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You wash with it—cook with it — clean with 
it. You bathe with it — scour with it—scrub 
with it. Your complexion, your hands, your 
nails, your hair would be ruined in no time 
without it. The health of your children depends 
on it. The lack of it would quickly drive all 
brightness and happiness out of your home. 
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without it. And then in the very next breath 
confess that your supply is pitifully poor and inad¬ 
equate— that what you use you secure at the cost 
of great effort, downright drudgery and constant 
inconvenience. Compare that with the service of 
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Dealer will gladly explain 
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fully know the blessing of a continu¬ 
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all of the thousand and one needs 
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A Humphrey provides all the hot water 
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to many—is considerably cheaper for 
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than with any other heating device 
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The flowering dogwood contributes color 
to the garden through many seasons, but 
May and June see the abundant spread 
of white flowers 
FLOWERING DOGWOODS 
T HE most charming of all the 
many ornamental dogwoods is 
Cornus florida, the flowering dog¬ 
wood, and he who has ever tramped 
through the open woodlands when this 
diminutive tree unfolded its flowers so 
that its bright white sepals hid the 
fresh green of the emerging leaves, can 
understand the witchery of its appeal. 
From the forests of the northern New 
England States to the far-off hard¬ 
woods in Texas is this tree in blossom. 
It seems as if it were bathed in molten 
silver as the gleaming sepals shine 
through the still nude twigs of the 
other trees. For a comparatively long 
period the tree is in its glory, then, at 
the end of the month in May and the 
beginning of June, the sepals are dis¬ 
carded and gently glide to the ground. 
In autumn, when the sumach and 
the wild grape are beginning to turn 
red and scarlet and yellow, the dog¬ 
wood is again an object of beauty. 
Then the seeds, a deep fiery red while 
the upper surface of the leaves is 
purplish, attract flocks of robins which 
consider the somewhat astringent meat 
a delicacy. After the first night frosts 
have destroyed the gayly painted foli¬ 
age, and after the autumn storms have 
shaken them from the twigs, lifting 
the dead and dying leaves playfully 
upon the wings of the wind, the char¬ 
acteristic flowering buds make their 
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The same twig is coated with 
ice in February, but the tree is 
quite hardy 
By March the ice and snow have 
gone and the buds await the 
spring warmth 
Even in January the twigs of the dogwood hold a 
promise under their mantle of snow. The buds are 
quite distinct 
