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of adaptation, arrangement and exterior 

 design. 



There are several ways in which the 

 initial cost of such a house may be reduced, 

 or a better house built for the same money. 

 It may be finished to the stage where the 

 family can take possession and save paying 

 rent elsewhere, and the family genius can 

 do most of the work of finishing the rooms 

 himself. Pipes for hot air heating, steam, 



nailed directly upon the studding, or where 

 it is not usual to build a cellar or to have 

 more than a post or wood foundation, an 

 appreciable saving may be effected. In 

 localities where prepared or metal roofing 

 has supplanted shingles, and where labor 

 or building materials are exceptionally 

 cheap a more commodious house may be 

 built for the same money. 



A camp of the size and type of the sketch, 



SECOND FLOOR. 



FIRST Fl COR 



A general floor plan of the first and second floors of a moderate priced home that can be built for 

 an all-the-year-around residence or may be used with unfinished rooms as a camp in the woods 



hot water and gas, and wires for electric 

 lights may be placed in the walls without 

 the fixtures, which may be put in later, or 

 the pipes may be omitted, leaving openings 

 for their future installation, heating the 

 house with stoves and lighting with lamps 

 in the meantime. The pipes for the com- 

 plete bathroom equipment may be in- 

 stalled and nothing but the seat put in at 

 first, though the location of the bathroom 

 upon the first floor makes it possible to 

 omit everything but the seat connections 

 if desired. Walls need not be papered until 

 the house has thoroughly seasoned and the 

 resulting plaster cracks treated. This is 

 customary in expensive houses for the sake 

 of the permanent condition of the walls 

 and not for economy. 



The exterior of the house may receive a 

 priming coat and another coat of paint 

 which will protect it for a couple of years 

 and allow the outside to shrink all it will; 

 it may then be puttied and two coats given 

 which will insure the best possible results. 



In sections of the country where the 

 climate will permit the use of drop siding 



with unfinished rooms, without a cellar or 

 the conveniences necessary for a year-round 

 residence, can be built for from 5 to 7 cents 

 per cu. ft. above ground in localities where 

 supplies are easily obtainable. At this 

 price economy must be used in the con- 

 struction, though a piazza may be built 

 the entire length of the front of the house. 



Grouping Sheet Music Into Books 

 and Binding Them 



IT will be found very convenient to have 

 sheet music arranged in little books, 

 each containing from six to ten selections. 

 For instance, one book may be made up 

 of a group of waltzes; a second may con- 

 tain a group of songs; a third a group of 

 classical selections; a fourth a group of 

 popular music, and so on. Paper fasteners 

 of the proper size may be used to staple 

 the books, which should then be bound 

 with strips of strong cloth tape. On the 

 cover of each book may be written the 

 names of the various selections it 

 contains. — Alexander V. Bollerer. 



