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The House in Good Taste
·
Elsie De Wolfe
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STOOLS
AND
BENCHES.
I
often
wonder,
when
I
grope
my
way
through
drawing-rooms
crowded
and
jammed
with
chairs
and
sofas,
why
more
women
do
not
realize
the
advantages
of
stools
and
benches.
A
well-made
stool
is
doubly
useful:
it
may
be
used
to
sit
upon
or
it
may
be
used
to
hold
a
tray,
or
whatever
you
please.
It
is
really
preferable
to
a
small
table
because
it
is
not
always
full
of
a
nondescript
collection
of
ornaments,
which
seems
to
be
the
fate
of
all
small
tables.
It
has
also
the
advantage
of
being
low
enough
to
push
under
a
large
table,
when
need
be,
and
it
occupies
much
less
space
than
a
chair
apparently
(not
actually)
because
it
has
no
back.
I
have
stools,
or
benches,
or
both
in
all
my
rooms,
because
I
find
them
convenient
and
easily
moved
about,
but
I
have
noticed
an
amusing
thing:
Whenever
a
fat
man
comes
to
see
me,
he
always
sits
on
the
smallest
stool
in
the
room.
I
have
many
fat
friends,
and
many
stools,
but
invariably
the
fattest
man
gravitates
to
the
smallest
stool.
The
stools
I
like
best
for
the
drawing-room
are
the
fine
old
ones,
covered
with
needlework
or
brocade,
but
there
are
many
simpler
ones
of
plain
wood
with
cane
insets
that
are
very
good
for
other
rooms.
Then
there
are
the
long
banquettes,
or
benches,
which
are
so
nice
in
drawing-rooms
and
hallways
and
nicest
of
all
in
a
ballroom.
Indeed,
a
ballroom
needs
no
other
movable
furniture;
given
plenty
of
these
long
benches.
They
may
be
of
the
very
simplest
description,
but
when
used
in
a
fine
room
should
be
covered
with
a
good
damask
or
velvet
or
some
rich
fabric.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
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