Evening star., 1922-02-05

terest in other people that is building
their nest but will always feel a
bound Of sympathy with them and
wish them luck which goodness
knows they will need.
Nobody can really say that they
have saw life till they have enjoyed a
business relationship with a architect
and contractor which for the benefit
of the green horn ! will exclaim that
the last named is the man that builds
your home at big loss to himself
and the architect is the man that
told you 1t would only cost $4,000.
The architect gets 10 per cent of
what ever amt. 1t finely does cost so OF
course when the total sum shoots up
to $4,000, giveing him fee Of $4,000
instead of $500, why he hollers muir
der and gets SO sore that he takes
your money and slams it in the safe.
RUT it is not my purpose in this
- article to describe the throws of
home bldg. but to merely pass on
suggestion from one Mr.. Lindsey OF
Detroit who is in the shoe business
but has his social side like other peo-
pie, and for all ! know enjoys a
home life of his own. may say at
this pt, that / am in accords with Mr..
Lindsey's idear which is that the time
has came for new style of resi-
dence architecture and that the
family which now builds their home
on the same gen. scheme like homes
has been built for the past 100 yrs
will find when they get their home
completed that it is as far behind
the times as the phone book.
The ground floor plan of the aver
age home is something like as fol-
lows, namely, great big liveing rm.
In front and back of that a fair
size dining rm. and a little bit of
a kitchen. The liveing rm. is or 4
times the size of the other rms. and
is also the rm. where the most money
is spent on rugs, furniture. ct all.
If family have only got enough
money to make one rm. look decent,
why the 1iveing rm. is the rm. that
gets pampered.
Like for inst. you take our liveing
rm. right here in my home and II you
was a stranger and walked into same
you would say to yourself: well it
looks like these people was getting
along o. K. and the old man must be
a good provider."
But was you to strole into the din
ing rm. or kitchen or any other rm.
in the joint you would want to rush
down to the united charitys and tell
them to look into the situation up to
Lardners. And the same holds true
in most other homes, at least amongst
the familys which have entry to
same, namely the liyeing rm. is a YER
able palace vile the rest of the domi-
their uppers.
"Yes," you will say, "but this Is like
it should be because the liveing rm. Is
the show off rm. where the Co. is en-
tertained."
x X 4 X
WELL brother that may of been
w true enough or yrs. ago but
how about today? 1t seems like every
where's, go we amt no sooner said
good evening and how do you do
when mine host pipes all masculine
guests out in the kitchen and though
they amt nothing out there for me,
still and all I am not the kind that
relishs being left alone amongst a
bevy of the fair sex, besides which 1t
amt generally more than minutes
after the men folks has disappeared
when mine hostess or one of the
other ladies gets dry herself and says
let's go out there and see what them
bad boys is doing. Like it was a
mystery.
The next thing you know they's IL to
20 customers parked for the evening
in a room, which was built to accom-
modate one medium size Swede and
you can't set down because they's
only one chair and that's greasy and
the quarters is SO cramped that no
body escapes without getting at least
one full drink spilled on them to say
nothing about everybody stepping on
your it. and how good you feel after
& or hrs. in that kind of atmosphere.
So Mr.. Lindseys idear. which l am
glad to call to the tention of people
that is thinking of building their own
home, is to have the kitchen in the
front of. the house and make it the
biggest rm. in the house and furnish