New-York tribune., 1908-11-29
THE COUNTRY HOME.
1t Is to the Spinster What the Cluo
Is to the Bachelor.

| ODDLY enoueb Il ia almost invariably the country
home that built to order and the city house that
| IS bought ready made The latter is only altered
| by the introduction of more bathrooms or perhaps
! IN. addition of back building but in the
former all the ideas that have been growing ever
since housekeeping began have to be expressed ana
the architects plans may be revised so oren' with
SO much taking OUT and putting in, that little
save the Dimensions and exterior view remain TN
changed. The desire TO own her homo and have
II built she wishes Is very strongly developed
In the American woman. and her first move wnen
she gains wealth is the purchase of land in some
place that has been thought Of as ideal for many
years perchance and then the erection Of house
tnat Will be as luxuriously appointed in every de-
tail as money make II.
The style of houses usually chosen now is
Georgian which closely approaches the best
colonial that the two frequently confounded
by those unfamiliar with architecture In either
the large windows give the building u great adj
vantage the Elizabethan dwellings. whose
narrow windows do not permit the extended views
which give one Of the greatest charms to coun-
Try house
Tuxedo had its beginning before Wheatley Hills.
Katouuh and the various New Jerssy colonies
5preng up many different types Of houses
grouped there somewhat more closely thar at any
OF the later places and Queen Anne and stucco cot
tages, the latter of the Swiss chalet type be-
fitting a mounta1nside with lake view, abound in
tho midst OF many stately edlfces. AS almost all
built OF stone and are now luxuriantiy covered
Il brick wood had been the material
Tuxedo "a among inland colonies just what New
port is among those bordering the sea- and the
Tuxedotes for the main part Newporters
WELL fitting from mountain to coast and back
again the seasons change. and sandwiched in
between will be short visit IN New York or a
trip abroad In search very likely, of new furniture
or, properly speaking very old furniture.
II has been said that Americans have become the
ancients in this generation because of their taste
for things antique and the determination 10 have.
II the house be Georgian for instance all the fur
nishings and decoration of that period. For a
colonial house they search ardenty for Martha
Washington sewing tablesT for Adams chairs for
any kind of mahogany furniture that Is thirty
years old and sometimes succeed in getting really
good pieces that have been slowed away forgotten
in some attic stable loft with perhaps a rat
hole or two to testify to the fact that they were
used in hosptable houses when in their prime
This quest for furniture begins even before matri-
ruony with the girl whose heart is fixed on some
day having domcile, and in consequence
many a bachelor maid. when she acquires financial
independence, Immediately puts her long cherished
into operation. and without waiting for the
best young man to come along has her home built
and equipped to her taste. The place then becomes
to her what the club Of the dved-n- wool bach
elor is to him, except that instead of being OF
the atoms of collection she is mistress Of all she
surveys
1t is quite the fao too, for the women Of society
to invest their surplus funds in abandoned
farm equip the house with modern comforts and
either live In it themselves odd times for a
rest" or else rent it when made into a
charming retreat at that will bring a high
interest on the invested money One enterprsing
girl who has had enough" Of social life has turned
her attention to the Connecticut farms and is buy
ing these doing them (having studied archi-
tecture) and selling the completed and attractive
places as quickly as they finished. In each she
places some good bits of old furniture also picked
up along the way and she has accumulated by
her enterprise a very well rounded out bank ac-
count