Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 17, 1910, Page 44

The flnest new flre proof storage building in the state Our facilities for storing house- hold goods are the finest. We have our special method. We know how. Every modern stor- age accomodation for private or mercantile purposes. o = Omaha Fire-Proof Storage Co. 804-812 South 16th Street Phones Douglas 1789 Ind. A-13385 MANTELS AND TILE Fireplace Grates and Fixtures, Tile Floors for all purposes. Furnaces; all kinds of Hardware Milton Rogers & $ons Co., Fourteenth and rnam Streets Potatoes, Lawn Grass, Flowering Bulbs, Etc. ‘Why wasts time and money planting doubtful seeds when you can buy seeds that grow from Nebraska Seed Co. 1613 Howard Street Telephone Douglas 1126 SEEDS WRITE FOR CATALOGUE FREE THE BEST PAINT MADE 'THAT’S THE KIND WE L Some Sample Prices to Suggest the Range of Sherwin-Willlams Assortment. 34-pint Family Paint 1 gallon Outside and Inside Paint (covers b-gallon can Outside Paint, 300 square feet), 40 shades ‘to chooss square feet from, at 1.76 %-pint Blcyele Enamel 1 quart Mar-Not Durable Floor Varnish, gallons Rich Red Barn * i n nt 1] } pint Good Varnish ... pint Bugsy Paint quart Inside Floor Pal %-pint Can Aluminum Paint ..... § gulion ood Reof Paint .H!RMA" & McCONNELL DRUG CO. pound Color Ground in Ofl Corner Sixteenth and Dodge Streets. OWL DRUO CO., Corner 16th and Harne Portable Screen Houses " For Town“or Camping Porch Screens, Window and Door Screens Omaha Window Screen Co. ooinhess Doug. 4692 For the cleanest, most durable, overs 1,600] .$8.50 ‘most econopnical, easiest ope- rated and best heater on the market, get the Amerlcan Furnace W. S. HEATON, Sole Agent for Omaha Phone Harney suu SELLING OUT PINE ARTISTIC WALL PAPER —AT— LESS THAN COST 2008 FARNAM ST. Artistic Flower Vases For Yards, Parks, Porches and Cemeteries. BEAUTIFIES YOUR HOME Omaha Stove Repair Works Both 'Phones. 1206-08 Douglas St. Persistent Advertising is the Road to Big Returns. The Colummns of The Bee Are Best for Advertisers. FOXFURNACES|] are made in more than 100 sizes and styles, and are in quality the best that money will produce. If you were going to buy a heating stove you wouldn’t ask for bids and then buy without investigating the merits of the stove.—Of course not—And yet, that is just what hundreds of home owners do. Is it any wonder that they sometimes have trouble. 3 You can have a good heating plant for about the same price as the poor one. Our scientific methods and personal attention are at your disposal, and _our prices are low. "John Hussie Hardware Co. Agents for Acorn Gas Stoves-and Alaska Refrigerators “IF YOU BUY IT OF HUSSIE IT'S RIGHT.” 2407.09 Cuming Street. B | tes THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEf: APRIL 17, 1914. Getting Best Results in Home Building 6 SCREENED PORCH OPEN" TERRACE T I8 good taste and not, money ‘Whicli:makes a house homellke. " We have all seet the quaint lttle old-fashioned cottage set- tlpg far back Trom the street, surrounded by yines, flqwers and ry,-and bearing more evidence of nature's handiwork than the embellish- ments which abundant means make pos- sible. These little homes are often very homellke. Not because of any carefully studied ground planting or elaborate fur- nishings and decorations for the interior, but merely because the owner and his wife, often a dear old grandma, have natural, though uncultivated, taste for simple beauty, which did not allow them to stray from the path of harmony. It is merely the same taste cultivated to a higher degree that makes the architect | and landscape architect possible. This does not mean that homes should be Inexpensive or rustic in appearance.in order to be home- Itke, but the point being emphasized in that the mere expenditure of money will not make it so. Many homes would be more homellke if they had less evidence of wealth about them in the too formal ar- rangement of the surroundings and interi- ors overloaded with evidence of the own- er's wealth and travels in the way of elab- orate decorations, ‘furnishings and over- abundance of bric-a-brac. John Ruskin, after a life of study in all branches of art and after having become an acknowledged peer as an art critic stated that “Simplicity s the terminal of &ll, progress.” This does not mean that homes should be barren of all attractive features or to be so plain as to have a bald appearance. As John Morris truthfully says, “Make things as beautiful as you can, but be sure that it is for beauty's sake and not for show.” The Parthenon is one of the simplest structures of recogmized architectural Importance in exlistence, and still is- universally recognized, even as it stands In ruins today, as the grandest piece of architecture In the world. It has been ‘copied ‘many times in more modern structures, but they all lack the simple grandeur of the original, owing to to withstand the temptation of adding embellishments after the manner of our time. The very lack .of means with the average homebuilder is responsible for the fact that more simple homelike beauty is to be found in most of our cottage homes ORAWING wxee the | |fact that designers of today are unable Arthur ©. Clausen, Architect. LIBRARY e ROOM DINING ROOM MR. CLAUSEN’'S BOOK ; Science and Sentiment $The u:i o1 nd ws, letting contracts, choosing materials, proper design of entrances, windows, fire- places, ete. Price, post pald, $1.00 A monthly supplement, “Practical Homgpullding,” ~ sent gratis for twelve months following the sale of the book. Address, Arthur O, Olausen, Archi- tect, 1136-37-38 Lumber Bxchange, Minneapolis, Minnesota. than is to be found in the palaces of .the rich. Why? Because the true spirit of home with its love and sentiment is .lost track of in the average home of palatial proportions in an effort to outdo the home of some rival millionaire. Americans are inclined to worship the superlative. We are always trying to create or do things on a larger scale than has ever been at- tempted before. The man who can bulld the tallest building, the longest railroad or amass the largest fortune Is looked upon as a hero. Last Christmas the Bakers' union sent the president the largest pie ever made. In all ranks, high and low, the tendency 1s toward the superlative and no- where is this fact more prominently noticed than among homebuilders. It is safe to say that nine out of every ten who build homes are more concerned about the size of it than they are about Its arrangement or appearance, and there is not the slight- est doubt that nine men out of every ten attempt to bulld homes larger than their means will afford, with the result that they have to deprive themselves of some con- veniences or attractive features. For ex- ample, a lady recently informed the writer that she would be willing to-omit the fire- place in the living room If the saving In cost would make it three feet longer, al- though as originally planned it was an un- usually large room. Her idea was to make it the same size as the drawing room in the home of a certain millionaire. A home should be large enough to accom- modate the immediate needs and social re- quirements of the family, but it is not THIS NEARS THE LIMIT Food FPrice Boosters Scheme to Puat Shaved ® Exgs on the Market, The French have an expression which rendered into English, would be equivalent | to “shaving an egg." a phrase applied by them to miserly people who would, accord- ing to an English saying, skin a certain un- mentionable parasite. Literally to shave an egg would be a use- act even on the part of the egg trust. But egg ralsers, at least so Dr. W - | to protect the abused hen.— ernment food expert, says, do something Just as bad and more profitable to them- selves. They make their hens lay small eggs and a greater number of them. The nutriment in one of these “shaved eggs” is much less than that in an unshaved one To repair the grievous wrong, the doctor recommends a law compelling egg sellers to sell by the welght, not by the dozen. That is the law In_France, It might be a good law for the Uited Btates to copy. Even If the foes of the food trusts should not urge its adoption in this country, the soclety with the long name might, in order Boston Globe. ANCHOR FENCE CO. The Place and Time to Get Your Iron or Wire Fencing. Phone Red 814. 207 North 17th St. SOLARIUM 156" 21" P FLOWER TABLE include such luxuries as libraries, dens, breakfast rooms, sewing rooms, etc., if the funds available are limited to & modest amount. Homebullders brave enough to bulld modest, little homes, complete in every detall, homelike and at- tractive regardiess of What their neighbors may think about their not being able te afford one larger, are very'few, but they are always of the sensible kind. They get more real enjoyment out of their homes and life In general than the man who Is con- cerned more atout the size of his nelgh- bor’s house and the financial drain on him | to outdo it than his own enjoyment and happiness. The home should first of all be home- | like, regardless of its size and cost, ayd while it requires some money to build even a simple home, money will not, without the | guidance of good taste, make it so. necessary to hibition. , ot The ““Stucco” House It is not generally realized that fully 90% of the houses, public and private, in countries of Continental Europe are fin ished in stucco. This material is composed of coement and sand in about the proportion used in making sidewalks. American adaptibility has devised a system by which old frame houses may be converted at small cost into the ex- ternal appearance of stone by the use of stucco on expanded metal lath. This makes them warmer in winter and cooler in summer. Saves paint and fuel. The Stucco house now the cepted fashion in house architecture. Any good plasterer can do the work An architect should be consulted. Write for full information free by mail NORTHWESTERN EXPANDED METAL CO. 132 8. Clark 8t., Chicago. ., U - g P il AL 18 ac A R . /g ” |yt N’y Coal and Building Material Cement Sand Lime Stone Plaster TELEPHONE HARNEY 2160 46TH AND DODBE STREETS Champion Fence Co.. =i == New Looation—Fifteenth and Jackson Streets Iron and Wire Fences, Trellises for Vines, Tree Guards, Hitching Posts and Window Guards Telephone Douglas 1590. Send for Catalsgue. Your Home ‘will be much more attractive aud duradle if you use our Ideal Cement Blocks, Thou- sands of Omaha home builders have lised them, why not you? Estimates =nd prices cheerfully given, Ideal Cement Stone bo. 17th and Cuming Str Phone Douglu 4428 I’roprlelor Failer Henry M. Johannszen §ori,fier Pa.ints, OQils, Glass.--Glazing a. Specialty Good Paints at Reasonable Prices. BSunderland would like to show you the largest assortment of fine face brick ever placed on ex- The Right Exterior Effect depends upon the Right Selection of Face Brick. Let us help you add to the beauty and selling value of your building. , It will pay you. Telephone, Douglas 349. 114 South Fourteenth Street. The *‘Classy’’ Buildings of Omaha are faced with Sunderland’s Artistic Brick. Let us point out to you the dif- ference. Our expert knowledge of Face Brick Effects is worth much to build- ers. See Us—Prices Reasonable. SUNDERLAND 161% HARNEY ST. x0T momI- oZ0e>mM3 '1JOHNS PHONE, POUGLAS 17 IND. A-1445 The Johnson Gas-Arc-Lamyp IS THE ONLY EFFICIENT GAS-ARC-LAMP ON THE MARKET 1.—It consumes less gas than any other, consider- ing candle power given. 2.—It will not carbonize nor will it ever smoke your ceiling as so many OTHER gas lamps do. 3.—It is the standard, which all other competitors are attempting to equal. 4.—1It is built on the right principles, not against the laws of gravity, but in harmony. 5.—It is very easily taken care of, has no ¢ delicate mechanism to burn or wear out, and for this reason is never second-handed. Investigate a good article before buying any of the cheaper gas-consuming grades. ON LAMP 621 $o. 16th AY