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House & Garden 
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James McCutcheon &Co. 
FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK 
Twenty- 
four 
pages of 
remarkable 
values. 
Send for McCutcheon’s 
January Sale Book! 
We have planned that this January Sale shall be the 
most important of any in our long experience. 
By careful and foresighted buying all through the 
war years we have been able to keep our Household 
Linen prices an average of about 20% to 25% below 
current market prices. Recent reductions in Belfast 
Manufacturers’ prices therefore only bring their 
prices to the level at which we have been offering 
our goods for some time. 
But in order to do our part in helping to bring prices 
back to normal and to meet present conditions and 
demands, we shall make reductions during January 
on our Household Linens from these already moder¬ 
ate prices—amounting in many cases to 33 1/3%. 
We make these reductions with the full realization 
that it may be impossible for us to replace the goods 
offered at the same prices. 
The range of goods on which these reductions are 
made is so wide that all may find what they want. 
The special catalogue No. 44, giving detailed descrip¬ 
tions and prices of Household Linens, as well as 
special values in other departments, will be mailed 
upon request. 
Registered '/f 
Trade Mark 
Established 
1855 
James McCutcheon & Co. 
Fifth Avenue, 34th and 33d Sts., N. Y. 
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A Garden’s Third Dimension— 
The Retaining Wall 
(Continued from page 48) 
and weaken the whole wall. This sort 
of wall need only have a batter of 1" 
in each foot, as its support is in itself 
and not partly in the bank behind it, as 
is the case with the dry wall. Its joints 
being watertight, water draining in be¬ 
hind it will not be readily carried off 
and, in winter especially, will do great 
damage unless we have provided for a 
suitable means of drainage. This will 
take the form of a filling of cinders 
rammed in behind the wall as it is 
erected from the bottom of the founda¬ 
tion to within a few inches of the top. 
This filling need not be more than 6" 
thick. An open tile drain running along 
the bottom of these cinders will carry 
off the excess water at all times and re¬ 
lieve the mind of direful consequences. 
The thickness of a dry wall depends 
upon the amount of lean it has toward 
the higher level which it supports. With 
a considerable batter it may be quite 
thin, as it rests somewhat upon the 
earth behind it; the width of a stone, 
say 12", would be sufficient. A mor¬ 
tared wall should never be less than IS" 
at the bottom and 12" at the top and 
above these dimensions its width should 
never be less than one-third its height. 
The stones should be laid at right angles 
to the slope of the wall so that its ex¬ 
posed surface may be smooth and not 
resemble a steep flight of steps. It is 
unsafe to follow too closely in every 
case such rules and observations arbi¬ 
trarily set down, but rather to use 
them as a guide and adjust them to fit 
each particular situation. 
In thus attempting to exploit the low 
retaining wall as one of the most im¬ 
portant features of the garden, I have 
only roughly outlined its materials and 
construction—and this purposely. For 
with an occasional reference to some of 
these essentials the garden builder may 
discover for himself further problems 
and possibilities whose solution will 
only give his wall and his garden a 
more endurable intimacy. What a time 
he will have with his steps (a subject 
for a complete volume) and (a subject 
for two at least) the planting of his 
wall! For there are steps that slip down 
unnoticed and steps that spill over like 
some molten metal; and there are for 
the wall harebell and fern, baby’s 
breath and pinks, wall flowers, fox¬ 
glove, sedums galore and primula. With 
these attributes it may be more prop¬ 
erly established as the keynote of the 
garden than arbor, pergola, pool or bor¬ 
der, and thus with its success comes the 
success of the whole scheme. 
The Latest Laundry Lifts 
(Continued from page 41) 
for something that they can make to 
give to Mother, Auntie or Grandma. 
Since writing the last laundry article 
for House & Garden a new washing 
machine has appeared, a new type of 
washer. Up until today we had (1) 
the Dolly type, the kind where a little 
tripod-like stool moved up and down 
among the clothes; (2) the cylinder in 
which the clothes are put and which re¬ 
volves in the drum of water; (3) the 
oscillating, where the whole drum oscil¬ 
lates and the clothes are washed by the 
motion of its oscillations; (4) the 
vacuum, where the clothes are cleansed 
by vacuum cups (which look like large 
tin cooking funnels) working up and 
down, cleaning by means of suction. 
The latest type is the alternating. 
Here the drum rotates, and is divided 
into two compartments by a perforated 
plate. The clothing to be washed is 
divided equally between the two com¬ 
partments, and the mechanical action 
of the machine produces alternately 
the action of the cylinder, oscillating 
and the vacuum method. 
Soaps and Powders 
With the best washing machines you 
get bad results if you do not use good 
soaps or cleaning powders. 
There is a very good powder on the 
market which not only cleans the 
clothes well, and leaves no greasy 
residue, but is really not a soap at all. 
It combines rapidly with water, and 
makes a fine suds and cleans very 
rapidly. 
For the most part today, yellow 
soaps and white soaps as cleaners are 
on a par but are not as good for laun¬ 
dry purposes, since the resin in the yel¬ 
low soap combines unhappily with the 
relics of the motor whirl which gets 
amazingly settled in our clothes. 
White soaps are best, if you want 
white results. 
The Laundry Chute 
Much time could be saved in the 
laundry if wherever it were possible a 
chute could be built into which clothes 
can be thrown and go directly to the 
laundry where is situated a basket or 
a terminal closet to receive them. Here 
stuffing the dumb waiter is obviated, 
also carrying the clothes in baskets 
down the lift or just using the ugly 
clothes hamper in dressing room or 
bathroom. 
Another delightful new thing on the 
market is the starch which does not 
starch but which imparts a gloss and 
resistance without a stiffness. This will 
come as a boon to many women who 
do not want their lingeries stiff but 
(Continued on page 56) 
