Craftsman Homes i The Relation of the House to the Home and Its Influence on Family Life. I d men's house should be on the hilltop of cheerfulnen ana serenity, —- st high that no 'ho'iows rest upon it and where tht morning tomes so early an J tht evening tarries so tate that the day ha> twice as many golden hours as those of other men.~Henr\ IVard Beet her. By GUSTAV STICKLEY. IN the little town where I spent my youth was a young lady of whom, In our ignorance perhaps, it was our custom to speak as "very talented." No one was surprised, therefore, to hear that she had decided to become a great artist and to this end was going to Philadelphia to study. It was evident, however, that her ambition was double barreled, for she frequently told us that for an artist of reputation social discriminations were put aside and that Society, with a large S, was only too glad to throw open its doors to Fame. So she set out hot on the chase of art and society, and while persuing the latter a man of wealth and position became deeply interested In her. Ho wished, very naturally, to visit her In her home, a plan not entirely to her lik ing, but one to which she could not reasonably object. So when she left Phil adelphia foi her vacatiou it was arranged that he should follow later. Once at home the nspect of the house was even more unsatisfactory than she had expected. The rooms seemed smaller, the furnishings more ordinary. As a matter of fact, it was a very comfortable home. There were no luxuries, but neither were there evidences of that constant little economy which wea ries the energy of the poor and despoils life of its joy. It was a simple house, in every way adequate to tho simple life that was lived within It, but she kept imagining how the stiff parlor set would strike her guest and what inferences he would draw from the cheap ornaments on the mantel and the photographs of the people that stood about. Nowhere did the suavity and culture that she wished her house to present appear. The whole interior seemed to oppose and thwart her ambition, and she did not intend that it should. Accordingly she hurried to the nearest town to buy new furniture, and Inside of tho fortnight she bad refurnished the entire lower part of the house, leaving nowhere a familiar landmark. The old furniture had not been expen sive or beautiful, but it was solid and substantial and had somehow grown into the borne. She tore It out and substituted the foolish spindle stuff that was then coming Into fashion. When the guest arrived tho house was hardly more strange to him than to the couple that had passed their lives there. The rooms were like old friends showing cold and unfamiliar faces. Tho articles with which they were accustomed to extend their hospitality were replaced by things which they hardly knew how to handle. At last, thoroughly uncomfortable, the guest departed, never to come back. He had admired the girl whom he had come to visit and had wished to form some estimate of the family into which be had hoped to marry. He had found nothing upon which to base a judgment and had received only a blurred Im pression of pretentious standards and awkward, ill at ease people. The regard in which the family was held by their neighbors, their kindness and the sin cere hospitality of which they were capable, all of these were lost behind the veneer of pretension and the self consciousness which it occasioned. For the spirit of the family had not accustomed Itself to the new surroundings. If she had hoped that such flimsy frailties would conceal the principles that underlay the life of the family or that that whole life would, as it were, pull Itself up by its boot straps to the level of social life which the fashionable novelties seemed to her to represent, neither came to pass. She succeeded only in dis abling the home life, because she had taken away the material things that contributed their part to the meaning of the home and had replaced them with products representing another mode of life. It was as if she bad suddenly called upon her family to express themselves in a foreign tongue. They were homeless in their own home. Home means to us that place within whose walls we find all those for whom we have come to care, the little portion of the world that is unques- OMD K.OOTIX 1 H jaapjzoon jp , 9 ry < /o'er KrrcHEjH a 7 Tjj /st rxrxr / B'6'X/9 a O" nW/NG yXmI u3 ■ noon wffrH McuX&S L— '9'6'X /6 O" 1 mm-- ' 33 sjrrs/sff ■ UV/NGIZOOI* I % : *Vx"T\ I CT*3* X /::'€T Jjji SECOND FLOOR PLAN. j II tlonably ours and theirs. It means the restfulness. restfulness. physical and mental, that comes from being surrounded by fa- S'C*' X /O'O* miliar things; the surety that the fa 1[ " ' ■ *""■■ vorite chair will be in the accustomed irrasT jrrnnu PI AN PLACE - THAT THE ' AVOR,TE BOOKA WUI B8 " tSA * LOOK * L,AXS - close at hand. It means the spot which .mid the changes of outside life remains unchanged in its relation to us. In the series of Craftsman house plans which 1 intend to contribute weekly to this paper it Is my aim to show how directly and simply the needs of home life may be met and how the trouble of housekeeping may be simplified by careful planning and compact building until a woman may be independent of the servant problem and. if occasion arises, find little difficulty in keeping her own house In order. To this end there are no needless passages between rooms, involving doors to be constantly opened and closed, but the connections be tween the rooms are direct. Needless partitions are left out, making light, airy rooms, easily kept clean, large enough to contain nooks to which one -»♦•*«» fnr privacy when it is desired. own will range in cost from SI,OOO to SIO,OOO and are to be chiefly one imu v .ro story houses of the bungalow type, suitable for any loca tion where a detached house may be built. Each and all of these are at the service of the reader, so that if one should appeal to you in tho main, yet does not fulfill your exact requirements probably in others, you will find features to be blended Into the plan which you prefer and make it adequate to your par ticular desires. The house shown here is built with cement and a half timber construction. Tho lines and proportions are dignified and simple. The attractiveness of the exterior depends entirely upon the proportion of mass and spacing, tho half timber construction being used to break up the plain wall spaces into panels that are more agreeable to the eye. The woodwork Is the rich brown of chem ically stained cypress. The walls are cement upon metal lath. Wherever pos sible the structural timbers are left exposed, for our whole method of building is to minimize the liability of disintegration and the expense of the continuous repair caused by dampness settling about the parts which are usually boxed in. 'The porch is supported by cement pillars and has a cement floor, which is easily kept clean by the garden hose. The house is well lighted with four large windows In the living room facing the porch. The floor plans show the hall, dining room and living room to be so slightly separated that they are practically one largo room. In the dining room a side board is built in with n china closet at either end. and across the end of the hall Is a big built in seat, so that, unoccupied, the house has a hospitable ap pearance. and this makes the furnishing of it a much simpler matter. The stairs are in themselves a very attractive feature, separated from the hall by u wainscoting, with a spindled railing. Upstairs the chambers are airy and Jljjbt. with capacious closets in every room, and above this Is an attic, which may be finished off into rooms •; . CAMERON COUNTY PRKSS, THURSDAY. A ;, RII. 14 n>xo. Craftsman Homes Waste Material Utilized For Beautiful and Per manent House Building. "As we come to understand more ana more hou much the beauty of a house depends upon its suitability to the landuapf m which it stands we find that nothing so helps tt to belong to its surroundings at the use of the native stone tn its masonry." By GUSTAV STICKLEY "|Tis only when men become wise and thoughtful that they become frugal," says Smiles In "Thrift," and yet 1 doubt it in general we think ot econ omy as the outgrowth ot wisdom and thought. To most ot us it means saving in expense, giving up something that we want for something that we need. But there Is a deeper economy than this to which. It seems to me. Smiles refers. Economy ot appreciation Is as good a name for It as any, the economy that sees into the nature of things and understands and appreciates possibilities that He within tbem. This Is a constructive economy. No real economy Is exactly passive, for by cutting out unnecessary expense we add. In a way, to our Income, bnt the economy of appreciation actively contributes something of the world's storehouse of utility. There is no better example ot this sort of economy than the present use of field stone in country architecture. Once was the time when a man buying a building site of unbroken ground estimated in his cost of building the clearing of the land from rocks. He had them dug up and hauled away to the nearest dumping grounds and then, perhaps, after the objectionable rocks were re moved he put up a house built wholly or partly of quarried stone, for which he paid a good price. This certainly was not economy. Then one day It occur red to a man who was about to build a little colony of suburban bouses that this waste material had many desirable characteristics. It was fine, sound stone, and It had great beauty of color. Why should he buy stone when he could find as much as he wished either on bin own land or on the property of neighboring farmers, who were continually carrying it oft and throwing It away? There seemed no reason why It should not be used and many reasona why it should. Accordingly he invited the farmers to dump on his land all this waste stone beyond a certain size that they were taking from old walls and clearings, and for It he paid them $1 a load. He got plenty of stone from the farmers, who were amply repaid for the labor of transportation, and his pleasing eccentricity in paying for waste caused many a remark until be be gan building a series of beautiful little cottages, the material for which had cost him very little in proportion to its value. His Douses certainly were eco nomically built, and by taking thought he had discovered the utility of a waste material and contributed a new source of profit to the vicinity. As we come to understand more and more bow much the beauty ot • house depends upon Its suitability to the landscape in which it stands we find that nothing so helps it to 'J Jp ings as the use of the M j | k sonry. A rugged land flr" 1 ""MM ,s to ° ane nnd to ° severe, but the stone that is P E Cr|jfi on that very site makes toe bouse built of it seem _ to shape the blocks, and the new surface of the - II n - split stone shows a re -1 ■ ' ■ ' markable play of color. FIRST FLOOR FLAN. The general color of field stone differs, of course, according to the geological formation of the different the coloring Is always soft 111111 I c==J and varied. I remember tn p 1-u.j.u V Im building of split field stone, pflj /j ? I all of which was taken ML #;;• 7} llflnM trom the immediate neigh- T »o*#-|||ral borhood. I found no two | # pieces that were exactly WL the same in color. They '\|j Jt I». I^' varied all the way from JIV*L slate gray to a light fawn,, j 1 • they neutralized each othf r into n surface of beautiful- SECOND FLOOR PLAN, ly blended color. What quarried stone is to formal archltcture field stone is now to the simple bunga lows and small houses that are becoming more prevalent as Americans turn more generally to -out of door life. It has Just the necessary roughness to blend with these Uttle structures, which seem almost as much a part of nature as the trees. The effect of the combination with wood tints is wholly artistic and restful. The Craftsman house that is shown with this article Is constructed almost entirely of field stone and was built for a surprisingly small sum, because the neighborhood, whifch was very rugged in character, abounded with old stone walls that had to be destroyed. If the material had been bought or trans ported from a long- distance the cost would have amounted to quite a different figure; but, as it was, tho builders gathered their stone within a small radius, thus saving all exjpense ot transportation. The little dwelling is very simple in line The front, with a small porch over the door, faces upon a drive. The rear approaches the edge of a.ravine whose sides are covered with trees, so that the edges of the roof and the sleep ing balcony are practically among the treetops. For this reason also the out door sitting room 5s built In the form of a terrace, the shade being afforded by the branches of tht? trees which spread above it. Very little has been done In the way of grading the land about it, so that the site has been left much in its original state. Bayberry, with its pungent green leaves and gray berries. haß been found to be the most affective shrub, and tho blossoms of the wild rose, thistle amd goldenrod. each in its season, help to form a natural garden. The house i.s made of the stone from which the bouse Is built and gives a pleas ant sense ot unity between the inner and outer walls. On either side of the fircplac e bookcases are built In, and below the broad windows is a deep couch. In the, chamber above a foundation floor of chestnut with the finished surface down rests upon the celling beams, and this floor makes the celling of the liv ing room, while another flooring is laid upon this with a deafening quilt be tween for use In the chamber above. The dining room is separated from the living room only by a shallow grill. 'Vhe sideboard Is built into the room. Upstairs are two large chambers fitted with closets and containing built in window seats and cozy fireplaces. A smaller chamber is connected with the larpe one on either side of.it. and all three give upon a sleeping balcony, half ot which is sheltered by the roof, n welcome arrangement in severe weather, while the other half is open to the sky. Hit Grief. Dewey Eve—Pat Idrtv dnt I asked fer u handout jrav>- «!»•• a dorg biscuit. Weary Willie Well wit yer <-ryln" erbout? Dewey Eve I'm cry 111' be cause I'm not a doi". ''liicaco News. The Doct'. Reason. First rhyslclnu- • • u've lost Rog er* as a patient. 1 ''n't he respond to your treatment? •• ■"d Fhysl'-ian— | Yes. but not to nr 1 TII 111; letters.— Lipplncott's. The battle Is v-r (hat Is waged I with one hand.— of dollars' worth of steel. lie never missed. To hold this Job is to jum the j strength of a lifetime into fifteen j years—at S9O a week The man reco«- j nlzed this u* a matter of course, only | qualifying it by ihe remark that lie | knew of a redheaded Scotchman at Homestead who had held it seventeen years before break Ins That his whole | life had been changed; that the little I Irish villare. the misty bog and the ! hovels were back 111 another age, 111 | another planet—all this lie felt vagu ly and summed it up. with a twinkle "Shure," he said, "it's a terrible quick J spin this ould wurld is afthe«* ikin'." But he loved the fiery joh called the huge tanks "toe darlin's" and said he would rather be what he was than be , president. Ernest l'oole in Every body's. 1 Home of Hart, Shaffner & Marx Clothes I Jasper Harris,! The People's Gothing House Opposite Post Office, EMPORIUM, PA. 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