Life — April 12, 1923 — page 32: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

LPH Just Give My Garden a Drink FRESHLY watered garden is A: real delight. The process of watering can be made de- lightful, too, with a sound, handy five-eighths hose of reliable quality equipped with a Boston nozzle, which gives “stream, spray or mist with a twist of the wrist.” Five-eighths is the right size for garden hose used with standard house fittings. Buy BULL DOG. GOOD LUCK or MILO, all stand- ard five-eighths brands. Send for our new book, “MAKING THE Garven Grow,” 32 large pages, fully illustrated. Free to all true garden lov- ers. Others will not care for tt. Hose & Rubber Co. 153 Portland St., Cambridge, Mass. The Architect’s Revenge (Continued from page 6) wanted wpstairs made the second floor just twice as large as the one below. It overlaps on every side except the front, which I have kept simple; at the side and back it is sup- ported on columns, some of which are forty feet from the building. “Then we went inside. I had the O. Kd plans with me and kept pointing out how exactly I had fol- lowed them. There was the little extra room, Freddie’s study, just where they had wanted it. To an- swer the door the servants have to go through the study and the only possible way of getting out the ashes from the furnace is through the breakfast room. The cellar is her- metically sealed. “But it was upstairs that I had my real revenge. The landing of the main stair takes up the entire end of Lucy’s bedroom and in the dead center of the best guest-room is a large chimney. And the closets !— and baths! They are all over the place, broom-closets, linen-closets, house-maids’ closets, plain closets— No room has fewer than twelve doors in it. The furniture will have to be hung from the ceiling. “Naturally, none of the front rooms had any windows. They can't, with the low sweeping eaves which gave ‘the cute cottage effect.’ s I led them toward the service stairs, I said: ‘Now I want to show you the big third-floor playroom. Of course, it’s pitch-dark, because I couldn’t spoil the simple, unbroken roof-lines; but I have my electric- flash and if’—but I had to stop. Lucy had swooned at the foot of the stairs. “T turned to Freddie and—I think I was rather excited—I yelled, ‘Well, go on! Say it!’ ‘Say what?’ was all he could manage. ‘Say what they all say,’ I shrieked. ‘Say that Mr. Barrows drew out the plans, but that the ideas were all your wife’s —and yours.’ “And with that I left them.” To quiet his peals of laughter, I put my hand on his shoulder. “This is rather terrible, Will,” I said. “What of your future ?—your practice?” “To blazes with it,” he shouted. “I have had enough joy out of the last four hours to repay me for ten years of suffering. The crown of my hap- piness is that no one will ever give me another house to build. Thank heaven there is always. . .boot- legging.” “Do you rise as soon as your alarm clock goes off?” “No; if I did I’d break it.” SHIRTS With this Label in Gicen Are Worn By Well Dressed Men For Sport And Every Day Wear. They Are Guaranteed ToG ve Satisfaction And Outwear any Other Cotton Shirt Made. At All Haberdashers And Department Stores Burton's “Irish Poplin” With Name On Selvage Also Sold By the Yard. The Vagabond Gardene: My neighbor’s garden grows so well! I look beyond the wall And catch the sweet and pungent smell Of heliotrope and small, Stiff mignonette and roses red So heavy in the sun— My neighbor’s garden serves instvad Of my poor withered one. And it’s a saving of much car And hoeing and expense To take my pleasure free as ait Across my neighbor's fence! Buds MADISON AVE., 43rd TO 44th STREETS NEW YORK Tea in the Palm Room Dancing in the Supper Room JOHN McE. BOWMAN, President comicbooks.com