Show V GLOOMY OLD OLO FRONT PARLOR V Victorian MId Furnishings Served to V Remind Beholders of Particularly V V V Solemn Mortuary Chapels V The mansard sheltered the accumulations accumulations V lations of at two or more Garland households households house house- households holds of Victorian mid-Victorian tastes It was a 0 debauch of black walnut and haircloth V V V VIn In n a twilight of heavy lambrequins nn and large figured wall Trail paper N Never er e In all nil my two twenty years ears had I be beheld eld so many top marble-top tables s gathered under undera a single roof There were three In the time V parlor alone Ono One bore a n Rogers group group Coming to the Parson it was V V called another a stereoscope with views of ot the Yosemite and the centennial centennial centennial cen cen- tennial of 1870 tho the third served as pedestal for a case of at pallid wax flow flow- V ers On the walls hung tiling oils of ot mountain moun moun- V tam tain scenery which Jt It would havo crazed razed a geologist to classify V V The sitting room across the WIde hall boll was even worse It was bullied V by the ugly bulk of ot a secretary secretory with I vicious rams' rams heads carved d on Its lower lower lower low low- er doors Second In massive gloom was a black marble crowned by bv a black marble clock dock with witha V a n limping tick tick and an on asthmatic chime Tables filled tilled the spaces unclaimed by V haircloth sofas and chairs and a not bestrode a corners corner I was as now w Pf pre prepared pared to find tind The ila Maidens Maiden's d Prayer an and I did poor maiden malden ne neatly don donIn donEt J In female academy style There was a also so a n bro bronze ie plaque o of at Washington Washing ton Crossing the Delaware It was a 0 abad abad bad crossing None of the pictures V were Inspiring but one at least was appropriate It n pO portrayed the thc youthful A V V V Victoria In In her nightie receiving th tho th news that she was now queen o or Great Britain defender of the faith an ami high sponsor for tor art Woman's Womans Homo Horno V Companion A j |