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 731 - i 350 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. the one hanging style, as at a, fig. 731, and to the opposite side of the other, as at b. Supposing two hinges done in this way, the two alternate ones should be nailed, as indi- cated by the dotted lines at c and d. A brass hinge, to answer the same purpose, has been lately invented by Mr. Vokins, architect and builder, of Wilton Road, London ; several of whose ingenious inventions and contrivances we shall have to notice when speaking of 'illas. The wooden frames for the screen may have canvass stndned on them, in order that they may be covered with paper ; or they may be covered with green baize, drugget, or any similar material, with a border of ferreting, attaclied by brass-headed nails, or bordered by the nails only. In case of the screen being covered with paper, maps, subjects of natural history, arithmetical or chronological tables, alma- nacks, or, in short, any kind of useftil subjects, should be preferred, for the reasons given, § 584. 695. Fire-screens may be wanted in a cottage as well as in a palace. A lady has sent us a cottage fire-screen, made of straw, with a hook attached to it, by which it is hung on the back of a chair, fig. 732, which will answer very well when sitting with the back to the fire. To shield the face a standard fire-screen is required ; but we shall leave the reader to contrive one for himself from the Designs, which he will find in another part of this work, under the head of Fire-screens for Villas. 696. Clothes Horses and Stands for brushing Coats. Clothes horses, for drying linen, &c., are open frames hinged in the same manner as folding-screens; and one or more of them should be found in every cottage, not connected with a public drying establishment. There are generally three horizontal rails to these clothes horses ; one at top, one within two feet of the bottom, and one between. In a small cottage the clothes horse might be contrived to answer the purpose of a screen, by having a movable cover, either to slip on, or to be attached by hooks, or pieces of tape. Stands for brushing clothes are formed of a foot in the form of a Greek cross, with an upright piece firmly mortised into it at the lioint of intersection ; into the top of which, about five feet from the ground, is mortised another piece, about two feet long, which serves as arms, on which is put the coat to be brushed. Where there is not room for a stand, the arms, with a post of six or eight inches in length, may be hinged to the back of a door, so as to fall down like a flap when not in use, and be supported by a bracket, or horse and rack, when a coat is to be brushed ; or the form shown in fig. 733 may be adopted. 732 in which the jib bracket, e, works by two pins in //, and the cross piece, (/, also works on a pin in the upper part of the bracket ; the holes, A A, arc for slipping it on to nails fixed to any wall or door. Whatever kind of coat stand or horse may be used, there should always be a table at the command of the person brushing the coat, on which to fold it up, previously to putting it away. 697. Children's Furniture. To enable a mother who has no servants, to relieve herself at pleasure from carrying lier child, there are various contrivances in use in England, which deserve to be mentioned ; and there is one, for cleanliness and decency, which deserves imitation in every country, and more especially in our own. Fig. 734 is a swing chair, formed out of ten jjieces of elder tree, u, six inches long, and an inch and