| HOUSE AND GARDEN 
218 
March, 1913 
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Western fkctric 
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Vacuum Cleaner 
Eventually you will buy a 
vacuum cleaner, because you 
know that without it your home 
cannot be kept wholly and per¬ 
fectly clean. The only question 
is—which machine is best? 
In the Western Electric-Sturte- 
vant you can buy a cleaner of 
proven merit representing the 
combined effort of two manufac¬ 
turers with over 30 years’ ex¬ 
perience. The simplicity of this 
machine will appeal to you, and 
the name of its makers is in 
itself a guarantee of satisfac¬ 
tory operation. 
Make your choice from our three 
portable machines. In price they 
range from $47.50 to $125.00. If you j 
are building, let / 
us tell you about till 
our stationary 
cleaners. Qlfojffi lk 
Details in Booklet yi 
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WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY 
Manufacturers of the 7,000,000 “Bell” Telephones 
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EQUIPMENT FOR EVERY ELECTRICAL NEED 
STOKES’STANDARD ASTERS, 
SEVEN KINDS, FIFTY CENTS 
Superb branching asters of white, rose, 
pink, purple, lavender, crimson, dark 
violet or mixed, each color the best that 
can be had. Ma sses of immense flowers, 
borne on strong branches, make brilliant 
display, throughout the summer. Any 
! color, or mixed. 10 cents a packet: one 
packet of each of 7 colors, 50 cents postpaid. 
PLANT STOKES’ SEEDS AT MY EXPENSE 
To show their quality I will send you 50 
cents worth of seeds, credit slip good for 25 
cents on your next order, and my 1913 catalog 
all for 25 cents. The seeds are one packet each of : 
TTUCE—Bip Boston. Best heading 
variety for open ground or frames 
Big, solid, crisp, tender. 
RADISH — Scarlet Glob/. Ready in twenty da /s. 
TOMATO—Bonny Best Early. Earliest, biggest bearer. 
ASTERS — Stokes’ Standard. 
PANSIES — Stokes. Standard. Blend of finest French. 
Mail 25 cts.to-dayand getseeds, credit slip and catalog. 
Catalog alone, KliEE 
WALTER P. STOKES, Dept. 133. *219 Market St., Philadelphia 
Smoky Fireplaces 
Made to Draw 
Payment Conditional on Success 
N. WHITLEY E c2 , nfr£tw d 
210 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Heating—Ventilating—Air Filtration 
Let Us HELP 
plan your garden and advise with you regard¬ 
ing the landscaping of your estate. Our nur¬ 
series (more than 6G0 acres) offer the finest 
collection in America for lawn and garden 
planting Our advice is yours for the asking. 
Write for Catalog D 
THESTEPHEN HOYT’SSONSCOMPANY 
Est. 1848 New Canaan, Conn. Inc/1903 
FREDERIC 
out shaking the snowy petals of the 
spireas, lighting the flaming torches of the 
fiery cydonias, and scattering sunshine 
under the long stems of the fragrant yel¬ 
low jasmines and dainty banksia roses. 
Julia Lester Dillon 
The Collector’s Corner 
Colonial Candlesticks 
T HE genuine antiquity of the pair of 
massive brass candlesticks shown in 
the illustration is not a matter of mere con¬ 
jecture, for they were neither a dubious 
“find” in an out-of-the-way place, nor a 
product of the ubiquitous antique shop. 
They were recently left as a legacy to a 
Virginia woman by a venerable neighbor, 
the last of her line in a community that 
contains Washington homes, Washington 
heirlooms and so many other interesting- 
relics of a historic past that nothing under 
a hundred years of age is worthy of con¬ 
sideration as an antique. 
The candlesticks, of excellent propor¬ 
tions and graceful outline, are eighteen 
A Pair of Genuine Colonials 
inches high, and like everything else manu¬ 
factured of brass in those primitive times, 
are extraordinarily heavy and solid in con¬ 
struction. Their bases, if nothing else, are 
proof positive of their Colonial origin. 
Neither circular nor square, as are the 
bases of modern candlesticks, they are 
rectangular in shape and seem quite small 
and out of proportion to the size of the 
candlesticks themselves. Mantel shelves 
in Colonial days were so very narrow that 
nothing with a stand more than three or 
four inches wide could be placed on them. 
Candlesticks therefore, no matter how 
elaborate or massive they might have been, 
were of necessity made with narrow bases 
in order that they might occupy the con¬ 
spicuous places for which they were 
planned with a small amount of space. 
In writing to advertisers please mention House and Garden. 
