The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-18
DEMONSTRATING A HOME

This is the age Of demonstration. Modern mercnan-
dsing or service doesn't want its goods or IT, accom-
modations taken on faith based mete say SO 1t
wants merit proved Where patented device. con-
cerned wants the processes Of operation made clear
to the buyer Whether be arplane tina. desres
or an auto that is to be bought breakfast food to
be placed the market style OF hair dressing
to be popularzed into the vogue the inevitable demon
sraton precedes all these III and out in some
nook the store-soer is almost always tc find a
dizzy blonde the kind gentlemen said to prefer or
a radiant brunette busy in cookery. laundering SEAM
Stressng beauty practices demonstrating the latest
progress OF civilization in these lines When the Mil
waukee railroad put its new electric Olympan with
monster new power locomotives, it sample train
over the entire line stopping at the main cities to DEM
onstrate the new luxury travel and the ntrcaces of
the motive power that operated the outfit So goes on
endessly One is asked to buy with assurance install
with confidence eat, drink some product with
inculcated faith in its virtues
Here in Bismarck the demonstration IDEA is just being
given effective and unitarian application to en-
courage that home building which must precede the
bigger better future Bismarck that is the dream OF
the community. AS the result OF happy inspiration
when he decided to build himself new home Kenneth
w. Smcns local Associated Press man. sought the
operation of the rnishers of material and between them
they put the home at 8ll Mandan street display
furnished after it had been built Realtors work this
plan with great in the large cities Putting
blocks of residences they aside one, furnished
about Ike the normal home would be. then throw it
open for inspection by prospective home buyers The
result to ns the idea of home downing and multiply
buying There is triteness in the obvious fact that
q community Of home-owners makes for solidty in
financial conditions leads to finer family fe to higher
depenabeness and to progress and happiness And
the proportion such homes of modern consruc
ton and equipment is the ratio of assured health
dtons increased in community.
That the Bismarck demonstration has made an en-
couragng impression on the men and women here with
the homebug buzzing in their obvious from the
of the public to the invitation to visit tho house
and inspect it. That than TOO persons did Sun
day is significant Of the housekeeping in the community
Not only home building but home furnishing 1t showed
that Bismarck people incline to the latest convenences
with which the demonstration home amply equipped
The way they examined the gas and electric fixtures
The furnace the kitchen and bathroom plumbing and
the laundering machinery revealed potential field of
greater business in such fixtures.
The demonstration will continue week. Those who
have not avaed themselves of the opportunity to the
house should visit it before it is closed.
All In all, the demonstration important from the
point of view Of the impulses that must have up
It should influence the field Of real estate building and
house furnishing Future perspective may reveal as
focal point in the development of the ultimate capital
city which the community of thinking of as the
Greater Bismarck
More and better homes conceivably might lead
to the city beautiful in which architectural uster
replace shabbness in the states public structures