The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-08-04


and taken time to learn that marriage
is partnership in which both must
share the load. must give and take
The fact that recent statistics show
half the marriages in Washington and
oregon in six months period result
ed In divorce, indicates the urgent
need of very serious consideration OF
the present pace We are going. Is easy
divorce the result of a sort of Jazz
psychology, or the cause of it?
What constitutes home? Isn't COM
fort one of the prime requisites? Also
convenience, indoors and out, and
beauty of a simple sort. There is new
book of the jolliest sort of little house
plans for real homes folk of modest
income, the Home Builders Plan
Book" containing the so prize and hon
or designs for four and six room
houses by eminent architects all over
the country, submitted in a national
competition in connection with the
own your own home exposition in New
York and Chicago last year. The pub
fishers are the Building Plan Holding
Corporation, though the book is being
distributed by Moore, McCord, Gil
chrise and Associates, "a W. Both ST.,
New York. ($1.25). ] am specific be-
cause | am so sure that there will be
many who will want the book, and it
cannot be found in bookstores yet /
fancy. wish could show some of the
pictures and floor plans, and the way
the surrounding grounds, even, are
laid out with walks and lawns and
strawberries. These houses, you would
say at once, are not merely boxes of
such and such dimensions set down
haphazard on an empty lot. They are
homes, even while still on paper The
first prize house, for instance, is
four room white colonial cottage with
green roof and blinds. 1t has gener-
Gus sized living room with a fireplace
and French windows onto a bricked
terrace leading to the garden behind
the house. The dining room also faces
the garden, with Fernch windows. The
kitchen opening out of the dining room
is arranged for wall cabinets, sink,
range, etc. An outside vestibule makes
a place behind for the refrigerator and
gives access to the basement where
there is laundry, furnace room and
coal bin. The bed room at the left of
the living room. has two closets, and
between it and the bath room is a
small hall with coat closet. The linen
closet is in the bathroom. Nothing
seems to have been forgotten, not even
the trellises for roses, the window
boxes, or (what is too often overlooked
by architects) the necessity of keeping
the cost of construction within mod
est income. A helpful section of the
book is devoted to a discussion OF the
subject of financing the home. and an
other to proper furnishing. The pref
test of little houses can be spoiled in
effect and comfort by crowding it full
of the wrong things Because | believe
this is subject of almost universal
interest, | am going to give you in
lture issues of the book chat, more
details from this fine book.
Some New Books.
Successful Family Life on the Mod
crate Income, by~Mary Hinman Abel.
nippincott, $2)
The Master Man, by Hall Game,
(Lippincott, $3.50
The Tryst, by Grace Livingston Hill
Uippincott, $2)
The Thing from the Lake, by
Eleanor NJ Ingram Uippincott, SD
The Princess Salome, by DR.. Burris
Jenkins (Lippincott, So
Gallentry, by James Branch Cabell,
Mcbride, $2)
The Tattooed Arm, by Isabel Ost-
rander Mcbride, $1.90).
Two-Gun Sue. by Douglas Grant,
Mcbride, $500
The Great White South, by Herbert
G. Pointing Mcbride, $500
Ethel Opens the Door, by David Fox
Mcbride, s1.90.)
The Yellow Poppy, by D. X. Broster
Mcbride, SD
New Desk Standard Dictionary
(Funk & Wagnalls)
Radio Receiving for Beginners, by
r. & T. Snodgrass and v. f. Camp,
MACMILLAN, SD
Inheriting the Earth, by o. D. Won
Englen Macmillan, 49,
The Secret Places of the Heart. by
NJ. G. Wells, (Macmillan)
Louise Imogene Quincy, by Alice
Brown, (Macmillan.)
Scarlet Tanager. by ]. Aubrey Tyson
(Macmillan.)
Prisoners of Hartling, by J. D. Ber-
esford, (Macmillan)
No. 81, by Harrington Hext Mac
millan.)
Folk Songs of Many People. by Fl.
H. Botsford (WOman's Press.)
Red Letter Day Plays, by M. G. Par
sons, (WOman'S PresS)