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The House in Good Taste
·
Elsie De Wolfe
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THE
SMALL
APARTMENT
This
is
the
age
of
the
apartment.
Not
only
in
the
great
cities,
but
in
the
smaller
centers
of
civilization
the
apartment
has
come
to
stay.
Modern
women
demand
simplified
living,
and
the
apartment
reduces
the
mechanical
business
of
living
to
its
lowest
terms.
A
decade
ago
the
apartment
was
considered
a
sorry
makeshift
in
America,
though
it
has
been
successful
abroad
for
more
years
than
you
would
believe.
We
Americans
have
been
accustomed
to
so
much
space
about
us
that
it
seemed
a
curtailment
of
family
dignity
to
give
up
our
gardens,
our
piazzas
and
halls,
our
cellars
and
attics,
our
front
and
rear
entrances.
Now
we
are
wiser.
We
have
just
so
much
time,
so
much
money
and
so
much
strength,
and
it
behooves
us
to
make
the
best
of
it.
Why
should
we
give
our
time
and
strength
and
enthusiasm
to
drudgery,
when
our
housework
were
better
and
more
economically
done
by
machinery
and
co-operation?
Why
should
we
stultify
our
minds
with
doing
the
same
things
thousands
of
times
over,
when
we
might
help
ourselves
and
our
friends
to
happiness
by
intelligent
occupations
and
amusements?
The
apartment
is
the
solution
of
the
living
problems
of
the
city,
and
it
has
been
a
direct
influence
on
the
houses
of
the
towns,
so
simplifying
the
small-town
business
of
living
as
well.
Of
course,
many
of
us
who
live
in
apartments
either
have
a
little
house
or
a
big
one
in
the
country
for
the
summer
months,
or
we
plan
for
one
some
day!
So
hard
does
habit
die--we
cannot
entirely
divorce
our
ideas
of
Home
from
gardens
and
trees
and
green
grass.
But
I
honestly
think
there
is
a
reward
for
living
in
a
slice
of
a
house:
women
who
have
lived
long
in
the
country
sometimes
take
the
beauty
of
it
for
granted,
but
the
woman
who
has
been
hedged
in
by
city
walls
gets
the
fine
joy
of
out-of-doors
when
she
is
out
of
doors,
and
a
pot
of
geraniums
means
more
to
her
than
a
whole
garden
means
to
a
woman
who
has
been
denied
the
privilege
of
watching
things
grow.
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