Each
month picturesque event followed graphic happening, and never was
unwritten history more readily read by the young, or the memories of
the older folk more catered to than in this series which won new
friends for the magazine on every hand.
CHAPTER XV
ADVENTURES IN ART AND IN CIVICS
The influence of his grandfather and the injunction of his grandmother
to her sons that each "should make the world a better or a more
beautiful place to live in" now began to be manifest in the grandson.
Edward Bok was unconscious that it was this influence. What directly
led him to the signal piece of construction in which he engaged was the
wretched architecture of small houses. As he travelled through the
United States he was appalled by it. Where the houses were not
positively ugly, they were, to him, repellently ornate. Money was
wasted on useless turrets, filigree work, or machine-made
ornamentation. Bok found out that these small householders never
employed an architect, but that the houses were put up by builders from
their own plans.
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