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House & Garden 
A Better Bathroom 
at Moderate Cost 
No longer is the built-in bath confined only to 
the very wealthy home. The Mott “Eclipso" 
Enameled Iron Bath brings real luxury within 
the reach of the average home-builder. 
The unusual beauty in design and finish of the 
Mott “Eclipso” recommends it to many who are 
not especially interested in its economy. It is 
built for recess as shown, or for corner, as desired, 
either type being admirably suited for use with 
shower. 
“Every Bath a Shower ” 
The same high quality and moderate prices that characterize 
the Mott “Eclipso” Bath are equally evident in all Mott Bath¬ 
room Equipment. 
Send for our Bathroom Book, illustrated in color. It 
offers many helpful suggestions. Address Department A. 
Tne J. L. MOTT IRON WORKS, Trenton, <M.J. 
New York, Fifth Avenue and Seventeenth Street 
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If You Are Going to Build 
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to imagine. The fashion that came in 
some years ago in the country home, 
of breaking up the surface of the chim¬ 
ney wall with little shelves for bric-a- 
brac has happily wholly gone out. It 
quite spoiled the dignity of a chimney 
breast and added nothing to the beauty 
of a room. 
For people who are planning their 
homes in America today, it is possible to 
buy ready-made a varied and beautiful 
assortment of fireplaces, the most sim¬ 
ple and practical in wood or concrete 
as well as exquisitely developed pieces 
appropriate to almost every period of 
interior decoration. Catalogues are 
sent out by some of the manufacturers 
showing the varied beauty of their 
achievement, and the brick manufac¬ 
turers furnish interesting designs for 
modern brick fireplaces. Fireplace hard¬ 
ware is also being made in vast assort¬ 
ments, in wonderful designs suited to 
Tudor, Gothic, French, Colonial or 
merely practically modern houses. 
Catalogues of fireplaces and fireplace fit¬ 
tings should be added to the shelf of 
building materials, which we have advo¬ 
cated so enthusiastically since the be¬ 
ginning of this series. 
The New Shingles 
(Continued from page 68) 
now helping us to secure a roof that is 
fireproof and waterproof, that is grace¬ 
ful, rich, and appropriate to a variety of 
building materials. Shingle roofs have 
been intimately associated with Amer¬ 
ican architecture, back to the days of 
our most interesting, original Colonial 
architecture. In those days, in the main, 
there was but one kind of shingle used, 
the picturesque, wooden, hand-rived de¬ 
sign. The advent of asbestos shingles 
has brought about a revolution in roof 
making. First, in color they are deep 
red, warm brown, gray, or a combina¬ 
tion of browns. These shades brought 
together in one roof harmonize with 
almost any color that may be used on 
the walls of a house, and with both 
winter and summer landscape. Because 
of a quaint picturesqueness, they seem 
in turn to suit the Dutch Colonial, the 
adapted Elizabethan, the Gothic, the 
Norman and even the reticent dignity 
of the French chateaux. 
They are very simple in construction, 
made of asbestos rock fibre and port- 
land cement, compressed under a hy¬ 
draulic pressure. Because of their tough 
base and resilient structure, they are 
unaffected by time or the elements. - 
They are quickly laid up and are prac¬ 
tically indestructible. These shingles 
can be laid up with either the diagonal, 
hexagonal or honeycomb method and 
the sub-roofs are the same as prepared 
for other durable roofing. Old houses 
can be re-roofed effectively by these 
asbestos shingles, making a roof that 
will endure as long as the house lasts. 
Asbestos shingles are fireproof and 
unalterable; do not readily crack or 
exfoliate when exposed to fire. Even if 
the snow should drive under them in 
winter, thaw under the rays of the mid¬ 
day sun and freeze as night comes on, 
it would not in any manner cause de¬ 
terioration, as they are sufficiently elastic 
to prevent any cracking or splitting up 
to the nail hole under these malign cir¬ 
cumstances. 
On account of the light weight of 
these asbestos shingles, a sub-structure 
can be built up with much less expense 
and time. Thus a very considerable sum 
is saved in building construction. 
Thatch Roofing 
The thatch roof has been one of the 
most picturesque features of domes¬ 
tic architecture for centuries throughout 
Europe, and there is also a fine feeling 
for form in the roofline of these pictur¬ 
esque cottages. But in houses built 
closely together, as is so often the case 
in our American suburbs and villages, 
the old rye thatch roof would be found 
too inflammable, as well as damp, and 
fairly unstable in fierce winds. Yet the 
beauty of the thatch roof was something 
that the picturesque loving American 
public would not easily forego; so with 
the ingenuity for which we have always 
been famous, a thatch shingle was in¬ 
vented which gives us much of the 
beautiful old line, soft color and mellow 
surface of the old rye thatch. By an 
ingenious method of sawing the shingle 
buffs in special thatch patterns, and 
with printed instructions and working 
drawings, the average good workman 
can lay a modern thatch roof so success¬ 
fully that this type of roof is being 
adopted by some of the most brilliant 
American architects. These shingles are 
laid up out of the horizontal, in long 
irregular waves, varying the width of 
exposed surface of every course from l" 
to 5". Part of the artistic effect in the 
modern thatch roof is gained by having 
no sharp angles or corners on any part 
of the roof. The eaves, ridges, valleys, 
etc., are all rounded and the thatch shin¬ 
gles are bent lengthwise and crosswise 
as the form of the roof may require. In 
order to gain the softness of the weath¬ 
ered, old, rye thatch, the color of the 
roof should not be uniform, so three 
shades of thatch shingles have been 
created; when these are laid up together, 
a sense of rich texture is given with 
interesting individuality. 
Shingle Thatch 
The firm that has done so much for 
picturesque domestic architecture in the 
invention of the thatch shingle roof has 
also devised a great variety of modern 
wooden creosote shingles, in shapes, 
colors and sizes that are practicable for 
a variety of American homes, for walls 
as well as roofs. A Colonial house with 
a white shingle wall, green shingle roof 
and green shutters, is still the ideal of 
about fifty per cent, of American home 
lovers. In addition to the white and 
green shingles, there are for the wooden 
houses at least thirty colors. These 
stained shingles do not require close 
sheeting. They may be laid up in a 
variety of designs. They do not make 
a cumbersome roof and are compara¬ 
tively noiseless during heavy storms. 
As they are poor conductors of heat 
and cold, they make a house cooler in 
summer and warmer in winter. The 
creosoting of these shingles causes them 
to last longer than the unstained, brush- 
coated shingle, and the fact that they 
are selected from the first growth of 
coast cedar makes them durable beyond 
the average time of wood. 
Tile roofs, in spite of the immense 
variety of roofing that has recently 
achieved success, still hold their own for 
certain types of houses and for certain 
effects of picturesque beauty. If you 
want the proper roofing for genuine 
Spanish architecture, the covering that 
will most quickly realize your ideal is the 
old curving tile in the real earth tones 
of terra cotta, red-brown and brown- 
red. There are unquestionably types of 
houses, the full beauty of which cannot 
be realized without the high hip roll, 
the high ridge and terminal. In addi¬ 
tion to the round Spanish tile and the 
barrel Mission tile, there is a shingle tile 
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