IT is only too easy to shock some people, and at the risk of shocking many of my readers at the outset, I must declare that very few bedrooms are so built and furnished as to remain thoroughly sweet, fresh, and airy all through the night. This is not going so far as others however. Emerson repeats an assertion he once heard made by Thoreau, the American so-called "Stoic,"-whose senses by the way seem to have been preternaturally acute-that "by night every dwelling-house gives out a bad air, like a slaughter-house." As this ...
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IT is only too easy to shock some people, and at the risk of shocking many of my readers at the outset, I must declare that very few bedrooms are so built and furnished as to remain thoroughly sweet, fresh, and airy all through the night. This is not going so far as others however. Emerson repeats an assertion he once heard made by Thoreau, the American so-called "Stoic,"-whose senses by the way seem to have been preternaturally acute-that "by night every dwelling-house gives out a bad air, like a slaughter-house." As this need not be a necessary consequence of sleeping in a room, it remains to be discovered why one's first impulse on entering a bedroom in the morning should either be to open the windows, or to wish the windows were open.
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1st edition. Art at Home series. Hardback. 7" x 4.75". xii, 116pp with tissue guarded frontis. & numerous delightful illustrations and 4pp publishers catalogue, black endpapers. Internal hinges cracking. Blue soiled covers with black decoration & lettering. Hinges and spine extremities worn. Preface by W. J. Loftie states " Too much attention can scarcely be expended on our sleeping rooms in order that we may have them wholesome, convenient and cheerful. It is impossible to over-estimate the value of refreshing sleep to busy people, particularly to those who are obliged to do much brainwork. In the following pages will, we hope, be found many hints with regard to the sanitary as well as the ornamental treatment of the bedroom." Victorian Interior Design...including a fox rug, including his head, at the side of your bed......
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