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Show Sound Muffling Now ; Demanded in Residence 1 IPropor house construction will go a long way toward solving the problem of children and grownups living together to-gether comfortably. This problem occurs in every household house-hold off which children are members. When guests are being entertained, the children usually are sent upstairs and are warned to be absolutely still lest :the guests be annoyed by the sound of Toolstcps on the floor above. Even snore distressing is the mother's attempt at-tempt to keep her guests distracted, while water is being drawn for baths or while the plumbing Is being flushed in the bathroom overhead. Even if guests are not present, when father comes home with nerves all on edge from the racket of a day's work in office, store or factory, the children's chil-dren's noise is unwelcome disturbance. The maxim that children should be seen but not heard often is carried so far that they must be scolded and repressed into quiet. So for the sake of the kiddies as well as of their elders, sound muffling is becoming part of the standard definition defi-nition of livability. Up-to-date home-builders home-builders now demand qualities of construction con-struction which their parents would not have thought of requiring. Thorough Thor-ough insulation is the first of these qualities, and sound deadening is the second. |