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Identifier: americanhomr03newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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hour is allowed,he sets out in the morning, and again on his return in the Dinner comes at twelve, and follows the healthy custom ofafternoon, he cheerfully does anything that is required of the American trades-union in permitting a full hours respite,him, and this, you may be sure, is always something useful Tea, that most British of all feeding customs, is taken atand something necessary to be done in this busy household of four, and wherever the girls happen to be—as likely in theworkers. hayloft as any other place. And then there is mother, just mother, the girls fondly This cheering episode marks a change in occupations gen- say, who has taught these brave young hands to do so much, erally, for the animals must be fed again and the cattle,and whose own patient workfor her children has so longbeen unselfish and loving.She has general chargewithin the house, and manyof the creature comforts ofthe farm are due to herthought fulness and own per-sonal work. In springtime an ordinary
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Afternoon Tea in the Hay Loft dairy and poultry attended to. Then, at sixoclock, some more work in the fields, whichcontinues until eight, or, if hard pressed,until dark, which, as all the traveled worldknows, comes later in England than inAmerica. Ami then, to home. The work-ing-clothes are put aside, and work as well,and a group of well-dressed young ladiescomes upon the scene. Music, piano, man-dolin, banjo, guitar, flute, as likely as not,is at once proposed, and all is harmonious November, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 309 Friday is the longest and hardest day at Brockwell Farm.It begins at three in the morning, and is seldom over beforehalf after nine at night. This is the day on which the butter is made, and in order that there be no interference with theordinary farm-work it is begun at an unusually early hour.

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