November, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
321 
Homes That Architects 
Have Built for Themselves 
(Continued from page 278) 
effectively for the central background. In 
the flat face of the panel at top and sides 
a black band two inches wide is enriched 
with a delicately drawn and many-lined 
ornament of Pompeian pattern. This 
modest bit of embellishment along with 
the virgin blue rep hangings at doors and 
windows creates an unusual interest and 
charm. The only furniture consists of two 
Italian stone benches that stand directly in 
front of the radiators. It is interesting to 
note how the ugly radiators are inge¬ 
niously concealed and for once put where 
their objectionable forms cannot mar the 
aspect of their surroundings. They are 
set back within the wall, and abestos- 
coated metal hoods above them throw the 
heat out. In front of them, and Hush with 
the surface of the wall, are gratings made 
of narrow, vertical strips of wood set close 
together and painted the color of the 
plaster. These and the stone benches 
standing in front of them so effectually 
hide the radiators that one would never 
suspect their presence. The only trouble 
is that the wooden strips get kiln-dried and 
sometimes rattle like chattering teeth or 
even drop out, but it is a simple matter to 
put them back and tighten them up. Metal 
strips, of course, could be used just as well 
instead. 
The living-room is finished in darkwood, 
and the walls, like those in the gallery, are 
rough sand-finished, but toned. At the 
east end of the room directly opposite the 
generous-sized fireplace with its ingle- 
nook and tile-paved hearth, is a feature 
that will doubtless commend itself to all 
plant-loving housewives in search of suit¬ 
able places for window plants in wintei. 
It is a deep, semi-circular bow window, 
which, by the way, presents an exterior of 
important architectural charm on the south 
side of the house, viewed from the lawn 
and flower garden. This bow has stone 
floor and stone walls up to the casement 
sills, so that it does not matter how much 
water is spilled in sprinkling. This and 
the sunny southern exposure make a com¬ 
bination that could not be improved upon 
fpr having a delightful spot of greenery 
and bloom during the winter months. 
The ceiling is beamed with plastered 
panels, and the bookcases that line the 
walls are built in. An arrangement simi¬ 
lar to that in the gallery is made for ra¬ 
diators in the lower part of several book¬ 
cases, and asbestos filling over the hoods 
prevents the books above from being dam¬ 
aged. French casement windows open 
upon the lawn and upon the porch paved 
with large, red quarry tiles. 
The dining-room, where the color 
scheme is blue and white, has a wide, 
triple window opening to the east, so that 
How the Public Profits 
By Telephone Improvements 
Here is a big fact in the telephone progress of this country: 
Original Standard 
Bell Telephone Bell Telephone 
1876 To-day 
Early 
Telephone 
Exchange 
Typical 
Present-day 
Exchange 
If City Wires 800 Wires 
Were Carried in Underground 
Overhead Cable 
Hand in hand with inventions and devel¬ 
opments which have improved the service 
many fold have come operating economies 
that have greatly cut its cost. 
To appreciate these betterments and their 
resulting economies, consider a few ex¬ 
amples : 
Your present telephone instrument had 
seventy-two ancestors; it is better and 
cheaper than any of them. 
Time was when a switchboard required a 
room full of boys to handle the calls of a 
few hundred subscribers. Today, two or 
three girls will serve a greater number with¬ 
out confusion and very much more promptly. 
A three-inch underground cable now car¬ 
ries as many as eight hundred wires. If 
strung in the old way, these would require 
four sets of poles, each with twenty cross 
arms — a congestion utterly prohibitive in 
city streets. 
These are some of the familiar improve¬ 
ments. They have saved tens of millions of 
dollars. But those which have had the most 
radical effect, resulting in the largest econo¬ 
mies and putting the telephone within every¬ 
one’s reach, are too technical to describe 
here. And their value can no more be 
estimated than can the value of the invention 
of the automobile. 
This progress in economy, as well as in 
service, has given the United States the Bell 
System with about ten times as many tele¬ 
phones, proportionate to the population, as 
in all Europe. 
American Telephone and Telegraph Company 
And Associated Companies 
One "Policy One System Universal Service 
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