Who will make the practical advance?
These new houses will be roomy and yet, I think, will not fail of sun-parlors or enclosed piazzas which will serve as extensions of the house when occasion demands.

I am sure they will not contain the forbidding "front room" set apart for weddings and funerals and rare family gatherings.

More open-air life will be fashionable and practicable as soon as we have learned that a wind-break and not a tightly-enclosed space is what we need.

In northern latitudes especially it is the wind which makes the climate seem so inclement.

The amount of accessible sunshine may be doubled with great advantage in most of the semi-country-houses.