. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . ssmooth and dust can not sift through. Upholstered furniture should be built upon a strong,open frame of wood oriron with steelsprings, andall the workshould beopen from be-neath, so asto furnish nohiding - placefor dirt, germs, or insects. First-class furniture is largely beingbuilt that way; and if no other kind were purchased,the questionable methods of manufacture would be dis-continued. It is only our foolish idea that cheap
. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . ssmooth and dust can not sift through. Upholstered furniture should be built upon a strong,open frame of wood oriron with steelsprings, andall the workshould beopen from be-neath, so asto furnish nohiding - placefor dirt, germs, or insects. First-class furniture is largely beingbuilt that way; and if no other kind were purchased,the questionable methods of manufacture would be dis-continued. It is only our foolish idea that cheap things area bargain that encourages the sale of unsanitary are many kinds of easy chairs which are sani-tary; it is not necessary to buy heavy, upholstered rock-ers, though they may have charms for some who do notknow their bad qualities. What a feeling of disgust andrepugnance comes over one when compelled to sit downin a plush ear-seat which has been gathering filth formonths from the unknown. The feelings of a strangerare much the same when asked to sit down in an old plushchair which has never been cleaned, simply because it cannot be Sanitary Upholstering Furnishing the Home 81 When selecting furniture, study health, fitness, cleanli-ness, simplicity, and economy. Solid oak chairs with, or without, a leather bottomare comfortable. AVicker chairs are light, comfortable, andartistic. Veneered, bentwood, and cane-seated chairs arealso comfortable; and all of these are sanitary, easy tomove about, and in every way are preferable to uphol-stered goods. IRON BEDS AND SPRINGS Iron bedsteads are being so rapidly substituted forthe old wooden ones that it is hardly necessary to speakof the points in their favor. We learn with much satis-faction, from dealers in furniture, that wooden bedsteadscan hardly be sold at any price. Second-hand furnituredealers can now buy wooden chamber sets for what thedressers are M^orth, and they use the bedsteads for kin-dling wo
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