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Alcore Architect SECOND FLOOR ASSO Bath Kitchenette Living Bedroom Bath Bedroom Living cellar children to live CLOSET cost cross-ventilation DED Bedroom detached house Dining Room Living End of Int entrances expense for alteration exterior extra expense father five-room front furnished for light garden hallway hardwoods Home that Buys home-building interior finish J. G. HOLLAND janitor Kitchenette Living Room lean purse light-housekeeping livable home Living Room Alcove lodgers lumber Molly Morgan D E Morgan D-E-Hite Architect Morgan DE Hite Multiple Residence needed the right neighborhood Orleans owner's apartment Paid Acct pay off principal payments of $10 plans plant play porch Principal Balance Principal principal determined monthly privacy in house purchase purse who needed Real Home rental apartments right sort Room Living Room Sectional Unit House self-purchase Service Rm small apartments sort of place Southern Pine Association Southern Pine flooring take for payments three apartments unfurnished unpaid principal determined wood
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Page 12 - The female Greek of our day is as much in the street as the male to cry, "What news?" We doubt not it was the same in Athens of old. The women, shut out from the marketplace, made up for it at the religious festivals.
Page 12 - In the homes of America are born the children of America, and from them go out into American life American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them, and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.
Page 19 - A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten of six weeks.
Page 3 - The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the kiss as I lie down to rest, the patient bearing with the freaks of my restless nature, the gentle counsels mingled with reproofs and approvals, the sympathy that meets and assuages every sorrow and sweetens every little success — all these return to me amid the responsibilities which press upon me now, and I feel as if I had once lived in heaven, and, straying, had lost...
Page 12 - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
Page 6 - No boundless hoard Of gold and gear, Nor jewels fine Nor lands, nor kine, Nor treasure-heaps of anything. Let but a little hut be mine Where at the hearthstone I may hear The cricket sing, And have the shine Of one glad woman's eyes to make, For my poor sake, Our simple home a place divine; — Just the wee cot — the cricket's chirr — Love, and the smiling face of her.
Page 2 - Tis sweet to know there is an eye to mark Our coming — and grow brighter when we come.
Page 3 - ... which press upon me now, and I feel as if I had once lived in heaven, and straying, had lost my way. — JG HOLLAND
Page 6 - Home in one form or another is the great object of life. It stands at the end of every day's labor, and beckons us to its bosom; and life would be cheerless and meaningless did we not discern across the river that divides it from the life beyond glimpses of the pleasant mansions prepared for us.
Page 19 - ... and to give their children a better start in life than they themselves enjoyed.