282 MAKING AND BEAUTIFYING THE HOME 



including the bathtub, toilet, bowl, and seat, should be of 

 white enamel ware, so that they may readily be cleaned. 

 There should be ample provision for clean towels, bath 

 sponge, and, if possible, there should be a shower bath. 

 A medicine chest of white enamel ware with glass shelves 

 should complete the equipment of the room. 



Cellar and heating plant. Our ideal home is a de- 

 tached house with a cellar. In the cellar there is storage 

 room for vegetables, canned goods, wood, and coal. The 

 heating plant should be of ample size to heat the house in 

 the severest weather. Probably the best of all types of heat- 

 ers is a combination of hot water and hot air, the hot water 

 pipes heating the rooms in distant parts of the building, and 

 the hot air going to the rooms directly over the furnace. 



The ideal home is not always possible. It is not to be 

 expected that any of us can live up to all of the standards 

 set in the above paragraphs. No one of us has the right 

 to say, " What is the use of trying to have a better 

 home?" even though we cannot live up to the standard 

 set as our ideal. This is not an age of ideal living, but 

 we want to make our standards high. It is well to re- 

 member that an ideal home life is possible even when an 

 ideal house may not be afforded. If one thinks about 

 these matters and tries to improve them good will come 

 from these suggestions. 



The score card. The following score card gives a 

 standard for checking up conditions in your own homes. 

 Some of you will doubtless want to add to or subtract from 

 the items given here. If so, remember that the class wants 

 the benefit of your ideas. So bring your card, with its 

 changes, and put it before the class in an open discussion. 

 Perhaps a much better card than this will result. 



