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Your garden this summer will be 
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The Gentleman’s Terrier 
(Continued from page 88) 
Color and markings, contrary to 
popular opinion, count for almost 
nothing in judging a fox terrier. An 
attractively marked dog in a show 
ring will arrest a judge’s attention 
favorably, and a narrow white blaze 
up the face will give the impression 
of greater length of head; but if the 
dog is predominately white, with 
either black, black and tan, or tan 
markings, he is correct. Brindle and 
liver markings, in the old days a 
sign of unorthodox breeding, are dis¬ 
qualified by the standard. They sel¬ 
dom appear in any thoroughbred 
familv. 
In c o n n e c - 
tion with Mr. 
Haynes' article on 
the “ gentleman's 
terrier ,” it is in¬ 
teresting to note 
that at the recent 
duced. This splen¬ 
did little dog won 
the same honor at 
the 1 9 1 5 show, 
which makes her 
the second con- 
Westminster iestant that has ever received the 
Kennel Club show in New York the premier prize for tivo consecutive 
prize for the best dog of any breed years. The first case, by the way. 
exhibited ivas awarded to the wire- was that of another wire dog of 
haired fox terrier Mat ford Vic, the same breed, Warren Remedy, 
whose photograph is here repro- Photograph by Tauskey 
Houses with Their Backs to the Street 
(Continued from page 17) 
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THE GAKDEN GATEWAY 
31 East 48th Street 
Stained with Cabot's Creosote Stains 
C. M. Hart, Architect, 
Bay Shore, N. Y. 
Shingled Houses 
are warmer in winter and 
cooler in summer than 
tiled, slated, clapboarded, 
or gummed-paper houses. 
They cover the surface 
with three insulating layers 
and non-conducting air¬ 
spaces, and no other finish 
does this. They are also 
much more picturesque and 
attractive, and they admit 
of far more varied and 
beautiful coloring than any 
other finish. 
Cabots Creosote Stains 
color them in beautiful tones 
of moss-green, bark - brown, 
silver gray, etc., and the creo¬ 
sote thoroughly preserves the 
wood and makes it less inflam¬ 
mable. 
You can get Cabot's Stains all over 
the country. Send for stained wood 
samples and name of nearest agent . 
SAMUEL CABOT, Inc., Manfg. Chemists 
131 Milk Street Boston, Mass. 
a place to entertain in, and what a 
refuge when she is determined not 
to entertain! Mrs. Jones, who used 
to run across the lawn whenever Mrs. 
Smith appeared on the side piazza, 
has ceased her impromptu visitations. 
If Mrs. Smith has a headache, or is 
deep in a detective story, or wants to 
write an urgent letter, she can take 
to the open air without instantly at¬ 
tracting Mrs. Jones. That estimable 
lady still calls, but at more seasonable 
hours. 
Then, too, the Smiths have gained 
a recessed porch, habit¬ 
able despite showers, and 
an adornment to their 
“garden front.” What 
was Bridget’s domain 
once is now theirs. And 
if the ash cans, clothes 
line and that sort of 
thing involves rather a 
problem, it is solved by 
a screen of hedge or 
vined lattice. Even the 
tradesmen’s incursions 
are provided for. In¬ 
stead of visiting the back 
door, as formerly, the 
tradesmen apply at a 
service entrance fronting 
the street. 
Indoors, everything is 
gained, nothing lost. The 
servants have the street 
to look out upon and en¬ 
joy it. The Smiths have 
the garden to look out 
upon and enjoy that. 
Drawing r o o m, living 
room, library and their 
chambers above face the 
private park at the rear. 
Meanwhile Smith’s architect chuckles. 
He had had the lark of a lifetime de¬ 
signing that house—two fronts in¬ 
stead of one, twice the opportunity 
for aesthetic effect, and three or four 
times the usual test of ingenuity all 
around. 
Longer than most houses, as it fills 
the entire width of the lot, Smith’s 
is proportionately shallower, so that 
the arrangement of rooms calls for 
niceties less imperative elsewhere, 
and besides there is Smith’s automo¬ 
bile to consider. A garage at the 
rear would encroach on the garden, 
while requiring a roadway under the 
house. So be it. The roadway be¬ 
comes the garage. 
Ambiguous Entrances 
Moreover, there is the question of 
those two front entrances. Suppose 
tradesmen should‘present themselves 
at the guest entrance, guests at the 
service entrance? Mrs. Ole Bull’s 
house in Cambridge, one of the earl¬ 
iest American experiments in the re¬ 
versed style of building, was simply 
an ordinary mansion turned right¬ 
about-face. When you 
received your first invi¬ 
tation to a conference on 
comparative religions 
there, and hastened to 
attend, you raged about 
in a fever of maddened 
perplexity for a bad five 
minutes, and then taking 
the bit in your teeth, 
rushed in. Ten to one 
you found yourself not 
among Swamis and The- 
osophists, but among 
pots and pans. Even 
French houses with their 
backs to the street some¬ 
times afford ambiguities, 
and even after the visitor 
has passed through the 
guest entrance. Mr. 
Stoddard Dewey, the ac¬ 
complished Paris corre¬ 
spondent, tells me that 
he has never yet paid a 
call at 21 Rue Vallette 
without blundering into 
the coal-hole. To pre¬ 
vent such disasters, the 
guest entrance must be 
made both showy, to a degree, and 
pronouncedly conspicuous, while the 
broad hall it opens into must head 
unequivocally to a reception room. It 
is one thing to be retiring and pleas¬ 
antly aloof from untoward bustle, 
but quite another to shut oneself off 
so completely that one’s friends lose 
their way ’twixt street and salon. 
What does all this prove? That 
every house should turn its back 
to the street? No such thing. It 
proves only that when conditions 
make the plan attractive, it is entirely 
feasible. 
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Bird Houses at Mr. Stanton’s Home, St. 
.Toe, Mich. On left, a “home-made” Martin 
house, which stood three years without at¬ 
tracting birds. On right, a Dodson Martin 
House which brought the Martins first week 
it was up. Bluebird House in center. When 
you put up Dodson Houses you get song birds 
to live with you. 
If You Want Birds Put Up 
Dodson Bird Houses 
Any Jack-Carpenter can make a box 
and call it a bird house. But he can’t 
win birds with it. For nearly 20 years I 
have worked for American song birds. I 
studied and worked for several years to 
get my first two bird houses just right. 
There are thousands of genuine Dodson 
Bird Houses up and occupied in America 
today. 
It is not just a house you want; 
it is song birds. Get Dodson Houses. 
Send for the free book which tells how 
to win birds. This book illustrates 
the 20 styles of Dodson Bird Houses, 
Shelters, etc., and tells how to win 
and care for Wrens, Bluebirds, Mar¬ 
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Dodson catching thousands all over U. S. 
Soarrow No other trap like this. Double 
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JOSEPH H. DODSON 
731 Harrison Ave., Kankakee, 111. 
Mr. Dodson is a Director of the Illinois Audu¬ 
bon Society, the American Audubon Associa¬ 
tion, Life Member of the Missouri and Michi¬ 
gan Audubon Societies, a Member of the Nat¬ 
ional Audubon Society, the Massachusetts 
Audubon Society, the American Bird Banding 
Association, and the American Ornithologists’ 
Union. 
