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Title: The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, Janet McKenzie, 1852-1933, ed Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Home economics Cooking
Publisher: Boston : Boston Cooking-School Magazine
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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yourliving-room be a large reading-lamp, inan efifective situation. Beautiful lampsfor such a purpose are now made, to beconnected with a supply of gas or elec-tricity, or in country bungalows not sup-plied with these modern innovations, tobe filled with kerosene. The efifect of alight placed on a table makes for beautyin the whole living-room. The introduc-tion of this one homelike touch doeswonders for the evening appearance ofthe ordinary apartment. The appearance of comfort in thisroom will be much enhanced by the in-troduction of a built-in seat, either at thewindow, in a corner, or at the ingleside.A couch is also desirable, in fact almostimperatively necessary, for a living-room, in order to convey a proper senseof ease and informality. 16 THE BOSTOX COOKIXC-SCMOOL AIAGAZINE Only chairs that are comfortahlc tliercfore no permanent beauty, areshouUi be selected. Too often flimsy chosen. The best types are those ofcaricatures that have no utiHtv and Mission and Craftsman design.
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C ORXER OF LIVING ROOM IN HOME OF K.ATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN A Ballad of Too Much Beauty There is too much beauty upon this earth For lonely men to bear.Too many eyes, too enchanted skies, Too many things too fair ;And the man who would live the life of a manMust turn his eves awav—if he can. For beauty and duty are strangers forever, Work and wonder ever apart.And the laws of life eternally sever The ways of the brain from the ways of theheart;Be it flower or pearl, or the face of a girl.Or the ways of the waters as they swirl. He must not look at the dawning day, Or watch the rising moon ;From the little feet, so white, so fleet, He must turn his eyes away;And the flowers and the faces he must pass b)With stern self-sacrificing eye. For beauty is sorrow, and sorrowful menHave no heart to look on the face of thesky,Or hear the remorseful voice of the sea.Or the song of the wandering wind in thetree.Or even watch a butterfly. Ah I Beauty is such a hallowed thing, So holy a flower in the g

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