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it wasn't for the farmers. However, I think the home of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Average Farmer is about what they want. They are a pretty 

 happy people. Occasionally, when the children begin to grow up 

 the farmer yields to their entreaties and to the temptation of high 

 prices and sells a part or all of his farm and moves to the nearby 

 town or village where he says they can take things easier, have more 

 conveniences, and where his wife will not have to work so hard as on 

 the farm. The wife dcfesn't see much difference in her work. The 

 children do get the advantage of a good school that someone else 

 helped to build. If the questions of lights and water for the town is 

 submitted to the voters, Mr. Farmer doesn't like to break his record, 

 so he goes down to the polls and votes against it. We must admit 

 after all that that it all depends on the viewpoint as to what are in- 

 conveniences and what are conveniences, what are necessities and what 

 are luxuries. 



PLANNING OF A HOUSE. 



(Mrs. T. C. Wilson, Columbia, Mo.) 



The subject assigned me, "Planning a House," has always been 

 one of great interest to me, and as merely planning costs very little, 

 I have been able to indulge my fancy. But planning a house to suit 

 someone else is a different thing. 



No doubt each one here has her own individual view, but an ex- 

 change of thought on any subject broadens our vision and often good 

 results follow. Naturally, before we build our new house, we must 

 find a suitable location, and in this day of progress and development 

 we are not governed, as were our forefathers, by the presence of a 

 spring which would be on low land, but can build where we please, 

 and as the prophet of old did command the water to come to us. For 

 various reasons an elevation is preferable. This appeals to the more 

 practical of us for the drainage, thereby making our home more sani- 

 tary and healthful. But from an artistic standpoint, let us build on 

 the hill, where we can both see and be seen. In fact, we should try 

 to be surrounded by the best that nature has provided for us and 

 enjoy the beautiful world we live in. But 'tis a house beautiful I am 

 to build, and there are so many different needs which may control 

 the plans that I will only give in a general way a few main ideas. 



The kitchen will be my first consideration, for as long as these 

 liege lords of ours demand to be fed three times a day, and the physical 

 and thereby the mental development of the future generation depends 

 on us, this is the most important room in the house. Here, again,, I 



