French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 93
the kitchen of houses, oftenenough, of luxury and comfort upstairs, but withno touch of improvement below. Sometimes, whensuch a touch is suggested by a sympathetic friend,the family is almost demoralized. And the argu-ments against it are most curious ; remarks abouthovels on the other side of the… … brance of the fact that orders and conditions changeeverywhere, and that if they did not the worldwould be left in a stagnant condition. I remember something my dear old mother toldme of certain upheavals in her own kitchen longago, somewhere in the forties. Hers wasalmost the first house in…
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