Of course every kitchen ought to have windows at least on two sides and preferably on three, so as to allow for both proper cross ventilation and cooling. And a hood over the stove to carry away any possible odors of cooking.
A central heating plant is absolutely indispensable for the proper and healthful use of the bathroom, as a bathroom, without an abundance of hot water day and night is little better than none at all. Without continuous hot water it is simply a temple of discomfort and mortification of the flesh. It was the omission of this vital factor which gave rise to the chief of the daring and delighted jeers and cheap flings of the superior classes at the inborn shiftlessness and dirtiness of the poor. Namely, the story of the model tenement built by the benevolent rich for the deserving “pooah,” in which after six months’ occupancy the bathrooms were found
turned into storerooms and the bathtubs used for the storage of coal. Nothing of that sort ever happens when hot water is provided.
Incidentally, this famous and favorite story of vestrymen, heavy taxpayers, or rather tax dodgers, supercilious lady visitors, Lady Bound fills and the charitable rich generally can be matched and bettered by the story of the family of the Italian nobility which rented for a season the remodelled villa of an American in Rome, and who were found on a visit of the owner keeping butter and melons and green vegetables in the bathroom and live ducks in the bathtub! So that it is not merely the poor and lowly who have a prejudice against cleanliness by the cold tub route. Like Mrs. Partington, while some people can bathe in water as cold as Greenland’s icy mountains or India’s coral strand with perfect impunity, they prefer a bath slightly tepid.
NORTH FRONT, GREAT CHATFIELD MANOR HOUSE