The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-07-04
ANCIENT GARRET NO MORE.
A Place That IL No Longer Liter
atuFels storehouse Nor the
Den of Genius.

One OF the many estimates illustrat-
ing that the fashion OF the world
changeth is in the new estimate set by
those who built houses on the garret.
In modern houses the garret is made
much of and is as carefully finished off
as any Of the rooms In the house, while
In the old-time the garret was the un-
finished part Of the house, the remain
der. 1t was the farthest from the liv-
ing and grand rooms of the house. In
tenement houses it was the cheapest
part of the house, unless the cellar or
basement be excepted, says the Kan
sas City Star
The garret in private houses was the
receptacle of things worn, wasted or.
retired from active service. 1t was
refuge for human creaturer who might
come under the head Of disused ans
left. 1t was in those poor ancient days
OF the garret that it made It's great
name, for associated in the garretwere
poverty and genius. In the days Of
Pope authorship became closely linked
with the garnet. DR.. Johnson, Dick
Steele and Goldsmith had their garret
days In Grub street, and the "high liv-
ing" associated with "high thinking"
existed in other days and other cap
itals, else the world would not have
known Beranger and his famous song (
Of "The Garrett" with its melodious
refrain of "Give me my garret and my
20 years.
The garret in the city will be found
spoken Of in literature generally as as
sociated with poverty, sometimes with
crime, but not so in the country. The
garret Of the village and Of the farm
Is another sort of place. This has no
dark, or sordid, or painful memories.
It was rude and unfinished, one large
room, divided only by such partitions
IS might be made Of carpeting and the
ike, but it was not associated with pri-
vation. Boys who sleptin the garrets
slept well. even though the stars shone
through the roof, and in winter the +
'agrant snow sifted through on the
The sleepers in the gar
ct had The great advantage Of hearing '
he music of the rain on the roof, sup o
orted by the heavy bass Of the thun- :
er. =
The rural garret was the storehouse n
+ things past, the place where the rel
IS of the last generation were hid .
way. To children-the last corners q
! the world-it was, therefore, Her p
llaneum or Pompeii, or even a longer al
screted Troy. In it were the uniforms !;
militia which long ago crossed y
ream darker than Washington's Del sc
ware; dresses short in waist and mar tt
wv and long in skirt, and even !,
bruised arms" we're hung up there. =
ooks which had lost their covers and le
terest to former generation were
Unsigned to garrets, to be read again n
ith glowing or filling eyes by young "
scovegers. To
The garret has lost its old tenants, eS
ne authors, They have descended to !,
ie first floor and the front room. Per- r.
APPS they are not as near Heaven now ns
in the former days. Literature has al
rown q greater and more profitable 40
ade, The change is good one, but -
greater names do not rise gr
ian those made famous of yore in in
ose proximity TO the rafters. The old TO
lrret, however, in memory grows of
brighter place than it was in fact. ~,
'me garrets fill up with golden glow. =
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