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Seeing Your House Before It Is Built 
( Continued, from page 74) 
perfection which either corresponds ex¬ 
actly with the drawings, or improves 
upe hem to some extent, it is ready 
I fr r the client—and it enables him to 
oe what his house looks like before 
even ground is broken for its building. 
The client can see Ips house from 
different angles—can imagine its effect, 
as seen from entering the drive in a 
motor car. He can walk around it, 
and /lew it from the sunken rose-gar- 
, or from the pgviliop at the far end 
of the garden. It is as though he could 
read the future in a crystal globe—and 
it is a more accurate kind of prevision, 
b p cause the architect’s supervision of 
,.ne making of the model makes certain 
that it is accurate, and that it checks 
with the drawings. 
The element of uncertainty and mis¬ 
giving, which assails the minds of many 
prospective builders, to the ruination 
of many a fair project, is eliminated, 
and complete reassurance substituted in 
place of it. 
Most important public buildings are 
worked out with scale models, and, in 
the process of actually constructing the 
building, all ornamental detail is mod¬ 
eled to scale and at full size. 
Scale models are especially useful in 
cases of committees, or groups of people 
who are to pass upon dfesign. Though 
drawings might mean different things 
to different people, the model is more 
nearly likely to mean the game thing to 
evefy person who Sees it, quite regard¬ 
less of individual ability to visualize, or 
varied degrees of the faculty of im¬ 
agination on the part of the individual. 
Above all, the scale model is of value 
in showing the exact relationship be¬ 
tween house and grounds, which seldom 
declares itself in drawings. Certainly a 
garden plan looks very little like the 
garden itself, whereas a well made model 
will tell the story with amazing realism. 
While model making, outside the 
architect’s draughting rooms, is a dis¬ 
tinct business, one cannot but wonder 
why it is not more frequently met with 
as a hobby Of people who enjoy doing 
things With their hands. The prospec¬ 
tive builder himself might experience a 
great deal pf very real pleasure and a 
sense of creating the roof-tree which is 
to be his home and shelter, if he were 
to undertake the making of a rough, 
preliminary model before consulting 
with his architect. Even supposing this 
model were quite inaccurate, and to 
Some extent impractical, the prospective 
builder would at any rate gain some 
very interesting first-hand knowledge 
and realization of how much more there 
is fo bvtilqihg a house than “making 
some bHlfepfints”. Knowing, in this 
way, somfe pf the difficulties which the 
architect is trained to solve, the pros¬ 
pective builder would feel, from the 
start, far rrtdre kinship, sympathy and 
understanding than usually characterizes 
the relationship. 
Certainly a scale model may clarify 
many of the mysteries of architectural 
drawings, and will be a happy means 
toward realizing the house of your 
dreams. 
The Case of the Stationary Vacuum Cleaner 
(Continued from page 53) 
after the building is erected, but natu¬ 
rally it is less expensive to put it in dur¬ 
ing the building and when planned for 
ahead than it is to put pipes through a 
house after it is built. 
Operation 
With the stationary type cleaner you 
have no machine to move about—you 
simply move the tool attached to the 
hose and the tools are just as light as 
those of the portable machines. There 
is no electric connection to make, no 
electric wire to carry unconsciously 
along. All there is to be done by the 
worker is to slip the end of the cleaner 
hose into the suction pipe opening in 
the baseboard of the room. A patented 
device prevents the hose from becom¬ 
ing detached accidentally. 
The usual tools come with the in¬ 
stalled cleaner, such as handle, blower, 
felted sweeper, book cleaner, duster, 
etc. Other tools can be made to order 
to fit any particular need. 
One thing delightfully obviated in the 
stationary cleaner is the noise. The 
writer has what she considers the best 
portable cleaner on the market, yet the 
noise is a great drawback. The sta¬ 
tionary cleaner is therefore a boon to 
the sick room and it is easy to see why 
the newer hospitals take as readily to 
them as to the piped water system. 
Then, too, having the baseboard vent 
in each area in large houses, with the 
consequent needlessness of carrying a 
cleaner upstairs and down, over hill and 
dale, is a selling point for the piped 
cleaner. Also the swiftness of clean¬ 
ing, due of course to the tremendous 
air velocity—a canned hurricane. How¬ 
ever, in the small residence the greater 
cost would be unwarranted because of 
the great efficiency of the portable ma¬ 
chines. 
Where there is a garage in the family, 
and it is piped for cleaning, the ma¬ 
chinery, instead of being permanently 
installed, can be mounted on rollers and 
can be wheeled and attached to the 
pipes in that building. Therefore the 
necessity of two machines is obviated 
where the other building is piped. 
Yet when the buildings are widely 
separated it is best to have one of the 
good portable machines which are on 
the market in so many designs, and are 
adapted to so many and varied uses. 
Therefore we see the portables as in¬ 
dispensable and see them filling fields 
that the installed can never hope to 
fill. 
The fact that the stationary entails 
no dust bag cleaning is a time and 
labor-saving actuality. Then, too, no 
matter how good the dust bag is on 
the portable vacuum cleaner, some of 
the very fine dust must escape through 
the bag into the room. In the station¬ 
ary type the cleaner politely does its 
exhaling in the cellar. This point has 
been made valuable to chocolate makers 
who want to save the loss of chocolate 
in packing boxes, to manufacturers who 
want to obviate the retaining of poison¬ 
ous dust among the workers, etc., etc. 
In the stationary as well as in the 
portable vacuum cleaners the suction is 
caused by the pump or fan type ma¬ 
chine. Some manufacturers advocate 
one, some another. In picking your 
winner you must go to the best manu¬ 
facturer of each type and let him give 
you his tale, and then see whether you 
come out a pump fan or a fan fan! 
The other intricacies of this simple 
machine need not bother us. Go to 
the best makers and make them re¬ 
sponsible for your purchase. Not all 
of us being engineers, we have to de¬ 
pend on the reputation of the best 
makers. 
The stationary cleaner can do more 
work than the portable, it will last 
longer because the machinery is heavier, 
yet there are drawbacks to it as to all 
machinery which is not at all points 
open to the eye. For example, the 
(Continued on page 78) 
