December, 1911 
its center. From both hall and dining-room doors commu- 
nicate with the kitchen penetralia, whose mysteries, along 
with the subterranean equipment of laundries, storerooms 
and the like, the reader had best explore for himself with the 
aid of the plans. Suffice it to say that everything is there 
to satisfy the most exacting housekeeper. One word, how- 
ever, must be spoken in praise of the servants’ sitting-room, 
a bright, sunny den just off the kitchen. If more houses 
had such spots there would be fewer domestic tempests. 
Upstairs this house is just as sensibly arranged as you 
would expect it to be from knowing it downstairs—airy 
chambers and plenty of baths. Many of the bedrooms have 
fireplaces, so that it is plain to be seen their practical util- 
ity for both ventilation and heating has been recognized— 
a truly gratifying thing when one thinks how often they 
are looked upon, and by people who ought to know better, 
as a merely decorative feature for the downstairs rooms. 
Having decorously come in at the north door and done 
the polite thing by all the parts of the house, let us now step 
out the south door into the garden. Descending the steps, 
at the end of the paved terrace, we find ourselves amid a 
gorgeous array of bloom in beds and borders separated, 
on the one side from the lawn and on the other from the 
tennis court, by low hedges of privet. In the center is a 
pool inhabited by goldfish and aquatic plants. Of course, 
the children often fall into this and scare the fish, but then, 
why shouldn’t they? It is the inalienable right of childhood 
to fall into pools in one’s best bib and tucker and get sop- 
ping, just as it is the inalienable right of childhood to make 
mud pies or get into the pantry and steal jam and, also, 
just as it is the inalienable right of grown-ups to inflict con- 
dign punishment therefor with the parental slipper, and will 
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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
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oom is bright, cheery and thoroughly homelike, and is an 
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be as long as good red blood runs in Anglo-Saxon veins. 
The space devoted to the formal garden is small, but it is 
remarkable how much has been got into it and how effective 
it 1S. 
Completing the survey, one gladly admits that the prob- 
lem of putting a roomy suburban home on a moderate 
sized lot has been successfully solved and that the archi- 
tects, at the same time, have caught a dignity and repose 
that generally only a long tale of years can bestow on a 
house. The best thing about it all is that such a house can 
be built for a reasonable sum, and for a sum within the 
reach of families in ordinarily comfortable circumstances. 
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