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“trim.” By returning the wall-plaster with a Gothic bevel 
to the window frames, as they finish the interiors of Gothic 
churches, for example, you add a lot of life-giving oxygen 
to your atmosphere to say nothing of one hundred or more 
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these respective lines. Your local builder will buy of the 
local yards, and you can fancy the result, in your house, of 
kiln-dried material which never saw a kiln, if you permit it 
to be used. Avoid this whenever possible. 
Variation of the exterior. 
dollars saved, the cost of the usual wood trim, and with 
this saving, perhaps, I will not say “for sure,” perhaps, 
you can find an oak cabinet of the time of Charles II or 
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Oliver Cromweil, that will just fit in the arched niche I have 
designed for it in the recess of the dining-room. And if that 
would not make you happy, you must be hard to please. 
And all this, let it be understood, for the incredulously 
small outlay of forty-five hundred dollars. I can guarantee 
that, for I have already been over a similar cottage propo- 
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sition. But buy your land in the open country, the free 
country. Do not be led astray by the flaming advertisements 
of free tickets and restricted parks! The whole scheme of 
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But never let your local builder supply either trim, hard- 
wood flooring, wainscot, doors, chimney-pieces or any cabi- 
net work. Always obtain sub-estimates from specialists in 
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cutting up farms into twenty-five foot lots is highly inimi- 
cal to Anglo-Saxon home development, and in some cases 
it amounts tr barefaced robbery of the unsophisticated. 
