Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1903 — House and Furniture. [ARTICLE]

House and Furniture.

“Exi.e«% of furniture destroys the repose of A lazy man. and Is la the way of an industrious one," wrote William and it was also one of his maxima that if houses were built as they should be we should want but a little furniture, and be happy in that scantiness. In “The Lesser Arts of Life” he wrote: The arrangement of our houses ought surely to express the kind of life we lead or desire to lead. Our furniture should be good citizens’ furniture, solid and well made In workmanship, and In design should hare nothing about it that Is not easily defensible, no monstrosities or extravagances, not even of beauty, lest we weary of It Aa to matters of construction, it should net have to depend on the special skill of a very picked workman, or the superexcellence of bis glue, but be made on the proper principles of the art of joinery. Also I think that, except for very movable things. like chairs. It should not be so very light as to be nearly imponderable; It should be made *ff timber rather than walking sticks. There ate some people whose use In the world It would be as hard to define aa the nee of the pieces of paisley draped around meat on the table. It takes a bachelor wffh money to exterminate the weeds from a young widow’s bonnet