accumulate in a country home may be secure.



THE SICK ROOM

Sickness, too, may come, and the questions of privacy without an
unwholesome curb upon both children and adults, of convenience to hot
water and the bathroom, of saving steps for the nurse, should be
thought of. An upstairs chamber is likely to be best on account of the
ventilation, lighting, and distance from ordinary noises; but frequent
journeys to the kitchen mean an excess of stair climbing. Whether
there be sickness or not, there should be somewhere provision for
individual privacy, where absolute rest may be gained.

A large indulgence in entertaining must have its influence in settling
both size and arrangement. Ordinarily, however, we may expect to be
reasonably hospitable without enlarging our home into a clubhouse. If
we do not consider this matter in building, propriety must compel us
afterwards to limit our company to numbers that we can comfortably care
for.



ROOM TO ENTERTAIN

A good many of us who have contrived very nicely to live in a six-room
city flat seem to think that we cannot get along with that number of
rooms in a suburban house, though the latter would be considerably more
spacious, not taking the basement into account. So far, however, as