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Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
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and to visit and ex-plore all the nearby places. The advantages of the marinegasoline motor need not be extolled here, but suffice to saythat these handy and simple little machines have now beenbrought to a very high point of perfection. The aim ofnearly all manufacturers has been to make them fool- pose, unless, of course, one insists on having a maid. If theboat is large enough and the owner desires to keep a servant,a man will prove far more satisfactory. Chinese are by farthe best; but few are to be had. Swedes and Norwegianscome next, and they are invariably good boatmen; they fillthe requirements very nicely. They are generally clean, andmost of them can cook sufficiently well to prepare in a palat-able way the simple fare one demands when living afloat. West Indian negroes have been tried by many with ex-cellent results. Those bred in the British possessions makethe best servants. Most of them can cook, and besides beingreasonably clean, are usually good swimmers and watermen.
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The Galley Is Conveniently Arranged for Cooking Purposes The Hostess and Her Tende proof, and anyone with ordinary intelligence can handlethe motor with ease and safety. Power tenders can be had at moderate figures, some goodones can be bought as low as $150. The modified dory andsharpie make admirable launches, and have the great ad-vantage of being most inexpensive. The cost of the engineitself is very much the same, no matter in what type of hullit may be installed. A sailing dory makes a handy tender, for it can be easilypropelled with either oars or sails. A canoe adds to the com-pleteness of ones fleet; it is cheap, is easily paddled, andmay be readily lifted out of the water and put on the upperdeck out of the way. The servant question is not as vexatious as one might sup- When one is fortunate enough to secure a good Jap he willprove to be all that could be desired. But in general theJapanese are hardly to be recommended, for they are con-stantly changing, and many are careles

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