Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-11-27
CHAPTER 1.

Of1AE l. E1S L.
Near one of our largest cities, easy of
hccess to the business thoroughfares, q
Stately mansion has stood for many
Years, overlooking q scene of unusual
beauty. Immense resources must have
been at the owners command to enable
him thus to realize the conceptions of a
taste Residences are not rare
that betoken abundant wealth. but often
bne can easily detect discrepancies that
hre unmistakable evidence of unrehned
taste and love of splendor that has
# butrun the means of uniform gratifica-
bon. An imposing or snowy front is
TOO often united with cralnped or shah
by outbuiIdings, and unsightly arrange
nents in the rear are veiled by soma
&anciful device too feeble C conceal tho
Secret.
Without the tabled ring of invisibility
bither very little imagination would
lead to q correct idea Of the interior of
such pretentious dwellings,. Throw back
he heavy curtains, seldom allowed to
admit free light and air, and the parlors
will be found filed, not furnished, with
objects of great value and beauty, it
nav be, but in nowise harmonious with
he appropriate furniture or colors of
he apartments where they are found.
Bargains from some insolvent debtors
Forced sale, perhaps, and bought as be-
ne "all we can hope to obtain, and they
. will answer to fill up just here" The
owners eye has never been trained to
hrink painfully from such unfortunate
combinations.
Pass from the parlors to the dining
room. If here the various articles were
bnly suited and arranged with pure taste
BIZ for home comfort and enjoyment,
how attractive we should find it! How
lazzling the exhibition Of cut glass and
liver. how beautiful the rich snowy
lamask-if displayed for guests Of dis
inction or fashioni IF not, drop these
curtains. close the door and pass far
pack to a wing of the house, the common
lining and sitting room-untid1ly kept
lind penuriouslv furnished. The table IS
A;pread for only the family. Is that bill
pf fare inviting? Will anticipations of
t quicken Il weary husbands holneward
kteps or call soft and loving smiles to
children released from the close air of
The schoolroom? Are these carelessly
dressed young ladies, idly lounging on
he dilapidated sofa, impatiently await
ng the tardy meal, the same, so elab-
brately attired and brilliant with jewelry,
Tor whom you half lost your heart last
evening at the grand ball?
But this is hardly kind. Ii any pre-
Ter fashion and show to true taste and
kolid home comforts, why criticlse their
Ehoice, unless by returning to the purer
atmosphere which we left for this digres-
kion the contrast may ''show unto you
more excellent way
1t requires q more experienced OBJ
erver than the writer to give any just
dea of the mansion to which your atten-
ion is recalled You see true grandeur
combined with exquisite neatness and
yracefulness-the very ideal of home
ho touch of GOODNESS or fOrnality, and
rom the highest turret to the lowest
bffice about the extensive grounds this
bewitching harmony and symmetry
makes the picture perfect.
Now we will enter and stand a mo-
nent in the spacious hall. Look up that
winding stairway. Easy Of ascent, with
many broad landing. to the lofty dome
hboye all. See how the rich sunlight
ZONES flashing down, gliding those grand
BID pictures on the wall-lingering ca
tessingly over the fairy statuette in that
klcove, cleaning through the bright
howers and 1uxuriant vines, on these
brackets, into the cages near by and
waking up the birds to IA wider gush of
Melody sparkling and twinkling and
SCATTERING diamonds on the golden heads,
NJ white arms, bare feet of the little rogues
blaying in that pictured brook or placing
glory on the brow Of that sleeping
babe.
n In the magnificent suit of rooms on
the right the same refreshing union OF
Richest beauty and softest repose attracts
You as you enter. The costly curtains,
&losed only in the evening, are now
NJ Thrown far back. The fragrance from
"a wilderness of sweets" in the garden
perfumes the room, and the free, life
living sun is shining unchecked over all.
Nothing here need shun its brightest