A school without books: . ecalico-and-bright-bead style of decorating; but they have some ambi-tion to have things pleasant. Their books, you will see, are storiesof other people ; they are not thinkers, but live for something besideseating. If we should walk in now we would see kindly faced, com-fortable people, who would ask us to stop a while and tell themthe news. Our next character-graph has a fine front door and door-bell,but the side door looks more used so we will go in that way withour X-rays. You notice this house has much superficial ornament,and is finished in several shades of pai
A school without books: . ecalico-and-bright-bead style of decorating; but they have some ambi-tion to have things pleasant. Their books, you will see, are storiesof other people ; they are not thinkers, but live for something besideseating. If we should walk in now we would see kindly faced, com-fortable people, who would ask us to stop a while and tell themthe news. Our next character-graph has a fine front door and door-bell,but the side door looks more used so we will go in that way withour X-rays. You notice this house has much superficial ornament,and is finished in several shades of paint, all of which are in sharpcontrast as though each was trying to make itself seen. The doortakes us into a small dining-room, bare, but for one or two chromos,a table, and some chairs; a brightly colored table-cloth is on thetable, as it wont show the dirt. No matter if the dirt is there, if itis nt seen, and it is good enough except when there is kitchen is small and hot, but it will do just to cook in, the. AMETHYST, HEXAGONAL SYSTEM. 143 people think. The sitting-room is small, but it does not matter,there is a parlor for company. It is a good place to put the oldfurniture and everything else that is most worn out, or that is notgood enough for company. There is a spare bedroom, too, small,stiff, and uncomfortable, but it is a fine place for the display ofquilts, which are remarkable for demonstrating a whole plane geome-try in dazzling colors. Now we come to tlie room of the house — theparlor. It is large, and has evidently absorbed everything that oughtto have been spread out over the rest of the house; every piece ofgood furniture, every little pretty thing that is cheering and restfulfor tired eyes to look at, has been stored up where it does no goodbut to show the accumulation of the family possessions, and that isjust the object, to show all their company how much the} have, andwhat nice things they have. They would not like it at all, if theircompany s
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