Windows and Window Motives 



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Portion of house at Wayne, Pa., showing treatment of Elizabethan 

 bay. Wm. L. Price, architect 



open window (a), and makes an added feature of the seat. A door stop properly 

 placed will prevent the window from marring the seat end. As blinds on the 

 outside of a house are always awkward things to get at, and as the chances for 

 inside ones in this case are excellent, 

 they have been adopted (see b-b-b). 

 They should be, if painted, of if-inch 

 clear pine stock, fitted with movable 

 slats in the lower half and hung on 

 wrought-iron or brass angle butts. The 

 man who invented the adjustable win- 

 dow screen meant well, but he fell flat 

 at the start. What we buy at the 

 department store for nineteen and one- 

 half cents each is a very good article 

 that is, to keep the flies in; it surely 

 does not keep them out. The more 

 expensive kinds are no better; they 

 make you think so because of their 

 price. When they are in the window 

 they leave an opening between the sash, 

 through which flies and mosquitos 

 swarm in delight. The more simple 

 form of half screen, which slides from 

 top to bottom of the window opening, 

 is better. Unless the sash are thrown 

 wide open, however, it leaves that 

 same little space between the sash as 

 an invitation to the undesirable, and 

 not infrequently we wish the window 

 only open in part. The best form cf 

 screen is the full-sized one hung on 

 hinges on the outside of the window 

 casing (see c-c-c). Its being hung allows 

 the washing of the window, and, at the 

 same time, its covering of the whob 

 opening permits the window to be 

 opened in any manner desired. As 

 is frequently the case during stormy 

 weather, it is desirable to open the 

 sliding-sash window at the top for 

 ventilation. If the outside reveal (d-d) 

 is not deep enough to protect the 

 window head, as in a wooden wall, 

 the screen should be built with about 

 four fixed blind slats at the top. This 



Will keep OUt the Weather, will not inter- A semicircular bay, lighting a high-storied room 



