Illustrated homes: a series of papers describing real houses and real people (1875)
Gardner, Eugene Clarence, 1836-1915 · Boston, J. R. Osgood and company · leaf 85
ged. These people who keep a graspinarter things thats neither here nor yonderhave a mission. Without their erratic supportgenius would often go supperless to bed. JohnSmith is wiser than his wife, yet he wantedthe conventional shell ; she would have accept-ed a Chinese pagoda or an Egyptian tomb… … JOHN SMITH S BEAU IDEAL. logic could convince her that a simple brace,supporting the overhanging roof; is in bettertaste than the seven-horned dragons that aresupposed to perform that office ; but her housewas to be different, newer style as she thought,
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