THE MASTER'S SUITE 353 



One ever-present dust gatherer, the corner where tread and 

 riser meet, on the upper back stair is banished by closely filling each 

 corner with a three-sided bit of burnished brass. A mid-stair plat- 

 form, lack of winders, and ample head room yield good accident 

 insurance during the life of a house. 



That third story hall where pulpit-front built on long collar 

 beams peers down at the stair climber ( the scheme giving an unusually 

 high hall ceiling) can be lighted by three crowns hung on a chain, 

 each circle a trifle larger than the one above, daytime lighting being 

 accomplished by a wide roof lift dormer. 



Among kitchen appointments (the range end being galleyed) 

 include a glass-set hood over a combination gas, electric and coal 

 range, with ash pit and brass pipe connections, an auxiliary gas 

 heater set under the easy to heat copper boiler, a garbage incin- 

 erator, grease trap, soap-stone table tops, and a safety valve on 

 the boiler. Kitchen walls are best if white tiled to a height of 

 at least five feet, all trim painted enamel white, and the floor of 

 non-dust-crumbling cement bisected with strips of comfort-yielding 

 cork matting. This room as well as all servants' quarters should 

 have a sanitary base, vermin-balking walls and corners, and floors 

 and walls deadened. Bedrooms over the kitchen as well as the 

 range chimney are better if deadened and air-spaced. 



The sink of seamless porcelain and a set wash basin which solves 

 an aggravating domestic problem will be six inches higher than 

 usual in both kitchen and butler's pantry, and the radiator of the 

 latter made in the form of a plate warmer. The range hood will be 

 aided in its efforts to send odors skyward by a small electric fan 

 placed in the chimney flue. A water pipe set close beside the range 

 conveniently fills pots and kettles, and a metal scrub cloth box can 

 be fastened against the chimney breast connecting with a brick, 

 air-lifting ventilating chamber, which adjoins the always heated 

 range flue. 



An enameled steel cabinet, a metal frame over the table, cook- 

 ing utensils of non-rusting and non-flaking aluminum and a fireless 

 cooker set at waist height should be among the appointments. A 

 funnel-ceilinged corridor proves a court of last resort for all kitchen 

 odors. Trim in the service portion of the house should be plain and 

 non-dust holding, and beaded wainscot if used of convex mold. 



The basement laundry will have large windows, wooden floors, 

 and make an additional sitting hall for servants, its four porcelain 

 tubs equipped with non-projecting faucets, set back to back in the 

 centre of this well-lighted room, and when not in use wooden covered, 

 forming a table. 



On the second story plan the master's suite the full length 

 of the house, forty feet, and eighteen feet wide, the fourth com- 

 pass point compassed by a broad bay. A room of four exclama- 



