House and Garden 
cleaning, garage, laundry and sundry 
expenses, ^5.30. Total for two persons, 
$36.30. This amounts to $18.15 a week, 
or $2,59 a day, for one person. Which 
is going some. 
It is refreshing to read the charge of an 
English judge in the case for damages 
brought before him. A chauffeur bor¬ 
rowed his employer’s car to give some 
friends a ride. He collided with a water¬ 
ing cart and was killed. His wife 
brought suit, claiming that her husband 
was testing the car for the owner. 
Judge Woodfall, in dismissingtheaction, 
with costs, said: “A greater abuse of 
this benevolent act I have never ex¬ 
perienced. The man took his friends 
out for his and their pleasure, and yet it 
has been gravely argued that it was a 
test of the car in his master’s interest. 
It almost excites one’s indignation.” 
His Honor added that he wished he had 
power to make the person responsible for 
bringing the action pay the costs out of 
his own pocket. 
THE WAR ON PERNICIOUS INSECTS 
^ I 'HE apparent rapid spread or devel- 
^ opment of destructive insect 
pests on our trees and shrubs, while 
alarming, is not necessarily beyond the 
expectation of successful combat. In 
the past comparatively little attention 
was given to this question, while to-day 
it is accorded a leading place in horti¬ 
culture, and constant warfare is being 
made to minimize the damage done and 
to destroy the cause. Whether drastic 
laws are necessary to compel every in¬ 
dividual to take care of the trees and 
shrubs under his control is a mooted 
question, but in the proposed agricul¬ 
tural instruction destined to become a 
part of our common school education, 
destructive insects, and the agencies to 
destroy them, should be made an import¬ 
ant feature. Our young people, with 
such instruction to guide them, might 
become a very effective insect police, 
materially aiding in the general warfare 
upon such pests .—Landscape Gardening. 
Yellow locust timber is among the 
most durable known, a fact which has 
caused its extensive planting in many 
states. In some parts of the country the 
locust borer, Cyllene pictus, has been so 
destructive that it has caused a suspen¬ 
sion of the planting of the tree. 
Ill Wilting to advertisers please mention House and Garden. 
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New Britain, Conn. 
No. 26 \Vest Twenty-Sixth Street, New York No. 1201 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 
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With Correct Designs in 
all the Leading Schools of 
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PHILADELPHIA 
FACTORIES 
New Britain, Conn. 
