November, 1911 
ture was suspended over the center and 
close to the table. This, of course, allowed 
the light to fall directly where it was most 
needed. But a good addition was a number 
of extra lights which were located near the 
ceiling at the top of the fixture. These could 
be lighted independently of the lower ones, 
and well illuminated the whole of the room 
when necessary. 
THE SECOND STORY 
In a small wall-closet in the hall of the 
second story were placed the fuses and 
switches for the different electric lighting 
circuits of the entire house. This closet 
should have a lock and key so as to prevent 
its being opened by children and unauthor- 
ized persons. It is a great convenience 
to have it in such a location. 
The closet tank in the bathroom, instead 
of being made of wood, metal lined, was of > 
china. Tt i is an excellent material for a tank. 
The outside can be easily cleaned, and the 
tank itself never warps as do the metal 
lined wooden ones. I had a tank, metal 
lined, with a wooden outside, which in 
damp weather warped out of shape and de- 
ranged the ball-cock attachments inside, 
causing the w ater to run for hours to waste. 
With a china or “porcelain enameled metal 
tank” this should not occur. The appear- 
ance is excellent. 
The bathroom floor was of hard wood 
(rug in the center), so the closet was set in 
the center of a tiled space. This is an ex- 
cellent idea where one cannot have the entire 
floor tiled, as the tiles can be easily washed. 
Directly under the plate-glass shelf over 
the washbasin was placed a towel-rack of a 
new pattern. It had a round glass rod with 
metal ends to fasten it up by, and thus al- 
lowed wet washrags, etc., to be hung upon 
it without injury. A metal rack would of 
course be tarnished if this were done. 
The hot and cold water valves-in the 
washbasin turned on or off with a single 
movement. This is good practice, as it is 
always difficult to turn off an ordinary fau- 
cet when the hands are wet. 
THE THIRD STORY 
A skylight in the attic allowed ventilation 
to be easily obtained in hot weather by sim- 
ply opening it and the windows. This, of 
course, made a draft and kept the attic cool, 
and incidentally the rooms next to it, and 
also those on the second floor. 
As the house was heated by hot water, 
there was a good arrangement in the third 
story for supplying the heating system with 
water when it was needed. The supply pipe 
was connected with a small tank which had 
the usual “ball-cock,” which of course auto- 
matically kept the water always at a certain 
level in the tank, and as the tank was con- 
nected with the piping of the heating system, 
sufficient water was always obtained with- 
out the trouble of putting it in by hand, 
which is necessary in some cases. The cost 
of installing was small, and the benefits 
derived were great. 
OUT OF DOORS 
The house had round corrugated leaders 
for carrying off the water from the roof. 
The use of “square” leaders is not advis- 
able. The corrugations on such leaders are 
so small that they cannot protect them from 
the dangers consequent on freezing. The 
large corrugation, if used, allow a pipe to 
have the water in it freeze and thaw out 
without injury, but the small corrugations 
will not. 
The clothes posts were made of iron, but 
each was set inside of a length of old iron 
soil pipe, the intervening space being filled 
in with concrete. Such an arrangement in- 
sured the posts remaining in an upright posi- 
tion for a long time. At the top of the iron 
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