The house dignified; its design, its arrangement and its decoration (1908)
French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York : Putnam · leaf 160
, which theyare not. Her aspirations do not tend toward anintellectual development, neither does she understandanything about the prestige of a book—even of abook which lies idle on a shelf! With us the case is different. The mental cravingsof our remotest country dwellers are fed and nurturedby a… … Xibraries 8i student is supplied with special designs for its manu-facture and trimming, her own efforts being repro-duced in the pages of different household pubhcations.What more natural, then, than that she should carryinto her own home, when she has one, an appreciationat least of the necessity…
Architecture, Domestic
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