Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01

sonal pride in her home-who was
satisfied during tie first year with pur-
chased house. Yet, in such houses,
women are contented to live for years
without vexing their husbands and
their own souls with each recurring
Moving Day. The reason is not far to
seek. When women live in homes OF
their own, they gradually adapt their
surroundings to their ideal. Partition
walls are altered or removed; closets
are built here and there and every
where; kitchen extensions are erected,
and in process Of time, the mistress of
the house finds in her reconstructed
home as near an approach to her ideal
as lift had been constructed from her
plans in the first place.
This hint shows where the remedy
and the only effective remedy, for the
evils of Moving Day is to be found.
Throw the profession of architecture
open 10 women, give the fair sex
monopoly of the domestic branch of
the art, and houses will be erected that
will meet the exacting requirements Of
the feminine ideal. AS the trials
and troubles incident to an iil-con-
structed house fall chiefly upon
woman it would seem but common jus
tice and common sense that she should
have voice in the manner of its con-
struction. AS, however, care-loving
men are the principal victims OF the
moving torture, it would seem that the
natural instinct of self-preservation
would induce the sterner sex to insist
that this work shall be done by wo-
men, so that there may be no room for
post facto grumbling. If it should be
found impracticable to make at once so
sweeping change as we have suggest
ed, there is yet another remedy, not so
radical in its operation, which might be
attempted with good results. Let the
American Chapter of Architects engraft
on its constitution ali article prescribing
that every architect shall be the hus-
band of one wife, and that he shall sub
NIT all his dwelling houses plants 20
her for inspection. A bachelor archi-
tect, if such being exists, is an anoma-
IL, a disfguring blotch on the smooth
and sym metrical face of aature. What
can bachelor architect know about
the domestic wants of the queens of our
households" What does he know OF
the number of closets required in kitch-
en- and dining room, of the proper
place for the receptacles for kitchen and
table ware, and the other points of ar
raugement which decide the fate of
houses in the estimation of our fair
LouSekeepers" AS we'll might blind
man try to draw plan of Wheeling
as bachelor architect seek to evolve
from his masculine inner consciousness
a planiofa dwelling-house. that shall
meet the requirements OF the average
housewife. There are indeed some
architects who have been wise enough
20 adopt, of their own motion, the plan
We have suggested, and who take care
to obtain the determining judgment OF
their wives on all their dwelling-house
plans. Such architects stand high IN
their profession; nobody ever moves
out of houses thdy build, except at the
grim summons of death. But, alas, such
cases are still the exception, and every
furnitvre-laden truck that fills our
streets is monument to the incapacity
Ofsome bachelor architect who attempt
ed to draw plans, without any definite
notion of the true uses of house, or
the conditions essential to success in
this bra nch ofart.