THE HOUSE AND ITS EQUIPMENT. 



those already described in that it is 

 entirely in the sloping roof and has no 

 veitical wall. Moreover, it boasts no 

 other finish than the boarding to which 

 the tiles are fixed. While the effec 

 tive floor space is much less than in 

 tho-e cases where the wall is perpen 

 dicular for a few feet, it affords 

 sufficient room for the purposes of 

 chivalry. After all, extensive head 

 room is not a marked necessity where 

 very small mortals pursue such studies 

 in Biblical and natural history as 



NIGHT | 



NURSERY I BEDROOM^ 



77. THE CiLOKY 



of the 



OF MOTION. 



regnant at Liitleholme. 



IAVEROCKDALE 



ATTIC 



etc., are 



79. ATTIC PLAYROOM LAVKROCKDALE 



occupy the time o te queen 



The stature of Noah and his family and flocks is not a 

 serious difficulty in any attic, but in this well-lighted and 

 spacious room the varied company condemned to travel 

 two by two for ever have ample room for any evolutions, 

 however complex. At Laverockdale, near Edinburgh, Sir 

 Robert Lorimer has treated the whole attic floor as the 

 ? OFEET -children s domain. The day and night nurseries, pantry, 

 grouped round a central playroom, which is 



fitted as a gymnasium 

 with swing trapeze 

 and monkey rope. 

 It is altogether a 

 particularly happy 

 piece of nursery plan 

 ning, and can be 

 studied not only in 

 the photograph of 

 the playroom, but in 

 the plan of the whole 

 floor now reproduced. 

 There is in France 

 an admirable society 

 w h i c h offers great 

 prizes every year for 

 the best ways to 

 utilise waste products. 

 In very many houses 

 to-day the attic is 

 for all practical pur 

 poses a waste product 

 of architecture, and 

 there must be ten 

 thousand children who 

 would yield their 

 parents a welcome 

 prize in rosier cheeks 

 if use were made of 



