June, 1916 
55 
Helpful Information 
VX/’HETHER you are planning a home or 
* r have already built, you will want to know 
more about all new appliances and methods. 
Through the Information Service you will keep well informed. 
It may be the means of saving you many costly mistakes besides 
adding materially to your comfort. 
Your Questions Answered 
We have found a way to answer as many questions as you 
choose, relating to all phases of building, remodeling, repair¬ 
ing, gardening, decorating, furnishing or refurnishing—in 
fact, everything pertaining to the subject of the home and 
its surroundings. 
Our only consideration is that 
you are sincere in your desire for 
information—that you will advise 
us whether the service supplies 
your wants and meets all your 
requirements. 
We will see that you are sup¬ 
plied with the kind of information 
that may possibly save you many 
dollars—surely time and energy. 
Let the Information Service solve 
your problems. 
I reformation Service House & Garden 440 Fourth Aoc.,n.y 
For Porch or Pergola 
Will the columns you use be as beautiful ten or twenty 
years from now as they are today—or will they split, 
check, rot and warp as all wood columns are bound 
to do ? 
UMiDM 
METAL COMM! 
“The Ones That Last a Lifetime 
are positive protection against all such troubles. 
The shafts are galvanized open hearth steel formed in 
correct proportions. They are made in ten classical 
designs and in all sizes up to 36 inches in diameter 
and 32 feet in length. 
Ask for Column Book No. 26. 
THE UNION METAL MFG. CO., Canton, 0. 
Manufacturers of Lighting Standards and Architectural 
Building Columns. 
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aftfieTropics 
H 
AVE you ever stood on deck 
as your ship entered a harbor 
in the tropics and been charmed 
by the gradual appearance of a white- 
walled town gleaming through the 
green of the dense tropical foliage? 
Have you ever thought that you would 
like to see realized in your future 
home some of the beautiful effects 
that can be obtained by the use of 
pure, stainless white color ? 
MEDUSA WHITE PORTLAND 
CEMENT is the'first true white Port¬ 
land cement ever manufactured. It 
is like any other good Portland 
cement—just as strong and just as 
durable. It differs only in that, in¬ 
stead of the ordinary, rather unat¬ 
tractive, greenish gray, it is a pure, 
stainless white. 
Medusa White, used for stucco work, 
produces a pure white exterior which 
never becomes discolored and which 
improves rather than deteriorates 
with age. 
Beautiful effects may also be obtained 
by using Medusa White for steps, 
railings, columns, doorways, window 
casings, cornices and panels, as well 
as for interior decoration. 
Write for booklet, “The Medusa 
White House.” 
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WHITE PORTLAND CEMENT 
SANDUSKY PORTLAND CEMENT CO. 
Room N-5, Engineers’ Building 
Cleveland, Ohio 
Residence oj P. P. BLAKE 
Worcester , Mass. 
L. W. Briggs Co ., Architects 
WILSON 
“SOMETHING 
FOR EVERY 
BUILDING” 
Steel Rolling Doors for 
Fire Protection. Rolling 
Wood Partitions for 
Churches and Schools, 
Heavy Wood Rolling 
Doors for Round 
Houses. Venetian 
Blinds and Awnings for 
the House and Porch. 
Sleeping Porch Blinds. 
Hygienic Wardrobes for 
Schools. Sliding Swing 
Doors for Garages. 
Wood Block Flooring 
for Armories and Public 
Buildings. 
Write for booklet of the 
product you are in¬ 
terested in. 
A COOL, well shaded porch or 
veranda is the first aniFmostfnec- 
essary of all home comforts in Slim¬ 
mer. Such places are the natural 
centers of home and social life.* Beau- 
tiful porch furnishings, wonderful 
outlooks, interesting people, win no 
willing presence to the veranda that 
is not well shaded and cool. 
WILSON 
Venetian Blinds anti Awnings 
solve the problem. They secure at will any 
degree of light, or shade, or air desired; 
shut out the fiercest gale, or admit the faint¬ 
est breeze. The daytime porch is easily 
made into a comfortable, well protected 
sleeping room at night. Forty years of use 
witli constant experiments under varying 
conditions have perfected them. 
See that your porches and verandas, as 
well as the windows ol all rooms in which 
real Summer comfort is expected, have 
Wilson Venetians. Now is the time to in¬ 
stall them. 
Write for illustrated and descriptive book, 
addressing our nearest office. 
J. G. WILSON CORPORATION 
Atlanta, Ga., Candler Bldg.; Boston. Mass., 17 Pearl St.; 
Buffalo, N. Y., 802 Fidelity Bldg.: Chicago, III.. McCor¬ 
mick Bldg.; Denver, Colo., 1526 Blake St.; l, os Angeles, 
Cal., 750 Keeler St., Montreal, (hie.. 
Read Bldg.; New Orleans, La., 909 Union 
St., (wooden products), or Carrollton 
Ave. and Edinburgh St. (steel products); 
Minneapolis, Minn., Lumber Exchange 
Bldg.; New York, N. Y., 8 West 40th St.; 
Norfolk, Va., The .1. G. Wilson Corp.; 
Oklahoma City, Okla. , 614 Majestic Bldg.; 
Pittsburgh, Pa., Bessemer Bldg.; Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa., Heed Bldg.; Richmond, Va. • 
Real Estate Exchange Bldg.; Seattle, 
Wash., Foot of Madison Si.; Spokane, 
Wash., Wall St. and N. P. R‘y; San 
Francisco, Cal., 525 Market St. 
