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House & Garden 
The Trade Hark Known In Every Home 
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Booklet No. 105 
“The Universalized 
Home” 
Landers, Frary s’ Clark 1 
New Britain.Ct. L 
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Ostracize the Fly 
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The window shade is then replaced just 
below the screen casing and neither in¬ 
terferes with the other. The screen is 
so adjusted that it easily pulls down or 
pushes up at will, automatically locks 
itself on being brought down to the sill, 
and, after being released by a slight 
upward push remains in whatever po¬ 
sition it is left. It covers the whole of 
every window and is so simple in con¬ 
struction and direct in action that, once 
installed, it should never get out of 
order. In case of damage it can easily 
be removed, new parts obtained and as 
easily be relocated. In new houses, 
under construction, provision can easily 
be made to “sink” the screen casing and 
side runways into the window frames 
so that they are almost invisible. 
If the rolling screen is not used, the 
casement can be covered with top-hung 
outside screens, side-hung, double-door 
style, or single from one side or sta¬ 
tionary on the outside, if the window 
opens inside. When possible the case¬ 
ment screen should be hung on pivot 
hinges to permit ease of detaching for 
storage, and, as we said before, to leave 
the window without the marring of the 
hinge there or removed. However, fre¬ 
quently in the case of the unusually large 
screen the use of a little strap hinge is 
sometimes necessary to carry the extra 
weight. In marble window casing the 
hinge of course is an impossibility. 
A couple of side levers on either side 
of the screen for releasing the pivots 
when the screens are to be taken off 
for the winter make the matter of 
removal as easy as “falling off a log”. 
The top hinge screen on the outside 
of the window which pushes out from 
the inside has to be hung very securely 
and the bolts and pivots and handles 
and adjusters have to be made to per¬ 
fection. The adjuster for pushing this 
window out or open must be a pleasure 
to use or else this type of screen will 
be a curse. There is an adjuster now 
on the market that is put on the win¬ 
dow in such a way that the screen can 
be opened or closed without opening the 
inside of the window. A double in¬ 
surance against inroads of bugs while 
opening the window to adjust screen! 
Put up to “stay put” stationary 
screens are fastened with bolts which 
are removed when necessary to store. 
Wooden Frames 
The story of the wooden frame is 
about the same as the metal, only that 
the wood frame can’t rust, but can wear 
out if not seasoned and kiln dried and 
given all the care in manufacture that 
long life in woods necessitates. 
Here, too, the corner construction 
must be perfect, must be able to bear 
the weight of the screen aftd take out 
the jars. The frame must be rigid, light 
and strong. The wire cloth must be so 
fastened at every point that there is 
no sag or bagginess in the broadest win¬ 
dow. Now all this is possible in the 
best wood frame screens and with good 
workmanship. Everyone thought for a 
long time that the metal screen could 
not incorporate their good points. Don’t 
be fooled by someone saying that the 
wood screen cannot be made “fool 
proof”, for it can and is. Here again 
every maker has his own device for 
catching the metal cloth; here again 
the metal cloth must be rustless; here 
again the metal work and hardware 
must be rustless, the screen must make 
easy manipulation possible. 
The screen door question, too, is 
rallied round with the same provisos of 
manufacture as metal and wood screens. 
There are the two leaf door and the 
one leaf. 
The new thing on the door is the 
fact that the whole door may be 
screened or only one-half screened, the 
rest of wood or metal. Yet it is far 
better to have the whole door screened, 
but for the sake of beauty and lack of 
monotony the lower half can be guarded 
with a metal panel which will not only 
look well but protect the wire cloth. 
Sometimes, too, in the wholly screened 
door just a metal guard rail is applied 
to prevent injury to the wire cloth on 
the full expanse of a door. 
If half the door is of wood, there 
again you lose the free entry of air, so 
it is advisable to screen the door com¬ 
pletely and use the guard metal work to 
beautify and protect it. 
Some of the lower portions of doors 
(as is the case with French windows) 
are beautifully carved to be in keeping 
with a handsome wood interior. 
Doors, too, should be equipped with 
a good check to prevent them from 
banging and close tightly. 
Locks or no locks, are questions to 
be decided by the buyer, but all hard¬ 
ware, bolts, catches, pins, hinges, etc., 
should, of course, follow the “no-rust” 
regime, and be of the most durable stuff 
and match up with the surrounding 
hardware. 
Even though the frame and its hang¬ 
ing are of vital importance, yet what 
would the screen be without the screen 
cloth? And, of course, there are as 
many kinds of cloth in this quarter of 
the world’s work as in any other and 
we have to know something of the va¬ 
riety in order to know what we are 
buying, to buy advantageously. Here 
again we play the old tune: Rust¬ 
lessness. 
The cloth must be of a mesh not too 
fine for free entry of air, and fine 
enough to prevent the smallest insects 
from entering. But here one must use 
discretion. If your home is in the 
Adirondacks where black flies and mid¬ 
gets precede the mosquitos, then it is 
the better part of wisdom to use a finer 
mesh; if you are at the seashore, the 
ordinary coarser mesh is sufficient. 
Wire Cloth Varieties 
There is also choice here. One can 
have: 
(1) Painted steel cloth which must be 
repainted often in accordance with its 
exposure and in regard to where it is 
exposed and whether it is hung inside 
or outside of the window. 
(2) Galvanized steel mesh: This is 
often blackened for eye ease. 
(3) Monel metal (an alloy of copper 
and nickel) guaranteed rust proof, used 
mainly at seashore resorts but good for 
any place. 
(4) Bronze and patented bronzes: 
Used as is the monel wire cloth. Here 
a coat of paint to dull the bronze glare 
is of real service to the eye. 
(5) Copper: A coat of dull paint 
here, too, will take off the glare. 
Manufacturers have various bronze 
cloths and they are sold under various 
names. Its great use is imperviousness 
to rust but it has to be of the best 
manufacture to insure this paradisiacal 
condition. 
The porch that is screened with 
pernickety screens never is screened in 
time to reject the insect world. So here 
is another case where they must fit and 
be made to order. 
What is a sleeping porch without a 
screen? Without a functioning screen? 
One swallow may not make a summer, 
but one fly can make torture out of 
night. 
Some makers will key your screens so 
that each screen has its tag for replace¬ 
ment and there is no loss of effort and 
time in resetting them next year in their 
proper places. This can be done in 
windows, door and porch work. Of 
course, with the rolling screen—they are 
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