Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-02-02 | Page 17 | Bungalow Inspires Woman's Prize Winning Definition for Home

I I Bun r gal i 0 W I T Inspire inspires n s p ir e vT 1 Womans Woman's w oman s Prize Winning Winnin w Definition for Home Home- i J Bay State School chool Teacher Drew Words From Place She Planned Miss JUss F. F Luona Luena Williams 50 50 of at 3 33 Lancaster Terrace Brookline Mass a a. home e economics teacher In the tine Weymouth high s J hool East Weymouth Wey- Wey mouth won on tine the prize offered by y tho the National Association of ot Real Estate B Boards rd for for the be best t d tI ion tion n of ot th the w word rd home acc according to o an n announcement nl made recently by l Herbert U. U Nelson executive secretary of ot the tine Rs association Ten thou nd and ninety ty definitions were vero entered In the contest Nothing Nothing Noth- Noth ing ng was known about MI Miss Wll- Wll llama lams except her name until ninth her entry entry entry en en- try was as adjudged the tine b best st st. Home says saya Miss Williams Is Isa a domestic sanctuary sanctuary n wrought out of at desire desire built built Int into memory memory- vIner kindred bonds unite the tho tam lam II Ily ly In sharing labor bor leisure jO Joy and SOrrowS SETS FORTH MEANING I With warm vibrant strokes Miss Williams William in the space paco of or twenty- twenty five e words set forth the tine ageless meaning of at homo home th that t puts to shame shamo the cold sharp s sentences in English dictionaries say MY the contest contest con coin test jud judges es This definition s says ys Mr Nelson Nel Nel- son tori expresses th the sentimental way In which millions of oC people feel about theirs their abiding places place because through the tho centuries home Inome to all people has meant more than just shelter But Bul until this time no one h Inns has ever expressed the tho real beauty of at the home hom Idea Read Miss Williams William's definition and ad you OU feel tho the scent of ot flowers In carefully tended gardens you ou see bright hospitable fires and you and you ou hear the happy voices of at contented peo peo- ile S INSPIRED BY Y HOME The Massachusetts school schoolteacher teacher becoming dissatisfied with boarding life lICe drew the plans for a L small bungalow buns In which she now re resides re- re sides This is the home homo that Inspired Inspired in inspired In- In her to write the prize de de- de tin I Built Bunt three years carS ago her house stands on a So lot 80 b by feet The structure is of t cedar shingle built bunt bunton on a a. terrace and surrounded with fl flower beds vegetable gardens vines and shrubs The landscaping has been achieved with the assistance assistance assist assist- ance atico e CS cery ery cry year of ot school boys bos s says s 's a i Miss lies Williams In d describing l ber tree her t t ho home ome me S v x My 11 house contains the family treasUres that speak to me of ot those wIno who ho have g gone ne says tho prize y win ncr er Hi lt was because of ot this dearS dear little house and what It contains of at sacrifice death and memory that I t wrote rote my definition The contest announced by th the tha j i association on November ember 24 4 l last st st. the Judges in the way it w f gained momentum throughout tho ho o f world People from many Eur European penn i countries and from practically practically- every very town and city In lh the United United- f States and anel representing z all walla or of f life competed for the prize The Thee definitions flooded Into the n asodi- asodi Io I- I atlon allon headquarters In Chicago on on cr crested sted note paper laper and amI bits of at brown rown wrapping paper papers Some realy real rea- realy real ly y good one ones violated d all tho rUl 8 In n the spelling books FROM ALL WALKS S h College professors rs attorney generals ken gen rals members rs o of tho tine U. 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S house 1 o of r re representatives pre s e ministers ministers- priests rabbis missionaries laborers labor labor- a borer bor- bor I er ers hospital patient authors po o t t servants servant clerks clerks' and business men sent In definitions thousands of t which were accompanied by letters Ietter that often otten revealed personal experiences with tho tao homo home Idea idea- that ard ar- sometimes astonishing In courage i iI I sometimes pathetic in disappoint disappoint- ment merit or whimsical In disillusion Thousands of at people In their ac accompanying ac companying letters declared that that- I tho the really b beautiful definitions tl ns they I submitted described homes th they y loved so dearl dearly And the sentences of ot these letters were too de deadly serious to Ie make anyone anone think for tor a 1 a.- a. moment that even evell a 3 prize might cause such p people ople to describe what did not riot exist I In fact says sas Mr Nelson It was the personal touch the creditable creditable- p tailing falling that made so BO many contestants contestants contest contest- ants describe their own ov hom homes that made them lose the prize For the Hip association wanted a a. general deft definition defini definition l'- l' tion that might might- bo applied to any S home Feature writers Titers took up the tho plea for home definition and columns of oC their editorial comment on the need for a. a worthy worth definition of t this magic word ord appeared inn in ln n newspapers throughout the coun coun- try to Many teachers had their entire classes compete In the contest and an real estate boards conducted lar contests 10 locally sending all aU definitions submitted to the al at headquarters for further Judging Radio stations broadcast tho rul rules ruler and public Speakers eakers referred to it