Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 12, 1900

Description

A TRANSFORMED FARM HOUSE Marcia stood in the door of the best room surveying it thoughtfully she had graduated from college the week before and was going to teach in the village in the autumn Meanwhile she was expecting a classmate to visit her and she was trying to look at the farm house with anothers eyes The best room was dark Marcia raised the window with difficulty The blinds also stuck as though their hinges had rusted fast but the light streamed in at last Marcia sat down and looked about her Mie saw a mown ingrain carpet a walnut table with a marble top on which reposed the family liible upon a green worsted mat a sofa and six chairs hard and slippery in stiff black haircloth a narrow wood mantel with an ornament of waxen fruit under a glass shade and walls of stainless whiteness on which hung cuts of Washingtons deathbed II rants family a framed wreath of im mortelles from the coffin of her mothers aunt and a couple of chromes Asleep and Awake strange i had forgotten how hideous this room is she murmured but I have really never seen it lighted before And