House <y Garden 
A COTTAGE IN THE FIELDS TYROL 
age of comfort and homeliness unmarred by 
a too vulgar show of splendor at one end of 
the scale of prosperity and unhappy squalor 
at the other. Four walls and a roof,—those 
essentials of a house 
which we know from 
childhood,—is the be¬ 
ginning and the end of 
a vast number of the 
dwellings. Diagonal or 
outlying wings and ir¬ 
regularities of plan 
were eschewed, so that 
one roof might cover 
all. Because they are 
expensive and difficult 
of construction, curves 
were avoided, and the 
Tyrolian always con¬ 
tented himself with ma¬ 
terials which were close 
at his hand. Structural 
ornamentation he used 
charily, and frequently 
a single feature of such 
elaboration sufficed for 
him to lavish his limited 
resources upon, while 
the remainder of the structure was left rudely 
bare. The comparison between these orna¬ 
mental parts and their bald backgrounds is 
very striking; and it can be seen in every 
TYROL 
ON THE BRENNER ROAD 
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