The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 1600, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 6, 1909 Page: 3 of 4
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RADFORD
EDITOR
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Mr. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OP
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building for the readers of this
paper. On account of his wide expe-
rience as Editor, Author and Manufac-
turer, he is, without doubt, the highest
authority on all these subjects. Address
all inquiries to William A. Radford, No.
194 Fifth Ave., Chicago, 111., and only
enclose two-cent stamp for reply.
• Gambrel or curb roofs are used a
good deal in house construction now-
adays. They were first built onto
barns because of the extra mow room
that the odd shaped roof afforded. It
is a good style of roof and it deserves
the popularity it. has attained. Usual-
ly a sort of prejudice follows any in-
vention that starts with a ldwly or-
igin, and for a long time gambrel roofs
were associated with barns, for which
reason builders of houses were slow to
adopt them: But it is a sensible roof,
It is right.
The upper part of the roof receives
less water than the lower part, be-
cause the water accumulates as it
runs down. The upper part having
w
less pitch, sheds the rain so far as
necessary and the steeper action car-
ries it off quickly, so it does not have
time to soak in, which is a serious
fault with some roofs. It is also a
strong roof because, it is braced from
every direction. If a gambrel roof is
First Floor Plan
properly designed it may be trussed
and braced so thoroughly that lighter
material and shorter lengths may be
used. It may take a few more spikes
and a little more labor driving them,
but it makes a better job.
One of the greatest advantages, how-
ever, is the extra room it gives. In
a plan the size of this it requires care-
ful calculation to get three good bed-
OVERLOOKED FOR THIS TIME.
Substantial Reasons Why Business
Firm “Stood For” Impertinence
from Employe.
The New York dry goods Arm of
Blumstein & Rosenberg had a travel-
ing salesman named Richards. Rich-
ards was a good salesman, and when
sober a genial fellow7. Once, however,
after an unusually successful trip he
indulged in an unusually successful
celebration, and ended by going to
sleep in the public office of the com-
pany.
“Get up,” said Mr. Rosenberg, sha-
king him violently.
“Rosey, go jump on yourself,” said
his sleepy employe.
The senior partner tried it next and
was rewarded with the words:
"Blumstein, you go to thunder.”
The firm held an Indignation meet-
ing,-' decided to dispense with Rich-
ards’ services, and asked the book-
keeper iffhat they owed this erring
salesman. ^
Mi V* >••**-» /I nil o Via rAnArl
rooms \nd a bathroom on the second
floor, but that is exactly what this
plan offers. And the rooms are light,
airy and well arranged. It is only in
the last few years that houses as
small as this were laid out with any
idea of utilizing the space to the best
advantage. A glance at the picture
will easily give an idea of how the ex-
tra windows and space is provided
without running into a great deal of
extra expense.
The size of the house is 24 feet in
width by 25 feet in length, with the
porches extra. The overlay of the sec-
ond floor, which projects out. over the
porch, permits the third upper room.
By referring to the plan it will be easi-
ly seen that this is a great advan-
tage in planning the upstairs.
It is a puzzle often to get a stair-
way to fit in right on both the first
and second floors. If you put the stair
in front the upper landing comes in
an awkward place to reach the bed-
rooms, but by placing the stair as
shown in this plan, it leaves space for
arranged in this way. It is cooler than
when built into the house, and you
have a good, big window which makes
it light, even on dark days. The old-
fashioned inside dark pantries are a
thing of the past. No architect who
values his reputation will design a
dark pantry in these days of archi-
tectural inventions. This pantry has
a swinging door connecting it with
the dining room. Swinging doors are
a great convenience, but they are also
a great nuisance until you get used to
them. A good many women grumble
about these double action doors, but
they put up with them just the same,
a splendid vestibule as an entrance to
the front hall. On either side of this
vestibule is a storage closet
that - may be used for coats
or other purposes. The stair-
way is far enough back so the land-
ing on the second floor comes almost
in the middle of the house. This gives
an opportunity to reach the different
rooms with a very short hallway. Such
features seem small when you under-
take to describe them, but modern
house comforts are made up of little
things, and a great many comfortable
little things when put together go to
make up a modern house that is a
great satisfaction for years to come.
Although this hall is less than ten
feet in length, and in the center of the
house, it answers every purpose with-
out any objectionable features. It is
lighted from the stairway and it is
heated from the same source, because
the heat from the register in the hall
follows naturally upstairs. The stair-
way to the cellar is convenient to the
kitchen and there is also a doorway
opening into the front hall which
makes a passageway into the kitchen
without passing through the other
rooms. This feature is lacking in some
large houses, but it is something that
should not be overlooked. Every wom-
an knows how to appreciate an easy
connection between the kitchen and
the front door without going through
the parlor.
In the rear of the house we have a
splendid pantry built in the projection
which forms the back porch. There is
a great advantage in having a pantry
of goods in the past three months.”
The partners looked at each other in
silence.
“Rosey,” said the senior partner,
“you go chump on yourself. I’m go-
ing to thunder.”—Success Magazine.
Slept While Legs Burnt.
George Campbell of Sunnycale, Cal.,
is congratulating himself upon the
fact that he is a cripple in both legs.
The other night a fire broke out in
the American hotel in Sunnyvale,
which was discovered by the daugh-
ter of the proprietor. In her night
dress and barefooted she ran a quar-
ter of a mile to sound the alarm and
probably saved Campbell’s life. When
the volunteer fire department arrived
upon the scene they found that his
wooden legs were burning, but he was
sleeping blissfully unconscious of the
fact. The blaze was practically con-
fined to his room.
Second Floor Plan
and the doors are becoming more com-
mon all the time. There is also a
hanging door between the pantry and
the kitchen which may be kept shut
when occasion requires it, or left open
to facilitate travel back and forth in
the daily routine of serving the meals.
These are other little things, but they
all work in to make a comfortable
dwelling.
Showery.
"As soon as some men gits a little
saved up foh a rainy day,” says Uncle
Eben, “dey can’t resist de temptation
to knock off work an’ watch foh a
shower.”—Washington Star.
HIS NAME WAS NO ACCOUNT.
Unjust Suspicion Rested for a Time
on Man with Most Peculiar
Cognomen.
At an informal meeting of insurance
representatives recently held in Chica-
go there was present a plainly dressed
and quaint-looking man, whose failure
to disclose his identity did not seem
consistent with his apparent interest
in the proceedings. Finally the clerk oi
the meeting approached him quietly
and asked his name.
“It’s no account,” was the surprising
reply.
Assuming that he had some ulterioi
motive for concealing his name, the
clerk reported his suspicions to the
chairman, who appointed a special
committee to investigate. During a re-
cess the man was invited into a pri-
vate room and in a more or less of a
dignified tone and manner, the spokes-
man of the committee stated the ob-
ject, and then asked him why he re
fused to give his name'to the clerk.
“I don’t refuse,” he replied quickly
as he plunged his hand into his pockel
and handed him a card on which was
printed:
“Noah Count,
“Insurance, Loans and Real Estate,
“Countville, Wis.
“Please do not confound the name
with the business.”
The evidence was satisfactory.-"
Judge.
Out of Date.
The manager looked the play ovei
regretfully.
“I hate to give this back to you,’
he said. “It’s so well written, so hope
ful, so appealing.”
The young dramatist nodded.
“I must,” the manager replied
“Some day this sort of thing will be
in fashion again—at least I hope so.’
The young playwright frowned.
“I wish you would tell me frankly
just why you can’t produce my work.’
The manager sighed.
“My dear boy,” he replied, "I can’t
produce it because it is so hopelessly
clean and wholesome.”—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Elephant Draws Plow.
Visitors to the southern countries oi
Asia have seen frequently elephants
employed in many useful capacities
They are willing beasts of burden
when properly treated, and their enor
mous strength enables them to do a
vast amount of rough work.
Recently, astonished residents oi
the country about Horley, .Englanr}
have been amazed to see an elephant
performing the duties of a plowhorse.
The proprietor of a circus winters his
animals on his farm at Horley, aad
makes his elephants help pay for theii
keep by pulling plows.
It is said to be worth going miles
to see one of the big, patient brutes
lumbering gravely up and down a field,
dragging a plow with as little appar
ent effort as a man would trail a gob
stick behind him.
Indications.
“How7 do you know that Mr. Blig-
gins playrs poker and that his wife
plays bridge?”
“Because each is always trying tc
suggest methods by which the otho7
can economize.”
SERIOUS PERIL TO
NURSERY AND ORCHARD
Brown-tail Moth. Imported Into New York From Anglers,
France, Causes Alarm to Department of Agriculture.
Fig. 1. Sprayed three times.
Sound, 3152
99.37%
harvest.
Wormy, 15
- -47%
Damaged by
Curculio, 5
.15%
The nursery, orchard and forest in-
terests of the country are menaced
just now by an imported danger per-
haps comparable with the foot-and-
mouth disease in animals, and un-
doubtedly destined, like that plague,
to be shut in and stamped out by the
vigorous and enlightened methods of
the present day, says a writer in the
Country Gentleman. We refer to the
brown-tail moth, which has made
havoc for years in eastern New Eng-
land, but was not found elsewhere in
the United States - until a fortnight
ago, when living caterpillars of the
creature, in their winter nests, were
discovered in a shipment of apple,
pear and cherry seedlings and quince
stocks received by a New York dealer
from Angiers, France, and possibly ex-
isting in nobody knows how many
more of the hundreds of boxes of
similar stock now regularly arriving
in the United States from the same
country. So far as this state is con-
cerned, the instant attack that was
made on this invasion by the state de-
partment of agriculture has undoubt-
edly ended all danger of distribution
add the caution that the caterpillars
now found in the nests are in many
cases very minute creatures that only
an entomologist with a microscope
can satisfactorily pick out. Our pic-
ture is copied from one of the publi-
cations of the Massachusetts board of
agriculture, which gives also this de-
scription of the winter nest:
“Each web is composed of a tenaci-
ous silk hibernaculum, inclosing leaves
from which the epidermis has been
consumed, although the outer leaves
on the web may not have been at-
tacked. Thb w7ebs are firmly attached
to the twigs by stout bands of silk.
Almost invariably the web commences
where the egg cluster was deposited,
and remains of it can usually be found
on or in each web. Exit holes sojne-
times remain open on the webs
throughout the winter, but as a rule
they are closed by the matting to-
gether of the web under the influence
of rain. The web consists internally
of numerous layers of silk, inclosing a
great many small, irregular silk-lined
chambers, which are often connected,
and contain from six to fifty larvae.
Fig. 2.
Not sprayed.
Sound, 773
59.83%
Picked harvest.
Wormy, 461
35.68%
Damaged by
Curculio, 5S
6.98%
from tins particular source; and the
entomological authorities of all the
states of the union having been noti-
fied of the discovery, it is to be sup-
posed that vigilant watchfulness will
everywhere be exerted, with the re-
sult of preventing any general out-
break. Nevertheless, country resi-
dents everywhere should be apprised
of the possibilities of the case, and
should consult the nearest entomolo-
gist immediately in the event of dis-
covering anything like the winter nest
of the creature on imported plants of
whatever name or nature, the moth
having a wide range of feeding. We
give in this article engravings
which may be serviceable, but would
Propagating Cactus.—Lobster claw
cactus may be propagated by using the
better ripened wood, taking the cut-
tings at the joints. Root these cut-
tings in sand, but have the sand a lit-
tle dry, not wet as with most other
cuttings. Keep them in a warm place
while the roots are forming.
The insects around the roots of your
palm are, I think, white fly mentioned
in an answer to F. E. B. If they never
fly above the surface of the soil, they
may be a white midge that often in-
fests the soil of house plants. If so,
use lime water as recommended in
same answer.
The usual number found in the cham-
bers is about a dozen each. The larvae
are also often found in the galleries
in the web. The lowest part of the
web is usually full of fine black ex-
crement, and the castoff skins of the
first molt occur in many of the cham-
bers.”
Of course it is understood that these
nasty nests are to be looked for only
on imported stock. The figure in the
center of the illustration has no bear-
ing on the case in this country at
present, except in eastern New Eng-
land; and we have faith to believe it
will not be necessary to study it else-
where. Still, there’s no knowing; and
forewarned is forearmed.
To Make Concrete Cistern.—Cistern
wails should be eight inches thick and
floor four inches thick.as the cistern is
very large. Material will be: Cement,
13 barrels; gravel, 13 yards; sand, one
yard; concrete, mixed eight parts
gravel to one part cement. Mortar
for plastering side walls should be
mixed two parts sand to one part ce»
ment.
Money is accumulating in New York
city more rapidly than at any time in
the last two years. Banks are receiv-
ing much faster than they are paying,
and good investments are being dili-
gently sought in every direction.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 1600, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 6, 1909, newspaper, May 6, 1909; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth910581/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.