Identifier: bostoncookingsch19hill_12 (find matches)
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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tic.After we had begun the unearthing.Jack became wildly enthusiastic, while Grace plainly sulked. And really,it was rather a sorry sight. Thefurniture was dingy and dilapidated,and the old Staffordshire ware coveredwith the dust of decades. And thebaskets, which had held the mendingand the food of by-gone generations,were disreputable looking affairs. Butit is remarkable what energy, andsoap, and a good cabinet maker,can accomplish with the genuinecontents of an old attic. The hand-carved mahogany chairsand davenport we had refinishedand upholstered in green and goldand old-rose haircloth, for whicha fifty-year-old flowery carpet fur-nished a good setting. Jack made araid on the store-room of a greataunt and came home triumphantwith some opal-glass curtain knobs,and a pair of glass dolphin candle-sticks that are so old that the holdersare of pewter. These gave theantique finish that was needed tocomplete the parlor. Grandfathers walnut chest, whichhe had made himself, was refinished,
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A BEDROOM STORY OF AN INTERIOR 431 and placed underneath grandmothersgilt-framed looking-glass with thepainted picture, which hung in thebedroom. The bed was covered withan old, hand-woven coverlid, as wasthe couch in the living-room. Theone on the bed is the unusualgrape-vine pattern, with the mostinteresting border I have ever seen.It has in it the motto, E PluribusUnum, the flag, the eagle holdingthe arrows, and the state house.The other is the sunburst patternwith a beautiful rose and bird border.The result of our work was satis-factory to John and me, and eminentlyso to Jack. Before the final toucheswere put on I sent the children to anaunt for a months visit. I wantedthem to see the finished product, but not the making of it. When Jack caught his first view,his hat went up in the air and hecaught me and swung me in a dizzywhirl. Its great! Its glorious! he shouted. Grace — Varnie by this time —did not seem especially depressed,but of course, logically, she coulcnot approve.

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