Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1889 — The Parlor Doomed to Extinetion. [ARTICLE]

The Parlor Doomed to Extinetion.

“The parlor has gone. Oh, you may admire my pretty room,” said a bright hostess, the other day to a N. Y. Sua reporter, “but you must not call U a 1 parlor. That breaks my heart Wo don’t have parlors any more, you know. Hotels have parlors, millers do, and barbers, nd 1 believe, chiropodists, but not we. Oh, no, indeed. In this modest flat this is just my room where 1 see my friends. In a house it would be a reception room, and the other larger apartment would 'be a salon or drawing room in addition, and a white room, a Jap mese room, a green room, and so on. but never a i parlor among them aIL We have to keep clear of the maddning crowd, you know, and ‘parlors’ are dreadfully common.”