American homes and gardens . ch are full of conveni-ent crannies in the rough buildingfor books and pipes and cart-ridges, and in the midst of it allis an unexpected wealth of Chip-pendale furniture, and egg-shellchina cups in the little cornercupboard. Unexpected andunique as the combination seemsto us to-day, our great-grand-parents were accustomed to notwholly dissimilar homes. Far out to the east the Dutchdoor opens on a view that reaches (brass andirons, the property of an ancestorjwho was among the first settlers. The logs(they have held in the long ago and in thecamp of to-day have furn


American homes and gardens . ch are full of conveni-ent crannies in the rough buildingfor books and pipes and cart-ridges, and in the midst of it allis an unexpected wealth of Chip-pendale furniture, and egg-shellchina cups in the little cornercupboard. Unexpected andunique as the combination seemsto us to-day, our great-grand-parents were accustomed to notwholly dissimilar homes. Far out to the east the Dutchdoor opens on a view that reaches (brass andirons, the property of an ancestorjwho was among the first settlers. The logs(they have held in the long ago and in thecamp of to-day have furnished the homecheer of many a generation. Buffalo horns lie on each side of thehearth. These were picked up in Oregonby the host of the bungalow, where theypnee formed the boundaries of land, whenthe buffaloes wandered in herds over theI prairies. A brace of revolvers flank eachhside of a long old-fashioned mirror, whileJbelow them on the mantel silver candle-sticks hold their own beside stuffed birdsJmd amateur The Wyonegonic Camp io8 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS August, 1906


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