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Identifier: homestheirdecora00fren (find matches)
Title: Homes and their decoration
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939
Subjects: Interior decoration
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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HOMES AND THEIR DECORATION and his combs, and his shaving utensils. I some-times think he rather glories in a parade of hisshoes. The rows and rows of them that he sets outon his shelves! The exposed-to-the-dust-closetsthat he has built to receive them ! A woman is \ \ A SmoVlQ.c5 ^QQTQ
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D more fastidious, and if she be a young girl forced tolive in one room and to receive her visitors there,she shrinks, or she should, from displaying theappointments of her toilet, however elaborate indetail. Upon such a young woman I should strongly 397 HOMES AND THEIR DECORATION urge the purchase of a desk rather than that of abureau — an old-fashioned desk, with four drawersbelow, and a series of small drawers and pigeon-holesabove, enclosed by a slanting cover of wood whichfolds back and down. In this desk she can keepall her toilet articles, her silver-backed brushes ifshe has them, because in a room in which she re-ceives visitors nothing of this character should beshown. The drawers may be filled with her linen.It should go without saying that the desk shouldalways be kept closed and fastened. Her writing-table could be arranged elsewhere, or she could havea writing-board, to use on her lap. This boardcould be covered with cretonne, and filled with herpaper and writing utensi

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