The woman's book, dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunties, and every-day problems (1894)
New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 139
ichthe baby at one end and the motherwith her sewing at the other—doubt-less familiar to many women — nowtransferred to the hall where it servessmall people gloriously. In the largerhalls we are now considering thereare also easy chairs, usually a largesquare centre-table for books andpapers, and,… … The Old-fashioned Ironing-table. for the space of six feet. This plat-form was covered with a rug andsupplied with pillows of all sortsand sizes. Here a group of children,freed from lessons, were generallyfound sprawling at full length, watch-ing the sails and steamers sweeping by.The ordinary hall…
Women · Home Economics · Interior decoration
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