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T      o people    of  limited  resources
        the architectural and decorative
        schemes offered by professionals,
        or displayed in current publica-
tions, seem often like the recipes in the
cookery-book which a noted character of
fiction, who knew nothing of housewifery,
consulted, in her attempts to provide pala-
table meals for her husband. One of these
recipes began: "Take a salamander !" And
the reader commented, as if addressing the
author of the book: "Oh, you donkey! How
am I to catch him ?"


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  Equally impossible, equally beyond the
financial resources of many men and women
who desire tasteful surroundings, are those
plans or schemes which require for their
foundation a new site, an unfinished inte-
rior, a certain disposition of doors and win-
dows, or any other conditions which may
not be controlled save by persons- of wealth.
  Great numbers of professional and em-
ployed people-individuals possessed of
education and culture--residing in cities or
large towns, where they are restricted to
narrow quarters, demand, for their con-