Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1911 — MAKE FARMHOUSE FIT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAKE FARMHOUSE FIT.

Don't Build Compact City Dwelling on Your Spreading Green Fields. In our great cities land is dear and houses must be adapted to small areas. Architects have studied how to get the most house on a limited space because the man of moderate means cannot afford to buy a big lot City houses are built on these condensed plans and are very well adapted to such conditions. But we are sorry to see that some of these city house plans are being taken into the country. When set into the wide space of a farm they look out of harmony with their surroundings. The farmhouse should have all the comforts and conveniences of the city house, but it should not look like the city house. It should be so designed

as to fit into its surroundings. The old fashioned farm borne, with its air of comfort and repose, is in better taste than the modern bobtailed city house is on the farm. Farmhouses can be tasteful and adapted to their location without being expensive, and it pays to see that they are so. A tasteful home has a sale value in the country just as it has anywhere, and farmhouses should be built With this idea in view. Above all this, however, is the pleasure of living in a tasteful country home, one that is adapted to its purpose and fitted to its location. There is a satisfaction here that is not reckoned in dollars, but is, worth trying to get.—National Stockman and Farmer.

A COMFORTABLE DWELLING.