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tion of the window sills there are no lodg- 

 ing places for dust and cinders. The old- 

 fashioned doors with thin panels, and numer- 

 ous moldings have been discarded, and those 

 as plain and uniform in thickness as a pane 



of window glass, substituted for them. The 

 picture molding, as shown in Fig. 85, may 

 serve to support the picture and catch dirt as 

 well. The other illustration (Fig. 86) shows one 

 which may serve quite as well for the pur- 

 pose desired without forming a dust shelf. If 

 the window sashes are made with plain bevels 

 and not molded, and all other window fixtures, 

 as stops and the like, are constructed in the 



