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A SYMMETRICAL COTTAGE. 



When there is a disposition to woA, there is enough 

 to be done. Aside from the ordinary labor required 

 of them — the care of stock, the preparing of the 

 year's fuel, the threshing of grain, the brealiing of 

 roads, the occasional visit to the market town with 

 wood, or grain, or wool, with pork, or hay or apples, 

 duties press upon them. The winter, instead of be- 

 ing long and wearisome, is quite too short for the ac- 

 complishment of all they find to do. The farmer 

 now speaks of his winter labor as well as his spring 

 or fall's work, and feels that it is qnite as important 

 that one be well done as the other. 



Among the pleasurable employments of this sea- 

 son, is that of reading. No thrifty farmer can now 

 be found in New Hampshire who does not read. 



He is not confined to the political newspaper now 

 as he once was. He cares less for party, and more 

 for principle. He takes a good agricultural journal. 

 On his table are found bound volumes of such w orks 

 as are issued by Saxton, Jewett, and Phillips & Samp- 

 son. The leaves are all cut, and the pages show signs 

 of study there. 



Reading leads to thinking, and the farmer soon be- 

 gins to lay his plans for the spring and summer. He 

 considers the nature of his lands, decides what crops 

 to grow and what manures to apply. He calculates 

 the cost of certain repairs or additions to his build- 

 ings, how he shall reclaim a bog, improve an exhaust- 

 ed pa-sture, or render more profitable an old orchard. 

 — Granite Farmer. 



A SYMMETRICAL COTTAGE. 



BY AUSTIX A ■ 



ER, R0CUK3TER, N. T. 



Whoever loves symmetry and the simpler kinds 

 of cottage beauty, including good proportion, taste- 

 ful forms, and chasteness of ornament, we think can 

 not but like this design, since it unites all these re- 

 quisites. It is an illustration of a cottage made or 

 namental at a very trifling expense, and without sa- 

 crificing truthfulness to that kind of tasteful simpli- 

 eity which is the true touchstone of cottage beauty. 



This cottage is entered by means of an ample hall, 

 off which is the parlor, I.t ft. by 1.5 ft 6 in. The 

 dining and living room is entered from either the hall 



or parlor, and is 15 ft. 6 in. by 14 ft., hanng closettj 

 also a closet under stairs. Adjacent to the dining, 

 room is the nursery, 14 ft. by 12 ft. 6 in., having a 

 bathing-room and closet. Off of dining room is the 

 kitchen, 1.5 ft. 6 in. by 12 ft. C in., having an ainplr 

 pantry, sink room, &c. The back stairs ascend fiom 

 the sink-room, which is a great convenience, as slopi), 

 &c., from the second story can be brought down these 

 stairs without being seen from any of the principal 

 rooms. Entrance to the cellar from the kitchen. In 

 the hall is the principal stairs leadini to second story, 

 which is divided into bed-rooms having closets at- 

 tached; also inclosed stairs to attic, in which there 

 are three large sleeping-rooms, with store-rooms, &c , 



