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Show THE APARTMENT HOUSE. Result of a Growing; Inclination to Evade the Cares of a Household. Considering tho tremendous fashion for it really can bo called nothing elso of tho apartment house, It comes llko n cold dnucho to henr its neighbors neigh-bors would curb its vaulting ambitions, If not seriously objecting to Its near presence, says tho Boston Herald. Tho erection of apartment houses Is tho result re-sult of u growing taste for Immunity r ,'oni household cures; not that the demon worry can bo excluded from them, hut tho burden of living is mitigated miti-gated by degrees when ono occupies it cacup of n flat or suite In nn apartment Iiouko, It Is painful, then, to hear that owners of "whole houses" nre resenting tho Invasion of their neighborhood by thoso popular human hlvos, for It bodes 111 for tho uoclnl community If antagonism antagon-ism is urougo.l by living according to our means. everybody can't llvo In a "colonial mansion," nor does ho want to. Ho may prefer n chalet or a villa, and ho may ovon llko tho fifth floor, with elevator attachments, bettor than tho Imposing establishment whoro son-ants never ceaso from troubling. Tliereforo, It behooves be-hooves tho apartment houso to kcop up its highest standard and mako Itself a.i choice and ngreenblo ns possiblo to any neighbor It may havo to ovorshudow. Thero nro citizens who should rotlre to desert Islands for comfort nnd con-tontmont, con-tontmont, hut as long as tho world's epaccs contlnuo to shrink, let us try to mako tho best of the npartmont houso's proximity. Who knows but you'll havo to llvo In it yourself ono of theso days? |
