The new thing on the door is the fact that the whole door may be screened or only one-half screened, the rest of wood or metal. Yet it is far better to have the whole door screened, but for the sake of beauty and lack of monotony the lower half can be guarded with a metal panel which will not only look well but protect the wire cloth. Sometimes, too, in the wholly screened door just a metal guard rail is applied to prevent injury to the wire cloth on the full expanse of a door. If half the door is of wood, there again you lose the free entry of air, so it is advisable to screen the door completely and use the guard metal work to beautify and protect it. Some of the lower portions of doors (as is the case with French windows) are beautifully carved to be in keeping with a handsome wood interior. Doors, too, should be equipped with a good check to prevent them from banging and close tightly. Locks or no locks, are questions to be decided by the buyer, but all hardware, belts, catches, pins, hinges, etc., should, of course, follow the “no-rust” régime, and be of the most durable stuff and match up with the surrounding hardware. Even though the frame and its hanging are of vital importance, yet what would the screen be without the screen cloth? And, of course, there are as many kinds of cloth in this quarter of the world’s work as in any other and you have to know something of the variety in order to know what you are buying, to buy advantageously. Here again you play the old tune: Rustlessness. The cloth must be of a mesh not too fine for free entry of air, and fine enough to prevent the smallest insects from entering. But here you must use discretion. If your home is in the Adirondacks where black flies and midgets precede the mosquitoes, then it is the better part of wisdom to use a finer mesh; if you are at the seashore, the ordinary coarser mesh is sufficient. WIRE CLOTH VARIETIES There is also choice here. You can have: 1. Painted steel cloth which must be repainted often in accordance with its exposure and in regard to where it is exposed and whether it is hung inside or outside of the window. 2. Galvanized steel mesh: This is often blackened for eye ease. 3. Monel metal (an alloy of copper and nickel) guaranteed rust proof, used mainly at seashore resorts but good for any place. 4. Bronze and patented bronzes: Used as is the monel wire cloth. Here a coat of paint to dull the bronze glare is of real service to the eye. 5. Copper: A coat of dull paint here, too, will take off the glare. Manufacturers have various bronze cloths and they are sold under various names. Its great use is imperviousness to rust but it has to be of the best manufacture to insure this paradisiacal condition. The porch that is screened with pernickety screens never is screened in time to reject the insect world. So here is another case where they must fit and be made to order.