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land. Below his picture, and above a simple bookcase are small pictures of some of his descendants. The dining room which is used for all the large family and social functions is on the north side of the front hall. The old table, when fully extended, seats eighteen; but With more tables thirty can easily be seated in this room. A corner cupboard displays the glass, china and silverware of different periods, lands and connected families. The red pine floor has been sanded, treated and waxed. The recesses of the two dining room windows exâ€" tend to the floor. Doors open from both the living room and the dining room into the back hall. This room has built-in cupboards for coats, hats, extra dishes, linens for the bathroom, and cleaning equipment, like the vacuum cleaner. It also has three small cupboards which have always been used by the three children of the present family. The bathroom on the north, and the den on the south side of this hall are both narrow I'DDl’l'lS. The den is really a service room. It has a desk, couch, sewing machine, and provision for a goodly number of houseplants and old books brought down from the attic as needed. One of the hobbies of the present housewife is a study of Canadiana. The bedrooms in the older part of the house are reached by a stairway ascending from the front hall. The mastertbedroom is above the living room and has three windows. This room in the early days had a fireplace. It may have had this to ensure a warm room in case of sick- ness, or for the comfort of the two grand- mothers who accompanied the fainin from Scotland, and who went out to care for mothers at childbirth. This room was always used for the early quilting bees. Three of the bedrooms have good sized closets; there is a linen closet in the hall. The basement of the cement block structure provides a place to store canned fruit, vege- tables and sausages, jams, jellies and the family supplies of milk. butter and eggs. On the ground floor is the kitchen, an extra utility room and woodshed. There are two bedrooms on_the second floor as well as storage space. This cement block part of the house is, thus, a busy industrial centre on this beef, hog, sheep and grain farm. The kitchen has two windows, one ' the north, the other, the south. Whilgaillrilii kitchen may not be as modern as some of the neighbouring farm kitchens, it would seem wonderful to former chatelaines. A kitchen cabinet stands beside a large sink with three taps. There is a modern electric stove, as well use coal and wood range for the winter As this stove heats the soft water, there is no hot water. on tap in the summer. In the centre of the kitchen is an extension table, for all the every day meals are eaten here. A couch radio, and case for newspapers and farm maga: zines are in this room. The pantry is COmbined . 14 with the entrance to the food cellar. The kr Chen lacks the refrigerator, built-in mph“. '1' and pressure cooker found in many humid: chens, but the amount of work on this Mr M" not as great as is done on farms arr-:fiidnbb, younger men. The bedroom which is Md 5". the farmhand is above the kitchen. It I- V " kept warm in the winter time far it, from the kitchen stove passes through a The utility room was known in earh. . (33,. as the summer kitchen. It was the «my; . when there was no electricity on the 1 p.531, V have a second kitchen in which to cool in th; summer. Then the other kitchen could ,. W] and refreshing so the farmer and t- 7th could enjoy their meals. Today the pm: washing machine is kept in this utilit mom ‘ As there is a stove and sink, this rootr um as a laundry. The men, as they come my, their farm work use it as a washroom. ’ There is no special room set apart .r rt. creation. Most of the main rooms hav‘ armed '7 at one time or another. There was twat-5 room in the kitchen for a baby’s play l i, am for the other children to play as the other worked. The den became a favouri= mm when the children grew older and w. ed to be off by themselves. During adolesct the dining room made a good dancing rc . and, the kitchen table, a good tennis cow Nut ‘ that the children are grown up, thr ‘lVlnE room is usually used for card games wi' they L are at home. However, the kitchen ile is still used when many friends want to fly at one game. The attic has always prover_ good place in which to pass some leisure t ', At one time the old Shorthorn herd ho- and “ sale catalogues Were of special interee’ -_> the son, who has now settled on the othei :mily farm. As it is connected to this one i the back, there is little danger of urban Ilil‘L‘S , reaching it for many years. Trunks m =0me ‘ old clothes, and niagazines of other da were always interesting to the daughtersâ€" .9 whom is now engaged in social servlr i'ui'ii - in an adjoining county, and the oil llar‘ chosen to live and work in the British i .S {if a year or two. ' casih. pint As on all farms, the children spent at uni , their leisure time in the open. Tu and , shrubs served as barns to store the “la ‘ as houses to practise the old skill of and pastry. Room was found for bird hou5t :lkl‘aii rabbit and pigeon pens. There were is urite , family walksâ€"in the very early spring find the fattest “pussies” on the willows “19 creek; later to the hard wood bush to : I T115 first spring beauties; still later to the map fence to smell the fragrant blossoms i “ii wild crab apple trees; in late May to the :d51'5 lest one miss the lady’s slippers; and i W late summer time to view the beauty 5 the pure blue fringed gentians. These wall. WEI the hills even in winter time, enal'i the family to note how, in the valley, the l .\' W the southwest, and the town on the :wrllr west were growing to meet one anothfl- 3”“ HOME AND cc JNT"