House and Garden 
Free Advice 
on Decoration 
T he unprecedented growth of our Correspondence 
Department has necessitated the opening of a new 
Department which will be devoted to the interest of 
those who are building, decorating or furnishing their 
homes. now offers its readers a House 
Finishing, Decorating, Furnishing and Purchasing Service 
which is complete in detail, thoroughly practical and abso¬ 
lutely free. Full color suggestions for the exterior of the 
house will be supplied with recommendations of proper 
materials to obtain the results. For the interior, the 
treatment of standing woodwork and floors, the selection 
of tiles, hardware and fixtures will be considered and 
specifically recommended, with the addresses of firms 
from whom these goods may be obtained. Samples of 
wall coverings and drapery materials will be sent and 
selections of rugs and furniture made. When desired, 
the goods will be purchased and shipped to the inquirer; 
the lowest retail prices are quoted on all materials. 
This Department of Decoration is under the direc¬ 
tion of MARGARET GREENLEAF, whose successful 
work as an interior Designer and Decorator is well known. 
Address all communications to Editorial Department 
SOME USEFUL BOOKS FOR YOU 
KITCHEN GARDENING. By Thomas Bridgman. This work comprises 152 pages, liberally 
illustrated. 12mo. Cloth - gOc. 
FRUIT GARDENING. By Thomas Bridgman. Liberally illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, 50c. 
FLOWER GARDENING. The work comprises 166 pages, liberally illustrated. 12mo. 
Cloth - - 50c. 
MY TEN ROD FARM, OR HOW I BECAME A FLORIST. By Charles Barnard 12mo. 
Cloth ------------- 40c. 
THE STRAWBERRY GARDEN: HOW IT WAS PLANTED. WHAT IT COST. By 
Charles Barnard. 12 mo. Cloth - -- -- -- - 40c. 
FARMING BY INCHES; OR, WITH BRAINS, SIR. By Charles Barnard. 12mo. Cl., 40c. 
THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY, Publishers, Philadelphia. 
ANY OF THESE VOLUMES MAILED ON RECEIPT OF PRICE. 
UNBURNABLE WOOD 
T TNBURNABLE WOOD is a new 
product of France. At an ex¬ 
hibition in Bordeaux, it is reported, pine 
shavings, wood paper and cotton were 
treated with a protective preparation 
and then exposed to fire. A pile of shav¬ 
ings, pine kindlings and wood was set on 
fire and in the blaze were thrown shav¬ 
ings and sticks of wood impregnated with 
ignifuge, so called. When the fire had 
exhausted itself the impregnated shav¬ 
ings and wood were found to be simply 
blackened and charred; they gave out 
no flame. Paper and cotton fiber 
treated with the same solution when 
exposed to the flames were consumed 
slowly without a blaze. The formula 
for ignifuge consists of sulphate of 
ammonia, 27 oz. avoirdupois; borate 
of soda, 3 oz.; boric acid, i oz.; water 
12.5 lbs., or I gal .—Metal Worker. 
BUDDHIST REMAINS IN JAVA 
I 'HE fact is not generally appreciated 
that there are ruins of Buddhist 
and Brahmanic temples in middle Java 
surpassing in extent and magnificence 
anything to be seen in Egypt or India. 
There, in the heart of the steaming 
tropics, in that summer land of the world 
below the equator, on an island where 
volcanoes cluster more thickly and vege¬ 
tation is richer than in any other region 
of the globe, where earthquakes con¬ 
tinually rock and shatter, and where 
deluges descend during the rainy half of 
the year, remains nearly intact the 
temple of Boro Boedor, covering almost 
the same area as the great pyramid of 
Gizeh. It is ornamented with hundreds 
of life-size statues and miles of bas- 
reliefs presenting the highest examples 
of Greco-Buddhist art—a sculptured 
record of all the arts and industries, the 
culture and civilization, of the golden 
age of Java, of the life of the seventh, 
eighth and ninth centuries in all the 
farther East—a record that is not written 
in hieroglyphics, but in plainest pictures 
carved by sculptor’s chisel. That solid 
pyramidal temple, rising in magnificent 
sculptured terraces, that was built with¬ 
out mortar or cement, without column 
or pillar or arch, is one of the surviving 
wonders of the world. On the spot it 
seems a veritable miracle .—“Prisoners 
of State at Boro Boedor,” by E. R. Scid- 
more, in the Century. 
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