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The Country House 



Babb. 



salon and music room. The chamber, boudoir and dressing room are to be con- 

 sidered in the bedroom suite. Let us take up these several rooms separately, 



as to their purpose, 

 treatment, etc. 



In France and 

 England the draw- 

 ing room was orig- 

 inally the bedcham- 

 ber; later it was 

 screened off from 

 the sleeping room. 

 The great publicity 

 of the hall naturally 

 suggested a place of 

 retirement, and the 

 bedchamber, being 

 the only other thing 

 available, was nat- 

 urally used for this 

 purpose. In France 

 it seems to have 

 been used for state 

 visits and informal 

 affairs, as well as 

 for family use, while 

 in England it first 

 served as the "with- 

 drawing room" for 

 the female members 

 of the family. 



The Italian two- 

 storied salon of the 

 seventeenth century 

 became at a later 

 date subdivided into 

 two rooms. One 

 was used for enter- 

 tainment and the 

 other became the 

 family apartment. 



In the average 

 American home the 

 drawing room serves 

 a twofold purpose, 

 that of the general 



A billiard room at Cambridge, Mass., lighted from the top living TOOTH and \ 



Living hall it Bavville, L. I. An honest and simple treatmcn 

 Cook & Willard. architects 



