A Well-designed Pergola is the finishing touch to the architectural and landscape perfection of elaborate grounds-it is "the one thing needful" to confirm the artistic character of a modest homestead -and it may be relied upon to redeem and beautify even the smallest yard, or one that is lacking in natural advantages. CYPRESS, "the Wood Eternal," is the pre-eminent pergola wood because "CYPRESS lasts forever"-DEFIES ROT-INFLUENCES which destroy most other woods - does not warp, shrink or swell like most woods -takes paint and stain perfectly but does not need either. (See Govt. Rept., Vol. 1) Vol. 40 40 of the famous Cypress Pocket Library contains SKETCHES, DETAILED WORKING DRAWINGS (on sheet 24 x 36 inches) and FULL SPECIFICATIONS for erecting five new and original designs for beautiful and practical PERGOLAS and one COLONIAL ENTRANCE, all easily built and costing from a few dollars up to several hundreds. Not stock patterns"-each was SPECIALLY DESIGNED for us. 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Ask for Booklets and Finished Samples Atlantic Monthly Readers will be interested in this Reprint from The House Beautiful for June I N the February number of THE HOUSE BEAUTI We FUL we announced our plan of adopting one of the little girls in the devastated regions of France--that is, providing her with clothes, suitable food and the right kind of care to counteract the four long years of starvation, maltreatment and semi- or less clothed condition endured during the rule of the Germans. promised to show a picture of the little girl just as soon as we had raised the necessary funds. The truth is we got so enthusiastic here in the office about the work --what it would mean, not only to the little one, who received the donation from THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL readers, but to those whom she in turn might help that we asked the American Committee for Devastated France if they would not send us a picture of this French member of THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL family now, so that we might all know just who was to re Gilberte Germaine Colombier, the first ceive the help extended. The photograph came just in time for us to print it in this magazine, and we are delighted to introduce Gilberte Colombier to our readers. Gilberte was born the first of October in 1907. Before the War she lived in one of the villages which formed a part of the district of Blerancourt. Shortly after the war began she lost her mother, and her grandmother took her and her two brothers to the village of Bichancourt on the Aisne, where she lived under German rule for two years and a half. Her grandfather, who was seventy-nine years old, worked for a baker. On one of his trips delivering bread he was met by a band of German soldiers who inquired their way of him. Not understanding ir language he could not reply and was in cone treated so roughly that the old man died t soon afterwards. Gilberte suffered great hardships under German rule, being underfed, cruelly treated and obliged to sleep on a little pile of straw in a house where there was no fire even during the coldest weather. Finally an aunt was able to get charge of the little girl and took her to Switzerland. The brothers and grandmother were forced to remain under German rule in Belgium where they had been taken six months before. In Switzerland she was well treated. Gilberte's father had been a factory worker before the war, but was mobilized with the French Army. Nonews has been received from him for many months, and it is thought that he was killed in one of the battles. In spite of her sad war history, Gilberte is a merry, sunny-natured little girl, with a ready smile, and is a favorite, we are told, with both her teachers and companions. She, like the other children of the Colony, has blossomed out like a rose in the sunshine with the love and care and comfort bestowed upon her by the American Committee for Devastated France. **** In order to give this little girl the special intensive training necessary to counteract the result of the years of German rule, and the necessary food to develop Gilberte physically, three hundred and sixty-five dollars a year are needed. Will you not send in a contribution today - if only a dimeto help complete the amount necessary to give this little girl a fair chance in the world, to help make up as far as it is possible for the suffering she has endured, the loss she has met in this Great War? All donations will be acknowledged immediately by the Editor of THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL (41 Mt. Vernon St., Boston, Mass.) and will be forwarded to the American Committee for Gilberte. AND THE BUILT The Plate Waltham Colonial A Extremely thin at no sacrifice of accuracy Know Something About the "Works" in the Watch You Buy I F you open your watch and examine its mechanism, you will find it consists substantially of two supporting plates, between which is mounted a gearing of meshed wheels to take care of the movement, recording time. This is called the train, which we will speak of in our next advertisement. The lower supporting plate in a Waltham watch is the foundation upon which every unit revolves and is fixed. It is bored with minute holes to take the pivots, screws, pinions, etc. This lower plate is drilled and threaded by one of the most exclusive and wonderful machines ever designed by the genius of man- an exclusive Waltham invention from the master-mind of Duane H. Church. Many operations are accomplished with such methodical, automatic regularity that one instinctively imagines that a marvelous human brain guides the extraordinary operations of this machine. It makes every operation (and there are 141) with infinitesimal exactness to the ten thousandth part of an inch-flawless, beautiful in its complex simplicity - every plate a replica of every other plate, proving Waltham standardization to be one of the miracles of American mechanical genius. The plate of the foreign built watch is subject to the variations of hand process. Made to variant sizes and models without precise relation to the parts which they are to contain, which parts are made elsewhere in many homes and small shops, by hand. No hand work could ever approximate the beautiful and flawless exactitude of this Waltham drilling and threading. So when you buy a Waltham watch you are assured of a standardization of quality and leadership which has placed the Waltham watch on the pedestal of world dominion. WALTHAM THE WORLD'S WATCH OVER TIME |