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Updated: May 9, 2025
The book fell from Cynthia's hands and lay motionless on her lap. Her fair face raised itself rigidly and the clear eyes looked, not at the cheerful, home-room, but back through the years: the sombre, shabby years until they caught and held a girl of twelve demanding something something so tremendous! from a poor, trembling boy but a little older than herself!
Contemporary inventories make more clear and more positive still this picture of a planter's home-room, for similar furniture is found in all. Chairs were a comparatively rare form of furniture in New England in early colonial days, nor were they frequently seen in humble English homes of that date. Stools and forms were the common seats.
Something unusual was stirring his brain; he sat thinking, thinking, uneasily shifting his position, and at length arose, and passing through a dark hall, entered the shop, and said, "Ah, Tom, is that you?" "Yes," answered the young man, diffidently; "Mr. Payson said you wished to see me." "Yes, walk in this way;" and Mr. Cowles returned to the home-room, followed by Tom.
"You meant to do it in the next world evidently, so we may as well begin here." "Will you come in?" and the old man awkwardly ushered them into the little back parlour, which Valmai's busy fingers had transformed from its original bareness into a cosy home-room. "Oh, what a dear little room," said Mrs. Wynne as she entered.
Let us see what was the furniture of a Puritan home-room in early days, and what its value. The inventory of the possessions of Theophilus Eaton, Governor of the New Haven colony, is often quoted. At the time of his death, in 1657, he had in his hall, A cubberd & 2 long formes, 14s.
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