HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 
1910 
MILLS WATER 
TUBE BOILERS 
No. 24 Mills Water Tube St earn Boiler 
THIS make of boiler 
is endorsed by lead¬ 
ing beating engineers as 
tbe refinement of boiler 
making. 
A trial will demon¬ 
strate its economy. 
Fire Tube surface 
greater. Grate area less, 
1 arger Combustion Cham¬ 
bers than ordinary Sec¬ 
tional makes is tbe reason. 
THE H. B. SMITH CO. 
Manufacturers of 
BOILERS and RADIATORS 
FOR HEATING 
1225 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Bungalows and American Homes 
N°* 2, Built in California and Iowa—Coat $2800 
t? a S'“® 0I P e 112 Page, 8x11 book of Bungalows, Mission, Cole 
niai, English timbered and Concrete houses for 1910 shows intc 
nors, exteriors, and floor plans and actual cost to build, rangin 
irom $1,000 10 $10,000. These designs are photos of structure 
we have built throughout the country — not theoretical pen pic 
lures, 3 Special specifications and details of construction made t 
■Snuff ^ r * ce of book $1.00 prepaid. Sample leaves fre< 
BROWN BROS., Architects, 917 Security Bank Bldg., Cedar Rapids, low 
may be greater ugliness, only I don't know 
about them! 
“No tiling? Well, what are you going 
to put under the mantel in parlor and 
dining-room ?’’ 
The builder imagined he had me. 
“I’m going to put a bookcase under 
the mantel in your ‘parlor,’ ” I said, “and 
in the dining-room I’m going to put an¬ 
other fireplace.” 
“But yon can’t put a bookcase in the 
parlor,” he said. “Nobody does that. 
Those shelved mantels only come for din¬ 
ing-rooms, and they use ’em for china 
closets.” 
Just the same, I have my bookcase, 
and if you don't agree that I did wisely, 
when looking at these comparison pic¬ 
tures, you are at perfect liberty to do as 
you please. 
The stairs were a problem. Stairs 
ought to he spacious and sweeping, and 
with flowing lines. But with a twenty- 
foot lot, and a short-coupled house, on 
account of light, you can’t have them that 
way. So we twisted them into a sort of 
bastard Queen Anne, and paneled the side, 
made a closet under them for coats, put 
a bookcase on the landing which we con¬ 
tinued down one side, made a place on 
them for the ’phone, put a “window-seat” 
at the bottom of the stairs, and let it go 
at that, and everyone likes it, and it is 
most amazing comfortable to live with. 
And here again I had a tussle with the 
builder, as to the finish of the oak wood¬ 
work. He insisted on a dark filler, I, that 
one without color he used. I didn't want 
to live with dark wood. So I have a 
natural wood finish, under varnish, and 
think it infinitely more attractive, because 
more real, and because light and dry, than 
artificially darkened wood. 
Porch? Oh, yes, three of them. City 
builders “knock” the wooden porch, say¬ 
ing that it costs money to paint, is not as 
durable as stone steps, and makes a bay- 
window impossible, all of which is very 
true. But, if you must get along with 
a twenty-foot by twenty-five foot “lawn” 
(heaven please bless again), there is no 
reason why you shouldn’t have a place to 
sit and look at it, and wish it were bigger, 
and watch the automobiles go by. And 
so the porch was added, as big as iron¬ 
clad building regulations would allow. 
And I submit it to you — which looks more 
comfortable, the house with the white 
pillars and porch, or the more pretentious 
brick house with the stone steps, next 
to it? 
Back porches were double-decked, top 
and bottom, and the top opens out of the 
fourth bedroom — in my menage a play¬ 
room for a small boy — and a mighty com¬ 
fortable place for summer evenings at 
that. Double windows and door make it 
perfectly comfortable in winter, this north 
room, in spite of the pessimistic predic¬ 
tions of the heating man that “You’ll 
never heat this north room nohow, if you 
put in another window.” Just the same, 
I have another window, not called for in 
the plans, and a windowed door, and it’s 
\ IX/TANY house- 
owners put off 
badly needed painting 
)|pSpi last spring because of 
W the rainy weather in 
^ April andMay. Ifyou 
have done so, paint this fall. It 
was wise not to paint in the 
wet weather but don’t put it 
off longer. 
F all is an excellent painting 
season. 
The atmosphere is clear and 
bright and free from moisture. 
Insects are not prevalent. 
Surfaces are dry — in short, 
every condition favorable to 
good painting is found in 
the fall. 
When you paint, specify 
Dutch Boy Painter 
White Lead 
and have the painter mix it 
fresh with pure linseed oil at 
the time of painting. Then 
the right paint is assured — 
paint which penetrates the 
surface and dries with a tough, 
elastic, durable film. 
We have prepared our “Dutch 
Boy Paint Adviser No. 91” for 
property owners who want authori¬ 
tative help on painting. Free to all 
who write for it. 
National Lead Company 
An office in each of the following cities: 
New York Boston Buffalo Cincinnati 
Chicago Cleveland St. Louis 
(John T. Lewis & Bros. Co., Philadelphia) 
(National Lead & Oil Company, Pittsburgh) 
Landscape Gardening 
A course for Home-makers and Gar- 
deners taught by Prof. Craig and Prof. 
/ \ Batchelor, of Cornell University. 
wSBjlk Gardeners who understand up to- 
date methods and practise are in de- 
niand for the best positions. 
A knowledge of Landscape Garden- 
ing is indispensable to those who 
Prof. Craig. would have the pleasantest homes. 
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