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Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1928, Page 3

THE COTTAGE PAII LOUII. “ While the modern preference for the new and unfamiliar may have virtues attached to it, there is ‘a suggestion in it of attentuated human feeling,” says the Liverpool Post.” 11 It is all very well to speak contemptuously of the cottage parlour ot a generation ago as a “museum,” although there is every reason to sympathise with the reformer who believes in distemper and unpictured walls, carpetless floors, the abolition of all knickknacks, and a minimum of furniture, lint surely the golden mean lies somewhere between the two states. When we talk about the love of home we do not intend to suggest an empty house ; always love must have something to feed upon. Some day. perhaps, telephones and motor cars, gas ranges, and garages, will thrill the hearts ol grown-up people and set them thinking wistfully of their childhood. These, and not what past generations have known, will bo the old fnmaliar things. Until then, however, there is tar more emotional —or sentimentality, if you will—in fire-irons and fenders, musical boxes and hollows, wheezy eight-day clocks and old stables, eleven the depised shawl and antimacassar. Every humdrum object has a special history of its own, a history that suggests a great deal to us.”