Excerpt from How to Furnish a Home
In furnishing a house, very few people know what to do with their money; while there are some who do not know what to do without it. There is just so much or so little, as the case may be, to spend, and a certain line of things, common to all houses, that has to be bought. But many of these common things are just what should be avoided.
To say that a room looks like a picture is considered a high meed of praise - a delicate, violet-scented sort of compliment not often to be had; but there is no reason, either in prose or rhyme, why a whole house should not be a poem. And this, too, whether the sum spent on its furnishing be five thousand or five hundred dollars.
City houses, as a general thing, are painfully lacking in individuality - standing, like the four-and-twenty historical blackbirds, "all in a row," and almost as much alike within as without.
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