NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
AND REMINDER 
Vol. XI 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, June 6, 1913 
No. 23 
Beautiful North Shore Verandas 
THE E. C. RICHARDSON VERANDA, MAGNOLIA 
N essential feature of the twentieth century seashore 
and country home is the veranda, which in the 
last few years has developed from a small roofed-over an- 
nex, where occasionally one paused to rest, or to chat with 
a friend, to the spacious outdoor living-room of the pres- 
ent time, where during the summer season the home life 
practically centers. It is no longer the convenient ornamen- 
tal appendage, or the simple porch stretched across the 
entrance front of the house, but a useful and valuable 
adjunct, carefully planned and comfortably furnished, and 
it bids fair in the near future of being even more amply 
developed than at the present time. In fact the veranda 
offers greater possibilities. : 
Love of life in the open is responsible to a consider- 
able extent for the rapid rise into popular favor of this 
feature, and as the health-giving fad gained additional 
devotees, so the improvement of the veranda became 
more pronounced. ‘The fresh air advocates were not long 
in recognizing that the veranda brought people together 
out-of-doors, and gradually became the general assem- 
blage place of the family, and they quickly set to work 
to make it into a living room as comfortable and attract- 
ive as the one indoors, supplied with cozy nooks for 
lounging, reading and smoking, and equipped with com- 
fortable chairs, a table or two for books, papers and 
flowers, a couple of hammocks, and pots of growing 
plants. The veranda thus became a spot of beauty; the 
seed of its usefulness was sown, and we have not even yet 
fully reaped the benefits of its fruits. 
