Coleman, Oliver · New York, Fox Duffield & Company · leaf 51
nce of the good or bad beneath the rooftree, the one room which of all others may not be overlooked or slurred inplanning. If it be dreary in its aspect, dark and sordid in its welcome,no time or money spent upon other portions of the house can compensateor fill the sense of discontent left by the… … that his inner self receives when seated at the board. If it be to his likingthere is engendered in the crustiest of men a certain after-dinner pleasantry,an unbending from the sternness of his natural self, which indicates that inhim the brute nature still survives the countless ages which have…
Architecture, Domestic
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