SOCIABLE AMERICA.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 531, 11 June 1909, Page 3

SOCIABLE AMERICA.

•"Shut' the."door and :.let us be private! say's' tho" Englishman. In v Nov,: ; York the door.is never shut. . There, is- no privacy, bnd'-.one might almost say there arc .■ no doors, except tho- outer-, one. which .closes tho'house to the street. .A New York public, iiian recently -talked;.of family '.life -in America..- He lauded it to the skies. He told of happy family gatherings : of father,; mother, sons and daughters round the steam radiator--in the. "parlour." Ho described games of checkers, whist, pianola, playings;. and"'.the putting together' of those maddening .picture puzzles. The "happy Sabbath, avenings".-■.especially, brought, forth'. his;eloijuent praises. The hoiise had nineteen rooms in it) with every imaginable conveni•mce. ' There were front and back drawing-: rooms,' breakfast-fopui,' dining-room, library,' Front and. rear bedrooms,'bathrooms, with shower.'baths and marble tubs and basins. "Now, where's your den?" asked tho -Englishman. : --': '"Denl"... said the" American. • "Man, I haven't an inch of room hi the whole, house, that'; I can call my very own. [t'belongs to all'of-us to shareiand share ilikoi There isn't a room 1 may go into jnd lock, tho! door to. kecivthe rest ; 'of the' family out. -This house has everything in ;t-except privacy. "There's mighty little of Shut-to-bo. fownd in any American home.,My louse is a typical doorless'American homo."