Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 211
that it is the chiefthing. It is throwing away words tosay that a bed is just as comfortablewhatever its shape. A bed is not ascomfortable if the pillows are foreverslipping off backward, or are obligedto lean against the wall, liable to re-ceive stains from the paper, and tobecome the highway of… … Modern Gothic Dressing-table. the foot-board rises so high as to shutoff any view of any portion of theroom; and nothing is so maddeningto patients as the smuggling of secrets among the nurses behind theshelter of the high foot-board. Long use has determined the best bal-ance of parts for the…
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