THE TWENTIETH CENTURY HOUSE. 671 
and especially every passage, shall be eliminated. Com- 
mencing at the entrance, an enclosed porch is evidently 
desirable to cut off draught from the apartments within, 
and to provide hanging space for hats, coats, &c. From 
this the hall may be entered—and by hall I mean, not the 
narrow draughty passage now known by that name, but 
the spacious apartment of our ancestors, which served as 
a general family gathering-place and living-room. From 
this the dining or eating room may be entered, and it 
need be no larger than would suffice for a sideboard, table, 
chairs, and sufficient passage-room around them. The 
not uncommon practice of making it a second sitting-room 
is Insanitary, as, above all things, free ventilation between 
meals is essential to remove the odour of food, and it also 
tends to make the other sitting-room into a sort of show- 
place, used only on special occasions. In the house of the 
future there will be no room for anything so useless. 
The most radical changes will have to be made in the 
kitchen department, which, as now planned, assumes one 
servant to cook and another to serve a meal in the dining- 
room. When the members of the family, or an assistant of 
equal status, have to do the cooking and serving, the present 
arrangements are impossible. JI have seen it suggested 
that we shall have to go back to the roomy farm kitchen 
of olden days, and take our meals in the same apartment 
m which they are prepared; but I do not think this is 
necessary, and in a warm climate it would certainly be 
undesirable. But the kitchen must certainly be easily 
accessible from the dining-room, or where a servant is not 
available may open directly from it; and it might even be 
advisable that the opening should be wide. and closed with 
glazed doors, so that the stove may be in full view, while 
odour is kept out. The kitchen itself need not be large, 
as it will be no longer,.a sitting and dining room for the 
servants, and may combine in itself the functions of 
kitchen, scullery, storeroom, and pantry, for without a par- 
lcur-maid a separate store for china and glass is unneces- 
“sary. But it should be fitted in the most perfect manner 
possible to ensure cleanliness and expedite work. 
First of all, the walls should be tiled throughout, the 
floor paved with marble, tiles, or some non-absorbent and 
impervious material, and the ceiling also rendered non- 
absorbent. The dirty coal fire cooking-range must give 
place to a clean and perfected gas-cooker or electrical appli- 
ances as soon as they are available. These should be 
placed at such a height that no stooping is required, 
