HOUSE AND GARDEN 
PYRENE REDUCES INSURANCE COST 
FIRE 
EXTINGUISHER 
Pays Pari of Your 
Automobile 
Fire Insurance Cost 
15% REDUCTION IN PREMIUMS 
is now allowed if automobile is equipped with one- 
quart, hand fire extinguisher, pump-type, approved by 
the National Board of Fire Underwriters. 
Brass and Nickel-plated Pyrene Fire Extinguishers are the only one- 
quart fire extinguishers included in the lists of approved Fire Appli¬ 
ances issued by the National Board of Underwriters. 
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Remember the reduction is in effect NOW. 
Demand it in RENEWING YOUR PRESENT POL¬ 
ICY and demand it on EVERY NEW POLICY. 
The Aetna Accident and Liability Company and the 
Automobile Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., 
allow this reduction. See their agents. 
Pyrene will instantly extinguish all kinds of incipient 
fires no matter how inflammable the burning substance 
—without injuring varnished surfaces or upholstery. 
Get a Pyrene Fire Extinguisher and Bracket from your 
Automobile Dealer, Hardware or General Store, if they 
can’t supply you, write to nearest Pyrene Branch Office. 
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ASK YOUR OWN INSURANCE BROKER 
| January, 1914 
The Secret of Silent Plumbing 
(Continued from page 32) 
caused by these fixtures. When a tank 
is operated, improper ball cocks will hiss 
as the tank refills — others chatter. Good 
ball cocks adjusted to the pressure under 
which they are to operate are generally 
satisfactory. It is important that the ball 
cock be suited to the pressure of the 
water which it controlls in refilling the 
tank. Some manufacturers offer closets 
that are designed especially to avoid noise 
in operating. The bowls, the tanks and 
the fittings are carefully chosen to work 
efficiently and yet with a minimum of 
sound. 
The filling of bathtubs is sometimes a 
noisy process. Combination fittings can 
be purchased that set beyond the rim of 
the tub—or even in the wall of the bath¬ 
room—and permit the water to enter 
through a small metal shell or bell, as it 
is called. This bell is fitted closely to the 
inside of the tub so that the water enters 
and glides down the side of the tub with¬ 
out splashing and without noise. 
What We Learned When We 
Built Our House 
(Continued from page 27) 
is easily understood and appreciated. 
Beyond the inner door of the vestibule 
is a small passage that, if walled in, might 
seem contracted. This effect is avoided 
by the absence of doors to the living-room, 
which opens through a pointed arch di¬ 
rectly to the left of the passage. Oppo¬ 
site the front door an oak paneled door 
is seen beneath the ascending stairs. 
This leads to another small passage where 
the door immediately before one opens 
into the kitchen and the door on the right 
gives upon the cellar stairway. The main 
stairs are both picturesque and easy. 
Three steps lead to a landing with a 
window facing one and a door to the 
right opening into, a small toilet and coat 
room. Then the' stairs turn up, winding 
just a little and come out in the middle 
of the upper hallway. 
The living-room stretches twenty-four 
feet to the latticed south window and, as 
before said, the absence of division from 
the passage entrance, also the absence 
of doors between living- and dining¬ 
rooms increases the look of spaciousness. 
Again, too, this is helped by the unusually 
large windows of which the living-room 
has two looking east as well as the wide 
window to the south. Fronting the east 
windows is the open fireplace. The chim¬ 
ney being deep makes a nook on the right, 
which is filled in by a built-in seat with a 
hinged cover so that the box beneath can 
be utilized. Another such box and seat is 
beside the staircase, while the long seat in 
the lattice window gives a wonderful 
length of store place. 
To balance the chimney seat on the 
right there is a built-in bookcase on the 
left of the fireplace. This extends beyond 
ORIENTAL 
RUG SKEPTICISM_ 
accounts ' for my being in business. I 
bought several thousand dollars’ worth 
of experience for myself before I felt 
able to buy wisely. Now I buy more gem 
rugs than any ten men in America. I of¬ 
fer you honest pieces at honest prices; 
one profit above cash cost to me for less 
than usual expenses. 
Interesting Monograph on request. 
L. B. LAWTON, MAJOR U. S. A., Retired 
181 CAYUGA STREET, SENECA FALLS, NEW YORK 
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