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Also, in the parlor was a Knabe piano. [[strikethrough]] Poppa  got [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Papa bought]] the piano from ^[[the Knabe]] a piano store in Columbus. [[strikethrough]] It was advertised in the City Directory for 1894 of Columbus. [[/strikethrough]] A bay window with a seat [[strikethrough]] in it [[/strikethrough]. I remember beautiful pillows being on the bench. Dark floors with pretty scattered rugs and a rocking chair ^[[on the side of the fire place]]. [[strikethrough]] Momma [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Mamma] had very good china. A lot of things were broken during our trip to Washington due to improper packing. The next room was the bedroom. It had a very pretty cherry ^[[red]] bedroom suite [[strikethrough]] in there [[/strikethrough]]. We did not bring it with us. The last room was sort of a dormitory; we all stayed in there. ^[[[]] There were [[strikethrough]] duplicate [[/strikethrough]] ^[[[[strikethrough]] prints [[/strikethrough]]]] paintings ^[[prints]] in the house. I remember, [[underline]]Caught in the Storm [[/underlined]] and a painting called [[underlined]] The Last Hope[[/underlined]], ^[[and The Man With the Hoe, by Millet; ] Poem has been written about the]]

In the front hall, was a library with bookcases all around the wall. There was a bookcase ^[[, made of oak,]] [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] on one side [[strikethrough]] all the way down to the [[/strikethrough]] ^[[oa]] glass door ^[[with shelves of books behind it]]. [[strikethrough]] Then there was the [[/strikethrough]] ^[[On the other side was the]] writing desk that [[strikethrough]] you pulled down. It was an oak. [[/strikethrough]] Underneath ^[[the desk]] was a door were [[stikethrough]] you stored things [[/strikethrough]] ^[[things could be stored]]. The top of [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] ^[[the desk]] had a mirror in the middle. I have seen [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] ^[[this style of secretary]] in [[strikethrough]] these [[/strikethrough]] magazines ^[[classing it]] as an antique piece not to long ago. ^[[On the shelves in the library]] Mother had the whole set of Shakespeare, ^[[works]] James [[underlined]] ^[[Fennimore]] [[/underlined]] ^[[Cooper]] works. ^[[Works of Hawthorne]] [[strikethrough]] She had [[/strikethrough]] Dickens, ^[[works The poets]] Longfellow, [[underlined]] ^[[Tennyson]] [[/underlined]], Whittier, ^[[Milton,] Bryant. ^[[August Evans, St Elmo, Washington Irving's Sketch book, Sir Walter Scott - lady of the Lake Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe  All of these books were beautifully bound.]] I remember [[strikethrough]] those [[/strikethrough]] very well. 
There was a table in the middle with a lamp. ^[[Also,]] There was a ^[[pull down]] light that [[strikethrough]] came [[/strikethrough]] down from the ceiling. It had a shade of very thin pink ^[[hobnail]] venetian glass, [[strikethrough]] kind ^[[with]] of hobnail^[[s]] [[/strikethrough]], that went over the lamp [[strikethrough]] that you pulled down [[/strikethrough]].

^[[Magazines - The Delineator, Good house Keeping, (In one issue of the Good Housekeeping, I remember an illustration of the Lord's Prayer which impressed me, and Mother and Aunt Lizzie talking about this beautiful illustration) Harper's Weekly, Smart Set, McClurg, Punch and Judy,