Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-16
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

We ran onto a beautiful home the
| other day. We do not know who
| owns it. or how much 1t cost, nor car
we tell you exactly where It is located
All this makes no particular differ
ence here. The main thing is the
| great love of home which shines from
| every bit Of the house, from each and
every shrub and plant in the yard
| from the lattice work, from the very
| windows.
1t evidently is not a new house
| Perhaps it was built ten years ago
| when it was the only home in the 10.
cality. IT may be much older. Peace
and quiet, those twin necessities for a
real home, are still in evidence.
The observer comes down q sidewalk
lined by neat hedge, along street
treated with cinders ground to very
small size so that the resulting road.
bed is as near noseless as any in the
| world.
Despite the utility of concrete and
asphalt, undeni1ble in this age of auto
mobile travel, much remains to be said
for the primitive streets along which
cars travel with a minimum of noise,
and on which such beat of horse hoofs
as may still be heard in the city re-
sounds with what is tritely described
as dull thud."
When the milkman comes along at
3 am. on such street as this, he
does not disturb the sweet slumbers OF
even the lightest sleeper. The noise
he makes is solely his own. Neither
his vehicle nor his horse causes any
disturbance in particular. This is the
peaceful glory of these behind'the'
times streets.
rs there not something to be said.
after all. for being behind the times,
sometimes? This is such an age of
pep" and progress, push" and vim.
that very few speak up any more for
such an old-faslioned virtue, yet not
all progress is progressive, any more
than all push really gets where It'll
headed,
There are many old-fashioned vir-
tues, that are as old as the hills. and
have never progressed so much as an
inch. either literally or figuratiyely, in
the past thousand years, that never
theless are so filled with intrinsic good
that no man would dream of bettering
them. AS the little boy said with
certain reservations on our partl when
the teacher said good to his answer
of 10 in the problem 5 plus 5. ITS
perfect"
Something of this perfection is TO be
seen in the plan of this home and its
grounds. First let it be said that there
is nothing ornate to be seen in any
sense OF that word. All is simplicity
here. planting and garden planning
such az, any householder with a good
lot might indulge in if he had the de-
sire and the imagination.
There are two main classes of home
owners-those who want to make
their establishments, as a whole, into
pictures, for the enjoyment of them
selves and their neighbors. and those
who are content to live inside their
houses and let the grounds more or
less take care Of themselves.
We have no quarrel with the second
class. This is a large world, and such
desire, coupled with the sort of imagi-
nation that can see picture in a mud
hole, Ii necessary, is not the gift of
every one. -
There is little doubt in our mind.
however. that the first class of prop
erty holders deserves the greatest
praise from every standpoint. every
thing being equal. TO them belongs
the credit for making their bit of
ground a part of the city beautiful"