August, 1905 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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and whites ; there will be Jews and Italians ; 

 there may be other races and other nationali- 

 ties; in any event a great variety, a veritable 

 modern Eabel, with only the lack of the 

 towering heights to indicate the difference be- 

 tween our day and that of long ago. 



Very amusing some of these folk are. Did 

 you ever see a Jewish plasterer, decked with a 

 bushy black beard, emerge from a plaster tank? 

 The sight is well worth going to see. The 

 bearded workmen are, perhaps, the most en- 

 tertaining, because so obviously out of place ; 

 jet The Observer knows not why nor where- 

 for. There is an entertaining story in a recent 

 magazine of a gentleman with flame-colored 

 whiskers who has been annexed by a barbaric 

 tribe of North Africans and retained as a 

 source of joy to the populace. No one need, 

 of course, have such appendages; and if they 

 give others pleasure the happy owner should 

 not object. The Observer does not suppose 

 that any of the bearded laborers he wots of 

 regard themselves as properly objects of mirth, 

 but they strike a much-needed comic note in 

 all this serious uproar of activity. 



Nothing whatever is permitted to interfere 

 with the earning out of these operations unless 

 it be the rain. On rainy days a gentle peace 

 and quiet descends upon the land, only to be 

 broken the moment the weather clears. Cold 

 and frost do not stop the work, although the 

 building law has somewhat to say on this 

 topic. And old brick is used by the house 

 whole. Here again the building law comes 

 in ; but some special guardian appears to stand 

 watch over these doings, and once the row is 

 up it is swiftly painted on the outside, that 

 the material of the outer walls may be hidden. 



So the work of " improvement " and " de- 

 velopment " goes merrily on. The real estate 

 men gleefully tabulate the number of houses 

 built each day, and stand ready to sell you a 

 " home " if, perchance, you should be detained 

 in front of one so much as a moment. Of 

 course these people never want to retain this 

 valuable property. They are " home makers," 

 philanthropically intent on providing homes for 

 the multitudes. It is a merry jest. It is a 

 strange " developing " these once green fields 

 are being subjected to; it is a transformation, 

 complete, real, definite, certain. But very 

 clearly it is no betterment; and very certainly, 

 indeed, it is no way to make a good great 

 city good and beautiful. 



Don't say " Taylor Old 

 Style" or equal, because 

 " Taylor Old Style" has no 

 equal. There is only one 

 thing as good as a " Taylor 

 Old Style" roof, and that is 

 another "Taylor Old Style" 

 roof. 



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