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Show Lisht Is Held Essential in Basement of Any Home In the majority of Houses the basement base-ment covers the entire ground area Sthe house s -Ce its share of -fulness pro,,, tionately, due to the fact that 1 often It is dark and gloomy, entirely unsuitable for anything except a furnace fur-nace or store room. As a result the home owner is deprived of part of the livableness and efficiency he is justly entitled to. If it could be changed from a dark, gloomy, place into a bright cheerful room an actually livable and useful part of the house how much more satisfied tlie owner would be. And how much more quickly nnd easily a house with a cheerful modern basement base-ment could be sold. That is what steel windows do. They admit more daylight than wood windows tilling the same size masonry opening. Tlie narrow frames and members permit the use of larger glass lights. Since these windows are made of steel they cannot warp nor stick nnd are easily opened and closed. These advantages may seem of little importance impor-tance to a man. but to the woman of the house a light and cheerful basement base-ment means much, for there the laundry laun-dry is usually located. When clean-in!: clean-in!: the furnace or doing the odd repair re-pair job a light basement will appeal to the man of the house. |