Title:  Godey’s Lady’s Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851

Author:  Various

Release Date:  February 16, 2005 [EBook #15080]

Language:  English

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[Illustration:  New year’s day in France.]

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Model Cottage.

[Illustration:  A Cottage in the Style of Heriot’s Hospital, Edinburgh.]

The elevation is shown in fig. 1, the ground-plan in fig. 2.

Accommodation.—­The plan shows a porch, a; a lobby, b; living room, c; kitchen, d; back-kitchen, e; pantry, f; dairy, g; bed-closet, h; store-closet, i; fuel, k; cow-house, l; pig-stye, m; yard, n; dust-hole, q.

The Scotch are great admirers of this style, as belonging to one of their favorite public buildings, which is said to have been designed by the celebrated Inigo Jones.  The style is that of the times of Queen Elizabeth, and King James VI. of Scotland and I. of England.

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GODEY’S

LADY’S BOOK.

PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY, 1851.

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THE CONSTANT; OR, THE ANNIVERSARY PRESENT.

BY ALICE B. NEAL.

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It has an excellent influence on one’s moral health to meet now and then in society, or, better still, in the close communion of home life, such a woman as Catherine Grant.  She influences every one that comes within the pure atmosphere of her friendship, and as unconsciously to them as to herself.  She never moralizes, or commands reform.  There is no parade of her individual principle in any way, but she always acts rightly; and, if her opinion is called forth, it is given promptly and quietly, but very firmly.

Yet, though even strangers say this of her now, there was a time when few suspected the moral strength of her character.  Not that principle was wanting; but it had never been called forth.  She moved in her own circle with very little remark or comment.  She was cheerful, and even sprightly in her manner, and her large blue eyes, as well as her lips, always spoke the truth.  I do not know that she was ever called beautiful; but there was an air of ladyhood about her, from the folding of her soft brown hair to the gloving of a somewhat large but exquisitely-shaped hand, that marked her at once as possessing both taste and refinement.