An Attractive Dwelling 
reach the top and strangle his life out. But 
the tree survives and the effect is good. 
With annual species of course you are safe, 
and these, including mina lobata, 1 grow. 
Now in front of my climbing plants — but 
what is this ? Surely not the end of the 
allotted space ? And I had merely settled 
down in my chair ! But, perhaps when the 
times are less stirring, and there is no more 
war, and less public speaking, and Parliament 
is up, and the courts closed, and London 
empty, and holidays are in the air again, 1 
may proceed upon this peaceful theme. You 
have stood at the threshhold of my garden, 
as it were. Next time we meet, you must 
walk in. 
AN ATTRACTIVE DWELLING 
AT SWARTHMORE, PA. 
Designed by W. E. JACKSON, Architect 
monious whole is by no means in evidence.” 
One writer has alluded to a certain section 
of our country where twelve bay windows 
are bestowed on one small house. 
It not a relief, it will be at least a contrast 
to turn trom such a tax upon the imagination 
to the house here represented, one of those 
which distinguish 
the suburb of 
Swarthmore, Pa. 
The house of 
Mrs. J. N. Beistle 
is almost devoid 
of detail, depend¬ 
ing on the pro¬ 
portion of its 
parts for the 
effect and inter¬ 
est, which are 
so simply devel¬ 
oped that they 
are seen at a 
glance. As be¬ 
fitting a small 
house, it is 
treated in one 
mass, with gables 
at either end, 
the broad side 
toward the street. 
We see a simple 
superstructure 
T HE proverbial criticism on modern archi¬ 
tecture is the disproportion of detail to 
mass. In passing through our suburbs one 
is too often confronted with a profusion and 
confusion of bumptious and sprawling archi¬ 
tectural details, each clamoring for recogni¬ 
tion, so dividing the attention that “the har- 
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