Flowers and fruit from the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS.

Household fairies.

In fact, nobody wanted to stay in our parlor now. It was a cold, correct, accomplished fact; the household fairies had left it,—and when the fairies leave a room, nobody ever feels at home in it. No pictures, curtains, no wealth of mirrors, no elegance of lounges, can in the least make up for their absence. They are a capricious little set; there are rooms where they will not stay, and rooms where they will, but no one can ever have a good time without them.