House and Garden 
Mercer Boiler for Steam and Hot Water Heating 
Our Heating Boilers 
and Radiators 
are made for the home 
where the Architect 
and Owner demand 
uniform heat in all 
weather. 
The efficiency of our 
apparatus makes this 
always possible. 
MILLS SAFETY BOILERS 
THE H. B. SMITH CO. 
Factory, Westfield, Mass. 
728 Arch St., Philadelphia 
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1006 Arch Street, Philadelphia 
VITREOUS CHINAWARE 
FOR THE 
HOME BATH-ROOM 
PLATE 986-K 
T he bath-room for your home should 
receive the most careful attention 
of any room in the house. Abso¬ 
lute sanitation is the aim of civilized people, 
and the sanitation of your home bath-room 
is your first consideration. Without sani¬ 
tary fixtures this object cannot be reached, 
no matter how good the workmen may be 
who instal the bathtub, washstand or closet 
bowl and flush tank. 
For reasons of cleanliness and durability 
solid white vitreous chinaware is firmly 
established as the nearest possible perfec¬ 
tion in bath-room sanitary equipment. For 
many reasons vitreous china closets and 
closet flushing tanks, as above illustrated, 
demand your serious consideration. Being 
made of a solid white vitreous chinaware, 
they are impervious to the action of water 
or acids, having no seams there is no dan¬ 
ger of warping, and the surface being a 
clear hard glaze baked into the body of the 
ware as an integral part, paint and varnish 
troubles are eliminated. No metal lining 
is needed, therefore the dangers of corro¬ 
sion are not to be feared, and the cost of 
vitreous china fixtures does not exceed that 
of a closet with the usual metal-lined 
wooden tank. 
Of the hardness of rock, simplicity of 
operation, ease of cleansing and beauty of 
design, vitreous china closets and closet 
flushing tanks are acknowledged the ideal 
fixtures for the home bath-room. 
We are the largest manufacturers in the 
world of these fixtures, and will gladly send 
further information if you will write us. 
TVi^e Tranton 
PotteriQS Qompant/ 
Main Offices and Works, 
TRENTON, N. J., U. S. A. 
The Canadian-Trenton Potteries Co., Ltd., 
ST. JOHN’S, QUEBEC. 
NEW YORK’S ABANDONED FARMS 
HE railroads declare that they can^,^ 
employ 200,000 more men than'^ 
they now have. Factories and commer¬ 
cial pursuits have drawn men away from 
the farm. The result is that in some of 
the older States, including New York, not 
only has there been a reduction in the 
proportion of farm labor to all labor, but 
there has been an actual decline in the 
number of men engaged in agriculture. 
In New York it is placed at 25,000. The 
National Department of Agriculture has 
reported in New York 12,000 abandoned 
farms and a lowering of land values. 
This is due partly to the far Western 
movement, to the increased production 
in Canadian farm lands as well as to the 
attractions of the cities. 
On the other hand, it is to be consid¬ 
ered that the use of farm implements and 
farm machinery goes far to make up the 
loss in farm labor. It is said that the 
saving in the United States from the use 
of improved machinery in the cost of 
production of the seven chief crops 
amounts to 681 millions of dollars in a 
single year .—Home and Farm. 
WHY ST. ANDREW UNDERSHAFT WAS 
SO NAMED 
HERE is a church in Leaden- 
hall Street, London, bearing the 
strange name of St. Andrew Undershaft. 
It seems that some 400 years ago, every 
May Day, a very high shaft or pole was 
set up opposite the south door of St. 
Andrew’s and adorned with flowers. 
This pole was actually higher than the 
church steeple, which was, therefore, 
literally under the shaft for the time 
being, and led our ancestors to bestow 
upon the church a name which is quite 
unintelligible to those of their descend¬ 
ants who are ignorant of the history of 
the locality.— Invention. 
IXIAS 
HESE little bulbous flowers are 
regarded by some as valuable as 
Freesias. They are of various bright 
colors, and a dozen or more bulbs should 
be placed in a shallow, eight-inch pan of 
leaf-mould and sand. The plants re¬ 
sent a stiff, tenacious clay soil. Get 
and plant the bulbs as early in autumn 
as they can be procured, and treat them 
just as you would treat Freesias. Avoid 
over-potting.— Park’s Floral Magazine. 
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