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occasionally, as one tires of having things always in the same order. A 

 bed should stand with the head to a wall and with both sides clear so 

 that it can be made np without being moved, as nothing ruins carpets 

 or floors more quickly than the moving of furniture over them. The 

 broadest wheeled castor on a heavy bed or bureau will roll a visible 

 furrow in even a hardwood floor everv time it is moved over it. 



The bureau should be so placed that the person standing in front of 

 it will have the full light of a window. If the house is provided with 

 gas or electric light, a present luxury that will soon become a necessity 

 even to the farmer, there should be a light near the bureau, or better 

 still, one on each side of it. 



Of course the position of windows and doors, and the way the dobrs 

 swing, are all matters for careful consideration ; and then we must have 

 places where we can hang our clothing and put away the numerous odds 

 and ends of a personal outfit. In other words, every bed room should 

 have at least one good large clothes closet and this is hardly complete 

 unless it has shelves near the floor for shoes and shelves above for hat 

 boxes and a thousand other things, with plenty of coat hooks around the 

 wall under the upper shelves. 



Linen closets and broom closets are conveniences that are only 

 beginning to be appreciated. No housekeeper who has ever enjoyed the 

 luxury of a small closet fitted up with shelves for the household '* linen," 

 and who has had a still smaller neatly closed up closet for brooms, dust 

 cloths, etc., could ever be persuaded to have a house without them. The 

 linen closet would best be in the second story hall, and it need not be 

 large. If it is only a foot or eighteen inches deep and three or four feet 

 wide, with shelves all the way up, it will hold quantities of sheets, pillow 

 cases, towels, etc. A broom closet ought to be on every floor and can 

 hardy be omitted on the plea that there is no room for it. It is useful 

 even if only large enough for one large broom and a dust brush or two. 

 If no otb.er place is available it can even be put within the thickness of 

 a partition wall, though this is narrowing it down in size very close, to 

 the limit of usefulness. 



No house, not excepting the farm houses, can nowadays be considered 

 complete without at least one bath room. This should be on the bed 

 room floor of the house anrl conveniently accessible from all of the bed 

 rooms. For obvious reasons it ought not to be too publicly located, but 

 ought rather to be away from the head of the main stairs, and with the 

 entrance less conspicuous than the doors to the principal bed rooms. 



T]\c plumh'uig 



The time is coming quickly when plumbing will be placed in farm 

 houses. [The question of water supplies will be treated in Bulletin 29.] 



