Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-03-26

How many lunches for Tommy and sam?
Nobody knows but mother.
Cookies and apples and blackberry jam,
Nobody knows but mother.
Nourishng dainties tor every "sweetto TOOTH
'Toddling Dottie or dignified Ruth,
How much love sweetens the labor, torsooth:
Nobody knows but mother.
How many cares does motht rheart know?
Nobody knows but mo her.
How many Joys from her motherlove flow;
Nobody knows but mother.
How many prayers by each little white bed,
How many teais tor her babes has she shed,
How many kisses for each curly head?
Nobody knows Dut mother.
Philadelphia Times.
SOME NEW ENGLAND HOUSES OF THE
LAST CENTURY.
The first colonists of Virginia in 1907,
the pilgrims of Plymouth in 1920, and
the Puritans around Boston in 1890
naturally enough felled trees, dressed
them into logs, and built rude struc-
lures as well as their few tools and the
necessity of speedy shelter would allow.
A little later well dressed log houses
succeeded to the rougher type, and next
came houses with frames and clapboarded
surfaces. One hundred and fifty years
later the new West repeated the
processes of the East, and to this day
the western man speaks of his frame
house, thus illustrating the architt ctural
education, which in many localities has
been very rapid.
I'm the 17th century a very few edi-
fees built of imported brick represented
on our shores the civilization of the
eastern hemisphere. Until few years
back Albany had a few remaining
specimens of the brick crenellated
houses with gables fronting the street
with which Amsterdam abounds at the
present day. Hampton, Va. still has its
Episcopal church constructed of red and
black brick, brought across the Atlantic.
A few old brick manor houses of the
same period linger on the banks of the
RappahaunOck and the lower James, but
they are eXotics, not genuine represen-
tativ,s of early American architecture.
Most of the colonists of the Atlantic
coast. whether English or Dutch, had no
more money to waste on architecture
than had their defendants who crossed
the Aleghanies. With both protection
against the savage and treacherOus foe
was the chief consideration. Every set
Element had one or more garrison houses,
twO-story structures built of logs, with
the second story projecting over the
first In order the better to drop hot
water or coHbustbles upon any enemy
attempting to force an entrance.
A generation or two ago quite a num-
Der of these garrison houses were stand
ing in New England, sometimes pretty
nearly in their original conditions. They
have since mostly disappeared, or have
been so altered as to pass for modern
structures to careless observers. The
blockhouse erected by Gov. Shirley in
175l forms the only remnant of the Fort
Halifax built by him at the junction of
the Sebas ,icOol and Kennebec rivers. 1t
is square, with a fOur-sided roof. and
though not among the most ancient of
its class is sufficiently old to deserve the
careful preservation which it has re.
ceived of late. York. in the same state
mad many garrison houses at a much
earlier date and needed them. The set
Element was often attacked by the
Indians, and in 1851 the minister and
many of his people were killed. Two OF
the old garrisons, the jenkins, which i,
fast tumbling down, and the better
preserved McIntire, are yet standing
Through the open second-story window
of the latter may be seen the first hanC
loom erected in America. Exeter haC
several garrisons, of which two are
remaining, the Darling house near the
Great bridge, and the Janvrln house OF
the plains. The last named is what was
called a half garrison, being proc
against sudden attack, though hardly
strong enough to endure a siege. Boil
these houses have been modernize(
enough to render them more convenien
for housekeeping, though at the expense
of antiquarian appearance.
Hardly 20 houses in all New England
dating back of 100 are yet in existence
unless In materially transformed con
dition. At best the most of them wer,
very rough, boxshaped, with a door il
one side and high-pitched roof, t,
make the snow slide of easily, and
chimney of prodigious size. A few
years ago the great chimney of tn
house at Boscawen where Gen. John A
Dix was born was torn down and fount
to contain 900 of brick. The chin
ney of the Darling house in this town
destroyed about the same time, wa
about as large. Its removal provides
the house with a good-sized additona
room. Almost all the 18th centur
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