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House & Garden 
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138-page “Bathroom 
Book,’’ which illustrates 
the latest examples of 
plumbing fixtures for 
bathroom, kitchen and 
laundry, and shows 22 
model bathrooms, with 
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prices. Mailed for 4c 
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Any plumber can give 
you an estimate on Mott’s 
plumbing fixtures installed 
complete. 
newest contribution 
to modern bathroom 
equipment is the vitreous 
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china wall brackets. A high 
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usual pedestal—simplifies 
bathroom cleaning. 
Another new Mott fixture is the 
needle and rain shower in combi¬ 
nation with Mott’s light-weight 
porcelain bath. When not in use 
the needle shower arms fold back 
against the wall. 
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Under 
Garbage 
Keeps your garbage out of sight in the ground, away from stray dogs, 
cats and the typhoid fly. Also saves pounding of frozen garbage. 
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Come Into the Garden I 
Welcome your guests thru a snow- 
white arch to a sheltered nook where 
a bench invites a quiet chat. Garden 
tables, chairs, pergolas, trellises— 
whatever your garden needs—yon 
will find in our 72-page Gardencraft 
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This is the Mathews Ilall-mark 
Keeping Down the Upkeep of the Car 
{Continued from page 54) 
present possibilities are either over¬ 
looked or neglected. Assuming that 
the usually experienced car owner 
of today is conversant with the mat¬ 
ter of correct carburetor adjustment 
and its effect upon the fuel-mileage, 
he may still effect a considerable 
saving in his annual gasoline bill by 
giving a little thought to the lesser 
factors which in the aggregate may 
undo much of the good work accom¬ 
plished by the correctly adjusted and 
perfectly working carbureting system. 
It may not be generally realized 
that under-inflated tires tend to in¬ 
crease the fuel bill for the reason 
that they present a greater surface 
to the road than would otherwise be 
the case, and thus cause an appre¬ 
ciable amount of suction and conse¬ 
quent absorption of power. Wheels 
which are not in alignment act sim¬ 
ilarly in causing the excessive ex¬ 
penditure of fuel, and yet another 
cause of expense in this direction is 
a brake band which drags on its 
drum. Sometimes it may be neces¬ 
sary to use a heavy grease in a worn 
transmission but too often an un¬ 
necessarily thick lubricant is used by 
motorists who do not realize the 
horsepower absorbed thereby. 
Other individual small, but col¬ 
lectively serious causes of extrava¬ 
gant fuel consumption may be traced 
throughout the power plant, the run¬ 
ning gear and the final drive. Lost 
motion in the latter or in the univer¬ 
sal joints is a prolific cause of fuel 
wastage, and judicious adjustment 
will probably effect wonders. Obvi¬ 
ously, if the passion for adjustment 
he exercised to its limit, conditions 
may be altered for the worse rather 
than improved; as of the two evils, 
lost motion caused by loose parts is 
the lesser. 
Present grade gasoline is liable to 
contain quite an appreciable amount 
of kerosene, a fact which tends to 
cause an increase of carbon forma¬ 
tion in the combustion chambers. 
This, if neglected, is sure to cause 
pre-ignition sooner or later and 
thereby consume quite a lot of com¬ 
bustible mixture without giving ade¬ 
quate mileage results. Carbon should 
be scraped or burned from the cylin¬ 
der and piston heads as soon as its 
presence in quantities is evident. It 
may be removed by chemical means 
but the motorist should be careful 
to use only preparations of known 
reliability. 
It is economical to use the best 
lubricants, or rather to use the oil 
or grease best suited to the individual 
car. The total expense in a sea¬ 
son's running is, in any case, so small 
as to be negligible; and the absence 
of trouble ensured by the adoption 
of the right grade more than com¬ 
pensates for the slight extra cost. 
Poor oil may result in bearing 
trouble which is often a costly mat¬ 
ter to rectify, and it will probably 
cause extra expense owing to its 
powers of developing carbon deposit 
and choked exhaust mufflers. 
The foregoing are but a few of the 
principal causes of and remedies for 
the high cost of motoring; but a 
little care and thought expended on 
the indicated lines and others which 
will suggest themselves will he found 
to furnish ample proof that the 
adage “Forewarned is forearmed,’’ 
may correctly be applied to the prob¬ 
lem of keeping down the running 
cost of the automobile, and will re¬ 
sult in a more efficient check on ex¬ 
penditure than will any system of 
keeping tab after the expense is ac¬ 
tually incurred. 
The Gentle Art of Hedging 
{Continued from page 30) 
and it is altogether a dependable and 
a truly beautiful hedge when once 
thoroughly established. 
It is native over a wide section of 
the continent, and will thrive in 
all parts of the temperate zone 
either as a hedge or as a tree. Its 
height when allowed to grow natur¬ 
ally as a tree is from 75' to HCK, and 
it is a rapid grower. This is of 
course greatly to its advantage as a 
hedge plant. 
One more thorny shrub is available 
for hedges, but this is not a native. 
It is the buckthorn or hart’s thorn 
of Europe, Rhamnus Cathartiens, 
planted here long ago to such an ex¬ 
tent that it is now naturalized to a 
somewhat limited degree, over a con¬ 
siderable portion of the East. Of 
late years it has not been used ex¬ 
tensively, and the planting of a buck¬ 
thorn hedge now seems quite out of 
fashion. Nevertheless,- it is a very 
effective barrier, as well as a very 
attractive shrub; and particularly for 
the estate or farm where_ a highly 
finished effect is the aim, it is particu¬ 
larly desirable, for its foliage is 
dense and a brilliant green, its leaves 
are shining and free from insects 
always, and it stands shearing ex¬ 
tremely well, forming a broad, dense 
mass 10' to 20' high. Such a hedge 
is particularly well adapted to a care¬ 
fully laid out and intensively culti¬ 
vated landscape. 
As bird shelter, too, buckthorn is 
valuable—as indeed are all the thorny 
shrubs—and bird cover is coming to 
be regarded as highly by the intelli¬ 
gent husbandman as it is by the pure¬ 
ly sentimental bird-lover; for birds 
are the land’s one salvation from the 
constantly increasing hordes of in¬ 
sects that annually grow to be a 
greater menace. 
The Hedges of Beauty 
So much for the purely utilitarian 
hedge—the hedge planted to restrain 
grazing stock and to separate the 
goats from the sheep, or the cattle 
from the pigs, as the case may be. 
No thorny hedge belongs, as a mat¬ 
ter of fact, to the sheepfold, and you 
will never put one there unless you 
are willing to risk entangling your 
lambs among its spines. 
The hedge of the dooryard, the 
trim, prim hedge of the village or 
suburbs, or the less conventional 
flowery barrier of remoter environ¬ 
ment, may be chosen from a really 
wide range of species, though as a 
matter of fact, it is seldom that we 
see anything but a line of privet. 
And indeed there is nothing that will 
take the place of privet; so I am not 
to be accused of derogatory inten¬ 
tions, if j'ou please, when I decry the 
invariable choice of it. Nothing that 
grows throughout the length and 
breadth of our rather long and broad 
land is so perfectly adapted to the 
making of a low cost wall of living 
green in practically any situation. 
But this is not to say that there are 
no plants quite as well adapted to 
hedges in certain situations; and 
when others can be used, I feel that 
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