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Title: Home interiors
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence), 1836-1915
Subjects: Interior decoration Architecture, Domestic
Publisher: Boston, J.R. Osgood and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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y, precisely, if you will havethe goodness to listen. We ve bought new mat- 18 HOME INTERIORS. ting for the drawing-room, to begin with, the oldmatting is to be laid in our room, and our carpetis going into Aunt Marys — I mean Mollies.The furniture in the guest-room needs painting,and I ve given that to Mollie. Then I shall putthe north-chamber set into the guest-room, andsret new for the north chamber. Israel is de-termined to move the two small book-cases fromthe library — which you know is overflowing —into the drawing-room, and if he does that I shalltransfer some of the vases and engravings fromthe dining-room — they ought never to have beenthere — into the library, and carry the large fruit-piece from the hall to the dining-room. There !Do you comprehend the situation ? Do you seethat it is impossible to touch a thing in the housethat is nt waiting for that room ? It is like arow of tumbling bricks. The operations of theentire household are blockaded by a roll ofpaper.
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THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY! ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILDEN FOUNDATIONS. PAPER-HANGINGS. 21 We found Mollie sitting on a Saratoga trunkin the middle of her newly acquired territory,and looking very much like Marius surveyingthe ruins of Carthage. The old paper positivelyrefused to be peeled from the walls, and Molliewept at the thought of putting the new over theold, dark hangings that have been absorbingmould and damp, germs of disease, contagion, andnobody knows what other invisible and obnox-ious elements, for a quarter of a century. It must and shall come off, cried the dis-tracted maiden. My beautiful new paper shallnot be used as a mere overskirt for this horridold stuff. It may not actually show through, butI shall think I see it all the time, and if I musthave a skeleton he shall not be spread all overthe walls, but hang in the closet where he be-longs. For once sentiment and common-sense are insweet accord ; the walls are to be douched with 22 HOME INTERIORS. hot water, and scraped w

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