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Curbs should be edged with metal corner bead to prevent a 

 dilapidated appearance when nicked or broken, as they surely will be 

 in time. 



It is a convenience to have the number of the house, and in public 

 buildings the name, metal inset or cut in cement walk near the gate, 

 and the lower straight iron tie of the gate brace formed into a 

 foot-scraper. 



Windows. 



Clustered windows are as effective as clustered chimneys, and a 

 large w r ide-eyed window placed at correct angle in veranda roof 

 will give additional light. Two feet six inches above floor line is the 

 rule for setting first-story windows, and a trifle higher for second 

 and third. 



Deeply embrasured grouped windows can be placed in a thin 

 \valled house by building the entire side of the room inward a foot 

 or more, balancing the space on each window side with a convenient 

 and artistically fronted ambry. 



Broad deep window sills are convenient for frond or flower, 

 and also serve as a sun-couch for the "necessary and harmless cat." 



Pockets in window frames when plate glass is used if made extra 

 large allows the substitution of iron for the more expensive leaden 

 weights. 



There is no more important matter than the proper design and 

 location of doors and windows. Afterthought doors and windows 

 are generally expensive. Extra lipping and rabbeting of both is a 

 necessity, and double balcony doors are fitted with the knuckle and 

 elbow joint at parting strip. 



Rooms should be planned with due regard to their furnishing. 

 For instance, refreshing sleep comes to some only when beds are 

 placed north and south. Preferably no bed should directly face a 

 window-; dressing mirrors must have good light, convenient ingress 

 and egress should be considered, and the throne of the fire king so 

 located as to centre his group of devotees, instead of being incon- 

 veniently close to doors and windows. 



The entrance, whether an ornamental projecting porch, or a 

 recess, gives to the house either a hall mark of distinction or a black 

 mark of mediocrity. Columns, architraves, or coat of arms, in 

 w T ood or stone, make a distinguished entrance, framing a door that 

 should always bespeak a message of welcome. 



Imprisoning June. 



We once used in the wall of a dining room a plate glass framed 

 panel ten by ten feet, edged by a quaint postern-gate, beyond the glass a 

 jungle of flowers and vines, a bit of semi-wild mid-summer garden, 

 pathless and potless, a tangle of color springing upward from 

 greensward, glass imprisoned in the midst of an ice and snow-bound 



