TEACHERS' COTTAGES 



daunted, she persuaded the authorities to move a portable cook 

 house into the school yard. It was only 20 feet long and covered 

 with canvas, but she partitioned it off with a curtain, furnished it, 

 and put on ready-made roofing when the winter rains set in. Her 

 younger brother, a twelve-year-old boy, stayed with her, and they 

 lived in the cook shack the entire term. This example convinced 

 the district authorities that they should provide a suitable dwelling 

 place for the teacher, and the first teacher's cottage in the state 

 of Washington was ready the following September, when it was 

 occupied by the teacher and her mother. The same teacher stayed 

 there three years, and finally left to complete her college course, 

 but the teacher's cottage had proved its mission. The State Super- 

 intendent of Schools took up the question, the plan spread to other 

 districts, and now the state of Washington has 108 of these cot- 

 tages, which are found in 29 of the 39 counties in the state. 



This apparently new idea in America is an old one elsewhere 

 for it has long been the custom in England, the Scandinavian coun- 



Garcfen and Orchard 



Drive Way 



Sanded Out-Door 

 Gymnasium 

 and 



C/ass Room 



Front Yard 

 Flowers and Shrubbery 



Forest Trees 



Boys 



\Fuel 



Girts 



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Living Hedge 



Layout of Typical Rural School Grounds in Denmark 



(Courtesy of U. S. Bureau of Education) 



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