HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 
1914 
stops automatically. We always have an 
abundant supply of water without ever 
giving it a thought. As long as there is 
water in the well and “juice” in the wires 
we are sure of our water supply. The 
whole outfit installed cost only $125.00. 
An electric current is not indispensable 
and need not dissuade anyone from build¬ 
ing in the country merely because current 
cannot be obtained. A good water sup¬ 
ply is possible either with a hot-air or 
gasoline-driven pump, or even with a 
hand pump, and with either a pressure 
tank or an attic tank. Our system is the 
ideal one because it requires absolutely no 
attention except to pay the meter bill. 
The water supply has withstood a tem¬ 
perature of 10 degrees below zero for 
several days this winter without a single 
frozen pipe. 
There is one point about a bungalow 
that a housebuilder will discover sooner 
or later. From its very nature — if it is 
a true bungalow—it is a structure all on 
one floor. This method of construction 
results in a great deal of waste space in 
the attic. For an average of eight rooms 
we shall require a foundation, say, 30 by 
40 feet. We thus have attic space 30 by 
40, which may not look like much on our 
blue-prints, but when the house is com¬ 
pleted we see this enormous wasted space 
and commence to wonder why we hadn’t 
used that space for second-floor rooms by 
means of dormer windows, and thus cut 
down the size — and cost — of our founda¬ 
tions. Well, there are two reasons for 
it. If we have a second floor we cease 
to have a bungalow, and such rooms, 
coming directly under the roof, are 
always hot. “But, why not raise the 
roof ?” you may ask. That is possible, 
but then you must bid good-bye to your 
mental picture of “that low, squatty 
effect” that the books talk about that will 
make your house look as though it sprang 
right out of the ground, and in its place 
you will probably get something that 
looks like a cross between a Kansas 
grasshopper and a railroad signal tower. 
It is a mistaken impression that a 
bungalow is the cheapest form of con¬ 
struction for a given amount of floor 
space. This is not so. Probably the 
cheapest type of house is the so-called 
“L” house, that is a blot on every land¬ 
scape in these United States. They are 
entirely lacking in distinctiveness, and are 
usually built by a man who wears “mail¬ 
order” clothes and “mail-order” teeth, 
and has even bought “plans complete for 
$2.85” from the same “mail-order” cata¬ 
logue that supplies all his other earthly 
needs. No magazine ever publishes an 
article on “the ‘L’ house beautiful,” and 
yet it is our typical form of architecture. 
There are at least twenty such houses in 
my town, which only has 300 inhabitants. 
But they cost less than a bungalow, for 
the reason that the same roof covers two 
floors instead of one. 
We have put a concealed staircase in 
“Vantine’s is the Orient brought to your 
door. The vari-colored teeming Orient as 
pictured in the tales of Romance and 
Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, but with 
this difference : The haggle and barter of 
booth and bazaar, the eternal and inevitable 
accompaniment of shopping, as practiced 
in the ambrosial East, is here eliminated.” 
E/ The Ori< 
The Oriental Store. 
"When in New York, be sure to 
visit Vantine’s. Here you are in 
a restful realm, a strange country, 
a different world, almost — a fairy 
land of beautiful and wonderful 
art treasures, devised by fertile 
brains, fashioned by defo hands 
far away across the seas.” 
With this Book, which is yours for the asking, you may 
Shop in the Orient from Your Home 
A LL ships from the Eastern ports know Vantine’s. No corner of the 
Orient but has been searched for its art, for its comforts, for those 
inexpensive luxuries which so gracefully mingle the quaint and the 
practical, the mysterious and the magnificently simple. The purpose of 
this book is to bring Vantine’s, The Oriental Store, to your home—-to 
assist you in ordering by mail objects of art and utility specially designed 
for summer use which were collected by our representatives in the busy 
cities and silent places of Japan, China, Turkey, India, Persia and Egypt. 
Write to-day, and by return mail we shall send postpaid this interesting 
Vantine Book. 
Unique and distinctive Oriental articles from the new Vantine Book: 
Ladles" Panama hat of fine closely woven 
Panama, woven under the peculiar at¬ 
mospheric conditions necessary for the 
weaving of the finest hats. Price un¬ 
blocked S5. Price blocked S6. 
Japanese toweling table or luncheon set 
with doilies to match. A most delightful 
novelty for the breakfast or luncheon 
table, of washable Japanese toweling 
with various stenciled designs in two tone 
shades of blue on white ground. Price 
30x30 inches with 12 doilies 12 inches 
square prepaid SI.65. Four other sizes 
up to S2.50 per set. 
Oriental ash receiver of Japanese lacquer 
and heavy nickel top. Ashes when placed 
on revolving disc are deposited in remov¬ 
able receptacle. A Japanese novelty espe¬ 
cially suitable for porch use, as ashes can¬ 
not scatter. Price prepaid SI each. 
Vantine's pullman kimono, a dainty 
Oriental creation especially designed for 
use when traveling; folds compactly in 
neat silk case and may be conveniently 
carried in hand bag; comes in pink, light 
blue, old blue, black and navy, in cherry 
blossom, wistaria or chrysanthemum de¬ 
sign. Price prepaid S12. 
No. 18. Vantine’s "hour-glass” chair 
made in Canton, China, of split rattan 
without a visible nail in its entire con¬ 
struction. Price f.o.b. New York S5. 
Others according to size and design up to 
S12. 
Ladies’ hand-made Turkish slippers from 
Constantinople, of Turkish leather with 
hand-turned soles, prettily embroidered 
on vamp in tinseled designs, and fluffy silk 
pompon: comes in black, pink, blue, lav¬ 
ender, red and brown, in sizes 1 to 6. 
Price prepaid 50c. Size 7 — 75c: in white, 
sizes 1 to 6—75c. 
Crescent shaped Kochi flower holder, 
from the shores of the Inland Sea, envel¬ 
oped in net work of wistaria vine with 
woven brown bamboo handle; diameter 11 
inches. Price prepaid SI.50. 
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Distinctive and unique Japanese bamboo 
shade, pagoda shape, with lining of red or 
green paper; a very attractive shade 
which is ready to place on electric drop 
light, also used for decorative purposes. 
Price prepaid SI.50. 
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Every bulb is TRUE TO NAME, and their blooms are as ap¬ 
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My list contains most of the new Exhibition varieties, as 
well as all the old favorites. 
Don’t order elsewhere before you have seen my Import Price 
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my hands by July 15 . 
ANDREW B. VANDERBEEK 
174 BROADWAY 
PATERSON, N. J. 
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