The Dream of Homeownership in 1891

There is nothing that so greatly conduces to happiness or is so calculated to promote habits of thrift and economy as to be a home owner, nor is there anything so demoralizing as to live from year to year in a rented house. The man who has a home of his own is almost a component part of the prosperity of the country. He has a sense of permanency, and under his own roof feels a greater interest in the progress of the nation than he who changes house from time to time, looking forward from one 'moving day' to another, feeling always like a mere sojourner, a 'pilgrim and a stranger.' The strongest feeling of a man's social and complex nature is the love of home, and this feeling, unsatisfied as it must be in a rented house, tends to his disadvantage and unhappiness. So long as he lives in a rented house he hardly thinks it worth while to make any effort to beautify the place; his wife and daughters feel no encouragement to plant flowers, and his children grow up amid bleak and unpleasant surroundings. How different when he owns a home. What interest is taken in every trivial detail! There is something to live for, something to plan and economize for, and something to take an interest in; every dollar that can be spared goes to beautify and adorn the home. The opportunity for building a home with but a small outlay is now offered by W. K. McClintock Co., sole agents, room 8, Haller block, Second and Columbia streets, Seattle, Wash., of Byron addition, beautifully situated as it is near Lake Washington, in the southeastern portion of the city, on the line of the Yesler avenue electric road, and only twenty minutes' ride from the center of the city. Prices are very low, lots ranging from $100 to $250 each, all cleared, level as a floor, and not a stump to be seen, and ready for building. The outlay is but small: twenty-five dollars down, balance in monthly installments.