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 175
stairs. If her curtainsassist a woman to look her best, sheleaves the room on good terms withherself. Such contentment is, as every-one knows, itself a beautifier. As to the management of schemes ofcolor, there is little to be said that isnot said elsewhere. It does not seem well to insist on any… … The Dressing-table. by preserving the same degree of in-tensity. Simplicity is especially valu-able in bedrooms, and simplicity is ascompatible with luxury as with econ-omy. A bedroom is not an asylum forbric-a-brac, nor a museum, nor a placefor stuffy draperies. It has its ownplace and its own…
Women · Home Economics · Interior decoration
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