An Attractive Residence

The style of architecture should be adapted to an American landscape, and some of the neat and attractive compositea gcattered here and there through ourstates are preferable for this purpose to any feudal importations. The style should also depend much on the location. There are two methods of making a building beautifnl- by the fullest and most rubtlé development of constructive requirements, and by the application of forms which ate the organic qualities of the work. The first uecessity is stability, which means that all lines should be horizontal or perpendicular, and that the bottom must not bo incapable of supporting the top. Home means rest, quiet and simplicity. Not that a house must be bare and simple in every part, but simplicity must be the keynote. Certain parts, both inside and out, can of course be elaborately treated, but it must seem natural, and not an isolated piece of work, and the reason for the elaboration must be appnrent. It must, too, be borne in mimi that elaboration to be effectual must be simple, at any rate in its main lines. I am not saying anything about the eonvenient arrangement of the house. It goes without saying that a house must be convenient, but mere convenience is not alone Miüieient. The arrangement of the kitchen is the point of most importance to every housewife. There is no denying the fact that a majority of the home owners are, to put it in a mild term, negligent and careleaa as to the convenient arrangement of th kitchen and other much used parts of the house. The obtaining of water for domestio purposes is a source of great trouble and labor to many housewives. The well pump is located out of doors and often some distance from the house, but the water must be had regardless of the incleinency of the wsather, and when the pump is out of order and the well deep it eutails considerable labor to obtain the requircd i];iily supply, and when tubs, pails and oM barrels are depended upon to catch a supply of soft water from dripping eaves the climax ís reached. Paiuting the kitchen walls will be found more econoniieal than papering; use some warm tint- lo uot use white or blue- and if varnished every four or five months you can wash and clean them quite as safely and readily as you do the woodwork. A door should open from the kitchen luto the cellarway and the stairs should be Hghted by a convenient window. You should not be obliged to leave the door ajar at each trip to and from the cellar, aa too j many are obliged to do or grope their way in the dark. The plan here offered is that of a well arninged and neatly designed frame house in the attractive style of modern Ameriean architecture. It lias four principal rooms on each door. besiden halls, bathroom, pantry and numerous cloxetH. The convenlence of t!ie interior is apparpiit on exnmination of the floor plans. Entering from the front through a stair hall of goodlj size, connected with tlio parlor, 15x15-8, the dining room, 15x17, and a bedroom, 11x15, The hall, parlor and dlning room are connected by wide sliding doors. The kitchen and dining room are connected by an entry, 5x5, and by a slide panel in wall of china closet. Tho kitchen raisht be considerably enlarged by inclosing tlie porch and removing the interior wall. Then an entrance could be furnished frora a porch placed in the angleof present dining room and entry. The bathroom is well fitted with tub, bowl and closet. Back stair to the second floor leads up f rom the kitchen and bathroom. The stairway leads down to cellar under this and from the pantry. Ia the bedroom is a projecting bracket window, with three drawers under stool. The chambers on the second floor are eaeh provided with closet room. Astairwar to the attic leads up from the chamber on the left. Balconies open from this chamber and the front hall. The materials used in construction wero of the best throughout. The walls are shcathed, papered and sided on the outside, and plastered three coats on the inside. The house is heated by furnace, and was erected and completed at Carthage, lils. , for Í3.600, iucluding the foundation. E. A. Payne. In a beaiitiful stained glass window of French deaigo the principal figure is that of a seminude woman, symbolizing the republic, hearing in her right arm a winged Meicury. In the foreground is a figure of a native wam&D of South America holding ie her hanrl a cockatoo. In the background are tae soldiers of the republic, Be&rlug their banner, on which is