reeves Building, Beaver Falls, Pa. 
A Reproduction of an impressive Renaissance mantel¬ 
piece, with a hood, in the studio of J. C. Leyendecker, 
Esq., New York. Designed and erected by us. 
Send to-day for our large Catalogue J, containing more than 
800 illustrations of mantels, hall and garden furniture- 
THE ERKINS STUDIOS 
226 Lexington Ave., N. Y. Factory, Astoria, L. 1. 
New York Selling Agents, Recceri Florentine_Terra__Co^ 
In writing to advertisers please mention House and Garden, 
