Home Versus Housebuilding

Home building is sometimes confused with housebuilding. We sometimes see advertisements of books, "Beautiful homes, and how to build them." One involves a mechanical process, and in the other there is a great deal that is personal. Nevertheless there may be more home feeling, more home spirit, more opportunity for cnjoyment in one kind of a house than another. There are those who can make a home in any kind of a building. Sir Walter Scott was a great home builder. Hi first home was in an old tower. There he lived with his family, his dogs and his work. As his resources increased he built the castle at Abbotsford, and the world has found him equal to the emergency in making a home out of a castle, a large undertaking. The history of the housebuilding of any state is about the same. In its early settlemtnt there are cabins of one, two and three rooms; a big fireplace where the wood is so abundant. Adjoining the main rooms are others, which receive their heat directly from the living room. In the course of time, as the state becomes wealthier, they build big houses, and ofteu everything is aacrlfloed to their largeness. The new, large white house in a new state, with its cold, wintry bedrooms, is 1 Kirren indeed as cora pared with the snug, comfortable, picturcsque struetures of the earlier period. It is ahvays trne that peoplo who live in a house that is too small for them afterward build, if at all, one that i too large. Thia tt history of Individual building, and it is a history of the building of our country.