The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-30

the owner, his likes. general trend
OF his makeup, and If he has not
made a mark somewhere in his make
up regard for refinement and beau.
y ! am afraid that part OF his ma
ture is considerably below zero.
We people here in Utah talk about
expense. | visited a home about
twenty years ago on Gold street, in
the little town OF Wellingborough in
Northamptonshire, England. The
floors were flagstone. The roof was
I matched. The ceilings were low,
the woodwork Imprinted. but bearing
a rich polish given by time and use.
There was no nickle plated range,
just a fireplace in the wall. rhe
chairs were not the upholstered kind
the man and his wife cash had one,
which was supposed to be an ann.
chair but when the good woman ac.
cumulated flesh to the extent that
armchair was altogether out OF reaB-
on there was no money to buy a new
one, so one of the a ms had to be
sawed of to render il of continued
! service. a large family had been
reared in that home eleven children
had gone out from it and the average
wage OF the father in thirty.iive years
had been just nine shillings a week,
approximately 50. % in our money,
and, mind you, that was rented
house. Rent had to be paid out OF
that nine shillings. 1t was not a
gloomy home, either, the sun shone
in through clean glass, the floor was
tidily kept, the ornaments were
few potted plGcts, and at the rear was
tiny garden, we'll kept and cared
for that was bright spot in the rec
objection of that plowman's cottage.
No, it isn't the expense; it's the
wi |, the sentiment, after all, that
makes things worth doing about the
home.
1t was a little old house in a coun.
try town. The walls were plastered
and whitewashed. At the corners
the plaster was raised little and
laid Off in blocks and the whitewash
on these blocks was splashed with
black mixture in imitation of the
IN In
Cottonwood. The roof was sagging
in the middle. like the curve on
sway horse. 1t faced north was a
story and half high and had lean
to at the back and on the west side,
and along the front was low porch,
and extending either side of the door
way was a long white timber that
seemed to be brace to keep the
porch from getting away from the
house. The house was only twenty
feet back from the sidewalk so the
braces reached nearly to the gate but
in those days that seemed quite a
distance. On either side of the gate.
way was a lilac bush and Chamber
ing along the braces Were trumpet
climbers. At one corner of the porch
there was climbing rose and in an
other place between the porch and
the sidewalk there were rose bushes,
and one great red peony, that in It's
season gave distinction TO the little
plot in which it grew. Inside, cell
ings were low and the floors in the
leanto portions OF the house were
step down below the floors in the
other portion. The rooms were not
large but were bright. warm in whit
er In the summer places OF retreat
from the heat and dust. 1t was a
home where l was born and where
spent my childhood. All through my
life the lilac and climbing rose have
had an influence in my thoughts OF
home. We called 1t the little
house." have never lived In anoth-
er house So poor nor in one OF which
the memories are richer. 1t isn't the
size OF the house, the architecture
nor the place on which 1t stands that
is the great factor. What it is can
not describe. I'll just call 1t the
"hominess," the influence OF mother,
that makes the place worth while
and home.
/ was looking at a house being
shown to me by its owner, who lived
in 1t for great many years, but ow-
ing to the changes time had brought
had moved from the place We were
looking at. He was very proud OF
the interior arrangement of that
house In fact, he said, with some |
pride, that he believed 1t was about
the handiest little house tnat had ev-
err been built" 1t had a bath room,
pantry, and kitchen sink. AS near