APRIL.] BUILDING. 



the sight of a park or a lake, shelter to a prospect, 

 and the convenience of" a lumber-room to the ar- 

 rangement of an anti-chamber ? and as to cup- 

 boards, closets, and stowage of many sorts, the 

 tools in middling life allow their puppy architects 

 to sweep them all away, because my lord, with 4O 

 servants, transfers such things to the offices. Where 

 do we meet with a moderate house well calculated 

 for a small fortune ? Where do you find one 

 planned for a man who keeps the key of his wine- 

 cellar ? who has connected a kitchen and dining- 

 room in such manner, that the smell of the former 

 shall be excluded, without a long walk to the lat- 

 ter ? Who has contrived a moving table, served 

 through the wall, without any servants to wait in 

 the room ? There is not one apartment in a house, 

 from the cellar to the garret, that has not been 

 improved for men of large fortune, but, for small 

 incomes, I believe invention has either gone retro- 

 grade, or at least stood still. 



Circumstances for convenience, which should b 

 attended to, in planning a house to be inhabited 

 by a family whose income is small. 



It is not necessary to define what the income 

 may be, but only to mark it, by the points of the 

 mistress being her own housekeeper, and the master 

 keeping the keys of the wine-cellar ; and that a 

 general system of economy pervades the manage- 

 ment, the proprietor farming his own estate, whe- 

 ther 400 or 10OO acres. 



1st, The kitchen should not be a thoroughfare, 



nor 



