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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1912 
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A real tiled 
bathroom 
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No imitation of tile in a 
bathroom can take the 
place of the real tile. When 
it comes to resisting 
dampness and steam, no 
surface is so impervious, 
and when it comes to.mak- 
ing an attractive -white or 
delicately tinted bath¬ 
room, nothing can give 
the effect of'tile. 
In our booklet, “Tile for the Bath¬ 
room,” are some interesting facts 
about the actual cost of tile. ' You 
will be surprised at the compara¬ 
tive inexpensiveness of tile. This 
booklet is sent free; to home build, 
ers,- as are also the ■ followingr 
“Tiles for Fireplace's,” “Tiles for 
the Kitchen and Laundry,” “Tiles 
on the Porch hloor.” You would 
do -yvell to read them before per¬ 
fecting your plans. 
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THE ASSOCIATED, 
TILE MANUFACTURERS 
. .Room 2, Reeves Building 
Beaver Falls, Pa. | | 
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„ Sp.eDcer.<fe Powers,. Architects - 
A TYPICAL BUNGALOW 
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Every window a casement. ‘ . 
Every casement tight in winter. 
lEasily, opened and closed. , 
Next summer fbr “ lOO per cent' 
ventilation, for 
THE OWNER BOUGHT our ‘ 
casfement transforming adjusters 
to operate the sash quickly,- easily 
and securely from INSIDE THE 
SCREENS. 
Our free booklet shows how 
The Casement Hardware’ Co. 
175 N. STATE STREET 
CHICAGO, ILL. 
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deal more skill to keep the flowers alive 
and the pests dead than to hit a bird with 
a well-aimed rifle, as I found this year 
when I tackled the aphis with whale oil 
soap and killed eighteen rose bushes and 
seventy-five feet of beautiful sweet peas, 
and the aphis. So now I am going to turn 
the telescope of experience on the next 
druggist who sells me fish oil soap for 
laboratory uses only for whale oil soap. 
And this year, by the 'way, my little 
eight by ten box, thirty feet long in ,front 
and at the side of the porch has at each 
pillar climbing vines, five feet high, with 
great big beautiful glossy green leaves: 
nine beautiful red peony bushes with from 
, five to nine blossoms on each; twelve ge¬ 
ranium bushes, with great beautiful leaves 
and double red blossoms; a lillium aura- 
rum four feet high with four' blossoms, 
and dwarf nasturtiums —all except the 
climbing vines nicely arranged behind a 
solid row of tulips red beyond description, 
which have just finished three consecutive 
weeks- of fairylike bloom. 
Our dandelion patch is now a velvety 
carpet of closely cropped white clover. 
The damp muddy spot at the base of the 
terrace back of the'kitchen door, triangu¬ 
lar in shape, eight feet base and four feet 
at tbe widest point, which last year was 
the day and nightmare of the good house¬ 
wife, by the same process which trans¬ 
formed the front of the porch, is growing 
more lettuce than we can eat, in addition 
to parsley, mint,, straw-berry - plants six 
inches high, and a fringe of Shirley pop¬ 
pies. 
The three-foot strip around the back 
yard lawn is keeping a vase of roses, 
plucked daily, on our dining-room table ; 
it has a- new crop of'sweet peas two feet 
high blooming over the ^rave of the.poor 
fellows murdered witli fish oil soap; rad¬ 
ishes, beets, onion sets, cucumbers, rhu¬ 
barb. strawberry plants, a seventy-five 
■foot red raspberry hedge, larkspur, tiger 
Jibes, white lilies, golden glow, sun-flowers, 
■-lilacs-, -white; and' colored, which have 
bloomed, the. beautiful saffron-colored 
■.flp^ye'ring''plant, the .name of which we 
danViFnow.r'and-doifit cgre to, because it 
,is.-so -beautiful. ''And L won’t name any 
• more because J -don't'thiuk there are any. 
'But next yeaWl may have a-watermelon 
patch'. -Who knows ! ; 
And ,I just.used thp saffie scheme in the 
three-foof strip afounjd the back yard that 
r used at the base pf ithe front porch, 
painting the ' boards! green instead of 
■brown, because thq grass*is green and the 
pprch is painted brown. 
, 'We rent the housej But this year the 
1 owner was. offered $2,000 more in cash for 
-the place than the same bidder offered the 
ilionth before ,we' moved in one year ago 
the loth of June. 
’ I forgot to mention the pansy bed two 
feet wide lining the other side of the house 
along a wood walk, which was as bare as 
Sahara until we carpeted it with great big 
pansies, of which each child in the neigh- 
Put\t)urHomeBehindA 
REPUBLIC FENCE 
The fence is as much a part ol your home as the 
porch— the gate is your front door. It gives the 
visitor or passer-by his first impression and tells whether you are 
proud of your home or slovenly and careless about it. 
Put your home behind a ^kepxjLlic Ofii^= 
meiital Lawn Fence and put yourself among 
the most discriminating home owners of the country. 
The REPUBLIC FENCE 4 GATE CO. 
is one of the big concerns of the country—and its 
growth is due solely to the merits of its product. We stand be¬ 
hind our fence and guarantee every ioot of it to be perfect and 
to fulfill every promise and statement we make—when you buy 
from us, you are sure of big value and absolute satisfaction. 
The Republic Tubular Steel Farm Gates are 
built for a lifetime of the hardest service—light, but strong. Books 
(fee—write today. Also ask for any advice you need about how 
to make your grounds more beautiful. 
KEPUBLIC FENCE 6 GATE CO., 
STRAWBERRIES 
Plants by the dozen or by the million. 
120 acres plajited in 103 vaiietles. All 
the standards and the most proniihing ol 
the new ones. Largest grower in 
America. Every plant true to name. 
Also Raspberry,Blackberry,GoosebeiT> 
and Currant Plants, Grape Vines, Cali* 
fornia Privet and other Shrubbery. 
Cultural directions with each ship¬ 
ment. Beautiful Catalogue FREE. Send 
a postal today. My personal guarantee ^ 
|back of every sale. 
W. F. ALLEN 
59 Market Street, Salisbury, Md. 
HOWARD 
Dustless 
Duster 
(25 Cents Prepaid) 
Makes possible 
a dustless home. 
Write for our 
Dust Book “A” 
and small free 
sample. 
It will show you how 
to make dusting a 
pleasure, how to dry 
clean a silk skirt in 
five minutes, how to 
clean windows in a 
twinkling, to polish pianos and highly finished 
furniture, to make cut glass sparkle like dia¬ 
monds, to make an old derby look like new. 
Moneu back if not iatisfactory 
HOWARD DUSTLESS DUSTER CO. 
164*43 Federal Street, Boston, Mass. 
HOWARD 
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