drop-head

Updated: May 20, 2025

The chairs were as new and shining as chairs could be; there was a "mission style" rocker, a golden-oak rocker, a cherry rocker, heavily upholstered. There was a walnut drop-head sewing-machine on which a pink saucer of some black liquid fly-poison stood. There was a "body Brussels" rug on the floor.

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby