Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-04
WOMAN SOLVED A PROBLEM
Design and Construction Of Home in
Which Servants Are Not Needed.
CONVENTIONAL NOTIONS THROWN AWAY
SIX Essential Requirements Carried
Out I'm Spite of Architects and
BuiIders-EQuipped with
Every Convenience.

In spite of opposition on the part II
architects and builders, a Mrs. William
A. Glasner Of Chicago. has succeeded in
having built according to her plans
unique home which is to solve the servant
problem. For several years she struggled
with the problem of keeping good servants
and was worsted, for the cook refused to
wash, to scrub. or clean, and the house
maid and laundress equally were unoblig
ing,
1t was after one Of these household diff
hculties that Mrs Glasner began to plan
her servantless house with the help Of her
husband, and these were the requirements
l. 1t must be on one floor.
/ 2. There always must be plenty Of hot
water, summer and winter.
! 3. There must be the most cheerful
kitchen which could be built
T. There must be few rooms to take
D. Everything must be arranged to make
work easy so there would be no need Of
s. There must be plenty Of windows
and no accommodations for servants. II
was I'm fact to be an ideal home for only
two people, husband and wife.
All Conventional Notions Upset.
Tn architects were in despair when
they saw the requirements. and the plans
Mrs. Glasner had made. They upset all
theories on building and were voted i'm
possible, but Mrs Glasner was determined
and in the end succeeded in finding an
architect who carried out her plans, and
the result is an ideal home.
The house, or rather bungalow, for it
follows the plans of California bungalows
and is built in a rambling sort of man
ner to accommodate the rolling ground on
which it stands. is in Glencoe on Sher-
ifIan of rqyinpg
which are so characteristic Of that sub
urb The outside walls are of wide, brown
stained, undressed boards Joined together
horizontally with projecting battens, this
simple treatment forming a perfect har-
mony with the trees which surround the
house. An octagonal extension on the
east side is carried to the roof and forms
one of the most charming little sewing
rooms a woman could dream OF, while
another octagOnal room near the entrance
makes an ideal den that, in case Of Wis
itors, is furnished with a lounge bed so as
to be used for a bedroom. Then there
is an octagonal summer house connected
with the porch by a rustic bridge that
goes across a small ravine at the back Of
the house The plain roof is broken only
by a large chimney. Under the wide
caves an almost continuous series Of win
sunlight for which she stipulated. The
windows are in groups Of three with a
large stationary plate in the center to give
an unobstructed- view Of the lovely sur
rounding landscape, and hanked on either
side by easements of decorative glass that
open outward, cottage fashion.
| On the west. where the soping bank
admits of it. the house is two stories, to
allow basement room for the laundry and
boiler room, and large room which
later is to be turned into a billiard room
Small decorated windows light this.
On entering the front door, which is as
unconventional as the house and its own
ers, one steps at once into the living room
(2Ox27 feeD, with the oetagonaI den fifteen
feet in diameter opening off Of it. On one
side of this living room is a great fireplace
built up to the wall, made OF artistic dun
brick and large enough to accommodate
good sized logs. Besides this fireplace is
built seat with a row Of windows over
1t, while on the opposite side, under the
easements with their broad stills, run low
built In bookcases filled with the favorite
books of the owners. The walls and cell
ings are banded simply with a system Of
wooden strips that serve TO outline various
1 wall surfaces, and there are few holdings
and no fancy trim to catch the dust
From this living room opens a large bed
room Q6xsO feet with two great closets
one for the master and one for the mis-
tress, and also a beautifully tiled bathroom
that also can be entered from the hall
that goes from the living room 10 porch.
The little octagon sowing room also opens
from of the bedroom and makes a charm
ing little dressing room.
No Dining Room I'm the House.
There is no dining room in this house.
for, as its mistress said: "A dining room
| often is the ugliest room In a house, and
II Is one more Unnecessary room 20 keep
clean. II is only convention that dictates
that We must sit down In state to eat our
meals. People who come here look around
and say; why, where is the dining room p
They seem to think It half savage to eat
on the porch as We do. In cool weather
we will eat in front Of the big glowing
i CRATE fire, 80 you see We do not need a
dining room, Then, too, not having a
dining room does away with so much work.
You see / have two-deck cart, and when
l wash my dishes and silver / put them on
Il. 1 also place thereon the meal entire
when Il Is ready to serve so all go to-
gether TO the porch OF living room in one
trip. The courses are served from this
cart. and the dishes are placed on the lower
shelf and all finally are wheeled back ia
the Kitchen 10 be washed when the meal
Is eaten" This cart, by the way, which
Is a great labor saving proposition, is an
idea Of the owner.
Mrs Glasner wouldn't have DARK
lkitchen She wanted it on the south eide