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Show interfere with the proper placing of lmnilisomo dining-room decorations. Another feature of this house that Is well worth consideration is tho pantry. pan-try. It is seldom you get such a pantry pan-try in any house. Tho extension of the back porch to inclose one end of the pantry has been taken advantage of to lay out an arrangement that will appeal to most women. It is large enough to hold considerable china and tho sink so conveniently situated is a great satisfaction at difali-washing time. I often wonder why sinks are not demanded nearer to the shelves where dishes are kept. If you watch a woman doing up the work after meal time you will notice that she is constantly con-stantly walking back and forth between be-tween the dining table, the sink and the pantry shelves and the china cupboard. cup-board. This combination pantry is a isort of cross between the modern store room pantry and an old-fashioned butler's but-ler's pantry. There are other Interesting features about this house indicated by the plans, such as the combination stairway stair-way going up from the kitchen and from the front room, the hall coat closet and the convenient cellarway with shelves for jelly glasses and other 6torage, all of which require a house about this size if you expect, to work them all in. You can have some of the modern Improvements in a small house. If you want them all you must build larger. Mr. William A. Rndford will answer questions ami Kive ndvlcf KWhK Ol? COST on nil subjects pcrtalotiiK to tho Butijei't of ImlUliiiK, for the renders of this paper. On account ot his wide experience as Editor. Author ami Manufacturer, ho i, without doubt, the Inchest authority on all theso subjects. Address all Imiulrlea to "William A. Uadford. No. ITS West Jnekson boulevard, Chicago, III., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. Most people like largo rooms; but large rooms call for a large house. This plan is 31 feet 6 inches by 36 feet in size and Is built on the square order, severely plain in design and general gen-eral treatment. Instead of crowding In as many rooms as possible, they are made larger than is customary at the present time; but It gives to the house an air of old-fashioned comfort that Is quite luxurious. . Luxury means in many cases something some-thing that is difficult to secure. Since the advance in prices of labor, wages of skilled mechanics, prices of hardware hard-ware and most building materials the tendency has been to build smaller houses and smaller rooms. Probably the after maintenance has as much to do with the general trend towards smaller houses as any other consideration, consider-ation, because it is almost impossible to obtain help of the right kind to keep a large house in order after you get it. Then the extra cost of heating a large house is a serious objection to some people; but the improvements in hot-air furnaces and in hot-water and Bteam heaters have gone a long way to reduce cost in this respect. The shape of the house also has a great deal to do with the cost of heating. heat-ing. A house built after this design le very compact. There are no side rooms to carry the heat to at a disadvantage; disad-vantage; so with a modern heater in the basement this house may be kept comfortable for less money than the fceating of a much smaller house would have cost ten or fifteen years ago. These are the days of large living rooms. People have found that at least one room in the house should be as large, as light, and as airy as it is possible to make it. Across the front of this house, 14 by 60 teet inside in-side measurement, is practically one great room with a fireplace in one end and with plenty of large windows that are in keeping with the general character char-acter of the house. This large living room is intended to be one of the main decorative fea- S&&z iiiipliiilllllllllllllll I tures, the furnishings of which will require a great deal of studying and planning to bring out all its splendid possibilities. Such rooms nowadays are seldom or never carpeted. The floor is hard wood with a finish that shows the grain to advantage. The floor is nice enough to leave without any covering whatever; but no one likes a bare floor because of the noise and from the further fact that no room 4ias a properly furnished appearance unless the floor has been carefully pro-' pro-' vlded with rugs that harmonize with the wall and ceiling decorations. There is a good deal in proportioning rugs to the size of the room. This large living room should have two rugs large enough to reduce the outside margin to about ten inches. The space between the rugs in the center should be about the same, but this space directly di-rectly in the center of the archway should be filled in with another rug to avoid stepping on the polished floor. It needs this little rug for looks and it needs it to prevent a bad spot by wearing wear-ing away the floor polish. The rugs, wall paper and curtains must of course harmonize in colors. Turkish rugs are quite fashionable, and the genuine Turkish rug is a prize, but they have their disadvantages. disadvan-tages. Most of them are too soft to keep their place on the floor, and' if the floor is highly polished they are so slippery as to be positively unsafe, especially for old people. A first-class machine-mada American rug is good enough for any room if it corresponds with the surroundings. The dining room offers, another splendid opportunity for decorative ability. The room is well calculated to show furniture to advantage. It is It feet 6 inches by 16 feet in size and here are no projections or corners to |