The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-23
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IBnl Nye, in Exehange.i


 contemplating the erection oi q summer residence for me, as slight testimonial of his high regard for my s1exiing worth and symmetxical escuecheon-a sesti- mOnIai more suggestive oi earnesx aa- mirasion and waFms personal friendship than of great intrinsic value, etc, etc, etc., that hope he win not construct it on the modem plan of mental hallucina- ton, and morbid delirium uemens pecu- Gz. e recent architecture.
 Of course, man ought noe to look a gift house ip the gable end, hs. # my friends don't know me any better than to build me summer cottage and throw in odd windows that nobody else wanted, and then daub it up with co.ors that they have bought at auction and applied to the house after dark with . shotgun. l think it is time that we had better un- derstanding.
 Such a structure does not come within either of the three classes of renaissance. It IS neither Florentine, Roman nor Venetian. Any man can originate such a style of architecture if he will drink the right kind of whisky long enongh and then describe his feelings to an amanu- ensis. Imagine the sensation that ohe Of these modem, sawed of cottages would create a hundred years frsm nov, if it should survive! But that is impossible. The only cheeaing keature of the whole matter is that these creatures of a dis ordered imagination must z 3on pass away and the bright sunlight of hard horse sense shine in through the shattered dormers and gables and gnawed-of arch- itecture of the average summer resort. A friend of mine few days ago showed me his new house with much pride. He asked me what 1 thought of it. told him liked t srss-sase- ThenI eent hc.se and wept all night. It was my first false hood.
 The house, taken as q whole, looked to me like skating rink that had started out to make money and then suddenly changed its mind and resolved to be- come tannezy. Then ten feet higher it had lost all self-respect and blossomed into fuil-blown drunk and disordexly, surrounded by the smokestack of foundry and with the bright future of 70 days ahead with the chain gang. Thats the way it looked to me.
 The roofs were made of little odds and ends of miS6t rafters and distorted shingles that somebody had purchased at sheriff s sale, and the rooms and stairs were giddy in the extreme. went in and ramhled around among the cross-eyed staircases and other nightmares till req son toftexed on her throne Then came cut and stood on the architectural wart called the side porch to get fresh air. 1vsn IA had wooden rosestes at the corner that looked like bran new carbuncle on the nose of social wreck. Farther up on the demoralized lumber pile l saw, now and then, places where the workman's mind had wandered and he had nailed on his ciapboards wrong side up and then painted them with the paris green that he had intended to use on some thing else It was an odd-looking struc- ture, indeed If my friend got all the material for nothing from people who had fragments of paint and lumber left over after they failed, and then if the workmea constructed it nights for mental relaxation, and intellectual repose, with out charge, of course the scheme was financial success. but aschitecturallv the house is gross violation sf the statutes in such cases made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the state There is look of extreme poverty about the structure which a man might struggle for years to acquire and then fail. No one could look upon 1t without feeling heartache for the man vho built that house, and probably struggled on year affez year, building little of it at a time as he could steal the lumber getting new workman each year, building a knob here and protuberanoe there, put ting in a three cornered window at one point and yellow tile or a wad of broken and debris at another, patiently filling in arouLd the ranch with any old rubbish that other people had got through with, and painting is as he went along, taking what was lef in the bottom of the pots after his neighbors had painted their bob-sleds or their rent bcxes-little favors thankfully received-and then surmount- ing the whole pile with a potpourd of ioof, ( grand farewell incubus of humps and hoilows for the rain to wander through and seek out the different cells where the ss.ss:cs ETe %Ao ;sasS;s is. did tell my friend of one thing that thought would improve the looks of his house. He asked me eagerly what it could be. said it would take man of great courage to do it for him. He said he didn't care for that. He would do it himself. If it only needed one thing he would never rest till he had 1t, whatever that might be. Then told him that if he had afIiend-one he could truss-who would steal in there some night while the family were away and scratch . match on the leg of his brooches, or on the brooches of any other gentleman who happened to be present, and hold 1t where t would ignite the alleged house, and then re- main near there to see that the fire de- parfment did not meddle with il, he would confer great f.rc, ce c.e ~ac would cheerfnIly retaliase in kind on call. 
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