Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-06-14
Comforts Of a Small House,

We confess to q liking for small bo...-
ana small women. Touching the former va
Will here give seven good, and us we tbink
sufficient reasons for our preference. In tho
llrSt place, they imply small, cozy rooms
Not cramped, but measurable 81 gnou
mat the light and heat reflected and radiatod
from all parts Family comfort cannot thrive
In hall Or field. | imagine that the how
who did not feel sufficiently acquainted With
his father to ask him for new cap, lived in
'paIatal residence [ doubt not, for the
same reason, people living among mountains
are more sociable than those who live m
| plains. Affection, like a SMILE dies unless it
Is reflected. Secondly, we like small bousos
because they look paid for, and small house
paid for holds more happiness and real friends
than large one unpaid. Anything unpaid
IS uncomfortable. To an honest man. debts
are demons, and an indebted house haunted
house, full OF creeping horrors and disouie-
tudes as those described by Hood. Thildlv.
we IKE small houses, because they look SYM.
pathlzng. They arc like people not over
dressed, moro ready to make acquaintance.
A big house is like big man-unaccostable
Stately portlcos and lordIy halls are like the
titles ID. d., LII. d., etc.--imposing, distant.
and inclined to be repeIIent In the fourth
place we like a small house, because it ex-
cites no envy. 1t matters not how elegantly
1t Is furnished, how taseully surrounded and
adorned by shrubbery and flowers its observ-
crs are its admires aud friends. It does not
III UDdpT no ,,,I
a soul would wish even his bouse-his home
the abode OF envy. Everybody can say and
IS encouraged to say, can build such a
house'-whlch words are equivalent to
blessing FiltkIy, we Ikea small house be-
cause IT must always remain the peoples
house. The Industrious mechanic can earn
such house The diIIignt laborer can own,
by patient industry, such house The wild
o~ can live in such house; and whata ich,
rational comfort it is to live in such accom-
modations as Of necessity must be the dwell
ing-pIace of zine tenhs Of the race ? Sixthly,
we like small houses, because in such most of
US begin lite. 1t is with small houses that
the affections OF young couples, the first care
and joys Of married life are mostly associa-
,cd. Most Of US begin Lille in a small way"
In the last place, we prefer & small house,
because il is not so far removed from orr last
marrow home Only few steps down, and
our weary feet are there but from the large
palace to the narrow gave, the change is too
abrupt, I've grown sober over these orders
of architecture, and will stop.
REcLAIMING SANDY LAND WITHOUT MA
NURE,-" We will suppose that the land is
sandy, or perhaps a sandy loan, that was once
covered with pines whicl we're cut off, and the
land ryed to death, and then pasturel to
death which is full as bad as was the old Irish
Judge, who sentenced a man to be hung and
pay forty shiings, Manure the land if Won
can, If not, pillow with one horse, or two #
you choose, but do not 90 dorm more than
toNr inches, SOW rye and harrow in it, When
the crop is ripe, trash on the field and keep
what grain you get as a compensation for
y5ar labor
Now take the rye straw, let a man drop
it before each furrow, and the plow follows
it Immediately and covers it up
Follow this course three years. and then
SOW it with clover. Cut two crops Of this,
and the second year pillow again aud SOW to
rye, and, if the operation has been well man
aged, you will probably get t1oentg foe, bush
els Of rye an acre, and your land be 10 pretty
good condition Tor any crop With common
manuring. We can show you twenty-five
acres that was almost moving sand, reclaimed
this way into fair and fertile lands Are
you encouraged ~