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HO USE & GARDEN 
Walter Boschen, Architect, 
St. Joseph, Mo. 
Walls finished with Cabot’s Old 
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Roof finished with No. 346 Dark Gray 
Creosote Stain. 
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F. E. Johnson, Architect, 
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Walls finished with Cabot’s Old 
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Your Hunting Companions 
(Continued from page 56) 
the family pet and utility dog. Not 
only that the fall would not be 
autumn without him, for rabbit, ’coon 
and varmint hunts, but also that he is 
watchful, courageous, affectionate, 
and, in general, possessed of all the 
characteristics that a good family dog 
should have. True, he must be tied 
up in spring and summer to prevent 
the game warden getting him for 
clandestine hunts out of season car¬ 
ried on for his own benefit; and, also, 
he does not make more than a pass¬ 
able house dog because he is so stub¬ 
bornly intent on stealing anything he 
can from an unguarded ice box. But 
he is most inhumanly smart, able to 
reason out anything or pry open any¬ 
thing not nailed fast; he is persist¬ 
ence itself, not to be discouraged 
from curling up on your porch chairs 
with a licking or anything short of 
sudden death; he bites through any 
cord and breaks any chain not strong 
enough to hold a cow—but, in spite 
of his faults, if your place is well out 
in the country, do not leave out the 
useful hound. You cannot beat him 
as a watch dog; he means to you 
great days afield in the autumn and 
if there is a hunt anywhere in the 
countryside near you, you and your 
hound are more than welcome; and 
is an affectionate and dependable 
companion for your good self and 
the boys he is your dog. 
Lighting the New House and the Old 
(Continued from page 22) 
ination is generally given little 
thought, deserves careful study for 
the reason that portables are not 
practical in any of these rooms, and, 
if the lighting outlets are not well 
planned at the start, it may be found, 
after the house is in use, that the fix¬ 
tures do not come in the right place 
with relation to the location of cer¬ 
tain pieces of furniture. 
A properly lighted bathroom, for 
instance, should have an overhead 
light, preferably of the wholly indi¬ 
rect type, since this not only protects 
the eyes from the reflection of white 
tile and mirrors, but because its 
searching qualities eliminate the pos¬ 
sibilities of dark corners where dust 
and germs might hide. 
In addition to this a bathroom 
should likewise be provided with well 
shaded bracket lights on either side 
of a mirror giving the proper direc¬ 
tion of light for shaving. This means 
an overhead and two wall outlets, 
the latter carefully thought out with 
relation to the washstand and mirror. 
In the pantry the wholly indirect 
method again serves a particularly 
useful purpose in showing up the cor¬ 
ners, and the same is true of 
the kitchen, where this practically 
shadowless light prevents anyone 
who is working in the room from 
getting in her own way. In the 
kitchen the wholly indirect light and 
plenty of baseboard outlets for por¬ 
table cooking devices makes the most 
convenient possible working place. 
When gas is used, semi-indirect light¬ 
ing is preferable, because best adapt¬ 
ed to this illumination. 
In all this discussion of planning 
for outlets and location of fixtures 
one important point must not be over¬ 
looked, namely, provision for the 
proper location of switches that con¬ 
trol the lights. Every room in the 
house should be provided with a 
switch, placed most conveniently, on 
the right hand side of the entrance 
door of the room, a little above the 
height of the door knob. Switch con¬ 
trol is indeed one of the important 
features in the well equipped modern 
home, for it means not only conven¬ 
ience in turning on and off the lights 
in a fixture, but with proper installa¬ 
tion of switches the entire house 
may be flooded with light at the 
touch of a button located near one’s 
bed, or in an upper hall, a provision 
that is as great a protection as a 
burglar alarm. 
Nor is this matter of switches con¬ 
fined to electricity since switch con¬ 
trol for gas fixtures has been brought 
to such a state of perfection that it 
will eventually do away with the ne¬ 
cessity for chain pulls. 
This whole subject of switches and 
outlets for electricity or gas is a 
comparatively recent development of 
the remarkable progress in the sci¬ 
ence of wiring a house for the one 
illuminant or piping it for the other. 
As soon as the frame work is up 
the electrician or gas man is ready 
for the job. The electrician installs 
the system of wires that is to pro¬ 
vide the household with light and 
perform any of the services that in 
this wonderful age we have come to 
consider a necessity instead of a 
luxury. Wires are run along the 
floor level, up the walls, across ceil¬ 
ings and are brought out at the vari¬ 
ous outlets provided for in the light¬ 
ing plan. In this way the wiring is 
not only completely concealed but 
protected, and, if additional outlets 
are desired later on, it is a small 
matter for the electrician to cut an 
opening in wall, baseboard or ceiling 
and bring the wiring through with¬ 
out disrupting the entire household. 
With gas the same general method 
is followed, except that in place of 
wires, the piping is run, protected 
and concealed under floors, behind 
baseboards, up walls, across ceilings, 
coming out through the various out¬ 
lets provided for it. 
It is these modern methods of in¬ 
stalling electricity or gas that have 
made possible the adaptation of an 
old house to new methods of light¬ 
ing and the new labor-saving devices. 
Special emphasis is laid upon this 
phase of practical house lighting be¬ 
cause the majority of us, unfortu¬ 
nately, are obliged to live in houses 
not of our own planning. Many a 
family, wholly converted to the new 
methods of illumination, feels that it 
is impossible to have them because 
perhaps no provision has been made 
for ceiling outlets; there are no base¬ 
board or floor openings, and in order 
to enjoy the advantages offered by 
the new lighting and labor-saving 
methods it would seem that the en¬ 
tire house must be torn to pieces, in¬ 
volving not only great discomfort 
but large expense. 
As for adapting gas in an old 
house to modern methods the aver¬ 
age person thinks of it as something 
wholly impossible of achievement. 
As a matter of fact nothing is further 
from the truth. It naturally costs a 
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