Show BUILDINGS MEANT TO LAST Hou houses aes of holland are designed more mor for service than for I 1 show the architecture of fl holland olland could ie a summed bummed up tip in the one word lion hon e st pretense la altogether lacking inching lot but to many people this Is far from being ft a fault the influence of germany jhai as been greatly felt owing of chirse to the close proximity of that country the rench french r feeling llna has also found its way into the netherlands for the same reason but the tha italian influence has haa rarely barely been known and its absence la Is always to bo be deprecated says tho the delineator li the dutch are a neat thrifty people and nd their houses express to a marked degree many of their traits in tho the cities anil and small towns for instance the trim rows ot of private dwellings are particularly attractive though built primarily for comfort and devoid of much adornment while dutch house exteriors ran may I 1 not invariably please tho the eye it must 10 remembered that the hollanders have bave greatly atoned for their lack of 0 artistic feeling hero here by a splendid sense bensa of interior decorating witness tar or instance their passion for delft and other ceramics and the usei uses to io which they have put them in defir interiors Inter lor a they cannot then den recalled he d called a wholly InArt inartistic isile people their homes on the contrary ore are worthy of the closest study and the duplication of a dutch house inside and put out should prove it a fascinating idea A dutch kitchen for ei example ample la Is always delightful and the sime bame feeling carried through the entire house would make something rarely disjunctive in this country |