Show hOME IMPORTANT PART OF HOUSE Wise Builder Will Always Provide for Porch That Is Comfortable In All W Weather ather A case before the city building commissioner commissioner commissioner com com- missioner for decision hinges on the question whether a porch is part of ot a house It is a technical point the official is to decide involving an Interpretation Interpretation In In- of of i the municipal l building c code de Technicalities aside however the question almost answers itself of course cours a porch is part of a house house says sags the Cleveland Plain Dealer In Inthe Inthe Inthe the modern house it is likely y to be be beabout beabout about the most important part pant for six sin or seven months of the year S Some e day a monument may be er erected erect erect- ct ed edd to the memory of ot the he person who first suggested the porch if anyone isable Isable is isable able to fix his identity More probably an Inv Investigator would find that the porch is a result of f evolution like a modern loc locomotive or an automobile for tor wh which which cl no no Individual could cl claim lm I credit The stoop of ot our grandfathers grandfathers grand grand- fathers like the wheezy zy of pf pioneer days has been exalted to a position of high service and respect Part of ot a house Ask an architect or or ora a contractor The modern modem man who plans a comfortable residence e himself designs the kind of porch he deems suitable to his comfort and dignity and wHen that Is done gives secondary thought to the rest of ot the house The porch must be big enough to ta entertain on big enough to eat eaton eaton eaton on on in seasonable weather It must be screened for tor protection against insect insect in in- sect pests If one wishes for tor comfort de he may give his porch a fireplace fireplace fire tire pla place e and defy cool evenings to drive him inside The sleeping porch too has edged Its way into our social consciousness in these latter days It also is a big part of th the house Doctors Doctors prescribe and children cry for tor it Statistics c a e a general lowering lowering lower lower- ing death rate among Americans rural and urban One wonders whether the advent of the ubiquitous porch has had bad an appreciable l influence in bringing bring bring- ing Ipg about this result The gospel of fresh air owes some acknowledgment to to this part pait of the house which lures men women and children out of ot stuffy rooms rooms and fills their lungs with fresh air The porch knows no social caste It is not a rich mans man's privilege alone The humblest home may possess it and in fact usually does More power to it |