Editorial Comments The Old Homestead

In a less restrictive sense the same is true of our modern households. All the basic needs common to man the animal must be provided for. However, our great technical advancement over primitive peoples permits a variety of ways in which we shape our shelters, prepare our foods, and supply needs we were not even aware of a century ago. We have radio, TV, and kitchen appliances to perform tasks accomplished by hand when I was a lad. Let me illustrate by example. As a boy in the first years of the century I lived in a modest village on the Lake Erie plain of southeastern Michigan. My father was a lumberman and quite well-off. Late in the last century he built the house I first knew. It may have been a little more pretentious than the average of the village homes, but the arrangement of rooms and their designated functions were those of the norm for the town.