Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 30, 1919

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HOME TOWN HELPS BUILD WITH EYE TO BEAUTY Duty of All Who Plan Home to Con sider Well How Structure Will Appear to Beholder The beauty that may bo had out of the common things of the earth is well illustrated by the homes that one sometimes sees a beauty that is all the more emphasized by the contrast in the hideous result of the use of the same common things by others You will see in the country places as you go about how one man will take the things that are to his hand and build from them a beautiful house He took the rock and stone the wood the sand and the earth that were un der his feet Out of these he framed a rooftree that is a kindness to the j eye Another man with the same mate rials threw them together crudely makiug a thing that had to go by the name of a house but which offends the eye that beholds it The one house cost no more in either labor or money than the other yet the results are as different as day aud night The most striking as well us the