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reeked with sorrow. Here were religiously hung, pictured in sub- 

 dued gray or black, both weeping willow and widow bending o'er 

 the tomb, and framed in glass the waxed flowers last held by 

 the hand of death. 



"Let the dead past bury its dead," and let the parlor of that 

 past be galvanized into a real living room. 



The bungalow has done as much as any one form of building 

 toward making this sensible and radical change. Even a modest dwell- 

 ing can have a room that dwarfs in size the largest in many a so-called 

 mansion. In such a house there is no waste space and the care and 

 cost of one large room is less than that of three small ones of equal 

 area. 



The bungalow or house facing both mountain and water always 

 raises the question as to where and how to arrange a rear entrance 

 and still keep the two fronts which such a location demands. This 

 can be accomplished by ornamental stone or cement work in step, 

 post and wall or wooden pergola and the judicious planting of tree, 

 shrub, vine and bedding plants, leaving in-front and out-front unin- 

 jured and suitably screening the service end. 



Essential Plastered Interior. 



In any bungalow that has graduated from shackdom, the 

 necessary freedom from vermin and noise, exclusion of heat or cold 

 and an opportunity to decorate demand the small additional expense 

 of a plastered interior. 



RESTCLIFF. 



The first two story semi-bungalow we built edged the Sound, and 

 was fronted by the storm-beaten cliffs shown in the photographs. 

 Restcliff stood six feet above the ground on the south and three 

 feet on the north, soil being first well scraped from the cliff, natural 

 drainage making it impossible for moisture to accumulate under it. 

 Neither shoes nor clothing ever gathered mold. Any rock crevices 



