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House & Garden 
No. 25 
“Wood 
Pecker” 
No. 23 
“Wren” 
Your choice for $1.25 — The three for $3.50 
The house for 
compan¬ 
ionable 
Wren 
may be 
placed 
under 
cornice 
or porch 
or as 
near the 
house 
No. 17 — “Bracket as de- 
Wren House,” $1.00 sired. 
I am a 
sort of a 
“Crank ” 
on the sub- 
j e c t and 
often see 
ideas for 
bird houses 
where 
others can not. J i 
design reminds us con¬ 
tinually of a country 
where the tender care of 
young children is an art. 
V^HEN you see “Jennie Wren” or 
some feathered friend, searching 
your place for a home, send to us for 
a bird house that she has proven her 
liking for. If there is anything in the 
old adage, “Cast thy bread upon the 
waters, etc.,” you’ll be highly recom¬ 
pensed for your trouble, by your new 
neighbors’ real friendship 
for you, so quickly given. 
A. P. GREIM 
“BIRDSVILLE”, TOM’S RIVER, N. J. 
No. 63 — Wren 
or Robin, $1.50 
Whoever pos¬ 
sesses this 
house will be 
certain to have 
at least one of 
these desirable 
birds make use 
of it. 
No. 75 
$3.00 
“Jap” 
Wren 
House 
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SHARONWARE BIRD BATHS 
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R arely attractive in design, Sharonware 
Bird Baths are constructed to insure the 
safety of the birds when bathing. As the bowl 
slopes very gradually toward the center, varying 
the depth of water from % to several inches, 
they quickly and easily regain a footing. Be¬ 
cause of this fact, Sliaronware Bird Baths are 
endorsed by all the Audubon Societies. 
Sharonware Garden Furniture adds charm and 
distinction to any lawn or garden, large or small. 
Visit our workshop where are displayed bird 
baths, fountains, sun-dials, benches, flower 
boxes, gazing globes, vases, jardinieres, etc. 
Tripod Bird Bath, height 33 inches, 
bowl 24 inches. Price (F. O. B. N. Y.) 
Send for ilhistratcd catalogue 
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Barto Special model, illustrated, painted 
or in any finish, $33. Box springs and 
mattress, $32. Other designs, $30 up. 
Immediate delivery. Call or write. 
Barto Day Beds 
are developed in a great variety of beautiful designs 
and finishes, to harmonize with aii styies of in¬ 
terior decoration. A Day Bed makes a room do 
double duty as living room and sieeping chamber 
and is far more attractive, convenient and sanitary 
than the old-fashioned davenport bed. Box springs 
and mattresses of finest material and workmanship 
insure perfect comfort; can be uphoistered to match 
your draperies. 
NEW DRAPERIES, We are show¬ 
ing an extensive collection of Eng¬ 
lish linens and cretonnes as well as 
sumptuously beautiful brocades and 
tapestries. Your inspection is invited. 
Edward R. Barto &Co. 
Specialists in Interior Furnishings 
45 West 39th St., New York 
Constructing Log Cabins and Camp 
{Contimied from page 66) 
These are the simple facts of the 
crudest sort of cabin, but they apply 
to any structure of this sort. Using 
these building facts, one can con¬ 
struct a cabin of pretentious size. 
The division of rooms can readily 
be made with wall board partitions 
held in place by studs. 
The other type of log cabin is 
shown on page 56. In this instance 
the logs are used vertically. It is a 
small mountain camp of decidedly 
rustic exterior. The walls are of 
large logs, averaging approximately 
18" in diameter, with their bark re¬ 
moved. They are cemented together 
and rest on a stone foundation. The 
gables are of buff colored cement 
stucco, and the roof is of tar paper 
composition. Across the front is a 
porch, the roof of which is covered 
with slabs and palm leaves. The 
cabin has a frontage of 24' and a 
depth of 17'. 
The interior is partitioned into a 
living-room, a bedroom and a kitchen, 
the partitions being of dressed pine 
flooring. The living-room contains a 
large stone fireplace, with a box seat 
at one side and book shelves at 
another. The kitchen is equipped with 
a sink with cupboard space beneath, 
and a cook stove. All inside walls 
except the partitions are plastered 
instead of being left rough. 
Computed on the basis that the 
logs were obtainable near the build¬ 
ing site (which is in California), this 
mountain camp is estimated to have 
cost about $400, including all labor. 
Brush 
I F bird pictures have 
meant to you only the 
illustrations of “How 
to Know the Birds,” if 
you conceive their repre¬ 
sentation as preternatural- 
ly stolid and definitely col¬ 
ored fowls, accurately per¬ 
ched on a botanlcally ap¬ 
propriate twig, with a six- 
line paragraph on habits 
and distinguishing traits 
beneath—then you . have 
still before you a rare 
pleasure in viewing H. C. 
Denslow’s water colors of 
bird life, recently on ex¬ 
hibition at the Arlington 
Galleries. 
Not that Mr. Denslow’s 
pictures lack in accuracy. 
“Birds Every Child Should 
Know” has no advantage 
there. Before he was a 
painter, Mr. Denslow was 
a taxidermist, and his 
knowledge of ornithology 
is unquestioned. His pic¬ 
tures have the fidelity of 
photographic reproduc¬ 
tions—they are incidental¬ 
ly life size—but they are 
far more interesting be¬ 
cause they are drawn true 
to nature and are works of art as well, ager, the brown thrasher and many 
There are all the bird lover’s best others. “The Battle Royal” shows 
known friends—the robin, thrush, high in the clouds an American 
oriule and bluebird, the scarlet tan- eagle harassed by king-birds. “The 
klarauders,” one of the 
most beautiful paintings in 
the exhibition, shows the 
scolding flight of three 
jays through the yellow 
leaves of an oak tree. 
The domestic scenes are 
altogether delightful and 
refreshing. Again there 
are pictures with a won¬ 
derful thrill of suspense in 
them, such as “Innocence,” 
which shows a serpent 
coiled close to a nest of 
young wood thrushes. It 
is about to strike, and one 
small thrush is watching 
it with silly, impersonal 
entrancement. A picture 
to return to and be moved 
by is “The Evil One,” a 
weasel, erect and malic¬ 
ious, on the back of the 
mother grouse he has just 
slain. In the nest still lie 
the remains of a broken 
eggshell, and the tiny 
chicks cluster about, curi¬ 
ous and bewildered, two 
or three seeking refuge 
close to their dead mother. 
It is a picture at once true 
and tragic. 
“Dreamy October” shows two bright-eyed 
hermit thrushes 
Studies of Bird Life 
“Only a Few Drops”-—young catbirds shel¬ 
tered from the rain by a big pink rose 
