1935-02-15 — Page 3

"I Can't Stop Selling My Home'

MOVING AS A HOBBY

URING the last twenty years Di have changed my home twenty-eight times. In each case I have sold my house at a profit and moved into one I liked as much or more than the previous onel

Yet I assure you, I am not a hard business woman or one who dislikes home ties. I am not the

discontented type of person who

drawback to the old country cot“. tago la the lack of ventilation and light. Evidently they didn't think much about it In the old days. In many of my temporary homts,” I have overcome this by building little windows in the ingle-nook I found that this was very attrac tive. By the careful planning of now windows, however small, a vast amount of difference can be made to the reconditioned, cot- the But the cost had to bu vigorously controlltd.

It is easy to spend much too much money on reconditioning cottages and houses for resale, The

like to do cannot be done as one many things that one would has perhaps visualised them in the first place..

One little cottage which I bought for one hundred and sixty pounds I re-sold a few months later for four hundred and sixty. And all I had spent was sixty pounds in adding to its charm and

Ha characteristics. emphasising

another occasion pur- can never sit down or keep still chased two semi-detached cottages.

It just happens that the act of I changed the doorways into win-. choosing a delightful house, build- ing it into an enviable home, and cows and a contral window into then selling it to a keen purchaser inside, I made a lovely squaru A doorway! Pulling down a wall has become a kind of hobby. And entrance hall.. I had the doorway I haven't Anished doing it yet.

painted green with black fittings, Twenty years ago I started it. matching two waterbutts, similar Although my children were young, sy painted, placed at each and of Interior decoration and house con- the cottage to catch the rainwater. struction appealed to me. We My profit, after the recondition- had to live near London for coring, amounted to two hundred and tain reasons and therefore my ffty pounds.

districts

activities were confined to auch On occasions I have been very Wimbledon and lucky. Quiotly and discreetly I Barnes, Hampton, Tonbridge, Mid-once ran a paying guest house to hurst, and Petersfield, Tedding augment my income. This was ton, Surbiton, Whitehaven, and within one hundred miles of Wim- Shoreham,

bledon Common. It didn't pay.

It was purely the commercial So I sold it. Furniture and overy- side of house buying and resell-thing. The sum 1. received gave ing that interested me when I

me one hundred pounds more than began, during the war. Houses I had paid for the house and the were at a premium. I obtained furniture I had bought for it. one, lived in it for six weeks, and then accepted 100 guineas for my Једва

And so we began.

OLD COTTAGES

My family thought I began changing houses because I couldn't settle down. The truth of the matter was that we couldn't settle

Every achievement has its draw- backs, of course. We had plenty of packing and unpacking! I don't know which was the lesser evil. So long na the van with our things in, arrived before we did, it was all right, but once or twice we were stranded without a

thing.

up! Money had to be obtained to little house near Midhurst. It Our greatest shock was at n carry on and I found that by was not until I was installed that thoughtful buying and selling of discovered there was no water! house property our income could The well, which appeared perfect- ly good when I took the place on, contained only surface water.

be increased,

It-did not take me long to find the pleasant way of doing it. 1 concentrated on old cottages. mean really old cottages, of which there are beautiful examples alli

A WATER DIVINER ENLISTED

There was nothing to be dono

over the country. I had no need but send for a water diviner. He

THE THONG

Here le a obarming study of H.R.H. the Duchess of York and T. R. H. Princess Elizabeth and Prin

cosa Margaret Rose as they attended a concert at Royal Albert Hall, London. Princess Margaret Rois

AMERICA'S WATERWAYS

GUARDING NATION'S

RESOURCES

Washington, Feb. 10. Development of American water- to go far afield. A few years ago found water for us after touring ways for greater public service and! there were quite a number of de- the grounds with all of us an-to minimize their threat of dea- lightful old cottages which were xiously trailing behind him, but tructive floods le recommended by

the National Resources Board. simply waiting for my kind of at fifty yards from the house!

And let me warn you. When Tho committee recommended development.

Practically the same thing has water has been thus found, there harnessing of 15 major streams to to be done in each old cottage, I is the expense of digging for it, supply navigation, irrigation and have found. In the first place which amounts to approximately, power, and federal projects to there is the ceiling to be scraped a pound per font judging from my eliminate floods, soll erosion and

And the pollution. of all its old plaster. When this bill. And when you

Valley region.

The-board--also-recommended.

is done, besides revealing great water, you have to send a sample The most important waterway nak beams, the dark, musty smell of it away to be analysed. It is being studied now is the Mississippi that frequently permeates the un-not always good water! cared-for cottage, disappears.

Furnishing each new home bas Then off comes the wallpaper. not been such a problem as you development of the North Atlantic, There are sometimes thirty or might imagine. Certain furniture South Atlantic and Eastern Gulf forty thicknesses of it and some of houses and cottages. The only the north

in common to all of the old type the Great Lakes and Red River of basins; the Upper of the designs aro ghastly!

and Ohio The next important thing is an furnishings that I have had to buy Mississippi, Missouri examination of the Areplace. are carpets and curtains. They Basins; the outh-west and lower One look at the average cottage ara everything to a house. They Mississippi regions. the Western fireplace and out it comes, and give each room its individuality. Gulf and Colorado basins, and the

Apart from alterations, such as

south Pacific and great basin and rubble, which may be, and prob- adding a bathroom or throwing North Pacific districts.

The report sald Army engineers ably le, biding an old beam run-la a window, rediscovering logle- ning across the top. At the sides nooks, old fireplaces beams, and

Public one Ands perhaps an ingle-nook or callings, these are the only ex-estimated they could spend $8,000,-

penses that I have had to indulge 000,000 on waterways.

works figures show reclamation, in, generally speaking.

But It has been worth it, for In rivers and harbours and flood con

trol were allotted $305,122,000 up to oach case I have made money. Not enormous sums, but usefulDecember 1 this year. Require But there is frequently the vex-amounts. And I have had the ments for 1936 would be $197,000,- ing problem of light and ventila-pleasure of Indulging in a career 000 and for completion approxi-

overcome. The one of discovery and adventure.

with it the now brick work and

a bread oven, which may have been hidden away for yours.

PROBLEMS OF LIGHTING AND VENTILATION

tion to be

|mately $355,600,000.

The board, in recommending establishment of a permanent water planning committee, said: "In plan. ning for water, the country must | take a long view and think in terms

is meares: camera, .

of conservation as well ́as of current |

560."

Development of water power; the report intimated, would lead to lower rates and make for more

Hydro-electric power, the group said, presents a tangled problem contral use of electricity. which interests all citizans from Definite recommendations regard- the domestic user of electricity to Ing hydro-electric power develop- the coal miner, the owner of public ment were held up pending a report utility bonds, the industrialist look from the power polley committee, ing for cheap energy, and the headed by Secretary of Interior advocate of subsistence homesteads. Harold L. Ickes-United Prces.

Austher generation of soldiers renewed the friendly ́aillance that was cemented, in Flanders: mud daring the World War, when British soldiers.en route to police the Saar basla during the plebiscite made the sequinfanes of Franch troops at Calala, where they landed.

SPECIAL LINES

EVENING SHOES CLEARING

“AT

$5.00 Pr.

FOR THE

LAST DAY

OF

GORDON'S

SHOE SALE

SATURDAY FEB. 16TH

WIN

HIS MASTER

“KING GEORGE IV” A POPULAR "SCOTCH SELECTION

Produced be

The Denklers AccYtre

The Finest Whisky

Record

on

·Sole Agents:

GANDE PRICE & CO.,

LTD.

Ice House Street, Hong Kong:

THE

HONG KONG

PENINSULA HOTEL: HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL

& SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE: PALACE HOTEL:

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand. Hotel das Wagons Lits, Paking

Penang

The Scenic Gem of Malays

Almse Semple McPherson, the "Hot Gospaller." who linew la Shanghai and Is, thortly, to visit Hongkong, repently, Bgurad In colourful: pageantry, to celebrate the completion of 25 yanrs in the ministry She is seen above on a lost 'which paraded the straits of Low Angle carrying the Four Square Goopel flag. With; horfaso her daughter, Mrs. Roberts: Smith, on fleft of pictures and Rheba

Crawford Spílvaló, one "Angel of Broadway); on the rightage

Knox Brit

Runnymede Hotel

Malaya's Premier Hotel

also under the same manager

THE CRAC HOTEL

Renang

SKUN