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Show Character In Doorways, The entrances to houses arc very suggestive, sug-gestive, and there is even an impress of the character of the inmates of a dwelling dwell-ing in the treatment of the little vestibule vesti-bule and closed front doors, which show through the large panes the curtains cur-tains within. Even the door-mat bears evidence for or against the social position posi-tion of its owner, while the doorknobs and other metal work give silent testimony testi-mony in regard to the taste and good breeding of the proprietors of the house. Then, as everyone knows, there is the professional-looking door, the boarding house entrance, the commercial-looking portal, the big pretentious-looking vestibule of the "genteel flat," and many others too numerous to mention; but when, on looking up a number, we go up neat-looking steps, and see before us well polished brass, aesthetically wrought iron, or shining nickel-plated knobs a harmoniously painted vestibule with handsome doors, and pretty inside curtains, we feel at once that "nice people" live there, and that our friends have creditable surroundings. sur-roundings. Chicago Journal. |
