64 HOW TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY 



the land is so level that the nights are foggy. On 

 some of our flats I would not like to sleep in the 

 lower story. This, however, we do not mean to take 

 into our estimate very largely when seeking a country 

 home. Up to the present most people can find for 

 themselves purchasable property that does not lie 

 low or too level. 



If your house is built on a steep hillside I advise 

 you to anchor it well in, that is, let the basement be 

 excavated into the side of the hill, and in that base- 

 ment arrange your cellars, your laundry-room, your 

 furnace room, and possibly your kitchen. In this 

 way you get both strength and protection. Above 

 all, you can easily create a wholesale apple cellar, 

 frost proof, but cool enough for keeping your fruit 

 sound until May or June. Good cellars are a rar- 

 ity, and bad ones are abominable, as well as danger- 

 ous. 



These basements should not be mere dugouts, but 

 the most carefully planned and constructed part of 

 the house. Sometimes in excavating you will touch a 

 vein of water; carry it carefully through your cellar 

 or basement and put it to use for your hot water fur- 

 nace and your laundry. It will not be at all out of 

 place if it run through your apple cellar and so keep 

 the fruit from drying and wasting. 



There should be no back side to a house. It 

 should front all ways, only with a different outlook; 

 for there is no direction in which you will not find 

 the beautiful, and the most beautiful very often lies 



