. The lighting of school-rooms; a manual for school boards, architects, superintendents and teachers. be obtained by use of the Venetian blinds thanwith screen for the sun, and demand theiruse wherever there is difficulty. Their expensiveness,together with a tendency to collect dust and get out oforder, will preclude the general use they might other-wise have. I know of no successful inside blindadapted to school uses. Unforeseen Obstructions.—A school has perhaps beenconstructed without fire-escapes. Later they are puton and as a result a large fraction of the light is cutoff from s
. The lighting of school-rooms; a manual for school boards, architects, superintendents and teachers. be obtained by use of the Venetian blinds thanwith screen for the sun, and demand theiruse wherever there is difficulty. Their expensiveness,together with a tendency to collect dust and get out oforder, will preclude the general use they might other-wise have. I know of no successful inside blindadapted to school uses. Unforeseen Obstructions.—A school has perhaps beenconstructed without fire-escapes. Later they are puton and as a result a large fraction of the light is cutoff from some room otherwise moderately well light-ed. Trees and ivy may so gradually encroach uponthe light as to escape notice. The Furnishing of Rooms.—Through some short-sightedness in furnishing a room with its seats anddesks, light intended to come from one side is some-times made to come from some other. For ex-ample, in a room lighted on two adjacent sides thedesks may be put in so as to make the lighting fromthe right and rear instead of from the left and rear. 52 THE LIGHTING OF SCHOOL-ROOMS. Fro. 24 8.—Double curtain shades. (Rolled up.) THE ARCHITECTS PAUT 53
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