The Sauk Centre herald., 1911-08-03

and concrete. and make detailed draw
ings OF nearly every inch of it, besides
wrestling with contractors and plumb
ers and electricians and labor unions.
why, 1t won't take any time at
all!" Mrs. kingston said But don't
you think it would be awfully nice to
have sleeping porch?"
I'VE could stick one In right here"
agreed kingston, making dab with
his pencil. And, say! l wonder if
there couldn't be a billiard room in
the basement"
Langston, next door. dropped in as
they were working
What you want" he said, inter-
estedly, is pergola! They're swell!
Out in California you never see a
house that pretends to be a house
without a pergola-nifty place to fix
up with chairs and tables and things!"
But it rains here" objected Mrs
kingston
Langston coughed. Or" he went
on hastily, you could have sunken
6di uCA. Ou, YOU uuSl nave d SuuhGu
garden!"
Il trust, Henry" said Bingston's
father when he saw the sketch, that
you will not follow convention like
blind sheep. Put up something diff
ferent from the common run. Now,
II you would spread these rooms
around this way you could introduce
an interior court-novel, eh? l shall
never forget the courtyards of the
houses when was in Spain, with their
fountains and lemon trees and clam.
bering roses and the sun"
Lemon trees in Chicago?" muir
INJURED his son. And when that court.
yard gets chockful of snow in Janu.
ary-''
Are you merely a commercialized
automaton!" calculated Bingston's
father. You've no poetry in your
soul! Anyhow, I'd twist the dining
room around here and introduce a
music room half way up the stairs"
Mrs. Bingston's rich aunt put on
her glasses and studied the sketch
which her niece showed her You
don't want that kind of house at
ALL" she announced, decisively.
There is nothing 80 satisfying as the
old colonial with a broad hall in the
middle and big rooms on either side,
making handsome frontage. Letitia.
| shall draw up a plan for YOU"
Campbell says" reported kingston
one evening. that werl get mortally
sick of a front porch, where every one
can run In on us, but with a lot only
sixty feet wide"
Sister Mabel was over today" in
terrupted his wife. And went right
up in the air because we hadn't ar
ranged for a sunken tub in the bath
room l told her it would have to
sink through the ceiling down into
the living room If 1t sank at all, but
she said the architect could fix it
somehow. Also she said simply
must have a dressing-room!"
kingston arose and pounded the ta-
ble "Say!" he cried. Pm going to
have pipe dream, too! I'm going to
buy hill and build the house on the
exact top in the shape of an old
fashioned beehive. Then I'm going
to tunnel an entrance from the bot
tom straight up through the middle of
the hill and run an elevator into the
the interior of the house, where all
the rooms will be arranged around
corridors in circles, with windows like
portfolios looking out on the world
from the sides of the beehive We
shall be absolutely impregnable from
the outside, because l shall level of
the sides of the hill till it is like q
rounded cone.
AT the bottom where the elevator
starts up the vertical tunnel l shall
harness three bulldogs that gnash
their teeth with the regularity of
clock, an automatic gun that shoots
once a minute and a boiling vat of
water with springboard to hurl into
its depths anybody who doesn't know
the combination Then I'll sit up
above and defy ali these meddlesome
relatives and friends of ours who
have ideas on building houses
why, Henry, gasped his wife.
"Still, / don't know that l blame you!
Why can't we stick to our original
plan of four rooms down and four
rooms up?"
That" said kingston. lis quite the
brightest idea yeti"