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only leather dust guards, but ventilating metal roll curtains, securely 

 locking on occasion. 



The living room with its barreled or segmented ceiling has 

 appropriate mural paintings in half moons in the two end walls 

 and a ten-foot square sheet of plate glass overlooks a semi-wild rr.id- 

 summer tiny garden, a tangle of color springing up from greensward, 

 glass imprisoned. Walls are Caen stone lined off in blocks. 



The little den reception room may connect with boudoir 

 suite by a narrow, steep, hidden stairway reached through a sliding 

 panel in a closet. 



Trim and floors of all rooms on this story, except one with 

 intarsiatura trim and the white enamel kitchen, are oak, as are also 

 all main staircases and halls. 



The main fumed oak staircase should be close string with thick, 

 wide balustrade and panels of two-inch stuff in a sawed-out design, 

 tool-edged. Stair rails, out of respect for childhood and age, as "well as 

 to protect the frequent recklessness of maturity, must be three-feet 

 six-inches high. 



A minstrels' balcony mid-way on the stair can be supported 

 by brackets ending in carved panther heads. A hall lavatory is 

 practically stolen from the cellar, and reached by half-a-dozen steps 

 leading downward. 



The newel text, worth careful thought, may be preached in 

 wood, glass, and bronze. The wood, a squared newel with metal 

 beaded corner insets, extends to trimmer height, and is braced against 

 the ceiling by gorgon heads; the glass, an eight-inch crystal globe 

 capping a low brass newel, ends a metal balustrade, while the 

 bronze, a Richard Coeur de Lion, flaunts aloft a banner of light, 

 still in a righteous cause. 



A seven-foot high electrically equipped cathedral lantern hangs 

 from the ceiling and a marble fernery half circles the space under 

 arched stair soffit. 



On the second story a solid balustrade of lath and plaster makes 

 a fine background for a strip of rare tapestry or a plaster frieze. 



Banish the funnel stairway by placing stairs from second to 

 third story, shut in by portieres, at one side leaving a clear space for 

 a high cambered beamed ceiling over the main staircase. 



Back stairs extend from basement to attic, with risers from first 

 to second story hall of translucent wire glass, which aids materially 

 in cellar lighting. Plastered stair soffits are firmly held by cross 

 wooden moldings, and the upper half of the enclosed stair is of glass. 

 Upper stairs may be built open string, with Colonial curlicues each 

 side of step, balusters set alternately in twos and threes and tied 

 with short pieces of wood two inches from top and bottom, the 

 rail moulded to form a firm hand support. 



