Above the first flight of stairs the steps have a deep dark red tinge, and are square and long, so that each extends solidly across the liberal space allotted to the stairway.

The blocks might be some stone of delightful color, but they are hewn logs, solid and smooth, of a superb mahogany or some tree of harder wood and deeper luxuriance of coloring.

The bedrooms are immensely high, and in every way ample, looking on great spaces devoted to wooing the air from the park and the river.

The windows are enormous.

Not satisfied with the giant sliding doors that open on the street, revealing windows--unencumbered with sash or glass, there are sliding doors under the window sills, that roll back right and left and offer the chance to introduce a current of air directly on the lower limbs.