e walls. The ice room
should be ventilated by means of a vent pipe up through the roof to the
open.

Such a building as described makes housekeeping for a family of one
hundred and fifty or two hundred possible, with only one cook and a
squad of Scouts.

In place of tents for sleeping quarters small cabins made of wood and
screening, or wood, canvas and screening, can be used. They add greatly
to the expense of building the camp, but being permanent do away with
the expense and labor of taking down and storing.

It is sometimes possible to find an old house or a barn which can be
utilized for camp quarters, and with a little ingenuity made most
attractive and practical.

There is a great deal to be learned by living in a well-planned,
well-ordered house or camp, much of which is of lasting value. For this
reason no opportunity should be lost to give these advantages to the
Scouts.

Wash House

A wash house for general use is most desirable. Where there is no
running water a long table covered with zinc and placed under a tent
fly, a board walk either side of the table, and three or four large
pitchers for water is a good arrangement. This equipment should be
placed in an open, sunny spot where the drainage is good, and away from
the tents if the waste water is to be thrown out on the ground.

Where a group is small every six or eight girls may have a shelf placed
between two trees, which would serve as a wash stand. Pitchers must be
provided for each stand and a system for keeping them filled worked out.

A type of wash house which is most satisfactory where there is
plumbing, is made as follows. (p. 31.) Build an oblong platform and over
it a roof supported by posts and covered with tar paper. Through the
center of the house build a trough, with inclined bottom, and a shelf
slightly tipped toward the trough, either side of it. Cover the inside
of the trough and the shelves with zinc. At the lower end of the trough
have a waste pipe which runs into a cesspool. Over the trough supported
from the roof run a water pipe from which depend at intervals, pipes
with automatic faucets. At the low end of the trough two wash tubs can
be placed at right angles to the wash table both of which should connect
with the trough drain pipe. Enclose the other end of the house and make
two small private wash rooms, the partition between them being over and
under the center of the trough, a faucet in each. These rooms are to be