House and Garden 
Free Advice on Decoration 
T he unprecedented growth of the Correspondence Depart¬ 
ment of “ House and Garden ” has necessitated the opening 
of a new Department which will be devoted to the interest 
of those who are building, decorating or furnishing their homes. 
Beginning with the new year “ House and Garden” offers its 
readers a House Finishing, Decorating, Furnishing and Purchas¬ 
ing Service which is complete in detail and thoroughly practical. 
Full color suggestions for the exterior of the house will be supplied 
with recommendations of proper materials to obtain the results. 
For the interior, the treatment of standing woodwork and floors, 
the selection of tiles, hardware and fixtures will be considered and 
specifically recommended, with the addresses of firms from whom 
these goods may be obtained. Samples of wall coverings and 
drapery materials will be sent and selections of rugs and furniture 
made. When desired, the goods will be purchased and shipped 
to the inquirer; the lowest retail prices are quoted on all materials. 
This Department of Decoration is under the direction of 
MARGARET GREENLEAF, whose successful work as an inte¬ 
rior Designer and Decorator is well known. 
YOU ARE A DEAD ONE IF YOU CAN’T COME BACK 
WITH A GOOD TOAST 
In the SKULL TOAST BOOK 
are 200 witty toasts 
and 150 clever pictures 
(count ’em) 
Book made in shape of a skull 
Limp Leather, $1.00 
In Cloth, 60c. 
6x7^ inches. 
Sent postpaid on^receipt of price 
THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO., PHILADELPHIA 
(Norway) pine, Scotch pine, jack pine, 
Norway spruce, European larch, tama¬ 
rack, chestnut, sugar maple, and red 
oak .—Park and Cetnetery. 
USES FOR OLD NEWSPAPERS 
T_J ERE is an interesting suggestion 
which we find in a contemporary. 
Most housekeepers know how invalu¬ 
able newspapers are for packing away 
the winter clothing, the printing ink 
acting as a defiance to the stoutest moth, 
some housewives think, as successfully 
as camphor or tar-paper. For this 
reason newspapers are invaluable 
under the carpet, laid over the regu¬ 
lar carpet paper. The most valuable 
quality of newspapers in the kitchen 
however, is their ability to keep out the 
air. It is well-known that ice, com¬ 
pletely enveloped in newspapers so that 
all air is shut out, will keep a longer 
time than under other conditions; and 
that a pitcher of ice water laid in a news¬ 
paper, with the ends of the paper to¬ 
gether to exclude the air, will remain all 
night in any summer room with scarcely 
any perceptible melting of the ice. 
These facts should be utilized oftener 
than they are in the care of the sick at 
night. In freezing ice-cream, when the 
ice is scarce, pack the freezer only three- 
quarters full of ice and salt, and finish 
with newspapers, and the difference in 
the time of freezing and quality of the 
cream is not perceptible from the result 
where the freezer is packed full of ice. 
After removing the dasher it is better 
to cork up the cream and cover it tightly 
with a packing of newspapers than to use 
more ice. The newspapers retain the 
cold already in the ice better than a pack¬ 
ing of cracked ice and salt, which must 
have crevices to admit the air.— Inven¬ 
tion. 
PIPES IN DEEP WATER 
ATR. F. S. PECK, a civil engineer at 
IVX Watertown, New York, lately 
accomplished, in a very simple, cheap 
and expeditious way, what is usually a 
difficult and expensive operation—the 
laying of a long line of pipe in deep 
water. He had occasion to lay nearly 
1,000 feet of suction-pipe at Rouse’s 
Point. The water was needed for manu¬ 
facturing purposes, and as it was found 
that water near the shore was more or 
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