The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, June 17, 1920, Image 7
SQUARE HOUSE IS lunsmui 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 iff i'&Jg are no "jogs” in either the foundation 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, jr?— i S| -r=t I 'Z ■ £4 i i [J 11 sfT!J | S 3 nlf *c| 1 b 3~ | First Floor Plan. 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 U— CD) CD 5 1 J v£> c=s cSf Second Floor Plan. 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 ,ip_ 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 ! 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. 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