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House Garden 
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The looth year of 
Brambach Quality 
^-Jhe Spirit of the 
Master Builder 
Still Lives after a 
Hundred It^ars 
A CENTURY AGO, Franz Brambach, 
master piano craftsman, set up a stand¬ 
ard of workmanship which has endured 
until this day. In the great Brambach work¬ 
rooms, the piano is held as more than a 
mere assembly of wood, of metal and of 
ivory. It is considered almost a living, sing¬ 
ing entity for the inspiration and culture 
and entertainment of mankind. 
And this pride of craftsmanship finds its 
tangible expression in the Brambach Baby 
Grand. Its wondrous tonal qualities and 
instant responsiveness are combined with a 
quiet restraint of design and finish so valued 
in the tastefully-appointed home. 
You may now enjoy a Brambach Baby Grand 
in a small house or apartment; for it takes 
no more space, and costs no more, than a 
Send the coupon for an interesting Brochure and a 
paper pattern showing the exact space this piano takes. 
THE BRAMBACH 
PIANO COMPANY 
NEW YORK CITY 
'Makers of Baby Qrand Pianos 
of Quality Exclusively 
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Fill in and mail this coupon. 
BRAMBACH PIANO CO. 
Mark P. Campbell, Pres. 
645 West 49th St., New York City 
Please send me paper pattern showing 
size of the Brambach Baby Grand. 
Name. 
Address. 
COMFORT /■« BEDS BEDDING 
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not make you feel like a sailor boy sleep¬ 
ing in a hammock. The box spring costs 
about five times that of any other, but it 
is the best spring on the market; it is 
easier to use, is warmer and more fitting 
for permanent use. 
The subject of mattresses is trulj hair 
raising! At least so the horse hair folk 
think. Of course, the best sort of mattress 
is the hair mattress at its finest, but when 
not at its best the mattress of felt of fine 
quality is far better to use and far better 
in length of serviceability. 
It is perfectly correct for the salesman 
to tell }'ou that the mattress that you 
buy is of hair when it is made of cattle, 
goat, hog bristles, etc. It is of hair, but 
what you must insist upon is horse hair of 
quality. Now do you see where the mat¬ 
tress purchase can be not only hair raising 
but even hair splitting? 
Horse hair and only horse hair seems 
to stand the test of time. Because it is, 
when of first quality, odorless and has the 
length and strength to keep its resiliency 
as long as it is used. Much of the hair sold 
for “hair mattresses” have some of 
the qualities of horse hair but not all of 
them. 
The preparation of the hair of all 
animals is the same. It has to be thor¬ 
oughly disinfected, washed and spun into 
rope. Then this rope is steamed, dried 
and laid away to season for three or four 
months. When it is ready to be used it is 
unspun, and picked apart for the mat¬ 
tress filling. Now whether the hair has 
resiliency or spring depends on the qual¬ 
ity of the hair and the curl it takes when 
being spun. You know how some people’s 
hair will take a curl and some will not? 
Well, it is the same with animal hair. So 
you see the permanent wave is put into 
the hair by steaming and drying and the 
curl should last forever. 
THE QUALITY OF THE HAIR 
Of course, the smaller and tighter the 
rope the better the curt and the more 
elastic is the mattress. In order to take 
this sort of permanent wave the hair has 
to be long, and cattle and horse hair will 
run to eight or ten inches in length. Thus 
you see that a good wave can be put into 
these types of hair, but the two-inch hog 
bristle will not wave well. So what hap¬ 
pens when this hair is used alone or mixed 
with longer hair? It simply diminishes 
the resiliency of the so-called hair mat¬ 
tress and you wonder why your mattress 
has packed or flattened and is so dead. 
Furthermore the short hair works 
through the ticking and often scratches 
the sleeper most intolerably. The short 
hair lessens the price but, after all, you 
are soon obliged to remake your mattress 
because it has become matted and hard, 
and you are “in again” for extra and 
needless expense and will be until you 
repent j'ou of your sins and buy with 
uncommon sense. 
The reason why cattle hair isn’t good 
is that in humid or hot weather a peculiar 
odor is sent off. Frequent!)^ you have 
noticed an untraceable odor in homes, 
coming, however, from the poor hair 
mattress. When once this odor gets in it 
always has a friendly way of sticking 
around and haunting the place. But 
when horse hair is well “groomed” there 
is never the least odor. Goat hair of all 
the non-equine hair is better than any, 
but this is too soft to make an adequate 
filler. 
The best makers use only what is called 
“classified hair”, that is to say, hair that 
has been cut from live horses under the 
best sanitary conditions! Little did you 
ever think of what a racy thing a hair 
mattress could be. This term classified 
means that there is a Government guar¬ 
anty that the conditions under which it 
was cut and prepared were sanitary, etc. 
The lower grades have no such guaranty 
for they are too dirty to warrant it, and 
therefore unsuitable for mattresses. The I 
Siberian hair, too, comes under this low I 
rating, for it never seems to get clean | 
enough for mattress use. ; 
Of course, the wily manufacturer will 
mix the Siberian and unclassified with 
some fine hair, and there is but one way 
for the consumer, or rather, in this case, 
the sleeper, to do, and that is to go to the 
very best manufacturer and be sure that 
his name carries a pledge of mattress 
integrity. 
The genuine unadulterated hair mat¬ 
tress should weigh 45 pounds to the 4' by 
6' size and five pounds less on each smaller 
size when made up with the regular two 
rows of stitching or with a roll edge. If ' 
the imperial edge is used, the mattress 1 
should weigh fifty pounds to the 4' by 6' } 
size and should be filled with the harder I 
qualities of horse hair. “The soft mane I 
hair makes an excellent two row stitched j 
mattress, but should never be used when I 
an imperial edge is wanted. In that case | 
it is necessary to use harder drawings to i 
give service.” Thus speaks an authority, 1 
who probably knows through long ex- i 
perience as much as anyone in the world j 
about the “making of beds” in which he I 
does not have to lie! 
COTTON AND WOOL FELTS ' 
If you cannot afford the hair mattress, 1 
the cotton or wool felts are a good invest- | 
ment, and the good ones are not very I 
inexpensive because there is quality of 
material and W'orkmanship here which 
makes the felt mattress a nice thing. 
These mattresses are made by building 
the mattress layer on layer. Never thinlc 
of it as a bag filled or stuffed with cotton! 
Then, when shaped and carefully as¬ 
sembled, a first quality ticking is put on, 
and you will never go wrong in buying a 
high grade felt, for they are not substi¬ 
tutes, they are distinct products of com¬ 
fort and durability. However, the cotton 
mattress does not lend itself to re-making 
as well as the hair type does. Yet sun- i 
ning and airing and turning and patting | 
will coax this mattress into longevity and | 
comfort. “The felt mattress will never : 
get any harder than it gets in three < 
months time, and it will last for at least 1 
ten years and give excellent service.” : 
Tufting is primarily for keeping the 
filling in a mattress from slipping; it is a i 
sort of chaperone. Secondarily, it adds to 1 
the style of the mattress. Sometimes it is : 
done in diamond shape, and though the 
plain tacking seems more sanitary it 
doesn’t wear quite so well. If you do not 
like tufting, you must buy the finest 
mattresses made because they are so 1 
geared that there will be no slipping or 
sliding or packing of the sub ticking 
material. The imperial rolled edge is the 
best finish, of course, and has four rows 
of tacking in the boxing (edges). All the 
finer mattresses have at least two or three 
rows of tacking. 
Of course, feathers are the best thing 
for pillow comfort, beauty and durability. 
The stuffings for pillows come under the 
head of feathers, down, silk floss and hair. 
Let us get rid of the lesser grades first. 
The silk pillow is better used for the 
couch than for the bed. The hair pillow 
is a good under pillow instead of a bolster, 
or to use in time of illness when a harder 
pillow is desired. Furthermore, the hair 
pillow is cooler and is often well liked by 
the invalid for this reason. 
The feather pillow is a tale by itself, 
but briefly: You can have the gray or 
white feather! They don’t show, so the 
white feather in this case adds to j'our 
comfort and not to your cowardice. The 
goo.se gives the best feather, but the duck 
and the chicken are feathersome, too. 
Oftentimes the feathers are mixed to¬ 
gether and the quality of a pillow varies 
as to the mongrel or lack of mongrel 
elements that enter into its make-up! 
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