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"Then, as to house-furnishing," began my wife, "American carpets are getting to be every way equal to the English." "Yes," said I, "and what is more, the Brussels carpets of England are woven on looms invented by an American, and bought of him.
The child is found with its pencil, drawing; or he asks for a book on Venice, or wants to hear the history of the Roman Forum. But I have made my article too long. I will write another on the moral and intellectual effects of house-furnishing. "I have proved my point, Miss Jennie, have I not? In house-furnishing, nothing is more economical than beauty." "Yes, papa," said Jennie; "I give it up."
All Japanese mats are of the same size, and they constitute the standard by which everything connected with house-building or house-furnishing is measured.
They haunted the house-furnishing floors of the great department houses, inspecting and pricing ranges, hardware, china, and the like. They rented the photographer's rooms furnished, and fortunately only the kitchen and dining-room utensils had to be bought. The money for this as well as for her trousseau came out of Trina's five thousand dollars.
The day after Carrie's appearance on the Avery stage, Mrs. Hurstwood visited the races with Jessica and a youth of her acquaintance, Mr. Bart Taylor, the son of the owner of a local house-furnishing establishment. They had driven out early, and, as it chanced, encountered several friends of Hurstwood, all Elks, and two of whom had attended the performance the evening before.
Papa is more than half a poet, and his truths turn out to be figures of rhetoric, when one comes to apply them to matters of fact." "Now, Miss Jennie, please remember my subject and thesis," I replied, "that in house-furnishing there is nothing so economical as beauty; and I will make it good against all comers, not by figures of rhetoric, but by figures of arithmetic.
As a matter of fact, Lyddy was revelling in house-furnishing of a humble sort. She had a passion for colour. There was a red-and- white straw matting on the sitting-room floor.
So it was the house-furnishing department of the great store to which they first repaired, and there they hovered for two hours among tins and aluminum and wooden ware, discussing the relative charms of white-enamel refrigerators and gas-ranges, vacuum cleaners and dish-washers, the new ideas against the old.
I will write another on the moral and intellectual effects of house-furnishing. "I have proved my point, Miss Jenny, have I not? In house-furnishing nothing is more economical than beauty." "Yes, papa," said Jenny; "I give it up." We have a custom at our house which we call raking up the fire.
"You want to see your rooms, I suppose," she remarked impassively when we had introduced ourselves, and as we mounted the stairs behind her Tom, in a whisper, nicknamed her "Granite Face." Presently she left us. "Hospitable soul!" said Tom, who, with his hands in his pockets, was gazing at the bare walls of our sitting-room. "We'll have to go into the house-furnishing business, Hughie.
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