Oklahoma Labor Unit (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 32, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 23, 1909 Page: 3 of 8
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A.RADFORD
EDITOR .
Mr. 'William A. Radford will answer
Ypiestlons and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
wubject of building for the readers of this
paper. On account of his wide expe-
rience as Editor, Author and Manufac-
turer, he Is, without doubt, the highest
authority on all these subjects. Address
•til inquiries to William A. Radford, No.
194 Fifth Ave., Chicago. 111., and only
enclose two-cent stamp for reply.
The demand for six-room houses is
increasing. During these prosperous
\ears thousands of young men as well
as older men have accumulated a little
money and have grown tired of paying
rent, which has resulted in a deter-
mination to own homes of their own.
These deals have increased until
the> number up into the thousands in
all thickly settled parts of the country,
and the sign is a good one. The best
class of citizens live in their own
homes; a fact that is recognized the
world over. The more homes we have
the more interest people take in local
improvements and municipal govern-
ment. This is a home-rule country and
the home is the local unit.
For 20 years the general trend has
been toward smaller houses. There
are many reasons—too many to men-
lion—but one of the principal causes
is the education people have had
through flat life in the larger towns
and cities.
The habit of living in flats has edu-
cated people in the way of utilizing
the advantages of concentration. Fam-
ilies that once thought a large dwelling
necessary have found that a six-room
two-story house, about the size of the
one illustrated, may contain more ac-
tual comfort through the application
of modern methods of housekeeping
than the larger houses they were for-
merly accustomed to. They have
learned that a small house is more
cheaply furnished because you have
no extra room that must be filled up
to make it look right, because you
have a place for everything and it is
necessary to keep things in their prop-
ly settle down to enjoy themselves
after the manner of life in the old
home in the country. But it is not like
the old home, either, for they carry
the modern inventions from the crowd-
ed parts of the city with them and dis-
tribute them through their new six-
room house to enjoy thein as they
never did before.
Modern large windows having sashes
hung with weights so they may be
easily moved up or down, covered out-
side in summer with accurately fitting
wire fly screens, which may be re-
moved in the fall and replaced, espe-
cially on the north side of the house.
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CATARRH IN HEAD.
Second Floor Plan.
with an extra outside sash to keep out
the cold, is merely one of the latter
day improvements.
All through the house such mechan-
ical devices as revolving coal grates
that make a continuous fire possible,
gas heaters to warn the water in the
tank when a «oal fire is not needed,
attachments to furnaces to warm the
wash water in the winter time, elec-
tric flat-iron heaters, gas cooking
ranges, improved gas burners for
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cr places, and this has led to the in-
vention of many contrivances that are
-well calculated to lighten the labor of
housekeeping and to increase the con-
veniences of the house, to the lasting
comfort of the inmates.
City flats no doubt are responsible
for a great deal of sickness and dis-
comfort through lack of proper light
and ventilation, but they have done
one good thing in pointing the way to
pack a great many house comforts in
a very little space. After becoming
accustomed to the regular warmth of
a steam-heated building and the luxury
of having water on tap any time of
PIWINGBODM
1£>0'*I4-0
KITCHEN
LiviNC ROOM
ISO a no
First Floor Plan.
day or night, no one wants to do with-
out them again, but after putting up
with the noise of neighbors too close,
the unavoidable variety of flavors
caused by so much cooking in one
building, the fumes from the laundry
where washing is carried on every day
in the week, the rattling of pianos at
any time of day or night, the dust
from beating rugs, the noise from in-
numerable children and a hundred
other annoyancet, a family finds a
housd like this a great relief and sat-
isfaction. There is so much more light,
air and freedom.
The members of the family may re-
tain the habit of speaking in whispers,
but it wears off in time and they fiual-
lighting, and a hundred other inven
tions are now installed into these
small modern up-to-date houses in such
a way that life is rendered more en-
joyable than ever before in the history
of dwellings, and what makes it all
seem almost too good to believe, more
like a dream than a reality, is the fact
that all this may be enjoyed by any
hard-working couple with no capital
except their hands and willingness to
work..
Take a house like this for example,
that is only 24x28 feet in size, and you
have six good satisfactory rooms, an
attractive-looking front stair with easy
access to the other parts of the house,
and with all the modern improve-
ments, at a price ranging from $2,000
to $3,000 according to the location,
local conditions and style of finish.
A house could easily vary $1,000 in
cost by the difference in materials.
For instance, a heating plant large
enough to keep the house comfortable
may be purchased for $100, or a sys-
tem of heating costing $300 or $400
may be put in. A difference of $100
could be easily made in the floors
alone. Some men want floors double,
with deadening material between,
while others are satisfied with a sin-
gle tongued and grooved flooring and
if there are a few knots in the bed-
room floors there is no serious objec-
tion made.
When you go though a house in
this way from cellar to roof it is easy
to make a variation of $1,000 even in
a small house. But no matter how
cheap the material or how hard the
workmen are driven to finish the job
within a certain time limit, such
houses are not complete without the
very best plumbing that can possibly
be secured. In this sense the best
does not always mean the most ex-
pensive. An iron pipe may be just
as sanitary as one made of copper
nickel plated, but what is meant by
the best in this sense is a thorough
plumbing system, properly propor-
tioned to the house, well trapped and
ventilated and the pipes put in by a
man who understands the business. A
house should also be wired for elec-
tricity and piped for gas and there
should be plenty of ventilating flues
in the partitions.
THE PRODIGAL.
HAT is It you rcmrtnlHT
best when, after months
or years.
You wander home asaln
with smiles and. ijaybe,
happy tears?
What picture lias the
dearest place In mem-
ory's gallery ?
It Is the table where we
ate and talked and
drank; Just we.
1 can see the dining-room
at home—Its paper s fa-
ded green
With spates square and
oval bright, where pic-
ture frames had been;
And mother at the table s liead. and ill
her deep-set eyes
"The light that never shone on land
sea," or in the skies.
The kitty lapped her milky dish with
loud appreciation;
And Bruno druled outside the door with
glad anticipation;
And all the children talked and sang
ah me, neath Heaven's dome.
There Is no Joy. no memory, like that
fond Welcome Home!
English Domestic Help.
On the principle that "misery loves
company" it may be consoling to the
woman who has trouble with servants
to know that English housewives, even
those of unlimited means, find it haid
to secure effective service.
Prices, however, are mnch lower
there than with us. A capable nurse
may be hired for £25 a year (equiva-
lent to $125 of our money), and at the
rate of a trifle over $2 a week! When
it is remembered that her duties in-
clude washing the baby's flannels, etc.,
and doing the "necessary needlework"
as the advertisements say, it will be
more readily seen how the average
English family can afford to indulge
so freely in hired service.
It is interesting to note the answers
to queries asked in the homo journals:
"Yes, the parlour-maid would have to
do the dining-room and drawing-room,
the housemaid doing the third sitting
room and school-room before break-
fast. You do not say whether you keep
a parlour-maid or house-parlour-maid.
One is tempted to call it a distinc-
tion without a difference!
From the frequent allusions to the
"school-room" and the "governess we
are reminded of the blessings we here
in America enjoy in our public schools.
Here, thq school-room and governess
are the exception—there, the rule.
People hiring servants are often and
strongly advised (in the English pa
pers), to insist upon an "interview
with the late mistress."
THE SPEAKING TUBE.
HERE Is a speaking tube
in our old house,
Back In the hall that
leads down to the
kitchen.
And through its wide, tin
mouth, the airs of
Heaven
Play with a kind of spell
—strange and bewltcli-
in'.
Sometimes It blows a
sweet and gentle mur-
mur,
* Sometimes the wind a
' j| solemn message brings:
m And through that speak-
er Ing tube, If you will
listen,
You'll hear melodious swish of angel
wings.
Again the burden—a sor.oro:is summons
That thrills you like the sound of Ga-
briel's trump—
Forbodes disaster: "Say, somebody help
me;
There ain't no water, and I've broke thw
pump!"
When storm is In the sky, and thunder
crashing.
Pours through that eerie cavern with a
din
That shakes the world, you listen to tha
message:
"Say, Is It time to put the biscuits In?
Pe-ru-na Po-ru-nd.
The Long 'lTn—Look innocent
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THE OUTSIDER
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Morton was surprised to And Ella
waiting for him at the door. He no-
ticed that she was prettily gowned
and that her cheeks were flushed. He
hesitated a moment, then kissed her
as usual. In return, she gave him the
customary little pat on the shoulder.
He removed his overcoat without
speaking. She did not break the si-
lence. There was a cheerful fire in
the library grate, and Morton in-
stinctively went there and fell into his
easy chair. The woman followed, ta-
king her place on the low stool at his
side.
"It is the last night," said the man.
handing her a dainty box, "and I have
brought you some violets."
She took the box and brought forth
the flowers with an exclamation of de-
light. She buried her face in the blue-
purple blossoms. Morton gazed into
the fire.
"It is the last night," said the wom-
an, after a time, "and I have made you
something."
She rose and crossed to the far
corner ot the grate, bringing back a
She Felt Her Cheeks Flush.
Rules for Meringue.
The proper proportion of egg and
sugar is one egg to a tablespoonful ot
powdered sugar. Afterwards, to ob-
tain the tiny brown puff which makes
the meringue so attractive, sprinkle a
light layer of powdered sugar over it.
The juice of half a lemon to one pie is
an improvement.
The oven must be moderate. Too
hot an oven spoils any meringue.
A cook who was making meringue,
Said. "My; but it gives me a plngue,
When the thing ought to brown.
To see it fall down,
When the oven is closed with a blnguol
Timely Tips.
To mend a lace curtain without sew-
ing, cut a piece of net as near as pos-
sible like the mesh of the curtain to
be mended. Dip the scrap in boiled
starch, and while wet place it over
the torn part of the curtain and iron
until dry. It will adhere a long time,
and is a help In an emergency.
Do not refuse the children all the
sweets (pure and wholesome, like hon-
ey, fruits. Jellies, etc.) which they
will eat. But see that they have them
at mealtime. After a meal they will
not want very much, and in modera-
tion, sweets are healthful. They sup-
ply caloric to the system, and build the
tissues.
To Dry Herbs.—Have ready some
paper bags, prick them all over with
pin pricks to exclude air without ad-
mitting dust, tie the bags and hang
them In the kitchen.
To Test Mushrooms.—Place a bright
siWsr dime in the water in which th
mushrooms are cooked. If it remains
bright, use the mushrooms; if it turns
black, throw them out.
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pair of homely, red-knit slippers.
"They are ugly enough," she re-
marked, "but very comfy: and the old
ones are full of holes."
Morton smiled.
"Thank you," he muttered. "I shall
wear them to-night, after dinner."
There was a ring at the door.
"Grace Channing dropped in town
to-day," she explained hurriedly. "And
of course I had to ask her in to din-
ner."
The man frowned.
"You see, Grace—Oh, I couldn't get
out of it. von know; though I should
have liked this last night to ourselves
—now that everything is over, and—"
The second ringing of the bell in-
terrupted. With a flutter, the woman
hurried to the door.
Miss Channing, knowing the situ-
ation, naturally was embarrased. She
was a rather beautiful young woman,
reputed to be clever. She had
known both of her hosts before
their marriage, and had been the first
to take dinner with them after that
event. It seemed now subtly tragic
that she should also be the last.
Hut Miss Channing found no reflec-
tion of this spirit In her friends.
Despite the cleverness of their guest,
it was they who kept the atmosphere
cleared and conversation interesting.
The dinner was good—Ella had pre-
pared it herself—and everywhere
there were touches of the young
wife's Individuality. Also, here and
there, were things that bore evidence
of being Morion's choice. These two
blended little, it seemed to Miss
Channing; and she was deeply moved
with the pathos of the end, low at
hand.
In the little library, Morton again
took his easy chair; and Ella sat be-
side him, while Miss Chauning re-
mained apart, an onlooker. Morton
put on his new slippers and toasted
them by the fire.
Miss Channing wondered, yet knew.
There could be no reason, save posi-
tive difference in temperament. Pres-
ently she hurried away, and the two
were left alone.
The night wore on. They spoke lit-
tle. Always their remarks were pleas-
ant. and both laughed. The fire died.
Finally they retired.
In his room, Morton looked long at
the home-made slippers. Meanwhile.
Ella, in her own apartments, was ga-
zing at a great bunch of violets.
II.
Dusk was come, and the shop win-
dows were bright. It was early spring-
time; so early that a chill wind,
sweeping down the street, caused a
tall, dark man standing beside a win-
dow to shiver and draw his coat-
collar close about him. As he did so,
a woman, hurrying along the side-
walk, glanced at the window, stopped
suddenly, and then hurried up to
him.
"It is surely you!" she cried, hold-
ing out her hand, gladly,
"Yes. And you have not changed
Ella," said the man, simply.
"No—o?" she returned.
She was looking questionlngly into
his deep brown eyes.
"How tanned you are!" she com
mented. "And—stooped. Have you
been well?"
There was a note of anxiety in her
voice which the woman would have
hidden.
"Not unwell," he answered, smiling
a trifle. "I have just returned from
the tropics. Feels cold here. It's the
tropic sun has given me this coat of
brown. Seems like—home—to be
back."
"Yes—yes?" said Ella, quickly. "I
suppose—yes, 1 suppose so."
She felt her cheeks flush. She won-
dered if he could see her, if the light
from the window fell upon her face.
"You have been away five years,"
she murmured; and regretted that she
spoken.
"Yes," he answered in low tones;
"and it has seemed longer. Do you
know, Ella, after all there's nothing
like a woman, an American woman?'
Under the great furs, her heart was
thumping wildly.
"I think I've been learning, these
five years."
He paused.
"It's a long time in which to—
learn," she agreed, gently.
"Yes, a long time. I've learned
that a man needs a woman; yes, I'm
sure of that. A nice, good, whole-
souled American girl—"
"Yes?"
"Something—well, like you, Ella "
Could he hear that little heart be-
neath the furs? She wondered. She
murmured something; what, she
knows not.
"I'm going to try it again, Ella; go-
ing to try it all over."
"I hope you will be happy," she
exclaimed; then corrected herself:
"Happier."
For a moment he did not speak.
"I know we shall be happy," he
said. "I think she is a very sweet,
big-hearted woman. I know she will
try to make me worthy of her love.
God knows I'm not!"
Again he stopped. The form before
him was trembling, the face was hot
with blushes, and the little heart was i
pounding joyously, pounding, pound-
ing. A woman came from the door
behind them and joined the two.
"Grace!" cried Ella. "It's been
ages since I've seen you! I'm so
happy to-night—to see you, I mean."
Miss Channing returned her greet-
ing warmly, but with evident em- I
barrassment. Meanwhile, Morton was j
saying:
"Grace and I were coming up to |
see you. May we come now?"
Ella pressed back a little sob. In j
doing so, she pressed upon a bunch of ,
dried violets over the thumping little
heart.
"Come—surely," she saifc, with a |
wistful smile. |
MR. WM. A. PRE88ER.
MR. WILLIAM A. PRESSER, 1723
Third Ave.. Moline, 111., writes:
"lliuvebi cu suffering from catarrh •
in the head for the past two months
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I n company of friends or strangers.
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