is put in a corner, not only warm but heating large quantities of water by dark, and there is an enormous dis- electricity is five times that of using tance between all the conveniences that coal. should be placed in juxtaposition. Only a woman can arrange satisfactorily these things, and when building much careful attention should be devoted to them. When the kitchen and laundry are combined in one, the tubs occupy a valuable space. Especial care should be paid to one or two details. First, they should be well trapped; second, as the space they consume is frequently desired for a table, they should be covered, but as confined air near plumbing becomes dangerous, the covers should close upon rubber knobs or wooden blocks, so as to leave an airspace for ventilation. The waste heat of the laundry stove is arranged by means of an ingenious contrivance to dry clothes-a great desideratum on stormy days, or in homes where there is but scant drying room. The same stove boils the clothes, heats the flat-irons, and also heats water by the water-back system. This last feature makes this stove especially useful in a kitchen where electricity is employed for cooking, as the cost of The path of the amateur builder is bestrewn with roses-and the accompanying thorns-so that his pride and happiness are often chastened by unexpected annoyances. Technical advice from architects and artisans can be bought, but it is those outside their crafts who best realize the usual mistakes in house building. An architect's duty usually ends when the house stands a completed structure. That is his point of view. A house-owner's judgment begins only when the architect has finished and the house is peopled by his family with its multitudinous needs. Then the mistakes of plan, construction, and finish are revealed, and then it is too late, and wearily he repeats the old saying, which he has only just begun to appreciate, that to build well one must build twice. It has been my endeavor to point out the dangers along the way and thus save the home-maker from many of the commonest errors, and to help him construct a house in which comfort, sanitation, and beauty form the three architectural graces. HOUSE DECORATION AND FURNISHING. BY MARY GAY HUMPHREYS. Home and the Individual. The Hall. The Drawing-room. Color Schemes. Stained Glass. Arrangement of Light. HE women for whom this book is intended, as they traversed its chapters, must have been impressed with the in creasing number of interests and enlarged responsibilities that have fallen to the lot of the women of our day. The relations of woman to home and society have for generations been clearly defined. Her duty to herself and her relations to the community, the state, and the government, are later developments, peculiar to our era, and still in process. The signs of the increasing number of interests are the formation of clubs and the desire for self-improvement so conspicuously seen in the past ten years. Woman's enlarged responsibilities are now shown in her part in philanthropy, moral reform, and her increasing part in public affairs. The Den. The Billiard-room. The Bedroom. The Bath. Artistic Kitchens. Oriental Rugs. Porcelains and Potteries. Antique Furniture. vision about every twenty years. It is the home in its new aspect that we shall consider. This is as a whole, not as an aggregation of vaguely related details. The frontier wife has her oneroom log cabin, and the city woman is mistress of many such mansions under one roof. These have arisen out of the various necessities of the household kitchen, dining-room, parlor, billiard-room, and boudoir. Their occasion has been incidental, not deliberate. Many a woman has seen her home and its duties increase and rise above the force of her impotent arms until she was submerged beneath myriad details. The view of the home as an organism, with its dependent parts, intended not only to shelter the family, but to facilitate life in its larger aspect, is one that is new. Whatever this chapter may contain that is helpful is written with reference to the home thus considered, and with the hope of showing how to attain the greatest good with the greatest leisure: the one in the interest of the family at large-the other for the benefit of its members as individuals. Whereas the life of woman was once dual, it is now fourfold in its nature. In the necessary readjustment, the time and attention formerly given to two objects must now be shared by four. This division must be so made that none shall suffer, for with enlarged duties comes a higher sense of responsibility. Mr. Huxley says a truth needs re- sion. Of these the material well-being To do this, one may consider the home as it ministers to physical comfort, contributes to mental satisfaction, and is the medium of individual expres |