House and Garden 
No two beds in the house are alike; some 
have the tester and are heavily ornamented 
while another has the foot-board as well 
as the head-piece carved. The old floors 
are covered with matting in the summer, 
which gives place to rugs and carpets in 
the winter. 
A bedroom table, or what-not, with deli¬ 
cate lines, having a shelf underneath, is inter¬ 
esting. It is fully flve feet high and may 
have been intended for a bedside table in 
the days when step-ladders were needed in 
order to get into the beds at all, so high were 
some of them with their paillasses surmounted 
by feather beds. 
On the walls are many interesting pictures, 
portraits of ancestors in the quaint costumes 
of earlier days with their calm and placid 
faces, that recall to our minds the quiet, 
sedate-times lives of long ago. 
Photograph by Mr. Wilson Eyre 
Amecameca, Mexico 
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