HOUSES AND GARDENS 



pursued further when the windows of the house are specially considered ; but 

 this objection to the south dining-room is considerably modified in a house 

 where the windows are of the horizontal rather than the vertical type, and 

 where, while large enough to admit ample light, they are not so large as to 

 make the room susceptible to every change in the external temperature. 

 Modern science has shown that sunlight is the great health-giver and germ 

 destroyer, and few rooms should be deprived of it. 



A northward dining-room seems not unreasonable in large houses, where 

 the number of other apartments confine its uses to luncheon and dinner 

 merely. 



THE DINING HATCH 



Many objections have reasonably been made to the ordinary type of hatch 

 between a dining-room and the kitchen premises. It often affords a passage 

 for sounds, smells, and draughts, and also demands the services of two servants 

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form of a good-sized cupboard, having doors opening into the dining-room, 

 and a little side door opening into a passage adjoining the kitchen premises or 

 a pantry. The plan sketched here shows how this may be arranged. In such 

 a cupboard a great many of the table appointments would be permanently kept, 

 while the whole of the dishes containing the food for a course would be placed 

 in it from the side door. The servant would then enter the dining-room, and 

 from the cupboard doors at the side of the fireplace the dishes, &c., would be 

 removed and placed on the table. In many cases such an arrangement would 

 involve a considerable saving of labour. 



If the cupboard were made in two parts, as shown in the sketch, the lower 

 part might then be devoted to the coal and wood for the dining-room fire, 

 which would be put in from the side door. 

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