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ensures pleasant and capacious sleeping rooms for the 

 family of the future. 



"What a pleasant home you have ! " is the exclamation 

 of all who visit this house, and the secret of its peculiar 

 charm lies in the fact that WEST. 



a young farmer's wife first 

 dreamed it out upon paper 

 until she had cheerfulness 

 and utility successfully 

 combined. Then she gave * 

 the plan to her husband 

 wise and appreciative man. 

 He built it to the letter, 

 and neither have had cause T w 



to regret this little branch- 

 ing out from the ordinary 

 model of cheap farm-houses 



, T !-, , Sitting-room ; B< Bedroom : c, c, 



namely, a parlor, seldom Wardrobe and Bath-room ; k, D, 



a bis: kitchen where H*2"? ?S I SLS?*SJ 



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p 5M ilk-room and Pantry ; , 

 the Steam and heat of wash- Wood-hou^e and Summer Kitchen ; 



ing and cooking makes it ' P< 



anything but pleasant for eating purposes, and two or 

 three ugly little sleeping-rooms that have barely space for 

 anything but beds. 



Just here I want to enter my humble protest against 

 any parlor that pinches and stints other rooms in order 

 to exist. First secure the convenient kitchen, the pleas- 

 ant dining-room, the well-sunned and well-ventilated 

 bedrooms, the bath-room, the ample pantry and milk- 

 room. Then, if space permits, have a parlor by all 

 means as pretty a parlor as possible and use it. It 

 is bad taste and bad morals to make " most anything " 

 answer for family use day after day, while the best room 

 and the best of everything is sacredly reserved for outside 

 people, people who are not greatly benefited after all, for 

 when we visit do we not observe that it is the cordial hos- 



