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The building was fitted up in model kitchens, dairies, sleeping rooms, 

 and the like, and was utilized for exhibits of improved housekeeping 

 appliances and for practical demonstrations by the faculty and 

 students of various schools of home economics. 



Mention may also be made of the model farm house erected at the 

 Dresden Exposition of Hygiene in the interests of attractive and 

 sanitary farm dwellings at moderate cost; the so-called electrical 

 farm at Amiens, devoted mainly to demonstrations of the applica- 

 tion of electricity to farm life, but with some attention to improved 

 hygienic conditions as well ; the Flemish village erected at the agri- 

 cultural exposition at Eoubaix, depicting chiefly the laborers' cottages 

 of the region, but with exhibits of agricultural machinery and demon- 

 strations of home economics, blacksmithing, and dairying; and the 

 Dutch farm at the International Exposition of Agriculture at The 

 Hague in 1913, which was largely a portrayal of improved methods 

 of cheese manufacture. 



The " Village Moderne " at Ghent, however, was a much more com- 

 prehensive and elaborate undertaking than any of its predecessors. 

 It extended the entire length of the exposition grounds, occupying a 

 triangular tract of nearly eight acres. This space was utilized as 

 completely as possible for the buildings, grounds, streets, and bther 

 equipment of a complete rural village. 



The central feature of the village was the public space or common. 

 This was tastefully constructed and contained an artistic fountain, 

 beds of flowers, and a group of statuary symbolizing the productive- 

 ness of the soil. The principal buildings fronted on this square, 

 notably the municipal building, or town hall, the church, the village 

 inn, and the residence of the burgomaster, or mayor. Nearby were 

 located the primary school, schools of agricultural mechanics and 

 home economics, the post-office, which included the telegraph and 

 telephone service, a tract of land reserved for out -door gatherings, 

 a blacksmith shop, several stores, and a village creamery ; while radi- 

 ating from it in the usual European fashion were the buildings and 

 grounds of various types of farms. An electric railway entering the 

 square connected the village with the remainder of the exposition 

 and typified its means of communication with the outside world. 



Admirable and suggestive as were the conception and general plan 

 of the village as a whole, its success in an educational way was per- 

 haps even more largely to be attributed to the scrupulous attention 

 given to the manifold details and special requirements. For instance, 

 the architectural features received much attention, as it was desired 

 to erect buildings of a type within the reach of rural communities, 

 and which would at the same time be distinctive, attractive, and 

 capable of blending together to form a homogeneous unit. Prac- 

 tical considerations also rendered it necessary that the bulk of the 



