Show A TYPICAL SOUTHERN HOUSE either a rambling bungalow or mod ean frame structure externally the typical southern house of the present Is either a ram bling bungalow like witchwood one 0 the most attractive places near asheville an structure with white columns a reproduction in part of some old antebellum man afons or the like of which the south was famous or a modern frame structure quite architectural and corn pact with leaded windows halftime ber borders and an open terrace built upon a foundation of gray stone with coping of the same or modification of these three ideas in its interior arrangement says a writer in the house beautiful the southern residence has always been called upon to meet not only the de mands of convenience and comfort but also those of hospitality and en as well for the south erner Is decidedly a social being given to entertainment in all its forms this characteristic was not only gratified but actually fostered by the big rooms of the white col houses of the old south soon after the war the alon of the sliding door made it pos bible tor small rooms to perform the functions of large ones on occasions and tor a while the southern builder cut bis house up after the manner of his northern brother though not quite in the same restricted proper alons that phase ma now be said to have passed and general taste in the south Is once more in favor of spacious chambers so genuine Is this preference that even in small houses the space usually divided between avio rooms Is now given to one usually the room thus formed 1 a long one a sort of salon |