A writer in the Spectator makes a suggestion as to "the cottage of the future." Where several are required he remarks, "I think a new departure should be made in their construction. Ihe great enemy is the sloping roof with the vast quantity of timber it entails. A better way would be to build the cottages two stories high, with fireproof floors and flat roofs, with a very gentle rise in the middle to throw the water off, and a low parapet all round, to be garlanded with wistarias and other climbers, and each upper cottage with a separate entrance, in the Italian way, by means of an outside staircase. In this way we should secure in an inexpensive way cottages fireproof, veimin- . proof, rot-proof, and sanitary. The sloping roof of tiles or slates," unless done m the best way, which a cottage cannot afford, is a continual cause ot trouble and expense. The architects nave a stock saying that there is no such thing as a fireproof building, but the study of Italian and American fireproof buildings would enable us to secure that. Our clumsy ways of buildnig enable the insurance companies to fatten upon us. I never let them into the house or see them." Why be weak and nervous—tone up the system, quiet the nerves. Steams' Wine Cod Liver Extract increases circulation, builds up tissues and invigorates the entire system.—Advt. What's the refuge of the wheeze? _ Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. What's the balm for every sneeze ? Woods' Great Peppermint Cure ■Net a house should be without it! Not a nurse afford to flout it; Friend of all, botli rich and poor, Here s long life to Peppermint CW— ■ ■ . •.-.■:. ■••■ ■ .' :",. &tirti.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 18 June 1912, Page 5
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282Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 18 June 1912, Page 5
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