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small organ, ample book cases, shelves, and appara- 

 tus. Pure air enters from above children's heads 

 and passes out at floor into ventilating stack through 

 fireplace. 



"Main floor has two toilet rooms, each of these 

 having lavatories, wash bowl with hot and cold water, 

 pressure tank for hot water and for heat, shower 

 bath with hot and cold water, ventilating appara- 

 tus, looking glass, towel rack, soap box, etc. Each 

 toilet room is reached by a circuitous passageway 

 furnishing room for children's wraps, overshoes, 

 etc. The scheme secures absolute privacy in toilet 

 rooms. All toilet room walls contain air chambers 

 to deaden sound. The toilet rooms are clean, decent, 

 and beautiful. They are never disfigured with vile 

 language or other defacement. 



"All rural schoolhouses with the comb of the 

 roof running one way have attics, but the attic of this 

 rural school is the first one and the only one that has 

 been well utilized. This attic is 15 X 35 feet, inside 

 measurement, all in one room ; distance from floor 

 to ceiling 7| feet in the middle part. It is abun- 

 dantly lighted through gable lights and roof lights. 

 It contains modern manual-training benches for use 

 of eight or ten children at one time, a gas range and 

 other apparatus for experimental cooking. It is 

 furnished with both gas and electric light. It has a 

 wash bowl with hot and cold water, looking glass, 

 towels, etc. It has a large typical kitchen sink and a 



