Our homes and their adornments, or, How to build, finish, furnish and adorn a home, containing practical instructions for the building of homes, interior decoration, wood carving, scroll sawing, house painting, window hangings, screens, curtains, window gardening, incidental decorations, decorative-art needle-work, and economic landscape gardening; to which is added a household compendium of new, practical and valuable recipes, the whole being designed to make happy homes for happy people (1883)
Varney, Almon C. (Almon Clother), b. 1849 · Detroit, Mich. : J.C. Chilton · leaf 112
ndfashion the lumber; but with ax and rude saw they hewedfrom the tree each piece, patiently but perseveringly until [102] OUR ANCESTORS. 103 the house was finished,—not in soft wood or hard, wood, notin molded base or graceful architrave, but finished for suchcomforts as they needed. And the… … Fig. 2. as much pleasure and exhibited as much pride in theirgraceful festoons of red-pepper pods and dried pumpkins, asdoes the modern woman in her richly ornamented purtn:r<or lambrequin. Comfort never waited to be invited into such a house;she entered and took up her abode there. Little use…
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