April, 1909 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 151 
difficulties to be sur- 
mounted. 
The second story 
ballon Warn deine: 
should waste no 
room, yet have suf- 
ficient wall space to 
allow for a separate 
doorway to each 
bed-chamber, and 
an entrance to the 
bathroom goes with- 
out the saying. A 
modern bathtub, 
which is usually con- 
sidered necessary (it 
is not—we are bath- 
ing too much as a 
matter of strict hy- 
giene) measures 
two feet and six 
inches across its rim 
from side to side, so 
that it is an astonish- 
ing stunt to work 
Porch, one into a tiny house 
Cl Tera a ae plan as the bathtub 
is taken care of in 
am the thirty-five hun- 
| pela EG NDE 2 Se Soe dred dollar proposi- 
tion, and yet leave 
2—A $3,500 proposition space for three pos- 
sible bedrooms. 
Each bedroom must have a closet, and there should be a 
linen closet in addition; nor must we crowd the chim- 
ney stack, because an eight inch by twelve inch tile-lined 
flue there must be for the fireplace in the living-room or any 
other fireplace of 
ordinary dimensions, 
i. e., one foot four 
inches deep, two 
feet eight inches 
wide by two feet 
and six inches high. 
A cottage is ruined 
by too small a chim- 
ney stack above the 
roof, that is, archi- 
tecturally ruined. 
The chimney has a 
mission in the psy- 
chical world to per- 
LO want cih) as 
related only in a 
distant degree to 
that of carrying 
away for us the 
products of combus- 
tion. Make it big- 
ger than is_neces- 
sary, the bigger the 
better. Half the 
charm of the Eng- 
lish cottages is their 
enormous chimneys. 
So that a little 
money has to be ex- 
pended, not for 
show exactly, but to 
4—A $6,000 proposition satisfy the instincts 
of a cultivated mind 
which craves suit- 
able companionship 
in all its surround- 
ings. The hearth, 
the fireplace, the 
chimney—all these 
mean home as gas 
logs, electric lights 
and bronzed radia- 
tors never can. 
In only two of 
the plans forming 
the evolution from 
a twenty-five hun- 
dred dollar proposi- 
tion to one for eight 
thousand has a rear 
stairway been pro- 
vided, because the 
rear stairway, like 
the independent 
communication _ be- 
tween kitchen and 
entrance, is only in- 
dispensable where 
there are servants 
or likely to be serv- 
ants. In the very- 
low-priced cottages 
back stairs would 
come under the 3—A $5,000 proposition 
head of luxuries, 
and a luxury somewhat dragged in. The main stairway 
inclosed and reached from the dining-room, where there is 
one, secures all the privacy there is needed, and anyone may 
escape up this inclosed stairway entirely beyond the range of 
vision from the liv- 
ing-room, where an 
unexpected caller 
may be waiting. In 
an artfully contrived 
niche within the 
staircase coats and 
hats may be hung, 
receiving light from 
a leaded-glass tran- 
som, which in turn 
receives its light 
from a_ transom 
over the front door. 
Hats and coats may 
also be hung in the 
entry and_ rubbers 
deposited in a low 
closet under the 
stairs and opening 
into the entry. 
The thickness, or 
rather absence of 
thickness, of the ex- 
terior walls  indi- 
cates to everybody 
at all familiar with 
plans that these 
houses are intended 
to be frame houses 
finished with either 
weatherboards, FIRST STORY PLAN. 
shingles or stucco. 5—An $8,000 proposition 
Second Story Plan. roy 
Kitchen 
loon 
Diaing Room 
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