The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 1521, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 2, 1909 Page: 2 of 4
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EDITOR
Mr. William A. Radford will answer
Questions and give advice FREE OF
COST or all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building for the readers of this
paper. On account of his wide expe-
rience as Editor, Author and Manufac-
turer, be is, without doubt, the highest
authority 6n all these subjects. Address
ail inquiries to William A. Radford, No.
334 Fifth Ave., Chicago, 111., and only
enclose two-cent stamp for reply.
The demand for six-room houses is
increasing-. During these prosperous
years 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.
From watching the building of small
houses their interest has increased.
They have sent for books of house
plans and studied the different designs
and have finally selected houses to suit
their needs and to fit their bank ac-
counts. Usually arrangements are
made with some contractor who is
forehanded enough to build a house,
take a small payment down and a lien
on the property as security for the bal-
ance of the purchase price.
These deals have increased until
they number up into the thousands in
First Floor Plan.
till thickly settled parts of the country,
and the sign is a good one. The best
class o£ citizens live in their own
homes; a fact that is recognized the
world owear. 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-
tion—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-
er 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
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 annoyances, a family finds a
house like this a great relief and sat-
isfaction. There is so much more light,
airland freedom.
The members of the family may re-
tain the habit of speaking in whispers,
but it wears off in time and they final-
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 {hem through their new six-
room house to enjoy them as they
did before.
Modern large windows having sashes
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,
with an extra'outside sash to keep out
the cold, is merely one of the latter
day improvements.
All through the house such mechan
Second Floor Plan.
ical devices, as revolving coal grates
that make a continuous fire possible,,
gas heaters to warn the water in the
tank when a coal 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
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 'An-
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
nicnei platea, out wnat is meant
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.
Fogs of London and Paris
_ *--
French Capital Bids Fair to Suffer
Worse Than the English.
A certain undesired supremacy has
always been granted to London in the
matter of fogs, and the London pea-
souper has always been considered un-
equaled in its way. But things have
changed a good deal of late. In the
first place, those of late years, notably
that at the beginning of this month,
have been overhead fogs, which made
the noonday like night, although in
the streets it was perfectly clear, and
there was little or no dislocation of
traffic. This is said to be owing to the
fact that a few hundred feet up the
air is cold enough to condense the
moisture, whereas in the streets the
air is warm enough to keep the mois-
ture uncondensed. This variety of fog
is certainly the least objectionable,
for it enables people to go about their
business without groping along the
walls in utter darkness, as used to be
the case. Another change that must
be noted is the prevalence of fogs in
Paris, notably in the present month,
when in the first week the fog was
much worse on the banks of the
Seine than on the banks of the
Thames. Some years ago, when Paris
burned wood, the city had no real
fogs, but now that it has taken to
burning coal it has imported the “Lon-
don particular.” And as the Seine at
Paris is not tidal, there is less chance
of a breeze to carry away the fog
than there is even in London.
Luxury.
In the country of the barefoot, could
luxury be imputed to the first man
who made himself a pair of shoes?
Was he not rather a model of sense
and industry? So of the man who
wrong?” asked Magistrate Olmsted,
contrived the first shirt. As to the
man who had it washed and
iorned, I set him down as an
absolute genius, abundant in re-
sources, and qualified to govern
a state. Naturally, however, a so-
ciety unused to clean shirts looked
upon him *s an effeminate coxcomb,
who was likely to corrupt the simplio
ity of the nation.—Voltaire.
Pretty Nearly Correct.
Andreas Pellisarti, who said he
lived somewhere in Mulberry street,
was arraigned in the New York chil-
dren’s court charged with playing ball
on the street. “Don’t you know it’s
“Yes, sir,” sobbed Andreas. “Don’t you
know that you are likely to hurt
somebody? The streets don’t belong
to you. Now tell me, son, to whom
do the streets belong?” “De automo-
biles,” answered the culprit. VDis
charged,” said the judge.
Uses of Romance.
I believe with all my soul in ro-
mance; that is, in a certain high-heart-
ed, eager dealing with life. I think
that one ought to expect to find things
beautiful and people interesting, not
to take delight in detecting mean-
nesses and failures.—Benson.
ABLE TO ENDURE MUCH COLD.
Some Microbes Are Killed Only by
256 Degrees Below Zero.
The extremes of heat and cold at
tvhlch life can exist have much great-
er range than would be expected. For
some animals the greatest heat that
can be endured is 105 degrees, while
life, as we commonly understand it,
cannot endure beyond 130 degrees, at
which temperature ^albumen coagu-
lates.
But there are certain forms of life
that can stand much more heat. Some
mollusks are not incommoded until
120 degrees is reached, while the lar-
vae?; of, flies will endure 156 degrees,
andtllertain. kinds of worms are not
killed until a temperature of 178 de-
grees is reached.
As to cold, it might almost he said
that no cold is great enough to de-
stroy all traces of life; certainly no
natural cold is great enough; it is only
by the extreme cold produced by ar-
tificial means that all life is ended.
For frogs the limit is 18 below zero,
for myriapods 58 below, for snails 184
below, a greater cold than is produced
by nature.
But the greatest cold registers are
the bacteria. The germs of the plague
have kept their vitality for several
months in a temperature of 24 below;
those of diphtheria have remained
alive after being immersed for an
hour in a refrigerating solution at 76
below.
The greatest cold sustained is hy
the germs cft tuberculosis, which are
not affected by 148 below, and suc-
cumb only to cold represented by 256
below zero.
Italian Revenge.
This is a story of Italian revenge.
A vendor of plaster statuettes saw a
chance for a sale in a well-dressed,
bibulous man who was tacking down
the street.
“You buy-a de statuette?” he asked,
alluringly holding out his choicest of-
fering. “Gar-r-ri-baldi—I sell-a him
verra cheep. De gr-reat-a Gar-r-ri-
baldi—only thirta cents!”
“Oh, fell with Garibaldi,” said the
bibulous one, making a swipe with his
arm that sent Garibaldi crashing to
the sidewalk.
For a moment the Italian regarded
the fragments. Then, his eyes flash-
ing fire, he seized from his stock a
statuette of George Washington. “You
t’ell-a with my Gar-r-ribaldi?” he
hissed between his teeth. “So.” He
raised the immortal George high above
his head and—crash! it flew into frag-
ments alongside of the ill-fated Gari-
baldi. “Ha! I to hell-a wid ^our
George Wash! Ha, ha!”—Every-
body’s Magazine.
The Proper Instinct.
“Birdset seems to have the proper
instincts for a married man.”
“You mean that he can tell a grace-
ful lie, has developed a keen sense
of cunning and has learned to conceal
his real income from his wife.”
“1£es, and also to know that she
really knows just how he is deceiv-
ing her.”
LARGE DEMAND FOR VANADIUM.
Metal a Curiosity Ten Y'ears Ago Now
Used by the Ton.
A few years ago the rare metal va-
nadium was scarcely mentioned out-
side of classes in chemistry; now its
uses are so various that metallurgists
have spent much time in devising bet-
ter and cheaper ways of extracting it
from its ores.
Probably its most important use is
as a component of steel, to -which it
imparts a wonderful resistance. Va-
nadium steel appears to owe its qual-
ities partly to the fact that vanadium
relieves the steel of its oxygen and
nitrogen, which weakens it.
Besides this use, vanadium is used
to prepare indelible inks, in combina-
tion with tannin and alkalies; for the
oxidation of aniline in making aniline
black; to make sulphuric acid by the
oxidation of sulphurous acid and in the
manufacture of various metallic pig-
ments.
It also serv.es as a coloring agent for
ceramics and glassware, is a compon-
ent of a newly discovered developer
used in photography and has been em-
ployed in medicine for the treatment
of tuberculosis.
Between 50 and 75 tons yearly are
now used, and it is worth about $4 a
pound.
DIED WITH HIS OLD PLAYMATE.
Mongrel Bulldog’s Heart Broken at
Companion’s Demise.
Joseph Friedman tells this to the
New York Press in all seriousness:
“In our neighborhood, One Hundred
and Forty-third street and Lenox ave-
nue, an Italian ice and coal peddler
lost an aged horse, whose constant
companion and playmate was a small
mongrel bulldog. A few hours after
the horse died we noticed that the dog
began to look dopey. He just moped
around, apparently having lost in-
terest in life. We saw him go to the
old horse, stretch his body across the
latter’s neck, and die there. The nu-
merous drivers who congregate around
this point, a.ll rough, but good natured
fellows, noticed the positions of the
two dead animals, and many a head
was suddenly turned the other way.
There were peculiar fits of coughing,
and some of the boys were rubbing
their cheeks with the backs of their
hands, in lieu of handkerchiefs. Some
cursed at their teams and disappeared
as quickly as possible. I honestly be-
lieve that poor little mongrel died of a
broken heart.”
Is This So?
“Even to the best of wives—”
“Eh?”
“I say, even to the best of wives it
does seem like a dreadful waste of
money -when the father of the family
buys anything for his own persona]
use.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
Could Make No Mistake.
Mrs. Henpeck—You were talking in
your sleep last night, Henry.
Mr. Henpeck—I beg your pardon,
my dear, for having interrupted you!
—Stray Stories*.
GEN. J. FRANKLIN BELL, U. S. A.
Maj.-Gen. James Franklin Bell, chief of staff of the United States army,
who in his annual report designates the army as inadequate and an antiquat-
ed organization, is a veteran officer who began his career fighting Indians on
the plains and raw active and hazardous service in the Philippines during the
Spanish-American war. Gen. Bell was born in Shelbyville, Ky., in 1856, and
graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1878. He served on
the plains with the famous Seventh cavalry from his graduation until 1894,
participating in many of the early campaigns against the Indians. During his
service in the Philippines he was awarded a medal for gallantry. He became
a major general January 3, 1907.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 1521, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 2, 1909, newspaper, February 2, 1909; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth910923/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.