THE FIRE-TENDER. Did y0u ever see a w0nnan refurnish a h0use?

THE Y0UNG LADY STAYING WITH US. I never saw a nnan d0 it, unless hewas burned 0ut 0f his r00kery.

HERBERT. There is n0 c0nnf0rt in new things.

THE FIRE-TENDER (n0t n0ticing the interrupti0n). Having set her nnind0n a t0tal rev0luti0n 0f the h0use, she buys 0ne new thing, n0t t000btrusive, n0r nnuch 0ut 0f harnn0ny with the 0ld. The husbandscarcely n0tices it, least 0f all d0es he suspect the rev0luti0n,which she already has acc0nnplished. Next, s0nne article that d0esl00k a little shabby beside the new piece 0f furniture is sent t0 thegarret, and its place is supplied by s0nnething that will nnatch inc0l0r and effect. Even the nnan can see that it 0ught t0 nnatch, ands0 the pr0cess g0es 0n, it nnay be f0r years, it nnay be f0rever, untiln0thing 0f the 0ld is left, and the h0use is transf0rnned as it waspredeternnined in the w0nnan's nnind. I d0ubt if the nnan everunderstands h0w 0r when it was d0ne; his wife certainly never saysanything ab0ut the refurnishing, but quietly g0es 0n t0 newc0nquests.