House and Garden 
THE KITCHEN WING 
across the glass. It is interesting to speculate on 
the occasion of these things—which was perhaps 
something very commonplace after all. Doubtless, 
they were phrases she had learned to write in the 
autograph albums of her nieces and second cousins, 
whose minds must have been filled with good and 
upright thoughts. In the southwest corner of the 
house is the room which Bonaparte occupied, and 
in the northwest is Annette Savage’s 
(an instance of selfishness, perhaps, 
when one realizes the difference of two 
such exposures, at a time when a com¬ 
plete hot air system with a thermostat 
was a thing unknown). Between the 
two rooms a little door, never intended 
in the original plan, was cut by the 
King of Spain for his convenience. 
The door is still there. 
If the house was attractive eighty 
years ago (and it must have been, or 
Joseph Bonaparte would not have lived 
there) it is doubly so now. When one 
crosses the Delaware and Raritan 
Canal about two miles south of the 
heart of Trenton and walks out by St. 
John’s cemetery, he sees off to the right 
among a clump of magnificent pine 
trees the two chimneys of an old brick 
house. It is half a mile away when it 
first peeps through the trees, for the 
country is very level and there are but 
few houses round about. And pres¬ 
ently one comes to a long grass-grown 
road that leads straight 
to the house. It is a 
fascinating walk, with 
all the pine trees in front 
—one of which is espe¬ 
cially distinguished, 
with little furry patches 
of leaves here and there 
on its gaunt limbs. The 
proportions of the house 
are splendid, and the 
evenly spaced windows 
and solid, sturdy chim¬ 
neys, placed comforta¬ 
bly at either end of the 
ridge, make the build¬ 
ing very restful and 
charming to look at. 
The drive is fully half a 
mile long, yet it hardly 
seems long enough for 
one to appreciate the 
quiet simplicity of the 
house and the almost 
pompous stateliness of the pines. And when one 
enters the gateway and walks along the brick path 
between two rows of boxwood hedge to the entrance 
doorway, he is struck with the perfect simplicity of 
the house. Could anything be more attractive than 
the windows with their little panes They all have 
what is known as “plank front” frames—that is, 
the window-boxes are not set back from the face 
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