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House Garden 
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INTERNATIONAL 
SILVERPIATE 
Let these trade-marks be your 
guide to buying silverplated 
hollowware of true worth 
I N purchasing silverplated hollowware, quality 
—the ability to give lasting service—is the first 
consideration. “Beauty” is an essential, but not 
the only essential. Your guide In purchasing, 
therefore, should be the reputation of the maker 
identified by the trade-mark on the goods. 
For more than fifty years the names of Barbour, 
Derby, Meriden and Wilcox have assured to the 
public all that is fine in silverplated hollowware. 
^ The International Silver Company has now 
adopted and copyrighted a uniform trade-mark 
for these four brands. In the half circle appears 
the name of the producing factory and at the base 
always appear the words “International S. Co.” 
Look for one of these trade-marks on a tea set, 
a coffee set, vegetable dish, gravy boat, compote, 
candlestick, or any other articles of silverplated 
hollowware. Such a mark Is the assurance of qual¬ 
ity and satisfaction—satisfaction of which you 
alone are to be the judge. 
INTERNATIONAL SILVER COMPANY 
Meriden, Conn. 
International Silverplate is also made to match 
the patterns of the famous 1847 Rogers Bros, 
knives, forks and spoons, and the trade-mark is 
1847 ROGERS BROS. 
INTERNATIONAL SILVER CO. 
TALKING POINTS IN THE HOME 
(Continued from page 88 ) 
pressing the button which rings the corre¬ 
sponding station which you are trying to 
connect. Sometimes you have a key or a 
rotating circular switch which makes the 
contact with the “party” you are 
struggling to get. 
The chief reason for calling this the 
multiple cable is that all the wires are 
carried in one bunch that travels all about 
the place. With your instrument you 
have a button board and wire cable on 
your desk. That is, all the wires are in 
one cable which makes the rounds of the 
whole establishment. 
Now, this system may be good for a 
small number of extensions but you can 
see that if you had a lot of extensions 
there would be a fat cable and undue ex¬ 
pense in dragging all the lines over the 
house. Then, if by chance the bundle of 
%vires on your table gets wet, every wire 
in the house will refuse to function. When 
you have these systems they are simply 
operated from dry cell batteries which 
have to be changed every seven or eight 
months, but they must be changed or you 
will be talking into the air. 
CHATTING ALONG BY C.ABLE 
This multiple cable system is divided 
into four classes according to the elasticity 
of conversational distribution. 
j. Selective talking and ringing 
In this instance you can ring the party 
that you want. Also, you can call a busy 
station and “get in”. This class is fully 
intercommunicating; that is to say, any 
sets of stations can be talking to each 
other at the same time. But beware of 
the selective ringing and common talking 
type which means that only one conver¬ 
sation can go on at a time over the circuit. 
2 . Selective ringing and common talking 
This system gives you selective ringing 
but conversations are carried over the 
same circuit, so that if you lift up your 
receiver you can hear anyone talk to 
anyone. It’s like listening in on a farm¬ 
ers’ line in the country and hearing all 
the gossip. But on what is called the 
selective ring and full metallic system it is 
necessary to ring a busy station in order 
to break in. 
j. Common ringing and talking 
This has only one ringing and one talk¬ 
ing circuit and the difierent stations are 
signalled with a code, such as one long 
and two short, or three long and two short, 
and the like. 
4 . Secret talking cable system 
Secrecy is possible in this system on 
what is called the Master station only. 
Of course, you can put in more than one 
Master station, which is an expensive 
thing. However, this system is rarely sug¬ 
gested for home use. 
The two great divisions of these phones 
are those whose number of extensions is 
limited and those whose extensions can be 
nearly any number, even to thousands. 
We feel that should you want more than 
six (although the cable tj^pe makers say 
more than fifteen) stations you should 
install the automatic or selector type of 
phone. This equipment is a little more ex¬ 
pensive because there is an automatic 
switchboard which selects and makes 
your connections and you have a dial in¬ 
stead of a series of push buttons, etc. In 
the long run, however, it is cheaper to 
maintain because you have a unit system. 
That is to say, all you have on your desk 
or wall is your own single instrument and 
the two or three little wires connecting 
you up with your dial to the switchboard. 
Should your phone get out of order it has 
no effect on any other. Should it get wet 
it has no effect on any other, whereas in 
the cable type if your phone has a kink, 
the whole cable “catches on” because all 
the wires in the house are on your desk. 
and when it has to be fixed all of them 
have to be ministered unto. So the main 
thing in the intercommunicating phone 
system is to be able to write the equation: 
Unit Flexibility = Simplicity, which 
means that when one member of the com¬ 
munity “goes wrong” he does not involve 
anyone else and his cure or mending is 
individual, not en masse. 
THE SWITCH BOARD AND DIALS 
By means of the dials, impulses are sent 
to the switch board, in some such way as 
the dials in the city phones make the con¬ 
nections. This automatic switch board in 
simple, magical fashion picks out the 
numbers and then signals your party. 
If the party is out or busy, the switch 
board gives you the proper sign. It is 
quite a wonderful and almost human me¬ 
chanism, and aU that is necessary for you 
to know is that the best types of these 
telephone systems really fulfill their vows. 
With this system a is-station install¬ 
ment would be more costly per extension 
than would one of 50 to 100 because 
exactly the same machinery, etc., must be 
put in for 5 as for 50 . 
Remember that the two or three wires ; 
that are necessary to connect the exten- | 
sion with the switch board are the only 
wires carried to your extension. There¬ 
fore it is simplicity itself to mend any¬ 
thing that goes wrong. 
Here you see it differs from the multi¬ 
ple cable, for in the latter, as we said, all 
the wires of all the phones are visited 
upon each extension. But the automatic 
or selector system of wiring is similar to 
the method used by the municipal tele¬ 
phone companies. 
The automatic telephones, then, are 
especially valuable in large country 
estates when the house itself is large and 
where there must be daily and immediate 
intercommunication between the lodge, 
the garage, the stables, the tennis courts, 
golf house, dairy, greenhouses, etc., to say 
nothing of the various servitors’ quarters 
and various parts of the house itself. 
OTHER USES OF TELEPHONES 
These telephones are useful not only 
for talking points, but for signals. For 
example, if on a large estate the Lady of 
the Manor is somewhere or other, and it is 
known to her and to everyone in the 
house that three rings mean that someone 
wishes to see her or some one is calling on 
her, she can be easily called if she be any- j 
where on the estate. This feature, too, I 
can be used when calling or needing any¬ 
one else. Then the person called simply 
goes to the nearest phone to which the 
signal summons. These codes can be 
made as buzzers, horns or bells, so again ! 
you see the flexibility of this system. 
As a fire signal, too, the intercommuni¬ 
cating phone is a safeguard. By a certain 
code, or a general ringing of bells, horns 
or buzzers, the fact of the fire can be 
swiftly advertised to the domestic public 
who will the more easily be able to escape 
the dangers of conflagration. This in 
itself is a great comfort to have around 
the house on a large estate, a thousand I 
times better than fairies, yet how like 
good fairies these telephones can be! 
It can so be geared, this intercommuni- i 
eating telephone, that any number of 
people can hold converse at the same ; 
time. For example, the week-end party 
could have beautiful recliniums in elegant S 
ease talking from bed-land without the 1 
disaster of getting the plan made when too | 
late to catch the ferries, etc., after the ’ 
dressing process and after the various j 
people have had breakfast in their own 1 
rooms. 
ORDERS, NURSERY ET AL. 
Think what it means in a home to call ], 
by bell a maid or valet! It means that the C 
valet comes up or the maid leaves what P 
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