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Show At Last, Relief for Mother! One-Room House With . Cooking and Cleaning Reduced to Minimum!- . ' i. i i ii M ' . . .)- - OCM . tr I , ' A IX 111 ONB. The aceompaaylna; picture and BktHch ahow the eeaentlala of Bernard Haybeck'a one-room houae.. Above la shown how th kitchen open Into tha "one-room' "one-room' by a panel an-angratneat. Bftlow. left, outaide view of one of thee hoaaea. la circle, May-berk. May-berk. I Hketch below ahowa tha fol- i lowing feat urea: 1. acullery; J, bathroom; 3, ! dressing room: 4. aleeping room; i I. porch: . a) "ping room, 7. waahroont; t, elevated stage for Ithrnry or atudy; f, cloths closet; la, kitchen. A, moving; rhelvea for dlehea: B. alnk; K, clothea preaaea; F, storage cheat: O, bookcaaa; H, shower; I, clothea cloaet: K, brds. especially for children, which ea be rolled Into the living liv-ing room for bedtime tore. eta, and out aarain; M, fireplace; N. electric atove; O. convertible dlnlng-llvtna; room table. occuple ona whole olda of the house. Thua.far only the more we ft -to-do people ha 'C built the new house, but their creator predicts they will become popular with newiyweas and farmer. rota NiewLYwrm "Mewly married couplea will find a solution of a financial problem In theae houaea" May beck aaya. Jo many couplea ara afraid ta put their money into a house adequate ade-quate for their preaent needs, but which may become too email aa the year progress, "One of tho prlnelplee of tha ene-room' ene-room' houaea la that they ah all be built with aa eye to tha addition of mora rooma a neceaatiy demands. And thia without aacrlf icing anything; any-thing; af beauty or utility, and wit flout fl-out that 'added on' appearance ao "The farmera will rind the 'one-room' 'one-room' houae economical to build. The fanner wife, whoee dutlee ara usually more numerous than thoa of her city alitor, will find In It a boon toward finishing her work within a renaonable time. "But I most deeply truat th fact will never ba forgotten that theae houaea ara dedicated to tha aplrl-tual aplrl-tual uplift, and broadening of women wo-men andV that beauty of architecture, architec-ture, furnishing and surroundings ahauld bo predominant.' - "7". "r A. h. rmg-osmiCK. " ' .' Wlt-w. SeaWwva dfeeev . BERKELEY, Cat. Aug. 1 IxHow , hall wa reeeue our women from tna threUdom "Of kltchea confinement confine-ment ?( By bringing the kitchen hnte the living; room In a "one-room houae," aaya Bernard May beck. Internationally Internation-ally famous architect of thl city, and creator of the Fa lace of 'tna Arte ut tha m fsaa Franc laco exposition. ex-position. "It is not tha work ao mock aa the surround tnga that cauaea rebellions re-bellions irt many homea tooay. declare- tha architect. "L'auaily th kltcneet ta placed on that aide of th house with , the most uninviting outlook. "Th woman la cut off from the compaittonahlp of tho rest of the f am fly. "The drab nee of tha place la augmented aug-mented by lack of coovenlencea which makca a 'stacking of dirty d tehee and nana a neceaalty. "And la all her aurrouadiaara are dreary. 'Jf they ware made Invltjng. ther wonld be a changed woman. Aad a changed family, too, for the hap-ptneae hap-ptneae of tha family depeneui upoa th woman." Thta waa tha problem that May-beck May-beck aet himself to eolva. Hla forty for-ty yeara aa an architect had made him well versed In the psychology cf women. He felt confident he had found the cauaea; now he feels equally certain ha haa tha answer. DICSCHIPTIOX. Tbe one-room houae. which la offered of-fered aa tba new emancipator af aomanklnd. Is a variable quaatlty. Its cost dependa upoa the at y lo house deatred. Ita p. an depend upon tha needs af tha mdivldual family. . but ha fundamental principle I fhe aame alwaya one large room built ia tbe moat at tract 've atyle possible, a number of email alcoves (scarce large enough to be dignified digni-fied by the title -room"), a kltchea which places mother In th center of the family and homo, ana everything every-thing designed for the tttmost Needless to any. th housework outside tha kltchea will a mln m-ired m-ired bv the abaenc of dirt-attracting cornera . Slav berk admits the Impossibility of freeing th house from all ua-r ua-r lease nt work such ag doing dishes and washing clothes. But he sets aeid one room, the scullery, for such work. Th's scullery CATt b closed off from the kitchen before the work la started and after It Is finished. Thus It substituted a short concentrated period for Che "dlrty work Inatead of tha p resent long, lingering proceaa Th kitchen Is separated from the Vvtng room by a alidiag paneL Whea opened It becomes practical, ly a part of 'tha larger room and gives tha honsewlfs a vtsts, of bar beautiful home In Us entirely, -PI.BA1A.ST VRROCWmKG.V . "From the kitchen wladowe ah can f her garden or depending upn th aurroundinga aoma other beautiful view. For ao Important part of the design la that theea wlndnwe shall look only upon pleasant pleas-ant thlnga Th Jin ing table U In tha living room. Near It and within aar reach of th huew1f hand as she d'nea era three electric bora-era bora-era Thu en doea Tier light eoek-ing eoek-ing aa aft eat. When th meal la over the tabl la convened la to a parlor table. Grouped .vround thta Baa In room and eiwfcy subservient te It. are aienlna accommodfit iona elost. hath and any sprtal nook that the Individual family deslrea. The ftrt one-room houwt, all tn t Tn's dlstrlrt, are built with rnurh hm Tbe wlndowa ellte up In'b receiving nlchee and allow for the house befna converiel Into an al-Bin-t eritire-'v outdare arructur. The sK-rping accommodations are iWisiona of a s-eccingr porch which |