. A domestic cyclopædia of practical information ... Fig. dolls and a French clock of a pattern turnedout by the dozen, or has the walls covered 224 FURNISHING with paintings which are simply good canvasspoiled. If such parlors were furnished in hon-est pine, and one-tenth of the saving devotedto a few good engravings on the walls, theirrefinement would be vastly increased. Thereis no need of extremes, however, for the moneyusually spent would give honest hard woodfurniture, luxuriously fashioned and cushioned,covered with good worsted reps or satines, andgood photographs, engravings, or even,
. A domestic cyclopædia of practical information ... Fig. dolls and a French clock of a pattern turnedout by the dozen, or has the walls covered 224 FURNISHING with paintings which are simply good canvasspoiled. If such parlors were furnished in hon-est pine, and one-tenth of the saving devotedto a few good engravings on the walls, theirrefinement would be vastly increased. Thereis no need of extremes, however, for the moneyusually spent would give honest hard woodfurniture, luxuriously fashioned and cushioned,covered with good worsted reps or satines, andgood photographs, engravings, or even, in manycases, paintings by deserving artists. In the few well-furnished parlors tha^ wehave, the most frequent lack is the suggestionof ease. There is generally too much woodshown in chairs and sofas, and too little cush-ion. Fig. 4 suggests a good style. Ladies are |J-. Fig- 4- always complaining that sofa seats are toobroad. Hence the advantage of cushions thatcan be piled against each other, or laid againstthe back of a deep easy chair. If the reader will carefully consider what has to say about chairs in the article onDecoration, he may care to see a good chair ortwo in Figs. lo and 14, and in front in Fig. 20. A good table is not yet an easy thing to not much to be said against Fig. 5,except that itsa pity that woodcuts wontshowcolor. A fitly colored jar, contrasted with the There seems, in most parlors, too much re-
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