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H o u s e 
& Garden 
KNAPE &VOGT 
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Saves Closet Space 
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Y OU can save from $200 to $500 on your 
new house by planning smaller, more 
efficient closets, made possible by the KNAPE 
& VOGT Garment Care System. Saves 
valuable space that can be allotted to other 
rooms, and assures the better care of wearing 
apparel. 
The KN APE & VOGT Garment Care System 
does away with hooks and crude hangers 
that destroy the beauty and set of your attire. 
Carriers are roller-bearing and operate easily 
on a telescoping slide. A slight pull brings 
the whole wardrobe out into the li&ht and 
air of the room. There are special hangers 
for every garment and, as those for coats and 
jackets are shoulder-fitting and “nesting”, 
more can be used on the carriers of this 
system. 
Write us for particulars and suggestive plans 
whereby you can save money by installing 
the KNAPE & VOGT Garment Care System 
in your new home, or by which you can 
modernize your old closet. 
This system of garment care modernizes 
closets in old or new homes, apartment houses, 
hotels, clubs, lodges, etc. Installation in old 
closets is easily effected by attaching over top 
of door casing and to rear wall. A screw 
driver is the only tool required. Carriers 
are made in all sizes from 12 to 60 inches 
in length. 
On sale at hardware and department stores. If not 
immediately obtainable at yours, write us giving closet 
dimensions and we will see that you are supplied. 
KNAPE & VOGT MFG. CO. 
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 
New York, 168 Church Street 
St. Louis, Title Guarantee Bldg. 
San Francisco, Rialto Bldg. 
Chicago, 546 Washington Blvd. 
Boston, 86 High Street 
Minneapolis, Soo Line Bldg. 
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The light perco¬ 
lates around the 
mirror on to the 
face. Courtesy 
of Edison Co. 
Beauty and the Bathroom 
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Nearly every modern bath has a 
shower of some description. 
The difficulty with the shower is the 
splashiness of it. The first protective 
device was a cloth on a bracket. This 
is still used to a great extent, but the 
ideal arrangement is to have the shower 
in a closet designed for it, opening into 
the room. This closet may be of glass, 
marble, or tile, with a cloth curtain or 
a door to match the material of which 
the section is built. The door should 
be as small as possible. Twenty inches 
is quite large enough. The smaller the 
opening, the less chance for the escape 
of water. Besides, a large door is a 
nuisance to clean. 
When the compartment is used there 
can be, besides the ordinary head bath, 
a needle bath. This may consist of from 
eight to twelve nozzles pointing in from 
the four corners of the compartment, or 
it may be a series of apertures in metal 
pipes hung around the inside of the com¬ 
partment. When the separate compart¬ 
ment for the shower is not desired, one 
may find a substitute for the sheet in 
the arrangement shown in the Felix 
Warburg bathroom picture in this ar¬ 
ticle. The glass sheets are practical and 
not cumbersome. Nevertheless, they in¬ 
volve more cleaning, and in the average 
home this must be considered today. 
Mixing the Water 
There are various propositions on the 
market to mix the water in the shower 
so that it can not scald the bather. 
One manufacturer offers a little toe pipe, 
with which to test the temperature of 
the water before starting the bath. 
These things are more or less desirable 
and dependable but are not at all 
necessary. 
It is best to have the valves at the 
entrance as you walk into the shower, 
so that your arm may not be under 
the flow when it begins. If the piping 
is well done and the valves work, the 
mixture of hot and cold water can be 
tempered sufficiently to be safe and 
comfortable. Here, as well as in every 
other department of purchasing, you are 
told a lot of things, and if inexperienced, 
you may be horribly taken in, and led 
to buy a lot of unnecessary things, 
which though good in themselves, are 
quite dispensable. 
The shower bath compartment must, 
of course, be large enough to permit 
the bather to stand inside without hav¬ 
ing to be all the time under the shower. 
This is an important point. Glass doors 
are not necessary either for a tiled or 
for a marble compartment. A light 
weight curtain is good, with the smallest 
possible entrance. This obviates the 
cleaning of the door. 
Tiled floors and floors of honed 
marble are better for shower receptors 
than are the porcelain ones. They fit 
into the building problem better, can be 
made in any size and are less slippery. 
Be very careful in selecting the plumber 
who puts in your shower, because unless 
the drain and curb are absolutely right 
you will be exposed to the danger of 
flooding the room and the partitions of 
the house. 
Lavatories and Tables 
The styles of these are legion. The 
sizes are so well standardized that un¬ 
less one wants them made according to 
some bizarre pattern it is not necessary 
to give dimensions. The usual length 
is about 33". This is ample and grace¬ 
ful. The 54” takes more space than 
most bathrooms can give up to the 
lavatory, and makes quite unnecessary 
bulk. The 33" lavatory—and any 
smaller size—can be made of vitrified 
china, which is handsomer and less ab¬ 
sorbent than the solid porcelain lava¬ 
tory. The vitrified china is fired, and 
therefore it is difficult to make in large 
pieces. 
Lavatories may be made for corners, 
or straight walls. They may have two 
legs, or a center pedestal or four legs, 
or they may be simply hung on brack¬ 
ets. Two legs, however, is the usual 
style, although four makes a very lux¬ 
urious looking table. The legs can be 
had in nickel, glass, brass or in the 
handsomest types of gold, with carving 
or some other kind of design. 
There has been a reversion, too, in 
the lavatory. The new style is to make 
them of imported marble, cut in one 
piece. With these the gold leg is suit¬ 
able, also the glass which looks well 
and is most satisfactory, being easy to 
clean. Soft American marble is ab¬ 
sorptive and stains easily, so when you 
use marble, get the imported if possible. 
Another point should be noted in buy¬ 
ing the lavatory,—have enough space 
on it so that it can hold a glass; other¬ 
wise extra cost will accrue from break¬ 
age and ruined nerves. 
In addition to the lavatory, as we 
have said, is the bidet, and the dressing 
table. The latter is sometimes made of 
glass on gold, nickel or brass standards, 
but it is oftener made of vitrified por¬ 
celain on four legs. 
Faucets 
The faucets on tubs, lavatories, bidet, 
shower, etc., require a great deal of care, 
since they must be cleaned so often. 
Various materials have been used, such 
as cut glass, porcelain and nickel, por- 
celain-like enamel, brass, silver, gold, 
etc. For a very rich room, gold and cut 
glass, or the gold alone is beautiful. 
But for most rooms the porcelain and 
nickel faucets are the very best and 
demand the least care. All-white enamel 
is not durable and is hard to take care 
of properly. 
It is very much better to have one 
faucet through which both hot and 
cold water can flow. The faucet should 
have an overhang of at least 1" from 
the side of the lavatory, so that it will 
be possible to get a glass under it for 
filling or your hand under for washing, 
thus obviating the necessity of filling a 
basin every time you want to rinse 
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