be afforded,
copper wire will usually last sufficiently longer to repay its
additional cost. Metal frames are not so essential. The best form is
that which covers the entire window and permits both sashes to be
freely opened; but this costs practically twice as much as the
half-window screen.

STORM WINDOWS

Storm windows should be carefully fitted or they will come far from
serving their purpose. If they are of the right sort they will soon
repay their cost in easing up the furnace. Preferably they should be
swung from the top, both for ventilation and washing and to avoid a
check upon egress in case of fire. Some persons object to storm
windows on account of the supposed stoppage of ventilation, but that
rests entirely with the occupants of the house. They can get plenty of
fresh air without letting the gales of winter have their own sweet will.

With floors, walls, and windows determined upon, we have a good start
on the interior of our house. But we may only pause to take breath,
for we now have to give most careful consideration to two decidedly
important factors in our comfort--lighting and heating.

CHAPTER III

LIGHTING AND HEATING

If common sense has governed our proceedings to date, the new house we
are building, or the ready-built one we have chosen, will have full
advantage of the one perfect light--that afforded by the sun.

NECESSITY OF SUNLIGHT

The health-giving properties of sunlight are so well known to all of us
that we wonder why so many otherwise sensible folk seem to shun it,
with trees and vines, awnings and blinds denying access to that which
would make the house wholesome. When possible, every room in the house
should have its daily ray bath, and our apartments should utilize the
light of the sun as early and as late as may be.

Perhaps nature intended all creatures to sleep through the hours of
darkness. If we had followed that custom we might be a race of
Methuselahs; who knows? Why some one has not established a cult of
sleepers from sunset to dawn is really inexplicable. But mankind in
general has persisted in holding to a different notion, and since the
sun declines to shine upon us during all the hours of the twenty-four,
and we insist upon cutting the night short at one end, we have had to
devise substitutes for the sunlight.

Of course the sunlight does not always leave us in unbroken darkness.
Few of us are so far departed from the days of mellow y