| Show n Sunday Moriiin it U 0 c £?alt £akc (Tribune -- Aul' 13 1939 Father views a home as a place to rest and relax so he wants a study a den where he can pursue his hobbies from guns to geography a Mother likes to think of a home adequate for entertainment a house where she can bring her friends with perfect ease and pride home used to be the center of a knit family life Today it it just the place to go when you can’t go anywhere else That’ one development of the streamlined age and it it beginning to have repercussions For if the family is just so many persons living on insulation in your walls and ceiling rtl8 than on a formal dining room You can plan space where the dining room may g0 aer 4 you want to and add it when your inc makes formality a pleasure oY a necessity u'b than a chore" THE CO in so many rooms there arises a serious obstacle to the children’s normal growth The movies and automobiles and airplanes fast trains and an endless list of other attractions are drawing people out of the home these point you don’t need a fortune to do it lx stile yjj aid are your style But with an income of $5000 it is almost impossible to turn your back on the glittering possibilities you could have in the way of privacy if you omitted tie children’s play space or the wonders of automatic air conditioning and insulation you could get at the price of quiet or the formality of the beautiful dining room at the of adinformality price privacy for adolescents Any lack 0! balance m the decision will he quickly felt how ever and will be reflected in the family equate pattern perhaps to your lasting sorrow" The complete home even in its siapleil form according to Mrs Field provides lot each of the basic needs of the family Thi home is often arrived at by enlarging the original house wTiich provided the necessities It is an inexpensive house for the brackets yet it can be developed with esse iv tially the same plan for various cost levels After all the bouse that shelters a family has only one primary function in the opinion lower-incon- for all the an- of this expert and that is its of the educational system of according to the necessities of the case ” Instead of trying to provide separate quarters for the various members of the family when their needs conflict (i e father’s den mother’s etc x function as part the country points out "The iH manager’s problem" who has done a hit of managing herself in testing the modern home and family life "11 to create an atmosphere which will draw the family together not the prqblem of getting thi work done in a hurry so that she can go to the movies Anybody can manage that Field tewing room children's playroom) with a common meeting place in the living room for group instead of tr mg to schedule the gatherings ue of the living room so that it is used as a reception room from 3 to 4 a playroom from 4 to 5 and a study from 3 to 6 plan for a permanent settled space in which -- quiet will always he found a permanent space in which "Her problem is to make the learning of habits and manners acceptable to young good children to keep the older boys and girls sway from too much movies too much riding around in cars too much hanging around corners and parks and to provide enough rest and fun for herself and husband in the family circle "The house" goes on Mrs Field "is U much of a machine for living in as the school for teaching in— a nd no more is a machine The home is an institution for the rearing and the education of the young and the houe the home plant It must provide adequat shelter heat light air water and waste dn one is always allowed to romp a permanent settled space in which each family member can find privacy Tins can be achieved in a house no larger than 24 by 24 feet" All thoroughly satisfactory houses are zonrd Mrs Field and that doesn't mean you have to spend $10000 for the home either It as is a matter of planning so that there is a place the home for everybody at all times 4 ND right here is where the family circle comes m "The house contributes its share toward making or breaking the family tircle" contends Mrs Field "The parents’ first job is to see that the family has shelter food clothes and posal room for work and places for sleeping It is equipped with various machines to the extent that the owner or the renter can machines are expensive and extremely which subject to obsolescence so that a home in afloid-Thes- e they are the chief attraction may he extremely modern today and be completely eclipsed by a better set of gadgets tomorrow’ sleep their most important job is bringing up the youngsters teaching them halnts which will fit them for social life developing judgment and confidence which will allow them to step out easily providing a solid background of behavior of ethics morals whatever religion they can get over which will keep them from anti social acts heir hardest job is (o' accomplish all this m an atmosphere which will induce the youngsters to ’tike it and like it' and to The ideal human house provides a place for work and play for every member of the family 1 the key as Mis F irld secs it You have to eliminate the conflict of the wills and interests of a family And to do this you muM consider and provide for the demands of all In the case of thr normal family the demands ate likely to run something like this f atlier's point of view: A dace to rest up after woik a place to rnlrilam a woikshop for a hobby a private study a store for valu aides guns fishing rods collections etc Front mother's point of view: A place to JB Du made in family life" this decision as to what should be one's of living With an income of $3000 1 it is not difficult to decide that comfort one center come home or to one of the home s appioved agrnls for help when they get in a tight spot which will kerp father plugging away year after year with evenings at home as his sole reward which will keep mother struggling with her nose barely above water year in and year’ out yet honestly happy to be doing it " A home "to take it and like it" ‘I hat is is you human decisions to contends Mrs Field against disturbance with walls stairs halls storage spaces in just how far “One of the most difficult ing or building or simply rearranging your house you can turn it into a home where the children want to stay where guests like to come whert husband and wife can he companions How do you do it how do you humanize a house? Well you begin says Mrs Field with the basic principle of zoning around up to you 8° to make your house days so that the place is no longer the nucleus of a rich family life At least this is true in such a growing number of homes that there is genuine cause for alarm The question then is what to do to make the home attractive pleasant for every member of the family The answer is: Make it human Dorothy Field puts forth that advice in a hook coming the whole complicated picture of family life "The Human House" published recently by Houghton Mifflin Company Mrs Field sees a house as a sort of design for living She believes that whether you are rent- "Zoning the home is providing active needs of the family around for the quiet needs of the family other and insulating these zones it’ and lea rmng by trial and error and above at free rom nagging a play space for running School children- Hay space for jumping tumldi ng play — 84 square fort prr child a - The home should be designed for the children too A workshop for sonny is a good investment place for equipment a woik in and to show a work place for cooking sewfng washing ironing nuisery space for teaching walking talking climbing eating hanging up clothes dressing and undressing A habit training center for school and adolescent children a family community center foi fun a place for entertaining guests at meals office space for game and conversation otdrrmg planning accounts equipment for cate of the f unity's health storage spare for family property and storage space foi personal property lor the children- - Infants spu e or quiet ami isolation arul equipment for special infant raie fr toddlns - pa e bn expeiimenting and hobbies and treasures Adolescrnls: A plait to retire for pnvacy place to entertain fuends and a place to hide things from the family rPHLRr and is jour picture there home says Mis Field hce are the is your things we must seek in a home and if we don't find them we go elsewhere to satisfy our needs Thr result is that "family interests are dissi paled among various outside interests and the family pulled apart until we wake up somr day to wonder why the chilchen won't stay home w li V mother spends all her time at hndpr and study chilis why father is a golf and bridge fiend and too busy In help with the children’s upbringing They lev! to divorce delinquency and all sorts of family ills" T But you say all this rcquiie? space and more space that you can't zone the little house that you can’t crowd all this into a small place On the contrary says Mrs Field whose book fpHL is replete with floor plans and exhaustive details of a "human house" all this can be achirved in a place 24 by 24 feet and costing as as $4000 The whole mailer tesolvrs itself into one in turn should meet three main psychology needs: (1) the need for activity (2) 'he nr for quiet and (3) thr need (or privacy a houe fulfills these liner needs it "ill b’f surcr'sful home and it need not he a economics and good rnse and your style I here living are five styles of houses for styles of living as Mrs Field sees them slums adequate minimal housing providing essentials for health and decency comfortable homes luxurious homes and houses for display and one or advertisement Probab ly the comfoitable home would meet of the gieatrr number of persons Comfoitable housing implies an easy but informal style of living "Within a pivrn puce range" says Mrs I mid say within the comfortable class the difference between the $3000 and the $10Q00 hmi'e should not be an essential difference m floor plan but a difference in tire amount spent hv'irnl r nilml on e libnr saving equipment If vou plait to live in an rvy informal you might better spend your money is the PK® spate a new Cine In short it will be a human Ivii-- place for ever ybody and everybody his place “One of the saddrl sights me” concludes Mis Field friends the demands house "essential quality" which makes a usable and human says Mis I teld And this proper arrangement of in to 1 happv the world is to and 1 wit e ro to oUl fe ’ f the evening to visit older rhildien retire automatic allv to then the t'r rooms hecaue there are guests m Rrn' of mir troubles the of room One great lion and the generations that air loming us it seems to me is the fart tint "C us stick so closely to social inlrinHiisf have no with our own age gmups 'oUI 'how to gd along with people older '’r nalmal than miiselves in a n'j’n prifeitlv clove If thr family would make a point of ome pni) this social inlerroutse it would bn the slionge-- t elements in edurilion |
