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between studs and placed behind the chiffonier, and two mirror 

 doors so hung as to be used for dress-fitting mirrors when open. 

 The bathroom of this suite, furred down to seven-foot stud, if tiled 

 to ceiling will avoid the use of capping which in time generally 

 works loose. A porcelain-lined tub six feet long synonyms com- 

 fort, and if set close to tiled floor and side-walls will eliminate those 

 aggravating dust-gripping levels and corners. Metal plumbing fix- 

 tures covered with porcelain shells and the exposed metal, where 

 there is not too much wear, gold-plated, is not expensive and 

 wonderfully effective, but the white and gold of such a bathroom 

 might prove an envy generator of the rankest kind. Fit the shower 

 with an odorless canvas curtain. Toilet, of low-down type, and 

 basin (with pipe connection from side-walls) are solid porcelain, 

 with safety shut-off in supply pipe close to fixtures. Complete the 

 room with a wall-inset mirrored medicine closet, mirror doors, a 

 window of leaded glass set five feet from the floor, sill of marble to 

 match the tiling, glass and nickel fittings, and a pair of white 

 enameled scales. The space over bathroom ceiling would make 

 secret cupboards to be opened from the bedroom behind a wooden 

 coving. 



The guest room must have a hygienic canvas-curtained shower- 

 jog with swivel faucets, economically piped through the wall of an 

 adjoining bathroom. 



Two small bedrooms and another sleeping porch can be crowded 

 in. Closets should have dress rods, racks and shoe shelves. The 

 sleeping porch as planned would be a hall extension in the open, 

 with double Victorian doors which should be triple rabbeted and 

 meet in the centre, with water-proof knuckle-and-elbow-joint. Such 

 an arrangement banishes sleepless August nights, and bedroom blind 

 doors bring added comfort. 



An electric bulb set in ventilating flue at ceiling line in the 

 hall lights a dark corner and creates an up-chimney current, aiding 

 to make a free-from-odor house. 



Under the eaves rivet a fire and burglar gong, wire-connected 

 with the master's suite. 



The third story can be windowed and rough-studded to add 

 at some future time a guest room fronted in the gables with wide 

 bays which pay fifty per cent, dividend on their cost. In the rear 

 plaster-finish a servant's room large enough for two single beds, 

 although with a liberal use of the electrical handmaiden this house 

 may not get beyond the one servant need. Complete the floor with 

 servants' bathroom. The toggery and trunk room can be roughly 

 boarded in and padlocked. 



The use of aluminum in escutcheon and butt will prevent injury 

 to woodwork in cleaning. All bedrooms have burglar-proof mortise 

 bolts, set above the reach of childish hands. 



