HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1915 
364 
Things Kept 
New Last Their 
Full Life 
When you put the new 
screens into your house ; 
when you bought the new 
swing; when the grape 
trellis and lawn mower and 
the front fence were new — 
you felt a pride in them. 
If you do not feel the same 
pride now, isn’t it because 
they have grown a bit 
dilapidated from neglect ? 
/ Most of the accessories 
around a house go to pieces before you get 
their full value in service unless they are 
kept in condition. 
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the weather-worn ones. 
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and “Acme Quality Painting Guide.” 
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are easy to use and give lasting, beautiful 
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Keep always on hand at least a can each of 
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woodwork and furniture; Acme Quality 
White Enamel for iron bedsteads, furniture, 
woodwork and all similar surfaces; Acme 
Black Iron Enamel for ranges, stovepipes 
and other metal or wood surface. These 
will cover many of the “touching=up” jobs. 
Put up in containers of £ = pint and up, with 
f riction = top, replaceable covers which are 
easy to open and close and keep the contents 
i n usable condition. 
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During the hot dry months do you have to use your water sparingly in the 
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A House for Outdoor Living 
(Continued from page 330) 
is spread a plot of lawn, into which is set a 
small concrete pool of water, with a view 
of the house beyond. This nook is par¬ 
ticularly ideal in many ways—its charm¬ 
ing combination of colors, the semi-seclu¬ 
sion it affords, the view it commands, 
and, lastly, its pure, fragrant-scented 
breezes. 
Pergolas are always delightful garden 
features, from both a utilitarian and a 
picturesque standpoint, and no Western 
garden seems quite complete without one. 
The ones here shown constitute not only 
a handsome decorative accessory, as well 
as serving to lure one to interesting gar¬ 
den spots, but also form, with their classic 
white pillars, a charming architectural link 
between the house and the grounds. And 
that, structurally considered, should in¬ 
variably be the aim. 
Beyond the reach of the pergolas lie 
wilder plots of garden — veritable jungles, 
in miniature, of trees and shrubbery, 
wherein the formal scheme plays no part. 
Here one finds clumps of bamboo, "ele¬ 
phant-ear” plants, and other strange vege¬ 
tation, and now and then a boulder-bor¬ 
dered pool. Everywhere, in this portion 
of the grounds, wind sinuous paths of 
gravel, edged with cobblestones, passing 
from jungle plots to plots of open lawn. 
This idea of combining the wild and pic¬ 
turesque with the more stately and digni¬ 
fied — not really formal, however—is es¬ 
pecially commendable; and when one 
considers the wide variety of scenery and 
garden features it scarcely seems possible 
that no more than three acres of ground 
is utilized in the creation of this wonderful 
little Paradise. 
While all of us cannot possess a garden 
so extensive and beautiful as the one here 
described — which, by the way, was de¬ 
signed, like the house, by the firm of 
Myron Hunt & Elmer Grey, architects 
of Pasadena — we should at least be in¬ 
duced to make the very most of our in¬ 
dividual opportunities. Even a tiny plot, 
perchance located even in the heart of a 
large city, if converted by oneself into a 
shrine wherein one may worship Nature 
a little and enjoy and be benefited by the 
pure, invigorating air of the outdoors, can 
become a little Paradise, if one’s heart be 
in the undertaking. At least, I find it so— 
and I am sure the owner of that stunted 
geranium on the fire-escape would find it 
doubly so. His or her case is more or 
less pathetic, but then it shows an appre¬ 
ciation of Nature’s beauty. And it is that 
which eventually leads one into the open— 
even “back to the soil” sometimes. Then, 
too, when the garden is planned it should 
be designed so as to invite one into it, not 
merely a spot to be admired through the 
window pane. 
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