CHILDREN IN FLATS

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 35, 4 November 1922, Page 17

CHILDREN IN FLATS

I always have a profound pity &W children who live in fiats, ' or . lives are one long “Hush,” writes & correspondent in the “Daily Chronicle.” The least noise is warranted to disturb childless neighbours nbqvo and below, for it is difficult for thbm to appreciate the first efforts at B “five-finger exercise” when the child M not their own. . - 4 There is only ono way to acai witn tho matter, and that ia a nursery fitted, more or less, on the soupa* proof principle. A separate nursery is nearly always an impossibility in a ll&D with limited space, but the night sery may easily do ’ double| Hie floor'should, have a thick lajef tof felt placed beneath the cork carpet, which must fit up closely to the wall all round the room, so that the Kran® cannot penetrate through the boards, If very noisy games are being piayea, where much about is necessary, there eliortld Ve a tog spread over the floor to assist in deadening the sound as much as possible. See that th® nursery is over the “spare” room on fohe flat bmeathj and have all the doors of the flat edged with rubber, so that small people cannot create a poiso by Piano practice should be confined to 'the hours when most people do not mind being disturbed, and tho piaiio should be -placed over a square or thick felt.