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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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GUARANTEED 
PLUMBING 
FIXTURES 
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'"T^HE bath is no longer an event 
in the household. The appeal of 
Fixtures has supplanted “sense 
of duty” by a “desire for cleanliness.” Children love bath¬ 
ing amidst the surroundings which ''«$1:andard'’' Fixtures form. 
Their refining influence is as valuable to the home as their 
practical utility, their beauty and their defiance of age and use. 
demand "(Standard" quality at less expense. 
All "eStandard" fixtures, with care, will last a 
Genuine '!§tattdard" fixtures for the Home and 
for School, Office Buildings, Public Institu¬ 
tions, etc., are identified by the Green and 
Gold Label, with the exception of one brand 
of baths bearing the Red and Black Label, 
which, while of the first quality of manufac¬ 
ture, have a slightly thinner enameling, and 
thus meet the requirements of those who 
lifetime. And no fixture is genuine unless it 
bears the guarantee label. In order to avoid 
the substitution of inferior fixtures, specify 
"oSlandard" goods in writing fnot verbally) 
and make sure that you get them. 
^taitdard ^anitarj^ TDfe. Co. Dept. 40 PITTSBURGH, PA. 
New York ..35 W. 31 st Street Nashville.315 Tenth Avenue, Sc. London-53 Holborn Viaduct, E.C. 
Chicago.415 Ashland Block New Orleans, Baronne & St. Joseph Sts. Houston, Tex., Preston and Smith Sts. 
Philadelphia.. I 128 Walnut Street Montreal, Can.2I 5 Coristine Bldg. San Francisco. .Metropolis Bank Bldg. 
Toronto, Can. 59 Richmond St.,E. Boston.John Hancock Bldg. Washington, D. C.Southern Bldg. 
Pittsburgh.106 Sixth Street Louisville.319-23 W. Main Street Toledo, Ohio. 311-32I Erie Street 
St. Louis-lOO N. Fourth Street Cleveland.648 Huron Road, S. E, Fort Worth, Tex., Front and JonesSts. 
Cincinnati. 663 Walnut St. Hamilton,Can.20-28 Jackson St.,W. 
Selected Medal Dahlias 
Winners at various International 
competitions in all classes. 
Highest awards in all American 
Dahlia contests since 1906. 
Originators of the “Ruth Forbes” 
Dahlia, the finest American seedling. 
Send for free illustrated catalogue. 
FORBES & KEITH 
299 Chancery St. New Bedford, Mass. 
Install a 
Paddock Water Filter 
You will then use for every household purpose 
pure water. I'addock Water Filters are placed at 
the inlet and _ 
Filter Your Entire 
Water Supply 
removing all disease bacteria, cleansing and purify¬ 
ing your water. JVrife for Catalog. 
Atlantic Filter Company 
308 White Building, BUFFALO, N. Y. 
In New York City: 
PADDOCK FILTER COMPANY, 152 E. 33rd Street 
tention upon itself and its environment, 
and the environment must live up to it. 
Therefore take heed to its location and 
see that it is made worthy. Spanning the 
opening from the garden into the stable 
yard, for example, it is unworthily placed, 
if it stands alone. (An arched opening 
in a wall or lattice is a different thing en¬ 
tirely and not to be considered as part of 
a discussion about arches.) 
The latticed arch shown in the left cor¬ 
ner of page 20, for instance, while pre¬ 
senting a charming tangle of vine and 
careless growth leading up to it, illustrates 
very well the manner in which the whole 
effect is diminished by carelessness at the 
focal point, through and beyond the arch 
itself. It frames — a vista of board fence! 
Glorified though it is with a lattice top, it 
is, nevertheless, just plain board fence ; and 
it closes the prospect completely. Expec¬ 
tation and anticipation are cheated and dis¬ 
appointed, and half the beauty of the 
whole is lost. Not that board fence in 
and of itself is an objectionable thing; it 
would be quite as unsatisfactory if it were 
stone or brick wall. But if a seat invited 
the eye and spoke silently of rest — or bet¬ 
ter still, a seat and a table; or if a biid 
bowl stood there waiting its feathered 
bathers; or if a swing hung from the 
boughs above; if anything filled the hole— 
the blankness — how much better the effect 
of arch and tangle and all. So it is evi¬ 
dent that an arch must be carefully placed, 
considering it from both sides. It must 
lead in pleasantly — and lead out just as 
pleasantly, for it draws attention to it and 
through it from either side. Always keep 
this in mind. 
Passing from the isolated structural 
arch to the series of arches sometimes used 
in gardens as rose supports or supports 
for some flowering climber, the same gen¬ 
eralizations hold good. A succession of 
arches should lead from one distinctive 
space — or through one distinctive space— 
to another, equally distinctive but quite 
different. The garden shown in the last 
photograph on page 20 illustrates such 
a transition, yet does not present a very 
happy result, for a number of reasons. 
The most readily discerned of these is the 
expanse of greenhouse running across the 
prospect — closing it — and cut into by the 
second set of wistaria-covered arches be¬ 
yond the fountain. This is really a dread¬ 
ful piece of composition which cannot be 
too completely condemned, for everything 
about it is wrong. 
How and why? ^^T 11 , in the first 
place, the second set of arches lead the 
eye in from the broad expansiveness of 
the open space about the fountain, and 
thus suggest — yes, demand — a focal point 
beyond themselves. But the greenhouse, 
so far from furnishing such a point, 
spreads out, with not even a doorway— 
which would be some relief — at this actual 
center; and thus the mind or soul or what¬ 
ever it is that gets these impressions for 
us. is zigzagged along and confused and 
utterly wearied by the disorderlv progress 
— by the lack of purpose, of coordination 
III itriting to advertisers tlease mention House and Garden. 
