Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-02-12

rack or even a hook in the kitchen
There were six drawers in the pan
try, and three of them myself could
mt look into without standing on a
chair, and even then they were awk-
ward, poorly proportioned, and almost
had to be moved with crowbar or 9
burglars jimmy. There were two
-four bins, and when opened one of
them, (you understand the house had
not been used for some little time, }
there were three very excellently pre-
served specimens Of the skeleton OF
the house mouse. Surely, they were
handy for the mice. There was not
clothes closet, there was not a
clothes hook in that handy house,
and it was being offered for rent fully
furnished. OF course, know there
are times when a person has only one
suit of clothes and possibly for long
periods at a stretch has no occasion
to hang that one up, but still, under
any conditions that | could imagine,
| couldn't agree that it was the han
diest house that had ever been built.
II was a house that had cost, perhaps
$500, too, and the owner was con-
sidered wealthy man; that is, he was
worth better than a hundred thou
sand dollars. You see, in this case,
trained skill had not been employed
in the planning Of that house. 1t was
simply a conception that the owner
had worked out in his mind and really
that pantry and bathroom were what
you might say, tackled on after the
rest Of the house had been planned
The pantry and bathroom are very
important in the planning of house
and should receive great deal OF
consideration.
A One-Sided Farm Home.
81 was building silo on farm
in August and in getting ready fol
the start of the concrete work quite
a number of things had to be thought
Of. There were square-point shovelS
and buckets, a mixing board, wheel.
barrow, tackle and ropes and other
tools had to be procured and it seemed
to the wife Of the man who was
building that silo that he was getting
a tremendous lot of stuff. When din.
ner time came she said to me: Mr.
Eldridge, it seems to me that they are
getting most everything out there
and my side of it is being neglected
Here have to draw and carry in al
of the water that is used in this house
and l want the water piped in and
sink and bathroom. told the
good lady that that was a line Of
work that was little out Of my
course, but that l would send Miss
McCheyne down there from the col
lege and that she would see that there
was bathroom put in that house
right away. She answered.: We'll
| wish you would, something ought Il
be done to Tighten up the work il
this house. Well, was on that farm
right along for five days, when the
silo was started so that the farmer
and his help could get along pretty
we'll without immediate supervision
In two weeks the silo was finished
1t was a good job. l helped to get
filling machinery, three of the neigh
bors combined and bought their mach
merry together, changed off work anC
made nice job at filling time.
went down to see how they were get
ting along when they were ready t.
fill the silos. / found the yard about
the house literally filled with plumb
ing materials. There were sewer
pipes, water pipes, and fine porce
lain-lined bathtub, kitchen sink, wash
stand, and everything to complete &
first-class job of plumbing. Tn,
ground was torn up, trenches wer,
being dug, and when entered the
house the lady said: oh, now you SEE
what we are getting And mar
yelled at the power the mere mention
of Miss McCheyne's' name could ex
ert in this state. Six weeks later
was at the farm again and was shown
the bathroom all finished, fine sinh
in the pantry possibly not the best
place for it, but it was a great labor
saver-and the lady said: Paw says
that bathroom is the best room il
the house Now, those people were
well-to-do people; they owned several
hundred head Of cattle, two or three
good farms, several herds of sheep
and stock in banks and mercantile
houses, but they just never had gotten
around TO the installation of modern
conveniences in their home. They had
performed lot of hard work; espec-
tally the house-work in that home had
been performed under conditions that
made it very hard for long time af-
ter they were well able to meet the
expense of the improvements that
have mentioned You see vary often