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Every Bird Lover 
Needs This 
Sparrow Trap 
30 Days FREE Trial 
Suet Feed.r 
$0.35 
Feedery, $1.00 
Sparrows serve no useful purpose. They 
cause much damage, and drive the beauti¬ 
ful song birds away. 
This trap has many points of superiority. Catches sparrows at both 
ends and middle. No funnels for birds to force through. Extra wide en¬ 
trances. Birds walk in on the ground — no wire bottom to scare them. 
Automatic, simple, nothing to get out of order, never wears out. 
First and only trap GUARANTEED to catch both old and young 
sparrows. Price only $6. Money refunded in 30 days, if not satis¬ 
factory. Order one now to catch young birds before damage is done. 
KEEP THE BIRDS WITH YOU ALL WINTER 
Many attractive, valuable birds will remain around all winter if 
properly fed. Birds become more friendly and attached to you when 
taken care of. Start now. 
We make a large variety of feeding devices. Suet Feeders, Feeding 
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catalog. 
We are the largest exclusive manufacturers of 
bird houses and feeding devices in the world. 
624-634 S. Norton St. 
Chicago, 111. 
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Edmund Wilso ra Straw horrip*; 
= Are as large as small oranges. This and the three other Van Fleet hybrid strawberries are marvels 
M in size, beauty and productiveness, with the true wild strawberry flavor. They cover the whole 
g season, from earliest till latest. 
| Lovett’s P*ot Grown Strawberry Plants 
= PJ ante d in summer orautumn, produce a crop of berries the following June. My booklet on Pot Grown Strawberries tells all -ihnnt 
g IT S PPPP- If you would have bigger and better Strawberries than you have ever had before, plant Van Fleet Hybrids. 
J. T. LOVETT, Box 152, LITTLE SILVER, N.J. 
H For thirty-seven years a Strawberry Specialist 
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Install one of these conven¬ 
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in yourhome. Furnishes plenty 
of current for lighting entire 
house, bams and grounds. En¬ 
joy the wonderful convenience 
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Also operates flatirons, washing 
machines,toasters and other household appliances. 
An effective prevention of fire. Little or no attention re¬ 
quired and costs only a few cents per day to operate. 
Absolutely guaranteed and shipped ready to run when 
crate is taken off. The installation of Kewanee Plant only 
requires attaching: of seven wires that are properly tagged. 
For durability, freedom from repairs and long, steady 
service, install 
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Sewage Disposal Plants Gasoline Storage Plants 
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Utilities Company 
(Formerly Kewanee Water 
Supply Co.) 
122 South Franklin St. 
Kewanee, Illinois 
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B0 Church Street. New York 
1212Marquette Bldg.,Chicago 
“Those are with¬ 
out exception the best 
shingles I have ever laid — and 
the color is wonderful. They 
wear longer and always look better than 
any other kind of roofing I have ever used. 
17 Different Grades 16, 18, 24-inch 
30 Different Colors 
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We keep several mills busy supplying us with 
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seasoned. 
We preserve them in pure creosote — no kerosene 
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We are responsible for both quality of shingles 
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The House an Artist Built for 
Himself 
(Continued from page 24) 
stone fireplace. He started with the head 
of the boy with its soft cream coloring. 
Then he felt a need of color contrast and 
put the reddish brown vase behind it. The 
small vase to the left is for contrast in 
dimensions, to set a scale, as it were. 
Then, again and again, he puts in some 
glass. He likes its translucent quality 
against the opaque. Beside the boy he 
used the glass jar with the golden butter¬ 
cups and the slender pale stems, and then 
again between the brass samovar and the 
dull black metal vase another bit of glass¬ 
ware. It was this same feeling that 
prompted him to put the glass lamp be¬ 
side the Victory. He likes things scat¬ 
tered about. The clutter of magazines 
beside the lamp is put there purposely. 
He likes things jumbled, and there is such 
a thing as knowing how to jumble. The 
interesting cabinet on the studio mantel 
shelf is, by the way, a present from 
Alonzo Kimball. We asked Mr. Foster 
to arrange some still life about the detail 
of the fan-topped door to make it an in¬ 
teresting composition in the photograph. 
It was delightful to see how spontaneously 
he placed the round tray with the butter¬ 
cup jar to balance the samovars and the 
green jar. There was one color bit that 
Mr. Foster enjoyed immensely, and that 
was the russet-yellow of the grapefruits 
on the gate-legged table beneath the 
orange silk lining of the hanging lamp 
and against the soft green of the sofa. 
It is an appreciation of just such things 
that is worth its weight in gold in the 
furnishing of an interior, and yet it is 
a something that we all can cultivate and 
embody in our own surroundings. 
Mr. Foster is just starting work on his 
grounds. The land is very sandy. Up 
to now the water problem has been 
serious, but Mr. Foster is putting up a 
wooden windmill that will not only add 
greatly to the picturesqueness of the place, 
but will solve the problem of water for 
the gardens. This spring Mr. Foster has 
had a great deal of construction work- 
done in putting up brick piers along the 
boundary lines, in edging the borders 
about the house with eight-inch brick 
walls, and in building six low-walled gar¬ 
den beds. One of these is on the north 
side of the house. The five others are 
on the south on either side of the pergola 
and will hereafter be surrounded by more 
pergolas and by pools. Between the brick 
piers along the boundary lines there are 
vertical and horizontal rough timbers 
covered with honeysuckle vines. Inside 
of these are high shrubbery plantings, the 
idea being to have a growth that will give 
absolute privacy to the grounds and se¬ 
clude them from the road. The first 
plantings in the front are of the native- 
barberry, shrubs that are suited so per¬ 
fectly to the soil. 
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