Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1903 — Rustic Work. [ARTICLE]

Rustic Work.

Sooner or later ovary owner of a country home runs up against the Idea of rustic work. Generally it hits him hard —sometimes too hard. If you really need seats or summer bouses 'in your woodland nothing can .be more appropriate than loga With the bark on, because they harmonise with the growing trees, says Country Life In America. This Is the reel secret of the popularity of rustic work —its . fitness. It Is opposed to costlier and more architectural features which make a strong contrast with natural surroundings. Occasionally, however, you will find a man who has fallen bead over heels in love with rustic work for its own sake. The consequence Is that he fills the lawn in front of his house with all sorts of rustic impossibilities, which look doubly foolish because they have no earthly use and because they are out in a sunny spot In the midst of an envlroment which Is civilization rather than natrue.