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McCutcheon Quality 
F or almost seventy years we have 
made a special study of Linens, main¬ 
taining always a most critical and exacting 
attitude toward their artistic as well as 
their technical excellences. 
During that time we have maintained so 
close and so constant a touch with the 
world’s best markets that we have always 
been able to offer Linens of the very finest 
qualities at most reasonable prices. 
McCutcheon selections today are as note¬ 
worthy as ever they were for unquestioned 
superiority of weave and texture, for per¬ 
fection of design and workmanship. So 
superb is their quality that a purchase of 
McCutcheon Linens is a genuine invest¬ 
ment in beauty, serviceability, and economy. 
James McCutcheon & Co* 
Departments No. 44 
Fifth Avenue and 34th Street 
New York 
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The south German style is found in this model cottage. 
The roof is of variegated slate and the walls wood siding 
GERMAN C OTTAGE TYPES 
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not only in large cities, but also in the 
smaller towns throughout Germany. 
The reasons for this calamity are mani¬ 
fold. On one-side the number of people 
in search of homes has, in spite of the 
war, increased steadily. This is due to the 
many war-marriages, to the astounding 
increase of early marriages in after-war 
times and to the constant influx of for¬ 
eigners, especially from Eastern countries. 
On the other hand, the building trade 
that was paralj^zed by the war, has not 
yet recovered and will also henceforth be 
condemned to inactivity as long as wages 
and building materials continue in their 
fantastic upward movement. The City 
Boards have tried various means to 
remedy this state of affairs and to en¬ 
courage building; all sorts of allowances 
are made and substantial help in cash 
is given to enterprising contractors, but 
no visible success has so far sprung out 
of these endeavors, and the number of 
flat or apartment houses that have arisen 
since the end of the war, does not amount 
to anything worth mentioning. 
It may be that the spirit of the times 
is not in favor of these wholesale quarters. 
A new ideal of how to live has slowly con¬ 
quered the German mind: an ideal long 
appreciated in the Anglo-Saxon countries 
and culminating in the desire to live in a 
small house and away from the dust and 
the noise of the city streets. Whatever 
has been accomplished since the war, as 
far as building is concerned, points in 
this direction. Architects and contracting 
firms have learned to meet this tendency, 
and forced by the circumstances, almost 
every firm has found it best to limit itself 
to a certain type of small house, building 
only this special t^-pe and nothing else. 
This is, no doubt, a sort of wholesale pro¬ 
duction with all its advantages and dis¬ 
advantages, but by working with the same 
patterns, the cost of the building is re¬ 
duced considerably. 
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