HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June. 1912 
(^T^VERY night is tub night when ^'^tandard" Fixtures are 
I in the home. The delight which the convenience, beauty 
^ and refinement of ^i^tandard'' Fixtures create in the use of 
the bathroom makes daily bathing the rule in every home 
possessing them. Children especially are drawn to cleanli¬ 
ness by the appeal of their attractiveness. Their resistance 
to time and use makes their purchase the most econom¬ 
ical of all the homebuilder’s expenditures. 
demand 'Standard" quality at less expense. 
All 'Standard" fixtures, with care, will last a 
Genuine "Standard" 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 rV 
bears the guarantee label. In order to avoid 
the substitution of inferior fixtures, specify 
'Standard" goods in writing (not verbally) 
and make sure that you get them. 
Standard <$amtaT.S TDfe. Co. Dept. 40 
New York.35 W. 31st Street 
Chicago.413 Ashland Block 
Philadelphia. .1128 Walnut Street 
Toronto,Can. 59 Richmond St.,E. 
Pittsburgh.106 Sixth Street 
St. Louis.... 100 N. Fourth Street 
^Cincinnati.663Walnut St. 
Nashville.315 Tenth Avenue, So. 
New Orleans. Baronne & St. Joseph Sts. 
Montreal, Can.215 Coristine Bldg. 
Boston.John Hancock Bldg. 
Louisville.319-23 W. Main Street 
Cleveland.648 Huron Road, S. E. 
Hamilton,Can.20-28 Jackson St.,W. 
PITTSBURGH, PA. 
London-53 Holborn Viaduct, E.C. 
Houston, Tex., Preston and Smith Sts. 
San Francisco. .Metropolis Bank Bldg. 
Washington, D. C.Southern Bldg. 
Toledo, Ohio .... 311-321 Erie Street 
Fort Worth, Tex., Front and JonesSts. 
The Lunt-Moss System of Pneumatic Water Supply 
for Country Homes 
operated by hand, gasoline or electric pump or by windmill, 
is more and more in demand. It yields running water for 
faucets, bath, water closets, barn, garden and lawn, etc., also 
hot water — in connection with range — for bath, kitchen, 
laundry, etc. 
It*s a Great Fire Protection. 
We supply Electric Light Outfits for country homes; also Gaso¬ 
line Engines for farm purposes — wood sawing, bone cutting, etc. 
SEND FOR CATALOGUE 56 AND LET OUR 
ENGINEERS FIGURE OUT YOUR NEEDS. 
LUNT-MOSS CO., 43 So. Market St., Boston. 
NewYork Office: 37 Warren Street. 
The principal, then, of the summer resi¬ 
dence, its “leit motif’ as the opera pro¬ 
grammes say, is a simplicity which may be 
either comparative or positive as individ¬ 
ual tastes dictate, but it must at all events 
be distinctly a change from the ordinary 
routine of life, and this must be reflected 
in its artificial expression, the house. 
An Amateur’s Water-Works 
V\/HEX we began installing our ram 
^ ’ we knew water usually ran down 
hill and that it would run from a high 
point to a lower one. even over a higher 
point in between, if enclosed in a pipe. 
We also knew that piping came in cer¬ 
tain lengths, but could be cut to fit a de¬ 
sired space and the ends re-threaded. 
That was the extent of our knowledge, 
except that water was needed on the top 
of our hill. 
A strong-armed man was also an asset, 
and he had seen piping cut and threaded, 
and knew that a few drops of oil helped 
the tools to get a grip, which was fortu¬ 
nate, for we would liardly have guessed it. 
He also added a profound disbelief in 
the success of the undertaking. Either he 
doubted the ability of the little ram to force 
water up a hill, or our ability to force the 
little ram to go. Ele was too tactful to 
specify, but his state of mind furnished an 
entirely superfluous atmosphere of gloom 
to the scene of our labors. 
The first delay was due to the fact that 
lengthy measuring of water supply, dis¬ 
tances and elevations and deep study of 
catalogues demonstrated that no ram in 
existence could send that water up such 
a hill. Then one day we found in a new 
catalogue the illustration of a ram on a 
different principle from the larger ones. 
It could pump from a spring furnishing 
as little as a half gallon a minute. Ours 
gave three-quarters, and no ram before 
made would work with less than a whole 
gallon per minute. We were elated —or¬ 
dered a ram and piping and began to 
learn about pipe laying. 
The first lesson, furnished by the hard¬ 
ware dealer, was that there was a special 
tool for cutting pipe. We had imagined 
a cold chisel would do (as it surely would 
if time were no object). Then we learned 
of dies for cutting threads on pipe when 
the original lengths were subdivided. 
Then, that piping comes in irregular 
lengths, about twenty feet. Our igno¬ 
rance of this variation caused considera¬ 
ble trouble, for desiring a line eighty feet 
long from spring to ram we laid down 
four lengths of pipe and went to work 
excavating, at the point they stopped, for 
the ram pit, only to find, later, that the 
four lengths together measured but sev- 
entv feet. 
Then we found that one coupling 
comes with each section of pipe — appar¬ 
ently enough, but in actual work extra 
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