three] growing the HOUSE 



cereals; and the meat should be garnished with 

 herbs. A dining-room provided with apples, pears, 

 grapes, berries, and with home-grown butternuts 

 and walnuts is the ideal. Then right-cooking be- 

 comes a science, to supplement and not to thwart 

 nature. A true pumpkin pie is the summing up of 

 generations of brain work; or was it an inspiration 

 of some Connecticut maiden ? I do not know, only 

 I know I shall never be ashamed to eat a very large 

 piece of pumpkin pie — " such as my mother made." 

 A boiled potato, "dried off," cracked open, floury 

 and sweet, with a touch of golden butter, is better 

 than the nightingales' tongues of Heliogabalus. 

 With all, in due season, there should be a pitcher of 

 home-brewed cider, made ot clean Spitzenburgs 

 and Pound Sweets, half and half. In a true 

 dining-room you test, comparatively and scientifi- 

 cally, the quality of your new beans and corn and 

 cauliflowers, and you study the comparative merits 

 of your new sweet peas and nasturtiums. It is 

 here that you learn what to grow, and what to 

 make an object of culture, as well as of cultiva- 

 tion. 



The primitive Saxon house was an All (or Hall). 

 The first differentiation of this original Hall was 



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