Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1919 — BUILD TO SUIT HOUSEWIFE [ARTICLE]

BUILD TO SUIT HOUSEWIFE

Designers Appreciate Importance of House Construction From the Standpoint of the Women.' The average citizen, supported by the women of his household, is demanding improved home building and this will, of course, influence all future building operations. From now on consideration of the housing question must be primarily-from the point of view of the housewife. Consequently, labor-saving devices will be Increasingly stressed. Landlords have learned that it can be just as profitable to own well-kept properties as ,it is to own dilapidated tenements, or vacant lota filled with rubbish or billboards. The United States Housing corporation, however, has not adopted any Utopian building scheme. It has simply recognized that the efficiency of the workman is seriously depreciated If he and his family must live in unsanitary dwellings. It has been proved that if he is to work to his best capacity he must be not only well housed, but housed adequately and comfortably within reasonable distance from hie workshop and at a rental he will be able to pay. Industrial housing is a comparatively new proposition in America. It Is an old one in England, and in many ways it has been adequately solved. The problem there is now' largely dealt with from the woman’s angle.