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board to window cap, cloth draped at sides and top, will give mirage 

 rooms that greatly extend the vista. 



Electroliers, built from old swords and bayonets, we will sus- 

 pend by rusty chains and on side walls set sconces of bulb-tipped elk 

 horns. 



In the grilled corner forming the library set back the shelf 

 supports three inches from the front, conceal by three-inch dummy 

 books firmly fastened in place, and nail a dust flap across the edge 

 of each shelf. Ivory tinted plaster bas-reliefs decorate the frieze 

 of this corner. 



A folding iron gate concealed in a wall cupboard pocket would 

 bar the night prowler by closing in both staircases at the top on the 

 second floor. 



Second story. The lion's share of this should be given up to 

 the owners, the main room, 15 x 30, facing all points of the com- 

 pass, a bay giving the north outlook. 



The boudoir end, planned as an upstairs sitting or morning 

 room, should have double connection with the canvas floored space 

 over the east porch wing, one leading to a simple sleeping jog in the 

 open, which could be made a near-tree room if a large tree edges 

 the balcony rail by training its branches across the front, the other 

 to a sun room, semi-conservatory, and aviary, with ample space to 

 swing a mattress hammock. Centre the glass partition between 

 sleeping jog and sun room with a pulley-hung pane of plate glass 

 about four by six feet, all sash fitted for removal in summer. 



Electric fixtures for this room are best of glass. Entrance doors 

 must have sloped sills and triple rabbeted joints. 



The bedroom end, grilled and portiered, should connect with 

 a bathroom which also opens into the hall. The outside member 

 of door trim, matching the picture molding, can be mitred into 

 it, forming a panel over each of the three doorways, to be decorated 

 with pictorial tapestry of nymph, purling brook, and primeval forest. 

 Ceiling and corners may be coved. The master's weapon of defense, 

 represented by a seven shooter, could be safely concealed in a leather 

 pocket nailed on the back of a picture hung high on the wall. 



In the main room include a bay window seat lined with freshly 

 cut cedar, a davenport with bookshelf at one end, and a tiny fire- 

 place built up from rock foundation or inexpensively and safely car- 

 ried on trolley irons placed on second story floor beams, saving 

 valuable space in the living room. 



The over-mantel in this suite can be a throated hood affair, 

 seemingly made by bulging out the side wall, but really produced 

 by a cement covered metal frame firmly riveted in chimney breast, 

 projecting at the centre to eighteen inches, and tapering at sides and 

 ceiling height into a plastered wall the full extent of the chimney 

 front. A small jewel safe can be securely bolted and cemented 



