ADVICE FOR LACKLAND 



subsoil the ground), or you can stock it with 

 a protecting belt of evergreens. In either 

 case, give thorough cultivation, if you wish 

 the best results. 



At (o) is the "brand-new" house remod- 

 elled in such fashion that you have a southern 

 porch, a kitchen in the rear, and a bay-window 

 in your dining-room, which commands (by 

 the dotted line) the same view which now 

 wastes its charm upon the stout woman at 

 your wash-tub. 



It is possible that my friend Lackland may 

 report progress to me some time in the course 

 of the summer. 



LACKLAND'S HOUSE PLANS 



Unfortunately^ almost every city gentle- 

 man who comes into possession — whether by 

 purchase or otherwise — of a plain country 

 house, from which some honest well-to-do 

 farmer has just decamped, puzzles his brain 

 first of all, to know how he shall make a "fine 

 thing" of it. My advice to such puzzled gen- 

 tlemen, in nine cases out of ten, would be — 

 "not to do it." 



49 



