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SQUARE HOUSE IS
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Suits Needs and Purses of the
Greatest Number.
MOST ECONOMICAL TO BUILD
Design Shown Here Has Been Given
Unusual Exterior by Use of Clap
board Siding—Accommo
dates Average Family.
By WILLIAM A. RADFORD.
Mr. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building, for the readers of this
paper. On account of his wide experience
as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he
Is, without doubt, the highest authority
on all these subjects. Address all inquiries
to William A. Radford, No. 1527 Prairie
avenue, Chicago, 111., and only enclose
two-cent stamp for reply.
For years American home builders
have been erecting square frame
houses containing six or seven rooms.
Not only is this type of house popular
with home builders, but with invest
ment builders and real estate men.
In arrangement of rooms, all of this
type are very much alike. However,
by different treatments of the exterior
they are made to look very dissimilar
and rows of them in real estate sub
divisions present an attractive ap
pearance.
The value of this type of house to
the home builder is that it not. only
makes a comfortable and convenient
home, but, should occasion arise, it is
readily saleable, for the simple reason
it will suit the needs and purses of
the greatest number of buyers.
Herewith is shown a standard
square, seven-room house that has
been given an unusual exterior. This
is accomplished by the use of ship
lap, or clapboard siding. The long
hoards give the house an appearance
of breadth, and, although it is only
26x30 feet, it seems to be a much
larger house. A square house is the
most economical of all to build. There
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or the superstructure; and “jogs” are
expensive. The overhang of the porch
roof and the roof proper and the dor
mers set in two sides of the roof take
away the square effect on the house.
The entrance at the front is on the
side and leads into a hall, out of
which run the stairs. A cased double
opening connects the living room,
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which is 16 by 17 feet, and contains an
open fire-place. At the rear of the
living room is the dining room, 15 by
12 feet 6 inches. Adjoining is the kitch
en. which is 9 feet 6 inches by 12
feet 6 inches. A good-sized pantry,
and closet off the back entry way are
features.
On the second floor are four bed
rooms. all corner rooms, and the bath
room. All of these rooms open off a
square central hall.
From this description and bv a study I
of the door plans It will be seen that
this Is a house that will comfortably
accommodate the average family. The
room arrangement is such that every
room 13 pleasant and conveniently lo
cated.
Scarcity of homes everywhere has
brought forcibly to the attention of
thousands of families the advantage
of building a home. Building costs
have advanced less than almost any
other of the necessities. And, as more
than 80 per cent of the cost of build
ing a home is a labor cost, there is
not probability that it will decline un
til wages are lowered, a contingency
wage earners do not welcome. But
when it Is considered that rents now
adays are based on the present cost
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of building and not on what the actual
cost of the building was when it was
erected, it is just as logical to build
now as it was before the war.
Owning such a home as ts pictured,
or a house of some other good design
is a most excellent investment, even
though building costs have advanced
with every other cost. By obligating
himself to pay for a home, a tiead of a
family is saving systematically and in
a few years will have an asset that Is
worth while. Keal estate always is
accepted as security for a loan, and,
just now can be sold easily. By the
payment of a part of the cost down
and the balance in monthly payments
the owner’s equity in the property
steadily increases. But building a
home provides a great incentive to
save, and the home is rapidly paid for.
But aside from the standpoint of
saving and accumulating money, the
investment in a home brings large div
idends in contentment and satisfac
tion. A home owner always is a good
citizen and a substantial member of
the community in which he lives. He (
and his family have social opportuni
ties that do not come to the man who
rents. Also he is looked on as a more
desirable employee or partner in busi
ness than the man who rents.
Considered from every angle home
building is w'-ll worth the many small
sacrifices required of the average fam
ily to secure a home of their own.
The quicker the start is made the bet
ter.
The Bishop’s D—n.
Condemning the League of Nations
deadlock, William Howard Taft said
to a reporter:
“We ought to get round this dead
lock. Everything can be got round,
you know. Why—”
Mr. Taft chuckled.
“One day,” he went on. “I was
playing golf at Chevy Chase with
Bisiiop Steenthly. The old bishop was
in dreadfully bad form, and every time
he made a fluke he’d mutter ‘Gatun!’
in a savage undertone.
“ ‘Bishop,’ 1 said at length, ‘what is
this word “Gatun” that you repeat
whenever anything goes wrong?’
“‘Gatun?’ he snarled. ‘Why that’s
the Gatun dam. of course —the Garun
dam of the F’anama canal —8,000 feet
long, 2,000 feet wide, and 105 feet
deep. I guess that’s about the biggest
darn there is, son.’ ” —Detroit Free
Press.
Foundation of Succesc.
Behind every successful enterprise
you will find hard work, and behind
the work an active man, and behind
I the man a vision.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR, MT. VERNON, GEORGIA.
What beauty sense women have they
acquire as men do—by Inheritance, ed
ucation and practice—not otherwise.—
Campbell.
SOME GOOD CAKES.
A simple and easy wiy to make
angel food which tnkes a moderate
number Os
with one teaspoonful of vanilla. Sift
one-half of the cream of tartar with
the Hour and put the other half Into
the egg whites when half beaten. Beat
the eggs until stiff ; add the sugar, fold
ing it in, then fold in the flour very
lightly. Bake in a moderate oven 50
minutes.
Gold Cake. —Take four eggs well
beaten; do not separate. Add one cup
ful of water to the eggs. Cream half
a cupful of butter, add one and one
fourth cupfuls of sugar and two and
one-half cupfuls of flour with three
tablespoonfuls of linking powder.
Flavor with lemon. Bake in loaf or
layers.
Date Torte.— Take one cupful each
of chopped uuts, sugar and dates, one
tablespoonful of flour, one teaspoon
ful of baking powder, two well beaten
eggs. Bake in a sheet and serve with j
whipped cream.
Election Cake. —Take one-lmlf cup
ful of shortening, one cupful of bread
sponge, one egg, one cupful of brown
sugar, one cupful of sour milk, two
tliirds of a cupful of raisins, eight
chopped figs, one teaspoonful each of
cinnamon and salt, one-fourth of a ten
spoonful of cloves, the same of nut
meg, mace, one and one-fourth cupfuls
of flour and one-half teaspoonful of
soda.
Golden Orange Cake. —Take one
half cupful of clarified fat, one cup
ful of New Orleans molasses, one
tablespoonful of sugar, one egg, the
juice and rind of an orange, one tea
spoonful of soda dissolved in one-half
cupful of cold water, two cupfuls of
pastry flour, salt to taste. Bake in a
shallow pan and cover while hot with
butter and powdered sugar.
"A little love, a little trust,
A soft impulse, a sudden dream,
And life as dry as desert dust
Is fresher than a mountain stream."
HURRY-UP DISHES.
% Dishes which may be prepared and
are ready to serve In a short time are
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place where a glance will tell what
can be made available for the meal.
With the canned soups to be opened
and heated in five minutes the soup
course is one easy to arrange. With
a jar of good mayonnaise always on
hand for salads, a salad is not diffi
cult to prepare. A few stewed prunes
on leaf lettuce with a good dressing
makes a most acceptable combination.
Another salad easy of preparation is j
crushed peanuts. Roll them until like
coarse crumbs, sprinkle with finely!
minced green onion and serve with
either French or mayonnaise dressing
on lettuce. >
Luncheon Dish. —Cut squares of
bread from three slices of bread, mak
ing one-inch squares. Prepare two
cupfuls of white sauce well seasoned
with salt and pepper, adding one tea
spoonful of curry powder. Cook five
eggs in the shell until hard, cut in
slices after removing the shells anil
add the bread and white sauce. Serve
hot.
0 Salmon With Peas.— Heat a fillet of
salmon in the can. turn carefully on
to a hot chop plate and surround with
cooked peas either in a white sauce
or simply buttered. Tuna fish, scal
joped with hard-cooked eggs cut in
slices, baked until well heated through
is another good hurry-up dish.
Creamed Meat.— Take cooltsd meat,
roast of beef, ham, pork or chicken,
put through the meat grinder and add
to a rich white sauce. Serve with
toast or on it.
Chocolate Cake. —Cream one-half
cupful of butter with one cupful of
sugar, add three beaten eggs, the rind
and juice of half a lemon, two squares
of grated chocolate, two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder and three-fourths of
a cupful of sweet milk. Mix and bake
In •ayers or loaf.
Savory Eggs. —Beat two eggs with
salt and pepper and a tablespoonful
of cream. Melt an ounce of butter in
a saucepan, then pour In the eggs, stir
ring constantly; as they thicken add
some pieces of the tender breast of
chicken. Serve piping hot on but
tered toast.
Celery Toast. —Slice tender stalks
of celery into thin slices and cook un
til tender In just enough water to
keep them from burning. Make a rich
white sauce, season well, add the cel
ery and pour over rounds of buttered
toast.
Pepper Steak.— Take a round of veal
two Inches thick. Salt and pierce it
with a eoarse-tined fork. F’our one
can of tomatoes over the meat, then
dice a large onion arid a large green
pepper; put over the tomatoes. Place
i In the oven auil bake one nun one
| half hours. Remove the Ud and baste
! until all the juice goes into the meat.
Asparagus on Toast. —Cook the ton
| der tops of asparagus In boiling water
Just long enough to make tender.
Add cream, butter, sail and pepper to
season. Do not drain off the water
and serve on nicely toasted slices of
bread.
From two to four the child consumes
more than a quarter of the supply of
food required by the workingman.
From four to ten there is a steady in
crease, while from twelve to fifteen a
child requires as much food In actual
weight as does a person In the pnva
of life, a trifle less than the hardest
working laborer. Any deficiency In
quality is much more serious at this
age than at any other.
GOOD AND SIMPLE FOODS.
A plain cake which is not at all cx
' pensive but is tender and delicious
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one and one
’ white of egg until
of lurd, it little salt, one und throe
fourths cupfuls of flour, one table
spoonful of cornstarch, one-half tea
spoon fill of soda and two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder, vanilla. Bent well
and bake in layer cake pans. Use any
filling desired.
Ha.n on Toast. —Put ham through the
meat grinder. To one cupful add one
half cupful of milk, a tablespoonful of
butter, salt, pepper anti one-lmlf table
spoonful of flour. Cook a few minutes,
• spread on toast, break an egg on top
| and set in the oven until the egg sets.
Sweet Potato and Almond Cro
quettes.—Bake four medium-sized
sweet potatoes and remove from the
skins. There should be two cupfuls.
Add three tablespoonfuls of blanched
and finely chopped almonds, one tea
spoonful of salt, a few gratings of nut
meg, two tablespoonfuls of melted but
ter and one egg well beaten. Add
enough milk to make of the right con
sistency to shape. Roll in crumbs and
fry in deep fat.
French Pancakes. —Beat the yolks
and whites separately of four eggs. To
the yolks add two cupfuls each of
milk and flour, a ten spoonful of grated
lemon rind and one-half tablespoonful
of melted butter. Fold In the whites
beaten stiff and bake on a hot greased
griddle. Make the cakes large and
spread with butter and put together
with grated maple sugar. Cut to serve
like pie.
Baked Codfish. —Soak salt flsh in
water until soft. Flake one cupful,
slice four cold boiled potatoes and ar
range alternately in a buttered disli
with the codfish. Sprinkle each layer
with chopped stuffed olives, using one
half cupful. Make a sauce, using one
and one-half cupfuls of tomatoes, a
j tablespoonful each of butter and flour,
one small onion, chopped, salt and pep
per to taste. Cover with coafse bread
crumbs stirred in melted butter and
bake until the crumbs are brown.
A clam Is a simpler organization
than we are; but because our teeth
ache wd do not wish to be a clam.
High organization is complex, not
simple; but It may work with perfect
ease and smoothness none the less.
SOME MEXICAN DISHES.
For those who enjoy the spicy, pep
pery dishes of (lie South, these dishes
will appeal:
Scrambled Eggs With
Chili.—Break six eggs,
add a tablespoonful of
water and a dash of chili
powder for each egg;
also salt and popper to
Bey* taste. Bent lightly until
tile eggs arc well mixed
Four into a heated pan
greased with bacon fat or sweet drip
pings. Stir until thick and creamy.
Serve on hot buttered toast.
Combination Salad. —Use one cu
cumber, two young onions, three small
radishes, four stalks of celery, two
firm ripe tomatoes, ail cut in pieces;
place in a salad bowl lined with let
tuce leaves. Frepure a dressing of
one-half cupful of vinegar, pne table
spoonful of bacon, one teaspoonful of
salt and one tablespoonful of chill
powder. Bring to a boil, then cool and
pour over the salad.
Tomato Jelly. Took one quart of
tomatoes for ten minutes, add one tea
spoonful of chili powder and cook
again ten minutes. Stir in one-tliird
of a package of gelatin softened In
cold water; stir until well dissolved,
strain and add salt to taste, then set
away to cool. When the Jelly Is Arm
cut in cubes; Serve on lettuce with
mayonnaise.
Chili Con Carni. —Take one pound
of beef from the round, one-third of a
pound of pork steak, chop fine. Fry two
slices of diced bacon; brown or cook
the meat in the bacon fat. Into a ket
tie put one quart of tomato, add on<
chopped onion browned In the bacon
fat. Hutting the tomatoes through a
sieve improves ttie dish. Add meat
and simmer one hour. Just a few
minutes before serving add one can ol
red kidney beans. For seasoning add
one tablespoonful of chili powder, salt
to taste and one chill pepper dropped
into the kettle and cooked with {in
mixture. The pepper is removed be
fore serving.
Veal Goulash. —Fnt into a saucepan
two taWespoonfuls of butter, add tw<
minced onions, and a few slices of ba
con. Cover and cook until brown, then
add veal cut in lilts, salt and -11111 pow
der to season. Do not put any wntei
into the dish hut cook until u.-Mder.
ROAD
BUILDING
WAR MATERIAL DISTRIBUTED
Equipment Turned Over Promises to
Be Great Aid in Carrying Out
Road Building Plan.
To date the war department Ims
turned over to the United States de
partment of agriculture approximately
2-1,000 motor vehicles, as provided in
congressional legislation empowering
the latter department to distribute this
war material among (he state high
way commissioners for use In rond
building, allotments of the vehicles
to be based on the amount of federal
aid for roads which the states receive.
This Is practically all the vehicles
which the war department has to re
lease. Os this total 12,(XX) have been
delivered to (he states. The remain
der will be distributed as fast fljs rail
way cars can be secured for their
transportation. Representatives of
tlie bureau of public roads, in charge
of the matter, believe that within two
or three months all of the vehicles
will have been delivered to the states.
This equipment promises to he a great
aid in carrying the large road build
ing program for 1920.
Tlie state highway commissioners
are also interested in securing allot
ments of tractors, steam shovels, lo
comotive cranes, automotive cranes,
Industrial railway track, dump cars
and industrial locomotives which re
main to be disposed of by the war
department. A measure known as
the Kahn bill, directing tlie secretary
of war to release this material for the
state highway commissioners, hns
passed the senate and hns been re
ported out of committee in (tie house.
Type of Motortruck Turned Over to
States to Aid in Road Building.
Until llie secretary of war lias been
directed by congress to turn out this
equipment it Is not likely that it will
he available for state distribution.
MAKING ROADS WITH BRAINS
Most of Heavy Work Incident to High
ways Is Being Done by Machin
ery—Cost 18 Less.
As help is scarce, and increasing
traffic makes good roads a necessity,
more and more of the heavy work In
cident to highways is being done by
machinery.
At one time the work of leveling and
road building had to lie done largely
with tin* pickax In tlie hands of work
men, and witli shovels and teams. Now
gasoline engines, motor trucks, and
huge power-propelled cranes do all of
tlie heavy work. In the new method
the expense is less limn by the old
method, for machinery Is always cheap
er than human labor, in ttiat a mate
rial saving of time is effected.
Good roads are an economy to any
section of the .’onntry, as they permit
produce to be hauled to market just
when It will bring the most, and prop
erty is always worth more which bor
ders well-constructed highways. Try
to buy a farm along a concrete road
and you will And the locution makes
a big difference In the price asked.
REDUCE COST OF MARKETING
It Can Be Brought About by Farmers
Using More Trucks, Trailers
and Automobiles.
The high cost of marketing that is
such a factor In the cost of living will
be reduced when the roads are Im
proved and farmers use more trucks,
trailers and automobiles In reaching
city markets with their products.
UNPAVED ROADS UNCERTAIN
When Weather Is Good They May Be
Passable If They Have Been
Continuously Dragged.
Unpuved roads vary with the weath
er—paved roads are constant. When
the weather Is good, dirt roads may be
passable If they have been continuous
ly dragged, but they are not roads for
truck and automobile traffic, so char
acteristic of the highways today wtieD
properly constructed
DODSON WARNS
CALOMEL USERS
It's Mercury! Attacks the Bones,
Salivates and Makes
You Sick.
There’s no reason why a person
should take sickening, salivating calo
mel when a few cents buys a large bot
tle of Dodson’s Liver Tone —a perfect
substitute for calomel.
It is a pleasant, vegetable liquid
which will start your liver just as sure
ly as calomel, but it doesn’t make you
sick and can not sulivate.
Children and grown folks can take
Dodson’s Liver Tone, because it is per
fectly harmless.
Calomel is a dangerous drug. It Is
mercury and attacks your bones. Take
a dose of nasty calomel today and you
will feel weak, sick and nauseated to
morrow. Don’t lose n day's work. Take
n spoonful of Dodson’s Liver Tone in
stead and you will wake up feeling
great. No more biliousness, constipa
tion, sluggishness, headache, coated
tongue or sour stomach. Tour drug
gist says if you don't And Dodson’s
Liver Tone acts better than horrible
calomel your money is waiting for you
—Adv.
The Next Step.
“I see that hotel landlords are con
templating renting their rooms by the
hour.”
"Yes. Landlords will lie renting
their flats to us by the day next."
Lift off Corns!
Doesn’t hurt a bit and Freaiono
costs only a few cents.
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With your fingers! You can lift off
any hard corn, soft corn, or corn be
tween the toes, and the hard skin cal
luses from bottom of feet.
A tiny bottle of “Freezone” costs
little at any drug store; apply a few
drops upon the corn or callous. In
stantly it stops hurting, then shortly
you lift that bothersome corn or cal
lous right off, root and all, without
one hit of pain or soreness, Truly 1
No humbug!—Adv.
Too many advanced Ideas are ud
vanced in the wrong direction.
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W. N. U., ATLANTA, NO. 25 -1920.
