Echoes From The Attic and Poems, Cost Home, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Don Johnson, Feb. 2001
Typed by Belford Carver
Written by by Edna F. Campbell
Copyrighted by Edna F. Campbell
With special thanks to her family for permission to use her works.

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THE COST HOME HINTS OF HAWAII

An oriental atmosphere is emphasized in the red-brick home of Colonel and Mrs. C. 
Stanford Cost located at 130 South Third Street in Ponchatoula.  The "far east" 
air was effected by collections which the couple brought back from Hawaii.  The 
Costs lived in Hawaii about 20 years while the colonel served with the United 
States Army.  They moved to Ponchatoula about ten years ago where they claim to 
have found their utopia.

After remodeling and decorating the house which they purchased, they took time out 
and used skill and ingenuity in weaving into natural settings the Hawaiian and 
Polynesian treasurers, which they imported.

They have covered the hardwood floors in carpeting in a champagne color which 
blends nicely with the sheathed walls and flowing silk draperies.  For contrast, a 
wide spreading sofa, upholstered in a woven dark fabric, and beige chairs form the 
inviting seating arrangement.  Ikabena trends in a floral designs in oriental urns 
and a Japanese screen lend the desired oriental trend here.

The wall and floor colors continue in the dining area where a round mahogany table 
is complemented with matching chairs cushioned in gold striped material.

Ornate Hawaiian lamps illuminate the oriental paintings and figurines in the 
bedroom where the swivel chairs provide seating space and the bed and chest are 
of contemporary styling.

Another bedroom features dark furnishings and is offset by light walls.  Birch 
paneling sheathes the walls of the modernistic kitchen where all equipment is 
electrical.  A rattan table with chair lend a distinctive note.

The pride of the Cost homesite is the Polynesian guest house offset with groupings 
of rare plant species.  Chairs on the lawn suggest hospitality.  High points of 
the grounds and the Polynesian guest house are a hibachi, a charcoal burning grill, 
a pagoda obtained from the far east and an urn with Ikebana blends.

Stereo music extends into the guest house where the Costs entertain informally.  
Strains of Hawaiian music bring memories of the years spent on the islands.  
Japanese lights illuminate the bamboo fence complementing the overall background.

(From ECHOES FROM THE ATTIC, VII, 1973, by Edna Campbell)