Show fhe Western Home II freciuririiiiu) me Grounds The cottage the farmhouse and the larger country house should all thoroughly rural air The owner has hardlv the choice of any other distinctbe marked by a somewhat And to give a rural atmosplan ive character so far as relates to phere some sort of naturalistic treatment of the grounds will be making- them complete and individual The beauty and force of every necessary Sometimes we find a man's life and occupation depend city house in the country much in the cast than in the west largely on his pursuing it frankly inhowever ft is of complicated honestly and openly with all the Man architecture with gables porticos dividuality of his character of the world into the and perhaps all the other accomlight brings his soul and his surroundings and paniments which tend to give the Most pereverything he touches reflects that place an artificial air 1 is house his home help to sons will realize instinctively how light give significance to and dignify his inconsistent and unrelated to its daily life and occupation by harsurroundings such a place is This monizing with them The farmer's naturalistic treatment for the counhouse should show that rustic try home on account of the considstrength and solidity which are its eration already hinted at ought to be on a comparatively large scale true elements of interest and beauif it is at all possible for the man ty A dwelling mav be a barren to afford the amount of room for the homestead and its wretched place of existence or it In a immediate dependencies may be a home a place of comfort character and beauty If we would great many cases in which the have the best results we must go house and gardens are of mean exabout our work in an artistic spirit tent or are crowded into the highwhether we have in mind a large ways the trouble has arisen not country estate or a modest rural always through lack of room but dwelling A house a few trees and simply through thoughtlessness of shrubs a scrap of lawn and some the needs of the house In other plants may form either a beautiful cases of course it has been forced and charming picture or a huddled by circumstances A house if it is disarray of forms and colors possible then ought to have plenty The countrv house must have a of room If the grounds have al- - of-ten- er 1 re-quir- ed m |