Cape Cod, new & old . here is no gable to breakthe perfect slope of the roof; no porch or evenhood to mar the utter simplicity of the well-proportioned portal is flush with thelintel: it does not project nor is it recessed, andrarely has side or fan lights. It is a brave,strong door, to shut out the storm and let inthe stranger. It opens into a tiny vestibule, with a fair-sized room on either side. One of these rooms~c^^-^ is the parlor, with a three-ply carpet, a horse-K hair sofa, a corner cupboard, on which arearranged^sea shells and strange bits of coralwhich grandfather brought
Cape Cod, new & old . here is no gable to breakthe perfect slope of the roof; no porch or evenhood to mar the utter simplicity of the well-proportioned portal is flush with thelintel: it does not project nor is it recessed, andrarely has side or fan lights. It is a brave,strong door, to shut out the storm and let inthe stranger. It opens into a tiny vestibule, with a fair-sized room on either side. One of these rooms~c^^-^ is the parlor, with a three-ply carpet, a horse-K hair sofa, a corner cupboard, on which arearranged^sea shells and strange bits of coralwhich grandfather brought back from someround-the-world voyage. A hair wreath, which ^incorporates the black tresses of maturity withthe blonde curls of infancy and the white locksof old ^agCj —• laboriously worked into thegruesome^mblance pfflpwers,^— hangs abovethe excellently built mantel. This room isused rarely: the chairs do not suggest com-yi ^2£i; its two windows facing the street and itsone window Jacing the side yard are never. BREWSTER 91 opened, except once a year at the time ofspring house-cleaning. On the other side of the narrow entry is a downstairs bedroom: perhaps it is grand-mas room; perhaps it is the its dark^ chintz-covered wing chair, and >Cthe Uttle li^t-stand close to the four-posted,cherry bedstead with a patchwork quilt, it isa quaint and not uncomfortable room. Butthere is no luxury nor elegance nor superfluityhere. The Cape-Codders have always beena plain and thrifty folk. Behind these two rooms, and reached by ^^nt/^^-^L^^passing through one or the other, is the mid- ^die room running almost the length of thehouse. It usually has a side door leading di-rectly out into the yard, without even thepause of a landing, — a meager enough littleside yard, too, with a picket fence and a fewperennials in unformed beds. At the .oppositeend is the buttery, its shelves filled with dishesand food; and close against the^^Jbuttery —between it and t
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