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Show "When we had our large house wo j used to get the old furniture out of the attic once a year, pound the dust and motha out of It the bst way we could, and almost kill ourselves sv,eei-mopping sv,eei-mopping and cleaning, but we find our Hlx-room house much more comfortable in cold weather and It U easier to take care of any time of the year." One chimney la aufliclent In a little house li!;e this, and you place it where it. la easy to get at for the kitchen range and for the furnace. The !ire-ph:ce !ire-ph:ce in the dining room ia so central that during the spring and fall a few los or a Koft coal fire will diive the chill out of the whole house and it will make the dining room comfortable comfort-able to sit in even when the weather becomes quite cold. Hy economizing like this In fuel a small furnace In the cellar will keep this little house warm all winter with five or six tons of coal, and when it comes to looks, a square house built after this design Is very satisfactory. It needs a heavy porch like this in front for appearance, and you need It In the summertime for comfort. When the base of the porch is built DEW IS FOR OWERJiOUSES People Have Come to Realize the Advantages of the Two-Slory Two-Slory Structures. REALLY ARE MORE HOMELIKE leo Much Leas Costly, a Consideration Considera-tion in These Days of Expensive Material and Labor Design Shows Comfortable Six-Room Six-Room Square House. By WILLIAM A. RADFORD. Mr. Wllllarn A. R;idfonl w:ll dnswpr 1iii-Ht loria Htui jflve tulvl'-e f'KCI-J OF '( KT on all fiuLJocta ijt:rl;i!nlntf to tho ul,j:t of 'nuildlnx, for the rt-aih-ra of tills jj tpiT (in ii'-roii lit -of hl.H vld experience an Kdltor, Author and Mitnufiirturer, he U. without (louht, the highest authority on ;ll these subjects. AiMressall Inquiries to Wllltiim A. lUulford, No. IVL'7 l'rulrla avenue. Chicago, III., and only encloue two cent Htanip for reply. An attempt has been made during the past, year or two to lower the apparent ap-parent height of square-built two-story houses. So many cottages have been built of late that the eye is becoming accustomed to lower dwellings and they are growing In popularity because be-cause there are many homelike features fea-tures about such houses that high two-story houses lose. Most people like to keep near to tho ground. Three-story houses, that were so common com-mon 20 years ago, are now seldom built. There Is a business reason for low-fr low-fr houses as well as a sentimental one. The fact is that although building build-ing materials are somewhat cheaper this year than last they still cost a great deal more money than ef old, and labor also ia more expensive. The higher you go into the air the greater tho cost, and this is one reason why architects like to keep dwellings as low as is consistent with good results. When, fortunately, sentiment and a low roof are both on the side of economy it is easy to cater to a popular popu-lar fashion. A six-room house on the square order or-der with rather a fancy roof is shown in the accompanying design. Some people object to a plain pyramid roof, such as we often see on houses of ihis shape, and this plan seems to get ti round the difficulty without adding expensive dormers that are of no special use. This design is 2G feet 9 inches wide and 27 feet 6 inches long, exclusive I DcrEoo Si-itA Bed Racwv. 1'"""'" Haul. r-LJj, JSb Coor. " Second Floor Plan. in solid under the rail Instead of being filled in in the usual way with balusters balus-ters it adds to the solid effect besides giving a little more protection on cold days. Then if you want to fit screens or sash between the posts it is easily done. Mosquitoes are bad in all parts of the country during certain seasons and it is worth a great deal to have a porch screened from the pests. Prv Tat" rprM ;,,i::::r::.:::::,::v:if MraaiiiafKiBiiii of the porch. A house of this size built full two stories in height looks higher than it really is and the effect is not pleasing. Hy carrying the roof down a few feet at the corners in this way the postlike effect is removed and we have a much better looking house without materially increasing the cost. The saving in lumber will about make up for the extra work on the upper windows, and you get splendid splen-did light upstairs as well as down; another advantage which comes from lowering the roof. There is a great demand for two-story, two-story, six-room houses. They are eas- LKrrcHF.M I f fLLJ "'' fcJ Dining Rooa J r-fe n Living Eodaa :' Hali -rfEr FCrch g -T g FU-st Floor Plan. lly kept in order, easily heated in winter and it costs less to furnish a elx-room house than when you have one or two rooms more, and people have found out that a whole lot of room is not absolutely necessary for a small or medium-sized family. You ust simply live differently and enjoy life all the better. Instead of allowing allow-ing all the old furniture to accumulate accumu-late you simply unload it on to the lunk man and let him worry with it. Aj one lady said: |