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H o us e & Garden 
Making the Attic Livable 
{Continued from page 60) 
tectural design, so that it will conform 
in character with the rest of the house 
fittings. 
Dens, Studios and Extra Bedrooms 
Even in a small house, where a grow¬ 
ing family demands extra rooms for 
children, casual guests or servants, the 
attic should play its part. In large 
houses freer scope is allowed, and the 
attic can serve as a billiard room, a 
master’s den, nursery, or perchance a 
ball room. 
As a servants’ room, especially if 
there are two, it is better to plan the 
rooms over the service quarters, de¬ 
signing a staircase that connects with 
the kitchen and pantry on the lower 
floor. Otherwise several thicknesses ot 
sheathing paper should be put between 
the flooring to avoid the annoyance of 
hearing heavy walking overhead. 
When a man comes home from a 
strenuous day in his office, the one thing 
he demands is rest and quiet, a place 
where he can think and smoke to his 
heart’s content. Here the attic of the 
house comes in, furnishing a den 
where he can be completely isolated 
from the family life. Nothing is so 
soothing to tired nerves as an open 
wood fire, so, if possible, introduce a 
stone fireplace. If he is a sportsman, 
adorn the walls with trophies of the 
chase, and throw a huge bear skin on 
the bare floor, just in front of the 
hearth. 
The Dance Room 
For dancing purposes, what can be 
more advantageously used than this part 
’of your home? Here sufficient size can 
be given to make it practical. The 
flooring should be of spring boards, 
and the room should be walled in with 
dark English oak, paneled and showing 
carved columns. At one side an alcove, 
the width of the wall, will allow a 
place for the orchestra, lighted by a 
dormer window. The end of the room 
can be divided in such a way that the 
doors are introduced into the panels, 
leaving two dressing rooms. For a bit 
of color, use red damask for curtains. 
By fitting up a small kitchen just be¬ 
yond the ball room, the refreshment 
problem is simplified. 
A most interesting arrangement has 
been successfully carried out in a mag¬ 
nificent summer home along the North 
Shore in Massachusetts. It comprises 
a suite of rooms devoted to the use of 
the young heir. Here the beams are of 
old wood, modeled by ships’ carpenters, 
in the early 18th Century. These are 
pegged together in the old-fashioned 
way. White plaster for wall surface 
and between the beams gives a pictur¬ 
esque touch, lightened by the dull red 
curtains that separate the bedroom from 
the bath adjoining it. The floor of hard 
wood has been painted a soft brown to 
follow out the Colonial idea, and hooked 
rugs worked in soft mellowed tones are 
effectively placed. 
The central features of the room are 
the single English trundle beds, painted 
brown, and brightened with coverings 
of yellow English chintz, showing red 
and blue flower decorations, repeated 
in the cushions of the winged and wick¬ 
er chairs. The room is broken by three 
deep alcoves, into each of which has 
been set a casement window. 
Roof Conservatories and Nurseries 
For those who wish to have an in¬ 
door garden the top of the house offers 
excellent chances. By roofing the attic 
with glass, and letting in groups of 
French windows on three sides a sun 
parlor can be constructed. In this room 
the sunlight can be controlled with roller 
shades. As summer approaches, turn 
off the radiator and fling open the win¬ 
dows—and you have a summer home 
without the trouble of moving! 
For the twilight story that the chil¬ 
dren so dearly love, why not have the 
nursery in the attic? This idea has 
been conceived by a mother, who later 
on developed it into a private kinder¬ 
garten, so that the children not only of 
her own family but those of the neigh¬ 
borhood, could study under her own 
eye. Tables were placed around three 
sides of the room, while the piano in 
the corner was used for the kinder¬ 
garten songs, doing double duty later 
on for the practicing of scales, without 
disturbing the rest of the household. 
These are only a few uses that can 
be made of the rooms at the top of the 
house. Doubtless there are numerous 
other ideas that can be easily worked 
out and attics worth while achieved, if 
one gives time and thought to a con¬ 
sideration of then). 
Planning a Successful Garden Show 
{Continued from page 42) 
With four entries two awards will be 
given; with five or more, three awards. 
Should there be insufficient entries to 
form a class, but an exhibit of great 
merit, the judges may award a first, 
second or third prize at their discretion. 
The awards shall be ribbons: blue for 
first, red for second, white for third, and 
yellow for exhibits worthy of recogni¬ 
tion where no other prize has been 
awarded. A first prize will count five 
points, a second three, a third one, and 
the yellow two and a half. The Tri¬ 
color counts ten points, 'and will be 
given by the judges to the best exhibit 
in the whole show—one for flowers, one 
for fruit, and one for vegetables. 
There shall be three or more judges 
at all shows, and the committee shall 
endeavor to have at least one judge who 
is not a Club member. 
Each ■ e-xhibit must conform with the 
rules in the class form book. 
Exhibits must be of more than ordi¬ 
nary standard and good quality to be 
entitled to award. 
Exhibitors should comply with the 
rules or run the risk of having their 
exhibits disqualified. 
All vegetables and fruits must have 
been grown and canned by the ex¬ 
hibitor. 
Scale of Points 
The scale of points in counting was 
also given, that each one might under¬ 
stand the judging, and was made out on 
the following percentage system: 
Flowers 
Size of blossom...40% 
Perfection of shape.40% 
Stem .10% 
Foliage .10% 
100 % 
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