vi AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
November, 1912 
A Proverb of Bell Service 
Once upon a time there dwelt on 
the banks of the holy river Ganges a 
great sage, by name Vishnu-sarman. 
When King Sudarsana appealed to 
the wise men to instruct his wayward 
sons, Vishnu-sarman undertook the 
task, teaching the princes by means 
of fables and proverbs. 
Among his philosophical sayings 
was this: 
“To one whose foot is covered with 
a shoe, the earth appears all carpeted 
with leather.”’ 
This parable of sixteen hundred 
years ago, which applied to walking, 
applies today to talking. It explains 
the necessity of one telephone svstem. 
For one man to bring seven million 
persons together so that he could talk 
with whom he chose would be al- 
most as difficult as to carpet the 
whole earth with leather. He would 
be hampered by the multitude. There 
would not be elbow room for anybody. 
For one man to visit and talk with 
a comparatively small number of dis- 
tant persons would be a tedious, dis- 
couraging and almost impossible task. 
But with the Bell System provid- 
ing Universal Service the old proverb 
may be changed to read: 
To one who has a Bell Telephone 
at his lips, the whole nation is within 
speaking distance. 
AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY 
AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES 
Every Bell Telephone is the Center of the System. 
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acteristics of an English roadside-inn and 
an eastern caravansary. ‘These bunga- 
lows are quadrangular in shape, one 
story in height, and with high peaked 
roofs, thatched or tiled, projecting so as 
to form porticos or verandas. ‘They are 
divided into suites of two, three or four 
rooms provided with bedsteads, table and 
chairs, windows of glass and framed glass 
doors. Off of each room is a bathroom 
and earthen jars of cool water. Travel- 
ers are expected to care for their servants 
and to carry food-cooking utensils, wine, 
beer, bedding, etc. The government 
charges each traveler one rupee (about 
forty cents) per day for the use of the 
bungalow, but the “khitmutgar” or cus- 
todian of the better class of bungalows 
supplies tableware, condiments and even 
sometimes food and liquors and he is usu- 
ally skilled in cooking. Natives seldom 
stop at the dak-bungalows but frequent 
the squalid village “dhurrumsala.” At 
every traveler’s bungalow is stationed a 
government peon who acts as watchman 
and is bound to assist the servants of 
travelers in procuring supplies of fuel and 
food in the nearest village. The distance 
between these dak-bungalows on a trunk- 
road is generally about twelve to fifteen 
miles—an Indian day’s journey. In 
America the word bungalow has an en- 
tirely different significance. The eastern 
or Atlantic coast idea of the word em- 
braces a catalogue of buildings too numer- 
ous to mention, but the general accept- 
ance of the term implies a low building of 
fragile construction designed to be oc- 
cupied only for a few Summer months. 
This building may be modified according 
to the means and taste of the owner. If 
the surroundings are suitable—such as an 
island in one of the numerous lakes of the 
Adirondacks, a three-story dwelling with 
ten to twenty rooms, all modern improve- 
ments, including bathroom and plumbing, 
a gas plant on the premises, a French chef, 
with a retinue of servants and a dinner 
of eight courses—does not prevent the 
owner from calling his mansion a bunga- 
low. The man of lesser means builds a 
rustic cottage with slabs on the outside 
to resemble hand-hewn logs, a large cen- 
tral living-room, Navajo blankets and 
other fabrics and crafts of the red man 
are strewn about to give that informal 
charm to it which would be bizarre in the 
city—but it always has the second story 
and the attic. He calls his place a bunga- 
low, and so on down the scale from the 
so-called “camps” to the one-room log- 
cabin built by an Adirondack guide for 
the benefit of his patrons during the fish- 
ing or shooting season, if the fancy takes 
him the owner calls his place a bungalow. 
In the West, however, the word bunga- 
low means something different. Owing 
to the climatic conditions of middle and 
southern California where an even tem- 
perature permits the inhabitants to lead 
an open-air life through the major portion 
of the year, the bungalow has a more seri- 
ous significance to the householder than 
it has to his brother of the East. It is 
becoming a fixed type elaborated or sim- 
plified according to the taste of the owner. 
The California bungalow being built for 
permanent occupation by people for whom 
the name has a sort of charm and being 
permanently occupied, it naturally as- 
sumes individual characteristics although 
a uniform architectural standard is main- 
tained. Of late years it has gained a long 
lead in popularity over all classes of 
dwellings in this climatic paradise. 
Bungalows showing great architectural 
beauty are as frequently seen in the town 
