Year: 1875

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| ing their noses into futurity.


you expect to win with lie, you
have got to play it quick.


Rural Establishment.


Make your homes beautiful. Plant
your Yards with rose-bushes and with
flowers. Fit up a little lawn here and
there. Put out trees and shrubs. Rake
over, hoe up, clear away the rubbish, burn
the brush and dry weeds, gather up the
stones and brickbats, demolish those
hedgcrows of worthless bushes and
smooth Oft the borders of the streets. SOW
grass-seed, and put appearances into a
more respectable shape. A few hours
properly appropriated on some lOwery
day will give a new and charming aspect
to all your surroundings at home. There
is Oflen magic in the hoe, rake, scrubbing-
broom and a little brains. 1t is the little
things that will render home beautiful.
A plain cottage Overgrown with vines and
creeping plants, suggesting that the in
ma, es are humble people, endowed with a
love for the beauties of nature and uncOr-
rupted by any foolish ambition, has an
expression that renders it a pleasing OBJ.
ject for cultivated mind to behold and
contemplate. But it is not necessary that
a cottage should be reduced TO such a
state of rIdeness as to make it evidently
the habitatiOn of rustics. Rusticity is a
picturesque quality and it is this idea
that possesses the minds of certain i'm
prOvers when they rather absurdly build


AFENCE OF ROUGH RAILS


around highly Ornamented villa. In this
case the contrast is too striking to pro-
duce good effect. There are other eX-
pressionS which are sufficiently rural,
without rudeness or rusticity. 1t is a still
greater error to suppose that a cottage
should be miserable novel to be pictur-
esque. Any quality which is suggestive
of squalid wretchedness, or any kind of
discomfort, Injuries this expression. But
any appearance that is suggestive of
humble poverty, goodness and simplicity,
Joined with happy life, is highly pictur-
esque, by arousing train of agreeable
poetic and virtuous associations. We can
easily sympathiZe with the inmates of
such an abode. We see nothing in it in
dicative of pride, OStentatiOn or the foolish
aping of ones superiOrs-any thing to
provoke jealousy or ridicule. There is
more of the love of virtue in the human
heart than the generality of men are will
ing to admit. The worst people in the
world despise the very qualities which
degrade themselves. They haze the man
Hesitation of pride and selfshness, and de-
light in that of cOntentment and humility.
1t is of the greatest importance for the at
tainment of good


PICTURESQUE EFFECTS


to provide for an appearance of neatness
and comfort in the scenes and Enclosures
around our habitatiOnS. If this be want
ing, the mind of the spectator is affected
with disagreeable sympathies-with pity
OF the inhabitants for their want of COM
fort or contempt for their want of neat
ness. Neatness must not be cOnfOunded
with primness. or the manifestation of a
great deal of labor or expense in providing
paint or whitewash or fanciful decorations
of the fences and outbuildings. An I'M
painted cottage, with mere footpath
winding along from the roadside to the
front door step, consisting of a rough slab
of granite, with the grass growing all
around it, may exhibit a perfect pattern of
neatness; while highly ornamental cot
tage, with white painted fences, a straight
gravelled walk, and other tinical appur-
Ienances, may exhibit disgusting exam
pie OF slOvenliness. If neatness be COM
bined with simplicity around plain cot
tage, it has double charm, by suggesting
the iGea of comfort and thrift unaSsOciated
with wealth and pride. 1t is natural for
the wealthy of uncultivated taste to BAN
ish simplicity from the


RURAL DECORATIONS


of their dwelling houses, because it seems
calculated TO conceal that wealth of which



" would be comparatively innocent if it
were confined to the wealthy. But how
often do we see a house built by poor
man, with borrowed capital, which is ex-
pressive only of the effort of the builder
to make the house wear false appearance
of great cost. Such builders fancy them
selves guided by taste, while they are only
aping what they cannot successfully imi-
tate. 1t should be rule with all who are
going to build or decorate home, to take
their


MODELS FROM CHEAPER HOUSES
than such as they can well afford to build,
and then improve upon them. The con-
trary rule is their present guide. They
take an expensive house for their model
and make up in sham what they cannot
afford in perfection. Such houses
are sufficiently numerous in this
country to destroy the picturesque
effects of our landscaI es; for
nothing is so ridiculous as the result of an
attempt. That sort of neat
ness which is compatible with a simple
and natural appearance OF ones Enclosures
may be preserved comparatively with
little labor or cost. To preserve neatness,
on the other hand, in the midst of costly
and luxurious :embel lishments, whether
rural or architecthfdl, requires the con-
slant employment of proportional labor
and expense. The man of moderate means,
therefore, VINO initiates the wealthy by
prefusion of architectural ornaments,
and flowers, must initiate them
still further by hiring laborers to keep
them in decent trim. On this account it
is advisable for every one TO consider,
when laying out his grounds, whether he
is not providing ei ther for constant
source OF expense or yard full of litter
and deformity.-Neso York Herald.