ON CHOOSING A HOME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18197, 16 September 1922, Page 4 (Supplement)

ON CHOOSING A HOME.

He who sets out to buy a picture can usually give, with certain reservations, a clear idea of what he wants, and, if he refuses a canvas which might reasonably have been expected to satisfy his requirements, is generally able to explain the cause of his distaste. The house-seeker, on the other hand, when offered a home 1 that seema to fulfil all his preliminary de--1 mands, will often inspect it almost against I his will, knowing, a3 he enters it, that he I can never live in this place, but unable | to find words with which to excise his I caprice. I A picture and a friend change also f I each seems to reflect our mood; but ! neither is so intimate, so much a part of our very being, as the house which wit* | nessos the coming and the passing of dreams, and hoarser as no man may hear, our innermost secrets. In it/ the past endures and the future shal] reveal itself. If we imagine happiness, we imagine it in this room, by this fireside, in the light of yonder window. Here our plans are made, our work is done. Here sounds the foot--1 fall of those who bring good and evil ; things. And when we choose a house we do more than make a choice of beauty, convenience, or comfort; wo accept an ever-present influence which shall colour our lives and leavo its mark upon all that we create. Is it possible, in these circumstances, to establish, even within our own minds, the principles of our choice, as we may set up a recognisable standard of wsthctic judgment ?—The Tunea.