Homes Shqll Endure

A modern philosopher has been quoted as saying that we are living in a brutal and materialistic age, giving more reality to stupid, physical things than to God-like enduring ideas; that we are building fifty-story structures but writing no Hamlets; riding in jet planes, but breeding no Platos or Aristotles.

In a way he was right, but in another he was wrong. There is one direction in which the thinkers and workers of this age have progressed farther than ever men did before; a direction thart means more for mankind in general than anything in the olden days of genius ever meant.

That is the science of HOME building.

fn the old days when the world was young, mighty men of mighty ideas constructed the pyramids of Egypt, the Parthenon of Athens; and to this day we marvel at the wonders that they wrought. But they who built those wonders of the world-skilled builders as all genera,tions since have proclaimed them to be-lived in shelters that no selfrespecting bulldog of today would care to own.

Homer wrote his Iliad and sent that priceless literary gem down to us through the ages; but he never knew the real comforts of a real home, for in those days of inspired ideas of one sort, the home-making idea,l was entirely lacking.

Shakespeare gave us the results of his literary genius, and his shrine grows brigh.ter with the years. But he never looked through a clear pane of window glass in his lit'e;