January, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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faucet which aerates water. The action is 
based on the theory that ozone or super 
charges of oxygen will purify and sterilize 
water. 
A great convenience where water is con¬ 
cerned is the shower mixer. The objec¬ 
tions to the shower bath are removed by 
means of such a device, for it permits one 
to blend hot and cold water to the re¬ 
quired temperature without the usual dash 
from boiling point to freezing. Shower 
baths are now being manufactured which 
come from the wall, and direct their spray 
so that it does not wet the hair. This 
should remove the women’s objection to 
them. 
In connection with lighting there has 
been devised a wall socket, which enables 
the portable gas lamp to be used just as 
the portable electric light is. This pneu¬ 
matic socket can be placed either in the 
floor or the wall and the gas pipe may be 
pushed into it much as the electric is in¬ 
serted. The portable lamp itself is found 
in a new electric form, which give indirect 
lighting from a portable source. The 
light is thrown on the ceiling and diffused 
around the room although the lamp gives 
the impression of being a direct source. 
What Style Shall We Choose for 
the New House 
(Continued from page 13) 
le^s tractable though one of the most de¬ 
lightful of styles in its vigorous, full- 
blooded opulence. Its use is properly 
limited to the large country house set in 
its own park with all the accompanying 
paraphernalia that this implies. It is for 
us a very especial case. The same is only 
slightly less true of the Italian villa, or 
even villino. It is a style with which one 
must be entirely en rapport, to weave into 
the hackneyed Italian detail the delicate 
aura of the Italian land. 
There is here a largeness of demand on 
space, on pocket-book, and on a thorough 
and intelligent cooperation between archi¬ 
tect and owner that must be carried down 
to the last chair. 
There are some delightful examples that 
have been done recently in small and un¬ 
pretentious work in which the atmosphere 
has been caught with the greatest suc¬ 
cess, the owner beginning where the archi¬ 
tect left off, with the result that the artistic 
appeal is as unusual as it is delightful. 
To take up now a more modest matter 
let 11s consider the Spanish Mission style. 
It has been forced, at least east of the 
Rockies, to find its expression in the bun¬ 
galow. It is properly a style for hot coun¬ 
tries and seems to fit California conditions 
extremely well. 
The plan with everything on one floor, 
its patio, arcades, thick walls of stucco or 
masonry, flat roofs and great overhanging 
eaves, all speak of life in the tropics. If 
these peculiarities are respected as they 
should be, it is folly to expect it to cater to 
comfort in any climate having prolonged 
cold weather. 
Speaking of Greenhouses 
Here’s A Common Sensed One 
S OME of us shy at those words: common 
sensed. Perhaps it takes certain of us back 
to our childhood days when we had to wear 
clothes that were so painfully common sensed that 
they were ugly. 
Happily greenhouse building long ago arrived 
at the place where utility and attractiveness were 
united. 
The house above is 18 feet wide and about 50 
feet long. The workroom is? Just a nice, snug 
little outfit. 
As far as the construction is concerned, none 
could be built better or of better build. It has a 
complete iron frame, which at once tells its own 
story of lightness and endurance. Besides the 
iron and cypress in that house, there also went into 
it over a quarter of a century of “Know How.” 
Upon these years of accumulated “Know How,” 
confidence is based. 
When a man spends his good money for some¬ 
thing he feels is in a way, a luxury, he wants to 
Hitchi n 
feel sure he will get just what the specifications 
call for, whether or not he is “keeping an eye_on 
things.” 
Further than that, he wants to fed, that all 
that should be in the specifications, is in there, 
regardless of the fact that he may or may not be 
“posted on building methods.” 
The fact that we have suggested.by implication, 
that there are “loop holes” in building, is rather 
conclusive proof that you can depend on Hitchings 
& Company being dependable. 
If you want a thoroughly up to date, absolutely 
practical house, not devoid of attractiveness then 
unquestionably you will find us particularly 
pleasant and eminently fair people to do business 
with. 
Glad to send you our catalog and also come and 
see you. It always takes longer to start to build 
than it actually does to build. 
So now seems like a good time to build. 
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