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Show The - ing instinct, and when the little house is well designed this is intensified. Here is displayed a design of a little lit-tle house that is to be built of frame and plastered on the exterior with cement ce-ment mortar. We know that houses built in this manner are cooler in summer sum-mer and warmer in winter than those of other construction, and the cost is very little more than that of frame construction. The effect of this design de-sign is artistic and it is of such a character as to attract attention, although al-though there is nothing pretentious about it. Such a house will always be salable, and that is something to ba considered when settling on a design. It is a one-story house, the width being thirty feet and the length twenty-nine feet six-inches. The porch is six feet nine Inches by twenty-seven feet six inches. You enter the house by a cosy vestibule and find yourself in a central hall on each side of which are wide doors into the living room on the left and the dining room on the right. Directly ahead is a passageway passage-way that leads into the bedroom, while access to the kitchen Is had through the dining room. Between the bedroom bed-room and the kitchen is a bathroom, while in the kitchen a pantry of ample size is provided. This house will look best if built on a corner lot and surrounded sur-rounded with flowers and shrubbery. Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building-, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, lie Is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. ITS West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. The great antiquity of concrete as a building material would justify a search for early examples of its use in architectural expression. But apparently ap-parently this remarkable material, which, after all, is only just beginning to reveal its ultimate possibilities, was used by the ancients only for the baser purposes of piling up masses of masonry, or at best as a backing for stone and marble facings. The first suggestion of its fitness for architectural architec-tural expression came when builders took the idea of constructing architectural architec-tural features of cement mortar. There is undoubtedly a fascination about being able to mold so thoroughly a plastic material as cement mortar Into any desired form, or even to shape it by hand, while still soft, and so produce pro-duce creditable work of decorative sculpture. But one invariably suffers a shock on discovering that -beautiful stately collonades or arcades and porticos, por-ticos, well designed and in style, are not built of stone, but that we are looking at a thin veneer of cement mortar, in short, that they are a mere sham. During this period of development, while architects were being led to adopt new materials, they did not concern con-cern themselves with the evolution of design in conformity with their new materials, and it followed quite naturally natur-ally that no progress was being made toward the realization of a real concrete con-crete architecture. In fact no attempt was made in this direction. It would be difficult to estimate -t - lit' "". N , Buskin's influence in bringing about a restoration of truthfulness in design. While it cannot be said to have extensively ex-tensively 'effected immediate and tangible tan-gible results, it did set men to thinking, think-ing, and in recent years within the present generation, in fact this subtle' influence is gradually asserting itself, and naturally bringing about a revival of artistic inspiration. It is hard to depart from beaten paths, and men as a rule will not and dare not till some genius carves the way. It is hard to give up the old familiar forms that have become a veritable architectural alphabet, which seems to most of us sufficient for the I IO jefj K,TCHEN I BldRm.nj I irCxw pL I """i;HALL;'j LlINC RM.;tWXI0'fcMDlNINC Rm. f 1 1 0"XI50" n 'a' ll"0-XI5'0' Porch rT pa pi irr' titiii ' Floor Plan expression of our architectural ideals. And now that we have entered on an era of concrete construction with a suddenness that is characteristically American, we cannot expect designers to throw nsiile till tradition and make for a pew style. That will take lime. Nevertheless they are coming to rtvi g-nize g-nize in concrete a material that will afford abundant opportunity fur erig Inalily and individuality, mid accord Ingly bo!d exclusions have been made inlo I Ik; new field, with ci'e.lilah'.e re suits. Koine of the most pleasing work with this new material lias been done In the com;! ruction of small hou.'cs. The small cntl;;ge or bungalow' has about it s ellilng that appeals to v.'ie horn- |