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House & Garden 
The Torch 
In Winter and Summer it is the all-important room of the Country 
House; therefore ’tis well to give thought to its Decorations and 
Furnishings. 
The Topular Shop 
contains a wealth of suggestions—There are exclusive linens 
and chintzes, cushioned chairs, lamps, rugs, flower gardens and 
a great variety of other unusual things^ all peculiarly suited to 
making a Porch cheerful and livable. 
The fact that we will go to your Home and indicate just how 
best to improve, by good furnishing, your Porch or any room 
in the house, is one of the reasons why McHUGH’S is deserv¬ 
edly called the “POPULAR SHOP” ( Trade Mark Registered) 
Orders from far aivay friends 
are attended to hy mail 
JOSEPH P. MCHUGH & SON 
JAMES SLATER MCHUGH 
Q West 42 "^^ Street O" convenient Established 1878 
* block in town ' 
Rookwood R 
Columns, Urns and 
Flower Box suitable for 
Sun Room or Garden 
Architectural Faience 
made by 
The Rookwood Pottery Co 
Cincinnati, Ohio 
A Place for Everything 
{Continued from page 27) 
the problem does occur it is often 
perplexing to keep the box filled and 
yet not continually strew the iloor 
with dust and bits of bark. The 
owner of one country house solved 
the problem by having a portion of a 
long seat that ran beside the hearth 
built with a hinged top. The house 
was so constructed that he had an 
ample sized door opening into the 
seat from the landing leading to the 
basement. It was an easy matter to 
supply the woodbox seat from the 
basement stairway. 
Providing Other Conveniences 
The linen and bedroom closet ar¬ 
rangements are as varied as the num¬ 
ber of houses that are built. Win¬ 
dows, shelves, hat boxes, hooks, poles 
and drawers are the most common 
points of equipment. It is a great 
saving of clothes if adequate ar¬ 
rangements for their care and pro¬ 
tection have been provided. Shoes 
should be kept from the dust, but the 
slanting drawers sometimes sug¬ 
gested are not always desirable, as 
the weight of the shoe itself presses 
on the downward end and spoils the 
shape by buckling. 
Hat boxes can be built in so that 
they are as convenient as the ones 
bought in furnishing stores and much 
more durable and easier to keep clean 
than the cretonne and chintz ones so 
often admired. A small rack, as a 
towel rack, is handy in a clothes 
closet, for not infrequently it is de¬ 
sired to stretch out veils or ribbons 
as they hang. 
The attic, wdth its great boxes, 
chests or shelves for blankets and 
poles for hanging discarded gar¬ 
ments, and the basement with its 
shelves and bins for fruits and vege¬ 
tables or its racks and tables for the 
laundry, can be made as elaborate 
and complete as the owner is w'illing 
to supply. The attic and basement 
space in the average modern house 
is not utilized as much as it could be. 
A business man's office or a manu¬ 
facturing storehouse would not be 
considered one hundred percent effi¬ 
cient unless all its equipment were 
properly placed and labeled or other¬ 
wise designated. The woman who 
will not only have her household the 
most perfectly conducted but will 
also have the most time for other 
diversions, is she who has placed her 
dwelling on a businesslike basis. 
Keeping Down the Upkeep of the Car 
{Continued from page 11) 
ature does not affect the internal 
pressure to any appreciable extent, 
despite a general impression to the 
contrary. The only circumstances 
under which the matter of tempera¬ 
ture is of importance is when an 
engine-driven pump is used, as the 
rapid compression of the free air may 
generate sufficient heat to expand the 
air to such an extent that if the gauge 
be applied to the tire an hour or so 
after inflation, the pressure will be 
found to have appreciably decreased. 
This is a point which merits atten¬ 
tion in the process of lengthening 
the life of the tire. 
R ubber treads and fabric linings 
have their respective enemies; 
oil and light in the case of the 
former, and moisture in the case of 
the latter. Obviously, therefore, 
care in lubricating tbe car is essential 
as even a drop of oil may cause the 
loss of a tire. Tires and tubes should 
be kept in the dark when not in use, 
and it is a good plan to carry the 
latter in light-tight bags. 
Correct inflation practically elimi¬ 
nates the moisture trouble, as it pre¬ 
vents water obtaining access to the 
lining via the rim. Take these simple 
precautions, make certain that the 
inner sections of the rims are kept 
free from rust and are periodically 
painted or treated with a graphite 
preparation and, finally, have all 
slight tread cuts repaired without 
delay and, so far as the tires them¬ 
selves are concerned, the high cost 
of motoring may be considered in a 
great measure as a thing of the past. 
Exterior influences affecting tire 
efficiency and consequent cost are 
disalignment of wheels and incor¬ 
rectly adjusted brakes. If the front 
tires exhibit a series of wavy lines, 
perhaps, exposing the _ lining in 
places, and look as if a giant cat had 
been scratching them, it is time to 
take immediate action, as even an 
hour’s running may cause irreparable 
damage. The cause of the trouble 
is that the wheels are out of line, a 
circumstance which may be caused 
either by a sudden blow against the 
curb or by the shifting of the axle. 
The remedy is simple but the work 
should be done by an expert. This 
condition is unusual in the rear 
wheels, but a somewhat similar 
trouble is caused if the brakes are 
not so adjusted that they operate on 
both drums at the same moment. 
C AR track junctions and railroad 
crossings contribute their quota 
to the repairman’s bank roll liy caus¬ 
ing injuries to tire treads but pos¬ 
sible trouble in this direction may 
be avoided by driving at reasonable 
speed and taking junction points at a 
wide angle; and it seems hardly nec¬ 
essary to add that the thoughtful 
motorist will refrain from traveling 
at speed over unknown and possibly 
rough roads. Tires of the grade 
usually referred to as “seconds” are, 
as a rule, an unsatisfactory invest¬ 
ment even when the relatively lower 
price is taken into consideration. 
The wise motorist will purchase the 
best tire obtainable, and if he, in ad¬ 
dition, decides to fit over-sizes he 
will undoubtedly show a handsome 
mileage-dividend, provided he de¬ 
votes a reasonalile amount of care 
to his tires while in use. Should he 
decide to store his car for the winter, 
he will jack up all four wheels from 
the floor; or better still will remove 
the tires, clean and wrap them care¬ 
fully, and scrape and paint the rims 
ready for the coming spring. 
Having endeavored to deal with 
the tires, as representing the most 
costly item in car upkeep, as fully as 
is possible in an article of this scope, 
gasoline comes next in importance. 
It has been estimated that under 
normal conditions only one-fifth of 
the quantity of gasoline poured into 
the tank actually reaches the driving 
wheels in the form of power, the re¬ 
maining four-fifths being absorbed 
by friction and other causes. It is 
not possible to obtain productive 
power from all of each gallon but 
there are many apparently little 
things which may combine either to 
reduce or improve the record. 
Of course, the carburetor and its 
adjustment are the greatest factors 
in determining whether the results 
be satisfactory or otherwise—indeed, 
they are looked upon by many mo¬ 
torists as being the only one; and 
perhaps for this reason other ever- 
