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Show Raising Rents inBjg Cities IN the cities rents have been increasingly increas-ingly higher. Many will have to pay more next autumn or move. It makes a difficult problem for the family of limited means. In the first place It is hard to find a house as good as the one occupied nt a lower rental. Even if one that will do is found, it is expensive to move. If the raise in rental is 6mall it may be cheaper to stay where one is. The 'pros and cons must be carefully balanced and then one must act accordingly. One thing is. being impressed upon the writer, who is one of those who have to move October 1 or pay $7.50 a month more than the high price already being paid to the landlord. One does not need so many rooms as one is accustomed to think. The average family docs not need a living room and a dining room. There is no reason why meals should not be served in the living room. Where one docs light housekeeping and tnkes a part of the meals out a separate kitchen is not necessary. A small gas stove and the other equipment equip-ment for cooking may cusily be screened off. On "the other hand, if one wants home cooking, which one should have if there are children in the family, a well lighted, well equipped kitchen is one of the most essential rooms in the house. If you have a good kitchen and have time to give to fond preparation you can turn out meals that are twice as wholesome nt half the price of those which are eaten in the averogOestau-ranU The main requirement of n bedroom, is good air. The less furniture there is in it the better. It is better to have a cot in a living room where there is plenty of air available than to have the luxury of a bedroom where it is lacking. lack-ing. Health, comfort, convenience, beauty those are the essentials of a home. Comfort Com-fort includes health promoting characteristics. character-istics. Convenience consists not in the multiplicity of utensils, but in a few chosen especially for their adaptability. Beauty depends chiefly upon proportions, propor-tions, simplicity nnd color relations. Our small rooms have become too much "fussed up" for beauty, convenience or comfort. The present necessity for economy may be not without value if it prevents our adding more to the nlready too much of our homes. |