Country life and the country school : a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community . h of her energy for other activities than merely thoseof housekeeping. (e) The house should be so planned and made that it can be easilycleaned. This means an absence of all elaborate spindle work, filigree,and also of heavy and upholstered hangings in the furnishings. Nowthat we are appreciating the relation of dust to health, we must takea new attitude toward the construction and the furnishing of residences. (f) The house should be construct
Country life and the country school : a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community . h of her energy for other activities than merely thoseof housekeeping. (e) The house should be so planned and made that it can be easilycleaned. This means an absence of all elaborate spindle work, filigree,and also of heavy and upholstered hangings in the furnishings. Nowthat we are appreciating the relation of dust to health, we must takea new attitude toward the construction and the furnishing of residences. (f) The house should be constructed or remodeled with the idea ofapplying power to some of the household work, as to the laundry,pumping, eventually to the cleaning of the rooms, and to other have been applying power to the work of the farm and the barn,but we have not adapted it to any great extent to the work of thehouse itself. THE FARM HOME 27 (g) Every modern house should have water running into it and outof it. Within twenty-five years every good farm residence, and evenmany tenant houses, will be as well provided with water supply facili-ties as are city Office in a Farm Home When farming is regarded and managed as a business industry, offices will be common in farmhouses (h) The ordinary farmhouse must be planned in such a way that themembers of the family can do the housework. I am sure that in manycases it is possible to reduce the work of keeping house by at leastone-quarter or even one-third if the house plan is carefully studiedwith this idea in mind. 28 COUNTRY LIFE AND THE COUNTRY SCHOOL (i) You all know that most of the unexpected visitors to a farm-house go to the back door or side door. This means that the back ofthe house is to be as highly developed in some respects as the it will mean in the end that there really is no back to thehouse at all, and that the establishment shall face all ways and haveno unkept back yard. (j) The house must be provided with ampl
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