usually makes special provision for the comfort of those engaging in
them, more or less as a country club does. There is a large porch for
lounging and tea, and a kitchenette where tea, cooling drinks and
sandwiches are easily and quickly prepared, without interfering with
the routine of the kitchens. There are hot and cold plunge baths,
showers, a swimming pool, dressing rooms with every convenience known
to man or woman, and a room given over to racks which hold implements
used in the various sports, as well as lockers for sweaters, change of
linen, socks, etc., belonging to those stopping in the house.

Where sports are a main issue, an entire building is often devoted to
the comfort of the participants. We have in mind the commodious and
exceptionally delightful arrangements made for the comfort and
pleasure of those playing court tennis in a large and architecturally
fine building erected for the purpose on the estate of the Neville
Lyttons, Crabber Park, Poundhill, England.

If sport balconies overlook tennis courts or golf links, they are
fitted out with light-weight, easily moved, stiff chairs for the
audience, and easy, cushioned arm-chairs and sofas of upholstered
wicker, for the participants to lounge in between matches.

Card tables are provided, as well as small tea tables, to seat two,
three or four, while there is always one oblong table at which a
sociable crowd of young people may gather for chatter and tea!

If you use rail-boxes, or window-boxes, holding growing plants, be
sure that the flowers are harmonious in colour when seen from the
lawn, road or street, against their background of _house_ and the
awnings and chintzes, used on the porch.

The flowers in window-boxes and on porch-rails must first of all
decorate the _outside_ of your house. Therefore, before you buy your
chintz for porches, decide as to whether the colour of your house, and
its awnings, demands red, pink, white, blue, yellow or mauve flowers,
and then choose your chintz and porch rugs as well as porch
table-linen, to harmonise.

In selecting porch chairs remember that women want the backs of most
of the chairs only as high as their shoulders, on account of wearing
hats.

CHAPTER XXX

SUN-ROOMS

There are countless fascinating schemes for arranging sun-rooms. One
which we have recently seen near Philadelphia, was the result of
enclosing a large piazza, projecting from an immense house situated in
the midst of