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House & Garden 
Must You Move the Chair? 
— Or Just the Lamp? 
The G-E Twin Con¬ 
venience Outlet is a 
G-E Wiring Device 
which is considered 
a necessary part of 
really good 'Xviring 
work . 
Y OU may be living in a “wired house”—but 
is it completely wired—are you enjoying real 
electrical convenience? Do you always con¬ 
nect a portable lamp just where you want it? In 
any part of a room; in any room in your house? 
You can, if you have real electrical convenience 
■—and you may have many other comforts, too. 
You may use several electrical appliances at the 
same time if you have a sufficient number of out¬ 
lets—a fan with your electric iron; a toaster while 
the coffee-percolator is “perking”; a massage 
vibrator and a portable heater. 
Random or 
“crazy” stone 
paving is suit¬ 
able for a city 
backyard gar¬ 
den. Here it is 
used for both 
paths and pool 
When random 
stone paths are 
made, the 
cracks can be 
filled with moss 
or edged with 
small alpines 
Paths and Paving for the Garden 
And your convenience requires switches, as well; 
one at the door of every room, two in larger 
rooms, one for the front porch, for the back porch, 
for the garage, for the cellar lights. 
It is these little touches of electrical convenience 
that make a home. They cost little more than 
makeshift wiring and may be installed with little 
trouble in your present home or in one being 
planned. 
A New Booklet for Home Lovers 
How to secure this electrical conven¬ 
ience in each room of your house is told 
in detail in a booklet prepared for you. 
This booklet will be sent you free, to¬ 
gether with the name of a nearby electrical 
contractor qualified to assist you in plan¬ 
ning adequate electrical convenience for 
your home. And if you now own your 
home you can have the work done on an 
easy payment plan, just as you buy a 
piano or phonograph. 
If you own or rent a home, or ever 
expect to, you will find this booklet well 
worth reading. Address Section J, Mer¬ 
chandise Department, General Electric 
Company, Bridgeport, Conn. 
(Continued from page 79) 
of this sort with single large stones far 
apart, like stepping stones across a 
brook. The spaces between are diffi¬ 
cult to cope with. If grass is used 
between them, it cannot be cut with a 
machine and must be snipped with snip¬ 
pers or left in untidy fringes. If plants 
are used, they grow to a certain height 
and the whole course of the path be¬ 
comes an absolute obstacle race. Even 
grandmothers nowadays hop lightly from 
stone to stone, doing no more damage 
than knocking off a few shoots en 
passant. Small children, too, love this 
sort of path and jump along it, gen¬ 
erally managing to land on a plant. 
No, the average garden path must be 
one along which one can walk with 
ease and comfort and at least two 
abreast. There are, of course, many 
other forms of brick and stone paths 
but the simpler ones almost invariably 
look best. An excellent one is illus¬ 
trated for wherever you want a path 
on a flat place with many at right angles. 
We will now leave these lordly efforts 
and think of the paths in the more 
out-of-the-way and wilder parts of the 
garden and the parts that are given to 
herbaceous plants. Nothing is better 
for herbaceous borders than wide plain 
grass paths. By wide I mean 8' or 
10' at least. Grass paths are mosc 
beautiful, but they are not good nar¬ 
row and they are no good as a right of 
way. They wear out at once and must 
only be used for the garden and not as 
a regular route from one place to an¬ 
other. Wheelbarrows also spoil them, 
if much used on them. 
I have in my old kitchen garden 
stone paving 3' wide and on each side 
of it flat grass edges 2' wide. One 
can wheel anything on these paths, and 
walk on them in wet weather, and they 
are very effective and always greatly ad¬ 
mired. Of course, the drawback is that 
the grass has to be mown with a ma¬ 
chine at least once a week and also 
edged with clippers and there are four 
edges to each path! 
For the more sequestered parts of the 
garden plain brick paths are very effec¬ 
tive, but these must be made with an 
edge of bricks, and in seme parts they 
suffer rather with the frost as they 
are almost always wet when it freezes 
and it splits them. I have added one 
or two ways in which to set bricks. 
Gravel can always be used with good 
effect in kitchen gardens and the out¬ 
side paths of any part of the garden 
and makes very good winding paths 
through trees. 
Cinders, too, make excellent paths in 
the rougher parts of the kitchen gar¬ 
den and under trees. They are beauti¬ 
ful for paths, if well made and kept, 
and last for years; and the dark blue 
gray is most effective in some places, 
especially with white flowers as an edg¬ 
ing. I always put little narrow brick 
paths in my herbaceous borders about 3' 
from the back. These paths do not 
show after early spring, when they 
look rather nice and they enable one 
to get at the border in gill parts without 
treading in the soil, where the flowers 
are growing. It is really largely a 
matter of common sense. If you have 
in your garden a little secret place, 
where you can sit on lonely nights in 
peace under the moon, carpet that 
place with something soft like noiseless 
mossy grass, and see that there is no 
resounding paving within earshot. 
