h an
intimate knowledge of their designs we shall be better able to
appreciate the products of our own age, whose creators drew their
inspiration from the past. A modern treatment of windows appears in our
illustration.

[Illustration: 75 BEACON STREET, BOSTON]

[Illustration: THATCHED-STYLE COTTAGE FOR AMERICAN SUBURBS]

The Tiny House

By Ruth Merton

(_Concluded from October_)

If, some fine day, all housewives awoke to the fact that most of the
trouble in the world originates in the kitchen, there would shortly be a
little more interest in kitchen problems and not so much distaste for
and neglect of this important part of the house.

Of course, women will cry out that we have never in our lives been so
intent on just that one subject, kitchens, as we are today.

I admit that there is a good deal of talk going on which might lead one
to believe that vacuum cleaners and electric-washing machines, etc., are
to bring about the millennium for housekeepers; and there is also a good
work going forward to make of housework a real profession.

But, until in the average home there comes the feeling that the
kitchen--the room itself--is just as much an expression of the family
life and aims and ideals as the living room or any other room, we shall
be only beating about the bush in our endeavor to find a remedy for some
of our perplexing troubles.

Nowadays, women who are doing much work out in the big world--the
so-called "enfranchised" women--are many of them proving that they find
housework no detriment to their careers and some even admit that they
enjoy it.

But so far most of them have standardized their work and systematized
it, with the mere idea of doing what they have to do "efficiently" and
well, with the least expenditure of time and energy. And they have more
than succeeded in proving the "drudgery" plea unfounded.

Now, however, we need something more. We need to make housework
attractive; in other words, to put charm in the kitchen.

There is one very simple way of doing this, that is to make kitchens
good to look at, and inviting as a place to stay and work.

For the professional, scientifically inclined houseworker, the most
beautiful kitchen may be the white porcelain one, with cold, snowy
cleanliness suggesting sterilized utensils and carefully measured food
calories.

But to the woman whose cooking and dishwashing are just more or less
pleasant incidents in a pleasant round of hom