1 think perhaps, some peoples abroad are' more willing to put up with a lower standard of life than your people are," said a foreign Friend to me, "and that must make your Government's foreign policy rather difficult sometimes."
'A good deal could be said about what Britons really will put up with at a pinch, the Great War proved. But if my friend had been with me at the opening of the "Daily Mail" Ideal Home Exhibition, he would certainly have found fresh justification for his view.
Concurrently with the movement which making every man in England his own house-owner, ingenious minds are perpetually at work to find greater comforts for the House. Every year as I wander round these exhibitions T tell myself that luxury can no farther go. Yet next year there are new devices to charm the eye and save our Many houses-owners, beguiled by specious advertisements into buying shoddy houses, are now in revolt. The famous case of Mrs.
Borders, "the modern Portia" who fought a building society for eighteen days and cor-alnly won 'a moral victory, has roused a horde of malcontents to rebel. Yet nothing more apparent from this exhibition than that one can have a house both cheap and yood. 'The samples shown (not models, but full size) range from one with a vaulted hall and minstrels' gallery at £2,250 to roomed wooden bungalow at £195. Do not sneer at that word "wooden." It is a charming little house, and the construction, as in all those shown, is guaranteed. Our law allows town councils to control extern: Gesigns, Why is it not more used? uelually it 18 cheaper to build a house of ood "appearance than one of the garish villas stuck all over with false ornaments which have defiled so much of England.
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