Our homes and their adornments; . - to their memory!—theirfingers were busy in interior decoration—not in niakintrivppliqite work, not in painting plaqites and panels, but inproviding such comforts as could be obtained. They took. Fig. 2. as much pleasure and exhibited as much pride in theirgraceful festoons of red-pepper pods and dried pumpkins, asdoes the modern woman in her richly ornamented portiereor lambrequin. Comfort never waited to be invited into such a house;she entered and took up her abode there. Little use for^•entilating apparatus—the high j)iled open fire-place, roar- 104 OUR H
Our homes and their adornments; . - to their memory!—theirfingers were busy in interior decoration—not in niakintrivppliqite work, not in painting plaqites and panels, but inproviding such comforts as could be obtained. They took. Fig. 2. as much pleasure and exhibited as much pride in theirgraceful festoons of red-pepper pods and dried pumpkins, asdoes the modern woman in her richly ornamented portiereor lambrequin. Comfort never waited to be invited into such a house;she entered and took up her abode there. Little use for^•entilating apparatus—the high j)iled open fire-place, roar- 104 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. ing and crackling, asserted its ability to assume all care ofthe frequent change of air in the room, and as for inlets forair, there were plenty of them. The plans and specifications of such a house wouldprobably call for solid walls of native timber carefullygrooved and fitted at each corner so that no crack betweentimbers should exceed six inches; the walls at the endscarried up so as to give the roof the proper pitch; the raftersto be of poles, laid from end to end; the roof to be of slabs,lapped and the joints broken; the whole to be held in placeby good solid poles, well scotched and tie
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