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.