Happy Houses (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Happy Houses<br><br>"She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness." Proverbs.<br><br>There are gloomy philosophers and Teutonically minded poets who will have it that the majority of us are dead, and that we live not in houses, but in mausolea. Over the portals of every house in London (except their own) they see inscribed the epitaph of John Keats:<br><br>"Here lies one whose name was writ in water,"<br><br>and ignore the fact that in the greater number of houses there are children growing up in wonder to the battle of life, and men and women in the thick of it, and thoroughly enjoying it. To be sure, society is a little mixed: it is a disjointed, creaking sort of machine, and there are many people who are too rich, and far more who are too poor, and a certain number who from over-feeding, over-drinking, or excess of vanity, are, in fact, dead people, usurping the place and room of the living.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.