Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15
CHAPTER XI-Continued

.ortb Chicago suburbs are a good deal
,ts q lace evening gown In the Ari-
-.oo desert. 1t wouldn't keep you
.,d in the daytime, and 1t wouldn't
bs warm enough at night. ] suppose
native architecture is evolved from
ErHdipr for The local climate and the
goods of tie community, keeping beau
90 IN mind as you go. We don't need
r-rqts ana towers any more than we
resd draw-hrldges and meats. It's all
y.o5t 10 Keep them, I suppose, where
Nov grew up in a country where the
,sndo system meant that any day
vopr next-door nelghbor might take 1t
into his head to call his gang around
him and sneak up to steal your wife
and tapestries and gold drinking cups"
Dirk was Interested and amused.
TaIks with his mother were likely to
affect him thus. What's your idea of
& real Chicago house, mother?"
Selma answered quickly, as If she
had thought often about 1t; as If she
would have liked just such a dwelling
On the site Of the old DeJong farm
house In which they now were seated
90 comfortably. "Well, It would need
bIg porches for the hot days and
nights SOS to catch the prevailing
southwest winds from the prairies In
A.. .t,r,ry,.s. a nnroh fbok Mould -
sTung clear around to the east, too
Or a terrace or another porch east so
that Il the precious old lake breeze
should come up just when you think
you're dying Of the heat, as 1t some
times does, you could catch that, too.
Il ought to be built-the house, l
mean-rather squarish and tight and
cold against our cold winters and
aortheasters. Then sleeping porches,
Of course There's a grand American
Institution for you! England may
have Its afternoon tea on the terrace,
and Spain may have its patio, and
France its courtyard, and Italy It's
peTgOla, uncovered; but Americas
got the sleeping porch-the screened
10 open-air sleeping porch, and l
shouldn't wonder II the man who first
thought Of that would get precedence,
On Judgment day, over the men who
Invented the airplane, the talking ma
chine, and the telephone. After all,
he had nothing in mind but the health
Of the human race" After which
grand period Selma grinned at Dirk,
and Dirk grinned at Selma and the
Two giggIed together there by the fire.
place, companionably.
Mother you're simply wonderful u
only your native Chicago dwelling
Deems to ne mostly porch"
Selma waved such carping criticism
away with q careless hand. "Oh, well,
spy house that has enough porches,
end two or three bathrooms and at
eaSteight closets can be lived in COM
ioFtobly no matter what else it has or
hasn't got
Next day they were more serious.
The eastern college and the architec-
iu'al career seemed to be settled
things, Selma was content, happy.
plrs was troubled about the expense.
re spoke Of it at breakfast next morn
hs lDirk's breakfast; his mother had
lsd hers hours before and now as he
drank his coffee, was sitting with him
moment and glancing at the paper
mat had come in the rural mail deliv-
s'N' She had been out in the fields
overseeing the transplanting of young
Dmato seedlings from hotbed to field.
Sne wore an old gray sweater buttoned'
Up light, for the air was still sharp.
va her head was battered black felt
soTt hat Can old one Of Dirk's) much
IKE the one she had worn to the Hay
market that day ten years ago.
I've been thinking" he began, "the
'IpenSe-"
PlsSIl do IT," Selma said, calmly.
I'VE been wanting to put them in for
4Eee or four years. It's August
'e'npets Idea. Hogs, 1 should have
he echoed, "Hogsy" rather family.
High-bred hogs. They're worth
lelr weight In silver this minute, and
4. De for years to come. l won't go
lot them extensively. Just enough
make an architect out of Mr.. Dirk
eJoag' Then, at the expression in
. Ioye Don't look so panied, son.
IsIe nothing revolving about a hog
me handsome, impressive-Iooking
-''la.' The hog, when he isn't treated
Se one"
de looked detected. "rd rather not
10 school on-hogs."
eNe took off the felt hat and tossed
0Fef 10 the old couch by the win
.' smoothed her hair back with the
y. VI her palm. You saw that the
=, =, oa'I hair was literally sprinkled
:, gray now, but the eyes were
7.' aad clear as ever.
Il ~ AAow, Sobig, this is what they
!" 3 '5Ing farm-as vegetable farms
.,s .e out Of debt, the lands in
....e the crop promises well If
,r.. ~. { have another rainy cold
.. ..'s .ke last years. I'm having a
.@ @-- ,..ae When I see the asparagus
,or. "a actually yielding, that I
T5 So years ago, I'm as happy as
him. stumbled on a gold mine. I
5s, ' sometimes. of the way your IA
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