A single-tube shower-bath attachment of the simplest sort is a lot
better than none, and need not cost over 50 cents. The more adaptable
kind, with two ends, will be found ticketed at about $2. Thence up to
the elaborate fittings at $250 there are many variations. Sitz baths
and footbaths are rather superfluous in the ordinary bathroom, but we
can spend a hundred dollars for the one and half that for the other
without being taken for plutocrats.

A very fair bathroom, such as would please most of us, may be equipped
on a scale about as follows:

Bathtub............................... $36.00

Five feet long, three-inch roll rim, porcelain enameled, nickel-plated
double bath cock, supply pipes, connected waste and overflow with
cleanout.


Lavatory............................... 30.00

Twenty by twenty-four inches, porcelain enameled, slab, bowl and apron
on four sides in one piece, nickel-plated waste, low-pattern
compression faucets with china indexes, supply pipes with compression
stops, and vented traps.


Closet................................. 35.00

Porcelain enameled, siphonic, oak saddle seat and cover, oak tank (low