House and Garden 
T he first essential to a healthful, 
clean and sanitary home is the 
bathroom equipped throughout with snowy 
PORCELAIN ENAMELED PLUMBING FIXTURES 
If you are building a new home or remodelling the old, you should make 
the equipment of your bathroom your first and most important care. The 
disposal of this question means more to you than a mere matter of comfort 
and appearance, for it has to do with Health—your health, and the health 
of all your household. When you buy a genuine “■Standard” equipment 
you buy first-class health-protection and you get greater value for your 
would 
any other sanitary equipment made. 
CAUTION: Every genuine “^teud/u'd’ fixture bears 
the “Standard” Green and Gold Guarantee Label. Look 
for this label on every fixture you purchase, as none 
are geniiihe without jt.|j The “Standard” Guarantee La¬ 
bel gives a protection you cannot afford to be without. 
Seild^for L.®t ’us send you our new book," Modem 
^ n 1 Bathrooms.” This is beautifully illus- 
, , trated. It describes in detail a series of 
up-to-date bathrooms and tells you just how to secure 
the best possible equipment at the least possible coat. 
When you buy new bathroom fixtures you’ll need 
this book. Send for it now. Enclose 6c. postage and 
^iye us name of your architect and plumber if selected. 
Address, Standard 11)^.Co. Dept. 40)Pittsburgh, Pa., U. S 
Offices and Showrooms in New York: “SStsudard” Building. 35-37 West 31st Street. 
Louisville: 325-329 West Main Street. 
London. Eng.: 22 Holborn Viaduct, E. C. 
Pittsburghr 
949 Penn Avenue 
New Orleans: Cor. Baronne & St. 
Cleveland: 648-652 Huron Road, S 
Joseph Sts. 
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Your Country Cottage 
should be made to harmonize with nature and fit into the land¬ 
scape, by staining it with the soft, artistic colors of 
Cabot’s Shingle Stains 
Cheap, handsome, preservative and lasting, as proved by over 
twenty years’ use from Bar Harbor to San Diego, from Jamaica 
to Hawaii. 
Samples of stained wood and color 
chart sent free on request 
SAMUEL CABOT, Inc., Sole Manufacturers, 
141 Milk Street Boston, Mass. 
Agents at all Central Points 
Cabot’s Sheathing Quilt—for warm houses 
E, M. A. Machado, Architect, Boston 
for the life insurance money and assures 
her an income which comes to her in the 
day she is most capable of dealing with 
it and making the most of it. „ ^,4 
Give the American mother affixed 
monthly income and she will keep the 
family together and the children in 
school when a man might utterly fail. 
Give her a monthly income and she will 
keep inside of it. 
With the new monthly income policy 
ot The Prudential the husband and 
father can provide insurance protection 
in the most practical and useful form, a 
policy to pay the rent and the household 
bills. 
This covers the time occupied in the 
development and training of the young¬ 
est child. It provides for food, clothing 
and education by a fixed, regular 
monthly payment which cannot fail. 
The comparatively small cost at which 
this almost priceless provision for the 
wife and family can be made is another 
attractive feature of this newest idea 
in life insurance. 
Fifty cents a day saved commencing 
at age thirty, would give your wife an 
income of fifty dollars a month for 
twenty years in life insurance, and The 
Prudential is entitled to great credit for 
presenting it to the public. 
INSECTS IN PENNSYLVANIA 
'' I 'HE farmers of Pennsylvania are 
^ having unusual difficulties this 
year with insect pests of all kinds. 
Many varieties which ordinarily occur 
in such small numbers that they do not 
do any appreciable harm are very much 
in evidence this season, with the result 
that Dr. H. A. Surface, the state eco¬ 
nomic zoologist, finds his mail filled with 
specimens of all sorts of strange creeping 
and crawling things which farmers have 
discovered and cannot identify. 
The potato beetle has again appeared 
in hordes this summer and is doing much 
damage. It is a strange fact that in this 
connection, an unusually large acreage 
of potatoes has been planted in Pennsyl¬ 
vania this year. Nature seems to have 
her own ways of preventing over-pro¬ 
duction. “ The abundance of the potato 
beetle this year,” says Dr. Surface, “is 
a good example of the way insects come 
and go, appearing at unexpected times 
after it was thought they had dropped 
out of existence. The reason lies in 
the common but important law that 
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