HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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NUARY, 
1914 
Garage 
Bungalow 
Play House 
Hodgson 
Portable 
Houses 
Artistically designed and finished, made of the most durable materials and prac¬ 
tical at any time of the year in any climate. Made for innumerable purposes. 
Erection of buildings extremely simple, and can be done by unskilled labor 
in a few hours’ time. Send for illustrated catalogue. 
E. F. HODGSON CO., 116 Washington St., Room 226, Boston, Massachusetts 
Many other delight- (SH 
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Three Beautiful New Ships Have Been Added 
for Special Panama Cruises 
These Twin Screw Steamers, 500 feet in length, yet limited to 
120 passengers, have a yacht-like exclusiveness with the luxu¬ 
rious appointments so desirable in travel to the Tropics. 
18-DAY CRUISES DELUXE 
Every week, beginning January 3d, a snow-white ship — either the 
“Pastores,” “Calamares” or “Tenadores” 
—points to the South for 18 glorious Summer days of care-free 
rest and enjoyment. 
JAMAICA, the PANAMA CANAL, COSTA RICA, and 
HAVANA 
ful cruises to 
Jamaica, 
Panama Canal, 
Central and South 
America 
in ships that are built 
to be cool in the 
Tropics. 
FROM NFW YORK 
will be regularly visited by one of these brand-new 
ships of the Great White Fleet, especially designed and built for 
passenger service in Southern latitudes. 
Some of the Unique Features That Make This 
New Cruising Service Especially Attractive: 
Every room is an outside room, many en suite;' 29 rooms with 
private baths; 42 baths and showers, all told. Running water 
in every room. Electric fans and powerful noiseless blowers, 
bringing fresh sea air into every room, keeping them delightfully 
cool. Fascinating Palm Court on deck, opening on the sea. 
Restaurant service a la Carte exclusively, at small 
tables for private parties. 
Sailings every Wed- 
nesdayand Saturday 
FROM NEW ORLEANS 
Sailings every Wed¬ 
nesday, Thursday 
and Saturday. 
FROM BOSTON 
New weekly service 
in New Steamers 
every Thursday, be¬ 
ginning January 1st. 
IMPORTANT NOTICE ! 
I 11 order to introduce the a la Carte feature without increased expense to our 
patrons, an ample allowance was made when fixing the fares for these cruises. 
UNITED FRUIT COMPANY 
STEAMSHIP SERVICE 
Long Wharf 3 Battery Place 630 Common St 
Boston New York New Orleans 
or any authorized Ticket or Tourist Agent 
Write for Beautifully Illustra¬ 
ted Booklet No. 50, Describing 
These Cruises. 
Let us either use it, then, in a climate of 
perpetual summer, or if in a more rigorous 
climate as a house to be used only in the 
summer months. 
We now come to a sort of work that is 
of no historic style, nor is it reminiscent 
of any. Neither does it constitute a style 
of its own, for all that its members have 
in common is an avoidance of any archi¬ 
tectural indebtedness. 
Its chief habitat is the large cities of the 
Middle West. It is a semi-suburban house 
of masonry standing free on a large city 
lot. It is expensive, often well designed 
and not infrequently creditable architec¬ 
tural performance. Whether it is its in¬ 
dependence—an independence that is not 
quite originality—or its lack of historic 
background, its heterogenous use of what¬ 
ever comes to hand, or a piratical levying 
on the work of every land and age without 
any attempt at assimilation, or what ever 
it is, there is lacking in this work real 
character and distinction. Tt is a mongrel, 
and clever handling cannot quite save it. 
If this last is our own work there is 
another sort also ours of which we may 
be unreservedly proud. It is the shingled 
house—shingled all over, that is. This 
work is a real American achievement and 
an admirable example of the proper use of 
material, of unaffected planning, and of 
the requirements of the landscape. There 
is no precedent for this ; it is not borrowed, 
and constitutes a splendid living example 
of the dictum that a true style is the un¬ 
conscious result of a faithful, honest, sen¬ 
sible, solving of the problem in all its 
aspects. When we do these things con¬ 
scientiously we get the style for nothing. 
We have lately shown signs of becom¬ 
ing tried of this lead; but it will stand a 
lot of doing yet, for it is full of fertility, 
charm and picturesqueness, and, best of ail. 
it bears the easy stamp of the national 
genius. 
In spite of what is sometimes said to 
the contray, architecture, and more espe¬ 
cially house building, is a live and progres¬ 
sive art in this country. The demand for 
good work is calling forth the supply — as 
it always does; and our best work as it is 
being done to-day is of a degree of ex¬ 
cellence that is unrealized by those who do 
not keep in touch with such matters. 
If one will but see to it that his problem 
is given as much brains, money and time 
as is possible he should not fear for the 
outcome. 
The Water Supply for the Coun¬ 
try Place 
(Continued from page 39) 
on a higher level than the house or garden 
and letting gravity do the work. The 
tapping of such a spring or pond should 
be made durable by building a little dam 
of concrete on one side and running the 
pipe through it. A good screen should 
cover the opening of the pipe to keep out 
grass, leaves and sticks. Otherwise the 
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