HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 1915 
Residence of Ralph Peters, Esq., President Long Island R. R. 
Ay mar Embury, II., Architect, New York 
Shingles stained with Cabot's Shingle Stains, stucco stained 
with Cabot’s Waterproof Cement Stains, and lined 
with Cabot's Quill for warmth 
Build Beautiful Houses 
They are just as cheap as ugly ones. Your 
reputation for taste depends mainly upon 
the outside of your house—most people 
never see the inside. You can make the 
outside artistic, harmonious, a joy to your¬ 
self and a pleasure to your neighbors, by 
staining it with 
Cabot’s Creosote Stains 
The colors are soft, deep and velvety, and 
they make beautiful houses more beautiful, 
commonplace houses attractive and redeem 
ugly houses. The colors are lasting, 
they can be applied by anyone at small 
expense, they cost 50% less than paint, and 
the Creosote thoroughly preserves the wood. 
If there is any cement stucco on your house 
the same coloring effects can be obtained on 
that with 
Cabot's Stucco Stains 
which tint the surface in warm, natural 
effects and at the same time make it rain¬ 
proof. 
Build Warm Houses 
It costs less than trying to heat cold ones, 
and is more comfortable and healthful. A 
few dollars spent in the beginning will make 
your house wind and frost proof. 
Cabot’s Sheathing Quilt 
is a “comforter” that warms the whole 
family. One layer is warmer than 28 layers 
of cheap paper. Mr. Collins, whose resi¬ 
dence is shown below, says: "The Quilt is 
certainly a good investment, as the house is in a very 
• exposed position, and after the hardest winter for 
years without a frozen pipe or any difficulty in heating, 
I feel that the small additional cost over building 
paper has already been saved in coal and comfort. ” 
You can get Cabot’s goods all over the 
country. Send for Samples, catalogs 
and name of nearest agent. 
SAMUEL CABOT, Inc. 
Manufacturing Chemists 
11 Oliver Street, Boston, Mass. 
Residence of Walter M. Collins, Builder, Bayside 
itself on the face of our American dwell¬ 
ings. If carriages or automobiles are a 
real element in the life of the owner, he 
takes them more as a matter of course far 
more simply. His house is then of a suffi¬ 
ciently greater extent to make a carriage 
arch a possible solution, particularly if 
placed at the entrance to his stable yard; 
or a separate court and side door for this 
purpose is an element to be provided in 
the plan arrangement of his dwelling. It 
somewhat answers the same purpose as 
the old-fashioned side door of America. 
That door opening directly into the gar¬ 
den, the one most convenient of access to 
the neighborhood caller — full grown and 
running over, when no one had leisure or 
time to deviate by the unused routes of the 
formal “front door” when leaving home 
for school, for business or for pleasure. 
Formerly, no American home was com¬ 
plete without it, and in x'estricting our¬ 
selves—as we are now apparently willing 
to do — to two doors, one the “front” en¬ 
trance, and one the “back," we are recog¬ 
nizing a distinct striving for a different 
sort of life, obtained by a loss of intimacy 
of family association which, at least, our 
English contemporaries have not yet 
recognized. 
The English house, of even modest size, 
often provides this intimate doorway. 
There it opens perhaps from the back of 
the house (it must always be remembered 
that in the most English houses the living 
portion is on the opposite side from the 
street, and the service portion at one end, 
with a doorway that goes upon a service 
yard and towards the street as well) di¬ 
rectly into a garden — or orchard, if the 
place be suburban and of sufficient extent. 
Around this door, never more than a step 
above the greensward beyond, binges the 
real life of the English household. Such a 
door is of a different character altogether 
than the house necessarily presents upon 
the street. Oftentimes it is nothing more 
nor less than a French window, sometimes 
a pair of them, swinging wide open the 
house to the porch or closed to shelter the 
hall from the over-brusque outdoor air. 
Sometimes this doorway enters into the 
hall, sometimes directly into the study or 
living-room ; and often it is supplemented 
bv a similar entrance connecting dining¬ 
room and porch, permitting of tea or 
luncheon being served in the outer air 
when the weather warrants. 
Why should we Americans voluntarily 
relinquish all our dearly derived preroga¬ 
tives? If the side door is admittedly too 
informal a relic to remain in the Ameri¬ 
can home life of to-day, why can we not 
at least substitute the garden doorway, 
which remains the distinctive element of 
the garden front of every English dwell¬ 
ing, no matter how lowly or small a cot¬ 
tage that dwelling may be? How many 
houses in America possess their garden 
frontage, even when of the more preten¬ 
tious class; or, for that matter, how many 
American families possess even a pretense 
of that garden, which itself would pro- 
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