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HO USE & GARDEN 
MEYRS PNEUMATIC PUMPS 
For Home Water Supply. 
Have soft water in the kitchen 
and bath. Myers, Electric, Hy¬ 
dro-Pneumatic Pumps will supply 
it, without labor or attention, for 
they are equipped with an auto¬ 
matic switch, which takes care of 
the pump and motor, keeping just 
the right pressure in the tank. An 
outfit of this kind is very conven¬ 
ient and the cost of operation is 
surprisingly low. 
Write for catalog showing Myers 
Water Supply Systems for City and 
Suburban Homes, Summer Cottages, 
Club Houses, etc. 
F. E. MYERS & BRO. 
350 ORANGE ST., ASHLAND, OHIO 
Ashland Pump and Hay Tool Works 
1 
Here is an 
actual 
experience: 
Read 
this letter 
Chicago, Ill., April 29, 1915. 
Gentlemen :—"I believe you will be interested In my 
experience with a piece of your Bull Dog hose which I 
purchased in Scranton, Pa., about fifteen years ago. 
When I moved to Chicago in January, 1905, I brought 
the hose with me, and it has been rolled up and tied 
with a rope for ten years, as I have been living in an 
apartment. This Spring we have moved into a house, 
and were about to discard the hose, hut thought I would 
test it and see if by any possibility it would hold water. 
There is not a crack in it anywhere, and it is apparently 
as good as new. 
“I find I need about 50 feet more, and will appreciate 
it if you will tell me what dealers in Chicago or Evans- 
ton. III., handle your goods.” _(Name on Request) 
“Bull Dog” 7-Ply 
Garden Hose 
Made % in. with % in 
. connections— 18 c afoot 
in 25 and 50 ft. lengths 
If a popular price 
hose is desired, our 
Good Luck brand at 
10c a ft. is your best 
selection. It is the pop¬ 
ular priced expression 
of the “ Bull Dog ” 
standard. There is no 
better hose at the price. 
Your hose will serve 
you best when 
equipped with a “Bos¬ 
ton” Spray Nozzle. It 
is easy to use, cannot 
get out of order and 
gives you a shower, 
spray or mist. 50c at 
your dealer’s. 
Our practical booklet, “ How to Make Your Garden Grow” 
is full of helpful suggestions. Send 4c to Dept. H 
Boston Woven Hose 
& Rubber Company 
The World’s Largest Manufacturers of Garden Hose 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Order from us direct if your dealer does not sell our hose 
Early Lace-Making in America 
(Continued from page 64) 
eyes with the earlier work of the 
bobbins; the machine-made net lend¬ 
ing a commonplaceness to it that an 
entirely handmade article has not. 
That infinite skill and patience are 
required to make the bobbin lace, one 
feels as well as knows. 
At the present time, no net is 
darned in Ipswich, that industry hav¬ 
ing succumbed to the entirely ma¬ 
chine made lace that one buys so 
cheaply. The pillows, however, have 
never been totally relegated to the 
past. Fifteen years ago, the writer 
found several women who still loved 
their pillows, even though the work 
they were able to do was very in¬ 
ferior to what had been done a hun¬ 
dred years before. We formed a 
little industry and interested other 
workers, who attempted more elab¬ 
orate designs, but the old lace re¬ 
quires too much patience to gain a 
foothold in our busy American lives. 
There are, however, many kinds of 
bobbin lace that can be made and used 
in this everyday world that do not 
require either endless time and pa¬ 
tience, and that are still very much 
worth while. 
Handwoven Coverlets 
Gardner Teall 
The collector who has been fortu¬ 
nate enough to make a pilgrimage 
through the villages of New England, 
visiting the antique shops in search of 
adornments to the shrines of their 
hobbies will recall the occasional 
handwoven coverlet that chanced to 
be displayed as the background to the 
ensemble of odds-and-ends. 
icier of coverlet-lore, Eliza Calvert 
Hall, wrote "Whoever tries to trace 
the rise and progress of art in the 
New World will see in the colors and 
designs of the hand-woven coverlet 
the first faint stirrings of that 
spirit which breathes full-awakened 
through the sculpture of St. Gaudens 
and Borglum, and the architecture of 
“Bird of Paradise n 
pattern, showing 
both sides 
A composite design 
popular with South¬ 
ern weavers 
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The double “chariot wheel” or “church win¬ 
dow” pattern with a double weave in blue 
and white 
But one finds fewer and fewer of 
these old-time examples of handi¬ 
craft. There have been eager but 
quiet collectors industriously seeking 
them out. Nevertheless, the collector 
has always a chance of coming upon 
an early woven coverlet, particularly 
in those remote quarters where local 
auctions (occasioned by momentous 
events and not merely foregone con¬ 
clusions) still disclose the hidden 
treasures of yesterday and bring them 
within reach of the moderate purse. 
An enthusiastic and reliable chron- 
Richardson and McKim, and glows 
in the canvases of Whistler, Furness, 
Sargent and Abbey. ‘Art is the wine 
of life,’ says Richter, ‘and the hand- 
woven coverlet tells that the humblest 
artisan who kneels at the altars of 
Beauty receives from the hand of the 
god his share of that draught.” 
From Colonial times the art of the 
handwoven coverlet was practiced 
wherever wool and industry sug¬ 
gested. The overseas traditions were 
faithfully carried out by the house- 
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