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children. In the matter of ventilation this window will do all that is possible, 

 and its inward swing allows of the adjustment of storm sash. The English 

 casement window is generally used in the upper story or gable end, where the 

 space is small and the inside swing would be in the way; also where small 

 mullions are desired in place of the more or less bulky weight boxes of the 

 sliding sash. Owing to its opening to its full area, it makes a good window for 

 the attic, where the heated roof requires the full measure of air. It should not 

 be used, however, where storm windows are desired, as their outward swing makes 



the adjustment of the latter impossible. 

 It is somewhat tighter than the French, 

 but does not exclude the weather as 

 does the sliding sash. 



The forms of windows are nu- 

 merous. Those in common use are 

 the single square-headed window, the 

 round-headed window, the mullioned 

 window and the Palladian motive. 

 The first two need no further descrip- 

 tion. The mullioned window is a 

 motive in which two or more separate 

 windows are placed side by side, 

 usually as close as their construction 

 will permit. The Palladian motive 

 was original with the Italian, Andrea 

 Palladio, who was born about 1518. 

 The English copied it extensively, and 

 it became common with us in the 

 Colonial. It consists of a mullioned 

 window of three divisions, the central 

 and larger of which had originally a 

 round head. The two flanking windows 

 were smaller and terminated in a 

 square head at the spring of the central 



Mullioned window in old house at Flushing, Long Island, N.Y. arch. Both the mullioned WJndoW and 



^y^lS"*"****' 1 ** 1 10 "" ** 1 *** 'he Palladian motive are used in 



important locations. The staircase 

 window takes on many forms, and has been the object of much invention. 



The bay window is a projecting window motive too common and too varied 

 in form to call for much description. Briefly, it is a several-sided and mod- 

 erately sized break in the straight wall, usually well filled with glass, and 

 affording a view to the right and left as well as to the front. It may extend to 

 the ground, in the case of the first story, and have a foundation of its own, or 

 it may overhang at the floor, window seat or sill level, and be supported by 

 brackets or otherwise. It is a convenient and admirable feature in the country 

 house and worthy of consideration, w r hich it has not always received. 



With the bay, the window seat naturally suggests itself. This is better built 



