ABSTRACT
Housekeepers who furnish in the spirit of the observations at the beginning of this chapter, will avoid both extremes. For the many housekeepers whose small sitting-rooms open one into the other, and who seldom or ever give dinner parties, two oblong tables of similar and moderate dimensions, that might be used together, if requisite, and will look well apart, generally answer better than the expensive sets of dining-tables, the rarely used parts of which have to be carried up and down, and which, if not in constant use, are often put together with consider able difficulty, and not more easily separated. Housekeepers, who set little value upon occasional display, but have, on the contrary, a great regard for habitual convenience and equanimity, will never cumber their closets or their consciences with a second or best set of china or dinner-service.
