The Standard Household-Effect Company (from Literature and Life)

The Standard Household-Effect Company (from Literature and Life)

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The Standard Household-Effect Company is a short story by William Dean Howells. Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright. Excerpt: "We shall not suffer so much as we do under our present system," said my friend, completing his sentence after the interruption of a week. By this time we had both left town, and were taking up the talk again on the veranda of a sea-side hotel. "As for the eternal-womanly, it will be her salvation from herself. When once she is expropriated from her household effects, and forbidden under severe penalties from meddling with those of the Standard Household-Effect Company, she will begin to get back her peace of mind, and be the same blessing she was before she began housekeeping."

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