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Show ATTIC A THING OF THE PAS! Treasure House of Family Relict Has Completely Disappeared In These Modern Days. A very modern Indictment ngalnst the architects nnd builders of this town has been returned by n young married couple who have spent considerable con-siderable tlmu looking for n home. They report tho Incredlhlo fact that there nre no attics In the newer clnsa of houses, or very fow. Where tho nttlc ought to be there are finished rooms with regular floors, papered walls and lighting fixtures. To the philosophic mind this is a stnte of affairs of Jthe grnvest moment, mo-ment, for In the swift moving tide of AinetJcnn life that has swept away so many of tho moorings of the homo nnd family the nttlc wag about all that was left to tie to, remarks a writer In the Indianapolis News. Not everybody can have nnccstors, por-truits,, por-truits,, family skeletons, nnd tho other things' that go with lineage, but everybody ev-erybody can hnve nn nttlc if they will mnko a stand for It and not allow n mere stylo in houses to deprive them of their rights. An nttlc Is the nearest near-est substitute for n family tree that has been discovered. It takes only a few generations to furnish It with mementos me-mentos that constlttrto a complete genealogical history of tho occupants of the house. And these nre the things llko portraits und skeletons that go" to preserve family pride. No man can go Into tho nttlc nnd see tho first copper-toed boots he wore ns n boy hanging to tho rafters without with-out feeling some sort of a stir within lilin. Ho cannot see the rcmnins of his grandmother's hoopsklrts without feeling somehow that there Is a connecting con-necting link between him and the history his-tory of his country- As for the padded pad-ded silk brocaded vest his grandfather wore on his wedding dny, It Is a patent pat-ent ot re.spcctnblllty equal to a suit of nrmor besides looking n good deal llko one. |