November, 1918 
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The tea kettle boils. Madame sets up the 
folding, blue tiffin stand, and spreads the tea 
cloth. The November twilight dims the light 
from out of doors. Candles are brought out, 
their tapers lit. Long shadows deepen in the 
corners, lights and high lights flicker on the 
glass and silver upon the linen cloth. The fire 
blazes up as an under log crumbles and falls 
back. 
‘‘What a charming setting this chalet has!” 
“Yes, I think that every season is the most 
beautiful. In winter the bare trees stand out 
against the snow in sharp black and gray lines, 
tracing the most alluring patterns. We have 
snow in the ravine from the first heavy fall 
until spring. Then as the snow melts into the 
rivulet the sides of the ravine, dull brown, 
waken with a sprinkling of white hepaticas. 
As the days grow warmer the hepaticas spread 
and spread until the whole ravine side is white 
and pale pink and blue with them. Before 
they fade the trilliums and bloodiest bloom. 
They have scarcely gone when the new grass, 
the violets and the wild roses are here. The 
little tree leaves follow, jeweling the trees, and 
it is summer. Then come the blue and white 
and lavender phlox, with marsh marigold and 
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Compactness characterizes 
the room arrangement, giv¬ 
ing sufficient space for two 
to live and work comfort¬ 
ably 
Before and after views of the 
living room corner show what 
can be done with wall board 
Dalcomy 
Fuenacc l Coal 
Path d Kitchenette 
Um excavated 
Below stairs is a storage room 
and space for the furnace and 
coal, with entrance down the 
ravine 
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At one end of the living room is the dining room corner. Books 
fill a shelf that circles the room, above a burlap panel 
A Chinese screen one side of the living room wall, next to the 
field stone fireplace. Through the door is the kitchenette 
