Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1919 — HOME TOWN HELPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME TOWN HELPS

BUILD WITH EYE TO BEAUTY i. ■■ nihmiaw—‘ ■- ■/ Duty of All Who Plan Home to Consider Well How Structure Will" Appear to Beholder. The beauty that may be had out of the common things of the earth Is well illustrated by the homes that one sometimes sees, a beauty that is all the more emphasized by the contrast in the hideous result of the use of the same common things by others. , You will see in the country places, as you go about, how one man will take the things that are to his hand and build from them a beautiful house. He took the rock and stone, the wood, the sand and. the earth that were under his feet. Out of these he framed a rooftree that is a kindness to the eye. Another man with the same materials threw them together crudely, making a thing that had to go by the name of a house, but which offends the eye that beholds it. The one house cost no more in either labor or money than the other, yet the results are as different as day and night. The most striking, as well as the most historic instance of what can be done with the common things of the earth, is furnished by the old Franciscan missions of California. They are architectural gems. Yet all that the padres had for material was what they found at hand and under their feet. They had only Indian labor to call on. While we are at it we might as well put a touch of beauty to what we do, whether it be that we are building a house or a chicken coop.