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MUCH COMFORT AND LITTLE LABOR
r Two Hundred and Twenty-one: First
plans.
along the paths, a great tree standing guard against the too burning
sun. There is always a chimney in their pictures of a home, for a
chimney presupposes a fireplace, and a fireplace, happy people talking
pleasantly, plotting joy for the future, reading fine books, sewing upon
lovely garments, telling beautiful stories to children.
   THE CRAFTSMAN in every number, from the time of its first appear-
ance even down to this present issue, has worked for the improvement
of American homes. In fact, the purpose of the foundation of this
magazine was to further the building and the furnishing of better,
simpler and more efficient homes. We have presented the need of
better home building by articles and by pictures in many ways, but
always with the same purpose in view, the creating of more ideal homes,
the education of people's desire for and appreciation of pure simplicity.
We have shown the advantage to be gained by putting the cost of
useless ornament and disfiguring fretwork into better materials and
better foundation. We have designed over two hundred homes along
the principles we believe in, that is creating architectural beauty
through good proportion and good lines, instead of by the introduction
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