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tion points, size, air, sunshine, view, rivaling in comfort a city 

 apartment, but far larger, divorced from air shaft and alley, and in 

 a realm of pure air and health yielding sunshine. Two-thirds of the 

 forty feet would make a morning boudoir or upstairs sitting room; 

 the bedroom and bathroom end to be grilled and portiered. This 

 bedroom may have a fireplace in an ingle, with side settles, and be 

 connected with a glass-enclosed room built over three-quarters of the 

 roof of the porch-room ? making a true sun-room featured with 

 flowering plants. The outdoor sleeping gallery floored with canvas 

 not so lavishly painted as to crack, covers the remainder of the 

 porch-room roof and connects with a roofed gym. over the porte 

 cochere, to be decorated with rough bark covered boxes of plants atop 

 the rail, in winter changed to evergreens. It can be used as a corridor 

 to reach the small rest-room with fireplace, built over the coachman's 

 nook, in one of our houses termed a luxury until use proved it a 

 necessity. Over the gym. and rest-room, under the roof, a low, 

 well-lighted and ventilated pistol gallery is bulwarked by the big 

 stone porte cochere chimney breast. 



The lower part of a closet in the master's suite conceals an 

 electrically-protected silver safe. The bathroom of this suite, featured 

 with shower jog formed by two closets, one opening to the bath- 

 room, a fireplace, tub six feet long, a bidet and a shut-off valve toilet, 

 has the ceiling preferably furred down to seven feet, side-walls tiled 

 to ceiling, floors tiled and sill of marble. Mirrored doors, medicine 

 closets, a high-set leaded light window and hall connection are most 

 desirable. 



A guest room with bath closet, one general bathroom and three 

 additional bedrooms, one of which may acceptably join a sleeping 

 porch, should be on this floor. A bedroom with double doors con- 

 nects with an adjoining bedroom and another has a shaving jog 

 arranged for ample light night or day. A built-out sun bathroom 

 supported by heavy brackets, facing south and west, and a skylight 

 flooding the little alcove with health-giving rays may come under 

 the head of extravagance but comfort will heartily endorse its build- 

 ing. One bathtub can be inset eighteen inches and rail protected, 

 the space below taken from a closet. Another may be planned with 

 a square tub 4' x 4' and fourteen inches deep for children. Bathroom 

 appointments might schedule also a shampoo fixture, sitz-bath, elec- 

 tric bath cabinets and in one a cane-seated chair to disguise the noise- 

 less toilet. A Pompeiian, plant decorated bathroom will be lighted 

 by an electrically fitted glass dome. Outflow pipes should be twice 

 the size of inflow and plumbing pipes kept from exterior walls and 

 when crossing ceilings (crossings to be mainly in the cellar) asbestos- 

 covered, decreasing the drip from condensation. An air chamber 

 cushions the noisy back kick of water pipes and back air pipes near 

 hot water pipes give uptake draft. 



