The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08

are carpeted with nolseless, sand-col- ored cork mating which Is scrubbed every day. There are frilled white Swiss curtains at all the windows and the rooms are all furnished with white Iron bedsteads and white enameled furniture which Is washed over every week. Before each little cot is bright lowered wash velvet carpet. The furniture Is small size and the chairs are low and rubber-tipped. A few comfortable basket lounges are provided In the halls for tired at tendants.
 All along the front of the house what once must have been grand | drawing room is now playroom. The walls are a soft green and the pictures are Japanese and Dutch col ored prints. There are no ornaments except two bowls of brilliant colored | flowers at each end set on the high | tops of book cupboards. Under these shelves are lockers where. behind ! green silk curtains or mesh doors, are | caged all manner of woony lambs, | furry beasts and wooden horses and cows. Two huge rocking horses stand | before the wide bow window and a 1 rocking swing seat of wicker and | wood is always in demand. Two low
 white tables with secured tops are surrounded by broad square-set chairs | Nlln pduueu legs, eAC6tieHI TOT puSH- | ing over the floor as assistants in walking exercises. Everything in the 1 room Is low and broad and substantial. | The broad, white painted wainscoting
 bears many finger marks before the | day is over, but each morning 1t shines | immaculate.
 The batht com is large and airy and | full O. sunshine. low deal table | and two comfortable chairs with a l stallow bath and high brass fender | make 1t an ideal dressing place, and here the children are bathed and take | their exercises before a glowing fire. The entire room is washed with dis infectant every night after the visitors
 are tucked up.
 The cooking is simple. the food pure
 and abundant The meals are careful
 ly balanced and include plenty of
 vegetables, fruit, milk and eggs, all
 produced on the premises. The work
 of the house is done by strong native
 women who sleep outside and do their
 securing white the guests are asleep.
 There are no rules of conduct; the
 children are perfectly free except to
 interfere with the freedom of others. Of course, everybody wakes at day light, and songs, shouts of joy, happy
 chatter and pattering feet, with an
 occasional scream of anger or howl
 of dismay, are the usual things
 break1ast IS at o'5V, dlnner at l, tea . at 4:30 and milk and biscuits are
 served in each little room at 6. By
 7:30 the great house is still. The guests range in age from a few weeks to 13 years. There is no limit to the
 number in each little family. nurse |. with an assistant will bring as many
 as five youngsters. After the children
 are bathed and tucked up the nurses
 and governesses have their supper in
 a pleasant room where they may finger over the meal But there Is nc
 other arrangement fdr their comfort or diversion and the house is closed for the night at 10.
 Behind the house. away from the
 sea, is "a great. well-kept garden with beautiful trees where the tiny guests sleep away the long summer days ir their "prams" and where flowers may be picked by the older children ant