Ethel Morton at Sweetbrier Lodge

ts with concrete. Helen, Ethel Brown's elder sister, and her friend, Margaret Hancock, of Glen Point, were so in

se was to stand they stopped beside the cellar hole to

de fence-mold all built but that the concrete floor was laid and that the men were pourin

when you're working with concrete,'" Ethe

, others running the machine, others wheeling the wet concrete in iron barrows to the men at the edge of

ppens next?" Dorothy inquired of Mr. Anderso

hree foot wall of concrete blocks to

that has the cell

es

nes; Mother likes a brig

this concrete work up there done. Here, Luigi," he called to an Italian, "bring us a load of concrete o

d done his work skilfully, since there were just about three inches between the earth and the tub al

ves," they insisted when he suggested

reminded them. "Have you got your stick? An

e might run a few inches underground for a short distance and discharge

ool Looked Wh

to have this dampening once in a while," said Mr. Anderson, who was somethin

d tub and wedged a bit of broomstick which Roger, Ethel Brown's brother, had cut for Dorothy into the space between the tub and the earth jus

at the men over there are using and you can make the top look

the edge so they'll bend over and see th

ater plants that would grow inside w

robably need a little soil of s

mplacently. "Don't you seem to see it-with

taking care of it. You could put a stick in here partly above the water, f

e of stone. His excitement and terror when the stone lying on the library table stuck out first a head and then one

Anderson reminded his pupils. "Y

to the larger they poured about an inch of concrete and then squeezed the smaller dish into it, but not so sharply that it cut through. They filled in the crack between the tw

ird's

ome from that. It might be better done-" at which the girls all pulle

rothy, holding up her dripping hands helplessly, but at

son. "All you need to do is to make a bench inside of a

girl, Mr. Anderson, you might find

insisted Ethel Brown sto

that she would have to drive the nails through

oing to be made of?"

but I don't know what she finally

ered absent-mindedly over his shoulder, as he

them, so they thanked him for giving them so much time and made some investigati

Blue said to the rest as she came across a stac

pposed tiles were flat things. That's a tile Mother sets the te

nd out, through whose length ran three square holes. They asked two workmen as

Helen decided. "Probably they're

brown and smooth. They make little imag

e there can be different qualities of terra-cotta

now hearing Mother and the architect talking about it. And they s

space for?" inq

ess, or keeps it out so that i

, even if they aren't pretty," dec

d them again after giving v

inquired Dorothy, as he seem

ough? That is so the plaster will have something to take hold of. We mix it up of cement and lime and sand and put on three coats. T

oat made of th

is as thin as cream and is flowed on t

tbrier Lodge-Plas

of work," comm

lowish in tone-a little warmer than the natural color of the plaster-so we're going to wa

birds," mur

ok plastery except the roof a

," returned Mr. Anderson. "We're

les! Doesn't th

o they look like gre

is Mother go

ney is to be made of

ngthened,' but how do you str

uild a sort of cage of steel rods. Don't you see that when the concrete hardens i

n earthquak

hat it would crack through, but suppose the crack found itself up

thought

y exclaimed, "because up on this knoll we're going to feel the w

son assured them that they need not be afraid of any a

" said Margaret "and all the beams were of s

of than most small houses even if it does have wooden beams. You watch it as it goes on and notice all

he workmen watered the concrete mixture, but they had nothing to dry them on and

if she happens to be looking o

a message, Dorot

know you had an aun

James and I haven't seen her sin

he live?" ask

usy, so when she has had to come on to New York to buy material

a visit this time?"

going to take her several weeks, and then she wants to rest and do some studying and to make the

because Margaret said at once, "We think it's splendid. She's a young aunt,

message to me?

r taking care of the Belgian baby. She was awfully interested and said she felt as if she knew all of you people and the Watkinses quite well, we talked about you so much. Then we told her about Dorothy's hous

er isn't going to have a regular decorator, and I know she'l

he's our A

ve us advice and 'check

but she said she'd be glad to come over and see the house and the plans any time when she w

" Ethel Blue murmured to herself.

m named after her. Daisy is the

name," said E

the finest ever, and Mother will think so, to

gs when we happen to be doing something that will interest