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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, ign 
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See that your Fittings are Right 
T he “wear and tear” with plumbing 
fixtures falls upon the brass-work. You 
can’t expect faucets, traps, valves and other 
metal parts to stand daily usage and remain 
in perfect working order unless they are 
made right and of the best material. 
The fittings that go with all Mott Plumbing Fixtures are of the 
same high standard as the fixtures them¬ 
selves. The apparently low price of 
some plumbing fixtures is due to inferi¬ 
or fittings. To make sure of both ma¬ 
terial and workmanship, see that your 
fittings are stamped with our name. 
Our booklet, “Modern Plumbing”, contains illustrations show¬ 
ing 24 modern bathroom interiors, ranging in cost from $74 to 
$3,000. Sent on request with 4 cents to cover postage. 
The J. L. Mott 
Iron Works 
BRANCHES: Boston, Chicago, Phila¬ 
delphia, Detroit. Minneapolis. Wash¬ 
ington, St. Louis, New Orleans, 
Denver, San Francisco, San Antonio, 
„. , Atlanta, Seattle, Indianapolis and 
2828 Eighty Years ot Supremacy 1911 Pittsburgh. 
5 th AVE. and 17 th ST., NEW York CANADA: 138 Bleury St., Montreal 
wedge of varying thick¬ 
nesses that may be used as want¬ 
ed or attached permanently to the sash. 
Holds windows or screens firmly. Stops 
all rattling. Effective for use in carriages, 
motorcars, motorboats, etc. Guarantee 
"S atis f acti on or money back.” Send for 
trial order TO-DAY giving your dealer’s 
name. Writ- for circular of motor car 
and household specialties. 
P. C. W. Manufacturing Co. 
1 Madison Ave, 3084 NEW YORK 
1 inexpensive—Easily Adjusted 
Fit any window. 
Add greatly to the Quiet and Com= 
fort of your home. 
Stop All Noise. Shut Out Dust 
and Draft. 
P.C.W. ANTI-SASH RATTLER 
A small, 
three-bladed metal 
Miss LUCY ABBOT THROOP 
Miss EMILY VEERHOFF 
37 East 60th Street New York City 
Telephone 3912 Plaza 
Interior decorations of all descriptions planned 
and executed. Single rooms or whole houses fur¬ 
nished, Wall coverings, hangings, rugs and furni¬ 
ture selected to suit any scheme. 
Out of town orders carefully attended to. 
Lamp and candle shades. Artistic lighting of 
houses Stenciling. 
Summer Address, Southampton, L. I. 
(Continued from page 126) 
Thousands do on considerably less. Many 
of them do it in the most expensive an p 
least enjoyable manner by cooping them 
selves up in the packing cases called the 
modern flat, when within a few minutes’ 
ride are to be found pleasant, roomy 
dwellings surrounded by comparatively 
lar^a lots, the combination furnishing un¬ 
limited opportunities to get out in the light 
and health-giving sunshine God has so 
freely supplied. 
In many instances the suburban home 
will rent for enough less to pay car fare. 
Then, too, if your surplus bank account 
amounts to one thousand dollars, the home 
can be purchased by getting the balance of 
the purchase price from one of the many 
excellent building and loan companies. The 
building and loan payments, in that event, 
would take the place of rent, and instead of 
losing from fifteen to forty dollars each 
month, that amount would be invested in 
a home, which, if a judicious selection has 
been made, will increase in value so that 
by the time the last payment has been 
made the property will be worth more than 
the sum actually invested. 
With the above introduction, I will en¬ 
deavor to describe our method of arrang¬ 
ing our expenses. We are so fortunate as 
to have our home, so that the item of rent 
is eliminated from the list of our expendi¬ 
tures. We allow about as follows for each 
year: 
1. Fuel.$ 
2. Meat (15c per day). 
3. Groceries (50c per day). 
4. Clothes. 
5. Taxes and insurance. 
6. Repairs . 
7. One domestic ($4.00 per week).... 
8. Seeds, plants, labor, depreciation in 
value of tools, etc. 
9. Ice. 
10. Life Insurance . 
11. Medical and Dental attendance.... 
12. Books and periodicals. 
13. Amusements, recreation, etc. 
14. Lights . 
100 
55 
182 
300 
50 
50 
208 
30 
25 
100 
100 
50 
200 
50 
Total.$1500 
Articles two and three are reduced to 
those amounts by the judicious manage¬ 
ment of the back yard as hereinafter de¬ 
scribed. Articles seven to thirteen are va¬ 
riable, but the above represents a liberal 
average. Article one would increase or 
diminish in a colder or a warmer climate, 
while fourteen will depend entirely upon 
your local utilities corporations. 
My main idea in writing this article is 
not so much to tell you how cheaply we 
live as it is to tell you how much pleasure 
and profit we derive from the usually neg¬ 
lected portion of the city or suburban lot, 
the backyard, and to show you how, by the 
utilization of the same, our food bills are 
decreased, our home decorated, our gene¬ 
ral health promoted, and even our income 
augmented. 
Our lot is rather larger than usual, 
being 100 x 195 feet. We have arranged 
it by allowing a little more than half for the 
house and lawn, a space forty feet square 
(Continued on page 130) 
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