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Many economies are permissible in a 
bungalow that would be out of place in a 
more pretentious house, even impossible 
in a city apartment. For this reason we 
were able to furnish the place comfortably 
for little outlay. Bungalow life is the sim¬ 
ple life, and expensive or elaborate ar¬ 
ticles of furniture are fortunately in very 
bad taste. Baskets and boxes of various 
sizes were given a coat of paint and served 
the purpose of many higher priced recep¬ 
tacles. Doors and window bases, in the 
more practical rooms, were fitted with 
hooks or rods and used for many neces¬ 
sary articles. Folding tables and folding 
chairs saved both expense and space. All 
furnishings were planned to avoid heavy 
work in cleaning. Casters were placed on 
furniture wherever practical. Bookcases 
of the sectional variety were chosen, rugs 
are all of light weight. No unnecessary 
ornaments or other articles are kept in 
sight. A cheap laundry table, of the type 
that forms a settee when the top is turned 
back, is painted to match the other furni¬ 
ture and takes the place of a more expen¬ 
sive article. 
Objections might be urged against the 
bungalow style of house, that as the rooms 
are all on the ground floor, there is little 
privacy within, and that the windows are 
too much exposed to passers-by. As to 
the first, we found that a three-fold screen, 
with thin curtains, gave privacy to the 
bedroom without shutting off light or 
ventilation. If a sloping plot of ground 
can be selected, as in our case, many of the 
windows are practically as on a second 
floor, and escape exposure to the public 
eye and too great convenience for sneak 
thieves. These facts, together with the 
good drainage provided by a side hill, the 
superior view and better ventilation, are 
points most emphatically in favor of hill 
country as an ideal site for bungalow 
building. 
The Railroad Tie House 
(Continued from page 473) 
the house in a veritable bower of color. 
From the stone steps, descending from 
the pergola we reached the upper terrace, 
sixty or seventy feet long, with a flower 
bed running its entire length. From this 
upper terrace two flights of stone steps 
flanked by stone pillars led you to the 
lower terrace, where another flower bed, 
some fifteen feet in width and as long as 
the terrace, is always a glow of beauty 
with its ever-flowering plants. These 
plants are so arranged that each row, blos¬ 
soming at a different time, gives a per¬ 
petual bloom from the first spring flower 
—the wonderful iris. Following these is 
a constant succession, until the last and 
one of the most beautiful—the chrysan¬ 
themum—blends its flowers with the ever- 
changing fall foliage. 
Few if any of the trees were removed; 
everything was kept as nature had placed 
Stop The fce-Man’s 
, Muss and Dirt 
Eliminate this disagreeable, dirty and unsanitary 
method of icing refrigerators by installing the 
Audiffren-Singrun Refrigerating Machine. 
This simple, reliable refrigerating machine will 
maintain the proper degree of dry cold to preserve 
food much better than ice—and will also make ice 
for table use as pure as the water from which it is 
made. 
Audiffren-Singrun 
Refrigerating Machine^ 
makes the air colder and drier than is possible with ice and consequently keeps food better and 
The smallest of these machines, which requires about H. P. to operate, will make n pounds of ice 
per hour; or if applied to cooling- a refrigerator, will produce refrigeration equal to melting of 16 pounds 
of ice per hour. The operation of the Audiffren-Singrun is simplicity itself —one motion starts or stops 
the machine. It can be used with any refrigerator. 
Write our nearest branch for catalog No. 50 and full information. 
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Come and pick out some ever¬ 
greens for August or September 
planting. Hicks’ evergreens 
transplant equally well in spring 
or fall. 
Don’t think that because you failed to 
buy the evergreens you should have this 
spring, that planting must be put off until 
next spring. 
Come and make your selections now, 
of evergreens, shade trees, shrubs and 
hardy plants. We will ship them in the 
fall at the times best suited for their 
transplanting. Fall planting gives the 
roots a chance to become established, giv¬ 
ing a stronger growth and fuller foliage 
growth next spring. Fall planting does 
away with the vexatious troubles of spring 
work when men are so hard to secure and 
so independent. 
Run down in your auto. It makes a 
delightful trip. We are located on the 
Jericho Turnpike. Easy to reach from 
New York or any part of the Island. If 
you live in Westchester County or Con¬ 
necticut, come by way of Rye Beach 
Ferry to Sea Cliff. If you cannot come 
now, send for our catalog and get par¬ 
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later on. 
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