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December, 1920 
The back of the mill has two 
“terraces”—the lower adjoining 
the dining room, and the upper, 
surrounded by flower box rail¬ 
ings, connecting with the living 
room by means of wide glass 
doors. Awnings and simple fur¬ 
niture add comfort and charm 
From the lawn facing the road one enters the 
living room, 47' long and 25' wide. A large fire¬ 
place fills the center of the room. Rush-bottomed 
chairs, a spinning-wheel, India jars, rag nigs and 
many other reminders of early New England 
maintain the feeling of age which the plain wood- 
work and massive ceiling beams so strongly 
emphasize 
nearest the road, but as the land slopes down¬ 
ward toward the stream, three stories allow 
three tiers of rooms on the inner side. From 
the lawn facing the road one enters through 
an old green door, bound with iron, into a 
living room forty-seven feet long by twenty- 
five wide. Four large windows open to the 
lawn at the side. Opposite, other windows 
open directly on the tumbling stream below the 
hoary walls whence the rocks rise green and 
shadowed. A large fireplace fills the center 
of the room. Wide glass doors open out on 
the upper terrace, where the safety of the in¬ 
habitants is assured by flower boxes which 
form the railing. 
The upper floor has three bedrooms and a 
bath, and below are another bedroom and bath. 
The lower floor, facing the lower terrace and 
tree-shadowed stream, contains the dining 
room, whose pale gray walls and furniture 
rely on gay cretonne curtains and flowers for 
color. 
The kitchen is whitewashed from its beamed 
ceiling to the old flooring, and water gurgles 
past its door. White curtains catch the sun 
and shadows from the trees across the stream. 
Maiden-hair ferns cling to the rocky founda¬ 
tion where it rises from the water, and forget- 
me-nots smile at the blue sky above. 
The Furnishings 
To insure the note of simplicity, furnishings 
had to be found that were old and primitive. 
Rich mahogany and Turkish rugs were out of 
keeping, whereas rag caq^ets, cherry furniture, 
brass, copper and general rusticity were es¬ 
sential. Hence many trips about the sur¬ 
rounding countryside were in order, and many 
skirmishes with farmers’ wives resulted in 
amusing incidents and happy acquisitions. 
Windsor chairs, brown with age; spindle-leg 
tables, rush bottomed chairs, brass andirons, 
a spinning-wheel, India jars, hand-woven table 
covers, quaint prints and endless other treas¬ 
ures were obtained from attics and barn lofts. 
The prices paid were absurdly modest, } et 
they gave the recipient an opportunity to ex¬ 
change what she considered shabby and worth¬ 
less property for new splendors of golden oak 
and brilliant plush. 
And so the mill's interior took on the atmos¬ 
phere of settled age and homelikeness. Dull 
tints of rag carpets glowed from the dark 
plank flooring. Copper gleamed in dusky cor¬ 
ners, and pine furniture, painted to match the 
walls’ coloring, lent gaiety to simplicity. 
The owner's room, directly above the stream, 
and facing the greenery-draped rocks, called 
for golden walls, while the great beams above 
remained reddish brown with paler panelling 
between. A delicately modeled bed of old 
spindle pattern was painted sky blue, as were 
the old-fashioned dressing table and rush-bot¬ 
tomed chairs. A rug from the Vale of Cash- 
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On the lower floor, facing the lower terrace and giving glimpses of the tr e «- through the 
skeleton frame of the great wheel, is the dining room. Here the pale gray waus• ana 
tainted furniture rely upon gay cretonne curtains and cut flowers to give the needed 
touches of bright color On 'the platform without is a pleasant breakfast porch for 
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