Excerpt from Adventures in Home-Making It was doubtless out Of unhappy experience that the Old-time writer set down that owner ship can make a bare rock into a paradise, whereas a rented paradise is likely to decline into bareness. In picking out a home for ownership and afterward in altering, outfitting, and furnishing it, it is not only one's own judgment that should be followed but one's own personality, one's own individuality. Throughout, let Individu ality be the household god. Noses were not given us to be led by; each man should follow his own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.