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 4hs time of the revolutionary ers were DO carpets on the floors halses in New York City. At here were so few, that it may there were none without much .rafion. What few there were,
 houses of the wealthiest cltl- yere curiosities, and the citizen crate means would as soon have ,t of keeping q private balloon travels as of buying a carpet for IT. Sand was sprinkled over the in fhe houses that were fastidi- Eept. but aside from this there nerally no covering.
 nearest approach to the modern that was known at all to the Dutch settlers was a sort of t cloth. which was only used on
 occasions of ceremony and when, because of the presence of uished guests, the table would ad in the parlor instead of the a. This was laid under the table tect the carefully secured and floor
 most expensive piece of furni-
 the old houses was invariably dstead and it's appointments. srior, in the modern sense, was vn. That is, the handsomest st-equipped room in the house ways the sleeping room of the the household. The bedsteads wood, as costly as the purse of her would permit, and commonly pld four-post kind. It was not, T, until the luxury of England odified the simple customs of lickerbockers that such a thing own as the mahogany bedstead, arved wood ornaments-eagle's Rnd the like. Before that less i've woods were used and the was unheard of.
 we'll known that our ancestors italmost essential to have cur ncIosing their beds. A canopy ng them as they slept, and from epended the curtains which in times were of .Killeminster, ; vith "sarsnet. The cost of a of these was often as much as five or thirty dollars. The pillows were covered as to-day Ases which were usually of a or other fancy pattern. Later rtains, silken bedtieks, silken Is, and pillow-cases came in and the most extravagant of stocracy would spend as much hundred dollars on the entire a bed. In early times, or be- e Recession of the English, the ng custom was to sleep be- two feather beds of different ae larger being underneath and Her and thinner one being used over A small rug in front of
 was the usual substitute for fern carpet in the bedroom.
 tus were unknown. Among the settlers there was not even any such thing as the chest of E. Chests. or boxes of expensive andsomely finished, were used Dutch housewives, in which to 'heir Household linen, under and the like. and the bureau b be thing of evolution from Q change beginning with the of storing one chest upon an- eboard, as it is now called. is lern modification of one of the hl Articles of furniture in the of the olden time Our ances- led it B cupboard, and this nat nposition of substantives be- time a word. used as the name small apartment used for the tof small things. The cupboard orefathers was no such thing as |ubberd" of to-day. It was article of furniture in the domi- stosd in the parlor, when there arlor. When there was no par lorned the principal corner of ehen It was usually made of ve now call French walnut. Rlled it, aforetime, French nut It twas made in all styles. The nbitious pieces had glass doors. shelves of wood, on which were led the best dishes of the house. whether they were of silver,
 china, delft, or the eommonest lware, The best of these cup- were builded so we'll that they ed in family from cue genera another, and became time-hon- family relics or heirlooms. ew of them are still extant, and hown among dealers in "an- as s'Holland eupboards. 5
 than this-in fact almost & thing, by comparison-was the pire. It was chest of drawers eath, with folding lid that be used as desk. Two solid pre- made, which slid in and ont ich Served to support the lid. per Structure was small book nple then to hold all the books 'verage household. These pieces pe found to-day in great many prk houses.
 es Were formerly used only for pose of holding things to eat nk. Even after the Dutch New Were snpplanted by the En- Rere were none of the various ta- h1eh are now used. 1t was not 20 that there are any mentions
 the old chronicles of the sub tables. Before that all that oWn was the great dinner table t2ou In the kitchen or principal
 tne house for use at meals. It nat are now called foldinp WMch hung down perpendicu. nen not in use to save room. and Xere propped up by moveable