Wildwood homes - being a collection of houses and details with suggestions for the home builder (1912) (14598046927)

Identifier: wildwoodhomesbe00wild (find matches)
Title: Wildwood homes : being a collection of houses and details with suggestions for the home builder
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Wildwood Builders Co
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic
Publisher: Fort Wayne, Ind. : Wildwood Builders Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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eenbuilding things destined if not de-liberately designed to break downand not wear out. It is the age ofpassing fancies and of fleetingfashions. All the rage today theyare a joke tomorrow. Miladyshat of yesteryear may be as goodtoday as when it came forth atEastertide a milliners creation,yet should she wear on the street—well, she wouldnt do it, so whydiscuss the impossible? Our ma-terial prosperity, we will not saythe newness of our arrival, has en-couraged indulgence in vagaries,conceits, and vanities. The weal-thy vie as did the ancient Athen-ians in producing some newthing and no sooner is it thevogue than it is discarded as thetoy of which the child has tired.Each year sees something new inthe fashions of dress, jewelry, fur-niture and architecture, and, markit well, the only fashions that en-dure are those based on themodels that obtained before theage of fashion—those dear oldthings whose beauty is their sim-plicity and whose art is their art-lessness. Now the tendency of
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