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 124
ARD-ROOM. 119 where children are strictly kept from games, for fear of giving them ataste for such pleasures, the very prohibition seems to add to the fascina-tion exercised by amusements of this character, and, upon final emancipa-tion from parental rule, they are indulged in to excess. It was… … The Billiard-room. wide, made it necessary to construct a room of formidable dimensions.Modern tables, however, are so much reduced that an ordinary room offifteen by twenty feet will give sufficient space. In fact, want of roomis no longer an impediment, as billiard-tables are now made to suit…
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