The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-06-18 00:00:00

OCCASIONAL NOTI*3 ON THE BUILDINGS OF
THE FARM.—No. IIL
COTTAGNI.

CUPBOARD CONVF—Nlelit-Le.—lt is all very easy for
well-to-do folks, who live in fine houses, to find fault
with the careless habits of the pour in the matter of
household tidiness. " Why don't they," is the question
asked," shy don't they put everything in ita proper
place?" 'cry true, and very good ; but this involves
one point wit seldom, although stningely, overlooked -
namely, that it is essential for the poor to have a place
to put things in-nut by any means always the case
in their ilt)UNtlf ; the truth, perhaps, being that, as a
rule, no forethought in planning their cottages as exer-
cised in order to provide Mime convenienees by which
alone household tidiness can be secured and maintained.
Things must be "littered" about, as the expressive
phrase is, anywhere and everywhere in cottages where
there, no provision made for putting things away in
proper and due order. "It is all very well," said the
sage Johnson to the garrulous Boswell, who one day
had proposed a game et chuclaarthing-" it is all very
well, Mr. Boswell, to say let WI play at churk-farthing,
but what if we have not a farthing to chuck." Just so
might many • cottage housewife retort upon the fault- ,
finder-" It's ell very well for you, sir (or loam), to say
what for have you not things in their right place, when
you know well enough that we have no place at all to
put them into." This retort might in numerous cases
be well put ; and, in fact, we have nut seldom made it
in defending those with whom grievous fault has been
knout as to their household uutidinem of their cottage*.
PLANNING or A Hounr..-Mueli of the-want of cup-
boards, pantries, and the like conveniences, too often
observable in the cottages of the 'Aiming classes, and
referred to in the preceding note, arises, we thank,
from the wrong principle frequently adopted in plan-
Ding. The form of the house is often decided upon first ,
so that the external appearance of the house shall be
after a certain pre-determined model or outline ; the
internal arrangements being tlicreofter decided upon,
certain parts being Meshed in, so to speak, to the ex-
elusion of other important parts. Whereas we con-
ceive the way to plan a house Is to arrange all the
apartments in the way meet emiducive to convenient*
and anufurt, introducing as many "helps" to mono.
laical and tidy housewifery as possible, letting the ex-
ternal appearance of clerstion ~f the boose be caused
ot modified by, the pre arranged internal eocive4
niences. This we conceive to he what is meant by
planning • liount,in contradistinction to what may be
called "designing,„ which has reference more to deco: r •
tion,ke. After all, as our houses are made to live in, not
to look at, it is essential that the primary end should
have the best consideration given to it. Only _as in
the matter of mipboard and other conveniences-it is
really necessary to kuor what is requited to Make
• house comfortable; not so may a matter after all,
apparently, to judge from not a few monstrosities of
planning we have at times met with. It might them,
at first eight, beneath the dignity of an architect to take
counsel in the matter of plaboing from an acknowledged
good housewife; but, in truth, the advantages derived
from this to the livers and workers in the house would
be very great. We know of instances where thii
counsel has been liken with wonderfully good effect.
There are few houses built--eveo model houses, falsely
so called-the arrangements and eunveniencea of which
could not be =Willed with ai!vantage, after taking •
houaewik, *to knows her work, through it, and asking
her advice about it. And it would certainly sate some-
thing if this were done before the house was built. Nor
is the understanding of a plan by the female mind so
difficult • matter as one might be apt to suppose.
Besides., a few playing or calling cards-which admira-
bly represent rooms in proportion-ran easily, by a
dexterous hand, be so manipulated as to show to any
female counsellor the proposed arrangement of the
rooms of a contemplated house. But all this, however,
it much may be Imperil the dignity of en architect to
do, should not be, and is not, beneath the attention of
• proprietor of • house to look rigidly after. "In the
multitude of counsellors there ii. wisdom," says the
proverb ; and in the matter of house-planning female
counsellors have more wow than they are generally
credited with.- Ibid.

THE LITING Or HOOOHTOM-LIt4IIIIIINIE—TInt Bishop
of Durham's son-itilew end dementia chaplain, the Rev
K Cheese, Isas just completed the arrangements for the
endowment, out of his own rectory, of the district
chapelry of &nem., in Houghtomle•tikerne. In the
year 1856 the Ecclisciastical Commissioners obtained an
order in Council which severed Failberge from the rec-
tory of Houghton; but as no endowment could be made
without the consent of the late rector, Dr. Bandinel, it '
remained a dead letter, and no incumbent was appointed
by the Bishop of Manchester, in whom the patronage
warn vested. Now this needful want lies been supplied.
One of Mr. Cheese's first acts on being appointed to
Houghton, was to apply to the Ecelecciaaticcal Commis-
sioners for leave to give up the tithe,. of Radberge and
another townshi in his pariah, so as to provide
£335 Is.. 41. for the incumbent of tiadberge, whoever
he might he. This arrangement has Just been completed,
and it bas been accompanied with • graceful act on the
part of Lord Palnicratoo. His lordship, finding that the
Bishop of Manchester had allowed his patronage to
lapse, at once yielded to the urgent solicitation of the
Bishop of Durham, and appointed in the name of the
Crown to the newly-endowed chapelry the Rev. David
Piper, who had been for 35 years the curate of Dr.
Bandisel.
"FsiCELBIOII" is perhaps the most popular idiomatic
which even • Lung feUew's genius has commended to
universal competive aspiration ! To rise higher,—to
Improve maition,—to over-come luipedimenta,—to
EXCEL. The idea elevates the standard of mercantile
Integrity. Why should not every article be. what it
WWI to be'—One of our table neoessaries, TEA, (as
proved by Parliamentary Evidence) ia, with a view to
profit, mostly covered by the Chinese with facing of
mineral WOW' ; this deceiree the cionsonier by giving
a fictitious vales to brown wintry leaves, and enables
foreign traders to get rid of otherwise unsaleable stock.
In order to "raver both in quality And wholesomeness
Horniman & Co. find it necessary to import all their
Tea wholly pure—Green a dark olive, and the Black
not, made intensely dark. Bor plied only in Packets,
by Horniusan's Agents, as advertised in this paper.
HOLLOWA 01511111.117 LIP PILLS. —Scrota's. illandukr
Hore Threat—The It two we guassolly eoostltu-
ii.eaU, the last results frost adikiental cameo; both,
MeMEMMO. yield with equal facility to the purifying principle
senbdoed In Holloway'. asedicamente. The RIM amino of thin
admisibis ogs L.{ is oven the absorbents end Finnan, both
of aim.. aaa.i, ecabod,lend regulated by ite corrective
power. It only inquires to be well rubbM into the parts
amid abraa times a day, attar due fomentation with
nemblesiely warm water. After the friction, flannel should be
pried mimed the disordered parte to minus the open pore.
"aim cad or midge viciaiWitee of temperature. In
setofula and glandular diseases, Zolkoraire Pub enema be
Ulm whist wing his 011etamt.