10 HOME AND GARDEN 



cheerful, kindly welcome, of restfulness to mind and 

 body, of abounding satisfaction to eye and brain. 



It is just these desirable qualities that are most 

 rarely to be found in a modern building, and that one 

 so much appreciates in those examples that remain to us 

 of the domestic architecture of our Tudor and Jacobean 

 reigns, and still more frequently in foreign lands in 

 the monastic buildings. Indeed, one of the wishes I 

 expressed to the architect was that I should like a 

 little of the feeling of a convent, and, how I know not, 

 unless it be by virtue of solid structure and honest 

 simplicity, he has certainly given it me. 



The gallery is amply lighted from the left by a 

 long range of north window looking to the garden 

 court. On the right are deep cupboards with panelled 

 oak doors, only broken by panelled recesses giving 

 access to the doors of three bedrooms. One space of 

 eight feet is a shallower cupboard with a glazed front 

 of sliding sashes, in which are arranged all the little 

 treasures of some kind of prettiness or of personal 

 interest, such as are almost unconsciously gathered 

 together by a person of an accumulative proclivity. 

 These are arranged with an attempt at pictorial effect, 

 and the place serves the double purpose of having all 

 my small miscellaneous goods easily within sight, and 

 also of assuring me that they are safe from the 

 destructive gambols of kittens and from the well- 

 meant but occasionally fatal flicks of the household 

 duster. 



