The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-28
THE MANS ROOM IN TIE HOUSE

The Saturday Evening Post diates very brightly on
the demand secluded and protected retreat for the
home owner There are in the United States than
lalHon men who study and write in their homes Their
number has been vastly increased by the astonishing
rise Of the correspondence school, by the wonderful
growth Of Chautauqua movements by the multiplication
of reading circles and literary organizations by the wi
defining opportunities for profitable writing and By the
intensified interest in all public questions The average
of this generation student and there never was
much serious and earnest thought there is today.
These men build homes The very tendencies that
make them book lovers make them home lovers re-
spectacle number build without much regard for ex-
pense mansions in which quiet and secluded
room easily possible But the great majority them
in moderate circumstances and house that costs
$4,000 is beyond their reach Some may say that if
they or write they viii rise above their en-
vironment Lincoln, lying before the open fire. forget
In everything but the printed words; the learned black
saith, working and reading at the forge; the schol
ary shoemaker. mending and learning and all the other
Of application ana time saving might be cited But
they belong the PAST The today needs and de-
serves comfort and quiet
Now. it is extraordinary that in the thousands
and thousands of 1lans FOR published in arch
itecural journals ard family magazines there is an
o5yiouaRess Of that is really pathetic He has ia
cities eat to sleep battle. hang pictures to
shovel coal build fires and to entertain company; but
ii he to settle down for evening of study to
q
ton and uninterrupted thought what becomes of him?
Where is he TO so? In nnety-nne one-hundredths of
moderate priced houses the library is grim and grin
ming sarcasm It is the storm center of the home and
Its nfrequent Gains generally happen when the is
away. The president the leading universities
some time ago arranged model library that could
do more Of his work at home Some months later friend
asked him it worked. beautifully" the reply.
Its the most popular in the house-nursery store
room smoking room every old kind of room. They
haven't there yet but the restaurant and kitchen.
extensions viii come later" Where do you do your
work." In the faculty office just before"
OF this is another phase of yexed question
but it does absolve the architects. Judging from
their plans most of them must be who like go out
night Or they may be pessimists who look upon all
husbands failures. They riot in womens rooms, chill
dren's and servants rooms but they seldom give
thought to the It would be safe venture say
that hundred contains serious propo-
ston fer the who wants to study and write An
pretend they have but matter of fact they haven't
The library downstairs is courtesy title for sitting
The study upstairs is emergency bedroom with
lock All this is mans fault. of course He has
asserted his rights. Being animal that does not
like what best himself he has vacillated and
procrastinated But the reform come and the arch
rect who provides safe quiet and wen protected
for the viii deserve wen of his fellow beings There
is. too important moral bearing this matter The
satisfying OF the man means happiness for the
whole family fewer domestic differences and longer
lives From every viewpoint there fore it is wise to
provide seQuestered ana upholstered den for
pensable creature whom Mrs Elisabeth IN the book
Shout her German garden. called The Man Of Wrath"