Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-12-16
COTTAGE HOMES POPULAR.
;, People Bent on Getting Back 10 .ho
 Simple Life.

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 In this day of progress we are -1eafHing that many of the old time customs were better than the pres ent ways. In those old Colonial , days there was a love and reverence for home that was beautiful to look back to and ever an inspiration to truer and better home life, says a writer in the Home Magazine
 Some of these o1d-fashioned homes can still be found and how restful is the atmosphere when one enters through the vine covered porch The sitting room is large the ceiling low, the windows plentiful in number, but small in size the floor clean and white and often sanded with a fine. white beech sand. or covered with the woven or braided rag carpet, moth CTS handiwork." At the further end is broad open fireplace where a goodly-sized log is kept burning through the long, cold winter days.
 We of the present generation know nothing of the ways and manners of living of those days, except as we have read of it. or in the evening twz light have listened to stories of by gone days at the knees of our grand parents. Some of us can recall many such an enjoyment in boyhood days. listening, never tiring. to grandfather telling of the oldfashioned days and sometimes permitted to look with something Of feeling of awe and reverence. at the documents, signed and sealed With the great state seal, which commissioned him an officer in the war of lSi2
 Why is il that our minds turn to these oldfashioned homes? lt must be that in the process of time, and in the change and so-called progress. we have missed something of the value in the simplicity, not to say, crudeness of those former days, and We will stop awhile and thiall
 Man made the city, but God made the country" is an old. time-Worn sentiment. but the truth of the saying Is more apparent every day, There is apparent oa every hand q move men toward getting the best there is ill the great outdoors, and a desire for the more simple anal plain modes of living This &aS been emphasized during the sumner season of thiS year by a greater demand Tor country places and summer homes inst outside the cities thau has ever been known. This, of course, is largely among thoso quite well-to-do, and 1t Is not only sentiment, but good sense that prompts the desire for an invlrou- ment in keeping with the purpose to secure part at least. of the simple life which is well interpreted as mean ing sane, rational life This is brought to our attention daily by peo- pie of culture, Of refiaemest. and Of good taste They say. w want an 'old-fashioued home, We arc tired of gaudy display. We dc net want So many rooms to care for, nor so much detail of finish. Make a few good sized rooms, well opened t0.5ether a liberal fireplace, good substantial con struction but plain. plan. plain
 "The cottage home" W, never as popular as at tue present time, and the demand is rapidly on the in crease. There are two principal req sons for this condition The first and the one most common always in the mind oi the average tnerican is to obtain the comfort as aanveni- ance of home with S!9 33 lay Of money: and the seco. js the desire for such comtt sout the responsibility and gf1.a amount of housework and annoyances and ex- pense of a retinue of servants that
 ,ecessaly for the care of a large and costly residence with it's elabor- ate finish and furnishings This de- sire to be freed from such burdens has become very common even among people who have abundant means. who are weary of the routine and manifold house cares, and really want a home In the true meaning of the