Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-11

| foreign ways, is for lodgings on the
| English plan, where rooms are let fur
nished and people buy what they fancy
for food, and the landlady cooks and
! serves 1T for a certain sum extra. By
| this way, people get more variety and
more to their own tastes than in the usual
| boarding house fare, with more economy
| and entire privacy. They pay the
market price for every article they con-
sumo, and only for what they have, and
pay the hostess price for cookery and
| service. For such menages all sorts of
/ nice, portable, well finished domestic
/ cOntrivances will be in demand, and such
! a refrigerator as this wood fiber one viii
not be the least benefit, where each
| family can keep its food with proper
| sanitary precautions and none of the
''cold meat suspicious which sound so
| vulgar in English lodging house novels.
With this there will be no need to keep
! the baby IS milk on the window sill or the
mammals bottle of porter. if she must
| have that detestable compound, or any
| keeping ginger, pots and Swiss fruit
among the tooth brushes and medicine
bottles IN the dressing elosety =
Next comes the indurated fiber bath
! tub, which is a boon in houses without
complete water service. II is question
| in country or suburbs where the prices of
water service are eXorbitant, whether it
is not best TO adopt Independent plans.
It costs near Boston SIP, first payment to
the water company for making connec-
tiOns between the town pipes and houses,
500 at least for house plumbing and fit
ting bathrooms, and So yearly tax for
each faucet IN the house, and SIS for the
garden supply-S126 at very lowest the
fircf 10 rrix-
set of cisterns with filters, roof tank and
bath, with the certainty of being free
from water tax for a lifetime, and the
still greater assurance of per-
fectly pure water, no. likely
to be cut off by any town emergency.
1 have been in too many houses where
1.-THE water didn It run in the very time
it was most wanted, because factories
were using it, or higher houses cut off the
flow, to set a high value on municipal
Improvements. This fiber bath is one of
the Independent fixtures the householder
is glad of. 1t is large size and deep,
nodded in one piece, movable and lined
with white enamel, the outside in cabinet
finish. The material holds the heat
longer than metal tubs, and by a simple
lamp connection the water can be heated
in the tub or a connecting boiler, without
heating the downstairs fire, great ad-
vantage in summer sickness,
when hot bath in case
of cramp or rheumatic fever is salvation.
For well persons, there is no cooling
treatment so perfect as the hot bath,
which leaves one cool by contrast. 1t is
Indispensable in cosmetic treatment. A
luxurious feature is the seat bath, made
by q New York house, a square tub,
higher back than front, III which one
sits at such height that wide spray
can be directed against the hips or any
part of the person, not administering
such a shock as the shower bath. This
spraying is invaluable in spinal diseases
or abdominal disorders, and such an ap-
plianoe well used would often save the
expense or journey for health to COM
FORTRESS and crowded watering places
We are borrowing from the Japanese
their very sensible way of dividing the
interior of a house by movable partitions.
Builders arrange the greater part of a
floor in a family house with transoms of
thick stained glass or paneled wood in
Line of partitions, the lower part being
panels with movable Stats, which may be
opened for GOODNESS, or the entire parti-
ton or any portion of it removed at will.
The blinds when closed are said to be |
sound-pToof and make cosy, warm small |
rooms In winter out of large, roomy halls |
for summer. They have been used III
schools and class rooms long enough to |
prove their convenience, and are in |
demand for summer cottages. They are |
especially good for converting wide We
randas into outdoor parlors, where |
just the degree or air desired can be ad- |
mitted, no matter how windy the day-a |
great advantage to delicate women and |
invalids. With such blinds porch can |
be shut up sufficiently for sleeping |
room, or q wOrkroOn by day. Fancy the |
comfort of a room with three sides entire |
of lattice work, and air drawing through. /
Every practical housekeeper ought to in4sk
sIst upon such a porch for q summer
and one for a dining room.
Think of the advantage in keeping the3
flies Out>of the rest of the house. X
A method used IN city houses. mSsfEa
for the work rooms of factories, dstkwsa
roof awning of sail cloth, fixed toSSstays,
some SIX to ten feet above the roof, to
shade it. This awning is kept wet in
very hot days by letting the hose play on
it, keeping the rooms below delightfully."-
cool. This is no relation OF fancy but
the arrangement over the workroem of
one of the finest shirtmakers in New
i DIX anu Quiet COuN0uleucGS LOT Cu6
sewing women are as thoughtful as this.
1t is no wonder the employees call the
head of such g firm "the whitest man
they ever saw. One must contrast
it in the newspaper composing
rooms under blazing sky
light where typesetters put up their UNI
brellas to gain some shade from the
sun. Awnings Of sailcloth that \
can be wet freely, for windows and roofs,
are the conditions of a thoroughly cool
house, even with the glass at 100 deg in
the shade.
A correspondent inquiries about the
portable vapor bath. The only one
have seen was made by a common car
penter, and was a cherry wood box, like
1 bureau desk, with half the top sIoping
ike desk. The whole front opened
ike closet door, there was room for a
seat inside and where one sat down on
cane stool over the alcohol lamp and pan
If water, the box closed, collar piece
n the top fitting the neck, leaving the
head out. 1 think the whole thing cost
81 and the owner used to come out of her
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