CHAPTER XXXVI. 



OUR HOME. 



ET us look over the ground floor plan first. The 

 letters used will suggest what they stand for, so as 

 to help you. Beginning at the front we have the 

 sitting room, or parlor if you wish to call it so, 

 marked S R. It is a large room i6x 18 outside, 

 with a veranda (V) on each side. There are four 

 large windows, one glass in a sash, 26 X4O inches (see picture of 

 front). The house faces nearly south, the verandas or porches 

 being on the east and west sides. The window opening on west 

 porch goes up out of the way, both sashes, so one can walk out 

 on porch. All windows in the house above and below are hung 

 with sash weights. The door onto the east porch is partly glass. 

 This room, as you will see, can be made very bright. The vine- 

 clad porches on each side help to make it pleasant (see one porch 

 in picture of front) . 



Passing back through the large double doors (6x8 feet) we 

 come into the dining and sitting room. This is the room we eat 

 in, not when we have company only, .but every day, right in the 

 very best part of house. When we come in to meals we naturally 

 sit down in this room, if they are not quite ready. Notice, there 

 is plenty of room. You see where the extension table (Ex T) 

 stands. As the room is nearly twenty feet long there is a chance 

 for plenty of rocking chairs near the bay window and around the 

 large stove (S) . The door onto veranda from this room is also 

 glass. This with the three large windows (glass 26x36) makes 

 this room also very bright. In our old house we had a dining 

 room with one east window and one north, both small, and one 

 under a veranda. It was a dark, gloomy room at the best, some 

 days seriously so. We determined this east room should be well 

 lighted. Of course, this bay window is well filled with flowers in 

 the winter. It makes a splendid place for them. Following the 

 curved arrow you pass up stairs by quite an easy rise. There is 

 no hall in the house below. We did not want any. Our house 

 is built for comfort and with a due regard to economy. The main 

 entrance doors are on the southeast side, you will notice, the 

 sheltered corner. 



Pass through another pair of double doors 6x8 feet to the 

 west, and you come into what you would take to be a sitting 

 room, perhaps, and so it is. We all sleep up stairs. The air is 

 purer above, anyway, and we all prefer to sleep there. But in 



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