The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-04
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last twenty years to her.
And thcreupon she fishes out a market
ba SIX etful of maga zine literature contain
Ing various and Divers articles, entitled
"'Thc House Beautiful" or Lovely
Homes for 5000 III these periodicals
one beholds seductive cottages spreading
out sqrat -fashion like 4 setting hen and
containing SO many rooms hat one al
mos t. thinks It will be a sin not 10 take
boa rdcrs when such a nuggetaSof real,
estate Is acquired. a 8t
The front elevation"-that Is, the de-
ceit FIJI portrait OF the front Of the
house-snacks Of rural retirement or.
suburban peace, while the undulating
mountains or rolling hllocks III the slaz-
ed paper perspective give one n positive
guarantee that life in 5000 home is
crime against humanity, It's so soft
and vevety.
But the front elevation" is as naught
compared to the ground floor plans. All,
there's where one gets luxury, sure
cnougl,-tle kind one reads about in So
cicty novels and sees In Gibson pictures.
Observe the double parlors and the place
marked living room" and the dinky lit
tie apartment labeled den" and the
choice retreat designated as library" and
the .butlers pantry" and the kitchen,
odatc a double oX-cart, and the square
for hall fireplace, and the winding
stairway, and a thousand other things
you've vainly lonsed for until your wish
ing apparatus has almost worn itself out.
No wonder ones wife gets high and
mighty notions after seeing all these
things, yet SCOTS when told that the
ey-producllle member Of the es,aao-
lishment Is willing TO pay even as much
as $500 for the house he wants. Such
extravaganza, shrieks the "home beautI-
ful'' expert. Such wllf,ll, deliberate, pre-
meditated hunger to waste money, When
her winters furs haven't been made over
for two years. Such silly lavishness
when here's the whole business before
you for a mere 5000 song and maybe
less! No. stree, $1,000 will be amply
enough to spend on the home. Doesn't
the confidential adviser In the maya
zine say so---tllc trousered Ruth Ashmorc,
whose whole life's work consists Of Civ
Ing other people advice. And oughtn't
he to know. Why sure
It is while the $1,000 glow is on that
the builder Is sent fora CHEEKY freckle-
neckcd, good-dlgestioned soul with large
thumb nails and patcnt-leathcr shoes a
little bcdimmed by brick dust. Yes he
knows exactly what your wife wishes
observe that he has an offensive way5of
ignoring your cXistencn-,nd quite agrees
with the good woman In her opinion that
tho renaissance style Of architecture,
blended with the corinthiana the Gothic
and tho Colonial. make lovely combi-
nation, especially for people of small
means, but large and growing families,
lie suggests, In as delicate way as
Ruskin, Emerson. or Hawthorne could
have put it. that the full baby-carrlage,
to say nothing OF the trundlc bed. Is a
thing 10 be reckoned with both now and
In he future-ln short that wise people
with three children Invariably ask 'es-
Inmates" for houses capable Of expand
ing for the accommodation of eight or nine
youngllngs.
When shown the House Beautiful ar
ticlc, he admits that 1t couldn't be beat,
but suddenly discovers that 1t contem-
plates a sxty-foot lot. whereas yours IL
only nineteen feet. still he can fix all
that on the "blue prints" though as a.
close and dear friend Of the family, who
has your Interest at heart, he thinks I t
would be wiser TO have q 5000 house
instead of 5000 affair
What he says Is so soothing that you
close your eyes, throw your ncad on his
shoulder, and give up entirely to him.
Al you ask Is that he hurry up with the
niue prints" catch your ideas exactly
and avoid the fantastic What your wife
wants Is something simple
ANA when the good man shows up four
days hence with your future home. lumI-
nOusly white and ma dramatically perfect,
WaIloWins on on azure sea OF paper, y0it
have an Impulse 10 QUIT yo,ir present
shack forthwith, and begin taking up the
carpets ~ once With trcinmln,ls hands
ypu seize the ara wings or rather yn,lr
MIG l0fS and soon sils Is deey In thy