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Identifier: americanhomesga101913newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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d also the blue and white wovencoverlets are brought into service. A studyof old Colonial interiors will give manysuggestions to those who wish to furnishsimply and yet correctly. A TELEPHONE TIME-SAVER THE Electrical Review describes a newdevice that will be welcomed by manypersons who make frequent use of the tele-phone; it is intended to save the timeusually wasted in holding the line. Theapparatus consists of a small trumpet thatmagnifies sound, and a platform behind thetrumpet to hold the telephone receiver.When the person at the telephone is askedto hold the line a moment, he places thereceiver on this platform in such a way thatit slides into position with the ear-pieceagainst the small end of the magnifyinghorn. He can then continue whateverwork he was doing until he hears the voicefrom the horn; after that he can use thetelephone in the ordinary way, or, if hewishes to make notes or to take a messagefrom dictation he can carry on the wholeconversation by means of the trumpet.
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M i£&o< x^oooo&oooo^x fo) x^oooo&oooo oooodpoooot 0); X^OOOOC^iOOOO^X T CONTENTS FOR JANUARY, 1913 o The Small House to be Furnished .-^J ..• .Frontispiece A Practical Treatment of an Abandoned Farmhouse By Mary H. Northend 3 The Cost of Furnishing a Small House By Ida J. Burgess 8 The Peerless Begonia By F. F. Rockwell 13 Krisheim Cottage at St. Martins By Harold Donaldson Eberlein 15 Balconies as Architectural Features 18-19 A Long Island Farmhouse By Edward M. Thurston 20 A New Jersey House and Garden By William T. Phillips 23 Samplers of the Other Days By Elizabeth L. Gehhard The House Dog By T. C. Turner Within the House—The Decoration Value of Mirrors By Harry Martin Yeomans Around the Garden—The New Year Helps to the Housewife—New Years Resolutions By Elizabeth Atwood 2426 303234 Nests and Perches New Books The Editors Notebook ~W m HIT IT T li CHARLES ALLEN MUNNPresident MUNN & CO., Inc. Publishers 361 Broadway, New York FREDERICK CONVERSE

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