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The COMPLETE HOME
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Most of us have a theory of what the home should be, but it is stowed away with the wedding gifts of fine linen that are
cherished for our permanent abode. We believe in harmony of surroundings, but after living, within a period of ten years or so, in
seven different apartments with seven different arrangements of rooms and seven different schemes of decoration, we lose interest in
suiting one thing to another. Harmony comes to mean simply good terms with the janitor. Or if (being beginners) we have some such
prospect of nomadic living facing us, and we are at all knowing, we realize the utter helplessness of demonstrating our good taste,
purchase any bits of furniture that a vagrant fancy may fasten upon, and give space to whatever gimcracks our friends may foist
upon us, trusting that in the whirligig of removals the plush rocker, the mission table, and the brass parlor stand may each find itself
in harmony with something else at one time or another. Some day we shall be freed from the tyranny of these conditions and then
CLARA E. LAUGHLIN - Personal Name
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The COMPLETE HOME
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