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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July. 191, 
You can get this style fixture finished in Antique Copper, 
Bronze or Brass or in special finish if you demand it. 
Gaumbr 
Hand Wrought 
ti^htin^ Fixtures 
The finishes on every interior piece of the genuine wrought 
metal are warranted. 
It is decidedly to your advantage to look for the Guarantee 
Tag which progressive Dealers display on them—it assures 
you against unnecessary expense of refinishing later. 
Booklet tiow ready of special designs for particular rooms—Write us. 
JOHN L. GAUMER CO., Dept. A 
22d and Wood Sts. Philadelphia, U. S. A. 
No. 08949 
I 
The Stephenson System of 
Underground Refuse Disposal 
Keeps your garbage out of sight in the 
ground, away from the cats, dogs and 
typhoid fly. 
Thousands in use 
Underground 
Garbage and Refuse Receivers 
A fireproof and sanitary disposal of ashes, 
refuse and oily waste. 
Our Underground Earth Closet means free¬ 
dom from contaminated water supply. 
Sold direct Send for circulars 
In use nine years. It pays to look us up. 
C. H. STEPHENSON, Mfr. 
20 Farrar St., Lynn, Mass. 
Made-to-order 
rugs for porch, 
bungalow or 
Summer 
home 
"You 
choose 
the colors, 
in’ll makethe rug 1 
Exclusive fabrics 
of so ft, selected 
camel’s hairwoven 
in undyed natu¬ 
ral color. Also 
pure wool, dyed in 
any color or com¬ 
bination of colors. 
Any leneth. Any 
width—seamless up to 
16 feet. The finishing 
touch of individuality. 
Made on short notice. Write 
for color card. Order through 
your furnisher. 
THREAD & THRUM WORKSHOP, Auburn, N. Y. 
The Juwel Oil Gas Stove 
FOR HOUSE. YACHT, 
AUTO OR CAMP USE 
Juwel Kerosene Oil Gas Stove, 
generates its own gas from ordinary 
kerosene, giving a quick, hot, 
odorless gas fire at kerosene cost. 
No other small stove is its equal 
for house, yacht, picnic or camp 
use. The polished brass reservoir 
holds 3 pints and burns with full 
flame for 5 hours. Cannot explode. 
Guaranteed satisfactory. Price $4. 
Sent on receipt of price to any 
address east of the Mississippi. 
Made up in two-hole stoves with 
2-6 A Juwel Stoves, price $9. 
Globe Gas Light Co. 
29-31 Union Street, BOSTON, MASS 
The Conard & Jones Co. 
Growers of the best roses for America, brilliant Lily-Cannas, superior 
plants and choice flowers. Write for New Floral Guide, illustrated by 
photographs. Address Box 126, West Grove, Pa. 
EVERYTHING for the HOME GROUNDS 
Ornamental, Deciduous, Shade and Weeping Trees, Flowering 
Shrubs, Barberry, Privet, Evergreens, Conifers, Hardy Trailing 
Vines, Cli mbers,Fruit Trees,Berry Bushes,Hardy Garden Plants,etc. 
The finest selection for lawn and garden planting in 
America. More than 600 acres of choicest nursery produce 
We will make a planting plan of your place, selecting trees, shrubs, 
etc., suitable to soil and situation, and give you the exact cost of 
planting and proper time to plant. Send for Cataloo D. 
The Stephen Hoyt’s Sons Company 
Established 1848 New Canaan, Conn. Incorporated 1903 
Blue Bird or Martin House. Four 
rooms, of cedar and white birch, 13 " x 
17 " x 21 ". Too large for Parcel Post. 
F. O. B. Toms River, N. J. $5.00. 
The Crescent Co. 
Box 252 
Toms River, N. J. 
Sparrow Trap, $5.00 prepaid 
Parcel Post. Working part inside 
of Aluminum, insuring free¬ 
dom from rust. Can be ad¬ 
justed from back. Drops the 
bird unharmed in drawer in 
bottom. Sets itself for the 
next victim. Wrens can escape 
through the small holes. 
Willisport was a place at all. Mine was 
the seventh house in the sub-division. 
Even then they were holding Maple Ave¬ 
nue for sixty-five cents a square foot. 
I bought way out and paid only four hun¬ 
dred dollars for my lot. My place is 
worth more, now — but it's been a long 
pull to get there. I don't find it any more 
expensive to own my place and a car 
than you do the place without a car. I’ve 
got a garden that cuts my summer bills 
in half. If you want to live high on little 
money out of town, you’ve got to pick a 
place which is going to develop and get 
a big lot — something you can grow things 
on. Buying after a town is made is just 
paying the other fellow the profit he has 
made—and no one but a millionaire can 
get more than a smidge of ground. I’ve 
an acre and a half — you've got - ” 
“I’ve got a pocket handkerchief of 
green lawn and twenty square feet of 
flower garden, which neighborhood senti¬ 
ment won't let me work in. You needn’t 
spare my feelings!” Spence interrupted. 
“Well, sell, and buy more ground, 
somewhere where it is cheap!” was 
Walker’s advice. “Go west, young man, 
and g-row up with the country!” 
It took Spence a week to think that 
over. Then he made his decision, and an¬ 
nounced it in a few words to his wife. 
“We aren't saving a cent here. We are 
not any more comfortable than we were 
in town. I'm more uncomfortable. If 
Walker and Allen and that crew can save 
the price of a car a year by starting in 
with an undeveloped suburb, I can save 
it and put it into something sensible, in¬ 
stead. I'm going to look for a decent 
place with some real grounds around it, 
instead of this two by twice lawn where 
our neighbors are always under our noses 
and we under theirs, and see of we can’t 
get some roses in those kids’ cheeks and 
save some money. There must be a way 
for a family of four to live in peace and 
comfort on $7500 a year, and this isn’t 
the way! I’m going to find that way. 
Are you game?” 
(To be continued •.) 
Garden Violets. 
T HE violet is a blossom for all the year 
round, and there is not a month when 
one need be without fresh blooms of it 
from coldframe, garden or window boxes. 
Planted in a sha'dy corner of the garden, 
where yet they have an airy, well-drained 
nook, violets will take care of themselves, 
with the kindness of a covering of dead 
leaves in fall. But they last so long and 
give such richness that the borders are 
worth preparing well. 'What the garden 
violet dislikes most of all is standing with 
its feet in the wet, unlike that fragrant 
white violet, which we find in meadows 
and bogs. 
My violet border is planned to give a 
succession of bloom the year round, the 
earth from the three-foot bed being dug 
two feet deep, and the sides stoned up with 
rubble laid in mortar which which coal 
ashes have much to do. This keeps the 
violet roots from spreading, and from 
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