Modern dwellings in town and country adapted to American wants and climate with a treatise on furniture and decoration (1878)
Holly, Henry Hudson, 1834-1892 · New York, Harper & brothers, publishers · leaf 120
ought that to warm their rooms is treating them with far toomuch consideration, and placing them beyond the sphere to which theybelong; but the mistake house-keepers make in not providing for theirservants comfort is one by which they themselves are apt to suffer morethan the servants. The fact… … Desiirii No. IS. contented to sit in a dreary apartment, without companionship or diver-sion, spending the long winter evenings like prisoners in the penitentiary.Many of them like to read, yet books and papers are strictly prohibitedin the kitchen. Why should not music, games, pictorials, and…
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