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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, MARCH 15,1882,
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Cottage Homes.
Cheap, cosy and comfortable homes are in
demand. They find a more ready sale or
rental than almost any other sort of prop
erty.
Kvery one ought to possess a home that
combines the qualities of beauty, conveni
ence and reasonable expenditure. For the
information of our readers, we present a
design for a cottage costing $1,000 to $1,600.
The architect of this design is Mr. Horace
G. Knapp, of 61 Broadway, New York City,
and the cottage represented on this page is
one of a series in course
of construction in the sub
urbs of New York. They
are estimated to cost from
$1,000 to $1,600 under the ,
most skillful and econom
ical expenditure of ma
terials and labor. Through
out every department of
the work the most assid
uous thought lias been
bestowed to make every
dollar expended tell.
Tiie internal arrange
ment is well explained by
tiie accompanying floor
plans. The parlor is 11x16
feet; dining-room, 12x14 ft.
2 in.; out-kitclien, 7 ft. 6
in.xlO ft. 0 in.; front
chamber, 10x14 ft.; back
chamber, 9x12 ft.; front
bed-room, 6 ft. 6 in.xlO ft.;
back bed-room, 7 ft. x7 ft.
6 in.
It will be noticed that
tiie house contains seven
rooms, all of fair size and
of convenient access and
pleasant communication.
Bya very slight modifica
tion, tiie arrangement can
lie adapted to double con
struction, reversing the ar
rangement of one build
ing. This would not only
Jreduce the cost of tiie two
buildings, but would af
ford more available space
to tiie plot.
We are under many ob-
igatlons to Mr. Knapp for
the use of tiie design, and
iny further information
concerning details may be
liad /rom him at address
■hove given.
Cotton SkkdOilinCook-
ehy.—We have tested the
refined cotton seed oil, as a
substitute for hog's lard, and we pronounce it
n complete success. On themorningof tiie elec
tion we ate as nice biscuits, in which the cot
ton seed oil was used, as we ever saw, and we
here and now declare we take no more lard
in ours. Tiie oil is clearer and cheaper than
lurd and lias a better flavor. Housewives and
cooks will understand what we mean by
cheaper when we tell them that a gallon of
oil can be bought for $1.00 and that a table
spoonful is enough to put in a pint of flour
for muking biscuit. For frying fish or steak
the cotton seed oil is superior to anything
we have evcrscen used in this country. The
discovery of the utility of the oil is destin
ed to prove a bonanza to the South. Tiie
seed will, in time, become as valuable as the
lint, and if we can only establish manufac
tories in our own section, which will work
up the fleecy staple, tho seed and even the
fiber on the stalk, it will not be many years
before the cotton section of this Union will
become the richest and most prosperous por
tion of the continent.—[Chickasaw (Okolo-
na) Messenger.
Buttkb Easily Spoiled.—Of all tho pro
ducts of the farm butter is the most liable to
to be tainted by noxious odors floating in the
atmosphere. Our. people laid some veal in
the cellar, from which a little blood flowed
out, and was neglected until it had com
menced to smell. The result was that a jar
of butter we were packing smelled and tast
ed like spoiled beef. We know of an in
stance where there was a pond of filthy, stag
nant water a few hundred feet from the
house, from which an offensive effluvium
would be borne on the breeze directly to the
milk room when the wind was in a certain
direction, the result of which was that the
cream and butter would taste like the dis
agreeable odor from the pond. As soon as
the pond was drained there was no moredam-
aged butter. It is remarkable how easily
mtter is spoiled.
Homs.—Something is surely wrong in the
plan of that life from which intellectual and
spiritual culture is crowded out. Tiie man
who comes in from his office, ids store, his
farm, night after night, to And his house in
nice order, an inviting supper waiting for
him, his children clean and well clothed,
but his wife so tired that she would go
straight to bed if she could. Alas! she can
not, because—as I have said—there is her
work-busket full to overflowing, may make
up his mind that there is a mistake Bome-
wliere. This is no plea for idleness, no plcn
for mere pleasure seeking. Every wife,
out into tiie world with him. Some hus
bands and wives are so busy that they have
no time to love each other, no time for the
interchange of the small, sweet courtesies,
without which wedded life is like tiie salt
that has lost its savor.—[Farmer's Friend.
Give your children your confidence in the
affairs of your business. They will thus
take interest, and become co-workers with
you. If you enlist their respect, then their
sympathy and co-operation, they will quite
likely remain to tuke up your work when
you have done, and will go abend perfecting
wliut you have commenced.
the home circle only as a place to let off the
steam of anger and rudeness, which has been
kept under pressure while out in the world.
How many men would not dare to speak to
others as they do to their wivesnndchildren,
and these same men who are so surly and
cross at home to their own wives and daugh
ters, are all smiles and bows to other men's
wives and daughters. Such a state of uffuirs
should not exist in any home. The least
that can be said of sucli it man is flint lie is a
coward and desperately mean, to inflict his
spleen and bad temper where he knows it
will not be resented.
DESIGN FOR COTTAGE COSTING ONE THOUSAND TO FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS.
high or low, rich or poor, in palace or in cot
tage, should strive to be a "helpmeet" to her
husband. But being a helpmeet does not
mean being a mere drudge. It does not mean
working like a galley-slave for one’s board
Hood Manners.
A pleasant address, accompanied by good
manners has often proved a fortune to young
men entering on a business career; insuring
success from the very beginning. Good man
ners joined to sound integrity, and strong
determination and firmness, will control af-
and clothing—poor clothing, too, very often.
It docs not mean the sacrifice of all a wo
man’s tastes, and the loss of all her bloom
and freshness; and more than all, it docs not
mean a rude awakening from all tiie happy
dreams that wero lier’s when she placed her
band in that of the man she loved and went
The Guinea Gross Cose
in Mississippi has been de
cided. A live planter
thought there was money
in making liny. In cast
ing about, therefore, to as
certain the best seed for
his purposo lie at last con
cluded to try Guinea grass,
otherwise known as John
son grass. He hnd heard
almost fabulous stories of
its productiveness, its ten
acity, and its marketable
value as forage, and he
made up his mind to try
it. The neighbors heard
of it. They declared that
the grass would cover tho
earth with its rank luxu
riance, and (lew to the
courts for an injunction
which was granted. Blun
ter appealed. Witnesses
from Mississippi, Ala
bama and Georgia enme
by dozens to prove that
they had found Johnson
grass more profitable than
cotton; that it grew with
marvelous vigor, was
hardy, fruitful and nutrl
tious; that the hay was
in constant and eager de
mand at handsome prices,
and that, so far from being
an indestructible and mis
chievous pest like coco, it
was no more difficult to
eradicate than Bermuda
grass or wire grass, with
one or the other of which
nearly every Southern field
is infested. In short, tho
iduintiffs had no cose at
all. Their suit was shown
to be unfounded and frivo'
Vis, und Johnson grass
conquered with great car
nage. And truly, considering the matter
seriously, it would liuvo been u vary un
wholesome spectacle if the case had turned
out otherwise.
PLAN OF SECOND FLOOR.
fairs, and enable a person to almost shnpc
events and changes according to the will or
purpose. Circumstances can be surmounted
by such an array of forces.
In no place should manners be so perfect
as in the home circle, and yet this is the
place where they are ignored, many using
A New Cotton and Corn Planter.—Dr.
E. 0. Elliott, of Sparkling Catawba Springs,
has been exhibiting here this week whut
appears to be a highly meritorious inven
tion which has just been patented by Elli
ott & Hefner. It is a cotton planter'by the
use of which one man and one horse can
open the furrow, drop in tho cotton seed
and cover it. The plow to be used on tho
machine is an ordinary bull-tongue. On
the top of the planter are two compart
ments, one for the seed and the other for
the fertilizer. Tubes lead down from these
to the heel of the plow, and the flow of
seed and fertl lizer can be regulated as dcsi red.
A board attached to tho rear end of tho
planter covers up the furrow after the seed
und fertilizers have been deposited in it.
The cotton seed dropper can also be used as
a corn dropper, which can be regulated as
to drop the corn any desired distant apart.
It is claimed that with this invention 6 to 8
acres can be planted in cotton in a day, or
8 to 10 acres in corn.
To look at the planter and see its work
ings on the streets, one could hardly doubt
that it will do all that is claimed for it.
Many of our farmers who saw it wero
greatly impressed with it, and its general
Introduction will doubtless be found to
effect a large saving in labor and money.
We hope tho patentees will reap from it tho
reward of their skill.—Statesville Landmark,
Dr. Hamtuond, formerly Surgeon General
of the United States army, says: “ I know
of no possible condition which renders the
use of whiskey, gin, rum or brandy neces
sary or proper.” Pretty positive language
this.