AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
‘THE CHEERY FIREPLACE. 
= HERE is a world of difference between the fire- 
place that is cheery and one that is not. ur 
4 ancestors knew that and planned accordingly. 
y Fortunately we ehave scovered that the good old- 
such matters are worth 
while after all, and it is a saving epee that our house-planners 
and our house-builders have come to understand that a mere 
hole in the wall with fire in it does not make for the idea of 
fireplace. The reader will find here illustrated 
i the sort one wishes to find 
in the homelike house. nina house of pretentious de- 
sign the fireplace, huge though it « may be, can have the 
air of cheeriness about it which one finds, for instance, in the 
fir s in the old chateaux of France, or in the English 
manor houses. One will also find here illustrated two interest- 
ing examples of outdoor fireplaces—something new in Ameri- 
can architecture, and a feature tl vell worth incorporat- 
ing in the porch-plans for the house in the country, although 
conventional canons of form are hereby broken through. 
