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Flickerless“5AFETY STAN DARD"Motion* Picture Projector 
A Christinas Gift for the 
whole family for a life-time 
N OTHING can give so much enjoyment to so many 
people, for so long a time, with such safety—as a New 
Premier Pathescope. It may be used to broaden the 
education of your children; it brings to all the pleasures of 
travel without the usual time or expense; and offers a 
never-ending and most delightful form of entertainment to 
every member of the family. 
With a Pathescope in your home, motion picture programs 
can be arranged to meet any individual taste or preference. 
Thousands of reels of the world’s best Dramas, Comedies, 
Animated Cartoons, Scientific, Travel, Educational and 
War pictures are available and more are being added every 
week. The famous stars of filmdom—the darlings and 
heroes and comedians—Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge, 
Douglas Fairbanks, Wm. S. Hart, Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe 
Arbuckle and scores of others, will bring their choicest 
treasures to your home for a quiet “family” evening or for 
the delight of your friends. 
Take Motion Pictures Yourself 
Think, too, how entrancing to see your¬ 
self in motion pictures! Photograph your 
children at play, your travels, delightful 
little indoor or outdoor picnic parties— 
with a Pathescope camera. Re-create the 
living, moving reality of your most en¬ 
joyable memories. 
The Pathescope projector is so exquisitely built that its 
pictures amaze expert critics. And perhaps the finest feel¬ 
ing that comes with owning a Pathescope is knowing that 
it is safe. Ordinary inflammable film is dangerous and its 
use without a fire-proof enclosing booth is prohibited by 
State, Municipal and Insurance restrictions. But all Pathe¬ 
scope pictures are printed on “Safety Standard” film, ap¬ 
proved by the Underwriters’ Laboratories, Inc., for use by 
anyone, anywhere, anytime, without a fire-proof booth. 
The New Premier operates from any electric light current 
or from a storage battery. 
Call and Operate the Pathescope 
No description, or lifeless still picture can convey any ade¬ 
quate impression of the thrill and indescribable charm of 
seeing the New Premier in actual operation. Come—and 
bring your friends—to any Pathescope salon—select your 
own pictures—and operate the Pathescope yourself. 
Write for address of the nearest Agency. 
The Pathescope Go. of America, Inc. 
Willard B. Cook, President 
Suite 1828, Aeolian Hall 
New York City 
Agencies in Principal Cities 
PATHESCOPE 
’SAFETY S TAN DARD' 
THE PIONEER 
A corner in a garden remembered for the luxuriance of the planting. 
A pergola completely covered with vines forms a natural archway 
THE APPEAL OF 
T is a pleasant experience when some 
particular attraction in a garden is 
recalled again and again so that we 
long for an excuse to go back and renew 
our enjoyment of it. It may be a deft¬ 
ly placed piece of statuary, or a vine- 
covered arch over a gateway or through 
the end of a pergola which frames a 
perfectly familiar view in such a way 
that it gives a sudden breathless pleas¬ 
ure. Or it may be a recurrent note of 
color in a perennial border which will 
haunt us afterward much in the same 
manner as a theme in music. 
In this busy, distracting life of the 
present day, more than ever before we 
feel the need of the diversion of our 
gardens, and it is fortunate that the 
beauty and satisfying quality do not 
increase only according to the ratio of 
size; in fact, in the smaller gardens 
there are unlimited possibilities for a 
certain intimacy and perfection of 
charm which larger gardens very often 
do not possess. Let us review a few 
points of concentrated beauty which 
have left lasting impressions upon those 
who have visited them. 
In a certain garden of extreme love¬ 
liness there is a walled fountain of 
Batchelder tiles. The tiles are of clay 
in neutral tones of soft brown, except 
where scrolls or designs occur and then 
the depths of the design are colored 
blue. Growing up beside this fountain 
and bending over it is a shrub of 
Duranta plumieri which has clusters of 
delicate blue flowers exactly the shade 
of the blue in the tile. The play of 
light and shadow over the face of the 
fountain, the episodes created by the 
birds as they visit it to bathe or perch 
SMALL GARDENS 
on the bowl, the blue in the tile matched 
by the blue over-arching flowers create 
an effect unique in its charm. 
In another garden, embowered in 
shrubbery at the foot of the steps lead¬ 
ing up to the main entrance, is a statue 
by the sculptor Edward Berge, called 
VVild-Flower. That little figure with 
her petal-like hands and her face of 
“nods and becks and wreathed smiles”, 
crowned with an inverted corolla, seems 
to cast a sort of magic influence upon 
all who pass along that walk so that 
terraced slopes, box-bordered paths and 
tall evergreen trees possess an entrancing 
beauty. A pool planted with wild 
grasses which we have gathered our¬ 
selves on a trip to the marsh lands by 
the sea, will always sing a peculiar song 
as though the sea breezes had strayed 
into our garden to rustle among them 
—such is the value of association. 
There is a certain small formal gar¬ 
den so closely associated with the house 
that it becomes a sort of outdoor room. 
French windows open upon a broad, 
shady porch just half a step above the 
level of the lawn. It is a walled gar¬ 
den, these walls forming a background 
for varied and exquisite planting, the 
charm of which is so diverting for a 
new-comer that a connected conversa¬ 
tion is a practical impossibility. Two- 
thirds of the way down the garden is 
a pergola running from wall to wall 
with vine-covered arches, and the eye 
travels over lawn and low foundation, 
between Italian cypress trees to the 
central opening in the pergola which 
perfectly frames Romanelli’s Smiling 
Child, squeezing water from a shell. 
Mira B. Culin. 
This little statue 
is deftly placed 
against a back¬ 
ground of dense, 
dark foliage 
which admirably 
outlines its deli¬ 
cate grace 
