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SiLVERTOWN is the one word that means 
"cord tire” to the world. No need to add 
"cord” or "tire.” SILVERTOWN means both. 
But now it is also the one word that means 
"One Quality Only.” For SILVERTOWN is 
the product of a one-quality policy. We 
center thought, skill, and care on it, and 
make it the perfection of cord tires. 
THE B. F. GOODRICH RUBBER COMPANY 
ESTABLISHED 1870 
In Canada—The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company, Ltd. 
Toronto < Montreal r Winnipeg 
Goodrich 
SiLVERTOWN Cord 
SOLD BY GOODPUCH DEALERS THE WORLD OVEFC 
House & Garden 
BUILDING INGENUITY into the HOUSE I 
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equalized than if shut ofi by regular 
doors. 
For other parts of the house, built-in 
tray cases are very economical in plan 
and use. Their series of shallow drawers 
makes it possible to utilize practically 
all of the space. One can readily under¬ 
stand that in deep drawers such as the 
familiar chiffonier possesses, usually only 
the bottom of the drawers is used for 
the accommodation of belongings, while 
the upper part is just waste space. 
Shallow tray cases, as these are called, 
permit not only an economy of space, 
but a better classification of belongings 
and the improved order incident there¬ 
to. This makes possible a readier se¬ 
lection of the article desired and elim¬ 
inates the frequent last-minute s. o. s. 
at the end of a fruitless search. An or¬ 
dinary closet door protects these trays 
from dust and exposure and is in keep¬ 
ing with the rest of the woodwork. 
Householders find that much heavy and 
costly furniture may be eliminated from 
the household requirements in places 
where builders have considered these 
things. 
For linens, shallow tray cases are par¬ 
ticularly recommended. The old way 
of piling pillow cases upon sheets, and 
sheets upon counter-panes in a closet, 
means dislodging the whole business 
every time one needs access to the lower 
items in the pile. It is well to have 
separate places for double and single 
sheets and for large and small pillow 
cases, as every housewife knows that 
it is a strain on the temper to pull 
down a narrow sheet and shake it out 
preparatory to dressing the bed, only 
to find that it is the wrong size. The 
type of linen case referred to may be 
built like open drawers without the 
front end, so that towels, etc., can be 
taken out without pulling out the trays 
if desired. Linen cases should be built 
into the bathrooms, bedrooms or halls, 
and in dining-room, kitchen or pantry 
according to conditions. One should not 
attempt to have tablecloths and nap¬ 
kins in the same place with bath towels 
or sheets. 
Built-in attic steps are a new and use¬ 
ful feature. They are similar to a ladder 
with a solid wall behind it, the ladder 
being so hinged as to rest horizontally 
parallel with and nested in the ceiling 
when not in use, the wall underneath 
it harmonizing inconspicuously with the 
ceiling. It may be readily pulled down 
when access to the attic is desired, and 
as readily moved into place. 
A well considered window seat has 
an appeal all its own. In the small house 
where there is little space for chairs, and 
in the larger one where bare corners 
and uninteresting spots are not infre- 
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quent, there is good opportunity for [ 
this pleasant feature. The lower portion I 
may be used as a chest or closet to con¬ 
ceal various things according to the j 
room in which it is placed: magazines I 
in the living room, toys in the nursery j 
and so on throughout the house. The ' 
bay window offers a particularly de¬ 
lightful setting for a window seat, af- ; 
fording secluded places where groups of 
persons may enjoy slight exclusiveness 1 
without complete isolation. Here it fits 
into space not otherwise required and 
will give an air of completeness and 
coziness that everyone may enjoy. 
It is possible to upholster a window 
seat in cretonne or other material in 
harmony with the rest of the room. 
There is no special need to do this, how¬ 
ever, except as a matter of personal 
preference, as window seats may be had 
in stock designs with excellent wood fin¬ 
ish, in styles to harmonize with the 
character of the room. But the use of 
brightly colored cushions and uphol¬ 
stered seats gives a snap, verve and ac¬ 
cent to a room that immediately at¬ 
tracts attention. 
Many small houses are resorting to 
the use of what may be called a utility 
room. This is a room provided on all 
sides with alluring closets and built-in 
features that convert it to various pur¬ 
poses as required. Push a button here, 
touch a switch there, turn a knob ' 
somewhere else, and there you are! The 
door-bed is indispensable here as it 
makes possible the combination of bed¬ 
room with living room, library, den, 
playroom and others. Sliding doors are 
immensely useful in the utility room, 1 
making possible new divisions and ar- 1 
rangements. One might have what to all ; 
appearances is a simple living room. At 1 
meal time, a few motions will reveal a 
kitchen unit by moving back sliding 1 
doors, and a small folding dining table : 
may be let out of the wall. Some of 
these wall closets might be concealed ' 
with draperies or screens or pictures, if 
desired, although their good wood fin¬ 
ish, just like the room itself, makes this 
quite unnecessary. The little cabinets in 
the. inter-room openings may conceal 
things that are wanted when the living 
room has been converted to a dining 
room or bedroom. 
The utility room is haven in all sorts 
of emergencies. As a makeshift arrange¬ 
ment it should not be permanently suf¬ 
fered to undergo a Jekyll and Hyde 
transformation every day: one certainly 
wants to preserve the amenities and 
traditions of home better than that. 
But it is nevertheless, for all that, 
worthy of consideration in planning 
the house, and offers fascinating pos¬ 
sibilities to the imaginative housewife. 
Y OF PINKS 
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destined to go into a rockery; border 
pinks, with the fragrant Miss Simpkins 
leading in favor where it scents a 
cove in the long border; D. Plumarius, 
or the common Scotch, grass or garden 
pink, with its white and delicate rose- 
tinted clouds lying along an edge hard 
by the stiff foliage of blue and white 
Siberian iris; rock pinks or D. Petraeus, 
which hold delicate rose colored 
flowers above little tufts of foliage and 
seem to enjoy mean soil, so long as it 
is sandy and moist; and finally the an¬ 
nual sinensis or Chinese pinks and the 
Heddewiggi, or Japanese, which make 
up in color what they lack in scent— 
for they have no fragrance—and which 
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flower till you tire of cutting them and 
then accommodatingly seed themselves 
all over the place. Some day we will 
add .'Vmoor pink—D. Dentosus, glacier 
pinks—D. Neglectus, Maiden pinks—D. 
Deltoides, which somehow, hav^e escaped 
our attention so far, and sand pinks, D. 
-Arenarius. When these flower all in 
bloom the garden will seem like a re¬ 
union of the Pinks family. 
Practically all these kinds are easy to 
raise from seed and can be further 
increased by seeds and layers. The 
annual sorts—the Chinese and Japanese 
varieties—can be treated as biennial, 
raised from seed in July or August, set 
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