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ance of openness has been preserved and supplemented by a secluded treatment on the rest of the grounds, thus making the rear most attractive and livable. Without a back street it has been necessary to provide a service road and court, and in that a considerable amount of rubbish accumulates from time to time on a place of this size; a spot behind the greenhouse is also reserved for the storage of unsightly articles.

Two points of command have been established: the library from which the family may get a wide range, and the housekeeper's room, from whose windows an eye may be kept on the traffic of the establishment. The front porch, built in under the upper rooms, provides for the formal out-of-door life of the family; while the terrace from the billiard room to the greenhouse overlooking a tennis-court on one side and a kitchen garden and pool of water on the other, offers absolute privacy for family and guests during hours of relaxation. Likewise it would also be constantly used as a means of access to the greenhouse and stable. In fact, the outbuildings may be reached under cover through the backhall and the sunny brick-paved kitchen porch

(a feature so arranged as to add to the garden picture and at the same time giving direct but an inconspicuous means of communication with the service court). Two open archways isolate the buildings and allow fresh currents of air to carry off all odors from the stable, laundry and kitchen.

The whole scheme forms an organic composition, in which the popular opinion of neighbors is conciliated by its appearance of openness and inviting hospitality, while in reality the life of the family, in and out of doors, may be as exclusively conducted as behind the forbidding walls that often make European streets so unattractive. Moral: Plan a system of buildings, gardens and courts.

Limited only by the primary ideas essential to the problem in No. 6, we leave out of consideration conditions of size and location, and develop a plan about an economic theory, viz., "the servant question." In other words, a compact design has been prepared with a view to reducing the cost and worry of the administration of a gentleman's country seat. Effective grouping naturally becomes a binding condition quite as

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important as the demands of taste and hygiene. It will be noted that the family and servant quarters are concentrated; united, yet distinct, and arranged to give the greatest amount of comfort and beauty in the former and the greatest economy of space and arrangement to the latter.

The greenhouse, with its screen-like wall, has been utilized to shield the dwelling from the north wind and to conceal the inevitable rubbishpile. Likewise, it is easily accessible and part of the architectural scheme rather than an unsightly shed of metal and glass. Placed where the flowers within can be seen from the house, and with a pedestal directly opposite the drawingroom window to display the show plants of the season, it becomes a useful and ornamental structure.

The connected stable, with horse-stalls as far as possible from the house, adds to the possible efficiency of administration and to the completeness of the picture. Thus centralization gives easy control of the entire establishment, as from the front door all traffic can be accounted for, and, secondly, the point of vantage on the stair-landing gives a view of stable, paddock and greenhouse, from which the doings of coachman and gardener may in a measure be watched.

The garden, a sort "of trap to catch a sunbeam," is an out-of-door room under the diningroom windows, from which the flowers may be touched and cared for, and adjoins a large family porch, safe from the gaze of callers, where one may dine unobserved in the open air.

The kitchen wing, studied for convenience, projects from the house to allow ample ventilation, and in comparing the first and second floor plans, it will be noted that the arrangements are very complete. The back stair, enclosed in a separate hall from cellar to third floor, with entrance hall on each floor, thus isolates the service traffic and all its associations. At the At the second floor it communicates with a storage-room for household utensils, with slop-hopper, etc., which may also be considered a place for airing or drying clothes, deriving artificial heat the year 'round from the kitchen beneath. It is, more

over, only a step to the double linen closet and laundry clothes chute.

Moral: Organize.

Emphasis is given to the planning of a property, as a whole; to the use of foresight, and to loving study. The rise of family fortune enables some to build more than one house during a lifetime, and those who build several never live long enough in any one to leave the impress of their personality behind them, and, consequently, their last creation is something usually large, costly, and perhaps grotesque. Seldom is time given to produce something finished. And it is just here where the man of moderate means has a chance to show his judgment and good taste. In the accompanying plans the immediate surroundings of the house have been treated with as much care as the internal arrangements, and we have already seen that household economy includes many outof-door conveniences, and likewise that the artistic effect depends largely on garden and outbuildings.

A full and immediate solution of all the possibilities of a given site is neither necessary nor desirable, though the larger elements should be determined upon and located in order that the homestead may grow together without conflict. A general scheme should be adopted and adhered to.

A love of flowers, a penchant for out-of-door games-social, musical, artistic or sporting tastes -will determine whether stable, studio or greenhouse is to be the dominant accessory; and the character thus determined may be elaborated, in conjunction with the house and grounds, to form a complete story-recording family history. Thus, a birthday tree, a garden walk, a row of hotbeds, an addition to the stable, studio or greenhouseeach may contribute a chapter to the home and help to glorify it. A real home, full of cherished associations and individual landmarks, will grow up with the family, becoming, as the years go by, something more than a random composition, something better and more significant than a readymade commonplace, if the proper start is made.