Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-09-21
MODERN ARonIrrc1nnr-
Dih Nye Tells What cailSc CIT His

HtviilhB worth aud symmetrical az
cutcheon, "a testimonial more sn0oes.
i've oil earnest admiration and Warm
personal friendship than OF great I'm.
tflhslc value, etc, - that hone ne will
not construct II on the modern plan al
mental hallnciatiOD and morbid delir.
Ium tremens peculiar 10 recent archi-
lecture.
" course, man ought not TO look
GIT house in the gable end. but II
my friends don't know me any bettor
man 70 build mo summer cottage
and throw in odd windows that no.
BODY else wanted, and then daub it
up with colors that they have bought
az auction and applied to the house
after dark with Shot gun, | think il
Is time that We had 4 better under
standing.
such structure does not come with
In either Of the three classes of renals-
sanee. 1t Is neither Florentine, Roman.
nor venetian. Any man can originate
sueh style of architecture If he will
drink the right kind Of whisky long
enough, and then describe hls feelings
70 an amanuensls. Imagine the sen
sation that one Of these modern, sawed
OIL cottages would create hundred
years from now, II il should survived!
But that is impossible. The only
cheering feature OF the whole matter
y that these creatures of disordered
Imagination must soon pass away. and
the bright sunlight Of hard horse. sense
SHINE IN through the shattered dormers
and gables gnawed-Oif architecture
81 the average summer resort. A
friend OF mine, few days ago. showed
me his new house with much pride.
lie asked me what / thought OF H. /
told him liked IL hrst-raie. Then |
went home aud wept M night. Ii was
my first ialsehood
The house, taken as q whole. looked
TO nae like skaIing-rink that had
started out 10 make money and then
suddenly changed It's mind and re-
solved 10 become ianuerv. Then
ten feet higher il had lost all self.
respect and blossomed into full
blown drunk aud disorderiy surround
I'D BY the smukestack al foundry
and with the bright future Of thirty
days ahead with the chain-gang
That's the way il looked to me.
The roofs were made 81 little odds
and ends Of misiit rafters and distorted
shingles that somebody had purchased
az sheriil's safe. and the rooms and
stairs were giddy in the extreme. |
went Ia and ramblcd around among
the cross.eyed staircases and night
mares till reason toltered on her
throne. Then I came out ana stood
ON the architectural wart called the
side porch 10 get fresh air This
porch was painted a dull red, and II
had wooden rosettes at the corners
that looked Ikea brand. new carbuncle
on the nose uf social wreck. Far
Their up on the dpmoralized lumber
pile ! SAW now aud then. places where
the workman mind had wandered
and be had nailed ON his clApbpards
wrong side up aud then painted them
with the paris green that he had in
tended % use on something else 1t
was an odd looking structure indeed.
II NV friend got an the material for
nothing from people who had frag-
mcnts ~ paint aud lumber left over
after theY failed. and then If the work
men constructed ID nights for mental
aud intellectual rcpDse. with.
out charge. 81 course the scheme was
q financial success, but arehitccturAlly
the house Is q gross violation uf the
statues 10 such eases made and pro-
vided, and against the peace and dig
niiy II the state
There Is look 'uf extreme poverty
about the structure which man
t.aa- HfH H..H rEHs..
and then fail No one could look up
on il without feeling hcarlache FOR
the man who built that house. and
probably struggled on year after
year. building little OF II at time
MS he could steal the lumber. getting
i new workman each year, building i
knob here and protuberance there.
putting IN a three corncred window at
1ne point and yellow tile or wad
VI broken glass aud other debris at an.
other, patiently filling in around the
ranch with any old rubbish that other
people had got through with. and
Il as he went along, taking
what was left in the bottom OF the pots (
after his neighhors had painted their
or their tree boxes little IA I
iOfH AuaHhlNAAt ltNtiNNti- AuNt I
the whole pile with
potpouri Of roof, grand farewell in
,ubus of humps and hollows for the .
-ain 10 wander through and seek out /
he different cells where the luuatics
I'VE who inhabit IL.
tell my friend of one thing that !
thought would improve the looks of
iis house. He asked me eagerly
what II could bc. ! said il would take
man Of great courage to do It for
iim. lie said he didn't care for that.
Ie would do il himself II II only
iecded enc thing he would never rest
IN he had Il, whatever il might be.
Then told him that he had a friend
me ne could trust who would steal
n there some night while the family
we're away, and scratch q match on the
ep If his breeuhes or on the brooches
II any other gentleman. who happen
a to he present, and hold il where Il
would ignite the alleged house, and
hen remain there 10 sec that the tire
lepartment did not NEEDLE with it, he
would confer a great favor on one
Who would chcerfully retaliatc In kind
m call. Bill Vac ia Chattanooga