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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 1913 
PLUMBING 
FIXTURES 
To make the bathroom beautiful and sanitary 
with Standard" ware, brings the joy of cleanly 
living to the whole household and teaches the 
gospel of the daily bath to young and old alike. 
quirements of those who demand 'Standard" 
quality at less expense. All 'Standard'' 
fixtures, with care, will last a lifetime. 
And no fixture is genuine unless it bears 
the guarantee label. In order to avoid 
substitution of inferior fixtures, specify 
'Standard" goods in writing (not verbally) 
and make sure that you get them. 
Genuine "Standard" fixtures for the Home 
and for Schools, Office Buildings, Public- 
Institutions, 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 manufacture, have a slightly 
thinner enameling, and thus meet the re- 
Standard cSamtat® Tftfc). Co. Dept. 40. 
PITTSBURGH, PA 
Cincinnati, 633 Walnut Street 
Nashville, 315 Tenth Avenue, So. 
NewOrleans.Baronne&St.JosephSts 
Montreal Can.. 215 Coristine Bldg. 
Boston. John Hancock Bldg. 
Louisville, 319-23 W. Main Street 
Cleveland, 648 Huron Road, S. E. 
Hamilton, Can., 35-28 Jackson St. W. 
London, 57-60 Holbom Viaduct, E. C. 
Houston, Tex., Preston & Smith Sts. 
Washington, D. O., Southern Bldg. 
Toledo. Ohio, 311-321 Erie Street 
Ft. Worth, Tex., Front & Jones Sts. 
New York, 36 West 31st Street 
Chicago, 9Q0 S. Michigan Ave. 
Philadelphia. 1128 Walnut Street 
Toronto Can., 59 Richmond St. E 
Pittsburgh, 106 Federal Street 
St. Louis, 100 N. Fourth Street 
Guaranteed by the largest makers of silverware. 
INTERNATIONAL SILVER CO., MERIDEN, CONN. 
Successor to Meriden Britannia Co. 
CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO 
Send tor 
catalogue “A- 25 .” 
NEW YORK 
the stone wall was figured, hollow tile 
walls run to about thirty cents a square 
foot of surface area. 
Frame building, being our natural 
American heritage, is so well understood 
that only those points demanding the build¬ 
er’s closest attention will be noted here. 
It is very rare indeed that a shingle or 
clapboard frame wall leaks or is in any 
way greatly affected by moisture. This 
being more than can be said of any other 
building material, it is certainly worth 
some consideration. The only trouble of 
this nature ever encountered is around 
door and window openings, for which, 
therefore, flashing should not only be 
clearly specified but carefully superin¬ 
tended. This applies to the stuccoed frame 
house as well as the clapboard or shingled. 
Flashings (the metal strips used to keep 
out water where wood joints are not ab¬ 
solutely tight) two or three inches wide 
are a waste of time and money; if a place 
must be flashed it should be generously 
done, the metal turned under the stucco 
or woodwork for five or six inches and 
thoroughly painted. 
It cannot be boasted of wood that it is 
fireproof, but certain precautions can be 
taken which assist greatly in retarding or 
preventing fires. Most important of these 
is the use of brick or metal fire stops. By 
building six or eight courses of light- 
burnt brick between the studs in every 
partition and in outer walls at each floor 
level, one obtains a formidable fire stop 
- — a protection where it is most needed, in 
the walls between studs. 
“Short-lived” is another much-quoted 
objection against frame houses. To be 
sure, the oldest monuments of antiquity 
are not of wood. Still, it is a noteworthy 
fact that those old Colonial houses which 
have been looked after are perfectly sound, 
and, moreover, when they are demolished 
to make room for “modern improvements” 
their wood, both framing and covering, is 
eagerly sought as the soundest obtainable 
to-day. However, if wood is to be pre¬ 
served it must be painted and repaired 
from time to time. For this reason main¬ 
tenance is a bigger item here than in a 
masonry structure; but this is to be ex¬ 
pected of a material costing less in the 
first place. There was a time when build¬ 
ing in wood was really inexpensive, but 
that time is past and lumber is becoming 
as high as masonry materials. Compared 
with hollow tile it costs four or five cents 
less a surface square foot, or about twenty- 
five cents. 
Another type of wall still to be men¬ 
tioned is the frame house veneered with 
brick. This consists of the ordinary frame 
rough-boarded and then an additional four 
inches of brick fastened to the boarding 
by means of iron clamps or ties. Some 
architects recommend this style of wall, 
but the test of time has not yet gone far 
enough to warrant strongly urging its 
adoption. 
Whatever material is chosen for the 
wall the question of interior finish remains 
In writing to advertisers please mention House and Garden. 
