The Small House 
By Gardner Teall 
Photographs by T. C. Turner 
aq|| HERE is always about the small house some- 
thing that endears it to the spirit of the 
traditions of our ideals of American home 
life, something that makes us turn to the 
thought of it, when we are occupied with 
the problems of home-making, in preference 
to the house of extensive proportions or of greater pretence, 
even though the requirements of our circumstances and 
position in the affairs of life may make it necessary for us 
ultimately to be governed by what, after all, may not be 
with us precisely a matter of choice. The small house need 
not, of course, be a tiny house, nor yet one of cramped 
quarters. Our Colonial ancestors were master-builders in 
the matter of producing small houses carrying with them a 
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The suburban home of Mrs. Mary F. H. Johnson, at Hackensack, New Jersey, an excellent example of the thoroughly attractive small house 
