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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 1911. 
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Be Independent 
of any central station and have your own 
private plant, including a storage battery 
which will give you light all night. You need not spend a large sum or 
employ a trained engineer or sit up nights to run it. You don’t need techni¬ 
cal knowledge. Just use your own horse-sense to operate a 
Fay & Bowen Electric Lighting* System 
and light every part of your house and 
grounds with the safest, cleanest, whitest, 
and most pleasant light —with Tungsten 
lamps — very simple and safe, and reduces 
lire risk—32 volt current. A space6ft. square 
is sufficient for a largePplant. Run the en¬ 
gine when it suits you best. Besides power 
for lighting, you have enough to pump 
water, run the sewing machine, vacuum 
cleaner, fans, washing machine, dairy or 
other machinery. 
Send for our Electric Bulletins 
Investigate this system—our bulletins tell 
the whole story. We will figure out cost for 
your place if you send us your requirements. 
FAY & BOWEN ENGINE CO. 
135 Lake St., Geneva, N.Y., E.S.A. 
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INTERIOR 
DECORATORS 
Color Schemes Planned and Executed 
Stencil Work and Applique Work 
Samples and Estimates on Request 
BOWDOIN 
& MANLEY 
546 Fifth Avenue 
New York 
PROTECT fl noor 
coverings from injury. Also beau¬ 
tify your furniture by using Glass 
Onward Sliding Furniture and 
Piano Shoes in place of casters. 
If your dealer will not supply you. 
Write US — Onward IVlfg. Co. 
U. S. Factory and Glass Plant, 
Menasha, Wisconsin. 
Canadian Factory, Berlin, Ont. 
IVES PATENT WINDOW STOP ADJUSTER 
China Like Your Grandmother Used 
White with raised blue figure. 1 can furnish 
complete sets or single pieces of this quaint 
Chelsea China. Prices on application. 
CHAS. F. HURM 
111 5th Ave., near 30th St. NEW YORK 
A very interesting pamphlet just issued by us on the Per¬ 
gola can he had free on request. Ask for catalogue P-27. 
HARTMANN-SANDERS CO. 
Elston £sf Webster Avenues, Chicago, Ill. 
East, office, 1123 Broadway, New York City 
Exclusive Manufacturers of 
ROLL'S PATENT LOCK JOINT COLUMNS 
Suitable for Pergolas, porches and interior use. 
Wcalflo publish catalogues P-29 of «un-diala and P-40of wood column 
PKfeVENTS DRAFTS, DUST and WINDOW RATTLINC 
JIVES’ PATENT 
k/SSf |j|4 Window Slop Adjuster 
PATENTED. 
The only Stop Adjuster made from one piece of metal 
with solid ribs and heavy bed that will not cup, turn or 
bend in tightening: tlie screw. Manufactured only by 
The H B. IVES CO., New Haven, Conn., U. S. A. 
(88 page Catalogue Mailed Free.) 
Pleasure, Pride and Proliis, 
from gardening are to be had only when proper tools 
are ased. The busy man with but an hour each day must 
make the most of his time. The woman who gardens Q 
should have the most convenient tools, and for the boys 
and girls who help, the tools should be simple, reliable 
and easy to handle. Start your next gardtn with the 
t No. C Combined 111:1 
and Drill Seeder and 
Double and Single 
Wheel Hoe. 
IRQHAGE 
Can be used in several unusual, but neces ary 
combinations to plant, weed, cultivate, etc. 
Saves seed, time and labor and helps to raise 
a better crop. An economical and satisfac¬ 
tory investment. Used and recommended 
everywhere for many years. Price, 
"'2.00. Other garden tools from $2.50 
up. To commemorate our 75th Anni¬ 
versary, we have built a 64 page 
catalogue, with detailed illustra¬ 
tions and full descriptions of our 
complete line of farm and gar¬ 
den tools, including potato 
machinery, horse hoes and 
cultivators, orchard tools, 
etc. Frte. Write to-day 
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Box 04o 
Grenloch, 
N. J. 
(Continued from page 6o) 
Design in Theory and Practice. By Ernest 
A. Batchelder, author of “Principles of 
Design.’’ Cloth, gilt top, 8vo, 268 pp. and 
index. New York, 1910: The Macmillan 
Company. $1.75 net. 
Mr. Batchelder is too well and widely 
known as an authority on the principles of 
design to need an introduction. He does 
not attempt in this book, parts of which 
have appeared in a series of magazine ar¬ 
ticles in The Craftsman, to formulate a 
system or method for teaching design. 
The aim is, on the other hand, to present 
a few of the many problems that have 
gradually developed in his experience in 
teaching and practice. Among the chap¬ 
ter headings are Elementary Esthetic 
Principles, Constructive Designing, Mate¬ 
rials, Tools and Processes, Refinement of 
Proportions, The Play Impulse, etc. The 
author purposely omits a discussion of col¬ 
or, owing to the many difficulties met with 
in attempting to convey precise meaning 
on this subject. 
On the Making of Gardens. By Sir George 
Stilwell. Cloth, i6mo, 109 pp. London: 
John Murray, 5s. net. 
To many excellent people who take a 
gloomy view of life, studies of art and 
beauty seem but trifling, but no one can 
fail to take delight in this fine essay in¬ 
tended, if one may guess the author’s pur¬ 
pose, to influence the newly recovered art 
of garden design. As the author says in 
his preface, if the world is to make great 
gardens again, we must both discover and 
apply in the changed circumstances of 
modern life the principles which guided 
the garden-maker of the Renaissance. Sir 
George Stilwell has brought forth these 
principles admirably. Moreover the vol¬ 
ume is one that will hold the reader’s in¬ 
terest whether he own a garden or not or 
whether or not he ever hopes to own one. 
An ideal book as a gift to a garden-lover. 
The Rural Life Problem of the United States. 
Notes of an Irish observer. By Sir Hor¬ 
ace Plunkett. Cloth, gilt top, 8vo, 174 pp. 
New York: The Macmillan Company. 
$1.25 net. 
America, as to many another Irishman,, 
has been a second home to the author 
of this book, the substance of which ap¬ 
peared in five articles contributed to The 
Outlook under the title “Conservation and 
Rural Life,” where they attracted much 
attention. Of course the matter is from 
Sir Horace Plunkett’s point of view, but 
as a broad-minded student of economics 
and with thirty years of experienced 
observations, that point of view cannot but 
have a peculiar value. The author dis¬ 
cusses the inner life of the American 
farmer, the weak spot in American rural 
economy, and other interesting topics of 
vital importance. 
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