House & Garden 
THE SUNLIGHT 
You can’t b.lame men for worshipping the sun. Such a 
human old god he is! He moves across the paved terrace 
and warms the slates. He lifts up the heads of geraniums 
standing primly in a row beneath the window. His fingers 
fcei out the crannies of the rough wall and emblazon the 
window panes. At his call casements fling open, and men 
and women and little children come out to sit at breakfast 
MAKES IT SO 
in the sun-washed alcove that overlooks the garden. Now 
you can, if you see nothing more in it, call this the rear 
terrace of Mr. George Marshall Allen’s house at Convent, 
N. J. And you can say that Charles I. Berg, who designed 
it, has created a fine bit of architecture, that the texture of 
the wall is extraordinary, etc., etc. But it’s more than 
just architecture—and the sunlight makes it so 
