Excerpt from The Cost of Shelter The colonial houses Of New England with large living-room, dominated by the huge fireplace with its outfit Of cooking utensils, with groups Of buildings for different uses clustered about them, giving protection to the varied industries Of the homestead, illustrate the most perfect type Of family life. Each member had a Share in the day's work, therefore to each it was home. TO the old homestead many a successful business man returns to Show his grandchildren the attic with its disused loom and spinning - wheel; the shop where farm-implements were made, in the days Of long winter storms, to the accompaniment Of legend and gossip. 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.