HOUSE AND GARDEN 
242 
October, 191 
System Means to the 
Inexperienced Man 
How The Kewanee 
Differs from Others 
In order to protect yourself from the substitution 
of inferior equipment for the Kewanee System, 
If you want a water supply 
system for your country home, or 
for any building or institution, 
learn what the Kewanee System 
means to you. 
No matter how little you may 
know about water supply equip¬ 
ment, you can have just as good 
a plant as if you were an expert 
look for the trade-mark KEWANEE on the tank and 
the name KEWANEE on the pumping machinery. 
A Kewanee System consists of a Kewanee Tank 
and a Kewanee Pumping Unit, installed according to 
the prints and instructions furnished by the Kewanee 
Water Supply Co. 
The combination of a tank with a pump to work 
on a similar principle is not a Kewanee System. 
This information is for your protection. 
Kewanee Systems are designed 
by men who know how—experienced 
practical engineers who have solved 
thousands of water supply problems. 
Avoid plants designed by inexperi¬ 
enced people who want to experi¬ 
ment on you. 
Kewanee Systems are made by 
us. They are not the assembled pro¬ 
duct of a half dozen different manu¬ 
facturers. We furnish the complete 
system and we are responsible for 
all—every part of it. 
There is a Kewanee System for 
every kind of building or institution. 
We do not try to make one or two 
styles fit all places. Every problem 
is solved separately — every plant 
and experienced hydraulic engineer. 
guaranteed to work successfully 
under the conditions for which it is 
recommended. 
Kewanee tanks—the high stan¬ 
dard for quality in pneumatic tanks. 
Kewanee Pumping Machinery—the 
only complete line of pumping ma¬ 
chinery built for the exacting require¬ 
ments of air pressure service. Inferior 
tanks and pumping outfits are made 
to sell, but they must necessarily 
provide inferior service and be more 
costly in the long run. 
Kewanee Systems are easy to in¬ 
stall and easy to operate. All the 
expert part of the work is done at 
our end—not yours. Kewanee 
Systems are inexperience-proof. 
Our 64-page illustrated catalog tells the Kewanee story. Let us show you what 
we have done for others and what we can do for you. Ask for catalog No. 44. 
Kewanee Water Supply Company, Kewanee, Ill. 
1564 Hudson-Terminal Building, 50 Church Street, New York City. 
1212 Marquette Building, Chicago, 111. 305 Diamond Bank Building, Pittsburg, Pa. 
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 
Country Homes of the Western 
Plains 
(Continued from page 233 ) 
in those days each item of what is now 
decoration was then a living vital imple¬ 
ment in the life within that house. Does 
my lady of to-day boil the water and 
turn the roast over this fire on this crane 
and roasting spit? Does she grind her 
flour in this mortar, does she warm the 
beds with this warming-pan, and does the 
lord of this manor keep his rifle clean and 
his flint sharp and ready with powder 
and ball to repel the prowling savage who 
threatens the integrity of his scalp? I 
doubt it. Hidden away in the basement 
is probably a furnace; in the kitchen a 
gas stove and a sink, with hot and cold 
water; the grocer delivers the flour al¬ 
ready ground, and the policeman takes 
care of the prowling redskins. This room 
then is a museum — not the living-room 
of a family of to-day. There is no trace 
here of the individuality of the present 
occupants; this room bears the imprint 
of the life of people long dead and gone, 
and no other. And why should the pres¬ 
ent lady of this house be denied her ex¬ 
pression in her home? Because, gentle 
reader, she does not belong in the Col¬ 
onial picture; she is of to-day, and her 
living-room is of another day. This is 
art for art’s sake with a vengeance, and 
it is just stage-setting, not architecture. 
If you will look into any of the beau¬ 
tiful old creations of the historic styles 
or periods, you will find that the sweet 
and human qualities we now admire are 
entirely due to a faithful and free inter¬ 
pretation of their needs and environment. 
We in our work to-day are ignoring this 
great principle which is the life of archi¬ 
tecture. 
Mr. Wallis says, "I can think of no 
other style for a house.” Is he, then, to 
search only his memory? Every creative 
artist is something of a prophet, a pio¬ 
neer. Is it not reasonable, then, for him 
to search also his conciousness of the 
present and the future ? The grape-arbor, 
the formal garden, the water pool with 
the green frog, the dainty napery, cut- 
glass and old silverware, so much admired 
by Mr. Wallis and by all of us, are not 
the exclusive accessories of a Colonial 
house. But I do not argue against the 
Colonial style or against any style, but 
only for the honest method of design that 
produced those styles and which, if prac¬ 
ticed to-day, would produce something 
different but just as good and certainly 
vastly closer to us and to our needs. The 
influence of beautiful things and a beau¬ 
tiful home on people, and especially upon 
children brought up amid such surround¬ 
ings, is of incalculable benefit, but it is 
important that this influence be founded 
upon a sound and logical base. The sham 
and the make-believe in architecture do 
not furnish such a base. Good traditions 
are excellent, but are the generations to 
come to have nothing vital of ours to 
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