WA Y-SIDE HINTS. 



Talk about Porches. 



A COUNTRY house without a porch is like a 

 man without an eyebrow ; it gives expression, 

 and gives expression where you most want it. The 

 least office of a porch is that of affording protection 

 against the rain-beat and the sun-beat. It is an inter- 

 preter of character ; it humanizes bald walls and 

 windows ; it emphasizes architectural tone ; it gives 

 hint of hospitality ; it is a hand stretched out (figura- 

 tively and lumberingly, often) from the world within 

 to the world without. 



At a church door even, a porch seems to me to be 

 a blessed thing, and a most worthy and patent 

 demonstration of the overflowing Christian charity, 

 and of the wish to give shelter. Of all the images of 

 wayside country churches which keep in my mind, 



