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The simple home (1904)

Keeler, Charles Augustus, 1871-1937 · San Francisco, P. Elder and company · leaf 24

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heart of a city. When a home isbuilt in the town or country, the matter of a garden mustbe taken into consideration. Indeed, this should be studiedeven before the house is located on the land. Modern townlots are commonly cut up in long, narrow strips, so that byputting the house in the midst of a… … THE GARDEN seems to be to afford room for the garbage barrel and fordrying clothes. If a hint is taken from the compact methodof clothes-drying practiced by the Chinese at their laun-dries, the land so often set apart for this purpose can begreatly restricted, thus correspondingly enlarging the…

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