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Show I! BEAUTY AND UTILITY COMBINE I IN BRICK BUILDINGS MAKING ' IDEAL STRUCTURAL MATERIAL . Manager Child of Ogden Company Gives Argu-j merit in Favor of This Construction ; Review Shows Masters of Architecture Chose Blocks of Burned Clay to Establish Es-tablish Ideals of Beauty I Speaking of biilldlug material ror homes, Manager W. H. Child ol the igden Pressed Brick A Tile Company I . . 0f ilns city offers a stronp argument in favor of brick In support ol his contention Mr. Child refers to an article ar-ticle recently sent out to members i Th" Building liricl; . social Ion nf Ain-. Ain-. i i o It follows Brick is the aristocrat of building materials. II has I Known pedigree n'hich Roes back to the day. more than three thousand years before Christ jrhen the Assyrians reared their terraced ter-raced temples :md places In Western Asia- in L7r of the Chaldees, wence Abraham went into the Land of Can-nai.n Can-nai.n in N'lneih. in Babylon, the important im-portant buildings were made of brlcN Great masters Of architecture hart -tablshed ideals of beauty In brick, centuries before the Creeks perfected the structure of marble and stone. nd the simple block of burned clay has held its nlace through the ages, ever appearing in the centers whTc th art and taste of the world have taken up their headquarters We are told by historians that after Home IHded its supremacy to Byzantium, (tick canif lo the front, after a period of partial eclltvso. and assumed the importance which it has been able to claim ever since EUROPEANS KNOW BRICK It Is natural that the Old World should know mofc about brick, appreciate ap-preciate more clearly its Inflnilf possibilities, pos-sibilities, than does America. Europe has been a land of brick houses for hundreds of yo,-s; America is only lust herinnlmr lo emerge from the wooden aq-e." Many i traveler has returned from abroad with laic of the picturesque homes of England, quite unaware that the underlying causi ol their charm lie-; in the material-solid dignified brick, the appeal of which has onlv been enhanced by years of sunshine and btorm. Charles Thomson Mathews author of The story of Architecture, says that roughly defined, architecture Is the art of ornamental construction; not ! orhameiftal In the stohse of decorated, but in the harmonious distribution of mass In the convincing beauty of pro-I pro-I portion The same standard applies to the modest home, as to the vast pub-1 pub-1 lir lib) ii or court house. ;Vi hieing beauty " is not n matter Of 1 1 1 - I e " . Perfect taste and the periled per-iled material can be put Into a $4.i"u or 000 lionv as well as into the millionaire's mil-lionaire's palace, (a there any one w ho has not been fortunate rnouRh 1 0 deflj at sonietlnif" in Ills life, a llttlQ brick house thai appealed to him as beinz all thai Is should be. and Ideal companion for the trees and the grass ,md the hills around a utile houss thai COSl no more than the Rate hidge I of some expensive and glaring "villa?" WHAT BRICK MEANS Brick is the material that succeeds, as none other can In adapting Itself to the wants of the man with ood taste and a moderate income. In the house built on a proper plan, it sug-gests sug-gests all the qualities that should be associated with tbt word, " Home" l permanency, hospitality, warmth comfort, com-fort, beauty. And brick has that rare and wonderful i fiaracterlstlc which is Mild to distinguish the elect among womanking it crows ,M beautifully In a budding it is not possible to have real beauty without utrcnRth Tho eye cannot be thoroughly satisfied. f I In the mind lurks Ihe consciousness that the architect's creation Is to be vanquished In the battle with Time. iTime is powei les'i t0 mar the beauty lor lo sap the strength of brick". Generations Gen-erations may come and pro, but the sturdy brick walls of the homestead .stay on. Brick may reach a venerable , old age t never reaches the stale of decrepitude. Brick comes from the bosom of Mother Earth, in the fprm of plastic clay: It Is hardened by the nioit powerful agency known in the world fire, and is proof against the further attacks ol fire! it defies wind an I rain; II is as enduring as. earth itself. it-self. The to a (tdccess any work of art must have individuality, character. The j painter produces hl effects hy coin-. MnliiK colors. Each primary color i a unit, and the mixture and application applica-tion ot these coiots make possible a limitless number ol combination.', j it la with brick. Th.- number and the xarletv of units Kl e full play to th"; talent- of th- architect- He uses tnem aa an nrilst uses hl paints, lie can I produce .i house With character. ,im the lav when the Afs.viI.his wore in tholr irlory the Inventive g-en-lua of nuin hnt WTOUffhl jjreal 1m-provementa 1m-provementa In brick, Now-a-days It Is turned out ot the kiln in nearly evi color and shade. In every decree of roarseness and finenes-s It dams a , river, it paves a street. It lorms th' ; wall ol a factor) it adorns the inside .iv w ii as the outalde t a home There was once a time when the mm tar point was icgarded as an nnwel- come necemlty, hut that tim- is past Modern arl has shown thai mortar can be made o aiuable ally in attaining the ultimate object beauty With their unit- of many olors, the architect archi-tect and i he clovci brick -worker create i surface w hich has the look of a skillfully skill-fully woven fabric. Thus Ihe bonding Loff ether of brick permits ol variad effects in what the architects call 'texture." Brick has such a quality (.f humanity human-ity as i llnR.s to no other substanoe that goes into the malVng bl a bouse. There Is always the knowledge that here la the work of human hands that every piece was made hj man and put into i place by man The effect, produced : by man's harmonious arrangement oi ; his many units Is one of lasting vitality. vital-ity. it may be taken for granted that many B home builder has passed hrb k by because of mistaken Ideas about it.-; I cost in these days there is no reason i for an) mat), w ho Is planning to build, I to yearn in vain for a home of brick; he may have it if he wants it And hie will want nothing rise ir he studies I the course ol nrcsenl day though i architecture if he learns whal the Leading architects and builders of the world consider the most beautiful, the most permanent, the nu.st economical of all materials. |