. All about the baby and preparations for its advent. s all this from the hall. The family bedroomis connected with the night nursery, and that, in turn,with the day nursery. Convenient to the day nur-sery is the bath-room for the children, and immediatelyconnecting with the day nursery is a small bedroomthat can be used regularly as a nurses room, but isvery essential in case of sickness. It will be noticedthat, while the house is comparatively small, two bath-rooms are provided. But I am sure you will agree withme in the sanitary idea of having plenty of runningwater, and avoiding the very c


. All about the baby and preparations for its advent. s all this from the hall. The family bedroomis connected with the night nursery, and that, in turn,with the day nursery. Convenient to the day nur-sery is the bath-room for the children, and immediatelyconnecting with the day nursery is a small bedroomthat can be used regularly as a nurses room, but isvery essential in case of sickness. It will be noticedthat, while the house is comparatively small, two bath-rooms are provided. But I am sure you will agree withme in the sanitary idea of having plenty of runningwater, and avoiding the very common custom of abowl and pitcher set upon a table or washstand, whereone tries to wash oneself with a few teacupfuls ofwater, or take a bath, as some foreigners do, with adash of water in a tin dish. The generous use ofwater should be encouraged by everyone, as there isnothing more health-giving. And the cost of the househad best be cut as to its ornamentation, and haveproper and ample plumbing fixtures. 44 ALL ABOUT THE BABY. At night, doors A, B,. Fig. 5. and C are closed andlocked, and the doorsconnecting the differ-ent rooms may all beleft open. In case of sickness,the day nursery is usedas the sick-room, withthe maids room for thenurses. If the sickness re-quires isolation, thendoors C and Ecan be closed, and thepatient and nurse areentirely shut off fromthe remainder of thehouse, and have thechildrens bath-roomfor their exclusive use. DW is a dumbwaiter running fromtop to bottom of thehouse, that will savemany steps, and dur-ing sickness is of greatuse. E should be aglass door, so that incase of sickness theisolated child may beseen and yet infectionavoided. Every bedroomshould have a fireplace, THE NURSERY. 45 as there is no better ventilator; but great care shouldbe taken to see that there is a tight damper, as oftenwhen there is no fire there will be a serious down-draft. The best system for introducing fresh air into adwelling is by having very large flues for the he


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