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 appening upon the General's two daughters, Miss Lucy or Miss Mary, as I occasionally did, galloping their horses across their family's scrubby pastures, one could be forgiven for supposing that the girls had been brought up in the rough ways of the West. But, although the family was far from the nearest center of genteel society, the General ensured that Misses Lucy and Mary were raised in properly ladylike surroundings. Their Renaissance Revival bed and dresser were elegant and pretty. The room was filled with shadow boxes and other suitably genteel Victorian decorations. They were encouraged in appropriately feminine pursuits, like constructing a colorful scrap screen, like the one which adorns their room today, out of pictures from postcards, wrapping papers, catalogs and paste.
The Finest House on the Harbor | A Threshhold is Crossed | An Office of Some Importance | A Haven for Polite Company | The Family Converges | Feasts of Good Cheer | Delicious Devices | Bower For Blessed Babes | Slumber's Sanctum | Girl's Room | Boy's Room | Intimate Enclave | Lessons to Live By | A Coachman's Treasures | Pleasance of a Shady Glen
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