Fannie Hurst (1889-1968)Just Around the Corner
We Are Ten
Gaslight Sonatas
...."In Mrs. Ross's dining-room, a red-glass dome, swung by a chain over theround table, illuminated its white napery and decently flowered china.Beside the window looking out upon a gray-brick wall almost within reach,a canary with a white-fluted curtain about the cage dozed headless. Besidethat window, covered in flowered chintz, a sewing-machine that couldcollapse to a table; a golden-oak sideboard laid out in pressed glassware.A homely simplicity here saved by chance or chintz from the simply homely....."
