Show mm jm simplicity IN NEW HOUSES great progress made in architecture jn recent years with tendency toward homelike structures ae present decade of the tw engleth century Is a fortunate period in lucky are the people who build and lucky are the architects compared with the period or the 1890 or even the 1900 the present als aples of the T square are indeed for dunate says an authority on home architecture many people who built 15 years ago would give a great deal if they could tear down and begin all over again and doubtless there are architects who wish that their twenty year old dwellings were like card houses easy to demolish and rebuild great strides hae been made in this country within the past decade in everything pertaining to house making surely the number of beautiful houses of moderate cost springing up all over the country w turn the rankest pessimist into an optimist so far as our architectural prosperity Is con corned bother of rough cast half timbered clapboards shingles or solid concrete these homes express certain definite principles as truly as if built of one material whether located east or west the have certain points in common simplicity Is a threadbare word yet no other has been invented to take its place and in our own language at least it has no synonym aln carity also may be applied to these houses other terms come to mind lucli as hi able homelike and appropriate prop 0 o house Is successful unless it Is adapted to the needs of the owner no louse Is successful unless the architect lias used the material best fitted to its design it seems to us that on these two points the present day architect Is superior to his predecessors |