THE COUNTRY HOME [chapter 



cost. Meanwhile you will never be comfortable or 

 happy, or safe from pneumonia. But, however well 

 you may have constructed your house, double win- 

 dows for winter will often pay for themselves in 

 conserved heat. 



This evolution of the house you will have seen 

 has been simply an evolution of a human being. It 

 has been yourself, learning to express yourself in 

 different adjustments. As anyone gets to be better 

 educated in his separate faculties, each of those 

 faculties expresses itself in an apartment. A right 

 sort of a house finds one out and reveals one to one's 

 self. The whole house, altogether, is the whole 

 human being working out into expression and sep- 

 arate functioning. Now all around us we set the 

 birds to singing and the trees to growing, while at the 

 heart of all this life the soul lives. Your house should 

 be where you would seek yourself on a pleasant day, 

 among the trees; and where of a stormy day you 

 would like to find a retreat. Do as the crusta- 

 ceans do : have a shell that you can use when you 

 need it. You are yourself still more important 

 than the wood or the brick that you have used. 

 It is being made to express your feelings. You 

 have not set it in a row along the roadside just 



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