An Artist’s Home in New Jersey 
A PORTION OF A STREET AT EVESHAM, ENGLAND 
nervous straining, its calmer life and its 
lessened dread to be caught at anything 
but business, a softer beauty earlier touches 
the changing street. And so in con¬ 
sciously feminine France we shall find the 
streets deliberately developed and plotted 
to show their beauty; in plain, broad, 
generous Germany, widening into sunny 
squares; in leisurely Spain and Italy we 
shall behold them, as opportunity is given 
tor their continued evolution, broadening 
into the alameda and piazza where the 
world strolls and lolls and takes its ease, 
or into a business street that makes so 
little pretense to a pressure ot affairs as 
to place arbors over portions of the side¬ 
walk—that in this pleasant shade the world 
may sip its wine and buy its flowers and 
idly compete in blowing smoke rings ! 
Thus may the evolution of the street be 
thought of as affected by environment, natu¬ 
ral and human. 
AN ARTIST’S HOME IN NEW JERSEY 
By ALICE M. KELLOGG 
P IC TORIAL effect in house building in 
this country is too often obliterated by 
ornate architecture and excessive decoration. 
The Japanese, more enlightened on this 
point, attain the picturesque through abso¬ 
lute simplicity. In our city houses the 
limitations of space and the encompassing 
conventions necessarily crowd out the pic¬ 
torial element; but in the country places, 
with Nature and environment as contrib¬ 
uting factors, the problem is not so dis¬ 
couraging. 
As an example of what has lately been 
accomplished in this direction, the house 
designed by Mr. Charles R. Lamb makes 
an interesting study- From the first glimpse 
of the roof and chimneys through the tops 
of the pointed cedars, there is a suggestion 
of a picturesque treatment that is, on closer 
examination of the house, fulfilled in a most 
satisfying measure. 
In designing a summer home, Mr. Lamb 
has had valuable assistance from his wife, 
Ella Condie Lamb, the artist. 'Together 
they have given distinct charm of arrange¬ 
ment to the necessary, practical details of the 
interior, a characteristic fitting of exterior 
lines to the natural surroundings, and a color 
scheme harmoniously related to the wood¬ 
land setting. 
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