Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1918 — HAVE A CHEERY DINING ROOM [ARTICLE]

HAVE A CHEERY DINING ROOM

Qloomy Surroundings Prompt Hasty Eating and May Be Responsible for Many Cases of Dyspepsia. ) Few home-builders realize the importance of tfte dining room. Too frequentlv it is placed in some convenient corner, light and outlook being sacrificed for the benefit of other rooms. It is true that in a small cottage a dining room may be omitted. This may be necessary tn order to give added space to the living room. It is better to have either an alcove off the kitchen or make a combined living and dining room than to provide both without prooci* size or ventilation. But a house of large or medium size should Lave a separate dining room, writes Dorothy VerriU Yates, in People’s Home journal. The first requisite for a dining room 4s sunlight. Many a case of dyspepsia probably comes from dining in gloomy surroundings which create hasty eating. One’s meals should be served in a pleasant room with a pleasant atmosphere. This is as necessary to health as the proper observance of rules of diet. The ideal dining-room exposure is southeast, and it should have all the windows possible, and as charming ah outlook as can be arranged. The day is much’ better started in sunshine than in shadow, and with a view of a rose-covered trellis or a flowering hedge, instead of an ugly fence or “yard.” ■ ,