Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19
An imaginary Homestead In Minnesota.
BY GAIL HAMILTON.

On the southern slope, our house shall
be set square to the sun. 1t is for comfort.
for present use, not for show; but it is II
mistake to suppose that one can be comfort
able without the decencies of life. Cvili-
zation is not so deeply rooted in any of us
that we can afford to dispense with outside
helps. And because we are going out up
on the prairies, we need not live in shanty
or between bare walls. Moreover, it is
cheaper in the long run to cultivate our
selves as we'll as our farms, and not very
much costlier in the short run. Beside,
our benevolent predecessor has left us Il
house ready at hand. 1t has four rooms
on the lower floor, a sitting room perhaps
fourteen feet by fourteen, facing-the south;
on the other side Of !4e G fr9nt TaY9ra r,ahobSer
bedroom and IL kitchen, Every room has
at least two windows on two sides, for sun
shine is an eminent adornment. Our sit
ting-room has light, cheerful paper, hung
by its owners, and II stout woolen carpet
which their own hands made and nailed
down. a few engravings give outlooks
through the walls. A bracket in the cor
ner holds u vase, and the vase holds an
abundance of wild flowers and grasses.
DtIt ID 'OOh oil'll VI
what.not by the window, and you shall
find in Minnesota bookcase on the prai-
rie such books as Household Friends,
Memoir of Margaret Fuller, Somervile's
Physical Geography, Parker's Philosophy,
Snow Bound, Longfellow's Poems Our
Old Home, and so on-good company on
prairie or IN city. The bedrooms are
large and airy. The kitchen has pump
in the sink. Opening from the sitting
room and close to the kitchen, is pantry
or storeroom. 1t contains Il dish cupboard,
Il crockerv cupboard, ,one also for glass and
silver, a shelf for the box of kDves and
forks, shelves for all sorts of cooking utcn-
sis, compartments with tight covers for
rye meal, wheat-hour, corn-meal, Graham
meal, and bran, closet for cold meats,
milk shelves, shelf for the water-pail,
one also for dish-washing, and - hanging
shelf before the window. So, dear Lady
Una YOU can stand in this store-room, and
prepare your meats, bread, pies, and other
ediblrs for cooking, without leaving your
place. You have only to turn around and
you can lay your hand upon everything
you want. Moreover, rs your sitting room
is warmed by an air-tight. with an oven
and tea.keltle aperalure, in the winter
Won c,n do nc,rlv nh vour cookino here
and live rs onr Eomely, dear old Grand
moibcr uesd 70 saw" As snup as a bur in
a rug. When our dinner is cooked it i:
of the incest Bread. lioht and white
made of flour ground from wheat, whcl
our own soil fattened; chicken pie made
of nr,irie chicken that came swooninc
down from The skv into our own yard
cu.tards mixed from our own COWS m,
Ia;I iw onr own hensNnt ona or two 70
n'nves. @ isllias thIt hunc oniverinr nm m,
n,,,, viii nlnn .trans. evprvthinS cooke,
Golico,nlv % % The table is SET with fine whit,
linen with napkins and silver forks An,
snoons and prrttv plnin ware: really on,
might do worse than dine at n prairie farm
house. A building like this, erected whel
lnmher was nine or ten dollars a thousand
saw three Years AGO, cost not ouitc tw,
hundred and fifty dollars. But then a prea
deal of INGENUITY was built into if. Fo