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House & Garden 
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The smallest high class grand in the world.' Only 59 inches long 
In the Kranich & Bach showrooms, we find not only the Gran- 
dette, but all other sizes, up to the biggest concert grands. Along¬ 
side of those grand pianos, are other instruments, which appear 
tio different to your eyes. 
And.yet you, even though you may be a non-pianist, may have 
the mood to play yourself. With a simple motion, such an 
instrument is turned into a player piano, responsive to your touch. 
Ask us to send to you without obligation, the catalogue of 
Kranich & Bach pianos and player pianos. 
KRANICH & BACH 
ESTABLISHED 1864 
235 East 23rd Street 215 So. Wabash Ave. 
New York, N. Y. Chicago, Ill. 
Is it your mood to listen to a 
fine pianist who visits your 
home? Then lead him to this 
instrument and it will respond 
to his call under his magical 
fingers, singing and ringing in 
mellow, sonorous accents. It is 
just like a large grand except 
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Landscape Plans for the Small Place 
(Continued from page 541 
$74.28. Raising the perennials from 
seed will take another year of time with 
considerable skill and care, but it can 
be done. Another way of effecting a 
reduction in the cost is by collecting 
wild plants. This is more easily man¬ 
aged, if sufficient care is taken not to 
allow the roots to dry out. 
Plan No. 2. Omit half the roses on 
the fence. Collect in the woods ferns, 
hemlocks and larch (but not street 
trees), junipers to take the place of 
Mugho pines, laurel to take place of 
leucothoe, spice bush, and wild grape. 
Raise these perennials from seed: arabis, 
aquilegia, foxglove, Oriental poppy, 
larkspur and helenium. The amount 
saved is $50.75. This brings the orig¬ 
inal estimate of $188.55 down to $137.80. 
Plan No. 3. Omit box edging around 
turf panel and taxus hedge around rose 
garden, substituting arabis and 30 plants 
of Japanese barberry. Omit roses ex¬ 
cept climbers. Plant these perennials 
from seed. Oriental poppy, larkspur, 
Helenium autumnale, and Helenium au- 
tumnale rubrum. This cuts the original 
estimate from $268.55 to $172.35. The 
items of labor, loam and fertilizer vary 
so greatly that it is not possible to give 
a general estimate. Suffice to say, that 
the grounds about a small place may be 
developed in quite an elaborate manner 
without the expense becoming prohibi¬ 
tive. 
The continuation of the planting list 
given on page 21 is as follows: 
46. Phlox varieties. 15" apart. (A) L’Evenement. 
early pink, with the larkspur. 5 plants; (B) 
Elizabeth Campbell, salmon overlaid pink, 10 
plants; (C) Jeanne d’Arc, late-flowering, pure 
white. 
4 7. Chrysanthemum uliginosum > Giant daisy. In¬ 
dividual flowers like Shasta daisy, borne in tall 
clusters like New England aster. 5 plants, 
18' apart. 
PERENNIALS (Autumn) 
48. Anemone Japonica, Japanese anemone. 12" 
apart. (A) White, 15 plants; (B) Pink, 30 
plants. 
49. Aster Novae-Angliae, royal purple New En¬ 
gland aster. Tall, vigorous. 10 plants, 12" 
apart. 
50. Helenium autumnale, sneezeweed. Tall, showy, 
the most glorious autumn yellow yet not coarse 
like the sunflowers. 2 0 plants. 12" apart. 
51. Hardy chrysanthemum. Small yellow button 
variety. 6 plants, 12" apart. 
ANNUALS 
52. Cosmos. Early pink and white. 6 plants, 2' 
apart. 
53. Calendulas. Sulphur yellow. 12 plants, 12" 
apart. 
54. Ageratum. Light blue. 24 plants, 8" apart. 
Kettles, Pots and Pans 
(Continued from page 43) 
copper utensils advisable. One might 
perhaps use copper for sauces or fish. 
Copper has one advantage, however: it 
lasts forever and copper utensils prac¬ 
tically become heirlooms. 
Nor have we mentioned earthenware, 
glass or porcelain utensils, for the sim¬ 
ple reason that each of those subjects 
requires an article in itself and they 
will be considered at a later time. Cer¬ 
tainly the modern kitchen glassware 
used for cooking has opened up an en¬ 
tirely new field to the housewife and 
the variety of porcelain utensils at her 
command is legion. 
If for no other reason than that it 
adds to kitchen efficiency and reduces 
expenses, the housewife should acquaint 
herself with these points about cooking 
utensils. She will buy with more under¬ 
standing and appreciate the possibilities 
of her equipment. Moreover, she 
should investigate the new kinds of 
utensils as they come on the market. 
The proof of the kettle is in the cook¬ 
ing. Try the new articles as they are 
advertised. 
Apply to your kitchen the same up- 
to-date methods that a man applies to 
his office. When equipment wears out, 
throw it away and buy new. A well- 
equipped kitchen is a costly investment 
at first, but it is the most paying in¬ 
vestment you can make in the house. 
And in the equipment pots and pans 
play an important role. 
Plumbing for the Small House 
(Continued from page 46) 
quickly and cheaply made by the house¬ 
holder himself. 
The water closets were vitreous 
china, wash down with syphon jet ac¬ 
tion. The seats were hinged, either of 
birch or oak reinforced, and were pro¬ 
vided with hinged covers. The tanks 
were low down, vitreous china, set 40" 
to top from floor, well provided with a 
y. 2 " supply. Tanks had covers which 
were bolted down. 
The lavatories were of enameled iron 
12"x21", with full depth front apron, 
and 8" integral back. The lavatory was 
supported by concealed wall hangers. 
The faucets were low down compres¬ 
sion with china index handles. Supplies 
were y 2 ". 
The bathtubs were of enameled iron 
inside, and were painted outside after 
being set. They had a 2" roll, were 
either 4' 6" or 5' long, 2' 2" or 2' 6" 
wide, set 22" high, and were provided 
with' combination compression faucets, 
index china handles and had sup¬ 
plies. 
The bathrooms are small but most 
compact, and the size and arrangements 
of the fixtures were the result of much 
thought and study. It was made a 
practice to place the window so that a 
child, in case of emergency, could reach 
to shut it. 
The extra cast-iron drainage system 
as shown upon the plans was simple 
and direct, connecting with all the fix¬ 
tures by proper waste branches. The 
main soil riser was 3" and extended 
from cellar to roof, increasing at roof to 
4". The horizontal run in cellar from 
soil riser to street sewer was 4" in 
diameter and had no house trap. At the 
house wall was provided with a brass 
screw cleanout. All the waste branches 
of 2" or less were of galvanized steel 
pipe. 
The cold water supply system con- 
sited of either a 1" or street main, 
depending upon the number of bath¬ 
rooms to be supplied, and taken from 
the main in the street. Inside the house 
at the front wall were located a valve 
and meter. From the meter, the house 
main was extended on the cellar ceiling, 
from which were taken branches to the 
kitchen boiler and the bathrooms on the 
first and second stories. Valves were 
provided to control the kitchen boiler, 
the sink and the laundry tubs and each 
bathroom. There were no control 
valves at fixtures. 
The hot water system consisted of a 
thirty gallon galvanized steel boiler, to 
which was attached a gas water heater 
of simplest type. The boiler also had a 
water-back connection either to kitchen 
range or heating furnace. From the 
boiler was taken the hot supply, which 
ran to all fixtures where necessary 
through the house. 
The plumbing in these small dwell¬ 
ings has been most carefully thought 
out for cheapness and simplicity, and so 
installed that the householder could 
make repairs quickly, simply and with 
but little expense. They were also thor¬ 
oughly built so that upkeep expense 
could be kept at a minimum. 
