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and their uses 
F IND out about tiles before you begin to 
build. Tiles are the logical treatment for 
porches, vestibules, bathrooms, fireplaces 
and kitchens, because they are sanitary, durable 
and artistic. They cost less than you think. Get 
an estimate before you decide. 
These four books are free to home owners, 
present or prospective: “ Tiles on the Porch 
Floor,” “Tiles for the Kitchen and Laundry,” 
“Tiles for Fireplaces, ” “Tile for the Bathroom. ’ * 
THE ASSOCIATED TILE MANUFACTURERS 
Room 2, Reeves Building, Beaver Falls, Pa. 
underground 
GARBAGE RECEIVER 
Ever wished for a Garbage Can in which garbage cannot 
stink in summer? A can in which flies cannot breed and 
spread typhoid germs ? A can having a cover which every 
time closes tight automatically — and cannot be opened by 
prowling dogs and cats ? A can which, being out of sight, 
does not disfigure the backyard ? The Stephenson 
Underground Garbage Receiver has all these advantages 
I also male* Cndersround Earth I'losols 
SfiAerrmH for camps ami for Dwellings without Sewer¬ 
age and Portable Metal houses for same. 
SOLD DIRECT. Send for circular. 
C. H. Stephenson, Mfr. 
Farrar Street, Lynn, Mass. 
is 
Our Name is Stamped on Our Cord 
Avoid sash cord troubles by using SILVER LAKE A 
The original solid braided cord and 
THE STANDARD since 1869 
THE FIREPLACE 
is the feature around which the family life cen¬ 
ters. Let it be honest, genuine and built for 
burning logs. 
tfjt Send for our “ Hints on Fireplace Construction,” 
TJ1 containing reliable rules for the proportioning of 
fireplaces and flues, and catalogue of our fireplace Throats 
and Dampers, Iron Coal Windows, Etc. 
THE H. W. 
169 Duane Street 
COVERT CO. 
NEW YORK 
A Butler’s Pantry Door 
should swing both ways; should close gently and 
without noise and stop at once at the centre 
without vibrating. The only way to accomplish 
this is to use the “BARDSLEY” CHECKING 
HINGE. It goes in the floor under the door 
and there are no ugly projections on the door. 
JOSEPH BARDSLEY 
147-151 Baxter Street New York City 
September, 1910 
light and cheery, with sunlight part of the 
day anyway! 
As for the little money to be spent in 
the beginning to save dollars in the end, 
see to it that all the ground beneath ce¬ 
ment work is tamped, and tamped hard, 
and fight ’till you get paint between all 
porch boards used for flooring, otherwise 
your walks will sink and create lakes and 
your boards rot before their time. It is 
the wisdom of experience I am giving you. 
“Well, I’ll give you what you want, 
but this is going to he a crazy house. 
Whoever heard of a bookcase built into 
a dining-room ?” 
Thus the builder. 
“You haven't got several thousand 
hooks to put away,” I retorted. “What do 
you expect me to do with them D Throw 
them away?” 
Of course I planned bookcases on 
either side of the fireplace, and an ingle- 
nook, and the bookcases over the stair, 
and the little one in the front room—I 
can’t call it a parlor, for that means gold 
chairs and stiffness to me — but there were 
still books which wouldn't be ignored. So 
there was a big case built, six feet high 
and fourteen feet long, the whole width 
of the dining-room, and I have sat to 
many a meal with worse company than 
those old favorite bindings staring me in 
the face, nor have we missed the room 
they occupy at any time. 
And when it was all done, and I 
counted what I had done — a porch, group 
windows, extra windows, two fireplaces, 
mantels with good lines, five built-in book 
cases, a window-seat, a ’phone seat, an 
ingle-nook, an attic, a workroom built 
into the attic, double windows for the 
hard-to-heat room, the coal-bin where I 
wanted it, an ash dump, metal weather 
strips, covered pipes, and, of course, the 
particular kind and character of lighting 
fixtures which I most preferred, brushed 
brass in some places, wrought iron in 
others, I found that while 1 had a city 
house with all the objections which a 
twenty by sixty-five foot house must have 
when built on a twenty by one-hundred- 
and-fifty-foot lot, I had still managed to 
make my house distinctly a home, had in¬ 
corporated into it many of the things 
which make a country house worth while, 
had paid hut a very few hundred dollars 
more than my neighbor, who took his 
house as it was planned, and had one for 
which, before it was half built, I was of¬ 
fered seven hundred more than I had 
agreed to pay for it. What I did, anyone 
can do; it requires only a little thought 
and time, and for those of us for whom 
the country home is not a possibility, that 
little thought and time pays huge divi¬ 
dends in comfort and satisfaction as time 
flies by. 
The Best Paint 
U GLY cracks and crevices in painted 
surfaces spoil the artistic possibili¬ 
ties of any room or any article in the 
room. When painting be sure to select a 
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