Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1882 — Pleasure of Planning a Home. [ARTICLE]

Pleasure of Planning a Home.

When one sees a pretty cottage going up he instinctively stops to look at it, speculates as to how it is intended to be in the end and criticises this or that detail. Then he wishes he could build a house once and show people how it could be done. And very charming, too, is this bran new house with its fresh coat of paint, its gables and towers, its dormers, verandas, balconies, and, better than all, its plate-glass windows, clear as the light itself, as it standsjjomplete and beautiful from the hands of the workmen. What pleasure it must be to plan the various rooms, their size, location, arrangement; how to get them all to front the rising, set-ting-or noonday sun; how to get the most picturesque effects, and yet preserve simplicity and economy; how to obtain the pretty and avoid the bizarre; how to secure light, heat, ventilation, comforts and health. Then there is the laying out of the yard, the planting of fruit trees and shrubbery, etc. A thousand pleasant avenues for thought and study open up the most casual glance of the subject.— Terre Haute Mail. It has been found in New York that nineteen-twentieths of the drugs sold at retail are adulterated, but no one knows what they are going to do about it.