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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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on ofpounding the plastering all around the room to 148 HOME INTERIORS. find a spot that gives a solid sound, then punch-ing holes with a scratch-awl all about it, in thehope of finding a stud, driving a nail or screwinga screw into the crack between two springinglaths and finally trusting a heavy gilt frame anda big sheet of glass to the treacherous support ofcrumbling mortar, is not popular. Neither is theolder fashion of nailing a cleat two or threefeet long across a couple of studs in the regionwhere the one picture or the looking-glass is tobe set up, adapted to the wants of the presentgeneration. How many pictures will bedeck aroom, or what light will be required for them,cannot be foretold. Every Christmas brings anew one, every auction sale furnishes a gem ora bargain, for which a place must be found.Hence the need of an unbroken line of support.Instead of making this a bald, bare necessity,obtrusively stuck up, and saying as plainly asa moulding can say, I m a gallows whereon
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A LEAF FROM THE PROPHET. iT^rTNEW YORK Ipubuc ubraR^I ACTOR ueNOX AND CASINGS, CAPS, AND WINDOW SEATS. 151 pictures are to be hanged, it is just as easy andten times more delightful to make it a compo-nent part of the essential work, either of theconstructive casings and cornices, or of the colordecoration, or of both.

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