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MONARCH 
CASEMENT WINDOW HARDWARE 
The Way to Perfect 
Casement Windows 
How many times have you lost your com¬ 
posure in opening and closing outswung 
casement windows? How often have you 
been awakened from sleep by their bang¬ 
ing in the wind? 
The Monarch Casement Window Control- 
Lock takes away all cause of annoyance. 
An obscure but ornamental handle on the 
inside enables you to move the sash and 
firmly lock it in any position, without the 
least interference with screen or curtains. 
You merely raise the handle and work it in 
its slot; turn it down and the sash is locked. 
It’s as simple and convenient as an electric 
light switch. It’s as sturdy and durable as 
though it were a solid piece of metal. 
At your hardzmre dealer’s—or send us his name and 
zve’U forzvard free printed matter to both of you. 
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5000 Penrose Street St. Louis, U. S. A. 
Manufacturers also of Monarch Metal Weather Strip 
House & Garden 
Spring Is Paint-Planning Time 
(Continued from page 92) 
beyond anything in this line that has 
ever been issued by any other manu¬ 
facturer, and after reading it no one 
; will ever again think of a can of paint 
; simply as a can of paint. 
The idea for this book came from a 
busy business man, who often became 
annoyed with vexing business problems, 
and who could find relaxation only in 
the country. There was a certain 
wooded lane which he had discovered 
and which, when he walked down it 
and rested his eyes on the charming 
coloring of nature, gave him a physi¬ 
cal and mental restfulness that enabled 
him to think more clearly and better 
understand his fellow-men. 
In speaking about it to an artist, he 
really started something. For the artist 
said, “Why don’t you borrow those 
restful colorings from nature and bring 
them indoors where you live and 
work?” The business man said he had 
never thought of that, but it sounded 
reasonable. The artist said it was quite 
possible. 
It was tried first in the business 
man’s library. The plain woodwork of 
the bookcases, extending from the floor 
to the ceiling, was finished in the dull 
gray tones of the tree bark. Imagine 
its restfulness. The glass in the book¬ 
cases was etched slightly so that the 
colored books showing faintly through 
resembled the leaves in the fall. The 
ceiling was given a soft, blue sky-tint. 
The floor was covered with rugs of a 
brownish moss-green color. The furni¬ 
ture was then finished in gray tones to 
match. The wooded lane had been 
brought indoors. I 
As a result, that business man made 1 
his library his permanent office, and 
says he can now do twice the amount 
of work he formerly produced in his 
glaring office, and his work does not 
get on his nerves. 
So elated was he with the success of 
the scheme that he asked the artist to 
work out the same idea for the balance 
of his house. This was done—in every 
one of the ten rooms. A wild-flower 
was selected for the color scheme in 
each, and while each room is different 
in color, yet all blend perfectly with the 
others, forming a harmonious whole, as 
do the wildflowers of the woods. Thus, 
through the medium of paint, it is now 
possible to bring indoors the wonderful 
charm and restfulness of nature’s great 
outdoors. 
So you can see that the subject of 
paint is a broad one. The possibilities 
in a can of good paint are limitless, 
even though the can in itself does look 
prosaic and commonplace when seen 
standing on a shelf. 
House-planning means paint-planning. 
-And the latter demands almost as much 
consideration and concentration as does 
the former. That is, if you are plan¬ 
ning to build not merely a house, but 
a really, truly home in the best sense 
of the term. 
SPRINKLING THE LAWN 
O nto each lawn some rain must 
fall—but unfortunately it doesn’t 
always fall when it is most needed 
by the grass. The rains are entirely too 
prone to descend and the floods to come 
in superabundance for a period, and 
then cease entirely through such a long 
spell of hot weather that the grass 
blades shrivel and scorch and the erst¬ 
while green turf turns an unsightly 
brown. 
Happily for our lawns, this vagary on 
the part of the summer weather can be 
nullified without great trouble. The 
various forms of lawn sprinklers which 
can be attached to the house water sup¬ 
ply furnish moisture to the grass in the 
most beneficial manner—falling in small 
drops exactly as does rain. In fact, the 
good ones are better than some kinds 
of rain, for they are so regulated that 
the water falls no faster than the ground 
can absorb it. 
There is no need here to go into the j 
details of these sprinklers—their port¬ 
ability, their revolving devices which 
distribute the water evenly over an area, 
of many square yards without shifting 
the apparatus, their good appearance, 
the advantage which their automatic 
operation gives them over the old-style 
method of directing a hand hose for a i 
weary hour or two when you would | 
much rather be sitting in a comfortable 
chair with a good book, or, if you are ; 
a man, enjoying the post-dinner smoke. 
These points are evident to anyone who 
gives thought to the matter. 
.4s to the effect of the sprinkler on the 
lawn itself during the summer drought, 
you have but to compare a regularly 1 
sprinkled turf with an unsprinkled one 
to be forever convinced that the arti¬ 
ficial rain-maker is not a toy but a 
thoroughly practical item of country- 
home equipment. 
