Ethel Morton at Sweetbrier Lodge

g room to investigate lemonade and little cakes. The Ethels had brought the lemonade from home in a thermos bottle which kept it

several boxes which the workmen had left, and they laid planks on them and made benches that were entirely comfortable. A similar arrangement with the boxes turned on their ends provided a little table

s leaned back with satisfaction and looked over the low parapet to the adjoining meadow with its brook and its

om Grandfather's house," said Ethel Brown. "I haven't looked lately, but I gu

nst the sky," Miss Graham noticed, with her keen observation

em," said Mrs. Smith, "and they give you a feeling that our q

to compliment you on the way it is turning out. You know they say that you have to build two or three houses in order to

ost any house that really belonged to us, for we've had nothing of our own for many years, but of cours

s me think of some old country house in England, with its dark red walls buried among the brilliant green foliage. S

ms," said Ethel Blue, "because it opens from t

out here in pleasant weather, whene

y afraid of New Jersey mosqui

an defy them. You can see that at the end of the terrace opposite the dining room our cage covers the whole of the floor, while up at this end only a part

ss it in winter? I se

screens now. The open fire will take off the chill on autumn mornings and the

rs and tables-I suppose you'll have wicker?" Mrs. Mort

between brown or green," and Mrs. Smi

nk a dull dark red, a mahogany red-wo

to be hard to find rugs with dull reds and greens tha

e swinging settees hanging

would enj

rown. "I seem to see myself perch

me," remonstrated Ethel Blu

y building up the wall at the end of the terrac

lthough we're so high here," said Mrs. Smith, "but with the parapet built up at

vely picture of the meadows

"why you always call your living

room which is used both as a sitting room and a dining room. No room whi

e do," insiste

not right," re

to it, because Grandmother Emerson always calls her parlor a drawing room, but s

aws to sit together and talk together, and it need not be any more formal than the people who use it. But I protest that my drawing ro

om find a real living room except in a bungalow in the country where people are living very informally during the summer, and wh

the party on the terrace, la

Graham, "Louise has spent more time inventing all sorts of cupboards and

uit me. Do you remember that room at Mt. Vernon entirely surrounded by cupboards and closets? I always thought Washington must have

rothy, beginning to count them up on her fingers. Everybody tossed

r the front door,"

d-room and two extra ones in

turn back to make a three-fold dressing glass. I

ong poles with countless hangers on them," said Mrs. Smith. "They'll ho

Helen. "You open the door and there are half a dozen, and you can see the hats right through,

uppose along the lower part of the closet side of your room, y

et above my shoe close

thin closet for one-piece

jam up your evening dresses," said Helen, who was beginn

always calls the 'stepmother

loset'?" inquired

tepmother so hard if she go

ed puzzled and D

are always horrid in fairy stories, but she thinks this long narrow

often very nice,"

and me quite as well as if we had been her own children. In fact, I think she was more careful of us than she was of her own children. Sh

brown eyes that were smiling at her, but sh

nd if you wanted to be very bad to a thin one, you could make her squeeze up small in one

nd went on with the list

set in the house has an electric bulb inside that lights when

ss Graham. "Is there on

's room, in the attic, is kept in a small linen closet up there, and the table linen belongs in a closet made especially for it in the dining room. It has many gla

into the bath-rooms when the other fit

rned her si

the cedar closet?" asked Dorothy. "They say they always leave the cedar shavings th

got along with a cedar chest for a great many years, but she has

chest is going up in the attic and

closet just off the kitchen. The carpenter told me there was a refrigerating pipe running around it so tha

admiringly. "I have never seen that arrangement in real life. I

Dorothy, "and there are two or three more kinds of closets if we

Miss Graham, rising to take leave. "That sounds like some invention of the

orture her," pro

airy story bad one," Miss Daisy i

ond with her smiling gaze that was graven

lue repeated, and wondered why she fe