cottage-chambers

Updated: May 7, 2025

If you have been living in cottage-chambers, rooms in which a full-sized man can hardly stand erect in the centre, and a well-grown baby scarcely creep at the sides, unventilated, heated beyond endurance during the hot summer days, and retaining their heat through the long, wakeful nights, rooms in which the furniture must stand at various distances from the walls as if marshalled for the house-cleaning battle, but in which even the making of beds is a work of supreme difficulty, if you've been living in such rooms as these, I don't wonder, whatever architects or other men may say, that Mrs.

E. C. (Eugene Clarence) Gardner - Homes and How to Make Them