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always possible. 
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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. 
T/i^e Tronton 
PottQriQS Compant/ 
Main Offices and Works, 
TRENTON, N. J., U. S. A. 
The Canadian-Trenton Potteries Co., Ltd., 
ST. JOHN’S, QUEBEC. 
transplanted them in July when the 
plants were more than two feet high. 
They grew to he over seven feet high at 
maturity and blossomed very freely in 
the autumn. In transplanting such 
large plants, choose a wet, cloudy after¬ 
noon, and lift them with a garden spade, 
raking all the soil that wall possibly cling 
to the roots, and set them into a deep 
hole, firming the soil well about the 
roots and watering freely for tw o or three 
days. 
Cosmos blossoms are single but very 
beautiful, resembling daisies and single 
dahlias in general appearance. As cut 
flow'ers they will last for a long time when 
kept in a vase of w^ater in a cool room. 
They have been kept fresh for more 
than three weeks. 
I^ate one fall we carried a loose 
bunch of the blossoms on a 250- 
mile railway trip. At the end of the 
journey they were badly wilted, but on 
being placed in water in a cool room, 
they revived, buds continued to open, 
and they lasted for nearly two w eeks. 
Blossoming so late as they do, when 
scarcely a flower is to be seen outside, 
together with their good keeping quali¬ 
ties, make them a late plant worth culti¬ 
vating. A few vases of these delicate 
blossoms and feathery foliage will 
brighten the shortening days long after 
common blossoms have all died and 
gone .—Farm and Home. 
LONDON LANDMARKS 
NE of the few remaining land¬ 
marks in Whitehall, London, 
passed out of existence recently. This 
was Vanbrugh House, in Whitehall 
yard, which was built by Sir John Van¬ 
brugh in 1696, and familiarly known as 
“The Pill Box,” in consequence of its 
diminutive size. Prior to 1831 it was 
the residence of Lord Stuart de Rothe¬ 
say, but in that year it was taken over 
by the then recently established United 
Service Institution, which together with 
its famous museum of naval and military 
relics, was housed there until 1895, 
when the queen granted the use of the 
historic banqueting house of the Palace 
of Whitehall. The old building, which 
stands on the site of the quarters allotted 
to the officers of the Jewel House, has 
now been demolished to make room for 
the erection of the new War Office on 
ground formerly occupied by Carring¬ 
ton House.— Exchange. 
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