nd reservoir, to receive the water. The privy,
_P_, _P_, should have two apartments, as indispensable to healthful
habits in a family. A window should be placed at _O_, and a door, with
springs or a weight to keep it shut, should be at _V_. Keeping the
window open, and the door shut, will prevent any disagreeable effects in
the house. At _G_, is the kitchen, and at _F_, the sink, which should
have a conductor and cock from the reservoir. _H_, is the place for
wood, where it should in Summer be stored for Winter. A bin, for coal,
and also a brick receiver, for ashes, should be in this part. Every
woman should use her influence to secure all these conveniences; even if
it involves the sacrifice of the piazza, or "the best parlor."

[Illustration: Fig. 36.

Front View.

Side View.]

Fig. 36, is a latticed portico, which is cheap, and answers all the
purposes of a more expensive one. It should be solid, overhead, to turn
off the rain, and creepers should be trained over it. A simple latticed
arch, over a door, covered with creepers, is very cheap, and serves
instead of an expensive portico.

[Illustration: Fig. 37.

_C_, Parlor ceiling.
_K_, Kitchen ceiling.]

Fig. 37, represents a _sliding closet_, or _dumb waiter_, a convenience
which saves much labor, when the kitchen is in the basement. The two
closets should be made wide, and broad enough to receive a common
waiter. The chain, or rope, which passes over the wheels, should branch,
at _X_, so as to keep the closet from rubbing in its movements, when the
dishes are not set exactly in the middle, or are of unequal weights. By
this method, almost every thing needed to pass between the kitchen and
parlor can be sent up and down, without any steps. If the kitchen is not
directly under the eating-room, the sliding closet can be placed in the
vicinity of one or both. Where the place is not wide enough for two
closets like these, they can be made wider than they are long, say one
foot and six inches long, and three feet wide. A strip of wood, an inch
broad, should be fastened on the front and back of the shelves, to
prevent the dishes from being broken when they are set on carelessly.

There is nothing, which so much improves the appearance of a house and
the premises, as painting or whitewashing the tenements and fences. The
following receipts for whitewashing, answer the same purpose for wood,
brick, and stone, as oil-paint, and are much cheaper. The first, is the
r