146 
House Garden 
The gas that 
wouldn^t work— does! 
While the cost of al¬ 
most everything else 
you use has steadily 
mounted in the past 
decade, the cost of 
good light, due to 
improvements made 
by General Electric 
Company engineers 
in the incandescent 
1 amp, has as steadily 
declined. 
In 1894 a new gas was 
discovered in the air 
we breathe. It seem¬ 
ed so useless that it 
was named “Argon” 
—from two Greek 
words which mean 
“it won’t work.” 
But this Argon gas 
is now pumped into 
modern electric lamp 
bulbs and does work. 
It helps your lamp to 
give you, for the same 
money, fifty times 
more light than your 
grandmother’s can¬ 
dles gave her. 
GENERAL ELECTRIC 
'ipe corrosion 
may be dangerous 
as well as damaging 
O NLY a moment before the merry throng glided 
gaily over the wax floor—blissfully ignorant of the 
overhanging menace. One of the dancers, glancing 
upward, discovered the widening crack in the ceiling 
and gave the alarm. 
Weakened by water from leaking pipes, the plaster 
crashed to the floor—the timely warning alone making 
merely a scene of confusion of what might otherwise 
have been a tragedy. 
Pipe corrosion works slowly but surely through the walls of 
ordinary pipe. There is no way in which its progress can be 
stopped—you can merely wait until it strikes, and hope that its 
only toll will be a plumbing bill. 
Today—as for 75 years—Reading Genuine Wrought Iron Pipe 
is the accepted form of corrosion insurance wherever pipe is bought 
on the basis of cost per year rather than price per length. Home 
builders who seek freedom from repairs and costly water damage 
know “Reading” as the pipe that endures. 
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