The Family economist . /i 202 HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. FIEST ARTICLE. Among the means of domestic comfortthere is scarcely any so important aswhat is called household furniture ; mostpersons must have felt that much of theirwell-being depends on the articles in-tended for our daily and nightly a branch of family economy is onethat we may worthily enter upon, and weintend this as the first of a series of articleswhich shall embrace all essential points ofthe subject, and perhaps at the same timeconvey a few useful hints to those per-severing mechanics and others who employthemselves during
The Family economist . /i 202 HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. FIEST ARTICLE. Among the means of domestic comfortthere is scarcely any so important aswhat is called household furniture ; mostpersons must have felt that much of theirwell-being depends on the articles in-tended for our daily and nightly a branch of family economy is onethat we may worthily enter upon, and weintend this as the first of a series of articleswhich shall embrace all essential points ofthe subject, and perhaps at the same timeconvey a few useful hints to those per-severing mechanics and others who employthemselves during spare hours in makingnp articles which add to the comforts orconveniences of ^their family. A littleattention to these matters is of more con-sequence than many persons believe :keeping up appearances within reasonablebounds is a very laudable are, in many respects, reali-ties : children brought up in a well-con-ducted home, where they see every daya shelf or two of books, a few tastefulvases or
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