With formal furniture, curtains are out of place; and an extensive volume of drapery of any kind is, under any circumstance, irreconcilable with good taste - the proper
quantum, as well as the proper adjustment, depending upon the character of the general effect.
The average price of wage-labour is the minimum wage, i.e., that
quantum of the means of subsistence, which is absolutely requisite in bare existence as a labourer.