Up-to-Date Bath-Rooms 
By CHARLES JAMES FOX, Ph.D. 
O NE of the most characteristic features of 
modern domestic architecture is the almost 
universal adoption of the sanitary bath¬ 
room, not only in public buildings, hotels, and elab¬ 
orate residences, but even in the most modest private 
houses. For a first-class modern bath-room, several 
things are quite essential: spaciousness, light, venti¬ 
lation, open plumbing, and last and most important, 
inorganic, non-absorbent, washable floors and walls. 
In addition to these requirements of modern sanitary 
ideas, every American housekeeper takes pride in 
the neat, attractive and even decorative appearance 
of the bath-room. The small, dark, musty bath¬ 
room of a few years ago with the unsanitary wooden 
floors and wainscoting, which absorbed moisture 
and dirt of all kinds, is now a thing of the past. 
Its place has been taken by the bright sanitary 
bath-room of the present day, which adds materially, 
not only to the general comfort, but to the health¬ 
fulness, of the entire family. 
In addition to light, ventilation, and spaciousness, 
necessary in all rooms of the house, the most impor¬ 
tant considerations in the modern bath-room are the 
open plumbing and the tiled floors and wainscoting. 
In modern sanitary plumbing, the use of wooden 
trimmings has been almost completely abolished. 
As a porous and organic material, wood absorbs 
moisture and dirt; and this foreign animal and vege¬ 
table matter in decomposing becomes the breeding 
ground for countless numbers of micro-organisms 
Bath-room with ceramic mosaic floor and walls tiled to ceiling. Tiled recess with glass shelves for toilet accessories 
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