HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 
1910. 
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Exterior and interior views of a corner bay that lights the landing of the main stairway 
and makes an attractive feature of the interior 
Plain scrim curtains, thirty inches wide 
and two and a half yards long, can be 
bought in the shops for $1.65 a pair. 
Scrim curtains with drawn-work and 
hemstitching can be bought for $4.50; 
these are three yards long and forty-eight 
inches wide. They are suited both to 
costly and inexpensive rooms. 
Some of the ready-made curtains are 
trimmed with a cotton lace edging which 
makes an effective finish. Pretty edgings 
may be bought for as little as three cents 
a yard and are to be recommended for 
home-made curtains. 
Scrim can be bought by the yard for 
twenty cents. An excellent quality, forty- 
eight inches wide, sells for forty cents a 
yard. Most of the novelty scrims sell for 
about forty-five cents a yard. 
Dorothy Tuice Priestman 
An Effective Stair Landing 
I N the living-room of Mrs. R. H. Hillis' 
attractive house at Greenwood Lake, 
N. Y., Graham King, architect, a hepta- 
gonal jog forming a five-sided bay-win¬ 
dow, which juts out over a cobble foun¬ 
dation, makes a landing and turning-place 
for the stairs, which would otherwise 
either have to encroach on the space of 
the living-room or else make a short, 
sharp turn. The expanse acquired by the 
sweep of the stairs into the bay-window 
adds much to the apparent size of the liv¬ 
ing-room, in addition to furnishing a 
flood of light in the room as well as on 
the stairs. There are three casement win¬ 
dows opening outwards, and two blank 
wall spaces reserved for bookcases. The 
other two sides of the heptangle are oc¬ 
cupied by the two stair sections. The 
wide window seats are especially inviting, 
and the unusual shape of the landing 
makes a space large enough for a couple 
of chairs. The wide overhang of the 
roof serves as an awning. 
K. N. Birdsall 
An Instantaneous Hot Bath for a 
Cent 
HE writer, going from a New York 
suburb where a trip had to be 
made to the kitchen to “light the boiler,’’ 
followed by a wait of fifteen minutes be¬ 
fore the water would be hot, visited in a 
small West Virginia town where the pro¬ 
gressive host supplied instantaneous hot 
baths from a boiler installed in the bath¬ 
room. The only labor was the lighting 
of a match; in a second the hot water 
was pouring from the faucet; and when 
the faucet was turned off, so was the 
gas, and there was no danger of escaping 
gas nor any waste of water. The boiler 
is not unsightly; it does not occupy any 
floor space; it is made of copper, with 
brass valves, nickelplated and highly pol¬ 
ished, and rests on a white enameled 
steel shelf. With gas at 80 cents a thous¬ 
and, it takes but one cent to heat twelve 
gallons of water—a plentiful bath for 
anyone. If you have natural gas in your 
house, the cost of heating water is much 
less. If you happen to be one of those 
unfortunates who never can get enough 
hot water here is a solution of your prob¬ 
lem. The cost of installation is from 
$23.50 to $52. K. N. B. 
Some of the new curtain materials. On the left, a net trimmed with braid and buttons, in white and in arabe, called “Colonial Marie An¬ 
toinette,” 3 yds. long, $3.50 a pair. The middle illustration is from one of a number of Austrian prints that come in many colors and are 
washable; 50 ins. wide, 2 % yds. long, $5.75 to $7.25 a pair. The last illustration shows a colored madras that is 40 to 50 ins. wide, 3 to 
3/4 yds. long, and costs from $3.75 to $12.50 a pair, according to quality 
