HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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T O buy cut glass with surety of 
securing real artistic merit and 
intrinsic worth one must needs he 
informed on the subject. 
First comes the necessity of knowing 
how to distinguish genuine full-cut 
ware from the pressed-cut sorts. 
After this is required ability to select 
the really fine pieces from the mediocre 
or commonplace in genuine cut glass. 
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tration above being tahen from its cover. 
In this booh we present such facts 
regarding the production of cut glass as 
will qualify its readers to judge cut glass 
values with discrimination and safety— 
in a word, as connoisseurs. This booh 
is, in condensed form, a comprehensive 
exposition of cut glass ma hing. 
If you will mail us your card with 
your address we shall he glad to send 
you a copy without charge. 
TUTHILL CUT GLASS CO., 
Middletown, N. A. 
Landscape Gardening 
Prof. Craig. 
A course for Homemakers and Gar¬ 
deners taught by Prof. Craig and Prof. 
Batchelor, of Cornell University. 
Gardeners who understand up-to- 
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the graceful reeds. Flowers may come 
and go—but “breezes'’ are always avail¬ 
able, summer or winter. 
Decoration Day usually means one of 
the really hot days. Only a very few 
lfowers—like Calla lilies—are suitable for 
cemetery use, at that time, as most blooms 
become limp and unsightly, exposed to the 
hot sun, long before the services begin. 
One woman, who grows Montbretias as an 
outside border for a long stretch of side¬ 
walk, contributed the seeds in quantity. 
The dainty green decorations, with their 
perfect sun-resisting freshness, proved a 
most effective and refreshing substitute for 
half wilted dowers. The result will be an 
extensive planting of "breezes" in many 
gardens just for that one purpose. Mont¬ 
bretias may be cut to the ground occa¬ 
sionally—coming on again in a few weeks. 
They are very easily grown, a few bulbs 
soon showing strong clumps. And they do 
well in a wet place or a dry one—growing 
taller when freely watered. 
Many new varieties are offered—sup¬ 
posed to be improved as to blooms, but I've 
seen nothing better than the original red 
and gold. In any, the real value is more in 
the plant than the blossom. E. S. 
The Sewage Disposal Problem on 
the Insolated Country Plan 
(Continued from page 435) 
tion. This apparently impossible and 
almost inconceivable consummation of 
transforming a foul mass of closet sewage 
into water pure enough to drink, and bet¬ 
ter than much that is supplied to cities, is 
effected by a process of septic bacterial de¬ 
struction performed in an air-tight and 
light-proof compartment. It is self-operat¬ 
ing and extremely simple; so simple that 
it requires neither chemical nor mechanical 
assistance to produce the seeming miracle. 
Its self-generated bacterial action is com¬ 
parable in chemistry to perpetual motion in 
physics. The process has been quite aptly 
likened to the battle of the Kilkenny cats 
that continued to fight among themselves 
until the last cat was dead-only the septic 
tank goes so far as to bury the cats. 
Being lighter than water, the sewage 
from the closet rises to the surface on en¬ 
tering the septic tank, from which the 
fresh air and light, that would naturally 
neutralize or destroy the bacterial action, 
is completely excluded, and the develop¬ 
ment of bacterial life extremely rapid and 
multitudinous. These bacteria, preying 
upon one another, accomplish their own 
complete annihilation during a period of 
twenty-four hours. 
As the solid matter is thus converted by 
condensation under the peculiar atmos¬ 
pherical conditions into a liquid form, it 
settles to the bottom of the tank and even¬ 
tually passes into the weir box, and thence 
through the filter into tile outlets. This 
may lead into a stream, an open ditch or a 
convenient gutter, since the liquid as it 
issues from the weir box is ninety-eight 
per cent, pure water. The remaining two 
per cent, of impurities is removed as the 
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