Downstairs are parlor, sitting room, guest room, dinning room, kitchen, etc. Upstairs is a play room for the children. The house is heated by steam. There are two bath rooms and hot and cold water in five different rooms in the house. The cold water comes from a well and the hot water from a cistern.
Fine carpets are on the floors.
The furnishing throughout is as elegant as will be found in any home in Decatur. Mr. Burns has solved most excelently the problem of how to live comfortably in the country, but he doesn't know it. All but about thirty-seven acres of this farm is under cultivation. Farmer Burns doesn't work very hard. He doesn't have to, for the reason that he put his energy to good advantage when he was a younger man.