OPEN HOUSE AIR COLLAPSIBLE TENT Two OJose-To-Nature Tent Houses on lawn of II. L. Orcutt, Monroe, Iowa.Judges and babies in Baby Health Contest in No. 8 Open Air Tent House on Iowa State Fair Grounds. Four No. 8 houses, 12x24, were used.mm OFFICERS B. A. BROWN, President ED. BOLLHOEFER, V.-P. T. H. GOULD, Secretary W. H. MON ROE, Treasurer W. H. MONROE, Manager CLOSE-TO-NATURE OPEN AIR Collapsible Tent Houses jpj. )■:, /-3 7H 3 7 v.c DIRECTORS J. B. Ryan Ed. Bollhoefer T. H. Gould B. A. Brown W. H. Monroe F. I_MONROE, Supt_ Manufactured by the Close-To-Nature Company INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF IOWA Factory and Office :: :: Colfax, Iowa FOREWORD The Close-To-Nature Company was incorporated in January, 1010, for a general manufacturing business, but chiefly for the manufacture of some of the inventions of W. H. Monroe, among which is the Open Air Collapsible Tent House. The stockholders and directors of this company are among the most substantial business men of Colfax. J. B. Ryan is president of the Citizen’s State Bank and general manager of the Colfax Consolidated Coal Company; Ed Bollhoefer is a general merchant and director in the First National Bank; T. H. Gould is the cashier of the Consolidated Coal Company; B. A. Brown was formerly of the S. M. Brown & Son Lumber Company; W. H. Monroe, the manager, was for more than twenty years an Iowa educator.Open. Partly Closed. Closed. Collapsed. Close-To-Nature Open Air Collapsible Canvas House (Patents Pending) FOR SLEEPING AND LIVING IN THE OPEN AIR CAMPING, HUNTING, FISHING, AUTOMOBILING Lets the Air IN Keeps the Insects OUT Quickly erected or collapsed without the removal of a bolt or the use of a tool. Designed especially for SLEEPING in the OPEN AIR, the shutters being adjustable for any amount of ventilation. So completely collapsed that it is quickly rolled up into one or two bundles, no two parts of the frame remaining together-— admirably adapted to hunting trips, automobile runs and frequent “breaking of camp.” Screened against insects., Close-To-Nature Open Air House This tent house was designed in response to the widespread demand for some convenient, comfortable and inexpensive shelter for outdoor living and sleeping. Open air sleeping is not a fad, but is founded on common sense, hygienic laws and universal medical advice. People who do not or cannot have sleeping porches may spend five to seven months in the year in a Close-To-Nature Open Air House and make enough red blood to carry them through the long winters in their half ventilated bed rooms. It is a physiological fact that nature does her repairing and rebuilding during sleep. It is at that time that the body should be supplied the most wholesome air. People may work all day in Showing method of erecting. Ready for shutters and top. Parts stamped with figures as shown to aid in assembling. Any one can easily and quickly assemble it. stuffy offices, in illy ventilated rooms or under other unsanitary conditions, but if they can sleep in the open air, it goes far to mitigate the bad effect of the daylight hours. A person cannot always choose the place in which he must work, but he may always have a health saving clause in that he may choose to sleep in the open air.HOW CONSTRUCTED. The Open Air House consists of a wooden frame work, a canvas covering, and the necessary parts for operating the sliding shutters, etc. The entire frame work is easily put together or taKen apart, no tools at all being needed, not even a screw driver, wrench or hammer. The canvas on the sides and shutters is attached and does not come off when the house is taken down. The sides and shutters and door are all collapsed with the canvas attached. The top covering and gable ends are all in one piece and slip on over the rafters and frame like a hood. The frarfiework is very simply put together, yet in such a substantial and strong manner that there is no “weaving” or “giving” to the house. The guy ropes at the four corners of the small house and at the sides and corners of the large ones hold them securely against the strong winds. , OPEN TO THE AIR. The upper half of the vertical sides or walls is open to the air. The shutters close these openings by sliding upward. This permits the best form of ventilation, since the wind may be closed off the lower part where the cots or beds are, but allowed to enter freely under the eaves even during hard winds and storms. Hence an abundance of fresh air may always be supplied. SHUTTERS EASILY REGULATED. The shutters are easily operated. A person lying on a cot on one side of No. 1 or No. 2 may close two shutters without leaving the cot; or if in a bed may close all the shutters without leaving the bed. A person similarly situated in No. 3 or No. 4 may close two shutters nearest him. WATER-PROOFED. The top covers are treated with an elastic moisture-resisting substance that not only renders the cloth rain proof, but also preserves it. FRAME AND FIXTURES. The frame is of cypress, which is not affected by water. It is given a coating of water proofing and varnish. The metal parts are coated with a black oxide, which will not discolor the cloth. The metal fixtures are especially designed for this house, are cut out by special dies and are covered by patent applications. Also the entire house and all the combination of parts are covered by patent applications. SUN MAY SHINE IN. If desired, the sun can reach at some ^period during the day practically all parts of the interior, thus drying out bed clothing, destroying germs, etc. This cannot be dose where awpings are fixed. The Popular No. 3 with rear shutters closed. Photographed without the screening.WOOD FRAME RE-INFORCED WITH IRON. The slides in which the shutters move up and down are metal and are as long as the walls are high. These slides serve as strong iron braces, which makes the frame work as strong as if made largely of iron. In other words, it is a wooden frame reinforced with iron. EASY TO REPAIR. An important feature is that in case of breakage or damage, repairs are easily made by any one. The metal fixtures, all being of wrought iron, will not break under the most violent usage. However, should one become bent out of shape, which is not at all likely, it can easily be replaced from the factory by parcel post. But any part of the wood frame if broken can be replaced by any one who can use a saw. Should any part of the canvas become torn on any part of the frame, it is easily replaced by any one. The No. 3 with all shutters closed. A No. 4 ready to be shipped. AS TO COLOR. The white canvas is the most popular. It is less expensive than any other and will last longer than anything except the khaki. A white house on a green lawn makes a very pretty combination. The khaki comes next to the white. It costs more, but many people prefer it, and we carry khaki houses in stock. Other colors than the khaki, while attractive, are objectionable, as the coloring matter as a rule has a tendency to make the cloth less lasting.No. 4 with all shutters open. Photographed without the screens. WHITE AND KHAKI. We regularly carry in stock the white house all over, the khaki all over, or a house with a khaki top and white walls. These three kinds we carry in stock in all eight sizes. VERY IMPORTANT. In case of a sudden storm coming up at night, it is not necessary for you to have to go on the outside of a Close-To-Nature house to close it up, as must be done in some canvas houses now on the market. Every shutter is instantly closed from the inside. The shutters slide in steel grooves or angles, thus making the construction not only strong, but weather proof as well. FLY NOT NEEDED. A fly or second canvas on the roof is not needed at all on the Open Air Houses as is the case on tents. With the shutters all open and with the air moving through from side to side the Close-To-Nature is much like a huge umbrella and is as cool as the moving atmosphere. A MECHANICAL SUCCESS. This collapsible house is a mechanical success. It is not so elaborate in design and construction as to make it complicated, yet it meets all the requirements for such a house which are: ease of collapse, quick of erection, open to the air, exclusion of insect pests, adaptation to any kind of weather, instantaneous in opening or closing of all the shutters, and perfection in ventilation. CAMPING, HUNTING AND FISHING. For an outing, neither a tent nor a shack can compare in comfort and convenience to this Close-To-Nature Canvas House. Erected practically as quickly as a common tent, it excludes the mosquitos, flies and other pests that mar camp life, while it admits both night and day an abundance of fresh air, which is one of the objects sought in roughing it. A SIMPLE LUXURY. One of these houses on your lawn will prove a delight. No need to swelter in trying to sleep under hot roofs, for the canvas house is as cool as the atmosphere. One may take a short nap in the day time out in the open air with no trouble from flies. One may read or sew in the open air free from flies or mosquitoes. An electric light bulb will enable one to read on hot evenings in a cool air draft free from insect pests. NATURE’S REMEDY. For tuberculosis and also nervous troubles, there is no remedy so potent as refreshing sleep out in the open air.FLOORS. Floors are not at all necessary, since the houses may be fitted closely to the ground, thus shutting out insects and water, but in case a floor is wanted and something better than a home-made one, we furnish a collapsible floor made in sections for convenience in handling and shipping and which needs no tools to assemble. For prices, see price list. SCREENING. Screening is one of tne chief features of this house, which is designed to let the air in and to keep the insects out. When used on the lawn it may be very inexpensively screened by tacking on the inside of the frame either mosquito netting or wire. But for frequent ‘‘breaking of camp” or for some more substantial screening, we fit out each house with a patent cloth screening more durable than the common wire screens. For further particulars, see price list. DESCRIPTION OF THE EIGHT SIZES OF CLOSE-TO-NATURE OPEN AIR TENT HOUSES. No. 1 Size TV2 feet wide (door end) by 6 feet. Designed for one person with a cot or narrow bed and a limited amount of furniture. For school teachers and others who must board but who want to sleep out of doors. When collapsed and rolled up, this little house occupies a very small place in a closet or garret. Two persons may occupy it by using a wider bed or a cot on each side of the door, but there will be sleeping room only unless the cots are folded during the day. It has three shutters in addition to the spaces each side of the door in front. 2 This is 9 feet wide (across the door end) by 7 y2 feet long. It is our hospital size. A bed either wide or narrow may be used in it, allowing room for a nurse at both ends and both sides of the bed. While it is designed for hospital use, yet it is used by many more people who have no reason to be acquainted with a hospital. It accommodates a wide bed with limited furniture, or a narrow bed or two cots, allowing for more furniture. In case cots are used, one may be placed on each side of the door, leaving the center for chairs, a small table, etc. It has three shutters besides the spaces on each side of the door 3 This was formerly designated as No. 2 and is the most popular of all sizes, since it is planned to accommodate small families with little waste room to pay for. It is 7% feet wide and 12 feet long. For sleeping purposes it is popular with small families when a child or two are to be accommodated. It permits a wide bed or sanitary couch across the rear end for two adult persons and in addition allows a cot on each side of the door for children. In fact four adults may be accommodated with one bed and two cots or with four cots when used for camping. This is a popular size for use on the lawn, since it will admit the use of several easy chairs. It has five shutters, not counting the two spaces, one on each side of the door.View on Iowa State Fair Grounds. A No. 6. 0x18, Kliaki Open Air House is in foreground. Other Close-To-Nature houses are in sight of which thirteen were used for the Baby Health Contest, the'Mothers Congress, the Hygiene Exhibit, the Model School Room, etc., etc. No. 4 a very roomy ■ five shutters in No. 5 No. 6 This size is putting up a lively contest with No. 3 for first place. It is 9 feet wide and 12 feet long, thus allowing all the accommodations of No. 3 with a liberal allowance besides. If used for sleeping purposes only, two full beds may be used with some spare room, or four cots with much more spare room. It may be partitioned if desired. It makes a very roomy open air bungalow for your lawn, one in which may be accommodated a little party of friends on hot evenings. It has five shutters in addition to the two small spaces, one on each side of the door. Size 12 by 12 feet. May be partitioned if desired. It affords accommodations for several persons for sleeping or camping. The square size always gives the maximum floor space. This size and shape make a desirable tent home for the lawn or the camp. It is especially in demand as a refreshment tent, its square shape contributing to its value as such. Here we have one of the most desirable of all the eight sizes and shapes. It is popular. It is 9 feet wide and 18 feet long. May be had with a door in each end for a small amount extra. This house may be divided into three rooms 9x6 feet or two rooms 9x9 feet. Its long narrow shape renders it ideal for open air living. It makes a very pretty appearance on one’s lawn and is large enough for quite a party of friends on warm evenings. It regularly has seven shutters besides the space one each side of the door in front.7 This house is 12 feet wide and 18 feet long, and is for those who want a large roomy open air home. It may be partitioned with curtain partitions so as to make it into rooms to suit the convenience of those using it. Being a half longer than it is wide, it makes a pretty shape. It has ten shutters, thus allowing it all open at one time or any part or parts of it closed. 8 This is the largest of the Close-To-Nature Open Air Houses, being 12 feet wide and 24 feet long. Like No. 7 it may be partitioned to suit the convenience of those using it. It has twelve shutters, thus permitting any part or parts of it closed as desired. It is a big roomy house, not only for those who want such a house on their lawn, but is in great demand at the state and other fairs for use in health contests, exhibition purposes, etc. Nos. 5, 7 and 8 are all splendidly adapted for refreshment stands and other similar uses. Home of Dr. Wm. Little, Sherburne, N. Y. W. C. Donelson home, Chariton, Iowa. SLEEPING IN THE OPEN AIR. People who sleep in the open air seldom or never take colds. If the habit is begun in the warm weather, one may become ac-customd to sleep in a draft and will experience no ill effects summer or winter. A sound sleep in the summer time, out in the open air is refreshing, invigorating, and stimulating, and is a strong factor in the curing of many diseases and in the prevention of many more. NOT VERY SATISFACTORY. Thousands of people do not sleep out because of a lack of conveniences. A common tent is not satisfactory. It cannot be ventilated unless allowing the insects to enter. In cases of sudden changes of weather or storm it cannot be instantly closed. But the Close-To-Nature House meets all objections and will induce many people to sleep out who have never attempted it before.OPEN AIR HOUSE AT STATE FAIRS. The Close-To-Nature Tent Houses have been in great demand at fairs for many purposes, but especially in the baby health contests, since they are open to the air and also allow the spectators to stand on the outside and look in. Being screened in from flies makes them very desirable for such exhibition purposes. GOING TO THE LAKES OR RESORT. When you go to the lakes or some other resort you rent a cottage or shack, paying $40 to $80, and at the end of the time you have nothing for your money but your outing. With this money you can buy a Close-To-Nature House, which is easily transported, and when the season is closed you have the house for several more outings; and besides you can erect it on your own lawn and have a cool fresh air retreat all the summer months. FOR WINTER USE. These houses are used in the winter time for sleeping purposes and in some instances for living in, not only in the south, to which they are finely adapted, but also in the rigorous climate of the north. It is an easy matter to line them on the inside with building paper, tacking the paper on the inside of the cypress frame, thus making a double wall, canvas without, paper within. The shutters may be closed for the winter on the north and west, lining the house to the roof, leaving the east and south shutters for ventilation. For the south and southwest they are a good all year round house and we have records in which people have lived all winter in them in Iowa. SLEEPING OUT DOORS. Lillian Russell has written as follows about open air sleeping: “If you are troubled with insomnia, sleep outdoors. If you are subject to colds, sleep outdoors. If you have any nervous disorders, fresh air day and night is what you need more than anything else. The benefits of out door sleeping are manifest. It cures ills and preserves a vigorous constitution. For those who must do their work in ill ventilated quarters, the sleeping porch is one of the most inexpensive means of securing the fresh air required to overcome the harmful effects of the bad air they breathe during the day. The benefits of open air sleeping have long been urged by physicians as cures for various ills. It stands to reason that if this treatment be efficacious in making the weak strong it may also be the means of making the strong more healthy and vigorous.” IOWA AND TUBERCULOSIS. The state of Iowa considers the abatement of consumption so important that it has established a department of tuberculosis, the benefit of which is to teach the people how to ward off and cure this dreaded disease. Dr. A. E. Kepford, who is appointed at the head of the department, has issued some valuable instructions pertaining to the home cure of tuberculosis, among which are the following: “Fresh air is the biggest factor in home treatment. Tuberculosis is a house disease. Relief depends upon inviting the fresh air into the home or removing the patient out into the open. Sleep out of doors. If you live in a tent be sure and have it ventilated on all sides. A closed tent is little if any better than a closed house.” The Close-To-Nature houses are for complete ventilation on all sides, not stuffy and close like a tent. a Colfax home where they sleep outdoors. Rear view of residence of W. G. Tench, Slab Fork. West Virginia.NOT FOR SICK PEOPLE ALONE. Do not think the Open Air House is for sick people alone. The occasion of its invention was altogether different. As stated elsewhere, it was devised for a substitute for a sleeping porch and an improvement for the sleeping porch for hot, sultry nights. It has a further use as a little open air bungalow on the lawn for day use where one may get a “breath of fresh air.” OFFICE MEN. Men who must spend nine to twelve hours a day in an office cannot imagine unless they have tried it what open air sleeping will do in keeping them in “fine fetter.” A man who must spend all his waking hours indoors should seize the opportunity to spend outdoors the eight or nine hours he sleeps, for it is his only chance to be outdoors. Residence of H. h. Moore, Panora, Iowa. Rear view of home of Dr. H. M. Glew, Preston, Iowa. Under date of Aug*. 12> 1913, Dr. Glew wrote: “I want to tell you what a hit your Open Air house has made here. Every one that sees it thinks it is great. It was late before we got ours set up as I was not at home. As soon as I got it up there were two more wanted them and I ordered for them. My wife and three months old baby and nurse sleep in ours every night with the slides all down unless it rains, and then we raise them. As the rain does not sift in we have not left it any night on account of rain, and I believe we will use it till January to sleep in and leave it up all winter so we can use it early in the spring.'* Under date of Jan. 13, 1914, the Dr. again wrote: *T am still sleeping out in our canvas house with wife and baby eight months old. Have slept in the house only three nights and could not stand it. We have a stove up and it is a great place to sleep. We have had a fire only a few nights and the rest of the time it was just right to sleep. I will send you a photograph showing the arrangement of the stove soon." Mrs. H. L. Moore writes as follows: "We have had the utmost satisfaction from our Open Air house this hot summer. It is a perfect and ideal arrangement for outdoors sleeping. The house stands a few steps from our back door, with garden and fruit trees back of it and it is the greatest thing ever made."Home of R. A. Rankin, Belmond, Iowa. M. A. Ayers, Newton, Iowa: “I have used one of your sleeping' houses a year and now wonder why every one don’t do the same. Always cool, will shed the rain, no insects to bother, inexpensive and better than most sleeping porches, being much cooler and more sanitary and closer to nature.” E. K. Eberhart’s Koshkonong summer home, A No. 3. Mr. Rankin writes: “The house has proved very satisfactory. We have also a tent, and there is no comparison between the two, as the Close-To-Nature house is ahead in every way. I am pleased to recommend it to any one who wants a cool and comfortable place to sleep on a hot summer night.” E. K. Eberhart, Des Moines, Iowa, writes: “We used the Close-To-Nature house while we were in Koshkonong, Mo., living in it for more than a month. Mrs. Eberhart and I with our eight-year-old son found it possible, by a little crowding to eat, sleep and rest in it very comfortably. Every one who saw it envied us the comfort of it and we were disappointed that it did not get back here in time for us to use it.” Mel Ayer’s “Seldom Inn,’’ Newton, Iowa.Mrs. Henry .Word Beecher, Englewood, N. J., writes: “We are delighted with the house. The boys sleep in it and say they are going to all winter. The house is complete and so -easy to put up and so satisfactory when erected. I am sending you a view of it. One might think it way off in the woods instead of in a city lot.” J. W. Hayes’ lawn, Pleasant Plains, 111. -To A Connecticut farm view. Sophia Tracy’s No. 3 Cl°se Nature House. Mrs. llayes writes as follows: “We are sknply delighted with the Close-To-Nature house and have slept in it every night since it came.” Sophia D. Tracy, Hartfortl, Conn., writes: “We spent the summer with my brother at his farm and the Open Air house stood in a lovely spot. It was all you said it to be and a great joy to my sister and me. She regained her health by it. We have recommended it to all our friends.” Lawn of Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, Englewood, N. J.Attorney M. M. O’Brien, Marshalltown, Iowa: “We have enjoyed the best of health since sleeping in the Open Air canvas house and have never slept better in my life. I find that I am in better condition to handle my day’s work at the office after a night’s rest in the open air, and I would recommend to any one the advantages of absolute open air sleeping.’’ Residence Atty. M. M. O’Brien, Marshalltown, Iowa. Residence Wm. Blakely, General Manager Colfax Northern Ry.; Colfax, Iowa. iiHHiiinimiinii iSlliilii Dr. Long writes: “I have used one of the Close-To-Nature Open Air houses and must say that for real enjoyment it has no equal. Sleeping in one on a hot night is a real pleasure. You feel refreshed in the morning. It is not a luxury, but a necessity. Try one and you will be convinced.” Residence Dr. 0. V. Long, Gravity, Iowa.Home of C. M. Geer, Hartford, Conn. Mrs. C. M. Geer writes: “We are pleased with the Open Air house, which we have used as a sitting room chiefly when there was no breeze on our veranda, which is on the north side of the house. Since school began my daughter and a friend spend nearly every afternoon out there studying/* R. ES. Bulechck, Cashier Hills Savings Bank, Hills, Iowa: “I have one of your Open Air houses and will say that it cannot be beat. It is a fine place to sleep at night. When a person gets up in the morning he feels fresh and rested and does not mind the warm weather. I recommend this Open Air house to every one.” \ I Mr. Davis writes: “I am well or more than pleased with my tent house and will say that if more people would use them they would be better off physically.” Home of W. H. Davis, Cambria, Iowa. Home of Roy Bulecheek, Hills, Iowa.’«stw< Family of M. S. Bennett, Minneapolis, Kas. M. S. Bennett, Minneapolis, Kansas, writes as follows: “I have one of your Close-To-Nature Collapsible Canvas Houses, size 12x7% feet, and must say it is one of the finest tent houses I have ever seen, and once used one would not be without it at any reasonable cost. Last year was one of the hottest that has ever been known in Kansas, and we slept comfortably in our canvas house every night and were able to stand the heat of the day by being ablp to get rest at night, which was more than our neighbors were able to do with their sleeping porches, as the house would get so hot during the day that it would take half the night to cool off the porch. But not so with the canvas house. Just as soon as the sun was down we opened our little canvas house and in a short time it was as cool as the air itself. It is sure a wonderful little sleeping house.” V Lawn of S. G. Compton, Guthrie Center, Iowa. J. D. Brown’s home, Guthrie Center, Iowa.Home of Chas. Drury, San Diego, Cal. A Winnebago lake camp scene. Home of Rev. M. H. Ewers, Medora, 111. Rev. Ewers writes: “I have enjoyed my tent house more than any- thing I have or have had which costs so little. I have slept in it, in fact lived in it, all summer. Whether the nights have been warm or cool, wet or dry, the comfort has been perfect. While the folks in the house have been wandering from room to room carrying their pillows seeking a place where they might sleep, I have slept in the tent house without a single moment of discomfort. It is the thing.”Residence Rev. W. E. Woodbury, Bristol, Conn. Rev. Walter E. Woodbury, Bristol, Conn., writes: “I am happy to write a word of recommendation for your Open Air Collapsible Canvas house, for we found it all that it was represented to be. My wife and baby and I spent a delightful three weeks last summer right out in the woods on the mountain side, and we found our open air house all the protection we needed day or night, rain or shine. The house weathered one gale that laid two-year-old chestnuts flat on the ground. “But we got the most out of our canvas house after we got home and set it up in our" back yard. There baby Dorothy played and napped in the day time and slept at night. In fact the tent furnished all of us splendid out door sleeping quarters until well into the cold weather. People who have never tried it can hardly imagine the invigorating effect of keeping thus ‘close to nature.* ** P. H. Giles, Waterman, 111., says: “We have occupied the tent house every night since putting it up, and as it arrived about the time we were having very hot weather, you may be sure we did not lose any time in getting it ready to sleep in. Sleeping in the open air is certainly great ‘dope,’ and I cannot imagine why we did not get something of the kind long ago. Your canvas house is such an improvement over a common tent that there is no comparison. Mrs. G. likes it so well that she is talking of sleeping out all winter, but I am thinking the cold weather will drive us in before many more weeks.” wpjm- m 5L m ji gad Mason House, Colfax, Iowa. Landlord Thomas sleeps in the Open Air tent house. Home of j. B. Sage, Alexis, 111.On lawn of 0. G. Peete, Martelle, Iowa. Home of T. J. Hudson, Winterset, Iowa. James Armstrong’s home, Dyersville, Iowa. James Armstrong:, President the James Armstrong: Lumber Co., Dyersville, Iowa, writes: “Under separate cover am sending you a photo of the Close-To-Nature house on my lawn which you sold me last June when we were spending a few days in your city for our .health. I want to say to you right now you have the most complete, up-to-date portable canvas house I have any knowledge of at any price. After a season’s use and benefit I wonder that more people everywhere do not avail themselves of your cheap and complete house for sleeping in the open air, recommended for health by all modern well informed medical authority. Nature should be our family physician and we can get close to nature by sleeping in one of your houses. I have an invalid daughter, who, with her sister, slept in the house you sold us in all weather up to December 1st with marked improvement in health and much enjoyment for both; in fact, the writer was permitted to" sleep in it only one night as a special favor. So much were the girls attached to their out-of-doors sleeping apartment, they hated to give it up even when the weather became severe. Were It not that it was located some distance from the house, with risk of taking cold going to and from, I believe they would have used it all winter.”Jos. Husman’s home, La Porte City, Iowa. Joseph Husman, La Porte City, Iowa: “I purchased two of your open air tents last spring, one of which I sold to a neighbor. We found them to be the finest thing to sleep in during hot weather. I would recommend these tents to everybody.” Two Close-To-Nature girls, Esther and Vivian Cook, Stuart, la.Home of Prof. W. C. Uouuenbush, Westford, Mass. Dr. E. S. Winbigler, Alexis, 111.: “I write you today to tell you how much we think of the tent house we purchased of you last July. We are highly pleased with it. We have liked it so well that we have slept in it up to January 15th this year. We only quit because of the cold. We will go back to it about the first of April. It has been delightful to sleep in it. You awake from sound sleep greatly refreshed from the night spent in the pure, cool air. You could not hire me to do without one of these tents during the heated season. My family has never enjoyed better health than they have the past six months. We attribute it all to sleeping in the open air. I have recommended these tent houses to a number of my patients. They have all been highly pleased with them. They have derived a great deal of benefit from the same. It is a valuable aid to the cure of disease as well as a preventative. I hope to see more of these tents used here the coming season. Those who have used them will never go back on them. Wishing you continued success in the manufacture of the tent houses, I beg to remain, etc.” Prof. W. C. Roudenbush, Prin. Westford Academy, Westford, Mass., writes: “The Open Air house has been very satisfactory and we can recommend it to all who enjoy out of doors life. It has fulfilled a double purpose, being used not merely as a sleeping tent, but also as an outdoor sitting room. We found it large enough for several easy chairs as well as the bed-couch. It can be made practically insect proof, and we have found it impervious to rain. We used the tent until the first of November, and it has proved to be all that your company claims.” Dr. E. S. Winbigler’s No. 5, Alexis, 111. A No. 4, khaki top, on lawn of banker C. A. Tubbs, Alexis, 111.J. E. Barnard’s home, Oberlin, Ohio.Home of Frank Isbell, Des Moines, Iowa, the baseball manager. Mr. Isbell, under date of Oct. 29, 1913, wrote: “Since purchasing the house we have used it continuously, and while we have had considerable cold weather we have* been able to use it up to the present. I purchased this more for the benefit of my son, who has had bronchial trouble for some time, and will say that since we have been using the tent house for sleeping purposes that he has not had the slightest touch of cold and no bronchial trouble whatever, and I believe that it is on account of using this kind of an open air house for sleeping purposes. “I am about to leave to join the Chicago Americans in their tour around the world.” Lawn scene, R. D. Aitchison, Cash. First National Bank, Colfax, Iowa. Chas. W. 'Meyrick’s two No. 3’s in his orchard at Theimsville, near Milwaukee. jri Peter Lillig and his No. 2 Close-To-Nature , house, Keota, Iowa. Peter Lillig, Keota, Iowa: “I wish to say there is nothing equal to it. Everybody ought to have a Close-To-Nature house during the summer months, which would add a great deal to health. I wish you lots of success in building Such houses.” Lawn of James Kimberly, Neenah, Wis.Home of H. S. Young, Winfield, Iowa. J. A. Laugley> Gladbrook, Iowa, who liveil in his No. 3 through the winter, writes: “When it became cold weather, I lined the tent house with building paper. I do my own housekeeping and live in this all the time. I am 56 years old, and when a man gets that age and works hard all day he gets up of a morning feeling almost as tired as when he went to bed if he sleeps in a closed room, but in my tent house I get up feeling as though I were young again.'* Home of Geo. Faith, Warrensburg, 111.Residence of J. P. Radley, Earlville, 111. Residence of F. H. Bergman, Secretary One Minute Washer Co.. Newton, Iowa. A Brownwood, Texas, home. From Brownwood, Texas: “The tent house has been very satisfactory. The picture of the house shows it in the back yard. Please do not publish my name in the catalog. If I can help.you to recommend the tent house in any way, I shall be glad to do so.'* ^rlj )l rs. G. W. Chamberlin, Cedar Rapid**, Iowa, writes as follows about their No. U Open Air house: “Well, at last I have had some kodak views taken of pur Close-To-Nature tent house on our lot. We are preparing to build on our lot and our Close-To-Nature tent has certainly been a temporary home for us and an ideal sleeping place. Our first experience was a trip to Spirit Lake. When we arrived we were told that it would take us all day to set it up. We arrived at 9 a. m.t had our tent up complete and had our dinner at 11 a. m. on account of having a very short breakfast and enjoyed an early dinner. As Mr. Chamberlin is a conductor on the C., R. I. & P. Ry., we of course pitched our tent on the company grounds, which was next to the Hotel Orleans and near the depot. Passersby asked to look in and, as we had bought collapsible furniture, we were sure proud to show our little home. We go to Spirit Lake about three or four times during the fishing and hunting season, and our Close-To-Nature tent has certainly filled all requirements.” On lawn of Robt. Loveridge, Alexis, 111. haei&i A. Luck’s “Den,** Newton, Iowa. Mr. A. Luck, Newton, Iowa, writes: “Last spring I purchased one of your Open Air houses, which I find has all the advantages of the common tent, without its disadvantages, and now I would not think one moment of going back'to the old style tent. No insects can enter your Open Air house, and should, as often happens during the night, a storm come up, it can be tightly closed from the inside in a few seconds, while with the tent I was always compelled to go outside in the storm to fasten the sides to the stakes. “I slept out of doors every night last winter, and it will have to get a great deal colder this winter than it was last year before T will abandon my Open Air house.” Mrs. (t. W. Chamberlin’s No. 3, Cedar Rapids, Towa.CL0SETO nature company m i COLFAX IOWA IP® A No. 3 white and No. 6 khaki on Minnesota State Fair Grounds, Baby Health Contest. Frank Wilkins’ Close-To-Nature house, Woodhull, 111. A No. 3 in the orchard of Clifford Wilson, Hot Springs, S. D.A row of Close-To*Nature Open Air Tent houses in use on the Iowa State Fair Grounds for the Baby Health Contest. A No. I khaki is in foreground.On lawn of F. H. Chickering, Omaha, Neb., western representative Chickering Piano Company. a \ —