House and Garden 
p retty pair of 
modest residen¬ 
ces. Their gar¬ 
dens are found 
at the back. 
A characteris¬ 
tic example of 
the lodges of 
large estates that 
add to the beauty 
of rural England 
is “Molly’s 
Lodge,” with its 
stately sentinel 
larch and haw¬ 
thorn trees in 
pink and white 
bloom about it. 
Dividing hon¬ 
ors with the stone 
and thatch cotta¬ 
ges are the en¬ 
chanting speci¬ 
mens of timber 
and plaster still 
existing. We are adapting it ourselves for some¬ 
what pretentious dwellings, but who thinks of 
using it for the poor ? Hard as architects endeavor 
to obtain the real old English look in these half- 
timbered structures, no modern combination can yet 
equal the dark bands of timber filled in with cream- 
“round the corner skirmish the roads” 
white plaster 
that still remain 
in many parts of 
England for the 
artistic ra pture 
of the traveler. 
Many ideas 
might practi¬ 
cally be adopted 
from the English 
village architec¬ 
ture for village 
buildings here at - 
home, if to sub¬ 
stantial and sim¬ 
ple effects were 
sacrificed some 
speed and many 
gimcracks, and 
expense put into 
material rather 
than size. When 
we read 1571, 
1626, 1750 on 
tablets over the 
doors of these well-built English cottages, we re¬ 
alize that a solid sense of economy always has 
been an especially underlying feature of this pic¬ 
turesque beauty. Oak beams, stone, brick and 
slate are exceedingly slow to deteriorate when 
compared with pine, lath, plaster and shingles. 
THE SPRING AND PILLAR BOX 
A SIGHTLY PAIR OF HOMES 
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