SUPPLEMENT TO 

 LESSON FOR THE FARM HOME 



Published Semi-monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at 

 Cornell University, Throughout the Year. Application for Entry as 

 Second-Class Matter at the Post Office at Ithaca, N. Y.. Pending 



L. H. Bailey, Director 



/-. 1? TT ^ i Martha Van Rensselaer, Supervisor 



Course for the I^arm Home j ^^^ j^^^ g Harrington, Assistant Supervisor 



VOL I No 7 T a^Tt?t'^S^; ^* ^' FARM HOUSE SERIES No. 2 



VOL. I. no. 7 JANUARY I, 1912 



HOUSEHOLD FURNISHING 



DISCUSSION PAPER 



Every woman enjoys the effort to improve her home, to have a home 

 of taste — her taste, to be sure, but always improving — a home in which 

 to Hve and to enjoy Hving. Emerson refers to such homes as those of 

 virtue, sense, and taste. These homes may have snow drifting in at the 

 windows and may be without expensive furnishings; but they require an 

 ideal that is based on simpHcity and refinement. They are based as well 

 on a study of principle. Will you discuss with us the making of such 

 a home? 



Ruskin says: " If you have sense, and feeling, determine what sort of 

 a house will be fit for you; — determine to work for it — to get it — and 

 to die in it, if the Lord will. I mean, one that you can entirely enjoy 

 and manage ; but which you will not be proud of, except as you make it 

 charming in its modesty." 



I . Describe the simple house-furnishings among which you would like 

 to live. 



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