BUILDING. 



parlor and dining-room. But even in such instances a 

 house can be attractive. I know a western farm-house 

 where the parlor, dining-room, kitchen, library, hall, re-*' 

 ception-room and conservatory are all combined in one 

 apartment, and yet such is the skill and taste of the 

 woman presiding over it that sitting there in the large, 

 sunshiny, orderly room, one falls in love with its pic- 

 turesque simplicity, and feels that henceforth partitions 

 and folding - doors 

 and winding stair- 

 cases are vain and 

 wearisome superflui- 

 ties. Square and 

 rather ugly looks the 

 house outwardly, 

 with its weather- 

 painted boards, but 

 within all is bright 

 and cheery, a vein of 

 taste and intelligence 

 running through ev- 

 erything. The main 

 or "living" room is 

 about fifteen by twen- 

 ty-four feet, and there are no chambers. The bedrooms are 

 small but sunny, and possess no carpets or superfluous 

 furniture. A small fire-place built of rough stone, but with 

 good draught lights up the dining-room the cook-stove 

 retiring with the modesty of true merit toward the end 

 of the apartment. Where everything pertaining to 

 kitchen-work is kept is a mystery until the time for tea 

 approaches, when the bright woman opens a cupboard 

 here, pulls out a drawer there, whisks off the ornamental 

 roof of the retiring cook-stove, and presto ! what was a. 

 few moments ago a quiet sitting-room with its work- 

 basket, open book, and rocking-chair, is now an animated 



X, Portico ; R, Recess ; D, 

 , Bedroom ; c, c, Clothes Closet and Bath- 

 room ; A', Kitchen ; W, Wood-shed ; /*, Pan- 

 try ; M, Milk-room. 



