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House & Garden 
The Outside 
Tells the Story 
T HE outside of every home is sub¬ 
ject to the public gaze—and ad¬ 
miration. New houses are protected, 
old houses regain their youth with one 
or two applications of Bay State Brick 
and Cement Coating. It will make a 
house distinctively beautiful. 
This master coating protects against 
wind and weather. It waterproofs 
walls of brick, cement and stucco. It 
prevents beating rains from seeping 
through, and laughs at winter storms 
or summer sun. 
In white. Or from a number of care¬ 
fully chosen colors you may select a 
favorite tint. We will gladly mail you 
a free sample. Write for our interest¬ 
ing booklet No. 2 . It is filled with 
photos of Bay State Coated Homes. 
Mail us a postal today. 
Name any painting job. There is a 
Bay State paint, stain, varnish or 
enamel to do it. 
Try INOROUT 
Varnish. For any 
work, indoors or 
out, you will find it 
the finest varnish 
you have ever used. 
WADSWORTH, HOWLAND CO., Inc. 
Paint and Varnish Makers 
Boston, Mass. New York Office: Architects Bldg. 
Philadelphia Office, 1524 Chestnut St. 
These andirons of wrought iron are a copy 
of some old Welsh ones. They are 32" 
high. $55 
Seen in the Shops 
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cessories for the kitchen, comes a white 
enameled tin spice box. It is 11" x 8" 
x 4J4” and is fitted with six separate 
tin boxes for cloves, ginger, cinnamon, 
allspice, nutmeg and mace. Also a 
grater. $3.85. 
(46) In this day of small apartments, 
refrigerators must conform in size to 
the average kitchenette to be of any 
real use. An excellent refrigerator only 
20" wide, 40" deep and 37" high is $28. 
It has two compartments, for ice and 
food, and is of white enameled wood. 
(47) In another shop given up to 
beautiful and unusual things, I saw a 
set of six after-dinner coffee cups in the 
lovely silver lustre ware. The inside 
of the cup is a soft, pale green. The 
price for six is $22. 
(48) The andirons shown at the top 
of the page are a copy of some old 
Welsh ones. They are 32" high and 
are of wrought iron. $55 the pair. 
(49) The handkerchief box illustrated 
on another page is of heavy cardboard 
covered in imported lacquered paper in 
different designs. The cover is hinged. 
$2.75. 
(50) A charming little sewing stand 
that is useful as well as decorative, is 
$16. It is of mahogany and has two 
compartments to hold the sewing as 
well as two drawers for spools, etc. It 
is 24" high. 
(51) A utensil that will hold a prom¬ 
inent place in the efficient kitchen of 
today, is of^heavy tin, 19" long, 12" 
wide and 10" high. It can be used as 
a fruit canner, corn boiler or ham 
boiler. It is fitted with a detachable 
rack to hold preserve jars. $3.50. 
Under the present market conditions 
•we cannot guarantee that these prices 
will remain the same. 
Articles such as glass, furniture, etc., 
require special crating for which an ad¬ 
ditional charge is necessarily made. 
NOTES of the GARDEN CLUBS 
T HE Garden Club of Short Hills, 
N. J., Mrs. John A. Stewart, Presi¬ 
dent, organized 1907, has thirty active 
members (women) and includes men in 
its associate membership list of fifteen. 
Meetings are held monthly in winter 
and weekly in summer, and the Club 
arranges a daffodil, rose, and dahlia 
show. The last named show has been 
held for twelve years and is a special 
feature of the Club. In 1917, admis¬ 
sion was charged for the first time, the 
proceeds going to the Red Cross, and 
in 1918, to the Women’s Land Army. 
Mrs. Charles H. Stout, one of the 
Club members, has created a long list 
of dahlias, for which she has been 
awarded ten silver medals, twenty-four 
silver cups, and in 1919 she received 
from the American Dahlia Society the 
first prize for her collection of seedlings. 
The New York Horticultural Society 
awarded Mrs. Stout its silver medal for 
her collection of hybrids, and this year 
invited her to send specimens of all her 
dahlias to be grown for exhibition in 
the New York Botanical Gardens. Mrs. 
Stout sells her dahlias and also lectures 
about them with slides, all receipts be¬ 
ing devoted to the War work of the 
Comte de Nanteuil, France. The dahlia 
“Sunshine” has taken “1st” wherever 
shown, and its sale realized about one 
thousand dollars in two years of the War. 
The Short Hills Club is affiliated with 
the American Rose and American Dah¬ 
lia Societies. In memory of its late 
President, Mrs. Renwicke, it has found¬ 
ed a medal for achievement, the Emily 
D. Renwicke Medal, to be awarded an¬ 
nually by the Garden Club of America. 
T HE Larchmont, N. Y., Garden 
Club, Mrs. George Martin Van 
Slyck, President, organized in 1913, is 
composed of 150 women, who have six 
meetings with lectures, two field days, 
and shows twice a year. All flowers at 
the show, unless marked otherwise, are 
sold or distributed to charitable institu¬ 
tions. Plants are exchanged in the 
Club. Several members have written 
for publication. During the War veg¬ 
etable gardens and community gardens 
were maintained in vacant lots, which 
were ploughed, fertilized, and seeds and 
topis supplied, if required. Also experts 
in canning and dehydrating were em¬ 
ployed and prizes given to encourage 
the workers. Another War activity was 
the cooperating with the garden clubs 
of Rye and New Rochelle to supply 
flowers to the East View Hospital. At 
present the Club provides an instructor 
for children’s gardens. 
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