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Title: Country life and the country school : a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Carney, Mabel, b. 1885
Subjects: Schools Rural schools Country life
Publisher: Chicago : Row, Peterson and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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must begin on the physical side. Only through cor-recting the inconveniences of the farmhouse, using laborsaving machinery, and instituting a better system of householdmanagement, can the country housewife further the higherinterests of her family, and promote that idealism which char-acterizes true home-making. The majority of farmhouses are poorly planned. The wholegeneral plan of the house in many cases is faulty, and thefurniture is poorly selected and arranged. The kitchen, beingthe workshop of the house, should receive special attention 20 COUNTRY LIFE AND THE COUNTRY SCHOOL in planning, but in most farmhouses it is particularly incon-venient. Often one large room, that might better be made intotwo, serves the purposes of both dining-room and kitchen. Fre-quently there is no sink or other provision for running water.Usually all the cooking, even in summer, is done over a big,hot range. The living-room and the bedrooms also mightoften be made far more labor-saving. The heavy car-
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An Ideal Farm Home pets, curtains, and draperies with which these rooms areusually furnished in country houses are not only unsanitarybut labor-producing. Frequently the lack of sufficient lightand air throughout the house breeds moths, pests, and dis-ease, and adds to the work of the housekeeper. All theseinconveniences add hours of drudgery to the work of countrywomen and consume time that might otherwise be spent inenjoying some of the richer and more permanent experiencesof life. THE FARM HOME 21 Sanitation demands far more attention also. The mostharmful of the unsanitary practices perpetuated upon the farmsurround the house where conditions for healthful livineshould be most favorable. Kitchen waste is often allowed tostand near the door in ill-smelling receptacles; back yardsare poorly kept; and flies infest the house, polluting food ina most dangerous way. Dust-catching furnishings are stilltoo common and the disease-breeding properties of dust toolittle heeded. Sanitary bathr

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