June, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
501 
In another case the lot was located on 
a point of land extending into the water. 
A single room built above the roof of the 
cottage, with a fireplace, and no windows 
whatever, but only posts at the corners 
and the space between filled with screens 
is a most delightful retreat on a hot day. 
If there is any air at all it will penetrate 
that tower room, and the steps which 
lead to it are most attractive. There 
are shutters outside the screens which 
pull up with cords to form awnings, and 
which let down and fasten with hooks 
when a wind-storm comes along. 
If it should happen that the house is to 
be back some distance from the sea¬ 
shore, and it is desired to make a beauty 
spot of one’s own where the surround¬ 
ings do not lend themselves to attractive 
treatment, we may borrow an idea from 
the Spanish houses, and build around a 
patio. This naturally implies a somewhat 
pretentious establishment, perhaps, and 
always seems a little bit selfish, as 
though one wished to keep all the beauty 
to himself. At the same time there are 
advantages in it. And if there are not 
rooms enough to go all the way around, 
the remaining sides can be built in the 
form of a wall, with rambler roses to 
grow over it or a high lattice fence to be 
made the background for the growing 
of vines. The floor of the patio can have 
a pool of water in the center, with gold¬ 
fish and water plants to keep it fresh 
and to destroy mosquitos. The rooms 
around the patio will have windows on 
the side toward the street and on the in¬ 
side, toward the garden as well, so that 
there is splendid cross ventilation when 
the windows are open. 
The heating of a cottage is a thing 
which must be thought of carefully. This 
can be done by means of a furnace or 
boiler, or it can be done by a very much 
less expensive method. All that we need 
is a “torpedo” stove and some sort of a 
casing, together with a slight knowledge 
of heating information. We can set the 
stove up under the house or on the first 
floor if necessary and connect the pipe to 
a chimney. If the stove is on a wooden 
floor it will be best to cover the wood 
with bricks laid close together on edge, 
and then sift sand into the crevices until 
they are all filled even full. Then build 
a little room around the stove from 
pieces of galvanized iron, and stiffen the 
top with pieces of gaspipe standing on 
end like columns, with a nail through 
the sheet metal into the hollow pipe. 
Cut holes in the top and run pieces of 
stovepipe or of furnace pipe to the va¬ 
rious rooms to be heated or to one large 
central room. Build an inlet for the air 
to enter the bottom of the heater, and 
have this connect near the floor of the 
lowest room. Then provide for cold, 
fresh air to enter from out of doors. A 
damper will regulate the amount taken 
from outside and the amount drawn off 
from the rooms. Remember that you 
cannot force air into a tight room unless 
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Power Boats, Bathing, Fishing, Ice-Harvesting 
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