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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 1913 
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Branch Offices in Principal 
Cities of the United States 
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and shut but slide from end to end, so 
doing away with any vertical muntin. 
The French window, which is only a 
larger casement, is usually best swung in. 
If swung out, its size makes it difficult to 
secure against the wind and the inside 
finish is exposed to the weather. This 
may be made tight by the use of various 
patent weather strips. 
Another point that the house-builder 
should consider is that of wiring his house 
heavily enough to take not only his elec¬ 
tric lights but the various electric house¬ 
hold appliances which are fast becoming 
popular. The tendency of the price of 
current to come down plainly indicates that 
much more of our work in the near future 
will be done by electricity than we have 
been able to afford in the past. Nor must 
he forget to decide whether or no he will 
install the necessary piping for a vacuum 
cleaning apparatus. This may be cheaply 
done when the house is built, and the nec¬ 
essary outlets placed in the baseboards 
where desired; the pipe concealed in the 
walls and coming through the cellar ceil¬ 
ing where it will be left until the owner 
is ready to attach his motor. 
As chimneys are expensive, it is often 
possible to combine a fireplace with the 
kitchen flue. If the kitchen is not directly 
behind the dining-room, we may easily 
run a small pipe through the china closet, 
being careful to keep it away from wood¬ 
work. 
In locating the fireplaces, we must be 
careful to avoid draughts, as there will 
always be a current of air passing up the 
flue, and if the fireplace is placed too near 
a hall door, it will prove annoying. 
We shall do well to remember that with 
our third floor fireplace the great problem 
is bringing up the wood, and we should 
plan for a wood box. A built-in seat hav¬ 
ing a cover to lift may often be arranged. 
The same thing holds good for the first 
floor, and here we may have either the 
bottom of our box so that it can be filled 
from the cellar or a small wood elevator 
worked by hand in the cellar may come up 
into some such space. A cupboard behind 
paneling is often utilized for this purpose. 
Another useful arrangement in connec¬ 
tion with a chimney is the utilization of 
the space that is often found in a chimney 
breast above the mantel. Small book 
shelves, cupboards, etc., may be worked 
in here to advantage. 
That part of the kitchen chimney below 
the first floor and which is merely a shell 
of brick surrounding a hollow space is 
sometimes utilized as a sort of automatic 
ash sifter. The ash pit of the range has 
an opening directly under the grate con¬ 
nected to a sloping pipe. The ashes drop 
directly into this hole and slide into the 
top of the chimney space at one end. In¬ 
side of this chamber is placed a wire screen 
of one-half-inch mesh sloped at about 
forty-five degrees from just under the en¬ 
tering ash pipe at the top to near the bot¬ 
tom at the other side. As the ashes slide 
down over this, the dust falls through and 
accumulates at the bottom, while the larger 
Smith and His Wife 
and Their Evenings 
How She Helped Cut Out 
Overtime at the Office 
Young Mrs. Tom Smith thought her 
husband had to work entirely too hard. 
It worried her. 
Night after night, Tom had to go back to his 
desk. Frequently on Sundays, too. 
He was the “Statistics Man” of a small but 
growing company, and the eye-straining, brain- 
fagging work with figures, records and details 
was telling on him. 
Besides, he and she were cheated out of their 
evenings together. 
Well, one day Mrs. Tom read in a magazine 
about a time-work-and-worry-saving business ma¬ 
chine. 
And straightway she saw it would cut out the 
night-work which was robbing Tom of his rest 
and recreation. 
It seemed to her a wonderful machine. For it 
did work which she had supposed only mail's 
brains could do. 
It added, multiplied, subtracted and divided. 
It added dollars and cents, or feet and inches, 
or pounds and ounces, or fractions, or anything. 
And it was mechanically impossible for the 
machine to make a mistake. 
It was the Burroughs Adding and Listing Ma¬ 
chine. 
And sent to any office on free trial. 
Mrs. Tom could hardly wait to tell Tom. 
He knew of the “Burroughs” but said the busi¬ 
ness wasn't “Big enough.” Besides, he hadn’t 
the say-so.” 
But Mrs. Tom was determined to “emancipate” 
her husband. 
So, taking matters in her own hands, while he 
was at the office one day, she wrote the manu¬ 
facturers for their book, “A Better Day’s Profits” 
— telling them to send it to Tom’s firm. 
Well, the book came, addressed to the com¬ 
pany — and went to the Boss’s desk. It wasn’t a 
catalog—but a business book—so unusual, so full 
of new profit-producing ways of doing things, 
that it set the gentleman thinking. 
And the free, fair trial, which put it up to 
the machine to make good, appealed to the busi¬ 
ness-sense of the Boss. 
The Burroughs is now a prized “assistant” in 
that office at work every day. 
No more night-work in that office. 
Any firm, no matter how small, may have a 
free, fair trial of the Burroughs. 
Burroughs Adding Machine Co. 
10 Burroughs Block, Detroit, Michigan 
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