PREFATORY NOTE 



I have still faith that the simplicities it 

 teaches, and its common-sense suggestions, 

 may have good influence — notwithstanding the 

 great aesthetic gains which have been made dur- 

 ing the last fifteen years, in all that relates to 

 the equipment of suburban homes: and I am 

 quite sure that the intelligent and tasteful in- 

 terpretation of the text which has been made 

 by the drawings of my friend Mr. E. C. Gard- 

 ner, of Springfield, Mass., will give wholly new 

 force and piquancy to the suggestions I have 

 urged. 



D. G. M. 

 Edgewood, April, 1884. 



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