Scribner's magazine . Tulip. Tulip. Poplar Leaf. Double Peony. 361. V/^^ i LjXd r r Sunflower. Tea Leaf. Quilting Design. Basket. ia Diitcli extraction, sometimes a gen-eration or two removed. It was oncemj fortune to spend a few days in aroomy two-and-a-lialf-story frame-houseon a mill-farm in this traditional cleanliness of the bestNorth German housekeepers kejDt thenumerous large, but unhome-like, roomsas fresh and neat as a new barn. Fromthe shining, small-paned windows andthe much-swept rag-cai-pets and speck-less whitewashed walls, to the sand-scoured porches and doorste

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Scribner's magazine . Tulip. Tulip. Poplar Leaf. Double Peony. 361. V/^^ i LjXd r r Sunflower. Tea Leaf. Quilting Design. Basket. ia Diitcli extraction, sometimes a gen-eration or two removed. It was oncemj fortune to spend a few days in aroomy two-and-a-lialf-story frame-houseon a mill-farm in this traditional cleanliness of the bestNorth German housekeepers kejDt thenumerous large, but unhome-like, roomsas fresh and neat as a new barn. Fromthe shining, small-paned windows andthe much-swept rag-cai-pets and speck-less whitewashed walls, to the sand-scoured porches and doorsteps, all wasclean from constant scrubbing anddusting. I slept in the big spare-chamber, a long room with several win-dows, a bare floor, and a bed built sohigh with straw and feather-beds, thatto mount it I was almost compelled tocHmb from a chair. In one corner ofthis barren chamber stood a large stool,on which, piled one on top of another,was a stack of bed-quilts that reachedhalf - way to the high ceiling. Theywere the work of the last unmarriedmember of the fa

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