PARLOUR ESSENTIAL ADJUNCT OF HOME.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 168, 16 July 1921, Page 17

PARLOUR ESSENTIAL ADJUNCT OF HOME.

The building of community home? for workingmen—undertaken by the, Briti.--.. Government to relieve tlie holism" shortage—haa caused a controversy re^ardiri- nwhether the parlour w an essential adjunct of the modern household. Unn school holds that it is superfluous. Another contends that the parlour 11 vitally necessary a 5 a "conrtinjt room when the daughters of the family arrive at marriageable age. i\ recent editorial in a morning paper says: . "Other nation- have homes 01 aistit"!live and surpri.-ine qualities', but from China to Peru there U nothing to • ■•• found quite like our parlour*. T. -- indeed, has long been admitted, hut _tiif fact does not give l.Tiivorsul sati*ia>-tioii. It is, some tell us. an apartment only fit for funeral baked meat*; it is a bur rible museum of artificial fruits anatrocities of the potter; it is a ' nr ' ,1 " sacred to the negation of beauty and the pubfieity of a family livinjr room i is not possible to woo or to be woowi with any comfort or satisfaction. Without the "shade of an aspidistra, the £lo\r of waxen fruits, or at least the romantic seclusion of a parlour, heart cannot commune with heart. There i> plainly no more to be said. Trie British Knipire i>. built upon tlir British parlour." Latest reports from the National Housing and Town Planning Counuil in dicate that the parlour will survive*