Health in home and town / by Bertha Millard Brown.

  • Brown, Bertha Millard, 1870-
Date:
1912
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Credit: Health in home and town / by Bertha Millard Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    and the noise of manufacturing plants, of saloons, and of low marshy ground is always desirable. Then we must each do our part to keep our yards, steps, and sidewalks neat and clean. This is as important as a clean house. Selecting the Location. — After the family has de- cided upon a desirable locality, and decided whether to buy, build, or rent, it is necessary to look for the house. So let us, together, go house-hunting. Variety of Dwellings. — As we walk up and down the streets, what a great variety of houses we find. There are dwellings to meet every need, from apartments of two, three, or four rooms to stately residences of fifty rooms. In style of building, they range from the simple box-like house to the imposing colonial dwelling. So the rents vary, too, from $150 a year to $15,000. Let us examine some of these houses. The Beautiful Residence. — Wealthy men have buUt very beautiful residences in America. In New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, Cleveland, and other large cities, their town houses are palatial. Within, nothing is too good for decorating and furnish- ing. Rooms are finished in marble and in mahogany, and the walls are hung with wonderful tapestries. Some- times, an entire room is finished in wood that once decorated a palace of the old country. Wonderful fire- places reach to the ceilings, and are copies of those in some ancient palace of Europe. Furniture, draperies, and carpets are collected from the four quarters of the' earth, and no expense is spared.