HOUSE AND GARDEN | 
J 
UNE, 1912 
T he noise of flushing has 
been redneed to a mini¬ 
mum in Mott’s "Silentis" 
and "Silento" Closets. 
Running water cannot be 
further silenced and still pro¬ 
duce a sanitary flush. 
In the "Silentis" and "Silento" 
Closets, the bowls and seats are 
extra large. They represent the 
highest type of quiet action 
closets. 
QUIET- 
ACTION 
CLOSETS 
A special booklet on quiet¬ 
acting closets will be mailed 
upon request. 
Modern Write for “Modern Plumb- 
Plumbing 80 -page booklet 
which gives information about 
every form of modern bathroom equipment. 
It shows 24 model bathroom interiors, ranging 
from $73 to $ 3 , 0 OO. Sent on request with 
4 cents for postage. 
The J. L. Mott Iron Works 
JS2S EIGHTY-FOUR TEjlRS SUPREMACY 1912 
Fifth Avenue and Seventeenth St., New York 
WORKS at TRENTON, N. J. 
BRANCHES: —Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit. Minneapolis, 
Washington, St. Louis, New Orleans, Denver. San P'rancisco. San Antonio, 
Atlanta, Seattle, Portland (Ore.J, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, O,, 
Kansas City, Salt Lake City. 
CANADA:—Mott Company, Limited, 138 Bleury Street, Montreal. 
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asking about the sash-cord to beus' 
is laying up trouble for Wmself. I 
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87 Chauncey St 
Boston, Mass. 
Makers of SILVE 
LAKE solid braid 
cloth 
Lines. 
DRICES marked in plain figures will 
^ always be found EXCEEDINGLY 
LOW when compared with the best 
values obtainable elsewhere. 
Geo. C. Flint Co. 
4347 W. 23rd ST. 24-28 W. 24th ST. 
designers have used them as models. The 
fiber rugs are for the most part plain and 
rather dignified in their general effect. A 
single large figure is repeated on a ground 
of contrasting color, with wide spaces be¬ 
tween, and there is usually a deep border 
of the same color as the figures. Some 
of the prettiest rugs have no figures, but 
are in solid colors, the body of the rug in 
one shade, with a deep border that is 
lighter or darker, or possibly of an en¬ 
tirely different color. 
For the porches of mountain camps or 
of summer homes situated in a country 
where there is practically no hot weather, 
Navajo blankets, with their brilliant colors, 
make most charming floor coverings, but 
for the average seashore cottage or coun¬ 
try house the grass or fiber rugs in cool 
looking greens and tans and browns are 
the most appropriate, and are not to be 
improved on for service and lasting 
qualities. 
In the way of protection from the sun, 
as well as from the too friendly interest 
of neighbors or passersby, there are awn¬ 
ings and screens, which like the rugs are 
made more attractive each year. Vines, 
of course, serve this purpose quite effec¬ 
tively and are charming to look at, but if 
they are thick enough to afford real pro¬ 
tection they are also thick enough to keep 
out a good deal of light and air, and for 
perfect comfort in summer a porch with 
sides that can be left entirely open at times 
is preferable. 
Where vines are used, however, a good 
plan is to train them over a lattice work. 
Not the ordinary lattice with the small 
diamond shaped openings, but one that is 
made on a larger scale, with square open¬ 
ings at least six inches across. This is 
quite as satisfactory, without producing 
such a shut-in feeling, and is particularly 
good for protecting one end of a porch or 
filling a space between pillars. 
According to the ideas of many people, 
nothing in the shape of awnings can 
surpass the regulation red and white or 
blue and white stripes of equal width, that 
are at the same time serviceable and pic¬ 
turesque. Other varieties of the stripe 
are to be had, among the best of which are 
the narrow stripes placed quite far apart 
on a white ground, and there are also spe¬ 
cial designs for awnings, showing borders 
of conventionalized figures or solid bands 
on a contrasting background. For porches 
where awnings are not a necessity the 
sun screens of flexible fiber, that hang like 
curtains from the outer edge of the porch 
ceiling are most satisfactory. They are 
made in any size and width that may be 
desired, and in a great variety of colors 
and patterns, with stripes in blue and 
white, green and white, and brown and 
white, and small figures in the same com¬ 
binations of color. So decorative are they 
in appearance that they add considerably 
to the furnishings of the piazza, and give 
thorough protection without shutting out 
either light or air. They can be hung to 
roll from the top, like an ordinary window 
shade or from the bottom, in the same 
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