The Tupelo journal., 1907-01-25
FARnER AND PLANTER
THE FARM HOME BEAUTIFUL.
A White Hcusc on a Green Hill Amid
Green Fields.

house, the place where you intend to
live, rear your family, your home,
plan to some purpose. Throughout
all the south we find beautiful homes,
where men and have been
reared, and have gone out into the
world and made it better for their
having lived In 1t.
Mrs. Palmela G. Reade, Of Person
county, North Carolina, has written
an article on Making the Farm
Home Beau lul," which is reproduced:
A w~ell-rounded hill commands a
fine view, says Mrs. Reade, and many
other considerations should be sub
servient. Aside from beauty and de-
STABILITY, the late frosrs do not play
such havoc.
First of all, have the family room,
or sitting room-"Mother's room"
shows that tender regard for her low
ing watchfulness-well, this room
should be large and w~ell-lighted. One
of the most desirable houses for peo-
pie of moderate means has this room
with three windows, one in the recess
by the fire-places, so that the light
falls over the left shoulder; on the
other side is the closet. The mouse con-
tains seven rooms. The dining room
Is across the hall. The cooks room
adjoins the mother's-that is, the
walls, and IS connected with a speak
ing tube, Lut opens on the veranda
and all cooking odors pass into the
| open cir, for unless so arranged they
will pass through two and three rooms
and settle in the farthest.
The house is only different from
many in use, in that 1t has the living
room in the off side and the parlor
in the four-room side.
The porches should be wide, as they
are almost lived in during the summer
months. Long, narrow porches are
crowded and shut out the sunlight
in winter. But be liberal with porches
and have as mucn of the plant under
one cover as is desirable. But right
here, let me beg the builder to have
every edible in a ceiled room and the
desperadoes will be as poor as the
church house
Of course rooms finished in the
natural woods are more to be desired
than any, but my next choice would
be good plastering; first, any deface-
ments are more easily repaired, and
then the fresh lime makes the house
so sweet and wholesome.
And do you know that the towns
people look to the green fields and
white walls and white house as a
haven of rest, from the noise and
roar of the factories? There are some
things suited to the country, some
suited to the town.
Good white lead should be used, and
will keep fresh and pretty fifteen or
twenty years.
Where one wants a palatial resi-
dence, more rooms may be added and
large white columns may be used and
thus it may take on a colonial air.
The floors should be of narrow
plank, and stained any desirable
color, which can be renewed from time
to time; and with a large family there
Is nothing quite SO sensible and cas-
LILY kept.
Have the rooms yard lengths each
way, as carpetings come in yard
widths.
Sideboards may be built in the
walls in the dining
Have rooms rather large, as peo-
pie can pass about with more ease
and grace. And when the sometimes
guest is added he will feel that there
Is room for him. .
Hard wood mantels with mirrors
are beautiful and will reflect the dainty
flower in the vase!
But above all, have a family Of
God-fearing people to adorn this
Country house and the graces and
beauties will multiply. 1t is good to
stay in the country. l would rather
be a nice country girl than a town
clerk. Culture and refinement come
from effort everywhere.
You may say | have left my sub
ject; but tell me, is it not all an
empty show without the lightsome
step, or manly brother, or patter of
little feet, or crown of the hoary
head?