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House & Garden 
Prettier Teeth 
If you fight the film 
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While you leave teeth coated 
with a dingy film, their luster can¬ 
not show. 
Look about you. Note how 
many teeth now glisten. And mark 
what they add to good looks. 
The reason lies largely in a new 
method of teeth cleaning. Mil¬ 
lions now use it daily. Accept 
this ten-day test we offer, and 
learn what it does for you. 
Why teeth lose beauty 
A viscous film clings to the 
teeth, enters crevices and stays. 
The tooth brush alone 
does not end it. No 
ordinary tooth paste 
effectively combats it. 
So much film re¬ 
mains. Food stains, 
etc., discolor it, then 
it forms dingy coats. 
Tartar is based on 
film. Those cloudy coats hide the 
teeth’s luster. 
Film also holds food substance 
which ferments and forms acid. 
It holds the acid in contact with 
the teeth to cause decay. That’s 
why so few escape tooth troubles. 
Germs breed by millions in film. 
They, with tartar, are the chief 
cause of pyorrhea. And that be¬ 
came alarmingly common. 
Better methods now 
Dental science studied long to 
correct this situation. It found 
two film combatants. One of them 
acts to curdle film, one to remove 
it, and without any harmful scour- 
ing. 
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being smoked out of home. And there 
is no sense in having it smoke. Putting 
up with such an active agent in ruin¬ 
ing a vacation is all tommy-rot. Find 
out a little about the rule in building 
the darn things before you start. 
Now I am not going to launch forth 
into detailed dissertation upon every 
step in building the fireplace—though 
by the sweat of my brow and the blis¬ 
tering of my hands I’ve earned the 
degree of master mason. These fireplaces 
are hand-done, let me tell you, and the 
smallest of ’em contains about eight 
tons of masonry—cement, sand and 
stone—while the most massive we have 
put up has purt’ nigh forty-odd tons. 
It’s a beaner, though, if we do say it. 
But now here is a hint: Your firecham- 
ber first of all has its sides drawn in 
toward the back and the backwall of 
it is inclined forward. Above this and 
before the flue is started, an adequate 
smoke chamber—the width of the fire- 
chamber—should be built. Now for 
your flue. It should be in area, from 
one-sixth to one-tenth the area of the 
opening of the fireolace. 
This depends chiefly on your sur¬ 
roundings. If you are hemmed in by a 
high cliff or tall trees the nearer one- 
sixth the better—but if you are in a 
clearing, with everything in favor of 
your chimney, one-tenth will be suffi¬ 
cient. I may say that in all of our fire¬ 
places, we have split the difference, the 
settings of the cabins being medium 
open. All of our flues are one-eighth 
the opening of the firechamber. 
In my letter anent the materials you 
were to order, I believe I confessed 
that I purchased the best dome damper 
on the market and also enough fire¬ 
brick to line the opening. This is not 
a necessary expenditure but it certainly 
has been worth the cost to us. Your 
warmed open chimney is going to lure 
every chilly mosquito and fly in the 
neighborhood the minute your fire is 
out—one reason for a damper whose 
main benison is shutting off the cold 
or damp down-drafts in the room in 
stormy weather. As for the firebrick— 
if you had ever seen the results of your 
hard labor spall away under the chafing 
of intense heat, or if one of your in¬ 
nocent bystanders were hit in the eye 
by a bit of exploding native rock—you 
would understand why I prefer the un¬ 
sportsmanlike but “safety-first” fire¬ 
brick for lining. 
Just a word about the pictures I 
T he Wares or the Ming Dynasty. 
R. L. Hobson. Cloth, 4 to. xvi 
-)- 240 BPS. Illustrated. New York: 
Charles Scribner’s Sons. 
The period of the Ming Dynasty in 
China 1368-1644 A. D., must be con¬ 
sidered as the most important in Chi¬ 
nese ceramic art. Through the reigns of 
the seventeen emperors enthroned dur¬ 
ing these 276 years, the potters art 
advanced in degrees of perfection. The 
interesting story of this recondite period 
is told in “The Wares of the Ming Dy¬ 
nasty” by R. L. Hobson, Keeper of the 
Department of Ceramics and Ethnog¬ 
raphy of the British Museum, a su¬ 
perb new book illustrated with 128 re¬ 
markably fine plates, eleven of which 
are in color. Mr. Hobson is one 
of the world s foremost authorities on 
oriental ceramics and this new book not 
only exhibits his remarkable scholarship, 
am sending—for no black and white 
prints are going to give you even a 
notion of what may be done in the 
way of artistic effect. Of course we are 
blessed along Superior with most gor¬ 
geous colors in our rock formations, en¬ 
hanced by every variety of brilliant 
lichen—but there are mighty few places 
in this best-of-all-possible countries 
where one cannot satisfy his craving for 
a colorful fireplace. And don’t be 
afraid of rocks with moss and lichens 
on them if they are sound. I hate to 
give the impression of feeble-minded¬ 
ness in our community, but we have 
actually chosen the rocks in most cases 
for the beauty of their colorings and if 
this was due chiefly to the growth upon 
them, we have aided and abetted said 
growth by wetting it from time to time 
with a sponge kept for that purpose. 
About five minutes a week devoted thus 
to the shrine of Beauty repays you— 
if you like that sort of thing. It gives 
a little more the impression of a wood¬ 
land grotto—that’s all. 
In one of the larger fireplaces here, 
the rocks, selected because of their vivid 
coloring are rounded into delightful 
shapes through hundreds of years of 
Superior’s mighty wash. The balance in 
the careful avoidance of symmetry is 
worked out with the love of an artist 
for his work. Above, timbers carved 
and stained, add fantasy in touch. 
A somewhat smaller design, long and 
narrow, is most interesting in the unique 
effect obtained by utilizing straw in the 
mortar, as it was used in the exterior 
and interior plaster finish years ago. 
The boulders inset in this give strength 
and charm of design and color. 
The fireplace of The Crow’s Nest, so 
dubbed because it is perched atop a 
cliff and overhangs a ravine, is a 
particularly rugged example of what 
can be done with our native rock. 
Now, have a very definite notion of 
your fireplace before you start your 
cabin, for it must grow up along with 
it. As to the various steps in the log 
construction, the best I can do for you 
there is to follow out the building of 
our cabins, whose problems would at 
least be as numerous as yours—and en¬ 
close a few pictures so that you can see 
how it goes and what you are up 
against in deciding on three rooms. Best 
as ever to yourself and the Girl who 
sees heaven as a fireplace with a porch 
around it. 
ALDRICH. 
but it is written in so clear and inter¬ 
esting a manner that it must appeal to 
the layman as well as to the collector, 
and great skill has been shown by the 
author in compressing the story of Ming 
Wares into the pages of a single volume 
without any omissions that would strike 
the most critical of connoisseurs. We 
have in this new work a book which is 
without rival in any language as an in¬ 
troduction to Chinese ceramic art. So 
carefully has the author presented his 
materials, so free are his pages from 
speculation, that it is safe to say this 
book will not be supplanted as a sum¬ 
mary of our knowledge of the wares of 
Ming. Typographically the book is an 
adornment to the library of the art 
lover. 
Although to us of Western tradition 
the Chinese porcelains and pottery of 
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Avoid Harmful Grit 
Pepsodent curdles the film and re¬ 
moves it without harmful scouring. 
Its polishing agent is far softer 
than enamel. Never use a film com¬ 
batant which contains harsh grit. 
ON HOUSE & GARDEN’S BOOK SHELF 
