NEW ENGLAND FAJIMER. 



May 





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M^jM- 



A SMALL COTTAGE. 



"We present this week another of those beautiful 

 designs from "Village and Farm Cottages." The 

 house is very small, but is sufficient for the wants 

 of a small family, and is such a one as many a la- 

 boring man would rather own, and be independent 

 in possession of it, than be sulijected to the neces- 

 sity of hiring a house of larger jiretensicns. 



We are confident that almost any man can be 

 enabled, by industry and proper economy, to erect 

 a dwelling for himself and family, as pleasant, to 

 say the least, as the one here given, and by these 

 means can free himself from the unwelcome tax of 

 an annual rent. 



This house is also one which might be erected by 

 any farmer at slight cost, for the use of his hired la- 

 borers, when, as in many instances is the case, it is 

 inconvenient to have them live imder the same 

 roof with himself. 



The arrangement of this cottage is simple and 

 convenient, and the neat finish of the exterior har- 

 monizes well with the modest pretensions of the 

 plan : — 



"The cornice is unornamented, the front door 

 plain, the window cases are strips of jilank sus- 

 tained by three-cornered blocks. An evident ))ur- 

 pose ])ervades every part of the plan. At fir.st it 

 lofiked so plain, compared with neighboring houses, 

 which were tricked out in gingerbread finery, that 

 jjeople laughed, and called it barn-like. Not so 

 now. Prairie roses, planted i)y the owner's own 

 hand, already supply the want of pilasters and cor- 

 nice. Honeysuckles will soon climb the slender 

 columns of the verandah, and hang between them 

 in fragrant festoons. Ere long, grape vines will 

 Gisplay their purple clusters where the bean poles 



stand. The maize-patch, at present somewhat too 

 near, will be replaced by grass and flowers, and 

 then, perhaps, some who scorned the homely dwell- 

 ing, will stop to gaze, and long to enter." 



To possess a claim upon the soil of his native or 

 adopted home should be the first object of every 

 young man ; and we present this plan in the hope 

 that it may incite even the humblest ambition, by 

 showing that beauty and comfort are not insepara- 

 ble from wealth, but are within the reach of all. 



Cost of building $650. 



Cakve out your o^na Way in the World. 

 Lean o\ Yourself. — ft was said by the great 

 Clarendon, that "there is no art or science that is 

 too diliicult for industry to attain to. It is the 

 gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and 

 valued everywhere. It conquers all enemies and 

 obstacles, and makes fortune itself pay contribu- 

 tion.'' It is independent itself, and can laugh at the 

 puny attempts of those who have put money in their 

 pockets and may wish to embarrass free action and 



