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drinking fountain, but no drinking cup, either common 

 or uncommon. It has cupboards, boxes, and recep- 

 tacles for various experiments in home economics. 

 It has a disinfecting apparatus, a portable agricul- 

 tural-chemistry laboratory and numerous other equip- 

 ments. 



" A rural school can be built here from beginning to 

 completion with all the above-mentioned equipments 

 of every kind, including furniture, for $2250. The 

 heating and ventilating apparatus, the pressure 

 tanks, gasoline engine, water pumps, dynamo, fur- 

 nace, etc., can all be easily adapted to a two-room 

 model, a three-room school, or a six-room school by 

 having each fixture slightly larger. 



"This model therefore solves the schoolbuilding 

 question for villages, towns, and consolidated rural 

 schools." 



THE CORNELL SCHOOLHOUSE 



An attractive rural schoolhouse was erected some 

 years ago at the New York State College of Agricul- 

 ture, to serve as a suggestion architecturally and 

 otherwise to rural districts. It is a one-teacher build- 

 ing, and yet allows for the introduction of the new 

 methods of teaching. It is a wooden building, with 

 cement stucco interior, heated with hot-air furnace, 

 and with two water toilets attached. The total cost 

 was about $2000. The College writes as follows of 

 the house: 



