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House & Garden 
“Double” Sterling 
The 40 feature, 2 oven, 2 fuel range 
range that saves both food 
^ and fuel, does away with stove 
annoyance, and makes kitchen work 
more simple and more pleasant. 
I’he “Double” Sterling is a simple range to 
operate—uses either coal or gas or both at the 
same time—has oven and griddle capacity to 
meet any emergency and every convenience 
to save steps, time and temper. 
Over 70 years’ experience in building the 
finest type of ranges is back of the “Double” 
Sterling. No expense has been spared to make 
it as nearly perfect as is humanly possible. 
Naturally the first cost of this Range is higher 
than others, but because of its scientific con¬ 
struction it is such a fuel saver that it co.'ts 
much less to oi)erate. 
The “Double” Sterling is 49 inches wide 
and is furnished as illustrated or with leg base 
and shelf. It has 40 distinctive features which 
are fully described and illustrated in our hand¬ 
some catalog which ^ye will gladly send to any 
woman who desires to take trouble out of her 
kitchen. 
SILL STOVE WORKS 
Established 1849 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
Makers of Sterling Coal Ranges, Sterling Combi¬ 
nation Ranges and Sterling Warm Air Riirtiaces. 
if you do not have gas connections write for catalog 
of the Sterling Range. The Range that bakes a barrel 
of flour with a single hod of coal. 
Built-in closets on each side of the bathroom door 
provide space for shoes in one and clothes in 
another. The doors have full-length mirrors 
Commodious Closets 
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walls may be finished with the ribbon 
pattern glazed chintz suggested above. 
If one wishes she can install sliding rods 
for the coat hanger, such as those illus¬ 
trated. 
The middle section has two drawers 
and a hat box. The drawers can be 
used for the wife’s underwear, in the 
second shelf, and the man’s in the bot¬ 
tom. He will have to stoop over to get 
his underwear out of the drawer—but 
that will do him good. The deep drawer 
above these is only a false front for a 
deep hat box. The cover of the hat 
box has four cushions or wire frames 
on which to pin hats, as many hats 
are freshened by hanging upside down. 
Others can be laid on the bottom. Since 
this section is 4' 6" wide, quite a num¬ 
ber of hats can be accommodated. The 
top lifts up and there is clearance for 
this allowed in the open space above. 
If one wishes, a mirror can be attached 
to the back wall of this open space. 
The third section, which is 4' wide, 
has two shoe cupboards at the bottom. 
Rods on grooves run across from wall 
to wall on which the shoes can be 
placed. Being on grooves, the first 
shelf-ful of shoes can be pushed back to 
accommodate a second. Above this are 
two compartments with let-down fronts, 
the doors being held in place as shelves 
by little chains attached to the side. 
Inside each compartment are roomy 
trays, the top for the man’s shirts, 
the lower for the wife’s blouses, etc. 
If one wishes, the inside finish can be 
of old-fashioned paper shellacked, in¬ 
stead of the glazed chintz. The outside 
door moldings should be painted to 
match the bedroom colors. 
This closet could be set up in the 
attic for storage purposes. Instead of 
hats, one could use that compartment 
for blankets, having the walls lined with 
cedar. 
For a guest room where one does not 
wish to go to much expense for built-in 
closets, I have a scheme that has proven 
practical and satisfactory—build in cor¬ 
ner cupboards of ordinary, stock pattern 
cheap wardrobes. Saw off the backs to 
fit the corner—say 8" from the front. 
Place these back against the corner and 
fill in the intervening space, which any 
carpenter can do. A curved rod is at¬ 
tached to the top of the cupboard, and 
the clothes hangers suspended from this. 
What were the lower drawers can be 
made to open with doors and two 
wooden or nickel bath towel rods ar¬ 
ranged for shoes. 
There you have two smart corner 
cupboards without much work. Take 
colors and a pattern from the hangings 
or wall paper in the room and decorate 
the doors. Or the doors can be left 
plain but the moldings brought out in 
color. Such cupboards are especially 
adaptable to old country houses where 
closets are too small or too few. 
Computing a Household Budget 
{Continued from page 24) 
guides, counsels and saves. The home 
manager whose figures we have quoted 
found, after the second year, that the 
family clothing cost almost two-thirds 
more for the winter than for the sum¬ 
mer. She therefore laid aside a certain 
amount during the summer months to 
provide sufficiently for the winter 
clothes. It was a matter of interest 
and importance to each member of the 
family and the family council which 
followed this discovery was but one of 
the many which the budget-keeping 
made possible. 
■After all this one feature of budget¬ 
making places it high in the ranks of 
family usefulness. To have under one’s 
control the fundamental facts of the 
family finances is to possess a human 
document of intense personal interest 
to each member of the family circle. 
Family councils, once all too rare, are 
a natural consequence, and the individ¬ 
ual interests become knit into a com¬ 
monwealth of love and service which 
was once the finest characteristic of 
.American family life. 
L. K. C. Olds. 
