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often half-filled with dried apples, musty newspapers, and dis- 

 carded garments. This is a plate glass-walled view room with 

 overhanging sun and rain sheltering roof, cooled by weather-proof 

 ventilators placed at its highest point, aided by electric fans, the 

 fireplace, out of respect to Dame Architecture, fitted with a gas log, 

 and fronted by a broad davenport. 



One of the eight or ten fireplaces in the house shall have a plate 

 glass, brass rimmed screen extending the view of the cheerful blaze 

 four feet up chimney, and a fender topped with a narrow leather 

 seat fronting the hearth. In one room the over-mantel can be sup- 

 ported by caryatides, in another the hood covered with leather tooled 

 in heraldic design in shimmering silver, and in a third the shelf sup- 

 ported by ormolu brackets with onyx facing. 



A picture window set not over four feet from the floor and centre- 

 ing a chimney breast (which is to have two flues and a split chimney 

 at ridge line) causes, at times, a seven-hued winter sunset to vie 

 in coloring with a seven-hued driftwood fire. 



As the raised hearth increases fire risk, we will omit it. A Tif- 

 fany three-faced feudal fireplace, with blazing fagots flashing three 

 ways, could be built in "that brain room" where the roof slopes to 

 plate line. 



The throne of the fire king must centre his group of devotees, 

 rather than elbow too closely door and window. In a draughty 

 hall arrange for iron baffles to semi-shackle that ninety per cent, 

 up-chimney waste of heat. 



A far-away room has a mantel face of cement sprinkled with 

 silver, gold and bronze powders, and thimbles are inset in chimney 

 breast in several attic rooms and upper hall. 



Mirrors are much in evidence, some triplicate for dress-fitting 

 and with special overhead lights. In a room facing north, wall 

 mirrors might be so juggled as to give a strong reflected light, and 

 narrow mirrors between door and window openings crossed by 

 curved muntins, but none so set over a mantel as to reflect the ugly 

 back of a clock. 



Decoration, whether rococo, the best in Nouveau art, burlap, 

 paint, or paper, covers a wide field. In the dining room, Colonial, 

 pictorial designs of country life can be used, in one room restless 

 red and possibly in the library restful green, but polychrome effects 

 will be absolutely barred, as well as the stain wrongly placed. 



Burlap painted, then roughly cloth-rubbed before drying, will 

 give an hygienic surface and also a suggestion of the Japanese silk 

 fibre effect, minus its microbe-catching ends. 



As a wood preservative, air is often as efficacious as paint and 

 certainly does not promulgate dry rot, at times the result of painting 

 green wood. Oxygen, whether permeating lungs of man or fibres of 

 matter, prolongs life. 



