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HOUSE & GARDEN 
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Mott’s 
Built-in-Bath- 
and-ShoWer 
An ideal arrangement 
combining Mott’s Light¬ 
weight Porcelain Bath 
with a remarkably effec¬ 
tive shower. A single cur¬ 
tain on an “L” shaped rod 
makes the enclosure com¬ 
plete. A partial turn of 
the single lever valve con¬ 
trols the flow of water 
a n d regulates tempera¬ 
tures. It is not necessary 
to wet the head as the 
shower is instantly adjust¬ 
able to any angle. 
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THE J. L. MOTT IRON WORKS 
Fifth Avenue and 17th Street, New York 
1828- Eighty-eight years of Supremacy 
•(■Boston.41 Pearl St.. Cor. Franklin 
Pittsburgh..Peoples Building 
tCllicago.7.104 S. Michigan Ave. 
Minneapolis.Builder’s Exchange 
Atlanta.Peters Bldg., 7 Peachtree St. 
fPhiladelphia.100G Filbert St. 
Seattle.406 White Building 
Cleveland...846 Leader-News Bldg. 
tDetroit.Penobscot Bldg. 
|Des Moines.205-211 W. Court Avo. 
t Showrooms equipped with model bathrooms. 
-1916 
tToledo.430-4.84 Huron St. 
Portland. Ore. .Showrooms. Sherlock Bldg. 
tWashington. D. C.Woodward Bldg. 
New Orleans.622-630 Baronne St. 
Denver.1834 Blake St. 
tSan Francisco.135 Kearney St. 
tSt. Louis.Century Bldg. 
Kansas City.N. V. Life Bldg 
tMontreal, Can.134 Bleury St 
San Antonio.431 Main Avo 
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■C'tggHMI your home. When the chute is not in use for coal. 
” a glass door serves as a window, giving splendid 
light to the basement. 
Locks from the inside and is absolutely burglar proof 
It is extra durable, has a heavy steel body—semi-steel door frame and boiler plate 
hopper. It will last as long as the building. Arrange for one when you build, or 
can be used in place of cellar window. 
We make the Majestic in all types for houses, hotels, store and office buildings, 
apartments, etc. Sold by hardware and building material dealers. 
Underground Garbage Receiver 
The Only Sanitary Way to Keep Garbage 
It can be placed close to the kitchen door with only 
the top and cover exposed, where it is convenient 'iTiS **‘^^*, 
but never unsightly. It is water tight—snow and W*; 
frost proof—emits no foul odors and keeps con- 
tents free from mice, dogs. cats. It is always k; 
closed, and the can easily lifts out for emptying. < / *SL 
Poultry Work for January 
(Continued from page 52) 
breeds like the Wyandottes and Ply¬ 
mouth Rocks, but all poultry requires 
an abundance of fresh air at all 
times. 
It is wise to gather the eggs sev¬ 
eral times a day or they may freeze 
in the nests. The water buckets, too, 
will require filling at least twice a 
day when the weather is cold enough 
to freeze the water. 
The dropping boards will not need 
cleaning so long as the temperature 
remains low, but this work must be 
attended to when the weather grows 
warm again. And sand, loam or 
ashes should be spread on the boards 
to act as an absorbent. It is not well 
to use wood ashes, though, as they 
impair the fertilizing value of the 
accumulation. 
It is important to flood the poultry 
house and especially the roosting sec¬ 
tion with sunlight, which is Nature’s 
best disinfectant. Glass windows 
should be washed occasionally and 
muslin curtains thoroughly brushed 
at frequent intervals. If the pores 
are clogged with dust, these curtains 
are no better than boards, so far 
as ventilation is concerned. 
The days being short, strict punct¬ 
uality in feeding is required, and the 
last meal must be given at least an 
hour before nightfall, or the hens 
will be likely to go to roost with 
their crops only half filled. Whole 
corn has one advantage as an even¬ 
ing ration—it is so large that the 
fowls can pack their crops with it in 
a very short time. Cracked corn is 
better at all other times, for the hens 
have to do more scratching to get 
it, and scratching is the best kind of 
exercise to keep them in condition. 
Courtesy of Miss Katherine Presbrcy 
The "little lion dog,” as the Pekinese is termed by the Chinese, has more 
than a fancied resemblance to the great beast of the legend 
The Barking Dog 
The old saying that a dog’s “bark Whether or not this is the case, the 
is worse than his bite” is capable of remedy is the same in principle: 
another interpretation than the one calm him down by word and act. 
usually placed upon it: to the ears Let him realize by your own quiet 
of the surrounding community at behavior that life is not one pro- 
large the yapping of a chronic barker longed bark, and if this does not 
is far more annoying than any prob- effect a cure, resort to the light 
lematical proclivity he may have for switch or whatever other form of 
closing his jaws on something more punishment you prefer to employ, 
animate than a chop bone or a dish In many cases, particularly those of 
of soup meat. In other words, the large- dogs, the “force” collar is the 
habitually noisy dog is a nuisance. best thing to use, inasmuch as it is 
If it were possible to classify bark- an adequate punishment which acts 
ing dogs, they might come under two directly on the dog’s throat. It should 
general heads: those that raise a be resorted to, however, only with 
row over some real or fancied in- discretion. 
trusion on their masters’ domains, I he dog that barks to pass the time 
and those that bark extravagantly presents a different problem for solu- 
from scatter-brained excitement or tion. \\ ith him it is chiefly a ques- 
simply because they have nothing tion of justice and punishment. Sup- 
else to do. The first class of noise posing he is confined in yard or on 
is legitimate and, in many circum- chain and is habitually noisy. First 
stances, highly desirable. The second he sure that the cause is not hunger 
has no logical excuse for existence, or thirst or insufficient exercise, and 
and it is with the purpose of miti- then punish him lightly while you 
gating it that the following sugges- order him to “be still.” A few repe- 
tions are offered. titions should teach him the meaning 
First as to the dog that barks from of the command, and thereafter it is 
pure excitement. In many cases the simply a question of_ catching him in 
habit is traceable to his bringing up. the act and punishing accordingly. 
Perhaps the tendency is inborn, but Often a sound switching or two is 
has it not been aggravated by play- necessary to effect a cure, especially 
ing boisterously with him, teaching if the habit is of long standing, but 
him to “speak” until he does it on perseverance will count here as in all 
all occasions, encouraging him to dog handling. 
rush madly out the opened door in hi the final analysis, the cases of 
pursuit of some imaginary foe, and undue barking, which cannot be suc- 
a dozen other actions calculated to cessfully handled are extremely rare, 
develop his vocal propensities? R. S. Lemmon. 
