desk-fittings

Updated: January 16, 2026

Yes, there was the pantry, like the kitchen, in chaotic disorder, tissue paper and excelsior thick on the floor, and entangled with it the indescribable jumble of worthless, disconnected objects always tumbled together by a domestic crisis like a fire or a removal old gloves, whisk-brooms, hat-forms, lamps, magazines, tarnished desk-fittings.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher - The Bent Twig