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House & Garden 
Robert Seyfarth, Architect, Chicago 
Exterior of Redwood Sawn Shingles 
Redwood 
Special 
Sawn 
Shingles 
Redwood Special 
Sawn Shingles 
F OR residences of the bet¬ 
ter class, these new style 
“Seyfarth” shingles give 
that appearance of wide clapboards which is a pleas¬ 
ing note in the design of many of the newer city and 
suburban homes in the Middle West and in the East. 
These new Redwood shingles may be had 24 inches 
or 26 inches long, as desired. Both sizes are 5 H inches 
wide and M-inch thick at the butt. Laid 13 inches to 
the weather they give an air of solidity and dignity 
which is well illustrated in the house shown here. 
These shingles are sawn from the finest selected 
grade of Redwood, are thoroughly seasoned and 
cured and will not warp, swell or shrink. They take 
and hold paint unusually well. 
A natural, odorless preservative, which permeates 
the wood during the growth of the tree, protects 
Redwood against all forms of rot and decay. 
Ask your architect to specify Redwood for all ex¬ 
terior construction. Redwood is sold at prices which 
compare favorably with prices of other woods which 
do not have Redwood’s qualities of rot-resistance, 
high percentage of clear lumber, or freedom from 
shrinking, warping or swelling. 
Redwood should 
Exterior Contraction 
including—Colonial siding, 
clapboards, shingles, door and 
window frames—gutters, eaves, 
water tables and mudsills — 
porch rail, balusters and col¬ 
umns—mouldings and lattice. 
Pickets and fencing—Pergolas 
and Greenhouses 
be specified for 
Interior Finish 
Natural, stained or painted 
Wood Block Floors. 
Farm and Dairy Uses 
Such as — Silos, tanks and 
troughs—Hog feeders and im¬ 
plement sheds — Wood block 
floors, etc 
If you arc planning to build, write for “Redwood Homes 
Booklet." To architects and builders we will gladly send our 
“Construction Digest" and our "Engineering Digest". Please 
address inquiries to either our New York or Chicago office. 
CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO 
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NEW YORK LOS ANGELES 
S23 No. 40 Rector St. Bldg. Central Bldg. 6th and Main Sts. 
THE PACIFIC LUMBER CO. of Illinois THE PACIFIC LUMBER CO. 
The Largest Manufacturers and Distributors of California Redwood 
“The Western wood for Eastern homes 
The New Shingles 
(Continued from page 86) 
it should be laid up with flashings, gut- years in good condition occasions no sur¬ 
fers, valleys, etc., of the very best tin. prise whatever. It is a significant state- 
This will prevent rust and corrosion, ment made by manufacturers of superior 
It is an interesting fact that a well laid tin roofing "that it takes thirty-five 
roof of the best quality of tin, with tin minutes to coat a sheet of the best tin, 
fittings, has been known to last seventy whereas ordinary tin roof sheets are 
years, while a tin roof lasting thirty sometimes coated in twenty seconds. 
Modern Mixers in the Kitchen 
(Continued from page 69) 
The strain is gone from straining 
large quantities now. This is gently 
done by the coaxing strainer and col¬ 
ander device. 
One mixer is also accompanied by a 
cabinet if desired. It is finished in 
white and is made especially for this 
device and houses comfortably all its 
attachments. It has an enameled metal 
top and does not add much to the total 
cost of the machine. 
Another power unit advertises two 
speeds and has all the above attach¬ 
ments. It comes with a metal table 
with a shelf (open), on which all the 
work can be done with comfort. 
If you don't want a machine that 
can do so much there is one on the 
market electrically driven, which beats 
eggs, mixes mayonnaise, angel cake and 
light batter, mashes potatoes and fluffs 
them if mixed with butter and cream, 
mixes custard, souffles, etc. 
It has a small y 2 H. P. motor of fine 
construction designed for 110 voltage. 
It is necessary in this case to state 
whether your current is direct or al¬ 
ternating (DC or AC). This motor 
can run on either direct or alternating 
if the speed control device is not to be 
used. But the speed control in this in¬ 
strument is its crowning glory. That is, 
you can mix rapidly or slowly, a per¬ 
formance the older type of mixers could 
not do. It was racing speed or nothing. 
Ail cooks know that some things take 
rapid beating or stirring, some other 
things slower agitation. The cook or 
housewife can in the course of her ex¬ 
perience with these new-comers into our 
kitchens find new uses continually for 
them. 
For example, this small motor has a 
speed regulator which ranges from 
4800 to 8000 revolutions per minute. 
This motor takes from 25 watts (ex¬ 
tra load) to 60 watts (heavy load. It 
is well to have a detachable motor 
as in this one, for when cleaning is 
necessary the motor remains unharmed. 
The beater itself here is the ancient 
and honorable Dover type, so you see 
it is not so foreign to your ken. 
One thousand revolutions is all you 
can effect in a minute by hand. This 
machine goes 2000 revolutions. 
In from one to five and ten minutes, 
eggs, frostings, and mayonnaise can be 
accomplished. 
Full speed for heavy mixtures, half 
speed for lighter, a gram of cream is 
perpetrated in less than five minutes. 
A gallon of oil in relation to a may¬ 
onnaise dressing takes but ten minutes 
to be used up. 
This little angel weighs but 2J4 
pounds, and its lightness is one of its 
charms. 
All these machines should be easily 
attached to wall lighting sockets. 
They must be easily cleaned. 
The motors must be protected from 
you and food stuffs and you must be 
protected from them. 
All attachments must attach easily. 
All parts must fit, so that the doing 
of a new operation is not accompanied 
with dread. It must be a pleasure to 
depart from coffee grinding to turning 
the ice cream pail and polishing silver. 
Now, kitchening is no endurance test. 
The fatigue is eliminated. At the end 
of the day you will feel like the theatre 
and what not. 
The hand-turned cake and bread 
mixers are better than mixing by hand 
and spoon—but if possible, the elec¬ 
trically driven mixers which come in 
many styles and prices will give you 
more than comfort and will outlast 
many a cook. The hand-tucned stoners 
and grinders are very efficient, too, but 
not the Utopian things that electric 
homes can utilize. 
These machines are Utopian agita¬ 
tors. Agitating for food and helping the 
Kitchen Workers of the World. 
Gardens In Old Foundation Walls 
(Continued from page 57) 
removed. These old walls stood for 
years in the shade and became over¬ 
grown with moss and creepers: an ideal 
location for a sunken fern and shade 
plant sanctuary. In making the changes, 
two of the outside walls were taken 
down and rough stone steps laid through 
one of the remaining foundations to 
make an entrance. Stones were care¬ 
fully taken out to make niches in the 
walls for alpine plants and rock-loving 
ferns; all the old plaster and refuse was 
removed and the floor of the garden 
covered with a thick layer of woods 
soil and leaf mold and this planted 
closely with masses of various sorts of 
shade ferns and shade flowers with 
backgrounds of rhododendron, moun¬ 
tain laurel and some of the other broad¬ 
leaved evergreens. 
It is Very important to remember that 
lime plaster was used in most of these 
old walls and that lime is certain death 
to a great many of the shade plants we 
love: trilliums, rhododendron, most of 
the ferns, violets, arbutus, mountain 
laurel—in short almost all of the plants 
found naturally growing in deep rich 
leaf mold. Where you have the lime 
it can be overcome only by removing 
the old soil for a depth of at least 18" 
and replacing with new woods soil and 
if the best results are to be retained, it 
must have a yearly mulch of leaves. If 
it is not possible or desirable to make 
this change in soil, there are some beau¬ 
tiful plants which thrive in a lime con¬ 
dition and nurseries specializing in the 
native plants are usually willing to sug¬ 
gest one suitable to the location. 
Another and more elaborate devel¬ 
opment was in altering the foundation 
of the barn which was built years ago. 
These old walls and the barnyard wall 
have been used to make the enclosure 
for an outdoor swimming pool. 
The barn was on a hillside farm of 
twenty-five acres at Bryn Mawr, near 
Philadelphia, which was acquired by 
Mr. Edwin L. Blabon for the develop¬ 
ment of his country home. The farm 
underwent a great change, an attractive 
modern residence was built on the 
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