It was very simply furnished, but looked most artistic with its rush-bottomed chairs, its few good pictures, and its stained green table with the big bowl of wallflowers.
Miss Carson, a delightfully energetic lady whose age may have been somewhere between thirty and forty, welcomed them cordially.
"I don't apologize for the plainness of my establishment," she remarked.
"It's all part of a purpose.

We have no servants here, and as we have to do our own house-work in addition to our farm-work, we want to reduce our labor to a minimum.

You see, there's hardly anything to dust in this room: the books and the china are in those two cupboards with glass doors, and we have no fripperies at all lying about.

The only ornament we allow ourselves is the bowl of flowers.

Our bedrooms are equally simple, and our kitchen is fitted with the latest and most up-to-date labor-saving appliances.