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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 181

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are very pleasant 156 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. in summer, but must be protected in winter by storm win-dows, as the swinging of the sash gives greater opportunityfor cold to coiue in. Through the winter it is often economy to protect, witha double sash, windows that are exposed to the cold… … Gfia;ptejr XXff. OUTHOUSES.—SOME PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.—HOW TOHAVE ICE ALL THE SUMMER.—AN ICE-HOUSE PRESERV-ATORY.—PLAN FOR A CHEAP BUT EXCELLENT FARMAND CARRIAGE BARN. 3>KC T frequently happens that the outhouses of afarm, such as the ice-house, hennery, etc., re-ceive but little attention.…

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