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Electric light installation may include a switch to light outside 

 entrances from within, the interior from without and the entire house 

 from the master's suite, light being a safe and effective defense, also 

 base-plugs for bed-head and stand lights, as well as vacuum clean- 

 ing connection. 



A fire pipe line, if placed from cellar to roof and elbowed into 

 a perforated galvanized iron pipe extending the length of the ridge 

 to flood the roof at a moment's notice, might prevent fire loss. 



Hose and pipe can be kept on each floor, in dust-proof glass- 

 fronted cupboards inset between studding, concealed or not, as pre- 

 ferred. Plumbing shut-offs should be in one place and legibly labeled. 



A non-rusting metal clothes chute from attic to cellar will save 

 steps and possibly marred walls. 



THE WELL APPOINTED HOUSE OF GREATER COST. 



Many of the features of the House-for-the-Man-of-Moderate- 

 Means will naturally be incorporated in the more elaborate country 

 villa, hence are not described. 



Grounds might schedule about five acres of ridge land with a 

 commanding view and include a bit of rich meadow, edged by a clear- 

 running, pebbly-bottomed brook. Several genuine forest monarchs 

 interspersed with smaller growth, a bearing orchard, and an abun- 

 dance of small fruit would be important adjuncts, and land must 

 be in a desirable neighborhood, preferably within two miles of the 

 station, and approached by good roads. 



The main house should not be less than 30 x 60 in area and 

 somewhat irregular in form, with wing-porches at each end, one con- 

 necting with an esplanade and the other joining a porte cochere, 

 the style New American, with a touch of the Colonial in high 

 pillared front. 



Lay up basement walls with rough or smooth stone in entasis 

 effect, thoroughly window and fit for double windows in winter. 

 Make exterior and main division walls of hollow brick, tarred and 

 air-spaced within, and coated with smooth cement, and roof of tile, 

 in harmonious shade, with superior water-proof under-covering. 

 Lift dormer windows obtain in roof with ample window area in 

 gables and side-walls, and lower panes of plate glass in small squares, 

 leaded lights on stair landing, in bathrooms and in some transoms. 

 Timber substantially with G. P. girders, as well as an occasional 

 I-beam, and make house vermin and rat-proof. 



Basement should contain laundry with ventilated soiled clothes 

 closet, drying machine, furnace room with big sectional boiler 

 (unless it is decided to have heating plant in an outbuilding), 

 cement coal-bunkers (filled without injuring the lawn), a water 

 heater, and dark preserve, also windowed housekeeping closets. Iron 

 posts should be swathed with galvanized wire covered with cement 

 and support substantial iron cement protected girders, and the ceiling 



