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social condition of the occupant — not of the architect, as is frc- 

 qiicntl}' the case.) And lastly, appropriate surroundings. 



A simple un- 

 ambitious cot- 

 tage, does not 

 require the aid 

 of sculptuary 

 to complete it, 

 or promulge a 

 purpose. 



Fer Contra — 

 the less extra- 

 neous assist. 

 ance of an arti- 

 ficial descrip- 

 tion that is 

 made use of the 

 nearer an ap- 

 proach is made 

 to what may be considered a model habitation. 



A rugged landscape befitting a castellated and turreted struc- 

 ture, would be highly indecorous as an appliance to an unpretending- 

 cottage. The modest, low-roofed tenement suggests tranquility, a 

 home free from turmoil and bickering strife. A home where child, 

 ren are born and live in happy unconsciousness of the depravity of 

 the world without ; where one dies and is mourned for, long after 

 sable garments have fulfilled their mission. A home where virtue 

 thrives and sheds its ennobling, heavenizing influence on the 

 garrulous grandfather, the happy wife and mother, the contented 

 father, the romping little ones, gleesome with exuberant spirits, 

 and rosy with bursting health. Such are those who embosom 

 themselves in cottages, and to such we would feign dedicate our 

 model retreat, as a fitting object, modestly asserting its claims 

 for their adoption for future requirements. 



The ostentatious villa may be elaborately covered with tawdy 

 ornaments without marring or rendering it conspicuously dis 

 agreeable ; but the same amount of decoration bestowed upon a 

 cottage, makes it unworthy the name, and indeed one is at a loss 



