Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1917 — Getting Privacy About Home. [ARTICLE]

Getting Privacy About Home.

. Within the last few years Americans have begun to discover that the* land about their house should be treated as a part of the home and that it should have the charm of intimacy* and privacy. They have reverted to the ways of the early Colonial days, when the fence was hot only a protection but an ornamental part of the. grounds. Some of the fences around, the old houses In Salem. Mass.*, in< Charleston, S. C A and elsewhere bear witness to the state and dignity of the* persons who lived behind them, and: through the gates one still get» glimpses of charms that would lose by ; half if they were not secluded and kept for the persons who live in the house* of which they form the setting. We are even borrowing the foreign idea, hesitatingly, of turning onr houses about, with their backs to the srreet and their fronts to .a garden of lawn and flowers which may be as fully and freely enjoyed as the most com* sortable living room in the house. /