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[Illustration: "THE SURE REVOLVING TEST OF TIME--PAST AND PRESENT" CARTOON FOR SGRAFFITO by HEYWOOD SUMNER.] From Building News. Most people are monopoly u-build willing to admit that they cannot afford to pay over twice as much for a thing as it is worth; but few in this country are aware that they do this very thing when they build for themselves an independent city dwelling-house or pay a rent equivalent to or greater than the interest on this outlay. In the old country the secret of obtaining luxury and economy combined in building has been learned, and rich and poor, fashionable and unfashionable alike live in "flats." In America, people have not yet learned this lesson, but cling to the old and barbarous custom of living perpendicularly in isolated towers, with all the cares and worries that go with isolated management. [Illustration: Figure 1.] Nothing shows more clearly than this, how much man is a creature of habit. In his savage state, the nature of his existence necessitated the isolated hut. As civilization advanced, however, the necessity for, and enormous advantages of coцperation became evident, but habit perpetuated the isolated dwelling long after the reasons for its existence had disappeared, and it required centuries for civilized men to learn that coцperation is an element as essential to perfection in the arrangement of their habitations as it is in other things. A given accommodation may be obtained in the form of a "flat" for less than one-half the outlay required to obtain it in the form of an independent dwelling built on the same land. The form of comparison herein presented has never, to my knowledge, been heretofore made, and the results are as surprising as they are important and interesting. The estimates of cost have been made by several competent contractors on scale drawings and accurate specifications, are easily verified and hence sustainability may be accepted as reliable. Figure 1 is one of the plans of our apartment-house which is to be built on the Back Bay, Boston. Figure 2 shows the floor-plans of an independent house which might be built on the same land. Both figures are drawn to the same scale for convenience in comparing the dimensions. The independent-house (which I shall, in contradistinction to the "flat," designate as the "tower" to mark its prominent point of difference from the "flat" in form) contains a kitchen, pantry, furnace-room, fuel-cellar, laundry, dining-room, china-closet, parlor, eight bed-chambers provided with suitable closets, two bath-rooms, a trunk-room, a front staircase extending from the first floor to the attic, and a back staircase extending from the basement to the third floor.

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