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are enameled in cream white and coated with spar varnish, hard 

 wood with the close grain of birch making a smoother finish for 

 enameling than softer woods. 



All rooms are plastered in wood pulp except halls, bathrooms, 

 laundry, kitchen, servants' rooms, and closets, and have no base- 

 boards to harbor insects, but are wire lathed and cemented on floor 

 . and side walls, forming a sanitary base. Bedrooms and living 

 rooms are papered. 



Salt Water Bathroom. 



One bathroom has separate piping for salt water and pump with 

 pipe connection to deep water. Strainer is of galvanized iron instead 

 of copper, which is injured by salt water. There is also a bathroom 

 on the second floor. 



A standpipe for fire hose and another for vacuum cleaning have 

 two connections on each floor, both protected in glass fronted alcoves. 



Plumbing is open, and hardware and electric fixtures in bath- 

 room are nickel plated. 



Outdoor Shower. 



The outside hot and cold water showers are set over a cement 

 base, and shut-offs connect with bath houses. 



A Lobster Tank. 



A water-tight fish tank six feet deep with water-gate insures a 

 supply of fresh shell and scale fish at all times. It is immersed two 

 feet at high tide, and its inmates imprisoned by a galvanized iron 

 mesh screen with hinged door. 



The Yacht Studio. 



Near Sea Boulders a friend warped to the edge of the lawn a 

 condemned yacht. 



Old Canal Boat Shack. 



His next door neighbor beached an old canal boat, bought for 

 a song, and these boats with a bit of fitting up made ideal dens on 

 the water's edge. Many a magnificent mahogany brass-trimmed 

 yacht can be picked up for a tithe of its cost, making a charming 

 studio or even a summer home, a house boat on land, but a healthy 

 location away from polluted waters is an essential. 



The bottoms of these two boats received at least six coats of 

 tar and rough boulders were piled against their sides to lower the 

 height while vines and shrubs planted between stones embowered 

 the windows. 



They reminded me of ten year old days, when a yawl-rigged, 

 flat bottom boat, with real cabin and cooking galley, and mast, sail, 

 , and rudder, was built in the centre of the lawn by a happy-go-lucky 

 ...-little lad. 



