Then, the
floor-space not being occupied, we shall use the room as a dining-
room. Incidentally, such a room not being used after bedtime, the
cook and the second boy can sleep in it. One thing that I am
temperamentally opposed to is waste, and why should all this splendid
room be wasted at night when we do not occupy it?
My ideas are cramped, you say?--Oh, I forgot to tell you that this
home I am describing is to be a floating home, and that my wife and I
are to journey around the world in it for the matter of seven years
or more. I forgot also to state that there will be an engine-room in
it for a seventy-horse-power engine, a dynamo, storage batteries,
etc.; tanks for water to last long weeks at sea; space for fifteen
hundred gallons of gasolene, fire extinguishers, and life-preservers;
and a great store-room for food, spare sails, anchors, hawsers,
tackles, and a thousand and one other things.
Since I have not yet built my land house, I haven't got beyond a few
general ideas, and in presenting them I feel as cocksure as the
unmarried woman who writes the column in the Sunday supplement on how
to rear children.
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