New-York tribune., 1921-04-17
le Into the Country-Here's Suggestion For You
Changes Thirty Years Haze
], Brought in Our Bathrooms
Evolution Has Been Violent; Tin and Wood Have
Given Way to Chinaware; Tile and Perfect
Sanitation Cost No More Than the Old

htted with valve to control the tenn
perature of the water, keeping it at a
degree comfortable to the bather. This
water is delivered through different
sprays. In the center of the stall is
an outlet to carry of the water after
being used. To prevent splashing out
side of the stall glass door, set in a
metal frame with a friction catch, is
hinged. The friction catch allows the
feeling around for latch. To keep
one from too great discomfort in the
heated shower bath, a ventilator in the
top of the door usually is provided.
thereby eliminating all chances of suf-
location.
A great deal'cculd be said about the
shower bath, and in another issue we
will talk more about it. This is sufi-
cient to outline at this time what IS
considered "a complete shower bath
Everything Is of China
Aside from the bath tub and shower.
the bathroom to-day is equipped with a
spacious vitreous china lavatory on n
china pedestal, with wall supports. For
the lavatory water is supplied to the
basin by means of an integral nozzle
in the ware itself, and hot and cold
water valves with china handles and
flow is provided to take care of the
water in case of its being left open.
1t IS fitted with type of waste known
as the ''pop-up," doing away with the
unsightly and unsanitary chain with
which we are all familiar. The lava
tory stands free from the wall, and
should be of appropriate size for the
room.
About fifteen inches above this lava
tory and built in the wall should be q
steel medicine cabinet equipped with
glass shelves and large mirror in the
door, with concealed hangers with
any projection beyond the surface and
the wall. Beneath that, sufficiently
low to allow the door Of the cabinet to
swing, should be an opaloid glass shelf
and china posts tiled in the wsll. The
tumbler holder, tooth brush holder and
soap dish should be tiled in in the
same manner without projecting be-
yond the face of the tile. A grab rail
is a convenient appliance 20 the bath
tub for assistance in getting out Of the
tub.
Cost No More Than Old Bath
The toilet should be combination
made of a vitreous china tank with
white connections, with a saxaloid seat
and cover with no nickel-plated parts
exposed, and should be set on a china
slab set in the tile or else on the tile
itself and even ali bolts should be
covered with china caps, SO that in the
bathroom practically all nickel-plated
parts are done away with and every
exposed surface being OF china CT
enameed ware.
Towel rods should be located at con-
venient places
There ARE many other unique fix
lures that could be set in the bath
room, but we consider it better taste
to use just as few as possible.
After the bathroom is complete with
tiled walls and floor and all other
pieces tiled in one could turn on hose
in any part of the room without de-
struction of any piece Of the plumbing
fixtures. Compare this with a bath
room of thirty years ago and one will
readily see how much more desirable
are the fixtures of to-day, and yet the
price governing this modern set Of fix
lures is not as great in actual dollars
and cents as people spent for their
bathroom in former days. Their ex-
pense was applied more for ornaments
ton in carving and inlays than on
practical sanitary conditions, so essen
tial