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one, just as some people prefer a hotel parlor to a real home; but 

 normally people who have any real family life and any real social 

 enjoyment more highly developed than a mere gregarious instinct 

 like that of cattle and English sparrows, find, as a matter of experi- 

 ence, that it is pleasanter and more civilized to have a portion, 

 often the major portion, of their home grounds more or less com- 

 pletely screened or shielded from the public at large and from the 

 entrance portion of the grounds, and so treated that it may be 

 conveniently and pleasantly used as an integral part of the home, 

 as an outdoor sitting-room or series of rooms where one may sew 

 or read or doze in the shade of a tree or play a game of cards or 

 appear in a negligee costume without an uncomfortable sense of 

 wondering what Mrs. Smith ■v\dll think about it or whether ]Mrs. 

 Robinson will see you and come in to bore you with one of her 

 long-winded visits. 



The third division which generally needs to be recognized is that 

 devoted primarily to service operations. There are obvious ad- 

 vantages, which it is needless to rehearse, in favor of not keeping 

 the frying pan and the sink and the slop pails in the dining room 

 or parlor but in a distinct part of the house devoted to such uses 

 especially adapted for them and completely shut off though 

 conveniently accessible from the living part of the house. Similarly 

 it is desirable to pro^-ide proper convenient places out of doors for 

 ash barrels, garbage pails and the like, for the incoming of supplies 

 and outgoing of wastes, for the hanging out of washing to dry and 

 other such importan. but not pleasing functions arranged so as to 

 be separated from both entrance and living portions. 



The clear recognition of these three controlling functional di^d- 

 sions in most home grotinds — the entrance ])ortion, the living 

 portion, and the service portion — and the application of a fair 

 degree of ingenuity and taste to the problem of separating them 

 and making each convenient and appropriate in character for its 

 own function would do a great deal toward bringing about that 

 good order which is the foundation of beauty. 



