Show OLD FASHIONED the anaconda standard editor ahna been alio old fashioned par lor a no one will doubt while reading the following from his pen surprise Is expressed by the springfield republican at the that none of the houses built for alie employee of a great cocoa plant in the ideal english village of con bains such a thing a parlor instead of the parlor the republican notes that each family aa a large sunny commodious living room and they make the best of it of course they do as tho people of alic vast who any parlors in stock ond who don twant anything of the and know perfectly well even ift the east ne iho springfield newspaper observes the parlor is going out and the living room coining in it was n grews old place that parlor Mon tanana of middle ago and eastern birtle remember it well it was scan at it lest in the targe country village shut up the week through sometimes nearly alie year through with blinds closed tight and lace curtains tied primly back with its haircloth seated chaira set in a line against the wall a rocker ready to gallop in one corner and a aliat not in the other ornamented rice and family daguerreotypes and photographs a center table set exactly in tho middle of the room with a few handsome books and the large family bible the with jaees filled with crystallized grasses at cither end and odds and ends of strange things fitting up the rest of the who among the middle aged or elderly docs not remember it with painful distinctness it was a room to be venerated and shunned the living room is one of the blessings of latter day civilization just as a generation ago the parlor was one of civilizations curses |