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Box-windows sliding upward into the house wall give wider 

 vision in a low-studded room. In the nursery, windows may be set 

 high and partially metal grilled, reaching to ceiling height where 

 there is more sunshine to the square foot, and in laundry and ser- 

 vants' hall, where the ground and step-down area admit, should span 

 the entire space from floor to ceiling. In front of cellar windows 

 ribbed glass reflectors can be suspended, greatly increasing the light. 

 A western picture window realistically gilt framed and wire hung 

 would shame the artist's most impressive sunsets, while a more pre- 

 tentious picture window could be pivoted. Corner windows give 

 wider views and less draughty ventilation. Windows should be 

 hung with metal chains over brass pulleys. Non-corroding semi- 

 invisible screens with insect escape cover the entire window and, as 

 a farther disguise, have their hinged frames painted to match the 

 exterior trim. Elizabethan grouped windows would certainly give 

 tone to the dining room. Overhead the highest second story sleepers 

 we will place ventilating hood windows in the gable peaks, hinged 

 from the top and swinging outward, using as storm-warders incon- 

 spicuous baffles back of the windows. Step-up platforms will lower 

 high attic dormers. 



All windows shall be fitted with non-rusting metal weather- 

 strips and in some inset glass hinged ventilators. 



The sleepless arch as seen in the round-headed Roman, the 

 peaked Tudor, and the ogived Gothic, we will use in hall, billiard 

 room, stair and fireplace opening, and on a side porch as an effective 

 stone flying arch. In the same side porch the windows can be made 

 to drop downward into the rail, being protected by a weather cap, 

 but the old-fashioned stored in the basement or attic method is gen- 

 erally the most satisfactory. 



The electrical field will include an arrangement to close one 

 bathroom door when the other opens, a cut-glass cabinet electrically 

 lighted, electric range, washer and mangle in kitchen and laundry, 

 and a device to keep that block of ice frozen. 



In winter the electric fan will force radiators to do double work 

 and at all seasons fan dishes dry, effectually supplanting the too 

 often insanitary dish towel. The dining room will have a floor bell 

 and in a dry basement tool room we can plan for an electric forge 

 and lathe. Opening and closing a hall closet door will automatically 

 turn on or off an electric light, a check valve preventing waste. 

 Every closet must have electric light, either cord or wall hung. 



Radiators ample in capacity may be concealed with settle, silk 

 fringe, stair riser, metal grille, or other device, remembering that 

 when glass exceeds one-eighth of the wall area greater heating 

 capacity is required. 



In the awninged, cement-floored veranda fronting the house and 

 roofing the proposed bowling alley, the rail can be broken by two 



