Show SMALL HOUSE IS POPULAR scarcity of reliable domestic help and high prices tends to favor little homes homce I 1 it to la not an altogether new thing the vogue of the little house it Is rather something in the nature of a very for far reaching revival a revival that has suddenly captured the interest of 0 the architectural profession and laid stege siege to tho the heart and the purse ot of a public lic wearied by the constantly soaring cost and increasingly difficult maintenance of unnecessarily large houses collier Ste stevenson yenson an architect takes tho the view that there riviere Is 18 at present apparently no hopeful sign of any considerable diminution in either building or operating costs for years to come he adds it Is safe to as ou bume me that the vogue of the little house will as time goes on be an even more potent influence than it Is today the scarcity of reliable domestic help together with the phenomenal remuneration demanded for even the indifferent household service available has of course tended to popularize the small house enormously since the war not only on on tills this hide aide of the atlantic but also in somo some of the older lands neross the sen sea in england for instance tile the seriousness of tho the help problem has probably had a very considerable sid erable hearing bearing upon me recent sale bale of many a famous country seat although there as here the prevail g high ruto rato of taxation has undoubtedly been another powerful powers ul argument against unduly large homes in the not very remote past high ceilings and largo large rooms prevailed ji hi mos most of our homes hoines hven even in an otherwise small house tho the kitchen was apt to be relatively large Effi efficiency clency then was not and could not be a guiding factor in household management ladles ladies home journal |