Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-01
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BETTER ONE LATER
Style and Extravaganza at
Outset Leaves Families
Homeless in After Years.
COST OF IDEAL HOME
TOO HEAVY A BURDEN
No Life More Enjoyable Than That
in inexpensive, Modestly Fur
nished Cottage or Bungalow.

There is now and for some time to
come there will be class OF unfortu-
nate or misfit men who are not able TO
buy a home. There will always be
few people so situated that they cannot
make economical use of permanent
home All these must continue to rent
room under another mans roof. But
these classes are reducible to small
proportion of the total population OF
America But statistics show the rent
ing population of this country to De
now more than so per cent of the total
and constantly growing.
To the small and irregular Garner the
ACQUISITION of a home looks far away
and as impossible as the finding OF
not of gold at the end OF a rainbow. 10
men of drifting habit or OF shifting
business a home may look like poor
investment. But to the average worker,
whether he believes 1t or not. getting
. home and getting it early in ms
career is his financial salvation, his
Arst and probably his last chance 10
save himself from the financial scrap
heap.
Ideal Home Too Costly.
The first terrible lion in the road to
the first home is your and your wife's
idea of what you want in the way OF a
ern, wide-room. we'll set homes such as
men on a fve-thousand-dollar income
can just manage to swing Your wife
wants this dressed and decorated as De-
comes such a home, with enough OK
plate glass. oriental rugs. polished ma
hogany and fine drapery so that II may
moi look naked. 1t must look as good
as the best homes OF the iFiehos with
whom you associate
with this ambition what do you nnal-
lv do? Because you can't build
home in which to entertain your
friends according to their style of life.
you don't build a home to shelter your
selves and to suit your style OF NE.
So you rent house as good as your
salary win pay for. thopgn 1,d NOT au me
salary goes up the rented house must
be a little better. The rent treads on
the heels of the salary year after year,
and the days of cottage NE pass TOT :
aver. and you find yourself in middle
life welded to the hne house that you
can never own. because at the start
you tried to run before you could walk.
and thought house was a building In
which 10 entertain your friends.
Poor victim Of a misht vision. Why
try to build a dance hall? Why try to
finance an auditorium? Why run no.
tel for your neighbors rather than a
home for your wife and babies?
Story Of a Winner.
Here is the adventure of a young
couole who had no money with which
to start life but who were bound to
own a home. This mans wages war
ranted paying a rent OF SIS a month
He had $50 cash in hand to begin his
home investment With this he made
the first payment on a three hundred
UP a tent house on his lot at a cost OF
s25. In this he and his wife lived for
the six warm months, saving $50 OF
rent and paying this on the purchase
of the lot. They operated this way fol-
three summers. and then had a clear
deed TO their lot
Having this. he contracted with Z
builder TO put UP a house for $1,000 or
the lot. into which they moved The
house was not finished at that figure
II took $500 more to complete it, but il
the $500 there was $500 OF labor which
the man and his wife furnished them
selves time went on. All the interior
painting and decoration they did to-
gether in odd hours. When IL was final
ly done. though II took three years u
complete IL and ten TO pay for IL. II wa.
home into which they had put year,
of loving thought and labor. They hac
fcasned by doing IL how to make
house beautiful and comfortable. ant
how to keep IL so. The human interes
in such a house is tenfold more than IL
house built by hired help and handel
Ten Years Paid Out.
Much OF the first furniture Of thi
house was madeup furniture. The book
cases were of pine. home made an,
home painted. The dining table was
secondhand bargain. costing $3.50. ant
rehnished at home at a cost of $3.50
But at 81 it was in just as good tast'
in this 1900 home as q $40 table would
be IN $4,000 house.
At the end of ten years this man am
his wife had property worth $3.50
and easily salable at that Few renters
even with a salary Of $3.50 q month. I'm,
themselves at the end Of ten years pos
sessed Of $4,000 in negotiable property
Now the man with $4,000 has the key (,
$1,000 home. IL he has salary to sup
port such home. for $4,000 cash will
give a man a $4,000 home with a $3.50
mortgage on. You can have no sure
stepping stone to the house your mrs
fancy desires than the cottage that yo,
can get II you will follow a wise ambi
ton.
Ten years in a cottage Is not tel
years of hardship II this man shoult
Y,end the rest Of his life In a five
tnousand-doII home or in . twenty