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allow big logs six feet long to be thrown upon 

 the fire, and at least four feet deep. Above 

 the fireplace and the old-fashioned mantle- 

 ledge, which holds a collection of more or less 

 damaged bric-a-brac, is a device which perhaps 

 only a musician would understand or care for. 

 A broad frieze, seven feet wide and three feet 

 high, has been laid off in black mortar, and 

 upon this background music-staves have been 

 outlined with small white sea pebbles. Upon 

 these staves is the beginning of the Fire-motive 

 which is heard at the end of Wagner's Walkure, 

 when Wotan, the great god of Northern my- 

 thology, calls upon Loge, the god of Fire, to 

 surround the sleeping Brunhilde with fierce 

 flames. 



The plaster of this big room is purposely left 

 rough, and is colored a sombre red. Across 

 the ceiling goes a big beam or girder a foot 

 square, and were it not for the cold winds of 

 November and December, no plaster at all 

 need have been used. Around the whole 

 room, in lieu of a cornice, or frieze, runs a 

 series of silhouettes of life-size heads of friends 

 of the family who have been inmates of the 



