ABSTRACT
The inviters and invited naturally become fidgety in proportion, and the hour of separation is hailed as a deliverance from heat, bondage, and inexpressible discomfort, not lightly to be incurred again; and, on the morrow, the miniature state drawing room is covered up once more, as useless and as close as ever. The children who, at the period of its appropriation, were “neither born nor thought of,” may come in spite of every non-preparation for their appearance; and then the idolized boudoir must either become a source of continual scolding or contention, or, if abandoned to the levelling practices of the young republicans. Opportunity for thorough ventilation and thorough cleaning, the laying of the morning fire overnight, which is so advisable in the short days of winter; all this is rendered easy by the occupation of a second sitting-room; whilst, in the families in which economy of service and of firing are most felt to be “a great object”.
