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The House in Good Taste
·
Elsie De Wolfe
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Of
course,
if
you
live
in
the
real
country
you
will
be
able
to
use
your
garden
and
your
verandas
as
additional
living-rooms.
With
a
big
living-porch,
the
one
indoor
living-room
may
become
a
quiet
library,
for
instance.
But
if
you
haven't
a
garden
or
a
sun-room,
you
should
do
all
in
your
power
to
bring
the
sunshine
and
gaiety
into
the
living-room,
and
take
your
books
and
quiet
elsewhere.
A
library
eight
by
ten
feet,
with
shelves
all
the
way
around
and
up
and
down,
and
two
comfortable
chairs,
and
one
or
two
windows,
will
be
a
most
satisfactory
library.
If
the
room
is
to
be
used
for
reading
smallness
doesn't
matter,
you
see.
We
Americans
love
books--popular
books!--and
we
have
had
sense
enough
to
bring
them
into
our
living-rooms,
and
enjoy
them.
But
when
you
begin
calling
a
room
a
library
it
should
mean
something
more
than
a
small
mahogany
bookcase
with
a
hundred
volumes
hidden
behind
glass
doors.
I
think
there
is
nothing
more
amusing
than
the
unused
library
of
the
nouveau
riche,
the
pretentious
room
with
its
monumental
bookcases
and
its
slick
area
of
glass
doors
and
its
thousands
of
unread
volumes,
caged
eternally
in
their
indecent
newness.
Some
day
when
you
have
nothing
better
to
do
visit
the
de
luxe
book
shops
of
some
department
store,
and
then
visit
a
dusky
old
second
hand
shop,
and
you
will
see
what
books
can
do!
In
the
de
luxe
shop
they
are
leathern
covered
things,
gaudy
and
snobbish
in
their
newness.
In
the
old
book
shop
they
are
books
that
have
lived,
books
that
invite
you
to
browse.
You'd
rather
have
them
with
all
their
germs
and
dust
than
the
soulless
tomes
of
uncut
pages.
You
can
judge
people
pretty
well
by
their
books,
and
the
wear
and
tear
of
them.
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