Il6 TlMEHRI. 
to our town, — not by a monied colonist, but by a 
generous lady-stranger. 
And now to another peculiar building development or 
would be art construction, and of but yesterday's intro- 
duction, or with something of the mushroom style about 
it ; we allude to the square open porches leading on to 
the first floor of some respectable looking dwelling houses. 
Two or four well slender-turned wooden columns, with 
caps and base all complete, rise some 8 or 10 feet high, 
and a fairly proportioned cornice surmounts these 
columns, caps and all, while well-turned balusters cluster 
round the landing. So far so good, but then the love of 
art, or art display, runs wild a bit, patterns of not bad 
outline or general form, though somehow devoid of any 
set design, cut out of the flat, in common stuff, dance about 
fantastically on the top of these slender porches, now 
forming wooden horns or ears at the corners of the con- 
struction, now meeting by mutual consent in the middle, 
and forming an apology for a pediment, while inverted 
crestings, as if let loose, run wild about, under the porch, 
along the eaves, here and there and everywhere like 
lace upon a maiden's marriage dress. 
This new style of porch with its strange art treatment 
is original we must own ; and surely a little originality al- 
most at any price, is refreshing in the town, and should not 
be hastily condemned or chased away, but then let there be 
some art-repose in this display of ornament, and moreover 
let the indoor bookcase style of detail give way to more 
Grecian conventionalised patterns, of the honeysuckle, 
say, — or something better, if designers can be found to 
sketch their thoughts on paper, or draw them out on 
wood. 
