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noise and intrusion of every ^^asser-by ; every door a 

 public door, and no private ingress or egress whatever. 

 A cellar-kitchen, with underground offices attached, 

 sending their steam, smoke, and effluvia into every 

 room and area above, and concentrating within the 

 four, six or a dozen lines of outer wall, as the various 

 angles and zig-zag lines of said wall may govern, all 

 the seemly and unseemly kinds of occupation to which 

 the appurtenances of a dwelling-house are devoted ! 

 Of the style of its outer or inner architecture, no matter 

 now — of its interior arrangement we are at this moment 

 speaking, and it must be apparent to all who under- 

 stand either the requirements or necessities of house- 

 keeping, that it has no true fitness for such purpose. 

 All and every part is public, and public alike — all 

 lawn, all approach, all open, all show. There is no re- 

 tirement, no privacy about the establishment whatever. 

 Yet many such houses, mansions, country seats, or 

 villas, by whatever name, are thought by some, pro- 

 fessing to have taste and judgment in such matters, 

 fine houses to live in ! "We have seen such, built at an 

 expense often, twenty — even thirty thousand dollars, 

 and upward, that were eclipsed in all convenient 

 family accommodation, at a cost of half the money in 

 each corresponding degree of pretension. 



Now, to any one who will enter into the details of 

 such an establishment, it will prove a difficult labor to 

 trace out the sinks, drains, areas, and what not, lead- 

 ing into and out of it, their cost in construction, the 

 labor and vexation of living in and keeping it in re- 

 pair. The stables and carriage-houses — for there are 

 no out-houses, in the common acceptation of the term 

 — are at a distance, either in open view, or behind 



