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HOSPITABLE. HALLWAY 
HERE never yet was built a house that could be considered a success if it did not have an entrance 
room of some sort that would lend it ) homelike adaptation. There is not a room in the whole 
dwelling that can boast of greater antiquity, perhaps, than the hall. In fact, the modern house has 
|| been mainly evolved, so far as its ground plan is concerned, from the division of the old hall space 
|| of feudal times into the rooms one finds in the house of to-day upon its entrance floor. Our best 
architects expend thought and ingenuity upon the matter of the hallway in order that it may carry in 
the modern dwelling the sense of hospitality to whomsoever crosses the threshold that admits One to its precincts, It 
has been said that the hall is the key to the dwelling, and one has but to recall the contrast which the hospitable hall- 
way presents to the hall which is uninviting, to understand how important it is to give much thought to the planning. 
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