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 146
wing-room willrequire Louis XIV., XV., XVI., orEmpire furniture enough to give itcharacter. But the most of our draw-ing-rooms are eclectic in choice andarrangement. The furniture should be, first, thatonly which is absolutely needed and,secondly, good in form. Herbert Spen-cer has said that a… … to us as Colonial are to be preferredover the upholstered ease of the laterFrench furniture and the cumbrousmonstrosities, with their coarse and in-cised gilt-line carvings, that we allknow so well. All these, if they do nomore wrong, har-bor dust. This isreason enough foreternal banish-ment. It is…
Women · Home Economics · Interior decoration
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