For
protection against storm, to keep out the driving rain, there will be
a sliding glass, so made that when not in use it will occupy small
space and shut out very little air.
There is little more to say about this house. I am to build seven or
ten years from now. There is plenty of time in which to work up all
the details in accord with the general principles I have laid down.
It will be a usable house and a beautiful house, wherein the
aesthetic guest can find comfort for his eyes as well as for his
body. It will be a happy house--or else I'll burn it down. It will
be a house of air and sunshine and laughter. These three cannot be
divorced. Laughter without air and sunshine becomes morbid,
decadent, demoniac. I have in me a thousand generations. Laughter
that is decadent is not good for these thousand generations.
GLEN ELLEN, CALIFORNIA.
July 1906.
THE GOLD HUNTERS OF THE NORTH
"Where the Northern Lights come down a' nights to dance on the
houseless snow."
"Ivan, I forbid you to go farther in this undertaking.
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