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This Boiler’s Grate 
Shakes Half At a Time 
A grate that shakes 
half at a time, shakes 
half again as easy as 
one that shakes all at a 
time. 
The Burnham shakes 
half at a time. 
It takes the lug and 
tug out of boiler care. 
But that isn’t all; it 
saves coal. 
Suppose, for example, 
some “coolish” night, 
when the fire is down a 
bit, you want it to start 
up quickly, but don’t 
really need as much fire 
as shaking all the fire is 
bound to give. So you 
just shake half of it, 
and burn half the coal. 
But that isn’t all. In 
the chilly days of early 
Fall and late Spring 
you can cover the rear 
half of the grate with 
dead ashes and run only 
f he front half. 
A small fire to build. 
A small amount of 
coal burned. 
If you want to know 
the five other Burnham 
economy points, we will 
be heartily glad to tell 
you of them. 
Send for “Happy So¬ 
lution” Book. 
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Oriental Rugs 
(Continued from page 25) 
lengthening the life of a rug. Keep¬ 
ing rugs clean for sanitary purposes 
is a point not to be overlooked. In¬ 
numerable germs exist in a speck 
of dirt, and innumerable specks of 
dirt are to be found on a single nap 
j of a rug. And it is not unusual to 
get a cupful of dirt from a small rug, 
which means a hotbed for millions 
and millions of germs. 
Fourth, the rug must be kept dry. 
Water will rot a rug. This is true 
of fresh water and doubly true of 
salt water. 
Fifth, the rug must be properly 
protected against moths. No fear 
of these pests may be entertained 
while the rug is in use, whereas care¬ 
ful packing will easily ensure the 
safety of the rug during summer or 
any other time when not in use. 
Moth-proof packing can be done 
without any greatly objectionable 
odors, but can only be done safely 
when the rug is clean. It will last as 
long as five years at a time, but pre¬ 
caution requires opening and repack¬ 
ing about once every two years. Most 
storage warehouses will not hold 
themselves responsible unless rugs 
are repacked every year. This, how¬ 
ever, is unnecessary. 
Sixth, owners must avoid rough 
handling of rugs. Under this head¬ 
ing must be included unusual strain 
on the rug during cleaning. 
Seventh, necessary repairs on the 
rug must be attended to immediately. 
The maxim of “a stitch in time saves 
nine” is trite but to the point. Re¬ 
member that rugs are not made of 
steel and will wear and become rea¬ 
sonably damaged after many years 
of use. But there is no part in a rug 
that cannot be rewoven perfectly as 
in the original making. 
October Planting to Save Six Months 
(Continued from page 30) 
the plant where it needs it the most, 
just at the surface of the soil; and 
prevents the root growth from start¬ 
ing prematurely in the spring after an 
early spell of warm weather, with the 
consequent injury from late spring 
frosts. Fine dry manure, marsh hay, 
dry stable litter, leaves, or straw may 
be used for the winter mulch. A 
depth of 3" to 5" will usually be suffi¬ 
cient. When putting on the mulch, 
the soil should be carefully looked 
over to see that there are no hollows 
or “pockets” around the base of the 
plants where water might collect and 
freeze. Beds and borders should be 
slightly rounded at the middle so that 
the rain or melting snow will run off 
to the edges. Manure or straw will 
usually stay in place by itself if 
tramped down lightly when put on ; 
leaves may be held in place with 
boards or, better still, with a border 
of 12" chicken wire supported by 
light stakes and run around the bed 
or the plants to be mulched. 
Of the various classes of plants 
which may be safely set out in the 
fall, the hardy perennials are the 
most' important; of these, the most in 
demand are peonies, irises and phlox. 
While the roots of peonies are quite 
large, the crowns, after planting, 
should be only two to three inches 
below the surface; they are heavy 
feeders and the ground can be hard¬ 
ly made too rich for them, but care 
should be taken that no fresh manure 
comes in contact with the fleshy 
roots. While the late perennials will 
usually not have died down sufficient¬ 
ly to be ready for transplanting or 
setting out until after the first frost, 
the earlier things, such as peonies, 
irises, early flowering phlox, hardy 
poppies, Dicentra (Bleeding Heart), 
lily-of-the-valley, primroses, and so 
forth, can be set out first. Hardy 
chrysanthemums, fall anemones, late 
phlox, helianthus, asters, can wait un¬ 
til their foliage has been killed down 
by hard frost. Of the hardy decora¬ 
tive shrubs practically all kinds can be 
set out now. It is especially important 
that varieties blooming early in the 
spring or early summer should be set 
out as soon as possible, so, if only 
part of your shrubbery planting can 
be done now, leave the fall flower¬ 
ing varieties until spring. Of the 
decorative trees, either flowering or 
foliage, both sorts can be safely set 
in the fall: but those with large, 
fleshy roots like the tulip tree and the 
magnolia, or with very thin bark, as 
the birches and beeches, had better 
be left for spring planting. Of roses, 
the rugosas and hardy climbers, and, 
except in the coldest climates, the 
hardy perpetuals, may be set in the 
fall, if careful winter protection is 
given. 
Of the larger fruits, apples and 
pears may be set now, but cher¬ 
ries, peaches and plums should be 
left until the spring. A great deal of 
time can be saved and other advan¬ 
tages obtained, however, by prepar¬ 
ing the places for them now and by 
marking each with a small stake. If 
this is done, the time required for 
spring setting will be reduced to a 
minimum, and a quick, strong growth 
assured, and the trees set out earlier. 
Of the small fruits, raspberries, 
blackberries, gooseberries and cur¬ 
rants may be set to advantage now. 
Strawberries set now and well 
mulched will probably live through 
the winter, but they will fruit no 
sooner and start no stronger than if 
set early next spring. 
The Collectors’ Department of Antiques 
and Curios 
(Continued from page 37) 
mission we are enabled to reproduce 
photographs of it and its contents. 
The stitchery of the cabinet itself is 
carried out mainly in silk flosses and 
some wool worked on irregularly 
woven tawny white canvas, the ma¬ 
terial generally in use for petit-point 
work, though the stitch employed in 
carrying out the pictorial subjects 
which adorn the sections of this cabi¬ 
net is that known as long-stitch. 
Almost as precious as some of the 
jewels which once may have been 
treasured in this cabinet are the em¬ 
broidered sachets, jewel-boxes, nee¬ 
dle-case, pin-cushion and two bits of 
bead-work. Next to the long-stitch 
work of the cabinet itself, the stump- 
work sachet is perhaps the most im¬ 
portant of these pieces. Stump-work 
consisted of feather-stitching (though 
all other stitches were also employed) 
under which padding was placed to 
form raised surfaces, taking this sug- 
