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Will Your Christm as Evening 
Be Like This? 
W ILL you invite your favorite film stars—Mary Pick- 
ford, Norma Talmadge, Douglas Fairbanks, Wm. S. 
Hart, Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle and others 
—to your home Christmas evening,? Will you let the dar- 
htigs, heroes and comedians of filmdom hold every member 
of your family spellbound for hours, with motion pictures 
of your own selection, projected by 
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From thousands of reels of the world’s best Dramas, 1 
Comedies, Animated Cartoons, Scientific, Travel, Educa- 
tional and War pictures you can make up your own program 
to thrill, entertain, amuse or educate every individual. 
the Lew Premier Pathescope is the ideal Christmas 
gilt, it win start a forever interesting, forever new series 
of enjoyable evenings that will bind your family group to¬ 
gether, keep the young people home and afford delightful 
recreation for years. 
Make I our Own Motion Pictures 
A real record of a Christmas group- 
how you have wanted it! The same group 
isn’t together every year. Before next 
Christmas some may marry; some move 
away; some be “taken away”. Still-pictures 
of posed family groups never seem real; 
never like the friends you knew. But with 
a Pathescope camera, pictures of the baby, 
. of the older children, of father and 
mother m their characteristic activities, live and move in 
all of the vividness of real life. What priceless treasures 
to hand down to your children! 
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Underwriters Laboratories, Inc., for use without a booth 
by anyone, anywhere, anytime. 
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THE PIONEER 
Some American Wood Block Engravings 
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tention from the print or from anything 
else in the room. The frame and the 
mat—for prints usually require mats— 
merely afford a transition from the print 
to the wall and should join the two in 
a harmonious and unobtrusive way. 
It is difficult to consider the subject 
of the new school of wood blocks with¬ 
out scolding the dealers in prints. The 
art stores have neglected them and 
almost ignored them, so that when the 
home builder in the past has desired to 
obtain them he has had to go either to 
the artists themselves or to one of the 
exhibitions the artists arrange period¬ 
ically through their societies. The art 
dealer finds it more profitable to get 
his customers interested in prints that 
sell for higher prices, such as etchings 
by Zorn, Brangwyn, Fitton and Haig. 
However, in spite of this drawback, the 
wood block folk have obtained a hearing 
for themselves. It is well worth while 
for the prospective purchaser to go to a 
little extra trouble. It adds to the pleas¬ 
ure of the achievement, inasmuch as it 
provides a zest akin to the hunting 
fervor of the real collector. 
The dean of the American wood block 
artists is Arthur W. Dow, now an in¬ 
structor at Columbia University, who 
began work in this medium twenty-five 
years ago. The prints of John J ^ 
Murphy, Win old Reiss, William Zorach' 
Hall Thorpe, R. Ruzicka, Gustave Bau¬ 
mann, Horace Brodsky, Tod Linden- 
muth, Paul Rohland and Harry Town¬ 
send are well known. The women have 
done just as good work as the men 
and among them are Margaret Patter¬ 
son, Ethel Mars, Maud Squire, Bertha 
Lum, Juliette S. Nichols, Edna Bois 
Hopkins. Daphne Dunbar, Eleanor 
Schorer, Marguerite Zorach, Elizabeth 
Colwell, Mildred Fritz, Eliza D. Gar¬ 
diner, Ada Gilmore, Florence Ivins 
Uonka Karasz, Mildred McMillen, Flora 
Schoenfeld and Elizabeth Schuff Taylor. 
Outstripping the Gale 
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made of non-corroding, non-rustable 
metals such as zinc, bronze and copper, 
and they keep their elasticity plus non¬ 
leakage qualities as long as, and some¬ 
times longer than, the building itself. 
Every type of door and every type 
of window present different problems, 
and every window or door of each type 
has again different problems, so to each 
there must be different applications. 
The following will explain more particu¬ 
larly than the foregoing. 
In the casement which opens in, for 
example, a brass triangle is provided 
with “weep holes” to drain out any 
water which may accumulate on the sill 
and follow through into the room. The 
meeting rail is sealed in a way approxi¬ 
mately as in the sliding window. 
The sill strip is peculiarly shaped to 
spring into its sealing power; sometimes 
it is called a Z-shaped plate, each manu¬ 
facturer having his own name and pet 
plan. 
The Sliding Window 
The sliding window is the most gen¬ 
eral type to be treated. 
Here the top and bottom, sides and 
meeting rail must be considered. How 
to stop leakage and seal against unwel¬ 
come callers are the problems. 
At the top of the window, as in the 
illustration, two strips are used; the 
tubular protuberance in the head of the 
frame nestles cosily in the depressed 
concavity of the window sash. Some 
brands line the depression with metal— 
others do not. 
When the window is closed, there is 
a complementary interlocking device at 
the rail where the upper and lower sash 
meet, often in the upper sash of S 
shaped bronze and in the lower sash a 
hook-shaped copper strip. 
The side of the frame upon which the 
window is raised and lowered is a real 
problem. The weather stripping makes 
the window weather-proof, yet it makes 
it open and shut easier than it could 
before the application of the strip. 
In some brands the frame lining and 
sash lining are of metal. In some only 
the frame is metal lined. In some the 
frame is corrugated and the window 
sash slides up and down easily as the 
protuberance slides into the depression 
in the unlined sash furrow. In another 
brand two metal tubular strips are 
used, the metal protuberance fitted into 
a metal lined depression. Here the win¬ 
dow slides easily and no amount of 
warping can disturb the nice adjust¬ 
ment. In such weather strips are cre¬ 
ated conditions which absolutely pre¬ 
vent the side action of windows, so hard 
to cure with carpentry or cheap types 
of weather strips. 
The lower sash is managed as is the 
upper, only the strips are reversed. 
Doors 
The door sills are made with metal, 
and metal strips forming a sealed joint 
against warping, settling air, etc. There 
is a very nice device used to prevent 
the cold air let into the bedroom at 
night from escaping into the halls and 
cooling them off. On the lower edge of 
the door is fitted a spring which when 
the door is closed by contact with the 
hinged side of the frame releases a felted 
pad which fits tightly against the sill of 
the door. This makes one’s winter im¬ 
mersions a pleasure, for the bathroom, 
if you have one connecting with your 
room, as well as the hall will be warm 
for your morning use. 
Application 
Other Cases 
The casement window has its pecu¬ 
liarities of treatment, as have doors and 
windows w'hich open in the center. 
Weather strips can be applied after as 
well as when the house is built. 
"My house is so well built,” said a 
friend of mine, “that it does not need 
weather stripping.” If that could have 
been so, it was a unique house. There 
is hardly a house where the wood 
around the doors and the windows does 
not warp or shrink or do something 
equally obnoxious. Whether seasoned 
by long processes of actual weathering 
or rapidly kiln dried, wood in captivity 
becomes restless, and seems to strain and 
struggle in its fury. Nothing can be 
said against the builder—it is the nature 
of wood. The builder is always glad 
to install the strips because then the 
owner does not get a chance to feel 
antagonistic on account of recalcitrant 
windows, difficult heating, etc., and is 
therefore relieved from grumbling. 
The weather strip must be put on by 
the experts from the manufacturers of 
the brand of w'eather strips that you 
buy. Do not call in your favorite car- j 
penter or plumber, for he cannot do it 
right. The putting on of weather strips 
is a science in itself. They must be put 
on so as to insure a uniform efficiency 
during the inevitable warpings, shrink- 
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