THE HOUSEHOLD EXISTS FOR ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING REASONS: Two or more persons form an alliance CHAPTER I THE HOUSE AND WHAT IT SIGNIFIES IN FAMILY LIFE. TYPIFIED IN PIONEER AND COLONIAL HOMES, THE CENTRES OF INDUSTRY AND HOSPITALITY CHAPTER II THE HOUSE CONSIDERED AS A MEASURE OF SOCIAL STANDING CHAPTER III LEGACIES FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, ILL ADAPTED TO CHANGED CONDITIONS, CAUSE PHYSICAL DETERIORATION AND DOMESTIC FRICTION CHAPTER IV THE PLACE OF THE HOUSE IN THE SOCIAL ECONOMY OF THE

THE HOUSE AND WHAT IT SIGNIFIES IN FAMILY LIFE; TYPIFIED IN PIONEER AND COLONIAL HOMES, THE CENTERS OF INDUSTRY AND HOSPITALITY. "There is no noble life without a noble aim." —CHARLES DOLE. The word Home to the Anglo-Saxon race calls to mind some definite house as the family abiding-place. Around it cluster the memories of childhood, the aspirations of youth, the sorrows of middle life. The most potent spell the nineteenth century cast on its youth was the yearning for a home of their own, not a

THE HOUSE CONSIDERED AS A MEASURE OF SOCIAL STANDING. It is not what we lack, but what we see others have, that makes us discontented. There has been noted in every age a tendency to measure social preëminence by the size and magnificence of the family abode. Mediaeval castles, Venetian palaces, colonial mansions, all represented a form of social importance, what Veblen has called conspicuous waste. This was largely shown in maintaining a large retinue and in giving lavish entertainments. The so

LEGACIES FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY NOT ADAPTED TO CHANGED CONDITIONS CAUSE PHYSICAL DETERIORATION AND DOMESTIC FRICTION. "A large part of the evils of which we complain socially to-day are due to the kind of houses we live in and the exactions they make upon us." —H.G. WELLS. Four classes of houses have come down to us: The family homestead in the country set low on the ground with damp walls and dark cellar, one of a cluster of rambling buildings; with a well, the only water supply, in close

THE PLACE OF THE HOUSE IN THE SOCIAL ECONOMY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. "We have entered upon the period of conscious evolution, have begun the adaptation of the environment to the organism." —Sir OLIVER LODGE. The hopeless pessimism of the past, that saw in the unmerciful progress of organic evolution no escape for the human animal from the grip of fate, is about to give way to the enthusiasm of conscious directing and controlling power. This is the beneficent result of the age of the machine. M

POSSIBILITIES IN SIGHT PROVIDED THE HOUSEWIFE IS PROGRESSIVE. "We are far from the noon of man: There is time for the race to grow." —TENNYSON. "There appears no limit to the invasion of life by the machine." H.G. WELLS. The house as a centre of manufacturing industry has passed (for even if village industries do spring up, the work-rooms will be separate from the living-rooms); the house as a sign of pecuniary standing is passing: what next? Why, of course, the house as the promoter of "the eff

THE COST PER PERSON AND PER FAMILY OF VARIOUS GRADES OF SHELTER. "The strongest needs conquer." An outlay of $1500 to $2500 will secure a cottage in the country, or a tenement with five or six rooms in the suburbs, for a wage-earner's family. The rent for this should be from $125 to $200 per year, but, as in the case of the model tenements in New York, a minimum of sanitary appliances and of labor-saving devices is found in such dwellings. They are adapted to a family life of mutual helpfulness

THE RELATION BETWEEN COST OF HOUSING AND TOTAL INCOME. "It must be made possible to live within one's income." The thrifty French rule is one fifth for rent. In towns where land is cheap and wood abundant, or in college communities exempt from taxes, comfortable housing is found in this country for as little as fifteen or eighteen per cent of the total income. In some mining towns where all prospects are uncertain and the house has no particular social significance the rent may be even lower, al

TO OWN OR TO RENT: A DIFFICULT QUESTION. "Half the sting of poverty is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comment of one's neighbors." —Miss MULOCK. When the ideals of an older generation are forced upon a younger, already struggling under new and strange environment, the effect is often opposite to that intended. The elders in their pride of knowledge, and the real-estate promoters in their greed for gain, have been urging the young man to own his house on penalty o

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