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House & Garden 
An Essential Part of 
Every Residence 
Clean, Safe, Freshly Filtered Water 
C ONSIDER the numerous uses of water 
in your home. Why buy the freshest 
and best foods and then have them washed 
and cooked in water that is not pure? Why 
have the finest clothes and linens if the water 
they are washed in is not free from impuri¬ 
ties that may stain or blemish them? Why 
install handsome bathroom fixtures if they 
will be discolored by dirty water? 
Enjoy bathing in water which is attractive 
and inviting. Use nothing but sparkling, 
clean, freshly filtered water for every 
purpose. 
Secure for your home 
Ideal Water by using a 
LOOMIS-MANNING FILTER 
No matter how good you believe your 
water supply to be this filter will extract 
matter that will fairly surprise you. Also 
it will always protect your home from a 
sudden or temporary pollution of the source 
of supply. 
This filter is installed with perfect ease in houses 
already built or those being built. Attached to the 
water main every drop of water passes through the 
filter with no appreciable loss in flow or pressure, 
nor is the water system disturbed in any way. 
Tbe filter is free from complications and the simple 
care can be given by anyone. The construction and 
the materials are the finest and there are several 
sizes to meet your requirements. Learn for your¬ 
self the many benefits and advantages of this filter. 
Send for 
interesting booklet 
describing it 
Loomis-Manning Filter Distributing Co. 
established J445 37 , 1 , s , ^ Philadelphia, Pa. 
What Is Good Hardware ? 
^ you are in doubt about the type of hardware to use in that house, write House & 
Garden Information Service, 440 Fourth Avenue, New York City. We will put you 
in touch with a number op reliable manufacturers whose catalogs you may consult. 
The dictates of modern 
taste require ornamen¬ 
tation without ornate 
decoration, the effect 
obtained in this knob 
and shield 
The knocker is both 
practical and necessary. 
It comes in a variety of 
forms, of which this 
Colonial design is ex¬ 
cellent 
H a R D - 
WARE is 
a detail the 
average house¬ 
builder leaves 
to the architect 
o r contractor. 
Not until the 
house is finish¬ 
ed does he rea¬ 
lize the degree 
to which it can 
make or mar a 
house. Since 
the success of a 
house depends 
upon the ac¬ 
cumulation o f 
such small de- 
tails, it be¬ 
hooves the pro- 
s p e c t i V e 
builder to give 
hardware due 
consideration. 
His choice 
will depend on 
the nature of 
the room or 
the architecture 
of the house. There 
must be harmony of line 
in the hardware. The 
Colonial door requires 
one type and the Mission 
another, with the Spanish 
still a third. Give your 
hardware as much con¬ 
sideration as 
you do your 
furniture — and 
watch the re¬ 
sults. 
Beside this, 
see that the 
hardware em¬ 
bodies all the 
modern princi¬ 
ples in its con¬ 
struction. The 
form may be 
never so archa- 
i c, but the 
mechanics must 
be up to date. 
Unless it works 
to satisfaction, 
hardware is 
useless. 
The answer 
to both these 
problems is to 
take counsel 
with your ar¬ 
chitect and ac¬ 
quaint yourself 
with the hard¬ 
ware of the re¬ 
liable firms. The varieties 
shown here represent 
only a handful of the 
hundreds now being 
made and shown in the 
catalogs of a dozen 
different dependable 
manufacturers. 
Photos by courtesy of P. & F. Corbin 
The unit lock, having the key 
hole in the knob, represents 
the perfection of mechanics 
applied to hardware. It is 
compact and convenient 
For the inside doors, es¬ 
pecially bedroom doors in 
the Colonial house, the 
glass knob is a decorative 
necessity 
These modern repro¬ 
ductions of old Colonial 
glass knobs are better 
for the refinement in 
cutting 
For the bunga¬ 
low and Mis¬ 
sion house 
comes a simple 
iron door latch 
Made of glass loith a 
brilliant transparency, 
the newer glass knobs 
have great decorative 
value 
