| July 11, 1925 |
Liberty A Weekly for Everybody |
Vol. 2 No. 10 |
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“Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.”
—Stephen Decatur.
The American Home
Early Americans built their houses after models with which they had been familiar in the old countries or as their skill, available building material, and climate permitted.
Two of the great discovering, conquering, and colonizing peoples, the English and the Spanish, got into regions not uncongenial to their home instincts.
This was more true of the English in tidewater Virginia than of the English in the rigors of New England climate. England is a land of estuaries.
It was even more true of the Spanish. They had been adapted at home for Mexico and southwestern America. They had recovered their land by fighting the infidels and they carried that zeal into the new country. They knew mountains, plains, and sandy wastes at home; how to campaign in them and build and live in them.
As the colonists became well-to-do or wealthy and able to gratify their tastes they built homes of distinction and they naturally modified their inherited models to conform to peculiarities of climate and mode of life.
American domestic architecture has a source to which it can go for inspiration if the people were wise enough to do so. Variations of climate and soil guided the founders of American homes. Nearly every region in the United States has a tradition of architecture. The colonial style of New England and of Virginia both responded to the climate. The Spanish in southern California were permitted by climate to continue their modifications of a Roman derivative. The Romans were an out-of-door people whose town houses even in such smaller places as Pompeii were on narrow streets, the equivalents of our alleys. The house walls gave them privacy. The inner court with its gardens gave them the sun and open air.
The English and French in South Carolina developed a type of architecture distinct and different from that of the Virginia tidewater and of New England bleakness. Some of the old farmhouses in the coves and on the slopes of the southern Appalachians with their conformity to use and climate, their grace of line, and their dignity in their surroundings rebuke the ugliness of the prosperous new subdivisions where well-to-do townspeople are pushing out into the beauty of the country.
American business architecture after years of experiment has found itself. The intelligence of the world now recognizes that the American work in steel and stone which recent years have given to the great American cities is an art fitly succeeding to that of the medieval cathedral builder.
But in the equally important work of giving the United States distinction, dignity, and beauty in homes the effort has mostly missed the mark. People put the French chateau in American valleys and the Spanish mission house on American hills or in the woods. They build conventional boxes or they take a type without thought of its surroundings.
The realtor says a Dutch colonial will sell and a Dutch colonial goes up.
Many of our millionaires have hobbies and enthusiasm. Mr. Ford once was interested in birds, Mr. Carnegie in libraries, Mr. Rockefeller in colleges, missions, laboratories. the hookworm, etc.
It could be wished that one would become interested in American domestic architecture and provide the money for a complete survey of original. American home building, region by region, and section by section.
That would produce a work of historical interest and a guide for intelligent and beautiful building with its roots in rich American traditions. It would help in the creation of the distinctive American nationality. The home would belong to the soil.
In This Issue
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| Old Trails. A stirring record of men and events as reflected in memories of a crowded past By O. K. DAVIS |
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| Lindro the Great. A short story of “the strongest man that ever lived,” and what happened when he fell in love By BEN HECHT |
9 |
| Men Are Easy Marks. Reflections and a warning concerning a secret which every woman knows | 18 |
| Why I Gave Up Poker. Some harsh words for a well-beloved indoor pastime | 21 |
| The People vs. Evolution in Tennessee. How an obscure teacher has attracted the world’s attention | 24 |
| Sam Harris: From Newsboy to Millionaire. The true story of a romantic rise to fame and fortune | 31 |
| Twenty Years a Big League Umpire. Fifth installment of the reminiscences of a famous baseball veteran By BILLY EVANS |
34 |
| $1,000 a Week for Titles to Liberty Covers. The first list of winners and another chance for everybody | 41 |
| The Hands of Kilian. A tale of love, adventure, and a mystic memory | 42 |
| “$1 a Word for 100 Words.” Some further excitement in Liberty’s $50,000 story contest | 44 |
| Madame Judas. Seventh installment of a serial of conflicting passions, hidden crime, and elusive mystery | 46 |
| Measuring Your Mind. Liberty’s latest in brain teasers | 54 |
| Chic Summer Clothes for Work or Play. Fashions | 55 |
| A Page of Movie Reviews By ALVA TAYLOR |
57 |
| Frozen Desserts for Hot Days. Household hints | 58 |
Cover Design by Leslie Thrasher
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Fannie Hurst on the American Husband
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James O’Donnell Bennett |
A lively, humorous, and penetrating discourse, by one of the foremost American novelists, on the character known to fame and the song writers as “dear old Dad.” Miss Hurst finds him one of the foundations of our national solidarity.
James O’Donnell Bennett has been investigating the workings of Indiana’s new State law which forbids nearly everything. He tells an amazing tale in an article quaintly entitled In the Kingdom of Yewkant.
Leonard H. Nason contributes a captivating yarn, The Reward of Valor, about a bottle with a kick in it that brought two doughboys the Croix de Guerre. Charles Hanson Towne writes instructively of This Business of Being a Bachelor, and Hugh Fullerton reveals some surprising facts about Golf Gambling.
| July 11, 1925 | Liberty | Vol. 2 No. 10 |
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