Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-12

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to be the central one, it would becom,
a grand and glorious custom to spreat
ourselves, as it were, on fLat. A cal
far the climax of life, turning ston,
on the back bone of life's water shed
Something that will stick up in relic
against the horizon of eternity, II
which man can look back aud saS
"that's half way"
The bells of a hundred chnrci. ei
were Ginning peace into every mans
soul as / stepped on the Narrow Guage
and had all the rythm knocked out o
me by huge negress who didn't un-
derstand train movements exactly, and
sat down in my lap for moment with
great energy. And between big men
tranping on my feet, little men drain.
ing their umbrellas in my lap. and
watching the little colonies of elegant
pieces of Renaissance, New italian,
Gothic, Queen Anne and Romar>esque
architecture, in which the dignitaries
and nabobs of the town were toasting
respective shins, the train came to
what in literature would be period. ]
stepped on wet platform and let the
train go on. Fifteen minutes i'm a car
riage, over semi-cultivsted roads,
brought me to little crown of pictuT-
esque houses on 8 commanding knoll
1t was three o'clock And / was six
miles, direct, from the Court House,
and $50 feet above the big river, a mile
away. But to get there. had ridden
twice the distance. just TO get a glimpse
of the thousand-and-one elegant city
residences that you don't see until you
get out of the city proper. That riding
had given me brilliant, yes, intensely
brilliant appetite. But il was the place
TO appease it. In the mooted "seat of
honor,'' with a thorough host, and a
charming hostess who dished up prac-
tical pieces of high culinary art, with
chat and bright criticism Of the paint
er's and composers products.
After analyzing that dinner-and
what hungry man couldn't write an
eulogy, what composer couldn't con-
struct a rhapsody, what half-famished
Thespian couldn't impersonate his post
to perfection, on dinner acquired and
secured2-we set out TO analyze the
art that way lying around
there, truly in great shape"
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dozen houses that cost from S6,0 900 to
S11 900 each. The owners confederat-
ed last spring when the ground was
bare. Together they laid it out by the
square and circle, described broad ave-
nues, hemmed them with sidewa alks,
fringed them with trees, grassed the
rest with turf that was green little
time ago. So was /, and the yerdant
still sticks out in patches. even as il
did there, despite the smothering snow
storm.
In the centres of these plats, each had
built him a house--for himself? If
had affected its beau ideal
by making q complete Oneness of the
Two, each had built the house to suit
himself. For. from the metropolis TO
the back woods, the femininity of this ia
bled OneDess viii ever assume the bur-
len Of telling bow a house is to be
built, while the masculinity Of il ex-
plains to the contractor how it is to be
paid for. They divide their burdens.
The house / victinlized by inspection
was modern" and complete to nice
y. 1t was mine hosts. On the ex-
erior it is about 40 feet square, if q
group of innumerable angles, circles, |
Iuadralts, sextants and octagons can
De arranged anything like a square.
Half encircling 1t is the peristyle,
,rought forward from the Pompeiian |
,aths of Bulmer. On one eud OF this |
; neat little shed, to balance the ex-
Iford shelter while stepping out OF
he carriage on to the porch. A null
itude Of carved and painted shingles,
rranged to suit the eye, friezes, decor
ted wood and ginger bread work, gen.
rally, makes that exterior thing of |
beauty.
From the bread porch into the spac-
Gus, square reception hall is one step. |
\ polished hoor with heavy Persian |
ug in the centre, q huge, slightly |
dorned fireplace and board, settle |
lnder the second ascent of a narrow,
urned stairway in one corner, make /
NE feel he is in from out doors, in out |
# the cold, bat still out where he is |
rec to remove top clothes, free to shake /
he snow or dust. as it may be, from
lis garments; then, broad, generous /
loor to one side, which would not hide |
he parlor with its treasures of art, but |
or half-concealing tapestry curtains,
eminds him but half his welcome is
-et over. A similar door with Ike |
Iraperies that permit just peep into
he dining room, and a narrow corner |
oor that tetrays the passage to the
amlly, or solid comfort room, and the
.itchen IN the distance, conveys the
that there is plenty of roam |
o disport, If there were orly someone |
0 enjoy it.
Only moment. the wraps, the hat,
he cane have disappeared somewhere,
md in another he has found that this
nodernized reception hall has its great
ST usefulness to unfold. It 10 there he
meets the family which holds kingdom
unity that on entering the hostess