Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 206
e fed and nur- THE BOUDOIR AND SITTING-ROOM. 201 tured and satisfied here as much as in the most superb saloons, for theability to do that is not at all a question of cost, but of knowledge andtime and skill. Not seldom, however, it is the dining-room which is used as the familysitting-room. But… … Settee in Modern Gothic. sirable confusion; books and work are in danger of being soiled by unfitneighborhood ; and on occasions when the children are not wanted in thedining-room, there is no convenient place for their retirement. Besides,the care which the very great majority of American mothers…
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