Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1910-11-23
THEIR HOUSE
PLANS

mansion, hasn't her" said Knowles,
as he and his young wife walked away
from the new home of their prosper
GUS relative. Il wish, Maud, there
was some hope Of my ever building
you house like that"
TITS nice of you to think of II, Ar
thur, but II we were erecting a
house / shouldn't want 1t to be exactly
like your Uncle Jim's."
You wouldn't! Why not?" asked
Knowles, who felt a good deal of
family pride in his uncle's new dwell
ing. "You seemed to admire every
thing when Uncle Jim was showing
us through It."
We'll. did like almost everything,
but / couldn't stand those stairs, 60
ing right up between two walls the
way they do"
Why, l thought that was very
neat II ! were building / should Ger.
tainly wish to copy that feature"
Il suppose, Arthur" said Maud,
frigidly, that If you were building
you would consult my taste to some
extent at least?"
Yes, of course, dear. But I'm sure
you'd like those stairs after you got
used to them. You see, there's no
room wasted. That's what like
about Uncle Jim's house-every inch
Of space counts"
oh
dislike anything that looks the least
cramped or contracted in a house.
shall want broad stairs, with a spa
cious landing and polished mahogany
rail coming down into wide and
lofty hall"
And 1 suppose you'll want me to
put on a swallow-tail coat every night
for q seven o'clock dinner. Well, my
dear girl, I'll tell you now that therell
be nothing doing in full dress for
yours truly, and that never want my
dinner q minute later than $3.50. Just
time enough to wash up bit when
/ get home from the office before |
sit down to a square meal is all
want. No frills for little Arthur,
thank you"
II should think you'd like to dress
like a gentleman and dine at a cor
rect hour" said Maud in hurt tone.
well, who's to say that man
can't be a gentleman in a business
suit? And as to dining at the correct
hour, think the correct hour is when
one is hungry and dinner is ready. /
tell you, Nj /, people get just as UNI
balanced over good form as they do
over any other craze"
do you mean to imply, Arthur, that
am unbalanced"
why, no, of course not. Let's see,
we were talking about Uncle Jim's
house. You certainly must admit that
the dining room and kitchen are large
enough. There's nothing cramped
about those rooms"
THE kitchen is entirely too big.
Some of it should have been partition
ed off into a buffers pantry. Fancy
having as elegant a house as that
with no buffers pantry"
well, there's no butler, either. I
suppose Uncle Jim could not see why
he should provide an apartment for
an unknown quantity. l think having
the kitchen and dining room adjoin is
a very good arrangement. You're sure
to get your food hot then. If there's
anything hate 1t is lukewarm meals"
MEN never think of anything but
what they have to eat"
81 suppose If we were only as ethe.
real as women we could all live on
chocolates and afternoon tea and 1t
wouldn't be necessary to build kitch-
ems and dining rooms"
"How silly you are, Arthur! Really,
you are the most unreasonable person
to argue with l ever knew"
Then why argue with me?"
you began the argument yourself
by insisting upon having stairs like
Uncle Jims In our house, and l don't
think 1t bit nice OF you to plan some
thing that you know i don't like"
Knowles glanced quizzically at his
wife's girlish profile. for she had turn
ed her face away from him. Then he
slipped his arm through hers and
said: There, now, Maud. don't you
care. I'll throw those plans OF mine
away and you can make all the next
set for our-for our dream house"
you are silly, Arthur silly old
dear" Maud laughed little tremu-
lousy as she spoke.