The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-10
4TrIos AND ATTICs.
The Attics of the old Days. Cobwebby, |
 Spacious and Deiiciously Qu tint.

back to the attic. And this woru rouses another train of thought. Does every body know what is meant by an "at- tie2s Alas! no: most modern houses and modern children have no acquaint- ance with the cobwebby. spacious and deiiciously quaint old attic.
 Please observe that do not say gar ret. I dislike that word; 1t sounds so suggestive of ragged saualor and of nibbling. mischievous. skeary rodents. But attic! at-tic; attic; cannot you hear the soothing, solemn lullaby of the eight day (and almost eight fooD clock? Or If you change the pronunciation to at-ti-i-i-i-c; at-t-i-i-i-c; ;at-ti-i-i-c-there is the refrain of the cheerful cricket; and these are happy home sounds. So never say garret. but attic. and to the consideration of the attic let us return.
 Mine is an uninteresting but useful apartment; we'll lighted and easily reached. and could not live comforta- bly, without this place to store our trunks and boxes. an occasional para lyzed chair and files of newspapers, whose presence does not preclude the possibility of the children having a play-corner and fine frolic on rainy days. Bless the youngsters. l love to hear their shouts and racket, although 1t sometimes seems as If they were verify dancing on my aching head. Scenes soon change for children, and the prancing is sure to be quickly changed for a more quiet amusement regard myself as a public benefactor in having such an attic built, and my children as small-sized home missiona- ries in inviting the unfortunate ones who have no attic to come and enjoy theirs.
 Modern apartment houses reaching to the sky; each story supposed to be a home to one family, and the roof util- ized as summer garden. We'll. shall be railed at as a miserable old fashioned crank If offer any com ments, but I do thank the dear Lord that my life Is not to be passed in such environments. Even in small cities, wherein detached homes are built, the attic is now absorbed by the third story" In this there will be two nicely finished rooms with gas and heat; for the house-maids there will be a nice trunk room and an equally nice store closet; perhaps there may be a portion set off and arranged as drying room for use on wet days. and there may be 8 children of the family, if the house. hold is old-fashioned enough to possess any, may crawl in, and try, poor things, to play they are playing in the attic"
 Miss Margaret Sangster writes some of the sweetest home poems have ever read. wish some one would ask her to write one on Playing in the AtticP But the attic par excellence Is the one at grandfather's. It is fifty. sixty, yes, quite seventy years old. The stairway is good width, the rafters are black with age, there is a window at each gable end, and a scuttle. which when open of a pleasant day lets in the sunshine Of 1894 upon the accumulated relics and rubbish. With all my reverence have a grain of sense and there is a good deal of rubbish in that old attic. There is bushel basket full of nice clean boards, saved from some house repairs, and which twill be good for something sometime" There is collection of hats, male and female, which have seen ser vice on the family heads fifty years ago. There Is an immense company of wool en and cotton balls, with material for as many more, which the dear aunt hopes to get off to the carpet weavers some day. This is what called the rubbish, but never look at it twice, and forget it is there as stand by and see aunt open an old cedar chest to show me the Camalet cloak great-grandfather used to wear; or rock softly the big cherry cradle in which my dear father and his eight brothers and sisters were rocked. Aunt points out g. companion piece of nursery furniture being a large, oblong wicker basket big enough to put the baby in. and place 1t in the front of the green wagon," with its one broad seat, that grandmother might go to ride and baby too, and aunt adds, with half reproachful accent, as hint ing upon my small family of three, There was always baby in the bas- ket."
 I am never ready to depart from this, to me, enchanted ground" and aunt generally leaves me up there, gaz- ing at a rickety row of toothless and otherwise damaged back combs, from worth preserving. but which the gentle custodians of the old home are 10th to destroy. Or, boring over the pile of books under the scuttle light. There is "Daily Food" in various forms, testa- ment of 1735, Practical System of Mod ern Geography or a view of the present state of the world by J. Olney, A.. M. Published by Robinson, Pratt & Co.,, 25s Pearl street. 1885," Intellectual Arithmetic, upon the inductive method" by Warren Colburn, A. M., 1928; "The Contrast" by Maria, Edgwood, pub- lished in Philadelphia 1914; "A Treatise on the Diseases of the Joints," by Sam uel Cooper, Boston, 1908; Virus Illustri- bus, urbis Romae. A Romolo ad Angus tum," 1923; "A Coinmentarie or Exposi- tion upon the first Five Chapters of the Epistle to Galatians" London, 1917; 'rLight of the Art of Gunnery," London, 17O3; "The Confessions of Faith," Edin- burgh, 1739; "A New Geographical, His torical and Commercial Grammar and Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the World" by William Guthrie.