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DESIGN V WORKINGMAN'S MODEL COTrAOE Fig. 22 1 n NEU ROOM [ITC11rN 11 X 12 71 X 12 rnNTnv GXfl Cl.• PARLOR.--\\\��_ LIVING ROOM A L2 X 14 12 X 14 ENTRY PRINCIPAL FLOOR Fig. 23 1.1 DESIGNS FOR COTTAGES. 97 is the kitchen. Tile kitchen opens directly II out of doors," and this door, which is virtually the back door, may be protected by a temporary porch in winter—if desirable. B, is a small room which may be used as a store -room, if there is a Wood- house near the house; or if not, it may be used for keeping stove -wood or fuel for the kitchen and living -room. There is a closet for crockery, ect., at the side of the chimney flue in the kitelien. Out of the kitchen opens a bed -room 11 by 12 feet. This may be used as the bed -room of the master and mis- tress, in which case it must have a large wardrobe -closet placed in it, and in which case also, it will always be most convenient and comfortable in winter from its proximity to the kitchen, which the mistress of such a cottage as this is supposed not to be able to have too near her for her own supervision. Or it may be kept as a "spare bed -room;" when the door and the entrance to this room may be through the parlor. We have given a parlor to this cottage, though in most cheap, cottages, the living -room is virtually the parlor, because we thinl in a cottage with so much accommodation as this, there should be one apartment of superior character. The American cottager is no peasant, but thinks, and thinks correctly, that as Boon as lie can afford it, lie deserves a parlor, where he can receive his guests with propriety, as well as his wealthiest neighbor. We respect this feeling entirely, and only object to the parlor when it is brought in, to the exclusion of any other apartment more necessary to the every -day comfort of the family. As this parlor is less frequently used in winter, we have