Show dining alcove in small home Is popular now following the modern trend in construction st except in unusually large homes li the dining room once called tho most essential room in the house Is becoming more and more a nonessential especially in the small house the apartment and the bungalow of few rooms the dining room la Is being ye replaced by the danin alcove or breakfast room as it used to he be called the apace space once devoted to the dining room might easily be de devoted to a library or sewing room combined the te kitchen that necessity in eveia aery home of whatever size should be so placed that the and odors from the cooking foods are aie carried away from the rest of the house thus it would in many cases be at the northern end of the place pince where the prevailing winds in our climate at least would blow the aromas awai away from the other rooms the kitchen lill chen may very happily be designed toward the front of the house especially it if the house faces north and there can be no possible objection to such a design the service lIbe en entrance trarice may be at the side of the building the drying room and the service yard b being e within a lattice wall ft all a stone wall 0 or r a high pedge hedge |