THE CALL OF THE LAND 



his family live, where his children are born, 

 and where are originated and developed 

 those early ideas, feelings and propensities 

 which will make or mar their lives. No 

 man having a house at all is so poor that he 

 can afford to neglect the environment of the 

 childhood life beginning and growing up in 

 that house. 



Innumerable designs for farm houses are 

 before the public. The variety of them is 

 vast and the architectural elements pre- 

 sented in many are fine. I have seen some 

 excellent ones in the Ladies' Home Jour- 

 nal during recent months. After such 

 study as I have been able to give to the sub- 

 ject I am impressed that no other house plan 

 is on the whole so advantageous or com- 

 mendable for farmers as the old-fashioned 

 rectangular form, providing for a central 

 hall, four rooms below and four rooms 

 above, the roof having a one-third pitch. 

 This plan is susceptible of indefinite varia- 

 tion. It can be made rigidly puritanic as 

 to adornment, or it can be ornamented in 

 any way and to any extent. The hall can be 



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