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BUILDING 
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House &• Garde 
CONVENIENCES 
These Four Devices May Appeal to Those About to 
Build a Small House 
VERNA COOK SALOMONSKY 
1 ITTLE conveniences built into the 
^ house are decidedly in vogue today. A 
few which may prove of interest to those 
who are planning their future homes are 
illustrated here. 
There is a practical as well as decora¬ 
tive solution of the problem. Where to 
place the telephone. To be in a position of 
greatest convenience it should be located 
where it can be readily heard and easily 
answered from both the living and ser¬ 
vice portions of the house. But usually 
several doors separate these rooms mak¬ 
ing a tortuous route from the kitchen 
to the telephone. To do away with this 
inconvenience the hand telephone may 
be placed in a small opening in the wall 
separating the living and service por¬ 
tions—a location naturally depending on 
the layout of rooms. This opening should 
be about 9" wide and 18" high, and be 
placed approximately 4' frofti the floor. 
On the side of the living portion a small 
door, made by hinging a framed pic¬ 
ture to the narrow frame, closes over 
the hole (when the telephone is not in 
use or when it is being used from the 
service side) and forms an ornamental 
and decorative spot upon the wall. 
Another convenience is a towel rack 
built into a drawer for the drying of 
tea towels. This drawer is bottomless and 
should be built over an open space to give 
room for the hanging towels and also allow 
for the ventilation necessary to drying. The 
drawer is pulled out and the towels hung 
over small round wooden rods running par¬ 
allel from front to back. When the drawer 
is pushed back into place these towels are 
partially concealed and do not add a dis- 
The convenient tea towel 
rack is a bottomless draw¬ 
er with parallel rods on 
which the towels are hung 
cordant note to the otherwise orderliness of 
the kitchen or pantry. 
Also, the pantry radiator may be made to 
perform other duties besides that of heat¬ 
ing the pantry. There is on the market a 
type of radiator combined with plate warm¬ 
ers where dishes may be kept warm and 
ready for service. If enclosed in the lower 
section of a cupboard and behind fly- 
screen doors, food as well as dishes may 
be kept warm in the winter months and 
away from insects during the summer. 
By boring good sized augur holes into 
the countershelf some of the heat from 
the radiator will escape directly into the 
china closet above and take the chill 
from its plates and dishes. 
A fourth convenience is a small bench 
in the hall closet where rubbers may be 
taken off and put on at ease. A shelf of 
galvanized wires strung from end to end 
of the bench and about midway from 
floor to seat, makes an excellent place 
to dry wet rubbers and boots. A practical 
floor material for a hall closet and one 
that is not damaged by moisture is in¬ 
laid linoleum. When laid in squares of 
contrasting color with a plain border 
it becomes amazingly good looking. 
A telephone closet, opening 
on both living room and 
service quarters can have 
a door decorated this way 
(Below) By making a 
shelf of galvanized wire 
below a hall bench, one 
has a place for overshoes 
For warming plates one 
may install in the pantry 
china closet this type of 
flat-top radiator as shelves 
