HOUSE AND GARDEN 
J 
UNE, 
1912 
It Can’t be Heard 
The inestimable advantages of this silent flushing closet will 
be appreciated by every refined person. When properly 
installed it cannot be heard outside of the bath room. 
Siwelclo 
Siphon Jet 
Closet 
has every possible sanitary feature — deep water seal and perfect flush- 
the further exclusive advantage of noiselessness. 
TheSiwelclo Closet is madeof Trenton 
Potteries Vitreous China, the most 
sanitary material for such fixtures. It 
is impervious all the way through, and 
its white, highly glazed surface will 
last forever. 
Trenton Potteries Vitreous China and 
Ideal Solid Porcelain are unequaled 
for all household plumbing fixtures. 
Ask your architect. He knows about 
them. Your plumber will install them 
for you. 
Write for Booklet No. S 8 
on Siwelclo Siphon Jet Closet and our book 
on “Solid Porcelain Sinks and Washtubs.” 
They will show you what beauty of design 
and durability of material you can obtain in 
all Trenton Potteries Products. 
The Trenton Potteries Co. 
Trenton, N.J., U. S. A. 
The Largest Manufacturers of Sanitary 
Pottery in the U. S. A. 
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WATER-SUPPLY 
WITHOUT COST 
This is practically what the windmill means. It is 
the most perfect pumping equipment known. It 
insures always an unfailing water-supply. Requires 
no care beyond occasional oiling, which anyone can 
do. No repairs. Being automatic, the cost of opera¬ 
tion is nothing beyond a few dollars a year for oil. 
But you must get the right kind of mill. 
CORCORAN WINDMILLS 
have been the standard for 40 years and are in use on 
the finest places in the country. They are absolutely 
noiseless and free from vibration. 
We build windmills to harmonize with any archi¬ 
tectural scheme. The housing for the windmill frame 
can be built as an annex to the house to contain ser¬ 
vants’ quarters, bachelors’ rooms, children’s play¬ 
house, billiard-room, etc. Prices for complete outfit, 
including erection, ranging from $350 up, according 
to conditions. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. 
A. J. CORCORAN, Inc., 17 John St., New York 
siding. The old floor timbers are far too 
rough to assume them to have been left 
exposed. 
When the windows had been enlarged, 
it is probable that new doors were hung 
as well and at the same time new back- 
boards put on to the casings. All this 
work was old, but it was not the original 
by any means, nor was there anything to 
show what the original might have been 
except the ancient front doors and these, 
which were double, showed the horizontal 
panel. However, our second story door 
and casings were far too good to abandon 
and we retained them with their design 
of four upright panels. In the kitchen 
and other parts of the house the new 
doors were of cypress in a natural and 
dead finish. Otherwise they were painted 
white. The old door knobs were all of 
white porcelain; we substituted octagonal 
glass on the lower story to go with the 
white paint, and black to go with the nat¬ 
ural wood. These last were also used on 
the second story, while with the white 
paint we used mahogany. In the bedroom 
the old simple mantel was replaced. This 
had an architrave very similar to those of 
the door and window and below the shelf 
was a well proportioned dental molding. 
In the reception-room the old mantel was 
also retained, but as it had a cart-before- 
the-horse arrangement of panels in the 
frieze, we filled these with composition or¬ 
naments to control, but not to hide its 
oddity. This last it may be remarked lay 
in making the central panel a compara¬ 
tively insignificant division as compared 
with those flanking it. 
In our new dining-room there was little 
to hinder us with our feature, which is the 
fireplace side. From the plan and the pic¬ 
tures it will be seen to be well balanced. 
It is mostly of wood and such little plaster 
as occurs in the surface. Of the chimney 
breast proper, it will be noticed for its 
.simplicity. The few ornaments are in¬ 
troduced to get terminal spots and pro¬ 
duce lines. We are so far from the com¬ 
mon thing that we feel we may do this. 
Otherwise it follows closely in its mold¬ 
ing and general suggestions an old house 
at Windsor which still retains some of 
the earmarks of the early period both in 
its moldings and in its overhanging sec¬ 
ond story. The walls of the kitchen to¬ 
gether with the servants’ rooms and the 
bathrooms have been painted, which al¬ 
lows of easy cleaning. The walls of the 
reception-room are done in flat fresco 
color of a pale yellow. Those of the liv¬ 
ing-room are covered with paper of a 
medium brown in a pattern suggesting 
the texture of the Eastern grass fabrics. 
A limited and judicious use of dull gold 
adds richness to the effect. This paper 
was chosen above the pattern sort because 
it was to serve largely as a background 
for pictures. The dining-room, being in¬ 
tended to carry itself without much pic¬ 
torial aid. is of a very good semi-realistic 
tree pattern in gray monochrome with 
touches of subdued green. A couple of 
the chambers show examples of the per- 
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