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Show kJLAJiT Lu r , ; v . ; UNOAIOW"1." V d ftj km : ' 7 ' Ik kilt l '1 4 IfilS!! I I IN 1 T-X ri' X 4 earned to ou lu 'Vl iV J ill IflSlllllflff 1 r-Vuh'-lfK l.e,tmg astern, aid, 4X V) 'A J ' a IW lflffillPI H fJi-VlM -BaffiiniI J, the most important fc's ! W WW ld P t'rVScwt feature of an house to -0 111111 i-rM - - '5-4 ll m ' itu a sin0c; B,tovr vXS f I J Jwli ;, I S ' STX.J pi iced iu a sm.i'l olivet ' 2)2MZr?l?OOJr -ZWrj? ' COIZm&Hr 1 " " at the center of tn 1 1 1 1 1 1 If llll I ' ?f-s r:-..,., v ..I l s preparing tne dinner ha cannot take the visitor to the kitchen, . The evening is no1 completed, of course. until the husband luis m explained to you ln heating system. wbicU yi is the most important feature of any house to a man. He started lm first winter in the bUilii-ing bUilii-ing with a single stove placed in a small close t at the center of tin? first floor whera all four rooms come together- He soon en carded this, however, for a school furnace, protected by a druro-Cold druro-Cold air holes were ordered or-dered drilled along tb bottom of this drum to the height of fourteen inches. As it musJ. send heat in every direction di-rection the side partitions parti-tions to the closet were cut off above and below be-low at the same lieigM: from the floor as Uik-cold Uik-cold air holes Upfront Up-front partition, Vido the revolving wall. a already an open grill. The unpleasant taste of carrying coal iox ttio furnace is eltminated in this Inventor's system. sys-tem. There Is a halfway half-way two feet wide running run-ning to the clowt Ironv the outside between the bathroom and kiU h en, intended originally to give access to tii f.A -v y 1, N f U v i k , w '4 SEroi-sm(? czjl&szd wiztdow j2y 72& ia?'j&zrr 4 -"Tf1- k HE earliest ex- pert on record r -cf$ who made a ( , 12 p ) scientific study V Y of devices for M economizing floor "sJgSi space and sirr.pli-feiSSj sirr.pli-feiSSj tying the labors ?3l:)iJ of housewives SygSpgSS was the Old cj?'"V Lady in the f Shoe. History tells us that she was an extreme advocate of decreasing de-creasing the size of dwellings, for even though seriously handicapped by the possession of a large family, she succeeded in keeping house in an ordinary ordi-nary piece of footwear. However, her home lacked all the modern conveniences conveni-ences usually demanded by people of the present day. She was barely able to feed her babies, and had not time to dream of such appliances as furnaces, fur-naces, plumbing and washing machine. Since the days of this aged eccen-' trie woman, our cities have grown up at amazing speed; and since mechanical mechani-cal inventions luve raised the standard stand-ard of living so that even the underpaid under-paid clerks insist on all sorts of improvements im-provements in plumbing and fixtures for their residences, the problem of constructing attractive homes in the small space available for the average family perplexes architects and engineers engi-neers more than ever in the past. Tents, portable houses, and cheap apartment buildings are endured where necessary, but none of these is fully satisfactory. An experiment carried on by Adam Int-Hout that has stood the test of weather for a winter and a summer without showing a defect seems to be the best solution offered. Professionally, Profession-ally, Mr. Int-Hout is a chemist, but he has studied physics and engineering as an avocation in his interest in settling the housing question, and has designed his own home according to the results of his scientific calculations. calcula-tions. On a fifty foot lot, shaded untler a the remaining room on the first floor. Both on account of general curiosity curi-osity and because of his hungry impatience im-patience for something to eat, the guest, by this time is wondering where the dining room can be and why Mr. Int-Hout does not offer him a glimpse of it. He is distracted, however," by noticing the unusual, artistic iron grill running from floor to ceiling in the center of one side wall, and apparently ap-parently serving no particular purpose. pur-pose. At one side of this hang three handsome watercolors, and farther along is a swinging door opening into the kitchen, through which Mrs. Int-Hout Int-Hout at this instant emerges. The housewife places her hand lightly on a spot in the wall, and the caller rub3 his eyes and pinches himself to find whether he is awake when he sees the whole partition, paintings and all, suddenly start to disappear into the kitchen, while on the other side of the revolving wall there comes into view a small sideboard with glass front, and rolling along before th wall comes a large dining table, all white and tempting with its covering cover-ing of napkins, silverware, and viands. 'With an easy shove, the table is moved away from the wall and half the parlor is completely transformed into a dining room. When the party is ready for dessert, des-sert, Mrs. Int-Hout does not need to excuse herself while she clears the table. She merely turns to the buffer at her back, opens out a drawer on which the next course stands alredy served and which at the same lime is used to keep the soiled plates of the previous course out of sight. At the 'conclusion of the meal, the inventor in-ventor of the folding bungalow pushes the table over to the wall and sets the machinery in motion, when, presto! the dining room has van ished and the persons have moved to the living room without taking a step. Mrs. Int-Hout never allows dirty dishes to interfere with her evening pleasure, because in a few odd minutes min-utes she can go to the kitchen, where the dining table stands beside the convertible sink and laundry tub, and with the aid of an automatic dish washer, installed only recently, can , have the room tidied in almost no time. The chemist has computed accurately accu-rately the time and work saved by this scheme, and estimates that for every meal his wife prepares, she eliminates half a mile of useless walking walk-ing back and forth from kitchen to dining room, and he notices a difference dif-ference in her happiness proportionate proportion-ate to the saving of this wasted energy! gas and water meters, and chest. Now in. this narrow space t owner has built a chute, the olW-end olW-end being at the right height - receive re-ceive the load from the Oliver wagon. The chute holds two tons and slopes down at such an aiiKi "ui the coal slides to the bottom by : imitation, imi-tation, and the operator cmi put a shovelful right at the furnace dour. Another feature of the furnace is a revolving dust pan. in which there is no sinking or dumping to mnUe extra work for either the man or the woman wom-an of the family. With this ingenious arrangement absolute suction for drawing iu c.-ll air is effected. Its success as il? basis of a beating and ventilntitie scheme is shown by the fact Uiut th house was kept warm all winter less man five tons of coal- pair of arching elm trees, stands his artistic folding bungalow, made in six weeks on a foundation of concrete covered with stucco, the total expense amounting to only $2,000. The (lower beds and garden, with the cottage twenty-six feet square seemingly planted in their center, make the spot a pleasant haven in the evening following fol-lowing a day's work in the torrid city. Still, it is the interior of the little house where Mr. Int-Hout displays dis-plays his Ingenuity in eliminating many worries of the housekeeper. In acceptance of an invitation to dinner, one crosses an eight by ten foot porch to the door bell, and is received by the host and his wife in a comfortable, large living room extending extend-ing nearly the entire width of the house. Mrs. Int-Hout retires for a few moments to the kitchen, where by means of numerous mechanical arrangements ar-rangements she does her housework unassisted more easily than most women with servants. The chemist at once likes to show off the wonders of his edifice, and he directs the visitor up a flight of stairs leading out of one end of the living room. During his climb the guest notices that the balustrade is cleverly planned as a book case, thus serving the owner doubly. At the top of the steps one finds a bedroom, fifteen and one-half feet square. Good ventila tion for this chamber is insured by two glass doors, one on the .north side and the other on the south, which lead out on to a pair of sleeping sleep-ing porches. On the main floor again, the host conducts his guest into another well furnished bedrcorn. This apartment is scarely used, for the inhabitants keep their own beds on the sleeping porches through all seasons of the year. The downstairs bedroom adjoins ad-joins the bathroom. The chemist then shows his friend back to the living room and explains that as his wife |