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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
|UNE, IQI 4 
If your lawn is full of holes and hoof-marks, after each time 
the grass is cut —you have nobody to blame but yourself. 
Of course, you can still play nurse to the horse, if you wish, keep his lawn boots repaired, 
fill up his tracks with soil, scatter seed over the newiy-filled foot-prints, pack down with a 
spade or shovel, but — Why go to all this trouble ? 
Mr. R. E. Olds, the famous automobile designer, has invented just what you have been wanting for a long 
time — an efficient, low-priced power lawn mower. 
The Ideal Power Lawn Mower cuts 
the lawn quickly, smoothly andjjevenly. It 
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403 Kalamazoo Street 
LANSING, MICH. 
around flower beds, walks, under shrubbery, and works 
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go. Rolls the lawn as well as 
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All you have .to do is to 
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The price of the Ideal com¬ 
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Canadian Price. $436.00. 
F.O.B. cars, Lansing. 
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Eugene O. Murman 
Los Angeles, California 
our bungalow, as the plan shows, but it 
serves no other purpose than to get to 
the attic to store trunks and set the 
mouse trap. We have thought of the 
possibility of an open-air sleeping-room 
on the second floor, but experiment 
proved that during July and August the 
attic was hotter than the seven hinges on 
the gates of Inferno. Because of this air 
space, the rooms below are delightfully 
cool. 
Every home should have an open fire¬ 
place. It is the focal center of the whole 
house, the shrine around which the en¬ 
tire family assembles. Our fireplace was 
first to be brick and stucco, but I had 
already built several of that kind for my 
neighbors. I had also built innumerable 
field-stone fireplaces of every shape, size 
and previous condition of servitude. We 
therefore decided on a “tapestry brick'’ 
fireplace, and have never regretted our 
choice—merely because it is distinctive, 
not because it is any better. 
There are a great many possibilities for 
individual ideas in a house that will occur 
to the builder while the house is in 
progress. To most people housebuilding 
is a sort of a nightmare, anyway, and the 
contractor meets every suggestion of a 
change with a raise in price. A sort of 
legalized game of poker. When the 
family finally receives the keys and 
breathes a silent prayer that the house is 
at last finished without utter bankruptcy, 
it somehow always reminds me of that 
picture of “The Landing of Columbus,” 
where they are all giving thanks that the 
awful journey is over and that they have 
even escaped with their lives. 
Housebuilding costs are governed a 
great deal by local conditions. This is not 
so true of material as of labor. Another 
point is that the cost of a house is in¬ 
fluenced far more by its size than by its 
shape. If you are anxious to keep down 
the cost of your house, decide first of all 
if you can get along without a cellar. If 
you ultimately intend to use it in the win¬ 
ter and intend to have a furnace, a cellar 
is a necessity. Otherwise it has but little 
relative value. Cut out the cellar, and the 
house should cost $250.00 less. 
By referring to the plan it will be seen 
that a single chimney serves for the 
living-room fireplace, the kitchen range 
and the furnace. This is another great 
saving over the cost of two chimneys. 
There are two points to remember in a 
bungalow chimney—to have it higher by 
at least two feet than the highest part of 
the ridge, or your range will refuse to 
draw, and to allow at least twelve square 
inches in the fireplace flue for each 
square foot in the fireplace opening. This 
is not as complicated as it sounds. If the 
fireplace has an opening three feet wide 
and thirty inches high it has a surface 
area of 1,080 square inches. One-twelfth 
of that is 90 inches, and an 8-inch by 12- 
inch flue gives you 96 square inches, 
which is enough. 
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