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...parchment, stenciled over with oil paint which can be washed with soap & water. Set in the wall is an electric clock and beneath it a radio. Off the living room are two bedrooms, small but well planned, with comparatively ample closet space. All rooms are air-conditioned. The bathroom is equipped with wall-hung toilet and wash basin which simplify housecleaning. The basin is big enough to bathe a baby in. Over the toilet is a cabinet with such books as Getting the Most out of Life in this House...
...regards Stillman Infirmary, the conditions are equally appalling. The building and equipment are obsolete. The building is drafty. In periods of epidemics it is often overtaxed. A long ride through frigid corridors is necessary to reach the X-ray machine. The lack of proper shower and bathroom equipment is another source of annoyance to patients. Indifferent or incompetent supervision often results in students with contagious diseases being confined in wards with others who are susceptible to affliction...
That the mansion, Compton Place near Brighton, has even one bathroom is amazing considering the early Victorian tastes of the Duke of Devonshire who has called such modernities as motor cars "foul, stinking things, horrible brutes making life hideous!" On a recent visit to London, His Grace congratulated himself that "I was able to find a hansom...
When Devonshire heard that Their Majesties were coming, he did, however, have the bathroom at Compton Place repainted. Fabulously rich, he owns an emerald two inches long, 186,000 acres, palaces galore. Last week Their Majesties, who are far from considering their Daimler limousine a foul, stinking thing, motored down to Compton Place where a brand new police box had been established. A special post office was put into operation to handle the Royal mail. Apart from this George V made no changes or modernizations in archaic Compton Place except to have installed his favorite seven-valve (tube) radio...
Madam Secretary insisted. Moving day for the Department was postponed. Carpenters tore down the second door and masons replaced it with a brick wall two feet thick to protect the Secretary's privacy. Hastily a corner of the Solicitor's office was hedged off for a second bathroom for Mr. Wyzanski's private...