ISO 
House & Garden 
^ooner or later 
"pipe corrosion 
will cost you money— 
“Reading’ on Every Length” 
BRANCH OFFICES: 
Boston Pittsburgh 
New York Cincinnati 
Philadelphia Chicago 
Baltimore Fort Worth 
Los Angeles 
C ORROSION (rust) some time 
and somewhere is going to put 
your name on the list—the list of 
people who add their bit to the mil¬ 
lions of dollars spent annually in re¬ 
pairing the damage done by leaky 
pipes. 
That leak may start over the silk counter in 
your store. It may damage goods or ma¬ 
chinery in your factory. It may ruin the 
ceilings, walls and floor in your home. 
Your loss may be only a plumber’s bill or 
it may amount to a good, round sum. 
But sooner or later pipe corrosion will cost 
you money. You cannot prevent ordinary 
pipe from corroding and leaking. But you 
can install pipe that resists corrosion. 
Reading Genuine Wrought Iron Pipe offers a 
rust-resistance two or three times greater than 
that of steel pipe. “Reading’s” greater durability 
and longer life make its cost to you, per year, 
one-half to one-third the price of steel. 
From every viewpoint it will pay you when 
building or remodeling, or when renewing your 
pipes, to specify “Reading”—the pipe that 
endures. 
Let us send you “The Ultimate Cost”—an inter¬ 
esting booklet of pipe facts and figures. 
READING IRON COMPANY 
READING, PA. 
fVorld*s Largest Manufacturers of Genuine Wrought Iron Pipe 
READING 
JL W GUARANTEED GENUINE 
Wrought iron pipe 
Rutland lodge is a typical Christopher Wren country house 
of brick, with cornice of wood and a doorway which is 
classic in detail. It is at Petersham, in Surrey 
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN, Architect 
1 6 3 2 — 1 7 23 
F ROM its Italian place or origin 
the Renaissance spread compara¬ 
tively slowly, but very steadily, 
across the face of Europe. It was as 
though some splendid infection—a kind 
of sublime spiritual influenza—were 
spreading from mind to mind, mani¬ 
festing itself in different places by 
different symptoms. In Italy, the Re¬ 
naissance was primarily artistic. In 
Germany a revival of learning and 
the reform of religion were forms 
taken by this wonderful disease. In 
England the symptoms were almost 
exclusively literary. 
England has always, from the time 
of Chaucer onwards, excelled in lit¬ 
erature; she has produced very few 
plastic artists of anything like the first 
order. The two greatest of them have 
undoubtedly been architects. The 
first of them is Inigo Jones. The name 
of the second is Christopher Wren. 
We are celebrating this year the two 
hundredth anniversary of his death. 
Wren, who was one of those extraordi¬ 
nary universal geniuses—mathematician, 
astronomer, resourceful engineer, and 
consummate artist—so typical of the 
Renaissance, is among the most pro¬ 
foundly interesting figures in English 
history. And no less interesting is his 
artistic development—from the com¬ 
parative crudity of his first amateur’s 
designs, to the masterful perfection of 
his maturest work. But we shall con¬ 
fine ourselves, therefore, to discussing 
Wren’s practical bearing on architec¬ 
ture of today: to disengage from the 
bricks and mortar, the stone, the lead- 
work, and the timber of his buildings, 
those general architectural lessons 
which his genius has to teach us. 
And how much he has to teach us! 
How closely he touches our everyday 
lives! For Wren, although a master 
of the truly grand and majestic, is no 
extravagant genius, no wild reacher- 
out into the impossible and unattain¬ 
able. He is essentially sane and rea¬ 
sonable. His chief concern was not with 
the unheard-of and theatrical grandi¬ 
osity of which his Italian contempo¬ 
raries dreamed; it was with ordinary 
life, as it is, or rather as it ought to be 
lived—decently, rationally, with a 
The qualities of dignity and spaciousness 
in this stair hall in Rutland Lodge are 
characteristic of Wren’s work, from St. 
Paid’s to his smallest country house 
