Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-10
A NEW HOUSE
Picturesque and Significant oolngs
On In ths Minds Of The Men
Who Built it
BY SARAH d. LOwRlE

| near relation, and I have learned througl
| q long experience that she cannot eat me
Her reason for frowning just now IL becaus'
she thinks divert the carpenters and paint
| ers from their work by getting them L
converse. And as she has moved into hel
house. bag and b. egase, she wants them ou
Of 1t. And every minute Of the short day
Of a workingman does count in almost cal
culable dollars and cents.
But ] cannot resist going over there tt
sit among the clean. crisp shavings, and
once there I cannot resist getting the
man" who happens TO be at work nearby
to converse. It is 80 easy All ! say Is:
Where err ID. did you come frc%i iov VIII d,a tine the
come to II be working at this trader" Then
they are of! For they all have come from
somewhere or been somewhere or learned
their trade by some odd chance.
THE painter who is bossing his end OF the
L job. for instance. is the grandson OF a
Baptist minister. He spends his winters at
building and renovating company down
there. 1t appears there is destructive
worm In those parts that plays havoc with
boats, 70 that they have to be renovated
once a year. So he says. at least. We'll,
he goes down there with his wife and two
blustcrv in tbo fnlI. and they travel in their
Ford. with tent and cook stove and cup.
board and other camping outfit. making the
trip in ten days, unless they stop on now
and then with friends. He makes enough
money down at Palm Beach to cover the
cost of the trip and ali expenses down there.
with some over. Being the village painter
up in his part Of New York State, he has
all the orders that he can fill for the spring
and the summer months.
family makes n snecialfv Of seeing thor.
oughly one new town-new to them { t is
season. In that way they now know
Albany, Troy. Schenectady, New York and
Philadelphia, and they have a very good
idea of many of the biz towns south Of us.
They meet many pleasant travellers on their
night camping grounds, sometimes the same
ones for the whole ten days. Their present
little car has made the trim three times o: d
still carries its owner up the hill to his job
at the new house across from NV garden.
From The new houses BUILDING NJ Palm
Beach to the political situation in Penn.
sylvania-he came through during our pri-
mary clections-this painter is brimminr
over with topics agreeable to me. How can
I resist making him converse? How can he
-
TNHEN there Is the very curly headed chap
i that has becn layinp the conduit for the
electric wires between the engine in the
garage and the house, We fell into conyer-
satiOn because I asked him why that nine
had to he buried--it necessitated so much
blasting-and his explaining that the earth
kent tbe nine cool and even damn ue osA
ienst thot INSURER Sher. t oetter m % Iurehs. A a!
or what I understood. What more natural
than that I should ask: "How did Won
my interest when he told me that his frst
real job was as motorman between Chestnut
Hill and Allentown.
When you are far from your native door.
step every one who hns seen vour homo town
is worth stopping "to Chin with: as for
n motorman who might not haye STONED for
you when you knew that he saw YOU signal.
TINT 10 nositivejv intr;cn;ne "" S's""''
His reason for leaving Philade, hin and
coming to New York State wos surnrisin1.
and yet not wholly 80. He had asthma as
boy and went to the doctor, and the doctor
"IIere now. III tell Won what to do 70
you don't tell YOUR father that 7 pavo Won
this tip! Clear out from here and pet into
higher ground and better air"
''Sure l will, Doc"' said the motormon
Up IN New York State said the doc
t0r 70 moan Anu ,nHr, nH up 'he motorman took him
and bas bnon n"mo soroS, mo ne ielt next day
@ nn,'on "n 81, e.. sun seventeen years ana has
nv troiIons ~ Im H. hour since. ihere being
J ;res hess me nus .aNen 10 laying electric
hInS,,m mete um" anere. ana mas also added
p'"S's mnS ~ ,a 10 ms S Susc1nplsnments. His days
pS;a pnS as s'ou ana nc gets SO much rock
o'''ue''
THEN there is "Hapny" Miner who %
i n,t,,, w A.. "ho Is
putting up tne window shades. In three
Metks nnppy Is TO begin his career as
professional Dasepail player for town nine
famous IN these parts. Meantime until the
season pegins re Is taking on odd jobs and
kseplhg himset IN form by vaulting every
chair, BED ana bureau. not TO speak of table
,tIaa, IN ,he new , house. ne perches on the most
"h,aNey t,a places ana Keeps himself in condi-
non Dy running violently to imaginary bases
whenever he goes out of the house on
errahds. r,,
Inc reason that know about this second
career or ms IS because--yes, I confess it
a,r aSEea MhD nm NV, what he was catching in the
",,, "ir "nem ni, emme upon him suddenly on what
VIII eventually be lawn. Naturally, when
ne toid me that 1t was an imaginary base
Dail, we tell into deep confab. and were
only torn from it by stern voice from an
upper ana unshaded window calling Miner.