Evening star., 1909-06-05
June Is Month When
the Bungalow Appeals

"HE lure of the bungalow is now
exercising it's sway Vacation. that
used to mean long trip across the
ocean or to the mount aims, now spells to
many a change of residence from the city
home to the little one-story cottage at
|seashore or mountain.
With the flowers of spring comes the
impulse to trek from the city and make
|away to the rustic surroundings where
trolley cars nor railroad trains never
come to disturb the sweet comfort OF the
man who has spent eight months OF the
year in the turmoil of the city.
The bungalow is lullng to the soul. 1t
is kind of residence that produces the
ideal vacation spirit, and in increasing
numbers the wealth of the nation Is turn
ing to little places that once would have
been thought inadequate.
The bungalow is the newest word In
|rusticity: ii Is the closest mankind comes
TO getting next to the soil; 1t is the call
of Mother Nature to get him away from
bricks and asphalt, from elevators and
telephones.
Yet it is not an invitation to rough it.
for the wisdom of those who plan the
bungalow has seen to 1t that not all COM
fort be sacrificed. SO there are host of
those conveniences of life that are essen
tial to happiness, or pretty nearly So =,
Once seekers for vacations used to tax
of shore cottages, of Italian villas and of
colonial mansions. but today. especially in
the month of June. 1t is the bungalow that
above all kinds of dwellings comes into
the mind of the family with wealth
enough to look for little relief from the
rigors of the summer months.
Bungalow Is a term that is lndlan In
derivation. 1t was applied originally to
the little one-story house that was TO De
found in the Bengal district of India.
1t had its growth in the natural climatic
conditions of the country. 1t was ram
bling building that never got above one
story and a half, and often only one
story.
The architecture was simplicity person.
fed, but Europeans who came to the
country found this kind OF dwelling
welcome variation from the towering
buildings of home, and gradually the
bungalow began to come into favor IN
other parts OF the Worlo thaJl tiidt Aioiil
which 1t sprang.
1t was of course, peculiarly adapted FOR
a warm weather residence, being the
child Of country where the mercury Is
ever trying to burst It's way Out OIL 'he
bulb via the top.
The home in the new world. the com
mon residence planned in the precise
mind of the carpenter, was ever square
1t was built on square plot or ground
the house was square. the rooms were
square, the garden was square, the steps
square Any departure from this hard
and fast system was Impossible.
Therefore the bungalow, which throws
form to the wind, and which does moth
ing more than provide a rambling col
lection of rooms of all sizes and plans,
made an instant hit with those wis like
little originality, even in the plan OF
their residence.
For one thing, the bungalow brings the
porch into its own. and this is some
thing we'll worth while. especially in the
good old summer time. when only by
getting in the open can the full advanta &c
of a breeze be reaped.
In the ideal bungalow the house is al
porch; 1t runs front and back. right and
left When there is a half story 1T has
gabled roof, SO that all the upper
chambers have most attractive and funny
sloping and cornered ceilings.
Often the side porch extensions are
taken into the house and made rooms
with easement windows. the back is
made to correspond with the front. with
rabed roof and dormer windows. and
the first thing the architect knows he
has built house which is the very last
word in warm weather happiness
The bungalow is not always the modest
little affair that the fiction of the rea
estate man represents 1t 10 be Up IN
New England they have habit or say
ing tlat a DuHpdlOW WHICH Ccsto iIcIe
than $500 Is extravagance. and there are
undoubtedly many which have been built
within that figure.
| But by way OF contrast there are bun
ealows which have eight rooms and cost
as much as 5000.
In the mind of the man with poetic
turn the last word in happiness is bun
galow beside river. preferably with a
den that locks cut over the waves. al
fording constantly beautiful pictures,
whether the waters are dimpling in the
summer sun or are dark and mysterious
| in the rays CT the moonlight.
The bungalow by the river suggests
something artistic and poetic. The, I'M
aginative can think of Stevenson in such
| home or Shelley or Byron writing great
prose or poetry. Eliminating all the snob-
| berry and the pose that often mars one S
admiration for those who live in bunga
| lows, and scorn those who do not, there
| is an artistic atmosphere surrounding
| one of the structures. This Is In part
| the fascination.
But there is a practical utility to the
! place, too.
| from the need of climbing up and down
stairs.
Everything is on one floor. or at the
worst one floor and half.
When father wants to shave he walks
| from his sleeping room TO the bathroom
| on the same floor. and there removes his
| surplus beard.
To eat his breakfast he has no climb