The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics . surroundings! What dignity and har-mony they lend to the spacious rooms,and how they gradually banish^ ust bytheir silent influence—those articleswhich are superfluous and incongruous. We weed out a multitude of insignifi-cant trifles, distracting to the eye, forone really valuable antique, which har-monizes only with things of its own Grandfathers clock replaces thenoisy onyx and gold affair or the ma-chine carved monstrosity of yesterday. Our grandmothers fine blue and whitecoverlets make beautiful porti
The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics . surroundings! What dignity and har-mony they lend to the spacious rooms,and how they gradually banish^ ust bytheir silent influence—those articleswhich are superfluous and incongruous. We weed out a multitude of insignifi-cant trifles, distracting to the eye, forone really valuable antique, which har-monizes only with things of its own Grandfathers clock replaces thenoisy onyx and gold affair or the ma-chine carved monstrosity of yesterday. Our grandmothers fine blue and whitecoverlets make beautiful portieres, andthe large rooms are no longer full ofdreary, unbroken spaces, but have cen-ters of interest—the broad, old-fashionedfireplace is surrounded by comfortableseats, the couch near shelves of bookshas a screen conveniently near, the writ-ing desk with its beautiful lamp is nearsome cozy corner. Out in the hall orreception room we see, instead of theportraits of our ancestors, a picturewhich instantly attracts our attention byits well-arranged masses of light HOIylEIDEAS <fiECON°MIE5
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