CHAPTER VI 



THE OPEN WINDOW 



EVERY room in which one sits should have a 

 window that opens at least three feet square into 

 the out-of-doors. It should be not more than 

 two feet from the floor and protected in such a man 

 ner as to exclude both rain and wind. Does this sound 

 impossible? So I once thought. But I have found 

 out that it can be done; discovered it partly 

 by accident, as is the way with so many of the good 

 things of this world. In the tiny cottage where our 

 country life began, the windows, wherever not pro 

 tected by the eaves, were provided with a kind of hood 

 about a foot wide, which was merely a continuation of 

 the overlapping wood of the house wall. This, 

 with the thick foliage of the maple trees growing close 

 to the house, formed an effective screen against any 

 but the fiercest storms. 



When we built the big house I remembered this 



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