The house itself in which we live, with its surroundings and adornments, is important. Every home-influence, even the very smallest, works itself into the heart of childhood.
Homes are the real schools in which men and women are raised, and fathers and mothers are the real teachers and builders of life.
There is nothing in all the influences and surroundings of the home of tender childhood so small that it does not leave its touch of beauty or of marring upon the life.
~ JR. Miller, in Home-Making,1882
Painting ~ A Critical Moment, Harry Brooker, 1848-1940
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