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House Garden 
The Odds Are 4 to 1 
Against You 
Heed Nature^s Warning 
—Bleeding Gums 
Don’t gamble with your teeth and health. 
You have far too much at stake. More, the 
odds are too heavy against you. 
Teeth'destroying, health'sapping Pyorrhea 
strikes four persons out of every five that pass 
the age of forty. And thousands younger, 
too. The chances are 4 to i it will strike 
you unless you are vigilantly on guard. 
Heed Nature’s warning when she gives it. 
Bleeding gums are the danger signal. Act at 
once. Don’t wait. For Pyorrhea works fast. 
The tender gums recede. The teeth loosen, 
drop out or are lost through extraction. Pus' 
pockets form at the roots and often flood the 
system with infection. 
FOR THE GUMS 
<^\tore than a tooth paste — it checks Pyorrhea 
Forhan’s For the Gums is the formula of 
R. J. Forhan, D. D. S. It will keep your teeth 
clean and white, your gums firm and 
healthy. It is pleasant to the taste. Buy a 
tube today. At all druggists, 35c and 60c. 
Go immediately to your dentist for teeth and 
mouth inspection. Brush your teeth, twice 
daily, with Forhan’s For the Gums. This 
healing, timc'tested dentifrice, when used in 
time and used consistently, will prevent 
Pyorrhea or check its progress. 
Formula of R. J. Forhan, D. D. S. 
Forhan Company, New York 
Forhan's, Limited, Montreal 
Above is a de¬ 
tailed dravoing of 
one side of a 
summer house in 
a Philadelphia 
gardenhyMcllor, 
Meigs br Howe 
T 0 the left is the ^ 
summer house as 
erected according , 
to the plans. 1 
This was shown ^ 
in the April 1 
House isr Garden I 
“A QUARTER-INCH equals ONE FOOT” 
{Conthiued from page 156) 
plans would mean much waste time and 
work in his office. 
Architecture, from its nature, is an 
exact profession, and involves a great deal 
more than making pretty pictures of 
houses. It means giving a complete set 
of instructions, both drawn and written, 
to a group of artisans who are to build, 
from them, a certain house, and who are 
not at liberty to make any departures 
from the drawings or from the language 
of the specification. In the drawings, 
therefore, a dimension cannot be “al¬ 
most” or “about” 10 '; it may be exactly 
10 ', or it may be 9 ' ii” or 10 ' i"—but 
whatever it is, it must be so drawn and so 
figured. It is because of this basic and 
constant necessity for exactness that 
plans are drawn “to scale”. 
The importance of exactness is further 
emphasized in the incorporation in a 
house of various parts and equipment 
made or ready-made and shipped to the 
work from a distance, where measure¬ 
ments on the building cannot be verified. 
Doors, sash, paneling, and many built-in 
things such as linen closets, are often of 
the ready-made type, or are made to order 
by special mills and cabinet shops, and 
these must fit when they arrive for 
installation. 
The architect usually lays out the first 
floor plan, in pencil, on a piece of drawing 
paper. Being the essential layout, there 
is much to study on this plan, and there 
are likely to be not a few erasures and 
corrections. It is, of course, drawn to the 
scale in which a quarter of an inch repre¬ 
sents a foot. Over it he puts a piece of 
tracing paper, and makes a clean tracing. 
Architects use a great deal of tracing 
paper because its use saves time and 
insures the accurate transcription of 
dimensions without the unnecessarj' work 
of duplication. If you have carefully 
laid out a house plan, for instance 50 ' 6 " 
long and 31 ' deep, with certain essential 
bearing walls, and -nith chirrneys and 
stairways which will naturally affect 
the second floor, there is ro use at all in 
doing it all over again for the second floor 
plan when a piece of tracing paper will 
carry these essentials directly through to 
the second floor vitlout a rrorr.ent’s lost 
time or chance for error. 
Aside from the constant necessity of 
drawing to scale, all house plans are care¬ 
fully laid out with vhat arrounts to a 
miniature foot rule, a quarter of an 
inch in length. Every quarter of an 
inch on the plans represents a foot in the 
actual building, and in an existing build¬ 
ing, every foot was represented in the 
drawings by a quarter of an inch. 
